Life in the Kingdom of Glupov: Libertarianism and Moronicity

You have to somewhat admire the magnificent idiocy of those "libertarians" who are attending anti-lock down protests in several US states and who carry signs with Orwellian doublespeak like slogans such as my freedom does not end where your illness begins or if you want to quarantine, quarantine and if you don't, don't. They don't seem to grasp the obvious, that pandemics that can be and, in the case of the coronavirus are, deadly, spread from person to person via contact. Nor do these morons grasp something else that is obvious, namely that nothing gives them the right to put my health and my life in danger. Human freedom and liberty, you see, are not abstract free floating slogans nor are they meaningful outside of real human communities with their extensive social interactions.

Compared to those who think that the pandemic is fake the abstract life in a vacuum libertarians are geniuses. We may not be able to see the coffins of those who have been killed by the coronavirus on television, for obvious reasons, specifically we are living in the time of a pandemic, but life and death go on even if they are not on TV and even if they are cleansed from the minds of moronic know nothings living a really stupid version of postmodernism. We may also not know the exact number of those who have died as a result of covid-19 because countries aren't consistent in their reporting, some who have died may have had their deaths wrongly categorised particularly early on during the spread of the pandemic, and we don't know precisely how many have died in nursing homes, assisted living, and senior homes, and states don't always count these in the pandemic death statistics. What we do know, however, thanks to Johns Hopkins University's online coronavirus site, is that some 300,000 people have died from the pandemic as I type. That is akin to the population of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suddenly disappearing. We know that lock down and social distancing have saved lives, though we don't, thankfully, know how many. And we know that no amount of empirical data will convince Sergeant Schultz like orange crush know nothings that their "reality" is a pathetic, hate filled, and inhumane hallucination and fabrication.

That such dingbat libertarianism and wingnut postmodernism continues to go on in the Kindgom of Glupov is, of course, yet another reason for New York state to consider secession and perhaps petitioning Canada, which has fewer Glupovians in both absolute and per capita terms, to become the eleventh province of that nation. I know that I certainly don't want to spend the rest of what remains of my life in the Kingdom of Glupov with its many idiocies, moroncities, hallucinations, delusions, scapegoating xenophobias, authoritarianisms, theocracies, fetishes, anti-intellectualisms, hypocrisies, and devolutions.