Nope. I don't like this.

[Tommy Carcetti]

I’ve got a bad feeling about all of this.

Things might very well be okay in the long run, but in the short term, something’s telling me this is not going to be good at all.

On edit, my further thoughts for my cryptic posting:

Last month, I came down with a fever and chills. I thought it was Covid or the flu, but both were negative. It continued throughout the week, a low grade fever and fatigue. I figured it was sinusitis since I had some facial pressure and got some antibiotics. But the fever persisted.

Then one morning—2 days before Christmas—I woke up with a dull pain on my right side. It was not the worst pain I’ve felt in my life, but something about it was disconcerting. And nagging. And it felt wrong. And I knew I didn’t like it.

My instinct was to push through until after Christmas. I didn’t want to ruin the holidays for everyone else.

But all that day my body was telling me something was wrong. I hoped it would go away, but it didn’t.

Finally, after midnight on early Christmas Eve, I knew I didn’t like the situation, I got up, and I drove myself to the emergency room.

After tests, scans, etc. it was determined I had an abscess on my liver. Thankfully it was all treatable with strong antibiotics. But I was in the hospital for 5 days, and I needed a drain and three weeks of IV feed antibiotics.

Had I ignored that pain and tried to push through, there’s a chance I could have gotten sepsis and a much more serious health problem.

Something about that dull pain made me “I don’t like this.”

And that’s how I feel today, right now, about my country.