To Adapt Would Be Daft

Daily writing prompt
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

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Tho my lead paragraph’s observations are but stray thoughts, such words are still worthy of further deliberation. That said, I do find it intriguing how things, unseen, can both enhance and cancel. Fleshing that out, consider how it has been Job No. 1 for TODAY’S unseen, life taking coronavirus to shut down our lungs’ ability to process the unseen, life giving oxygen. WOW, what a war, huh? On top of that, as we move onward (not necessarily with forward momentum), what about our world of TOMORROW?

How would we even know, for sure, whether or not that invisible to the naked eye microbe has forever “left town” or is, instead, merely on hiatus? You know, taking a breather whilst going undercover; whilst having the time of its life “sexing it up”; and, in the process, birthing brand spanking new variants? And WHAT IF one of those “newborns” turns out so uniquely virulent that it can spank the available vaccines into unconditional surrender?

And, upon factoring in how global warming has been melting down eons old, breeding ground glaciers, there’s no telling what horrors await us once these primordial microbes thaw out! Might they even be the kissing cousins of coronavirus-19, itself? Prove fully capable of cooking up, oh, say, a Covid-28 pandemic… or a 26… or, perhaps, even a 24?

One particular thought that’s even more disconcerting is what those of us, who really give a damn, did learned from ol’ 19; i.e, how, even our need to face down a common, deadly enemy failed (miserably so) at mobilizing and uniting humanity; how, instead, this crisis fueled such a politically partisan shitstorm that its tin foll hat, mad hatter proprietors went batshit crazy.

Few of us truly caring souls can ever banish from our collective memory, how, rather than these (mostly Trumpian) bad actors simply complying with the easiest, life saving pandemic protocols (i.e. masking up / social distancing / sheltering at home) they flat-out refused to react responsibly, in a humane, considerate, compassionate manner. Worse yet, to date, they have yet to own up to the fact that they’ve been dead wrong all along.

Who can ever forget how they doubled down whilst stumbling and staggering about their DIY zombie apocalypse; hopelessly consumed by their Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine drugged hallucinations; totally committed to live out their miserable existences within their fantasy fueled world, even if it killed ’em! And they did wind up needlessly killing themselves; their confederates and compatriots, too; to the tune of 1,218,856 fatalities, to date, within America, alone!

Returning, now, to the Daily Prompt’s query…

How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?

I can only answer that question with my key question; plus follow-up parting thoughts…

Would it not be daft to ever adapt to the utterly undesirable, unacceptable dystopian society that Covid-19 bred; hell, is still breeding / shall continue to breed till, perhaps, the end of time, itself?

We, as a society can and must do better. I want no part of that abnormal new normal, folks.

Now, before I self-categorize as disgusted, disillusioned and outta here, do consider this still valid, life saving, pandemic shortening advice…

Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Can Yuks Conquer Yuck?

Daily writing prompt
What makes you laugh?

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Let’s think big picture; our world as a (w)hole
Too little love; widespread war; pols sans soul
Fierce insurrection inflation
Infection filth inhalation
Who yuks it up, when such yuck takes its toll?

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Few, If Any, Fun Times Ahead

Bloganuary writing prompt
List five things you do for fun.

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Suffice to say, ills today, turn whole world rotten
To carnage – covid – clime change, we can’t cotton
Worse, yet, white racist nuts, sleazy
Turn stomachs / guts, till we’re queasy
Normal life’s good / fun times, soon get forgotten

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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It’s too Tuff to Top Today’s Crazy

Daily writing prompt
Come up with a crazy business idea.

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Crazy business ideas / models; be their perpetrators big gov or big corps, oft prompt phrases with unflattering connotations; to name but two… batshit crazy and monkey business.

What could… ever… possibly… top such batcrap crazy, monkey business ideas than the ones that heads-up-their-butts, heads of state regularly pull outta their butts?

Case in point… The Stateside political landscape showcases the mostly Trumper Republican science denier, mentally ill ilk; where these (mis)leaders’ / (f)lawmakers’ absolutely abhorrent, unconscionable, unforgivable business decision, right from the get-go, was to politicize the pandemic. It has been their consequent rhetoric which, to this very day, constantly cons their MAGA cultists into nonconformity; morphs ’em all into ferocious anti-maskers / anti-vaxxers; even tho coronavirus variants continue to sicken / sicken to death the ubiquitous unprotected.

