How many 'Villagers' are as tired of this as I am?>
 

I've had it.

We have now lived over 3 months with the threat of severe illness and death from COVID-19. So far so good here in The Villages. Seems as if the worst is over for now. Still 'masking' and 'Soc-Dist-ing'. Glad to see our stores and restaurants opening to a degree. Life, as we knew it, is slowly returning and hopefully we will not have a serious rebound of COVID soon.

Now, we are living through the terrible racial division for over a week - with little chance of ending soon. All over a HORRIBLE incident by a few rotten apples in MN. As you know that sparked the protesting and horrific riots and looting and shooting all over the USA, and now other parts of the world. This has earmarks of escalating even more, with more loss of life. I will stop my commentary right there, attempting to simply report facts.

And, NOW! Hurricane season has just started and we will soon have the 3rd named storm.

C'mon!!! What's next? Murder Hornets? Asteroids hitting Lake Deaton? Dog poop raining down on us?

Please, can we simply skip past 2020 and go directly to 2021? I've had it.:sing::shrug::cus::mornincoffee::pray:

let's hope that everything doesn't just go entirely off the rails

Easy cure.
Just stop watching any news telecasts by ANY network.

Instant attitude improvement.

I think we are all so near the end of the rope on staying in.

However, people are still catching Covid-19 and dying from it.

Last week we heard the sad news from a family we have long known in Cincinnati that their 81 year old father died in the hospital after trying all of the "new things" to save him. This morning our friends posted that their mother had died of this virus early this morning.

I wish we had a clear summary of how many are infected here and when was the last death. I do read that it being warmer is a factor in keeping it from "being".

I never felt that any government entity was doing a bad job with public statistics but now I am wondering. I do NOT want to become a conspiracy theorist. I have always kind of thought of myself of a woman very interested in science that taught little children. ( I enjoyed every minute of it. Well almost every minute of it)

That's exactly what we do as well. Never watch national news, watch local mostly for weather. In the morning I like Fox 35, they're always doing local stories and they have field reporter David Martin at a different business location everyday. It's very informative, but I'm pretty sure they're paid to be featured, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting. They've got some local news, which at this time it's hard for them to ignore.

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Don't shoot the messenger!

Stopped watching national news some years ago, when I realized they didnt know how to report without giving their biased opinions

Yeah I heard the moon is really made of green cheese and the earth is actually flat.

Apply just a LITTLE logic to your consideration of what you heard:

IF being warmer is a factor in keeping it from "being"

THEN

Miami would not have been hard-hit at all.
AND THEN
Florida would not have been in the top 5 of all states infected with 56,830 total cases diagnosed.
AND THEN
Florida would not have seen 2,460 total deaths confirmed as caused by the virus.

That's just a little logic for ya.

Meanwhile, there HAVE been more deaths recently - not merely in Florida. Marion County was holding steady at only 5 deaths. Until last week. They're up to 7 now. Two additional deaths in a single week, for a county that had 5 deaths total for over two months.

You know, you are right. I get there in my musings about Miami being the worst...and the hottest...and then someone comes up with some tidbit of hope and I am sidetracked.

What's next? Just more of the same stuff you have experienced earlier in your life. Deal with it.

As the wise young lady said, "Patience, Grasshopper".

You may have had it but Covid hasn’t. Did you get any younger? There is still no effective treatment, still no vaccine available... so the danger is the same as before. The weather might help by the smallest percentage but that’s it.

Amazing the impact of a good riot and fire bombings has on what the media feels important to bombard you with!!

The coverage of the virus 24/7 for weeks/months is conspicuous by its all but total absence.

Hmmmm, just got done with three sets of tennis, watched the sunset last night at Ednas while drinking a nice cold one, have golf scheduled for Wednesday and Saturday, more tennis on Thursday, a little concert planned for neighborhood on Saturday evening.....Sorry your life is in such turmoil......Had stage 4 throat cancer 7 years ago, meet many people in the chemo wards and radiation that are no longer with us......You might want to step back and see what the real problem is.....

I went to Sam's Club yesterday, I wanted some new prescription sunglasses. I'm hitting my drives so far I can't see the ball anymore:)

That optical department was closed, so we looked around. It was biggest crowd I have seen in that store. Forget January the height of snowbird season. Every register was open and long lines and two lines all the way back to just get out the door. Every cart was filled to the top.

I think after seeing the riots, most people feel the virus thing is over and just want to get out and do something. I just spent three hours trimming my hedges and bushes in the back yard, raking the trimmings and peanut shells since we feed the squirrels, filling two big brown bags. Then I just washed my car out front. That was after I lifted weights this morning. Keep the body working and the brain will follow.

Last Saturday Sams was pretty empty and they were limiting people going in. Even had two types of TP. Still no yeast though.

No limit now. I went to check out glasses, and they two people working but they weren't selling glasses, couldn't even try on the frames. Why they were there I have no idea, they gave me a card and said call back in a week. Things have changed in a week in the rest of the store, it was Slammed! In fact the Neighborhood Walmart at Colony has had the toilet paper aisle filled with every brand and every size for two weeks now. The only areas not replenished were the hand sanitizers and some cleaning products, like Lysol spray and the Equate version that I buy.

Yeast on Amazon. $14.99 for an LB. package. The Little packages were about a month away when I ordered the big package last week.

I got a 3-pack of Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast at Walmart just over a week ago. They had a few packs left. Made another batch of challah.

God bless you! Sounds like you are living life to the fullest. So refreshing to hear instead of the usual I’ll stay inside until there is a vaccine. Good luck with waiting for that!

