Good news in bad times

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Posted 4/9/20

Don’t you feel good about the ways we are responding to this crisis?

We are not going to let this invasion of the China virus beat us.

A friend of ours told me the other day what she and …

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Good news in bad times

Share your good news with us

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Don’t you feel good about the ways we are responding to this crisis?

We are not going to let this invasion of the China virus beat us.
A friend of ours told me the other day what she and her family are doing.
Her mother has quarantined herself as she’s reached that age when she is susceptible to the virus, But she’s happily at home cooking for the entire family.
Mom packages their meals up and leaves them on her front porch.
One daughter comes by and picks them up, takes her sister’s meals to her home, leaves them on her front porch and takes the rest home to her family.
They check on each other by phone.
It’s not like being together but it works.
Another friend has hired a man to work in her yard and do some work on the outside of her home. He’s a good worker, she says, and finds things that need fixing.
She cooks for both of them but they wisely keep their distance from each other.
We re social creatures.
We miss being with each other, being able to talk one on one and hug each other.
The manager at the grocery store bumps elbows with me. His cashiers beam when I thank them for showing up for work.
We’re coping with a new normal.
We see people smiling everywhere.
They are happy at home with families.
Happy to have jobs and good health.
Happy their loved ones are healthy, too.
Their children are home with them.
Kids read in the Blowfish Reading Club to win Blowfish game tickets and prizes.
To participate go to the Lexington County Blowfish site: goblowfishbaseball.com
We are inspired by your bravery.
Firefighters, law enforcement and EMTs are out there protecting us. Saving lives. 
Watching for criminal activity. Ensuring our homes and families are safe.
SROs have come from closed schools to relieve over-worked fellow officers.
Health care workers staff hospitals, emergency rooms, doctor’s offices.
Retired doctors and nurses answered the call and came back to work.
They do this at great risk to themselves.
They are not immune to the China virus.
The latest estimates are that 1% of the population is going to contract the virus. 
In  our county of 331,000,000 people, that could mean 3,310,000 of us will get ill.
We won’t come near that.
We’ve followed the guidelines. 
We know it’s contagious. We’re careful.
The media says thousands are jobless.
There’s hope for them, too
Amazon is hiring 100,000 workers.
Many are here in Lexington County.
Lexington Medical Center needs help.
2 positions are open at the Chronicle.
If you need work, call us at 359-7633.
 We are looking for good news to share,
Share your good news with us.
Email it to JerryBellune@yahoo.com
Send photos of your kids at home.
Playing with each other.
Having fun the way only kids can.
Send to Rose.LexChron@gmail.com


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