As new cases flare up, Hospitals are Flooded.

Dastardly Deed inspired by the bastardly creed of Racism..

The language of climate change pervades headlines describing corona virus outbreaks, almost as though the media realizes they are symptoms of the same disease: Climate Change. They don't of course, but the click bait of certain phrases works no matter what phenomenon you are describing, so it is hard to tell sometimes which they are referring to until you remember that the increasingly dire forms the latter is taking this year receives nary a whisper of analysis from the talking heads who know they garner far more ad revenues from corona talk than from reporting Climate Change Catastrophes.

That's because you simply can't chastise people for not wearing a mask when it come to behavioral changes that are just as necessary to stave of the worst effects of globalized warming. You have to be able to announce an uptick in automobile manufacturing as a good thing, when in fact it feeds the flames of the ongoing conflagrations. Arizona is currently, perhaps not surprisingly, given its name, burning up. A dozen wildfires have torched nearly 400,000 acres  there, leaving parts of the state, particularly the southeastern portion, charred ruins. Likewise Siberia. Both are burning up and burning down at  unprecedented rates. The economies of the two Petro States in which these tragedies are occurring have pegged their economic futures to the continued exploitation of  untrammeled oil production while engaging in unfettered flaring of enormous quantities of natural gas, and as a direct consequence, both find themselves fighting a raging virus and raging flames at the same time. Raging flooding, another consequence of an over-amped hydrological cycle that burdens the atmosphere with unprecedented  loads of H2O, are also ravaging the landscapes of both countries, as well as those in their proximity. As one announcer after the other makes it clear that Corona Virus has no respect for boundaries, it has never once been spoken, except by yours truly, that the same condition exists for climate change: the floods inundating Central America, and Mexico, the waters ravaging Ukraine, the heat blistering the Southwest and the Siberia have no respect for State boundaries. They only react to the increasing load of CO2 and methane we put there by our increasing reliance on burning oil and gas for what we now know are largely consumed to power our non-essential activities, such as whisking ourselves away on international flights or burying ourselves at sea in an ocean-going hulk with thousands of other well-heeled but bored bourgeoisie.

In other words the Petro States may be the source of the crude lifestyle we live, but every other economy, including those in the South Pacific, where island nations chastise other countries, have all put their eggs in the lucrative basket of tourism, which is completely reliant on jet flights delivering the well-heeled turkeys for them to pluck to their very last buck. But airplanes are the single largest contributor to, not only burning fossil fuels, but doing so five miles up in the  stratosphere where they can more efficiently do their damage. And all that the trillions of dollars in magic money that's been created in the last few months has been slated to do while the virus is ravaging our bodies as well  as our body politic and economies, is to enable a return to the failing economic paradigm that brought the bloody virus to our shores in the first place. We are being burdened to support, by the Administration of a President who declared, "America will never be a Socialist Country", some of the richest MultiNaitonal Corporations on our increasingly crispy planet, all of which have spent and still do spend, while the President flings open the door of the US Treasury to their piracy, more money on paying accountants to decrease their tax burdens than they actually pay in taxes. Now we see first hand the blackmail our only black male ever elected President was faced with upon entering the Oval office that kept him from effecting any of that "Change" he promised during his campaign. "Want to revive the economy GW left in shambles? This is how you are going to do it" ... Or else. Now we have been subjected to the very same blackmail, and with the very same lack of even a peep of protest against the ravaging of the future GDP in order to keep businesses afloat that should be left to go bankrupt. They are wards of the State, kept viable for the jobs they create, not the goods they produce. That's Socialism, not Capitalism. It's Creditism, not Capitalism. We are all forced to bear the burden of the business culture's grand fiasco of paying the central Government to ease their continued existence by denying Climate Change and allowing, nay encouraging, the combustion of the last dregs of fossil fuels, despite the enormous cost in fossil fuels that in and of itself imposes, just to enable the scraping of the bottom of the barrel that fracturing the already earthquake-prone landscape of California, exemplifies.

