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I'm sitting in bed waiting for this last recipe to drop from a balloon in Animal Crossing & I'm thinking.

I've been sick the past couple of days with what I assume (and hopefully is) the bi-/tri-yearly changing of the seasons infection I always get. This year obviously is 1/

 Very different. I know that most, of not every hospital around me is full in the ICU & is taking people out of the state, if there is even room there. My rural town's hospital is nowhere equipped to handle this. The workers there are amazing. My husband is best friends with 2/
One of the nurses since high school. They are exhausted & being obviously treated by shit by half our town & heroes by the other half. I cannot imagine anything more jarring than that other than that; other than losing patients daily to a disease that they don't believe in. 3/
I'm not worried for my health, but my mother-in-law's health. We live in a multi-generational home & she is in her 70s. No one in our family goes out. We all order groceries online & cook for every meal. It's been like this since March for me & her. A little later for my 4/
Husband after his work went from 'essential' to being laid off.

With all of these variables & circumstances, daily I wake up, see what is going on via @jimbuctwit & calculate in my head the risks of the day. It's something that I started doing around April to calm my anxiety 5/
down from the pandemic. My anxiety disorder & other mental health issues got very bad at the start of Covid-19, so I relied on math, data, & science to look at my risk. Not like @govkristinoem when she names them off like a focus group for her next multimillion dollar 6/
AD campaign on "Ways I'm working on Covid in SD: the eternal lie of @KristiNoem", but like, "There are 31 people in my area with it. There are X people. My chance is Y." THIS worked for many months, until the past few months started to get increasingly worse & worse. 7/
"There are 2% infected. 2.8%...4%... 4.4%...5.8%...6.2%...7.1%...8.4%....8.8%...9.1%...10.2%...11.3%...11.7%...12.9%...and that's then I stopped counting. It gave me too much anxiety. South Dakota has some counties where almost 20% are/were infected. Then I turned to the 8/
hospitalizations. Okay. The numbers immediately didn't add up, but I didn't want to seem like a 'tin foil' hat person. Now I realizing that since the @SDDOH admitted they were counting NICU beds as adult Covid-19 beds, my gut was right. I do still think that something is 9/
desperately wrong with HSC (Human Services Center) being listed, as it is essentially a ALC & has the same physical layout as a jail; it is a mental health facility & we haven't heard a word from them since Covid-19 started. They need to be checked on & safety ensured asap. 10/
But today I look at hospital capacity from @jimbuctwit.
3.4%. That's it. In SD these are the only hospitals that are fully equipped for trauma to this degree. Not based on anything else but staffing & funding. Other hospitals are rural hospitals 11/

https://t.co/KU4P4Qp6Rw
So how does this all tie in?

I said I was laying in bed. As I'm laying in bed I have my mask to the side of me, as I usually do when I get the bi-/tri-yearly infection from hell when the seasons change. I wear it always when I go to the bathroom or any shared area. 12/
It's always been a thing for me. I don't want to get my MIL sick, even if it's just this stupid infection that's annoying.

But now? Now it can escalate to something that I don't want to fathom. I'm immunocompromised, but young. I get sick easily. What if this is Covid-19? 13/
What if she gets it? There is one hospital in a decent driving distance for us. If it's full then what? Winter is almost here & South Dakota winters are hell. What if we can't drive her? Ambulances can't drive her? What if there is no room anywhere we can actually get to? 14/
She has underlying health issues too. What do we do? What is our game plan? What if that plan doesn't work? Is there a second one? Are we going to be at home lost & confused?

All of these thoughts that I've suppressed for so long are racing through my head so fast that one 15/
Doesn't even end before the next one begins. Each one more filled with terror.

I look at the mask beside me and wonder how many nights like this would have not happened. Not nights of 'what ifs' like me, but nights of grief & loss; nights of worry & stress wondering if 16/
Their loved one would pull through or get better.

Their pain is immeasurable & we will never know the full extent of it - and we should.

All for entitlement labeled 'freedom'.

Freedom isn't doing what you want. It's doing what you need so that you can continue 17/
To be free.

