What's Next?

What's Next?

I am going to continue to use my Life in Uruguay blog site because alot of the things I may write are related to where I am living. I am no longer living in the United States, I live in Paysandu, Uruguay because it is where I want to live. I was going to say I do not really need to describe why I am truly living here because, on the surface of it, it doesn't appear to matter, the why.

I met someone and decided to move to Paysandu, Uruguay to live with her for the rest of my life. Little did I know it would be a little more complicated than the simple. Everything that I do, everything that I am directly affects the lives of 4 other people, in different ways. 

I have not been following what is happening with the COVID-19 as closely as I could, my main concern is what is going to happen afterwards. I am aware that the fear of this virus is very much active in people's minds. There are a few things that didn't need to be done, but who is to really say what needs to be done and what doesn't, better to be "safe" than sorry. I emphasized the word for a reason and hopefully you will understand after you have read this blog to know why.

My personal safety was not something I considered when I made the decision to move to Uruguay. Actually, based on the two lives, living in the United States involved more risk. I had no true concept of what life would be like in Uruguay, but I was ready and willing to take the plunge. I even bought a one-way ticket to come here. In a short period of time, things changed, things happened, but I am here and here is where I am going to stay.

This virus is going to change the entire world. The vast majority of the population of the world was not aware of this virus until it became a pandemic, then everyone was affected. Ways of living changed, ways of doing business changed, most of the people have, somewhat, adjusted to the changes that have occured. Most of the people know that this pandemic must, eventually, come to a termination point. The question is: What's next?

For here, in places like Uruguay, things will go back to being close to normal; by normal being the way life used to be before the virus. The thing that is going to be affected most by what is happening at this moment is the economy. I believe the people that will be the least affected by what is happening is the already existent "poor". The poor is a class of people that have learned to adapt and survive, for centuries. It has been proposed that the class of people that will be mostly affected by the economic changes will be the middle class, it has been suggested that at some point, the middle class will cease to exist; there will only be the rich and the poor. 

Before the pandemic, 30 eggs, a maple, was selling for about 100 pesos, currently that same 30 eggs, a maple, has a price tag of 250 to 300 pesos. Same chickens laying eggs, but suddenly eggs became a rare commodity. I do not think the rise in price was meant to be a means of taking advantage of what was happening, things happened that made the rise in the price necessary; along with other things that have been affected by price changes. I do not know what will happen to those prices but I feel this way about it, if I am an egg farmer and I can make more money selling my eggs than I did before the virus, maybe I can keep selling my eggs for the new price.

When people finally go back to work, they will be making the same income that they received before but some of the prices are going to be what I will call "current virus prices". The money won't last as long as it did before. Lifestyles will need to change. This will be the first part of the what next. What will be happening on a more global scale? The United States will no longer be able to hold the position of world leader that it has enjoyed for the few centuries of its existence. It won't be a position that will be transferred to another country. It will be something that will be in the possession of an organization titled, The New World Order. 

I like to explain what is going to happen by something I heard years ago, it involved things that needed to be done in order to capture an eagle. In order to shorten the story, a trapper captured an eagle by employing a method that required subtle changes that ended in the eagle being captured without incident. Subtle changes are happening now, that the population is not conciously aware of. The changes are so subtle that they are perceived as normal. For example, egg prices. We will learn to  accept the price change because we need to buy eggs. It's eggs and things for us here, what things have you noticed where you live?

What is going to happen, and you may or may not notice it happening. The one thing that has been preached for centuries, what most Christians are going to think of as the "Mark of the Beast" is coming. It is coming in my lifetime. It is coming in the lifetime of the majority of the population. The top countries will experience it first and then eventually the rest of the world. The economy that the rich want to happen will be here and the majority of the population will be part of it. 

I know a lot of people are saying, it won't happen to me. Things will be said like, "I won't take the 'mark' I won't get caught up in the Rapture if I have the mark", etc. If you love your family, you will do whatever it takes for them, but don't worry it will all be done with a subtlety that won't be openly noticed.

