Don’t ever forget Whitmer when you list the rogues gallery of criminal psychopaths. Here in Michigan, weed, lottery and alcohol were all part of the “essentials” list, while tree workers (like myself) were non-essential, because, you know, you might spread COVID when you are 50’ up in a tree. Meanwhile, the nursing homes were sealed off, with thousands left to die, alone, in misery…..and a good half of this state applauds the criminal Whitmer administration for “saving lives”. They are still pushing the fake vaccines….cancer and heart attacks in the young and middle aged has become the new normal here….absolutely insane…and a large percentage of the population still following the “experts” as they lead them to the edge of the cliff…..
Yes. I live in Indiana and had some appealing spots in mind along the Lake Michigan coast I wanted to visit. Plus, always wanted to fish the Two-Hearted River Hemingway made famous. But I'd feel dirty voluntarily setting foot in a state that elects, then re-elects Whitmer. Of course, the rest of the country (and world) is just about as self-destructive.
Not her intelligence….her standout suggestion for how to “grow Michigan” was to market it as an abortion and LGBTQ etc destination…..two demographic groups not known for their fertility….just sayin’
I think it’s the “Trump is a threat to democracy” crowd combined with really strange candidates on the Republican side which allow her to win, and win again.
This right here: “If you bought Coronamania, you got played.”
Slowly, maybe it’s too late to matter, people admitting this, but it’s harder to move on with myocarditis and your friends and loved ones, many children, maimed or dead.
Such is the price to be paid for lack of critical thought or a willingness to bend.
I looked up the 25 most dangerous jobs in the US and I am extremely surprised to learn that dancing hospital worker "Heroes" didn't make the list. Turns out that landscapers, farm workers and many other physically demanding, low paying jobs made the list. I often wonder why we didn't see any dancing landscapers during the scam or dancing farm workers or dancing electrical line workers or ... Many of those people were all still out there risking their lives. Perhaps, these blue-collar workers just weren't fully onboard with the making dancing videos and calling themselves heroes. Or maybe they just had a lot of hard work to do.
I now hate that term "Hero". It is SOOOOO misused. During the Plandemic, with all the TV ads, tick tock videos and social media postings, I saw more "HEROS" than there ever were in all the comic books ever created. They have one thing in common, though, those Plandemic Heros and the comic book versions...they are all fake.
This might be on e of your best, insightful and most poignant articles. By connecting the losses and gains of the classes to their 'mitigation' efforts and helping to clearly exposes the falsity of it all.
“the essential” were “the expendable.”
"One might be tempted to think that Marx’s Class War is a fantasy. But a version of it just happened. Cloaked in feigned public health concerns, the Scamdemic was a highly consequential, albeit veiled and arms-free, interclass battle. Inverting Marx, wealthy aggressors effected the biggest upward transfer of wealth ever from middle class to the rich. The bourgeoisie rose up against the proletariat. Laptoppers crushed the workers, not the virus."
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Mark's summary paragraph, which you've copied here, says it all. This: "Laptoppers crushed the workers, not the virus" is gold...and deserves repeating over and over and over again. To their faces if circumstances permit.
So many white collar jobs required the jabs. Despite their "work from home" status, the home deliveries, and 24/7 netflix, they now have myocarditis, turbocancer, infertility, countless neurological damage and premature death. That was one expensive staycation. They just can't admit it yet.
Like you, I worked a number of blue collar jobs earlier in my life, including roofing and construction, plus roughnecked in the energy business, which was very dangerous both from the work and the travel to remote locales (jungles in the Yucatan, North Slope/offshore sites). I never lost sight of the value these workers provide and that without them, our economy would simply collapse. Because of the Scandemic, the gargantuan damage done to our society is ongoing and will never be offset,, as the millions of deaths from the government and private sectors mechanizations have insured millions more deaths here and elsewhere from both the mRNA injections and the diseases they cause, but also the destruction of the social pact that existed. My guess is that we're headed into a violent Marxist revolution, which is lead by sociopaths bent on completing the takeover by any means and the Scandemic was just a way to start the culling of the citizenry here and elsewhere, to be replaced from the outside. So, all should place their faith in God, but keep your powder dry, as Lord Protector Cromwell told his Roundheads. You and your readers are aware of this. But we all have family, friends, and associates who are completely unaware of this. Pray for them and help them when you can.
