{"id":9963,"date":"2021-02-27T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/?p=9963"},"modified":"2021-02-27T17:05:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T01:05:02","slug":"seattle-graffiti-about-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/27\/seattle-graffiti-about-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle graffiti about coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Note: In 2021 I\u2019ll publish at least one blog post per week, whichever day I get to it. Here\u2019s entry 8 of 52.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: Still working on Biden Part 2 of 2. It’s taking longer than I expected! If you want to help, here’s something I haven’t figured out yet. In this 98-second video clip<\/a>,<\/em> can you hear what the then-vice president whispers to thirteen-year-old Maggie Coons<\/em> shortly before trying to kiss her (on Jan 6, 2015)?<\/em> He starts: “By the way, if you want to know how important it is, being thirteen” and then I can’t discern the rest clearly. If you can (maybe try headphones?), let me know: dal@riseup.net<\/a><\/em> Or leave a comment on this post.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a quick entry this week: five photographs I took in Seattle’s Industrial District West area. The view is from one of the trails I frequently run on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first four pics show a graffiti battle, in which the original artist(s), disbelieving in the coronavirus news, painted “COVID is a lie!” as well as a sickly physician, named Dr Stupid on his shirt, saying vaccines are harmless while holding a needle. Another artist(s) sprayed graffiti atop that, correcting “COVID is a lie!” with “COVID is killing people!” The second artist(s) also wrote a comment on Dr Stupid: Enjoy your Darwin award<\/a><\/em>. The United States has now topped half a million deaths from COVID-19; it has far more deaths<\/a> from coronavirus than any other country on the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final image I photographed from the same area. It shows, through chain link fence, multiple train tracks, what I believe is a port terminal, plus in the distance across Elliott Bay, the Space Needle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A frontal view of all the graffiti<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A close-up of Dr Stupid, cash in his pocket, preparing to vaccinate someone’s butt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The graffiti, edited by another artist(s)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the graffiti, with some of the trail shown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Through the chain link fence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Recently I read (forgot where) that people who live in this area of Seattle, like me, cut a decade or so off their life due to air and other pollution. I presume from the Ash Grove cement plant nearby, among other sources. The area is apparently also an EPA superfund site<\/a>: extra money allocated from the feds in hopes of cleaning up an especially toxic area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But back when I lived in Texas, prior to 2016, I always wanted to move to an industrial portion of Seattle. It just seemed right; I don’t really pay much heed to left-brain lists of reasons when choosing big life decisions; I try to listen to myself instead. The graffiti seems a fitting part of this landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: In 2021 I\u2019ll publish at least one blog post per week, whichever day I get to it. Here\u2019s entry 8 of 52. Note: Still working on Biden Part 2...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note: In 2021 I\u2019ll publish at least one blog post per week, whichever day I get to it. Here\u2019s entry 8 of 52. Note: Still working on Biden Part 2 of 2. It’s taking longer than I expected! If you want to help, here’s something I haven’t figured out yet. In this 98-second video clip, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,253,44],"tags":[203,254,123],"class_list":["post-9963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-graffiti","category-seattle","tag-covid19","tag-graffiti","tag-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9963"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10053,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9963\/revisions\/10053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglaslucas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}