Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Trump has fans everywhere. And when anybody refuses to wear a mask and gets sick, he can pass it along to one or more others. Just to own the libruhls. Nice mindset.
There’s one ideology that hates science, education and other things that could help us. And it’s not the left.

 

You really think the issues in California among 18-24 year olds is because of Trump? Really?

 

It's pretty simple, really...because Trump and Fox News turned masks into a political tool, a large swath of people (including Californians) refused to wear them. I don't think I need to draw the picture further (about how the bars even in California were packed with people sans masque) but I will if you're still being dense.

 

If we’re going to drill down like that, no, I don’t think that’s all him. But if a sizable chunk of the country is going to endanger others just to express contempt of libruhls, you get a problem. And they do it in part because they have cover from the president.

 

The only thing I'm grateful for in all of this is that I live in a county where 99 percent of people I see at stores or restaurants wear masks. When I'm out for a walk, there's very few, but everyone does a great job of keeping distant from each other (except for a few kids who I have fleeting thoughts of throwing sticks into their bike spokes). I went up to see my mom near Sacramento a week ago for her 60th. Out at a park and socially distant, but we went to get food at an outdoor place and the amount of people who weren't wearing masks or keeping social distance was troubling. Of course, one of those people sans mask and not observing personal space was wearing a "don't tread on me" shirt.

 

Now we're getting closer to the problem.

You can't have a country promote "rugged individualism" and the ideal of the independent, heroic loner for so long, then expect people to quickly shift to being all about the greater good. Or shift to "let's all work together to solve the problem." I wish it worked like that, but it doesn't.

There is also a sizable portion of our population that simply hates science. It doesn't fit their world view, so they dismiss it at best or despise it/undermine it at worst.

Mix in the fact that our economy is basically built around consumer spending — selling each other hamburgers, beers and entertainment — and you have another reason why everyone wanted/needed/thought they needed to "open things up" ASAP.

Yes, some national leadership from the president or even certain governors would have been nice. But there still would be millions of Americans who wouldn't heed them.

 

The poli sci research on this is that cues from partisan leaders have an enormous impact. If Trump had worn a mask early and often, millions of the defiers would've followed suit. But the whole credo of Trumpism is "I get to do what I want and anybody who doesn't like it should be punished." Said this so many times, but it needs to be repeated. What we have learned in the last four years is that millions of our fellow citizens are absolute shits.

 

In part because Trump's political forefathers have been stoking hatred of $cience and knowledge for decades.

 

The Bay Area dominoes are starting to fall. Earlier today, Newsom turned down the "dimmer switch" on re-openings and districts are beginning to announce they will not return in the fall. My local district just pulled the plug and I've seen talk of more around the bay. I'm waiting for word from my district and my sister's if we're following suit.

 

Biden should say he will investigate the Trump administration's response to the virus and issue indictments for criminally negligent homicide. Make that moron understand HE's at risk of dying in prison.

 

The C-minus students in the back of biology class in high school who sat in the back row and shot spitwads at the blackboard up front.