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@DadEbolaEOTL4 headed avatar, this how I feel sometimes about the mask bro. However, If you feel I lied to the store clerk about telling him I had my V's, then I want to say sorry to you and to anyone I might have offended. V's=Veggies. I eat my veggies every morning and at night. I love fruit too. I thought I was super super clear with kicking & screaming and everyone else that I would never allow Bill and his drugs near my DNA. I will not wear a mask after June 15th. You have to wear a mask anyways and i always do. I just tested saying, "I had my V's" and they still told me to get a mask on.
 
So my folks dropped off kiddo today. They noted that traffic seemed really worse in LA than pre pandemic. It's funny but we were having a conversation the other day about it on the way to soccer practice too. Am I just not remembering how bad traffic was prepandemic? Or is it worse because people aren't using public transportation and car pools?
 
So my folks dropped off kiddo today. They noted that traffic seemed really worse in LA than pre pandemic. It's funny but we were having a conversation the other day about it on the way to soccer practice too. Am I just not remembering how bad traffic was prepandemic? Or is it worse because people aren't using public transportation and car pools?
That ought to set Greta on fire.
 
So my folks dropped off kiddo today. They noted that traffic seemed really worse in LA than pre pandemic. It's funny but we were having a conversation the other day about it on the way to soccer practice too. Am I just not remembering how bad traffic was prepandemic? Or is it worse because people aren't using public transportation and car pools?
Look up gasoline sale info. For CA, it is riding, but still a bit below where it was pre-pandemic. ( 4.5 Million gallons per day. )

Fewer commuters, but fewer carpools. The effects offset. Commuters is the bigger effect.

Might actually be above normal this summer if offices open but people still drive kids solo.
 
Nope. We can't even agree about questions of fact.

Do masks work? Is disease growth exponential? How dangerous is covid? The answers depend on your political party.

It makes it very hard to agree on a policy when you can't even agree about where you are.
Even beyond agreement on facts, there are very wide ranges of risk tolerance. The "risk" that I feel is often missed, is the risk associated with unfettered power. History tells us what happens in those situations. It's why I am reluctant to force individuals to do something I think is right - such as get a COVID vaccine.
 
TDS and the need to prove orange man bad about everything might very well have turned out to have killed people......

 
Even beyond agreement on facts, there are very wide ranges of risk tolerance. The "risk" that I feel is often missed, is the risk associated with unfettered power. History tells us what happens in those situations. It's why I am reluctant to force individuals to do something I think is right - such as get a COVID vaccine.
It is easy to overuse the “risk of unfettered power” argument. Once people started using it to compare cloth masks to the Gestapo, I stopped paying any attention to it.

There are legitimate overuse of power arguments. But asking unvaccinated people to avoid high risk locations is not one of them.
 
It is easy to overuse the “risk of unfettered power” argument. Once people started using it to compare cloth masks to the Gestapo, I stopped paying any attention to it.

There are legitimate overuse of power arguments. But asking unvaccinated people to avoid high risk locations is not one of them.
So what you’re saying, is if you were at risk you should stay quarantined or sheltered from those that are not at risk? Sounds very familiar.
 
Starting June 15th in California; if all workers are Vaxed, then no one needs to wear a mask at work, yay team!!!! However, if just one worker ((say someone rebellious like crush or his wife)) says, "no vax" then the whole office has to wear a mask. Guys like dad and Ebola will blame guys like crush and call them all sorts of names and cause division at the work place. How does the employer get this HIPPA medical information?
 
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It is easy to overuse the “risk of unfettered power” argument. Once people started using it to compare cloth masks to the Gestapo, I stopped paying any attention to it.

There are legitimate overuse of power arguments. But asking unvaccinated people to avoid high risk locations is not one of them.
It's also easy to slide down the slippery slope of "forcing people to do what is good for them". It's what the Chinese government does. It's what is done in North Korea. Asking is fine. That's different than forcing. Have they even gotten to the point where they are requiring the armed forces to get the vaccine? Unless your end goal is to truly split the country into two, forcing, excluding, and dividing is not a path to take. Don't let fear drive your decisions. Follow the science. If you are vaccinated, you are good.
 
Do masks work? Is disease growth exponential? How dangerous is covid? The answers depend on your political party.
That's what the media wants you to believe, that its dependent on your political party. I'm far from convinced of that that is the case. Most people are far more nuanced than that and most normal people don't wear their political party on their sleeve. My friends are pretty much split evenly as to the party they vote for. Even my "liberal" friends were comfortable socializing without mask at our neighborhood outdoor functions during the pandemic. In my old neighborhood, which is overwhelming liberal, that never happened. I believe in part, that they were afraid of straying from the narrative and being marginalized for not wearing a mask. They even wore masks in their Facebook posts.

On the flip side, some of the strictest lock downers I knew were conservative. This was out of fear unrelated to political affiliation.

Yes, you are going to find some divide between parties, but to me that's more philosophical....self reliance vs. government dependency, than political. I think were much better off when we make decisions based on common sense rather than political ideology. Unfortunately, there is a lot of pressure to follow a narrative regardless of party.

I know this is hard to believe for some, but you can wear a mask and still question the effectiveness of masks.
 
