Friends, my latest article is a must-read...but let's be honest: aren't they all? This piece is about why, given the steady retreat of the coronavirus, the time has come for Americans to get out and about and to start traveling again. Our tourism and hospitality industry has been decimated, but there's no reason why it needs to stay that way. Read on to learn why...
https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/25/its-time-to-see-the-sights-again-america/
Glad I took my three weeks vacation last Summer covering 8 Western states, some national parks, with lots and lots of Chinese tourists who were probably already spreading the Corona Virus even then. Why wait until December 2019?
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I'm staying home this Summer, but my wife and I had one of the best trips of our lives in Summer 2019, three weeks of it.
I do fear that our busy highways are also going to produce a lot of accidents. Also, the possibility exists that too many people will get too close too fast.
But all the negative aside, I'm glad to see things get moving again. Yellowstone will no doubt be jammed with tourists, as will be some other National Parks, but people who work at the parks during the Summers will be employed. This is all good.
Yep, I'm happy to see our "national circulatory system" moving again. I hope we have learned a lesson from all this. I don't think our DemoLIAR party has, but then they are in bed with the PRC anyway. Maybe our left wingers need to visit China this Summer so they can see what a great society Communism has produced there.
No offense Dr. W. but I am not a fan of our national icon Elvis. But hey, if you are, that's fine. Seems like Elvis, like many other American celebrities could not make a drug free life. John Belushi was one of my favorite comedians, especially "Blues Brothers" but the man was into drugs and could not seem to perform or have a life without them. I suspect this is still true, even more so today, with many of our actors, and singers and so on. Got to have those damn drugs! Really sad.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Fie upon you, ah fie! You as much as assert that the vain and self centered pursuit of amusement and gross pleasures is also productive of economic well being. If one's emotional satisfaction is based in such base desires it is time to embrace principles based in correct thinking, which imagines things as they could be not as they are, unforgiveably, among the unenlightened. Why this pandemic is a perfect opportunity to practice fealty to the elect, our betters; some of their exemplars are rising to the call of duty now. Their earnest opposition to a loosening of their new found sway is proof of their devotion to a new order and to decisiveness on their part. They would institutionalize their their all unlooked for ascension to redeeming and increasingly unassailable elite status and you do much wrong in opposing them. How insufferably incorrect you are and reactionary in your insistence on the historically condemned pursuit of personal aggrandizement at the cost of the world village. Harrumphh!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Fox today noted that Obamaites are cautioning the Dems that a precipitate recovery of the economy could boost President Trump's chances of reelection. Surprise, surprise!" Could it be that too many ignorant Americans might just conclude that the strong economy Trump enabled pre Covid 19 saved us from much worse consequences? Oh, if the unwashed get that idea, they may take umbrage at our assertions that he has been a disaster for financial well being . (Even we Dems know that's not true but to admit it is tantamount to concession to this unforgiveably incorrect usurper). Lets keep the brakes on! Go to it Newsom , Cuomo , Pelosi and our, well, candidate". If an autumn reprise of the pandemic is expected ( and of course it is fervently wished for by the Dems, I mean the convenient timing don't ya know) due to the nation's predictable annual emergence from deep summer's enervating grasp, why the onslaught of the virus in a miasmic climate like that of Brazil?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: It is incumbent then that the Dems, as singularly focused as ever on their goal of unassailable dictatorial power and their consequent all out assault on President Trump, who unforgiveably calls them out, see economic recovery as inimical to their sincerely "felt" goals. Could it be they will seek to foster a perception of economic catastrophe, through their toadies in the MSM, failing actual harm to the economy (eg. "Heroes Act)? Oh perish the thought!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy and Ray: I like some of Presley' early work and later songs in that tradition (eg. "Trouble"). But I think he was always a southern boy (he is a celebrated Country singer, a genre of which I have much acquaintance and affection) and perhaps troubled by his interaction with those contemptuous of the inculcated conservative mores of his culture. I see the real Elvis as always a Mississippi truck driver. The drugs? Well he paid the ultimate price for his involvement. To much of blue collar America he was an idol. They perceived his identification with them.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy and Ray: The history of Rock and Roll confirms that he was in no way its originator. He did popularize for an audience in which acceptance of prejudice against black Rock and Roll pioneers was widespread, a pioneering opening to mainstream and remunerative popular culture for both blacks and whites (all of whom can trace their styles to black artists and yes, also to country singers) "Rockabilly" yes? Essential Elvis I think.
ReplyDeleteRay, I'm glad to hear that you were able to sow your wild oats last summer. I took a great trip to Holland and Belgium. Lest we forget, I'm pretty sure that Belgium now has the worst per capita COVID-19 mortality in the world!
