My wife, Ellen, and I have danced in many places: in Newark’s Rutgers’ Student Center and law school basement parties and the chic, but short-lived, Club America; also at New York City’s early-80s Danceteria, mid-80s Lincoln Center outdoor Summer Swing and the Nightingale dive bar on the Lower East Side.
Rocking to the infectious, often-loud beat among others who are also caught up in the moment can cause participants to suspend reality and stop thinking. In a good way.
The Scamdemic caused many people to suspend reality and stop thinking. In a bad way.
"If it saves just one life" was always such a massive pant-load. If that's the standard, then no one should drive cars. Every time you get into one there's a chance you'll die or kill someone else with it. No homes would have stairs, ladders, or swimming pools, bicycles and motorcycles would be banned, and everyone would have to get rid of their microwave ovens because men won't stop electrocuting themselves trying to fix them.
"If it saves just one life" became the irrational standard *because* it was irrational. Because it's impossible to argue with irrational people about their irrational policies, it shut down objections almost before they could be lodged. Except with jerks like me, who will argue about anything for as long as it takes to win.
"Except with jerks like me, who will argue about anything for as long as it takes to win." 😂
Hey F 132, I'm one of those "jerks", too!
On one of our many trips across this great Nation of ours (stay away from Blue Cities & spend time in "flyover country" & you will revel in that greatness!), I ran across a little, wooden placard that stated "I'm not a control freak, but here, let me show you how to do that." I laughed out loud, as I said "That's me!", to which my wife also laughed, & heartily agreed. That placard now hangs on our wall as a reminder to me that every once in a GREAT while, I should take stock of the surroundings, & just STFU..... tho NEVER on the lies of Coronamania!
This is a parallel to the essay on Communion. And I would add holding hands, shaking hands, standing near other people to that list. Important human engagement is somehow made "risky" instead of recognized as a source of social, spiritual, or even physical life (the last via normal immune stimulation and "survey").
Human interaction is paramount to understanding the World around us, & the myriad of things that effect our psyches & our cohesive well being. This is why the 6 ft of "un-social distancing", & the hiding of our emotionally expressive faces with the also "mandated" face diaper, was paramount to this Dempanic Plandemic experiment on controlling us proles.
Unfortunately, they were wildly successful in this endeavor.
I do hold onto a small sliver of hope however, for despite Trump's flaws, he was re-elected, & he & his team have been doing some fantastic things to MAGA/MAHA/MASA, & the rates of people getting injected with almost every Jab proffered, has dropped dramatically.
(Mark, my wife of 39 yrs & I also love to dance, tho our repertoire is not as deep! Thnx 4 another great article.)
What horrible memories your post brought back. Luckily I was in Florida for the worst of the lockdowns, but the people walking away from me if I didn’t have a mask on, well that continued for a very long time. You can’t fix stupid. Love the fact you and your wife are dancers!
Not sure how the Covidphobes can ever reconcile that period and the present. It's why I believe the majority of them would fall for it again; unless they recognize how they were played there will be no lessons learned.
True - that is, I think, why none of the covidphobes I know ever say ANYTHING about it and if I bring it up they say It's over - move on! I HATE that phrase. Would they say that to someone who just survived a terrible crime? Stop talking about it - move on.
They can NOT reconcile it so they just want it to go away.
One of the best examples of scientific sampling and reasoning---certainly better than the governmental, medical, journalistic and academic sectors employed during the COVIDian Scam.
I love dancing and I love everything you wrote here. My favorite part was when you said you danced to show your love for your wife. It's a crowded field, but my personal choice for the ultimate absurdity of that time was the senior prom where the students were forced to turn their backs to each other and intertwine their elbows as they lurched around. It looked like they were trying to throw each other over their backs.
