Ducks vs Saints

 2021. An OMG run off from 2020. Wednesdays mobbing of the Capitol was equally idiotic and sad. Seems some thought it was a costume party and came decked out as Vikings, Captain America and, ducks. Yes, ducks... Am going to be generous minded and  lay the blame on a generationally broken education system. I have no other explanation for the ducks.  Another memorable, "unprecedented" moment for us.  We seem to be amassing these the way others collect comic books. It would be funny if it wasn't so serious. Well, the ducks Are funny..

This little fiasco in D.C.  will go down  as yet another "protest". After a year, we were getting blase about them. Hence, the ducks?  Scrabbling here for Some explanation for Ducks!  In any other country this would have been stamped as an attempted "coup".  But, we are special.  We are the Greatest Country in the World. We don't do third world coups.

The one thing that has been clarified by the pandemic is how utterly disorganized, disconnected and divided this "united" country is. Three "D's".  On the positive side, rest assured that any form of revolution or civil war is totally not happening. We can't even agree that all lives matter.

I will be watching the incoming vs the outgoing administration. In 9 days the Duck is out anyway. Meantime, the US is racking up new highs of Covid at 4000 deaths per day. We are Number 1 in the world these days. Of how not to do things. Even India and Africa are doing better.  I know, right?!  No ducks perhaps? 

Maybe our government reckons being Number 1 at anything is better than being Number 2 or 3 at something.  The continuing failed rollout of the vaccine will be impacting the economy deep into 2021 even as other countries begin to claw their way out of it.  We do not have our ducks in a row.

Our undaunted scientists, and doctors (not quacks) having to shout over the Anti-Vaxxers and ducks are going hoarse.  To be fully effective, we need a double shot of the vaccine. And remember, it's not a cure. It is for temporary immunity of an unknown time frame. Wondering, how the hell any administration in this country is going to corral these ducks without an efficient tracking and distribution system? By the seat of our shredded feathers of course.  Flo..cking absurd. Quack!! 

The new administration will have their divided hands full. A crashed economy, hungry hordes, ducks and internal party snipping. Divided has become the new, united. Behind the waving flags and political distraction, day by day businesses are shutting, forever. Help was too little too late.  

Per usual, in politics, debts are called in as soon as the swinging door between presidents stops. Let us hope this time, the American people will finally be on the list of debts to be paid. We have given our lives, literally to this. Maybe not the ducks. It's hard to do a head count on ducks.  

On the bright side of the pandemic,  I am still on my coffee journey. In case you forgot. I run on the stuff.  Even more amazing, I have found a coffee shop that is open with well spread, outside tables.  With wi-fi.  Damn. That's like finding a pot of gold these days. An escape from the Darkness.  Heartfelt thanks my newly discovered Saint of Coffee; St Drogo.

Drogo sounds more like a cohort of Count Dracula than a fan of coffee, but these days, we take what we can get.

St Drogo, allegedly, was born a Flemish nobleman in 1186. He is the patron saint of; sick people, hernias, insanity and coffeeshop workers. We are mystified by the coffee. After all there Should be a saint for hernias, right?

 Rumor has it he traveled to Rome from Flanders where he took up a career as a shepherd and then was promoted to a monk. He spent years contemplating the walls of a cell  before dying in Sebourg, France. Details on how he came to his coffee career are vague at best. Some say it was due to his excess of energy. Still doesn't explain the coffee...

I am sitting here, in the sun, contemplating my on-going pandemic world. My pre-pandemic ducks have waddled off in annoying directions. So am trying to herd a few cats in the meantime.  But, I have a website! That duck has finally paddled in. kvkrenner.com About bloody time, right?

As for now, if  anyone mentions the words;  "resilience" or "unprecedented" again, I will be tempted to punch them.  Of course, with a very positive and helpful attitude. They are free to duck.  Am taking those repetitive, positive social media postings to heart. Aiming to do everything with a positive and happy attitude. Life changing directives. It's all just -ducky.

 

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