Musings on a Friday morning:
You know, as I was driving in I had a few thoughts which of course are not particularly profound but it overwhelmed me in a strange fashion.
This nightmare in which we are living is the perfect example of the fact that elections have consequences. The United States elected this Miscreant to the highest office in the land, as they say so often, and is now reaping the crop whose seeds were sown in November 2016. The level of disaster is matched almost exactly with the level of stupidity, incompetence, and malevolence.
We are approaching 100,000 dead, with many more I would assume having died from this virus but so far and perhaps in perpetuity will never be counted. The disruption to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness is extreme. The ripple effects of this epidemic of both disease and stupidity will last for decades and it will be spoken of in the same hushed tones as we did of World War II, the Great depression, The assassination of the president. History will write a terrible chapter not because of the virulence and Prevalence of the disease but the mishandling and undoubtedly deliberate causation of death and destruction both of human life and of the economy, and thus the existence of the survivors.
Some have written that we are in the second inning of a nine inning game. I contend that we are still in spring training, that the second wave of this disease because of the inability of Americans to maintain discipline, to maintain order, and to maintain a sense of what is best for society as a whole Is not as widespread as it needed to be to contain this process, and that the worst is yet to come.
When the first outbreak erupted in Wuhan and warnings were being issued by competent scientists and clinicians, I knew exactly what was going to happen here. Now I maintain that as the hero of the right, Ronald Reagan once said, quoting Joe Louis of course, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Once this virus enters the rural areas of America which have a lethal combination of lack of tertiary medical care, Numbers of physicians and staff to handle the cases even at the local level, and the general relative lower medical IQ of the population it is going to be exponentially worse than it has been already. If the churches are open, if the if the markets are maskless, if the county fairs and eateries are opened all hell is going to break loose.
I fear for America. The breakdown of society as outlined so magnificently in so many post-apocalyptic stories will occur quickly.
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