I am ashamed of "journalism" right now. The stories are becoming more and more dramatic, images on some HIGHLY used news pages show people in almost hyperbaric chambers-like plastic tents, descriptions of the "horrors" of having the virus, images of lady liberty enshrined behind a window and weeping.
This shit has got to stop!
I was out today IN CALIFORNIA - on lockdown - and nothing has changed. If anything, I am seeing a much calmer populace, ppl moving slower and easier, light traffic, courteousness.
And we are on lockdown. Lockdown. A heavily-traffiked news site says
California Awakens To New Reality
No.
I am here. I am reporting to you ppl here in the forum. Nothing has changed. Ppl aren't going to work, but it is a Friday. Normally at this time, the freeways are clogged but are not. That's a GOOD THING not a bad one.
The shelves are empty still of toilet paper, and ppl are hoarding that and water and canned goods. But that is due to external pressures like the national news sites I mention. Even my preferred news outlet of CNN is destroying my faith in news. This has become a GO TO news situation where, I think producers are being mandated to do that AND because we are being told we're all gonna die. No one is saying it, but look at the news channels.
Anchors hovered in front of enormous screens interviewing ppl like Sean Penn to see WHAT ARE WE TO EXPECT from disaster. It feels like being forced on a campout I don't feel like being on and told a narrative that, as an adult American with a mind, I don't know yet HOW to perceive it. Fearmongering is at a premium, it just is absolute rubbish to me.
The bad experience we are ALL gonna have is from our scared neighbors that will have a garage full of TP when this is done, or, if not done, will be sitting in the house wiping their ass until they die, then leaving the unused stacks of it unused by those who needed it.
What Total Crap
I won't be afraid.
This shit has got to stop!
I was out today IN CALIFORNIA - on lockdown - and nothing has changed. If anything, I am seeing a much calmer populace, ppl moving slower and easier, light traffic, courteousness.
And we are on lockdown. Lockdown. A heavily-traffiked news site says
California Awakens To New Reality
No.
I am here. I am reporting to you ppl here in the forum. Nothing has changed. Ppl aren't going to work, but it is a Friday. Normally at this time, the freeways are clogged but are not. That's a GOOD THING not a bad one.
The shelves are empty still of toilet paper, and ppl are hoarding that and water and canned goods. But that is due to external pressures like the national news sites I mention. Even my preferred news outlet of CNN is destroying my faith in news. This has become a GO TO news situation where, I think producers are being mandated to do that AND because we are being told we're all gonna die. No one is saying it, but look at the news channels.
Anchors hovered in front of enormous screens interviewing ppl like Sean Penn to see WHAT ARE WE TO EXPECT from disaster. It feels like being forced on a campout I don't feel like being on and told a narrative that, as an adult American with a mind, I don't know yet HOW to perceive it. Fearmongering is at a premium, it just is absolute rubbish to me.
The bad experience we are ALL gonna have is from our scared neighbors that will have a garage full of TP when this is done, or, if not done, will be sitting in the house wiping their ass until they die, then leaving the unused stacks of it unused by those who needed it.
What Total Crap
I won't be afraid.
