Yeah, no, it was not acceptable for everyone to turn into babies over just 7 inches of snow and stay home like scared losers. It was embarrassing to watch people in Cincinnati turn into cowards and display part 2 of COVID-19, where they let the experts tell them to stay home locked up until the snow emergency was over. Most of Cincinnati listened to the weather terrorists as the first real snowstorm came through shortly after the New Year of 2025. I watched the weather porn on television, too, especially Fox 19, and they had wall-to-wall coverage. I understand their position; they are weather geeks and get excited about this kind of thing. This is the time of year when the spotlight gets put on them, and they relish it. They over-dramatize everything, and it is never as bad as they say it will be. Seven inches of snow is a significant snowfall. But it’s not something that can’t be managed. I got up that day and did my usual thing unimpeded, as if there wasn’t any snow. The snowstorm didn’t impact me at all, and I usually drive around through a week more than most people do. I watched the same weather coverage as everyone else but did not listen to them tell me to stay home like a bunch of babies. The weather porn was more entertainment than reality. What we should have been doing was toughing through the snowstorm without impediment. If it took an extra fifteen minutes to get to work, fine. If people arrived a little late to where they were going, that would be fine too. But to stay home, as the weather news told us, and to be unproductive, waiting for some little danger to pass by, is not how any American should be. Productivity first, and management of safety elements with skill and innovation are expected as part of the process. Just because people were scared to drive in the snow and were unskilled does not mean we should shut down our entire society.
Of course, many people were mad at me for my opinions and asked me what I thought was the appropriate level of safety over the matter. A good example of what I believe is appropriate occurred just a few days ago. A good friend of mine slipped and fell on some ice and split his head open. He immediately noticed a lot of blood flowing from his head, way too much to rub away. So, upon letting people know about it, he went to the human resources department where he worked, and they let him know that his skull was showing and that they needed to get him to the emergency room. After quite an adventure of blood spilling over everywhere and coordination of people who needed to drive him to the hospital, they reported to him that he had a severe cut and that it was going to take nine stables to pull his head together again. Not nine stitches, but staples. They, of course, checked him after the patch-up for concussion protocols, which he passed. He had a pretty hard head but was not displaying signs of a concussion, and they sent him on his way. He insisted at the doctor that they keep him off light duty or any other impediment to his work schedule. So, upon his request, he returned to his job with no restrictions. And through all this, he did not miss a single minute of work. He fell in the parking lot after his shift of work was complete. He returned to his third shift position on time, without any excuses, and performed as if nothing had ever happened.
The only measure he took that gave away that he had an injury was that he covered up his bandaged head with a baseball hat that he put over it to keep it somewhat protected from the elements. Many people in his position would have sought to milk the system; they would have taken off weeks of work and tried to get out of doing as much work as possible. But not him. When there are problems in the world, this kind of guy always shows up and is there to solve problems. And given the many excuses I heard about snowfall, it was good to see that there are still people like that guy in the world. We need more tough people who don’t crawl into a fetal position every time something occurs. I relate to people like that guy. I have done many similar things in my life, and it is bewildering to see such a lack of work ethic among anybody. I have worked through even worse injuries and major surgeries and missed almost no work in the process. I’ve had bones sticking out from severe cuts. And on surgeries where they occurred on a Thursday or Friday and were projected to keep me bedridden for months, I reported back to work that following Monday after just a weekend of rest and recovery. So, I expect to answer everyone’s questions all at once. That’s what I am used to and the standards I have set for myself. And I most relate to people like that guy who busted his head open and did everything he could to fix it and get back to work.
If you leave your life to the panic porn people, the ridiculous experts such as we did with Covid, where we let them tell us to stay home and socially distance ourselves from the world, you should not be surprised when you fail at life. Watching the Channel 19 broadcast the night of the snowstorm, I was shocked that those people told people to stay home and ride out the weather. Who are they to say such a thing? There is work to do in the world. That mentality is a loser mentality, to yield to impediments instead of managing them. I have never been that kind of person. When I was in school years ago, I was the one who had perfect attendance for years on end. I am never late for anything. And if I say I will be somewhere, people can trust it will be so. I don’t let silly snowstorms stop what I am doing or injuries that happen along the way. As human beings, we invent tools to overcome nature. We don’t yield to it. We don’t let the snow beat us and keep us from doing what we need to do. I never have, and I never will. And I have no respect or sympathy for those who do. People are free to do what they do in their lives. But I am also free to have my opinion about it. And I do. Excuses make people weak. That guy with the split open head could have leaned into his doctor to get all kinds of time off work and to milk it for everything he could. But he didn’t. And I could not have done anything on that snow day, too, and told the world I stayed home because the news told me to, and I would have been justified under some ill-defined definition of safety. But I’m a great driver. I can drive through the snow without any problem, so it would cheapen my skills to yield to the masses who aren’t so good just because the experts told me I could stay home like some kid in school yielding to an authority figure. No, I had things to do. I had a nice car to drive with good tires; it was well-maintained and had a nice, functioning heater to protect me from the cold. And it was no problem to drive where I needed to go. And everyone else had the same tools, too. But they stayed home because the news told them to, which it was not in their authority to do so. That is one of the many reasons we are trying to make America great again. People fear a little snow, and it’s not great now. It takes great people to make anything great. And being scared of snow or injuries isn’t what makes people great. Tenacity and perseverance do.
Rich Hoffman
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