Our "thinking class" is one Atlantic article away from throwing virgins into a volcano to eradicate scabies and athlete's foot. They're snake-handling Appalachian hicks, but communist.
Please, nobody, show Celeste the notifiable disease tables that the CDC puts out every week. None of those diseases is going away, yet Harvard does contact tracing for zero of them. We're at the point of this situation where guys like Paul Offit start sounding like the voice of reason (“A pandemic, by definition, changes the way you live, work, or play; an endemic disease doesn’t.” Noting that there were more than 60,000 deaths attributed to influenza in the winter of 2017–2018, he points out, “We chose to accept it [...] SARS-CoV-2 will be with us forever. The question becomes, How do we decide to live with it?”) But the cynic in me says Celeste doesn't actually have any real feelings on the subject, and just wants to crank the outrage machine to get her name trending. Does that still work?
The outrage machine is operating like a virtual perpetual motion machine and, given the fact that SARS-CoV-2 is expected to be around another 5000 years, people's interest in it will stall...like an actual perpetual motion machine. Poor Celeste. Someone should tell her that Cleopatra was depicted as suffering from cold sores (herpes--helluva virus) so she can have some perspective. No one dies from a lip chancre and, if little, ol' Celeste is healthy, she'll be just fine but she doesn't want you to believe that.
I wonder if she is also outraged that the shots don't work, given that literally no one is allowed on campus without having had them (including the mouse shots!). I mean, if I were terrified of this one virus, and I had to pick somewhere to direct my ire, I'd pick the snake oil salesmen at Pfizer et al. But that's just me. (And has Celeste really not caught it yet? I know literally two people who appear never to have had symptoms.)
That Covid exposure notification from the school could also have been valid for any visit to a mall or grocery store. The only functional response to “the virus will always be with us” is “so live with it”. Instead, we get confused people seeking a non-existent absolute safety zone while a schizophrenic government has one agency still pushing the vaxx on anyone with a pulse and another agency backing off at least somewhat.
I suspect anyone with fingerprints in the vaxx chain are terrified that the toll on the vaccinated is going to come to undeniable light. They should be.
Schools are an easy venue for the rollout of these totalitarian moves although, like you say, the schizophrenic basis for them is universal. The insanity will be with us for a little longer, I'm afraid.
When an insane person introduces the phrase "this is what living in a society involves" and straw-mans post-apocalyptic anarchy as literally the only other possibility, you know you're about to hear some psychotic-level authoritarianism.
They don't even have to be markedly insane. Every even mild libertarian is all too familiar with "oh well I guess you want no regulations at all and Wild West shootouts in the streets then." Always said with a sneer.
I really feel kinda sorry for these people. They are afraid of life.
I ride horses for fun. They can kill me. I broke 6 ribs and had a pneumothorax this summer...I could have died. But 30 days later(against the wishes of my husband) I was back on board.
I am not alive if I cannot ride.
These people are not alive because they are so afraid of dying. What makes it all the more sad is that what they think will kill them(COVID), is one of the least likely things around TO kill them. They have a better chance of dying in a car crash or from inadvertent fentanyl poisoning.
I feel bad for them. They are sad and crazy and can't live.
The scary thing is that the upper reaches of all of our governmental, private business, and religious/charitable institutions are loaded to the gunwales with these type people. They're like Peter Seller's character in "Being There", but that was parody and comedy. These folks are deadly earnest.
Haha.....like if Chauncey Gardiner was less childlike-innocence-and-naivety and was instead riddled with untreated Cluster B personality disorders and hubristic over-inflated sense of self. Absolutely!
But seriously, way back in summer 2020, one of my friends complained on Facebook that there were *all these people* wandering about on the streets getting *too close to each other*, and that if she couldn't rely on the behavior of others to protect her, she was just going to have to take her own special precautions to protect herself, dammit!!
My sotto voce reply was along the lines of "it was *always* your individual responsibility, sweetheart."
Living in Mask-a-chusetts - the perpetual outrage of the pseudo-intellectual, Hahvahd grad type - is omnipresent. A crazed covidian Cantabridgian like Ng is preaching to her virtue signaling choir when she laments the lack of a personal protection plan. The land of "Hate has no home here" is filled with haters of anyone who isn't masked up, vaxxed up and ready to take another swab up the nose.
Look, if you want to live in a society, you can either have the state install a kill switch in your head and feed you through a tube, or you can roam the wilderness covered in shit and eating your young. It's up to you.
All the analogy nonsense about people "shitting in the streets" was just inane (and laughable). When I saw it last night, I replied "You realize you're describing the Progressive Utopia of San Francisco, right?"
Our "thinking class" is one Atlantic article away from throwing virgins into a volcano to eradicate scabies and athlete's foot. They're snake-handling Appalachian hicks, but communist.
YES
I think you've insulted the snake-handling Appalachian hicks
Good point. I know a few of them and after Covid, hold them in higher regard.
I am envious of this comment in the "damn, I wish I'd thought of that" way. And, yes, you're spot on.
Almost choked on my tea.....that's funny. But not.
“thinking class” LOL!
Please, nobody, show Celeste the notifiable disease tables that the CDC puts out every week. None of those diseases is going away, yet Harvard does contact tracing for zero of them. We're at the point of this situation where guys like Paul Offit start sounding like the voice of reason (“A pandemic, by definition, changes the way you live, work, or play; an endemic disease doesn’t.” Noting that there were more than 60,000 deaths attributed to influenza in the winter of 2017–2018, he points out, “We chose to accept it [...] SARS-CoV-2 will be with us forever. The question becomes, How do we decide to live with it?”) But the cynic in me says Celeste doesn't actually have any real feelings on the subject, and just wants to crank the outrage machine to get her name trending. Does that still work?
