Michelle Norris: Many people are turning to you because your “Contagion” screenplay seemed to predict the global pandemic. What do people want to know when they reach out?
Scott Burns: It is sad, and it is frustrating. Sad because so many people are dying and getting sick. Frustrating because people still don’t seem to grasp the situation we are now in and how it could have been avoided by properly funding the science around all of this. It is also surreal to me that people from all over the world write to me asking how I knew it would involve a bat or how I knew the term “social distancing.” I didn’t have a crystal ball — I had access to great expertise. So, if people find the movie to be accurate, it should give them confidence in the public health experts who are out there right now trying to guide us.
Cult45 devotees spend at least a fair part of the day repeating the propaganda bits about how Trump "inherited a broken system from Obama, and it's amazing what a wonderful job we're doing in spite of it yada yada yada."
So we have to repeat constantly that that's a load of 2nd rate bullshit.
We've seen this kinda thing play out three times now - each time leading to "Once-In-A-Lifetime Events" that are happening every 6 years or so.
Bush43 was warned by Clinton's guys that there's probably some bad shit coming our way, but The Shrub assumed it was some kind of lefties-being-pussies-and-trying-to-scare-the-big-strong-Republicans, so he blew 'em off and we got 3,000 dead on 9/11.
We were also warned about how all that De-Regulation Fever in the 90s was going to lead us back to the bad old days of banks and Wall Street fucking around - gambling with money that doesn't fucking belong to them. But all that was ignored, the Bushies cheered and took it even further, with the coin-operated politicians playing right along, and we got the worst economic implosion since the 1930s.
45* was warned about pandemics, and how we'd already gamed it out several different ways, and we need to stay vigilant and keep the system in place that's geared to give us a heads-up, but he's absolutely blinded by his resentments, none of which is greater than the one that drives his burning intention to dismantle every bit of Obama's legacy, so they blew it off, and now we've got 5,000 dead Americans so far, and we're faced with the very real probability of 100,000 - 300,000 more.
Seems like the first thing we need to do is stop putting these asshole Republicans in charge.
No comments:
Post a Comment