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Come screaming for tribute, go out on your back
I haven't slept for two days because I am in the kind of pain that could be amended if it were possible to visit my PT, but it's not. If our statewide infection numbers are just now beginning to plateau, I feel like May 18 is a very optimistic reopening date indeed. I was really enjoying not having to yell at my governor on the regular, but I don't understand why he thinks a week and a half of mandatory masks will be enough of a game-changer. We don't yet have comprehensive testing and tracing in place; we may be at the forefront of antibody research, but that doesn't mean we have the data in hand. We need weeks of steadily downward trends, not days. I hope the pro-infection astroturf ("LARPing ammosexuals") is not factoring into Baker's calculations: they are a falsely boosted minority and I am sick of my right to survive counting less than others' right to destroy. Frankly, I'm expecting a bloom from all those bare-faced people screaming in front of the state house. A pandemic is not a morality play; consequences are not confined to bad actors. Death dances away with all in the end, but there are some people I wish would cut to the head of the line. Meanwhile the man in the White House shoots craps even with the lives of his supporters because he can't get reelected if the economy tanks, whereas mass murder of his own citizens is much more negotiable. When I said in February that I was afraid of a Holodomor, it wasn't a request. Vampires of capitalism is such an obvious metaphor and such a tricky one to get right (anti-Semitism is a popular failure mode), but what else am I supposed to think when the rich offer up the poor to a plague to maintain themselves at the top of the food chain? It's an insult to nosferatu, is what it is.
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I do love "LARPing ammosexuals" as a description (even if I can't follow the link - it blocks Europeans). I've personally been nurturing a theory that they're so dedicated to the Second Amendment because it's the only way for them to expose their sexual fetishes* in public.
*Fetish in the physical rather than psychological sense.
ETA: In googling to see if I could find another link, I did come across someone describing them as "Y'all Qaeda", which is almost as good.
Survey on what UK government priorities should be post-pandemic:
Invest more in the NHS: 39%
Pay key workers more: 18%
Continue with Brexit: 17%
Invest more in the social care sector: 5%
(a third of coronavirus deaths have been in care homes)
Reduce taxes on businesses 5%
Reduce taxes on the wealthy 3%
Hold another Brexit referendum 2%
From which I conclude that 17+2% have lost all sense of proportion, and 5+2% could teach Nosferatu a thing or two.
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Thank you. It has actually improved somewhat as of this afternoon, but I am happy to accept those hugs.
*hugs*
I do love "LARPing ammosexuals" as a description (even if I can't follow the link - it blocks Europeans).
Region-coded home media is nonsense enough; region-coded newspapers are just stupid. Context is a group of chefs in Greensboro, North Carolina inspired to cook for COVID-19 health workers as a way of showing their appreciation, especially after witnessing the aggressive behavior of a reopening rally:
"'I was furious,' [Matt] French told YES! Weekly. 'Heroes putting their lives on the line were being verbally assaulted by LARPing ammosexuals and shrieking Haircut Hannahs.'"
They call it the Stone Soup Project, which I also like.
From which I conclude that 17+2% have lost all sense of proportion, and 5+2% could teach Nosferatu a thing or two.
Yikes.
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So do I. And good for them!
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