How long have we been in quarantine now? I don't know maybe a month? Feels longer but we have been having punishing weather too. Some are doing OK with it (quarantine) and others maybe not so much! There is a right wing push in the US to open the economy back up again, it is insane but who else on Earth would be this stupid other than Americans? Yesterday a large protest in Michigan by these nuts marching around and blocking roads with their cars, with Confederate flags, holding up Dr's and nurses from getting to work. It's just stupid but we expect more especially if FOX news gets this crap moving. All they will accomplish is making the Pandemic longer and economic damage worse! Everyday Trump makes insane comments at these 2 hour long press events, it's a waste of everyone's time and there are calls to stop reporting this nonsense. It's impossible to follow every stupid moment of this but basically he keeps trying to reach for power only to find he has none! Earlier he claimed he can force the states to open basically claiming the power of a monarch, it's utterly nuts and after a day of push back and the Governors saying uhhh no he retreated on this idea. Recently he is still pushing, now for a May 1st, opening of some states and some like Lindsay Graham are going along with this. Watching this stuff on the political talk shows just has me yelling all night in bed at the TV! Nothing is the same anymore, I used to listen to the MSNBC shows, play games on my tablet and eventually drift off to sleep now I am in full scream mode and this is no way to live life, I have to avoid the Trump shit show, it can't be healthy! It is just so frightening and sad to watch the richest and most powerful country on Earth bungle this so badly! They cannot find a way to fairly support working class people without also benefiting the rich and corporations too, it's all so corrupt. Then listen to their blithering idiot of a President who is only worried about his reelection and himself and his image in history, he is the living example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, being so stupid or so bad at something you lack the self criticism to see how bad and stupid you really are. It's like watching the fall of Ancient Rome or something, battered by disease yet so corrupt and led by insane leaders the running of the country became impossible. Is that what happened to Rome? Something like that with more Vandals and Visigoths I think.
It's weird to see images of the "Before World", crowds, airports, happy people without masks. Credible studies are coming out saying the world may not be back to normal until 2022, 2 years from now! No sporting events, concerts, weddings, funerals, flights, how will we have an airline industry or professional sports, the last one I don't give a shit about but I have no smart answers for any of these questions! Trump and his band of idiot followers can live in their stupid fantasy world (to our peril) but most of us are probably going to be more cautious when it comes to contact with large numbers of people. It's funny how quickly it has changed in my mind but I am not eager to get on an airplane or bus or attend concerts, the opera, or go to a restaurant any time soon. Nothing will be safe until there is a vaccine which may or may not happen or we have reliable treatments, this is the new world we live in now. How will people live in a place like New York City? I don't know.
What will this summer be like with no weddings, The Stampede, fireworks, all the festivals?, you shouldn't even be in a park really, it's going to be a drag but we are all in this together throughout the world.
Trump wants to open the border with Canada, yet another dumb idea from President unqualified that will receive push back I'm sure! No, you idiots we are not exposing ourselves to your stupidity and masses of infected, get your act together first and we will talk! This is why I am in constant rage mode!
News Bites;
Large outbreaks in meat packing plants, a big one in South Dakota where they have no social distancing measures due to some air head governor who looks like a FOX News hostess, but also in Southern Alberta. The outbreak here is not as large but what the hell is with meat packing? It is placing concerns on the meat supply in Canada and the US.
Another area where we are having the same problems as the US is old folks homes, a large death count in a New Jersey home found some 17 bodies piled into a small morgue built for 4 bodies, yeesh! Similarly many of the deaths in Canada are in similar places but hey you build an industry around making money and not care and this is what happens, these places are corporations not public services!
Dallas TX sees massive lineups for the food bank, people are out of money already and this is only the beginning! Reminds me of the movie Contagion a little!
I was just thinking that we cannot have a commemoration/funeral for Gords dad this summer like we planned, it just seems like a really bad idea right now. As usual I am ahead of the curve, no one has thought of this yet, I don't want to do this right now!
I saw a segment on our news from some dickhead Millennial saying some shit about we have to live our best lives , stay positive, yada yada. He says we should not come out of this crisis as obese alcoholics, well fuck you! i went into this as an obese alcoholic and I will come out one!!!!
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