As always, a look back (way back) at the fun filled activities without worrying about germs or a stupid virus. Oh the innocent fun we had and dancing brings such joy. Then a look back at the Covid scam that makes me still want to scream ‘stop this absurd fear-mongering’ and fire Fauci. Well he’s finally gone/retired, but he hasn’t paid for the evil he pushed. Until these people get what they deserve, I’ll never get fully past the point of forgetting.
Another terrific article with so many good connections. I loved this line: "Not as, with the vaxx, a concession to social pressure or some misplaced sense of duty, but instead, to celebrate my love for Ellen, community with unknown others and gratefulness for having vital and flexible bodies with unspecified, yet inevitable expiration dates." What can I say, I'm a romantic and I feel the love!
Mark, I know that personal injury lawyers and insurers will refer to a schedule of damages that a plaintiff can sue for. Every conceivable injury has a dollar amount range associated with it, amounts that can often equal or exceed the amount a typical human life is valued at for wrongful death claims. Many many lawsuits have been settled over time that list monetary value, lawsuits that break out the claim for each harm realized by the plaintiff, physical and non-physical, even deprivation of life's normal and ordinary enjoyment.
On top of the amounts the schedule indicates for physical injuries are other losses that have calculated value. Like loss of consortium, pain and suffering, all sorts of damages for life-altering injuries, harms, incurred. Physical, material and mental, relational. Including activities such as dancing. Even under products liability this applies. Let's say an e-scooter catches on fire and legs are severely damaged, even if not amputated, the loss of mobility, even if only temporary, will have a value that's found in schedules of damages.
I know these schedules exist for lawyers, plaintiff and defense, applied by judges when awarding damages, penalties for wrongful conduct, neglect, willful, whatever duty of care the responsible party had to protect life, all aspects of a life that's been deprived in some way due to a wrongful act.
I often thought in 2020 that some enterprising lawyer would be able to pick up some of those damages schedules that are kicked around between lawyers and insurance companies and calculate the losses accrued to each individual who was anti-constitutionally deprived of their "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" by plandemic restrictions, multiplied across the entire population and present a figure for the calculated total loss of Americans that the plandemic tyrants are responsible for. It is calculable. And will be astronomical. Is this something you would be able to ferret out the schedules of damages I'm referring to? I'd help with the math! A Stack idea for you?
I know a couple traveling nurses that got huge pay during covid. They were nice and generous to me, but were not confronted with any novel diseases, just crazy protocols. Another nurse I know was constantly on fb sharing a very specific COVID horror story out of New York. I’d seen the same post in a feed months earlier. Turns out it was an excerpt from an old ER episode script. Nurses were enjoying unprecedented prestige and street cred along with the big bucks.
It’d be like me going check out this video of Nagasaki and being like.. uh huh, … us engineers did that. 😂
Yes, that "Heroes" narrative seemed fake to me. Once a society buys the notion that someone or some group is heroic, their cause is seen as sacred and beyond question, much less doubt or criticism.
lockdowns interfered with our developing herd immunity. And I believe the "experts" knew that.
I believe you are correct. The question is why. I don't like the answers I seem to draw.
So they could drag the whole thing out, for maximum consternation and vaxx uptake.
Mostly vx uptake. But also to test the waters for compliance info
Mark, this was poetic and choice:
Rocking to the infectious, often-loud beat among others who are also caught up in the moment can cause participants to suspend reality and stop thinking. In a good way.
The Scamdemic caused many people to suspend reality and stop thinking. In a bad way.
Great piece. And I always LIKE them...lol.
Thanks, Ralph.
Yes, many got swept up in the madness.
Many still are , sadly .
"The Scamdemic caused many people to suspend reality and stop thinking. In a bad way."
It sure did.
"If it saves just one life" was always such a massive pant-load. If that's the standard, then no one should drive cars. Every time you get into one there's a chance you'll die or kill someone else with it. No homes would have stairs, ladders, or swimming pools, bicycles and motorcycles would be banned, and everyone would have to get rid of their microwave ovens because men won't stop electrocuting themselves trying to fix them.
