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The Midwest Cattleman · October 1, 2020 · P4
I’d like to also say how American heroes of our time.
thankful I am for people as I am thankful for and sup-
want to take for granted. well. I’m thankful for our port law enforcement officers
Besides our health as indi- Veterans! No matter where at every level. If you assault
viduals, there is reason to be they served, they took an one, or injure one, you should
concerned about the health of oath – one that has never ex- go to jail for a long time. If
our economy. According to a pired. Those of the greatest you kill one you should receive
Texas A&M study, COVID-19 generation saved the world – the ‘death penalty’. Now to
is expected to reduce the U.S. those who served in Vietnam those who are presently trying
gross domestic product, GDP, were never properly welcomed to divide and ‘tear down’ this
by almost 12% or $2.5 trillion home. Those who served more country, I’m not thankful for
and employment by 19 mil- recently have been treated you or your attitude. I’m not
lion full-time equivalent jobs better because they were not. impressed with your lies, your
over the next year. Obvious- They all deserve our thanks! logic, or your never-ending lit-
For a week or so now, my ly, some parts of our economy I’m thankful for all of them. any of B.S.
wife and I have had the low- will suffer more than others. To the people who rise each Right now, we are all living
grade fever, the headache, the It seems to be coming back morning and help put food on in the freest, least racist, most
body-aches and all the other strong in most cases. America’s table and the table ‘level playing field for all’ coun-
symptoms that we have spent Cattlemen do have tons of of many around the world, I’m try that has ever existed in the
months trying to avoid. I have inventory on hand, with more thankful for you as well! For a history of the world. Never
been a couple of days ahead on the way, but it’s not rotting long time now, Americans have perfect, but always promising
of her and last evening I lost on a dock somewhere or sit- been able to spend a lower per- is this system we have that
my sense of smell and taste– ting in a restaurant refrigera- centage of their disposable in- has raised more from poverty
completely. This morning, the tor going bad. I truly feel for come on food than those of any than any other. The only time
biscuits and gravy were great, those whose businesses no lon- nation, so if you build boats, socialism or Marxism has
but I’m sure they would have ger exist and those whose live- work in the vacation or travel worked has been at the barrel
been even better if I could lihoods have been destroyed industry, sell luxury items, or of a gun – for the person with
have smelled or tasted them. by needless shutdowns. Like make your living in the world the gun.
Thankfully, like many other the song says, “If I had to start of recreation, you owe it all to I’m thankful for freedom.
folks we know, even Missou- again… I’d be thankful to American farmers and ranch- And I will defend it.
ri’s first family, our symptoms be living here today.” I sure ers who deliver so much for so
have remained minor. The can’t think of anywhere that little. History will show that KwC
governor’s office confirmed re- would be better. If you have they are the real, un-sung
cently that a second, more ac- ever traveled abroad, then you
curate test showed that Gov- know as well as anyone, this is
ernor Mike Parson does have a place to be thankful for.
COVID-19, but the 65-year- At this point, this pandemic
old is not showing any symp- is really no longer a pandemic
toms. His wife Teresa is said and certainly is nothing like
to have developed only mild the one in 1918 where a mil-
symptoms. lion people died every week for
No one wants to be sick at 25 weeks in a row. That year,
all - period, but it is a relief and the Spanish Flu eventually
a reason for ‘thanksgiving’ to ended up killing 50 million
be on the backside of what we people – both young and old.
hope is a brief bout with this We would be ‘beside’ ourselves
virus and having, so far, been today if we were burying our
able to avoid a hospital. Many children and elderly in equal
have not been so fortunate. In numbers. I’m so very thank-
every trying situation, there is ful we are not back in 1918. We
usually a reason for thanks- live in a better time – a time to
giving. If you look for it. be thankful for.
What we have learned From the beginning, I’ve
about this virus should help said that only the naïve and
motivate all of us to take better foolish would think that this
care of ourselves. It’s always is the worst virus, or health
inspiring to see someone start event that we may ever face.
managing their health better Obviously, we hope to never
and start looking healthier as face another, but if we do –
a result. Unfortunately, some when we do face another, mil-
of us have to have a ‘brush lions may be saved provided
with death’ and pay doctors that we learn from both the
a fortune before making that mistakes and ‘lessons learned’
decision. Seems like it would brought on by this pandemic.
be smarter and less expensive There it is - one more thing in
to just do it to begin with. If 2020 to be thankful for. They
you have good health, or you are not always in plain sight.
still have an opportunity to They can be elusive - you re-
improve on it, be thankful. ally have to look for them, but
It’s not one of those things you they are there.