Net effect… It oft seems that Covid-19’s end depends on the end of humanity, itself.

Net side effect… These ignoraNus (<– not a typo) ideologues unwittingly wound up thinning out their own herd! Their efforts have been so “successful” they’re still regularly marching off their party loyal patsies to their way too early graves. Many a political pundit has pointed out how this was one of the contributing factors behind Donald J. Trump’s absolutely real defeat back in 2020 and, in 2022, in part, was responsible for the anticipated midterm elections’ red wave petering out to a mere dribble.

Ironically, these right wing extremist freaks have been deep-sixing the very constituents required to maintain their ugly, undemocratic, fascistic, minority rule, Trumpian, choke-hold on power.

But not to worry??? Nothing could ever keep a good, decaying cadaver down; i.e., keep the zombies away from the polls. NOPE, not when their surviving, ghoulish, fraudster kinfolk CAN and DO impersonate their lost loved ones. To be sure, it has been mostly Republicans / rarely Democrats who are getting busted for voting two (or more) times per election.

Now… seeing how… I could never… ever… possibly… not even in my most batshit crazy dystopian nightmares… concoct a more cockamamie, crazier business idea than the one described above…

Daily prompt-wise… that means for me… for now…

  • It’s blog over…
  • I’m outta here…
  • Back at ya tomorrow…

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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A Hot Time (x4) is Guaranteed for All

Daily writing prompt
Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?

I’m an Earthling who’s entrenched in the past. Here’s why…

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The following, in the here and now, Hot Topics make for an uninviting future…

  • Global pandemic sans end due to science denier/antimasker ignoraNuses*
  • Global warming persists due to science deniers’ failure to curb CO2 & CH4
  • Global aggression/territorial pissing due to Russian + Hamas/Israeli a-holes
  • Global grooming efforts afoot to facilitate fascism-trumps-freedom agendas

* That’s no typo. Whilst I cannot claim to be the only 1 out of 8 Billion to have coined such a word… well… would it piss off anyone to allow Methuselah Moi that fleeting, dubious honor? Anyway…

Conversely: The past beckons, which doesn’t offer me much of a “consolation prize”, other than…

At least some of us (the “lucky ones”) may pull thru long enough to blog about the looming apocalypse; momentarily survive to even win… strike that… to even be awarded a similar booby prize. Yep, we’d be guaranteed a hot time whilst becoming eyewitnesses to this Four Alarm Fire

  • legions of coronavirus variants’ feverish bedridden
  • freakish weather patterns fueled by heat build-up
  • hot headed so-called rulers’ no-win wars (nuclear?)
  • DJT firing up a 249th B-day candle to burn US down

And it’d be in the light of that fourfold conflagration when/ where (perhaps?) perdition’s hellfire, itself, could prove a tad more survivable? Appealing? Dare I say…

“The lesser of two evils?”

Well now, if that’s not a sufficiently sobering wake-up call, let’s hesitate NOT to point out the distinct possibility that many of those booby-prizes could easily be awarded posthumously; i.e., if there are any tricked out in tuxedos and/or evening gowns emcees left to do so.

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Vacays NAY! Staycations YEA!

Daily writing prompt
What cities do you want to visit?
  • Stated succinctly in one word: NONE!
  • In considerably more choice words…

Existing in a world driven by ferocious avarice, one of the few ways to protest peaceably and effectively is via the boycott; i.e., when we hit these greedy bastards in their wallets; e.g. by abiding by my simple but effective, above headlined stratagem.

Granted, such a tactic doth seem heartless, but, in my defense, are not the travel agents, themselves, even more heartless? After all, it is they whose Job #1 is to schmooze their restless, prospective patsy patrons into booking flights and sea cruises under savagely wild, dangerous conditions; particularly against the perilous, neighboring backdrops of the…

  • full bloom war zones (Russia/Ukraine), (Israel/Gaza) + five other regions
  • battlefields that loom in territories even our creator doth not, yet, know
  • AR-15 toting, calling all the shots rabid, lone wolves (especially Stateside)
  • still rampaging, invisible warlord; aka the microbial Coronavirus variants

Once travel objectors (such as I) also factor in the rest of our world’s, non-critical, ass-backwards thinkers; aka, the uncivil, civilians who’ve been Big Brothered into the die-hard belief that fascism’s sweaty stench must always trump sweet freedom’s fragrance and…

Well, let’s just say that’s when forever forestalling… correction… forever forsaking all… AND I DO MEAN ALL…citified visits starts to make even more sense. And, btw, just to be on the safe side, travel to bucolic regions must be part of our DIY travel ban, too!

