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@snorman1776 - Stinson Norwood
My covid “journey” is interwoven with how I see DeSantis and the opportunity to put the world back on its axis. My daughter had so much stolen from her childhood. She turned 10 years old on “15 Days.” We’d just moved; she didn’t know anyone in the neighborhood. She did her schoolwork on a laptop…I had to show her how to use a mouse. She rode her bike around and around our driveway. Alone. Finally, this past winter she made a friend that lived in the newer home a few doors down. They spent every day together…hours and hours, riding bikes, giving the dog a makeover, planning what dress to wear to the first dance they’d ever attended. They laughed a lot. One morning early this spring, as I was driving to work, my phone rang. Our daughter’s friend had died a few hours earlier. Car crash. My daughter didn’t believe it at first. She texted her friend over and over (she still does). I turned around and went home. We watched My Little Pony episodes for the next week. I overheard a teacher say, “cherish the time you had with her.” It bugged me. I woke up at 4am and scrubbed our Nest cameras for as many of their laughs and bike rides and dog chases as I could find. I haven’t shown them to her. Don’t know why. I guess at some point she might want to remember her friend’s voice. Maybe it will expand the “time she had with her.” What really bugs me is this: the best friend from the new house a few doors down hadn’t just moved in. She’d lived there longer than us. Do you know why my daughter had never met this child for 2+ years, even though they lived within shouting distance? Covid. Her father was a doctor; they followed the Covid rules, oh so closely. Covid was very important, you see. Stay indoors, small social pods. Canceled sports, restaurant tables six feet apart, don’t shake hands. Don’t hug. Wear a mask and talk to someone you might know but never recognize. Wanna go virtual for the rest of the semester? Sure; fewer kids to shepherd, and your parents can even go to the beach for a month while the kids log in. “there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. When you kill a man, you steal a life... you steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness... there is no act more wretched than stealing. -Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner Covid policies robbed us of time. It denied the boy a chance to tell his father goodbye. It stole a job from the single mother. It stole the AA group from the alcoholic. The truth was hidden from us. Children had their childhood stolen. No politician was great. Some were better than others. Once he consumed the data, in April of 2020, there were few politicians in the world pushing back as hard and as successfully as Ron DeSantis. He not only got his state open, he forced the federal government to allow cruises to restart (it was Trump’s CDC order he had to challenge). He sued over vaccine mandates, saving jobs not just in his state, but many others. He got kids back in school in August of 2020. Trump was responsible for two school systems—the military base schools and the @BureauIndianEdu. Neither of these went back as quickly as Florida’s. Most of BIE didn’t go back in person until Biden was in office. So yeah; a lot of my posts have morphed into DeSantis2024 talk. But it’s just an extension of pushing back against what is, in my opinion, one of the biggest blunders in the history of the West. Ignoring that DeSantis got it right is theft. Ignoring Trump’s refusal to acknowledge error is theft. Allowing gaslighting and pretending DeSantis was a lockdown tyrant is robbery. I’m angry over the time that was stolen and I’m sick of the truth being stolen, and I am willing to be an annoying middle-aged dad with (slightly) thinning hair and a propensity to run things into the ground to ensure history records the proper score.
@snorman1776 - Stinson Norwood
Aug 2020: DeSantis says we will never do lockdowns again. “I cringe” when hearing people talk about shutting down the country. Oct 2020: Trump uses the last debate to brag how we shut down the country to fight this horrible disease after seeing some scary modeling.
