11-02-2020, 08:06 AM
Obviously we cannot put life on hold; human nature is what it is, and, to put it tamely, natural selection does not favor hermits, the insane, and especially suicides. At my first opportunity I went to a bookstore, the one sort of retailer that I most missed. I discovered that dining out -- meaning inside the restaurant -- is one thing that I can do without. Wearing a mask means the freedom to do much of what I like doing. For someone who has a 5 o'clock shadow at 3 o'clock, a mask can hide that. If I must wear a mask into 2022 I will. I'm 64, and I am far from too old and have too many things right with me (rationality, imagination, powerful legs, keen senses, "Mormon lungs" and a "Mormon liver") to not extract some joy in life, and I am not going to contract a virus whose most likely end is being incarcerated in a ventilator with a higher chance of death than a death row inmate has of dying by the barbarous ceremony of an execution -- with no appellate process and no possible reprieve as a choice of some elected pol who accepts some sob story from me or from some sympathetic character.
Crass as it is to say this, after only the usual medical advice (wash your hands often, wear a mask, stay away from likely spreader events), your best measure of hope is to vote for Joe Biden for President and for pols who have already taken COVID-19 seriously enough -- so that we can stop the medical carnage. We are over 234 thousand deaths, roughly four times the military and POW casualties of the Vietnam War. People did go into the streets to protest the deaths of American soldiers in a costly stalemate in a war that few Americans understood.
Hey, hey Donald Trump -- how many bodies will we need to dump?
We are at war with an insidious, amoral virus against which we need have any qualms about extermination. We had ethical obligations to treat Germans, Italians, and Japanese in the last Crisis war humanely because people do not lose their Humanity because their political leaders have become demons. (Not only is it moral, it is also good policy of ensuring that people who feel the sting of defeat might as well be left with no cause for fighting back, which may explain why America and Britain won the last battles and faced no resistance movements -- and the gangster leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan could never win the peace. Let's put it this way: which Axis power of WWII has waged aggressive war in the last 75 years?
SARS-2 deserves extermination. It cannot sign a truce. It cannot stop killing, and it will likely shorten lives of multitudes who have survived it. The Fool in the White is still appeasing a merciless enemy that has invaded and is killingt in mass.
Technically the name of the virus is SARS-2... and it has no human characteristics.
Hey, hey Donald Trump -- how many bodies will we need to dump?
Crass as it is to say this, after only the usual medical advice (wash your hands often, wear a mask, stay away from likely spreader events), your best measure of hope is to vote for Joe Biden for President and for pols who have already taken COVID-19 seriously enough -- so that we can stop the medical carnage. We are over 234 thousand deaths, roughly four times the military and POW casualties of the Vietnam War. People did go into the streets to protest the deaths of American soldiers in a costly stalemate in a war that few Americans understood.
Hey, hey Donald Trump -- how many bodies will we need to dump?
We are at war with an insidious, amoral virus against which we need have any qualms about extermination. We had ethical obligations to treat Germans, Italians, and Japanese in the last Crisis war humanely because people do not lose their Humanity because their political leaders have become demons. (Not only is it moral, it is also good policy of ensuring that people who feel the sting of defeat might as well be left with no cause for fighting back, which may explain why America and Britain won the last battles and faced no resistance movements -- and the gangster leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan could never win the peace. Let's put it this way: which Axis power of WWII has waged aggressive war in the last 75 years?
SARS-2 deserves extermination. It cannot sign a truce. It cannot stop killing, and it will likely shorten lives of multitudes who have survived it. The Fool in the White is still appeasing a merciless enemy that has invaded and is killingt in mass.
Technically the name of the virus is SARS-2... and it has no human characteristics.
Hey, hey Donald Trump -- how many bodies will we need to dump?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.