Would You Could You

Listen to "Could You Would You" on Spreaker. It was far from being a prediction. It did hold up in many conversations. It’s a moment we all knew would arrive. In being here now we have to decide. If we say yes does it mean we’re helping out future generations? If we elect to say no do we come across as selfish and cowardly. On this podcast episode we find ourselves growing into a new pair of new normals. I was invited to participate in a Covid-19 research project. Immediately I asked my waking self, “How close would you travel to a deadly pandemic before you’d turn your boat around?” Our neighboring county had a 320% increase in Covid-19 cases on Tuesday. Local officials are freaked out. Startled! Really? They have to be seeing what the rest of us have. No masks. No social distancing. A lot of shopping. Running around. Playing like its 1999. I asked on Facebook last night, “Who has to die in your life for you to finally realize that this isn’t a conspiracy? This isn’t fake news. This isn’t going away with the way.” We all have a voice in this situation of urgency. Including the internet trollers that will bombard me with every negative known to man. Who? What? Where, why and how? These questions need real answers. We’ve been playing the guessing assumption game for too many weeks. There are no experts! They are chance takers. They see an opportunity and bravely take a step. We are in a recession that can’t recover until Covid-19 is locked up and lost. In saying this why wouldn’t I say yes to the research group doing the study? Would you? Could you? I guess I’m having huge memories of the Swine Flu vaccine from the 1970’s. It didn’t go right in the beginning. We all want your job and career to begin a process of new growth and progress. But it can’t until Texas, Arizona and Florida quit checking in with Covid-19 numbers well over 2,000 a day. I wrapped up the Facebook thought with this thought, “Don’t let your ego be greater than God. It’s coming across that you’re fighting him. You’re taking on the maker. Let me know how he or she reacts. As for the Covid-19 research? We’ll never know the early results because everything’s a secret. You may or may not be getting what could or may not make us better. Grow forward and outward. Walk in peace.