rant · moment 10 of 26
Long Island Boomers Softening on "Just the Flu"
from #194 - We're Going Home | The Tim Dillon Show · #194
4 min
He describes how Long Island locals who initially dismissed the pandemic as liberal hysteria and mocked it with WWII memes are now going quiet as the death toll rises.
- Long Island's initial pandemic response was to tell people to shut up and deny the severity.
- Parents had to explain why relatives couldn't attend events like Maria's baby shower, and older people dismissed it as nothing serious.
- Tim avoided making hard predictions early on, knowing he'd have to walk them back later.
- Driving past Cedars-Sinai and seeing few people there could have easily led him to claim the whole thing was fake.
- On Long Island, the pandemic was framed as liberal hysteria designed to wreck the economy and get Trump voted out.
- Long Island boomers share World War Two memes about toughness while dismissing the pandemic as sniffles, despite never serving themselves.
- The only thing these boomers did for their grandparents who served in World War Two was rob money off their mantles.
- Some people on ventilators before slipping into comas will still insist it's not serious rather than question their worldview.
- "Trump 2020" will be the last words some Long Island residents ever say.
- Certain Long Islanders would rather drown in their own lungs than unravel their political beliefs.
- The pandemic may have increased or decreased sex in relationships, depending on whether couples are growing to hate each other.