(This post was updated on October 25, 2021 adding a link to mutation data and adjusting calculations resulting from a transcription error rendering “12,700” as “12,400.” Ultimately this results in the originally-reported 53-minute strain cycle being closer to 48-minutes. -jh)
I keep running into this dishonest, manipulative, and frankly stupid response from the murdering plague-bearers who refuse to do what’s necessary to end this pandemic. (Don’t @ me and don’t bother whining; if you don’t like the description, don’t fit it.) It goes like this:
“Well you’re vaccinated, so why do you care what anyone else does?”
This is a question that really does require quantum-singularity level stupidity to even ask, and a complete lack of self-respect to do so out loud, but it seems to be the narrative the boiler rooms are using to troll the stupid into killing as many people as possible, so since the stakes are that high let’s go ahead and answer the question definitively, then you can just link this article from now on when you run across that puerile, psychopathic, abjectly dim-witted and pathetically gross argument.
I care what anyone else does because I understand how viruses work (at least to a point sufficient to this conversation).
Makes a big difference in your attitude.
See, while a bunch of knuckle-dragging pencil-necked fit-throwing entitled twits decided this was their moment to claim the 15 minutes Andy Warhol promised them, this virus has been mutating. Last time I had solid numbers, between Feb 2020 and April 2021 it had mutated some 12,700 times (per https://srhd.org/news/2021/coronavirus-mutations-and-variants-what-does-it-mean using WHO & CDC data), which bakes down to about one new strain every forty-eight minutes or so. Given the radical increase in the number of cases since that time, I would imagine this estimate is if anything fairly optimistic, and the actual average time between new mutations is probably more like half an hour. That would mean 48 times a day, every day, all day long, we are spinning the chamber and pulling the trigger.
Someone who actually understands these things will immediately point out that probably 12,200 of those strains were self-terminating; they had a failed mutation that caused them to be non-viable, and they died out.
But someone who actually understands these things will also immediately point out that every single mutation carries the risk of hitting the big trifecta: resistant to existing antibodies, far more contagious, and far more deadly. If that combination hits, it’s the end of life as we know it, permanently. IF the species survives, the impact will be immeasurable and will absolutely and fundamentally change who we are, quite possibly thrusting us back into pre-technological and steampunk pockets of innovation at best for centuries.
Every time that virus mutates is another round of Russian Roulette we’re playing with the species because some Muffy somewhere misses her afternoon delight with the pool boy that she can’t have now that the kids are going to school in the living room.
Every hour we take the chance of wiping ourselves off this planet, and the ONLY reason it’s happening with that frequency is because people think they can argue opinion against science. I swear it’s like some of y’all WANT to meet Randall Flagg. If people get vaccinated, mask up, and stay home as much as POSSIBLE – which does not mean “as much as I want,” but “as much as is needed” – the possibility STILL remains that we can get a lid on this stupid thing, even though the chance of actually eradicating it are now very, very slim (15 months ago it would have been easy, if we’d done what we were supposed to THEN instead of cutting corners and letting the plutocrats rush us back to work).
The longer we continue this infantile, suicidal, ego-driven insanity, the greater the chances are that you and I will live to see at least the genuine beginnings of a civilizational collapse on a scale that simply can not be imagined.
And that is why your vaccination status is my business.
What we need, they said, is to get “back to normal.”
As I write this, we’re well into the fourth or fifth “wave” of COVID-19 infections, depending on who’s counting and how. Deaths are on the rise again in many states in spite of increased vaccination.
A few days ago a young black man, Daunte Wright, was shot and killed by a police officer over yet another vague insinuation about registration tags or air fresheners or something, literally a few miles down the road from the ongoing trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd. People are protesting nationwide, with the attendent arrests and further abuses of police power that we’ve come to expect here in the “land of the free.”
Our love affair with mass public shootings got off to a high-energy restart in March, when a man who later blamed “sex addiction” went on a killing spree targeting Asian-American women in massage parlors. Since then there have already been so many public shooting incidents I’ve lost track, and it’s only the fifteenth of April.
It looks like normal is exactly what we’ve gotten back to, and just like the normal we left behind when COVID started, it sucks. Millions unemployed or underemployed for no reason other than that it’s profitable for a handful of oligarchs. Millions without reliable or even meaningful access to health care for no reason other than that it’s profitable for a handful of oligarchs. Millions without access to education, and much of the education they can access deliberately distorted, for no reason than that it’s profitable for a handful of oligarchs.
