What I can't see won't kill me...didn't Nietzsche say that?

https://patch.com/pennsylvania/phoenixville/s/h2p10/pa-woman-gets-200-ticket-for-driving-during-stay-at-home-order?utm_term=article-slot-4&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

So, Britt Hume (Fox News) and Ted Cruz find it appalling that a PA State Trooper would ticket a 19 year old girl (see above). I also note in the article above, that the negative comments condemning the Trooper are from people from the suburbs not from urban areas. I live in an urban area.

Imagine yourselves at my house for a day. What would you see?

1. Out my back window, kids from the neighborhood playing basketball in the alley. Now these are White and Black kids so don't get the idea that I am singling out one race.

2. Kids going to each others houses mostly pre-teen girls who can't stop hugging each other and sharing their bags of Cheetos.

3. My neighbors are immigrants. They work six days a week dawn to dark. The two brothers wake us up every morning going to work...coughing. It's ironic that Trump is so anti-immigration and the only people (except the essential service workers) who are working are immigrants from Latin America. Immigrants believe that the business of America is business. Corona is something to drink. To their credit, I am sure they have faced greater dangers than the Corona virus where they come from.

4. Out my front window, a tow truck operator who works without a mask; employs at least 5 people who wear no masks; has a roadside repair service; repairs car windshields...in other words there's constant intermingling. Oh, by the way, he doesn't believe the Corona is any worse than the regular flu. When he gets Corona, he'll blame the Chinese.

5. Anything else...oh yes...low riders, dirt bikers (kids), and general motor heads driving the streets having a field day since there is less traffic.

6. Anything else...oh yes...my own pregnant daughter, she's 24 and still hasn't learned how to sit on her ass. She is moving into a new apartment. We hurry to get her stuff out of our house and garage that she has stored during the move so that she doesn't stay long or try to come in our house and kill us by infecting us with Corona.

My conclusion...The people from Missouri, the show me state, must be pretty fucking stupid to gain that kind of reputation. I believe that the mark of lack of intelligence is one's inability to believe in things that one cannot see. Does that mean atheists are stupid? Yep, I think so. Not believing in God is as irresponsible as someone with a family who doesn't believe in term life insurance. Even if you have to pretend at least make the effort to believe in God. Look at it as death insurance.

Now back to other things we can't see that pose a more existential threat than God…

How many times have you been in a public restroom and watched someone leave a stall without washing their hands? How many times have you gone to a buffet and watched an unattended child cough or sneeze in the potato salad or picked their nose before picking up the silver ware?

I know what it is like to be almost killed by something I didn't see. I ate at the Blue Ball Inn at the crossroads of 23 and 322 back in the pre-litigious age. This was circa 1979. It's been torn down since. I ate potato salad. That night I became deathly ill. Food poisoning. Salmonella. The county health department quarantined us. I was 23 and still living with my parents. The Health Department was able to pinpoint from sampling my stool the exact time I ate the bad food, what I ate, and the contaminate. It's amazing what you can tell from a person by their shit. What did I eat? Human feces. Some motherfucker didn't wash their hands. I went from 157 to 128 in 24 hours. Wanna lose weight? Eat shit.

If I can't see it, it's not there. There's one exception. Preachers who continue to hold services in packed churches. I guess they must see God. I give them credit for that. I guess they see some form of God in this disaster too...or maybe they want to make sure the offering plate is full. As they say, never let a disaster go to waste.

I guess all of these people will have to experience Corona to believe it is real. I just wish that the State Trooper who ticketed that 19 year old girl would ticket my daughter too so she would stay the fuck home. As for the other people...just try convincing them.