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I really wish I wrote this piece
Copied and pasted from someone on FB who copied and pasted
Me AT GROCERY STORE:
Why is there plastic on the payment keypad?
Cashier: to protect people from Covid.
Me : but isn’t everyone touching the plastic keypad the same way they would the regular keypad?🤦♀️🤷♀️
Cashier: no words. Confused look. 👀
Me : Why don’t you pack the grocery bags anymore?
Cashier : Because of covid 19. We must reduce the spread of catching or spreading the virus.
Me : But a shelf packer took it out of a box and put on the shelf, a few customers might of picked it up and put back deciding they don’t want it, I put it in my cart then on the conveyer belt, YOU pick it up to scan it.. But putting it in a bag after you scan is risky??
Cashier : no words, confused look 👀
Me AT DRIVE-THRU
Server: (holds a tray out the window with a bag of food for logical friend to grab)
Me: why is my bag of food on a tray?
Server: so I don’t touch your food because of Covid.
Me: didn’t the cook touch my food? Didn’t the person wrapping my food touch it and then touch it again when placing it in my bag? Didn’t you touch the bag and put it on the tray? Didn’t you touch the tray? 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Server: no words. Confused look. 👀
Me in SOCIETY
Society : If you cough or sneeze do it in your elbow or sleeve,
Also society : Don’t shake hands or hug anyone or you will spread the virus..To greet people do an elbow tap instead.
Me : Elbow tap 🤷♀️? Isn’t that where you tell people to sneeze or cough? into their elbow? Now you want people to tap each other with that elbow 🤦♀️
Wouldn’t it be safer to sneeze into elbow and shake hands like we did before Covid ? 🤷♀️
Me AT RESTAURANT:
Hostess: ok, I can seat you at this table right here (4 feet away), but I will need you to wear a mask to the table.
Me: what happens when I get to the table?
Hostess: you can take off the mask.
Me: then it is safe over there?
Hostess: yes.
Me: are those fans blowing above the table? Is that the air-conditioning I feel? Is the air circulating in here?🤦♀️🤷♀️ Hostess: no words. Confused look.👀
SOCIETY : You are not allowed to stand and drink at the pub or pokies –you have to sit down.
But at the shopping center you are not allowed to sit down, all the chairs are roped off.
Who thinks this s*#& up?
Life is hard for logical people right now. We are being raised without the ability to process and execute logic properly.
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Frankly, unless the death toll is twenty times higher than it is now, I’m fine with no vaccine at all. This started, possibly, with good intentions. When it started, I gave the restrictions the benefit of the doubt. But now, it’s demonstrated to be a farce, mostly used against us for the convenience of people who like to control others.
People die. I’m fine with that. I want my freedom.
Remember when COVID used to be assumed to strike only the respiratory system, and then there was alarm that COVID attacked the brain? Well, its obvious that COVID attacks the brain without actually infecting someone. It is deadly!
I think that we’ve had much needed discussions about the financial ramifications of lockdowns. Do you feel that we’ve had similar discussions about the financial ramifications for those families who have had one or more members contract the virus? Where does your freedom end and theirs begin?
Is there some right to not get sick, ever, that I haven’t heard of?
Well, we’ll agree to disagree on whether that’s a helpful question in this context.
Flu vaccines are nevermore than 45% effective. And most years they are under 40.
In winter of 2014-15 the vaccine was given an efficacy rating of 26%, which since a sugar placebo would offer up efficacy of 23% without the side effects of a flu vax, would have been the better option.
I was given a smallpox vaccine around the age of 4, over 6 decades ago.
Recently someone told me that if the wild version of smallpox was resurrected, the vax I had as a child will still give me 50/50 shot at my avoiding the infection.
They just do not make them like that any more.
In fact it is my understanding that the vaccine we are expecting will only give you a mere one year’s worth of protection.
I don’t understand your point.
An example: in 1960, my family was tremendously impacted when a semi trailer truck hit our car while it was out on a test run. The truck was doing 60mph, and the truck driver found out it had not brakes. (My family found that out as well.)
My mother was paralyzed and in the hospital for several weeks, then began to learnt to walk again. My family paid a lot of medical bills, as the limits on the excellent insurance my dad always carried were first met and then surpassed.
