This Is Not America

The Schloss-Blog does not recognize America anymore.

Our president, when we need him most, is doing the least, deliberately distributing false and misleading information at a time when truth, accuracy and heartfelt reassurance is needed most.

There is no "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet" advertising singing to me. No roar of NASCAR. Few if any K-12 school bells. College classes canceled and college sports too.

While the safety factors are obvious, they are also reactionary and come far too late. Too many children depend on school for at least one good, solid, nutritious meal a day. Up to 70 percent of kids depend on school lunch for food at all and 40 percent get their only, daily nutritious meal at school.

What now for them?

Got tickets for Pearl Jam's tour? Any tour? Good luck with that. Virtually all canceled.

The Schloss-Blog was going to reunite with his old "Bruins" softball teammates and go to a Cubs exhibition game in Mesa next week. We played together for 20 years. Won championships. Reunion, now, not happening.

While all these moves, plus all the other cancellations, are prudent, much, much more is so up in the air.

Are you going to church? Not this month. Playing in a weekly poker game with the guys in a cigar smoke-filled man cave? Might want to rethink that.

Your routine life is different. You're working from home. Your kids are home or your college kids are on the way. Even West Point has told cadets not to report back after spring break.

Entertainment businesses are shut down. You might be home for an extended time but you ain't going to the movies.

They're not being released until fall. Maybe.

Moscow Mitch McConnell held up the coronavirus emergency financing bill because he wanted to add a clause wiping out the abortion-financing Hyde Amendment. Really, he did. People are dying in front of our very eyes from the virus, can't get tested for it and McConnell wants to leverage a politically sensitive, unrelated issue.

Despicable.

The president discouraged coronavirus testing because he believes any increases in the officially reported number of cases in the United States would've been bad for his reelection campaign. Why does he believe that? Because Trump called the coronavirus a "hoax," invented by his political foes, perpetuated by Fox News.

That's right - he doesn't care if you die.

Did you vote for him? Going to vote for him again? He doesn't care if you die. Still going to vote for him?

I'll let the late David Bowie finish up this blog for me -

A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die (This is not a miracle)
For this is not America

We are in trouble. Good night, Mrs. Calabash. With any luck, the Schloss-Blog will be back next week.

Got any toilet paper, anyone?