Hear, hear! Long Pandemic! I’ll raise me pint to that one come Good Friday!
“Simply saying “The Pandemic” foreclosed reasonable discussion of how many people …”
I’d shorten that to “foreclosed reasonable discussion (and still does).” We were desperately short of reasonable discussion in our society as it was, but now, as you have pointed o…
Hear, hear! Long Pandemic! I’ll raise me pint to that one come Good Friday!
“Simply saying “The Pandemic” foreclosed reasonable discussion of how many people …”
I’d shorten that to “foreclosed reasonable discussion (and still does).” We were desperately short of reasonable discussion in our society as it was, but now, as you have pointed out so eloquently, any attempt at making sense of what happened, and is happening, is just swatted away with “pandemic” “because of COVID” “we didn’t know” “you can’t be too safe” and so on…
On a different, but related point, I have often wondered how on earth many if not most people will willingly surrender their agency to credentialed professionals who have repeatedly demonstrably failed to solve or mitigate the “problem” they have been hired to figure out.
Way, way, way before “COVID”, I have asked some of my credulous tree care customers why they would continue to seek out medical attention from the same people who have not only not “solved” the original symptom, but now have blessed them with “side effects”. I ask them if they would continue to hire me (a tree guy) or a plumber or electrician if each and every time they called us, the tree problem got worse, the basement was still flooded and the house dimmed every time you plugged in their toaster. I usually get blank looks of something like “yeah, I see what you mean”…… there must be something deeply ingrained in or genetically part of our being that urges us to surrender to patently incompetent, and often irresponsible and evil people….
There's a simple explanation for that. I'm the same generation. In those days, opposing the government and the Vietnam war wasn't an act of rebellion, it was conforming to peer pressure. IOW, protesting government policy was the default position of the boomers. Supporting Washington and the war made you an outcast among your peers. Nothing has happened to your, and my generation. They were followers then, and are now. And that's hardly unique to boomers, it's human nature. Kitsune is right, except I think it's more than 80%. Wasn't jab uptake in the 90+ percent range? Only brainless zombies fell for it. We were already seniors when the jabs came out, never remotely considered getting in line. Nobody with a working brain did. That implies > 90% cannot think.
But here's maybe the bright side: About 10% of us, if we go by the stated math here, are NOT sheep. We're the sheep DOGS... And because of us, NUMEROUS shit has been flushed, if you'll pardon my potty mouth, ha ha.
SO... If that's the case, we might try easing off (arf) all this stressing out about the SHEEP and just get together, all the sheep DOGS, and tear this Tyranny all to pieces... Action speaks (woof!) louder than Substack posts. Cheers.
It is scary. If people weren't mostly really dumb, why would every successful society have its run, then decline to mediocrity or worse? There's plenty of obvious things to do to keep the good times rolling, but never the will or good sense to implement any of it. Examples are endless. Here's one. I'm a boomer. I remember thinking when I was in my 30s and 40s - we have a big bubble of people in their productive years. But won't later. We should be getting our infrastructure as perfect as we can now, while it's doable. Instead we did none of that, just kept running deficits, living beyond our means. Stupid, and weak. Which sums things up, then, now, and always. The moral decay that always happens to societies in their prime is an even bigger issue that books have been written about. Sorry, but there's no reason to think we can stop the inevitable collapse we see all around us, although we have to try.
I just want to live the next couple of decades in my bubble- and only want to worry about what's for dinner and if it's going to rain the next day so I can plan something alternative to my cycling...I (we) earned every minute and hopefully us boomers can continue reaping those benefits for a few more years. I have faith things might "turn around"- that's all I can do, is have hope.
It's *not* "all you can do." I'm 72 and just got myself elected to a local committee that oversees our community plan, the better to insinuate ourselves to influence local council. Change minds where you can, speak up where you can, get involved in local politics.
I hear you, my retirement doesn't look like I expected. I'm still working, but not nearly as much at 73. The inflation changes everything, glad I didn't stop working altogether. I'm not much of a believer in faith and hope, at least not in this life. I'm sure plenty of people had faith and hope as their lives came crashing down, or to a premature end. It does make one feel better I suppose, and keep going in a better mood. But it won't change anything in the larger world around us. I think there's a pretty good chance for a turn in the right direction, to slow the deterioration down, temporarily. Fingers crossed. Cycling all you can sounds like a good idea!
