‘In the heat of the moment’. We’ve all heard that expression and we know what it means. Currently we’re all in lock-down due to Covid 19. We feel like all of our freedoms and the life we knew have been taken away.
Folks are spouting off on social media about how they’re never going to buy anything made in China ever again. Several posts have shown the rest of us how to distinguish what has been made in China by providing us with the first three digits of the UPC codes indicating it came from China.
About six weeks ago I saw a purse on a site that I really liked. I clicked on the link, read about it, read the non-stop raving reviews and decided to get one. First, I Googled the name of the company offering the purse. I read about them and found that they are located on the west coast. Upon contacting customer service and inquiring if their products are made in the USA or elsewhere, I was told they’re made in the USA.
Convinced and satisfied, I placed the order. Then I waited…and waited…and waited. I received emails telling me when it shipped, when it was due to arrive and so forth. Six weeks later it arrived…with a return address of China. That was last week Friday. I was, and am, livid…and still haven’t opened the package. I put it on the desk and to be honest, I pretend it doesn’t exist.
Did I do enough investigating? Are we all at risk of this when placing online orders? As the headline of this post asks, are we temporarily upset? Emotions are running high these days and some of us are angry. Are we angry at China, our government, or just angry about the whole situation in general?
Is anger the right word? For myself, the word is ‘anxious’. I’m anxious for this to be over, anxious because I don’t have any idea when this will end (my crystal ball is on the fritz)…or if it ever will. I’m hardly inconvenienced by this lock-down and am thankful for that, but there are others whose lives have been turned upside-down personally, professionally, and financially.
We have all experienced other events in our lives that have caused us to dig our heels in and spout off about how we’re going to do things differently moving forward…and that lasts until things return to normal or the outcome of the event is good.
Over the weekend I watched Chernobyl. I know the name Chernobyl and that it was nuclear-related. That’s my vast knowledge on the subject. Chernobyl is a five-part mini-series on finger-pointing for who’s to blame. By the way, I did my homework on this too. I Googled it to find out about it’s accuracy because why waste five hours of my life on something that was created by an educated guess. Several reports said that it was very accurate with a little artistic license.
Long story short, the fallout from Chernobyl will still be around in twenty-thousand years from now. Is that an educated guess or did somebody really, REALLY figure this out? After reading that, I asked myself what the fallout be from Covid 19 and how long with that last?
Thinking that the majority of Americans received a stimulus check to ‘tide us over’ until all of this died down, gave us false hope that it would be over soon. This mornings’ local news said social distancing will continue to take place at least through the summer months.
Now I’m angry.
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