But as much as I hated being in a car after that, for maybe a good 4 years, I never once thought “The entire country should shut down auto and truck traffic, because each year, tens of thousands of families suffer bad consequences on the highways.”
Life carries with it risks. The one protocol available for the public is cheap, and effective but has been banned solely as if it is permitted, then there would be no reason to have this huge and permanent disabling of normal civilian life. Then there would be no legal ability to have a vaccine with the coming Fed mandate. (US Civil Code bans having a fed mandate for any infection’s vaccine for which there is an alternate remedy.)
Rather than affected family members getting around to mailing, faxing or emailing their local and state and fed elected officials, and saying “What is up with preventing us from having a very well established remedy, HCQ with Zinc and Z pac be re-assigned for use on COVID,” those family members are out there hating on the public. When this whole time we have been played, as COVID is certainly totally containable.
Apologies for cutting off your last paragraph, but I needed the space. I see a vast difference between unknown risks and known risks. I see a big difference between arguably preventable risks and risks that are not preventable. “People die” is not an acceptable response to me in this environment. This isn’t about draconian lockdowns is some situations, it’s about common sense in other situations.
If you don’t want to be infected, then you can take whatever measures you think will protect you. I will take whatever measures I want to protect me. That’s called freedom.
Now, if we had a disease that was killing millions of people every day, then drastic measures might be warranted. We don’t have that. We have only had less than 500 people killed in almost a year here in my county of 1.2 million people.
My rights begin with me. I am responsible for me. You are responsible for yourself. You can encase yourself in bubble wrap just in case you trip and fall, and be sure to carry a parachute in case you fall off of a cliff or a very tall building. That’s your business and none of mine. You might reinforce that bubble wrap with a rebar reinforced concrete casement if you prefer.
I want to go on and live my life, however short it might be.
Why? That’s really the whole crux of the matter. If you don’t even consider that question, then you don’t understand the premise of the argument, or of freedom.
The “one year” claim comes from some very iffy “science.” They’re comparing to flu vaccines, which change yearly – but that’s because they’re countering different strains of influenza, not because the shot wears off.
They were also mixing in some of the less-scientific claims about COVID – that people lost immunity in a short time (they don’t), or that you can only be immune if you have a certain amount of COVID-specific antibodies in your body (that’s not how the immune system works).
If any of that was true, we’d be seeing literally thousands of reinfections from COVID already (due to people with weak immune systems getting hit more than once) – and that’s not happening. There have been FIVE reinfections. Yes, just five.
All true and we should not overlook the shortage of necessities in stores that produced anxiety and overspending for commodities.
Illogical regulations, inconsistent restrictions and insistent demands for tolerance of irrationality in the service of an ill defined “common good” are popular and effective methods of control in all totalitarians philosophies.
Once you accept the absurd your ability to resist truly wicked actions by the state is diminished.
When they refused to shut down Abortion clinics in the worse hit democrat controlled states the performative nature of this pandemic was revealed.
I think that one of the tragedies of this situation is the hyper focus on Covid.
I’ve had a family member get that disease. She couldn’t smell or taste for a week. She quarantined for 14 days, which cost her family something, I suppose.
My father has the other big C, and his chemo treatments were disrupted in the early period.
Guess which of these two family members is dying.
We got rapid tests before visiting my father for Thanksgiving because we obviously understand Covid would speed up death from Cancer, and we don’t want my father to die. However, when I go home again, I’ll return to normal behavior.
People like my father should stay at home and take other precautions.
That was true in 2019, too, when all sorts of contagious whatnot would kill him.
Carol:
“An example: in 1960, my family was tremendously impacted when a semi trailer truck hit our car while it was out on a test run. The truck was doing 60mph, and the truck driver found out it had not brakes. (My family found that out as well.)
My mother was paralyzed and in the hospital for several weeks, then began to learnt to walk again. My family paid a lot of medical bills, as the limits on the excellent insurance my dad always carried were first met and then surpassed.”
What a horribly sad story! Did you mother fully recover enough to walk again? Did your family recover financially?
Great Post btw.
While the following quote from John Hayward doesn’t directly address all the insane restrictions foisted upon us under the guise of protecting us from COVID, it addresses the mindset of the bureaucrats and the powerful behind them that imposes such insanity:
“Privileged elites always want to assert their status by indulging in pleasures denied to the lower classes. This often leads them into immoral, deranged, and even criminal behavior. They’re desperate to flaunt their power by doing what lesser folk are forbidden to do.
