Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Yeah that's who I'm going to ask for advice when I'm dealing with a disease that mankind has never seen before. Sure. That's not how science works, that's not why you can call up the internet on your phone, why you wear that helmet, why your life expectancy is now 82, not 65 (as it was in the 70's). Self declaring your "knowledge" without proof is not the path.

 

He’s a counter-protestor satirizing the covidiots.

 

A perfect example of Poe's Law in action, for sure.

 

This is a good story. It broaches well the topic of the difference between those who are just angry about all the stubborn, stupid people who have refused vaccinations, and those who are angry about that -- but have also actually gone through losing someone close to them because of COVID-19. The difference is subtle, but important, because the anger changes, to something less than just anger, actually, but also something more significant, more introspective. Surprisingly, that perspective softens things up, I think, rather than hardens you, because you remember/realize the actual person involved, and the importance of him or her, rather than just the virus and how, of course, we want to stop it, and so should everybody else, etc.

The human face, and feel. We tend to forget, overlook and leave that behind in all our righteous, argumentative, debating anger. Until it hits somebody who actually matters or made a difference to you. It makes you actually care, instead of not care, or just want to talk/argue about it.

 

That is the brother of Globe & Mail columnist Elizabeth Renzetti. She tweeted about it.

 

And there would be no way to know that if she does not tweet about it. This is a big part of the problem with the way people are being informed and educated these days. And it's really unfortunate. And bad.

 

Anti-intellectualism is an American tradition. Adlai Stevenson was dismissed as an "egghead" because he could construct a sentence better than the relatively inarticulate Eisenhower. Ike had his war record, of course, but he was viewed as more "of the people" because Stevenson ran verbal circles around him.

The same could be said of Dukakis in '88. Too "effete" to be president.

 

Fine by me. Thanks.

 

And another job opening for conservative talk radio hosts, a dying breed.

Bob Enyart, Anti-Vax ‘Real Science Radio’ Host, Dies of COVID-19 (thewrap.com)

 

A new position has opened for Qanon in Chicago.

Veronica Wolski, Chicago Anti-Vaxxer, Dies of COVID at 64 (thewrap.com)

 

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