Monday Spruce Up and Moving On

      Better than how my body adjusts to the spring hour jump forward, but I'll still have a bit of a time wobble for a week or so as I adjust to the hour added to this week, in effect yesterday. I like to change all the clocks before I go to bed so they are correct the next morning. I realized this morning I  didn't do the bedroom clock radio. I also haven't done my car, since I haven't been in it since Saturday. If I remember right, my husband never did change his clock last spring, so at least he is now time right. I will change it though today at some point as tomorrow I will be up bright and early and in the line to vote as soon as the workers are ready. I have two friends that will be poll workers, both of whom  have been quarantining themselves to ensure they were not a risk to others. This meant they stayed out of the same rooms as their families in the house, shutting away from their immediate family as well-that's dedication to civil service! 

     I think about  K and C and their willingness to keep themselves safe from potentially catching the virus so they can keep hundreds of neighbors and members of their community safe and able to vote. How much more American patriotism, short of serving in the military, can a person show? In stark contrast, there's still Facebook zealots and bloggers US  and internationally spewing conspiracy crap about mask control, and posting links to supposed medical experts, who have been debunked or flaws in their positions pointed out repeatedly, to pander to their  views. There's prods to poll watch by the president, and caravans of trucks and cars threatening campaign workers for Biden, and getting applauded on social media and unmasked cult rallies. And again, there's poll workers quarantining to ensure our right to vote on election day. 

     I think we all can agree no one wants to be wearing masks. No one wants to be having hard conversations about holiday gatherings. We all would like to travel freely. I wish those that had planned big weddings could celebrate with their nearest and dearest friends and family this year. I hate that funerals have to have limited numbers, limiting in person support to those grieving. I'm dreading reading how over the next few weeks case rates per test and hospitalization rates will rise due to Halloween gatherings with little to no mitigations. Each positive case the one that through webs of connection may be the exponential transmission that hits someone in my family that will get deathly ill. 

     I have to focus on things that will help my personal stress and anxiety. One start is to my blog reading list. I can't  read, even if an off handed comment, any more  disregard for public health at the so called expense of having their poor freedoms taken away. I took off some pages I followed on Facebook, and unfollowed another bunch of people, not blocked, or unfriended as some are family. At some point I may need to message or exchange information, which is still a good use of social media platforms in an age with no more telephone books, and changing emails. I need to do this for myself and my frustration level.  Other than stating this here, in my own blog, I just stopped following and am moving on quietly.  I think it is irresponsible, even if  their right to state their views even when wrong. Blogs I used to read because they were quirky ways to save money, have turned into conspiracy rants about the "they." I can't even get started on the xenophobic implicit and explicit statements that have  started coming through. As wise people who have read and commented on my blog before have said, just scroll on through. That and removing from my inbox and blogroll is a good start. That's how I am sprucing up this Monday.