So here are some further warnings the Heir has for people to be careful what they wish for if they *really* want to defund the cops.  It's *some* major cities that want to do it under pressure from *some* protesters (at least).  But what about your one-traffic-light-town in the Far West with only 500 people, and vastly different needs and culture from Minneapolis?  Do *they* have to give up their cops too (the Heir asks)?  Because the phrase Defund The Cops the Heir takes *not* to mean defund just some of the cops of some of their money.  No, it means defunding *all* cops of *all* their money, over the *entire* country regardless of whether they've had problems with excessive force or not.  Otherwise the Ed Snowden types who support the measure would never use it as a slogan on picket signs.  A more nuanced "defunding" is just not catchy enough.  The Heir also thinks about the 1970s movie Death Wish (he *thinks* it's the Seventies) in a world where the cops are all but absent, you take your life in your hands every time you step out of your house, and it's only vigilantes who are willing to help.  By extension the Heir also thinks about the Green Berets and whether they'll end up making a comeback in the aftermath of what's to come.  The Heir wants to ruminate on each on these in more detail in the next few days or so.

"I'm concerned."

So while the Heir joins in on calling for reforms, disbanding the cops is not the answer.  The Heir concedes that the Minneapolis city council's decision to disband the cops is not subject to opinions of people who live outside the city, he sees this as Guy Fawkes Mask Wearer victory.  They'll see that as a catapult to disbanding all cops everywhere, all over the globe.  These Ed Snowdens lie in wait, looking for the right moment to override the democratic process made by the people and for the people.  The Heir looks at the city of Three River Junction in the north of Bachelor Blue State, and they've made policing work.  The police leaders took a knee in their press conference, but the Heir's pretty sure the Ed Snowdens will want to disband even good departments, including the one at Three River Junction, over the objections of city residents.  He expects Marco's Grandmother to point out that police unions are still very powerful, but the Heir sees the anti-cop forces more powerful still.  He envisions a whole series of unintended consequences in any city that's abolished its police force, including a Wild West local culture, and going back to the bad ole days of 1970's New York.  Social workers are all fine and well, but if you're getting cut off by an aggressive driver tailgating you and passing you over a double yellow line, you're not going to have a social worker pull that person over and ask, "Tell me about your feelings."  The Heir doesn't think that's going to work.  #KeepTheCops

The Heir continues his outrage over what's been happening with Lafayette Park and Buffalo NY.  With Lafayette Park, we in the Bachelor call for criminal charges to be made against those violating the rights of the protesters.  The Heir is calling out Bill Barr, and that guy who punched that cameraman in the gut, and the pilots of the helicopters flying over the protesters, and the superior officers issuing the commands.  The Heir saw that a civil lawsuit was made, but he doesn't think it's enough.  You could also push for charges of impersonating a police officer for those guys dressed up in riot gear but without proper IDs.  The Heir's not confident that the progressives will push hard enough in this regard, since he sees himself more on the side of law and justice.  Trump had that one tweet saying Law And Order, but the Heir sees Lafayette Park and Buffalo as the opposite: Lawnessness And Official Disorder.  Of course it's the fault of both Ed Snowden and the personal corruption of the 2010s that we're still not over it in the 2020s.

The Heir wants to look into both civil lawsuits and state charges against Roger Stone and Michael Flynn that Bill Barr cannot touch.  If Biden wins in November, the Heir wants the Biden DOJ to go after Barr, as well as Stone and Flynn within the contours of due process.  He doesn't believe that a guarantee against double jeopardy should allow Flynn and Stone to walk free, and continue to engage in immorality as if nothing happened.

"And also, nail Trump while we're at it."

