The governor of our state actually did the sensible thing that he should have “bit the bullet on” weeks ago and issued an executive order mandating that all schools in the state stay closed for the rest of the academic year. Naturally, we have no shortage of numpties on his social networking pages commenting with varying levels of distaste on this… in the midst of a global pandemic with a 4.1% mortality rate taking into consideration all fifty states. I mean, comparatively speaking, there aren’t this many actual numpties (or at least I would hope not), even though they seem like they are a lot louder than they actually are concentrating themselves on things like his Facebook page, shrieking like nearly actual banshees. Some of them are going so far as to deny that we are in the midst of an actual global pandemic, comparing this to the common cold or the flu, screaming about how we need to “bring the economy back to life” (with what? actual skeletons? okay, those of us who can work can go back to work, at the cost of human lives, and then we’ll all be dead, because of the economy, when this thing absolutely ravages us, all because you would not listen to actual scientists), insisting that “only the sick need to stay at home, and us healthy folks can go out and go back to work”… okay, forget how you healthier folks, you folks who can stay asymptomatic for up to fourteen days can literally bring it to our doorsteps. Can my estate sue you if you kill me? I think I’d like it to… if you kill me.
This has also brought the anti-vaxers out in full force whenever a potential, possible vaccine for the coronavirus is brought up. At one point I actually responded with, “my family will keep our vaccines, yours can keep natural family planning,” to a Catholic who invoked “the Nuremberg clause” in an actual conversation. This same Catholic also claimed to have taken many science courses along with his wife, tried to flaunt degrees, and was also apparently anti-vax. This did not surprise me given that they were Catholic.
(Strange fact: Bub’s paternal grandmother tried to “justify” me getting an IUD after his birth as “it’s not a sin because she’s not Catholic” after, for some strange reason, Bub’s father saw fit to tell her that I had gotten one. After she had a tantrum over it, which he… saw fit to tell me about. I was far more annoyed that he saw fit to have this conversation with his mother, and to tell his mother something that never should have been brought up in conversation with her. But it never wound up mattering, because I never became Catholic, no one in my family unit never became Catholic [and will never become Catholic insofar as it requires my consent], and Catholic doctrine has never mattered to me and will never matter to me for as long as I live.)