Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 09, 2020

Memo for the White House: By the time “patient zero” shows up, you’ve already had “community spread” for probably at least a month. Just ask Boris!

I’m waiting to see elbow bumping enter main stream entertainment, like maybe a singer will make a pop song about it.

Yep Vlad. The reason that “Every RW accusation is actually a confession” is because the RW’ers are telling us what they themselves would do.

Their “diversity” tends to be what the white, old rich men that bought them want.

Meanwhile, the on the left, there are more people of different religions than only Fundamentalist Southern Evangelical, more Women, and representatives with heritages from many other countries, in addition to those heritages from western Europe.

RW’ers tend to derive their opinions of the Left, by what other RW’ers tell them.

And so very many of the RW’ers are lying about those opinions, too.

Meanwhile. Lemme check an article in The American Conservative…

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Look, I understand people are mad about social distancing and wearing masks, but a lot of people on the Right are losing their minds. Here’s something from a column by Dan Fagan in my local paper, the Baton Rouge Advocate:

The far-reaching, extreme, and radical measures governors like [Louisiana Gov. John Bel] Edwards imposed during the COVID-19 scare represent the greatest challenge to individual liberties since the inception of our great nation. Some of us are reaching a boiling point.

I’d say you’ve boiled your brain, Cap.

This nation was founded in 1776. Here are a couple of challenges to individual liberties since then — challenges that took place right here in our state — that were arguably more important than having to wear a mask when you go out for a po-boy during a pandemic:

Picture (The back of a Louisiana cotton plantation slave who had been whipped by his owner, Captain John Lyon)

Picture (Women at William Franz Elementary School in New Orleans yell at police officers during a protest against desegregation at the school, as three black youngsters attended classes at the school. ✄)

Picture (State militia guard a jail and courthouse to prevent a lynching. Shreveport, Louisiana, 1906.)

So yeah, we have had a few things that were a little bit more of a challenge to civil liberties than the mask. Still, Dan Fagan demands to know: (Whining ✄)

Seriously, what is wrong with conservatives?

Can we not raise objections to masks, social distancing, and the pandemic protocols without making fools of ourselves?

The stories I’m hearing from conservative friends around the country are really embarrassing.

Mask off, if that’s what you want, but please, grow up.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/anti-mask-snowflakes-of-the-right-dan-fagan/

If only the Beatles were all here. “I wanna bump your elbow.” Never mind.

Katie Miller tested positive; trumpy says he was not in contact with her, so nothing to worry about. . . when I heard that, only thing I could say “DAMN!”

It’s all about soul

It’s all about joy that comes out of sorrow

It’s all about soul

Who’s standing now and who’s standing tomorrow

You’ve got to be hard

Hard as the rock in that old rock ‘n’ roll

But that’s only part, you know in your heart

It’s all about soul

William Martin Joel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlR0KElxxVg

Really. An announcement came over the loudspeaker in the grocery store last week, something something “and smile”. We were all masked. I asked my 6-feet-away neighbor how we’d know if we were smiling. Probably Asian Namaste’s and bows come from their long cultural memory of past pandemics.

I’m still trying to get a handle on the humor or direction of this comic. I mean…right now, maybe more than ever, what the world needs is affection. As we’ve seen and already know, there are many more ways to express it than physically.

And while I’m on my soapbox…the whole elbow-bump thing doesn’t really make any sense, at any rate…especially after you’ve coughed and wiped your nose in that area. I used to try to do fist-bumps rather than handshakes before Covid and now it’s going to be a full on namaskar greeting, with hands folded at chest height and slight bow, for me. Altho, I’ll probably just say “Hello” or “Greetings” rather than “Namaste”.

“I’d like to teach the world to singIn perfect harmony. I’d like to hold it in my armsAnd keep it company. It’s the reee-al thing.” (Thank you, Coke!)