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I agree here, which is why the rush to label this as a whitey hate crime is so vile. Divisive, harmful and egregious. Personally, I’ve never really understood why it’s all that much worse to kill someone because they are _____. I’d think many crimes against police are hate crimes, most rapists likely have some degree of hatred against females, and if a cat shivs me in the yard I’m no less or more dead than I would be whether he’s a crip, blood, jet or Aryan.

Yeah I can see how someone could be 100% responsible for locking down a state, engage in contentious debate with her constituents, take a $30k luxury jet to Fla when advising all that they should shut up and stay the &&&& home, and somehow misunderstand the rules she’s set in place under threat of penalties under law. She makes lots of mistakes and misunderstands a shyt ton. Then again, maybe the virus hovers over her social group like science says it does for some others.

Not sure what else it could be! He’s built excitement though, I feel like I have to know the answer.

What’s the why?

I’ve enjoyed reading your posts and admit to thinking one day I would reach out to reach some sort or deal for prescriptions delivered discretely to my home if necessary. This CNN thing is troubling.

“....What went on in China...” sounds hurtful and mean, a tad xenophobic in fact. That used to be a thing that bothered people when you mentioned “China” and “flu” together, but hey—this is the new normal.

How many people asked you to put it back on because you were scaring the children? Be honest—this is your truth.

One last thought— you hear a lot of anti-gun folks derisively stating “No one is after your guns...” but the truth is that someone is always after someone’s guns, money, and life. There’s always some after that stuff. They laugh at ‘fake news’ but you get a Covington Catholic story, a Richard Jewel story, a kids in cages story. They pitch social distancing, avoiding others, eliminate travel and stay in your own household, yet encourage exactly the opposite with a tepid “could maybe be sorta dangerous” disclaimer, harass business owners for trying to stay afloat and pitch a no mask/ mask/double mask trifecta, then are stunned to find thinking folks wondering if they are totally full of $&@& or just really incompetent. The balance for me is figuring which rabbit holes I choose to go down. As for civility, the more seats at the table the better, at least until they cart some off and expose the non-believers to a small pox-Wuhan flu combo in a COVID Hunger Games for the non-Vaxxed.

Listen, I’m as quick to jump to conclusions as anyone and struggle with the evolving politik-scientifico of the COVID clusterfuk. I made two stops today, one to Lowe’s and was really amazed how many folks still had masks on. The store was quite busy and I’d bet the ratio was 20-1 for the masked. It was an odd feeling. You’re correct about the slow creep of authoritarian ideas, but on the other hand we deal with branding on many other issues. Wanna drive? Submit to the state and be identified as an example. I can’t take this journey with you, but acknowledge I could be wrong on this issue. I tend to think it’s more nanny state bs than anything else.

Personally, I find it interesting—all these Nazi and Holocaust references that have gone mainstream. That the rhetoric has increased substantially since citizens of that era are largely gone—and thus unable to stand up as a group and say “Are you people f&$#img crazy??” should be lost on no one.

**UPDATE*** old man fan has developed a raging messiah complex:

Oldy has been getting a bit cantankerous of late.

Crybaby.

What were they offering for the hot dog gig?

It’s often easier to allow someone else to do the thinking and go along then do the heavy lifting personally. Your point on the Wuhan virus is lost on folks like that, but God bless you for trying.

Fair enough--it's my opinion that it's a fact that comedians like Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock often use derogatory, edgy, sexist and insensitive language and have become wildly popular in large part because of it. I may be different than you, but when I heard Eddie Murphy running on about women "throwing the p@ssy" at him, I saw no great societal message in it, I just saw a brilliant guy who developed, worked and likely focus-grouped a series of lines and words designed to maximize laughter in an attempt to maximize revenue. Interestingly, or not, I didn't like that particular bit when I saw him live, I thought it was vulgar and tasteless (yeah, I said it) true though it may have been for EM, and felt the same when Trump's secret audio recording about the same subject was released later on. I deleted my post shortly after sharing, as I saw that you had shared additional information regarding people like Pryor, Carlin and Hicks. It's true what you said above, you mentioned comedians and cheap shots...and also made the point about the bigots who might find that sort of humor funny. My point simply was that people can laugh at a variety of topics that you might find funny without being bigots...and many do. In fact, I'd go so far as to say most can on some level. That explains the popularity of movies like The Hangover and Detroit-born actor Ken Jeong portraying exceptionally effeminate International Criminal Leslie Chow and his wildly funny butchering of "Quid Pro Quo, Douchebag". Anyways, follow your heart on whether or not to reply to me in the future. I enjoy interacting with you in spite of--my opinion here--the fact that you have some fairly large blind spots when it comes to discussing certain issues that teeters on hypocrisy.

