Auntie Dee

By Kira Davis, a freelance writer and Editor-at-large for RedState.com

Nothing about the continued c****a v***s shutdowns across the nation makes sense. It’s not your imagination. You are not crazy. It doesn’t make sense.

I’ve always been guilty of not giving myself enough intellectual credit. I’m terrible at math, I don’t do all that great with attention to detail and I have a degree in Theater – which is useful if you’re looking for someone to to do a rousing performance of The Vagina Monologues at your next dinner party. Not so impressive in any other context, though.

I tell you all that to say that sometimes I see issues floating around the media and I feel like the analysis of what’s really happening is obvious but since the “smartest people in the room” seem to be coming to the opposite conclusion then obviously it must be me who is wrong. Or stupid. Or crazy. Or maybe all three.

And then sometimes I see certain things happening and I think, “You know what? I am not insane. The insanity is in anyone trying to pass this off as reason or logic.”

This is where we are today. If you find yourself stressed because it seems like everything is a contradiction and there’s no consensus from governing bodies on how to move forward; if you find yourself confused by how little you understand the confusion; if you find yourself wondering just what it is you’re not getting…don’t worry. It’s not you. It’s them.

The reason you don’t understand what’s going on in your local government as they deal with lockdown/reopening is because none of it makes sense. You are not the crazy one.

In California Governor Newsom, alongside his mayoral counterpart in Los Angeles (Eric Garcetti) has released an impossible and bizarre list of do’s and don’ts for opening back up, with each location differing as to how far the restrictions are pushed. You can walk on the beach but you can’t touch the sand. You can surf but not swim. You can jog but not sit. You can bike but not skateboard. You can’t have a group picnic in the park but you can go to Walmart. You can go to Walmart but you can’t go to your locally owned toy store. You can stand shoulder to shoulder outside the chains blocking the playground and stare at the empty basketball hoop but you can’t stand underneath the basketball hoop. You must maintain six feet of distance and wear a mask but 60,000 homeless people are still sleeping and defecating on top of each other with no masks and zero distance. You can sleep on the beach if you’re homeless but you can’t set one foot on the beach if you’re a a taxpayer. Even as Newsom begs for Trump to authorize millions in federal aid to the state for those all-important, coveted PPE the state of California has already sent New York City thousands of spare PPE as well as ventilators.

It makes zero sense even if you’re on the “harsh lock-downs” side of this fence. None of this contains any logic and certainly not any science…or SCIENCE as Newsom says. You can justify it as the powers-that-be knowing more than we do but you don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to figure out that there can’t possibly be any difference in contagion risks between surfing and swimming. You don’t have to take their word for it. It’s pretty obvious right on its face and you’re no dummy for noticing.

Florida opened back up nearly eight weeks ago and despite the dire predictions from the media they’ve seen a steady decline in C***D cases and deaths – all this while housing a large senior population. All of the incoming research and data has suggested that outdoor spaces in the heat and sunshine are ideal for k*****g the v***s and weakening its contagious qualities. Yet instead of the story being portrayed as a positive development with many earned kudos to Florida, the media has doubled-down on their doom and gloom, predicting flares in a month, in August, in the fall, when winter hits…the timeline isn’t clear but it’s coming…probably…so don’t get excited that people aren’t dying. We should be so happy that C***D isn’t k*****g people in Florida at the predicted horrendous rates but instead this has turned into some kind of weird publicity battle.

Zero sense.

In the beginning Dr. F***i scolded us repeatedly for wearing and hoarding masks. They were declared useless for regular people outside of a hospital setting. Folks were shamed for wearing them out, as if they’d stolen them directly from the pocket of a crippled, dyslexic, l**t, minority, single mother with 8 children and 30 rescue cats at home. Weeks later we were being shamed for not wearing masks, and ridiculed for even suggesting they don’t do much to help anyone who isn’t immunoc*********d.

Zero sense.

Take this medicine; don’t take that medicine; take them together; don’t ever take them together; forget all medicine we just need a v*****e; we need a treatment alongside a v*****e; we need ventilators; ventilators are unhelpful and might make the problems worse…there is no end to the confusion and contradictions.

