Sunday Rerun: from the early pandemic days: It's Hard to Believe Some People

 Hello from your Pandemic News headquarters: Today's allotment is one story of hopeless foolishness and one of worthy hopefulness. The fool first:

Roseanne Barr, who claims to be funny and smart, says that the coronavirus outbreak is a bioweapon that was made to kill us baby boomers.

She talked to the great Norm Macdonald, who has a YouTube show called “Quarantined with Norm Macdonald.” The two were talking about quarantining and this whole COVID-19 experience.

Roseann said, “You know I’m crazy so I’m speaking as a crazy woman now. I think we’re being forced to evolve. You know what it is, Norm? I think they’re just trying to get rid of all my generation.”

“The boomer ladies that, you know, that inherited their, you know, are widows. They inherited the money, so they got to go wherever the money is and figure out a way to get it from people,” she continued.

So, if you follow her "logic" (and remember, she had a great chance at a comeback last year when they brought back the sitcom that made her famous, only to blow it with a series of racist comments) she is saying that a lot of widows in their 60s have all this inherited money that young people want to get their hands on, so they came up with this virus to get those women out of the picture.

Barr has been lately blessing the state of Hawaii with her regal presence. She told Norm that Hawaiians have “no toilet paper and are out of white rice.”

Contrary to reports that there have been 385 confirmed cases and five deaths on the island, Roseann said there is one case of COVID-19 there.

And she went on, telling Norm that the time in isolation has given her a chance to “research and come up with the perfect lawsuit … against Hollywood.”

“I’m devising the perfect lawsuit and I am so blessed to have that time and sit here and be able to compile my thoughts,” she said. “So I can figure out how to *^$% over everybody in the &^%# world over there.”

Really. I'm sure the Hollywood legal community is scared.

Meanwhile, the good news:

The Red Cross says they want Americans who have gotten over the COVID-19 to donate plasma. The science is, that blood can help current patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections because that plasma has antibodies that will attack the virus.

They call it "convalescent plasma," and in the past, it's come in handy as a  lifesaving treatment for new diseases for which no treatments or vaccines have been developed. I think it's fascinating to think that nature gives us the cure to use on others like this, and it gives me hope that medicine will come up with a vaccine to prevent, and a cure to heal, this coronavirus.

In the same spirit, I happen to think that Norm MacDonald is one of the funniest and brightest people alive. Maybe some time with him will be good for Roseanne and make her funny and smart again.