I wonder what the Costco idiot is thinking now [View all]

[greatbaldeagle]

Last edited Wed Mar 25, 2020, 03:15 AM - Edit history (1)

I live in the Atlanta area. A few weeks ago when Coronavirus was first becoming a reality here in the US, I was walking into Costco when the workers were at that time wiping the cart handles as you entered. A 50 plus year old man (definitely a Trumpet) who had no cart was lecturing the workers about flu being worse and statistics and blah blah blah. I let them wipe down my cart handle and then I did something I never do. I confronted the idiot.

I waited until we were several yards inside and I told him he was being disingenuous given the fact that we had no idea how many people had the virus due to the lack of available testing (sadly still a reality). He responded by saying his girlfriend works for the CDC. I'm not kidding, that's all he had. I proceeded to tell him my aunt and 2 cousins work for the CDC and one of them is an epidemiologist but that has nothing to do with the fact that there weren't enough tests to draw any solid conclusions.

He then said he would "take that into consideration" with a smirk on his face and I walked off realizing that it was probably pointless. I couldn't help but think about why a person with no cart was trying to discourage the workers from wiping down carts for people who actually had carts. Why was this so triggering to him? And then it hit me. Miserable Trumpets who listen to right wing propaganda all day feel emboldened to spew their nonsense on others because seeing people doing common sense things and being kind to others runs counter to everything they hear. That is the trigger. Common sense and decency to others.

Well, now that this issue has spiralled into a Trumpian Tornado, I wonder what the Costco idiot is thinking as he sits at home watching the lies and propaganda fall apart hour by hour and day by day. His "statistics" can no longer stand up to the FACT that this virus is so contagious and so deadly that it has locked down cities across the world. No flu ever killed so many people in one nursing home.

Now the Costco idiot is probably out of toilet paper since he was so sure this was all just a lib hoax and it would be over in a few days. As he ponders where he went wrong, I hope he thinks back to the conversation he had with me and the false information he was spewing to those workers who were just doing what their bosses asked them to do and feels like a complete jackass because that's exactly what he deserves.