A nearly extinct middle class. The death of popular leisure. The rise of profit-based humanity, when what you “deserve” as a human being depends entirely on how much profit you’re willing to generate for a handful of oligarchs. It’s hilarious and terrifying to me that just in my lifetime we’ve gone from glorifying the dream of a day when nobody needed to work, to vilifying the idea that any decent person would ever want to do anything but work.
Racism. Sexism and other gender-based bigotry. And of course, always, classism…except some of y’all who thought you were “us” have found out the hard way over the last year or so that you’re “them” just like I am, so now what?
Now What?
Pictured: “Normal” – via YouTube
Apparently for some folks “now what” is “desperately scramble back to the crap we used to put up with, because at least that was predictable and safe.” You may hear me looking down my nose at you but I’m not; I understand better than you think.
You see, this is a common thinking pattern in codependency – families and loved ones of people who are addicts. The drunk or junkie gets sober and then of all things you, the codependent, find yourself thinking like “well jeez at least when he was drunk all the time I knew how to deal with him.” Nuts, but also very real. I lived through it; I know. Was way easier to lift five bucks off the old man when he was passed out.
So I get it. I also get that it doesn’t work and never did and we have to set that nonsense aside now. We’re evolving – in real time, at high speed, and we’re watching ourselves do it and can make choices about how it happens… and into what we finally evolve.
We have to reject these self-serving hypocrisies that we’ve so fallen in love with. We just love to be the heroes in our own movie, but we rarely stop to think that maybe we’re the bad guy…and the unfortunate reality is we are the bad guy far more often than we like to believe. Not only are we the bad guy, but a lot of what we’ve been taught to believe was good about us is bovine excrement. The taming of the wild land and noble savage by the educated European; the grand and sweeping reforms of democracy that were for white, land-owning men only; the common defense that defended the wealthy with the lives of the poor.
We’ve been coming to terms with that for a minute now, especially for the last fifty-five years or so, since the great cultural revolutions of the 1960’s. Unfortunately some of the terms we’ve come to may be as misguided as those we’re rejecting. Wide-eyed credulity has been supplanted by bitter, arrogant cynicism; is that an improvement? We continue to think of our democratically elected governments in “us v. them” terms, and in so doing continue to fail to understand our role both in our government and in our society; we continue to look for someone or something to blame rather than working to solve the problem we’re complaining about. We engage in empty, performative gestures, but then when someone is sincere we doubt and discredit them.
I’ve talked about this in my own field as well, right? The audience clamors for authenticity but not without ten thousand dollars worth of studio effects on it. We want informed and passionate advocates for justice, but then we give all the airspace to the same fifteen voices working for the same six companies that we always have…unless we want to look smart, then we go off the rails and end up in Alex Jones land.
What about any of this merits any rush to get “back to?”
The reality at hand is, simply put, what I’ve been saying all along: we’re evolving. That kind of behavior, all that hypocrisy and self-contradiction for the sake of upholding a public image that probably isn’t as great as we think it is to begin with, all of that doing one thing behind closed doors and saying something else out in public…it’s all going away.
What we are facing is the stark and inescapable truth that these behaviors work in opposition to the “universal ethic,” i.e. the survival and propagation of the species. It does not promote sustainability to continue turning a blind eye to human rights abuses. It does not help preserve and expand the species for us to continue deliberately making life a start to finish terror for huge segments of the population.
It doesn’t serve the universal ethic to invent all these labor-saving devices and then refuse to stop wasting our labor because that’s the habit we’re in and we’ve come to believe it’s the only way to do things.
It doesn’t serve the universal ethic to keep the vast majority of the population subjugated, even if you can con a big chunk of them into being happy about it.
As we’ve discussed previously, anything that doesn’t serve the universal ethic is, eventually, rejected by life itself as contrary to its purposes. This broken, purposeless “normality” to which we’re all in such a hurry to return because we’re exhausted and confused and scared and feel unstable and vulnerable in the face of COVID-19 simply does not serve and must therefore be rejected.
Right now is the time, folks. This is the moment many of us, and indeed many in generations long past, have waited for. Right now it’s in our hands to shape the future. We have that power, you and me, together. The more together we are, the more power we have, and the more power we have the more effectively we can push back against those whose behavior and ideology are hostile to the survival and propagation of the species.
