Tag: #Covid19

Coastal Cleanup Day still on in 2020

(Image courtesy of California Coastal Commission)

Good new Eco-wariors, this year’s Coastal Cleanup Day 2020 is still on, but with Covid-19 necessary adjustments.  Each state will of course decide how to best make these adjustments, but here in California, the event is being spread out over several Saturdays instead of just one, and the number of locations has been increased to allow for more social distancing.

Each year people come together to help clean our beaches, parks, shorelines, and coastal shallows.  With an ever increasing amount of plastics, and other garbage, entering the oceans every year, this endeavor is more important that ever.  Luckily, even the Coronavirus can’t stop dedicated individuals from doing their part, especially now that there won’t be the danger of large groups congregating together while they do it.

For details about how your local Coastal Clean Up is going to work this year, just do a search for what’s going on in your state, if you live in California though, you can just look here for the California website.

Has Coronavirus exposed Big Brother?

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Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com

Yet again the current administration has quietly put through another order meant to hinder the spread of information regarding something of vital importance.  This time it was the Coronavirus.

According to a just published article on the NY Times website, the White House has now sent out instructions to hospitals that all Covid data is to be pushed through to a central office in DC, and not to the CDC, as it normally would be.  Will future data at least be shared with the CDC in its entirety?  Only time will tell.  (Use the link below to read what they found in the NY Times article).  When you start to think about other similar steps that have been take at various other times when those actions mostly benefit someone’s re-election campaign, this all becomes even more concerning, especially since it seems to have been done so covertly.

Considering what’s at stake, this can’t be allowed to stand as is.  Sadly it seems that there might have been a useful side to Coronavirus after all, as it might turn out to be one of the only things powerful enough to actually pull back that curtain, and expose the current location of Big Brother for us all to see.  The question now is will enough people even bother to look.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-strips-cdc-of-control-of-coronavirus-data/ar-BB16KfXB?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Pondering the oddity of our Covid19 days

white and tan english bulldog lying on black rug
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Ask anyone (including your dog), and they’ll tell you that we’re living in strange times.  A world-wide pandemic, protests, locust swarms on multiple continents, and a massive dust cloud are sadly but a few of the issues we’re all facing right now.  Social isolation is the key we’re told, to group survival; and to be fair, past pandemics have proven this to be true.  Yet, the oddest thing of all, is that with all of our technology we started out thinking we wouldn’t truly be isolated at all.

A couple of months was all it took to show us the falseness of that techno promise, but hey, it’s not the computer’s fault that zooming just isn’t the same as hanging out.   We’re now being reminded of how much real connections matter.

Things will, no doubt, continue to rapidly change over the next several months.  What legacy this pandemic will leave us with is anyone’s guess, but one thing that is odder still, is that one thing it apparently won’t leave is a song.

Oh, I know various artist are already writing up a storm about life during Corona, but what I’m talking about is the childrens’ songs that past pandemic have inspired.  For example, the Spanish Flu had a jump roping song about “a bird named Enza,” and as they opened the door “in flew enza.”.  Even the Black Death inspired a song.  You may have heard of it, it was called “Ring around the Rosie.”

However, here we are, several months into this ‘experience,’ and not so much as a hummed tune yet to be heard.  Is it just too soon?  Will later reflection show that a song did come about after all?  I guess we’ll see, but until then, go play with your dog.  This whole Covid thing is so stressful for him too, now that it turns out dogs and cats can catch it as well.  Man, what a weird disease, what ever will the future lyrics even sound like I wonder?

Stay safe everyone.