Pandemic Ripping Through the Trump Administration
No decent human being should wish disease on another. But if someone’s going to contract a disease, shouldn’t it be the person who selfishly defied the extremely clear instructions of doctors and scientists, rather than the person who, in order to protect the welfare of the entire population, went to the effort to comply?
COVID-19 and the U.S.’s pathetic response to it have shown precisely how far we are from a sustainable society. The epidemiological community tells us that we’re about to experience an ongoing string of infectious diseases, not unlike the current pandemic. Yet we seem unable to implement even the most feeble set of policies in order to keep our society safe and healthy.
In terms of human rights, the U.S. is looking more like China, in terms of democracy, more like Russia, in terms of national solvency, more like Greece, in terms of domestic/racial tranquility, more like Serbia, and in terms of truth, more like North Korea. 
In an earlier post I mentioned that 
Though I’m not a religious person, I find it very interesting that the world’s great monotheistic religions are quite clear in their warnings of evil people, and how they need to be identified and disempowered.
Thus far, the 21st Century is defined by the dividing-into-halves things that at one time were far more homogeneous.
Last night, Texas police officer Shaun Lucas fatally shot Jonathan Price, 31 (pictured), an unarmed black man, as Price was attempting to break up a fight. Lucas has been arrested and charged with murder, as the Wolfe City Police Department said in a statement that he “did not take reasonable action in the encounter.” Bond has been set at $1 million. 
Here are a few words from a man I’ve known more than 50 years, Joe Turk. When I was a teen, I had two very good friends who attended a different school than my own, and Joe taught them math. Because our schools had slightly different holidays, there were days I had off when they didn’t, and I’d sometimes go over there and sit in on his math classes; that’s how totally cool and entertaining they were. 
By a 6 – 2 majority, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the claim of religious freedom can’t be used to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.
The meme here was posted by a conservative associate of mine. Of course, it brought this post back on 
Pope Francis–a breath of fresh air for a world so headed the wrong way.