"If it saves just one life" became the irrational standard *because* it was irrational. Because it's impossible to argue with irrational people about their irrational policies, it shut down objections almost before they could be lodged. Except with jerks like me, who will argue about anything for as long as it takes to win.
"Except with jerks like me, who will argue about anything for as long as it takes to win." 😂
Hey F 132, I'm one of those "jerks", too!
On one of our many trips across this great Nation of ours (stay away from Blue Cities & spend time in "flyover country" & you will revel in that greatness!), I ran across a little, wooden placard that stated "I'm not a control freak, but here, let me show you how to do that." I laughed out loud, as I said "That's me!", to which my wife also laughed, & heartily agreed. That placard now hangs on our wall as a reminder to me that every once in a GREAT while, I should take stock of the surroundings, & just STFU..... tho NEVER on the lies of Coronamania!
Exactly. I'm not a control freak. You're doing it wrong.
(If you search that phrase and add "t-shirt" you'll find lots of wearable versions.)
Somehow you always connect the dots well.
This is a parallel to the essay on Communion. And I would add holding hands, shaking hands, standing near other people to that list. Important human engagement is somehow made "risky" instead of recognized as a source of social, spiritual, or even physical life (the last via normal immune stimulation and "survey").
Well said.
Human interaction is paramount to understanding the World around us, & the myriad of things that effect our psyches & our cohesive well being. This is why the 6 ft of "un-social distancing", & the hiding of our emotionally expressive faces with the also "mandated" face diaper, was paramount to this Dempanic Plandemic experiment on controlling us proles.
Unfortunately, they were wildly successful in this endeavor.
I do hold onto a small sliver of hope however, for despite Trump's flaws, he was re-elected, & he & his team have been doing some fantastic things to MAGA/MAHA/MASA, & the rates of people getting injected with almost every Jab proffered, has dropped dramatically.
(Mark, my wife of 39 yrs & I also love to dance, tho our repertoire is not as deep! Thnx 4 another great article.)
Thanks, Elliot.
Salsa is fun. Not hard to learn, at least at a basic level.
What horrible memories your post brought back. Luckily I was in Florida for the worst of the lockdowns, but the people walking away from me if I didn’t have a mask on, well that continued for a very long time. You can’t fix stupid. Love the fact you and your wife are dancers!
We're not experts.
But then, experts showed during Coronamania that they were phony and didn't deserve the adulation they got.
Dancing in the Moonlight. Everybody feeling warm and bright. It's such a fine and natural sight. Everybody dancing in the moonlight!
Love that song. Was popular when i was in college in the olden days😀.
The morning sun when it's in your face really shows your age!
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 64?
Very true! Thanks for some more great song memories - Maggie May by Rod Stewart. The golden era of music☺️.
Not sure how the Covidphobes can ever reconcile that period and the present. It's why I believe the majority of them would fall for it again; unless they recognize how they were played there will be no lessons learned.
True - that is, I think, why none of the covidphobes I know ever say ANYTHING about it and if I bring it up they say It's over - move on! I HATE that phrase. Would they say that to someone who just survived a terrible crime? Stop talking about it - move on.
They can NOT reconcile it so they just want it to go away.
One of the best examples of scientific sampling and reasoning---certainly better than the governmental, medical, journalistic and academic sectors employed during the COVIDian Scam.
I love dancing and I love everything you wrote here. My favorite part was when you said you danced to show your love for your wife. It's a crowded field, but my personal choice for the ultimate absurdity of that time was the senior prom where the students were forced to turn their backs to each other and intertwine their elbows as they lurched around. It looked like they were trying to throw each other over their backs.
Oh and Mark, I can skate backwards in a circle!
I suspect Momo can do many things on skates that I can't do.
Though I think my slapshot is harder.
I'm sure you're faster, and I would have no idea what to do with that stick!
I'm amazed that dancing women can follow immediately and often backwards And in heels.