Agree with all except the last sentence. I save my prayers and compassion for those on the right side. All those unaware are the enablers, who caused the scamdemic just as much as the manipulators, by being being so gullible. "Leaders" can't lead us to destruction without willing followers. I'm not as nice as you are, I guess. Or maybe just see them more accurately?
Mark, reading your blog- so true and heartbreaking. I knew something was awfully wrong with “essential and non-essential” from the get go. Walmart was open, but the jewelry counter was roped off. So insanely stupid. BTW, new houses are being built in my area. I make it a habit to pray for the workers. They are out every day doing their work and playing music. God bless them.
President warp speed dished helicopter cash to democrat! Governors to lockdown, and has never been properly chastened. He was a Democrat planted to make conservatives lockdown who would not have under an admitted democrat.
Noone reflects on the remarkable job being done drone controlling the country while Biden dements. But consider that those controllers may have been given a chance to beta test their system by hiring a reality actor trump to go limp and allow himself to be drone controlled. That would explain a lot, including why he never apologizes.
And so we have a choice between democrat and democrat plant.
Trump has some major flaws, no doubt. He was really not good during Covid -- money printing facilitated the states' lockdowns, as you point out, and then there was Operation Warp Speed, which ended up killing/harming millions. He needs to come clean on that.
That said, he's the better option by far. Anything to slow down our trek towards slavery is where my vote goes.
No doubt the Trojan horse looks spiffier than the greeks in armor.
But who would have predicted Trump capable of march 2020 and why could we not expect an even worse surprise! In March 2025. Obviously not by the same name but still a coviet type massive gaslight.
Trump is pumping notoriously hard to watchdog early voting (another tell). We should use whatever leverage there is to wake people up, tell them not to early vote.
Perhaps a "retirement" could be arranged for President warp speed just like Biden... And so he can deal with his various legal issues. I nominate Rand Paul to replace him.
When you say "too late for that" consider how December will be too late for anything. Remember how we got qanon in December 2020, keystone copping of the election fraud, and then President warp speed invited the public to j6 with "it will be wild!"
It was.
They're not after him they're after you. He's just pointing the way.
Bloodless? God no. Thousands were killed due to interventions of one kind or another: inappropriate and overdosing of drugs; moving old people from hospitals to nursing homes; ventilators; isolation and - as you mention - the jabs. Culling is happening.
And we are being groomed to accept it. In my area I learned about something called "Death Cafe". It was billed as an informal discuss ion regarding the end of life and all the things that go with it. I went. Well, it was very interesting. There was a psychic who believed in reincarnation and a couple of people who were either death doulas or studying to be one. And of course they ALL supported medical assistance in dying which currently isn't legal in Michigan. I brought up my concerns about what kind of safeguards do you plan to put into place to make sure vulnerable people aren't being coerced into this. To my surprise they didn't pooh-pooh me, but said I ought to be concerned. They know the dangers, they know what insurance companies and others will do with this, AND THEY DO NOT CARE. Not one person said, here's what we plan to do to make sure only those who really want this choice have it. No. THEY KNOW. When they tell me to my face, yes, you ought to be concerned, I feel like I'm hearing a threat to my right to live. That they are working to put into place mechanisms to cull society of undesirables under the name of "choice" and "freedom". Just like with abortion. I've met women who have told me, "I had an abortion even though I really didn't want to; but I didn't have any other choice." I didn't really want to; I didn't have a choice. So whose choice was it really? Hers or society's? Because I also know a lot of people who would cheer that woman on for making a decision she personally didn't want to make. Because it benefits THEM. Another one bites the dust. One less kid for us taxpayers to pay for. One less problem. Elvis Presley sang, "People, don't you understand, that kid needs a helping hand, he's gonna be an angry young man someday" and our response to that kid and his momma is Planned Parenthood. THAT'S our helping hand. But we call it reproductive freedom. We call it choice. And because nobody is putting a gun to her head it's all good . . .
Brought back memories as I too dabbled in roofing years ago growing up out west. With single story homes with basements and low pitch (“4 in 12”) roofs it was a piece of cake compared to the steep roofs I see out here on the east coast.
The older I get the more I appreciate the hard, physical jobs and the people who do them.
