Don't be a Norton

We covered a story today that hits you right in the gut.

There is a small town in Kansas (lot’s of them actually but….) named NORTON.

Now it seems that Norton, like most small rural communities, is RED. They are ranchers and farmers and just plain regular folk who have lived their entire lives doing things “their way” and up till now, they’ve faced financial issues, small town politics, and all of the other things that is quite normal when you run a family farm or ranch. Money is always tight, opinions are always strong, people are often staid and that’s just the way it is.

And there’s nothing at all wrong with that.

Unless.

There is a Pandemic and you have a leader who chooses to obfuscate about the realities of real life, and about a virus that he simply didn’t ask for, didn’t want, and doesn’t believe in.

And there is the fallout.

Thru most of 2020 the folks, like so many others around the country, simply didn’t believe the whole virus “hoax.” They believed the President when he said it was made up by Democrats who wanted him to go away…..and then he told them the virus would go away and not to worry about it.

You can see the other shoe dropping I’m certain….and just like THAT, suddenly 21 deaths, masses of folks infected, and a small town in mid-America who truly and honestly believed that this was all made up, is faced with coming to grips with the FACT that the virus is not only real, but their leader led them astray.

The headlines were just like so many places. The County Sheriff and the local Police refused to enforce any kind of mask order. The Leadership passed a law saying there WON’T be any mask mandate.

And people died.

For those of you who don’t believe in Politics, this is also a wake up call. The truth is the truth, and you can’t play fast and loose with a pandemic and expect to survive unscathed.

And so now families spent Thanksgiving without family members that were sick or dead. Everything changed, everything.

The law forbidding a mask mandate was revoked. They passed a new law mandating a mask. The Sheriff will enforce it. etc.

We’ve seen this repeated in so many places. Law Enforcement choosing to buy into a President that they “liked,” and were lied to. Many of them STILL beleive that he’s right, and the right man for the job. Law Enforcement is just one more “agency” in the Government that vies for funding, recognition and validation. They EXPECT all of us to give them respect, and they SHOULD have it, but now when they’re lying to us as well, and certainly NOT when they’re refusing to choose common sense instead of the voice of an alternate universe.

We simply can NOT go on listening to a fool and his money. The time to ACT is now. WEAR A FREAKIN’ MASK, PLEASE. If not for your sake, then at least for the sake of your children and families around you.

Don’t be a Norton Kansas. Don’t wake up one day only to realize that you HAD THE CHANCE to save your life and your family, but you BLEW IT.

Reality sucks….pretty much a LOT, but reality tends to be real folks….get a grip.

https://jackscott.media/?page_id=9