Anxiety...Humor...Toilet Paper...Corona Virus...Gambling...Thought for Today

ANXIETY

Here are some ways to cope:

• Stay informed.
• Create a routine
• Grant yourself grace.
• Connect with loved ones.
• Try to unplug.
• Use humor

Omaha World Herald, 3/22

HUMOR *

* Courtesy of Reader's Digest, Feb. 2020

• "If you're getting serious about someone, check what number their toaster is set on, because that's what you're going to be living with."
• "A new study finds that sausages are often linked to other sausages."
• "My wife was going to make pancakes. Then she wasn't. Then she was. Then she wasn't. Then she was. Now it looks like she's just waffling."

Dear Sur or Madman (also courtesy of Reader's Digest)

A resume's cover letter is your first introduction to a potential hiring manager. Don't blow it, like these job seekers"

• "I would like to come by & show you my work in hopes of making something of my life so I can move out of my parents' basement."
• "I'm looking for work because even though my company was profitable last year, this year they are expecting a large defecate."
• "Strong writing abilities. Able to analysis data & problem solve."
• "I am getting to my goal, slowly but surly."

TRENDING *

* courtesy of The Babylon Bee

• "Toilet Paper Crisis Solved As Government Prints Trillions of Fresh, Soft Dollar Bills"
• "Congress Excited To Find Out What's In Stimulus Package They Just Passed"
• "Hallmark Channel Announces 19 New Corona Virus-Themed Movies"
• "Family Take Weekend Vacation To Guest Room"

CORONAVIRUS

"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is requiring people visiting from parts of Louisiana, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to self-isolate for 14 days. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo also ordered that anyone who has moved from New York state to Rhode Island in the past two weeks must self-quarantine for 14 days. Massachusetts and Texashave instituted similar restrictions and some counties in North Carolina are considering putting up roadblocks to keep out visitors, unless they prove they have a home or job inside the county."   Lauren Egan, Drudge Report, 3/29

"We hope and expect that our country will, in its characteristic fashion, find its way through this crisis by marshaling huge resources, discovering innovations, and relying on the incredible courage and initiative of medical personnel, grocery-store clerks, and countless millions of others who make our civil society so robust."  The editors, National Review Online, 3/29

To summarize, although American citizens have what has been interpreted to be a fundamental right to travel between states, the federal government’s very limited power to curb such travel undoubtedly includes authority to prevent the spread of infectious diseases — and COVID-19 certainly qualifies as one. Congress has the power to regulate interstate travel, and it has delegated that power to the executive branch for the purpose of protecting against the spread of infectious diseases.  Andrew McCarthy, NRO, 3030

GAMBLING

"We do know that gambling is corrosive. It destroys lives, and not just the compulsive."   Gil Gutknecht, Townhall, 3/29  NOTE:  I am one of the commissioners on the Nebraska Gamblers Assistance Commission. 

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

There are no abstractions here. The Christian story is mercifully not one that asks us to deny the dark and painful realities of life. Death is not pushed away in denial, but incorporated into God’s redemptive story, held by a storyteller who knows every part of the journey to resurrection, even the open grave.

Jill Carattini, Slice of Infinity