It was always us, man. Not the big rich folks. It’s always been us – “the people.” “Little folks” like you and me looking around and saying to ourselves “no, there’s got to be a better way.” That one simple thought has been the impetus for every advancement in human life since some fifteen-foot-long pre-Cambrian mudskipper decided it was easier to walk over the dry spots than to swim around, and also there’s food up there.
A Better Way
Zack de la Rocha, 2016 publicity photo by Juan Luis Garcia via Billboard.Com
There is a better way, and we can nearly all see it now. The democratizing of information that has come with the information age has made the structures that protected old entrenched power structures impossible to maintain. It’s too easy to see through now. Religion is dying. Even as we cry out internally for those connections and exchanges of power and energy that are often lumped into “mysticism” simply because we haven’t yet understood their science, we are actively rejecting the superficial substitutes for those connections and exchanges. We’re stripping away all the barnacles and remembering what’s supposed to be so great about all this in the first place.
It is a fascinating and exciting time to be alive. I absolutely believe that the things we’ve done in the last 70-80 years, and the things we’ll do in the next 30-50, will define everything about our species for at least the next five centuries.
Philosopher and poet Zack de la Rocha once posed this thought:
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime; What better place than here? What better time than now?
Rage Against The Machine, Guerilla Radio
It’s here, it’s now, and it’s time. A revolution not of arms and battles and the same stupid pointless escalations, but of mind and spirit, an internal revolution that begins, as all true revolutions must, in the mirror of the prospective revolutionary. We’re going to have to get used to the idea that “a job” isn’t gonna be a thing here in another few decades. We’re going to have to lose this ego-driven aversion to the “welfare state,” because the reality is that’s all any state ever is or can be, if it’s to be a state at all. We’re going to have to stop allowing ourselves to be taken in by euphemism and double-talk, without losing the art and beauty of capricious language.
We’re going to have to stop bullshitting ourselves about who we are, and why, and what it all means, and what we’re going to do about it all, because this crap of hiding under our desks and ignoring the elephant in the living room and whistling past the graveyard and pick your metaphor is done. No, it’s not all magically disappeared, but it’s fading away very quickly now. We are literally growing out of who we’ve always been; I call it an evolution. If you’re a pedant and a biologist you might prefer to say that homo sapiens sapiens is perhaps entering its adolescence or adulthood as a species.
However you put it, whatever way you need to frame it to make it something you can internalize, find it. Because this is the reality we’re in, your moment is now, and the fate of the world really is in your – our – hands.
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Screenshot of CBSNews.Com headline. Courtesy CBS News.
One of the headlines I’m seeing quite a bit this morning is former FDA director Scott Gottleib saying we’re “right back where we were.”
That’s not true. We’re far worse off. If we were back where we were, we wouldn’t still be setting new infection records. But we are. It’s not like we’re back where we were; where we were was doing something to keep this mess in check. We were staying home, we were distancing, we were masked.
Now it’s like we didn’t even do any of that, because of these selfish, obnoxious fools who can’t get it through their heads that it’s not “democratic Governors” closing things down, it’s A DEADLY PANDEMIC VIRUS. It is real, it is happening, it is killing people, and our president and his supporters are so completely off the rails they think as long as they stomp their feet and insist this isn’t all happening, it won’t be.
Yes, I said fools. The time for being polite about this has passed.
Worse Than That
We’re not “right back where we were,” because where we were was starting to do things right, and we’re not doing that anymore. Consequently we’re worse off than we were, by far. We’re seeing record numbers of new infections, the death numbers are rising in correlation. And when you take out the places that got hit hard early and clamped down much harder, it’s even worse than it looks.
States like NY and MI peaked early and even if they have a recent increase it’s not too terrible. States that refused to close entirely in the first place and then re-opened far too soon are setting new records daily. Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University.
The simple reality is that we need a relief package NOW. Not a “throw money at them to stop them from rioting” relief package, a comprehensive regular payment to ensure people aren’t dying and losing their homes.
Unfortunately, it is precisely these people who refuse to cooperate that will eventually cause more draconian measures to be taken to enforce masks, social distancing, and the stay-home orders that I’m quite sure are upcoming again. This isn’t going to go away because of political arguments; it’s here until a vaccine is found. I’ve been saying that since day one. It’s not going away just because we want it to. Until a vaccine is found be prepared to stay home.
