Moment of Silence when the New Year's ball drops at Midnight

Moment of Silence when the New Year's ball drops at Midnight

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August 3, 2020
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Started by Jesse Canales

Right now in the USA the death toll from the Coronavirus or as even Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called the "Trumpvirus" is massive and still climbing, as of October we are now at a horrendous 210,000+ dead and still climbing, because of the absolute failure of the President's response and negligence toward handling the virus and causing the death of what experts are suggesting might result in over 400,000 dead (Passing the American dead from 3 years of actual combat in WWII !) and the ruin of 8 years of the Obama Administration's efforts to undo the damage by the Bush Jr. Administration. What is most appalling was even after the virus has infected Trump he continues his twisted agenda and his views as if what happened to him was a minor setback!!

This is very personal to be, before now and currently.. on September 27 in the morning hours, my family lost a dearly loved person to Covid, he died in his sleep leaving behind a loving wife and her daughters and other kin, he was a veteran of the USMC and a good man, his name was Bradley, husband to my mother's childhood friend Holly, my mother is her daughter's Godmother and thus is like family to us and dearly so.. This should not have had to happen! The fact it did strikes a personal and deep nerve. It has gotten so bad as it has, and is still robbing families of those they love..

50 million plus were unemployed, but as of Oct. 1 it is still 1.4 million, sadly again as of Sept. 22  my dear friend of mine in Texas who worked at a Movie Theater has again been laid off and I am uncertain if it is for now or good... His dad a Firefighter is doing his part and hopes to retire in 5 years, but sadly his wife a person in the Education career is NOW battling to be breast cancer free after undergoing Chemo. This is atop cases of Covid-45 as I call it (Covid-19) are climbing while the world has gotten a hold on it and now bars America from traveling to show how much we failed..Resulting in 1200 dying a day or.....ONE per minute with that time decreasing as of August 9th, now 77 seconds per death!!..

I propose that to honor the dead lost to this horrible virus that was so poorly managed and will result in the year ending with no control over the pandemic and no vaccine yet developed and distributed. My idea to accomplish this honor to the memories of those killed needlessly or by voluntary foolishness and disregard for wearing masks and distancing of others; I would find it appropriate that when New Year's Day is recognized in America, that when the ball drops and the year turns for the nation, that there is to be no sound or celebration at all for a grand Moment of Silence, a loud and powerful tribute, through total quiet and stillness.

For months after the virus clutched the throat of our nation the people have suffered needlessly in one form or another, then the police shootings occurred adding fuel to the fire of social unrest and stress torching the land, the nation is making deafening sounds of the noise of a nation under siege from a virus and public outrage, mixed with political division further ripping us asunder.. Sirens, cries, yelling, screaming, chanting and wails are the sounds of America today, I want to help give a moment of muted noise in a healing act of unity. 

I think the people of America should try to do this and I think Americans would more than willingly do this to honor the terrible toll from a pandemic poorly mismanaged as a moment of unity in a terribly divided nation. I think Americans would want to have at least a moment to not have the sounds of angry people, suffering people losing their homes from poverty and from the virus itself. I am NOT saying shut out the suffering of the nation, but tune out the distracting sounds and things and in a moment of peace reflect and focus on what matters most and not the petty issues or politics that are tearing families and communities apart just for being Republican or Democrat and degrees of those parties in between.

I hope that the officials I am imploring to, the News Media that influences the people and the nation itself will fulfill this petition for in a nation so split right now and likely to be split even later. I want this to be a unifying moment, for someone of both wings of political belief has lost someone to this virus that cares nothing for what party you belong to or what you even believe.

We must remember who we are, we have forgotten in these months of a year gone to chaos. I am reaching out to those of all Political Parties, even Trump supporters with a heart for their fellow Americans, I want to entreat anyone who wants to pay respect and tribute to those who fell to this virus and this has claimed someone who either is for or against the administration. Should the current power lose the election I wish to tell those who were supporters that I want to extend my hand to you, to not let those with compassion and remorse feel forgotten or shunned, that I care and will not wish to rebuke you, I want to have voices heard even if beliefs differ, I want NO American unheard and I want to have collected and intellectual discussions for we CAN be civil and it can be done. Just as Lincoln extended his hand to the rebels upon their surrender, I wish to bring people together from all political walks of life.

We the People of the UNITED States of America, must come together, Right Wing, Left Wing...You are two wings of the same bird! Our bird, The Bald Eagle! And the sooner we reunify the better, or this eagle, the nation, will not survive..

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