[TVARC] This Too Shall Pass

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This Too Shall Pass…




Thankfully as a nation this crisisis causing us to reevaluate our priorities: faith, family, community andfreedom; and seeing the easy dispatch of liberty also reignites that oftforgotten flickering flame…

Journalists are less important thanjanitors. Our nations best athletes are healthcare workers rushing to assistthose in need.  The true heroes are not celebrities, but rather farmers,truck drivers, stock clerks, and supermarket cashiers.

The most valuable businesses do notglitter or present themselves with self-congratulatory award shows; they dotoday what they have always done to keep our food supply flowing.  Perhapsnow, at least for a few short weeks, we stop taking them for granted.

Effective right now comfortablyinvisible workers are recognized as critical priorities; or as the governmenthas official designated them “essential services.”  These folks form thenetwork of our lives; they always have, but we didn’t notice. Everything elseis less than.

Any average hard-working American isworth more today than all those who chase the golden statues of Hollywood; andultimately if they want to go down the superiority path… well, what theyprovide is essentially useless.



   
   - Florida Power and Light won the prestigious International Edward Demming award for excellence in multi-platform engineering and efficiency superiority. They didn’t blow every PhD intellectual out of the water with slide rules, CAD programs and engineering acumen. They did it with hard hats and dirty fingernails.

Becausethey lost the award, the Japanese spent 6 months studying FPL and laterpublished a 1,000 page dissertation essentially saying FPL “wasn’t really good,they were just lucky”….. FPL field leadership laughed, took out markers andwrote on the back of their hard hats: “WE’RE NOT GOOD, WE’RE RUCKY”….
   
   - When every single Kuwaiti oil field was blown up by Saddam Hussein, they said it would take over five years to cap them all off and restart their oil pumping industry. The Kuwaiti’s and Saudi’s called Texans, who had them all capped and back in working order in ten months.

We are a nation that knows how toget shit done.
   
   - When the Northern Chile mine workers were trapped two miles underground, they said no-one could save them. Who did they call for help? A bunch of hick miners from USA coal country who went down there, worked on the fly, engineered the rescue equipment on site, and saved every one of them….

That’s our America.

Don’t loose sight of it.
   
   - When a half-breed Islamic whack job, armed with an AK-47 and a goal to meet his virgins, begins opening fire on a train in France, the Americans on board didn’t run to the nearest safe room and hide themselves amid baguettes and brie. They said “let’s go”, and beat the stuffing out of that little nut with a death wish.

Legion d’Honneur or not, that’sus.  That’s you.

That’s just how we roll.

Lady Liberty can stroll along theChamps-Elysées with a swagger befitting Mae West because without her arrivalthey’d be speaking German in the Louvre.  Yet for the better part of thepast decades groups of intellectual something-or-others have been selling aninsufferable narrative that it’s better to be sitting around a campfire eatingsustainable algae cakes and picking parasites off each other.  Enough!
   
   - Ordinary people, just like you and me, gave their lives and crashed flight #93, a commercial airliner, into a field in Shanksville Pennsylvania so they could save our nations capitol.  Yeah, I think we can wash our hands, quit touching our faces and stay inside for a few days.

Incase you missed it, it wasn’t FEMA driving jacked-up monster trucks into theflooded neighborhoods around Houston Texas to rescue people from their homes;it was a bunch of glorious rednecks assembled like the second division of theCajun Navy… which also just happens to be a fabulous bunch of shallow waterboat operators who convoy their gear voluntarily into the aftermath ofhurricanes and floods.

That’s America folks; in all hermagnificent colorblind glory.

Git-r’-done ain’t government.

Quoting from Bart Hall:

Truckers are saying “fuck the logrules, I’m hauling” and they’re getting supplies to the stores. People arestocking the shelves all night and letting old people shop first. Folks arebuying meals for truckers, who (obviously) can’t go through the drive-ups.Asking ’em what they want, then buying it for them.

Carnival Cruise Line has told Trump“We can match those big Navy Hospital ships with some fully staffed cruiseships”.

GM and Ford have said “hold our carsand watch this — we can make ventilators where we were just making car parts,starting next week” — by re-engineering seat ventilators which their engineershacked together for a new purpose. In under a week.

In a project with which I’m looselyassociated, a very-effective agricultural disease-control agent was re-purposedand re-labeled specifically for Corona-virus control by the FDA and EPA inunder ten days, from initial request to distribution.

Restaurants and schools have said,“we’ve got kitchens and staff; we can feed the poor kids who used have schoollunch.”

NBA basketball players have said,“Hold our basketballs while we write checks to pay the arena staff.”

Construction companies are saying,“Here are some high-end masks for medical staff and doctors”.

Distilleries are making sanitizerout of distilling “heads and tails” which are normally discarded. Nasty shit todrink, but effective sanitizer.

People are tipping grocery check-outclerks and thanking them for taking the risk.

Local, state, and county governmentsare taking control of everything the feds cannot do. Some are doing it wrong,but for the first time in decades … they’re doing it. Federalism isre-emerging, and the smallest unit of government is the individual and thefamily. This, too, is re-emerging after decades of dormancy.

As Japanese Admiral Isokuru Yamamotosaid, after Pearl Harbor … “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleepinggiant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”

I sense this has just happened. Wehave a wonderful country, the greatest single force for good in all humanhistory. We have closed our borders, with good reason, yet we have top medicalpeople now assisting North Korea in their response to the virus.

Many things have been re-set, andwill never be the same.

By microbiological accident, we areliving in profoundly transformative historical times.

So I ask you a question, what partare you to play?

If you feel comfortable sitting inyour socially distant box and bitching about all things that are not right, ormight be not be right….  Or, if you prefer to allow yourself to beovercome with dark imaginings simply because what cannot be done is morecomfortable than the effort to oversee what needs to be done….  well,that’s okay.

You can do that.

And when you’re done doing thatyou’ll still be in the same place.

Or, you can check on older neighborsto make sure they are OK and make sure they have necessities. If olderneighbors need something at the store, get it for them. Friends and neighborswho are anxious, send them a card or note with positive comments on it. Givepeople hope. If you don’t want to send a card, send an e-mail checking up onpeople.

Order an extra lunch or dinner froma local restaurant just so you can give an tip to the delivery person who showsup at your door. Then stick the extra in the fridge and eat it tomorrow. We can do this.

No-one is saying this doesn’t suck;but some people know that standing around bitching about the comparative valuesof current life in suckdom doesn’t actually accomplish anything.

President Trump is doing what needsto be done; with far more information than me; and in the best manner he canassemble to keep America great.  He does this while simultaneouslyswatting away thousands of piranhas biting at him on an hourly basis.

So again, ask yourself a question:what part are you to play?

Live your best life.

You only have this moment once.

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