CONTRAST GREAT BETWEEN OUR NEEDS AND DESIRES!
I had a great Thanksgiving and ate too much; how about you? Recently I watched on TV, scenes from a Kabul hospital, infants dying daily from malnutrition; everyday in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Africa, even in America, children & adults are starving to death. Over 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-pandemic since its beginning, with many millions left disabled. The virus has mutated — with over 50 variants; delta is still highly-transmissible & deadly, as a new variant, Omicron has emerged, causing more travel-restrictions & stock-market volatility. Omicron has 30 mutations within that virus, and drug companies are moving quickly to adapt their vaccine-formulas to combat the new variant. It seem impossible to attain herd-immunity with constantly mutating-viruses & insufficient distribution of vaccines globally.
Millions of people in various degrees of vigilance & boredom, are sitting at home, ordering goods, as the global supply-chain is further stymied; the contrast is so great among the needs & desires of people worldwide. Amidst those problems, the news of possible holiday-mail delays by USPS, adds to an essential contemplation & reconsideration of our usual holiday spending, and HOW we give. Of course, we’ll want to give our kids several age-appropriate gifts they’ll use & enjoy, and hopefully we can. Now, seems like the time to address our over-consumption & raging-consumerism. Suggestions: buy local, send packages EARLY, give necessary, usable items. For peeps nearby, perhaps arrange a time to deliver a box of foodstuffs to their doorstep. For bird-lovers of all ages, give a feeder & bag of birdseed or suet; it’s an inexpensive gift that keeps on giving. For those loved ones further away, you can easily, speedily, safely send money digitally via PayPal, Venmo or CashUp. Money they can spend on lunches, transportation, a necessary service, pay a bill, buy groceries, pay toward rent, utilities, or buy clothes. Avoid the crowds, the germs, the traffic, uncertain delivery systems; send money digitally by laptop or smartphone. The new craziness I witnessed on 11/28/21: news video of organized flash-mobs, smashing store windows, stealing high-end items like purses & phones to sell online.
Low-information consumers, ingesting & trusting disinformation sites, have little understanding of big-picture events occurring & WHY they’re happening, and tend to ignorantly blame President Biden for all the ills of the world. It’s disconcerting, but by now, totally expected from those Americans. It feels perplexing when some of those persons seem to be educated & possibly even held upper-level jobs or had somewhat prestigious careers, but SADLY we see this type of benighted, biased-intellect everyday.
Trish Forsyth Voss
Dec 5 2021
Just send money
CONTRAST GREAT BETWEEN OUR NEEDS AND DESIRES!
I had a great Thanksgiving and ate too much; how about you? Recently I watched on TV, scenes from a Kabul hospital, infants dying daily from malnutrition; everyday in Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Africa, even in America, children & adults are starving to death. Over 5 million people worldwide have died from Covid-pandemic since its beginning, with many millions left disabled. The virus has mutated — with over 50 variants; delta is still highly-transmissible & deadly, as a new variant, Omicron has emerged, causing more travel-restrictions & stock-market volatility. Omicron has 30 mutations within that virus, and drug companies are moving quickly to adapt their vaccine-formulas to combat the new variant. It seem impossible to attain herd-immunity with constantly mutating-viruses & insufficient distribution of vaccines globally.
Millions of people in various degrees of vigilance & boredom, are sitting at home, ordering goods, as the global supply-chain is further stymied; the contrast is so great among the needs & desires of people worldwide. Amidst those problems, the news of possible holiday-mail delays by USPS, adds to an essential contemplation & reconsideration of our usual holiday spending, and HOW we give. Of course, we’ll want to give our kids several age-appropriate gifts they’ll use & enjoy, and hopefully we can. Now, seems like the time to address our over-consumption & raging-consumerism. Suggestions: buy local, send packages EARLY, give necessary, usable items. For peeps nearby, perhaps arrange a time to deliver a box of foodstuffs to their doorstep. For bird-lovers of all ages, give a feeder & bag of birdseed or suet; it’s an inexpensive gift that keeps on giving. For those loved ones further away, you can easily, speedily, safely send money digitally via PayPal, Venmo or CashUp. Money they can spend on lunches, transportation, a necessary service, pay a bill, buy groceries, pay toward rent, utilities, or buy clothes. Avoid the crowds, the germs, the traffic, uncertain delivery systems; send money digitally by laptop or smartphone. The new craziness I witnessed on 11/28/21: news video of organized flash-mobs, smashing store windows, stealing high-end items like purses & phones to sell online.
Low-information consumers, ingesting & trusting disinformation sites, have little understanding of big-picture events occurring & WHY they’re happening, and tend to ignorantly blame President Biden for all the ills of the world. It’s disconcerting, but by now, totally expected from those Americans. It feels perplexing when some of those persons seem to be educated & possibly even held upper-level jobs or had somewhat prestigious careers, but SADLY we see this type of benighted, biased-intellect everyday.
Trish Forsyth Voss
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