What impact has the corona virus on you?

We're planning on moving tomorrow. Please pray for safe travels and for safe passage. There are a couple of police checkpoints and we should be okay to get through, but there's always uncertainty. I also have to meet up with my parents on the way to pick up and drop off some stuff, and it's not going to be fun to see them so briefly and to have to keep distance from them.

While our governor promised to open things up May 1, he has now embraced a slow opening that will literally take two MONTHS and only IF the "curve" stays flat.

Folks, this virus will always be with us.  There will never be a real vaccine just like influenza does not.  Reopening slowly just makes no sense except to completely control and erase small business.  Making those 60 and over stay home through the reopenings is nothing more than age discrimination.  What if they don't care if they get sick and WANT to get out?  Then let them.

People have lost their livelihoods, their dignity, and their sense of worth in this.  Prolonging it will only make it worse.  We are seeing spikes in suicides in Tennessee over this.  What few stores are open are now packed as people are just OVER this.  Well, everyone is over it except for the ultra liberal who think this lock-down should go for months.  Honestly, I just don't get living in that much fear or with that much government dependence.  Should we even trust a government to take care us when they can't even get the stimulus money they borrowed to everyone at the same time?  Should we trust a government that has taken a virus and made the general public trust THEM and think that their fellow man is just automatically the enemy?  Not me!

I am seriously thinking of joining the protests here in Tennessee.  This garbage has got to stop to help people make a living for themselves, get their sense of pride in a job well done back, and to build up herd immunity.  In my opinion, not doing this will kill even more in the long run.

Totally agree with you Chris. If it was that contagious why don't we see huge spikes in it from going to grocery stores? The government is acting like fascists, telling which businesses will succeed and which ones won't, while keeping most of the government operating. The coming economic collapse is going to hurt.

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Totally agree with you Chris. If it was that contagious why don't we see huge spikes in it from going to grocery stores? The government is acting like fascists, telling which businesses will succeed and which ones won't, while keeping most of the government operating. The coming economic collapse is going to hurt.

The big corporate stores that have been favored by the government through this will be fine as they have had continued sales.  Most corporate restaurants will recover.  This was a direct hit for small locally owned businesses.  Many will lose their shirts in this and will not be able to come back.

I can maybe understand a slow opening in metro areas with higher numbers of cases, such as here in Missouri where 85-90% of cases are in St Louis. I see on the news how poor a job MO is doing controlling the virus and it's nonsense...the vast majority of the state is doing fine, there have only been 4 confirmed cases in my county, with no one needing to be hospitalized or passing away. Looking at the county by county map, there aren't 50 cases total within 100 miles.
There is no need to keep things shut down over those kinds of numbers.

Amen, bro.  Only one reported case in my town, and only handful in my county.  We need to be up and running by May 4, and no later.

So far 60 cases in my county and two deaths. We live in a fairly small county but it is a big tourist town.

If you share a differing opinions on Facebook than what the media paints, even people you care about will paint you as someone who wants people to die.  So, I have temporarily suspended my account to take a break.  My Messenger still works for anyone who wants to reach out.  I may be gone a couple of days, weeks, whatever.  I just needed to get away.

How can people write an other person can die if they have an other meaning.
Why people are so hard for each other?

Take the break you need.
We hope you soon can come to CHM.

Oh, I will be here.  I just won't be around Facebook.  Instagram is okay as it is mostly pictures.

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I am seriously thinking of joining the protests here in Tennessee.  This garbage has got to stop to help people make a living for themselves, get their sense of pride in a job well done back, and to build up herd immunity.  In my opinion, not doing this will kill even more in the long run.

Following is a link to an article about a Dallas area salon owner who reopened and refuses to close: https://www.theblaze.com/news/dallas-salon-owner-refuses-to-close-despite-government-threats

I say good for her!  You will notice that she was visited by the police but not arrested or shut down...

I know it would be scary but I wish more business owners would do this. You don't lock down the healthy, you quarantine the sick and fragile.

It was a great night!  Although we were just about the only ones there, we actually went to a restaurant to eat and got to eat inside!!!

Woohoo! Have to wait till the fourth here. This week can't go by fast enough.

I'm jelly, we aren't close to that happening here in the communist hold of Washington.

89 of the 95 counties in TN were allowed to open restaurants and a few other things yesterday.  My county is thankfully one of those 89.  Neighboring Davidson Co. (Nashville) is still under lockdown and their ultra-liberal mayor says he is going to extend the stay-at-home orders for them.  I think he will cave once he sees people jumping the county line to go out to eat and see how much tax revenue he will be missing.

We are still opening slowly, though.  It will take nearly two months if all goes well to reopen everything.

That's an angle I hadn't considered, Alldat--the entire spend your hard-earned shekels in the neighboring county one.  Money talks, and...certain mayors walk.

The mayor of Grants, New Mexico has defied the states lockdown order and reopened his town on Monday.  Following is a link to the article: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2020-04-27/new-mexico-mayor-police-head-for-showdown-over-lockdown

BTW, Grants is a town of only 9000 people.  What if the mayor of a good sized city (i.e.: hundreds of thousands if not millions of people) decides to do the same thing?  Is that states governor going to send in the National Guard?

It makes me really very angry that people in grocery stores walk through the store if there's no distance limit, no virus that make people sick.

Why can't people run through the store with the chance to make other people sick.

Ordering my groceries online is not an option, it takes days before they deliver your groceries.
I've read all the days are full, they only can deliver on Sunday.

Vonnie, can I encourage you to not be so afraid. Take precautions when you go out but this kind of paranoia is not how God wants us to live.

Something else to think about.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/calls-us-helpline-jump-891-white-house-warned/story?id=70010113&fbclid=IwAR3UnFQ0OL520xg77KEGsKHjb5LN2qXbHICrVl9lIpdzQ4RlCwbJjnA9M6k

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BTW, Grants is a town of only 9000 people.  What if the mayor of a good sized city (i.e.: hundreds of thousands if not millions of people) decides to do the same thing?  Is that states governor going to send in the National Guard?

Time for Trump to send in troops to forcibly depose despots like Ralph Northam, Gretchen Whitmer, and the rest of the left-leaning tyrannical clown show.

I'm so flippin' excited! We actually get to have church on May 10! Real live church with people and everything!

I'm a bit envious, the socialist Republic of Washington is a long way from that.