Posted on 04/27/2020 8:29:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan
For a brief season in time, we glimpsed from the awful epidemic what was wheat and what was chaff, what was mahogany beneath and what a scrapped thin veneer above, who were the V8s and who the mere gaudy, tail fins—and how America ultimately got by and how it almost didn’t.
“War is a violent teacher.”—Thucydides
Before this virus has passed, those of the New York Symphony, like the defeated Redcoats at proverbial Yorktown, will be playing the real “The World Turned Upside Down”:
And then strange motions will abound.
Yet let’s be content, and the times lament,
you see the world turn’d upside down.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
“Our” virus Victor?
Do you have a Pangolin in your pocket?
VDH is, as usual, very observant. But I’m afraid the only ones who will learn a lesson from this are the ones who already knew it intuitively. The left will “learn” its own lessons ...
Normal folks look at the virus as a disease.
The Left looks at it as a weapon.
Just wait til we have a REAL PANDEMIC!
LOL...a new shibboleth! I'm a proud "Lysol Drinker"!
Or are you just trying to social distance from me?
The Chinese Virus is not the problem ... it’s the fear and the deadly overreaction by politicians and “The Experts” that is the “violent teacher”.
No, he’s just happy to be six feet from you.
Yeah, it will be like the boy who cried wolf.
And some see it as a big glittering Christmas tree. I was in a Walmart last Saturday, it was almost like Black Friday. People brought their stimulus checks and the store ran out of cash. Electronic sales were intense. Lockdown is so much easier with a big tv!
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