Althouse: "Randy comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak as the on-going pandemic presents continued challenges to the citizens of South Park."

September 16, 2020

"Randy comes to terms with his role in the COVID-19 outbreak as the on-going pandemic presents continued challenges to the citizens of South Park."

"The kids happily head back to school but nothing resembles the normal that they once knew...."

19 comments:

exhelodrvr1 said...: Excellent thread on the virus, and the nonsense of locking things down

https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1306220427182854145; 9/16/20, 8:53 AM
mikee said...: Simpsons did it already. Probably.; 9/16/20, 8:57 AM
rcocean said...: Is South Park still on? The funniest shows were the ones in the Fall of 2016, they'd assumed Trump was going to lose, and they painted all the Trump supporters as old farts, living in the past, eating "'member berries". And then Trump won.

Hopefully, their pandemic special will be funny and not simply gross, liberal, and profane.; 9/16/20, 9:00 AM
rcocean said...: Randy = Funny.
Cartman = Funny

These two are comic engine of the show. Kyle and the other guy are rather bland.; 9/16/20, 9:06 AM
donald said...: South Park is in no way liberal.; 9/16/20, 9:15 AM
Temujin said...: Fantastic news! It'll give my wife something to shake her head at when she enters the room.; 9/16/20, 10:03 AM
ALP said...: Best news I've had in a while! Thanks.; 9/16/20, 10:19 AM
tim in vermont said...: When my daughter was student teaching, and through her first couple years working with kids, she was sick all the time with one virus or another. The Oxford vaccine, I read, is made from common cold viruses, not the COVID-19 one. Here’s hoping that teachers enjoy something of an immunity to it. Sweden seems to have opened their schools, with a lot of restrictions, BTW, without creating a flareup. They haven’t opened their high schools.; 9/16/20, 10:20 AM
rcocean said...: "South Park is in no way liberal."

Persuasive.; 9/16/20, 11:21 AM
Amexpat said...: South Park is an excellent example of cruel (and funny) neutrality.; 9/16/20, 11:37 AM
Yancey Ward said...: "The Oxford vaccine, I read, is made from common cold viruses, not the COVID-19 one. Here’s hoping that teachers enjoy something of an immunity to it."

You probably know this, but the formulation of that first sentence is confusing. The Oxford vaccine uses a different platform for a variety of reasons, but it won't mean your daughter has any immunity due to her exposure to adenoviruses. Her immunity would arise from her exposure of to other coronavirues over the course of her life, and there is good evidence now that this is, in fact, true for anywhere from 50% to 80% of the population.; 9/16/20, 11:53 AM
Bilwick said...: Best line I ever heard on SOUTH PARK: "No, it's not fascism because we're not going to CALL it fascism."

As old-time comedian Sam Levenson used to say, "It's funny because it's true!' And it sums up basically all the objections I have ever heard pointing out the similarities between modern statist pseudo-liberalism and Mussolini's "Nothing outside the State, everything for the State, nothing against the State."; 9/16/20, 12:32 PM
n.n said...: The primary transmission mode, especially of asymptomatic carriers, is likely contact (e.g. fecal). So, remove your mask, your goggles, too, and wash your hands, and limit contact with black holes... whores h/t NAACP. If necessary, choose one of several affordable and available early treatments to limit infection and mitigate disease progression, and avoid Planned Parent as a first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic evolutionary dysfunction (e.g. excess mortality).; 9/16/20, 1:17 PM
tim in vermont said...: "in fact, true for anywhere from 50% to 80% of the population."

Isn’t it pretty to think so, Yancey. If that were true the virus would not have spread so rapidly before precautions were put in place in Italy, France, New York City, etc. Those are close to herd immunity numbers you are talking about.

In New Zealand, where they had isolated themselves and chased down all the cases and had appeared to extirpate the virus on those islands, a case got in somehow, probably the 15 day isolation of incoming people is not long enough, and had spread to 135 people before they knew what hit them. I read about a study which suggests that asymptomatic children can be infectious for 40 days. Yes, it is an airborne virus and while sick people spread it faster with the coughing and droplets and stuff on their hands, etc, pre and asymptomatic people still spread it, if they didn’t, this would have been contained by now. I think New Zealand is on a fool’s errand to try to keep the virus out of their country, but maybe they like being left alone.

But if you have a cite, I would be happy to read it, even though you clearly don’t read my cites.; 9/16/20, 3:38 PM
tim in vermont said...: I just read in an article linked here somewhere about another drug that casually mentions that remdesrv cuts the average hospital stay of a COVID patient by four days. WTF? Last I heard it was another worthless drug touted by Trump.; 9/16/20, 3:49 PM
George Leroy Tirebiter said...: As Matt Stone said almost 20 years ago: “I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”; 9/16/20, 5:13 PM
Mark said...: You can't have episodes about celebrities being in closets, Clinton stormtroopers yanking Elian Gonzalez out of a closet (produced within DAYS of the actual event), a Jew-fin and Mrs. Garrison being unable to have an abortion because he's not really a woman, just a mutilated man, if you are on the left.; 9/16/20, 7:48 PM
stevew said...: So far dead from Covid (which numbers we suspect are inflated) is ~0.000625 of the US population. How many of those would have lived if there was a vaccine available? With the significantly lower rates of infection we are seeing now, and the vastly superior methods of treatment, what is that rate now? How many future deaths will a vaccine prevent? How many will be prevented from continuance of the lock downs, mask regime, etc.?

Love South Park, they continue to play the boy that points out that the emperor is naked.; 9/16/20, 7:52 PM
CJ said...: The only TV show I can watch. The only one that doesn’t insult my intelligence. Best show of the last few years was Mickey Mouse the gangster boss of Disney who stomps on any criticism of the Chinese government.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mMSBhRPQyY&feature=emb_logo

Now that’s speaking truth to power.; 9/16/20, 11:47 PM