Mayday

Apologies for the slowdown in regular posting here. I promise more inane distractions about music and pop-subculture trivia soonest. The spirit’s not willing for that sort of frivolity, at the moment.

This all said, I am of the opinion that we could indeed all get through the pandemic in a comparatively timely fashion if everybody just got onboard, but by and large, too many Americans are too impatient, too spoiled, too selfish, too stubborn, too arrogant and WAY TOO FUCKING STUPID to get the message.

As such, the curve will look more like richter scale than a flattening, more people will get sick, more people will die, more resources will be depleted, more damage to the economy will ensue and this becomes our new normal.

Also, please keep your conspiracy theories that the COVID-19 death toll is “inflated" and hospitals are trying to game the system, fudging the numbers for financial gain to yourselves. Ain't nobody got time for that level of bullshit. I’m not suggesting that all hospitals are categorically immune from being duplicitous, but to express that the very genuine and lethal threat of of this virus is in some way "overstated" is profoundly stupid, insensitive and irresponsible on a level that should only earn utter contempt.

A friend of mine from high school is now a medical professional working in a New York hospital. I don't want to speak for her, but rest assured -- by the testaments she’s been expressing, the total engulfment of the New York City hospital system is very goddamn real.

I suppose I can sympathize with those who feel the need for conspiracy theories to help make sense of the world -- but that's a defensive construct. The world is ruled by chaos. Not everything is decided by clandestine star chambers. If you're looking for nefariousness and abject propaganda, look no further than the Trump Administration, who aren't doing much to conceal their ineptitude and corruption. But, again, the COVID-19 threat is genuine, and it doesn't care if people don't believe in it. It's going to keep doing what it's doing, and as long as certain pockets of America insist on being willfully ignorant -- it will stay with us, and the death-toll numbers will rise.