By David Rutter
Get out your Sharpie and circle August 7 on the calendar. It’s a Friday.
For this brief “August 7 Survey,” you will be required to select one of two preliminary answers.
Eyes straight ahead, class.
In the realm of human cognitive ability, do you think humans would most usually be A) Smart, or B) Stupid. For streamlining, we have omitted C) Box of Igneous Rocks Stupid.
I always pick B and have no reason to change my attitude. So I do not believe there is much evidence that the brick-brain bozos who refuse to wear face masks and take normal sanitary precautions will stop the pandemic virus.
We apparently are a species with a suicide wish because, as we tell ourselves constantly with no evidence, we’re all entitled to our opinion. We have found a large cliff and come to the opinion we should hurtle over the edge.
That’s because we have left matters we care most about – living, for example – in the hands of the most dense, willful and ignorant among us. Many of them throw temper tantrums while sitting on the floors at Walmarts and screaming about having to wear a face mask.
The entitled opinion-holders, as every public health official acknowledges, are the single variable demographic that stops the nation from winning the pandemic scrum. You’ll have to stuff that face mask into my cold, dead hands, Snowflake.
August 7 is important because on that day you will know several things you don’t know now. It’s Launch Day for college football.
Posted on July 16, 2020