That is because there is no sense or reason to any of it anymore. The reason you can’t make heads or tails of any of this is because this beast has no head and no tail. In fact, it’s just a giant, exposed ass at this point.

You’re not crazy. The lock-down/reopening procedures are random and illogical. They are insane and when the you finally recognize the insanity as what it is, the only choice is to ignore the insanity and let logic start guiding you, no matter what your wanna-be tyrant mayor or governor is saying.

Use your noggin. It works just fine.

GoCubs Loc: Earth

By Kira Davis, a freelance writer and Editor-at-large for RedState.com?.... Nuff said.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Listened to a virologist on T.V. Day today that kids not going back to school was the most dangerous thing we can do to the elderly. His thinking is that most kids aren’t effected by this v***s and many are asymptomatic and will build up natural anti-bodies. By keeping the young quarantined you don’t let them build immunities.

Rose42

Not quite. Much of what she says is true. If one pays attention this is how news is reported now - not just for the v***s.

son of witless

This makes perfect sense. You are looking at it from the wrong point of view. The point of these Byzantine rules is control, control, control. When you accept that, a bolt of lightening will appear, and all will be clear as crystal.

Not everything could be shut down. Grocery stores had to stay open. Then all businesses such as trucking that support grocery stores had to stay open. Then you get into what I would call semi groceries. Giant Retailers, convenience stores, etc. Because they have a grocery component they got to stay open.

After all of this it gets murky, and this is where favored businesses got to be considered essential. i think these were businesses with some clout. So what about the businesses with out clout ? Beauty Salons, Gyms Restaurants, Bars etc. Well the peons must be brought to heel, taught to obey their masters. Somebody must be the example.

Churches proved after a struggle that even in our Atheist Modern Day, they had enough friends and power to resist the Democratic Governors. Not as much power as say 50 years ago, when Democratic Governors would not have even dared to screw with them, but just enough to survive.

I would suggest that in the future all of the nonessential businesses need to organize so that they can afford to buy their state politicians. That way during the next Plague they too will be able to get most favored nation status, or essential business status.

solarkin

The sheep outnumber the wolves .
maybe ,in the end it will be a good thing .
politicians make poor wolves .

son of witless

They make good hyenas.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Need more sheep dogs.

Smedley_buzkill

I suppose someone from Mother Jones is more credible?

Smedley_buzkill

They make better weasels.

son of witless

Are we playing, can you top this ? Well yes I can. Rats. Beat that.

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

Not at all. Other than the v***s is real, everything else is a plot to grab control and power from sheep like you. Answer this. Why is it 6 feet and not 8 feet or 4 feet? You'reso intent to k**l yourself by weakening your i****e s****m to an unusable extent. I'd like to know before you are dead.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

He won't answer direct questions. Just likes to piss and moan and point fingers. Then lie about being a moderate. I'd like to know why, if this crap is as contagious and deadly as they say why haven't the homeless populations of L.A. and San Francisco been devastated? These people are unhealthy to begin with.

GoCubs Loc: Earth

I don't know why it is 6 feet instead of 4 or 8. And I got the weakening your i****e s****m stuff the first 20 times you posted it. No need to remind me in the future. I've heard you.

GoCubs Loc: Earth

The homeless populations in LA and SF haven't been devastated, as you seem to wish them to be, because they were humanely and wisely given hotel/motel rooms in order to prevent just that. Do you never watch or read the news? That's been reported for over three weeks now.

As I remember, you claim to be a moderate as well, which you clearly are not. By the way, please clear this up for me because the way you worded it was confusing to me. When you created your post a few days ago asking if anyone knew anyone who has died of CV-19 because you didn't know anyone who had, were you implying that this crap isn't really k*****g as many people as the numbers reported? A h**x? You also intimated that almost all who die are old. Does that mean the elderly's lives don't matter? Do homeless people's lives not matter either? Or are you disappointed that you don't know anyone who has died from it? I couldn't tell. Please clarify.