Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
I see today that Our Betters are starting to beat the drum that we should be treating glowbull enwarmening and coronapalooza at the same time and in the same way.
By a staggering coincidence, I already happen to be doing just that thing.
Maybe not the way they’d like, but hey, at least it’s something, right?
UPDATE: The lovely and talented Sleepy Beth drops a comment on the “Oooh, but economic lockdown is sooo wunnerful for The Environment!!” watermelon** shibboleth. This happened to come up at dins last evening. One of the Gels mentioned the (apparently fake) story about dolphins returning to the canals of Venice, to which another immediately replied, “Well, at least the Italians will have something to eat.”
Another Gel remarked that although the folks in India may starve to death, at least they’ll have a nice view of the Himalayas while doing so.
(Heh. Ol’ Robbo is at least comforted that the apples did not fall very far from his tree.)
Peej O’Rourke, alas, has in the last few years completely lost his mind. But in what I still consider to be his best book, All The Trouble In The World, he put this biznay very succinctly: “Communists worship Satan. Socialists believe perdition is a good system run by bad people. And liberals think we should go to hell because it’s warm there in the winter.”
‘Zactly.
Oh, and on the subject of Lefty talking points, we were also discussing the dread Second Wave which apparently is lurking around the corner, waiting to pounce if we dare go back to making a living. Even Mrs. R, who has been far more cautious than I about things, said. “Look, we’ll just have to man up and trust to heard immunity at that point.”
Yeppers.
**Watermelon. Green on the outside. Red on the inside.
UPDATE DEUX: Did somebody in the comments mention Metro’s capacity for inconveniencing and irritating people? Well word breaks this morning that they’re now planning to shut down the whole damn system in my neck of the woods for the entire summah, the better to move forward their revitalization plans. That’s all well and good while we’re all still under house arrest and there are only a handful of riders, but what the blue blazes do they think will happen when we all get whistled back in to town? Ol’ Robbo has been itching to break quarantine. Now? Not so much.
Grrrrr…..
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April 22, 2020 at 6:14 pm
sleepybeth
Ha.
Got into a little mini-kerfuffle with a friend in meat space because of an article she shared about all the upcoming gaslighting we should be looking for (you probably saw the article, I couldn’t seem to get away from it.) She was all “look how much less pollution there is now!! isn’t it great?” and I was like “so people who have jobs in factories don’t deserve to make a living?”
And there was a pause (or at least it took her a long time to text back).
I mean yeah, the traffic is great right now too – doesn’t mean this is good for us long term.
April 22, 2020 at 7:46 pm
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April 23, 2020 at 7:54 am
Robbo
On the traffic front, I’m hoping that at least all this spares me a few headaches on Metro, what with the Orange Line being all torn up. I can’t tell if they’re going ahead with the refurbishing work despite the lockdown. I certainly hope so.
April 23, 2020 at 3:16 pm
rbj1
At least around these parts traffic is starting to perk up.
April 23, 2020 at 3:33 pm
sleepybeth
One hopes they’re doing the Metro work now, yes! Although with Metro, I suspect they’ll wait so they don’t miss out on a chance to inconvenience and irritate people.
April 24, 2020 at 11:28 am
NOVA Curmudgeon
Next thing you know they’ll close the Parkway for repaving at the same time.
Our local bridge crossing will get REAL interesting.
April 25, 2020 at 9:38 am
rbj1
Not only is the Mariners’ Museum park closed, but the drive past the river is down to one lane so they can resurface a not bad road. So no scenic driving even with historically low gas prices.
April 25, 2020 at 11:35 am
Robbo
Middle Gel reports that Colonial Williamsburg (at least the exterior part) remains open, which sort of surprises me.