I have never hoped that I would be so wrong about anything in my life.


¿Que sigue?

Continuaré usando el sitio de mi blog Life in Uruguay porque muchas de las cosas que puedo escribir están relacionadas con el lugar donde vivo. Ya no vivo en los Estados Unidos, vivo en Paysandu, Uruguay porque es donde quiero vivir. Iba a decir que realmente no necesito describir por qué realmente estoy viviendo aquí porque, en la superficie, no parece importar, el por qué.



Conocí a alguien y decidí mudarme a Paysandú, Uruguay, para vivir con ella por el resto de mi vida. Poco sabía que sería un poco más complicado que lo simple. Todo lo que hago, todo lo que soy afecta directamente la vida de otras 4 personas, de diferentes maneras.



No he estado siguiendo lo que sucede con el COVID-19 tan de cerca como pude, mi principal preocupación es lo que sucederá después. Soy consciente de que el miedo a este virus es muy activo en la mente de las personas. Hay algunas cosas que no tuvieron que hacerse, pero quién debe decir realmente qué debe hacerse y qué no, es mejor estar "seguro" que lamentar. Hice hincapié en la palabra por una razón y espero que lo entiendas después de haber leído este blog para saber por qué.



Mi seguridad personal no fue algo que consideré cuando tomé la decisión de mudarme a Uruguay. En realidad, según las dos vidas, vivir en los Estados Unidos implicaba más riesgos. No tenía un concepto real de cómo sería la vida en Uruguay, pero estaba listo y dispuesto a dar el paso. Incluso compré un boleto de ida para venir aquí. En un corto período de tiempo, las cosas cambiaron, las cosas sucedieron, pero estoy aquí y aquí es donde me voy a quedar.



Este virus va a cambiar el mundo entero. La gran mayoría de la población del mundo no era consciente de este virus hasta que se convirtió en una pandemia, y luego todos se vieron afectados. Las formas de vida cambiaron, las formas de hacer negocios cambiaron, la mayoría de las personas, de alguna manera, se ajustaron a los cambios que ocurrieron. La mayoría de la gente sabe que esta pandemia debe, finalmente, llegar a un punto final. La pregunta es: ¿qué sigue?



Por aquí, en lugares como Uruguay, las cosas volverán a estar cerca de lo normal; siendo lo normal como era la vida antes del virus. Lo que más se verá afectado por lo que está sucediendo en este momento es la economía. Creo que las personas que serán las menos afectadas por lo que está sucediendo son los "pobres" ya existentes. Los pobres son una clase de personas que han aprendido a adaptarse y sobrevivir durante siglos. Se ha propuesto que la clase de personas que se verá mayormente afectada por los cambios económicos será la clase media, se ha sugerido que en algún momento, la clase media dejará de existir; solo habrá ricos y pobres.



Antes de la pandemia, 30 huevos, un arce, se vendían por unos 100 pesos, actualmente esos mismos 30 huevos, un arce, tienen un precio de 250 a 300 pesos. Las mismas gallinas ponen huevos, pero de repente los huevos se convirtieron en una mercancía rara. No creo que el aumento del precio haya sido un medio para aprovechar lo que estaba sucediendo, sucedieron cosas que hicieron necesario el aumento del precio; junto con otras cosas que se han visto afectadas por los cambios de precios. No sé qué pasará con esos precios, pero me siento así al respecto, si soy un productor de huevos y puedo ganar más dinero vendiendo mis huevos que antes del virus, tal vez pueda seguir vendiendo mis huevos por el nuevo precio.



Cuando las personas finalmente vuelvan a trabajar, obtendrán los mismos ingresos que recibieron antes, pero algunos de los precios serán lo que llamaré "precios actuales de virus". El dinero no durará tanto como antes. Los estilos de vida deberán cambiar. Esta será la primera parte de lo que sigue. ¿Qué pasará a una escala más global? Estados Unidos ya no podrá mantener la posición de líder mundial que ha disfrutado durante los pocos siglos de su existencia. No será un puesto que será transferido a otro país. Será algo que estará en posesión de una organización titulada, El Nuevo Orden Mundial.



