Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for October 31, 2020

Bleak humor. Not a fan

It’s not Lio in disguise.

He came from “around the corner.”

He might be coughing to cover a fart.

From the September 2020 issue of Scientific American

" Through the early 1800s disease was understood as a sign of moral transgression, a visitation meant to guide an erring population back to righteousness. In 1832, the edge of a worldwide pandemic of cholera washed up the East Coast of the United States … The governors of a dozen states declared a mandatory day of prayer and fasting."

At least they took a more proactive approach than Trump has taken.

In NY’s governor has stated folks & their kids should “Avoid” door to door trick-or-treating.

Weird… he kind of looks like an elephant.

Also from the September 2020 issue of Scientific American.

“In New York, the well-off fled the city for the socially-distanced countryside, blaming the poor left behind for their own misfortunes.” Two months ago (in 2020 NOT 1832) Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) stated that the Latino population is responsible for their own high rate of infection.

The founder of the New York Historical Society stated in a letter in 1832, “Those sickened being chiefly the very scum of the city, the quicker [their] dispatch, the sooner the malady will cease.” Sounds like Trump’s “heard immunity” theory.

So we’ve been here before and people back then had about as much empathy as some people do today. Don Jr. dismisses coronavirus deaths: “The number is almost nothing’.” To me 1,000 deaths a day is not “almost nothing.”

Let’s remember to blame all the victims for not being isolated plutocrats.

Too much covid , ugh