In the city of Rimouski, Quebec, there is a train overpass above the road into the downtown area. Sometime in the spring of 2020, some brave soul(s) painted in large font on one side, "T'es essential, pas ton patron" and on the other, "Bonne année, planete prison" which translates to "You are essential, not your boss" and "Happy New Year, prison planet".
After four years, the Truth still hasn't been painted over.
Those greedy bastards that orchestrated the deaths of millions, not from the virus, but from the effects of their policies should face the consequences.
Whitmer and Cuomo should have been in the electric chair by now for what they did to eliminate their responsibilities to the elderly by putting infected people into nursing homes. That was murder, plain and simple.
Keep up the fight, Mark. There are a lot of us out here that feel the same.
And get prepared for Round 2, it may be coming. People in my area of Southwest Michigan are starting to mask up again. Thank God I'm retired.
You know, there's been a lot of hate directed at Boomers lately. We are seen as single-handedly wrecking younger people's futures, as if each and every one of us marched against the war, advocated free sex (let's not call it love) regardless of consequences, went to Woodstock, were hippies only to turn yuppies. Even though most of us lived probably basically boring lives. No, we're the baddies. Just because we were born at a certain time. Meanwhile Gen X and Gen Z are smugly confident that fifty years on their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren won't turn on them, oh, no. But let's not talk about the pandemic and the missed opportunities lockdown brought. Let's not talk about who advocated those things and who supported those things . . . or was this another Boomer crime?
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The only generational things I see about it is the very old were crushed in the name of saving them. And the kids were crushed in the name of saving the old and the teachers. Support seemed evenly distributed. Stupidity doesn't discriminate by age.
That's very true. They aren't having children. Which is going to make the burden on the few children that they do have even greater. Think those children and their children won't turn on them then?
As a child growing up just after the war, (WWII), I recall various friends whose families hailed from bastions of freedom like Poland, or East Germany. And I still, almost eighty years later, recall listening to some of those those kid's parents talking about people who were "denounced" to the Stazi or Gestapo - by their OWN children - and sent to the camps.
So yeah - some of their kids will probably "turn on them".
My entire life I’ve been accused of having no empathy and no sympathy. I’m intolerant. I’m judgmental. And of all the people in my family and social circle, I was the only one outraged by the way people ruined each other’s lives, robbed others of milestone celebrations, abandoned hospital patients and the elderly to the sadists who work in those places, and made it impossible for them to mourn losses with dignity. “Social distancing” at funerals, FFS. Most people just shrugged it all off, like none of it was even on their radar. How, overnight, did people go from glued to the TV because a baby fell down a well to shrugging off homicidal hospital policies? I don’t think they did. I think all their solicitude is performative. I think their indifference to human life is real.
I don’t like kids of any age, but I was the only one in my family who said, “What about all those kids?” What about their graduations, swim meets, track meets, class trips, and formal dances that were cancelled over nothing? Literally nothing, because I don’t think there was a new coronavirus. For years after my father’s stroke, my mother shepherded him through medical offices and hospital systems, and he died several years before “covid.” She never shut up about how important it was to advocate for patients who couldn’t do it for themselves and always pointed to the mistakes she prevented the “medical professionals” from making. She kept parallel records of my father’s medical history and treatments and she sat in his hospital room with the notebook so she could make sure the nurses were doing the right things for him. Did she have a single damned ounce of sympathy or outrage over hospitals banning family and friends? Don’t make me laugh; I have chapped lips. The mental blank-outs and indifference still blow my mind. How is it even possible to disconnect one’s brain like that?
They got played? A lot of them did. I think a lot more of them played the game because they enjoyed it. I’ve always disliked people in general, but I had no idea how *depraved* they are. It takes real depravity to shrug at the hysteria, cruelty, neglect, and wrecked lives. The lost businesses. The lost opportunities. The never-held milestone events. And I had no idea how absolutely fucking dangerous people are. I’ve never been really afraid like I was during “covid,” and it wasn’t fear of getting sick. It was fear of compliant people. It was realizing how little stands between civilization and its collapse: inconvenience and lack of opportunity, mostly, for the comfortable people in the West. It’s a good thing they’re still capable of being appeased with DoorDash, because they sure as hell don’t have any moral barriers.
I have a family member who wore as a badge of heroic honor, the label of "essential worker." To this day, she remains unstable and anxious, in part due to the trauma of being on the frontlines, and the grave responsibility of taking on those risks by her continual exposure to the germs in the grocery store where she worked. She was a masker, and she will be a masker again, if the TV tells her to.
