Was January decade ago or just a few years ago? Did impeachment happen? Who won the Super Bowl? I can’t remember. I guess we should have gotten hip to 2020 being like this when it started with the a continent being on fire. I remember that part.
Despite the fires and the failure to remove our president, this year started with some hope! Actually a lot of it! I’m a Bernie Bro, yo, and things were groovin’ until South Carolina. Oh right! Now I remember! The Chiefs won the Super Bowl. That was nice! That happened right before the debacle of the Iowa caucuses, and right after Jeremy and I had spend a good chunk of our weekend in New Hampshire canvassing for Bernie and a future we believe in. I guess a lot of Democrats have stopped believing in the future? I don’t know. A lot of people just say they’re panicked.
You know what panic does? It causes you to make bad decisions. It brings out the worst in us. It causes one person to buy twenty cases of hand sanitizer that they’ll probably never end up using, thereby preventing another person from buying one container that they definitely need. It causes a great number of voters to vote against Medicare For All in the middle of a health crisis because well, they already have Medicare! I’m lookin’ at you, Boomers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s more complicated than that, and no, I don’t mean ALL Boomers, but I’m into brevity right now and that’s the quickest way for me to summarize the primaries. Is it that Trump has people so panicked that perhaps they think the best thing to do is fight fire with fire? While forgetting that this is not your run-of-the-mill fire, but a dumpster fire?
All I do know is that I’m not sure we should fight a dumpster fire with a dumpster fire, but it seems like that’s what Democrats are trying to do (I know, I know, not ALL Democrats). I mean, have you seen Joe Biden talk? Did people not know that he was disqualified from running in the 1988 primary because he lied about plagiarizing? Do they know that he lied about being arrested in South Africa during apartheid? About not threatening to cut social security when he actually did? Of course they don’t. I’m sure CNBC failed to mention it. And if they did know, did they care? For politics to continue as usual it requires amnesia (for 2000, 2004 and 2016 and all the moderates who lost) and ignorance-things we won’t run out of any time soon in America! And don’t even try to start telling me how Trump is worse because you making the comparison means you’re proving my point because I’m not trying to start the lesser of two dumpster fires. And the whole “we need a moderate to beat Trump crowd?” Oh, and all y’all who voted for Biden are planning on canvassing, right?
But hey! This is about a pandemic! Panic is one pandemic, but COVID-19 is another. And what the hell are you supposed to do during a pandemic when you have a toddler and your whole apartment is smaller than some suburbanite’s garage?
You hang out with the folks who are already dead, y’all. That’s what you do.
If you are in a plane flying over New York City you see oases of green amidst a sea of cement. A lot of that green is not for the living. It’s for the dead. But the living are free to wander.
We went to Green-Wood Cemetery on Sunday, day 15 of coronavirus in New York City. The good thing about the dead is that they keep their distance, and the great thing about Green-Wood is that it’s an arboretum with fantastic topography and history and it’s close enough for us to walk to. Since Green-Wood is so big it’s easy to feel alone, despite the many other New Yorkers who also decided to congregate there to get away from other living New Yorkers. Social-distancing made enjoyable.
As for my toddler, he enjoyed watching the geese, looking at the gravestones (they are all statues to him), collecting sticks, and throwing rocks into one of the cemetery’s many ponds. I enjoyed taking pictures.
Oh, also Happy belated Saint Patrick’s Day.
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