By David Himmel

• I wonder what the COVID-19 memorial will look like. No doubt it’ll dwarf the Vietnam War Memorial. My hope is that the biggest difference between the two is that Trump’s name will be one of them.

• Credibility is the virtue we need most.

• Hypocrisy is human. Hypocrisy becomes problematic when people don’t acknowledge it. It becomes dangerous when they recognize it and do nothing to reduce its impact on their actions.

• People crave control. We lose our minds when we don’t have it. That’s what’s making this COVID-19 situation such a mindfuck. We can’t control it (yet). We don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s maddening, right? And so, we have to theorize reasons for it to be and demand dominance over it by “re-opening America.” This way of thinking is why religion was created. We need answers to the big, scary, sometimes dark, sometimes bright world. And just like religion, the theories formed against fact are best kept to oneself.

• The difference between FOX News and MSNBC is a few PhDs at one and outright lies at the other. Make no mistake, they are both hateful echo chambers of biased smugness. That said, if there was a gun to my head demanding I watch one network over the other until the day I die, I’d beg the gun(wo)man to pull the trigger.

• Grief is at its most strange and typical at all times.