I have friends who told me that COVID was wonderful and brought their nuclear family closer through the lockdowns. They cannot relate to my experience of being utterly alone for months, with no human face to look at in person (only virtually), and with masked neighbors crossing the street as we approached each other on the sidewalk, to put as an added measure of safety, at least 36 feet of distance from my germs.
I was not an essential worker, but I did have the luxury of being a remote worker, so I could keep my job and paycheck, even though I struggled to find meaning in life, during that period.
I would go to the grocery store during this period of isolation, merely to absorb some people energy, even if the essential worker was masked and behind plexiglas and only said, "good morning," as it rang up my few items.
I'm a fault-finder by nature and profession. Always spotting something not up to snuff. I almost never read a whole article without finding something to complain about, things jump out at me. Not here, this was perfect. As Amking said, one of your best. OTOH, I almost always think that about your articles. Another great one, thanks.
Don’t ever forget Whitmer when you list the rogues gallery of criminal psychopaths. Here in Michigan, weed, lottery and alcohol were all part of the “essentials” list, while tree workers (like myself) were non-essential, because, you know, you might spread COVID when you are 50’ up in a tree. Meanwhile, the nursing homes were sealed off, with thousands left to die, alone, in misery…..and a good half of this state applauds the criminal Whitmer administration for “saving lives”. They are still pushing the fake vaccines….cancer and heart attacks in the young and middle aged has become the new normal here….absolutely insane…and a large percentage of the population still following the “experts” as they lead them to the edge of the cliff…..
That's a badass job, Joe. Thanks for your service.
And no seeds or gardening either because grandma or something.
That was really weird and incomprehensible.
Looseness of Association is great fun to try and figure out ; I think I might get the election Advisor's meaning.
Detroit resident here, still can't believe how many adore Whitmer in the wake of the irreparable harm she caused
I, too, live in Detroit, 6 & Wyoming area. I sent you a DM. I’d love to meet up to grab a beer one of these days.
Yes. I live in Indiana and had some appealing spots in mind along the Lake Michigan coast I wanted to visit. Plus, always wanted to fish the Two-Hearted River Hemingway made famous. But I'd feel dirty voluntarily setting foot in a state that elects, then re-elects Whitmer. Of course, the rest of the country (and world) is just about as self-destructive.
What is Whitmer's appeal? I don't get it.
Not her intelligence….her standout suggestion for how to “grow Michigan” was to market it as an abortion and LGBTQ etc destination…..two demographic groups not known for their fertility….just sayin’
I think it’s the “Trump is a threat to democracy” crowd combined with really strange candidates on the Republican side which allow her to win, and win again.
And over it.
This right here: “If you bought Coronamania, you got played.”
Slowly, maybe it’s too late to matter, people admitting this, but it’s harder to move on with myocarditis and your friends and loved ones, many children, maimed or dead.
Such is the price to be paid for lack of critical thought or a willingness to bend.
They need to be reminded over and over, forever, how stupid they were. They deserve it.
I looked up the 25 most dangerous jobs in the US and I am extremely surprised to learn that dancing hospital worker "Heroes" didn't make the list. Turns out that landscapers, farm workers and many other physically demanding, low paying jobs made the list. I often wonder why we didn't see any dancing landscapers during the scam or dancing farm workers or dancing electrical line workers or ... Many of those people were all still out there risking their lives. Perhaps, these blue-collar workers just weren't fully onboard with the making dancing videos and calling themselves heroes. Or maybe they just had a lot of hard work to do.
I now hate that term "Hero". It is SOOOOO misused. During the Plandemic, with all the TV ads, tick tock videos and social media postings, I saw more "HEROS" than there ever were in all the comic books ever created. They have one thing in common, though, those Plandemic Heros and the comic book versions...they are all fake.
Like ALL of the virtues: sneered at and sadly overlooked.
This might be on e of your best, insightful and most poignant articles. By connecting the losses and gains of the classes to their 'mitigation' efforts and helping to clearly exposes the falsity of it all.
“the essential” were “the expendable.”
"One might be tempted to think that Marx’s Class War is a fantasy. But a version of it just happened. Cloaked in feigned public health concerns, the Scamdemic was a highly consequential, albeit veiled and arms-free, interclass battle. Inverting Marx, wealthy aggressors effected the biggest upward transfer of wealth ever from middle class to the rich. The bourgeoisie rose up against the proletariat. Laptoppers crushed the workers, not the virus."
