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THE AFTER-DEMIC-WHEN

Details: Published: Monday, May 11, 2020 11:24; by John Campbell; Hits: 1006

After 7 weeks I got a haircut. Since I’m bald, you might think that I probably didn’t need one, except that I had enough hair to make a Trump swirl. There were the 2 young women owners and another customer in a chair 10 feet from me at the hair salon. The shop had been closed for 7 weeks due to the governor’s orders, and the owners had not been able to receive any assistance though they had applied for a small business loan as soon as they were made available. They told me that they would have gone out of business if they did not have husbands who were working. When I was finished, they called their next appointment to come in. Last evening, my wife and I went to our favorite restaurant to eat. We were allowed to sit on their deck only, which was limited in seating. The rest of the restaurant was empty. We drank water out of paper cups and had a menu that was destroyed after we used it. The waiters wore face masks, and the tables were far apart. The restaurant had been closed except for takeout orders for 7 weeks with most of the staff laid off. Many of their competitors are going out of business because they could not survive 7 weeks of no income. My coffee shop has been closed except for takeout orders for 7 weeks and remains so along with many other shops and outlets.

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QUARANTINE

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Published: Sunday, April 26, 2020 12:52

by John Campbell

I remember the summer of 1944, when my one-room school teacher cried all day because her husband was landing at Normandy. Many items were rationed including meat, sugar, gasoline and many more. We lived in a farming region so it was easy to get eggs, milk and poultry but still hard to get some of the things that make life easier. WWII was raging, and we were taking part by going without. The next country-wide problem was the polio epidemic. My uncle died from the disease, but there was no quarantine. Finally, a vaccine was developed, and we were safe from the terrible disease. The Korean War then the Vietnam War were when we saw the first anti-government demonstrations. Some of the news outlets were against the war, and one even staged battle scenes as real live events. Later they had to admit the faux battles but never apologized for the misleading news reports. This was the first time that I became aware that news outlets were biased and not entirely believable. The protests were valid since our government was drafting young men and sending them into a battle that was not being fought to be won and for a foreign government, without any need to protect ourselves from an enemy.

PANDEMIC

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Published: Wednesday, April 01, 2020 11:16

by John Campbell

A couple of months ago I was skeptical about the naysayers telling us that we had a serious virus epidemic. I lived through many epidemics in the past and never saw anything like what they were saying. The polio epidemic when I was in first grade took my uncle and left crippling scars for many who survived, and then there was the Asian flu, the Swine flu and the H1N1 and so on. I used to get the flu every year until I started to get the flu shot. I have not had the flu since. I could not believe that this virus was going to be any different than those before it. I do remember my father telling me that his little sister died of the flu as a child in 1918, and I still visit her grave by her parents, my grandparents. That flu killed millions, but we have not seen anything like it since and modern medicine has come a long way since then. To me the ebola epidemic in Africa was the most scary since most who get it die.

INVESTMENT--HOW & WHY

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Published: Sunday, March 01, 2020 13:29

by John Campbell

One day this last week while I was working on a machine at a local health club, Dr. A came rushing in and said “John, it’s all red.” He was referring to the TV screen tuned to CNBC. It was five in the morning, and the stock market had already started its epic fall. Dr. A and I discuss the stock market quite often, and a few weeks before this we had talked about the sudden rise in the market with the expected correction. Neither of us thought that it would happen this quickly and to the extent it corrected. The corona virus seemed to be the trigger.

SOCIAL SECURITY

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Published: Monday, February 10, 2020 15:42

by John Campbell

I recently read a letter to the editor in our local paper about why we should vote Democratic and get rid of Republicans because the Republicans were going to do away with Social Security. This was the first that I had heard of this but do remember that Democratic candidates have for many years claimed that they were the saviors of Social Security and their opponents would destroy it. I got on a few websites and did some research.

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