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"Thank you, Coronavirus" which has 8000 likes a;and was translated into various languages.  I was made aware of this video because it was passed to me by a friend of a friend.  We have seen people passing on messages and videos without given much thought about the contents.    I asked my students to watch the Youtube video, and discuss whether the author is a bullshitter. --They overwhelmingly replied: "the poem is bullshit."  Some of their reasons are 1. she made overly generalized statements; 2. she neglected the suffering of people due to coronavirus, especially loss of life and jobs.  3. she made something positive out of a lot of misery.  4. She spoke from a privileged position.   The students quoted this passage from "on Bullshit": "[Bullshitter's] eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not ...