ReplyDeleteYou may be right, Ray, that our reopenings will lead to some sort of resurgence of the virus. I may have been too glib in dismissing that possibility in my article. Frankly, though, given the constantly shifting metrics -- expanded testing, our shifting understanding of the disease, how we record deaths in different jurisdictions and circumstances, etc etc. -- it's hard to tell whether we have the thing on the run or not. Personally, I think we have no choice but to reopen in any case. Plus, if the disease spreads far and wide among those who aren't likely to be greatly harmed by it, while we protect the most vulnerable, that may end up being the best case scenario. We shall see.
Ray, I only know Elvis as an American icon. I'm vaguely familiar with his music, and much less familiar with his films. I appreciate him as a novelty more than anything else. But you're right -- so many of our celebrities are/were drug addicts and, let's face it, total degenerates.
Jack, I know you speak in jest, but you make a good point that the Left is preaching a newfangled asceticism in the midst of this pandemic -- and in its opposition to all industry, energy usage, etc. in light of climate change. Of course, practically none of our top leftists practice what they preach, but they sure can wag their fingers with aplomb!
I have little doubt that the Dems view the prospect of a withering pandemic and a resurgent American economy with dismay. Tough luck! They can pilot California and NY into the abyss, if they like, but most of the country is thankfully not that far gone.
Dr. Waddy and Ray: Our popular culture is disgraceful, as much for our celebration of it as anything (of course here's me lauding Elvis above). Its producers and performers inhabit an amoral, dysfunctional, toxic world.Their marriages are tawdry mockeries of a sacred institution. Their sybaritic indulgence in voluptuousness of many kinds (witness Slick Willy and the Kennedys) is limitless. They admire, extol and sometimes exemplify cynical social pathology in the midst of unparalleled material well being. They often execrate painfully evolved standards for personal conduct and presumptuously deny Divine expectations. We forbade our daughter to buy Brittany Spears discs because of the execrable example she set for young women. She didn't like it but she knows that we cared enough about her to protect her from what we knew to be negative; she has grown into a very responsible adult.
ReplyDeleteI am not a fan of Elvis, although I have been to Graceland before. As for traveling...well, if NY were to ever get out of Pause, I could actually be serious about looking for a job. According to TN and others, I would be quarantined for 2 weeks. Thanks Cuomo. I am getting a little dismayed right now and thank you for the encouragement, Dr. Waddy that you left on my FB post. Its a little scary to be starting over at my age and its not like we can just pick up and move now. Reality bites. (just keeping it real)
ReplyDeleteLinda: I wonder what consequences of this epidemic may be far reaching. One of them may be the degradation of CA and NY to pariah states within our union. They had already invited this perception upon themselves (though not with the assent or even the consideration of the views of their real America"minnahrities"), perhaps treasonously,with their haughty leftist demonstration of complete OFFICIAL contempt for views at all questioning of their leftist verities and dictates. And their conduct in this crisis confirms their totalitarian intent as does their previous enacting of open defiance of contrary Federal law(eg. Immigration law) Let us add this evidence to that we already have of their contempt for American democracy (especially as it forced on them the unendurable: the defeat of Hillary and the establishment of the insolent Trump) and of their resolution to employ ANY means to yet compel their dominance on a recalcitrant America. In that vein, Hillary's recent garroulousness is not surprising. She cannot comprehend how very much her haughty dismissiveness discredits her in the real America. And her fifty year percolated devotion to vindictive correction of that benighted majority engages her every thought and effort. But we, the basket of deplorables, see it, we KNOW it and we would deal it the same repulse we did in 2016, should it arise again
ReplyDeleteJack, Brittany Spears is/was, sadly for her, an almost perfect specimen of Hollyweird dysfunction... Catchy tunes, sure, but at what cost to her and to the even more pathetic beings who looked UP to her? Yikes!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain, Linda. Well, not really, but if Slick Willy said it then it must be a wholesome turn of phrase... Seriously, I'm rooting for you! All of us in the WaddyIsRight universe are. If it makes you feel better, one of my friends was furloughed recently and has been told that on Monday he will receive a job offer! So there's hope, even in these trying times. Give it another month, and the whole country might be roaring back to life?
Jack, CA and NY may become economic backwaters -- the self-inflicted wounds are piling up! -- but I fear it will be hard to dislodge them from the commanding heights of our culture. That's a task for Trump in his second term! Probably the most urgent one he faces.
Dr. Waddy: I fully agree; they are nexi of consummate resistance to democracy and, we must hope, its reelection of President Trump. What measure of correction to their totalitarian resistance may be necessary, we have yet to see. But the real America must be ready to support all! The left may go to the wall! They are emotionally undone!
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