On the Day's Going Ons

Well, I personally don't want about 11% of our population to have veto power in the Senate (which is what 41 GOP Senators would represent, more or less) but what do I know about Senate rules. So seriously, go contact your Senator about getting tough and representing people that voted for them. End that filibuster, ffs. Again, the GOP is willing to wreck America if it means they'll win in 2022 (and again, Dems, no one cares if you followed some arcane Senate rule that was introduced a few decades ago and which the GOP will blow up in a second). Maybe we should enact legislation that says money going to the feds from certain counties will go back to those counties. Then we'll see the red states and counties realize the problem. Otherwise, it's essentially a tax on productive areas of the nation. 

Enough about that. How is the rest of the country doing? Not good, reader. You've heard about our great vaccine? Yeah, truly a good moment. But now the rollout (in blue and red states, so I'm not sure what the issue is here) has been a fucking disaster. 3000 people are dying each day on average and guess what? Yeah, there are so many rules about who to give these vaccines to, many are going to waste. That's right. Some are being thrown in the trash. 

This boggles the mind. And again, how come there's not that much outrage about it?

Meanwhile a doctor in Houston has extra doses about to go to waste. He does due diligence but finds no takers so he gives it to people outside the "groups supposed to have it right now." And what does he get for not wasting a dose? Yuppers, the DA is trying to hit him. JFC. Only one act in a nation filled with DAs who try to throw innocents into jail (and given mass incarceration, manage to do so too well), but how the hell is there time for this? Meanwhile those who botched the response to Covid, those who stole from the nation, well they're doing just fine and will never see a fucking DA prosecute them like this. 

System's fucking broke, friends. For anyone not in the super-rich category or well-connected category, though plenty of the poors want to be their friends.

Okay, I'll stop the rant and focus on that short story collection.

 

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