To the editor:
In this time of economic suicide and enforced idleness, it is important for personal sanity to look for all the good that has happened, the so called “silver lining” to an otherwise black cloud!
Think of it: 25 million-plus folks on vacation, time at home with the kids (home school), fixing up the house, watching 2018 football games! It just can’t get any better! But then, it does.
Our federal government (only $22 trillion in debt) happens to find an extra $6 trillion laying around the treasury in some forgotten drawer and starts shoveling it out the door! Wonderful, everybody is going to get a check, Harvard University, The Kennedy Performing Arts Center, Boeing etc. — hey, those executive bonuses have got to be paid. Nancy and Chuck are happy for once, but they still hate TRUMP (has to be). I could just go on and on, I’m so happy.
But as Hoosiers, we are just especially blessed. We have Eric Holcomb. (You know, the guy that got elected because he just wasn’t as ridiculous as his opponent.) Even if Indiana is not in the top tier of the Codiv19 sweepstakes and makes the evening New York news every night, good old Eric stepped up to the plate and dictated a statewide “lockdown” placing us all under “house arrest” for however long he feels necessary to get us well.
But the real topper was closing churches and prohibiting corporate worship. Even Adolf Hitler wasn’t able to pull that off, but Eric did! One can just imagine his “enforcement” program when” mandatory” universal virus testing takes off: county line checkpoints, “papers, please,” “assume the position,” “come with us,” etc. — worked well in soviet Russia. The mind boggles!
And then, in January 2021, comes “UTOPIA” to the USA, which now has the GDP of Chad; Vice President Michelle assumes the presidency, it having been officially acknowledged that Joe Biden had completely lost consciousness the preceding August.
JL Kipp, Gnaw Bone
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