Every report that is on my side of things, meaning favoring opening up the economy, thinking that most of this is political, etc. recognizes that the virus is a real thing and people are getting sick and dying. They also contain some version of this:
Every death is a sadness, but this is not a demographic threat or a public health assault that justifies pushing up to 1 million people a day into unemployment and the loss of trillions of dollars of value on the stock exchanges. It has been a severe crisis, but most of its severity has been the consequence of the panic generated by the irresponsible media, who thought they might destroy the Trump presidency at last.
It does not need to be said. I know enough about Conrad Black to know he doesn’t take glee in people’s death or that he is indifferent to the grief of the family and friends of the deceased. No normal person would celebrate the death of anyone that died from Bat Soup Flu. No normal person would celebrate the death of anyone that died with the Kung Flu. It doesn’t need to be said.
I won’t be saying it going forward.
Tags: Fu Man Flu, Kung Flu, Screwing the Youth, We are Doomed