But The Economy…
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I frankly don’t care much about landlords and mortgage holders at this point. The stock market doesn’t mean anything to me, nor to most of us. That’s low-speed money, it doesn’t really do anything but sit around and be shuffled back and forth between service institutions with no value add. We need money going in to the economy, that currently isn’t, to keep goods and services moving. When they stop they tend to be tough to start up again. We can let the landlords and mortgage holders wait for the moment; that money isn’t going anywhere fast anyway. Right now people need money in their hands, they need to be able to stay the hell home unless they’re essential, if they’re out they need to be covered, protected and protecting. We can work funding for maintenance technicians at rental properties and private property later, it’ll hold for a couple of weeks. Right now, people need money in their hands.
Ignoring this or pretending it’s not really as bad as it seems is killing innocentpeople. We have played enough games with this nonsense. Your anxiety is just one more reason you should be staying home. If you’re not capable of working in a mask, don’t work. That’s exactly why the unemployment extensions and modifications are in place.
We are at high and growing risk with this virus, and it kills. If you’re not worried about that, that’s on you. But as long as the consequences you reap from that attitude are also mine to bear, you simply don’t have the right to impose that on me and therefore you must either voluntarily stop doing so or be regulated by the government into stopping.
You WILL stop putting other people’s lives at risk. It’s not a question anymore.
The virus doesn’t care if we like it. Doesn’t care that we’re uncomfortable, doesn’t care that we blah blah blah doesn’t care. Doesn’t care about our pretense that we don’t “believe” it. What we believe is not relevant to the decision-making process anymore. Nor is what we “like” or that we’re not “comfortable” with.
Dying now.
Dying.
We don’t argue anymore. We shut up and do what we need to do to stop the dying, while we do our best to improve the science so we can understand how to properly get things rolling again long-term in the worst case scenario, that being that this simply does not go away until we achieve herd immunity. At present understanding of the numbers, this entails a minimum of a few million dead just in the US, and the only real question is how long will it take. This is the current reality.
Sidebar: How To Get Herd Immunity
The idea that speeding up infection rates will somehow provide a solution as we magically get to herd immunity without losing a substantial part of the population is nuts. The way you get to herd immunity is when some majority percentage of the population has been exposed to the virus, and it has run its course in them. In the current best case scenario that calculates to about 2 and a quarter million Americans dead in the next fairly short period – year to two years. It means permanent regulation about social distancing, masking, etc. It means nobody will ever be safe and every year a few thousand or hundred thousand people will die of this until a vaccine is developed, people who would not have died otherwise.
That is what people who keep talking about “herd immunity” and “only one percent” and so forth are saying. They are literally saying out loud that they’re willing for a few million people to die for no reason beyond their personal comfort and convenience. Over a period of decades the death rate will slow, but there’s not enough data to predict reliably by how much until, literally, everyone who is not immune to this disease has caught it and either lived or died….and at this point scientists aren’t even certain that immunity is permanent, as there have been multiple reports of reinfection but unfortunately few with any great reliability. One prominent and respected immunologist, Danny Altmann of Imperial College, London, recently characterized immunity to Covid-19 as “fragile” and “short-lived.” So it may well be that there is no vaccine, or that any vaccine would have to be administered on an ongoing basis, probably with more frequency than the flu vaccine.
Do keep in mind that for those who are effected by coronavirus-related disease, “lived” is a somewhat relative statement. This disease does some pretty horrible things to the body, the full scope of which is not yet known, but we have seen what appear to be permanent and debilitating injuries to the lungs and heart, in addition to neurological disorders that may or may not be transient.
Those relying on “herd immunity” arguments are basically saying let’s hurry up and have all those people die so we can be done with this, and we don’t even know if being “done with this” is a thing yet. The argument is sociopathic insanity and absolutely represents a callous disregard for other human lives.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled article.
Back To The Economy
Congress are going to have to find what little remains of their souls and get a relief package through that MEANS SOMETHING. Canada’s model appears to be pretty successful, and other nations are doing well under similar arrangements. Essentially a UBI will be put in place for the duration. My friend Ellis, who teaches macroeconomics, has been saying for years that we would be heading that direction soon regardless. He didn’t necessarily know it would be due to Covid, but he knew we were going to end up in a UBI situation regardless of whether we tried to or wanted to or not. The pandemic just pushes us a great deal harder in that direction and makes the solutions more clear and clearly necessary.
