Here's a sign the Heir's found that we're not learning *anything* from the Coronacrisis.  He happened upon a business minute on audio, on terrestrial radio, and they were talking about e-signatures.  This was during the weekend, and the Heir was hoping they'd talk about what market numbers ended at for the past week (they didn't).  But they were clearly using forced obsolescence to intimidate people who still write checks to resort to e-signatures instead.  The way the Heir knows this is when the guy on the radio said something to the effect that people who still write checks do so "because of inertia."  The guy couldn't bring himself to say what he likely really meant, that people who write checks somehow have no good reason for doing so.  He probably couldn't say that, because the great check writers of America would tear him a new one for the personal reasons *they* have for writing checks, and only using online payments in case of emergency.  Those personal reasons would include a strong adherence to tradition and principle.  The reason why the Heir connects this to the Coronacrisis is because forced obsolescence in the 2010s was highly tied to personal corruption, which lulled society into a hubristic false sense of security, and made us vulnerable to things like the Coronacrisis.  Now why would a business minute on the radio issue an editorial in all but name?  The Heir believes it's the influence big tech's marketing consulting firms have on the media, that they put pressure on the media to do some of big tech's advertising for them, and mostly certainly the real dickish stuff they couldn't ever place in an actual formal advertisement.  It's a form of misinformation, and the Heir was hoping that the great fact checkers of the world would pick it up.  But they're not casting a wide enough net.  So between the lockdown protestors and a continuation of a campaign of forced obsolescence on audio, here's the question the Heir has for the entire world: if we don't learn anything from the current crisis, will we ever?  It's just not a good sign for humanity.

"They say that when we get through all this, we'll be stronger than ever.  Looks more like we'll be *stupider* than ever."

The Heir wanted to go after AOC and Michael Moore for their renewed condescension after the defeat of Bernie Sanders.  But when he was coming across his YouTube feed to see what videos he wanted to add for entertainment purposes mostly (information he still tries to get through analog audio), he found a thumbnail that made him even madder.  The thumbnail was titled "Who's Left" and portrayed Bernie Sanders in the middle of a spectrum, with Elizabeth Warren and the other Donkey candidates on the right.  The implication of what they were trying to say through the thumbnail was clear, but the Heir saw it as part of the progressive pomposity he was seeing in AOC and Michael Moore.  They should thank their lucky stars that Trump is going down the drain, so that they look better compared to him.  This is how the Heir sees it as a stalking horse, and it's what he saw the progressives doing with that Al-Anon (whatever) conspiracy group.  They try to find the craziest "conservative" group they come across, just so that no-one see just how bad *they* are.  But the Heir said sorry, but not-as-bad-as is not the same thing as particularly good.  Granted the Heir disagreed with Elizabeth Warren on South Korea, but he still has respect for her, he still follows her, and he still sees her as smart and decent post-election.  He wishes AOC and Michael Moore can learn from that after their guy Bernie Sanders' defeat, particularly in Michigan, and which started the downward spiral for Sanders, as the Heir had observed.  But what did we get instead?  AOC going after all the other Donkeys in talking about the failures of Congress.  The Heir sees that phrase clearly as code for the Donkeys For The People, and not so much the Elephantine Elitists.  So much for "unity."  And that guy Michael Moore.  Keep in mind the Heir's looking at this stuff from the thumbnail alone.  Leeanna cautioned him not to judge a book by its cover, but he sees judging a video by its thumbnail as a reasonable necessity in helping decide which video to add to his Watch Later.  He's never going to add a video whose thumbnail he finds offensive in some manner, because the one with Michael Moore has him saying that he asks all Americans what kind of country do they want in the future.  The Heir doesn't believe Moore has any right asking that, because it's not for him to ask ordinary citizens tough questions, as much as the other way around.  One tough question the Heir has for Michael Moore is, what could have he done differently to make Bernie Sanders win the nomination and why did he fail to do help Sanders accordingly?  Even now, the Heir's still waiting for an answer.

