t has been a good while since I’ve written and for good reason, because I was taught a long time ago; that part of being an adult and a good citizen is the ability to control one’s temper. As I have demonstrated numerous times in my editorials, I’m beyond sick and tired of the way things are in my city, state, and country. However, I do believe that part of the way I, as well as some of my neighbors who disagree with me, will get out of this mess I see our nation in, is by being more civil and less angry towards one another.
Case in point, masks! I’m sorry that so many of my neighbors think that the solution to our life situation in this country, is to elect foul mouthed, idiotic, racist buffoons as leaders, and stage revolutions when the person you want doesn’t win. However, regardless of your politics and mine, we are never going to get our normal lives back, until we defeat the pandemic!
The Covid 19 virus doesn’t give a damn about you, your family,y our country, this planet. It is an organism that lives within a host body, in this case our species of homo sapiens, and no matter how much you argue, commit violent acts, send morons like Jim Jordan to scream at Dr Fauci, or me voting into office imaginary ANTIFA! If you’re a carrier or a victim of this virus, it will continue to be a deadly problem for all of us, and to wreak havoc on our country until we all cooperate to contain it!
That means obeying the mask mandates,maintaining social distancing and taking things in stride. Not walking into stores maskless, looking for confrontations, throwing fists, screaming at store employees, or showing up in capital cities armed to the teeth.
No matter how much you threaten, attack,or murder your fellow Americans my dissatisfied fellow countrymen. No matter who you elect, what media outlet you prefer, or whether you believe in massive election fraud conspiracy theories, the virus doesn’t care, it can’t, it’s a deadly organism, not a human being you disagree with!
So For The Love Of God, Wear Your Mask! Some of us in this country other than you, want to leave this chapter in our history on the rear view mirror, and the life you save, might be the guy selling you beer to drown your sorrows in!
Raymond J Gomez
Grand Rapids