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The pandemic creates a special circumstance window where you can get away with UBI and no job guarantee for a period – a year or so – but that’s not a sustainable model; you have to have one for other to work. We shouldn’t do it at all but we don’t have time to wait for the job guarantee foot-draggers to catch up before we start handing UBI payments. It’s really no exception to the rules or anything, it’s just that we can agree to take on a bit of a long-term hit to keep ourselves alive in the short term.
However, that also means we need to be much more ethical and focused on what that long-term hit will look like, because it won’t be us paying for it. It’ll be our kids and theirs.
You will note that this is the end of this ridiculous “social Darwinism” / “work ethic” approach to questions of employment, compensation, and so forth; this outrageous notion that a human being must do more than simply be human before they “deserve” the benefits of their humanity. Even our best politicians continue to fall for that, if for no other reason than that they know they’re playing to the working poor, who resent the non-working poor oftentimes more than the wealthy do.
(This is a key reason that the Powers That Be, the ownership class, are dragging their feet; we’re going to realize soon that we could have been doing all of this a long time ago, and the only reason we didn’t is that someone wanted to make a dollar on it first.)
The people making the dollars from it definitely don’t want us to notice that, and you’re absolutely right to be angry about it.
But we’re so wrapped up in old-style thinking, even proto-populist Sanders plays these linguistic games, right? “No working American should have to choose between rent and food.”
Excuse me, no, that’s the old way. The new way is no HUMAN BEING should have to make that choice, who cares if they’re “working” or “American?” Why does NOT being either one or both of those things disqualify a human being from having their basic needs met? That’s just wrong, stupid, and insane.
We have the capacity to do it.
So why aren’t we?
Universal Morality Strikes Again
Well, we’re not doing it so we can feel like we’re better than someone, that’s why. So we can continue to maintain a permanent slave class in the so-called “third world” to provide us with enough cheap electronics to stay anesthetized to our own participation in the oppression of others.
Isn’t that gross?
Isn’t it time we stopped doing sick things like that to each other and started working on making sure everyone’s got a fair shot at life? Isn’t now the time to stop thinking of other human beings as expendable?
I think it is, and so do a whole bunch of other folks, and that’s the way we’re going to go whether the oligarchs and their lackeys like it or not. Any other direction violates the universal morality. So that is the direction we will go. We can get there the easy way, or the hard way. Right now the oligarchy is still trying to make it the hard way – so hard that we give up.
But we don’t give up and we won’t give up because survival and propagation of the species is the only universal morality, and when we find we are violating that morality, we will, even unconsciously, act to end that violation as quickly and effectively as possible.
Solutions We Can’t Avoid
The reality that we’re being directed away from is simply this: capitalism as it is practiced in the United States and some other nations is not merely unsustainable; it is incompatible with the universal ethic. It ensures a permanent underclass just like any other top-down economic system; after all, if there is a top there must also be a bottom. As long as that “underclass,” that “bottom,” is beneath the level of not mere survival but dignity and opportunity, it is too low for the species to survive and propagate. Therefore it violates the universal ethic.
Thus, the human task before us is to ensure the bottom is high enough that any person who can be capable of it has every possible chance to be their best at whatever they choose to do with their lives.
That is the only real solution to any of this. We have to live up to our rhetoric, and we have to start right this minute, and everyone has to participate.
If we were doing that, this pandemic wouldn’t be hitting us so much harder than it is the rest of the world, we wouldn’t have these egregious abuses of power that drive people into the streets in protest, we wouldn’t be building statues to traitors, rapists, and murderers. We wouldn’t have a nation of maleducated sociopaths ready to be open fascists, walking around exerting offensive violence when there’s no reasoned or moral basis for their demands to be met.
Then those same fascists turn around and claim that those who exert defensive violence are doing the same thing, because they’re gaslighting manipulative sociopaths and they think everyone else is stupid enough to fall for that deliberate, willful, and ultimately artificial stupidity.
For far too long, they’ve been right.
This cycle has to end, and it has to end today. If it doesn’t end today then it has to end every today until it ends for tomorrow too.
Breonna Taylor’s murderers have not been charged. The accessories to that murder are still employed.
The man who fractured Martin Gugino’s skull is out on bail, along with the only other officer of dozens who witnessed the assault and did nothing.
