{"id":43896,"date":"2020-03-19T06:47:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43896"},"modified":"2020-03-19T06:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T11:47:07","slug":"43896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=43896","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“Don\u2019t let them put the mask of reasonableness back on.
\nThese are not reasonable people.
\nThese are not<\/strong> patriotic Americans.
\nThese are certainly not \u201csmart\u201d people.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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Coronavirus Inspires Clowns to Self-Identify.<\/a><\/p>\n

A series of grumpy thoughts.<\/i><\/p>\n

The other day, I was mostly amused by the newly popular charge of bigotry that was zipping around Twitter. Lefties gonna lefty, right?<\/p>\n

Now, however, I’m legitimately\u00a0angry<\/b>\u00a0that this bullshit is still being spread. Are we\u00a0really<\/b>\u00a0doing this? Are we\u00a0really<\/b>\u00a0treating pro-CCP propaganda as legitimate? We’re talking about a government that\u00a0right now<\/b>\u00a0is frog-marching its ethnic minorities into concentration camps. We’re talking about a government that muzzled its own doctors when they attempted to sound warnings\u00a0last fall<\/b>\u00a0about this emergent disease — and a government that rejected offers of US aid.<\/p>\n

Obviously, this should not blow back on ordinary East Asian people. It’s not their fault the Chinese government is evil. But take care in your zeal to appear unprejudiced that you don’t cover up the truth:\u00a0COVID-19 originated in China. The Chinese government then tried to cover it up, which permitted the virus to spread beyond Chinese borders.<\/b>\u00a0If you’re actually buying into the narrative that calling this disease the Wuhan Virus or the Chinese Virus is racist, you’re a dupe at best — and the rest of us are absolutely within our rights to flip you off and call you names.<\/p>\n

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Also, I’m a little confused: What\u00a0exactly<\/b>\u00a0was Trump supposed to do weeks ago? Because I guaran-damn-tee that if he had been aggressive any earlier – if, for example, he had restricted foreign travel\u00a0before<\/b>\u00a0the panic set in – his detractors would’ve complained about his xenophobia.<\/p>\n

Yes, the feds were slow to respond. But how much of that was Trump, how much of that was the bureaucracy and its standing regulations, and how much of that was a lack of reliable data? We must carefully tease out\u00a0all<\/b>\u00a0sources of error; tarring Trump alone with the blame is the simpleton’s response.<\/p>\n

There are many things the administration is doing right now that are sound reactions to the situation. Pushing back the tax deadline? Yes, good idea. Allowing people to consult with their doctors remotely? Also a good idea. Bringing in private-sector partners to distribute more test kits to the public? Excellent! Devolving some of the responsibility to state and local governments? Eminently constitutional — despite what a certain idiot at the Bulwark thinks.<\/p>\n

The roll-out of all of this was not without its hiccups, but try to have some perspective. There are very few countries who are dealing with this pandemic 100% successfully. Actually, most of Europe is doing much,\u00a0much<\/b>\u00a0worse.<\/p>\n

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ETA:\u00a0<\/b>I’m kicking myself for forgetting this, but all y’all Twitter socialists posting galaxy-brained hot takes about our temporarily empty grocery aisles can kindly STFU. Yes: a capitalist nation in a crisis looks like a socialist nation on any random Tuesday. By Jove, you’ve got us!<\/p>\n

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Lastly, if you’re reading this, you probably know this already, but: you can’t trust\u00a0anything<\/b>\u00a0the mainstream media report. They lie\u00a0routinely<\/b>\u00a0about everything Trump and his surrogates say; indeed, in just the past few days, the media have spread rumors about a national quarantine (false)\u00a0and<\/b>\u00a0have claimed that Trump told states looking for respirators that they were on their own (also false). So for heaven’s sake, double and triple check anything alarming you hear on the news before you go off half-cocked — because the probability approaches one that if it sounds scary, it’s been purposefully distorted.<\/p>\n

Stay calm, stay alert, and God bless you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Don\u2019t let them put the mask of reasonableness back on. These are not reasonable people. These are not patriotic Americans. These are certainly not \u201csmart\u201d people.” Coronavirus Inspires Clowns to Self-Identify. A series of grumpy thoughts. The other day, I was mostly amused by the newly popular charge of bigotry that was zipping around Twitter. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43906,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896\/revisions\/43906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}