Tag: Pathogens

• Republicans & The Best Stateroom On The Titanic

  Sane people can never quite grok how someone will always show up to place a million to one bet on something preposterous on the pure hope that “it could happen”. Those bets never pay off and are never going to. Republicans keep betting that the Titanic – having already hit the iceberg and begun taking…

  A L Katz

  January 11, 2022

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Election 2020, Racism, Republicanism, The Nature of Evil, Trump

  Good German, Hitler, Mike Flynn, Packer Sweep, Pathogens, Racism, Steve Bannon, Thousand Year Reich, Titanic, Unsinkable Molly Brown, White Supremacists

• What Impact Will COVID Have On Our Future? If The Black Plague Is Any Guide, The Impact Will Be HUGE

  Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we still have no fixed idea of how to deal with this damned pathogen. That’s less a reflection on the science than it is on the nature of pathogens. And people. It’s hard enough fighting an actual pandemic. Having to battle misinformation, deliberate propaganda and genuine, honest confusion at…

  A L Katz

  January 7, 2022

  Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, SCOTUS, Trump

  14th Century, A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman, Buboes, Bubonic Plague, COVID-19, DNA, Long Term COVID, Pandemic, Pathogens, Pneumonic Plague, RNA

• Why Does The Republican Party Always Stand On The Wrong Side Of Everything?

  Imagine rooting for a pathogen to win because more dead people — even if they’re you — equals “winning” though “winning what” isn’t exactly clear. Why does “owning the libs” mean so much to right wingers, conservatives and Trumpanistas? Why does it mean more than life itself? Is being a raging asshole really that satisfying…

  A L Katz

  November 30, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Corruption, Culture, Cyber War, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  Charlottesville, Conservatism, Dragons, E Pluribus Unum, Electoral College, Jews Will Not Replace Us, Pathogens, Power Sharing, Prostrate Eight, White Hegemony, Wicked Witch Of The West, Wrong Side Of History

• Would America Breaking Into Two Americas – Red V Blue – Really Be Such A Bad Thing?

  America is what happens when you let sleeping dogs lie and one of those dogs is racism. America has always had a jones for mythologizing itself. That’s because we have no common, longstanding history to stand on as people from every other country did when they came here. Aside from the Native Americans (wiped out…

  A L Katz

  October 18, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, American News Media, Corruption, Culture, Election 2016, False Patriotism, Racism, Republicanism, Rule of Law, Slavery, Treason, Trump, Universal Basic Income (UBI)

  All Men Are Created Equal, American Culture, American Exceptionalism, Blue States, Confederacy, E Pluribus Unum, Kellyanne Conway, Pathogens, Project Lincoln, Rule of Law, Second Civil War, Stolen Labor

• “U” For “Unvaccinated” IS The New “Scarlet Letter”

  In the month since I first published this post (then it was “Should Be The New Scarlet Letter” vs “IS”), the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant has become its own little pandemic here in America — among the belligerently unvaccinated. Remember Hester Prynne? In Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester is forced by her intensely religious Puritan…

  A L Katz

  September 25, 2021

  Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Healthcare, Magical Thinking, Religion

  Anti-vaxxers, Guns Germs & Steel, Hester Prynne, Jerry Falwell Jr, Magical Thinking, Nathanial Hawthorne, Pathogens, Religious hypocrisy, Sin, The Scarlet Letter, Unvaccinated

• “U” For “Unvaccinated” Is About To Become The New “Scarlet Letter”

  Remember Hester Prynne? In Nathanial Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter”, Hester is forced by her intensely religious Puritan community to wear a scarlet letter “A” as punishment for having committed adultery. To the sin-hating Puritans, adultery wasn’t just deeply sinful , it was virtually unforgivable. Jump forward several hundred years to now. America has made peace…

  A L Katz

  August 30, 2021

  Branding, Coronavirus, Corruption, Culture, Freedom, Healthcare, Magical Thinking, Religion

  Anti-vaxxers, Guns Germs & Steel, Hester Prynne, Jerry Falwell Jr, Magical Thinking, Nathanial Hawthorne, Pathogens, Religious hypocrisy, Sin, The Scarlet Letter, Unvaccinated

• Conservatism — By Its Nature — Will Always Look Backwards First

  I don’t judge conservatives because they want to conserve — as their name says. I judge them because they won’t admit WHAT they want to conserve. Considering as you can’t conserve what doesn’t exist, conservatives have zero interest in the future. That’s Progressives’ territory. That’s why I prefer the descriptor “progressive” to “liberal”. Progressive is…

  A L Katz

  March 15, 2021

  American Exceptionalism, Election 2016, Election 2020, Republicanism, Slavery, Trump

  A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman, Conservatism, Covid19, Enlightenment, Entitlement, Monotheism, Pathogens, Progressives, Racism

• If We Were Honest With Ourselves, We’d Admit That Alcohol And Pandemics Simply Do Not Mix

  Pandemics don’t sit well with social creatures. Covid19 would be a lot easier to beat if humans were more like snow leopards — exceptional at self-isolating from other snow leopards. But, humans mostly crave each others’ company. We like socializing. We especially like drinking while socializing. Sometimes, in fact, we like the drinking more than…

  A L Katz

  November 22, 2020

  Coronavirus, Freedom, Marijuana Legalization, Political Commentary, Trump

  Cannabis And Driving, Covid19, Drinking And Driving, Durban Poison, Legal Cannabis, Los Angeles Cannabis Cafe, Motor Skills, Pandemics, Pathogens, Self-isolating, Self-Medicating, Social Drinking

• In “War Of The Worlds”, A Pathogen Saved Us From Martians — Just Like A Pathogen Will Save Us From Donald J. Trump

  

  It’s not hyperbole — Donald Trump is a democracy-destroying monster utterly resistant to normal reason and legal logic. In HG Wells’ “War Of The Worlds”, Martians take over Earth, easily crushing our feeble human armies. What saves our bacon in the end? Pathogens. Germs. Not even fancy ones. The monsters’ bodies succumb to the same…

  A L Katz

  October 3, 2020

  Election 2016, Magical Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Treason, Trump

  “Mexicans are rapists”, "Pussy-grabbing", Anti-vaxxers, Covid-19 and Trump, Donald Trump is a monster, Godzilla trampling Tokyo, Pathogens, Punish Donald Trump, Trump's Criminal Behavior, Trump's mild symptoms, War Of The Worlds

• Looming Lessons From A Pandemic — Money Won’t Save You; Community However Will

  It’s definitely premature to say “here’s what we’ve learned from living through a pandemic…”. But a few lessons are already crystal clear. They’ll only get crystal clearer. For starters: in a real crisis — like a pandemic — the flow of accurate information is essential. Screw with that? You just made the pandemic exponentially worse.…

  A L Katz

  March 13, 2020

  Coronavirus, Healthcare, Live Bullshit Free, Political Commentary, Republicanism, Trump, Uncategorized

  Coronavirus, Coronavirus effect on world economy, Covid19, Democratic Socialism, Donald Trump, Health Care, Health Insurance, HG Wells, Pandemic 2020, Pathogens, War Of The Worlds