I want my readers to see an email I just sent to the commenter called "greeneron49@gmailcom" who recently showed up on this thread and others. Anyone who will actually mentioned that he has gone to Black and Asian doctors to prove he isn't racist...well, I'm sure all of you have all seen that racist trope before. But you won't be seeing it in my comments any longer. Here is the email I sent to him:
I'm not going to get into it with you about what's racist in your comments because I can see from the comments themselves how useless that would be. I will tell you that I am not going to let you or anyone else spew the kind of garbage you're spewing on my comments. I saw you complained how you "hate" having to spend $5 MONTHLY -- your words -- obviously so you can qualify to comment on my articles. Well, I'm going to do you the favor of relieving you of that burden. You can take your promotions of your YouTube channel to someone else's comments thread, because you're not going to use mine.
As for your insulting comments about my name and my grandfather "turning over in his grave" apparently because of my politics, you didn't know him. I grew up with him. I did know him, and I know exactly what his political attitudes were, and they were not even close to what you apparently think they are.
You are yet another bitter, resentful man who feels the world doesn't pay enough attention to him. That is clearly for reasons you've shown in your comments on my threads. You won't be getting anymore attention here.
a friend of mine (who is vaxxed, boosted and ordinarily takes elaborate precautions found himself at an outdoor gathering a few months back. almost everybody there was a self-described "Anarchist" (a description I've frequently used to describe myself since around 1969) and these "Anarchists" were all unvaxxed. this was not even because they had the usual pseudo-scientific objections (often derived from Kennedy, Joe Rogan et al) to vaccination, but because "the government can't tell us what to do." my comment was that they were mixing up "Anarchism" with "anarchy." to make a long story shorter, he ended up in bed for two weeks with a nasty case of Covid, and is really, to say the least, incredibly pissed off about it. one cannot be too careful, despite the "Covid fatigue" we are doubtless ALL very much in the throes of.
Trust me Mr. Truscott, he's mild compared to a few of my friends, fellow retired educators and family. Those type of people see that their days (culture, world view) are numbered. They know nothing better than to strike out.
As someone who grew up with the constant threat of polio, I simply do not understand this reluctance to get vaccinated and boostered. 900,000 people have died. Are we becoming a nation of idiots?
We live in New Jersey, triple vaxxed, flu shot and still wear masks everywhere. I am astonished at the numbers of 30 somethings traipsing around with little children unmasked. Do they know something that I don’t? Or is there another country in which I should be living? One where they took this far more seriously from the start and didn’t politicize it? Thank you for all of your insight. I have lists of places NOT to visit.
If one commercial jetliner a day crashed in the US, we'd all have our hair on fire and the FAA and Homeland Security would be working 24/7 to figure out how to make it stop. If it were 10 crashes a day, we'd shut down air travel until we made it safe. But it appears that American lives don't matter any more.
There has seemed to be a great willingness to allow "older" people to die. We are experiencing the same situation here in Alberta, Canada with the same divisive conservative political attitude.
On a side note, the first Bill the UCP (United Conservative Party) pushed through when elected was to make protesting in public roads, sidewalks, ditches etc. illegal and impose heavy daily fines. This was primarily instituted to prevent the Indigenous groups and Environmental groups from protesting. These past two plus weeks have seen truckers et al stopping traffic from crossing our southern border ( this started before the occupation of our capital Ottawa). Since these protestors also happen to be the core UCP voters, that law seems to be all but forgotten.
The truck convoy in Ottawa has certainly shown any future groups how to launch a truly effective protest while watching law enforcement paralyzed. God help us if this spreads, I feel the world is a tinder box right now.
Since 2020 when most of those who died were “older” (my brother-in-law included) pre vaccine, I have heard Ebeneezer Scrooge in my head advocating for reduction of the surplus population.
You are one of the idiots—you chime in with cynicism and no concern for issues or solutions. One of your comments was misinformation—that masks are only “.2% effective.” From what personal orifice did that come from? I’m in the medical field; only IDIOTS who drape a mask over their chin, leaving their nose or nose and mouth exposed, are examples of “mask failure.” Grow up.
If I misspoke, I apologize. According to the CDC, having had Covid makes one 27 times more immune. According to Johns Hopkins research hospital, masks have only a 0.2% effective rate. Go ahead, call me names; after all, you can’t argue with facts. I’ve raised my offer to $1,000 to your favorite charity.
