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09 May 2021

Gack! Losing it. I wrote the date today and had no problem with the 9th of May part but then had a few moments trying to remember the year. 2021 or 2022?
I wish I could forget 2021 (or '22) that easily.

2020, compared to the other two was a year that was a blessing in disguise compared to what my country has been going through for the past month or so. The date though, is something that I'm having trouble recalling seeing as how I've been glued to the latest independent news bulletins every evening.

It's like the days are just merging into one-long-nightmare.
posted by hadjiboy 11 May | 13:47
Yeah, it's been easy to lose a year with this Groundhog Day existence we've been stuck in.

Hadjiboy, I am so sad about what's happening in India. It is indeed a living nightmare. Sending good thoughts your way.
posted by Senyar 13 May | 12:39
Thanks Senyar, it is astounding what this Pandemic is doing to my country--and to think if we didn't have the dim-witted, racist thug that we do in power--then things would've/could've turned out so differently for us... all those hundreds of thousands of people unnecessarily having to loose their lives--lakhs of people; maybe even a crore by the time this pandemic is through with India (they said that the next wave that we're going to have to face is where the people at the greatest risk will be our children... that is our toddlers, new-borns, and everyone under 18).

This really is apocalyptic. Just to put things into perspective--a crore of people is 10 million. Can you believe that. And all because we have a charlatan for a pm, who was trying (and succeeding, thanks to those who actually voted for the guy, or kept mum when his fool-hardy antics were coming to life) to shove my country into the ground--again, and again, and again... which his devotees were only too happy to look the other way and give the nincompoop another chance.

It's a totally different story when it's the lives of your loved ones that's now at risk, and that's what the population of my country is finally finding out--the hard-way, of course, but sometimes it takes a jolt to the system for you to get your head screwed back on the right way I guess... except for the deaths... mothers-fathers-brothers-sisters-uncles-aunts and grandparents/great-grandparents--you name it, they're all there in the lineup of the victims who have had to pay the ultimate price. Misery. Total and and utter misery I tell you. History will look back on this decade as it did after the Spanish Flew (which incidentally had ravaged India exactly a century ago, to the year. Give or take a two).
posted by hadjiboy 13 May | 17:29
Hadjiboy, things look so bad there. I hope you and yours can find a way through this.
posted by arse_hat 13 May | 19:22
Yeah, things are going from bad to worse in a handbag.

The only positive thing to have kept me going is the fact that my mom has been vaccinated so I know she's going to be okay no matter what happens... it's not that the people who've been inoculated here aren't immune to the virus, it's just that they're not going to be faced with a life and death trial by fire... they may become sick, and develop some of the symptoms, but it's not going to be fatal. That is if you've had both your doses though.

Knock wood.

posted by hadjiboy 14 May | 04:48
The most horrible of horrible things about it is that it didn't have to be like that. Ya'll could have been seeing the way towards the end of it rather than being in the middle of the massive losses.

Hugs to all.
posted by mightshould 14 May | 17:29
Yeah, but when you have surrounded yourself with fools--which this government has ever since its inception--it has thrown common-critical-thinking out the window... science for these idiots is a travesty; the only thing that tops their agenda is how to make my country into a Hindu-rashtra (state) even if it means sacrificing their own people in-order to do it... the bottom line is, they don't give a damn who they kill, as long as their plans and ambitions are met.
posted by hadjiboy 14 May | 19:48
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