Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

If I’m asked to wear a mask, I will. I’m not trying to be THAT guy. It’s why I keep one in my pocket just in case. But if I don’t have to wear one, I won’t. Feel like I’ve earned that.

 

That’s where I am, really.

 

Same here.

I adjust my life for your stupid guns. I deal with your stupid antiquated views on race and marriage. I gotta pay for your masturbatory love of the military and police.

But this is where you have to live with what I do. I followed all the guidelines for over a year. It’s over. Get your shot.

 

I wear one if the place requests it or if I’m with my daughter who still has to, because I won’t make her do something I’m unwilling to do. Otherwise, I’m going without. I might feel different if I thought my modeling that behavior would influence anyone not vaccinated to act differently, but we just proved over the last year that it will absolutely not change those people’s minds.

 

Thomas Frank:

If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake | Thomas Frank

"If it does indeed turn out that the lab-leak hypothesis is the right explanation for how it began — that the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost — there is a moral earthquake on the way.

Because if the hypothesis is right, it will soon start to dawn on people that our mistake was not insufficient reverence for scientists, or inadequate respect for expertise, or not enough censorship on Facebook. It was a failure to think critically about all of the above, to understand that there is no such thing as absolute expertise. Think of all the disasters of recent years: economic neoliberalism, destructive trade policies, the Iraq War, the housing bubble, banks that are “too big to fail,” mortgage-backed securities, the Hillary Clinton campaign of 2016 — all of these disasters brought to you by the total, self-assured unanimity of the highly educated people who are supposed to know what they’re doing, plus the total complacency of the highly educated people who are supposed to be supervising them."

 

This fall on CBS, from producer Chuck Lorre: Lab Geek Theory

 

They don't care about being part of a citizenry or anything like that.

They are walking representations of their low-info politics- a sad thing to arrive at in adulthood when that's all you are.

They're the patriots and everyone else is wrong.

 

I'm still not sure why the origin story matters. Regardless of how it started, it was out there and Trump ignored it. No matter how it started, it was contagious and 10-12 times more lethal than the common flu.
Trump's general failure is a cover-up and then a disorganized and half-hearted attempt to stop it.
Maybe I'm missing something here.

 

I think the goal by Republicans here is to make it seem more like an attack from a foreign entity, vs. a biological / nature disaster. Easier to channel voter anger over the former than the latter.