Yes exercise takes the edge off- I only have some hope and faith as I had a brain tumor removed last Feb. so kind of restored some of my belief in humanity ( thankfully I had good doctors and a wonderful hubby and daughter who helped me through) - benign so happy with that. Life can take a wrong turn so rapidly… enjoy what you have left!
The computers and Mobiles think for them. Haven't you noticed how many people spend their time looking at these Gadgets? THEIR BRAINS DON'T THINK ANYMORE
Yep. Licentiousness and societal destruction. Then cashed in later. Very few true blue hippies mostly just fun sinning. And socialists playing the same game in academia, that's where some ended up. Pattern repeats itself.
You’re referring to the Milgram Experiment. Yes, it uncovered a major tick in human nature. Undoubtedly our adversaries know us better than we know ourselves.
Those pulling the strings are evil, but smart. Sure they know. I've had what may be an epiphany lately. I'd been thinking Trump showed how stupid he was by touting hydroxychloroquine, and then being blindsided by the media and 3-letter agency reaction - an immediate and devastating takedown (like Collins' reaction to the GBD). Any moron knew that would happen and Trump better be ready to counter. He wasn't, or at least didn't counter. My epiphany is - was this deliberate on his part? Did he intentionally start the ball rolling for the ridicule of any effective, cheap treatments we suffered through, being a pawn of pharma? Remember, pre-COVID he was going to empower RFK Jr to look into vaccine safety, until pharma gave him a bunch of money, and he dropped that idea like a hot potato. So, he was a pharma shill by the time COVID surfaced. I think this makes more sense than my previous assumption he was so stupid. He's obviously savvy politically, and knows how the games are played.
I agree. Trump could be the biggest deep state pawn ever. He divided the country, literally driving some insane. Jan 6, what stupidity. Now we have "domestic terrorists", Operation Warpspeed. Umhum.
I sometimes see them all (fauci, birx, trump, obama, clintons) sitting in one of those exclusive clubs, in large wingback chairs, laughing with each other:
As far as I understand, it never was hydroxychloroquine that was helpful, it was it and something else, zinc perhaps. Hydroxychloroquine helps the body absorb the zinc or whatever. People took the combo and improved rapidly. One a democrat politician who has credited T with saving her life.
The spin against hydroxychloroquine and thus T was with the less than truthful, repeated statement that it was just this drug that T was prompting and it was easy to show that by itself it is not effective.
T’s biggest error was that he trusted those he should have been able to trust, people who were paid to give him honest appraisals of the situation and how to counter it. By giving him wrong information, they committed fraud against the president and the American people.
Trump's our candidate for better or worse, we need to be behind him 100%. With that out of the way - I'm not so sure how much he erred, how much he did on purpose. RFK is an expert on Fauci. Trump met with him for hours before deciding to appoint him to look into vaccines, pre-COVID. There's zero chance RFK, who is very good at making his points, didn't apprise Trump of Fauci's true nature. So Trump had NO excuse for trusting Fauci and Birx. Trump promised to drain the swamp, yet appointed swamp dwellers to key posts, didn't remove others, and used their advice to drive policy in many key ways. He's NOT stupid. You'd have to be stupid to think such people would be looking out for the country and citizenry. He had Scott Atlas, before that there was no shortage of honest experts available with good COVID advice. Yet, he sided with Fauci, Birx, FDA, CDC, pharma, and the MSM narrative. Why? He's that stupid and gullible? Maybe. But not likely. More likely, he isn't who his fans think he is. He was great on keeping us out of stupid wars. He isn't for censorship and wokeness. I like him. But I don't trust him, at all.
Great questions, all. RFK too is a member of the DC establishment and thus should have been treated with no less suspicion than Birx and Fauci, IMHO.
Why did he go with Fauci and Birx instead of Atlas? I think we have to look through a wider lens. The picture I am able to put together from my interpretation of the pieces I have seen is one of a President who is supremely confident yet knows his limitations. He is not a doctor. But, as you said, he is not stupid. He is suspicious of the advice his advisers are giving him but is not wanting to go against their expert advice and cause his people to suffer. So he works towards offering a solution for those who decide to take it, the vax, but never mandates it and is against mandating it. Meanwhile, he sees that every country the planet except Sweden is locking down, masking, unsocial distancing and the rest. He is doubtful, but despite what everyone believes, his ego is not so big as to believe that he alone among the leaders of major economies and their advisers know what is best. Against his better judgement he follows suit, to some degree. We know that the fraudster in the UK that scared Boris Johnson into his panic played a part in T’s going along.