There’s this gem, too, from July of 2020. His response to being outed and ignoring social distancing mandates was to lament the mischievousness of the photographer. The world was in free fall, the virus surging, people dying and Fauci chose to model behavior diametrically opposed to what he was preaching. Then, when called on it, he blamed the photographer as the privilege tend to do.

I’m not so sure— The sun shines? People forget.

I’m not 100% convinced that omf isn’t actually Tony Fauci. His level of commitment to the guy is impressive.

He’s a numbnut, that comes with being a career bureaucrat.

I don’t agree with you on just about everything, but we’re on the same page here. That said, it’s really ironic that you, me, all of us...have a “mask mandate” when we’re fully vaccinated now. Absurd.

Here you go—we can agree on this. People should be allowed to mask up and be left alone. I mean, it already happens with regularity as burka-clad ladies move about freely and unencumbered, but if someone is concerned and feels they need to mask 247365 that’s understandable. Those folks, too, must be awfully confused by the bastardization of some pretty basic common sense standards of science when mated with socioeconomic political dogma. Likewise, those who choose to de-mask should be respected as well. There’s too much divisiveness in the world already. Folks who want to mask up can surely avoid the demasked and everybody wins.

So happy, BUT. The Ya Great Society cheer was uninspiring: Ya Great Society! Ya Great Society! We’re filled with righteous piety! Go Greaaaaaaaaat Society!

Tibsy was captain the Great Society Cheer Squad (pictured here), 1986-2014

Maybe, GPinC, but my experience was quite a bit different than yours. Most, if not all, business owners I know or interact with complied with the lockdown. They shuttered their doors, hung plague warning signs on windows, sent people off to work remotely, or laid them off, and went about their business masking up like Fauci said they should (or, they shouldn't depending on when he was speaking and whom he was speaking to). They hunkered down for the two week curve flattening, which of course, we know extended well beyond that. The reality is that when push came to shove, government and to a certain extent, science were completely comfortable with virus transmission and the death so long as it occurred during social justice gatherings. That is obvious. Sure, we got the obligatory milquetoast "Jeesh we really don't recommend it" from Das Fauch, but nothing on the magnitude of a clear message from him about the death and pain that would surely follow. I'd be interested to speak to your Ohio director of public health and quiz her on the 10-12k and how mass gatherings from multiple households contributed to the spread. Likely, I'd get the same type of response I get here, the one where that while the science suggested that masking up, distancing socially, avoiding crowds, avoiding gatherings from different households and shutting everything but essential business down---it's impossible to even begin to consider the extent of spread when tens of thousands of individuals, from tens of thousands of households, arriving by all means of transport from across the cities and towns in America, walking shoulder to shoulder, protesting, co-mingling and violating every sane and sensible rule designed to reduce the likelihood of spread. Same bullshyt, different day. In addition, when you consider many of those who protested came from disenfranchised communities that Das Fauch himself says were at highest risk, it certainly seems reasonable to assume that the mass gatherings added hundreds of thousands of deaths to the count. I'll grant you that throughout history, science has saved us too many times to count, but woke science is responsible for massive amount of death and despair over the last year and a half. That's not on business owners, that's on Fauci, governmental authorities who did not stand up and tell people the truth about their actions and beseech them to be patient and hold on just until we got through it. As I said, we tend to call bullshyt when bullshyt is obvious. For the record, again...I sent my employees home, adapted, modified, masked, changed our processes and waited until the 'all clear' came from Albany. I trusted Fauci, believed then that the virus was very dangerous for some, not so dangerous for most and held the line. The only change to now--I recognize he's not the hero of this story. Peace out.