Author Topic: COVID-19  (Read 1111101 times)

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1170 on: July 21, 2021, 07:49:02 AM »
Oops. Looks like another "free" country just decided to be a little less free... "“So at that point we plan to make full vaccination a condition of entry to nightclubs and other venues where large crowds gather.” Said Boris Johnson.

But I'm sure that won't be coming here any time soon.

*I suppose what I most like about the idiots cheering this type of action is that they don't realize just how quickly a "vaccine passport" can have other additions and your access be turned off if you don't follow the rules. People cheering the Chinese social credit system is just not something that I ever thought I would see. But that is where we are now. The dumb and blind cheering the evil and tyrannical.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1171 on: July 21, 2021, 08:12:44 AM »
:-* thanks babe!

Klot_Dubb!!!! Glad you are okay man.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1172 on: July 21, 2021, 08:29:53 AM »
Oops. Looks like another "free" country just decided to be a little less free...

If you want to experience true freedom, you should come to South Africa.

You can do whatever you want, and the cops will look the other way.

They're more interested in McDonald's than justice, TBQH.

Heh heh!

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1173 on: July 21, 2021, 08:51:11 AM »
If you want to experience true freedom, you should come to South Africa.

You can do whatever you want, and the cops will look the other way.

They're more interested in McDonald's than justice, TBQH.

Heh heh!

Sounds like you’d be looking over your shoulder all the time. Freedom?!

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1174 on: July 21, 2021, 08:54:27 AM »
Sounds like you’d be looking over your shoulder all the time. Freedom?!

Hey, what can I say?

Freedom comes at a price!

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1175 on: July 21, 2021, 09:00:36 AM »
Think about it, though-- really.

If you have to rely on cops to protect you, what kind of a man are you?!

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1176 on: July 21, 2021, 09:12:59 AM »
If you want to experience true freedom, you should come to South Africa.

You can do whatever you want, and the cops will look the other way.

They're more interested in McDonald's than justice, TBQH.

Heh heh!

Aside from what they portray as major racial tension, it sounds great. Problem would be that I am white and a bit of a loner. I assume that unless it is "open carry" I might be in a little trouble?

Or, maybe not. I managed south central and a number of places where "I should not have been" and it was not too bad... Maybe S.Africa would be the same?

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1177 on: July 21, 2021, 09:34:31 AM »
Aside from what they portray as major racial tension, it sounds great.

The media and a key few politicians (faux communists) like to give off the impression that there's racial tension.

I would say there's a class war, and money has no colour.

Problem would be that I am white and a bit of a loner. I assume that unless it is "open carry" I might be in a little trouble?

You'd be fine. Believe me.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1178 on: July 21, 2021, 09:59:11 AM »
Hey, what can I say?

Freedom comes at a price!

Anarchy isn’t really freedom for most.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1179 on: July 21, 2021, 10:00:56 AM »
Think about it, though-- really.

If you have to rely on cops to protect you, what kind of a man are you?!

Free?

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1180 on: July 21, 2021, 10:58:38 AM »
Anarchy isn’t really freedom for most.

Fair point.

As always.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1181 on: July 21, 2021, 01:18:10 PM »
The joke would be on you. I am more than prepared to skip the cinema (Oh no... I won't be able to pay to watch the trash the Hollywood produces in a cinema like I did a few times a decade back...) Or I won't be able to watch sporting events live and support the millionaires (I can't presently name a single hockey player on our home team.) Or I will be banned from flights (I have already written off international and air travel- though I will admit that I would like to see / hike Bryce canyon again one day...)

As for Alberta being open... I will admit that you are happily correct. I will also say it is just say it is "for now." I would be shocked if a new variant does not slam everything shut just as people get used to the "new new normal." I hope I'm wrong- but I give it until November. Call me pessimistic. Call me a realist.

Oh yes I am watching the "breakthrough infections" which, despite you guys running around with every anecdote as though it is proof the vaxx is a dud, is readily available public information, widely reported in the local press, which last I saw stands at 3000 out of 4-point-something million fully-vaxxed in WA, with 45 deaths (median age 85, half of whom were in nursing homes) for signs that the vaccine is holding.  But you know damn well that, if some jurisdiction does try a vaccine passport, it will stupidly be one like ours, with a vaxx rate of 80% or more, just like how we held on to the masks longer than anybody.  There are already public-health people cautioning and warning, like they always do -- that is their job.

But, so far, so good.  Nobody has demonstrated what threat the unvaxxed pose to the vaxxed, it is more about making you guys miserable.  I don't think it will happen with those meager numbers but, if it does, I will wear my stupid mask and stop going out and get my booster shot like a good little sheeple and not squawk about what seem to me to be practical efforts to control a virus that, in any context other than this hyper-politicized one with way too many people listening to way too much talk radio and clicking on trashy websites with a bazillion ads for supplements, seem like things I would do anyway, without some government bureaucrat telling me, so that, having taken some precautions to salve my conscience, I can still see my folks.

