NY Times Editorial Links COVID-19 to Green New Deal

The sort of moonbats who publish editorials in the liberal establishment’s Paper of Record view everything through a lens comprised of unmitigated moonbattery, so that whatever they look at, all they see is their own ideology, as if they were using a View-Master as a pair of binoculars. For example, Rhiana Gunn-Wright looks at the Wuhan coronavirus crisis and sees the need to waste fortunes on the economy-smothering Green New Deal. She rages that stimulus spending intended to help people and businesses to survive and the economy to recover must include money to hamstring the economy in the name of “climate and environmental justice.”

Ms Gunn-Wright lets us know straight off how she manages to get published by the New York Times, proclaiming that she is “too black” to believe in the “inherent goodness” of America. Before long she is coughing up paragraphs like this:

Pandemics like the coronavirus may occur more often when climate change is unabated. Warming and changing weather patterns shift the vectors and spread of disease. Heavily polluting industries also contribute to disease transmission. Studies have linked factory farming — one of the largest sources of methane emissions — to faster-mutating, more virulent pathogens. The same corporations that exacerbated the climate crisis are literally helping to create deadlier diseases, more quickly, in a world that keeps changing how they spread.

Here I was thinking it was a virology lab run by communists, and then the suppression of vital information by those same communists, that inflicted the disease on the rest of the world. But if Ms Gunn-Wrong is right, the real culprits could be climate change, pollution, agriculture, and corporations. No doubt we should end all of these at once even if it saves only one life, as Elizabeth, New Jersey Mayor Chris Bollwage would say.

But wait, what about race? Everything bad has something to do with the evils of the white man. Here it comes:

Similarly, the same populations that are bearing the brunt of the health and economic effects of the coronavirus are the same populations that bear the brunt of fossil fuel pollution — which, in turn, makes them more vulnerable to serious complications.

Those populations are the ones oppressed by white privilege.

If blacks are more likely to succumb to the disease, it can’t be due to less healthy lifestyles. So maybe it is because of this:

Oil, gas and petrochemical industries have concentrated so heavily in low-income, majority-black-and-brown areas that black people are 75 percent more likely to live near industrial facilities than the average American.

Big Oil is making sacred Persons of Color die of the Chinese virus. Racist fiends!

Fortunately, this can be resolved by crushing what’s left of the economy under $zillions of wasteful spending on useless green energy boondoggles. That’s why we should replace the recent stimulus spending with AOC’s demented Green New Deal, which Ms None-Too-Bright says she helped create — and after reading this editorial, I have no reason to doubt her.

On a tip from Bluto.

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