As always, a look back (way back) at the fun filled activities without worrying about germs or a stupid virus. Oh the innocent fun we had and dancing brings such joy. Then a look back at the Covid scam that makes me still want to scream ‘stop this absurd fear-mongering’ and fire Fauci. Well he’s finally gone/retired, but he hasn’t paid for the evil he pushed. Until these people get what they deserve, I’ll never get fully past the point of forgetting.
As a dancer, I approve this message 🙂.
Another terrific article with so many good connections. I loved this line: "Not as, with the vaxx, a concession to social pressure or some misplaced sense of duty, but instead, to celebrate my love for Ellen, community with unknown others and gratefulness for having vital and flexible bodies with unspecified, yet inevitable expiration dates." What can I say, I'm a romantic and I feel the love!
Thanks, Susie.
Let us count our blessings.
Mark, I know that personal injury lawyers and insurers will refer to a schedule of damages that a plaintiff can sue for. Every conceivable injury has a dollar amount range associated with it, amounts that can often equal or exceed the amount a typical human life is valued at for wrongful death claims. Many many lawsuits have been settled over time that list monetary value, lawsuits that break out the claim for each harm realized by the plaintiff, physical and non-physical, even deprivation of life's normal and ordinary enjoyment.
On top of the amounts the schedule indicates for physical injuries are other losses that have calculated value. Like loss of consortium, pain and suffering, all sorts of damages for life-altering injuries, harms, incurred. Physical, material and mental, relational. Including activities such as dancing. Even under products liability this applies. Let's say an e-scooter catches on fire and legs are severely damaged, even if not amputated, the loss of mobility, even if only temporary, will have a value that's found in schedules of damages.
I know these schedules exist for lawyers, plaintiff and defense, applied by judges when awarding damages, penalties for wrongful conduct, neglect, willful, whatever duty of care the responsible party had to protect life, all aspects of a life that's been deprived in some way due to a wrongful act.
I often thought in 2020 that some enterprising lawyer would be able to pick up some of those damages schedules that are kicked around between lawyers and insurance companies and calculate the losses accrued to each individual who was anti-constitutionally deprived of their "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" by plandemic restrictions, multiplied across the entire population and present a figure for the calculated total loss of Americans that the plandemic tyrants are responsible for. It is calculable. And will be astronomical. Is this something you would be able to ferret out the schedules of damages I'm referring to? I'd help with the math! A Stack idea for you?
That's an interesting idea, Fox. But it would make me feel like I was doing litigation again.
And that ship has sailed.
Understood...are you able to point me in the right direction for those schedules of damages I refer to?
I never did PI work so I don't know.
Lol, I'll check with my actuary friends
So the dancing nurses had it figured out from the beginning!
True!
I know a couple traveling nurses that got huge pay during covid. They were nice and generous to me, but were not confronted with any novel diseases, just crazy protocols. Another nurse I know was constantly on fb sharing a very specific COVID horror story out of New York. I’d seen the same post in a feed months earlier. Turns out it was an excerpt from an old ER episode script. Nurses were enjoying unprecedented prestige and street cred along with the big bucks.
It’d be like me going check out this video of Nagasaki and being like.. uh huh, … us engineers did that. 😂
Yes, that "Heroes" narrative seemed fake to me. Once a society buys the notion that someone or some group is heroic, their cause is seen as sacred and beyond question, much less doubt or criticism.
Dancing upsides, dancing downsides, dancing flipsides. Who’s on first limbo & how low can they go?
“I danced at the top of the world!” ~ Phillippe Petit, Man on Wire
The Frenchman spoke of compulsion. That internal coercion is one thing of several parts.
“I’m supposed to,” that external coercion is another thing of several parts.
Performative displays, done well, are joys to behold.
But. Manipulation in equation … how to account for that?
And how often is that part of the ledger cooked to balance on an embezzler’s wire?
The wire is narrow & the slope is slippery & gravity is constant.