working for ‘exposure’ has taken on a whole new meaning

“Very Amer­i­can to de­cide we are bored with COVID and there­fore it is over”
—Jeff Kasanoff

Sub­tle dif­fer­ence in fram­ing but there’s a rea­son the moral ques­tion they’re ask­ing is:

a.) Should we sac­ri­fice lives to save the econ­o­my?

And not:

b.) Should the rich sac­ri­fice their for­tunes to save lives?

— David Lo Pun-ch Nazis (@helpmeskeletor) April 11, 2020

“Pret­ty soon, as the coun­try be­gins to fig­ure out how we ‘open back up’ and move for­ward, very pow­er­ful forces will try to con­vince us all to get back to nor­mal. (That nev­er hap­pened. What are you talk­ing about?) Bil­lions of dol­lars will be spent on ad­ver­tis­ing, mes­sag­ing, and tele­vi­sion and me­dia con­tent to make you feel com­fort­able again. It will come in the tra­di­tion­al forms – a bill­board here, a hun­dred com­mer­cials there – and in new-me­dia forms: A 2020–2021 gen­er­a­tion of memes to re­mind you that what you want again is nor­mal­cy … The need for com­fort will be real, and it will be strong. And every brand in Amer­i­ca will come to your res­cue, dear con­sumer, to help take away that dark­ness and get life back to the way it was be­fore the cri­sis. I urge you to be well aware of what is com­ing.”
—Julio Vin­cent Gam­b­u­to, Pre­pare for the Ul­ti­mate Gaslight­ing*

 

You’re all in­tel­li­gent enough to re­al­ize any dates your “rep­re­sen­ta­tives” tell you with re­gards to any sem­blance of nor­mal­cy re­turn­ing to every-day life is lit­er­al­ly just to pan­der to your whin­ing bull­shit about when coun­ties or states should “open back up” an­oth­er phrase I can’t be­lieve I have to hear .…

Covid-19 is hor­ri­ble.

It’s not a vam­pire that has to be in­vit­ed in be­fore cross­ing the thresh­old of your earth­ly ves­sel … or your grand­mas or anyone’s.

The dates haven’t meant any­thing and they will nev­er mean any­thing.

You could have been and can still be do­ing the best you can to flat­ten the got­damn curve by ex­er­cis­ing cau­tion and hy­giene like you should have been your whole got­damn life.

 

—blu

Flom­mist Blu is an enig­ma. A metaphor wrapped in an al­le­go­ry. ‘I am Jack’s colon. If I get can­cer, I kill Jack.’ Copy­right © 2020 mech­a­nizzm. Foto source.

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