I was really glad to see the end of the year 2021, just like I was really glad to see the end of 2020, a year earlier.
Then I was definitely glad to see the end of the crypto bloodbath known as January. Now I find myself really glad to see the end of February... and "Welcome to March!"
It has to be better... right?
People sometimes talk about "the new normal," which makes me wonder whether the new normal we're trying to adapt to is basically a headlong tumble into chaos and mayhem.
I have been feeling "out of sorts" for a few days; Mrs. Denmarkguy assures me that it isn't really me but the overall background noise of anxiety in the world, concerning the Russia/Ukraine conflict. Seems like this "brave new world" in which we live spends an awful lot of its time bogged down in some kind of globe-spanning reason to feel anxious.
I am not even sure what it is we are watching unfold, but it feels like it's the "last gasp" of an old "rule by force and dictatorship" leadership style that should have been put out to pasture, several decades ago.
At the same time, it makes me feel a bit nervous to contemplate the possibility that a mentally dubious individual has access to they keys and red buttons to initiate an extinction level even on planet Earth. Because there's no winning a nuclear war. Everybody loses... and likely everybody dies.
I'm not quite ready to check out, yet. Lots of things still to be done!
Anyway, earlier today I reached "maximum density" on keeping up with newscasts and feeds and updates from the war, so instead I dedicated myself to listing stuff for sale on eBay. Even with that, my concentration isn't what it once way, although I am more inclined to blame my ADHD than the distraction of newsfeeds.
I was not impressed with myself for being able to create about half as many new lot listings as I used to be able to manage, even 8-10 years ago. I find that "my eyes glaze over" much faster than they used to. Still, it was better than nothing... and we have to be able to pay the bills, somehow...
Now I have grown too tired to care anymore... so I'll come back and try again tomorrow!
Thanks for reading my strange ruminations... have a great Wednesday!
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Created at 20220302 01:20 PST
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Hi mate!
In Iceland, we have now said NO to the so called "new normal", the duty to wear masks in public places has been lifted, and we are readying to "take it" straight in the face, that is the COVID, we have had two weeks now running weith new record being broken dayly in regards to people diagnosed with COVID,
I just finished a COVID, so has Ms.Photo.
Iceland was among the first countries to close its airspace to Russian commercial airtraffic, (with no clear decleration however about how to fulfill this grand "gesture"
These are scary times, i do agree with you, and oour very values are under a much larger threat than i think ,ost of uus even recognise!
My mind is with the civilian population of Ukraain, i see little hope in arming civiliansd tyoo fght a professional army!... it´s irrewsponsible!
However the Ukrainians arethough as nails with a proud military history! And aint likely too give up theirvery freedom, this has turneds for them in to an existential threat, forcing them in to "total war" or "high intesity" warfare.
Something we havent seen in the streets of Europe since the end of the second world war!
My mind is also with you, i HATE that people all over get unsettled when these geoppolitical things are being "sorted"
Have a wondertful Danish spring day mate, if in a changing world, the seasons float iin and out, and i envy you for soon there wioll be flowers in the Danish fields, and we only have piles and piles of snow,. and apparantly another storm coming in!
Your friend!
Eythorphopto!
Hello @eythorphoto, and nice to "see" you again!
I know in Denmark they also lifted all the Covid restrictions on 1. february and immediately there were record infections... and very few people in the hospitals requiring critical attention. The national health institute declared that Covid-19 "no longer represented a critical health threat" and people went back to normal life. They got ill, and then they got well again.
I've have two rounds of Covid, one near the beginning and one in September last year. The first one was nasty, the second one was 72 hours and finished, and I think I have enough natural immunity now that I am not too worried.
The Ukraine situation worries me very much for the civilians in Ukraine, but as you say it's a proud people and they are tough as nails... and I think the Russians are learning what it is like to be up against a nation that has everything to lose... their freedom and existence.
Let us not forget that the last time "Russia" (the the USSR) tried something like this they took on an ill equipped but stubborn army of Afghanistan, thinking they could just walk in and take over... and 9 years later, the Russians withdrew with their economy in shambles and the USSR dissolved as a result... and Afghanistan continued to be Afghanistan.
I think I understand your feelings. I just moved into a great new home but the news overseas has me unsettled and unfocused on what should be a joyous time in life. It really is like watching horrors of the past happen but in a time we should be evolved enough to never do them again. It's surreal and terrifying. It's also strange to see it unfold on Tik Tok and other forms of social media. 9-11 was the first war covered on television the way it was and now social media is bringing a new war to us in a very unique way directly from the people right in the middle of it.
Yeah, that old truism of "history repeating itself" seems to be looming rather large at the moment... it has been just about long enough that everyone who actually experienced WWII and the buildup to it are dead... and tales in history books are definitely not as convincing as direct experience.
I guess it is just one of these days. Things will get better, I hope.
Hopefully they will... the past 2-3 years have definitely had a lot more downs than ups, but we can only hope that tide will turn!
I can't wait for the pandemic to be over so that I can go traveling again.
It has been one thing after another, and Putin gets scarier by the minute.
For me, the great danger of Putin is that he most likely isn't entirely sane, and giving a madman access to nuclear weapons... that's scary!