twin daughters Savannah and Liza at age 22
The $64 billion question…
“Do you have the Virus?,” asks longtime reader Roger Shelton. “You had a few good articles, but then you just stopped.”
Answer: True, but no.
That said, laying low and catching up on personal stuff has been refreshing, as the world flirts with the end of days.
For example, in January I started working at Honda in Lawrence, after four-plus years at BMW VW Topeka. However, having moved back to KC, the daily drive became ridiculously long and tedious.
Anyway, through the end of March, I had my best month with Honda, even as society ground to a near halt.
Since then, I’ve taken some time off to “self quarantine,” and rather than just fumble around like most media wringing their hands and dramatizing things (rather than providing much in the way of perspective), bagging on Trump, focusing on nursing homes deaths and racial statistics.
Face it, with few exceptions, media coverage of the coronavirus has been lame.
wonder dog Baily at 4
And given how little’s been going on during the lockdown, it’s not like there’s a ton of merit worthy news, so my laying low for a few weeks is pretty much a small step for mankind
So while I continue to lay low – work wise – the next few weeks, consider my Rip Van Winkle phase o-v-e-r.
I’ll have something of particular interest Monday, so, stay tuned…
I’m also toying with doing some flashback action, based on my sorting through documents and papers, as I try to thin out box after box of column artifacts.
So stand by.
Media coverage has been more than just lame.
Media coverage (both local and national) has been designed to drive hysteria and unnecessary panic, by and large. It’s disgusting. And our politicians handling of this pandemic has been so bad as to be criminal. Using blanket shelter at home orders across entire states is just dumb. Our nation’s demographics is so widely varied, that it makes no sense at all to do these statewide shut downs.
+1
WB to posting again.
I wonder if CG would have had an opinion about everything shutting down? He probably would have been writing an article every day! Poor guy. First he missed SB win and now this.
PS – congrats on new gig Hearne. Hope you get back to soon.
Thanks, David…
Yeah, was talking to Nigro the other day about if Craig had lived.
And wild Bill thinks Craig got some bad hospital advice that cost him his life.
That said, if he were still around today, no way he could have dodged the Corona bullet…shoot, Bill barely did!
Stand by
I don’t know if Craig got some bad hospital advice but I remember he had been sick for months before he passed away. Craig really seemed to go out via scorched earth policy..his 2nd brother died, his club got shut down, he lost his condo, he got very sick, his dad’s crap got sold off. On his way to Research, Craig fought the taxi driver of death, who must’ve been wearing a black robe and carrying a scythe.
In the end, Craig died on the exact same date as another infamous KC media(KC Star nonetheless) anti-hero–which made world wide news; while Craig’s death only made a small imprint, pun intended.
Regardless of what medical advice Craig received he died exactly as the way he lived and in no way could it have been any more symbolic.
Shhh, don’t print this but Stanford University Professor of Medicine has gathered all the data and this coronavirus is fatal in 0.12 of all cases. This is almost exactly as fatal as the seasonal flu. We don’t want people to know this real news with important, factual data..we just want people to be brainwashed by all the hundreds/thousands of fake news articles each and every day. Gotta get those clicks!
This tape will destruct in 15 seconds.
My lips are sealed!
Journalists like salespeople love low hanging fruit.