We at the Bachelor condemn the killing of George Floyd.  The Heir also condemns the riots that took place.  But among other things the Heir's having to decide which to get to first in getting off his chest, one of those is the apparent media equation of Protests Equal Riots.  The media very well knows that's totally wrong, and the Heir publicly shames them for abdicating their journalistic responsibilities.  The media tried to throw in a weasel of, well the rioters only make up a small fraction of the protesters.  But the Heir points out that's like saying that ants make up a small fraction of the bee population.  This reporting failure is apparent to the Heir on audio where he clearly heard, "protestors have appeared for another day in a row, and a couple of stores were destroyed."  But you don't see that problem when you only get your information on visual.  What you see is clips of peaceful protesters intermixed with street fires, and then you have nothing that stops you from thinking, oh the protesters must have caused the street fires!  This morning the Heir skipped through audio program headlines that sound like very weak editorials, and focused on the headlines for the actual channel instead.  He's thinking, programs suck.  He's going through one program headline after another saying, that's BS, that's BS, that's BS.  And that's all he feels up to saying right now.

So where does the Heir begin on this one?  Stuff like Michael Flynn, and premature reopenings, and that one lady whose actions threaten enforcement of compliance.  With Michael Flynn, the Heir references a video that you can search for on Youtube with the search terms "michael flynn dismissed not so fast".  It's a legal expert video, and one thing he points out that for some reason the Heir didn't see on the Insurgent News Network is the role that Emmet Sullivan's going to play.  The Insurgent Network only *briefly* mentions Judge Sullivan, but they downplay him in favor of trying to tell people that the Michael Flynn case is done already.  But as the video points out, not so fast.  The video talked about how among other things Judge Sullivan assigned a magistrate judge to the case for the apparent purpose of requesting amicus briefs.  Carmen wasn't sure what that was, so the Heir reminded her that's better known as Friend Of The Court brief, i.e., third parties.  What the Heir takes out of that is that Judge Sullivan's finding reasons to maintain justice in all senses of the word, in effectively requesting legal experts and groups to possibly make a legal case in their amicus for morality and principle at large in society.  The Heir thinks the judge wants people to come up and say that a dismissal of the Flynn case would set a bad example for others in society who, too, want to get off scot-free with felonies.  It's possible there's a criminal justice element on this one, in case a lawyer files a brief who represents someone who's served decades just for being caught with a joint, or a similarly less serious offense.  Everyone seems to think that Judge Sullivan will ultimately move to honor the dismissal request, but only the Heir thinks that may not happen.  He's thinking that Judge Sullivan will likely match unprecedented with unprecedented.  Experts agree that a motion to dismiss a case where the defendant has pleaded guilty twice is unprecedented, but that for a judge to deny dismissal would also be unprecedented.  The Heir's also sure that once a dismissal denial happens, everyone on the Insurgent Network would be like, oh wow this really blows my mind, I never thought that judge would *ever* do that!  Well, the Heir did, and he did so when it wasn't fashionable.

The Heir believes that compliance is falling apart, and enforcement will follow sooner after, and it'll be like the Wild West that Tony Sayers/Mayers lamented in Wisconsin.  Again it's about a video, and again the Heir didn't see the video since his judgement with analog audio is that the video is just news porn with no substantive implications whatsoever.  He heard on analog audio that a few days ago somewhere between 6-8 copies confronted a lady who had her mask around her chin but refused to wear it properly.  She then spat on the cops and claimed that she had the coronavirus.  This is what the Heir calls cop-spitting and/or coronassault.  He's heard it all over the compliance briefings with Bachelor Blue State, so this isn't an unusual occurrence.  The lady was then interviewed by the onlooking media saying she wants to have all charges against her dismissed, but the Heir's having none of it.  Firstly, the lady waived her right to remain silent, since what she said to the press can *and will* be held against her in a court of law.  Secondly, the way the Heir heard the report on audio sounded like all 8 cops jumped on the lady and wrestled her to the ground, but he's pretty sure this isn't what happened.  He's pretty sure it was only two cops, with one cop initially, and then the other tried to help his colleague.  He's sure the lady deliberately dropped to the ground, thereby forcing the cops to stoop down accordingly, making it look as if they forced her to the ground.  And thirdly, it's the video.  How does the Heir know this wasn't a cop-hating setup?  It feels to him like the lady had an accomplice with a phone, and she said to him/her, okay watch me instigate here, and then approached the cops without a mask on, just baiting them to take action.  This is even worse than the other case a couple weeks ago, because the cop in that case was caught sitting on the guy's back and whipping him upside the head.  This didn't happen here, so the Heir's thinking that it's yet another anti-cop move that will only serve to denigrate enforcement and compliance, and it ultimately affecting the suburbs of Bachelor Blue State, as opposed to just troubled areas in New York City.  The Heir understands that these areas exist in the city, and you have to account for them.  The Heir *also* understands that so-called ambassadors will have little to no effect in these same areas any more than the cops ever did.  Ambassadors in the Bachelor Blue Shoreline is one thing, ambassadors in troubled city areas are quite another.  People generally credit themselves for being a big of a jerkass as possible in those cases the Heir's covered thus far, so there's little hope that troubled areas of the city will be any better than the Wild West.

