We have all heard that corona virus is spreading racist bigotry like this meme:
Corona virus is not an excuse to mention the anecdotal cases some have encountered…but I persevere. So there I was in the ling for the DMV next to my old UCSD campus and all of the sudden “Achoo!” sprinkled buckshot of a strangers mouth-spray peppered the back of my neck. My neck scrunched, shoulders hunched and my abs clinched. I turn around and an Asian man in his 20’s had his hand in his pockets and his neck moving back from the forward sneezing position.
He sneezed like a toddler all over my neck! Do I blame his parents, his culture? Or should I just kick him in the shin and teach him that I can act like a child as well. Or do I blame shitty DMV people?
No, no. This is not the time for racism or DMV bashing, but yes, the Chinese are known for wearing medical masks when they get sick. Not sure if this was started by SARS or maybe it’s just a logical necessity. “I think I go the black lung pop.” Shit I’ve been living in Beijing for thirty years! A coal mine may be worse, but at least those hard working miners don’t look like sick ninjas (image further down).
In my morning carpool to work a fellow employee guffawed when the New York Times audible said that Trump believes the economy is resilient to the epidemic. Last week my coworker also claimed that he is not happy that there is a contagious virus, but anything that hurts Trump is a good thing.
Chinese government tries to cover this up, jails scientists, places people on house arrest and Trump is blamed? Viral memes claiming to stop being racist towards the Chinese and now the US news media is blaming Trump? Unequal treatment is a major component of racism and it is characteristic in the way or hard working Orange-man is treated.
And let’s take a comparative look at the last big viral outbreak. Swine flu: It was mocked just like this virus has turned into a slew of memes and jokes. My friend sneezes, “Ohhh H1N1” I would have said.
H1N1 was a pandemic and infected “60.8 million (msn)” people in the US alone. Obama waited 6 months (after 1000 people had died) to tackle the issue and added 1.5 billion to combat the pandemic.
Trump only waited 3 months, after 14 have died and proposed 2.8 billion dollars; Old Chucky Shmoomers didn’t like that and claimed Trump should not aid in America’s viral outbreak and said we needed to add 5 billion in aid.
Obama’s reaction was viewed as positive and Trump’s negative. The NY Times went as far as to claim that Trump was slow to respond and because of this, millions of people will get infected and implying that he is the cause of many deaths.
Small pox blankets were nothing compared to this untimely (very timely) accidental (level 4 security lab in Wuhan?) viral epidemic; soon to be pandemic. So China is hurting the news says, but the left news claims that this will trigger a recession and will look bad for Trump going into the general election.
If germ theory had been discovered, maybe the conquistadors would have used viral warfare on purpose. As they say nowadays, economic sanctions and viral attacks are the new nukes (no one says that, but it seems like it could be true). I am not claiming that China let out a virus on purpose, but its effects could have the beneficial results as though they had been. Trump bad for China. Virus bad for Trump. China benefit from corona virus. Oil prices drop amidst arguments and America’s energy independence is faltering.
The unfair treatment of Trump has lead me to see that unequal treatment is letting out a war cry of white middle aged intellectuals, and pseudo-intellectuals, who hate Trump for his policies, whiteness, mean words and prosperity.
“Trump is reaping what he sows and he treats no one with fairness.”
“Yes. It’s time to let the media respond with emotion. It has been fact based for too long. Let the flood gates open. Flood our media with sodium and lets get all the salty anger out in print and TV.”
“I am just saying. Pot calling the kettle black, ya know?”
“Fitting expression, but free press should not play politics, its meant to report politics, not choose a side and kick toddler-like at loud boisterous presidents.”
Either way you split it, Trumper has thick skin here and thin skin there. Trump may attack wildly, or quickly let his beliefs fly, and other times he is lenient (he didn’t try to sue Kathy Lee Gifford for her death threats).
Point blank. A loaded gun less feared than a man staring at the sun loading his chemical weapon. Sinuses, the new AR-15. It’s illegal to sneeze openly. Fully automatic expulsion, those illegal quick rapid sneezers who believe it’s perfectly fine to sneeze 5 time in a row. Not today. We all must wear masks like a facial chastity belt. No kissing, no visible smiles and if I see teeth? That’s basically public pandemic nudity punishable by solitary confinement and hourly Purell sanitizer baths.
Purell hand sanitizer sold out nearly everywhere. Apocalypse of Mad Max and desert roads was way off. Empty roads slick with alcoholic gel lighting streets ablaze as sparks ignite the slick glow of modern day noir streets.
Times like these people wish they all had bidets so Walmart would have to be sold out of toilet paper. Poor souls in our modern apocalypse now have to wipe themselves with their left hand like racist tropes that many propagate about third world countries.
Tech elites slick or sticky in sanitizing gel and the poor with left hands stained with temporary stink palm. Bums sleeping in tents; corona and lice infused. Tent cities a cesspool with a few mutant derelicts with immune systems strong enough to create near impenetrable defenses like musk oxen or komodo dragons.
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