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I can't get the tick stuff or catch poison ivy, I can literally swim in it. Or that covid stuff, Lucky I guess

I got covid and it was like a cold...not even a bad cold. I worked the whole time. But I know people that ended up in intensive care. Weird. I think it was a mistake to handle it the way it was handled but who knew? It kind of put me out of business but I was doing high volume work at low prices for big box stores and it was wrecking me and my equipment anyhow. I was relieved when the government shut us down. Then they started handing out all that money and here we are...broke and at war with ourselves.

Sometimes I look back and I think, holy shit, my generation lived through a lot of bullshit. There was the dot com bubble bursting, the savings and loan bit, the mortgage meltdown, the pandemic...  Fck! I've gone broke and bailed myself out a half dozen times over the past 30 years. But then I think about my grandfather or my parents. Two world wars, Korea, Vietnam, the Great Depression and many not-so-great depressions, the Flu Pandemic.... And before them it was something else....Scarlett Fever or Black Plague...

I guess the point is, even under the best of circumstances, being human is no trip to Hollywood all the time...unfortunately. I suppose it's better for us though than any preceding generations. We seem to live longer and generally live better. The disconnect is that maybe our expectations have exceeded our ability to attain them.