We still have an avowed and publicly declared fascist controlling the executive branch, and scores of not-so-publicly declared fascists in Congress, to say nothing of a judiciary that has been filled with rot.
22 states still have no legal age requirement for marriage, with parental consent – “parental consent” being a mechanism used for thousands of years to legitimize pedophilia.
8 states still forbid atheists from holding office.
There are still uncountable millions without health insurance – 44 million *before* COVID, and untold millions more since. Health care is still treated as a benefit of employment rather than a human right.
Profit interests still hold power – in some cases nearly absolute power – in our prisons and criminal justice system, our schools, our hospitals, and our elections.
Women still aren’t paid the same as men.
Thousands of police with records of violence, including both domestic violence and illegal assaults of captives, continue to be employed.
Nothing, still, has been done to help the over half a million homeless people, including about 18 thousand unaccompanied, unsheltered minors, in this country – again, pre-covid numbers.
Nothing, still, has been done to help the 38 million Americans living in poverty – pre-covid.
Legal abortions are still nearly impossible to obtain in vast stretches of our nation.
Most states still do not have laws requiring mandatory termination of parental rights in cases of rape.
Hundreds of police officers have walked off their jobs in recent weeks in protest against demands for accountability and transparency related to abuse of police power.
Thousands of pathetic, cowardly, entitled, overgrown infants continue to terrorize the streets of this nation with terrorist displays of deadly force and threat of violence against any and all who threaten the totalitarian oligarchy these supplicant bootlickers think is going to benefit them as long as they’ve got enough guns and MAGA hats.
Oh, and in case we’re not noticing, COVID-19’s “second wave” is happening before the first one was over because these same sniveling lickspittles can’t stop kissing their own asses long enough to grasp what “deadly pandemic” means. It probably doesn’t help that, under the guise of “freedom of speech,” much of the media and even the “president” himself continue to insist it’s not a thing, because if it was they’d lose money.
The struggle, as they say, is not merely “not over.” It’s barely begun. It’s not going to be easy. Some of us may lose our lives in this struggle, as some of us already have, to say nothing of grievous and permanently disabling injuries at the hands of militarized police and white fascist bigots who have, in at least some cases, been coddled by police rather than properly arrested and charged.
Some of us will become estranged (or further estranged) from family. Some of us will end marriages. Some of us will lose our livelihoods for speaking out. I personally have been targeted by fake “Antifa” trolls (and they ARE fake, at least one of them is well known to me and has been stalking me for decades) who outed my home address, putting nine other innocent people in danger of violence at the hands of bigots and fascists who might not like what I have to say.
None of us wants to go through that, and yet…we must. We must because decency and compassion demand it. We must because the very concepts of human freedom and dignity are at stake. We must because until the oligarchy that controls most of the planet is crushed into a bad memory, we are all a moment’s notice away from returning to the darkest of all imaginable dark ages, a world in which all the evils of the past combine with the technology of the future to create a dystopian hellscape that Orwell couldn’t have imagined in his worst nightmares.
“It has to start somewhere. It has to start sometime. What better place than here? What better time than now?”
We MUST keep fighting. MUST. It’s been a minute since anyone in this country had to truly and seriously consider whether they’re willing to risk their lives to uphold and advance the cause of human decency, compassion, and dignity; to wonder if they might just end up being a martyr for the causes of justice, equality, prosperity, and peace.
That time is now. That place is now. We who cherish genuine freedom and who seek genuine progress are looking directly into the eye of our moment in history. One hundred years from now, either this moment will be taught as the moment when we finally decided to start living up to our own hype…or it won’t be taught at all.
The Biden-Sanders debate, the ongoing state of US coronavirus response, outrageous social media trolls (and the people who fall for them), and the nature of authority and expertise. Video archive at https://youtu.be/xBaHGGnXLZ4
Usually on FFAF I try to stay away from the political and social stuff and stick to more personal, light-hearted, and not-the-news stuff, but this week there’s just no avoiding the discussion. I’m afraid I got a little passionate on this one, so there’s more NSFW language than usual; I’ve taken the step of self-censoring to avoid dropping any f-bombs on you if you’re listening with the kids around. Video archive at https://youtu.be/R4rYgAJNW0Y
Breonna Taylor’s murderers have not been charged. The accessories to that murder are still employed.