Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

anyone wanna parse this?

anyone at all?

 

The jerks flying around in helicopters?

 

Hasn't even managed the sport at any level. He doesn't know the basic precepts or rules of the game. It's almost like he got his job off a reality show or something.

 

As America edged into the eighth week of the coronavirus quarantine, the need for sensible leadership reached an all-time high. Donald Trump with his short attention spans and long-held grudges provided no such guidance. On April 23, 2020 he gave the latest in a string of pandemic press briefings, one that stood out from all the others.

In that particular briefing, the president went on long (and even for him) bizarre tangent about coronavirus treatments. He babbled about UV lights and injecting disinfectants into the veins of his fellow citizens. These remarks launched a thousand memes, tiktok videos and negative headlines around the world. His base ate it up as usual.

Less than 72 hours after the UV rant, Trump raged on Twitter against journalists who said they should return their "Noble" prizes. Shortly after deleting those tweets he said he was merely being sarcastic. Trump claimed the same thing about his UV and disinfectant rant.

 

carbon output

air pollution

noise pollution

fossil fuel consumption

to get to the weekend house in the Hamptons?

Maybe it's just an NYC thing.*


* In the interest of full local disclosure, I'll note that in the photo accompanying the article, Ms. Garrett is standing at the railing of an apartment building in Brooklyn. Not far behind her is the East River. You can see the Brooklyn Bridge and the footing for the Manhattan Bridge.

Which means that where she's standing is almost directly across the river from the Financial District heliport in Lower Manhattan. Presuming she lives in the building where the photo was taken, she hears those Masters of the Universe coming and going in their deafening corporate choppers many - many - times a day.

 

Reminds me of this poem:


Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

 

I don't think Twitter is a one-sided joint in the aggregate. Everybody's individualized version of Twitter is one-sided because personal choices on whom to follow make up a decent chunk of what each user sees.

I also doubt that most journalists are un-American. Look back nearly 20 years ago now to the aftermath of 9/11. If the omnipotent, libruhl media were so un-American, why did George W. Bush's popularity soar to 90%? If the all-powerful and hopelessly libruhl media hated the idea of America in general, wouldn't it have joined in a message of praise for the attackers, claiming the US of A deserved to be humiliated and thrown into chaos? While some on the fringe probably expressed such views, they were in the distinct minority.

Journalists are not opposed to America; they are skeptical of many things by nature. This trait, while annoying at times, often helps drive coverage that serves a public good such as exposure of governmental failure or fraud.

Journalists, I would suspect, are less religious than the rest of the country, and that's a good thing. Because of that, they're unlikely to come down on the side of a particular faith or belief system at the expense of others. They remind us that Trump and his cabal of zealots seek to create a theocracy in direct violation of a bedrock American principle.

 

Lazy narcissistic spoiled rich asshole multiply accused rapist pedo pal serial bankruptor would-be tinpot dictator tiny hands drug addict demented Nazi utterly incompetent managing the country.

Who knew?

 

And then the pharaoh suggested hitting thou body with a light of a length shorter than visible light but longer than the ray of X.

 

So wait, you're saying Sweden has a lower death rate than Georgia? Isn't that a good thing?

 

That's his best attempt at compassion and sympathy.

 

Bill Gates is already actively attempting to compress some of this timeline. There are eight or so promising vaccines, and he is having facilities constructed which have the required sort of equipment to manufacture each one. He's good with wasting the money on seven of them in exchange for having a running start on producing the eighth.