Emerging from a rough patch health-wise, I can’t help but wonder if worrying about the state of the world helped to make me sick. In any event, the Covid-19 virus finally got to me, five years after the start of the pandemic that killed around 3 million people globally.
Of course, the virus has mutated so many times that it should probably be called Covid-119 by now and it no longer strikes fear the way it did back in 2020, but if my experience is indicative, it still packs a pretty nasty punch.
In my case, it also apparently triggered some of my most troublesome Parkinson’s symptoms, including tremors that made it almost impossible to write. Thus the silent weekend from my newsletter, for which I apologize, and is unprecedented.
I’m still recovering, so I’ll keep this brief. In my view, the Trump regime is overreaching in so many areas that it’s bound to collapse eventually, but for now, we are stuck with what is the most corrupt in our nation’s history.
Sen. Chris Murphy has outlined the web of corruption in a recent presentation before Congress (Thanks Leslie.). Watching it makes the Watergate scandal look like schoolboy stuff by comparison.
We definitely are living under the reign of authoritarian oligarchs to a degree never seen before. The problem is by thinking about it too hard, you might risk making yourself sick.
Like I did.
(I’ll resume aggregating headlines when I’m able.)
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