Well, looks like the U.S. has given up on the coronavirus. Thrown in the towel. We're in stage 3 reopening, moving fast into the final stage 4, as infection cases surge to their highest levels yet. A lot of people are going to die. But hey, at least it won't be for nothing, they'll die creating shareholder value.
We've left the World Health Organization, because why bother to fight the disease? The President is planning large rallies in states like Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona -- all states where the infections are surging. But what can we do? If he doesn't get the adoration he is entitled to as President, he gets really mad and starts setting up concentration camps for immigrants and attacking citizens with some unidentified police. We don't want more of that.
And, well, maybe it should be expected of a nation so willing to oppress its own people, people so unwilling to share the costs of health care, willing to tolerate thousands of gun deaths a year. Back in the 1990s, we talked about the Pax Americana. And like the Pax Romana, at the heart of it is a culture making spectacle out of violence.
We've left the World Health Organization, because why bother to fight the disease? The President is planning large rallies in states like Oklahoma, Texas, and Arizona -- all states where the infections are surging. But what can we do? If he doesn't get the adoration he is entitled to as President, he gets really mad and starts setting up concentration camps for immigrants and attacking citizens with some unidentified police. We don't want more of that.
And, well, maybe it should be expected of a nation so willing to oppress its own people, people so unwilling to share the costs of health care, willing to tolerate thousands of gun deaths a year. Back in the 1990s, we talked about the Pax Americana. And like the Pax Romana, at the heart of it is a culture making spectacle out of violence.
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto