# Rant about SDMB and pandemic **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 25, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703 "2022-03-25T14:00:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/41 "2022-03-25T15:49:15Z")
> [@JustALoner](#): > > I’ll close the door behind me easy and not slam it, I’m not as rude as y’all Thank you for not letting the door hit you in the ass on your way out. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/42 "2022-03-25T15:50:55Z")
> [@Fugazi](#): > > I really hope he’s flounced off in a huff, because anything else is a complete waste of time. Huffs get really lousy gas mileage. He should leave in a Tizzy. More economical. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/43 "2022-03-25T15:56:46Z")
Yeah, that usually leaves a disgusting smear that the mods have to clean up. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/44 "2022-03-25T16:16:11Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > The Illuminati! (Of course) And I was thinking the Stone Cutters. They had the juice to make Steve Guttenberg a star. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/45 "2022-03-25T16:26:24Z")
> [@JustALoner](#): > > I’ll close the door behind me easy and not slam it, I’m not as rude as y’all > [@cochrane](#): > > Thank you for not letting the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Yeah, I don’t know who has door-cleaning duty this week but thank you for not making that person clean your ass-prints and skid marks off the door. The mods have enough work to do around here. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/46 "2022-03-25T16:33:44Z")
It really IS taking longer than we thought. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/47 "2022-03-25T16:36:13Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > > [@Cheesesteak](#): > > > > Who out there has the juice to fuck up the economies of 100 different nations, and keep the thousands of scientists, doctors, researchers, statisticians, and politicians who are in on the scam, quiet about it? > > Well… I got a name: > > [The Book of COVID - by John Thornton](https://thewaythingsought2b.substack.com/p/the-book-of-covid?s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct) Off topic, but…you named your blog after a book by _ **RUSH LIMBAUGH???!!!???** _ I think I need to go lie down for a spell… ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/48 "2022-03-25T17:10:44Z")
“Plandemic” Get it? It’s clever wordplay! And “face panties”! It’s feminine to wear a mask! ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/49 "2022-03-25T17:21:37Z")
Does anyone have a smart friend they can have join the board to counterbalance the stupid? Maybe two friends? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/50 "2022-03-25T17:31:40Z")
Since we’re “ranting”, I’ll have a go: > [@JustALoner](#): > > The “free spirited” people I thought were here now sound like they bow the knee and put on their face panties and blindly take a thousand injections of who know what into their bodies. I think you mean “the responsible adults who, following the evolving advice of actual medical professionals, acted in a manner that would greatly reduce the risks of suffering from a potential deadly or debilitating illness and spreading it to others”. I mean, I can understand why those who, out of petty selfishness or ignorance, opted not to engage in quite reasonable actions to prevent harm from coming themselves and others prefer to present themselves as “freedom fighters standing up for civil rights” rather than as the petty little toddlers throwing a toy-aisle tantrum and screaming “IT’S NOT FAIR!” they really are, because everyone is the hero of their own narrative. But the reality is that what they really fought for was the view that it was “Better that a thousand strangers die than I be minorly inconvenienced”, and they don’t like having the truth of their self-centered moral bankruptcy pointed out. > [@](#): > > Talking trash about truckers who are standing up for civil rights. Which “civil rights” were those? Because much of the trucker protests were astroturfed efforts aimed at stirring up generalized anger in a tiny minority of truckers who struggled to articulate what they were against, offering up such rationales as opposition to a “federal mask mandate” that doesn’t exist, erasing BLM messages from public spaces, and worrying about being “digitiled” (turned into a robot) while also engaging in criminal acts including attempted arson in Ottawa and threatening to literally kidnap Beltway drivers. > [@](#): > > I did get some relief when I saw the post about the discipline failures and bullies - right on man. I question the people that want to arrest truckers, maybe arrest them one by one, if they have that same thought on the rioters that were called peaceful protesters. Welcome once more to the opposite of reality. The issue isn’t “calling rioters peaceful protesters”; it’s that the right-wing media have consistently called peaceful protesters rioters. (Which is not to say that there weren’t rioters, but the vast majority of protests were peaceful). > [@](#): > > The PLANdemic has long been exposed as a slight of hand. The “PLANdemic” has long been exposed as batshit insanity, as is evident with the slightest bit of consideration. > [@](#): > > We are supposed to think that what these people call “science” is actually science. The same type of people who don’t know the difference between a man and a woman. Is that the people we want to get “science” from? Ah, the “I don’t understand science, therefore it’s the scientists who are stupid” argument. That does get a lot of use. > [@](#): > > And all the talk on here about people contributing to “community spread” and unvaccinated (whatever that means - it’s not a vaccine, the public really doesn’t know what it is) people causing harm and deaths? I thought these boards would push back on that moronic thought. “The public” know it’s a vaccine. And it’s a “thought” backed by actual epidemiologists across the globe and supported by peer-reviewed studies. You, on the other hand, appear to be operating on the premise “It’s not true because I don’t want it to be true”. > [@](#): > > I would