I have always cared little for Facebook™ but it is a useful evil for keeping up with old shipmates and family wheresoever dispersed. These days we are dispersed, and with the pandemic, keeping up to date seems suddenly important, lest shipmates, distant friends, and relatives vanish. The other day an old shipmate posted that a friend, 65, had come down with "symptoms". Within days he was in the hospital, on dialysis. Prognosis is poor, his fiance cannot, of course, see him.
This scene repeats itself continuously; occasionally a news outlet not friendly to the President will interview a distraught spouse about an experience wherein he or she deposited a loved one at the emergency room door, never to see him or her again. In this pandemic each victim dies alone. As my wife learnt from her niece, who is part of the local burial society in her town in Israel, they must also be buried alone, without the proper ritual of our faith. This virus spawns an attack without mercy and a death without comfort or dignity.
"Not friendly to the President" is a key phrase. If an outlet or writer is friendly to the President, then all aspects of the pandemic are minimized, all truth tellers are criticized, and their pasts scrutinized for any possible issues that can be brought out as reasons to doubt them (maybe they bounced a check 40 years ago? Did they support 'Hillary'?). If they are not "friendly to the President," then they are likely telling the truth and running simple facts.
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