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My Magnified Militant Missive, Anger-Management Massaged.
American ideals are in a sickly mess, becoming increasingly septic everyday.
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I want my writing to rise from the page, and slap people aggressively about their status-quo stupid. Okay, my newly acquired anger management skills should kick in soon. However, my intense offense, with notable past tense, proper current tense, and hopeful future tense, must show those on a different course that there are other ways to think about our Constitutional ideals, and how we carry them out at home, in our communities, around our nation as well as internationally.
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For example, it looks like the US, Israel, Japan, and many European nations cut off travel to, and from, southern Africa because epidemiologists in that region were the first to present scientific data to the world about the Omicron COVID variant. While a ban may seem to make sense, a number of the nations banning travel from Africa, or their close neighbors, were already spreading that variant. Furthermore, it is quite possible the African scientists were merely the first in the region to get good data out to the world. That means we penalized them for quickly producing good research that can help us all. Worse, it smells of a racialized response. In such a screwed up atmosphere, why would anyone want to be fast and…
