QUOTE OF THE DAY: In just ten days, we discovered that neither the tampon issue, nor the participation of transsexuals in the Olympic Games, nor the climate emergency were real problems, nor emergencies, nor anything of the sort. They were just fictitious problems, the pastimes of a generation that hadnt known tragedy. — Itxu Diaz, National Review.
Via Ricochet, which has further thoughts worth reading: This crisis will be resolved by truckers running the long haul on deserted highways, doctors and nurse working double shifts in scavenged PPE, grocery store and gas station employees keeping services and food available, utility and telecom workers keeping a strained system functioning, grad students and other researchers poring over data and running countless tests in hopes of giving us an advantage, and ordinary people trying to follow often-contradictory guidance and do the right thing while facing a locked-down economy. At the top, we have leaders whose every move is scrutinized and fraught with potential peril there might not be any good choices, just bad and not so bad. There is no room for our useless media and most of the commentariat. Activists can either pitch in or get lost. We no longer have time for indulging the delusion that they matter.
I wonder whatever happened to her.
“There is no room for our useless media and most of the commentariat. Activists can either pitch in or get lost. We no longer have time for indulging the delusion that they matter.
Fox new regulars have so sullied themselves they’ll forever carry the stench of Corona. There is no amount of backtracking or obfuscation that can rescue them.
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The debate over immigration is over: restriction wins.
The debate over borders is over: they are needed.
The debate over globalization is over: the era of autarky begins.
The debate over Europe is over: it is a geographic expression, not a polity.
The debate over global warming is over: it is irrelevant.
The debate over international institutions is over: only nations matter.
The debate over the Peoples Republic of China is over: it is a menace to the community of nations, not a member in good standing.
Crisis is clarity.
This has been an era of clarification.
Preach it!!!!!
Usually in a local (tornado, hurricane etc.) or national crisis we find each other after a few days- at the grocery store, church or synagogue, school, jobs. We hug, and laugh, or cry with each other. We feel it together. For a little bit we have that heightened sense of being alive, of caring about
each other.
But not with this - this separates us even while we go through it together. We’re in little caves even when we leave our homes.
It’s like 9-11. Afterwards we classified everything as Before or After 9-11. Now it’s Before and After covid19.