Things Are Falling Apart

The fears of the future are coming to pass.

Services and basic needs are dwindling. Have you noticed?

Services that you have depended on in the past are slowly decaying. Social services are getting harder to receive. There are less and less actual people running these services, only computers, A.I., as you follow telephone prompts when you call to complain or get some information or help.

I personally have had such things happen. For the last year, I have not been able to get a certain benefit from my insurance through Medicare. It’s free but I can’t get it. I have tried and tried through calling, chatting, and following their directions, but I get to a place and can’t go any further. It just stops me.

Also, utility companies are getting upset that bills are not being paid and threats to cut them off along with letters of intent have been sent and received lately. It also seems they are higher.

Where is OUR stimulus check?

I have also lost my food benefit, which sucked because with it I could get out at least once a week and feel I had some control over my life. I do live with my two sons, one is working part time at a grocery store, and the other is on unemployment. They have just recently pooled their resources and have gotten our car repaired after two years. Two years!

So now, all of a sudden, we make too much money for us to have food benefits when I feel we are just making it. We have no food in our house at this time so what do they know.

I know family members are going to read this and get angry. They are not angry with the lack of services, they will be angry with me. Why do you post and write about such things? It is a bad reflection on us.

They never do anything about it though.

They never say, “Here take this check. I want to help in a small way. That’s all I can do though.” If they did I would be so grateful. It would take a lot of stress off me and help this old women sleep better at night.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I have it better than a lot of people. Who knows? I do know it is frustrating and I can be an anxious mess if I sit and ruminate about it.

Another experience happened to a friend of mine with his debit card. He found out from the bank that there had been some unusual activity on his card and shut it down. He went to the bank to talk to them about it.

They gave him some sort of code so he could get into his account that did not work. They issued him a new card and said it would be mailed and he should receive it in two days. Nothing happened and he never received his new card.

He went back to the bank and told them and they said all we can do is send you out a new card again and it will take 5 to 7 days for you to get it. In the meantime, he has no access to any money in his account. He was trying to beat a deadline so he would not have to pay late fees on a personal agreement with a company. Now he is under a lot of stress to pay.

I found the bank and other institutions are at the slavery of their computers. Their hands are tied most of the time and they can’t handle their customers with any personal services.

Covid-19 and this lockdown has really effected everyone. Our economy is sinking into nothingness. It’s going to take a long time to dig out.

I read the other day that China is in good spirits. Their economy is growing by leaps and bounds and no one is sick. Wow! Chinese Communist Party has won this one.

Jo Ann Harris is an author, parent, book devotee, writer, copywriter, and film fanatic. She is an autodidact who learns about everything on her own. She grew up and worked in Atlanta, Georgia and lived there sixty years. She writes articles about love, hope, personal life stories, advice and poems. She is a published author with an article in Woman’s World magazine in October 2017. She recently published two books on Kindle, “16 Poems About Absolutely Nothing” and “ Ignorance is Bliss — Eighteen Years of Abuse and Denial in Poetry Form.”