# Resilient, You Say They can tolerate increases above normal values. Values of what? Difficulty, stress, need for patience, absence of social contact, expectation that their dreams can be placed on hold. That the pace of progress in their lives can be slowed for now and hopefully be brought back closer to their potential rate at a later time -> all of us, in fact, but we don't use people's lives to compel a pause for dialogue, anymore -> Just the children, who are posed and postured for opportunists to manipulate the masses, and silence many critics. But whose rate is declining? If you are a politician extraordinaire, and your brand of politics swas in the direction of redistributing, and needing ever more agreement to increase public support of ever-more porlific and forward-reaching projects, then corona is the birthplace of your new career. Regardless of your real and visible public support, you have been busy making deals, connections, and laying the groundwork for new, lengthy projects which, in theory, can go on for, in some cases, longer than your remaining life. Even if you don't believe in political opportunism, you can't survive in this political climate unless you are, at the very least, speaking the current language. And the new weight of your enquiry and command is something that one can grow accustomed to. So there is no doubt that they are operating with dramatic potential to be influencd by the need to remain politically viable, congruent to the political vehicles of the day, and by the utility they derive from operating within this new framework. That the fraemwork yields utility apart from its capacity to fulfill its intended purpose necessarily causes an outcome whereby those who stand to benefit from it are liable to confuse its utility to them as the efficacy it yields towards its purpose. In much the same way, the resilience of a child is so great as their ability to withstand pain, disappointment and a deprioritization in society. Failure to indicate greater concern, while also using the circumstance for one's professional development, is another