“Did I do that?”
That was the catchphrase of Steve Urkel, the Family Matters character who stole the show with his ridiculously over-the-top portrayal of an accident-prone nerd.
Did he do that? You bet he did, over and over again, never learning from his mistakes.
If Urkel had been a real-live person with not much intellect and few discernible skills, he would have run for political office and spent the rest of his life messing things up for his constituents – and proposing solutions that would only make matters worse.
2020 would have been a banner year for Urkel. He’d have known instinctively just how to take an ordinary annual flu and turn it into a plague of biblical proportions, all the while proposing outrageously irrational remedial measures that could only prolong and exacerbate the situation: face masks, social distancing, lockdowns, etc.
Would anyone blame Urkel or his fellow government officials for their stupendously inappropriate response? No, of course not. They meant well. Our “guardians” had the best of intentions, and that’s all that matters in our hypersensitive, fact-averse world.
No, instead, they’d blame the saner souls that resisted dictatorial controls and insisted on asserting their God-given and constitutionally-protected right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Which is, essentially, what attorneys Mitchell Toups and Richard Coffman are doing by targeting the surviving family members of alleged COVID-19 fatalities and encouraging them to hold the wrong persons accountable.
“Preparing wrongful death claims and securing their payment requires creativity,” Toups and Coffman assert on their website. No kidding!
If you happen to pass the Urkel-like Toups and Coffman on the street, ask them: Did you do that?