The Clanging Cymbal has been quiet for months due to the illness of its editor. Not Corona Virus. But a nasty little problem I have had since I was born. It exploded on me some months ago, becoming far worse than at any previous time in my life. Scary because many of the symptoms mimic Corona Virus. However, no fever. No coughing. Not a pleasant thing to have digestive problems.
With that explanation out of the way, I need to address some of the things I have seen happening over the last few months. Where to start?
The Corona Virus has changed our world. With all the necessary precautions in place, many counties in Pennsylvania are preparing to “go green.” No, not environmentally green. Into the Green Zone, meaning they have the OK to open all businesses, with some restrictions. What will life be like?
Changed. Perhaps uncomfortably so. Wearing masks is the new normal. So much so that masks have become a fashion trend. They are for sale all over the Internet, in every color and pattern one can imagine. Are you a dog lover? There are masks for that. A cat lover? There are masks for that. Like tie-dye? Star Trek? Harry Potter? Whatever you’re into, there’s a mask for that. Or soon will be. Ah, capitalism!
Capitalism is at the heart of the US Government’s lack of response to the pandemic. Or, rather, the response that is responsible for more than 100,000 US deaths and counting. The market opened this morning and immediately shot up 600 points from its last close. That should make Orange Face happy.
Speaking of Orange Face… I call myself a Catholic Deacon, but I am very un-Christ-like when it comes to this man. I cannot think of him without shuddering at his total lack of human-ness. Without wanting to call him the most vile of names. Without feeling nauseous every time he speaks. His sycophants are, at this moment, crowing to TV cameras that he did everything he possibly could to stem the virus. If he hadn’t, we would have a death total in the millions. So he claims.
100,000 dead. And counting. This is incomprehensible! This sort of thing happened in the Middle Ages, when medical care for the masses was non-existent. This doesn’t happen in a sophisticated country which boasts the best medical care in the history of the world. We can now cure some cancers, but we can’t beat a wicked little germ which is killing people indiscriminately. An old TV ad used to say, “ You can’t fool Mother Nature!” The ad was right. With the earth in climate distress, Mother Nature decided that we humans needed to be stopped. And so she stopped us.
But, did she? Or, did Orange Face? Did he have something to do with planting the virus in China in the first place? I have my suspicions. Just sayin’.
Things Orange Face has been doing that he doesn’t want us to know about:
Had Treasury tell big banks that they could seize Americans’ stimulus money to repay old upstanding loans they might have with a bank. I am helping a neighbor to which this happened. Thing is, the loans were not hers. They were her parents’. Both of them are dead. Her name was not on either loan, but PNC bank took her money.
Tried to get Congress to cut Social Security by eliminating the payroll tax.
Threatened the Governor of North Carolina that he would move the RNC convention if the governor doesn’t produce large enough attendance figures for him.
Fired the State Department Inspector General. On a Friday night.
And, as Yul Brynner, as the King of Siam, once said, “Et cetera, Et cetera, Et cetera.”
I will stop now, so as not to bore my readers too much. Till next time,
Blessings,
Anne