TDS and the need to prove orange man bad about everything might very well have turned out to have killed people......

Again almost all the coverage of the the Prez was confrontational and took the opposite position of whatever he said.

HCQ? Crazy talk. Dangerous.

Lab leak? Crazy talk. Dangerous

Him getting advice from Fauci who thought this would go away? T's fault. Apparently shouldn't listen to what is told to him by experts, and so on.

And so on.

We would be much better off if we had an actual non partisan press. The next best thing would be for instance is that when you read the NY Times, you UNDERSTAND that you are essentially reading Dem talking points. And the same goes for almost any other news outlet left or right. Understand they are not non partisan. Unfortunately most of our press leans very far to one side of the spectrum.
 
This guy is the guy the NIH and CDC sent to "find out" and report on the Wuhan Lab. He came back with nope...not man made. And the press and everyone else said yep...lab leak is a crazy theory.


And yet here he is talking about this kind of research some years before.
 
Again almost all the coverage of the the Prez was confrontational and took the opposite position of whatever he said.

HCQ? Crazy talk. Dangerous.

Lab leak? Crazy talk. Dangerous

Him getting advice from Fauci who thought this would go away? T's fault. Apparently shouldn't listen to what is told to him by experts, and so on.

And so on.

We would be much better off if we had an actual non partisan press. The next best thing would be for instance is that when you read the NY Times, you UNDERSTAND that you are essentially reading Dem talking points. And the same goes for almost any other news outlet left or right. Understand they are not non partisan. Unfortunately most of our press leans very far to one side of the spectrum.
Agree. The media is driving the divide and as a country, we are allowing it by believing there's a "side" or a noble cause that is above unbiased, honest reporting. Again, if we thought it was difficult to get everyone moving in the same direction in this country - which it is - the reporting during COVID just made it that much more difficult.
 
It's also easy to slide down the slippery slope of "forcing people to do what is good for them". It's what the Chinese government does. It's what is done in North Korea. Asking is fine. That's different than forcing. Have they even gotten to the point where they are requiring the armed forces to get the vaccine? Unless your end goal is to truly split the country into two, forcing, excluding, and dividing is not a path to take. Don't let fear drive your decisions. Follow the science. If you are vaccinated, you are good.
That’s exactly what I mean. You went straight to the totalitarian state argument.

If vaccines are required for my Carnival cruise, then I must be living in one of President Xi’s gulags.

It makes no sense, of course. It’s about as useful for polite conversation as comparing people to Nazis.
 
Agree. The media is driving the divide and as a country, we are allowing it by believing there's a "side" or a noble cause that is above unbiased, honest reporting. Again, if we thought it was difficult to get everyone moving in the same direction in this country - which it is - the reporting during COVID just made it that much more difficult.
To be honest with regard to T it began with their Russian hoax.

They have done a disservice to this country. They have created divide and disdain. They have a lack of self awareness that is beyond belief.

The press loves to dive into the problems private industry has and expose flaws, corruptions, etc. Too bad there is nobody that can really turn the spotlight on them and how they work.
 
It's also easy to slide down the slippery slope of "forcing people to do what is good for them". It's what the Chinese government does. It's what is done in North Korea. Asking is fine. That's different than forcing. Have they even gotten to the point where they are requiring the armed forces to get the vaccine? Unless your end goal is to truly split the country into two, forcing, excluding, and dividing is not a path to take. Don't let fear drive your decisions. Follow the science. If you are vaccinated, you are good.
So they say. Let's revisit that statement in 6-12 months. I'm done talking about the mask and the vax. Please, go down the rabbit hole about the evil, evil treatment of kids, especially in the foster care system. Just wait, horrible and evil is understatement.

Listen to this song and read the lyrics bro. This is my song 100%. No more looking the other way or just ignoring the facts about ALL the kids. I can speak from this arena because I was put in some harry stuff before I was born.


I was just a little, little tiny baby boy in my mommies tummy and I just wanted to stay alive, I promise. I dont mean any harm, I just dont feel it was right to be killed before a chance at life in 1966. Later in my life, I found out I was also being sought after by some crazy ass 33 degree FM looking for a young boy to sacrifice back in 1966, no joke :( I wont share anymore about that until later but let's just say I escaped torture and death by some serious evil motherfuckers that drink blood for fun and kill humans for satanic ritual reasons. I survived because a 33 degree dude had a change of heart at the last minute for some reason and called my adopted mom to save me from death. Yes, I had a few attempted kidnaps when I was young but I was able to escape those assholes as well. Ebola thinks I make all this stuff up but I swear I dont. 70,000,000+ precious babies killed before birth and over 25,000,000 kids and adults right now who have been born into evil in this criminal underground evil world we all live in. WTFUIAICSTAUPOD!!!!
 
If vaccines are required for my Carnival cruise, then I must be living in one of President Xi’s gulags.
Who is saying that? Carnival is a non-monopoly, private entity. They can do as they choose as long as it's not discriminatory, or a violation of HIPAA. I happen to think its terrible business policy and suspect health policy to require vaccines. I'm not totally convinced either that the best way to address the issue is for DeSantis to legislate against vaccine passports.
 
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