🇯🇵 🐝 (murder Hornets) maybe closer that you think?

dont you get it -- all the hype about Covid19 was just the news media looking for extreme ratings for their network -- the years of a bad flu were often just as bad -- but back then there were no headlines or hour-long shows -- now all that has stopped because the news media has a "hotter" even more controversial story to run with -- now all that scare mongering is forgotten -- go out and live your life as you should have been doing by now

too much
 

[QUOTE=DeanFL;1775692]I've had it.

We have now lived over 3 months with the threat of severe illness and death from COVID-19. So far so good here in The Villages. Seems as if the worst is over for now. Still 'masking' and 'Soc-Dist-ing'. Glad to see our stores and restaurants opening to a degree. Life, as we knew it, is slowly returning and hopefully we will not have a serious rebound of COVID soon.

Now, we are living through the terrible racial division for over a week - with little chance of ending soon. All over a HORRIBLE incident by a few rotten apples in MN. As you know that sparked the protesting and horrific riots and looting and shooting all over the USA, and now other parts of the world. This has earmarks of escalating even more, with more loss of life. I will stop my commentary right there, attempting to simply report facts.

And, NOW! Hurricane season has just started and we will soon have the 3rd named storm.

C'mon!!! What's next? Murder Hornets? Asteroids hitting Lake Deaton? Dog poop raining down on us?

Please, can we simply skip past 2020 and go directly to 2021? I've had it.


Me too!

Direct the focus elsewhere. Life is good in spite of its challenges.

3 bad apples must be from the 60’s since that is how long the systemic raceidm has been going on really since the early days of this country. Floyd’s was just the spark that ignited the keg.

Do it GG...look for the hidden facts...please open your minds to it at least. No disrespect intended to anyone...but facts are not what you see on Television.
Business owners, beach goers and parents playing in parks are bring arrested...while looters and anarchists go free? These are paid actors in cities with Mayors that are turning their backs to the people of their states. These are Governors that put sick people in nursing homes, spreading the virus intentionally to create fear and dependency? Some say yes. Do you know that 81% of MN deaths were from nursing homes? That's right...our most vulnerable...( maybe we should check those numbers in other states?) Or about the piles of bricks showing up in these cities? Conveniently ready to toss into the front of people's hard earned business? Or, the ADS for 'crisis actors'...or hear of the loads of people arrested in MN (that were NOT from MN), being flown and bussed in just to create anarchy? These are ANTIFA thugs sponsored to do this to us. And their bailed out by the precious 'celebrities', put on pedestals by some, contributing to BAIL funds for these anarchists. It's all right there in front of you...look at the common zones/maps. Look at states not having issues. Find the information yourselves. Watch our brave citizen journalists...stop watching the MSM...they have a (very consistent) story to make you believe! Read the stories...open your mind and stop the trust for people that don't truly care about you. Where did Corona go?? All of a sudden? ...just move us on to the next way to divide us as people. Don't fall for it again! It's about votes folks...always has been.

Evidently social distancing is over. Look at all the rioters together. Yeppy!

Florida is also the 3rd most populous state in the country. We were in the peak of tourist season when this broke out. I think we did amazingly well. Miami is different than here. They get a younger shorter term tourist. Not someone who comes for a month. Some just a long weekend. Much more chance of having someone bring it with them. Just my thoughts

Haven't watched TV news in over 10 weeks. I'm feeling just fine without it. :coolsmiley:

The virus will be here until we all get it and it dies off. What part of that don't you underand? Do you think staying in and locking down businesses is going to get rid of the virus? We stayed in initially to get control of our Healthcare System.

Yes we are tired of it and should NOT have to deal with these things at our age......Our luck is being in the villages somewhat safe from all this. Many "futuristic" books you read mention the "URBAN WARS".. in the 30 and 40 ( 2000's that is) Not so fictional now is it !!!!!!

Thankfulness is the beginning of happiness, gratitude turns what we have into enough and daily prayers of thanksgiving for the abundance and Blessings in our life gives contentment.‬ This is how we live in peace.

That all powerful media here in the US, scared the bejesus out of England, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and how many other countries. The media killed all those people all over the world. If you chose to not educate yourself and go out and live your life as you feel you should then go do it. Don't even believe for one monement that you can tell others how to live theirs.

You forgot to add the second coming of Christ that was seen in the skies the other day... some swear it was an alien. Definitely an unidentifiable flying object

We have been living this distancing and germ fight much longer in our household while the world went on. It plays with your psyche. Like others have said we don’t watch main stream media for the various reasons so many have pointed out. We try to get out daily, even if just for a golf cart ride to see nature and beauty. About a year ago, I started dressing up for the grocery store as it is my only true outing.
We make the best of it as we can and as a couple we have had to learn how to deal with stressors with each other. But in the end this all has made us stronger with each other on a human level.
Find your peace and revisit it several times a day if need be. This is your life and there are no re-do’s or practice games. Be well.

No. It think it’s going to give the medical community time to figure out ways to reduce the death rate. You seem to be ignoring that point.

welcome to life regardless of where you live . You will survive try to focus on helping others rather then feeling sorry for yourself .

Not to be confrontational, but it occurs to me that one might skip the entire future, if they wish. But, skipping a few months or years is a bit more of a challenge.

As someone who has worked in media in the past they do not charge for those features that you see in the broadcast. If they did/do it gets marked as a "paid advertisement".

And if a media outlet were to charge at this time for a 2-3 minute feature they really are vultures.

Makes you wonder what will happen after November this year?

It has not been over 3 months. ... your math is not correct