Given what has happened, I am of the belief that it was a worldwide effort to bambozzle T as he was not going to allow them to carry out their plans for the great reset. I also believe that they had to pull the trigger on certain aspects of their overall plan early, before they were ready, to get rid of him before he could stop them. That is my current thinking on this.
He is not perfect, no one is, but I doubt very much that anyone could have done better in his situation.
Good point about RFK not being the final arbiter of truth. However, any heads-up he provided on Fauci would have been easy to follow up on with Trump's resources. Besides, the whole cabal behind the COVID response is corrupt, and obviously so. It would have taken political courage to go against the rest of the world, but Trump's popularity largely plays on that very trait. As far as whether anyone could have done better, you just mentioned Sweden. I'm far from rare in noticing, as soon as the "two weeks to flatten the curve" got extended, that the effect is going to be a massive shift of wealth and power to those who already have the most. That it was likely a gigantic con became obvious with selective closing of some businesses, not others, and no problem with "systemic racism" protesters doing whatever. Are we supposed to think that Trump, author of "The Art of the Deal", and a guy able to manipulate his way into wealth and the presidency, was unable to spot such an obvious con when so many of us did?
It is different when your decisions affect others. As a small, example. I was on the 8th floor of an office building in Kanda when the 311 earthquake and tsunami hit. My private student was an adult and an employee of the company we both worked for. Hiding under the table with him and later walking over drywall and collapsed ceiling to exist the building, I felt no emotion at all. No worry, no fear.
Later, I was on a college campus with a class full of college students when a big aftershock hit. Unlike with the previous student, I was responsible for the safety of all in the class. Nothing has created more fear for me up till that time as being responsible for the safety and well being of others in a disaster.
Yes, T is well known to stand alone against the world, but those were times when it was over things he intimately knew. Most of humanity unquestionably follows what the doctor says. That is not to say we do so to the fullest extent, noncompliance in taking meds is a long standing problem. But few question the doc’s diagnosis or question them directly on anything. We either quietly comply fully or in part. More so when the doc says we must do X for those in our care. How many challenge what the doc says about their kid’s medical needs? We may disregard what a doc tells us we must do for our own health, but the same who have difficulty doing so for their kids. Not mulch different for a president.
I personally have many issues over his handling of covid and a couple of other unrelated issues. But with covid, who did better or as well? Sweden has a much smaller population and a much more homogeneous one at that, than the U.S.. Who else did as well as T?
You may be right on some things where we disagree, I'm not 100% sure I'm right across the board, just calling it as I see it. Trusting doctors and the medical establishment in general is extremely gullible, from way pre-covid. It's been a captured industry, all about the money, for decades. For that matter, the authorities can NEVER be trusted, the founding documents of the U.S. are based upon that premise, which they well understood back then. Corruption among the powerful is timeless, COVID just made it more obvious to many who had blinders on.
Better than DJT? Well, South Dakota never shut down. When Kemp and DeSantis began opening their states up, Trump attacked them. They bucked him and went ahead, to their credit. Most of Africa did better. I think there were some others, Romania maybe? No time to research at the moment, work calls.
Yes, that is it, though I must say that I did not know these were the same; the one I recently encountered that only had that simple finding listed and this one which I have long known about. My general inability to recall names did not help me here.
Yeah it's funny. For all the rhetoric against Donald Trump, the lefty sheeple also just seem to want a strong leader. Witness the weird Dark Brandon branding. Creepy.
So Joe, isn't it interesting that your customers expect more from, and are more discriminating about their tree guys, plumbers and electricians than they are about the people they hire to take care of their own bodies?
I’ve often wondered about that. They hold us.” uneducated.” to a far far higher standard than the credentialed professionals who charge many multiples per hour more than we do, and can literally get away with killing their customers., and customers’ families, and our society ‘s response is to push even more money their way.
I don’t mind being held to a high standard. I never take any money upfront because I want everyone to be satisfied before they open their checkbook. I am confident in the quality of my work, as are many of my blue-collar, small business friends. But often, anything short of perfection results in our being chastised by the ruling class. Said chastisement never comes from cops or plumbers, electricians, or anyone whoever gets dirt under the fingernails, but rather from the laptop class, and those with multiple letters and abbreviations, following their names.
