I just read a friend’s Facebook page. In an attempt to look at the bright side of COVID, she was celebrating all of the money she’s saved due to the lockdown and quarantine. Unfortunately, it’s that same money that she and many others have saved that caused our entire economy to collapse, costing millions of people their livelihoods. I know this sounds overly negative on my part, but those lives are very real, and we did this to ourselves. Consider all of the catastrophic and avoidable consequences as you ponder the .000436% of the population who have unfortunately died…
Male lives matter
I just learned today that 90% of those arrested in the United States are men. Men represent 49.2% of people in the United States, but account for 90% of arrests. According to the Washington Post database of fatal shootings, 96% of those shot by police officers are men. Clearly, men are being targeted by the police. We must spray paint our cities, destroy businesses, defund police, and tear down statues to make this right. Time to hit the streets!
The media is making me racist
It feels like every time I check out Twitter, turn on the news, or read the news online, I see video of a black man shooting someone (black or white), gangs of black women beating someone up, gangs of black men beating someone up, black men sucker-punching a grandma/grandpa/shop clerk, gangs of black protesters beating up other protestors (some seemingly on the same side), black men and women beating up defenseless pregnant moms and their toddlers, black men knifing people on subways, or other senseless, brutal, and barbaric behavior. My rational mind, aided by years of experience in this…
Blame it on Big Mask
Who the heck knows what to make of the great mask debate. To wear, or not to wear… that is the question. I don’t know what to think. There are plenty of studies – some going back decades – that suggest there is no benefit to wearing a mask. And how could there be? Nevermind that most of the people wearing them contaminate them within minutes of brandishing it. They let it hang off their ear, put it on a contaminated surface, or exhale toxins into it that were supposed to leave the body but are now primed to…
Desperately seeking racism
You can find racism wherever you want, and the current climate is making racism hunters very creative. Check out today’s CBS News story: White Americans got their stimulus checks more promptly than Blacks and Hispanics Who would have even thought to research this to see who got their stimulus checks faster? And that sums up exactly what we’re going through as a country. The great awakening isn’t that we’re finally going to atone for all of our racist sins. The great awakening is that we’re finally going to stop what we’re doing to take time to find racism in…
Accelerate the spread
Does anyone believe we can stop the spread of a virus? We never have in the history of the world. We’ve developed treatments, and we’ve found ways to contain a spread. But inevitably, a virus is going to travel where it’s going to travel, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it. So, if we agree that it’s going to spread, why are we trying to slow it? When we first became aware of COVID-19, it made sense to take measures to slow the spread as we a) wanted to manage hospital admissions, and b) learn as much…
Trump’s road to victory
President Trump should endorse Joe Biden for President. Since the media and Democrats reflexively do the opposite of whatever Trump says or does, they’d be forced to vote for Trump or just not vote at all. Meanwhile, Trump voters would just vote for Trump, anyway. It may be the first unanimous vote in American history.
Close brush with racism
Whew! That was a close one. I almost gave my kids the polio vaccine, but fortunately I found out, just in time, that Dr. Sabin, who’s credited with developing the vaccine, once had a semi-racist thought. Can you imagine? That’s probably why there are so many racists running around the United States. Do you have any idea how many millions of children are running around with that racist vaccine in their blood? I’m glad I looked this up. Fortunately, I caught this just in time. At least there’s a small chance my kids grow up not being racists. Now…
The racism of low expectations
In 1964, the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, ending the ability to discriminate and the basis of race. Obviously, this didn’t end racism, but it did make it much harder to be overtly racist. Since then, as more and more racists die and are replaced by kids who didn’t grow up learning to hate others for characteristics like skin color, racism slowly dies out. It would be great to magic wand it away, but unfortunately, humans are not that easily programmed or reprogrammed. I’m sure some people grew or learned their way out of racist behavior,…
Erasing (Democrat) history
Perhaps the need to tear down all of the statues and monuments in the United States is because they are reminding too many people of the Democrat Party’s legacy of slavery, bondage, and death. When your party fought a war over slavery, created an organization like the Ku Klux Klan for the express purpose of intimidating Republicans who were fighting for black equality, and tried again by establishing another militaristic organization (Antifa) to once again intimidate Republicans, you may not want people to be too aware of what you did and what you’re doing now.