Questions

         I know I don't have any special wisdom.  I am terrible about trivia.  And I generally try to keep my mouth shut rather than opening it and sharing how little I really know.  But there are numerous situations I am observing that I really don't understand.

          For example, with the obvious danger of getting covid if you don't get the vaccines, why don't more of my friends get the shots?  Over 4,000 folks in Pennsylvania are getting covid each day so why do folks continue to take this gamble.  In the last two weeks four of our friends have caught it.  One died in the hospital, another is in the hospital on a ventilator, two others had mild cases and will probably not need to go to the hospital.  I don't understand their decisions.

          I don't understand why medical facilities have relaxed their entrance procedures.  Were they not effective?  Do they think the threat of covid is over? Are they tired of taking criticism from the people they serve?  The local health campus and a medical center we use do very little screening anymore.  Last week I went to my family doctor.  This time I was asked no questions about covid exposure and no temperature was taken when I entered.  Just come as you are – like it was before the pandemic.  I don't understand that.

           I don't understand how folks get a religious exemption from getting the shots.  What Bible verse do they use to defend their request?  Maybe Hezekiah 20:21, "Thou shall not get a covid shot."  I don't know.  Does a pastor write an excuse for them?  We have a friend who is a nurse at a medical facility that we often use.  She received a medical exception.  Then she tested positive for covid.  It is interesting that a specialist from that facility told my wife that if my wife didn't have the shots and came to the hospital for treatment, he wouldn't treat her.  Fortunately my wife now has three shots.  But I don't understand religious exceptions.

          I don't understand why there is so much fuss about wearing masks in school. Most kids have no trouble wearing them.  And they help keep children safe.  Why wouldn't a parent want that?  The bottom line is that many folks just don't want to be told what to do.  We all want our own rights.

          And I don't understand why churches abandon their members who choose not to attend services for fear of covid.  With so many conservative folks living as anti-masking and anti-vaccine, church is not the safest place to be if you have a low immune system.  But when you no longer attend in building services you are often forgotten.  No visits, no telephone calls, no church bulletins or announcements, no personal attention.  It can be like you died and I don't understand that at all.  But that may be a subject for another day.

          And I don't understand our government at all, but who does?  Why are we giving huge stipends to refugees who have broken the laws to come to this country?  Why is our governor giving government employees who get the vaccines special vacations with pay?  Where is that money coming from for these unusual expenditures?  Probably it will come from the same places that will be used by President Biden to fund all of his new major laws.  Increase the national debt and tax the rich to give to the poor – more evidence of socialism taking over in our country.

          And I don't understand why I even question these things in a public blog.  All I might do is stir up more controversy since so many of my "friends" have opposite opinions.  I should avoid these topics

before I lose more "friends".  But I may be safe since very few of these folks even read this blog anymore.

          Then I don't know why I even think about these problems.  I should have better things to do, like take a nap or enjoy a snack.