March 12, 2020: Tom Hanks Catches COVID - Alex Jones Peddles a Bogus Cure

 

3/12/20: It would seem we’re in for more wild and wooly days to come, both here and around the globe. For god’s sake, if Tom Hanks and his wife can be infected with COVID-19, who among us can be safe! 

This blogger happens to have three daughters in healthcare, including one who works at the Centers for Disease Control. All three are advising their parents not to go to crowded restaurants. That meant we skipped a planned dinner out with our daughter, Emily, the nurse, on Tuesday. As for our nurse practitioner daughter, who is moving to Portland, Oregon, to work for the University of Oregon’s medical training program, we elbow-bumped goodbye when we saw her Tuesday in Washington D.C., before driving home.

Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson, in isolation.

 

When I visited Costco on Wednesday, I noticed the first hints of panic buying here in Southern Ohio. A crowd of anxious shoppers was gathered round an employee unloading a pallet of toilet paper. 

Not me, baby. I was there to panic-buy potato chips. Because if I’m going to die a hideous death, I want chips.

 

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THEN AGAIN, if you don’t believe in scientific evidence, you might want to contact either of two  big fans of Dr. Zero. Take your pick: Mr. Alex Jones of Infowars, recently arrested on a DUI charge, or Pastor Jim Bakker, who will always pray for people if he can profit. 

For $90, Jones will sell you a vial of 120 pills of his fine product DNA Force, which he swears will protect you from the virus.

 

Rev. Bakker, who once spent five years in prison for fraud, will sell you a “Silver Solution” guaranteed to cure the virus. 

That’s assuming the Attorney General of Missouri doesn’t shut him down before Bakker can cash your check and send you his fine product. For only $40 you can have a 16-oz. bottle of Bakker’s elixir.