Because Heaven forbid we should deprive the consumer nations of the world the ability to fly anywhere, infect anyone, and flee back home in time to bestow Sonny's birthday gift of a trip to Yellowstone because the Jersey Shores can't sufficiently satisfy his never-satiated urge to splurge.

But you'd  never know that to listen to the news. Just as you'd never know that the explosion of protests initiated by the Killing of Mister George has a direct link to the explosion of Corona virus cases happening all over the country. Instead all you hear is condemnation of the Orange One. Well-deserved, it can't be denied, but really? Never crossed your mind that the two could be related? Of course. But the media is full of cowards, afraid they will be seen as anti-black lives matter if they even hint that the spread of a deadly virus could have occurred during these lawful protests (since most of the country was still in some form of  lockdown, they may have been morally correct, but they were not legally so. They were in fact unlawful protests. Sorry. But they were).

But just as the media has largely decided that the nationwide protests against police brutality that's been focused on one easily identifiable minority, they prefer to ignore the fact that the form that protest took was more dangerous to that particular minority than even the police and the majority rule (in a Democracy, no less ... so maybe it's the majority Rule that's the problem? Just as it's Trump's tenure in the White House that has left it glaringly obvious that the Presidency itself has serious flaws, the Democratic principle of Majority Rules, despite the protections the flimsy coverage of the Bill of Rights begrudgingly provides (unless you want to own a howitzer) has problems right at its root, right at the base belief that if a majority of people believe it's OK to set police going after black people with deadly force because they're black, well than, it must be OK, 'cause it's legal).

That story captioned above details the plot of a husband who was tired of his wife, and didn't want to bother with rearing the child he had planted in her belly, so he shot her dead while driving her home from a birthing class (isn't that romantic?). Then  he shot himself, and called the police who he easily convinced some black man, who he later fingered, had held him up and shot both himself, his wife, and their unborn child. Boston's Mayor  Flynn declared, in the usual coded terms,

“I demand that the Boston Police Department continue to be extremely aggressive in cracking down on people who are using guns to kill innocent people (unless they're in uniform) … It’s intolerable. We will use every lawful tool to support our police officers in cracking down on gun-wielding criminals.’’ (Meanwhile the murderous psychopath, Flynn's fellow Irishman Whitey Bulger, was still roaming around scot free under the auspices of the FBI). (italics my own)

If the rampage through Roxbury that ensued, which resembled GW's War of Terror in microcosm, was among their "lawful tools", Boston was as mired in hateful racism as any Southern town in what has been made clear are the unapologetic States of the race-hating Confederacy of traitorous States of America, where a mere fifth of the States in this here Democracy, have surreptitiously imposed their will on the rest of the country and spread their own divisive, corrosive dogma of White Supremacy to their fellow pigment-challenged disciples throughout this nation, an alarming number of whom are apparently on Police forces.

Minnesota and Massachusetts are two of the Liberalest (I know that's not a word, but I like it) States in the country, so Black Lives Matter are not being what I would call iconoclastic. Theirs is not a trumped up reality but one they have to live with every day. What I am saying here, is that in order for them to do that, ie LIVE, they need to start behaving (and I've noticed a lot more masks, so that's a good start) as though the country, which does in fact include them, whether some people like that or not, is in the grips of a deadly pandemic, and as the alarmingly growing numbers are making it clear, their preferred method of protest is far more likely to kill them off in heretofore unseen numbers if they don't change their tactics. The fact that the media is, or may be, liberal, given the two Liberal States cited above, might not mean that they're reporting, or not, on the connection between the rapid rise in cases that exactly coincides with the start of the protests (with a 14 day lag ... the fact that the cases are in a much younger cohort only suggests an even stronger connection) might not be in their real longterm best interests.

Your Black life Matters no matter what is coming for you. Right now, despite the rhetoric, the far more deadly threat is invisible: but it is coming for you in far greater numbers, the evidence suggests, than for your paler compadres, so don't follow the example of the very people who revile you, the Trumpeters: wear those masks. It won't kill you to wear a freakin' mask. But the virus, now that will.