Day 1241 – Why? Ostriches and The No Problem Problem

Friday June 12, 2020 

142 Days until the election on November 3^rd

222 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

Okay, sorry about yesterday. No screed. I was busy. It took awhile to remember exactly what, but now I recall. The day ended with my sitting in my reclining chair using a real cool super easy to use app for doing video instantaneously. We had an assignment (yes, I’m taking a class. Shut up.) to take someone else’s video posted on Google Drive and work on it in our new super easy app. I could go to google drive. I could see my fellow students videos, two of which I was to work on in this super easy app. I could never ever get anything over to where I could work on it. Google drive copied some clips to “My Drive” which was great. When I went to the app it didn’t see “My Drive.” I did find a one minute and 44 second video clip of walking down a crowded street in India. I saved that in the super easy app. I wonder if there is someway to move that to the homework space?

In other news I worked in Adobe Premier Pro. It’s like iMovie but not as frustrating. At least not at first. I have to wonder – is it me or do all these apps suck? I’m sorry, I mean do all these apps lack simple documentation? I’d like to know, for instance, what this button does. Or where is the gray scroll bar they talk about? And if I find the gray scroll bar after I play with it as suggested would you mind telling me what in the F*ck it is supposed to do? And I know this is asking a lot but is there an “undo” button? Or a “put it back the way it was before I screwed it up” pull down, click on, something or other?

If I don’t get some answers I’m going to start making TikTok videos in my underwear.

Moving on. Let me say this – As far as I know the Corona virus, whatever it is, and whatever it does – has not changed. It does what it does. 

There seems to be a change in attitude of some folks toward it. That is the only thing that has changed.

Yesterday, the stock market went down 5-7% depending on which index you look at. Why? People always want to know why. Well, I don’t know, but I’m willing to take a few guesses:

– Unemployment was 1.3 million this past week. Twice as bad as the height of the Great Depression.

– Twelve states have infection rates soaring and their hospitals are on the verge of being overrun.

– Two reports have been leaked to the press. They are internal reports to the White House. We lead the world in the most rapid rate of infection since Labor Day at over 36%.

– The other report shows that we don’t have enough PPE but the CDC is hoping that the rate of infection will go down so we won’t need more.

– Mike Pence, head of the Coronavirus Task Force for the White House was shown in front of a group of supporters/workers in Virginia. None of them had facemasks on, none of them were socially distancing. The photo was taken down shortly thereafter. Some speculate that it was because the event was held in Virginia and showed that the Head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and his workers were acting in direct contradiction to the Governor of Virginia’s orders.

– The President went to Dallas to supposedly talk about police and policing. He didn’t invite any of the top brass of the Dallas police force. No one was surprised because they’re black. He did say that we needed to support our police and step up money for them. He also said some stupidly racist things. No one was surprised.

– The Republican Convention has been pulled out of North Carolina because the president refuses to have people at the convention practice social distancing and doesn’t want anyone to have to wear facemarks. It is moving to Florida where the pandemic is raging.

– The president also is having a rally. Anyone coming in has to sign a document saying that the organizers aren’t responsible if you get sick from the coronavirus. The rally is in Tulsa. One of the places that has seen some of the worst racism in our history. The state has seen big increases in infections from coronavirus. 

– Georgia just held a primary and it was a mess. The only reason anyone can come up with for this is that is what they wanted.

– Larry Kudlow, advisor to the president said he doesn’t believe that there is a problem with racism in police forces. A few bad apples maybe, but that’s it.

– Steve Mnuchin, the foreclosure king of California, and now Secretary of the Treasury and man who was given $500,000,000,000.00 to hand out to his buddies has said that they aren’t shutting down the economy again. Not that they shut it down in the first place.

– Meanwhile protests around the nation and around the world over the killing of George Floyd continue. Something about seeing a man murdered by a policeman before your very eyes has had an effect on the social conscience of many.

– Meanwhile, Ivanka Trump put out a what she thought would be an uplifting statement. Some have taken to splicing in scenes of violence and mayhem that contradict the very things she is talking about.

So, to sum up. The virus is still out there. Our government leaders have decided to ignore it and hope it goes away. If it doesn’t go away they want to ignore it. The problem is all those dead bodies. They don’t go away. They keep piling up. “Can we get a fork lift?”

I need some art. 

A friend of mine said she needs “to get close to the paint.” Yeah. 

142 Days until the election on November 3^rd

222 Days until the Inauguration on January 20, 2021

PS “What? Me Worry?”