1. Coronavirus is not the flu, it is not like the flu, it is not a cousin to the flu, and it did not date the flu’s baby sister in high school.
2. The flu sucks rice cakes. In January 2018 my Wife and I got the flu leaving a cruise ship, and we were trying to check into a NOLA hotel. A nice one but don’t remember the name off hand. I hallucinated. Literally. I thought I was going to die. I might have nearly. Don’t know. We were able to get Tamiflu which kicked it and we were good to go. But the flu vaccine is like the Christian footsteps. You know “that is when I carried you.” People have said you got sick anyway what was the point? The point is without it I might have died. I actually lean towards would have.
Every bone ached, my stomach was a cauldron of festering rage, I was hot beyond any understanding. My head pounded, basically it felt like something was trying to kill me.
So let’s say for some it is just like the flu. Fine. The flu sucks. But for most it is worse than the flu and far more deadly. End story.
Governors shutting non essential work down, and making employers send people home, is a life line to people with comorbidities. Without such measures, many tens of thousands more will likely die.
3. My Grandparents are gone. But I want yours to live.
4. We can fix this economy by going socialist.
5. A few major socialists I am reading about, or at least are begging the government to help them, appear to be Boeing, Delta, and AMC movies.
6. “AMC CEO Adam Aron-”We need liquidity from somewhere.” So do many Adam. See that sign? Follow it, turn left, go to the counter. Tell her you want a “Democratic” ballot. That is D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-I-C.
7. How much would it cost just to buy the bastards out and federalize airlines?
8. Don’t we deserve to lay some caveats? You want OUR fucking tax $$? No more bag fees. No more change fees. No more seat fees, no more check in fees. Basically forget you ever heard a word called fee.
9. Vegas casinos want a bailout? See above. Resort fees? Buh-bye. Urban destination fees Hilton? Nuh uh.
10. Cruise lines want a bailout. I want a Bugatti. I give myself better odds. Look I think they were a major transmission route of this thing. Bailout? Lucky we don’t sue them. The shared recycled air of a cruise ship is highly problematic. Go redesign filtration systems and make sure you individualize cabin climate air flow, if you have not already.
11. This is going to suck.
12. But if you have food, water, shelter, and Hulu be grateful.
13. I miss baseball and basketball too. Then I realized 627 Italians died of coronavirus. Yesterday. I can wait. Still hopeful we have baseball on the TV, not in person, by May. That will seem awesome.
14. Take care of each other. Be kind. The other day a transitioning girl was walking towards me and coughed, and I reflexively pulled my Wife’s hand and veered away. She said “It’s ok I’m not dangerous.” I felt awful. But she was coughing. I yelled back it was just the cough, nothing personal. And that makes me sad. It makes me worry that all this social distancing becomes a habit we don’t break from in an already rather cold world. I hope she knows I fully support her civil rights but it still bothers me.
15. Be there for the most vulnerable. Not just financially. Emotionally as well. Peruse Twitter and read about kicked out children, or disowned heirs, for being LGBTQ. I worry about them in a society that barely spends a $1.50 fuck all on mental well being that they get forgotten about.
But my God the homeless people, the potential toll among them alone will make me ask my God for forgiveness when it is my time just for my generation not doing enough. Sickening, but hopefully, we act and in the future meet the needs of the most exposed to crisis.
16. Call your loved ones.
17. Vote blue no matter who.
Love to All,
-ROC