The Heir agrees that Trump should never have abolished the Pandemic council, but he sees that as largely bad optics politically.  No-one's made the case that things would necessarily be any different if the council still existed, and the Heir sees that as because of a couple of reasons.  Firstly, he doesn't see the council as making recommendations that are any different from what Dr. Fauci and his colleagues across the country had made.  We'd still be wearing masks.  We'd still be practicing social distancing.  We'd still have to contend with stay-at-home executive orders.  And we'd probably still get the same protestors who will utterly defeat all our efforts, and that's actually our biggest hindrance to defeating Covid-19, since obviously a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  Secondly, the Heir observes that most of the rest of the world is also wearing masks, and doing social distancing, and initiated a lockdown or a stay-at-home move.  A U.S.-only council would never have been able to make it unnecessary for the other countries to do any of that stuff.  However, Trump still sucks.  The Heir still sees him as a criminal, and reminds the media that he is still an Impeached President.  Him not being convicted in the Senate did not in any way "undo" the impeachment, so the progressives should not despair in somehow thinking that it did.

The Heir's worried that these lockdown protestors will end up causing a spike in casualties, both life-wise and economic.  That one person who survived Covid-19 the Heir praises for essentially telling the protestors to stop whining like that guy did about getting fertilizer, but he doesn't think telling them to stop whining is good enough.  The Heir has noticed that the protestors are fragrantly violating EO's and social distancing orders, and in doing so it doesn't seem likely enough to him how they can *not* respread the virus to others.  Because here's the thing.  The Heir agrees that the lockdown like in Bachelor Blue State is a PITA.  He gets that.  But the way he sees it, if you keep up your best efforts in the weeks to come, all that stuff would be able to open sooner than later.  So maybe that one guy who wants his fertilizer will end up having to wait years for it instead of weeks, and with the fertilizer the Heir sees holes in that guy's argument big enough to drive a truck through.  So the guy says he either can't get fertilizer or he's somehow not allowed to.  He could always order it online, since the EO isn't going to stop him doing so.  The Heir himself received more parts for our Third Pillar Player even when the online stores have made it a priority to get PPE's shipped, and he's grateful that some parts arrived sooner than later.  So the guy could order it online, but if he really needs it yesterday, he could go to his local Home Depot or Lowes or whatever hardware/gardening stores there are in his area.  OK sure they might have to ask him to wait outside if they've reduced the customer capacity of their stores, and he might have to wear a mask.  But at least he'll get the fertilizer he's looking for.  The Heir also noticed in one pic of protestors apparently scrabbling at the state house in one of those protest states, there was a guy with a Guy Fawkes mask.  That the Heir does *not* see as a coincidence, because guess who else wore those masks back in the day?  The Anonymous hacking group, and the similarities Anonymous shares with the protestors the Heir sees as recklessness and narcissism.  Anonymous already helped Ed Snowden destroy America politically, and now they seem to seek to destroy America's viability.  But the Heir's not going to take it, and he's seriously contemplating cutting loose those people we know at that beach conformant with Leeanna's and Filipa's preferred dress code who have historically rationalized and apologized for such groups.  The Heir sees the protestors as already guilty of some kind of second degree manslaughter, and he cannot abide by people at the beach he expects will rationalize the protestors.  That's nothing short of immoral, and the Heir just cannot take it anymore.  It's not even about politics, because he and the beach people can disagree about Trump and Biden and AOC and stuff, but this time it's about the health security of the country.  It's just not open to "opinion" as far as the Heir's concerned, and he's not going to waste time even listening to someone who pretends it is, let alone try to have a discussion with them.

"So in the words of Star Trek characters Jean-Luc Picard, and Quark of the spinoff series Deep Space Nine, 'the line must be drawn here.  This far and no further.'"

The Heir's reasonably sure, about 90%, that no one he and we know were at that one makeshift cover concert a couple weeks ago at Yohohoandabottleofrum Township about 10 miles away from our favorite beach conformant with Sonya's and Naomi's preferred dress code.  Many people we know at the beach like to retreat to small scale music venues, often bars, to listen to a cover band play.  That's why the Heir was real concerned, and he doesn't feel the need to get me the Mentor talk about how the participants at that one event acted like real jerks.  It's common knowledge by now.  So the Heir skimmed the beach bulletin board, and no-one there indicated they were at that event.  What a relief.