have thought these boards would mention how evil it is that the current president of the USA (or as I like to quote Crazy Nancy - the current occupier of the White House) talks trash about his own people that pays his salary and he is supposed to be representing - saying moronic stuff like “this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated” and “the unvaccinated are killing people”. It’s that kind of talk that sets up different levels of different classes of people and it is pure evil. If you don’t like being called out for endangering others, maybe don’t endanger others. And, again, there is substantial evidence to show that at this juncture the unvaccinated population are vastly more likely to be hospitalized or killed by COVID than the vaccinated population. What’s “moronic” and “evil” are the people deliberately spreading both misinformation and disease. Oh, and Biden was legitimately and legally elected to his office in 2020. Just wanted to mention that. > [@](#): > > And these are the people whom he is supposed to be representing, and the whole world is seeing the current occupier of the White House trash talk and put down his own people. The whole world is looking at the American antivaxxers and wondering what the actual fuck is wrong with those people. > [@](#): > > And the message boards of SD are repeating these same kind of talking points, so YES, I can see that the PLANdemic has made everybody a little bit crazy. We’re just fulfilling our purpose of fighting ignorance. But thanks for chiming in on the “pro-ignorance” side. > [@](#): > > But hey who am I, I am Just A Loner You’re a person who believes a lot of ridiculous conspiracy theories despite a vast amount of evidence to the contrary, judging by the OP. > [@JustALoner](#): > > I made a post to the topic 'I think the pandemic has made everybody a little crazy" and input what I have seen regarding that topic, which was on topic, not off topic, You did. And then we all pointed out just how spectacularly wrong you were by every metric. > [@JustALoner](#): > > I guess pansies these days can’t take it. Is that why you’re leaving? Well, that was fun. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/51 "2022-03-25T17:31:55Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Off topic, but…you named your blog after a book by _ **RUSH LIMBAUGH???!!!???** _ Lol, of course. I write these pieces for the person I could have been, and was back in the early-mid 1990s - a raging dittohead. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/52 "2022-03-25T17:45:44Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > > [@JustALoner](#): > > > > PLANdemic > > Planned by who? Who out there has the juice to fuck up the economies of 100 different nations, and keep the thousands of scientists, doctors, researchers, statisticians, and politicians who are in on the scam, quiet about it? They think this was all masterminded by an elderly man who’s too senile to recognize his breakfast. Who also supposedly masterminded the crime of the century. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/53 "2022-03-25T17:59:42Z")
> [@JustALoner](#): > > But hey who am I Just an ordinary guy Trying hard to win him no friends ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/54 "2022-03-25T18:07:28Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Now, now. He doesn’t have to leave in a huff. He can take a minute and a huff. And if he can’t leave in a minute and a huff, he can leave in a taxi. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/55 "2022-03-25T18:14:20Z")
“This is the first time JustALoner has posted — let’s welcome them to our community!” Yeah, no. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/56 "2022-03-25T18:31:36Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Is the complaint that a message board which is dedicated to fighting ignorance is not hospitable to stupid, malicious, even evil ideas? No, the complaint is, he doesn’t realize that his ideas are stupid, malicious, and even evil. And I love all these “You just do what the government tells you!” rants, where they manage to ignore all the people not just doing “what the government tells us”. I started wearing masks before the government said we should. This week, my local government has told us we don’t have to wear masks anymore, and yet, I continue. Why? Because I’m not a “sheeple” who needs to be lead around, and actually did, and do, make my own choices based on my own understanding of the situation. And this week actually makes me feel better about society in general than I’ve felt since this began, because when I’ve been out shopping, about 90% of the people are doing the same. We know we can ditch the masks legally, but most of us have decided for ourselves not to do that. Because it turns out we’re **not** just following orders. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/57 "2022-03-25T18:33:33Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > Planned by who? Who out there has the juice to fuck up the economies of 100 different nations, and keep the thousands of scientists, doctors, researchers, statisticians, and politicians who are in on the scam, quiet about it? The Evil™ Spawn of Bill Gates and Hillary Clinton. You know; Bill Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/58 "2022-03-25T18:38:27Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > “Plandemic” Get it? It’s clever wordplay! And “face panties”! It’s feminine to wear a mask! It’s amazing how all these lone thinkers who never read Facebook all managed to come up with the same cute turns of phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/59 "2022-03-25T19:42:28Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > It’s amazing how all these lone thinkers who never read Facebook all managed to come up with the same cute turns of phrase. He never said anything about not watching the Plandemic “documentary”. I believe there were a number of right wing sites hosting that, and Fox or OANN or NewsMax (or some combo thereof) certainly broadcast it at least once. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-about-sdmb-and-pandemic/961703/60 "2022-03-25T19:42:58Z")
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