Paul Roth | #VEDA 2020 06 - On Boris Johnson and Anger by @paulidin [OC] #QVEDA @paulidin | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
"I've been doing a Doctor Who rewatch during this pandemic and I just saw the episode A Good Man Goes To War where the Doctor says, 'Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.'"

[music: Minor Swing]

"Hello PaulTalkers and other viewers!

I've already vlogged about how I am anxious and have depression. What I haven't mentioned yet this QVEDA is how I am furious.

My blood is constantly boiling that everything bad happening to people in the world right now was preventable.

The US government's congress and President were informed by the WHO and CDC that the coronavirus was going to be devastating as early as January. It took until March for any of our local governments, not even the federal one, to start acting to protect its people.

We have the technology and resources to provide clean water to literally everyone in the United States. But instead we allow pipelines to be installed by the fuel industry so many areas of our allegedly developed nation don't have water clean enough to wash hands let alone drink!

We have the means and space to provide housing first solutions everywhere in this nation but it takes a threat to property owners to get our local governments to start allowing use of the vacancies that are already available to shelter our enormous homeless population.

There are medical and scientific facts that could have been reported using every means of mass communication from TV and internet to print newspapers and radio to inform everyone in this country about how dangerous this pandemic is, but that might have shaken confidence in some of the most fascist governments we've had to date.

I am angry at selfish conservative world leaders like Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. Today, April 6th, 2020, it's reported that BoJo is in ICU for the coronavirus that he treated like a hoax.

The part of me that is not a good man wants him to suffer as a form of justice for the harm he has caused. I want the fact that he has shaken hands with Donald Trump to have poetic and satisfying consequences. And those two results might make the world better.

But the rule I follow, as someone who is not 100% a good man, is that I don't pursue anyone's death. No matter how appropriate it might seem to me. Even if I would not shed a tear at the news. I don't pursue it.

That's vengeance. It's a line you can only cross in a single direction.

Instead, as the purveyors of lies, like Bojo and Trump and Dr. Drew get more and more exposed as liars and perhaps to COVID19 itself, my hope is that truth comes out.

There are people in my country who eagerly accept lies and lie to themselves if it means they can hurt the people they want to hurt. As the political leaders and celebrities who gave them permission to shit on the truth themselves face the consequences of those lies, I don't want anyone to die.

I want conservatives and bigots to realize the only way we can get through this is to help each other. Not just some of each other, the ones they like, because that lets the virus through. All of each other. That's what anger wants.

Tell me about your anger in the comments below, please.

And let's hope tomorrow is better."

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Recorded using a Google Pixel 3's front-facing camera.
Scripted using Google Docs
Open Captioned with AutoCap.
Edited with Quicktime
Theme song: Minor Swing / I Will Survive by The Bitter Dose Combo with permission from Matt Henry
Title Card photo taken by Paul Roth, 2019