Remember the gold stars in WWII? We need them now.

makes no sense to connect death from an illness with anything remotely related to USA idolatry/patriotism/jingoism. Covid-19 is killing people all over the planet. Other illnesses and diseases kill tons of people too. It's just a part of life.

I think this pandemic has really shown how much SO MANY people haven't come to terms with their own mortality. Death is nothing to fear. It will happen. We will all die. Eventually.

Then it appears that a hard right turn had been taken.

Basically, "so what if they die?"

as imagined in an unsellable script about a hipster on trial for murder.


"Your honor, it's true my client stabbed the deceased with the sharpened arm of his Ray-Ban sunglasses, but he was going to die anyway. We all die, eventually. I rest my case."

Being a grown up who has been close to death informs my thoughts.

When is the last time you were on life support, had a tracheostomy and peanut butter bag, be put in a medically induced coma, live through sepsis and gangrene, meet death then somehow manage to live then go through ICU psychosis, have your peripheral nervous system fry out, have all your skeletal muscle dissolve, have to learn how to walk again while other people wipe your ass and bathe you?

I wouldn't wish what I went through on any jamoke, even someone I don't like. That's where I'm coming from.

Nice assumptions you make, though.