The Blog of Michael Lee Mitchell

Thank you to all of you that have wished me Birthday wishes for my 51st Birthday. I can't say it was much of a celebration in the light of being in a pandemic. But, the wishes were great and I wanted to thank you all.  Thanks to my mother for one of my favorite dinners and the red velvet cake. Hopefully, next year will be a little better. Stay safe everyone and let's pray that God will guide us through this and his will be done. 

It is the end of an Era for the Mitchell Tribe as I have sold the Inverness Property I inherited from my Grandmother. I tried to hold onto it until I could fix it and improve the land with a new trailer but after 12 years and money lost I sold it. I remember spending my summers up there with my Grandmother and my family going up there and watching the fireflies and walking up there and being able to just relax. In the last few months, I have not been relaxing but have been stressing about the property as the "new" neighbors were squatting and illegally storing stuff in a run-down trailer. So rather than put up with the next door hooligans I sold the property at a significant loss. I believe that the group I sold it too will improve. So The Mitchell's bid Citrus County a farewell.

Well, I hope everyone is doing great and keeping their social distance and washing their hands. The Wuhan China Virus is teaching us a lot as a Nation and People. Here is what I am learning so far. 1. Our Internet Infrastructure is not adequate if a majority of people are working from home. Congress in their Coronavirus 4 package needs to include money to finally bring fiber to every corner of the US and I mean wired either through their own through municipalities and through grants to private companies.  2. Hospitals need some kind of Federalization during an incident like this.  3. Unemployment needs to be rethought and pandemic provisions. 4. The U.S. needs to sue China for this as this is the Communist Government fault. Either it was a bioweapon that went wrong or they need strict sanitary laws for those wet markets if it was truly crossed that way. This is the third respiratory virus that has originated from China (SARS, MERS and now Covid19). China at a minimum needs to ...