1 Week of Shelter In Place

"Shelter in place", the politically safe way of saying "stay the fuck home til we figure this shit out!!!". When people in control don't have control. Sweating looking down the barrel of a gun that is mass panic. In an election season no less. A politician's worst case scenario. But I never liked any of them anyway. I'm enjoying watching them sweat.

But I digress.

I can thank my father for a few life lessons.....

1) How not to be a husband. (he knows i feel this way. we've talked about it many times)

2) Always think for yourself and don't follow the crowd. (which has, at times, make me an insufferable pain in the ass. I am aware of myself at least that much)

3) His decades long anticipation of the end of the world in a variety of forms, which peaked during my formative years....created a home environment that has prepared me mentally and emotionally for a shit storm of global magnitude.

So while the masses panic and make a run on water and toilet paper, I find myself calm as a cucumber prepped to be pickled. Life will never be the same after this. There will be life before COVID-19 and life after COVID-19. It will taste different, but it will be edible, and delicious and more exciting for its unpredictability.

For this mindset I am grateful. Thank you Dad. No one is laughing at you now.

Though I wish it WAS the Russians and not a virus.

Personally I always hoped it to be, and still do, an alien invasion from Alpha Centuri. At least there was going to be an enemy we could see. And we could finally see those amazing UFOs and death rays in all their amazing sci-fi glory at least once before we all get pushed off the plank into the ocean depths that is whatever comes next. A beautiful blaze of glory if there ever was one.

But COVID-19 can't or won't present itself upon arrival. A microscopic invader that has gripped the world with fear. Imagine having that kind of POWER! My god!

The smartest most intelligent species ever created (that we know of), humans. Smart enough to make art, music, written language, build epic cities, explore outer space, and invent the iPhone, brought to its knees by a little bug, begging for mercy.

A germ that, as far as I am concerned, decided to show itself on behalf of mother nature. To fight back against the ever growing nuisance that is known as the human race. Like the Resistance battling the Empire in Star Wars, this little army is taking on the Death Star, us! Exposing our weaknesses, leading to the demise of everyday life as we know it.

Our weakness you ask. Arrogance. It has always been and will be our arrogance. We don't just think we are the best, we know it! All evidence points to this conclusion. That we can command and shape the world as we have for generations is all the proof we need. Look at what we do everyday. Good or Bad, our daily actions are a constant confirmation that we reign supreme on this earth and the universe. That is of course until the alien mothership lands on the White House lawn.

While we can mathematically calculate the possible, probability of life out there beyond the stars, and speculate the existence of higher intelligence, currently it's just us.

Today we are staring into a microscope trying to learn of the COVID-19 weak points, while at the same time, begging this little bug for mercy.

#LifeIsJustaRide