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September 2023

Phone In Your Life

Recently Costco announced they will be starting a health line for virtual doctors checkups and assistance

This would really aid their clientele previously hampered by constraints involving time and distance

As low as $29 for a primary care visit and up to $79 for a mental health call

Just go to the Costco Pharmacy homepage, check the prices, see what time slots are available, and schedule your appointment. A true convenience for all

Surprisingly Costco doesn’t make you trudge across an enormous parking lot, wait in the weather to show your membership card, and look for needed items approximately six football fields away

Then after buying fifty of an item when you only needed one, and after a cavity search at the exit, they wish you a “good day”

Amazon also offers healthcare through their Amazon Clinics, also a virtual visit in an effort to keep healthcare costs down

Of course being Amazon, when the virtual doctor breaks the bad news about granny’s dizziness diagnosis, they’ll offer you twenty-eight varieties of a hospital gown

And based on your browsing history you might be interested in this handcrafted coffin rated at 4 1/2 stars with free delivery and if ordered by six o’clock will be here on the third

So if all goes right and the funeral director is on his game, there shouldn’t be a hitch getting granny interred

In this crazy world of increasing prices and escalating violence the public has turned to phone communication only with almost no face to face

Food and grocery delivery, virtual doctors visits, financial advice from a phone, the world has lost that personal touch and that is a disgrace

Eventually tradesmen will join the fray and offer services by the minute like a psychic hot line

They all will offer a 800 line as a do it yourself advisor, offer tips and instruction, let you do the work while they sit back and recline

Evidenced by Mr Kilowatt the electric repair service now offering their own version of a phone fix it

Advertising the economy of using your phone with no service call, and secretly hoping you don’t end up looking like a chicken on a barbecue spit

So sell that gas guzzling SUV. You won’t need a car anymore as everything will now be accomplished by your phone

Forget about your kids. The public schools will own them. You’ll sit in your lonely government mandated room scrolling through meaningless messages wishing you had listened. But now it’s too late to do anything but cry and moan

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The Red Herring Ploy Has Worked

The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a red herring as “something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question”

The fact, while hiding the socialist doctrine, the Biden/Harris ticket was designed to give the American public a severe case of indigestion

The puppet masters had a long range and sequenced plan of pulling the correct strings

Portraying Trump as the evil one all the while moving past Biden and grooming the next in their series of kings

They carefully managed to get this poor schlep elected by hook or by crook and used him as their three year mouthpiece all mapped out by the planning committees

Financing their cause by laundering money through Ukraine, lining their pockets with the New Green Deal payola, and gleefully watching as their potential voters overrun the sanctuary cities

This pickled herring has served them well but now it’s time for him as a leader to dispose

He’ll never know as his day now consists of waking, openly lying to fit his agenda, and during meetings seeming to doze

So the master plan worked. Scared to touch this ridiculous shell of a man as the next in line has been a bona fide failure

The next few months will prove interesting as Harris will be appointed to a job of political favoritism and Biden will be committed to either perpetual care or a jailor

So who is the next political savior? Will it be Newsom the California louse?

Or will the rapid deterioration of his own state cause him to bow to Obama’s spouse

It will prove interesting as Trump will be mired in multiple lawsuits that will keep him tied up for political posterity

As the democrat voters align themselves behind who ever is anointed by the puppet masters in a show of socialist solidarity

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The High Cost of Aging

Andy Rooney once said. “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”

Now the nights out and the sporting events have been replaced by doctor’s visits and paperwork instead of vacations in the sun

A lifetime of fast food, limited exercise, and afternoons in a folding chair at a kid’s soccer game

Have been mentioned as contributors to the current problems by the doctor looking for possible factors to blame

A downward health spiral was noticed after being forced to submit to a jab with no long term study of cause and effect

In addition a younger life was ruled by internet addiction, poor diet and worse sleep habits that went for years unchecked

Then the crash diets started. The 38-inch waistband was really straining the top buttons

But the all you can eat buffets, the unlimited bread sticks and the c-store cappuccinos had turned a lot of people into sugar craving gluttons

Yet, work attendance had been top-notch. No sick days needed as you plowed through colds, hangovers, and muscle strains

Finally at 58 a doctor was consulted due to build up of previously ignored pains

The X-ray revealed a dot on the lungs, or the electrocardiogram found an irregular heartbeat, or a visit to the orthopedic surgeon revealed a need for a new hip

Any one of these causing the stress of medical bills to escalate at a rapid clip

Is the recommended doctor in network or not? How far is it to make the appointment?

And the look on the boss’s face having to cover your job is one of resentment

Knowing hours spent on hold trying to work out insurance details were appalling

Missing work, now on unpaid leave and dealing with a call center whose message advises you are 28th in line behind the others who were calling

Only to find the surgeon was in-network but the available radiologist and specialist were not

Eventually returning to work with a limited list of things you can do and most duties you cannot

While trying to think of a way to manage your new $400 a month prescription costs

As you lay awake in bed, seeing poorer golden years ahead as your rainy day fund quickly exhausts

Eventually due to age, prescription drugs and your mind going to mush, retirement starts to sound like a good idea

Besides the younger hires are coming for your job as an early retirement package might be the perfect panacea

So you sit on your front porch with your cat and your-what-might-have-been regrets

Not realizing in this rapidly crumbling world you’ve more than paid your debts

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