As I sit at home, separated from the world, my heart is sinking. We are led by a narcissistic madman, & are at the mercy of people too ignorant to know experts are not conspirators, but people who know what they're doing. TV personalities & radio hosts & idiot politicians..../1
...and college dropouts who spew their lies across the airwaves to the slavish acceptance of the head nodders, know nothing. Your Facebook friends know nothing. 99% of people on Twitter know nothing. But now, just like in all things in America, everyone is an expert about..../2
...everything. Why listen to epidemiologists who conduct peer-reviewed scientific & statistical research, when you can listen to Susie who proclaims her brilliance about viral outbreaks just before pitching her products from the latest multi-level marketing scheme she was.../3
...too ignorant to see through LuLaRoe or Arbonne or blah blah blah and drive themselves into unsustainable debt. Yes., listen to her about epidemiology, not people who spent their lives studying a very complex topic (And who are not stupid enough to get caught up in MLMs.).../4
...or listen to @ bootycall64536 on Twitter, because that person knows more than experts too. A hint: With scientific topic, if youre not a scientists or reading/understand peer-review studies, but DO understand what some non-scientist says about a pandemic, you're wrong..../5
...the more understandable the explanation from non-scientists the more like its wrong. Ive seen someone on my feed who agrees with me criticizing "experts" (in quotation marks) because THEY didn't undertstand something about the topic that SHE did.../6
...from the very beginning of this, as I watched Trump/Fox/CPAC/Rush et al blowing off COVID-19, the more I knew this would be a disaster. Over & over, Ive told my family the worst case scenarios based on new developments, we all prepared for them, & the worst case happened.../7
...as I see idiots storming places, demanding to end social distancing, I have played this out & reached a new worst case scenario. I wont say it, because I could be wrong and dont want to panic people. But I told my wife today, hoping she would say I was being ridiculous.../8
...she didn't. She said, "You've been right every time. Except its usually been worse than you thought it would be."
We have no federal government. Theres no planning for worst case scenarios. There is no planning, period. And so we are at the mercy of the dumbest American.../9
We have no federal government. Theres no planning for worst case scenarios. There is no planning, period. And so we are at the mercy of the dumbest American.../9
...Trump is five or ten steps behind where he needs to be, and is so caught up in proclaiming his own brilliance - while offering no compassion to the tens of thousands of families whose loved ones have died - & worrying about his reelection, that what NEEDS to be done NOW.../10
...is being ignored.
And so, as the death cult grows, as fools proclaim their brilliance, my heart sinks. I dont know how this will ultimately end. But I do know that this will be a terrible, horrific moment in our history.
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And so, as the death cult grows, as fools proclaim their brilliance, my heart sinks. I dont know how this will ultimately end. But I do know that this will be a terrible, horrific moment in our history.
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