The roller coaster ride continues for each of us in the United States. I continue to wonder how people can believe the conspiracy theories that are an integral part of the insurrection. In a recent discussion with a friend, he told me about his interaction with an acquaintance. “Covid 19 is a hoax, portable vans used to store the victims of the disease were just window dressing to propagate the hoax.” The person asked “Do you know why we are to stay six feet apart?” The obvious answer was not correct, “the satellites are watching all of us and if we are not six feet apart it cannot keep our identities separate, we look like one person.” Apparently big brother is watching.
Whenever I hear this kind of nonsense, I always think of the Beatles song “I am the Walrus.” Coo coo ca choo is my normal mental response. We enjoyed a song that told us “I am an Eggplant, I am a Walrus… goo goo ga joob!” Interesting these are the last words uttered by Humpty Dumpty before his fall. I haven’t heard Fearless utter these words but his last words were intended to incite insurrection based on his oft repeated lie. John Lennon led the devoted followers to assume that Paul McCarney had died in a mysterious accident and the Beatle songs left clues for validation. It makes about the same sense as QAnon and voter fraud assertions but the song was fanciful not deadly. Come on people – there is no government or left wing conspiracy, Obama was born in Hawaii, and the caravan is not coming to destroy America—we need to get your help to understand the truth.
The six foot rule first came into existence in 1665, coincidentally during the plague. It was mistakenly assumed that it took six feet of soil to isolate the disease from those who were still alive. The Mayor of London laid down this law and much of the world continues this non-fact based practice today. I guess if you say it enough times it becomes a fact.
Hank is back in school and I was pleased to learn that there are 7 octillion atoms in the human body. For you math minded readers that is a 7 followed by 27 zeroes or 7 times 10 to the 27th power.
It is going to up to each of us to protect our democracy. Please do not accept anything less than speaking the truth. Mike