That's the $1 million question. Where talking about which epidemiologist are we supposed to believe? Should I believe the Fox expert or the CNN expert? ((no)) I say do your own research, take everything with a grain of salt and make the decision that's best for your family. Be accountable for those decisions. I have an issue when politicians cherry pick their experts to make my personal health choices.
At the end of the day I can live with the restrictions for myself as an adult, but I can't condone what has been done to our children. It's reprehensible what we have done to them in the name of safety theater. Those that claim that mandating masks for all children is for their safety are either 1) lying, they are really more concerned about getting Covid from a kid or 2) so overcome with fear that its destroyed their common sense. Let kids learn, smile and laugh, but most importantly let them breath.
They do it in Religion too. Excellent takes and I highlighted what stood out for me. Paul warned of this very poison from the "experts" or teachers of reading. The apostle Paul wrote a warning for the church and we should peak at this too: “The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead,
to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear” (
2 Timothy 4:3).
The Greek word translated “itching” literally means “to itch, rub, scratch, or tickle.” To want one’s ears
“tickled” is to desire
massages rather than messages—
sermons that charm rather than challenge,
entertain rather than edify, and please rather than preach. The people Paul warns about will have, as one commentator put it, “ears which have to be continually titillated with novelties.” ((Basically, if you tickle his ear, you will be licking it forever to keep him or her happy with falsehoods and lies forever.
“Itching ears” is a figure of speech that refers to people’s desires, felt needs, or wants. It is these desires that impel a person to believe whatever he
wants to believe rather than the actual truth itself. When people have “itching ears,” they decide for themselves what is right or wrong, and they seek out others to support their notions. “Itching ears” are concerned with what feels good or comfortable, not with the truth—after all, truth is often
uncomfortable. Paul’s warning is that the church would one day contain those who only opened their ears to those who would scratch their “itch.”
Those with “itching ears” only want teachers who will assure them that all is well, teachers who say, “Peace, peace . . . when there is no peace”
Some of the early followers of Jesus complained about some of the Lord’s words: “Many of his disciples said, ʻThis is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?’ ((most can;t and wont)) From this time
many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him” (
John 6:60,
66). Walking away from hard truth is easy to do because it's hard.
The truth hurts and I wont itch anyone's ear except my wife and she get's it tickled all the time and she tickles me.