<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>News | Ah, What a day</title><link>https://www.ahwaday.com/tag/news/</link><atom:link href="https://www.ahwaday.com/tag/news/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>News</description><generator>Hugo Blox Builder (https://hugoblox.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://www.ahwaday.com/media/icon_hu6052789470800544987.png</url><title>News</title><link>https://www.ahwaday.com/tag/news/</link></image><item><title>COVID Theory</title><link>https://www.ahwaday.com/blog/covid_theory/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.ahwaday.com/blog/covid_theory/</guid><description>&lt;p>I will start out by laying down the theory, and then I will move on to
supplying some evidence of why I think this way.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="theory">Theory:&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>Through the COVID pandemic, there has an urge of mental health diseases in the
US. With the release of COVID, whether it was intentional or unintentional,
it has brought on a crushing increase of mental health issues, and this brings
me to my theory. I think that COVID triggered a domino effect in the health
of people around the world, and with people more worried about several aspects
of life than what is happening in the bigger picture of things. This whole
thing is to create a smoke screen to hide what is exactly is playing out in
the world. Do I know the end goal? No. I don&amp;rsquo;t even know or have a theory
who is pulling the strings. The dominos are just starting to drop.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="evidence">Evidence:&lt;/h3>
&lt;h4 id="news-outlets">News outlets:&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>A few months back I took about 3 hours and watched several news stations. The
stations I picked were ABC, CNN, Fox, and Americas Voice. I have to say, I
was shocked and disappointed at what I found. I was watching it on a Saturday
morning from 11 to about 2pm What I found was varying information of what
was happening with COVID from complete and totally left to complete and
totally right. 99% of the information was contradictorily, so say this nice.
With all of the misinformation, that&amp;rsquo;s what starts the smoke screen.&lt;/p>
&lt;h4 id="covid-information">COVID Information:&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>While COVID is a new disease, there seems to be a lot of close mindedness
around COVID. Doctors aren&amp;rsquo;t receptive to any aspect of this disease, and
this can be seen if you look at any sort of COVID related forum/information
outlet/etc. I have been reading people on Reddit for months, and there seems
to be one conclusion, it sucks. Of course, this is an understatement. For
people that has been suffering from things that are long term affects of
having COVID and it seems to be so random. Makes me wonder, is there
something that creates this virus do extreme things to some people, and then
others, it does little to nothing. Myself, I suffer from anxiety and probably
increased my GI issues.&lt;/p>
&lt;p>More about the doctors being closeminded. I speak about doctors in general,
and I attest to some doctors are completely the polar opposite to the &amp;rsquo;normal'
behavior. While these doctors are rare, and if you find one that you can work
with, STICK WITH THEM. They are like golden nuggets. I have found one
general doctor that has helped me in ways that I could never think her. I
won&amp;rsquo;t name her, to respect her privacy. I do wish I could find a good place
to research doctors, and this would be a service/website that is not persuaded
by people throwing money at them.&lt;/p>
&lt;h3 id="final-thoughts">Final Thoughts:&lt;/h3>
&lt;p>While I started this blog as a part of a type of therapy for me, and it has
helped me a lot. I would like to let the people out there know that are
suffering from long term effects from COVID. Keep your chin up, hopefully
sometime soon that there will be a break through with treatments to help with
these things you suffer from. Until then, if you are having thoughts of
hurting yourself, please seek help. If you are in Asheville, NC, there are
great IOP programs in town to help with some of this. While they are mainly
for mental health items, suicidal thoughts and/or thoughts of hurting yourself
could be helped as well. When I was in there, I found a new light in many
things. I hope they will be able to help you.&lt;/p>
&lt;h6 id="_until-next-time-enjoy-this-ride-which-we-call-life_">&lt;em>&lt;strong>Until next time, enjoy this ride which we call life.&lt;/strong>&lt;/em>&lt;/h6></description></item><item><title>Home, Friends, and Today's News</title><link>https://www.ahwaday.com/blog/home_friends_and_todays_news/</link><pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:04:39 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.ahwaday.com/blog/home_friends_and_todays_news/</guid><description>&lt;p>So, this post is going to be a lot of things on my mind. I apologize in
advance if it&amp;rsquo;s hard to follow.&lt;/p>
&lt;h4 id="todays-news">Today&amp;rsquo;s news&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>I have become dissatisfied with the whole news scene of our country. I have
been watching an array of networks to see what is said about several hot
topics. There was one day I was comparing &lt;a href="https://www.cnn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN&lt;/a>,
&lt;a href="https://www.foxnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FOX&lt;/a>, &lt;a href="https://abc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC&lt;/a> and &lt;a href="https://americasvoice.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America&amp;rsquo;s
Voice&lt;/a>. What I found was so off from each other
that I couldn&amp;rsquo;t figure out what in the world was happening. This particular
instance I was trying to figure out what was happening with the COVID numbers
in North Carolina. While they all agree the &amp;rsquo;numbers&amp;rsquo; are going up. What was
said from part of them was disturbing. The one that kinda agreed with each of
them was FOX. After some research, I found that CNN and ABC are biased
towards the &amp;rsquo;left&amp;rsquo;, and found FOX and America&amp;rsquo;s Voice is reported as the
&amp;lsquo;right&amp;rsquo;. It was odd that FOX was more of a middle of the road on this
particular article. So I started looking for a website that had multiple news
stories, and &lt;a href="https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allsides.com&lt;/a>
came to the front. When viewing the site it seemed to be overwhelmed by ads.
I have started on a personal project that will hopefully bridge the gap of all
these news outlets. We will see where that goes.&lt;/p>
&lt;h4 id="friends">Friends&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>There are many types of friends. Each relationship is uniquely beautiful.
What happens when that friendship goes astray? Well, this past weekend I have
just had that experience. It was not a great experience, but I learned a lot
of things about myself as well as that person. One thing I strive to do, try
to learn each person as a new person. Don&amp;rsquo;t base any pre-judgements on past
experiences with your past. As we all have a past, that&amp;rsquo;s difficult to do.
For me, a female friendship is especially difficult due to my past
relationships as well as my mother&amp;rsquo;s relationship. In a sentence to overview
my mother&amp;rsquo;s relationship; it took me 7 years of therapy to get to a point to
where I wasn&amp;rsquo;t always angry at that woman. As I have gotten older, it seems
to be harder to make friendships as well as keep them. Everyone has their own
lives, and it&amp;rsquo;s difficult to make time for each other. Myself being a single
man; it&amp;rsquo;s hard for me to grasp the complexities that it takes to make a family
of your own to work.&lt;/p>
&lt;h4 id="home">Home&lt;/h4>
&lt;p>What is Home? That&amp;rsquo;s something different for everybody. Some people enjoy a
nice tidy house, and some people always have a work in progress type of home.
My home is a work in progress type of home. It&amp;rsquo;s interesting to see what
other people say about your house. There have been several people come to my
house and say they don&amp;rsquo;t like it. Rather we like to admit it or not, I think
everyone is proud of their home. After all, that&amp;rsquo;s where a lot of has spent
the majority of our time the last two years. One of the proudest things I
have going about my home&amp;hellip;.. is that I designed it. I know it has flaws, and
I know it&amp;rsquo;s not for everyone. I didn&amp;rsquo;t design it with anyone else in mind,
except for me and my goals for my home. I have been asked why I built one so
big&amp;hellip;. Easy, I wanted a place to have my family housed if it was needed.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>