This is one of the reasons for the wave of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and pedophilia among the richest and most powerful. They indulge increasingly depraved appetites to savor the sweet, sweet high of doing what ordinary people cannot, feasting on the food of the gods.
It’s also one of the reasons high-living elites are drawn to puritanical secular pseudo-religions, like the Church of Global Warming and now the Church of Covid. They have a deep appetite for making aspects of modern life forbidden to the Little People, but not to themselves.
You’ll notice that high acolytes of the Church of Global Warming have absolutely no intention of compromising THEIR extravagant lifestyles. They jet set, they have yachts and huge cars, they buy beachfront mansions on property they claim to believe will be underwater soon.
But they have a deep desire to make planes, cars, and accoutrements of the First World lifestyle forbidden to the proletariat. They love how their ideology elevates them into a superior overclass, reaffirming their importance by asserting they “need” or “deserve” so much more.
These elite appetites are useful to the Left because they fold neatly into its endless war against the hated middle class. The perversions of the elite inspire them to attack the morality that would otherwise help lower and middle class people improve their station in life.”
Very interesting perspective.
It’s similar to another. When someone wondered why Bill Clinton (or any number of other powerful men) would jeopardize his position by having a frivolous affair, a sage responded that they weren’t. They sought the position so that they could have that frivolous affair, not despite it.
I learned yesterday that one of my daily walking partners has a lawyer daughter who goes to bars and restaurants to let their health department know if they should be shut down. I bit my tongue.
Our branch library, and I’m assuming all branches in the city, took the summer lockdown time to install automatic doors. Others on Ricochet have mentioned that their libraries were open to the extent that you requested books, received notice when they were ready, drove to the library and called that you had arrived, a librarian would walk out and place your books on a table, and then you could leave your car when the librarian had entered the library. Ours were open, but the computers were turned off and you were encouraged to spend as little time as possible.
For COVID, the mantra is, “But if it saves one life . . .”
Chris: “I learned yesterday that one of my daily walking partners has a lawyer daughter who goes to bars and restaurants to let their health department know if they should be shut down. I bit my tongue. “
I know more than a few wacko Lefties like that.
As it becomes clearer that Trump will win re-eleection, when the election fraud hits the Supreme Court and the Supremes call for a fair and just recount with all the illegal ballots thrown out, expect the Left to completely lose their collective sheeeeeeet. They bet the farm in a very big way, and it will be taken all away in a very public and humiliating manner exposing them for insane sickos that they really are , but also be aware that they likely will get very violent and vengeful when that happens. We may be thus only seeing the beginning of insane COVID regulations and over the top riots.
Me at the grocery store: Not asking questions that a minimum-wage-earning teenaged cashier can’t possibly answer.
Most of the cashiers at our grocery stores are older, perhaps wives supplementing their husbands’ incomes . . .
I noticed via my twitter feed, that people in England are now being told if they are to be allowed “X number of days” out of quarantine for the Christmas holidays, then “X times 2 numbers of days” back in quarantine will be undertaken during January… This sounds more like the thinking of some psychotic group of nannies, than the working of scientifically informed governmental agencies.
The graphic below contains the meat of the COVID matter. Any infection, when left untreated will cause various cascading effects, and what I find most sad, is that at the time this graphic first came out, only Dems were true believers in the COVID narrative. Now due to the extensive run time of the hysterical and hypnotizing propaganda via media, many Republicans are on board as well.
Even if they are technically still teenagers, many of them are old enough to vote.
Burger King drive thru has adopted the policy of giving back debit cards in one of those paper French fry sleeves. I almost threw my card out a couple of times, thinking it was garbage. You can’t see the card in the sleeve, and if I’m getting drive thru, it’s probably because I’m in a hurry and not paying attention as much as I should be anyway. Whoops!
It will never end. In eighty years we will still have a large number of little old ladies wearing masks and scolding people.
I find myself wishing that there was a way to bio-engineer a virus that would take out the Scolds, and only the Scolds. (Except of course if it is me out there scolding someone about something.)
Oh, then please, go ahead and expect them to explain the logic behind government diktats.
A youtube user commenting on one of JP Sears’ videos noticed this:
It seems like maybe they should be able to understand SOMETHING, if they’re voting for those people.