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Well, being down to earth is also a great quality and you most certainly have that. A voice of reason. ;-)

Continued prayers to you and your family Simple.
As you know that my Dad passed away a few weeks ago on March 26 and every day is painful about his loss.
My brother and his wife stopped by briefly last night and he likes to look in the cabinets in our Dads house. It is like he has never seen a pantry with food in it or cabinets in the bathroom with towels. For me this is a very annoying habit that he has for now. He has not been a major visitor for my Dad in the last years and the same for my Mom. This has been very frustrating to say the least.

Wow, how nice of Switzerland. One of the top places I'd like to visit someday. I can get lost in the beauty of that country just by looking at pics online.

Switzerland Is Sending Hope and Strength to the USA: US Flag Projected Onto Iconic Matterhorn Over Zermatt

A Swiss artist illuminated the iconic Matterhorn mountain of the Swiss Alps with a great American flag in a gesture of solidarity with the United States...The great mountain, one of the very tallest of the Swiss Alps, was covered with a great American flag beginning at 10 P.M. local time on Wednesday, April 15, 2020.

Hofstetter is also planning to display the national flags of several other countries afflicted with the coronavirus epidemic on the iconic Matterhorn mountain, such as Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy.

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I'm so sorry to hear this, I remember you talking about him and how special he was to you. It's just soul crushing people cannot be with their ill loved ones. I'm very sorry this happened to you and Aidan.

Sorry to hear this Luis. Hopefully she will be alright. My utmost positive thoughts and prayers to her, your mom and you and the family.

So many sad and worrisome stories getting so close to home. My sister in law tested positive with it yesterday as well after feeling really sick. She is a nurse in a nursing home and had worked intensively with a colleague that was also diagnosed with it. She even had to drive 20 miles to get tested.

So her, my brother and their son have to stay at home and hopefully things don't get worse. My brother has a heart condition, so that's an extra worry. Next to that, there is an infection on the floor in the nursing home where my other brother is. They are now grounded in their own room and can not even walk around anymore.

What baffles and angers me is the fact that there is such a lack of protective gear in the nursing homes here. No masks, no gowns, nothing. And they even keep saying that it hardly has any use to use that. What the fuck! The government is trying to use that as an excuse to cover up their bureaucracy and way too late reaction, like in many other countries.

And in the meantime everyone is focusing on the reopening of the economy. Choosing livelihood over lives. Even though I understand that we need to find balance and see opportunities where they are, we need to watch out for creating false hope and optimism. Once this gets in the heads of people, with summer coming, we might end up in a situation that is even more uncontrollable and causing more heartache and loss than we experienced already.

And that does not mean that we need to just bend over and accept everything that is fed to us, but to use our own sane minds. This is far from over and tomorrow it can be your family that is at risk or grieving loss.

Let's hope that does not happen and therefore go from own judgement instead of following a crowd that screams that this is all a hoax or are yelling for evidence. Would you also have the courage to hold up a sign like that at a realtime funeral with a family that has lost their loved one to this? I think not.

To those I would like to say, that to many it has become as real as it gets. So show some respect and let the ones that grieve about their lost loved ones grieve. That for sure is not too much to ask, is it?

Sorry for the long two cents. I just had to say out loud what is on my mind already for a while.

Much love to all of you.

MsMc this is sad to hear. Prayers sent to you and your family.
Know that memories are forever.

Mezzo you didnt say when we spoke this morning!

I am sending love and strength and prayers for your family
Love ya dude you stay safe and healthy! GLP needs you! <3

Xx

That is my neck of the woods. So early in this storm for GA and already a warning.

It's gonna be a long day...

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