The youngest is 11, but they attend school with kids under 5 and/or immunocompromised people.
I was proud of them when they chose to keep them on, and I was proud of them when they took them off.
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The youngest is 11, but they attend school with kids under 5 and/or immunocompromised people.
I was proud of them when they chose to keep them on, and I was proud of them when they took them off.
It's the equivalent of this woman who was ranting to me at a street corner a few weeks ago while I waiting to cross. She went on and on about how masks make her sick because they get dirty. I told her to wash or replace them. She said that the recycled air inside the mask triggers her COPD. I told her she has COPD with or without a mask and that masks do not deplete blood oxygen levels. You know what depletes blood oxygen levels? COVID.
Thank gawd the light changed because I was about to jab her with one of the secret 'rona viruses I carry in my briefcase.
Those people have no shame.
Ugh. Are you going to be repeating the "political science" bullshit in every post you make about COVID now? We just love buzzwords around here.
ThatOwlWoman
Leftist Vermin
Trolling, on the other hand, explains everything. lol
Good point.
ThatOwlWoman
Leftist Vermin
Isn't it amazing how surgeons and OR nurses can manage to wear masks through surgeries that last for hours and never once faint from lack of O2? What on Earth triggered that COPD bimbo to go on a mask rant?
Says the folks who couldn't stop themselves from repeating "follow the science" for 2 years, because "buzzwords" are "bad".. LOL.
It only bothers you because you know it is a more accurate and apt description, and that it will be effective.
Only the conservatives could do something as stupid and diabolical as turn science into political theater and then blame liberals for doing it. Seriously.
Isn't it amazing how surgeons and OR nurses can manage to wear masks through surgeries that last for hours and never once faint from lack of O2? What on Earth triggered that COPD bimbo to go on a mask rant?
Something about my approachable face, I imagine. It happens a lot. Last summer three angry MAGA bitches came up behind me in the concessions line at a Yankees game. It was a 1:05 game; and they were blacked out drunk. I was socially distancing behind the person in front of me in line. They slurred that, "We don't do that political correct bullshit here." "I live here," I said. "Come on, get up there. If you won't move up, we'll move up." Then one of them touched me as they tried to cut me in line. I fully turned around to face them, gave a clearer-than-day warning, and they shut their drunken Nazi mouths while I got my beer and hot dog.
Wrong. As always.
It bothers me because you're as repetitive as repetition. You sound like Into the Night in this thread. Beating your empty skull against a brick wall.
ThatOwlWoman
Leftist Vermin
One problem with the "follow the science" schtick is that a certain political party in this country has gone out of its way to denigrate our top scientists, physicians, epidemiologists, virologists, public health experts, and so on. How can we expect citizens to "follow the science" when they think that Cousin Bob's Facebook posts about taking horse dewormer are "science," but actual data from the CDC is "fake news"? How would you dispel this nonsense and encourage citizens to trust actual scientists again?
Some of it, but he's got money and is successful. And also not a Q.
ThatOwlWoman
Leftist Vermin
Geezus. Remember the good old days when conservatives believed in minding your own business?
I carry a small thing of pepper spray in an outside pocket of my purse for just such nonsense. Thankfully we live in a very polite society up here where ppl really DO mind their own business. When masks were mandated indoors, I saw maybe 2 or 3 ppl without them, despite the fact that every single news story about the pandemic on our local social media was filled with outraged Reichtards screaming about "tyranny" and "fascism" over the mandate.
I struggled a lot with this stuff when Trump first became President, but I made peace with it. Not my extended family, I don't care about them and refuse to tolerate their bullshit. But immediate family...this is a guy who I called when I had a panic attack in the airport last year. I was looking up Amtrak tickets. He asked, don't you have the money? I'll pay for it if you don't, I'll text you my credit card. It was 1600 dollars. He was going to give me 1600 dollars for a panic attack. A last minute cross-country amtrak tic costs a lot. I told him I had the money, but I know the freaking plane was going to land safely and I'd be stuck on a train for 5 days wanting to kill myself. He talked me down and onto the plane. So what are you going to do, disown your family? Is a Twitter liberal who always tell me I am part of the problem because I don't disown my Trumpster family, going to give me 1600 dollars the next time I have a panic attack? Or take my hysterical phone call even? No. What are you gonna do. I look at it as a cult, and I tell myself I can have compassion for a loved one who got sucked into a cult.
I'm sorry, hopefully who are gone the first responders, nurses, doctors, armed forces? Is that whom you are speaking of?
Dutch Uncle
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If he's mentally ill and untreated, he'll only get worse over time. If he's in his 40s-50s, then he probably won't devolve much further, but if he's in his 20s-30s, he's just getting started.
American men, as Western culture often does, tend to be more linear in their logic by training. As the link below shows, men and women are wired differently to begin with, but Western culture in particular focuses on linear thought rather than more holistic thought seen in Eastern philosophies.
One of my sons-in-law is a "Trumper". Very successful, very smart, but believes the Trumpian lies of "fake news" and Democratic corruption taking over the government. He's late 30s. Although I haven't mentioned it to my wife since she's sensitive to these things, I suspect he'll worsen over the next ten years no matter what the politics of the nation by then.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mens-brains-are-wired-differently-than-women/
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-different.html
https://www.crossculture.com/the-lewis-model-dimensions-of-behaviour/
The Linear-active group is easily identified. It comprises: the English-speaking world – North America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and Northern Europe, including Scandinavia and Germanic countries.
The Reactive group is located in all major countries in Asia, except the Indian sub-continent, which is hybrid.
The Multi-actives are more scattered: Southern Europe, Mediterranean countries, South America, sub-Saharan Africa, Arab and other cultures in the Middle East, India and Pakistan and most of the Slavs. Though these cultures are wildly diverse, geographically and in their religions, beliefs and values, they can be categorised as a group, as behaviourally they follow the same pattern with the following traits and commonalities: emotion, talkativeness, rhetoric, drama, eloquence, persuasion, expressive body language, importance of religion or creed, primacy of family bonds, low trust societies, unpunctuality, variable work ethic, volatility, inadequate planning, capacity for compassion, collectivism, relationship-orientation, situational truth, dislike of officialdom, tactility, sociability, nepotism, excitability, changeability, sense of history, unease with strict discipline
Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Americans are often sympathetic to those who are injured or physically sick. Our culture is less forgiving of mental illness and more inclined to say "Man up! Get over it!" to cure a host of mental illnesses.
Anyone who is mentally ill had no say in it any more than some with cancer. Even if they are told to get treatment and refuse to do so isn't completely their fault since a mentally ill brain (an irrational brain) is being tasked to make a rational decision.
The research is still ongoing regarding cults and those who are in them. Can a normal person be sucked into a cult or do only those with a mental anomaly get sucked in?
Could any young woman fall prey to Charlie Manson's "family" or do only certain personalities find themselves sucked in while "normal" people back away?
The good old days when conservatives were actually conservative? Stood for things? Had ideas instead of conspiracy theories? Were able to think?
I barely remember those days.
I wonder about these same questions Dutch.