The coronavirus has thrown us all in the mud

[Zorro]

For a would-be Navy SEAL, Hell Week is the worst week of the toughest military training in the world. It is six days of no sleep, constant physical and mental harassment, and one “special day” at the Mud Flats. The Mud Flats are an area between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, where the water comes together and creates a swampy patch of terrain, a muddy bog that tests your determination to be a SEAL.

My training class had been out of the mud for a short period of time when the instructors, looking to weed out the weak of mind and body, ordered the entire group of 55 men back into the bog. The mud consumed each man until there was nothing visible but our heads. We were all exhausted, numb from the cold and desperate to hold on. The instructors told us that we could all leave the mud — if just five men quit. It was the instructors’ way of turning us against each other.

It was apparent that some of the trainees were about to give up. There were still eight hours to go before the sun rose — eight more hours of bone-chilling cold. Several of the students started moving to dry ground; they were ready to quit. And then, one voice began to echo through the night — one voice raised in song. The song was terribly out of tune but sung with great enthusiasm. One voice became two, and two became three, and before long the entire class was singing. The instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept singing, but the singing persisted. Those of us stuck in the mud believed that if one of us could start singing when he was up to his neck in mud, then maybe the rest of us could make it through the night. And we did.

Today, the coronavirus has thrown us all in the mud. We are cold, wet and miserable, and the dawn seems a long way off. But while we should not be cavalier about the dangers of this pandemic, neither should we feel hopeless and paralyzed with fear. Hope abounds.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-coronavirus-has-thrown-us-all-in-the-mud-but-an-end-is-in-sight/2020/03/19/7bb4ddda-6a02-11ea-abef-020f086a3fab_story.html

[Alliepoo]

1. Thank you for this.

[duforsure]

2. Trump will stiff us now

And throw us closer into a depression, while trump will lie and claim he's saved us. We're the new PR, and he'll do us like he does any contractors he's cheated out of their payments. His economic package will not work because it's so inadequate, and make things much, much worse. If he fails to stimulate this economy now, it will crash .this is trump world where corruption runs rampant, lying is praised, while they attack the truth, and incompetence is a requirement. His pattern is too stiff us now, try conning people into believing this is a good economic package knowing it isn't, then repeat he's doing a great job . You all know that it's going to happen and behind all his lies and propaganda, to deceive the American people, again.wonder how much he and the kushner families have made off of insider information from trump?