“Glad to see someone doing this with the mask and the vaccines,” the review said. “I am totally against both. I know it is a distraction to keep your mind off of what is going on.”
Like inserrection, gerrymandering, and voter supression?
While I was in California a couple of weeks ago, I wanted to go to a dispensary just because. The first one I walked into had a big sign saying that masks weren’t allowed. Of course I took my masked face (and money) right out of the building and went to the next dispensary down the road. Everyone there was masked and they got my money.
I totally believe in voting with my wallet.
(As a side note, here in AZ, if you have your medical card you can get good discounts and points. In CA, no old fart or vet discounts but you do get a punch card.)
I remember to this day the wisdom of my seventh-grade Electric Shop teacher. Whenever anyone did anything dumb, he would announce to the whole class:
(ETA: If only Moderna, Pfizer, et al, would develop a dumbness vax. That would be the easy part. The hard part, obviously, would be getting the dumb to take it.)
Not Covid related, but that reminds me of the time I took my family to a crab shack in St. Augustine.
The downstairs restaurant was full up, but the upstairs bar had tables and food service. Their food is to die for, so my wife (now ex), daughters (ages 4 and 6 at the time), and I proceeded upstairs. The band was too loud, but the aroma of food was intoxicating. The bouncer at the top of the stairs said, “you sure you want to bring your kids in here, the crowd’s pretty rough tonight.”
“No problem, we can fend for ourselves, sir”, said I.
We found a table and began studying the menu. The crowd was indeed pretty rough-around-the-edges. Bikers roughhousing and whatnot. But, one fellow stood out from all the rest. I said to the girls, “hey get a load of that guy over there.” He was a tall, blond dude wearing nothing but a pair of speedos. He wasn’t exactly obese, but he definitely didn’t have a speedo kinda bod.
We ordered drinks and a few minutes later, Mr. Speedo walk-dances over to our side of the room, then sits down at our table. He had a big toothy grin on his face and said, “I’m Karl, how are you guys?” I detected an accent, but above the music, I wasn’t sure.
I replied, “…uh, we’re good…but, how come you sat down at our table?”
“Oh, because you guys look fun.”
hmm…ok…this may be entertaining.
After a few minutes, it became apparent that the guy wasn’t a creep; he was just a happy, somewhat drunk guy visting from Denmark. We invited him to stay and eat with us. He did. We shared a couple buckets of crab and a number of cocktails.
I asked Karl if Danish people often sit at stranger’s tables in restaurants. He said, “no, but I thought it was common in America. Everybody’s so friendly over here. I love it!”
Good food and drink. Karl told us all about his life in Denmark and amused our kids with coin tricks. They call him, Uncle Karl. He insisted on paying his share of the tab. We exchanged phone numbers and said our goodbyes. Turned out to be a great evening for all.
Bottom line: don’t pre-judge guys with accents who wear nothing but speedos. They make life interesting.
…better make that, “…nothing but speedos and a KN-95 mask.”
Now I can’t even pretend to like my neighbors. Nice people, really, we’ve watched each others’ houses when each go away, and have for years.
Tonite she brought over some melon - she had too much. Mentioned that they would be leaving Thursday and of course I said I will keep an eye on things. I said I would love it if they would keep an eye on our house next month when we’re going to a music festival, in Vegas. Oh, she says, with COVID Delta? Yup, we’re vaccinated and will be masked up, we’re kinda used to it now. We knew they refused the jabs and take hydrocorequine or whatever every day. But neighbors and all that, we’ll get along.
But the floodgates opened with her, Sturgis good, Obama birthday bad, FREEDUMB, she personally knows people having bad bad reactions to their vaccines. I smiled, said we believe in science and walked away, turning my back.
Anybody up for housesitting in Phoenix in the summer? Sigh.
There’s an auto repair shop in my neighborhood that are absolutely Covidiots.
At one point, they had a fairly large sign up on the wall outside the shop saying
We are pretty sure David didn’t wear a mask in the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
They’ve got a big blackboard on another outside wall. And there’s often another slogan in that vein.
