It’s been almost twenty days since my last posting and I’m getting antsy. The going has been rough, the delay has been caused by a wonderful interaction with the current pandemic special, SARS-CoV-2. I’m not fine, and I am assured, dear reader, that you care so much, but please direct any sympathy towards my wife and two small children. I would have preferred they not be involved or sickened. Not wanting to create too large of a lull in my production, I have opted to send out a nice little status post to maintain my content stream. Don’t I sound just sooooo internet? I think I might be fitting in to these pants a bit better than expected, albeit it’s just jazz pants to accompany a cane and hat tap dance while the real writing is being done in the background behind a curtain. Please don’t mind the extra wheezing as I rale all over the keys.
Jokes aside there’s a more important reason for a post-covid experience post, altruism. I am a healthcare professional, did you know that? Probably not, because I haven’t mentioned it other than tangentially. My opinion is therefore valid, didn’t you also know? I’m also an essential healthcare worker. Are we still using that term, “essential?” Whatever, I am, and I am. That makes my opinion double valid, right? I wonder if it cancels itself out? Anyway… altruism.
Please take care of yourselves. SARS-CoV-2 is not a disease like any other, really. The organized reaction to it has been everywhere from totally botched to completely asinine, or some unpleasant combination of the both. How you choose to take care of yourself is your own business but please do it with fervency and start now. This is America, last that I checked. Do whatever you want, because everyone else is, especially anyone with power. I wouldn’t trust anyone loudly advertising any specific position because it’s my opinion those are the ones most likely to be very loudly trying to dupe a rube like you. Rubes have money, and duping is always profitable. There’s plenty of information about, big companies and researchers alike are writing everything down nowadays so they can prove in a court of law they did their best when they are inevitably sued later. So If your questioning anything... and you should always be, make sure you have a nice piece of peer-reviewed research or data collection to prove your solutions. You can just google peer-reviewed journals now, try it. As an aside, a newscaster or podcast personality, and especially your local political representative is not a peer-reviewed journal. Don’t trust anyone, not even me. Maybe even especially not me.
Do not accept censorship or any group that would utilize such a moronic tactic. You aren’t stupid, and you should assume when someone hides anything from you they most assuredly think you’re an idiot. Their assumption is also that you have no memory beyond what happened five minutes ago, and cant remember the last time they called you a idiot to your stupid face. So remember to keep a long detailed memory of who told you what and when. Twitter just censored the American Heart Association… and Facebook is still knowingly hosting pages for Russian trolls and Terrorist cells in the middle east. I figured I would mention that as a neat little tidbitty signs of the shitty crap times. No, I’m an entertainment writer, this is entertainment, I’m not going to cite it or provide a link to make your day easier. Go read that depressing drivel on your own time. Finish mine first though, if you please.
Get to work, trust whoever your going to trust, do whatever your going to do. Or maybe not. Just be ready to prove the “why” of it to yourself. In finance, they say, “never let anyone tell you what to do with your own money.” Strangely enough they say the same thing in gambling. Synonymously, your life is more valuable than cash, in some circles anyways. Please treat it the same way. Don’t feel the need to justify your actions to anyone. As an American I don’t even give a damn if it effects me a little, just return the favor somewhere down the line when you run into some poor schmuck screaming about flat earths or being sexually attracted to their car. Like we mentioned before, It’s America, Baby. Everything is experimental and nothing works as intended. We’re off label now, and have been for some time. Take care.