More Facebook nonsense: Everyone is sharing the media story that for the first time NY has no new deaths from the virus and aren't they the role model for everything bright and beautiful and didn't they do everything perfectly. I asked a very simple question: Why is it that a mere three weeks ago every media outlet and Facebook page was posting photos of New Yorkers partying in the streets, sans masks, not social distancing, at bars with no masks not distancing, in Central Park with no masks not distancing, with all the shaming and outrage you'd think would accompany these dastardly photos, with captions saying, "C'mon, NY, we're better than this" "WTF" "wait until you see the spike in two weeks" blah, blah, blah. I said these two stories do not mesh. A couple of people responded, on saying he thought it was just playing itself out and the other agreeing with me, that something is wrong somewhere.
Then some jerk, an uppity, no-talent singer, starts taking me on, denying there were such photos, etc. So, I found 'em, as reported by the NY Times (headline: NY is acting like the pandemic is over!") and another major paper, linked them, and yes they included all those photos that were being shared. Then this wazoo did what they all do - move the goalposts - rather than simply acknowledge, he said that this doesn't really travel outdoors - it's indoors, bars and restaurants. So, suddenly it's not a danger outdoors? I asked the obvious question: If that's so, why are we wearing masks, why were people blamed and shamed daily for not wearing masks, if not a one of them got the virus. He then did the next obvious thing: He said I had no right to comment because I'm in CA and when CA flattens the curve then I can talk. I said, what does this have to do with CA? I said, the stories and photos were either truthful or they were lies - that's it. Either outdoors is dangerous or it's not. If thousands of New Yorkers were partying in the streets, if no one got it while demonstrating without masks, then what is the "Wear the effing mask" about. Clearly it's meaningless when they need it to be meaningless, when they try to move the goalposts. Then he got personal and I had to call him a baboon
Then I blocked him. And to make sure he still didn't do his dirty business, I nuked the thread in its entirety, which is a little Facebook trick I learned. If you're posting in a thread and your post gets responses, if you remove that initial post, the post and EVERY response goes away, leaving only the person's original thread and its other comments. This guy is someone I thought I'd blocked long ago. I've seen videos of him "singing" - not someone I would EVER work with because he's got not an ounce of subtlety or interpretive talent.