Me gusta explicar lo que sucederá por algo que escuché hace años, involucraba cosas que debían hacerse para capturar un águila. Para acortar la historia, un trampero capturó un águila empleando un método que requirió cambios sutiles que terminaron en la captura del águila sin incidentes. Están ocurriendo cambios sutiles ahora, de los que la población no es consciente. Los cambios son tan sutiles que se perciben como normales. Por ejemplo, los precios del huevo. Aprenderemos a aceptar el cambio de precio porque necesitamos comprar huevos. Son huevos y cosas para nosotros aquí, ¿qué cosas has notado donde vives?




Lo que va a suceder, y puede o no notar que sucede. Lo único que se ha predicado durante siglos, lo que la mayoría de los cristianos van a pensar como la "Marca de la Bestia" se acerca. Viene en mi vida. Está llegando en la vida de la mayoría de la población. El mejor país

Thoughts regarding the virus.

The virus is just the shell of the egg. Most of us are in the struggle to keep the egg from breaking. Some people still can't see the egg. The egg is not the real problem, the real problem is what the virus is causing. This virus that can only be seen through the lens of a microspope is putting the entire world in a financial crisis. When I think about what is really happening, I almost feel like the people that succumb to the virus are the blessed ones. After all is said and done we, the people of earth, are going to be in for a financial impact that many people will not survive. It is said that everyone is a paycheck away from bankrupcy; it is basically how badly you will be affected by bankrupcy. The people that have the most to lose are the middle class. Most of the upper class have a reserve to fall back on. The lower class, the poor, won't be too severly affected because they are already used to having nothing and know how to survive on less. The middle class will be the most affected because many of the middle class don't understand what it means to be middle class. The missing paycheck(s) are going to cripple the financial stability of most of the middle class. They are not going to be sure how to proceed. They have been the middle class so long that they have lost their survival instinct. I, for one, am proud to be part of the duct tape and bailing wire generation, redneck, if you will. It is because I began life living in a world less plentiful than the upper class and slightly lower than middle class. We learned how to live on the minimum. I was reared by a survivor to the Great Depression and had many family members that survived it. I learned the value of eating foods that most people would never think about eating. I am not sure what inspired me to write this blog other than wanting people to be aware of the future. We are not living in a fiction novel of post apocalyptic existence. This is going to be real. Every kind of prepper is going to be faced with challenges that they could only imagine before Covid-19. I sincerely hope that I am wrong about what is ahead of us, but there is going to be a financial impact on the world. I pray that it won't be a severe one. Be one of the intelligent people that know how to prepare for an uncertain future. We are not going to be characters in a zombie movie. We are going to be hungry people doing what is necessary for our families to be safe and provided for. People are already doing crazy things, and that is a result of a quarantine. I shook someone's hand today, a friend of the family, and immediately went to wash my hands, an act I would not have done previously. I implore everyone, please take the quarantine seriously. I pertains to everyone not just the people that believe it is a real physical threat. Think about it this way. How would you feel if your "it can't happen to me" attitude caused one of your children to become infected and die because you didn't believe it was real. El virus es solo la cáscara del huevo. La mayoría de nosotros estamos luchando para evitar que el huevo se rompa. Algunas personas aún no pueden ver el huevo. El huevo no es el verdadero problema, el verdadero problema es lo que está causando el virus. Este virus que solo se puede ver a través de la lente de un microspope está poniendo al mundo entero en una crisis financiera. Cuando pienso en lo que realmente está sucediendo, casi siento que las personas que sucumben al virus son las bendecidas. Después de todo lo dicho y hecho, nosotros, la gente de la tierra, vamos a tener un impacto financiero que mucha gente no sobrevivirá. Se dice que todos están a un sueldo de la bancarrota; Básicamente, es lo gravemente afectado por la bancarrota. Las personas que tienen más que perder son la clase media. La mayoría de la clase alta tiene una reserva para recurrir. La clase baja, los pobres, no se verán muy afectados porque ya están acostumbrados a no tener nada y saben cómo sobrevivir con menos. La clase media será la más afectada porque muchos de la clase media no entienden lo que significa ser clase media. Los cheques de pago que faltan van a paralizar la estabilidad financiera de la mayoría de la clase media. No van a estar seguros de cómo proceder. Han sido la clase media tanto tiempo que han perdido su instinto de supervivencia. Yo, por mi parte, estoy orgulloso de ser parte de la generación de cintas adhesivas y cables de rescate, redneck, por así decirlo. Es porque comencé a vivir en un mundo menos abundante que la clase alta y ligeramente más bajo que la clase media. Aprendimos a vivir con lo mínimo. Un sobreviviente de la Gran Depresión me crió y tuve muchos familiares que sobrevivieron. Aprendí el valor de comer alimentos que la mayoría de la gente nunca pensaría en comer. No estoy seguro de qué me inspiró a escribir este blog, aparte de querer que las personas sean conscientes del futuro. No estamos viviendo en una novela de ficción de existencia post apocalíptica. Esto va a ser real Todo tipo de prepper se enfrentará a desafíos que solo podían imaginar antes de Covid-19. Sinceramente espero estar equivocado acerca de lo que tenemos por delante, pero habrá un impacto financiero en el mundo. Rezo para que no sea grave. Sé una de las personas inteligentes que saben cómo prepararse para un futuro incierto. No vamos a ser personajes en una película de zombies. Vamos a ser personas hambrientas haciendo lo que sea necesario para que nuestras familias estén seguras y protegidas. La gente ya está haciendo locuras, y eso es el resultado de una cuarentena. Estreché la mano de alguien hoy, un amigo de la familia, e inmediatamente fui a lavarme las manos, un acto que no hubiera hecho antes. Imploro a todos, por favor tomen en serio la cuarentena. Pertenezco a todos, no solo a las personas que creen que es una amenaza física real. Piensa en ello de esta manera. ¿Cómo te sentirías si tu actitud de "no me puede pasar a mí" causara que uno de tus hijos se infectara y muriera porque no creías que fuera real?

