Some of this will be truthiness, then we shall commense nonsense with some truthiness mixed in.
Truthiness is like truthfulness except the exact opposite. It is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
Just like CNN, the New York Times and Washington Post operate today.
Truthiness was coined by Stephen Colbert, who I think is hilarious but far left so I no longer watch or listen. I just steal from him without compensation to give lefties a taste of their own medicine. As this church did.
Good for that church. I want to worship there if I can find it just to annoy lefties even more.
Lewis Grizzard embraced his version of truthiness before the term became a thing. As in. "Don't let facts get in the way of a good story."
I will not get bogged down comparing this coronavirus with the flu. Just look up the flu. It kills tens of thousands annually yet rarely makes the news.
I am 62 and seemingly healthy. I have O+ blood, which if you believe anything you read suggests I am less likely to fall ill to this crud.
My brother several years older with some underlying but not severe medical issues gutted thru what he thinks is this crud without medical attention whatsoever and is better. Same with his 40 year old son with no underlying medical issues. They live in a different state than me but a metro area with a higher number of confirmed cases than where I live. But they are 2 for 2 in surviving on their own.
Second only to Japan, Italy has the oldest population of any major nation of the world. Italy is visited by legions of Chinese. Italy contracted out to China much of the production and maintenance of their infrastructure. The US is not Italy.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote, “We will not put a dollar figure on human life.” Nonsense. Every time we raise the speed limit 5 MPH we know with certainty more people will die. But we put a dollar figure on human life and raise speed limits.
Who knows whether we can believe www.worldometers.info? Yet according to them as of 3/28/20 these are the global figures.
Coronavirus Cases: 629,682
Deaths: 28,970
Recovered: 138,089
4.6% died. 21.9% recovered. The rest remains to be seen. You can check supposed country by country figures here:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Yes, I know, testing is incomplete. Testing will never be complete, just like the census. Smart people lock their doors before they willingly give information to the government.
I read that old people with three dire pre existing medical conditions are most likely to succumb, then two conditions and so on. The same can be said about stepping on a rusty nail or getting bit by a copperhead.
If CNN could scare one more viewer into staying glued to their sorry network they would show 24/7 rusty nail copperhead snakebite stories.
Even in Italy the reported fatality rate is 10.6 percent, and they reportedly no longer medically assist anyone over 60. Italy also says the world can trust Fiats, so treat all this with scepticism.
But compare this to mortality rates of whatever flu at whatever source you choose.
What will be the mortality rate of those with life’s fortunes wiped out due to a shutdown of commerce? Wall Street buying opportunity my ass.
Spirits will break and hearts will ache. Mental illness will be rife. Hell, without Georgia Dawgs football & other sports life ain’t much worth living.
Intrepid survivors will use humor to cope.
I do not see a Big Red G on what Jane is knitting. With any luck Jim is a Gator fan.
For millennials out there, those round colorful candy things with holes are Life Savers, which were invented in 1912. Get it? No? Never mind.
Even millennials should get this one. Parents unwittingly toss Little Debbie cakes downstairs to millennial offspring who will not move out of the basement to find work:
I credit much of this to Dennis Prager, a man of God and rare common sense.
Why don’t the powers that be just let us get back to work, return to normal life, trust God and let us take our chances?
Until then I also recommend:
1. Do not watch TV news. Find a trusted source and read the news.
2. Turn off the TV unless it’s something informative. The Bachelor, Real Housewives & Keeping Up with the Kardashians ain’t it.
3. Explore years worth of online stuff the Library of Congress and likely your local college and library have made available for free.
4. Phone people and have long talks you have not had time for in ages. If they are well talk about anything other than coronavirus. Like fond old times.
5. Read. Write. Walk. Run. Give thanks. Pray.
Lewis Grizzard stole this line and paraphrased it from the far less funny Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, who wrote extensively on mental illness:
“Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Laing wrote:
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
See, Grizzard’s line was better. No one ever made no decent meme about no RD Laing.
