2020 - A Year Without ...

2020 - A Year Without ...

… Summer & Spring

… School & Sports, Gatherings & Graduations, Weddings & Funerals

… Jobs & Justice

… Family, Friends, Food, Freedom & Future

… Health, Happiness & Hope

Will this “Year without a Summer” turn into the “Winter of our Discontent” and then a “Dishonest Decade”?

Will 2020 be remember like 476, 1347, 1453, 1492, 1520, 1533, 1789, 1816, 1914, 1917, 1918, 1924, 1929, 1933, 1937, 1939, 1947, 1949, 1991, … ?

Will this eruption of disease and death be our Mt. Tambora?

Will the “Germs of March” in 2020 change our World like the "Guns of August" in 1914?

What Will the “Disunited Nations” bring as Countries “Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World”?

Will Economic Collapse & Famine come to the most vulnerable?

What will this New World Order Bring?

“If we fail, then the whole world, ... including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age.”

Humanity strives for “liberté, égalité, fertilité” but will we just receive disease and death?

Rome was not built in a day but it was sacked in a day.  What will the future hold?

Can this generation take up the mantle of the greatest generation?

Now we are engaged in a great struggle, testing whether our society so dedicated, can long endure.

We need to support …

… our healthcare professionals for their dedication and efforts,

… those who continue to work, this is not the time to be lazy or let someone else carry the load. 

… our leaders even as they struggle to do the right things.

But our leaders need to be very careful they are not using this crisis to gain power or further their own agenda. Many a tyrants use a crisis to gain power.

The tragedy of the commons will be the destruction of us all.

We need to unify as we struggle to find a new normal. May those who cherish freedom, family, friends & faith find the way to health & hope and the strength to do what must be done.

Practice SSHHIELD to avoid disease: Social distancing, Sleeping, Hygiene, Handling stress, Interacting with others (with social distancing), Exercising, Learning new things (with social distancing), and following a healthy Diet

Avoid TARGET to get disease: drink, smoke and watch too much news and party with those who do.

We either continue to work & innovate or perish, so we continue to work & innovate.

Can this be Our Finest Hour as Humanity Comes Together as We Isolate Ourselves?

"The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. [COVID-19] knows that [it] will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to it, all [humanity] may be freed and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. … Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if humanity last for a thousand years, humanity will still say: 'This was one of our finest hours."