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and far worse, the “evils of eviction moratoriums” were forced down our throats as a result of our governments’ knee-jerk reaction to a pandemic. It is certainly ironic that our government officials and renters would believe that we can afford to deliver our services for free and for so long. It is entirely hypocritic that renters would believe their housing, at no cost, is a given right bestowed at birth kind of like voting or free speech. I liken it more to driving, which is a privilege, and not a right. The whole thing is just so messed up, isn’t it?!!
It is as if we are living within a Superman comic book, the so-called “Bizarro World.” Here we are busting our “you know what’s” to provide clean, safe, affordable housing, but yet we are being vilified, and seemingly being forced out of business with ill- conceived, overregulation. We are being driven into a ditch with almost no way to pull ourselves out. The whole world has gone crazy.
As the events over the past year and a half or so have played out, I have observed many things (some off the beaten path and far from the rental housing business) that are just tainted in hypocrisy or irony that I felt a need to dedicate my editorial or this monologue, if you will, to pointing these things out. So here it goes...don’t shoot the messenger. It is my attempt at sarcastic humor...although my wife tells me there is some truth in ever joke.
WEARING MASKS
Unless someone is wearing an N-95 mask, was it really helping? Surge after surge after surge, lockdowns, eviction moratoriums, etc. and seemingly nothing is stopping it. What they do teach future healthcare workers in college, though, is that viruses adapt over time – if they kill off their hosts, the viruses cannot survive and they die themselves, so in order to survive, viruses eventually stop killing, which is why the Delta variant is less deadly. How many of us have had skin irritations by wearing masks, or what impacts will breathing in all the fibers in our masks have on our long-term health? Was it worth putting so many out of work,
and shutting down one of the best, if not the best, economies in history? Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease itself – I predict history will prove this. Irony!
THE TALIBAN
As I sadly watched 20 years of lost American and ally lives, and trillions of dollars go to waste, I had to take note that we here in America enjoy something in common these days with the new Afghanistan government, the Taliban. Americans
and Taliban alike find pleasure in destroying statues and erasing history. We have seen too much of statue defacing and destroying in the recent past, and too many attempts at changing recorded history and history lessons in school. Perhaps we can use this common ground to build a long- lasting peaceful relationship. Somehow, I don’t think so. Irony!
THE SOUTHERN BORDER
Record numbers are coming across our Southern border and overwhelming our immigration authorities, and local resources in states like Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. While along the border, California does not seem to concern itself with the stream of immigrants coming in, but they are making their way someplace. “Coming soon to Section 8 Housing near you!” There’s no place to put many of these new immigrants, particularly as quickly as they are reportedly coming in. Sadly, many who are escaping terrible conditions back home and some are coming for other purposes (hello drug cartels). But in less than a year of a new administration, it appears things are careening out of control here and are far worse than before. And the current administration refuses to “own it.” Hypocrisy!
And, by the way, are they wearing masks as the cross the border? Have they been vaccinated? Are they arriving here in our country and ending up homeless living on the streets? That’s sad.
THE NORTHERN BORDER
I have to giggle that our friends to the North, the
“Here we are busting our “you
know what’s” to provide clean, safe, affordable housing, but yet we are being vilified, and seemingly being forced out of business with ill- conceived, overregulation. We are being driven into a ditch with almost no way to pull ourselves out. The whole world has gone crazy.”
- Daniel Yukelson
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