All is well in my tiny bubble.
Not being an alarmist here BUT. Will the days of Covid ever end? New strains, fresh outbreaks. Once again proving that as predicted, yeah though many, many years ago, we will all be wiped out by a mutating virus. Invisible. Possibly aliens in this undefeatable form wishing for a new planet to populate. Not too far fetched, truly.
How come we always think of aliens with sort-of human forms? I've always believed they are invisible to the human eye. Another dimension if you will. More powerful and indestructible than we are. Why not in a virus? So there you go. Not that I'm scared. But hey reality? Surely if you give any kind of half think to the way things are the world economy is going to collapse? In so many ways our lives are unsustainable. The planet is destroyed, the wealth and corruption is in the greediest hands.
Sorry if I'm depressing y'all. But as I said reality check. Nothing us wee peons can do about it except find a safe harbour somewhere and grow potatoes and stockpile dried things. If we want to live in this changed universe. And that's another of the Big Questions.
And I live in a place now classified as safer than New Zealand. But we have massive food security issues. We are dependent on ferries and all the implications of that. Two days away from starvation as one wag put it. Our tomatoes come from California (4,000 miles away) our grapes from Chile (incalculable distance) just a tiny example from our world travelling food chain of supplies.
No I'm not writing this in fear but in a kind of resignation. A double tin foil hat perched on my head, perhaps. But I can't be alone in thinking all of this.
One of my adult daughters has always said that our one-acre lot in Central Texas is her food security. She'll need someone with a greener thumb and younger back than mine to produce that food, though, as a lush herb garden is all I've produced the last few years. Rosemary in particular. I could supply the entire town with rosemary. I don't know about your scenario, but since the first two weeks after Covid-19 appeared here in the U.S., I have believed my life has changed forever. I had a previous serious and life-changing reaction to an injected vaccination, so I knew I would never be a candidate for any vaccination, something a rheumatologist and immunologist recently affirmed for me. Good thing I'm a bit of an introvert! My husband gets his first injection this evening, though. I worked hard for many weeks to get him a spot.
ReplyDeleteAh another realist, thank you Linda. I often feel so weird speaking these thoughts out loud. I am on a radio programme in the next few days talking about food security issues for seniors. I am aware the food and shelter issues in the US are a crisis. Perhaps a crisis coming to us all. Money will be diddley squat and pensions will evaporate.
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I so agree with you. We have issues with food here, too. After all, we are an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Yes, someone wants to exterminate the human race. Maybe, it is God.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not a believer in the Invisible Cosmic Housekeeper, Gigi, but there definitely is something else afoot. We're a tiny planet in a vast universe of uncountable planets and we've really screwed it up.
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I said what I have to say with my story of Allan, Mary and the end of the World last January. It rhymes with your visions in many ways.
ReplyDeleteI must go back and read that Charlotte.
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Oh, and yet another idea where we are both in sync. I agree w/ you. Not certain about aliens from another planet....but very possible. We've screwed up things quite nicely - we all know how...over-population, over-forested, trash in the waters of the world, air pollution, inequality of human beings...blah, blah. I've also noticed that it's clear people are so stressed that a lot of lunatics are cropping up in government, and there are many more violent episodes reported in the news. Years ago I suggested to my other half that we try very hard to be self-sufficient. It's very frightening to see all the rioting worldwide actually. Just sad and I can't let myself become even more depressed than I am now. I have to work daily at maintaing a positive energy. Stay well and reasonably sane. Hugs from me in Maine. XXO
ReplyDeleteHugs back to you Regina. I am quite positive which is remarkable as I suffer from the Black Dog also.
DeleteIt seems like there is a confluence going on globally, all very, very, bad.
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My thoughts too. If I was a visiting alien I am pretty sure I would do my best not to contact our destructive species...
ReplyDeleteGosh it is such a group of kindred spirits out there EC. I'm sure our lovely world can be managed much better by those wiser and kinder.
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I've not thought about it but the ferry logistics must be huge for your province.
ReplyDeleteEnormous Andrew. We were more self sustaining at one point but TV and rampant desire set in so farms were basically abandoned in favour of consumerism. As is the story in most places.
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There's no doubt that Covid is putting a strain on our great enormous international supply chain. We try to shop and eat local and in season ... but still we get our grapes from Chili and our tomatoes from Cali.
ReplyDeleteAnd we have the greatest cod fishing grounds in the world and guess where we get our cod, Tom?
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I often think that the virus is mother nature's way of trying to shake off the human parasites intent on destryoing her world. Grim, but a thought.
ReplyDelete"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
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Carolyn I have often thought that. The principal of Gaia, a self healing organism that is our planet.