Well that’s not what you said. I don’t believe you are interpreting the research correctly and don’t believe Johns Hopkins has such abysmal statistics—we certainly don’t here. I’m not arguing facts—I’m questioning YOU and your ability to relate the facts. And if YOU don’t want to be lumped in with “Idiots,” then don’t use the term in your own remarks. Misspoke? How about flagrant dissemination of misinformation.
Multiply 900,000 by 10 healthcare providers each, or 15, futily trying to provide desparate, exhausting round the clock care for 10 or 20 or 30 days, all the while knowing the unvaccinated will die, the unboosted are at significant risk of death, and, hey, nurse, you could be next. In October, 2021 estimates were 115,000 healthcare providers have died of COVID. Murder, I mean.
Very enlightening: Yes, sad when state governors and others put the health and welfare of their constituents at risk n order to gain favor with a very vocal inge minority. On a related subject vitamin D gets scientific approval as some protection against serious illness from Covid.m.
3 years ago, I thought it would be fairly easy to get everyone to be decent human beings and protect one another.
I was terribly naive, as we all were. Now I'm double-vaxxed, boosted, isolating still, wearing an KN95 mask nearly everywhere I go, and where I work.
I thought people would have the common sense to do as the authorities asked, and get vaccinated, or wear masks for others if not themselves.
Instead, there's this site (and yes, I do belong to it, and I don't care what anyone thinks of my judgement) that has been called a terrible bunch of people for making fun of stupid people who don't think Covid is all that bad-and they spread anti-vaxxer propaganda to all and sundry.
You want to know why I'm on there? To keep myself from screaming at people when they don't have their masks on properly or not at all. You see, it's a life saving thing. It saves my butt from being busted for assault and theirs from being assaulted.
I'm tired, angry and depressed that 3 years on we still have a bunch of morons running around in Ottawa protesting vaccine mandates at the border.
The longer this goes on, the more people it will kill.
Here in Illinois, we are living in "Wonderland". Friday night a downstate judge (very Republican & rural downstate) ruled that our Governor's mask mandate in schools is illegal and granted a temporary restraining order for those in the lawsuit. There were approx. 170 school district's affected. In my school district, D214, there are 2152 students. SIX parents were part of the lawsuit from my district. So SIX parents get to decide what happens with 2152 students. As of today, masks are OPTIONAL in our district. I am disoriented and in complete disbelief that this happened. Our Attorney General is appealing but who knows how long that will take. My daughter's reported that almost everyone chose to wear a mask today (they will continue to wear masks). One of the thing's that has kept me afloat is that my daughters will be safe at school because of our Governors' mask mandate. So disgusted!
My county, Charlotte, has a high percentage of seniors. Not all are Trumpsters, and folks are still wearing masks to the big stores, but not enough.
Many friends who have been jabbed are still getting COVID Lite, a nasty flu like event, but not fatal.
Last November I was in Greece where everyone was masked, and there were street front clinics to get a test and results in 15 minutes. Reminds one of where civilization had it's beginnings.
I confess to being one of those confused souls, who, nevertheless, follows CDC guidelines even as they change. Which they do and should and must. In my family are one pulmonary specialist, one RN/NP, and one internal medicine doctor. All of us wear our masks and have been vaccinated and boosted. Despite this, the younger children who were not, brought home the virus and/or its variants and break through cases have occurred. We CONTINUE to wear our masks and will do so probably forever. As for me, I have changed my entire lifestyle to one of self-quarantine, limiting my human exposure to two persons, one my art teacher, and one a friend. I'm perfectly OK with that change, because after all, I am lucky enough to live in an age where my cell phone and my computer are at the ready! In this small town, there are far too many anti-vaxxer and hoaxer types sauntering around without masks. It's not worth it to face exposure. Even if I were to survive, I might lose my taste (as has happened with my friend) or other healthy aspects of my life. Lucian, I'm glad you are chronicling this pandemic. Your articles will become part of our collective history.
I want my readers to see an email I just sent to the commenter called "greeneron49@gmailcom" who recently showed up on this thread and others. Anyone who will actually mentioned that he has gone to Black and Asian doctors to prove he isn't racist...well, I'm sure all of you have all seen that racist trope before. But you won't be seeing it in my comments any longer. Here is the email I sent to him:
I'm not going to get into it with you about what's racist in your comments because I can see from the comments themselves how useless that would be. I will tell you that I am not going to let you or anyone else spew the kind of garbage you're spewing on my comments. I saw you complained how you "hate" having to spend $5 MONTHLY -- your words -- obviously so you can qualify to comment on my articles. Well, I'm going to do you the favor of relieving you of that burden. You can take your promotions of your YouTube channel to someone else's comments thread, because you're not going to use mine.
