By George Johnson
Uh my, my mind is full of thoughts and questions. Why is everyone's life focus is on the virus and its activity. Do you realize some people are so afraid and the more you talk about it the worse some get in fear. Old saying says "out of sight , out of mind." Unless you get your jollies out of scaring people why don't you focus on something else, like life. Do you realize there are over a million U.S. Veterans in this country that has dealt with various serious illnesses in other lands and been under intense fire and combat in the countries they were assigned? They faced the possibility of death every moment of every day from possibly being shot or enemy attacks. We continually receive aircraft coming from these battlefields carrying our dead soldiers. When a person goes into combat against the enemy they have to consider themselves already dead so they can go do what they were sent there to do without fear. How do you scare a person who is already dead in their own mind?
My son has served 26 years in the Green Beret on many combat fields and countries. Once while his unit was coming under heavy fire I emailed him I was concerned about him. He said, "Dad, don't worry about me. I am walking with God every day and if anything happens and I should be killed I will just go to be with the Lord. So, I am OK either way." I too am an old Marine from the Viet Nam war and was there during the intense fighting in the Tet offensive of 1968. I understood what he was saying. What I am trying to say is with all these combat veterans in this country, why are you all so afraid and why don't you release the populous of the nation to move about freely. Yes , we know how to move safely through enemy territory (this case through the virus territory) safely. Fear activates susceptibility to get sick. Lying stats are old hat as every battle there is a head count of our losses and theirs. These estimates are over stated to produce the impressions they want imparted to the populous. My son said , "Why should I be afraid, I been shot at so many times to no avail. Why should I worry about this?" That is the point I want to make, why destroy this country and its people and economy and businesses because some are afraid. Why should their fear penalize the rest. My granddaughter and her husband had the virus. Both hospitalized, her in the hospital and he was in ICU with blood in his lungs. People began to pray for their healing and in 30 hours later they were both released to home. This virus is overstated. many people who are getting this virus recover and many in the tally of the dead because of the virus have died from other things, they just want to pad the tally. As for me, I have been in lockdown since it began and have come to this decision. I am going to go on with my life doing what I am called to do and trust God just like I have all the other years: the swine flu, the bird flu, H1N1, HIV, Leprosy and Malaria. God protected me through all those and the same God who was helping me then is helping and protecting me now. Well, are we going to sit in fear or walk and go on in faith?