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My 2019 Subaru with 44k miles on it, meticulously maintained, sprung a very small oil leak that I noticed yesterday. It kind of unhinged me, naturally. Checked the oil, down 1/3 of quart; that might have been normal from all the driving I've doing, and coming up on oil change time. Anyways, I got myself over to the service department before they closed. Even while I was clear in communicating/listening about this mess, I did overhear that service people were out sick, they have a bit of a backlog, so the car couldn't be looked at, even as a drop-in, until Wednesday. What has extra unhinged me about this is, while I have a full warranty in effect, what good is it if there's no one around to rebuild/swap out the engine, if that's what's needed??? I know this is really a first world problem, but hell, I got the car, fully built in Japan no less, for its reliability. It's really jarring to realize how much I look now through the lens of a mass extinction event courtesy of the covid and the vaccinated, what both has wrought on the world. I gotta get my car straightened out before all hell breaks loose, before there's no one around to fix it. My gig world (as contracted as it now is from being cast out as the unclean unvaxxed), and day job (after basically forced-retirement from Fed gov) requires I have a car in great shape. But writing all of this seems selfish and trivial, though it is, again, the lens I'm seeing through. Combining day-to-day living as though everything is normal, with a reading the tea leaves as I am, many of us are, is just, well, CRAZY. In addition to following Geert as closely as I could from mid 2021, I also listened to Br Bugnalo, From Rome, back in June of 2021. The latter was stark back then about what was to come. Now Geert is outright warning... Ok then, we carry on. Be prepared.

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This is good Lawrence..cant wait for more. So pleased you have time now and congrats on your book.

Unfortunately....this sounds awfully likely..so I am praying it wont happen...

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