Truthiness is like truthfulness except the exact opposite. It is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
Just like CNN, the New York Times and Washington Post operate today.
Truthiness was coined by Stephen Colbert, who I think is hilarious but far left so I no longer watch or listen. I just steal from him without compensation to give lefties a taste of their own medicine. As this church did.
Good for that church. I want to worship there if I can find it just to annoy lefties even more.
Lewis Grizzard embraced his version of truthiness before the term became a thing. As in. "Don't let facts get in the way of a good story."
I will not get bogged down comparing this coronavirus with the flu. Just look up the flu. It kills tens of thousands annually yet rarely makes the news.
I am 62 and seemingly healthy. I have O+ blood, which if you believe anything you read suggests I am less likely to fall ill to this crud.
My brother several years older with some underlying but not severe medical issues gutted thru what he thinks is this crud without medical attention whatsoever and is better. Same with his 40 year old son with no underlying medical issues. They live in a different state than me but a metro area with a higher number of confirmed cases than where I live. But they are 2 for 2 in surviving on their own.
Second only to Japan, Italy has the oldest population of any major nation of the world. Italy is visited by legions of Chinese. Italy contracted out to China much of the production and maintenance of their infrastructure. The US is not Italy.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote, “We will not put a dollar figure on human life.” Nonsense. Every time we raise the speed limit 5 MPH we know with certainty more people will die. But we put a dollar figure on human life and raise speed limits.
Who knows whether we can believe www.worldometers.info? Yet according to them as of 3/28/20 these are the global figures.
Coronavirus Cases: 629,682
Deaths: 28,970
Recovered: 138,089
4.6% died. 21.9% recovered. The rest remains to be seen. You can check supposed country by country figures here:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
Yes, I know, testing is incomplete. Testing will never be complete, just like the census. Smart people lock their doors before they willingly give information to the government.
I read that old people with three dire pre existing medical conditions are most likely to succumb, then two conditions and so on. The same can be said about stepping on a rusty nail or getting bit by a copperhead.
If CNN could scare one more viewer into staying glued to their sorry network they would show 24/7 rusty nail copperhead snakebite stories.
Even in Italy the reported fatality rate is 10.6 percent, and they reportedly no longer medically assist anyone over 60. Italy also says the world can trust Fiats, so treat all this with scepticism.
But compare this to mortality rates of whatever flu at whatever source you choose.
What will be the mortality rate of those with life’s fortunes wiped out due to a shutdown of commerce? Wall Street buying opportunity my ass.
Spirits will break and hearts will ache. Mental illness will be rife. Hell, without Georgia Dawgs football & other sports life ain’t much worth living.
Intrepid survivors will use humor to cope.
I do not see a Big Red G on what Jane is knitting. With any luck Jim is a Gator fan.
For millennials out there, those round colorful candy things with holes are Life Savers, which were invented in 1912. Get it? No? Never mind.
Even millennials should get this one. Parents unwittingly toss Little Debbie cakes downstairs to millennial offspring who will not move out of the basement to find work:
I credit much of this to Dennis Prager, a man of God and rare common sense.
Why don’t the powers that be just let us get back to work, return to normal life, trust God and let us take our chances?
Until then I also recommend:
1. Do not watch TV news. Find a trusted source and read the news.
2. Turn off the TV unless it’s something informative. The Bachelor, Real Housewives & Keeping Up with the Kardashians ain’t it.
3. Explore years worth of online stuff the Library of Congress and likely your local college and library have made available for free.
4. Phone people and have long talks you have not had time for in ages. If they are well talk about anything other than coronavirus. Like fond old times.
5. Read. Write. Walk. Run. Give thanks. Pray.
Lewis Grizzard stole this line and paraphrased it from the far less funny Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing, who wrote extensively on mental illness:
“Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Laing wrote:
“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
See, Grizzard’s line was better. No one ever made no decent meme about no RD Laing.
