Meanwhile in Alabama
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A modern tragedy
It could have been better but it won’t be
A real tragedy
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Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
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And it quickly dissolves into political horse shit.
One of the reasons Twitter threads are not worth following...
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@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
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Does not bode well for my trip in February.
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Not too long ago it was all about the Midwest. I called BS on that and suddenly things got quiet when blue states spiked. Now we are back to this?
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Yes, there is definitely a difference between red and blue state reporting
Cheerleading might be a better word
When the red state is in trouble the blues shout it just a little louder
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wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 18:52 last edited by
The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
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The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 18:54 last edited by@horace said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
I can’t wait for 20 days from now. I will have 4 years of material to use, theirs.
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The sheep will still be sheep. I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone. They'll be questions in search of answers, but, as always, only surrounded by those who are programmed to nod in unison regardless of what answer is invented. We'll see which answer that is.
wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 19:00 last edited by@horace said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
I wonder what excuse they'll use for the conformance of their hatreds, after Trump is gone.
That isn't going to happen.
They are still complaining that Lincoln didn't do Emancipation properly.
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@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 19:24 last edited by Horace 1 Jan 2021, 19:43@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite. Again, I suggest that those who are terrified of getting COVID, modify your own life drastically. Don't put that on everybody else. I'm willing to wear a mask. I'm not willing to take on your terror though.
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@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite. Again, I suggest that those who are terrified of getting COVID, modify your own life drastically. Don't put that on everybody else. I'm willing to wear a mask. I'm not willing to take on your terror though.
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@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
@mark said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
Still have people I know, telling me that it's just a bad cold.
That's because for many, that's all it is. When people don't see or experience the bad cases, they don't understand.
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite. Again, I suggest that those who are terrified of getting COVID, modify your own life drastically. Don't put that on everybody else. I'm willing to wear a mask. I'm not willing to take on your terror though.
wrote on 1 Jan 2021, 19:56 last edited by@horace said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
It's completely within reason for many individuals to weigh the risks and rewards of not taking the virus so seriously. We've convinced ourselves we know the righteous path, but it's not so cut and dried. It's just group think, and the fact that those who conform to the groupthink have the podium. Or soap box. I've watched my elderly parents accept the risk. And I've watched the righteous defenders of COVID hawkishness imply that they are just wrong to weigh their expectation of lost life expectancy against their own quality of the remainder of their life.
Acknowledging that personal choices are personal doesn't absolve you from making horseshit personal choices, just like reciting "just bein' honest" doesn't make you not an asshole.
My parents are kinda-sorta staying safe, even though they stand a pretty good chance of getting wrecked and/or dead from the virus. But they've waited a long time to retire, they want to enjoy themselves, and so, yeah, fuck it, they're taking risks I personally wouldn't be comfortable with but I don't blame them.
My FIL on the other hand has gone through many, many surgeries in the past year because his kidneys are failing him. He's a pretty old, pretty big guy, with lots of health complications. His family is doing basically nothing to keep him safe, and he's not taking it entirely seriously himself. If he had a death wish, that'd be one thing maybe, but no, I'm going to go ahead and call their behavior reckless. That this makes me sound like a virtue-signaler I care not a damn. They're not taking care of him, period.
Sorry, forgot to mention that "it's not one's own risk, but the risk you pose to others". That's what I'm supposed to recite.
...I'm willing to wear a mask.
That's literally what they mean about "the risk you pose to others." You're wearing a mask. I don't see what further public expectations could be made without those expectations becoming unreasonable.
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And it quickly dissolves into political horse shit.
One of the reasons Twitter threads are not worth following...
wrote on 2 Jan 2021, 02:12 last edited by jon-nyc 1 Feb 2021, 02:12@jolly said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
And it quickly dissolves into political horse shit.
When talking about twitter, if someone says ‘read the whole thread’ they’re talking about the guy’s string of tweets. Not all the randos replying afterward.
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@george-k said in Meanwhile in Alabama:
People have been looking for patterns from the beginning...always based on politics....and they never hold. One of the great fallacies of this virus....and they are always from the “science” people.
