The most ironic aspect of this "Hitler responds to Georgia's reopening" is that they elected to adopt Hitler as being on their side.
It's a festival of contempt that is probably by a northerner who moved to Atlanta, as they clearly know the state well (references to things like pollen, 'the same two colleges,' Waffle House, etc, are spot on). It might be a native of Atlanta who has always hated most of the state, but they'd also have to be an introvert who hates the Southern way of greeting each other and talking to your neighbors.
The latter is hard on even slightly introverted people. I raised my son to recognize when I was angling to exit a conversation, and never to say anything that would undermine the exit strategy I was employing. Some of my neighbors will talk to you for hours if you don't find a way to duck out.
Might be intentional rather than ironic.
ReplyDeleteSeems like an excellent satirization, excepting maybe that it's too spot on to reality.
The author may well be satirically mocking the mockers, I suppose. The people who keep sharing it on FB definitely are not.
ReplyDeleteBut it’s ok. I’m used to it. My whole life people have been moving to Georgia and telling us how backwards we were for not doing it the way they did in the place they fled.
We have than in NH as well.
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ReplyDeleteA little heavy on the "they're mouth-breathers, har, har, har," but fairly funny.
ReplyDeleteHumor aside, notice how the goalposts have shifted? Originally we were going to shut down to make sure the hospitals weren't overwhelmed. Now that hospitals are closing and laying off staff everywhere but NYC, the smart people all think the idea all along was that, if these idiots would just be patient for another couple of months, the virus would go away completely: something absolutely no one to my knowledge ever predicted, and which is even more wildly unlikely now. To be fair, they may be mixing up "vanish without a trace" with "reasonable levels of herd immunity that will mean permanent relief from the fear of overwhelming hospitals in some other hapless hotspot. But I'm not sure any other city will quite match NYC's perfect storm of international exposure, population density, and long mass-transit commutes.
The lesson we should be taking from this experience is that wealthy, "wasteful," "inequitable" medical systems hold up rather well under pandemics that absolutely trash a socialized system in Italy that WHO gushes over.
Except that it'll take *forever* to get to herd immunity if we all mostly staying home. It makes zero sense. We aren't stopping the virus- that's wholly irrealistic and unscientific.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with Georgia per se. It's the humidity and heat in the south, the pine pollen in the north, and the size of Atlanta that I objected to when I lived in Georgia. :)
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