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Emily Post and the Sons of Liberty
Can we as a nation fight off this devil virus while remaining both polite to each other and free?
There is a geezer living across the street from me here in Geezerville (this is an age-restricted subdivision) with whom I am friendly, but in my opinion he has an excessive attachment to guns and to Jesus. Sometimes I think he pictures Jesus with a bandolier across his chest. I’m going to call this geezer Ralph to insulate him from ridicule.
Ralph’s second favorite deity after Jesus is Donald John Trump who Ralph is convinced hung the moon. If Mr. Trump said the moon is made of cheese, I would expect to see Ralph in his front yard every full moon waving a cracker. Also, if Mr. Trump says there’s no pandemic and the virus is a scare ginned up by fake news, then that must be so. Somewhere, there’s a forgery operation that did Barack Obama’s birth certificate and now it’s churned out 124,976 death certificates and counting.
I’m gobsmacked about this last bit of credulity because Ralph is a retired dentist and I thought dentists received a serious science education. But there he is claiming this is no different than the annual flu and there’s no way it spreads that fast and anyway there will be a vaccine before school starts in September. Ralph would rather perform a root…
