Numbers Are Hard
Texas congressman Mike McCaul, a very pretty man with Rick Perry hair, married the daughter of the Clear Channel Communications owner and suddenly gained 50 IQ points in his own head.
McCaul is fine if you don’t get him off script. He is always fully scripted, and combed. Well, except for this morning when he was talking about Coronavirus.
“I don’t think it’s time to panic,” he insisted. “The risk is still low. To put it in perspective, we had 350 million cases of the flu this year alone in the United States and somewhere between 20,000 to 50,000 deaths.”
Oh My God! We had 350 million cases of the flu right here in the old ole US of A?
That right there alone is a damn good reason to panic. The Census Bureau estimates the population of America to be 329 million, so if 350 million of them got flu, we have broken arithmetic. Don’t even think about fractions, double digit subtraction where you have to borrow twice, calculus, algebra, or the backwards countdown before you yell Blast Off! We broke it, apparently with the flu. The fact that we haven’t heard about is a giant faux media activity.
JJ, it’s simple, all of us got the flu once and some of us got the flu twice. Or, more likely, Representative McCaul is an innumerate doofus.
1Proof that hairspray destroys brain cells [even deeply hidden ones].
His F-i-L Lowry Mays, with San Antonio auto mega-dealer Red McCombs [both local RWNJs] founded Clear Channel, which became iHeart Media, the largest US station owner-operator.
Yeah, their talk stations feature ‘talent’ such as Dreck, Limpballs, Scammity, etc. Check out their religious stations too.
McCaul fits right in.
[One of the reasons I almost never listen to AM/FM the last 20+ years, just my own cds, recordings, internet, and SiriusXM.]
CC and iHeart have had at least two bankruptcies, recently emerging from one with major personnel layoffs, etc [the enormous salaries paid to their ‘talent’ were a major factor in tubing the whole company].
2thats counting the undocumented…..
3Bob: and then there’s that one guy who got the flu 32,493 times. He really throws off the average.
4Somewhere, out there is a 4th grade math teacher who had Mike McCaul as a student. Today she’s finally stopped wondering if she had held him back a year, would have made a difference? She’s now certain it didn’t matter.
5Thanks, slipstream and Rick for the knee-
6slappers.
We all know nutjobs can’t spell, math must now
be added to the list. As Bob says, they are innumerate
doofuses. And reading comprehension is non-existent.
Remember these are the people in charge of counting the vote.
7Is “Rick Perry hair” the code for an improbable hairline?
8John@8 : it’s not so much the hairline. It’s better characterized by “could bounce a bowling ball of of it, and not displace a hair”. Similar thing applies to the braincase underneath it.
9Wow – I had a flu shot and some how missed this. Did someone else have it on my behalf?
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