Yesterday, David Ortiz was
voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame, the only candidate who received the
required at least 75 percent of the vote for entrance in the latest class.
He was a great player, more a hitter as a designated hitter than an all-around player, he tormented the Yankees as a member of the Boston Red Sox, and he had a sterling career …
Except for the fact that he was named as a steroid user on a report naming names during the sport’s steroid era.
Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, the figureheads of that era, all failed for the 10th and final time to gain entrance, so they are off the ballot, and will have to rely on subcommittees to get in.
Ortiz claimed that even though he was named in the report as a steroid user, he never used them.
Andy Pettitte, who was also on the ballot this year, admitted that he used steroids one time, yet he didn’t even get half the votes needed for enshrinement.
If you don’t get it, then you are not alone.
And now onto the coronavirus … I mean, is there anything else to talk about?
And this is something you should get … not the virus, of course, but why so many people don’t know which way is up—or down—during this pandemic era that we are in right now.
New York State’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect—including for children in school—at least for now, after an appeals court judge on Tuesday blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that shredded the mandate.
So one day you must wear masks in public places and schools, the next day you don’t have to wear masks in public places and schools, and the next day, you have to wear masks in public places and schools.
If you think that any of this makes the least bit of sense, then you are certainly better than I am.
I don’t think any of this makes any sense.
In fact, the daily changes in policy only serve to confuse the public, and makes it that much harder and difficult for all of us to be on the same page.
In New York City, this is a moot point, because the city has its own masking policy, which will not be upended by the courts this time around.
I don’t believe in edicts and mandates related to the pandemic, and I do believe that school districts—in particular, on Long Island,, where there are well more than 150 separate school districts—should be able to guide their own individual policies.
Suffolk County has its own masking policy, but Nassau County, led by supervisor Bruce Blakeman, has vowed to defy the order from the get go, and they will continue to defy the order, to the chagrin of Governor Kathy “The Yokel” Hochul, who has threatened the county with a loss of funding if they continue their stance against her edict.
This entire thing is preposterous, in particular when various courts are playing yo-yo with the rulings.
What's worse, I don’t blame the kids at all for being so confused about everything, but I do blame their parents, who are using their kids as political pawns in this game of our current lives.
It is time we all got on board with the current reality, and stop denying what is going on now.
No, it is not right to force people to get their shots, to wear masks, etc., but let’s stop acting as if we are in prison and are without rights.
This is the current reality, whether anyone likes it or not.
These are things that need to be done in order to survive and in order to be able to do anything in our current world.
Let’s be honest about it; nobody really cares if you don’t like that scenario. You can scream and yell and stamp your feet like an infant, but nobody gives a hoot about how you feel, which is wrong, but that is the way it currently is.
Like it or lump it.
Everybody is going to have to get the shots, and we are coming to a time when everyone is not only going to have to get one or two shots, but a booster shot too, in order to be “fully vaccinated” in the eyes of our country and maybe even the world.
These are the current realities ... and you don't have to like it.
I do believe that there is going to come a time—and it is not in the too distant future—where everything will settle down, all sides will accept the fact that this virus exists, but when one gets it, we will simply handle it like we handle things when we get the regular flu—
Stay home for a week until it subsides, take the recommended medication and be done with it.
I did believe that the repudiation of Hochul’s mask-wearing edict was part of the natural progression to this eventual situation, but with the yo-yo handling of this by the courts, this return to somewhat normal has been pushed back even further from reality.
We now have the weapons and tools to keep this thing under control—and yes, that includes the shots and other tools that are being developed as I write this—and normalcy will come when our leaders come to the conclusion that we can take care of ourselves--meaning we know exactly what to do—when we get this virus.
They have confused us and talked down to us from day one, in their terminology and the way that they are handling this mess.
One day soon, they will understand that we can take care of ourselves just fine with the weapons we have to combat this thing.
We cannot continue in the situation that we are in now, that’s for sure.
All I ask is for you to become a bit more realistic in your approach to this, accept the fact that this is the way it is now, do whatever you can to protect yourselves and your families, and roll with the flow and take this in stride.
My family and I have done this, we have never gotten the virus, and hopefully, that will continue.
Maybe we were just lucky, but I think that it is more than luck—I think being realistic about the entire matter, and the current world we live in, has certainly helped us fend off this thing perhaps better than others.
Roll with the flow and use yoiur brains—and that goes for politicians, health experts as well as the general public—and this thing will be thwarted better and more efficiently than any protection an inoculation can possibly provide.
