Linda’s #SoCS prompt this week…
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “the beginning, the end.” Write about the beginning of something and the end of something. Bonus points if your first sentence contains “the end” and your last sentence contains “the beginning.” <– Read that again. Have fun!
At the end of the day, it all comes down to common sense, doesn’t it?
There are so many decisions that politicians have taken for us, over the last year, and they have, for the most part, shown us just how inept they are at thinking of logical solutions, which require common sense.
There’s a virus, get people to wear masks. Oh, no, that isn’t very effective… roll on a few months. Everyone wear masks, unless you are at home, or outside… or in school, because school is a magical safe place where no one gets ill. Um, maybe we should get older kids to wear masks, actually… oh, and maybe adults, in communal areas.
U turn!
Another one.
We’ll just make people stay at home for a while, when they come back from holiday. And create ‘travel corridors’ with other ‘safe’ countries. Oops… seems peopel are bringing the virus, and it’s bigger cousins, back with them. Let’s shut a few corridors down, then reopen them after a while. Months, and months,, later. Um, maybe we should stop all travel…
Common sense, I told you!
There are so many areas of the handling of this pandemic, that could have possibly been better, if there was just a little common sense used, right at the beginning, don’t you think?
But I Smile Anyway... 
Jan 30, 2021 @ 22:01:27
Yes!!
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 22:12:36
🥰🥰🥰
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 19:32:17
Here in the US, we sadly showed the worst of ourselves in 2020…and as a result more than 4,000 people die EACH DAY. We are finally turning the corner, but hundred of thousands died needlessly…will we learn? We will see…
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 19:38:25
The handling of this, by some of the biggest powers in the world has been diabolical, John!
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 20:34:38
Yes indeed…and it’s the real people who suffered as a result.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 22:13:57
So badly…
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 14:03:51
I agree with you, Ritu. The world could have been in a better place had there been a concerted effort to be scientifically intelligent, use common sense, and send a clear and consistent message about masks, social distancing, and not gathering in groups, at bars, etc. I hope if this ever happens again, in another century, that humans can look back and clearly see how to handle this in the best way possible to keep people from dying and put the breaks on a pandemic quickly.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 15:36:07
I hope so, too, Mary 🙂
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 13:56:24
Well done on the prompt and pointing out the twists and turns of the pandemic real-life horror story.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 15:35:45
Thanks, John. It seems to bevon my mind all the time!
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 16:44:50
Here is sit with an compromised health and age authorization for the jab and can’t find a vaccine. I’m just going to wait until there is so much vaccine around that everyone can get it.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 18:04:42
It’ll happen, John, but these things are easy to promise… not so easy to fulfill quickly x
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 19:13:32
You are so right. Thanks, Ritu.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 12:58:32
Ritu, well done. It may have been Mark Twain who said, “Common sense is not all that common.” Keith
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 13:07:25
And he was so right! Thank you Keith 🙂
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 12:32:46
I think the pandemic is what comes to mind first in many people when looking at the prompt.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 13:06:53
Absolutely, Sis. It seems to.be the first thing I think!
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 13:13:00
I know!
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 11:08:31
This pandemic was something no one was prepared for and I actually don’t feel like blaming our politicians. They are not good at doing what they are supposed to in normal circumstances and this has tested them far too much. All we can do is pray for better things. Have a good weekend.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 11:18:54
I get what you say, but there are some glaring wrong decisions, which only our politicians can take the blame for, going against advice from the experts, at times…
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 11:19:09
Have a lovely weekend 😘
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 10:18:02
Definitely Sis, the whole situation has been mismanaged, we should of done more right at the beginning. But what’s done is done …stay safe stay well.
We both really wrote similar posts didn’t we. Have a good weekend 💜💜💜
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 11:00:40
It’s what is on all our minds, eh, sus. What can we do? Stay safe 🥰🥰
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 12:29:11
Yes indeed 💜😂
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 05:39:43
Sigh. That’s the biggest thing we have learnt in this period. That not all professionals can possibly know everything. New discoveries (of viruses like these) come with new learning curves.
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Jan 30, 2021 @ 08:47:40
So many learning Curves!
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