Here's the Heir's followup on our tendency as Americans to debase ourselves in favor of another country.  What the Heir see is that each country we debase ourselves for skips ahead of us on those countdown lists that matter.  The Heir has heard very vaguely that South Korea is now getting into trouble with their supplies, because they didn't prioritize and ended up testing every dang person in the country.  That exercise proved unsustainable and not very smart, and yet a week ago we debased ourselves in front of South Korea.  So now here's the countries the Heir sees as the most economically and reputationally powerful in the world in order: China, Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea.  So where does the U.S. fit into that list?  Well, the Heir sees us at tied for 10th place along with the UK, Japan and Canada.  At some point that just has to end.  The Heir saw a Youtube documentary about how the Apollo Program gave us global greatness in the world 50 years ago, and now we are the *least great* country in the world.  That's got to change.  Not only do we have to catch up with China and Germany and Russia in all the lists that matter, but we then have to run all the others into the ground in some way to remind them that it's going to be time for them to pay for the suit.  Oh yeah, and just today we've debased ourselves in favor of Taiwan of all places, despite the fact that the U.S. cannot even recognize Taiwan as a country in fear of raising the ire of China.

"I don't care how much China and Germany and Russia get lionized for their superiority, we in the U.S. are still better on principle than all those put together.  We're better than this.  We really are.  Because this could be the eve of the renewal of American Greatness.  Or at least it had better be."

Despite all the Heir's gotten me the Mentor to post on our shares base regarding the coronavirus, he's cognizant of the fact that people died, and there's social and economic chaos that's been caused.  So he sees it as unhelpful that mainstream media themselves are attacking the experts by obsessing over what the experts said in late January and early February.  This was just before the first case of community transmission after American tourists in China were airlifted back in the U.S. and put in quarantine.  At the time the media spread a lot of hysteria over the coronavirus, and the Heir has registered his criticisms of that below.  A number of experts, including Anthony Fauci, stepped forward to say as paraphrased, "at this time the risk to the public is low."  But now the media's attacking them for having said that, making references to their "messaging."  That's the media saying, see we told you so.  But the Heir proclaims that the media is wrong in *their* messaging on this one.  He remembers a criticism Rachel Maddow made about the media on political matters that even if the media was *accidentally* correct about a certain thing, they're wrong for being so certain.  So here the Heir believes the media is still wrong for being certain that the coronavirus would become a pandemic.  Now it is, but that reveals the media criticisms of the experts' "messaging" as being no more than hindsight equaling 20/20.

The Heir believes we in the U.S. are debasing ourselves patriotically (or unpatriotically rather) by exalting South Korea's response to the coronavirus with extensive testing.  He believes the comparison was made as a criticism of Trump, but he doesn't believe South Korea really earns as many brownie points as the American debasers seems to believe.  Sure South Korea's doing testing, but they too lack a vaccine or a cure to the virus, and they don't appear as aware of there being multiple strains in the future as we do.  Also, the Heir believes our paucity in resources has made us try to act more of a community in terms of goodwill companies and non-profits pitching in in making sure that at least Bachelor Blue State has increasingly sufficient PPE's to meet the demand.  We've deployed the Army Corps of Engineers to build hospitals from the ground up to try to absorb positive cases, and we're opening multiple testing sites.  We had to do this all from scratch, and that's something the Heir as seeing South Korea not really understanding all that well.  They've basically had their solutions handed to them on a silver platter, and once that approach fails the Heir believes it's the U.S. that will pull far ahead of South Korea, and it'll be South Korea that will in turn exalt the U.S. in its efforts made thus far.  Or at least Bachelor Blue State.  But the bottom line is that if you've got everything handed to you on a silver platter, you learn nothing from the experience, and you're more vulnerable than those who had to use their elbow grease and their ingenuity to solve the problem at hand.  So this is how the Heir actually disagrees with Elizabeth Warren's apparent exaltation of South Korea, reflecting an exaltation on the part of apparently other political figures.

"If you've got everything handed to you on a silver platter, you learn nothing from the experience, and you're more vulnerable than those who had to use their elbow grease and their ingenuity to solve the problem at hand.  And by the way people, don't quote this one out of context five years down the road."