Battle of the Karens turns racist with disastrous results

Usually I am not one for internet public shaming.  I find cancel culture to be horribly corrosive to society, drawing from some of the worst moments in history.

This time I’m going to cover it and in a way not entirely in the same way that the rest of social media has.

Amy Cooper let her dog off its leash in Central Park.  This is neither here nor there for me because I’ve let my dog off her leash a few times in places where I shouldn’t have when nobody else was around.

Some black guy decided to be a Karen and call her out for it.  If her dog was not bothering him, why the fuck was it his business to say anything?  Then he starts to record her with her dog.

Fuck this guy.

I’m suddenly reminded of this meme comic:

 

If that is where this story ended it wouldn’t have been a story other than the irony of a black man being a Karen to a white woman, which is the opposite of how it happens 99.9% of the time.

However, the dog walker decided to out Karen the man Karening her and in doing so fucked up royally.

She called the cops and lied to them saying that a black man was threatening her.

https://twitter.com/melodyMcooper/status/1264965252866641920

Yup, that’s pretty fucking racist, and she was caught on camera doing it.  She KNEW she was on camera and did it anyway.

The internet tracked her down to her job at an investment management company and ratted her out and got her placed on administrative leave.

Granted that woman was a piece of shit, but forgive me if I don’t think that black guy comes away from this smelling like roses.  He started that when he decided to record a woman for letting her dog off its leash.

It’s been a long, hard lockdown and if there is one lesson to be learned from what we’ve been seeing lately, it’s this:

IF SOMEONE ISN’T DIRECTLY HARMING YOU, LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE!

If you really feel the need to call someone out for breaking some minor rule that really isn’t hurting anyone, write it down on a slip of paper and cram it up your ass.  If it’s really important your proctologist has a duty to report it when he disimpacts your anal cavity and reads it.

These two Karens got into a pissing match and one lost, badly.

Also, one more lesson:  If someone points a cellphone at you, that is the precise moment where you need to be on your best church behavior.  Make the other person look like an asshole by being a shining beacon of the best of humanity.

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When the cure is worse than the disease, the cost of the lockdown outside of NYC

The death toll from the Coronavirus in New York City and the surrounding areas is going to require years of study and investigation to understand how things were able to get so bad so quickly.

However, one of the many mishandlings of the Coronavirus was to treat the rest of America like it was New York City and impose on us restrictions that did more harm than good.

Case in point:

Suicides on the rise amid stay-at-home order, Bay Area medical professionals say

Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they have seen more deaths by suicide during this quarantine period than deaths from the COVID-19 virus.

The head of the trauma in the department believes mental health is suffering so much, it is time to end the shelter-in-place order.

“Personally I think it’s time,” said Dr. Mike deBoisblanc. “I think, originally, this (the shelter-in-place order) was put in place to flatten the curve and to make sure hospitals have the resources to take care of COVID patients.We have the current resources to do that and our other community health is suffering.”

The numbers are unprecedented, he said.

“We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time,” he said. “I mean we’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.”

The American people struck a gentlemen’s agreement that we’d shut down for two weeks to flatten the curve.  That deal was altered and the lockdown has gone on for months, and the threat of it becoming semi-permanent is real.

Outside of a few very specific hot-zones, the cost of human lives from that is worse than the virus.

If this was truly about saving lives than data like this would justify lifting the lockdown immediately.

However it won’t because clearly the lockdown isn’t about preventing hospitals from being swamped by COVID patients anymore.

These deaths don’t matter to politicians because they can’t use used to consolidate power.

 

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A lesson in perverse incentives – LA Jail edition

From CNN:

Inmates at one California jail tried to infect themselves with coronavirus, Los Angeles Sheriff says

Inmates at a Los Angeles County correctional facility drank from the same cup with the purpose of infecting one another, resulting in 21 cases of coronavirus, Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.

