The NBA has suspended its’ season. The NCAA tournament will be played without spectators. Does that sound like the flu?
I spent the day in close contact with the public and my colleagues and was appalled at the number of people who were poo-pooing the novel coronavirus as an overblown sack o’ nothin’. This is a health crisis that has been exacerbated by a thoroughly bungled response to it by a corrupt and inept administration. The current estimates are 70-150 milliion Americans will get this disease. Tom Hanks and Rita have it. Will that do it? How about one of the NBA players? Yes, announced yesterday. Will that be a wake up call? National Guard called out in New York? Naw. Liberals there. Must be fake news. Cancel the Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade? That could NEVER happen! But it did. Harvard turned into an online only university? It is.
What will it take to get through? Your schools are about to close, but it will come as a surprise to you. You won’t have any idea how you will take care of your kids and go to work, but don’t sweat it. It’s just the flu. Downsizing will come to you or a friend or a loved one and you’ll find the others you would have applied to have downsized too.
Times Square is nearly deserted right now. You have the dubious opportunity of buying a $50 Broadway ticket. Hurry, before it’s too late.
But go to the right wing havens. The hoax continues. The strategic political games are fueling the panic. This is an attack on the President, nothing more. Get a pack of Kleenex and suck it up buttercup! He closed off Europe except where his golf courses are. What more could he do?
Turn off Breitart, turn off Hannity and Rush. Very quickly you will see they were lying to you on something so basic. Your safety, if not directly then economically. In a big way. The big lie will be revealed, and you are putting yourself at real risk by listening to these traitors to reason.
Right now there are people who will read that and think it is a partisan attack,but within a week that will be a very hard position to defend. None of this is partisan. The incompetence of our leadership will impact left and right alike. If a democrat was in office and making a mockery of what leadership actually looks like not a word of this would change.
We are down to seven states without reported cases. That should disappear inside of a week. A week ago its detection was isolated to a handful of states. You will not be spared from the massive two year dismantling of our capabilities to combat this threat. It will find you, and you will be face to face with the deceit of the leadership of your movement, the complete disinterest in your welfare. It will not be a gray issue. It will be on clear display, never again to be questioned, a national stain on our public discourse.
Surely a small, very disturbed sub-group will choose instead to be lied to to death. They will literally die for the cause with a rebel death rattle.
But some will wake up. This is going to be the unforgivable sin for many. Inconceivable it would take something like this to reveal to some what has been brazenly on display since the escalator to others. But this isn’t about marauders or towel heads or homos or tree huggers anymore, is it? You are the mark. You are the patsy, the expendable pawn.You are finally revealed for the economically irrelevant flotsum that you have really always been to this administration. You will finally know that you don’t count.
You never did.