Chancellor Pink

What is The Beautiful Sadness? Here are my thoughts on the concept.

More Virus Number Talk: Who are the healthy people being tested and why? How many of those tested have remained asymptomatic? Tell us. We should know. Regardless, sickness — and not testing — is still driving this bus.

Positive tests means sick people. But people are talking like it’s only numbers. “He’ll be fine; he’s just a positive test.” People are something else.

While so many are excited about all the sports leagues planning to start back in action, what are we going to do when they all shut down again before completing their playoffs? And other issues of divisive cruelty in today’s USA.

I’m no longer going to tweet or podcast about 3 subjects: 1) Trump; 2) COVID-19; & 3) BLM. Here’s why.

Bam. There it is.

If you admire the troops & first responders for their courage, why don’t you have the courage to wear a mask & to listen to the disease specialists who, like the first responders, specialize in keeping us safe?

I’m a supporter of Big Ben Roethlisberger in many ways, despite the fact that I don’t like the guy much. But I can’t defend his publicly posted haircut video where no one was wearing masks. That was an unnecessary & deliberate political statement.

In our tribal society, too many are affirming what they believe or would like to be true as fact. Stop. Opinions aren’t facts or science or law or medicine. Either cite your source or put “I wish” before your thought. Thanks.

Although this podcast is named How To Make Money, that should not be the focus of anyone’s life. Instead, we should be focusing on how to provide something of value to the world.

Especially during this pandemic, online sites like Facebook are offering us all a more detailed glimpse into the lives of our neighbors than ever before. And The Chancellor is a little sad about all the mediocrity on display there.

Should we or should we not be wearing masks? Why didn’t Pence? What’s going on? Will anyone tell us? Yes.

Instead of “Netflix and Chill”, I think streaming multiple episodes of the same serial programming is a drag. Moreover, it’s not the art of movie making, which I adore. It’s a whole different form of media. A lesser form.

Thoughts on plusses and one giant minus stemming from the World Wide Web.

The Chancellor briefly addresses two thoughts on the pandemic before heartily recommending that, during the shut down, you check out all 3 movies from writer/director S. Craig Zahler, all of which are available now on Amazon Prime & HBO.

Testing is getting over-emphasized in the wrong way. Although yes, we should be sure that anyone who is symptomatic is tested, the focus should be on getting the daily new case numbers as close to zero as possible for a week before we even think about reopening anything.

Respect This Virus (Turn Off Bill Maher). ‪Correction: Current JH international mortality rate is 6.87% (not 6.47%, as indicated in podcast), and US mortality rate is 5.28%.

Although our present state of Federal Government precludes an objective middle ground, The Chancellor reminds everyone that, in the future, a return to the art of political compromise & journalistic objectivity is imperative to America’s survival.

The toilet paper shortage is not just about your awful neighbors hoarding things. Turns out, there’s a valid, reasonable economic reason for the continually empty shelves.

I’m sure we’ve all come across a number of things that irk us about people’s behaviors during this pandemic. Here are a few of mine.