The inmates at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic are seen on surveillance video crowding the hot water dispenser, sipping the water, and also “sniffing” out of a common mask, according to Villanueva.
“It is very disturbing to think that people would do this to themselves deliberately in an attempt to force our hand to release more people from custody,” the sheriff said at a press conference on Monday.

The news comes almost two months after Los Angeles County released some inmates early and reduced the number of arrests in the county due to coronavirus concerns.

I think this qualifies as a “no fucking shit Sherlock” scenario.

California politicians make a big deal about releasing inmates over Coronavirus concerns, inmates get it into their heads that Coronavirus is a “get out of jail free” card, so they deliberately infect themselves to get released.

It doesn’t take a Ph.D. in sociology to figure that out.  Actually, I’m pretty sure that a Ph.D. in sociology would never figure that out because it is a basic application of common sense.

Welcome to what economics call “perverse incentive.”  It bites you in the ass every time.

 

 

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Florida Grim Reaper collecting funds to buy body bags. UPDATE

J. Kb’s favorite lawyer is at it again., this time wants other fools to send him money so he can buy body bags and give them away during his walks on the beaches of our Sunshine State in the  idea that he will scare people into quarantining again.

He had some supporters in twitter, but I have to say the majority of people took it to him with assorted fire devices.

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It would be a sweet irony that Mr. Uhlfelder would have a sun stroke, taken to the local ER only to find out he is infected with Wuhan V.  and his approaching people was an irresponsible thing to do.

Pray to the gods of Karma and Schadenfreude.


UPDATE: Reader Ryan C in Facebook oriented us to this video.  Is he our Reaper”? Maybe, maybe not.

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Some people just need killing – Queens mom and boyfriend edition

I saw Miguel’s last post and it reminded me of a story from a couple of days ago.

Cruel couple allegedly abandoned 6-year-old girl on busy NYC street

A heartless Long Island mom and her boyfriend allegedly abandoned her terrified 6-year-old daughter on a crowded Queens street, tossed garbage bags with the girl’s clothes out the window and drove off, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Patrice Chambers, 29, and Mark Pamphile, 28, are accused of forcing the child from her mom’s Nissan Altima at the intersection of 140th Avenue and Springfield Boulevard in Laureltown at 11:25 a.m. on Monday.

Minutes earlier, Pamphile called the girl’s father, who lives nearby, and allegedly told him in a voicemail, “You better come get your daughter…she is crying like a little b—h,” a criminal complaint charges.

Pamphile called back and allegedly left another message threatening to leave the girl on the street if her father didn’t send him $200, the papers say.

Shortly after Pamphile left the voicemails, Chambers, who was behind the wheel, allegedly ordered her daughter to exit the passenger side door then tossed several plastic garbage bags with the child’s belongings out the driver’s side window.

As the car sped away, the frightened child was captured on surveillance video running into the street to pick up the bags and loose items of clothing that had fallen out.

The boyfriend throws away a little girl and the mom helps.  That’s the part that really floors me, that the mom participated in this.  As a father I can’t imagine deliberately putting my child in harm’s way, and this mom did because the girl was crying.

There are some truly evil people in this world.  These are two of them.

Also, I just want to toss this point into the ether:

Miguel’s post was about a mother who drowned her son, mine is about a mother who abandoned her daughter on in an intersection in NYC.

I hear all the times about how “if there were more women in power” or “if there were more female leaders” or “if women ran the world” how we’de usher in an era of peaceful utopia.  It seems to me that women are just as capable as men as monstrous evil that harms the weakest amongst us.  I never seem to hear anything about that.

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Some People Just Need Killing. Mommy Dearest Version.

If you are from South Florida, you my have heard about the Amber Alert last week where an autistic boy was missing and then was found dead, drowned in a canal. Not 12 hours later, mom was charged with murder.

Video of the first attempt has been found.

 

I still hold my belief against lynching, but I’ll more than happy to push the syringes’ plungers at Raford when her time comes.

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