I feel like we all should have learned something over the past sixteen months of global pandemic but it feels like things are going back to “normal” with a vengeance and with no lessons learned. Over 600,000 dead and climbing in the United States and that statistic has been treated as nothing but a speed bump.
Capitalism sure won out over human life in this round and the pandemic isn't over by a long shot. We need to keep the meat grinder moving at all costs. Fuck the body count, there's money in them thar hills of corpses. All mitigation efforts have been abandoned, while the virus continues to mutate, all so bored Amerikkkans can be entertained while jamming Applebee's down their gullets.
Society is being conditioned to treat a massive loss of lives with nary a bat of an eye. Just wait until natural disasters become more catastrophic and wars start breaking out over drinkable water that has already been bought up by Coke and Pepsi.
The Delta variant and beyond will have kids under twelve dropping like flies once schools reopen in the fall and there are little to no precautions being taken. Where are all of the pearl clutching, “Won't somebody think of the children?!?!” assholes that are always trying to control women's bodies and strip any kind of information from school curriculums? They're only “Pro-Life” until you're here and then you can fuck right off.
I don't understand how people cry about wearing a piece of cloth over their mouths but then refuse the vaccine that would help protect them when not wearing a mask. Some of these dunderheads say that it's out of personal choice but there comes a point where personal choice becomes negligence. I can't drive down the wrong side of the road because I want to. That would endanger the lives of those in oncoming traffic and that is negligent behavior. Vaccinations and wearing a mask serve as the double yellow line in this analogy. Suggesting that vaccines are for the greater good of society won't work because we have become way too selfish to give a shit about our fellow man.
I haven't had a head cold in well over a year and I would like to keep that streak going so I will continue to wear a mask when I have to venture out into the world. Judging from the dirty looks that I get while walking through a store, some people have a problem with that and they can shut the fuck up. I'm expressing my personal freedom to keep my germs to myself and hopefully keeping the germs of others away from me.
People have gone so far as to protest outside of cancer clinics because the clinics still have mask mandates. Hey fuckface, cancer patients have no immune system so there always should have been mask mandates for everyone that entered the building. Last I heard, a patient was attacked for wearing a mask as they tried to go to their treatment appointment. The majority of Amerikkkans have proven themselves to be big, dumb, savage animals.
After years of weakening public discourse and faux neutrality, calling someone dumb when they say something dumb can be met with fake outrage. But we, as a society, should reserve the right to call someone dumb. We don't need to respect someone's beliefs if those beliefs are batshit crazy, hold no basis in reality and could get people killed. These anti-vaccine/anti-mask people are being dumb and very clearly do not need to be respected. If you need proof of this, look up the nurses in Ohio that think the vaccine gave them powers of magnetism. A group of them said this not only in public but on the floor of the Ohio state legislature. The part that really makes my brain hurt is the fact that they are nurses. How willful ignorance gleefully became a virtue in this country is something I can't figure out.
I have lost all patience with these morons and I am all out of sympathy for them, if they do get sick. It's sad to say but maybe these shitheads need to die of COVID or Wile E. Coyote off the nearest cliff before the next mutation learns how to hop the vaccines completely.
I really don't want things to go back to the way they were before COVID. A few months ago, service industry and frontline workers were being lauded as heroes and now it's “Get back to work and bring me my bloomin' onion, you lowly servant.” Maybe your favorite place to go for shitty food might be closed because the employees were sick of putting up with your dumb face and found something better to occupy their time or maybe all of the line cooks died of COVID because there were no precautions being taken in the kitchen.
I guess that's my fault for thinking that a country full of dickheads would actually be capable of learning something from a tragedy when they're preoccupied with trying to figure out the plot details of the next Fast & Furious movie.
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