Cream Cheese

 Of course social media are a waste of time.  Yeah, it’s like shouting into the toilet as far as meaningful responses to one's comments are concerned, no matter how cogent or germane to the issue they may be.

 

But what if it’s all that you have?  What if you find yourself in a situation where no matter what you say or do; nothing ever comes of it?   I’m not talking about a classically hopeless situation like being in a Saudi Arabian prison for heresy and drug possession.  I’m talking about being in a beautiful, safe, location like a self sufficient home far from any danger; but locked in because of a yearlong pandemic.  A year, and no end in sight.  And after that long, you’re afraid of even mentioning anything about it to your partner.

 

Sure, you say, aren’t we all?  Well, yes.  After four years of hateful incompetence and outright narcissistic disregard for anybody’s well being on the federal level; we expect to be dealing with a response that’s a year behind the eight ball.  Then there’s the state level incompetence that is expected from a large bureaucracy that is reeling from a year of chaos (in response to the federal problem?).  Add to that the roiling cluster-fuck of local bureaucracies with over and under lapping responsibilities, and it’s obvious why it is way more than likely that vaccine shots will never catch up with virus mutation rates even in the absence of nutjob deniers and anti-vaxxers.  Throw in a little corruption, rich and powerful greed, (AKA human nature) while you’re at it. SNAFU!

What I didn't expect was the outright total resistance to vaccinations and masks exhibited by 50% of the Republican Party voters and near 100% of the elected officials.  I will never say: "I can't believe..." again.

So?  Who do you tell?  The overworked, underpaid, and under protected first responders have nothing to do with this problem.  They are vastly more abused victims of this thing than we are; I am sure as Hell not going to rag on them.  So, I bitch on Twitter, It doesn’t do anything but makes me feel a little better for a minute or two.  

 

The only thing that comes even close to this total failure of logic and desire for improvement, that is killing us all; is the in-explainable decision by Philadelphia Cream Cheese (classic box package) to continue to package their product in a 19^th century manner.  I really hate that.