Published on 12, July, 2020
Usually I say "Greetings", but now I say Fare Thee Well, All. I gained practical help after being Hacked, but now I am writing this in advance, whilst I still have some measure of Common Consideration and Logic left for anyone... and some Health to support it.
I try to maintain being helpful on this Forum... but I am in London, plus Hot Weather is coming. I am likely not going to be allowed to do the things or obtain the things which I need to keep Myself Healthy (or perhaps even Sane?), and so I am signing off with this Thread. Perhaps I might come back.
Meantime...
Feel Free to use this Thread for Complaints & Points, anyone... it is what I would use it for, but I would eventually become too angry and/or ill, and so I am leaving for now. Some examples follow.
- I wrote this in My previous Thread, but only One other person seemed to get it. If forced to isolate, what if something breaks? - Bread and Milk are not "essentials" to Me. - On other Threads here, some have pointed out that Helplines are inadequate. - Also The Rich Folk say "We are in this together" but *they* can leave London and go shopping and impose further Restrictions. - If Children (& Stalkers) decide to go around in gangs and carry on as they are then there is no law to restrict *them*.- Sometimes I ask for a specific thing (food, medicine, etc.) and something which is said to be the same is supplied instead which is almost useless --- but only to Me (!).- My Technology is OLD and so cannot always download "essential" Apps or Information.- I used Cash, not Cards, so in London, now shopping is restricted & how am I supposed to buy things "online"?
---I would probably have more to say, I cannot think of all of it just now. Good Luck, Everyone, Try to Stay Nice to Eachother.
Fare thee well, too, DC - I hope for all our sakes that your premonitions don't come to pass.
I certainly share some of your worries. The internet is a thin thread connecting me to the rest of society, but it could be snapped at any time with no-one available to mend it, and I fear that many of us are too reliant upon it. I agree that when scarcity makes our needs harder to meet, it may indeed magnify the effect of people misunderstanding those needs. And I do worry that the new emergency powers may cause problems for some of us. Who is to monitor our adherence to the rules? It is far too great a task to expect of our overworked police force, which may invite "profiling" of our atypical behaviours or vexatious finger-pointing by those with a vigilante streak.
But I have witnessed altruism and kindness in the chaos which give me moments of optimism - the good in people is coming out as well as the bad. I hope you find some such moments too, and that there might be a silver lining to the dark cloud for all of us.
Best wishes - I hope it is "au-revoir" and not "good-bye".
Good song though...i hadnt heard of it before last week!
Good luck and take care of yourself, DC.
Just to emphasise the message.
This was put up last week....
www.youtube.com/watch
Good luck
Good Luck Disambiguating Cynosure. I hope to see you on the flip side of this mess.