We’ve shut down our entire country. Somewhere between 40 and 50 million unemployed. GDP down 13%. Historically disastrous numbers while the stock market enjoys brunch and martinis. All of this for far less than a 1% mortality rate.

What the fuck are we doing?

More than half your favorite restaurants will be gone and most of those people won’t have a job.

When will you get to go to a concert again?

All those people will be out of work too.

Real estate will hit the floor.

Daycare for your kids?

Colleges and schools?

Over 40% of the dead were in nursing homes.

I’ll wear a goddamn mask but for fuck’s sake, what the hell is going on here?

Quarantine the vulnerable, the elderly, the immune compromised. Protect them with isolation and compassion. They are the ones that are dying.

Not the rest of us.

Let the rest of us live. If you’re going to get it, you’re going to get it. If it’s going to kill you, it’s going to kill you. The hospitals were never overwhelmed. Deaths have been dropping so precipitously since April that the word “epidemic” is becoming obsolete. The word “pandemic” is stupid.

Fear porn. There is no reason to be this afraid. Fuck the mask debate. It’s stupid and beside the point.

Far more damage is being done by the official government reaction to this virus. It’s disproportionate. It’s ridiculous. It’s baseless. They’re broadcasting a potentially mandated vaccine with a 1% injury rate for a disease with a .26% mortality rate (CDC).

Gavin Newsom shuts down one of the world’s largest economies with no fucking answer for how people are going to goddamn live.  He stands in front of TV cameras admitting that he’s got nothing. What kinda goofecock is this fuckstick?

Anybody wanna buy a condo in the middle of a bridge?

One of the few good things left we do as a society is send our kids to school for at least twelve years.  Now that is being upended and disrupted so clumsily that our children are afraid of a 0.00032% mortality rate (Johns Hopkins and University of Geneva).  There’s virtually no evidence they they even spread it.

What’s happening here is exactly two things.  The first is wholesale fear and the second is a singular, desperate retail that it’s all one orange man’s fault and everything will be fine once we elect the other invalid who has been the foreman for almost all of it.

It’s fucking sick.

Yes, the virus is real.  It’s not a hoax.  The predicted damage and severity of it was grossly exaggerated to panic as many as possible for financial and psychological advantage.

There’s one more very important thing.  We are rushing headlong toward a vaccine for a virus that has never been isolated, for a virus that is the source of the common cold, a virus that we haven’t been able to develop a vaccine for ever before.  And, the people who would inject you with it will have been paid billions of dollars for it and they will never suffer a penny of liability if it kills you or renders you unable to utter a complete sentence.

If everything works according to plan, you will have no choice in the matter.

Drinks for my friends.