But this fear; I know this feeling. It's an anxiety attack building to a panic attack. But instead of some irrational thought I have to tell myself is dumb & will never happen, I know I can't do that right now, because honestly, it might. 18/
So I'll continue to sit in bed, play Animal Crossing while sick, waiting for the last balloon recipe I need as I think of all the actions the SD leaders @SenJohnThune, @RepDustyJohnson, @SenatorRounds could do to help us; instead of the polarizing social media posts weekly 19/
Or how the @SDDOH officials & the head @sddohkmr should be separate from @KristiNoem & not go to $1k/plate fundraisers for her. Or how @govkristinoem could be doing to protect all of us right now, but continues to be the selfish & cuel of people imaginable.

I need this balloon.

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1/ So here is a thread on how I turned $32,000 into $1.2m and back to pretty much zero (once taxes are paid).

Just note, I am not bitter or salty in any way at all, the last 2 years have been an amazing ride - travelled the world, been wealthy, been poor.

2/ Dec '16, my advertising agency folded, I had a little bit of money left and I put $32k into Bitcoin and Ether. As it started to go up I diversified into everything, Monero, Dash, this that, any crap - even Ripplecoin. Everything just kept going up.

3/ By March I think I had around $300k and $500k by the summer. I used to take 25% out but towards the end of the summer I got greedy and put it all back in and by December it was $1.2m.

4/ Thinking I was an absolute genius I decided to start a bunch of businesses. As silly as it sounds I had this goal of making $5m as I wanted to buy Bedford Town Football Club and get them in the league, and as Crypto was going up forever I needed 6 months.

5/ So:
- Trading (income 1)
- Podcast (income 2)
- Mining (income 3)
- Mining pool (income 4)
- Consulting (income 5)

Yes - all of the above as a one-man army :)
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How to Escape the Prison of Your Mind

// Thread //


O𝚋̲𝚜̲𝚎̲𝚛̲𝚟̲𝚎̲ Y𝚘̲𝚞̲𝚛̲ T𝚑̲𝚘̲𝚞̲𝚐̲𝚑̲𝚝̲𝚜̲

Your mind is a room and your thoughts are a window.

When you think it is as you look into your room of thoughts.

Pay attention to what goes on, learn your mental triggers. Pay attention to how you respond to situations

Continued..

Your thoughts are not always to be believed.

You thoughts come and go like a car going through a car wash.

One in, one out. Depending on how long you want to wash the car depends on how long the thought stays.

Observe your thoughts with no judgement


L𝚒̲𝚟̲𝚎̲ 𝚒̲𝚗̲ T𝚑̲𝚎̲ P𝚛̲𝚎̲𝚜̲𝚎̲𝚗̲𝚝̲

Understand where you are in your reality at all times

Think about the description of thing to the left of you:

-What color is it?
-What shape is it?
-How big is it?
-What is its function?
-Why is it built that way?

Continued..

Why is this healthy? Because it releases your thoughts into your present objective reality.

Knowing that you are there is a good way to stop thoughts because then you start to live. 👽
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After several calls & she didn’t pick ...about an hour later she called back to inform me that her parents didn’t let her leave the house,I screamed but babe you told me you got this that you know how to convince them, you assured me 😫

She just said sorry Baby I can’t come out

This was actually happening on 14th Febuary (lovers day) , all my friends were already out with their babes waiting for us to come join them in the park ..
I didn’t save this cash for three months just so I can be able to afford our luxury only to be disappointed by Nnenna 💔💔

My friends were calling to ask my location;the last I replied was a text saying”We are on the way”

I tried calling Nnenna back her cellphone rang without her picking up,on the 69th time I got the “number you’re calling is currently switched off please try again later response”😭

I was already heart broken not to notice I had a low battery, instead of crying in my room as Nepa was unfortunate to have cut our light the previous day I decided to go and grieve in the Mall alone.

I left my Change for the Keke man when i got to the mall & was just ..

While walking around aimlessly in the mall watching people in relationship takin photos & LOL like they are trying to make mockery of my situation.. One idiot & his babe had the mind to ask I please help take them some photo shots (in my mind , I wished their r/shp would scatter)
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Killing new-born twins was common practice in the 19th century among the Ibibio people of Nigeria, but one Scotswoman went to great lengths to put an end to this.

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