In a few years, we will catch a whiff of alcohol hand-cleanser and be instantly transported back to 2020, when all this insanity will seem like a strange dream.
We will have to explain to our grand children that Donald Trump really did exist, and they will scarcely believe us. Georgio de Chirico paintings will be used by schools to give children some idea of what streets were like back in the summer of 2020. B.C. will change its meaning in history lessons.
If there is one thing that lockdown has taught us, it is that mental illness is rife and widespread, and it is always just below the surface. An indication of just how easy it is for most of us to lose our reason was the mass outbreak of toilet roll hoarding. Did they really buy thousands of extra toilet rolls in 2020 Grandpa? Yes, I am afraid they did.
Did they really believe that Hillary Clinton was running a Democrat paedophile ring from her office in the USA? Yes, I am afraid they did. And did they really believe that Covid 19 was a government hoax used as an excuse to keep the population under control? Once again, I am afraid they did.
That is insane.
Brilliant! But true..! :(.
ReplyDeleteInsane..? How many times have l heard..
"Willie! Yer mad"..HeHe! :).
And.."What's a toilet roll Grandpa"..?
I'm afraid l had to Google Georgio de Chirico,
l see see he's an Italian artist born in Greece..
seems he painted a lot of Roman Arcades, long
shadows, mannequins, and trains...90 when he died..! :(
With the internet hopefully still going, grandkids,
will just push a button, like we do to~day, and
get ALL the info they need..
Sadly l'm not a Grandfather..I'm a Godfather though!
In more ways than one..! HeHe! "I make you an offer......
You are my unpaid fact-checker, Willie.
ReplyDeleteI think the hoarding of toilet rolls flummoxed me. Images rolled across my mind of loos not working all over the country. Read Tom Deagan (on the side of my blog) for a Trump review, his rants are so funny. As for art, think I would have named Banksy for expressing the doom and gloom of the world.
ReplyDeleteI'll have a look.
DeleteGeorgio de Chirico was an odd character.
ReplyDeleteAnother understatement.
DeleteWon't social media by then have packed people in such tight belief bubbles that questions of any kind won't need to be asked?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever met a child who doesn't ask questions?
DeleteThe world has gone insane. Or as we used to say in the old days - everyone's mad except thee and me and thee's a bit peculiar.
ReplyDeleteNever a truer word spoken, Weave. I am so glad you are back in the blogosphere.
DeleteAt least some sense of decorum appears to have prevailed during this second lockdown - the Supermarket shelves are positively overflowing with toilet rolls.
ReplyDeleteThe great unwashed have finally learned how supermarket supply chains work - or don't work. I know I sound a bit like Colonel Blimp, but I live in Britain.
DeleteGreat post, Tom - even now, when I read those questions I cannot believe my eyes.
ReplyDeleteSome days I had a "déja-vu": I saw people coming out of the supermarket with huge packages of toilet paper under their arms - and I thought: "It has arrived - the Second Wave - no doubt about that!"
Some days ago.. (and for two days the shelfs were empty - now everything is filled up again)
DeleteThis time we never ran out of anything. People learn eventually.
DeleteThe trouble is that the tin hat brigade seem to be more prevalent in this lockdown.
ReplyDeleteWho are the tin hat brigade?
DeleteAll over America we are at Stay at Home orders. All Over America governors of states are falling back to reality mode and telling citizens they must Stay at Home. Citizens are Not Happy, Of Course, this being the Home of the Brave and the Free. But the governors also have closed the bars and restaurants and every place where ten or more can congregate. That makes the police unhappy; they say it makes their jobs more dangerous. I haven't worked out that one yet. Deep State will have a field day with Stay at Home.
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a pub here which was frequented by all sorts of low-life and criminals. The police loved it. Why? Because they always knew where to find their best customers.
DeleteSad that the children will find unbelievable what so many people accept as gospel.
ReplyDeleteHow's this for understatement: We are living in strange days.
My grand daughter works as a nurse in a London neo-natal hospital. Because all the staff have to wear masks, babies do not know how to smile. Consequences like this are difficult to predict.
DeleteSmiling is innate. Blind babies smile naturally. It's one of those gestures that means the same no matter where you are in the world. I worry more about them as they grow. Children need socialization.
ReplyDeleteI am going on what my girl on the ward tells me. More things are learnt by example than you might think.
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