"The Wild Wild West.  That was a song from the late 1980s."

So the Heir's trying to figure out where to begin on this one.  Stuff like the Michael Flynn thing, the bars in Wisconsin being "Open Immediately" solely because of that high courts's wrongful decision, political hyperbole in the media.  The Heir believes the first two can be addressed pragmatically with brainstormed legal lists, and he asks for a little assistance from people outside the Bachelor culture like Maya Wiley and Chuck Rosenberg accordingly.  Those two at least he sees as the least likely to surrender to despair in their analysis.  With this thing with hyperbole, what the Heir wants to point to is video titles he's seeing on Youtube.  There's a movie out called "Death Of A Nation," and there's a video with a title that reads something to the effect of, corruption of DOJ is now complete.  The Heir did a google search on his Loungtyp asking, how many people are employed by the DOJ?  The answer is, 113,000 or so as of last year.  So if corruption of that entire department is "complete," solely by Bill Barr, he would have had to corrupt all 113,000 people working there, which is an impossibility.  It's not something the Heir at least has ever heard of before, but this is the problem with progressive reporting.  They portray an adversary as omnipotent and invincible, and then a week later *actual* reporting shows that person as anything but.  And here's a clue that that's hyperbole that the Heir noticed.  In neither of those titles did he see anything to the effect of, "we can say without hyperbole blah blah blah," a la Kent Brockman.  Alternately, he sees it as hyperbole if they updated those video titles to read "Without Hyperbole Death Of A Nation," or "Without Hyperbole The DOJ Is Completely Corrupted."  With the DOJ thing, the Heir also sees vague video titles suggesting that Bill Barr's getting ready to go after Trump's political enemies, like Funny Named Skinny Kid or Joe Biden.  But he has not heard anything substantive, like Bill Barr issuing a warrant for Funny Named's arrest on trumped out charges or something.  Unlike most progressives, the Heir's ready in case that happens, because he knows how big a wuss Bill Barr is.  The guy's backed down in the face of public pressure, but that pressure he observes is organized *without* assistance from the larger progressive movement.  The demonstrators outside of Paul Manafort's trial a couple years ago organized *themselves.*  They did not bother crawling to the Bernie Snowdens on *anything.*  But anyway, the Heir doesn't see anything that's wrong with law and justice that can't be fixed with what's *right* with law and justice.

"I hereby issue a Cease And Desist Order on DOJ's arrest warrant on Funny Named Skinny Kid.  The DOJ has 48 hours to comply.  If not, they'll be challenged in court."

