[TheRealThing]

I hope you and your family are well.
This is starting to hit all around us here in KY, and I believe we may be a ways out from our peak.

Just as you look back and find frustration with Obama. I have that same frustration playing in real life. I would love to see him act more decisively and use some federal power and resources.

Thank you for the kind words.

While I understand your point, I cannot agree with the premise. To that end I have made the following observation known on this site for some time now. Americans have had things so good for so long, that it is only the aged that have a basis for comparison. Two and a half generations have passed for example since this society was tested in WW2. Why would you say there is such a wide gulf separating the attitudes of today's youth, (as in just graduated from college youth) and those of my generation?

I'm so glad you asked and allow me to expand. Barring those unfortunate youth whose parents are druggies and such, today's youth essentially want for nothing. There's is the pursuit of self satisfaction because it is for the most part all they know. Now I realize that to some degree that pursuit may be mitigated for some thanks to the admonitions of people like me. Life itself is a wonderful gift and so are personal accomplishments and personal integrity, but we seem to be missing that understanding. By way of contrast for example, my Dad came home to start his life after a firsthand experience with the horrors of war. WW2 to be exact.

In fact in those days, millions of young men of marrying age were home from the war. Consequently their attitudes were very well adjusted as to what things were actually important. They went to work at their jobs with gladness and thanksgiving. They cherished the freedom they had just redeemed, and esteemed their wives, children and homes as marvelous gifts to be appreciated. They went to Church and worshiped the Lord Who'd allowed them such gifts. And when they returned home they thanked Him for the food on the table. But instead of putting up a laundry list on today's generation, just ask someone who employs people in a business or hires a contractor to do work at their home, if today's run-of-the-mill worker is at all dependable. The answer is 'you can't find good help.' Any way you slice it, the character of men has deteriorated.

Perspective they say is everything, and not only are the attitude adjustments coming, they are overdue and even more sobering, they are prophesied in Scripture. All of that said, now that China has seeded this scourge upon our people it is we Americans who have the responsibility to stem the expansion of the outbreak. These viruses, fat coated RNA strands which are not classified as a living organism to my understanding; can only proliferate by transmission from host to host. As infected people shed the virus, those viruses can be picked up by others. Now I don't like it anymore than you do, but we're staying home. The real problem is not any fault of the President, the real problem is that not everybody is complying with directives. In one incident alone, 1500 revelers attended a block party in Florida last week. Now think about that for just a second.

So there are at least two pillars of the debate IMO. 1st - In what state did the Obama led revamp of health care ACTUALLY leave the national health system? And did the existing system sort of ride on the coattails of what was, when they were forced to deal with the H1N1 and to a much lesser degree the Ebola outbreaks.? 2nd - Since federal and state governments have shut down all but critical business, is it really too much to ask for people to stop their social interactions for the sakes of themselves, their families and the nation? To put a finer point on how the situation in our state has been politicized for example. Andy Beshear is the one who shut down Kentucky and I'm fine with that. But for him to blame President Trump for the shortages of medical supplies, instead of former Gov Bevin and even worse, his own Daddy who was governor for the eight years prior, was not only self serving and deceitful. It is childish and patently partisan.

This threat may well take the nation's full attention to defeat over the next month. We can't get by like we do in the case of everything else, by letting a large part of the citizenry just ignore directives and do as they please. Times like this is where personal integrity, or better the lack of it, really shines through the political correctness. I believe we were so absorbed in the impeachment that to some degree we overlooked the more weighty matters of governance. It's got to stop and it will stop one way or another. I just hope that way isn't existential in scope.