"Oh, God. We’re being controlled by everybody. But not me. If I die, I die, but I’m not going to be controlled.” - Meatloaf's final song...
Meatloaf has died, apparently of Covid. While Loaf's career spanned 50 years I as a GenXer know him for his power ballad I would do anything for love parentheses but I won't do that parentheses and his role in the Chuck Palahniuk film Fight Club. His name was Loaf took (or always was) a hard right-winger belting out a ridiculous America the Beautiful for Vulture Capitalist Mitt R-Money 2012 Presidential campaign.
But, once again Covid shows the Republican ideology is death.
And nothing illustrates this more than the large city of Aurora, Illinois. We are coming up on the two year anniversary of a Mass Shooting in Aurora, Illinois (I have to add Illinois in so you don't get confused with the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado) in which 4 responding Police Officers were shot and wounded. Of course 6 other people were murdered prior to Police arrival so in the NRA inspired guerrilla warfare upon the United States this was another win for the blood-soaked Gun Industry.
But, in the past week 2 Aurora Police Officers have succumbed to Covid.
It is a grotesque inversion of threat analysis that Police Officers have been brainwashed by Republican liars to nonchalantly risk their lives and remain unvaccinated. For the second straight year Covid is the leading cause of death amongst Police Officers nationwide.
Are departments properly informing Officers of the actual risks? Laying out the actual facts for Officer Safety? In 21 days of January we have 11 Officer deaths from Covid. Probably, not because so many Sheriffs and Officers have spent decades steeped in the incestious rightwing echo chamber of fear, lies, and propaganda. They trust Fucker Carlson more than Doctor Anthony Fauci and take the missives of The White Male Grim Reaper Candeath Owens as the True Gospel. Blue Lives Matter? Not to Republicans who see dead Americans as a political winner.
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