*One crucial caveat is that the virus will outlast the summer — everywhere. During the 1918-19 flu, transmission rates fell in the warmer months, only to soar again in the fall. “People thought it was over,” as Apoorva Mandavilli, a science reporter at The Times, said, “and stopped taking precautions.”*

We have to remain vigilant.  It is so easy to get overwhelmed with constant monitoring, wiping things down, washing your hands dozens of times a day.  I just want to go back to normal, please.  I want to go to the DQ with a friend, visit an actual grocery store, just be outside.  I don’t have a yard or balcony or anything similar, so any outside involves elevators and hallways and the main street.  So in I stay.  Humans are very adaptable.  Inconvenience and a bit of stir-crazy versus possibly dying of a devastating illness, I know which I choose.  I am appalled at people who feel it is appropriate to whine and even protest about getting their hair cut.  Good grief.  If they all got sick and died, I probably wouldn’t be that upset, because they are idiots, and we seem to have a glut of those since the orange man happened, but the problem is, they will infect and kill people who haven’t been moronic and are collateral damage, as they say.  You may think you are invincible, but are your loved ones, your friends, your neighbors? And while I may applaud the protesters, I think they would do well to take more safety measures.  Masks, at least.  Some do, some don’t. Same risk to others you come in contact with later.

Oh, looks like a storm is coming. We had a spectacularly fast-moving one the other day, which cause considerable damage, not right where I am, thank goodness. I lost power three times, but only for a few seconds each time.  Happy I had unplugged everything before hand.  I had friends who lost every single bit of electronics and electrics, computers, refrigerator, you name it, in a storm. They were not home to unplug and disconnect at the time and came home to find everything done in.

Haven’t seen the social media yet today, and feeling pretty calm and not angry at the moment. Maybe I’ll just skip it all for a day.  Not like I can fix anything, anyway.  And I am so tired of being angry, and appalled, and in despair.  Stay safe, people.  Stay safe.

What looks like fog is rain blowing past.  Neat. From last Saturday’s flash storm.

A newsletter I get.  A good cartoon by Clay Jones Copyright 2020 Claytoonz.com

Al Sharpton: Responding to the business leaders and politicians who have taken pains to express their support for protesters, Sharpton brandished a sharp tone. “Don’t apologize — give Colin Kaepernick a job back,” he said. “Don’t come with some empty apology. Take a man’s livelihood, strip a man down of his talents, and four years later, when the whole world is marching, you all of a sudden, you go and do a FaceTime.”

Hypocrites abound these days.  ‘Let me put up a nice big banner on my product page, while doing absolutely nothing in the background to give my workers decent wages, health care, and safety materials they are in dire need of during this pandemic.  Can’t be bothered with that, but just LOOK at the big Black Live Matter thing I’ve stuck on my company’s page.’  Looking right at you, Amazon

From my new post page: There’s an easier way to edit posts on WordPress.com.

So, dear WordPress, have you actually used it, because easier is NOT how I would describe it. At all. I am not the only one, either.

I can’t really go out and protest, and I have no clout in any area of life, so this is all I can do to contribute.  Also, I am very, very angry at my fellow countrymen who are making excuses and even applauding police brutality and worshiping the orange man.  Very angry.  Here’s an article comparing police brutality and murders in several countries.

Police Brutality

I have not been out of my apartment, except twice to go to the lobby, since March 11th.  No one has been in here since March 12th.  I have been coping well, with the odd going batshit crazy day here and there.  But now, now I am feeling so stressed and angry and upset at what is going on, it makes batshit crazy look like a field day at a farm, with baby animals and ice cream.  I just want to shout, OMG, OMG, OMG , what is happening to my country?  How many people are loving this.  How many people believe that if you think this is all wrong, you are a libtard and an idiot.  Good grief, how did we get to be so horrid? Such hideous excuses for human beings?  They seem to love calling themselves ‘Christian’, too, although they have no concept at all of what the word even means, let alone what the person it is named after taught.  How did things get so distorted?  How did so many people lose any semblance of rationality.  I kind of just want to crawl in a hole and cover my head til this all goes away.  It will go away, right.  Enough people with working brains will step and and make things change and get rid of these hate-filled, greedy cretins.  OMG, OMG, OMG.

Maybe a bit long, but worth listening to.  About the protests and about the results that may or may not happen.

Protests and Results

And this one is even better, I think. About the white woman who called the police on a man in the park.

Trevor Noah

That seems to be the question, according to an article in today’s New York Times On Politics newsletter.  It says young people are questioning the value of voting, and thinking protesting is a better way to go, because most politicians do not share any of the same experiences as they do, so nothing changes. But one person says this:

Normally, I have been in favor of unions.  My dad was in the steelworker’s union, forget what it was called, and it helped us a lot, with striking for better wages, etc.  But unions can be evil, as well.  Read this: from The New York Times Morning Briefing email.

Seriously, you can be as brutal as you want, you can lie and lie and lie, and the people who you work for can’t do anything about that?  Anything meaningful, like fire you? So your union just gives you a ‘get away free’ card?

I can’t be the only person who sees something wrong here.

From here from last October: https://alphanewsmn.com/minneapolis-police-union-rolls-out-cops-for-trump-t-shirts-in-wake-of-uniform-policy-change/

And have already forgotten where.  It’s about the orange man:

Referencing the video of the older man being shoved down by police, who then lied about it.

“Police in Buffalo, New York released a statement on Thursday claiming that an elderly man who was protesting police brutality had “tripped and fell” in front of Buffalo City Hall before being taken to the hospital. But that all changed when video went viral on social media showing the 75-year-old man had been pushed by police. The unnamed man, who appeared to be bleeding from his ear, is reportedly in “serious but stable condition.”

“Presumably, the police statement is written in the third person so that local news outlets can just copy and paste their claims without attribution.”  Because this is what reporting is now.  Journalists, not news readers, seem to have gone the way of many things we still need but no longer have.  A long time ago, Roone Arledge, head af ABC Sports if I remember correctly, took over and decided that news belonged in the ‘entertainment’ division, which is when we got idiots banter instead of responsible people telling us what happened today. Commenting on what may or may not have happened, joking about it, this is what we got instead, because entertainment requires ratings to succeed.  Now we have ‘races’ in politics, and sound bites, and no one telling what has gone on and who said what and reporting on if what they said was accurate or not.  We aren’t told what happened or who said what, we are told what to THINK about what happened or what was said.  A big reason I do not have cable or antenna tv any more.

Here’s the video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFeewU0HhNE

It occurs to me, I may not have said how to do that.

You have to go to a post and click the edit button then

1. Click on the button (with 3 dots ) on the top right of the post you are editing.
2. Scroll down to the very bottom and you will find an option which says “Switch to Classic Editor”. Click that and you are done.

It carries over to new posts, thank goodness.

From Here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/revert-back-to-classic-editor/

I am at a loss. How can this country survive like this? Does this administration even want it to survive? They seem to be trying to create their own little replica of a place we fought a war against. It is getting scarier and scarier, and no one is doing anything to stop it. What are all those senators for, anyway? Or congressmen?

Spending some time there today. Found this.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely

This is America. We are not supposed to need this. Please vote them out. Vote them all out. Every single cretinaceous one of them. Unless you think Nazi Germany was a good thing, in which case just go crawl back under whatever slimy rock you crawled out from.