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| Silverfiddle Rant! |
We’ve now witnessed local and state governments issue decrees about what people can and cannot buy in stores, arrest parents playing with their children in public parks, yank people off public buses at random, remove basketball rims along with private property, ticket churchgoers, and in one case try—and fail—to chase down a lone runner on an empty beach. All of this, we’re told, is for our own good. (John Davidson, The Federalist)
The Infotainment Media Complex fans the flames of hysteria with headlines like this:
South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home!!!
Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots!!!
After ordering all of us to cower in our homes, they add insult to injury by subjecting us to cheap morality tales:
Backward rightwing governor of a state full of backward rightwing Trump voters ignored Science and refused to order everyone under house arrest, and look what happened! South Dakota is a Hot Spot!
The outbreak happened at a meat packing plant, not a rogue roadside tavern in an unincorporated part of the state, and the outbreak is attributed to insufficient Personal Protective Equipment at a job site where people work cheek by jowl. No Stay at Home order would have prevented that. New York put in place a very stringent Stay at Home order, but NYC is a glowing red hot spot.
Related to this is the disturbing trend of people snitching on neighbors taking a walk outdoors, and screaming about how people not quarantining in place in rural Nebraska are going kill us all. People in the hinterlands of Trump Country taking walks outside are not endangering the nation. Businesses like packing plants that don't check workers' temperatures and provide PPE and other precautions will cause a hot spot, and that needs to be addressed, harshly.
The same people accusing Donald Trump of being a dictator are enraged that he has not dictated a uniform nationwide house arrest. They see different rules enforced in different ways around the nation and they scream like toddlers in a daycare center because another group of kids got cookies and they didn’t.
Check out where South Dakota is on the Coronavirus - US dashboard.
South Dakota’s governor resisted ordering people to stay home!!!
Now it has one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hot spots!!!
Backward rightwing governor of a state full of backward rightwing Trump voters ignored Science and refused to order everyone under house arrest, and look what happened! South Dakota is a Hot Spot!
The outbreak happened at a meat packing plant, not a rogue roadside tavern in an unincorporated part of the state, and the outbreak is attributed to insufficient Personal Protective Equipment at a job site where people work cheek by jowl. No Stay at Home order would have prevented that. New York put in place a very stringent Stay at Home order, but NYC is a glowing red hot spot.
Related to this is the disturbing trend of people snitching on neighbors taking a walk outdoors, and screaming about how people not quarantining in place in rural Nebraska are going kill us all. People in the hinterlands of Trump Country taking walks outside are not endangering the nation. Businesses like packing plants that don't check workers' temperatures and provide PPE and other precautions will cause a hot spot, and that needs to be addressed, harshly.
The same people accusing Donald Trump of being a dictator are enraged that he has not dictated a uniform nationwide house arrest. They see different rules enforced in different ways around the nation and they scream like toddlers in a daycare center because another group of kids got cookies and they didn’t.
Check out where South Dakota is on the Coronavirus - US dashboard.
At IowaHawk's Twitter feed:
ReplyDeleteComrade citizen! Report all suspected anti-distancing activities to friendly New York Ministry of Social Cleanliness!
Reminiscent of Orwell's 1984.
One difference between now and Oceania: children are not in school, so getting them to snitch for the State is curbed -- except that online 'Zoom' classes allow the Dept. Of Re-Education to spy directly into homes.
About coronavirus maps:
ReplyDeleteinteractive U.S. county by county map from Johns Hopkins.
How is this helpful?
ReplyDeleteCA Skate Park Being Covered In 37 Tons Of Sand To Keep Kids From Using It During COVID19
I saw that. Typical government thinking. How much taxpayer money will it cost to scoop all that sand out and restore the skate park when this hysteria is over?
DeleteSF,
DeleteOne helluva lot!
Ooh, ooh, I got it. Cover the California beaches with sand to keep people from using them. Perfect.
DeleteNo, silly, cover the beaches with asphalt.
DeleteBut post "No Skateboarding" signs.
I often wonder if the news media isn't simply feeding upon itself. I suspect that "news" reporting has very little impact on what we think or how we behave, beyond its tendency to piss us all off ... and my guess is that most people today get their "news" from social media platforms. And if I'm right about any of this, why would American businesses continue sponsoring such programs? The costs must be enormous and the results minimal. My wife and I do not watch the news, neither of my kids watch it, neither of my wife's two daughters (or their families) in England watch it ... infinitesimal numbers, of course. Does anyone have a handle on this?
ReplyDeleteIf by social media platforms, you mean blogs, and e-mails yes.
DeleteBut I do my best to be cynical, and to vet sources.
Not everybody has a background in intelligence though.
China shut down ALL travel from Wuhan to other Cities, and Provinces in China but they allowed 5 Million people to travel to the REST OF THE WORLD!
ReplyDeleteDeath is inevitable. Hope and pray for the best this life hs to offer, but be ready to EMBRACE DEATH when it comes to you. It is after all the EXPRESS ROUTE leading to ESCAPE from the VALE of TEARS.
ReplyDeleteI never hear the word –– Escape ––
Delete___ without quicker blood ––
A suddn Agitatiin –– a flying Attitude!
I never hear of Prisons broad ––
___ by Soldiers battered down ––
But I tug –– childish ––
___ at my Bars ––
Only to fail again.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)