That’s why I’m shouting my displeasure from my mountaintop platform; hopefully making it abundantly clear to the travel traffickers that life cannot return to business-as-usual / Tuesday / normal until they divert their schmoozing capabilities to target a-hole, world mis-leaders; convince them to clean up their horrific acts and, in turn / in kind, do the same to unmuck our… correction… unmuck THEIR mucked up globe.

Seriously, who in their right mind would ever want to go globetrotting during worldwide unrest and a global pandemic?

Hence, till then, I remain the habitual homebody; not because I want to, but because common sense must prevail. I mean, all of those above mentioned travails have likely forever, rendered travel untenable; well, at least from the standpoint of those of us who are still reasonably reasonable.

Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!
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HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Kith ‘n’ Kin ‘n’ Kiln ‘n’ Kitchen?

Daily writing prompt
Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

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Alas, within what’s left of my leftovers life, the kith and kin stats, with increasing frequency and dispiriting melancholy, have been dwindling. Now stirring in a much needed dash of (hopefully offsetting) mild humor, to the best of my knowledge, few, if any, of my relatives are / ancestors were heavily into throwing wheel spun pottery into the nearest kiln.

So, what else does that leave but my kitchen, complete with the burned out baking element “oven”. And, yes, even that disrepair despair furthers my headlined, alliterative word play; i.e., upon factoring in how I’m not a big fan of the inevitable leftovers’ spoilage that’s already inherent with holiday cooking to excess. All of which is my roundabout way of asking…

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What’s the point in prepping a turkey with all the trimmings feast (gulp / choke) merely for moi?

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And, it’s not like there would be absolutely no one to invite, either. It’s just that I’m a science focused man, who’s not about to throw any holiday bashes when I’m still a steadfast believer in masking up and social distancing; (obviously) neither of these health safety protocols is especially conducive to breaking bread with a houseful of dinner guests, right? RIGHT!.

Serving up a platter-full of somber, sobering reality, now, I flat-out refuse to forgive the Stateside, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s epidemiologists for caving into the anything for a buck / megabucks, electioneering politicians’ pressure to prematurely end the still raging coronavirus, GLOBAL PANDEMIC!

Ergo, with no kith, kin, kiln and kitchen (functional oven) in the picture for the foreseeable future (inclusive of the upcoming December holidays), this past Thanksgiving, the closest I ever came to a poultry-centric menu was popping open and cooktop prepping of one can of Campbell’s Chicken with White & Wild Rice soup (UPC# 51000 10526).

And, to be sure, I was absolutely thankful for that modest, yet, yummy fare; especially upon factoring in how, according to my Google search, out of the 8 Billion members of our human family…

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“As many as 828 million people — about 10% of the global population — regularly go to bed hungry. Economic shocks, extreme weather events, and conflicts like the war in Ukraine1 have restricted global food supplies, driven up prices, and presented a threat to vulnerable populations and countries.”

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1 We’ll need to upward update of that needless death toll, likely to 1 Billion+ owing to the unforgivable Israeli / Palestinian crimes against humanity!

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!
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HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Routine’s Re-Verse ~ Quick Limerick

Daily writing prompt:
What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can?

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You have got to wonder… correction… worry about daily prompt’s authors who suggest even a smattering of convention can still survive within our mucked up, contemporary society; they, who (conveniently?) ignore the recently rewritten new reality… as suggested below…

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Be it any town, any home, any store
Be it any wish, any plan, any chore
That ghoulish global pandemic
Snuffs free expression; systemic
Till nothing in life is routine anymore

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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Unforgettable Historical Events

Daily writing prompt
What major historical events do you remember?