Once when we are doing a set of condos in West Orange, I got a call from the management company who said there was an emergency regarding one of the buildings I had just worked on. I promptly hopped back in my truck to head back to see what it happened and the irate customer was loudly complaining about a bit of sawdust left in the leaves in the flower bed, and in the pacasandra. She literally wanted me to get vacuum cleaner and vacuum up any speck of sawdust that had fallen.In the plantings. And I don’t know this for sure, but she had all the personality of the kind of person who would get a double mastectomy without any cancer diagnosis, but on the advice of a doctor “just in case”…..
Joe, I have observed this as well, time and time again. The academically credentialed class, or those who fancy themselves as such, are the quickest to complain to service people about the most inconsequential non-problems on a job. New neighbors I only met socially once asked me if I knew a driver who could take them to the airport. I did, and since these folks seemed nice "socially" I gave them his name. This man is trustworthy, reliable, and was a long distance trucker for many years with an impeccable record. After he drove them I was mortified when he told me he would never drive them again because of the way they treated him. This was a side of these people that is not always obvious socially when they are interacting with their "peers."
Hear, hear! Long Pandemic! I’ll raise me pint to that one come Good Friday!
“Simply saying “The Pandemic” foreclosed reasonable discussion of how many people …”
I’d shorten that to “foreclosed reasonable discussion (and still does).” We were desperately short of reasonable discussion in our society as it was, but now, as you have pointed out so eloquently, any attempt at making sense of what happened, and is happening, is just swatted away with “pandemic” “because of COVID” “we didn’t know” “you can’t be too safe” and so on…
On a different, but related point, I have often wondered how on earth many if not most people will willingly surrender their agency to credentialed professionals who have repeatedly demonstrably failed to solve or mitigate the “problem” they have been hired to figure out.
Way, way, way before “COVID”, I have asked some of my credulous tree care customers why they would continue to seek out medical attention from the same people who have not only not “solved” the original symptom, but now have blessed them with “side effects”. I ask them if they would continue to hire me (a tree guy) or a plumber or electrician if each and every time they called us, the tree problem got worse, the basement was still flooded and the house dimmed every time you plugged in their toaster. I usually get blank looks of something like “yeah, I see what you mean”…… there must be something deeply ingrained in or genetically part of our being that urges us to surrender to patently incompetent, and often irresponsible and evil people….
I dunno….I’m a gonna get to work…
Cheers, Mark!
Joe, "you're no MD."
So your views are worthless.
Or so they say
True, but you don’t end up with a “side effect” when you hire me.😊
You would probably recommend some quack solution like cutting carbs to lose weight.
Fat shaming. Tisk! Tisk! That kind of microaggression will be illegal soon. Take your Ozempic and be quiet!
Thin may be in, but fat is where it's at.
Oh, that's an oldie, but a goodie! Thanks for that call back!
That comes from a time when everybody wore Chucks.
Source?!?!
lol
Not long ago I read of a study that found that 80% of mankind lacks the ability to question authority. It sure seems true.
what HAPPENED to my generation ? That's ALL they did in the 60s and 70s!!!!
There's a simple explanation for that. I'm the same generation. In those days, opposing the government and the Vietnam war wasn't an act of rebellion, it was conforming to peer pressure. IOW, protesting government policy was the default position of the boomers. Supporting Washington and the war made you an outcast among your peers. Nothing has happened to your, and my generation. They were followers then, and are now. And that's hardly unique to boomers, it's human nature. Kitsune is right, except I think it's more than 80%. Wasn't jab uptake in the 90+ percent range? Only brainless zombies fell for it. We were already seniors when the jabs came out, never remotely considered getting in line. Nobody with a working brain did. That implies > 90% cannot think.
Well, we do appear to be HERD animals...
But here's maybe the bright side: About 10% of us, if we go by the stated math here, are NOT sheep. We're the sheep DOGS... And because of us, NUMEROUS shit has been flushed, if you'll pardon my potty mouth, ha ha.
SO... If that's the case, we might try easing off (arf) all this stressing out about the SHEEP and just get together, all the sheep DOGS, and tear this Tyranny all to pieces... Action speaks (woof!) louder than Substack posts. Cheers.
that scares the crap out of me...
