Pandemic Diary

Watching the Fall of the American Empire

All empires eventually fall. Right now we’re watching the American Empire Fall before our very eyes.

Philip Derrow is back on his bullshit

Last August the New Albany, Ohio school board refused to impose a mask mandate. Given that my kids go to New Albany schools this, quite understandably, bugged me. I usually don’t attend school board meetings but upon reviewing the video of the most recent one, it became pretty clear that school board member Philip Derrow […]

General, Pandemic Diary, Personal, Politics, Science

UPDATE: School Board Member is Censured for Equating Masks with Holocaust; Deletes Tweets

Philip Derrow styles himself a man of reason and intellect. In reality, he’s spreading the worst kind of COVID misinformation and trafficking in the most offense of tropes.

Pandemic Diary

The Pandemic Diary: Trump has COVID

One can make the abject denial of the need for health and safety protocols a plank in one’s political platform, but viruses do not care about such things.

Media, Pandemic Diary, Politics

The Pandemic Diary: Woodward and Trump

Irony defined: Bob Woodward’s final major act on the public stage could very well be one in which he argues that, when it came to tapes incriminating the President of the United States, it was the right thing to conceal them rather than to release them.

Media, Pandemic Diary, Politics, Science

“How the pandemic defeated America”

A must-read piece in The Atlantic thoroughly and comprehensively explains all of the ways in which America has failed.

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The Pandemic Diary: July 22

Between February 10, 2020 and May 27, 2020, I kept a daily diary chronicling my thoughts, impressions, fears, anxieties, and outrages in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It ended up being over 120,000 words worth of personal therapy for me but I stopped updating it once doing so ceased to be therapeutic and, instead, began […]