WHY SAD ENDINGS RUIN LIVING HAPPILY EVER AFTER

Sad endings of books and movies leave time for reflection and hope: I reflect on why I ever started the story and hope it never happens again.

It always happens again, but, as a mature adult, I feel the possibility of emotional growth from sad endings.

Experience says we all grow. ‘Grow what’ is the question?

If you’ve ever been around certain men, then you’ve heard their growth recommendations:

“You want to grow more emotionally? Start with growing a pair, pal.”

It’s probably a different conversation with ladies?

What happens when the two are put together?

Doubt happens, for starters.

Imagine the men so manly that they’ve grown several pairs in case one goes missing, and they’re dispensing health advice.

What could go wrong, after all, I like to give health advice. But, because I’m more basic than a hairy chested harbinger of doom, my advice goes like this:

Get a covid vaccine.

Wear a mask.

Too often the voices heard from the pulpit and radio have their own special sad endings. Why do the deaths of men with no medical background feel so sad?

Mocking, Humiliating, Illness, Death

People find it difficult to embrace those who refuse the vaccine, the mask, then catch covid and take a dive.

That’s not happening here.

You’ve found a page that doesn’t throw gas on a fire, and a writer who finds no joy in the suffering of others.

We’re not here to feel superior to people following bad advice. This blog won’t tolerate people who say they dislike someone so much that they wouldn’t cross the street to pee on them if they were on fire.

Those sort of sentiments belong elsewhere.

Did this guy deserve a covid death?

Dick Farrel, a longtime conservative radio host from West Palm Beach, Florida, who was a vocal opponent of the coronavirus vaccine and vehement critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, died Aug. 4 of complications from COVID-19, according to WPTV. He was 65.

After calling Fauci a “power-tripping lying freak” and urging people not to get vaccinated as recently as June, Farrel changed his tune after contracting the virus himself and entering the hospital roughly three weeks ago.

Followed by:

But his own illness did prompt a reversal — and he helped convince some in his circle to get vaccinated themselves. As Hair told WPTV, “I was one of one the people like him who didn’t trust the vaccine. I trusted my immune system. I just became more afraid of getting COVID-19 than I was of any possible side effects of the vaccine. I’m glad I got vaccinated.”

There is no joy over any of this. No sense of fairness, or karma, just another of many sad endings.

Covid Vaccine And Mask Is Too Much?

There is equally no joy for this poor man:

A man from California, US, who had previously mocked Covid-19 vaccines on social media, died following a month-long battle with the deadly virus. A member of the Hillsong megachurch, Stephen Harmon had been quite vocal in his dislike for vaccines and had made a series of jokes about not getting jabbed.

This sounds familiar? Maybe you’ve got a funny one mocking and making jokes about covid after 600,000 have died?

No vaccine for him. Why?

Despite contracting the virus, Harmon said he would still not get vaccinated. According to him, his faith in religion would protect him. He even made jokes about the pandemic and vaccines before his death and shared memes where he put more trust in the Bible than top US disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci.

Who was this man’s audience? Where the good church man to explain science to him? Where was the minister?

No one wants to be in his shoes, or his condition. Nothing about it is funny.

According to BBC, Harmon was being treated for pneumonia and Covid-19 in a hospital outside Los Angeles. Ahead of his death, Harmon posted some of his photos from his hospital bed, documenting his fight against the virus. He said, “Please pray y’all, they really want to intubate me and put me on a ventilator.”

He revealed in his last tweet on Wednesday about his decision to go under intubation. He wrote, “Don’t know when I’ll wake up, please pray.”

He didn’t wake up.

‘Come To Jesus’ Moment

If you belong to a church, or Bible study group, show your faith when people mock covid and make jokes about the vaccine and masks.

Risk being banished by taking a stand to save lives.

Tell them you value their input in your life, so keep living.

Keep at it as long as you can. Don’t worry about alienating them the way they’ve alienated you with their anti-vax and anti-mask expressions.

If they’ve been a friend in faith, keep at it. You can never tell when something clicks with them.

The worldwide death toll didn’t click. The American death toll didn’t click. Their own illness didn’t click.

Something may eventually click the way this man’s covid death clicked in his church:

According to Houston, the church encourages its members “to follow the guidance of their doctors”.

How did politicians and faith leaders turn into reliable sources for medical treatment? They listen to their audiences and tell them what they want to hear to keep their jobs.

With that in mind, take health advice from the Reverend Doctor who says get a vaccine and wears a mask.

Their faith in science will save you from more problems than they might give you.