American Epidemic
it is time to discuss the latest in far-right
insane-in-the-membrane conspiracy theories,
the sort of inane nonsense that, unfortunately,
too many idiots, including our own president,
actually listen to because they have never
gotten their immunity shots against bullshit.
The (Chinese) corona-virus was manufactured
in a lab and weaponized to attack America.
The evidence? It happened during trade
negotiations between our two nations—that,
and the fact that it started over there, and you
can’t trust those sneaky, slant-eyed bastards.
And be prepared to hear this bogus argument
ramp up as we near the election because if
China ‘attacked’ us, then Trump becomes
a ‘war-time president’ and according to some
folks, you should never not re-elect a war-time
president while he’s fighting the good fight.
The main reason for this conspiracy is that
it deflects the blame towards the Chinese
instead of Trump who screwed this thing up
at every turn, declaring the virus a Democratic
‘hoax’ meant to bring down his administration,
or saying that it’s no worse than the seasonal flu.
Which delayed our response by two months,
during which time the virus rant rampant across
our population unchecked, the death-dividends
of which we are witnessing a month later:
thousands dead, tens of thousands sick, and
and a medical system on the verge of collapse.
Had ‘He-who-shall-not-be-educated’ not stupidly
dismantled the pandemic task force, or not
defunded the CDC, or listened to the experts,
foreign and domestic, the wealthiest nation
on earth would have been in a position to fight
this affliction which has brought us to our knees.
Occam’s razor says the simplest explanation
is the most accurate, and the basic, blade-edge
truth is that ‘he’ is an ignorant bloviator who
cares more for money and fame and power
than people. He does not consider himself a
public servant; he thinks the public serves him.
That is why the virus has taken us by ‘surprise’
not because we didn’t see it coming, but because
‘he’ refused to acknowledge it, much like the
Chinese government, and isn’t it funny that
such minds—who care only about power and
appearances of control—think so much alike.
Not to mention that there are thousands of
corona-viruses out there, so you don’t have to
manufacture them; and it didn’t just attack us
but every nation on earth; and every hundred
years, a plague wipes out millions, going back
to ancient times—but who needs actual facts.
Thus, the real plague is not viral, or bacterial,
or material, but political—the insidious sickness
of far-right-wing-radio, Fox-news-fueled, vote
Republican-party-or-die Trumpist bullshit that
spreads unchecked through the tunnel-visioned
echo-chamber of ignorant America like a disease.
It will destroy us long before the Chinese, or
the Russians, or the Democrats, for the Great
Political Divide has been cracked open like a
gash in the earth, separating our nation between
those who know facts and those who know Fox,
and never the twain shall meet until we’re dead.
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