Bait and Switch

I can barely contain my head when I hear this insanity on the TV, or from regular people I see in the flesh. I don't know why my reaction is so strong, why I want to scream and smash the TV screen. Well, maybe I have an inkling, but maybe I don't.

This flu thing is off the charrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt. How spoon-fed are we that we can sit there and watch the media talking heads work themselves into hysterics over a few hundred flu deaths? And then talk about this flu like it's descending upon us like some horrible plague??? Are we seriously going in that direction? Is this hysteria not just something we are being told to buy into?

I just don't get it. The masks, the constant spin they put on the truth so that it sounds like more of a "big deal" when, really, it's not. The big deal is what lies beneath.

Mexico City is in lock-down. The flu is not that big a deal, but it sure is a fine way to wrangle the populace into submission. And the way the newsmedia seems to be able to pull our strings, well, we're just makin' it extra easy for 'em, now aren't we?

Now, I know I am highly paranoid. I know I trust the govt' about as much as a shop-a-holic in the bargain bin. But it's just weird. This whole thing. It's scary and strange and just has a bad taste all about it. It's probably, in the long run, just one more nail in our coffin. We're not in the ground yet, but they're gettin' us ready for it.

Ugh, God, this is whacked out and annoying. I await your hammer, Lord. Just smack it down already and redeem us, restore us to you. It's gonna hurt, but the pain is our great gain. To be desperate- but desperate for You, Lord. Finally, and truly. I shudder in fear, anticipation. Let me trust You, please! I know Your glory will come from all of this. Let it be to all of us as you will say, Lord!!