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Tag: pandemic

Karma, Trump and America’s Shit Show

The announcement that Donald Trump has tested positive for Covid-19 has a quality of inevitability. From the beginning of this pandemic, Trump has minimized its health risks, downplayed its severity, boosted quack treatment theories, ridiculed wearing a mask, argued with administration health… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture, Politics 2 Comments October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 2 Minutes

Tearing the ties that bind

What’s to be done when those we love and care about become the potential agents of our own demise? This pandemic presently presents us with an entirely foreign situation in America, where we have been largely spared the horror and pathos of war and the intimate experience of death surrounding … Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture 2 Comments March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 2 Minutes

Watchin’ the end of the world on TV

I grew up watching television, and have had a TV in my home for my entire life. My childhood was filled with cartoons, bloodless westerns and Walter Cronkite soberly delivering the CBS Evening News. Everything about television has changed, of course; today TV is a globalized content delivery system… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture Leave a comment March 21, 2020March 21, 2020 2 Minutes

The Piper pandemic

Well, here you have it. This is how slowing consumerism and seriously reducing greenhouse gas emissions looks and feels: empty terminals, slowed shopping and quiet streets. It’s a lousy way to get there, but ironically the world-wide pandemic is changing habits of consumption in ways a purely… Read the rest

Larry Barnett Culture, Environment Leave a comment March 18, 2020March 18, 2020 2 Minutes
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