Bear River Refuge Update

[Anglinarcher]

Now that was a long slow curve from left field...only to break it over the plate by admitting a skunk.    'Salright.  Happens to all of us...especially this year and this time of year with the wacko weather and unreliable water situation.  At least you didn't waste a whole day sheltering in place.  And it was decent of you to practice social distancing with the fish.

What skunk? the wind was so hard I couldn't smell no skunk.    I mean the wind was so hard that I was on the South Bank of the River, made a token cast toward the center of the river and smacked a deer in the head in Idaho.  Poor deer still has my fLIG stuck in its ear.

You are so right; I did not waste a whole day at the house.  In fact, my wife told me to get out......    At first, I thought she meant permanently, but she just meant she had work to do and I was interrupting.     I have been so confined that I figured I'd rob a bank, just so the punishment would fit the crime.  At the drive through teller (Bank doors are closed) they actually thanked me for wearing my mask and asked me to have a good day.   Ya, they didn't figure I was serious.   

As for social distancing with the fish, well at one time I considered not even putting bait on the hook, but what would be the fun in that.   

As I think about this, a couple of weeks more of this "Stay Home, Stay Safe", a couple more weeks of social distancing (OK, I guess that part’s not so bad – LOL) a couple more weeks of this weather, I WILL be ready for the rubber room.    Maybe I already am?

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"These are just some random comments and are NOT directed at any one individual."

With that in mind, I was once taught, given a paradigm if you will, that "your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins".  I believe that this was once considered a truism! 

If one has their God given rights restricted by Government, or anyone else for that matter, then they are the ones being damaged, their proverbial nose being hit.  It is the Government, or the one restricting the rights, that is swinging their proverbial fist.

Has God retracted our rights?  Is the truism no longer true?

I understand that there are the OLD, the INFIRM, among us.  But they cannot swing their fist, expect us to impair our lives, to the exclusion of ones own responsibility to protect themselves.  This does not mean we do not have an ethical responsibility to do what we can to the point that we do not end up swinging our own fist.  Crashing the economy, creating mass poverty, mass starvation, mass confinement is surly swinging our fist, with all in our reach receiving damaged noses.

Again, a truism, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".  No death is acceptable, but death is inevitable to all who live.  I have heard it said the brave die but once but the coward dies many times.

Take care of yourself, weight the risk to you and your family, but respect the rights of the majority.  

​This is my opinion, for whatever it is worth.