Day: May 3, 2020

Fear fear itself, said FDR in one emergency

Prevent it any which way, another had said in one before that.

Jeremy Hunt, author of “Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History”, has written: “If the terrible influenza pandemic of 1918 and the current coronavirus outbreak share one feature, it is this: People are terribly afraid.”

Hunt quotes Chicago’s 1918 public health commissioner, who said, commenting on the questionable value of wearing a mask, “It is our duty to keep the people from fear. Worry kills more people than the epidemic. For my part, let them wear a rabbit’s foot on a gold watch chain if it will help them to get rid of fear.”

Rabbit’s foot on chain would be less trouble, for that matter.

How My Joke on Twitter Became a Federal Case – WSJ

Not big on humor, are they? The sidelong shot is a no-no.

I’m under federal investigation for making a joke on Twitter.

In June 2019, employees at the left-liberal Vox Media Inc. walked off the job demanding a new collective bargaining agreement. As the publisher of a conservative website, the Federalist, I found the clash ironic. I tweeted: “FYI @fdrlst first one of you tries to unionize I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine.”

It’s a mentality.

via WSJ