Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

My town was regularly hitting 100 cases a week. This week there were only 5. That’s because 86% of our adults have had at least one shot and 65% are fully vaccinated.

Vaccines work. It’s not political.

 

Richmond has had fewer than 10 cases per day for a good run now. We're also a predominantly blue city with a high vax rate, so there's that.

 

It’s a good point. But I wrote thousands of articles for two newspapers for 15 years. None of them were archived by it.

I am in no way saying my college football and high school basketball stories have any future or current or even past utility, but things disappear because of the sheer volume of stuff. Now someone in the cities I worked will have to go to the local library, sign in for access to the newspaper archives and dig through thousands of PDFs or microfilms. This isn’t different than generations past, but people aren’t conditioned to do that like generations past. The internet promised free, quick, democratic access. We aren’t getting that. Some of that was unreasonable expectations for technology, but I think bad actors will exploit that.

I think things will exist. But some will disappear. For the rest, you’ll have to do an amount of work that the average person won’t do, there won’t be any journalists to do it and if things keep going the ways they are it will be dismissed as whatever “Fake News” accusations devolve into in the coming decades will merely dismissed reported facts as false. Fake News disputed facts in the present. Imagine how that can be used in the future.

 

When your glasses say 2008 Brooklyn and your politics say 1933 Berlin.

 

Nothing in my life has changed as much as the Ohio I grew up in just 25 years ago and the current Ohio. It went from being essentially Pennsylvania to the Arkansas of the Midwest.

 

That bitch... I think she was the woman who got in a bunch of people's faces who were standing as a human blockade in front of West End Synagogue due to a scheduled visit by Westboro Baptist.

Yes, I said, "Bitch." And if it's her, she still looks punchable.

 

Ooh, scary scary posters. LOL

 

I spent the first 35 years of my life in Ohio and I don't even recognize the state anymore.

 

Dynamite comes in fat, cranky packages.

 

So you’re saying that you went back to Ohio, but your city was gone?