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My selection of 36 unforgettable historical moments span 60 years (1963-2023) and are bullet pointed in chronological order. Tho these are apt to stir feelings of hopefulness or hopelessness, alas, the bulk of this list gravitates towards the latter. That said…

  • President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald; et al?
  • Televised, live, via the major networks, Jack Ruby guns down Oswald
  • Stateside, the Beatles’ upbeat TV concerts uplift the JFK mourning fog
  • Electrical sparks set Apollo 1 capsule ablaze; ALL 3 astronauts perish
  • Assassinations of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. & Robert F. Kennedy Sr.
  • Detroit Tigers battle back from 3 losses to win the 1968 World Series
  • Apollo 8’s flight to the moon adds dimension to yearend holy holidays
  • Neil Armstrong becomes first moon walker & Buzz Aldrin the second
  • Apollo 13 O2 tank bursts; moon mission scrubbed/rescue mission a-ok
  • Ratified Constitutional Amendment XXVI lowers U.S. voting age to 18
  • Watergate crook & “president” Tricky Dicky Nixon resigns in disgrace
  • Tricky Dick accepts Gerald R. Ford’s pardon; aka an admission of guilt
  • Ronald Reagan’s union busting/trickle down economics harm the poor
  • Space Shuttle Challenger blasts off and blows up; ALL 7 astronauts die
  • Bill Clinton’s go-ahead to Monica Lewinsky blows down his presidency
  • The U.S. House Impeaches President Clinton; U.S. Senate Acquits him
  • Florida ballot tallies too close to say if Al Gore or George W Bush won
  • Ballot recounts get shut down by five of Bush’s Supreme Court cronies
  • Five weeks prior to 9/11, Georgie flips off red flags re Osama bin Laden
  • Post attack, spin docs makeover Bush; rebrand him “Commander Guy”
  • Bush’s legislative cronies pass the Constitution gutting U.S. Patriot Act
  • Bush’s Afghanistan and Iraq wars spill oceans of red blood and red ink
  • Bush’s enhanced interrogation techniques torture his prisoners of war
  • Space Shuttle Columbia burns up during reentry; ALL 7 astronauts die
  • Donald J. Trump parlays voter bigotry & sycophancy into a presidency
  • Trump serves notice of his intent to quit the Paris Climate Agreement
  • Science denier Trump flunks pandemic management 101; 400K perish
  • Trump politicizes facial masks / covid vaccines; again, needless deaths
  • Trump’s cruel border policy wrests kids from parental arms; cages kids
  • Losing to Biden, Trump spreads his Election Fraud Big Lie like manure
  • Trump rabble rouses his rubes; deploys them to U.S. Capitol on Jan 6th
  • Insurrectionists chant, “Hang Mike Pence!” & literally shit up the Capitol
  • Sore loser Trump flips off attending Biden Inauguration; exits DC in huff
  • Trump rips off classified docs (might even auction them off to U.S. foes?)
  • 4X indicted/facing down 91 felony charges, Donny throws 24/7 hissyfits
  • Russian / Hamas / Israel aggression IS human-unkind at its bloody worst

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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From a Risk Management Perspective

Daily writing prompt
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?

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Be they categorized as biggest, smallest or anything in between, risk taking goes completely against my very wary nature. That above qualifier, “like to” is utterly irrelevant, too, seeing how coping with instability is neither endearing nor discretionary. Why, I wouldn’t even run the risk of taking a risk.

To further any worthwhile discussion, at all, we’d first need to reword the prompt thusly…

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What are the biggest risks you’re forced to take — but are unable to stomach?

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To double down, here, would not most critical thinkers deem our oft nauseating, day-to-day existence risky enough, already? Is it possible to forget even one of these discombobulated, risky realities…

  • sneezing, coughing, even speaking passersby can spread Corona-V variants
  • climate changed weather events can drown, freeze & tear us limb from limb
  • AR-15 gun nuts kill schoolkids, congregants, grocery shoppers, film buffs, etc.
  • many an overly armed, aggressive judge-jury-executioner cop walks his beat
  • the latest rage, deadly destructive wars, not diplomats, “settle” our differences
  • Vlad yearns to blast off his phallic nuclear missiles just to firm up his flaccidity
  • pro Putin / Hamas, dismantle democracy, Trumper gunslingers walk their beat
  • Trump’s ripping off (auctioning off?) top secret docs damaged national security
  • Coup Version 2.0 Trump is in conquer America (today)-World (tomorrow) mode

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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!

HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:

Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!

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