So I the Mentor thought that the Heir had to recant some things he said about where we're going with the Coronavirus, but then he came back to say he's *not* recanting.  In fact, he said, he's *doubling down.*  Hey if it works for Giuliani, maybe it should work for the Heir.  But having said that, today just did not feel like a normal day for the Heir at Bland Barns Catering Counter.  Elsewhere in the shop they've completely ran out of toilet paper, and a lot of sliced raw meats.  But many other items still remained in the shop, like milk and yogurt.  So why toilet paper and not milk?  He picked up a few items after his shift, but he still needs to get some toilet paper for the Swank Lounge.  Last night the NBA said they were suspending the rest of the season, and apparently today (the Heir still needs to verify this through audio) the other leagues said they were also suspending games, like the NHL, MLB and NCAA.  But if we were to have an Italy-style nationwide quarantine, people will be stuck at home with nothing to do, because they won't have any games to turn to on audio.  A big reason why sports still exist is to provide a welcome distraction from how completely wrong the Heir believes the world is.  And you can only play Solitaire and Doom for so long.  And he still doubts that sports will ever come back.  They've basically torpedoed themselves economically, so that once they do attempt a comeback, most people have decided they're just through with sports in general.  Flaileef ought to be delighted by that, since he has long since maintained that sports are just a rechanneling of humanity's worst instincts, such that sports are just simply a metaphor for war at large.  We think he's totally wrong, and instead sports are a *pastime,* and the act of giving one's self physical and mental challenges to help maintain the health of the species.  We just don't want Flaileef's rhetoric to be reinforced, because it'll still be wrong.

"I still think people still have a right to be unhappy with their colleges, if those colleges shut down classes and activities for *any* reason."