On the other hand, they’re perfectly happy to sell you special COVID car-sanitizing treatments. Another sign outside the shop says:
[Name of shop] Now Performs COVID-19/Coronavirus Electrostatic Car Disinfection. $50/15 minutes–No Appointment Necessary.
So kind of also COVID scammers, too. Or maybe this disinfection thing is legitimate, in which case I guess they’re not really scammers, just hypocrites.
I won’t post the name of the shop, because they’ve actually got a pretty good local reputation as honest mechanics. And all the COVID/religious (COVID and religion seem to be somehow intertwined for them) stuff is right out there for everyone to see, so it’s not like they’re trying to deceive anyone about who they are.
But they’re absolutely Covidiots.
‘My friend Karen got the vaccine, and her arm really hurt for a couple of days!’
Are those people magnetic?
You have to admit that it would be really cool to be magnetized.
Let me guess: The Doctor noticed that her vaccinated patients were getting magnetized because their wristwatches all stopped working.
My Uber driver today had a right-wing radio station on. In addition to calling Faucci a “sleazeball,” and citing some WSJ article that supposedly said masks are dangerous to kids (“can cause SERIOUS acne”), the idiot commentator said, “As we all know, Faucci is responsible for the release of the virus from a Wuhan lab.” I laughed out loud at that one.
The radio station is KIRO, which Wiki tells me is owned by a company owned by the LDS church.
Apparently one reason folks are hesitant about the vaccine is because the movie I Am Legend says the apocalypse came about because of a vaccine. Except that it didn’t. Fact check: A vaccine did not turn characters in the movie ‘I Am Legend’ into zombies | Reuters
Also fact check: The movie “I Am Legend” is fiction, not a thing that actually happened.
If they’re gonna pick a movie for a stupid theory, at least make it a good one?
Even though I have a lot of work to do, I’m wasting my time with someone on Nextdoor:
Her: [Y]ou have no idea where all people have been researching who have decided to pass on this experimental shot. You are basing that on your personal experience, which is very limited in the scope of all the people who have researched and decided to pass
Me: OK, then please share the research YOU have done. Please provide links.
Her: I have been researching and scouring for information for over a year, I have read countless studies, articles from both sides trying to get a clear picture. My opinion is that this is something people must be free to do their own research on and come to their own conclusions because it directly impacts the health of their own bodies. Those that feel like they are at risk should take steps to protect themselves, those who do not feel like they are at risk need to take steps to take care of themselves. We need to respect each other, listen to each other, and realize that one size does not fit all. We all need to no matter what side of this we are on follow common virus protocol, such as building up our immune system, researching effective treatments, staying home if we are not well, washing hands, and respecting those who have made a different decision for their health.
Me: So please share your research, including links, so that we can all see what you’re seeing.
Her: I have not saved links, but I would be happy to share the next time I read research or a study for others to check out.
I guess TPTB had enough. They removed the thread.
So you’ve devoted hours of time to this effort.
But it wasn’t important enough to save any results.
He looked at some youtube videos from cranks and scammers looking for money.
I’ll never know, since the thread was sent to the cornfield.
The poster felt insulted after I used the word ‘ignorant’ – after clearly stating that ignorance was simply a lack of knowledge and not a pejorative. I fear I did say that ‘research’ people who object to the vaccines use would not be acceptable even on a paper for a Technical Writing class in college. She took that as an insult too. What I posted above may have been a response to that, so I asked her for her sources.
I shared the link someone posted elsewhere in QZ that had the hospitalisations and deaths of breakthrough cases vs. unvaccinated cases. She never replied to that. Someone else replied to one of her claims that her data was suspect, so I shared the link there too.
I tried not to be snarky, but I admit I did use ‘spreadnecks’ once.
Is this more or less stupid than the local paper saying that some people told them they are hesitant to take the vaccine because they’re concerned about getting breakthrough cases?
:: thumps head on desk ::