Great, one of my siblings referred to me as “a Cassandra” because I suggested we were declaring victory over COVID prematurely. My employer accelerated the return to office plan, BECAUSE they predicted cases would start rising again, and by rolling out the plan “it would develop momentum that would be harder to roll back”
This was in our siblings group chat where four of us have been chatting for over ten years about this and that (ever since smartphones became ubiquitous). All the other three are Republicans of various stripes. These are also people who 25-35 years ago pulled me to the Pro-Choice side, the pro Gay Marriage side, and support for social welfare programs. But now they are rich, so the only thing that matters is lower taxes and less regulation of business and real estate development.
I pointed out that Cassandra was making accurate predictions of danger and was not believed, but instead ridiculed and persecuted for it. Nope, they insisted I had it all wrong. Cassandra was basically a fifth columnist apparently, tasked with undermining morale.
These three, all of whom are well educated, multiple degrees from good universities, patrons of the arts and culture, have somehow not only rewritten 400 years of American history, they’ve rewritten Greek mythology to suit their narrative.
I mean if you’ve forgotten what you learned in high school or college, you can Google this shit. But who knows what shows up on their Google search results. I’ve noticed that they get served up very different search results in both socio-politically charged topics (e.g. slavery) and seemingly neutral ones (e.g. peach galette).
So maybe instead of getting Wikipedia (“fake news”) as the #1 hit, they get climate change denial or anti-vax sources as the top hits when googling Cassandra.
I would also say that I think most people use Cassandra as one who prophecies doom incorrectly (could be wrong). The original historical/mythological meaning would be accurate doom, but I don’t think that is how the word is used in the modern world (and possibly for quite some time previously (see the last 10-20 years when people suddenly got up in arms over using ‘literal’ the way it had been used for hundreds of years)).
Actually, Cassandra’s prophesies were accurate and were a gift from her lover Apollo. When she broke up with him, he couldn’t take back the gift of prophesy so he added in that she would not be believed. This enters into the story of the Trojan Horse which is where the ‘doom’ part may came in and she was correct about the consequences.
There’s been a lot of fear-of-contamination-of-precious-bodily-fluids-by-proxy via Covid vaccination.
Somehow I doubt victims of severe trauma, especially those with uncommon blood types, are going to refuse transfusions from vaccinated persons.
I’ve heard that people vaccinated against Covid-19 are shedding not just spike proteins, but also graphene. I may have to get more t-shirts confirming my vaccinated status, so these unvaccinated loons will keep their distance.
Covidiot of the day: Alex Berenson, who is suing Twitter for “canceling” him. From an op-ed today in the WSJ:
“On Aug. 28, the company permanently banned me for a tweet about mRNA Covid vaccines that began: “It doesn’t stop infection. Or transmission.” Today no one disputes the truth of that statement, but Twitter claimed the tweet was my “fifth strike” under its Covid “misinformation” policy.”
The people disputing the “truth” of that statement know that vaccination does stop infection and transmission. It’s not 100%, so for poisonous jackasses like Berenson that means total failure.