[FRIAM] More distraction

[Steve Smith]

Merle -

Is this of your coinage?  As a word monger (munger?) I do appreciate
it's aptness for the moment.

>  Cassandrafreude. 
> One definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of things going wrong
> in exactly the way you predicted but no one believed you when it could
> have made a difference." 

However...

I think like many sharp things, it cuts both ways.   I'm sure there are
any number of Red Staters (with or with Red MAGA hats) saying
emphatically "I TOLE YA!" about the complement of things that Blue
Staters (with or without Bernie or Biden 2020 hats) are saying.

Remember, my sympathies are mostly with the Blue Caps, but...

People living in small, remote, rural towns where the social distancing
is built in somewhat and where R0 is naturally lower (and subsequent
rates of infection)  than in say downtown NYC or Rome or Tehran or Delhi
or Tokyo, may be saying "see I TOLE YA that citified living is
dangerous"  or the same people who might only take one airline flight in
a year or decade or lifetime might say "see I TOLE YA that flitting all
around the world is crazy business and would lead to no good!" or even
more judgementally "see I TOLE YA excluding Furriners would keep us
safe!" or "see I TOLE YA that office/retail/service work ain't
righteous, you gotta get yer hands dirty!"

In any case, I enjoyed Cassandrafreude and will probably find it
springing to mind for the duration...

- Steve

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