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2020/05/012020/05/02

Coranavirus masks as a political statement

I’ve been saying for 2 or 3 weeks now that not wearing masks and gloves in public was a political statement by many of those folks.

Here is an article that says the same thing: Wearing a mask is for smug liberals. Refusing to is for reckless Republicans.

From the article:

For progressives, masks have become a sign that you take the pandemic seriously and are willing to make a personal sacrifice to save lives. Prominent people who don’t wear them are shamed and dragged on Twitter by lefty accounts. On the right, where the mask is often seen as the symbol of a purported overreaction to the coronavirus, mask promotion is a target of ridicule, a sign that in a deeply polarized America almost anything can be politicized and turned into a token of tribal affiliation.

2020/04/292022/09/19

God Bless Costco

Missouri is opening for business May 4th. Whether this is a good idea or not , will be seen. I am not sure what St. Louis County will do as we have been the worst hit county and city in the state. I’m unclear if they even have the option of going against what our wonderful Republican governor dictates.

I received an advertising email this morning from Costco. Maybe they have been sending them out during the quarantine, but this is the first one I remember receiving in a while. In it they detailed their guidelines Continue reading “God Bless Costco”

2020/04/25

Different point of view on lock down

I’m not really a big fan of Bill Maher, but here is an interesting point of view on the lock down from a public health doctor.

2020/04/23

The Liar Tweets Tonight

2020/04/12

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #8,851

yeah I know you did not ask!

Scary fact from NPR article: What Coronavirus Exposes About America’s Political Divide

From the article:

“Right now, a majority of Americans live in just nine states and so are entitled to just 18 senators (less than one-fifth of the total), according to 2019 Census estimates. At the same time, about 18% of the population is spread out over 27 of the least populous states. So less than one-fifth of the nation’s population has a 54-seat majority in the Senate.”

Further down it continues:

“Defenders of the original Constitution and its view of states’ rights argue that the non-proportionate Senate still makes sense, or that it can be amended through the usual process. But a constitutional amendment requires three-fourths of the states to agree, meaning it can be blocked by as few as 13.”

Our founding fathers got a lot of things right, but there are a number of things, in retrospect, they could have done better. This is one of them. We do not want the urban side running roughshod over the rural areas, but right now it seems the rural is doing that to the urban.

2020/04/122020/04/12

Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #2,944

yeah I know you did not ask!

I have two conjoined fears.

First fear: it looks like the total number of COVID-19 deaths will come in lower than the original predictions of 100,000 to 240,000. This is a good thing, but time will tell. Gospodin Trump will use this lower number to tout the success of his “management” of the crisis. The MAGAs and GOP faithful will buy it, believe it and repeat it ad nauseam.

Secondly, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be hitting urban areas the hardest, and especially poor people and people of color in those places. This will result in the cluster fuck of an institution known as the Electoral College electing Gospodin Trump to a second term. See NPR story: What Coronavirus Exposes About America’s Political Divide

If they have a vaccine by then the south of Spain is looking very good. I am sure I could figure out health care options when I get there. I am not sure what the golf situation is in Spain, but I have figured out that most of the golf in Central America is resort golf and very expensive.

2020/04/08

Remember when we had leaders that inspired

2020/04/072020/04/07

Dollars are votes for Fox News

Fox News at one level is simply a symptom of the disease overtaking our country. At a different level they are aggravating and are part of the etiology of this malady. The malady is ultra conservatism. The malady is aggrandizing of Trump, unfettered capitalism, racism and pseudo-religious values. The malady is the denigration of immigrants, other religions, people of color, people that do not fit into the Norman Rockwell Continue reading “Dollars are votes for Fox News”