The outrage machine is operating like a virtual perpetual motion machine and, given the fact that SARS-CoV-2 is expected to be around another 5000 years, people's interest in it will stall...like an actual perpetual motion machine. Poor Celeste. Someone should tell her that Cleopatra was depicted as suffering from cold sores (herpes--helluva virus) so she can have some perspective. No one dies from a lip chancre and, if little, ol' Celeste is healthy, she'll be just fine but she doesn't want you to believe that.
I wonder if she is also outraged that the shots don't work, given that literally no one is allowed on campus without having had them (including the mouse shots!). I mean, if I were terrified of this one virus, and I had to pick somewhere to direct my ire, I'd pick the snake oil salesmen at Pfizer et al. But that's just me. (And has Celeste really not caught it yet? I know literally two people who appear never to have had symptoms.)
That Covid exposure notification from the school could also have been valid for any visit to a mall or grocery store. The only functional response to “the virus will always be with us” is “so live with it”. Instead, we get confused people seeking a non-existent absolute safety zone while a schizophrenic government has one agency still pushing the vaxx on anyone with a pulse and another agency backing off at least somewhat.
I suspect anyone with fingerprints in the vaxx chain are terrified that the toll on the vaccinated is going to come to undeniable light. They should be.
Schools are an easy venue for the rollout of these totalitarian moves although, like you say, the schizophrenic basis for them is universal. The insanity will be with us for a little longer, I'm afraid.
When an insane person introduces the phrase "this is what living in a society involves" and straw-mans post-apocalyptic anarchy as literally the only other possibility, you know you're about to hear some psychotic-level authoritarianism.
They don't even have to be markedly insane. Every even mild libertarian is all too familiar with "oh well I guess you want no regulations at all and Wild West shootouts in the streets then." Always said with a sneer.
To be fair, the "wild West shootouts" did have rules.
And were the basis for immense entertainment.
If we all just became Communist for three years, we'd beat this virus! Is that too much to ask, comrades?
If we don't collectivize the farms at the very least....
Come on Jim, every good communist knows it takes a five year plan. Three just ain't enough
I really feel kinda sorry for these people. They are afraid of life.
I ride horses for fun. They can kill me. I broke 6 ribs and had a pneumothorax this summer...I could have died. But 30 days later(against the wishes of my husband) I was back on board.
I am not alive if I cannot ride.
These people are not alive because they are so afraid of dying. What makes it all the more sad is that what they think will kill them(COVID), is one of the least likely things around TO kill them. They have a better chance of dying in a car crash or from inadvertent fentanyl poisoning.
I feel bad for them. They are sad and crazy and can't live.
Are they really afraid or do they just enjoy the pretense, attention and ritual shaming of those who won't perform along with them?
The scary thing is that the upper reaches of all of our governmental, private business, and religious/charitable institutions are loaded to the gunwales with these type people. They're like Peter Seller's character in "Being There", but that was parody and comedy. These folks are deadly earnest.
Danny Huckabee
If they could just sink their own flagship without dragging down the rest of the fleet, that wouldn't be so bad.
Haha.....like if Chauncey Gardiner was less childlike-innocence-and-naivety and was instead riddled with untreated Cluster B personality disorders and hubristic over-inflated sense of self. Absolutely!
Impressive she managed to get this comment through after Twitter went dark as she predicted last month
https://twitter.com/pronounced_ing/status/1592263270236577793
STFU Karen.
But seriously, way back in summer 2020, one of my friends complained on Facebook that there were *all these people* wandering about on the streets getting *too close to each other*, and that if she couldn't rely on the behavior of others to protect her, she was just going to have to take her own special precautions to protect herself, dammit!!
My sotto voce reply was along the lines of "it was *always* your individual responsibility, sweetheart."
Living in Mask-a-chusetts - the perpetual outrage of the pseudo-intellectual, Hahvahd grad type - is omnipresent. A crazed covidian Cantabridgian like Ng is preaching to her virtue signaling choir when she laments the lack of a personal protection plan. The land of "Hate has no home here" is filled with haters of anyone who isn't masked up, vaxxed up and ready to take another swab up the nose.
“Oh help me, I can’t possibly be safe without the powers-that-be “protecting” me.”
She doesn’t even realize what she just said. They have been doing this nonsense for almost 3 years. Covid is still here. Figure it out.
"It’ll be a hard year of adjustment for them." Given what they've put the rest of us through, forgive me for not finding much energy for sympathy.
Look, if you want to live in a society, you can either have the state install a kill switch in your head and feed you through a tube, or you can roam the wilderness covered in shit and eating your young. It's up to you.
I guess I have to accept the kill switch. Thank you for clarifying this important choice.
LOL
I took the shit and baby sandwiches, but that's just how I was raised
All the analogy nonsense about people "shitting in the streets" was just inane (and laughable). When I saw it last night, I replied "You realize you're describing the Progressive Utopia of San Francisco, right?"
You have probably hit the nail on the head. They just want EVERYONE to do the same mitigation which doesn’t work. But it makes them feel “safe”.
How’d this chick write a book all by herself?
When going over old videos for articles, I came across Fauci saying individuals must calculate their own risk........
https://rumble.com/v1zr2q6-risk.html