A few days ago I wrote about how I might feel if I were 30 years younger and confronted with the pandemic. Yeah, screw that. We better get focused. The truth is, people have known how to effectively deal with this health threat for a century. None of the public health measures urged or imposed in response to this emergency are new, "novel" or less than reasonable. Been there, done that. Wash your damned hands, wear a mask and stay the hell away from me ya stupid snot bubbles.
Don't tell me about your "freedoms". Going back to colonial times no one has ever had the right to endanger the public health. Also, going back to colonial times, you and four or five of your knuckleheaded buddies don't have the power to determine what threatens or serves the public health. That's the governors. Always has been. Watching these people discuss their rights and freedoms is like watching Chimps sniff a Rubik's Cube. Try not to be one of the chimps.
I haven't lost any friends or close associates to the Coronavirus. Wanna know why? I don't have stupid friends. I have a lifelong habit of keeping ignoramuses at arm's-length. Six feet hasn't been much of a stretch.
I'm one of those liberals. I believe, in almost a spiritual way, in the dignity of my fellow man. Ya know why? Because that's the best way to have a world where I can survive and prosper and my children and grandchildren can survive and prosper. It's entirely selfish and the smart bet. Ya never looked at the Golden Rule that way did ya? Blaise Pascal and Nietzche hold hands with Jeremy Bentham. I probably just wandered out of your depth. Sorry. Look it up.
There are two ways to deal with an epidemic or a pandemic. Stop it in it's tracks by giving it no opportunity to multiply and spread or let it rampage until it carries away all the vulnerable.
Thinning the herd is a seemingly hard-hearted and kinda mean way to go about things but that's what we've been doing right along. After the initial shock and false steps of the first wave, the intelligent, viable members of our society have settled into the common-sense measures necessary to preserve our society. We isolate, wash our hands wear masks and pray when it's appropriate. Others have not and God bless them. The truth is, we are now witnessing the weaker members of the herd being swept away. They have dictated their own demise and they are welcome to it. We should thank them and encourage them. The hard truth is, there is no reason to believe the family members or close associates of these people (The people they are most likely to infect and kill) are of any more value than they are themselves. Speaking of useless; there is the fact this would be over by now, like it is in other countries if these people had behaved with common sense. Screw 'em.
That seems pretty mean but have these people made any other choice?
I haven't lost any friends or close associates to the Coronavirus. Wanna know why? I don't have stupid friends. I have a lifelong habit of keeping ignoramuses at arm's-length. Six feet hasn't been much of a stretch.
I'm one of those liberals. I believe, in almost a spiritual way, in the dignity of my fellow man. Ya know why? Because that's the best way to have a world where I can survive and prosper and my children and grandchildren can survive and prosper. It's entirely selfish and the smart bet. Ya never looked at the Golden Rule that way did ya? Blaise Pascal and Nietzche hold hands with Jeremy Bentham. I probably just wandered out of your depth. Sorry. Look it up.
There are two ways to deal with an epidemic or a pandemic. Stop it in it's tracks by giving it no opportunity to multiply and spread or let it rampage until it carries away all the vulnerable.
Thinning the herd is a seemingly hard-hearted and kinda mean way to go about things but that's what we've been doing right along. After the initial shock and false steps of the first wave, the intelligent, viable members of our society have settled into the common-sense measures necessary to preserve our society. We isolate, wash our hands wear masks and pray when it's appropriate. Others have not and God bless them. The truth is, we are now witnessing the weaker members of the herd being swept away. They have dictated their own demise and they are welcome to it. We should thank them and encourage them. The hard truth is, there is no reason to believe the family members or close associates of these people (The people they are most likely to infect and kill) are of any more value than they are themselves. Speaking of useless; there is the fact this would be over by now, like it is in other countries if these people had behaved with common sense. Screw 'em.
That seems pretty mean but have these people made any other choice?
