I feel the same way ponytail. I look at various news outlets on tv and read the newspapers and get many update via my cell phone.
I see the tweets of various people . They aren't new tweets I just see on the news. I actually read them when sent due to our new technology.
I love our country and am worried about it. I never felt so hopeless for the United States of America as I do today.
Stimulus packages not sent to people to help them, their unemployment being ended the day after Christmas., people losing health care when they lose their jobs and, in every state cars and cars in food lines with families who haven't money to eat and may lose their homes because they lost jobs. Heartbreaking!
I was very sad these last few days not being able to be with my children or grandchildren. We facetimed my daughter on Christmas along with my sister and her two sons and families because this is where we normally were...at my sister's house. Only my two boys and families were with in laws. Kathy was with me.
Christmas Eve my daughter stopped by with homemade pies and some Christmas cookies on the way to her brother, Bobby's.... this is where we used to be.
I watched Christmas Eve Mass three times on YOU TUBE.
Then yesterday when my 3 children and 7 grandchildren got together for our whole family Christmas ...just our family, they facetimed us from Kathys when her 2 brothers arrived. They were just having appetizers.
Here was MY whole family that I had created and here I sat on a couch with my husband and when the call was finished I was sobbing.
My husband wasn't happy either. He doesn't feel afraid of the virus and probably would have gone except not to leave me home alone. I am petrified of the virus we we lost his cousin Barbara Jean who I grew up with.
So, he said.. lets' s go out. I said ....
where. He said we could drive to New York. Of course we wouldn't get out of our car. I can't walk practically.
We, unbelievable on the Sat after Christmas, zipped through the Lincoln tunnel, ....no traffic. and went around looking at the store and hotel decorations.
All restaurants dark and practically no one on the streets, until we turned on Broadway and passed St Patricks and then the TREE.
St Patricks had put up glass doors. They never had glass doors. This is probably so the people could see inside the church because with the virus they didn't want anyone inside.
For me, it's far too late to even criticize the way this pandemic was handled. I just want it over and pray with my whole heart that the number of people forecast to die in the coming weeks is wrong.
And, money people need..... Good God... Pres. Trump sign the darn bill. They even brought it down to Florida in case in between holes on the golf course he might change his mind. This won't change the virus but, it may put meals in some hungry people's mouths.
This is NOT the America I remember or have grown up in or loved my whole life. The America my father and father in law fought in WWll in.
But, believe me I pray every day that it will some day get back to unity.... as in UNITED.
This is MY country and I love it with every ounce of being in me, and really mean it when I say please...
GOD BLESS AMERICA !