The lockdown media’s portrayal of the ‘second wave’ in ‘Red States’ — which never really had a first wave — is nothing but the revenge of the weak against the strong, or, in this case, the revenge of the fearful against the relatively calm. We’ve reached a point, an absurd point, where we can’t acknowledge that the virus has to stay; we can’t talk about ways to adapt; we can only talk about levels of fear (which range from high to sky high). Fl/Az/Tx have more cases — they must all be terrible and all those states must be failing and hospitals must be overrun. We can’t say — in the sense that such speech is policed…