He was a great player, more a hitter as a designated hitter than an all-around player, he tormented the Yankees as a member of the Boston Red Sox, and he had a sterling career …
Except for the fact that he was named as a steroid user on a report naming names during the sport’s steroid era.
Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, the figureheads of that era, all failed for the 10th and final time to gain entrance, so they are off the ballot, and will have to rely on subcommittees to get in.
Ortiz claimed that even though he was named in the report as a steroid user, he never used them.
Andy Pettitte, who was also on the ballot this year, admitted that he used steroids one time, yet he didn’t even get half the votes needed for enshrinement.
If you don’t get it, then you are not alone.
And now onto the coronavirus … I mean, is there anything else to talk about?
And this is something you should get … not the virus, of course, but why so many people don’t know which way is up—or down—during this pandemic era that we are in right now.
New York State’s indoor mask mandate will remain in effect—including for children in school—at least for now, after an appeals court judge on Tuesday blocked a lower-court ruling from a day before that shredded the mandate.
So one day you must wear masks in public places and schools, the next day you don’t have to wear masks in public places and schools, and the next day, you have to wear masks in public places and schools.
If you think that any of this makes the least bit of sense, then you are certainly better than I am.
I don’t think any of this makes any sense.
In fact, the daily changes in policy only serve to confuse the public, and makes it that much harder and difficult for all of us to be on the same page.
In New York City, this is a moot point, because the city has its own masking policy, which will not be upended by the courts this time around.
I don’t believe in edicts and mandates related to the pandemic, and I do believe that school districts—in particular, on Long Island,, where there are well more than 150 separate school districts—should be able to guide their own individual policies.
Suffolk County has its own masking policy, but Nassau County, led by supervisor Bruce Blakeman, has vowed to defy the order from the get go, and they will continue to defy the order, to the chagrin of Governor Kathy “The Yokel” Hochul, who has threatened the county with a loss of funding if they continue their stance against her edict.
This entire thing is preposterous, in particular when various courts are playing yo-yo with the rulings.
What's worse, I don’t blame the kids at all for being so confused about everything, but I do blame their parents, who are using their kids as political pawns in this game of our current lives.
It is time we all got on board with the current reality, and stop denying what is going on now.
No, it is not right to force people to get their shots, to wear masks, etc., but let’s stop acting as if we are in prison and are without rights.
This is the current reality, whether anyone likes it or not.
These are things that need to be done in order to survive and in order to be able to do anything in our current world.
Let’s be honest about it; nobody really cares if you don’t like that scenario. You can scream and yell and stamp your feet like an infant, but nobody gives a hoot about how you feel, which is wrong, but that is the way it currently is.
Like it or lump it.
Everybody is going to have to get the shots, and we are coming to a time when everyone is not only going to have to get one or two shots, but a booster shot too, in order to be “fully vaccinated” in the eyes of our country and maybe even the world.
These are the current realities ... and you don't have to like it.
I do believe that there is going to come a time—and it is not in the too distant future—where everything will settle down, all sides will accept the fact that this virus exists, but when one gets it, we will simply handle it like we handle things when we get the regular flu—
Stay home for a week until it subsides, take the recommended medication and be done with it.
I did believe that the repudiation of Hochul’s mask-wearing edict was part of the natural progression to this eventual situation, but with the yo-yo handling of this by the courts, this return to somewhat normal has been pushed back even further from reality.
We now have the weapons and tools to keep this thing under control—and yes, that includes the shots and other tools that are being developed as I write this—and normalcy will come when our leaders come to the conclusion that we can take care of ourselves--meaning we know exactly what to do—when we get this virus.
They have confused us and talked down to us from day one, in their terminology and the way that they are handling this mess.
One day soon, they will understand that we can take care of ourselves just fine with the weapons we have to combat this thing.
We cannot continue in the situation that we are in now, that’s for sure.
All I ask is for you to become a bit more realistic in your approach to this, accept the fact that this is the way it is now, do whatever you can to protect yourselves and your families, and roll with the flow and take this in stride.
My family and I have done this, we have never gotten the virus, and hopefully, that will continue.
Maybe we were just lucky, but I think that it is more than luck—I think being realistic about the entire matter, and the current world we live in, has certainly helped us fend off this thing perhaps better than others.
Roll with the flow and use yoiur brains—and that goes for politicians, health experts as well as the general public—and this thing will be thwarted better and more efficiently than any protection an inoculation can possibly provide.
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