COVID SURRENDER WORKS BEST FOR QUITTERS

Doing the covid surrender is easy: No vaccine, no mask?

No problem.

But why not try a little harder?

Why not show some willingness to work together?

After all, remember when you asked a friend help and they showed up long enough to quit when it got hard?

Are you still friends? Do you still ask for help? Do they?

Go ahead and ask them if they’d help by getting vaccinated and wear a mask.

Covid surrender says no thanks, not their problem. Are you still friends?

In a world gasping for understanding, like trying to understand why anyone would surrender to a virus that’s growing more lethal according to medical experts, scientists, and ICU beds, take a better look.

Kids are getting a dose of reality they might be better off getting later in life. The reality of a loved one’s death ought to be reserved for when we can handle it.

When would that be? Getting a handle on death is a lifelong job.

I Still Miss Someone

When the end is near we do one of two things: We accept it, or we don’t accept it.

I had a hard time accepting my dad’s illness and subsequent death, but he still got sick and died. He accepted it better than I did.

Toward the end he was able to sit in a chair by a window and smoke cigarettes his wife lit for him.

He didn’t talk much, so I sat with him and smoked a few heaters in solidarity.

It was a cruel waiting game.

Covid Surrender Unacceptable

My mother in law suffered a stroke one Sunday evening. It was called a massive brain bleed.

The key part was it was unsurvivable and someone had to tell her. By the next day she couldn’t speak or open her eyes, but she could respond with a hand squeeze.

We talked and talked and she squeezed our hands until the nurse came in and said she wouldn’t survive this time.

Imagine being trapped like that and hearing the news.

She stopped responding with her hands for about ten minutes. It was awful. Then we started in again. The room was full of heartbreak.

Why Not A Normal Death

It doesn’t seem worthy of a reminder but still needs to be said: We are all going to die eventually.

My dad, my mom, my mother in law, father in law, my step dad, all passed. It feels weird and probably will the rest of my life.

I’ve got voice mail I like to listen to from my step dad. My dad’s old watch sits on the mantle. I see my mom’s high school graduation picture and she’s still prettier than Elizabeth Taylor.

When I think of my loved ones I feel forever young. They were my foundation.

That was the foundation that shook when I looked my wife in the face and told her about a phone call.

Early one night my doctor called to tell me about the results of tests I’d been taking. He said I had cancer. The next day I told my wife. It was horrible, but not as bad as it got toward the end of treatment.

My wife and kids saw their old man heading down. I saw them. Then they did a family service I could understand. They coached me up.

As of right now I won’t face a cancer death. I will be very disappointed if I have to face a covid death. Because of that, covid surrender is unacceptable.

Covid Surrender Plan

No mask and no vaccine? Gather in large groups? Putting vaccines on the honor system?

That’s a lot of quitting.

Ignoring new data, screaming down mask mandates in school?

More quitting.

Covid passport hate?

Quitter, quitting, quit.

County chairmen and women urging citizens to ignore science?

That’s bad leadership.

What does anyone say when they hear that the only pediatric ICU beds available come after the current occupant dies, or goes home?

Would it help if these governors and senators and representatives worked a shift on a ward of ventilator patients? For the folks adamant about their freedoms and their rights and their pro-choice feelings, how many images of people in hospital beds will it take to help them vaccinate and wear masks?

We’re hearing from survivors reporting on their struggle.

They’re not falling for the covid surrender, they’re not quitters.

Is their message one we all need to hear?