04-01-2021, 12:51 AM
How about some optimism. I may not be the cheeriest fellow around, but finally more people have been inoculated against COVID-19 than ever contracted the disease. There's much pent-up demand, and that will revive much of the commerce in America. People will be doing recreational travel again. If I had the funds I might take a trip to Texas, which COVID-19 has ravaged, and visit some places that I haven't been for nearly thirty years. I used to live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and I'd like to see it again. Austin and San Antonio are great places to visit.
It's easy to start to dislike a place where one has lived under a near-lockdown. Life gets stale, and old friendships get shredded.
It's easy to start to dislike a place where one has lived under a near-lockdown. Life gets stale, and old friendships get shredded.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.