Addressing how Black Lives Matter

I wanted to write details and support it with news documentation etc. however after hard thought on all that’s gone on since the pandemic and after all that’s now going on in the states, I just want to write on the black lives matter versus the all lives matter subject and what is making me upset. There will however be links to further articles I read near the end of this article. This is going to be a long post and before you suddenly call judgement I’d like you to listen and read. All lives matter but more importantly Black lives DO matter because they are our foundation. Scientifically speaking we have proven archaeologically that we come from Africa, the wellspring of life. We went into the vast unknown separated and developed in different regions. We white people, of all nationalities, have in some way built our countries on the backs of slaves and the backs of coloured people. I am not proud of my ancestors in this way. I don’t know if any of them stood up to it or refused to own slaves etc. I know that I am one fifth Native American Indian and I am proud of that. I would like to hope that my ancestors were accepting. 

Shaming during a Pandemic

During the pandemic I’ve seen a great number of posts regarding being “fat” after and eating too much and being stationary. I get it we may all gain a little; even I did as I’m not walking to and from work every day. There are many memes online regarding the weight gain and how we’ll all be looking like balloons unable to fit through doors and so on. 

But I’ve noticed something about my friends and family and myself. We are all concerned about how we look and we’ve gotten to the point where this is not healthy. This is depressing and we feel bad and we bad talk ourselves and then others. We say doing this or that is not enough. We eat too much. We don’t exercise and we’ve been watching too much television.  Those people who have depression I’ve seen sleep all day because they have nothing to do or the feel they don’t because they don’t like themselves. This is a mental issue. 

Masks and Vaccine

Let’s talk about masks and a vaccine today.

So I have heard multiple people tell me even in general conversation out on the streets that they would rather be shot, held down at gunpoint or thrown off a rooftop before they ever wear a mask or get a vaccine. I ask why and they say “if it’s my time it’s my time and I won’t be forced to do it and do you know what’s in those things? I don’t want to be like China and be forced to wear a mask”

Well there are some pretty disturbing things in those statements alone. 

Firstly you’d rather die than save your own and another person’s life such as your family? This is also coming from people that are immune compromised. I get it, you’re afraid but personally I would be afraid more of the repercussions of getting this disease more than anything and also risking the lives of my family entirely where they could suffer because seeing someone suffer, as I have with cancer, is not a pretty thing.