At the End of the Day

There are a lot of people out there pointing fingers and placing blame. Some of it is due to uncertainty. Some to downright fear. Some is just playing politics as usual. But a lot of it is coming from a society that no longer understands that manufacturing things and shipping them takes time. A society that is used to having everything done and done perfectly right now! A society that thinks that just because a lot of people need one, a cure will be discovered right now and made available tomorrow. A society, in other words, that no longer lives in reality. We just got served the check. It seems to this author like finger pointing and politics playing ought to take a step back and remember the basics. Basics like:If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all" and "You should walk a mile in that man's shoes before you judge the choices he has had to make." I wonder how many of those trying to place blame here and there have really thought about what they would have done as POTUS or a state governor upon being given such a challenge to face? Do they understand the legal limitations of those roles? If you can help in some way, then do so. If you can't help then stay out of the way of those who are doing what they can, with what they have, where they are. And kindly stop with the armchair quarterbacking. Think you could have done better? Then go and get on your local ballot and do better for your community in the future and be thankful that these were not your decisions to have to make. Because, at the end of the day, once again, this is not something a government can stop. Only large numbers of personally responsible people making good decisions can do that. And pointing fingers and placing blame doesn't help anyone, it just makes you look bad and drives those who may have already lost their homes and businesses because of this virus into a deeper depression. America needs all those people. We need everyone to make this work and we will need everyone we have left to recover when it has passed, so play nice.

"15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. 17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. 18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly." ~ Heb 13:15-18