It is scary. If people weren't mostly really dumb, why would every successful society have its run, then decline to mediocrity or worse? There's plenty of obvious things to do to keep the good times rolling, but never the will or good sense to implement any of it. Examples are endless. Here's one. I'm a boomer. I remember thinking when I was in my 30s and 40s - we have a big bubble of people in their productive years. But won't later. We should be getting our infrastructure as perfect as we can now, while it's doable. Instead we did none of that, just kept running deficits, living beyond our means. Stupid, and weak. Which sums things up, then, now, and always. The moral decay that always happens to societies in their prime is an even bigger issue that books have been written about. Sorry, but there's no reason to think we can stop the inevitable collapse we see all around us, although we have to try.
I just want to live the next couple of decades in my bubble- and only want to worry about what's for dinner and if it's going to rain the next day so I can plan something alternative to my cycling...I (we) earned every minute and hopefully us boomers can continue reaping those benefits for a few more years. I have faith things might "turn around"- that's all I can do, is have hope.
It's *not* "all you can do." I'm 72 and just got myself elected to a local committee that oversees our community plan, the better to insinuate ourselves to influence local council. Change minds where you can, speak up where you can, get involved in local politics.
I hear you, my retirement doesn't look like I expected. I'm still working, but not nearly as much at 73. The inflation changes everything, glad I didn't stop working altogether. I'm not much of a believer in faith and hope, at least not in this life. I'm sure plenty of people had faith and hope as their lives came crashing down, or to a premature end. It does make one feel better I suppose, and keep going in a better mood. But it won't change anything in the larger world around us. I think there's a pretty good chance for a turn in the right direction, to slow the deterioration down, temporarily. Fingers crossed. Cycling all you can sounds like a good idea!
Yes exercise takes the edge off- I only have some hope and faith as I had a brain tumor removed last Feb. so kind of restored some of my belief in humanity ( thankfully I had good doctors and a wonderful hubby and daughter who helped me through) - benign so happy with that. Life can take a wrong turn so rapidly… enjoy what you have left!
Suggested edit: "That implies > 90% can, or will, not think.
The computers and Mobiles think for them. Haven't you noticed how many people spend their time looking at these Gadgets? THEIR BRAINS DON'T THINK ANYMORE
Did they question authority or only authority they didn’t agree with?
They no more had a clue then than they do now. Protesting the war, being a "rebel", was conforming to their peer group. I was there.
I have often wondered as much.
Yep. Licentiousness and societal destruction. Then cashed in later. Very few true blue hippies mostly just fun sinning. And socialists playing the same game in academia, that's where some ended up. Pattern repeats itself.
You’re referring to the Milgram Experiment. Yes, it uncovered a major tick in human nature. Undoubtedly our adversaries know us better than we know ourselves.
Yep, that’s it and yes, they know.
Those pulling the strings are evil, but smart. Sure they know. I've had what may be an epiphany lately. I'd been thinking Trump showed how stupid he was by touting hydroxychloroquine, and then being blindsided by the media and 3-letter agency reaction - an immediate and devastating takedown (like Collins' reaction to the GBD). Any moron knew that would happen and Trump better be ready to counter. He wasn't, or at least didn't counter. My epiphany is - was this deliberate on his part? Did he intentionally start the ball rolling for the ridicule of any effective, cheap treatments we suffered through, being a pawn of pharma? Remember, pre-COVID he was going to empower RFK Jr to look into vaccine safety, until pharma gave him a bunch of money, and he dropped that idea like a hot potato. So, he was a pharma shill by the time COVID surfaced. I think this makes more sense than my previous assumption he was so stupid. He's obviously savvy politically, and knows how the games are played.
I agree. Trump could be the biggest deep state pawn ever. He divided the country, literally driving some insane. Jan 6, what stupidity. Now we have "domestic terrorists", Operation Warpspeed. Umhum.
I sometimes see them all (fauci, birx, trump, obama, clintons) sitting in one of those exclusive clubs, in large wingback chairs, laughing with each other:
DJT: Oh, Tony, the goggles bit was priceless.
AF: Genius, right.
Hardieharhar.
I like the way you think
As far as I understand, it never was hydroxychloroquine that was helpful, it was it and something else, zinc perhaps. Hydroxychloroquine helps the body absorb the zinc or whatever. People took the combo and improved rapidly. One a democrat politician who has credited T with saving her life.