Mark's summary paragraph, which you've copied here, says it all. This: "Laptoppers crushed the workers, not the virus" is gold...and deserves repeating over and over and over again. To their faces if circumstances permit.
Thanks, AnnMarie.
So many white collar jobs required the jabs. Despite their "work from home" status, the home deliveries, and 24/7 netflix, they now have myocarditis, turbocancer, infertility, countless neurological damage and premature death. That was one expensive staycation. They just can't admit it yet.
But... grandma.
And... if it saves just one life.
Also... the greater good.
LOOK OUT - RUSSIANS!
Like you, I worked a number of blue collar jobs earlier in my life, including roofing and construction, plus roughnecked in the energy business, which was very dangerous both from the work and the travel to remote locales (jungles in the Yucatan, North Slope/offshore sites). I never lost sight of the value these workers provide and that without them, our economy would simply collapse. Because of the Scandemic, the gargantuan damage done to our society is ongoing and will never be offset,, as the millions of deaths from the government and private sectors mechanizations have insured millions more deaths here and elsewhere from both the mRNA injections and the diseases they cause, but also the destruction of the social pact that existed. My guess is that we're headed into a violent Marxist revolution, which is lead by sociopaths bent on completing the takeover by any means and the Scandemic was just a way to start the culling of the citizenry here and elsewhere, to be replaced from the outside. So, all should place their faith in God, but keep your powder dry, as Lord Protector Cromwell told his Roundheads. You and your readers are aware of this. But we all have family, friends, and associates who are completely unaware of this. Pray for them and help them when you can.
Danny Huckabee
Thanks, Danny, for that reminder.
I should have mentioned the oil crews. That's not an East Coast thing, so I don't think of it.
Except for some refineries.
Agree with all except the last sentence. I save my prayers and compassion for those on the right side. All those unaware are the enablers, who caused the scamdemic just as much as the manipulators, by being being so gullible. "Leaders" can't lead us to destruction without willing followers. I'm not as nice as you are, I guess. Or maybe just see them more accurately?
Wow, did you just call me "nice?"
I haven't heard that since early March. 2020.
No, I was referring to Danny's post I responded to, not the article. Nice is a good thing when it's called for, not universally. Danny ended with
"But we all have family, friends, and associates who are completely unaware of this. Pray for them and help them when you can."
Mark, reading your blog- so true and heartbreaking. I knew something was awfully wrong with “essential and non-essential” from the get go. Walmart was open, but the jewelry counter was roped off. So insanely stupid. BTW, new houses are being built in my area. I make it a habit to pray for the workers. They are out every day doing their work and playing music. God bless them.
And in Michigan we couldn't buy seeds and plants to garden with.
And she was re-elected. What to make of that?
Well, I didn't vote for her. I'm just as baffled as anyone else why she was re-elected. But then I've never claimed to understand politics.
Same with Murphy in NJ. No accountability for his lies.
Something about Jan. 6 or abortion....
I didn't for a second think you voted for her.
President warp speed dished helicopter cash to democrat! Governors to lockdown, and has never been properly chastened. He was a Democrat planted to make conservatives lockdown who would not have under an admitted democrat.
Noone reflects on the remarkable job being done drone controlling the country while Biden dements. But consider that those controllers may have been given a chance to beta test their system by hiring a reality actor trump to go limp and allow himself to be drone controlled. That would explain a lot, including why he never apologizes.
And so we have a choice between democrat and democrat plant.
I've been saying that about Trump since the beginning: he facilitated the states' lockdowns by giving trillions away.
And Harris? Ugh.
Trump has some major flaws, no doubt. He was really not good during Covid -- money printing facilitated the states' lockdowns, as you point out, and then there was Operation Warp Speed, which ended up killing/harming millions. He needs to come clean on that.
That said, he's the better option by far. Anything to slow down our trek towards slavery is where my vote goes.
No doubt the better option. But deeply flawed.
No doubt the Trojan horse looks spiffier than the greeks in armor.
But who would have predicted Trump capable of march 2020 and why could we not expect an even worse surprise! In March 2025. Obviously not by the same name but still a coviet type massive gaslight.
