What I take from your version of events is that China isn’t to blame for anything. The US f’d up by mistaking the global acid trip for reality and reacting to the hallucinations instead of ignoring them. Too late now, we have to blame someone, and if we can stir together some ethnic slurs along with the accusations, the rubes will fall for it hook, line, and sinker. It might not help anything, but we sure feel a lot better about ourselves when we have somebody to hate.
]]>I’m new to all the drama, but based on your post, I’m guessing that you were spot-on the first time around and maybe should have quit while you were ahead. Implicit in gushing over “first responders” (to what – a 911 call? “Help! I’m being attacked by the Shanghai Shivers!?”) or health care workers or any other of that mantra-spewing jive is implicitly agreeing that all those people who make your Las Vegas enjoyment possible are worthless and unnecessary. You can’t have it both ways. All workers are essential, period. Of all the misery you see now, less than one-half of one percent is due to actual pathology and the other 99.5+% is due entirely to sending the “non-essentials” home for just a couple of weeks, nevermind nearly two months. That tells anyone with a modicum of intelligence that they aren’t “non-essential,” and never were.
The overwhelming majority would have been far better off these past several weeks had all the first responders, doctors, nurses and hospital staff been sent home with no paycheck, to be slowly phased back in at the government’s leisure, and everyone else been allowed to stay productive at their jobs.
For every tale of harrowed health care workers who were – God forbid – forced to do their jobs, I can show you five empty hospital wards, five empty emergency rooms and ten tiktoks of HCWs with absolutely nothing to do, wasting medical gear and hours of productive time choreographing horrible dance numbers. I lost count of the T&A pics of HCWs on social media desperate to kill time trying to get through a ten hour shift outnumbering patients 2 or 3 to 1.
Meanwhile, thousands of hospitality workers have no way to pay their rent and may not work again for months or years because state and local governments trapped themselves into this pandemic theater for no reason whatsoever other than to let the misery get dialed up to the max to protect their positions by desperately, falsely demonstrating that their draconian stupidity is responsible for the fading and ultimate disappearance of WuFlu that would have happened just the same, and likely much sooner, had they done absolutely nothing at all.
]]>Thank you. In my earlier comment, I said an unfortunate thing or two about the fallout being the same one way or the other. That was an idiotic thing to say, and I ask forgiveness from the doctors, nurses, responsible leaders, and everyone else who is putting all they got into seeing this through. I’m sorry I wrote that.
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