As for your insulting comments about my name and my grandfather "turning over in his grave" apparently because of my politics, you didn't know him. I grew up with him. I did know him, and I know exactly what his political attitudes were, and they were not even close to what you apparently think they are.
You are yet another bitter, resentful man who feels the world doesn't pay enough attention to him. That is clearly for reasons you've shown in your comments on my threads. You won't be getting anymore attention here.
a friend of mine (who is vaxxed, boosted and ordinarily takes elaborate precautions found himself at an outdoor gathering a few months back. almost everybody there was a self-described "Anarchist" (a description I've frequently used to describe myself since around 1969) and these "Anarchists" were all unvaxxed. this was not even because they had the usual pseudo-scientific objections (often derived from Kennedy, Joe Rogan et al) to vaccination, but because "the government can't tell us what to do." my comment was that they were mixing up "Anarchism" with "anarchy." to make a long story shorter, he ended up in bed for two weeks with a nasty case of Covid, and is really, to say the least, incredibly pissed off about it. one cannot be too careful, despite the "Covid fatigue" we are doubtless ALL very much in the throes of.
Trust me Mr. Truscott, he's mild compared to a few of my friends, fellow retired educators and family. Those type of people see that their days (culture, world view) are numbered. They know nothing better than to strike out.
As someone who grew up with the constant threat of polio, I simply do not understand this reluctance to get vaccinated and boostered. 900,000 people have died. Are we becoming a nation of idiots?
Our leaders are the idiots.
No—voters are.
Based on results, we have arrived.
We live in New Jersey, triple vaxxed, flu shot and still wear masks everywhere. I am astonished at the numbers of 30 somethings traipsing around with little children unmasked. Do they know something that I don’t? Or is there another country in which I should be living? One where they took this far more seriously from the start and didn’t politicize it? Thank you for all of your insight. I have lists of places NOT to visit.
It’s mind boggling. Two women and four children at the health food store today couldn’t have been unaware that everyone else had a mask on. Jerks.
Are you Grace Kennedy from BDI in the 1970's? In any case, yes, they are jerks.
Perhaps they are realists.
If one commercial jetliner a day crashed in the US, we'd all have our hair on fire and the FAA and Homeland Security would be working 24/7 to figure out how to make it stop. If it were 10 crashes a day, we'd shut down air travel until we made it safe. But it appears that American lives don't matter any more.
I am officially old, and if I have to stay in my house and yard until all the deniers are dead or vaccinated, so be it. Thanks, Lucian…
I would like to see ALL the deniers and anti-maskers dead as doornails!
They are doing their best!
There has seemed to be a great willingness to allow "older" people to die. We are experiencing the same situation here in Alberta, Canada with the same divisive conservative political attitude.
On a side note, the first Bill the UCP (United Conservative Party) pushed through when elected was to make protesting in public roads, sidewalks, ditches etc. illegal and impose heavy daily fines. This was primarily instituted to prevent the Indigenous groups and Environmental groups from protesting. These past two plus weeks have seen truckers et al stopping traffic from crossing our southern border ( this started before the occupation of our capital Ottawa). Since these protestors also happen to be the core UCP voters, that law seems to be all but forgotten.
The truck convoy in Ottawa has certainly shown any future groups how to launch a truly effective protest while watching law enforcement paralyzed. God help us if this spreads, I feel the world is a tinder box right now.
Since 2020 when most of those who died were “older” (my brother-in-law included) pre vaccine, I have heard Ebeneezer Scrooge in my head advocating for reduction of the surplus population.
Ah the surplus population concern, I have not figured out a way to make that happen without some form of eugenics involved.
You are correct! The liberals, Soros. Gates, etc, want just that!
You are one of the idiots—you chime in with cynicism and no concern for issues or solutions. One of your comments was misinformation—that masks are only “.2% effective.” From what personal orifice did that come from? I’m in the medical field; only IDIOTS who drape a mask over their chin, leaving their nose or nose and mouth exposed, are examples of “mask failure.” Grow up.
If I misspoke, I apologize. According to the CDC, having had Covid makes one 27 times more immune. According to Johns Hopkins research hospital, masks have only a 0.2% effective rate. Go ahead, call me names; after all, you can’t argue with facts. I’ve raised my offer to $1,000 to your favorite charity.