The spin against hydroxychloroquine and thus T was with the less than truthful, repeated statement that it was just this drug that T was prompting and it was easy to show that by itself it is not effective.
T’s biggest error was that he trusted those he should have been able to trust, people who were paid to give him honest appraisals of the situation and how to counter it. By giving him wrong information, they committed fraud against the president and the American people.
Trump's our candidate for better or worse, we need to be behind him 100%. With that out of the way - I'm not so sure how much he erred, how much he did on purpose. RFK is an expert on Fauci. Trump met with him for hours before deciding to appoint him to look into vaccines, pre-COVID. There's zero chance RFK, who is very good at making his points, didn't apprise Trump of Fauci's true nature. So Trump had NO excuse for trusting Fauci and Birx. Trump promised to drain the swamp, yet appointed swamp dwellers to key posts, didn't remove others, and used their advice to drive policy in many key ways. He's NOT stupid. You'd have to be stupid to think such people would be looking out for the country and citizenry. He had Scott Atlas, before that there was no shortage of honest experts available with good COVID advice. Yet, he sided with Fauci, Birx, FDA, CDC, pharma, and the MSM narrative. Why? He's that stupid and gullible? Maybe. But not likely. More likely, he isn't who his fans think he is. He was great on keeping us out of stupid wars. He isn't for censorship and wokeness. I like him. But I don't trust him, at all.
Great questions, all. RFK too is a member of the DC establishment and thus should have been treated with no less suspicion than Birx and Fauci, IMHO.
Why did he go with Fauci and Birx instead of Atlas? I think we have to look through a wider lens. The picture I am able to put together from my interpretation of the pieces I have seen is one of a President who is supremely confident yet knows his limitations. He is not a doctor. But, as you said, he is not stupid. He is suspicious of the advice his advisers are giving him but is not wanting to go against their expert advice and cause his people to suffer. So he works towards offering a solution for those who decide to take it, the vax, but never mandates it and is against mandating it. Meanwhile, he sees that every country the planet except Sweden is locking down, masking, unsocial distancing and the rest. He is doubtful, but despite what everyone believes, his ego is not so big as to believe that he alone among the leaders of major economies and their advisers know what is best. Against his better judgement he follows suit, to some degree. We know that the fraudster in the UK that scared Boris Johnson into his panic played a part in T’s going along.
Given what has happened, I am of the belief that it was a worldwide effort to bambozzle T as he was not going to allow them to carry out their plans for the great reset. I also believe that they had to pull the trigger on certain aspects of their overall plan early, before they were ready, to get rid of him before he could stop them. That is my current thinking on this.
He is not perfect, no one is, but I doubt very much that anyone could have done better in his situation.
Good point about RFK not being the final arbiter of truth. However, any heads-up he provided on Fauci would have been easy to follow up on with Trump's resources. Besides, the whole cabal behind the COVID response is corrupt, and obviously so. It would have taken political courage to go against the rest of the world, but Trump's popularity largely plays on that very trait. As far as whether anyone could have done better, you just mentioned Sweden. I'm far from rare in noticing, as soon as the "two weeks to flatten the curve" got extended, that the effect is going to be a massive shift of wealth and power to those who already have the most. That it was likely a gigantic con became obvious with selective closing of some businesses, not others, and no problem with "systemic racism" protesters doing whatever. Are we supposed to think that Trump, author of "The Art of the Deal", and a guy able to manipulate his way into wealth and the presidency, was unable to spot such an obvious con when so many of us did?
It is different when your decisions affect others. As a small, example. I was on the 8th floor of an office building in Kanda when the 311 earthquake and tsunami hit. My private student was an adult and an employee of the company we both worked for. Hiding under the table with him and later walking over drywall and collapsed ceiling to exist the building, I felt no emotion at all. No worry, no fear.
Later, I was on a college campus with a class full of college students when a big aftershock hit. Unlike with the previous student, I was responsible for the safety of all in the class. Nothing has created more fear for me up till that time as being responsible for the safety and well being of others in a disaster.
Yes, T is well known to stand alone against the world, but those were times when it was over things he intimately knew. Most of humanity unquestionably follows what the doctor says. That is not to say we do so to the fullest extent, noncompliance in taking meds is a long standing problem. But few question the doc’s diagnosis or question them directly on anything. We either quietly comply fully or in part. More so when the doc says we must do X for those in our care. How many challenge what the doc says about their kid’s medical needs? We may disregard what a doc tells us we must do for our own health, but the same who have difficulty doing so for their kids. Not mulch different for a president.
