Chop Fluey Covid Review for November 2020

Yeah, you guys... it might say it's a review of Covid shit, but it's not. It hasn't been for months, really. Why am I still doing this? 

So, we had an election. Kind of. Not really. 

If you believe the media, Biden won. But votes haven't been certified, so I refuse to say Trump lost until that happens. Am I holding on by a thread? Yeah. I knew the day after the Election that he'd lost. He didn't lose fair and square, but he lost just the same. Fraud isn't fraud if you can't prove it; it's just a conspiracy theory. If you're interested in reviewing said fraud, check out Louder with Crowder's "Fraud Week" series which covers Dominion Irregularities, Georgia, Nevada/Pennsylvania, and Michigan. I mean, I can see it clear as day... Not sure why no one else can  (oh, I know why...)

The election also had Oregon decriminalizing "small amounts" of heroin, cocaine, and LSD. That seems smart. Over in Arizona, they legalized recreational marijuana, as did Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota. 

The day after the election, Facebook (in one of many bans to come), shuts down a 300k+ member page called "Stop the Steal," which was being used by Trump supporters to organize protests. Zuckerberg stated that there were calls to violence by some group members. 

On November 7th, it was projected that Biden won the Election (even though at this time, there were still six states under recounts or lawsuits). Kamala will be the first female Vice President (much historic, so powerful). 

But the worst thing that happened in November (nee, possibly ALL of 2020)? Alex Trebek passed away on November 8th. He announced last year that he had pancreatic cancer, which is mean and deadly. We knew that he didn't have long (it's a fast cancer). But he was looking so well over the past month or so, I felt like it came out of nowhere. This was the message that was shown the next day. 

Apparently, he'd undergone surgery in mid-October, and returned to work two weeks later. He split his workload (5 days of shows) over two days, and those 5 shows would be his last. (Can you imagine being one of the three contestants on that episode?) His final show was taped on October 29, 2020. Thanks to quick thinking by the show-runners, they added in some reruns and tribute episodes so that his final show (fuck you, I'm not crying still!) was shown on Christmas Day. They ended with this lovely tribute video:

 
But I much prefer to share this one:
 

On November 9th, Trump filed multiple lawsuits alleging electoral fraud. While on November 12th, a "coalition of federal and state officials" declared the election "the most secure in American History" and said that there is no evidence that any system was compromised. Yeah, sure.  

Ten days after the election, Arizona was finally projected to be a win for Biden. 

Thousands (I'd bet a hell of a lot closer to a million) gathered in DC at the Million MAGA March to support Trump and the claims of voter fraud. 

Closer to home, on November 23rd, the Alachua County Mask Mandate was challenged in the First District Court of Appeal. Also on this day, Biden/Harris formally begin their "transition" as President-Elect, and Vice President-Elect.

Also, "closer to home" (figuratively), this post just made me fume. It's a Facebook post from an old school friend of mine. She's very liberal, recently got her Master's in Counseling & Development and specializes in serving "LGBTQIA, polyamorous, kink, and all sexual minority communities," and is working on her Doctorate in Marriage and Family Therapy. She's a smart girl. Smarter than I ever expected, given her childhood. I read a lot of her posts, many of which are political, and let them bounce off of me (according to her, Republicans are ass-backward Neanderthals who couldn't find our butts with two flashlights), but this was just proof of how much of the Covid KoolAde people have actually drunk. A woman had the audacity to pull her mask down so that she could better serve a customer, and it's seen as rude and selfish ("the most blindingly selfish thing {she} could imagine"). 

Basically, this post represents EVERY. SINGLE. THING. I hate about what has happened to us, as a society, and as a community. I'm just so fucking OVER IT. 

On Thanksgiving, we all spent lunch with Mom in Ocala. She told me all about her bout with Covid, and we compared "This is bullshit, I hate this shit" stories. 

Later that night, Alex Trebek offered a posthumous Thanksgiving message to all:

Happy Thanksgiving ladies and gentlemen. You know, in spite of what America and the rest of the world is experiencing right now, there are many reasons to be thankful. There are more and more people extending helpful hands to do a kindness to their neighbors, and that’s a good thing. Keep the faith, we’re going to get through all of this, and we will be a better society because of it.

The United States passed 13 million cases of Covid on November 27th. Not deaths, just cases. 

On November 30th, in what may have been a stupid or too optimistic decision, I signed up for a race. It's Miles for Meridian, which I ran last February. Even as I signed up for it, I was skeptical that it would actually RUN, but it had a few things going for it... 1) it was only $14, 2) it has an amazing medal, and C) FREE deferral to 2022 IF it was cancelled or changed to a virtual (ETA: Future Lazy here... it was changed to a virtual, just as I expected.)

So that's that. The world is getting stupider as we go along. Many northern states are locking down again, or instituting more strict mask mandates again. People are ramping up the "OMG, we're all gonna die!" mentality again. And I'm over here just chillin', hating everyone, and finding it very hard to keep a smile on my face.

 

We'll see what December brings. I'm not hopeful, and honestly, I'm pretty sure I'm done with these "updates" at this point. I want to go back to a blog that's fun, and lighthearted, and snarky, and quirky. I'm tired of the hatred that I see when I try to keep up with the world. I dunno... We'll see what happens.