Return to Mother Earth

As the seconds go by, day after day, I am really disgusted by the direction society has taken. It has shifted its gears down a long, ugly road at maximum speed. There's no car in the world that has this amount of horsepower. 

How did we all get here? It's as if I fell asleep and woke up to this huge fucking mess. A nightmare that will never end. The decades upon decades of dirty politicians that people like George Orwell and Dr. Hunter S. Thompson warned us about that we were too ignorant and full of our own shit to listen to. Instead, we turned a blind eye and created a cancer that we are in the thick of right now. We treated Mother Earth like shit, and now she's pissed. She's spreading her wildfires and unleashing her Karma in the most mysterious of ways. 

The shit show of this whole pandemic is what we get for relying on our government to make our healthcare decisions, among every other aspect of our lives. It is the direct outcome of government becoming more and more bloated, more powerful. Human beings are simply not equipped for such power. It kills are psyche, turning us from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. (or Ms.) Hyde. 

I work in a nursing home caring for dementia patients. I have seen this virus staring back at me. I have looked death into its cold, blank eyes. I have seen how unpredictable this virus is, just as any other virus. I've seen people who never had any major health issues suddenly have flu symptoms and die the next day. I've seen 100 year olds and people with HIV recover from COVID-19. I've seen my father have it, and be completely fine. I've worked with other people who have had it and they didn't even know it. I know places like New York City and Boston have been hotspots for the virus, while more suburban areas haven't been so bad. But who's to say what will happen this winter, or next year...

What puts a bad taste in my mouth is when our government tries to put mandates on our healthcare decision making. While we’re mandating the wearing of masks and flu shots, why don’t we also start mandating people eating organic and non-GMO, exercising, taking vitamins, and start fining people for smoking cigarettes and eating and  feeding kids refined sugar? When the same government that destroys our planet, poisoned people during Vietnam, bombs countries on the daily, ignores mental health, drills for oil, and destroys rain forests tries to mandate our health care decisions during a pandemic is like a parent trying to play catch-up after years of harming and neglecting their children. I do not doubt that the virus is real, I do not think it was man-made in a lab somewhere in China, I do not think it was a "plandemic". And trust me, I'm not an anti-masker crying about "my freedoms" either. I want to stress that I believe in science, I was raised by a registered nurse. I  have no problem wearing a mask when needed, or social distancing (I'm a lifelong practitioner!) In fact, I bit the bullet when I caught viral pneumonia and didn't see my child for two months because he is asthmatic, and was out of work. However, I will say it is pretty fucking silly to have to put on a mask to walk seven feet in a restaurant, just to take it off. I just don't trust the constant fear that the media has been drilling through us. I don't think it's as bad as the government says it is, especially when the government says it has a 97-99% recovery rate. The 24 hour news system has to end. The news is constantly shoved down our throats, we have endless amounts of information at the touch of our fingertips. It's hard to kick an addiction when it is so readily available to us like the news is, all day everyday. Our cult-like following to bipartisan politics is a disease. We need to stop treating politics as if it is competitive sports or pro-wrestlimg. We, as humans, including myself, are the pandemic. We are the virus that has attacked Mother Earth. We need to return to form. We need a government who doesn't control every aspect of our lives, who will put individual rights ahead of greed and power. We need a government that doesn't have us under their thumbs while they rack in billions of dollars in their bank accounts, feasting off of human suffering. 

We need to govern for ourselves. We need access to clean food. We need to live sustainably. We need to ground ourself, to walk barefoot, feel the ground beneath us. Society needs to hit the reset button fast. We need to treat this planet as if it is our parent. We need to dance under the moon, go skinny-dipping, and look out for one another. We need to stop judging people fir their color of their skin, gender identity, who they sleep with, or who they pray to. We need to meditate, sunbathe in the nude, laugh, and make love. We need live music, sports, and copious amounts of wine.

Be kind to one another and stay weird.

-AD