'Nobody's right if everybody is wrong." Buffalo Springfield - 1967

The song is entitled, For What It's Worth. Your article brought that song to mind.

The thing is, last year we spent months hunkered down, lights turned low, cars in the garage, pizza delivery on speed dial and not a lot of us working.

Result: A lot of unemployment checks, lowered production, no toilet paper, anxiety attacks, fears of losing homes, on and on. It had to change. So we ramped back up. Collected the science and filtered it seven different ways trying to make it make sense. Issued mandates. Canceled them. Reissued them. Recalculated the data. Opened businesses. Things got better. Not smarter, just better.

Now it's 5 days to isolate and not 10. Is that better, closer to the truth, more workable? Omicron is more contagious than Delta which was more contagious than Covid-19 and the beat goes on.

The truth is - we don't know what to do that will work completely. We only know we need to do something. Do vaccinations help - I think they do. They did for measles, whooping cough, Polio, smallpox on and on. No one protested outside the clinic back then - 10-20-30-50 years ago. But today - it's a constitutional right. I thought it was about survival?

The government is right and wrong. Your neighbor and boss is right and wrong. The CDC, White House, and doctors issuing warnings are right and wrong. That's the process we all go through before we KNOW.

Solution:

- Breathe

- Vaccinate

- Mask up

- Sleep.

-Be nice

- Stop making everyone, everywhere responsible for your pain

- It's our world/government/problem - own it. Stop making excuses and pointing elsewhere. If you think we're not all in this together - try leaving. Gravity is a bitch.

- Be the effing solution. Like there really is an option.

- Practice compassion

- Smile. Even with your mask on, people will know.

Happy New Year