Losing

WE ALL HAVE, if we are lucky, Eureka moments. I had mine when I emerged from sports fan denial and realized that for the year 2020 there will be no more baseball, football basketball, college or professional. I am emerging from denial sooner than most. Professional baseball, basketball, football are all still planning to return, as is college football for the fall. Billionaire owners, millionaire players, college administrators, all living in denial, all for the money. Money does that; it blinds. Millions of sports fans, still in denial, like Trump and his supporters in denial - about everything. Trump said teh virus is a hoax, the country will return to normal by Easter, the virus will vanish with warm weather returning, and then, just the other day, he incredibly said that the virus is going away right now. Utter denial, a Trumpian world of fantasy and lies. His supporters, ignoring the danger, ignoring tens of thousands of dead Americans and their warnings from their graves, gathering together in Tulsa to spread the virus and scream nonsense, needlessly. how how many more times will  they do this insanity? Example; one person planning to attend the MAGA mob rally, sitting in his lawn chair for days outside the arena waiting, said that he would be just as likely to catch Covid 19 at home as he would with nineteen thousand other people in a  packed arena, screaming, maskless. This is beyond mere denial. this is sheer lunacy, the abandonment of reality, a descent, seemingly endless, into sheer insanity. This is insanity just as surely as believing you have been abducted by extraterrestrials, as believing that extraterrestrials are living in disguise among us, influencing our society, as many people do, or claim to believe. This is fantasy equal to believing that torturing a man to death two thousand years ago brings eternal salvation to you when you die, or that Donald Trump is not a racist, and really, truly cares about the nation's poor. To believe taht our beloved sports are going to return this year, when the virus spreads among any team which dares to assemble for practice, is fantasy, wishful thinking. And I have fallen prey to it. but I am not alone; and at least I, finally, am awakening from my denial, recovering from my insanity, emerging fro  my dream. the rest of you will soon join me, one way or another. We are, for the moment, a nation in denial, divorced from reality.