{"id":144763,"date":"2020-12-31T02:46:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T23:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/goodbye-to-2020-the-year-when-so-much-and-so-many-were-so-wrong\/"},"modified":"2020-12-31T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T23:46:46","slug":"goodbye-to-2020-the-year-when-so-much-and-so-many-were-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/goodbye-to-2020-the-year-when-so-much-and-so-many-were-so-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"#Goodbye to 2020, the year when so much and so many were so wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Goodbye to 2020, the year when so much and so many were so wrong<\/strong>”
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Hey, coulda been worse, right? In 1918, the year Joe Biden won his letterman\u2019s sweater in leather-helmet football, the number of deaths in America was up 46 percent over the previous year thanks to the pandemic and the Great War. This year: only 15 percent. Huzzah! If you have the urge to punch 2020 in the nads, be aware that in 1349, a third of the population of Europe died.<\/p>\n

2020 was a mild setback compared to 536 (\u201cthe worst year to be alive,\u201d mainly because Amazon Prime deliveries took like six months because of a glitch in mastodon operations) and 1816, when volcanic ash from an eruption coated the atmosphere and nothing would grow in the \u201cyear without a summer,\u201d causing mass starvation. There hasn\u2019t been a gnaw-on-your-dead-grandpa year since, though maybe we\u2019ll have one a couple of years from now, when Bill Gates wants to pull the cool-the-atmosphere-with-ash trick again, this time intentionally. Hey, go for it, experts! Sure, Bill is an expert in writing intermittently functional software, not in climate engineering, but why should that stop him from app<\/a>ointing himself to smother out the sun?<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, maybe it\u2019s experts, not 2020, that should be absorbing a baseball bat to their collective crotch. Thanks to experts, leaders and authorities, 2020 was the Year of Wrong. Every day, the high and mighty calmly assured us that \u201cfacts\u201d and \u201cscience<\/a>\u201d and \u201cdata\u201d were telling us stuff that was completely, horrifically, catastrophically wrong.<\/p>\n

When the Wuhan Flu broke out of whatever Chinese bat-brunch spot it came from, authorities told us it was no big deal. Donald Trump\u2019s wrongness, as usual, got the most attention: \u201cWe have it totally under control. . . . It\u2019s going to be just fine,\u201d he said on Jan. 21. Trump had lots of company in being wrong: \u201cGet on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus,\u201d Mayor Bill de Blasio urged New Yorkers on March 2, the day after the first confirmed case hit town.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this situation, the facts defeat fear because the reality is reassuring,\u201d Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, also on March 2. \u201cWe should relax because that\u2019s what is dictated by the reality of the situation.\u201d Cuomo added this was \u201cnot our first rodeo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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No, not our first rodeo, merely our worst rodeo: a rodeo held in a joint twice the size of Madison Square Garden where everyone dies gruesomely. The virus killed 12 times as many New Yorkers as 9\/11 but at least Cuomo was relaxed about it.<\/p>\n

The surgeon general<\/a> of the United States told us not to wear masks (science!), Cuomo ordered nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients until May 2 (facts!), and Vox said<\/a>, \u201cWill this be a deadly pandemic? No.\u201d (Data!)<\/p>\n

When Trump ordered a partial halt on travel<\/a> from China on January 31, Joe Biden\u2019s reaction was to cry xenophobia. A chorus of media<\/a> supremos agreed. \u201cBeware the Pandemic Panic<\/a>,\u201d wrote Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times on January 29, terrified that in the future \u201cpoliticians begin pushing for travel bans\u201d that might \u201cpersecute the marginalized.\u201d Manjoo added that \u201cmisinformation about the scale of the virus is already trending\u201d and scoffed at the idea that it is \u201cthermonuclear pandemic level bad\u201d before going on to fret about the real threat: \u201cracist memes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone who claimed to know what he was talking about was wrong. Joe Biden\u2019s campaign was dead after he somehow managed to finish 17th in a field of eight in New Hampshire? Wrong! Biden would destroy Trump in an epic landslide victory heralded by a 17-point drubbing in Wisconsin? Wrong! Biden won by 43,000 votes spread across three states, a smaller margin than Trump\u2019s 2016 win, which was 78,000 in three states.<\/p>\n

Defunding the police was a sensible or even plausible solution to police shootings? Wrong! How about this memory-holed idea from way back in the ancient past of six months ago: Mass rioting would change the dynamic between police and black people. Wrong, unless you count \u201cNFL players start wearing slogans on their shoes\u201d as crucial reform. Just spitballing here, but if that\u2019s all the screaming mobs wanted, maybe they could have just sent a letter to Roger Goodall instead of burning down gas stations, looting Macy\u2019s and murdering beloved 77-year-old black police chiefs. I\u2019m sure renaming the Indians and Redskins to \u201cCleveland baseball team\u201d and \u201cbad football team\u201d will somehow ease the plight of the Indians who live on the Rez. (Yeah, that\u2019s what they call themselves, sorry if that sounds off to you, just as Jack Donaghy of \u201c30 Rock\u201d was uncomfortable saying \u201cPuerto Rican.\u201d This was before Donaghy actor Alec Baldwin knew he was married to a cosplay Spaniard<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Instead of capitalizing Black in a meaningless gesture to correct race issues, I suggest that from now on we capitalize Wrong to emphasize the talismanic power of Wrongness in our lives. My prediction for 2021 is that people in positions of authority will continue to be Wrong. Why do I think this? Because at the end of 2020 everyone is still Wrong. Anthony Fauci on herd immunity? He admits he was Wrong! \u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d being the blockbuster we needed? Wrong!<\/p>\n

They save the most Wrong decision for the end: after private industry developed a COVID vaccine before a single American was even infected, then spent the entire year testing and running through regulatory obstacle courses, government agencies are handling distribution. As I write these words, 11 million doses of vaccine are out there ready to go but only 2.1 million folks have actually gotten the shots. If Walgreens, CVS, or even Arby\u2019s were in charge of this operation, you\u2019d already have your vaccination appointment logged in your Google calendar.<\/p>\n

Instead, our betters have decided that, when 10,000 people a week are dying, the answer lies in running distribution like the DMV: You\u2019ll get the vaccine when the government workers behind the counter are good and ready to wrap up their conversation on whatever episode of \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d they\u2019re chatting about and turn their attention to you. Dr. Monseaf Slaoui, Chief Advisor to Operation Warp Speed, projected at Thanksgiving that 20 million Americans would be vaccinated by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Wrong! At the rate they\u2019re going in the first two weeks\u2014 1 million vaccinated per week \u2014 we\u2019ll all have our shots in six years. Don\u2019t worry, America, our superiors will work this out soon. Hey, it\u2019s not their first rodeo!\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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