My Nephew...Telling It Like It Is

I found out today (as did everyone else...) my nephew was interviewed on the local news. He is a person who is in the thick of it, working in a hospital under those conditions those of us who don't work in hospitals only hear about.

He and thousands of others are dealing with covid patients.

I can't imagine what his day is like. I can't image what many people who are dealing with this every day (and have dealt with it for months...) what their days are like. And I hope I don't find out. For my immediate family, there have been issues, but this situation has not affected us like it has so many others. I've kept working--never lost a day of work, and even though I know people who have contracted the virus and even had friends who have passed, my family has been spared.

I pray it remains that way.

That goes for my nephew and his beautiful family as well.

The news story's not a happy one. As the title suggests, many are considering leaving the state because of the situation, and many are considering leaving the profession because, where are they going to go that isn't dealing with the same thing? If you'd like to watch the report, click: HERE for the link. I hope those with covid can recover and those treating them can be free of it, and that it can be something we think about only in the past.

How To Ruin Halloween...

 You many have seen this meme...it's been making the rounds.

Because it's funny.

Other than Christmas, I can't think of a holiday kids look forward to more than Halloween. It's a day/night when a child can pretend to be something other than themselves. And the possibilities of what or who that child would like to be are endless. At least, they used to be.

I grew up in a safe neighborhood. We roamed the streets Halloween evening unafraid and unaccompanied. Fun sized candy bars, suckers, Sweet tarts, and Toosie Rolls...all renumeration for a hard night's work.

We recently moved. We have no idea how the night will go. We bought a big bag of candy, just in case. We may get a lot of kids...we may get very few. Then, there's covid to consider. I think if we had not moved, the turnout would be lighter, but not by much. We weren't inundated by kids where we used to live.

So, to answer the question posed by the meme, how to ruin Halloween?

It's not by handing out mini packs of vegetables.

It's to have a world-wide pandemic that's swept the globe.