First covid and now it’s ….

First covid and now it’s monkeypox! Could it be any clearer that we are living in the end of days? War and famine and pestilence and death! Look to the heavens because God has seen enough… and so have I! The world is full of sin and we are all going to be judged. Now that I see that monkeypox is most widely being spread in the homosexual community it all makes more sense.

[ Editor’s Note: Look, I was with you ( to a certain extent) up until the part about the monkeypox being “ spread in the homosexual community” and that it means the disease “ makes more sense” to you. While I do get what you’re saying, and yes, in some places there is a higher chance of catching monkeypox in the gay male community at this time, it is absolutely wrong to assume that it is limited to that particular demographic.

The World Health Organization has strenuously worked to dispell that idea, because the absolute last thing we need to see happen is for a) people to assume that since they are not participating in maleon- male sex they aren’t at risk of contracting monkeypox, and b) people to use monkeypox to demonize or ostracize gay males or “ blame” them for the spread of the disease.

Those old enough to remember the early 1980s will no doubt recall the absolute panic during the onset of HIV and AIDS and the fingers pointed back then at the gay community.

In fact, in case you didn’t know, AIDS was originally called GRID, for Gay Related Immune Deficiency before health officials made the move to call it Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome once it was clear that the disease was being spread far outside just the gay male community]

*** I saw the city was working on filling in some of the hundreds of potholes the other day. When are they going to do something about the huge craters on the service road? I’m talking specifically about the one by the Mid-Continent building and the one when you turn right off of Missouri Street to go toward Memphis. If we are on a “winning streak” I would hate for the streak to end because someone got knocked off the track by a pothole! [ Editor’s Note: Trust me, I hate pothioles just as much as you do, especially since I’ve got about three weeks before my 16- year- old daughter is free to drive by herself and I know she’s not used to having to dodge all the potholes she’s likely to encounter ( after a while you just sort of memorize them, like playing “ Frogger” or something.

Those particular potholes, though are, I believe, ArDOT’s responsibility…]