Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I think it "became real" for America in general when it was announced that Tom Hanks had it.

 

It became real for America when college and professional sports shut down for months. And then we all got sent home for a month or more.

 

and when certain Americans couldn't get Applebee riblets.

remember when the submoron said it was a hoax? Applebee's Farms does.

 

Or when people were upset because chicken wings wasn't considered a meal?

Oh and when we were told herd immunity would end things?

 

You weren't told that. You were told herd immunity OR a vaccine would end things. Kind of an important omission. Which you've already been reminded of the last time you deliberately misrepresented what you read. But I'm sure we'll be going at this again in 15 months when I'm reminded that my getting a haircut in June 2020 somehow killed people.

 

I'd rather relitigate that than baseball economic disparity Part XXXVII or march madness.

Academic lives are going to be spent studying the coronavirus while we make jokes about riblets and haircuts, and while Slobbo brags he mastered it.

 

Hmm, was I the one suggesting that New York's rate of infections were declining because of herd immunity? Oh wait, that was you. The implication—that again, from a topic you brought up—was herd immunity was going to get us out of this and shutdowns were not the way to go. Or am I misrepresenting because I don't want to look idiodic?

 

Here are my exact words (boldface added for things that tend to keep being overlooked). If you still want to maintain that what you posted above is a 100 percent accurate reflection of my intentions, go right ahead.

 

Hundreds of thousands of people died from this shit. Not really concerned with who couldn't get a haircut or who decided to hold an illegal speakeasy at this point.

 

I am amazed it wasn't worse, or that it doesn't still persist in its most menacing form.

 

It's a bit fuzzy, but I think this is the four-year anniversary of my first time working from home. I was far more pessimistic than my colleagues. I thought we'd be out until Memorial Day, or even mid-June. Most thought 2-3 weeks.

What a thing to have lived through. I feel very fortunate that me, my family and close friends came out healthy and financially intact. Millions of others were not so lucky.

Two world-altering events within 20 years, with 9/11 and the COVID pandemic.