Well that’s not what you said. I don’t believe you are interpreting the research correctly and don’t believe Johns Hopkins has such abysmal statistics—we certainly don’t here. I’m not arguing facts—I’m questioning YOU and your ability to relate the facts. And if YOU don’t want to be lumped in with “Idiots,” then don’t use the term in your own remarks. Misspoke? How about flagrant dissemination of misinformation.
It is certainly looking more and more like that every day.
That last paragraph hit it out the park! The rest was okay too..
Multiply 900,000 by 10 healthcare providers each, or 15, futily trying to provide desparate, exhausting round the clock care for 10 or 20 or 30 days, all the while knowing the unvaccinated will die, the unboosted are at significant risk of death, and, hey, nurse, you could be next. In October, 2021 estimates were 115,000 healthcare providers have died of COVID. Murder, I mean.
https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/21/who-estimate-115000-health-workers-have-died-from-covid-19-as-calls-for-vaccine-access-grow/
Very enlightening: Yes, sad when state governors and others put the health and welfare of their constituents at risk n order to gain favor with a very vocal inge minority. On a related subject vitamin D gets scientific approval as some protection against serious illness from Covid.m.
Sorry, forgot the link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/vitamin-d-could-piece-covid-165114851.html
3 years ago, I thought it would be fairly easy to get everyone to be decent human beings and protect one another.
I was terribly naive, as we all were. Now I'm double-vaxxed, boosted, isolating still, wearing an KN95 mask nearly everywhere I go, and where I work.
I thought people would have the common sense to do as the authorities asked, and get vaccinated, or wear masks for others if not themselves.
Instead, there's this site (and yes, I do belong to it, and I don't care what anyone thinks of my judgement) that has been called a terrible bunch of people for making fun of stupid people who don't think Covid is all that bad-and they spread anti-vaxxer propaganda to all and sundry.
https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/
You want to know why I'm on there? To keep myself from screaming at people when they don't have their masks on properly or not at all. You see, it's a life saving thing. It saves my butt from being busted for assault and theirs from being assaulted.
I'm tired, angry and depressed that 3 years on we still have a bunch of morons running around in Ottawa protesting vaccine mandates at the border.
The longer this goes on, the more people it will kill.
We haven't learned a damn thing since 1918.
So many damn young folks not wearing masks in the subway!! Makes me wanna holler “WTF!”
Dead on, I am sorry to say
Here in Illinois, we are living in "Wonderland". Friday night a downstate judge (very Republican & rural downstate) ruled that our Governor's mask mandate in schools is illegal and granted a temporary restraining order for those in the lawsuit. There were approx. 170 school district's affected. In my school district, D214, there are 2152 students. SIX parents were part of the lawsuit from my district. So SIX parents get to decide what happens with 2152 students. As of today, masks are OPTIONAL in our district. I am disoriented and in complete disbelief that this happened. Our Attorney General is appealing but who knows how long that will take. My daughter's reported that almost everyone chose to wear a mask today (they will continue to wear masks). One of the thing's that has kept me afloat is that my daughters will be safe at school because of our Governors' mask mandate. So disgusted!
https://patch.com/illinois/arlingtonheights/s/i3qt6/illinois-schools-struggle-with-monday-plans-after-court-ruling-over-masks?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert
Yep, DeSantistan is quite the story.
My county, Charlotte, has a high percentage of seniors. Not all are Trumpsters, and folks are still wearing masks to the big stores, but not enough.
Many friends who have been jabbed are still getting COVID Lite, a nasty flu like event, but not fatal.
Last November I was in Greece where everyone was masked, and there were street front clinics to get a test and results in 15 minutes. Reminds one of where civilization had it's beginnings.
Then we returned home to DeSantistan.
I heard something about doing away with masks mandates. Is that true?
I confess to being one of those confused souls, who, nevertheless, follows CDC guidelines even as they change. Which they do and should and must. In my family are one pulmonary specialist, one RN/NP, and one internal medicine doctor. All of us wear our masks and have been vaccinated and boosted. Despite this, the younger children who were not, brought home the virus and/or its variants and break through cases have occurred. We CONTINUE to wear our masks and will do so probably forever. As for me, I have changed my entire lifestyle to one of self-quarantine, limiting my human exposure to two persons, one my art teacher, and one a friend. I'm perfectly OK with that change, because after all, I am lucky enough to live in an age where my cell phone and my computer are at the ready! In this small town, there are far too many anti-vaxxer and hoaxer types sauntering around without masks. It's not worth it to face exposure. Even if I were to survive, I might lose my taste (as has happened with my friend) or other healthy aspects of my life. Lucian, I'm glad you are chronicling this pandemic. Your articles will become part of our collective history.