I intend to make this the last time I mention Covid 19 on this website. 9/11/01 3,000 Americans died, and now every town has some twisted relic on a pedestal in a park so you can remember when you walk your dog. I'm for this, actually. We should remember! I sang at the dedications for several of these monuments! Covid on the other hand killed over 1,000,000 Americans and basically changed everything and we're never going to mention it again, apparently. We're moving on pretending it never happened. We have no community cultural common ground to meet on and grieve together like we did at 9/11. Most of the people who died were old, and many were poor and/or people of color, and if we didn't know what lives actually mattered in America, we sure do now and we don't want to be looking at it too much! My two dead fathers were both old. I've been asked their ages and I've literally had people say "they were going to die soon anyway." I get the message. I'm going to shut up about Covid now and get back to focusing on climate change, social justice, hunger, and poverty but before I do I want to confess something. Those of you who, particularly when my father in law died of Covid which was in 2020, told me it was a hoax or not really that serious or made up by the government or whatever other bullshit you said- I know who you are and I will never forget. Also if it ever comes up that Covid killed my father in law and finished off my father and you ask me how old they were, I'm going to call you out on your ageism to your face in the most brutal language I can use. I've spent a lot of this Pandemic trying to forgive you people- after all I'm the "Wage love, we're all in this together" guy, and I'm done. I'm giving up on that and moving on. I do not think I'll ever have the grace in my heart to forgive you for this and for electing a reality television star President who made a mockery of my country and used a deadly virus he didn't die of because he got experimental treatment for some political theatrics.

Saturday, April 29th 2023