Bouncing Back from CO-VID19

I don’t know how strong or mighty my faith is. I haven’t seen the mighty miracles that are the scriptures. I just feel that in this dark time, I do know it feels like a gardener who is at war with invading weeds. But like any good gardener they won’t let weeds over-run the garden. Heavenly Father won’t let this evil take over His world. It will be plucked and dealt with. Right now, the invading weed that is making its presence known the most is this CO-VID19 Pandemic.

With this lock down and closing businesses I know I tis rough and hurting the economy. I feel it greatly with my husband unable to find good work and he has the experience and schooling to get something way past stocking shelves in stores. I feel the aches of the country. I’m right there with everyone.

 One of the things that gives me hope and know there is a light at the end of the tunnel is the fact that America has bounced back before from rough times, many times. We bounced back after the great flu epidemic in 1918, Great Depression, The OPEC Embargo of 1973, the recession in 1981 from the Cold War, Black Monday, The Dot-Com Crash, 2008 Great Recession or also known when the housing bubble popped.

These moments certainly were hard and scarred, if not changed everyone who experienced them. Then time and time again America proved to the world, and to ourselves, that money is like waves; it may go away, but it does comes back. The hard times come to an end and we adapt.

One incident I didn’t name were terrorist attacks of September 11 of 2001 and the wave that came afterwards. Those attacks certainly were hit to our economy and a big one to our nation’s sense of security. We learned, as a country, we weren’t as strong, mighty and impenetrable as we assumed.

Then we had to face something else. The new inconveniences when it came to travel via the airport. Remember when we could see loved ones off at the terminal? Remember we didn’t need to take off our shoes when going through security check?  Remember we could bring so much more through the airport? There once was a time suspicion wasn’t so high in airports.

A teacher once told me her experience of traveling via the airport not long after the 9/11 attacks. The security checks were cumbersome, and she couldn’t bring her fresh hot coffee through and had to drink it right then and there if she didn’t want to throw it away. In her words, “It was a pain and the coffee burned a bit, but it’s what I have to do to stay safe.”

We all pay extra money for safety; security systems, insurances, moving to better neighborhoods, safer cars, car seats, etc. We attend colleges and go to extra training to ensure job security. Now, with this CO-VID19 we now have been asked to go through more cumbersome changes to how we function as a society for the safety of our health.

Is being quarantine or locked down hard, annoying, and challenging? I’ll be the first to say it’s a big pain to endure. Is this hurting our economy? I know it is! However, if we as a nation can bounce back from countless other hard times and scares,

I’m sure we can come back from this. It’ll just take a balance of convention and innovation in businesses and in how we function as a society.  I remember the complaints of the extra security with airports, but now we don’t think anything of it. Change is hard but we didn’t make it this far as humans to be stopped by some germs.