Comments on: America Is Ready To Explode http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: SF Bear http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176184 SF Bear Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:03:22 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176184 One word. -- PARTY One word. -- PARTY

]]> By: BashiBazouk http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176182 BashiBazouk Fri, 19 Mar 2021 18:09:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176182 Stucki- Ever have the flu? Then you likely had a descendant of the 1918 Spanish flu... Stucki-

Ever have the flu? Then you likely had a descendant of the 1918 Spanish flu...

]]> By: C. R. Stucki http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176181 C. R. Stucki Fri, 19 Mar 2021 16:49:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176181 Optimism run amok. What about COVID 20 thru infinity, along with completely new viruses? What a lucky old geezer I am, can't think of a better time to be near the end of this sorry life! Optimism run amok. What about COVID 20 thru infinity, along with completely new viruses? What a lucky old geezer I am, can't think of a better time to be near the end of this sorry life!

]]> By: Bleyd http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176180 Bleyd Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:12:28 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176180 Sounds like you're talking about the Scattering from the Dune series. As for me, I'm looking forward to having the occasional date night with my wife again, going out for dinner and/or a movie. Also, I want to go visit my parents. They never got covid, but the PTSE thing has hit them particularly hard, aggravating their existing health issues (they're both 70). Sounds like you're talking about the Scattering from the Dune series.

As for me, I'm looking forward to having the occasional date night with my wife again, going out for dinner and/or a movie. Also, I want to go visit my parents. They never got covid, but the PTSE thing has hit them particularly hard, aggravating their existing health issues (they're both 70).

]]> By: TheStig http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176179 TheStig Fri, 19 Mar 2021 12:07:27 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176179 CW- Sounds like you got the Moderna. The 30 days before getting the booster seemed much longer to me. Mostly safe doesn’t feel all that safe....and there are 10 more days before the second shot fully kicks in. Officially. I’m on day 11 of phase 2. It feels great. CW-

Sounds like you got the Moderna. The 30 days before getting the booster seemed much longer to me. Mostly safe doesn’t feel all that safe....and there are 10 more days before the second shot fully kicks in. Officially. I’m on day 11 of phase 2. It feels great.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176178 nypoet22 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 03:06:05 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176178 PES mobile is the best football game i've ever seen on a mobile device. PES mobile is the best football game i've ever seen on a mobile device.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176176 nypoet22 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 02:48:53 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176176 Pro Evolution Soccer! https://www.konami.com/wepes/2021/eu/en/ps4/ Pro Evolution Soccer!

https://www.konami.com/wepes/2021/eu/en/ps4/

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176174 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 19 Mar 2021 02:38:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176174 John, I couldn't agree more. I look at this whole pandemic as a wake up call. We all need to learn the lessons of how to prepare for and respond to a pandemic because the way we have all (for the most part but with notable exceptions) responded to this one has been unacceptable, especially considering the use of lockdowns and people having to die alone and even live alone without the comfort of having family with them. UNACCEPTABLE!!! I don't think this is the disease X that scientists have been worried about because this virus is very controllable and only a fatal threat to a small percentage of the global population. How will we respond to the next pathogen that may be far less controllable and a deadly threat to all of us? John, I couldn't agree more.

I look at this whole pandemic as a wake up call. We all need to learn the lessons of how to prepare for and respond to a pandemic because the way we have all (for the most part but with notable exceptions) responded to this one has been unacceptable, especially considering the use of lockdowns and people having to die alone and even live alone without the comfort of having family with them. UNACCEPTABLE!!!

I don't think this is the disease X that scientists have been worried about because this virus is very controllable and only a fatal threat to a small percentage of the global population.

How will we respond to the next pathogen that may be far less controllable and a deadly threat to all of us?

]]> By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176171 John M from Ct. Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:42:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176171 What a fun column to read. Until I got to the part about "...we're all going to want to immediately forget the whole pandemic experience ever existed. We're going to want to put it all behind us forever." Uh-huh. And what is the government, and society, going to do to prepare for the next 'big one', plague-wise, so that we don't have to do this again? Prepare, fund, and normalize pandemic public health protocols on a national level? Or dumbly look forward to episode after episode of stupidly repeated, partial, and inefficient lockdowns, decorated with unavailable or difficult to get testing and tracing, while losing upwards of a million people in a year and several millions more debilitated for the long term? You didn't just say that, did you? What a fun column to read. Until I got to the part about "...we're all going to want to immediately forget the whole pandemic experience ever existed. We're going to want to put it all behind us forever."

Uh-huh. And what is the government, and society, going to do to prepare for the next 'big one', plague-wise, so that we don't have to do this again? Prepare, fund, and normalize pandemic public health protocols on a national level? Or dumbly look forward to episode after episode of stupidly repeated, partial, and inefficient lockdowns, decorated with unavailable or difficult to get testing and tracing, while losing upwards of a million people in a year and several millions more debilitated for the long term?

You didn't just say that, did you?

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176170 nypoet22 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 01:39:03 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176170 <i>(like playing the fun parlor game of guessing precisely which aberrant personality disorder fit our previous president the best, for instance).</i> hey, i resemble that remark! https://www.uu.nl/en/node/541/donald-trump-textbook-narcissist (like playing the fun parlor game of guessing precisely which aberrant personality disorder fit our previous president the best, for instance).

hey, i resemble that remark!

https://www.uu.nl/en/node/541/donald-trump-textbook-narcissist

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176168 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:45:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176168 The thing is we don't really know how long immunity will last or just how deadly and less discriminating the COVID-19 virus variants will get, especially in those countries where it continues to spread wildly and where vaccines have not yet begun to be distributed, much less put into arms, to any large degree. And, if I could just reiterate that we are dealing with a pandemic not just an American epidemic. America won't be safe until every country is safe. The thing is we don't really know how long immunity will last or just how deadly and less discriminating the COVID-19 virus variants will get, especially in those countries where it continues to spread wildly and where vaccines have not yet begun to be distributed, much less put into arms, to any large degree.

And, if I could just reiterate that we are dealing with a pandemic not just an American epidemic.

America won't be safe until every country is safe.

]]> By: andygaus http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176167 andygaus Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:38:52 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176167 The trouble with trying to achieve herd immunity is that some of the more ox-like parts of the herd would rather not be immune. Check out this article from CNN where a reporter found that the people in an Oklahoma diner not only didn't want to be vaccinated but were ready to split with Trump after Trump said that being vaccinated was a good idea: https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/03/18/tuchman-vaccine-trump-biden-coronavirus-vpx.cnn The trouble with trying to achieve herd immunity is that some of the more ox-like parts of the herd would rather not be immune. Check out this article from CNN where a reporter found that the people in an Oklahoma diner not only didn't want to be vaccinated but were ready to split with Trump after Trump said that being vaccinated was a good idea:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/03/18/tuchman-vaccine-trump-biden-coronavirus-vpx.cnn

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/03/18/america-is-ready-to-explode/#comment-176166 Elizabeth Miller Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:25:10 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=20193#comment-176166 Wow. I haven't seen that kind of optimism in I don't know when. It's nice to see, really. I hope it's warranted. In case it isn't, there's always this, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/oregon-psychedelic-therapy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Wow. I haven't seen that kind of optimism in I don't know when. It's nice to see, really.

I hope it's warranted.

In case it isn't, there's always this,

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opinion/oregon-psychedelic-therapy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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