I look forward every year to the beginning of spring. I’m an avid golfer, spring gets the juices flowing.

My backyard is a golf course. The mowers are busy, sprinklers are blasting huge streams of water with a familiar ratchet then faster ratchet back over and over again, it’s very relaxing.

Leaves sprouting, blossoms, tulips, and green green grass growing, it is without a doubt my favorite time of the year.

Not this year.

I’m not sure what it is, the worlds been turned upside down. These oppressive rules by our elected officials and the people that follow them without question is stunning on it’s face and troubling when you really drill down on it.

I think we have been duped, I think this will turn out to be a very nasty flu season and that’s all. It’s beyond frustrating, I still have a job so this crisis won’t effect me financially, I can’t imagine what people who have lost jobs are feeling. In January the economy is booming, spring is on it’s way, excitement in the air, then boom, everything changed. 

The optimism, the happiness, baseball and apple pie…..all gone. 

All gone due to models that have proven to be not only wrong, but fantastically wrong, astronomically wrong, incompetently wrong, yet the experts who designed the models still tell us what’s required of us. And we follow.

This can’t go on any longer, it goes against everything this country stands for, they’ve effectively taken away the American dream and more importantly, Americans freedom. It’s not supposed to be like this.

We have lost 17 people in my state due to the virus…..17.  Schools done for the year, restaurants, salons, bars, and a variety businesses closed or forced to close. People avoiding each other literally like they have the plague, all for what, the loss of 17 in a state of 3.2 million? And this state didn’t have a mandatory lock down.

The people followed like sheep all acting as if they are doing their part to save the planet. We’re inundated with commercials, emails and PSA’s telling the populace what they are required to do to stop the spread and do their part. They had me in March…..they can’t have me no more.

This needs to stop and it needs to stop now. America has to accept the losses as painful as it may become, if this continues the mortality rate from Covid-19 will pale in comparison to those we will lose to the loss of jobs, freedoms, and hope.

I’m pushing 60, I have some vices, I have no problem going back to pre-virus days of shaking hands, hugging, and gathering with friends at the local pub. I’m willing to take my chances….we’ve lost our minds, we’ve lost our spring, let’s not lose our country.