Commentary

I’ve got to say the past few months have been incredible…history making.

If life ever returns to normal, and some say it will never, it will be interesting to see how rational thinkers frame this tumultuous period in United States history.

Look: it’s craziness, utter insanity.

Coronavirus shut most of the country down and imprisoned people in their houses and apartments.

They went stir crazy.

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee shut down every county in the state while the worst of the coronavirus was happening in just a few. We’re slowly getting business going again and now—gasp!—there are more COVID-19 cases!

Good Lord!

The media is breathlessly reporting this many cases and that many cases every day in the news. Oh my God, we’re doomed!

It sounds like the sky is falling. What you’re not hearing is what percent of the population is being affected.

As of June 29, there’s been 32,824 confirmed cases. There’s 7,546,400 people in Washington, so that means .00435 percent of the population, four hundred and thirty-five thousandths of one percent.

The State Department of Health website says 4.1% of the people who are infected die. That number is of confirmed cases. I don’t believe the total number of positive cases is known, or will ever be accurately known until everybody is swabbed (and then that’s just a snapshot).

Yes, because coronavirus is hazardous to those age 65 and older, and those with underlying health issues—especially respiratory—it is something to take seriously because I wouldn’t want to see my mother or a close friend die when it could be prevented. Every life is precious, don’t get me wrong, but this cure is more damaging than the disease.

So we’re sequestered awhile and then begin getting out and about and a policeman in Minneapolis wrongfully causes the death of a black man, and the entire country descends into madness. Inexcusable, what that policeman did.

To make up for it, anarchists burn down certain areas of cities across this great country. They pull down statues and bully politicians and businesses into kneeling before them. Again, it’s total insanity.

It’s total insanity because, like the percent of the population who die from coronavirus, the percentage of bad cops is correspondingly tiny—yet these anarchists capitalize on that idea and justify actions out of proportion to the problem, with the full complicity of the American media.

Because of coronavirus, remember, people whose loved ones have died are biding time until funerals or memorial services may be held at some point in the future when the dictatorial governor deems the rest of the state as safe as Seattle and King County. But George Floyd has three funerals, all covered by the liberal-leaning media, with Al Sharpton front and center.

That situation is especially maddening, the shifting needle of what is permissible and what isn’t. The rest of American society waits while this high-profile situation is pandered to. We’re one of those families.

Not sure if I’ll watch professional football ever again. I will certainly note the beer, shave cream and other advertisers whose ads fill time when football fans run to the fridge, and buy their competitor’s product.

But thank God for companies like American Airlines, which finally announced it’ll fill airplanes and fly on a timetable once again.

Bully for the companies who told Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook to stick it’s “community standards” where the sun don’t shine. Those billionaire nerds spent too much time coding and skipped history class when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were taught. Of all businesses, they should be a shining standard for freedom of speech.

Hurray for the couple in Missouri who stepped away from their quiet dinner with a handgun and an AR-15 to keep a surly mob from coming any closer to their home. They acted only after calls to their neighborhood’s security firm and police weren’t responded to.

The news shows City of Seattle workers removing the barricades from the insurrection zone, with a few members of the Seattle Police Department standing by. Maybe liberal Mayor Jenny Durkan finally got a thought in that empty brain of hers that something in her city is amiss. Maybe S.P.D. will now get some support so the Rule of Law can be followed and enforced. Don’t hold your breath.