Wednesday Whines

 I am so old that I remember when the newspaper put their opinions on the editorial page. Now they just scatter a few facts through the entire paper and pass it off as news. The most accurate statements are in the obituary section.

Headline on today's News & Record website said "Red Hats outnumber face masks 100-1 at Trump rally". It wasn't a news report, it was an attack on everything and everyone conservative. "Balanced" is not in the N&R vocabulary. This article actually came from the Winston Salem paper, I guess the N&R could not afford to send a reporter thirty miles. Or they didn't have one bright enough to find the airport?

Gov. Roy AssBerry Cooper is running campaign ads attacking his opponent, Dan Forest, for not wearing a mask. His latest features some doctor begging Forest to wear a mask. Why doesn't he spend that money running ads to actually explain that "science" that he is always talking about, but never actually gives us?

In a commercial with some other medical professional(?), Cooper tells her, "You're doing God's work." Is there any evidence that Roy Cooper would know what God's work actually is?

Headline earlier this week, "Trump nominated for Nobel Prize by extreme right-winger". I did a Google search for "Obama gets Nobel Prize from leftist ass kissers", but came up empty. Back to that balanced thing?

I read an article about how researchers at Duke University found evidence that neck gaiters used as face masks are not very effective. The writer was excited about how inexpensive the experiment had been. Researchers had people wearing gaiters cough into a cardboard box where they had cut a hole. I can't remember the last time that I had my head in a cardboard box and someone coughed on me. How many people who aren't homeless have ever shared time in a cardboard box with another person? Could we get some real world scenarios for experiments? None of us live in labs. Get out of the labs and do some real world experiments.

Let's say that you have $100 in pennies. Someone tells you that you are going to lose all of your pennies if you don't stay home and wear a mask. So eight months later, you count your pennies. You now have $99.95 in pennies. For this 5 cents, morons have shut down the nation. Welcome to the insanity of COVID-19.