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1182 on: July 21, 2021, 01:23:37 PM »
Klot_Dubb!!!! Glad you are okay man.

Thanks no undue coagulation or butt-bots 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 I am just trying to get my life back

Re: CornHoleEbola-19.5
« Reply #1183 on: July 21, 2021, 03:32:00 PM »
Dear sir,

I am very sorry to alarm you; I am quite well and prepared to stand (shirtless) with you in whatever field you desire.  I have not yet succumbed to the vaccine, in fact yesterday for the first time I lifted my 45-lb. dumbbells over my head, arms fully extended, six times in a row!  While it would be foolish to attribute this newfound vigor solely to an injection with malevolent nanoparticles, I offer it as a sign that I do not suffer from wastage by my hasty and ill-considered decision to get poked by a male nurse who wasn't even cute, and instead am experiencing a hitherto-unknown robustness of person.

As to lasting effects that may indicate my unwilling enlistment in the service of the Prince of Darkness I can report being annoyed by a small cloud of tiny flies at present in my domicile, as well as by an occasional whiff of sulfur, though this may be due to a box of dangerously ripe apricots I brought home and felt compelled to eat at once.

Yours ever, kdubb

I am relieved to hear this.  I am going to assume that your "CommSilence" of the past few days is due to MAPA '24 related campaign activities.  I imagine you were working on that "Carrot not the Stick" poem we are going to translate into Cajun and set to Zydeco music for that one Campaign Plank about Vegetable abuse.

I wonder if this example of Muzacks might be helpful in that side project:



It might be useful in capturing a small but not insignificant portion of the multi-vote?

Speaking of the campaign, and this will prove to be topical for the thread as I will show later on in this post;  we need a campaign manager and in order to be inclusive I think we should find ourselves a dual-citizenship status Chinese-American, preferably with an accent, to communicate to the whirled our positions and various Campaign Planks.  Not really an urgent thing, but it is something that occurred to me one day that seemed like a Really Great Idea.

As Sirius as this CornHoleEbola-19.5 thing is, I do not want it to overshadow nor be the complete focus of or Campaign Strategy.  I do want to continue to look into these alarming vote-counting glitches, practices and procedures that have mysteriously wiped out our Un-animous Domination of the 2020 polls.  And also find out exactly WHO or WHOM were among the paper-thin sliver of the populace that opted to vote for one of our Political Enemies.  I think we should send some Voter Education campaign workers to each and every one of those non-pate/K_Dubb voters and physically show, demonstrate or otherwise persuade them about the error of their ways.

One last item, I have been thinking about replacing our "WHO shat in the interregnum?" pate/K_Dubb official campaign slogan (which as you recall was entirely provisional in status) with "WHO farted in the elevator?".

They are both awesome, clearly:  they were both entirely my genius ideas.  Maybe in odor to further "muddy the political waters," by whatever means necessary, we could use both?  Just as a single Baby-Ruth floating in the pool does not constitute a turd, perhaps two candy bars for both of us as Kandy-Dates would not be viewed as an exponential increase in shitty campaign sloganry?

In short, I will continue to use "WHO shat in the interregnum?" during official campaign appearances while you begin using "WHO farted in the elevator?"

This CornHoleEbola-19.5 stuff is distracting from the MAPA 2024 campaign-at-large, and I would like to FIX that Shit!

Thank you in advance!  It is an honor to swerve.

pate/K_Dubb 2024
"WHO shat in the interregunum?"

Re: COVID-19
« Reply #1184 on: July 22, 2021, 01:47:03 AM »
... but, if it does, I will wear my stupid mask and stop going out and get my booster shot like a good little sheeple and not squawk about what seem to me to be practical efforts to control a virus that, in any context other than this hyper-politicized one with way too many people listening to way too much talk radio and clicking on trashy websites with a bazillion ads for supplements, seem like things I would do anyway, without some government bureaucrat telling me, so that, having taken some precautions to salve my conscience, I can still see my folks.

Out of curiosity- how many years of your life are you willing to sacrifice. My understanding is that gay culture generally values youth over most other attributes. Locking yourself away for another half decade may not be in your best interests.  ;)

I suppose the other question would be one around what are acceptable numbers? Would you lock yourself up in Australia with their very low case rate? They are back in lockdown with almost no cases. If "0 Covid deaths" became the goal- would you support it?

I suppose it would be nice to have such trust in the judgement of public officials- but they cannot all be right given the huge disparity in responses.

Yes, I think most people self-limited their interactions. And that worked until government started telling us to just trust them to keep them safe. And now there is no personal responsibility.