OF VACCINES AND COMPETENCE
(Covid’s Cunning versus The Epidemic of Malignant Bimboism)
By
David Gottfried
A few years ago, I read an article, in the New York Times, which said that in the late 1940’s a man with smallpox had entered New York City. The article said that the City of New York, in the span of about four days, vaccinated virtually the entire population of the City, 8 million souls.
Today, I heard some talking heads on TV moaning about how difficult it would be to vaccinate the American people. Oh, the logistics. Moving something from a warehouse to a plane to a bus and into someone’s arm ! It seems as difficult as landing a man on the moon.
I looked at the photos that accompanied the story of New York’s crash vaccination program in the late 1940’s. The people in the pictures looked so eminently level-headed and competent. They were, after all, the people who had lifted us out of the depression, defeated the Nazis and made America the “sunlit uplands” Churchill prophesied about in the darkest days of Axis advances.
Contrast this with the feeble, fumbling way we are dealing with Covid. Our moronic President suggests we inject ourselves with bleach. Some people say that masks can cause covid. When the governor of Michigan wanted to do something to stop Covid’s carnage, some of her citizens tried to kidnap her.
But the people are not only more and more emotionally imbalanced. They also seem to be dumber that the dodo bird.
Consider the level of educational attainment in the inner cities: I know someone who goes to a clinic which treats, primarily, poor black and brown youths with HIV disease. Before the patients are given medication, they are given M & Ms.
The social workers, or condescending liberals who induce social disease to justify their incomes, determined that young blacks and Puerto Ricans, who have HIV, are too irresponsible, or reckless or stupid to understand something as simple as the instruction, “Take twice a day with food.” Accordingly, for a couple of weeks they eat M & M’s twice a day, or in some way similar to the medicinal regimen they will be given.
I think some of the white liberals who have built their great liberal programs must be racist. You must be racist to believe that a black person, by virtue of being black, has to take his pills by first taking M & M candies. Sometimes I get very angry at black people, but I am not racist because I know what black people have done, and I know the histories of black people who came from nothing, who suffered in slavery and reached the shimmering zenith of achievement. If you have some time, consider Scott Joplin, the first musician to synthesize a form of music which wedded African musical forms with European genres and George Washington Carver, a black scientist whose discoveries kept hundreds of thousands of poor Southerners, white and black, from starvation.
However, nowadays the reigning racist and liberal establishment expect nothing from blacks in the way of achievement. If you expect nothing, if you look upon your students as if they were a pack of animals, they will understandably hate you and they will eat you alive.
My discussion of what I perceive as declines in black America might seem to have nothing to do with our sorry response to Covid, but it does. I think incompetence in one area of life can lead to dissolution and disarray and failure in other areas of life. And so I believe that as educational standards have declined in the inner cities, they have declined across the country. I know students who majored in the natural sciences in college who do not know what the periodic chart is, do not know what protozoa are and cannot convert Celsius to Fahrenheit. I don’t want to sound like a fucking old fart, but man, so many people to me seem to be so exceptionally feeble. Consider this:
John Foster Dulles was a fearsome son of a bitch and Secretary of State when Eisenhower was president. He was a rich kid, but he was no soft spoiled brat.
In his elite prep school, the boys had to stand in the courtyard, at six o’clock in the morning, before breakfast and one by one the boys would be subjected to mental arithmetic, or arithmetic without a pencil as a crutch, e.g., “Dulles, what is 15 times 72 and be quick about it.” Standing ram rod straight, in front of all his school mates, the student would have to find the answer.
Oh, I know you think I am a fossil, exalting days long since good and dead. Nowadays no one knows how to add anything. Nowadays everything is programmed.
And soon we will all be driving computer programmed cars and flying in computer programmed planes. And then one of these days the Mother of All Osama ben Ladins will hack the computers and we will suffer the greatest car crashes and plane crashes and our civilization will crumble to dust.
We have the finest computers but look at what a rotten job we have done with respect to Covid. In the beginning, we couldn’t seem to design a halfway decent test for the pathogen. Then we were buying half assed antibody tests from overseas.
My hard-assed stance might seem inconsistent with liberalism, which sometimes is thought of as forgiving and permissive. But I am a leftist, not a liberal. There’s a difference.
Great rant, that's said positively. You should be featured on Substack's front page, if they had a front page, which they don't. I suggested it but it would probably mean a hire, and websites like this to some degree run themselves. Keep it coming.