22 Apr Give me liberty and give me death!
And now for yet another time-out for tongue-in-cheek relief – following on the heels of Jeff Price’s latest spin on the Age of Corona about the ruckus in Michigan and blessed indolence. (That initial post is here. Don’t miss it!). Having read Jeff’s piece, a close friend sent me a link to an equally irreverent feature from The Washington Post by Alexandra Petri.
Yes, I would like things to be worse, please. I do not think things are bad enough, and I would like them to be worse. I look at the number of people who have died in this great state, and I think, frankly, it is a little low. People, if you want to be technical about it, who will never see their families again; people who were not done living; people who cannot be replaced and whose absence will bore an echoing hole through countless other lives — but what is that, weighed against my own convenience and my sense that things should be open rather than closed?
I look at the strain on our hospital system and I think: It could be greater. I see ambulances going past and I think: They are too unimpeded and will get to the hospitals too quickly. I look at the people in charge of my state who are trying to minimize the cost to human life and I say: Why, though?
I am here to make my voice heard. I am not actively in favor of the virus, but I think there might be good people on both sides of this people-virus question. So I am going to assemble in such a way that my leaders will have no choice but to listen and that through my negligence, more people will die. You might say I’m doing my part. Thankfully, at least, the president agrees…
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