The Year Of Batshit

So, go ahead and name the most creative storyteller you can think of, and tell me, could (s)he, in their wildest dreams, have conceived of a year like this one?  Because I couldn't have.

And now the latest:  Donald Trump is in Walter Reed Hospital with Covid.

Before we go any further, Call-Outs And Shout-Outs hopes and prays for the speedy and full recovery of Donald and Melania Trump, and all of the newly afflicted.  For all that we find Mr. Trump and most of what he stands for detestable, no one here wants to see him ill ever, or at anything less than 100% for the days and weeks ahead.  Let us hope that he is better than some reports we have lately received:

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There are those who say that the timeline that has been made public is suspect, that Trump was sick longer than we have been told, and therefore callously and needlessly exposed any number of people to Covid-19.  If that is true, then there is no better or more appropriate word for that kind of conduct than criminal.

We here at Call-Outs And Shout-Outs have heard all kinds of casting about for the genesis of Trump's illness going on in the MAGAsphere, everything from the Democrats to the "deep state", from Clinton to QAnon.  We beg you, oh MAGAs, please get a hold of yourselves.  Though it is tempting, as in days of old, when a person might slap another one afflicted with hysterics, we will stand with wounded patience and speak the truth, avoiding science, which some of you seem to have an allergy to, and instead we will place it in terms of law and order, which many of you seem to have more of an affinity for, and to keep it fun, we will use pictures:

Now, if everyone walks around all the time with no masks on, and some are infected already, the Law Of Averages says that more people will become infected at any given time, and eventually just about everybody will be, given that Covid-19 is a novel virus.  So, from there you apply the Law Of Occam's Razor, which states that the most likely and simplest explanation is the one most apt to be true.  Hence, Mr. And Mrs. Trump, and the folks listed below, are not the victims of some conspiracy theory, they are simply reaping Cause And Effect, a law from which no one escapes.

Who Has Tested Positive In The Last Few Days:

President Donald Trump

First Lady Melania Trump

Hope Hicks, senior advisor to the president

Bill Stepien, Trump’s campaign manager

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin

Three White House reporters

One White House staffer

Kellyanne Conway, former White House senior advisor 

The Rev. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University. 

It has been theorized that a super-spreader event, namely September 26's announcement of Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, in the White House Rose Garden, may be the common source of infection for many listed above.  If so, perhaps some more Cause And Effect, originating from the Republican haste to confirm Barrett, juxtaposed with the eight-month foot-dragging to (not) confirm Merrick Garland in 2016?

(And while I have been writing this post, I was informed Chris Christie, who also attended last Saturday's ceremony, has turned up Covid-positive as well.)

How many of you, no matter your political affiliation, agree with the following statement:

Stop 2020, I want to get off.