I personally have many issues over his handling of covid and a couple of other unrelated issues. But with covid, who did better or as well? Sweden has a much smaller population and a much more homogeneous one at that, than the U.S.. Who else did as well as T?
You may be right on some things where we disagree, I'm not 100% sure I'm right across the board, just calling it as I see it. Trusting doctors and the medical establishment in general is extremely gullible, from way pre-covid. It's been a captured industry, all about the money, for decades. For that matter, the authorities can NEVER be trusted, the founding documents of the U.S. are based upon that premise, which they well understood back then. Corruption among the powerful is timeless, COVID just made it more obvious to many who had blinders on.
Better than DJT? Well, South Dakota never shut down. When Kemp and DeSantis began opening their states up, Trump attacked them. They bucked him and went ahead, to their credit. Most of Africa did better. I think there were some others, Romania maybe? No time to research at the moment, work calls.
The bad actors knew human psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Why is it that the bad guys know more about human nature than most of the rest of us? They sure know how to use it against us.
We are too busy just trying to get along with our lives. They, on the other hand, devote their lives to controlling us.
Yes. Most people are unaware of their inherent vulnerabilities. Ego gets in the way.
Yes, that is it, though I must say that I did not know these were the same; the one I recently encountered that only had that simple finding listed and this one which I have long known about. My general inability to recall names did not help me here.
Thanks, this is it.
Makes me sick
Yeah it's funny. For all the rhetoric against Donald Trump, the lefty sheeple also just seem to want a strong leader. Witness the weird Dark Brandon branding. Creepy.
If true, that really sucks.
It explains a hell of a lot if it is.
So Joe, isn't it interesting that your customers expect more from, and are more discriminating about their tree guys, plumbers and electricians than they are about the people they hire to take care of their own bodies?
I’ve often wondered about that. They hold us.” uneducated.” to a far far higher standard than the credentialed professionals who charge many multiples per hour more than we do, and can literally get away with killing their customers., and customers’ families, and our society ‘s response is to push even more money their way.
I don’t mind being held to a high standard. I never take any money upfront because I want everyone to be satisfied before they open their checkbook. I am confident in the quality of my work, as are many of my blue-collar, small business friends. But often, anything short of perfection results in our being chastised by the ruling class. Said chastisement never comes from cops or plumbers, electricians, or anyone whoever gets dirt under the fingernails, but rather from the laptop class, and those with multiple letters and abbreviations, following their names.
Once when we are doing a set of condos in West Orange, I got a call from the management company who said there was an emergency regarding one of the buildings I had just worked on. I promptly hopped back in my truck to head back to see what it happened and the irate customer was loudly complaining about a bit of sawdust left in the leaves in the flower bed, and in the pacasandra. She literally wanted me to get vacuum cleaner and vacuum up any speck of sawdust that had fallen.In the plantings. And I don’t know this for sure, but she had all the personality of the kind of person who would get a double mastectomy without any cancer diagnosis, but on the advice of a doctor “just in case”…..
Joe, I have observed this as well, time and time again. The academically credentialed class, or those who fancy themselves as such, are the quickest to complain to service people about the most inconsequential non-problems on a job. New neighbors I only met socially once asked me if I knew a driver who could take them to the airport. I did, and since these folks seemed nice "socially" I gave them his name. This man is trustworthy, reliable, and was a long distance trucker for many years with an impeccable record. After he drove them I was mortified when he told me he would never drive them again because of the way they treated him. This was a side of these people that is not always obvious socially when they are interacting with their "peers."
I put sawdust in gardens when I have some. Good for soil.
This is true!
Same reason they would be more concerned if their jeans made them look fat but have no problem altering their DNA with an experimental drug.
Or shopped all organic at Whole Foods but have no problem altering their DNA with an experimental drug....we could go on.
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It’s the death card. It works and pHarma holds it and plays it all the time.
Joe, making sense doesn’t set well with those who “know better,” but thanks for trying. Maybe a couple of neurons will start synapsing.
None of it is confusing when you realize they really don't mind killing us.
Sometimes I have to remember that if the normies never "get it" then we've done our "job".
Many are incapable unless they experience it. Many "enjoy" the experience. It is the way of mankind.
Joyless victories are still W's