May God save us, said the agnostic…
Rev. Joe’s Random Thought #6,139
yeah I know you did not ask!
I’ve been wondering about my fellow citizens for quite some time now. This “wonderment” stems from so many them adamantly supporting the incompetent monster currently residing in the White House.
This discomfort with my paisanos has increased a couple magnitudes when I read that their response to this health care crisis is to stock up on toilet paper. I personally get enough junk mail every day that would have kept my grandmother happy in her outhouse for a month.
It increased even further when I started reading about lines at gun stores to purchase guns and ammunition. I saw an interview of man complaining about shelves empty of his favorite ammo.
Sounds like they are scared to death and shitting their britches.
If there was ever a time when we should be rowing together it is now. This is not the Zombie Apocalypse…no matter what my cousin says!
Coronavirus, are we overreacting?
I worked in Information Technology for 30 years. I was actually on call December 31, 1999. Remember Y2K? Lots of folks felt like there had been a tremendous overreaction to this potential problem. What most people did not see was the 3 years before the change from 1999 to 2000. There was an immense amount of work that went on changing the date routines of uncountable computer programs on mainframe systems. This is when Indian programmers first started coming to this country in large numbers, to work on the Y2K issue. The work was done, and there were very few glitches across the computer world. People then had the luxury of making fun of the whole Y2K phenomenon.
What I am trying to figure out is, are we overreacting to the coronavirus pandemic? The truth is we will not really know until Continue reading “Coronavirus, are we overreacting?”
NYT Daily’s podcast on Coronavirus
The Daily is a 20 to 30 minute podcast from the New York Times on current topics. Today’s episode is on coronavirus, and it is well worth your time. The primary contributor to this episode is Donald G. McNeil Jr. who is a science and health reporter for The New York Times. His explanation of the possible pandemic is excellent.
What scares me is the leadership of this country. I do not believe they are up to dealing with a pandemic, unless they do the smart thing and get out of the way of the experts. That would be out of character for the Trump administration.
We have a president who truly does not understand basic science, basic economics or basically very much. We have many senators and representatives that if they have a basic knowledge of science are willing to act ignorant for the sake of campaign contributions. Trump has put Vice President Pence in “charge” of the government’s response. I would bet a very large sum of money that Mike Pence believes either 1) you can pray away the possible pandemic or 2) a pandemic would be God’s vengeance on a wicked world and well deserved and the righteous have nothing to worry about.
‘Nuff said a link to the story is below: