Oh, gurl, may I have your autograph, please? I'm a truck driver and went belligerently maskless through this whole clusterf#@k, unvaccinated. Never got sick until I allowed myself to be vaccinated with Pfizer like my military son had to take, so I could share his fate. ( The 2nd shot triggered a nasty reaction, worse than any I've ever experienced, even with my barrage of shots in Army basic decades ago. )
Anyway, you are completely on target and, incidentally, write screamingly well! Your prose has the perfect balance of fact, counter-point, and snark. Quite impeccable, really! Brava`!
Yeah, I've lost so many friends over pointing out some of the same things you've put forward in this. I pointed out that the lifting of a mask mandate doesn't require you to take your mask off. It just means that you can if you choose to. Yet for the past two years pointing that out was heresy which supposedly would get people killed. I also pointed out that the negative economic effects would destroy people's lives and get people killed. Even when I pointed out that the United Nations, which runs the World Health Organization, suggested that millions would die as a result of the starvation lockdowns would cause, they suggested it was better than dying from CoVid. It's fascinating to see so many people who were so in favour of such things try to come to terms with the fact that they were wrong.
You might be right although I think it will happen in the same way people learned they were wrong about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It took like a decade to admit that it was a terrible idea that had mostly negative effects. In the early days though there was a lot more unity around the idea. People are going to get there quicker in my view thanks in part to the fact that they could avoid thinking about those in another country. This happened everywhere at the same time to everyone. Even Fauci has recently said that lockdowns have negative effects in some interview. Although it didn't get as much play. It's at least something to point to.
Anyone who says that dying of starvation is better than dying of Covid not only is completely innumerate, given death rates from starvation versus those caused by Covid, but has never truly been hungry. At most, they've probably never been more than "a bit peckish", easily solved by hitting a convenience mart and picking up a candy bar or something.
Not to mention the fact that even if people don’t die from starvation, it is likely to have serious negative impacts on people especially children with malnourishment. They won’t grow up the way they would’ve if they had better access to food. Yet the people who claim to care about those dying of CoVid seem indifferent to the death and suffering they caused.
My first thought when they closed the gyms: that's it, the fats won.
The mental health pandemic reached its fullest and most terrifying expression during COVID, as you describe so scathingly. It's been gathering for a long time, though. The Left isn't a political movement, it isn't an ideology, it's just a mental illness feedback loop: manufacturing psychosis even as it feeds off of it.
Getting yelled at by fat people to mask up was one of the more surreal experiences. Like - you obviously don't care about your health, why do you expect me to?
I agree with you about 99% of things as a rule Meghan; I've been a fan for many years. I feel compelled to point out that there are some people who need to be on antidepressants, and who have chosen to be on them not out of simple laziness or cowardice. Unfortunately many people do feel a great deal of shame about taking them, and that's how people like David Foster Wallace end up killing themselves.
Also Trump belongs on your list of mentally ill people. I'm not saying that due to any particular political affiliation. I know NPD when I see it, unfortunately.
I am aware there are some people who need antidepressants. I know some myself. I'm not sure where I argued otherwise? I honestly just don't like adding a bunch of caveats to my writing, constantly explaining that I believe, for example, racism exists, or depression is real, and so on and so forth. It makes for an annoying, tiresome read, and is mostly pointless.
How is an obsession with avoiding life, people, socializing, fresh air, and maintaining practices that make no sense not a form of mental illness? I mean we're talking about hychondria, paranoia, anxiety, self-instilled depression, etc etc. I'm not picking on people who struggle with legit mental illness, but I am saying that mental illness has been fetishized, and that people are making things worse for themselves, rather than better. People who started off with issues are making those issues worse, in choosing anti-social, anti-life behaviour, then imposing that on everyone else. It's EXTREMELY controlling and irrational.
Again, the point wasn't to shame people suffering from actual mental illnesses or conditions, it was to point out that these people were behaving as though they were mentally ill, and also that the lockdowns etc HURT people's mental health. People invented mental illnesses for themselves as an excuse, and people who are not mentally healthy people dominated everyone else, forcing their unhealthy desires and lives on the rest of us.
I think it's possible you may be feeling defensive, as mental illness is framed as a bad thing in my piece. To be fair, it is a bad thing, though it doesn't make you as an individual a bad person...
Oh, gurl, may I have your autograph, please? I'm a truck driver and went belligerently maskless through this whole clusterf#@k, unvaccinated. Never got sick until I allowed myself to be vaccinated with Pfizer like my military son had to take, so I could share his fate. ( The 2nd shot triggered a nasty reaction, worse than any I've ever experienced, even with my barrage of shots in Army basic decades ago. )
Anyway, you are completely on target and, incidentally, write screamingly well! Your prose has the perfect balance of fact, counter-point, and snark. Quite impeccable, really! Brava`!
Gracias!
Yeah, I've lost so many friends over pointing out some of the same things you've put forward in this. I pointed out that the lifting of a mask mandate doesn't require you to take your mask off. It just means that you can if you choose to. Yet for the past two years pointing that out was heresy which supposedly would get people killed. I also pointed out that the negative economic effects would destroy people's lives and get people killed. Even when I pointed out that the United Nations, which runs the World Health Organization, suggested that millions would die as a result of the starvation lockdowns would cause, they suggested it was better than dying from CoVid. It's fascinating to see so many people who were so in favour of such things try to come to terms with the fact that they were wrong.
They won't admit they were wrong, though...
You might be right although I think it will happen in the same way people learned they were wrong about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It took like a decade to admit that it was a terrible idea that had mostly negative effects. In the early days though there was a lot more unity around the idea. People are going to get there quicker in my view thanks in part to the fact that they could avoid thinking about those in another country. This happened everywhere at the same time to everyone. Even Fauci has recently said that lockdowns have negative effects in some interview. Although it didn't get as much play. It's at least something to point to.
https://youtu.be/t24vtSgueLg
Anyone who says that dying of starvation is better than dying of Covid not only is completely innumerate, given death rates from starvation versus those caused by Covid, but has never truly been hungry. At most, they've probably never been more than "a bit peckish", easily solved by hitting a convenience mart and picking up a candy bar or something.
Not to mention the fact that even if people don’t die from starvation, it is likely to have serious negative impacts on people especially children with malnourishment. They won’t grow up the way they would’ve if they had better access to food. Yet the people who claim to care about those dying of CoVid seem indifferent to the death and suffering they caused.
funny and accurate, yes, i call them the cloistered class! <3
My first thought when they closed the gyms: that's it, the fats won.
The mental health pandemic reached its fullest and most terrifying expression during COVID, as you describe so scathingly. It's been gathering for a long time, though. The Left isn't a political movement, it isn't an ideology, it's just a mental illness feedback loop: manufacturing psychosis even as it feeds off of it.
No kidding, eh? We have to shut down gyms to protect people who refuse to get healthy. SUPER good call.
Getting yelled at by fat people to mask up was one of the more surreal experiences. Like - you obviously don't care about your health, why do you expect me to?
The stupidity of the Covid cops is never ending.
Amazingly, EM Forster described this tech-ish isolation in a story a century ago:
https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf
“Beware of first-hand ideas!” was a mantram in that society.
I agree with you about 99% of things as a rule Meghan; I've been a fan for many years. I feel compelled to point out that there are some people who need to be on antidepressants, and who have chosen to be on them not out of simple laziness or cowardice. Unfortunately many people do feel a great deal of shame about taking them, and that's how people like David Foster Wallace end up killing themselves.
Also Trump belongs on your list of mentally ill people. I'm not saying that due to any particular political affiliation. I know NPD when I see it, unfortunately.
I am aware there are some people who need antidepressants. I know some myself. I'm not sure where I argued otherwise? I honestly just don't like adding a bunch of caveats to my writing, constantly explaining that I believe, for example, racism exists, or depression is real, and so on and so forth. It makes for an annoying, tiresome read, and is mostly pointless.
Love this
How is an obsession with avoiding life, people, socializing, fresh air, and maintaining practices that make no sense not a form of mental illness? I mean we're talking about hychondria, paranoia, anxiety, self-instilled depression, etc etc. I'm not picking on people who struggle with legit mental illness, but I am saying that mental illness has been fetishized, and that people are making things worse for themselves, rather than better. People who started off with issues are making those issues worse, in choosing anti-social, anti-life behaviour, then imposing that on everyone else. It's EXTREMELY controlling and irrational.
Again, the point wasn't to shame people suffering from actual mental illnesses or conditions, it was to point out that these people were behaving as though they were mentally ill, and also that the lockdowns etc HURT people's mental health. People invented mental illnesses for themselves as an excuse, and people who are not mentally healthy people dominated everyone else, forcing their unhealthy desires and lives on the rest of us.
I think it's possible you may be feeling defensive, as mental illness is framed as a bad thing in my piece. To be fair, it is a bad thing, though it doesn't make you as an individual a bad person...
Thanks Anderson!