“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” – Isaac Asimov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent” – Isaac Asimov

by MichelleMcHatton

Fools of Stillwater, OK need not worry about having to wear their face masks in public when they go shopping, to the hair salon or to get their free refills at restaurants.  They have threatened their way out of protecting themselves and others from COVID-19.  Because they are cowards and assholes.

On May 1 an emergency declaration requiring customers to wear face masks inside businesses went into effect.  No sooner did it go into effect, all hell broke loose.  Customers visiting establishments began threatening employees with verbal and physical violence and even one threat of violence using a firearm.  To protect their employees, the declaration was lifted.

What really should have happened was that anyone threatening violence should have been tossed out on their asses, arrested and permanently banned from these places.  There is no need to act like banshees because you are being asked to protect your life and the lives of those around you.  No employee gets paid enough money to deal with violence, nor should they ever have to.

I can’t speak for the people of Stillwater, OK.  I’m sure they’re not all like these insecure idiots.  But for the people that acted like this, I have one thing to say:  COVID-19–do your thing.

 

The Special One

The Special One

by MichelleMcHatton

The Vice President (also known as SHITHOLE 2) thinks he’s pretty special.

So special he can waltz right into the Mayo Clinic and gallivant all around among the patients without wearing a face mask.  Because he’s regularly tested.  And the morons around him are regularly tested.  Or so he says.

Really?  How regularly?  On the hour, every hour? Which we all know is bullshit.  And if that were the case, which it isn’t, maybe there’s the answer to where all the tests are.  They are up SHITHOLE and SHITHOLE 2’s asses.

The Mayo Clinic isn’t getting off easy on this either.  Since it is their policy that everyone in the hospital wear a face mask, and since they didn’t say a word or do a damn thing when this prick decided he was too special to wear one, they are as liable as SHITHOLE 2 is.  Their credibility as a high-ranking hospital just went out the window.  They are fools.  Just like SHITHOLE 2 and of course SHITHOLE.

If It Were Today Forty Years Ago

If It Were Today Forty Years Ago

by MichelleMcHatton

You think stay-at-home orders are tough now?  Could you imagine what it would’ve been like going through this forty years ago?

Most people who work in offices would be as unemployed as retail and restaurant workers.  It was a paper-filled world back then and very much hands-on and face-to-face.  There were no wireless phones you could connect to your laptop so you could converse with customers.  There was no Internet.  The lack of technology alone would have everyone lost.

And that’s not even getting to the medical field and how different things would have been there.

Unless kids were getting hand-outs mailed to them, there would be no school.  Aside from pizza joints and fast food restaurants, most other eateries did not have the ability to offer take-out forty years ago.

So considering the circumstances and the inconveniences of the current times, let’s be grateful this didn’t happen forty years ago.

The Aberrations of Born Fools

The Aberrations of Born Fools

by MichelleMcHatton

A handful of states have decided to take the plunge and end their stay-at-home policies, tossing caution to the wind, letting their citizens run amok, so they can get their haircuts, tattoos and drink refills, among other “pertinent” things.  I’m sure these fools are all gearing up for Friday, possibly even camping out at their salon, so they can be the first patron in the door.  Little do they know that some of these places are still refusing to open.  Little do they know that many of the restaurants that may open will not have their favorite dishes available because they are short on supply.  These fools are expecting these places to reopen and have it be just as it was back in March when they closed.  These fools are expecting to go to these places and be safe.  Boy, are these fools in for a surprise.

Let the fools have their day.  They already have by holding their “protests”, demanding a freedom that they already have.  Only a fool would “protest” the very means that is keeping them safe.  Only a fool would hold a “protest” in a state that isn’t going to change their stay-at-home policy because they and a bunch of their buddies decide to block the entrance to a hospital.  Only a fool would show up armed at a “protest”.  That doesn’t make them a “protester”.  It makes them a terrorist. And a fool.

Other than foolish, the signs have been comical:  “I need a haircut”.  Have you ever heard of a pair of scissors?  Then cut it.  “We need our teeth cleaned”.  Holy fuck.  Do you not brush your teeth?  Shit, you only see the dentist twice a year for a cleaning and most people don’t even do that.  The statements have been hysterical as well.  My favorite is the fool who insists he needs to have restaurants open so he can get his free drink refills, because he’s tired of ordering two drinks at the drive-thru.  That one doesn’t even win for bad excuse of the year, fool.

So to the fools I say “go for it”.  Please be the foolish dummies that you are and demonstrate to the rest of us how it’s done.  Better you fools than the majority of us.

 

Changes

Changes

by MichelleMcHatton

Everyone’s lives have been turned upside down because of the coronavirus.  From not being able to physically go to the office to having kids learning from home, it’s been a change for all of us and it’s taken a while to get used to it.  Some may never get used to it.  And I know from recent “protests”, many have lost their patience.  If they had any patience to begin with.

From my personal perspective, there’s many things I’m actually liking about staying home.  First of all, I’ve always been a homebody.  My entire family is.  So to us staying home really hasn’t been a big deal.  I was already working from home three days a week and my husband was working from home two days a week before this all began.  So working from home for us is just another day at the office.  Bonus:  no traffic!  Love it!  I can’t speak for my husband, but do I miss the social interaction of work?  No.  Because I wasn’t socially interacting much with anyone to begin with.  Even within the office, if someone needed something they would email me.  Even if they sat right next to me.  Now when they email me, it’s because they really have to.

My daughter has handled doing her school work at home much better than I anticipated.  In fact, she’s actually doing her work, instead of not going to her classes, like she would so often do in school.  I think it may do with the fact that she doesn’t have to start school at 7:30 a.m. and can work at her own pace.  She’s even done extra work, which is not something she would do when in school.  Several years ago we briefly tried home schooling with her.  Maybe that happened to eventually prepare us for this.  Although this is a walk in the park compared to actual home schooling.

Do I miss going out?  Sure, it would be nice to say, okay, family, let’s go see the latest XYZ film at Cinemagic, which we would sometimes do, depending on what was playing.  And a lot of good movies were scheduled to be released this year.  But going to the movies or mall and maybe, in warmer weather, to the zoo, was about all we did, aside from the occasional actual vacation every other year.  Sometimes the only place I would go in an entire week was to the store.  Which I’m still doing.  So in that retrospect, not much has really changed.

The main thing I’m missing is being able to see my autistic sister.  Before the pandemic I was visiting with her twice a month and although our visits consisted of lunch at Subway and going for a ride to wherever, that time with her has always been precious to me.  She’s loving staying at home, however, because she really dislikes her day program and loves to be at home.  So to her this is a good thing.