Anti-social distancing

No one ever went broke betting on human beings' ability to be awful and stupid. It's a growth industry, as they say.

And so we come to the latest stupid human trick: Zoom-bombing.

If you don't know what Zoom is yet, why, you're just a caveman staring at fire, technologically speaking. Zoom is the new social media thing, here in Plague America. It's like FaceTime only you can hook up a whole pile of people at once and conduct family chats, virtual happy hours and kinda-sorta birthday parties without resorting to human contact with the possibly diseased.

(Or family members with whom you'd just as soon not have human contact. If you know what I mean.)

Anyway ... it's a poor substitute for the social ramble. But we do what we can in these strange and science-fiction-y times.

Leave it to human beings to ruin even that, however.

See, what some of the more soulless among us are doing (aside from gobbling nacho-cheese Bugles as they hunch over their devices in the darkness of mom's basement) is jumping people's Zoom feeds and filling them with pornographic images and other niceties. Presumably when they're not doing that, they're pulling the wings off flies or some such thing.

This brings us to New York Rangers prospect K'Andre Miller, and a Zoom encounter gone horribly wrong.

Miller, who is African-American, was taking part in a 20-minute Q&A with fans on Zoom Friday afternoon when the section for questions was swamped with Zoom-bombers publishing the Queen Mother of racial slurs over and over again. It got so bad the comments section had to be shut down.

Nice, huh?

Thankfully, the Rangers, the NHL and several of Miller's teammates immediately reacted, calling the  Zoom-bomber cowards and racists on Twitter. Both were accurate assessments.

Several others come to mind, but this being a nominally family-friendly Blob, we will refrain.

Except to say there are some sick people in this world. And COVID-19's got nothing to do with it.