Trump is pumping notoriously hard to watchdog early voting (another tell). We should use whatever leverage there is to wake people up, tell them not to early vote.
Perhaps a "retirement" could be arranged for President warp speed just like Biden... And so he can deal with his various legal issues. I nominate Rand Paul to replace him.
When you say "too late for that" consider how December will be too late for anything. Remember how we got qanon in December 2020, keystone copping of the election fraud, and then President warp speed invited the public to j6 with "it will be wild!"
It was.
They're not after him they're after you. He's just pointing the way.
I'm voting for Trump, of course. But I wish other Trump supporters saw him clearly. The Trump cultists are as naive as the leftists.
Bloodless? God no. Thousands were killed due to interventions of one kind or another: inappropriate and overdosing of drugs; moving old people from hospitals to nursing homes; ventilators; isolation and - as you mention - the jabs. Culling is happening.
And we are being groomed to accept it. In my area I learned about something called "Death Cafe". It was billed as an informal discuss ion regarding the end of life and all the things that go with it. I went. Well, it was very interesting. There was a psychic who believed in reincarnation and a couple of people who were either death doulas or studying to be one. And of course they ALL supported medical assistance in dying which currently isn't legal in Michigan. I brought up my concerns about what kind of safeguards do you plan to put into place to make sure vulnerable people aren't being coerced into this. To my surprise they didn't pooh-pooh me, but said I ought to be concerned. They know the dangers, they know what insurance companies and others will do with this, AND THEY DO NOT CARE. Not one person said, here's what we plan to do to make sure only those who really want this choice have it. No. THEY KNOW. When they tell me to my face, yes, you ought to be concerned, I feel like I'm hearing a threat to my right to live. That they are working to put into place mechanisms to cull society of undesirables under the name of "choice" and "freedom". Just like with abortion. I've met women who have told me, "I had an abortion even though I really didn't want to; but I didn't have any other choice." I didn't really want to; I didn't have a choice. So whose choice was it really? Hers or society's? Because I also know a lot of people who would cheer that woman on for making a decision she personally didn't want to make. Because it benefits THEM. Another one bites the dust. One less kid for us taxpayers to pay for. One less problem. Elvis Presley sang, "People, don't you understand, that kid needs a helping hand, he's gonna be an angry young man someday" and our response to that kid and his momma is Planned Parenthood. THAT'S our helping hand. But we call it reproductive freedom. We call it choice. And because nobody is putting a gun to her head it's all good . . .
Another great one Mark.
Brought back memories as I too dabbled in roofing years ago growing up out west. With single story homes with basements and low pitch (“4 in 12”) roofs it was a piece of cake compared to the steep roofs I see out here on the east coast.
The older I get the more I appreciate the hard, physical jobs and the people who do them.
Indeed the Scamdemic must never be forgotten.
Thanks, Howard.
Still waiting for you in NJ.
In the city of Rimouski, Quebec, there is a train overpass above the road into the downtown area. Sometime in the spring of 2020, some brave soul(s) painted in large font on one side, "T'es essential, pas ton patron" and on the other, "Bonne année, planete prison" which translates to "You are essential, not your boss" and "Happy New Year, prison planet".
After four years, the Truth still hasn't been painted over.
Never forget.
Never give in.
Take no prisoners.
Those greedy bastards that orchestrated the deaths of millions, not from the virus, but from the effects of their policies should face the consequences.
Whitmer and Cuomo should have been in the electric chair by now for what they did to eliminate their responsibilities to the elderly by putting infected people into nursing homes. That was murder, plain and simple.
Keep up the fight, Mark. There are a lot of us out here that feel the same.
And get prepared for Round 2, it may be coming. People in my area of Southwest Michigan are starting to mask up again. Thank God I'm retired.
You know, there's been a lot of hate directed at Boomers lately. We are seen as single-handedly wrecking younger people's futures, as if each and every one of us marched against the war, advocated free sex (let's not call it love) regardless of consequences, went to Woodstock, were hippies only to turn yuppies. Even though most of us lived probably basically boring lives. No, we're the baddies. Just because we were born at a certain time. Meanwhile Gen X and Gen Z are smugly confident that fifty years on their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren won't turn on them, oh, no. But let's not talk about the pandemic and the missed opportunities lockdown brought. Let's not talk about who advocated those things and who supported those things . . . or was this another Boomer crime?
