Brainstormy
Brainstormy's Journalso what do you think?
is this epiphenoma going to make for fewer, or more, believers? Will the "good God" have his reputation besmirched? Will the unanswered prayers create more doubts? Or will the flattened curve testify to Providence? What are you seeing or hearing and how do you think the global virus outbreak will alter global religiosity?
I'm trying very hard to self-isolate but
my husband says he has no where else to go. Our home schooling isn’t going so well either. He says my tests are too hard and I never let him be the teacher.
Georgia shutting down
In the last hour metro and county public school systems have announced closures and the entire University System of Georgia is closing all campuses. How goes it in your states?
A payroll tax cut?
Help me with this. The pResident is considering a payroll tax cut to (somehow) address the Coronovirus outbreak. But aren't payroll taxes used to fund Social Security and Medicare? And won't depleting these funds give the Republicans more ammunition to overhaul these programs which they're dying to cut anyway. Privatizing Social Security, for example. And wouldn't lifting the cap on SS, so the richer pay more and the fund is preserved, bring in more money that could be targeted for specific CoVid19 relief? Maybe I'm just stupid.
Online shopping and mental health
My son, who is a psychologist, has told me that he's seeing what appears to be a rise in Agorophobic patients. He believes that, as he put it, "staying in breeds staying in." He thinks that once people become accustomed to not venturing out they become more resistant to not venturing out and that the ease of online shopping, food delivering, etc., is contributing. My husband, who shops and delivers groceries for Instacart, seconds this (and also sees lots of apparent "hoarders" and folks who seem to live in a chaos of accumulated "stuff."
Sadly, I'm seeing it in my own life. There's certainly no reason to go to the grocery anymore since the husband does all our shopping, but I'm also starting to need much more imperative reasons to get myself out there. Wonder if others are observing this.
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