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Sue all taken seriously by the bible thumpers i.e. the patriarchy) and look where it got us. Plunder, pillage and rape to your hearts' content, boyz.
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That entered my mind yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I am not alone in this.
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Tomatoes from California, grapes from Chile. If you had to live on only what your island could produce, what would that be? Fish from the sea, but what else? What grows there? What did people live on 300 years ago? Besides fish.
ReplyDeleteRoot vegetables River, cabbage preserved for the winter. 15 different kinds of berries, moose meat, rabbit meat, chickens, beef, lamb, wild partridges, and turrs and ducks and seal. All kinds of shellfish. And with climate change, we're finally growing wheat and quinoa.
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P.S. sad to see the world in chains.
ReplyDeleteI know, but we are, aren't we.
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The world will go on, but maybe not in a form fit for human habitation. We've been too successful as a species. The dinosaurs lived for over 160 million years before they were wiped out. Do you think humans will survive that long? Will our lives have been in vain if humans don't? Cockroaches have been on earth over 300 million years. Does it bother you that they may outlast us?
ReplyDeleteI've thought about the cockroaches and other species too, CM. We lived in greed on a finite planet. She's exhausted.
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That one word, Greed, is at the root of so many of the earth's troubles.
DeleteI. too, sometimes think this pandemic will eventually be the end of us. You cannot ignore the sorry state our world is in and people seem to be acting totally crazy - Aliens? Why not? It doesn't sound any crazier than out last President (maybe HE is an alien). I really don't feel very hopeful at this point.
ReplyDeleteI am more resigned than anything, ME, it will be what it will be but I mourn for the young 'uns who won't get a chance to fix the bollox we've made of it.
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The food stock situation is a cause for worry but, I am sure that proper logistics would be in place with minimum stock levels which perhaps is not known to the public. The pandemic however is another story altogether. The uncertainties there are mind blowing and only way to tackle that is to live to the best of one's ability one day at a time.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree Ramana, it's all we have and we're old. The young though, so sad.
DeleteThese new strains are a huge concern.
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I have been concerned about the food distribution from the very beginning. Our farmworkers are not being kept safe. Just this past week 3000 of them were vaccinated, but the San Joaquin Valley has somewhere around 70,000 who work in the fields and farms to bring us our great produce and other food items. They are the ones who should be vaccinated, not some old person who wants to travel to Paris. (I actually saw this on Instagram, posted by a woman of great privilege who is my age, and I feel too young to be clamoring for the vaccine.)
ReplyDeleteWe are all taking a different look at essential workers DKZ, they are the ones helping the rest of us to survive. And should be paid accordingly. Even if we have to pay more. Prices haven't reflected reality in a long, long time, with cheap Chinese products and the Walmarts, et al, supporting this outsourcing of goods.
DeleteWe all need to wise up and pay our fair share.
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I guess you can look at it that way or you can look at it this way... I am going to enjoy the life that I have ...beauty to be seen in almost everything.
ReplyDeletePass on my wealth of knowledge for getting by in life. Living on what I have, enjoying new recipes, passing mine along.
Write about the good times I have and have had, the great people , the good about all people.
Make my world the world I want to live in.
I already know I can't cure the world of all ills, but in my little part of the world I can keep them out.I can make them better. Pass along a smile , pass along good thoughts.
Hug a person , instead of a tree...it will make both of you feel better. If it isn't a real hug , then surround a person with caring feelings.
Take care of you and bloom where you are planted, find the fertilizer to make you grow, water to sustain you and sunshine for the best health.
If we all could make our little world better and everyone else also tried it. We would then have a better world, while making the world better for ourselves. Not so selfish sounding now, is it?
DeleteI so agree with the idea about aliens possibly being something other than variations of human forms. Why not viruses?
ReplyDeleteOr, I've considered we've become much like the rats I read about years ago who were confined in an area that became over-populated. They turned inward on each other. Is that what humans are doing?
Perhaps we each need to find ways to grow more food in our homes, especially in climes where cold in the winter or too hot in summer -- assuming we're able to remain comfortable in our living quarters during such weather extremes. Space in our home for a small area where we can actually have a variety of a few producing plants with various methods available today could be a consideration. This thought needs expansion as to the possibilities for those no longer able to garden in their yards.
WWW! You are far from alone in thinking all this (well, maybe the virus is aliens part, though now that you mention it...). "Nothing us wee peons can do about it except find a safe harbour somewhere and grow potatoes and stockpile dried things." Just so! I am eating off the preserved produce from my summer garden and managing nicely living alone through the pandemic. I made my daughter's family my pod and hers is the only house (or any building for that matter) I go into. I'm hoping to dodge the uglies until I can get vaccinated, then I'll feel slightly less threatened. So good to be back reading your wise words.
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