It was just a week or so ago that I was listening to Jon Oliver remind me about Sheriffs being elected and often running unqualified and unopposed. It was little surprise then when I woke up to David A. Clarke being a complete asshat.
No, I give him too much credit. He is purposeful in his idiocy. He is an asshole.
Among the nonsense this man has been tweeting to his 917k followers is this gem: Not ONE media outlet has asked about George Soros’s involvement in this FLU panic. He is SOMEWHERE involved in this.
No, he isn’t. Stop treating Soros like a damn Bond villain and ignoring the reality that is settling upon us. The virus came from China. It migrated here through human contact. We weren’t ready in spite of numerous warnings and preparatory scenarios on which the president’s team was briefed. The White House did not want to take this as seriously as it was and still wants to compare this to h1n1. This ain’t that.
The lethality of this disease is 10x greater than swine flu and, beyond that, we have neither a vaccine in place or any real awareness of how many people have it or are spreading it asymptomatically. In truth, they are telling people who are healthy not to get tested so we can focus on the sick vs. the spreaders.
Covid-19 is a wrecking ball right now, and I’ve basically come to the conclusion that many of us already have i or have had it. These numbers in AZ seem unusually low (18? really?) and given that we were not testing a few weeks ago, suggest that we are not taking it as seriously as we should. Instead many people are listening to the idiots who tell them what they want to hear. Confirmation bias has become the backbone of the news media industry.
That is making us all less safe.