Who did it? The United States government or a bad babysitter

quiz time

It took me one hour, forty-eight minutes, twenty-nine seconds, and seventy milliseconds to get tested for COVID-19 yesterday. This pandemic has been on for two years now and the government still hasn’t created a system for us to get tested easily because they are throwing money at the Pentagon like I throw salt in food. I have recently appointed myself the family salt manager and my role is to taste and toss salt in any food that I deem is undersalted regardless of who is preparing it. Nonetheless, I digress. The government's inability to do what needs to be done to stop this virus made me realize the United States government has a lot in common with a bad babysitter. 

Here’s a quiz for you to determine whether I’m describing a bad babysitter or the government of the United States of America 

1. They let you go into disease ridden spaces and say, now just keep your mouth and nose covered and you’ll be okay, instead of not letting you go in to begin with. 

2. Pits your against your siblings so you think they are the source of the problem when they are the ones giving all the food to their friends.

3. Spends all your food money on guns, then tells you, it’s your fault you are hungry.

4. Is constantly telling you, you should be happy they are the ones taking care of you because other governments/babysitters are so much worse.

5. Won’t let the neighbor’s kids come in despite their house being on fire, even though they set the neighbor’s house on fire. 

6. Makes you serve their uninvited best friend hand and foot and tells you to shut up when you are tired.

7. Takes whatever little money their best friend gives for serving them and gives it back to their bestfriend. 

8. Hires other kids to beat you up whenever you demand that they stop giving all the food to their  best friends.

9. Has favorites.

10. Kicks you out of the house if you refuse to serve their uninvited best friend even though it’s not their house. 

11. You don’t need them, you are perfectly capable of taking care of yourself.

quiz answers

1-11: the government of the so-called United States of America and a bad babysitter.

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