The Heir wanted to talk about this one for well over a week now.  Like most people, he's appalled by at least a still of that one video of that suspect being beaten in New York.  He was concerned in case that might lead to a rollback of compliance enforcement all across the board, from New York into Bachelor Blue State.  Thankfully that doesn't seem to have happened.  People are encouraged to call or text a special hotline in case they believe there was excessive force used in compliance enforcement.  That's how it currently is in BBS.  This stands in contrast to New York where the Heir sees a direct threat to enforcement through this talk of "minders" taking over the role of cops in enforcing compliance.  His low confidence in human nature *ever* really doing the right thing indicates that the so-called minders, if they're ever appointed, would likely be ignored by the violators, and you'd have to get the cops in there anyway.  He strongly doubts that most people in that one neighborhood where that beating took place would ever regard or respect a "minder."  He wonders if an increasing consistent amount of non-compliance in both that neighborhood and the others eventually led to the beating incident.  Sure, two wrongs don't make it right, but if a cop issues a friendly reminder to people in a given neighborhood to maintain a 6-foot distance, or not have large gatherings, and people ignore that reminder, the cop's ability to command respect is at stake.  He might as well not be a cop if that happens, the Heir points out.  So he's thinking that since failure to comply will result in X, and there was likely a failure to comply, so X happened, whether that's a forcible breakup of a gathering or a physical escort of people to maintain social distancing, and the people were like "oh how dare you," only because they may very well be out-and-out cop-haters, where does the cop go from there?  Most cops will consult with their respective precincts as to what leverage they'd have in case of an impasse, but there are those very few bad actors who will take matters into their hands, and not a good way.  And that's what the Heir believes happened two weeks ago.  Keep in mind that all we have to go on is that phone video showing the actual beating, and not all the events that led up to it.  Also, the Heir wonders, did the cop have his body camera turned on or not?  If he had it turned off against policy for officers, that should figure into either a complaint process, or even proceedings in a criminal court.  But since it's two weeks later, and the media news cycle has expired on the incident, don't expect any meaningful followup until months down the road.  The Heir's hoping it'll be sooner, so we'll have answers to some unanswered questions.

It's been ten days since Minnesota and Michigan reported spikes in the number of positive cases, but the Heir noticed that it was just over two weeks before then that those anti-lockdown protests started happening.  He sees this as likely proof that the refusal of protestors to abide by social distancing guidelines is primarily responsible for upcoming increases in cases in the Midwest, the West and the South.  He wishes that the Insurgent News Network would discuss how governors in those states are making reopening decisions based on the protests and not on the science.  Once they reopen the states and the cases get even far worse, there needs to be followup protests pushing *for* a lockdown.  The Heir remembered last week about that one counterprotestor that the media just happened to mention, but he doesn't believe there's been enough coverage regarding the counterprotestors, so he believes there are far more of them than people know.  It also doesn't help that the progressives are going to largely refuse to organize counterprotests, and instead drop the counterprotestors like a lead pipe and not give them the support they need and deserve.  The counterprotestors speaking truth to power are essentially on their own, while the progressives continue to berate ordinary people for not blindly taking the progressive side in every dang thing they can think of.  The Heir did catch AOC meeting with Elizabeth Warren on Youtube regarding essential workers, but that meeting did not make the Heir dislike AOC less, or make him see her as less snide and condescending.  That's his main takeaway, but because both participants were facing their respective Zoom cameras, it's really hard to discern body language for more specifics.  If AOC and Elizabeth Warren were to meet in person, he could tell whether they looked at each other while talking, or if one of them or both looked away and toward a viewing audience.  He did feel as if Warren and AOC had a parallel conversation going in which each comment was not a direct response to the comment before it, but was a series of comments on what each person was going to say anyway.  This was with the one minute video.  The Heir did not bother catching the five minute video, since he has better things to do, like still working on our DIY Third Pillar Music Player.  He's hoping that once we get to a good point in that, we'll at least release last year's unreleased episode on audio.  We do have a general plan to get back on audio.  We're not doing base shares permanently, but base shares like this one is a good way for us to keep everyone up to speed while we're waiting for the right time to go back on audio.

"One placard suggestion I have for the counterprotestors is something to the effect of, 'Tell my dead aunt that the coronavirus isn't real.'"

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."