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Thread: Too close to home

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    Too close to home

    Our home is a couple of miles outside the little town (3800 population) of Pennsburg. This area has been some what isolated from the covid-19---but not without drama and controversy. The mayor, who has very limited power tried to counteract the order of the governor and push through a council resolution to open up all business during the shut-down. That failed. At the same time her political ally who was head of the school board went nuts on her Facebook page about our Sect of Health, who happens to be a Harvard Medical School grad and a very highly regarded medical professional who happens to be a transsexual. The key word in that was the verb in the past tense--she was removed by a unanimous (less one) vote of the board. I should add that the mayor was also running for the Republican slot on the fall ballet for the local State Representative seat---she failed nicely.

    Now our quiet little corner has erupted. The nursing home with 120 bed capacity has currently 34 residents and 13 employees confirmed with the covid-19 virus.

    One might wonder how we have this thing defeated
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    Sorry and sad for you, we are doing fairly well in our small town, but there's some out there that don't give a rats patoot.
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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