DECEMBER 2021 IGNOMINIOUS ABSURDITY OF THE MONTH: THE IGGY

The Ignominious Absurdity of the Month (IGGY) award used to be called The Bonehead Absurdity of the Month. I used the word “bonehead” because I thought the utterances selected were largely products of stupidity or ignorance. Coming to believe that the people I selected were not just ignorant, but downright evil, I decided to change bonehead to ignominious, hence was born The Ignominious Absurdity on the Month. This shouldn’t imply, however, that ignominious individuals are not also ignorant; in reality, there is a close affinity between the two, as some of this month’s selections will attest.

1. The Usual Suspects. It’s become habitual that certain persons will repeatedly distinguish themselves as IGGY candidates. This month, Reps. Jim Jordan, Matts Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Green put their ignorance and stupidity once again on display. If we can’t require IQ tests as a prerequisite to serving the US House of Representatives, at least we should require an MRI of their brains to check for nougat. It’s the least we can do for the American public. The nougat brains of Jordan, Gaetz and Green showed their tangle of glitching neurons when commenting on the Covid virus.

First, Jordan’s brilliant observation: “Real America is done with Covid-19. The only people who don’t understand this is Fauci and Biden.”

Done? As the year ended, there were over 580,000 new cases in the U.S., the highest on record.  Worrisome projections about the new Omicron variant suggest Jordan must have been absent when brains were passed out.

Next, Gaetz: “Still the best vaccine we’ve found is mother nature’s vaccine, it’s contacting the virus that’s what has provided the greatest, most durable, protection over the longest period of time.”

Sorry Matt, scientific research has revealed that people who have had Covid are not immune to getting it again, especially, apparently, from the Omicron variant.

The immutable Taylor Green apparently thinks cancer is somehow analogous to COVID-19. In her words: “Every single year more than 600,000 people in the US die of cancer. The country has never once shut down. Not a single school has closed. And every year, over 600,000 people of all ages and races will continue to die from cancer.”

Apparently, Georgia’s Greene missed a few days of school—including the day all Peach State schools are required to set aside once a year to teach something other than creation science. So, the nougat-brained Green thinks cancer is somehow analogous to COVID-19, a communicable disease that continues to spread, evolve, and kill innocent people across the globe.

It’s a tragedy that so many people still die of cancer each year. But what we haven’t done in the face of this ongoing crisis is demonize effective treatments, politicize basic precautionary measures, or relentlessly attack one of the world’s foremost experts on the problem.

Obviously, there’s a significant difference between cancer and COVID-19. Let me see if I can puzzle this one out. Hmm. No luck. Guess I’m just too obtuse.