Morning Links | 23 Apr 20

Good Morning! Riding the downside of week six of the Bat Gumbo Apocalypse, there’s plenty to keep us busy while we wait for the padlocks to rust. CoVID-19 appears to have landed stateside a few weeks earlier than assumed; police departments across the nation are refusing to enforce draconian lockdown measures imposed by their governors; NYC Mayor de Blasio is shocked—shocked, I tell you!—that criminals released because of Covid-19 are committing crimes; the contours of the worst conspiracy in American history continue to fill in; and you know you’re a wealthy society when your most pressing issue is banning plastic straws.

WE ARE BEING BAMBOOZLED

This Shambling and Shameful and Shambolic Shamdemic

So look at where we are. This virus is new enough that we don’t even have a vaccine for it yet. We don’t have a vaccine for this pest, but we already have an hardened orthodoxy concerning it. Apparently orthodoxies are easier to come up with than vaccines. The Truth is apparently well known enough that the establishment experts are already submitting a statement of faith on this virus to the college of cardinals, to which all public expressions must heretofore conform. And that’s how you win an argument with an irreverent heretic.