A Few Words About My COVID-19 Posts
In the United States of America, throughout the month of March of 2020, the American people went about their respective daily routines. Some went to work. Some cared for their family members. Some paid their monthly bills. Some made trips to the grocery store. Some fell in love. Some fell out of love. Some got married. Some got divorced. Some read newspapers—either in print or online—and some read blogs. Some watched television news reports. Some watched video blogs (i.e., vlogs). Some spent time on social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter). And some ignored the news altogether. Meanwhile, a pandemic—the coronavirus (i.e., COVID-19)—continued to spread around the globe.
Seeing as how I have a website; seeing as how I am a writer; and seeing as how I have a constitutional right as an American citizen to practice the art of journalism under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, I thought that I would spend a little bit of time chronicling events surrounding the coronavirus. I hold the opinion that things will become somewhat catastrophic in the United States of America—namely, because the American people are currently not prepared to combat this new plague in the twenty-first century.
And yet, I bear no ill will toward COVID-19. After all, it is nothing more than a terrestrial life form. However, I do hold a grudge toward some of my fellow Americans. Today, as I write these words, every journalist, every judge, every lawyer, every lobbyist, every politician, and every pundit who fought against (or who continues to fight against) the enactment of a federal single-payer healthcare plan for the American people is responsible for the aftermath of the coronavirus in the United States of America. Your chickens (i.e., your defense of greed for one-tenth of one percent of the American population) have now come home to roost.
Nevertheless, I dedicate these subsequent COVID-19 entries to the human race. The coronavirus has already begun to spread and to decimate communities. And if the English language is not your primary language, then fear not: I have included a translation drop-down list at the bottom of each page of my website. Hopefully, through the ingenuity of some computer code, enough of what I write in the English language shall translate into your preferred language of choice (i.e., into the way in which you contemplate life).
Last but not least, take care of one another. This pandemic—in the end—may bring some of us to understand that there are more important things in life than the pursuit of short-term profit in a mere human lifetime at the expense (i.e., at the harm) of long-term ecological destruction. Also, if you like what you read here, then you may also like some of my other work on my website. Please feel free to browse at your heart’s content, when time permits.
May this link start you on a personal journey of discovery.
Yours in Service,
Travis Ray Garner
21 March 2020