{"id":45739,"date":"2020-09-05T06:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=45739"},"modified":"2020-09-05T06:52:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T06:52:55","slug":"holiday-happy-labor-day-week-end-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/holiday-happy-labor-day-week-end-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"HOLIDAY: HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEK-END 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEK-END 2020<\/h1>\n

[Note: This was supposed to be published Friday morning, not Saturday, but my neighborhood just experienced a power outage…for thirty-two hours<\/em>!!! I’ve never been through one like that before. And right in the middle of the worst heatwave in ages. But now the electricity is\u00a0finally came back on, in the middle of the night, so let’s get this Labor Day Week-end ball rolling now!]<\/p>\n

\"d04fb87f306db9e08852e1ade639c14d\"<\/a>This just might be the weirdest Labor Day Week-end we\u2019ve ever experienced. The holiday is supposed to signify a break from laboring<\/em>, but few of us have been working for the past six months! Actually, this has been a one-hundred-eighty-day<\/em> week-end for most of us!!! (Though not often a happy one.)<\/p>\n

This year more than ever, we\u00a0need to give extra thanks to the many who have been working all this time to make the rest of our lives so much easier in these trying times,\u00a0especially all the essential workers, who deserve lauding more than anyone!!! Let\u2019s spare a thought for health\u00a0care\u00a0and sanitation workers,\u00a0market personnel, mechanics,\u00a0and, as I think we\u2019ve all come to finally appreciate, postal workers!<\/p>\n

Now, while we\u2019re celebrating the work force who have kept the rest of us going for 2020, there still is a three-day holiday week-end to consider. Most of us don\u2019t need the break from our jobs this year since we\u2019ve been enjoying, or just enduring, a pandemic-imposed staycation, anyway. But we may use this holiday as an excuse for a break from our\u00a0homes<\/em>, which is what I\u2019m worried about. Labor Day Week-end is usually a time for parties, street festivals, sporting events, etc. But please think long and hard before you go near other people.<\/p>\n

For example, if you have a barbecue, please do it with just the ones who live in your house. The same goes for every<\/em> activity you\u2019re wont to do for the next three or four days. If you feel you just must go to the beach, please make sure to park away from others, and then just go to your own secluded spot. You don\u2019t need to be near strangers to enjoy the sand and sea. And you can hike and bike ride by your lonesome or with just your housemates.<\/p>\n

\"46105eventb6567622-e349-45eb-b970-7fc7fcff15ca\"<\/a>This is not the time to risk everyone\u2019s health! You know that morons in places like Florida are going to attend gigantic pool and beach parties, just spreading that coronavirus around like nobody\u2019s business! I have some news for those idiots–THIS PANDEMIC IS FAR FROM OVER!<\/p>\n

So I hope that you\u2019ll all do what I\u2019ll<\/em> be doing, at least for part of the holiday. I plan to watch other<\/em> people work–all athletes: the jockeys at tomorrow\u2019s Kentucky Derby, the tennis players in the middle of the US Open, and mostly, the basketball players heavy into the NBA Play-offs! Who needs to leave the house when there\u2019s finally so much sports to watch again?! And the best parts are that it costs you nothing, and doing so might just save your life! Or that of someone else!<\/p>\n

I hope you all have a somehow fun and totally safe, three-day week-end, and spend at least a bit of it being grateful for workers and\u00a0work<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Happy Labor Day 2020. And let\u2019s all hope that we\u2019ll be back to work next year at this time, and have something wonderful to celebrate in 2021!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEK-END 2020 [Note: This was supposed to be published Friday morning, not Saturday, but my neighborhood just experienced a power outage…for thirty-two hours!!! I’ve never been through one like that before. And right in the middle of the worst heatwave in ages. But now the electricity is\u00a0finally came back on, in the<\/p>\n

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