Still here.

People living in the US have a lot of nerve complaining about going to the dentist; even to have a tooth extracted. My first visit to a dentist in Uruguay. It appeared to me to be a few steps up from throwing back a few shots of whiskey and baring it. I am exaggerating quite a bit, even though that did come to my mind. Tthere were quite a few nicities missing like a TV in the treatment room or listening to soothing music. It is no nonsense get straight to business. What I did like I was told what it would cost to pull the tooth. 800 pesos ($27), I'd like to see you get a tooth pulled that cheaply in the US. I can buy a top of the line partial plate for 9000 pesos ($300).

The office is different, there is more than one dentist sharing the overall office. They have their own room where they conduct their business. There is an assistant, if needed. Circled around the chair after making sure there would not be any pain, and began the extraction process. Half the tooth came out, now skills are going to be needed on how to extract the other half. The jaw bone was not quite ready to give up its hold. A few minutes later, done. She put the tooth in a 4x4 and handed it to me. It had a gold cap. That's a 50 year old, Navy dentist installed cap.

I was going to post this on facebook but I remembered I have a blog about life in Uruguay and figure, perfect.

Here I am drinking Durazno Yogurt and scratching my chin, it's coming back to life. I required a couple of extra doses of "novacane".
All just another part of why I love living here. It was like visiting the dentist when I was younger. Do not misunderstand me, I hate going to the dentist, and if I admit it, I find it scary. I had a bad experience with a dentist and a drill when I was about 4 years old. He wanted to fill a tooth, and I wanted no part of it.