Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Yup.
It's November 19th, 2021 and still nobody has died of Covid-19.
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The Incredible True Story Behind TV’s Strangest Space Jew (and the actor playing the part died from Covid-19)
By Yair Rosenberg
November 18, 2021
. . . I tried multiple official avenues to reach Tim Minear, the director and co-writer of the Firefly episode "The Message" and current showrunner of 9-1-1 and 9-1-1: Lone Star. None of them panned out. So last week, I broke out my investigative tool kit normally used to excavate the misbehavior of political candidates ...
Basically, I dug up Minear’s personal cell number and cold-called him. Fortunately, instead of hanging up, he graciously took the time to field my questions.
So, why was the mailman Jewish? “We were trying to make the character more real,” he explained. “When you have someone who’s only there for a couple scenes, you want to find ways to make them seem more substantial.” By giving the galactic postal clerk a clear Jewish identity, the show gestured to a wider world beyond what was explicitly seen on screen. “We wanted it to feel like he had an existence outside of the frame.”
This answer sounds simple, but it’s actually quite unusual for mainstream television. Typically, whenever a show introduces a visibly Jewish character (such as Amnon the Mailman in "The Message") it’s to make some point about their faith in service of the story. Too often, religious Jews are oddities whose strange practices serve as convenient plot devices. What makes Amnon remarkable, however, is that he is not remarkable. None of the characters in Firefly comment on his faith, because it is entirely unexceptional to them. In this universe, 500 years into the distant future, Jews are not a curiosity or a plot point or an endangered species, but simply a normal everyday presence.
And that might be the most daringly hopeful message of all.
While Googling further to tie up some loose ends, I found an obituary. Al Pugliese (Firefly’s space Jew mailman) died on July 24, 2021. He was 74.
Pugliese’s obituary says that he died “due to complications from Covid-19.” Scrolling through his social-media feeds, I soon realized that he likely was not vaccinated. Between many citations from scripture, he’d shared conspiratorial content highly critical of vaccination and lockdowns, along with many other views foreign to my own, like his support for Donald Trump.
The angry and unforgiving world we live in today would tell me to push this person away and cast him aside as part of the problem. But I found myself just wishing that I could talk to him again, and thank him for helping my teenage Orthodox Jewish self discover my experience reflected in a place I never expected. And for reminding me, years later, that despite all the lines we draw, we can see ourselves in each other after all.
May his memory be a blessing.
More at https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep-shtetl/618dedd1d581bf0020f7b0
7a/firefly-space-jew-al-pugliese/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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That's actually a much more decent message than most of the hit pieces the lying Leftist Legacy Media would write about somebody who they didn't agree with. I wonder what he would have wrote if the mailman wasn't Jewish? Probably nothing at all.
In any event, it's still lies.
Nobody dies of Covid-19.
P.S. I wonder if Yair Rosenberg is aware of how much at odds the title of his story is with the message of it.
In the story he writes the following:
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Too often, religious Jews are oddities whose strange practices serve as convenient plot devices. What makes Amnon remarkable, however, is that he is not remarkable. None of the characters in Firefly comment on his faith, because it is entirely unexceptional to them. In this universe, 500 years into the distant future, Jews are not a curiosity or a plot point or an endangered species, but simply a normal everyday presence.
And that might be the most daringly hopeful message of all.
But then he titles his story:
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The Incredible True Story Behind TV’s Strangest Space Jew (and the actor playing the part died from Covid-19)
I'm just pointing out that unexceptional and incredible are not synonyms, yanno... just in case they don't teach that in Journalism School.
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Biden to Boost Data Sharing After Dead Got Millions in Covid Aid
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/coronavirus/biden-to-boost-data-sharing-
after-dead-got-millions-in-covid-aid
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Biden Covid Deaths
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/
341,700 + Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
USA Cases 47,337,000 +
India 34,374,455
Brazil 21,880,439
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GOP embraces natural immunity as substitute for COVID-19 vaccines
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okes-natural-immunity-fight-against-covid-19-vaccine-mandates/8711591002/
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Brazil reports 12,301 cases of coronavirus and 293 COVID deaths in 24 hours -ministry
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-reports-12301-cases-coro
navirus-293-covid-deaths-24-hours-ministry-2021-11-18/
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https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/coronavirus-india-
updates-10488-new-cases-313-deaths-in-last-24-hours
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Joe Biden* is just as responsible as Donald Trump for Covid-19 deaths.
Which means not at all.
Because nobody dies of Covid-19.
This message NOT brought to you by Pfizer.
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The USA numbers are bad but it also has the most recovered - 38,799,000 + recovered
Biden Covid Deaths
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/biden-covid-death-tracker/
360,200 + Americans have died from COVID-19 since President Joe Biden took office.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
USA Cases 48,999,000 +
India 34,555,431
Brazil 22,055,608
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Because nobody dies of Covid-19.
What !!?
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What we know about the new corona variant from Africa
https://www.dw.com/en/what-we-know-about-the-new-corona-variant-from-a
frica/a-59948143
Pandemic dents turnout at Brazil university entrance exams
https://www.nsnews.com/coronavirus-covid-19-national-news/pandemic-den
ts-turnout-at-brazil-university-entrance-exams-4782031
What we know so far about the Indian coronavirus variant in the UK
https://www.politico.eu/article/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-indian-c
oronavirus-variant-in-the-uk/
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because nobody dies of Covid-19.
What !!?
Nobody dies of Covid-19.
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Covid 19 coronavirus Delta outbreak: New mutant strain reaches Israel
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ew-mutant-strain-reaches-israel/KMSAQAAUI7TDG2HXD6WD4MIRMY/
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Belgium became the first European Union country to announce a case of the variant B.1.1.529
https://www.cityam.com/first-case-in-europe-aggressive-new-covid-mutat
ion-detected-in-belgium-as-coronavirus-variant-spreads-across-the-globe/
WHO to debate dangerous South Africa coronavirus variant with ‘many mutations’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/26/who-debate-dangerous-
south-africa-coronavirus-vari/
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