5/ …me an attribute that may well end up being my undoing. An inability to avoid seeing things as they are rather than as I wish they would be. And an unwillingness to be quiet about it, until silence is imposed on me.
I dearly wish that Donald Trump hadn’t been the target of an unsuccessful assasination today. The country will be far worse off than if he were left to spew his hateful bullshit unmolested. But that wish is liking wishing a new coronavirus hadn’t been unleashed in 2020.
6/ We are all immeasurably worse off than we were back in February 2020, whether we acknowledge that or not. It’s what we have done in the meantime that points to something we do have control over, that cannot be killed off my an infection or a tyrant or a raging mob.
Our character.
It’s what we are as much as who we are. Many have shown how little of it they actually have.
Did you decide to forget all you learned about this virus and its manifest dangers because it was no longer convenient?
7/ Did you gleefully abandon the disabled and the vulnerable to their solitary vigils at home, their stores and churches and even families no longer safe places for them to be? Did you acquiesce in the talk about masks being the scarlet letter of the pandemic, and shrug at the people who would be “left by the wayside?” You may have shrugged, too, at seeing all the yellow stars of David shuffling down the street.
They weren’t like you, after all. You’re safe.
How about laws? Like banning…
8/ …people from even using the only truly effective means of protecting themselves against this grave threat to their well-being? Guess who’s behind a lot of that?
How about the truth itself? Do you at least have that in your favor? Not if you’re referring to a #pandemic as “ended” or otherwise in the past tense when there’s more #Covid out there now than for the vast majority of the days since Feb. 2020. Then you are spouting party propaganda for your own selfish reasons, or perhaps denial.
9/ The time ahead will be, as the days behind have been, one of an endless series of tests. Of society, and of yourself.
Sadly, I am unable to engage in self-delusion—though it at least has spared me a brain-damaging infection thus far. I cannot convince myself that all will be well, ever in my lifetime again. After that, I will not be around to comment, though I doubt there are any great deliverances from our disease-ridden fascist hellscape of a world unsuited for the climate it’s been left.
11/ Your candidate #Joe_Biden will not occupy the Oval Office next January. You had the sinking feeling on debate night, until you convinced yourself that it would really be OK. I won’t belabor the point, but the man is very old to be working and has had #Covid that accelerates dementia (there are studies, and it causes actual brain damage) and he’s not up to the job of winning re-election.
Start your character rehabilitation by acknowledging that and doing something the fuck about it. //
Correction: Burden still has Covid and it is accelerating his dementia. Additional infections will increase the rate of acceleration. Barring radical advances in antiviral therapy replication, and the injury that accompanies it, will cease when he dies.
He is unfit for office. Anyone that has had Covid and does not take it seriously is unfit for office. Covid changes the brain in ways that impair the ability to process risk. Thinking Covid is no big deal is a symptom, not an opinion.
Ed Suominen
J.H.Noyes
No Gods , no Masters! RESIST
Debbie Belair