*From today's paper: * *"Taking the Funeral to the Mourners: The body of Jesse James McLellan, who died of Covid-19,* *was brought near his home in Brooklyn": Caption to a front-page photo of masked neighbors* *standing dolefully around a hearse, its rear door open for removal of the casket.*
*"Dying in America, Yearning for Burial in Mexico": Headline of an article on p. A11.* *"We're Fraying": Headline on the jump page (A13) of the front-page article, "Fraying Nerves* *Dishearten City As Crisis Drags."* *"Italy Stores Up Family Tragedies Through Isolating the ill at Home": Headline on p. A15.* *"In Canada, a Time to Mourn, But in a Different Manner": p. A17* *That's typical of the Gray Lady, who, throughout this crisis, has been practically invisible * *beneath the long **black veil she wears, day in, day out, as she does not so much report* *the "news" as wail it. It's notable that she did not dress all in black like this in 2009, when* *a lot more people, in the US and worldwide, were dying of H1N1; nor did she go in for* *this hysterical morbidity during the first years—or, since then, any other moments—of * *the AIDS pandemic. She has waxed morbid after Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Parkland,* *Pittsburgh, **and other high-profile mass shootings, with much lurid funeral coverage, * *and **photo galleries showing those, or some of those, "we've lost," but those spurts * *of **mourning tears were one-offs, and the mournfulness short-lived, whereas the Times * *has been indulging in this **ghoulish reportage for many weeks, suggesting that the * *paper needs to hire a team of grief counsellors.* *Of course, I'm being facetious there—because it isn't grief among the staff that has the* *Times forever beating on its funeral bells, but the demands of the enormous **Western * *propaganda drive to magnify the toll of the coronavirus, and keep its readers **terrified * *that they might be the next to die, if they should dare to go outside, or get **too close to * *anybody else. In short, the Times is doing everything it can to hype this **crisis, so that * *we'll desperately accede to mandatory vaccination, heightened **mass * *surveillance, * *cashless transactions, and whatever other fixes the exploiters (and **creators?) of this * *crisis have in store for us.* *And, speaking of the AI-based dystopia that's going to be our world (if we don't fight* *it), the Times is not just going on and on about the death death death, but also* *simultaneously pumping out a lot of propaganda meant to reconcile us all to* *"sheltering in place" for just as long as Bill Gates wants us to. Just as AT&T, * *Papa John's, T-Mobile and the car **companies, among other advertisers, have * *been coming out with TV spots that make our **"social distancing" look pretty * *cool, so is the Gray Lady working to prepare us, **not for a return to "normal," * *but for the Brave New World in which "we can live **rich lives at home" forever.* *That dismal chirp comes from the email that the Times sent out just yesterday,* *announcing "At Home, a new print section" of the Sunday paper. 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