I want to let everyone here know that even though my state now has 549 cases of Covid19 and 4 deaths (those numbers will surely go up since 'MURICAH has yet to see the peak) I do want to let everyone know that I am doing okay so far. My household and I are taking this matter seriously and obeying the executive orders of social distancing signed by our State Governor and doing what we can to reduce our exposure. We are washing our hands more thoroughly and more frequently and venturing out only for the essentials and going to work, basically just enough to stay afloat. Of course like you I am worried as to how long this crisis will last and what the prospects are for the future as a result of the Pandemic.

I have been through crisis situations before, things like tornado warnings, a hurricane making landfall in the east coast state we use to live in when I was a little kid, a tornado chasing us down a freeway on the way home from a camping trip, several severe winter storms, two earth quakes, and who the hell can forget 9/11. I've dealt with family crisis as well. The worse of which were an eviction from a mobile home park in southern Indiana, living in a car for a month in the streets of Chicago, a Bankruptcy when I was in Junior High School, and the most recent crisis was Mother's stroke 7 years ago that landed her in the nursing home. I have been through some hell in my 45 trips around the sun. I'm still here. So I guess I'm doing something right.

But from what I can tell, this COVID19 crisis is unlike anything I have ever seen in my entire life. This is a crisis hitting not just one city, not one country, not one continent. This crisis is affecting the entire planet! All of civilized society!! The only safe place is Antarctica and who wants to live in an eternal freezer other than penguins and seals? The impact this is having on the world and on me and my household is making 9/11 look like small potatoes. The aforementioned executive orders, entire states going into lock down, food shortages due to panic buying, and the stock market hemorrhaging in ways not seen since the onset of the Great Depression.... this shit seems to be a perfect storm that is fast transforming this world into an unrecognizable place not too dissimilar to a zombie apocalypse. And this crisis seems to be just getting warmed up.

I really don't know what to say or think about all of this. I am finding this latest chapter we are in absolutely mind boggling.....and down right surreal. Right now, my mate, dad and I are taking this day by day. Really that's all we can do for the moment. I've taken a hiatus from Facebook other than messenger to avoid having my already heighten stress levels aggravated by the solid unabated mass hysteria Facebook is right now over COVID19. I'm also avoiding the panic mainstream media is causing as well, only paying attention to the CDC, WHO, and my governor's office for updates as well as trusted sources to monitor the situation across the country.

I'm worried as all of you are folks. In light of the COVID19 crisis the future does indeed look uncertain. We just don't know what is going to happen. But we will get though this. We just have to remember what fear really is. Its nothing more than ego trying desperately to hold on to and preserve fleeting moments against the tides of change, a battle it will eventually lose one way or another. We have to realize that like it or not, that there are no uncertain times because time is always uncertain. Constant change happens all around us, while permanence is an egotistical man made concept that should have no place in the vocabulary. So fearing uncertainty serves nothing but to render us inflexible and unable to adapt to change thus making life rather difficult to live to put it mildly.

Just as time is change, we need to change with the shifting sands of time. In order to be that change we cannot nor should not fear any change. We just need to learn to let go of the fleeting moments when its time to let go. We do that much, we free ourselves in mind heart and soul to learn, adapt and overcome what ever ups and downs change brings. After all remaining static and inflexible is not how life remains resilient in the constantly changing environments and climates through out the history of the earth. Life is resilient only because life changes to adapt to changes. Humanity is resilient against crisis such as COVID19 only when we change and adapt to constant change. Bottom line when facing a crisis rather its a personal crises or a massive humanitarian crisis like the one on us right now and you want to change how thing play out and/or at least successfully endure the crisis and get through it, then you have to be the change. There are no other options than that.

I sincerely wish all of you the best in getting to the other side of this crisis. We will make it though this and times will get better again. Just hang in there people and do what you need to do get to the other side.