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Default May 16, 2022 at 08:15 AM
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Anyone else finding all the negative news items triggering? it's one thing after another!

The war in Ukraine is affecting prices ...here anyway.. (I'm in Europe) ...food and energy bills have shot up.


Farmers are predicting shortages because the ingredients of fertilisers etc come from either Russia or the Ukraine to our country.


One 'celebrity' is suggesting people will turn to cannibalism and start eating their neighbours due to food shortages!!!


They're probably over-exaggerating though I can see crimes rising further...maybe less donations to food banks cos of cost of food resulting in break ins maybe from people trying to steal food from others houses??


The crime rates already seem to have doubled seems several times a week now someone has murdered someone else... there's particularly a lot of teens crime with knives and guns in the major cities.


I know I could simply stick my head in the sand and not watch the news and pretend I'm on another planet or something, ..but I kinda like to be prepared for what maybe coming so I can get what I need in advance and 'batten down the hatches'.



I have found my anxiety levels have gone up again and thats increased the Tinnitus which seems to be constant on both sides and really loud again right now.
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My anxiety has risen quite a bit, too, Inky. I share all of your concerns.

It does help me to turn away from the TV and social media for awhile. I don't bury my head in the sand. But I do need to maintain perspective and concentrate on more positive or even innocuous stuff, if only for a bit.
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Default May 17, 2022 at 01:51 AM
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I'm in Europe, too. Certainly the gas prices have increased, but not as much the food, yet, especially if I buy Czech made or from farmer's markets. As I drive a hybrid car and often only locally, the gas increases don't affect me as much as others. Ultimately it will, since it isn't just auto-related.

Czech Republic does have Nationalist types, like everywhere else, but I don't notice nearly as much conflict as in the US (I'm American). Perhaps I just keep myself well enough separated from them. I don't know if crime is up here. Crime doesn't seem nearly as bad in CZ as in the US. Guns are not nearly as worshiped in CZ as they are in the US. Never heard of many mass shootings here as in the US. Something is terribly terribly wrong in the US, and no efforts to fix the problem are ever implemented. Or the wrong ones are.

I feel that the pace and stresses in life are much lesser in CZ than in the US. I'm glad to be where I am now. Never been so mentally stable, despite language difficulties.

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My anxiety has risen quite a bit, too, Inky. I share all of your concerns.

It does help me to turn away from the TV and social media for awhile. I don't bury my head in the sand. But I do need to maintain perspective and concentrate on more positive or even innocuous stuff, if only for a bit.


Yeah I do play video games and they help distract from the Tinnitus for a while, but there's still the worry of winter with arthritis and whether I'll be able to afford food and heating next winter.

I'm unable to work and if left having to live in a house thats as cold inside as it is out, I'll be even more immobile!
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I'm in Europe, too. Certainly the gas prices have increased, but not as much the food, yet, especially if I buy Czech made or from farmer's markets. As I drive a hybrid car and often only locally, the gas increases don't affect me as much as others. Ultimately it will, since it isn't just auto-related.

Czech Republic does have Nationalist types, like everywhere else, but I don't notice nearly as much conflict as in the US (I'm American). Perhaps I just keep myself well enough separated from them. I don't know if crime is up here. Crime doesn't seem nearly as bad in CZ as in the US. Guns are not nearly as worshiped in CZ as they are in the US. Never heard of many mass shootings here as in the US. Something is terribly terribly wrong in the US, and no efforts to fix the problem are ever implemented. Or the wrong ones are.

I feel that the pace and stresses in life are much lesser in CZ than in the US. I'm glad to be where I am now. Never been so mentally stable, despite language difficulties.

I don't drive but am housebound and live out of town so I expect getting stuff delivered will cost more. A wheelchair taxi to the nearest town is already over equivalent to 30USD (one way) so its not even cost effective to get 'free' food from a food bank cos I have to get there and back first!


I'm trying to find a cheaper online supermarket but again my location affects who will deliver this far from the city warehouse.


Powercuts (occasional and regular planned ones due to shortages) are a worry being dependant on powered mobility chairs/scooters to get round.


Does make me feel vulnerable if others see me as an easy target to break in to see what food I've got if things got that bad!
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I can't get past the fact that when I read George Orwell's "1984" in high school in 1979 that anything remotely like that could happen in The United States of America, yet I can't look around me without seeing the warning signs everywhere.

Cameras watching our every move in public, massive corporations gathering our personal information, listening devices (Alexa) in our homes. The Patriot Act, military style weapons bans, A charismatic leader dividing the people and using 'groupthink' to control his followers...I could go on but you get the idea. Throw in a haulocaust denyer and a flat earther, tear down a statue or two so no one is offended by history and you have a recipe for a genuine disaster.


I'm 60 years old and we have literally been at war my entire life.

I think we're in trouble folks if we don't learn to accept one another as we are and celebrate our differences instead of fearing them. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be human nature.

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I can't get past the fact that when I read George Orwell's "1984" in high school in 1979 that anything remotely like that could happen in The United States of America, yet I can't look around me without seeing the warning signs everywhere.

Cameras watching our every move in public, massive corporations gathering our personal information, listening devices (Alexa) in our homes. The Patriot Act, military style weapons bans, A charismatic leader dividing the people and using 'groupthink' to control his followers...I could go on but you get the idea. Throw in a haulocaust denyer and a flat earther, tear down a statue or two so no one is offended by history and you have a recipe for a genuine disaster.

I'm 60 years old and we have literally been at war my entire life.

I think we're in trouble folks if we don't learn to accept one another as we are and celebrate our differences instead of fearing them. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be human nature.

I also read 1984 in high school in 1979. I was horrified by it, but considered it a sort-of psychotic fantasy. Turned out that Orwell was a prophet.

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1984 was just set about 30 years too early, before smart phones.
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I agree! Rod Serling was also a visionary. There was a Twilight Zone (1961) entitled The Obsolete Man with Burgess Meredith......it is something that could happen....it still terrifies me to watch it. The speech that Rod Serling gives could have been written for today.
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Default May 28, 2022 at 08:22 PM
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We're definitely heading in the wrong direction. We can't even get along with each other yet we hold Love above everything else in the world. I've been listening to a lot of George Carlin and he goes into this in-depth.

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