Safer at Home?

Is the baseball season gone? It probably won’t start until at least May. But, will it ever start. I spend my winter months in Sarasota, Florida and today is the first day of our statewide safer at home order. Being able to see Tuttle Ave from my house, I can tell you there’s no difference in traffic today from yesterday. Safer at Home was supposed to mean stay at home, except for essential trips. There’s a golf course across Tuttle, and I was amazed to see it was open and people were playing golf. Now I understand that exercise is an essential activity but if you’re young and healthy, riding a golf cart to play golf eliminates most of the exercise. Baseball may never start. Too many people just aren’t taking this Covid19 thing seriously enough.

If the baseball season is gone, dog gone, will the NFL season happen? I’m a huge Chicago Bears fan! I can’t imagine a fall without football. And Tom Brady in Tampa? Come on Florida. Get with the program. We’re not that far away from preventing “Tampa Tom” from being able to bring a playoff to the Bucks! This is serious stuff. The economy is suffering, people are dying, we’ve missed a week of MLB, and we stand to lose the NFL and NCAA Football seasons. I know some Michigan fans that might not survive without being able to yell “GoBlue!” And what about War Eagles, Crimson Tide, Buckeyes, Trojans, Happy Valley!!!!!!! Arrrrrrgggghhhh! Come on people, for the sanity of our Nation, let’s be Safer at Home!

Hey everybody! It’s time to really get serious here. It’s not just baseball. football, golf, the Olympics, and all those other sports that we love to watch. It’s the lives of our loved ones. I’m almost 70 years old (less than 2 months to my birthday). My brother will soon be 71. I’ve got so many friends that are in their 70s and 80s. But it’s not just me and them! It’s our entire society. We need everyone to stop thinking about themselves and to start thinking about our society as a whole. It’s time to get serious. it;s time for all of us to think about the bigger picture. God loves us all! Each and everyone of us! God didn’t make any junk! We all matter. Please, Please, Please, for the love of God, let’s all agree to do whatever it takes to end this Pandemic. We have the power to do it. It is up to us! And, as soon as we take this seriously enough, we can make this all go away. If we choose to ignore the science, we can cause this to go on indefinitely.

We can be victorious. I expect us to win this war. But to do so, we must put self behind the greater good. As long as we continue to worry about how we look, how we feel, how we want things to be, what we want to do, I just want to have my fun, as opposed to what we need to be doing in the interest of all mankind, we will not win. The virus will win. It will be evolution at its best. Survival of the fittest. Are we willing to say, you, the weak, the old, the sick; you lose; you die! I believe that we are better than that. I believe that some people have just not thought of the consequences of the totality of their actions. We can do this! Yes we can! Yes You Can!