The crashing economy is the fault of everyone of any age who supported Covid fascism.
The only generational things I see about it is the very old were crushed in the name of saving them. And the kids were crushed in the name of saving the old and the teachers. Support seemed evenly distributed. Stupidity doesn't discriminate by age.
Agree 100%
"Gen X and Gen Z are smugly confident that fifty years on their grandchildren and greatgrandchildren won't turn on them"
Small quibble, TAM. Given that a significant percentage of Gen X and Gen Z have chosen NOT to bother with the inconvenience of children ....
That's very true. They aren't having children. Which is going to make the burden on the few children that they do have even greater. Think those children and their children won't turn on them then?
As a child growing up just after the war, (WWII), I recall various friends whose families hailed from bastions of freedom like Poland, or East Germany. And I still, almost eighty years later, recall listening to some of those those kid's parents talking about people who were "denounced" to the Stazi or Gestapo - by their OWN children - and sent to the camps.
So yeah - some of their kids will probably "turn on them".
My entire life I’ve been accused of having no empathy and no sympathy. I’m intolerant. I’m judgmental. And of all the people in my family and social circle, I was the only one outraged by the way people ruined each other’s lives, robbed others of milestone celebrations, abandoned hospital patients and the elderly to the sadists who work in those places, and made it impossible for them to mourn losses with dignity. “Social distancing” at funerals, FFS. Most people just shrugged it all off, like none of it was even on their radar. How, overnight, did people go from glued to the TV because a baby fell down a well to shrugging off homicidal hospital policies? I don’t think they did. I think all their solicitude is performative. I think their indifference to human life is real.
I don’t like kids of any age, but I was the only one in my family who said, “What about all those kids?” What about their graduations, swim meets, track meets, class trips, and formal dances that were cancelled over nothing? Literally nothing, because I don’t think there was a new coronavirus. For years after my father’s stroke, my mother shepherded him through medical offices and hospital systems, and he died several years before “covid.” She never shut up about how important it was to advocate for patients who couldn’t do it for themselves and always pointed to the mistakes she prevented the “medical professionals” from making. She kept parallel records of my father’s medical history and treatments and she sat in his hospital room with the notebook so she could make sure the nurses were doing the right things for him. Did she have a single damned ounce of sympathy or outrage over hospitals banning family and friends? Don’t make me laugh; I have chapped lips. The mental blank-outs and indifference still blow my mind. How is it even possible to disconnect one’s brain like that?
They got played? A lot of them did. I think a lot more of them played the game because they enjoyed it. I’ve always disliked people in general, but I had no idea how *depraved* they are. It takes real depravity to shrug at the hysteria, cruelty, neglect, and wrecked lives. The lost businesses. The lost opportunities. The never-held milestone events. And I had no idea how absolutely fucking dangerous people are. I’ve never been really afraid like I was during “covid,” and it wasn’t fear of getting sick. It was fear of compliant people. It was realizing how little stands between civilization and its collapse: inconvenience and lack of opportunity, mostly, for the comfortable people in the West. It’s a good thing they’re still capable of being appeased with DoorDash, because they sure as hell don’t have any moral barriers.
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I have a family member who wore as a badge of heroic honor, the label of "essential worker." To this day, she remains unstable and anxious, in part due to the trauma of being on the frontlines, and the grave responsibility of taking on those risks by her continual exposure to the germs in the grocery store where she worked. She was a masker, and she will be a masker again, if the TV tells her to.
I have friends who told me that COVID was wonderful and brought their nuclear family closer through the lockdowns. They cannot relate to my experience of being utterly alone for months, with no human face to look at in person (only virtually), and with masked neighbors crossing the street as we approached each other on the sidewalk, to put as an added measure of safety, at least 36 feet of distance from my germs.
I was not an essential worker, but I did have the luxury of being a remote worker, so I could keep my job and paycheck, even though I struggled to find meaning in life, during that period.
I would go to the grocery store during this period of isolation, merely to absorb some people energy, even if the essential worker was masked and behind plexiglas and only said, "good morning," as it rang up my few items.
I'm a fault-finder by nature and profession. Always spotting something not up to snuff. I almost never read a whole article without finding something to complain about, things jump out at me. Not here, this was perfect. As Amking said, one of your best. OTOH, I almost always think that about your articles. Another great one, thanks.