Subj : 2020 vs. 2021 To : Dumas Walker From : Jazzy J Date : Fri Dec 13 1901 14:45:52 -=> Quoting Dumas Walker to ALL <=- DW> 2020: A new COVID virus is causing an epidemic in China. Trump DW> suggests that we should close our border to travelers from China. DW> The Peanut Gallery ( + Nancy Pelosi and several other Democrat DW> politicians): "RACIST! RACIST! RACIST! ORANGE MAN BAD! RACIST!" DW> 2021: A new COVID variant is found in several countries in Southern DW> Africa, plus in Hong Kong, China. BOTH the Biden Administration, and DW> the Trudeau Administration, close the border of their respective DW> countries to travelers from those Southern African countries, but NOT DW> to China or Hong Kong. DW> The Peanut Gallery: I reject your reality and suggest my own: 2020: A new COVID virus is detected. Action is taken. Some too restrictive, some not enough. The world rebels against the vaccine. The vaccine's rapid development was pushed by the Trump administration. 2021 and on: The world is fatigued of restrictions and even those that would support rapid reactions no longer suport it. 2020 an ensuing years: RACIST!, Facist!, and more ill-informed comments from all sides of the ailse. Remember, globally, there are more sides than "left" and "right." The only way we are going to get out of this is if we join our thoughts to form a pathway forward, whatever that may be. Every tool suggested to fight the pandemic has been rejected by some group or another. Leadership, real leadership, is needed to join the oppositions together and develop real, acceptable, sustainable solutions. COVID-19 is with us, very potentially, forever. It will mutate, just as the yearly influenza mutates, only faster. Denying reality is dangerous. Denying that we have possible solutions is willfull ignorance. Now, before I get called a "lefty" or a "righty," I'm neither. I think the people, you and I, have been left behind by our respective governments. We are not heard. Left, middle, right, we are not heard. What we need are not moderates. What we need are people that are working together regardles of their opinions. We don't have that. Jazzy J * AmyBW v2.16 * .... You can logout any time you like, but you can never leave! --- þ Synchronet þ BayouBBS.Net, Ports 23, 6401 and 6402 .