April 2nd 2020
Fear is a great motivator… except fear of motivation… then, it just gets confusing…
The fairgrounds in Louisville, Kentucky will be turned into a 2000-bed field hospital for overflow Covid patients. It will be the first hospital in Kentucky with both a roller coaster and a ring-toss game.
The President’s new chief of staff Mark Meadows has created a “coronavirus hotline” where, for only three dollars a minute, you can talk dirty to someone pretending to be the Covid virus.
We’re getting close to a quarter million Americans with Covid and deaths are in the thousands. The stock market is UP… which tells you everything you need to know about Wall Street.
Now, from that remark, some are going to say that I am NOT a capitalist. I love capitalism. It’s a complete surrender of responsibility. Incorporating removes individual responsibility and makes the company, and not those who run it, responsible for any actions of the company. It’s like someone being stabbed to death and the knife is put on trial. Sure, Some people say that money corrupts our democracy; but fortunately, there are measures in place to effectively silence those people. Capitalism has a lot of upkeep. For capitalism to work at peak efficiency, it needs an army of people in suits misusing over a hundred years of psychological discovery to sell you a product that you neither need nor can live without. If you are confused as to which economics system is capitalism, it is the one where the government pays five hundred dollars for a hammer.
No one knows why stocks might go up. The reason for this is, it is ILLEGAL to know a stock will go up… if you invest in it, I mean. Knowing for sure a stock will go up would be the ONLY circumstance under which I’d invest in the stock market. It’s like being invited to a high stakes poker game but only after you agree never to look at your cards…
April 2nd is the day Argentinians take a moment from their ungodly late three-hour suppers to remember those who died in the Falkland Islands conflict. Neither side seemed to really care much. Maybe the United Kingdom had some missiles near expiration date that they wanted to use. Or, more likely: Rulers occasionally do ridiculous things so that, when their citizens start to complain that they are doing nothing, they’ll remember what it looks like for them to do… something…
Potatoes and the Promise of More Potatoes 
I’ve always lamented the lack of roller coasters in hospitals. It would be a much more efficient way of transporting patients on gurneys.
Weeeee!
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I don’t think vertigo patients would take to it, much…
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Now that you mention it, the treatment for vertigo (at least BPPV – benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) bears some resemblance to a rollercoaster. Did you see the article about the euthanasia rollercoaster? It’s supposed to lead to death with “elegance and euphoria”, but I’ve never felt elegant or euphoric while throwing up.
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The only way I’ll die in a euphoric state would be if no one mentioned to me I was being euthanized…
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I used to say the stock market was the only legal form of gambling. Now you can gamble on just about anything. Maybe they should remodel the NYSE to look like the casinos where tux-wearing guys in movies always hung out. As for capitalism, economist John Maynard Keynes understood it pretty well: “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.”
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I usually refer to it as the Lord of the Flies mentality of governing. European socialism seems the best way at this point, but it’ll take some catastrophe to make that happen.
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Trump won. Tyson lost. Can someone transport me back to my original timeline?
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I’ve been unwillingly involved in Capitalism my entire life. I also worked as a salesperson for a while. While the church taught me to be honest (childhood Catholicism which is also not so great) I can attest from experiences that Capitalism teaches one to LIE. Boldface lie. Just Lie, take the money, laugh later. Like, Netflix advertised that as a boxing match. They should be sued for false advertising. If they advertised it as an “exhibition” that’d be fine. Boycott boxing. Boycott Netflix. ‘Cause I give up. It’s all a fraud.
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You seem like you’re taking the Tyson loss a little harder than you should. At his age, I’m just happy he lived.
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Nah, false advertising.
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❤️ hope all is well. Miss the laughs you bring!
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Thank you, Doree. Just working through the depression…
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Hang in there. The world needs your light! I know there is nothing I can say to make it better, but maybe for one moment, I can tell you from a complete stranger…you are an amazing part of this world. And I, for one am so happy to have crossed paths with YOU. ❤️
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I very much appreciate that comment, Doree.
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