April 24, 2021

Participation in sports declines among elementary, middle, and high school students.
  1. Interest in sports declines.
  2. Students locked out in more than one way.
  3. 1915 Birth - 1918 Pandemic - Dad's dying and remembering.
  4. Delayed procreation and a long oral history.
  5. Vikings, Normans, Germanic, English landfall 1066, America landfall 1632
  6. Community, sense of survival.
  7. Diversity waters down cohesion.
  8. Equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
  9. Pure labor pool numbers
  10. Organized and disorganized sports as a child and beyond.
  11. Long-term effects of the kneejerk reaction worldwide.
  12. It was my fear in December of 2019 that this could be the 100-year repeat.
  13. Fresh air and sunlight.
  14. Can't pronounce it, don't eat it.
  15. Daily fasting for 20 hours.
  16. Bodybuilding (heavy lifting) to lean and mean like my teen years.
  17. How do you remember something you did not do?
  18. Why is Biden wearing a mask?
  19. The little things can have a huge impact. 
  20. Dear God, please convict this bad, bad man.
  21. When's the last time you heard the pledge?
  22. Sports opportunity missed.
  23. Oh, but the CDC would not lie..........yes, they lie.......all the time.
  24. Everyone died of Covid in 2020; hogwash.
  25. Failure to take or receive appropriate medical care to meet the new lockstep lemming rules.
  26. The more complicated, the more likely it's hogwash.
  27. Who, what, where, when, why, and how.
  28. Vietnam and 1980 - Olympic hopes dashed twice.
  29. Politics and the boycotts.
  30. Politics and the refusal to allow nations to participate.  Who does it hurt?  Not the nation but the athletes.  
  31. The impact on others.
  32. Politicians don't care about you, me, or anyone unless there's money, votes, or power involved. 
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