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Delta Variant Returns and the Riots-vs-Covid Trade-off
from #262 - We're Back | The Tim Dillon Show · #262
6 min
Tim jokes about breakthrough Covid case numbers returning to the news cycle, and pitches a dark joke that only civil unrest and riots make Covid coverage disappear, framing America's choices as either lockdown or mob violence.
- Tim recalls announcing death and sickness numbers at the start of every podcast during the height of COVID coverage.
- Breakthrough COVID cases among vaccinated Americans are being tracked despite the vaccine's purpose being to prevent death, not infection.
- During the riots, COVID dropped to the fourth news story because people were literally marching through streets burning buildings.
- Tim's solution to lowering COVID's importance: more civil unrest, riots, and arson to distract from the pandemic.
- Someone should CGI or fake a video of cops shooting an innocent person to make COVID go away again.
- If police shot an unarmed person and the video went viral, the delta variant and all its variants would disappear overnight.
- Tim encourages white people to stage a racist incident at a grocery store—"take one for the team"—to go viral and shift attention away from COVID.
- You can't have it all: choose between eternal COVID lockdowns or violent mobs burning cop cars in the streets.
- The media will have cameras in dying people's faces asking "can you breathe" if we choose forever lockdown instead of riots.
- Tim concludes that to any alien observing the last year of American history, the only options appear to be COVID spikes or street violence.
- A failed state offers two choices that both destroy your life and livelihood: federal government mismanaging a pandemic or sanctioning mass violence.