What Is In It For Them?

This week,
it was revealed
that most of the politicians
pushing hard and vocally
for no masks
and no vaccinations
are profiting financially
from COVID.
They are getting rich
from people getting sick
and dying.

When I receive advice
from someone I don’t know
and don’t completely trust,
I always try to figure out
how they would benefit
from giving me that advice.

There’s ALWAYS a benefit.
And the harder people push their advice,
the bigger the benefit
there is.

I benefit from posting here
on client k.
Posting here
fulfills my promise
to previous mentors
to pass along their insights,
to pay their generosity forward.

It also forces me
to write every day,
to continue learning,
to stay current.

I don’t push hard
because having merely 1 reader
will do that for me.

When you receive advice,
always ask yourself
what is in it
for the advice giver.

Note: Earlier this week,
I mused that there was no downside
to letting people wear masks.
I was wrong.
There IS a downside
…for people like these politicians,
people who profit
from other people
getting sick and dying.
The rest of us
merely shouldn’t concern ourselves
with this downside.

The You-Shouldn’t-Wear-A-Mask Crowd And Other Harmful People

There are people
who want to prevent
OTHER people from wearing masks
during this pandemic.

There is no downside
to other people wearing masks.
None.

And there are potential upsides.
That person might live,
might not get sick.
The anti-maskers might live,
might not get sick.

There are many theories
why they don’t want other people
to take precautions.
I don’t know which theory is correct.

I DO know
1) the you-shouldn’t-wear-a-mask people
don’t have our best interests
at heart
and
2) they don’t give a f*ck about
our freedoms.

There are people
who feel the same way
about our dreams,
our goals.

They don’t want us
to achieve our goals
and they actively try to block us,
even though it doesn’t impact them
in any significant way.

Accept there are people
like that.
And then ignore them.