Layin..

 

Wobble..

 

*President Biden leaves 2021 with 43 percent approval from American voters per the RealClearPolitics (RCP) average of major polls, with 53 percent disapproving.
The numbers are upside-down from inauguration day 2021, when the president in the same RCP average stood at 57 approval and just 37 percent disapproval. 
Add it all up, and Biden has shifted negatively by more than 30 points. No president since World War II- has seen such a massive slide.

*When Biden entered office, the economy was already roaring back from an unprecedented pandemic and shutdown of the U.S. economy. Unemployment was back down to 6.3 percent, from 14.4 percent in April 2020 when businesses were forced to close across the country.

*The administration continually insisted that inflation was "transitory" and may actually be a good thing for the U.S. economy. However poor people have a harder time absorbing skyrocketing prices on food, gas and home heating. 

Overall, inflation - which is at a 40-year high, is likely be around well past the 2022 midterms. Year-end consumer prices also rose at their fastest rate since 1982. 

*The year that was supposed to be a good one for the country has ended in awful fashion. Positive COVID-19 cases are shattering records. Lines for testing extend blocks and even miles in the cold of the holiday season. Just a thought.

Depopulated..

 

 

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

• • "L'Isolement", Méditations Poétiques (1820)

• O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days!
  • The Lake (1820), st. 6

• I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.
  • The Lake (1820), st. 8

• Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
  • The Lake (1820), st. 9

• Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
  • The Valley (1820), st. 9

• Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
  • Méditations Poétiques (1820), Sermon 2

•  Alphonse Marie Louise Prat de Lamartine (Alphonse-Marie-Louis de Prat de Lamartine) (October 21, 1790 – February 28, 1869) was a French writer, poet, and politician.

Nature..

 

Limited in his nature, 

infinite in his desires,

man is a fallen god 

who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Born: October 21, 1790

Died: February 28, 1869 (aged 78)

Tree..

 

Time..

 

Rounds..

 

Desperate..

 

Many of the healthcare workers lost their lives in the beginning of the Epedemic. Once the politicians got the vaccines, some 30,000 of those heroes were fired.

The Governor said we can get employees from other States....  She declared an Emergency in the State.

Now there are not enough employees for the hospitals of New York City to carry on the increased workload of the new variants. Just a "desperate" thought

Betty..

 

Actress:Betty White.

It is the qualities of the heart, not those of the face, that should attract us in women, because the former are durable, the latter transitory. 

So lovable women, like roses, retain their sweetness long after they have lost their beauty.

• Lovingkindness: goodwill and friendliness towards all
• Compassion: the desire to relieve others’ suffering
• Sympathetic Joy: rejoicing in others’ happiness and well-being
• Equanimity: experiencing limitless benevolence towards all beings

Just a kind thought.

Mandate..

 

The rapidly spreading omicron variant poses a problem for the White House as officials try to convince a skeptical public that vaccine mandates are necessary. 

Opponents of mandates are seizing on early evidence that shows vaccines are not as effective at stopping transmission of the new strain, which they say undermines the administration's key arguments for championing them. 

Scientists do not yet know whether vaccines will continue to protect people from Omicron. The variant contains many mutations that suggest the shots may be less effective against Omicron than against other variants, though evidence to support those fears has yet to be established.

In the mean time, Big Pharma are very quite about a vaccine for the new Variant. They have vaccine for children, etc.

The main question is, what cause the breakthrough seen? Just a thought.