No, it is not crap. I will state the obvious...you nor I nor anyone could have accurately gauged the threat---or lack thereof---posed by this real or alleged virus, at the outset. That only become clear as time passed, and other scientists or science-minded members of the public could get a grip on what was wrong with the narrative. Alth…
No, it is not crap. I will state the obvious...you nor I nor anyone could have accurately gauged the threat---or lack thereof---posed by this real or alleged virus, at the outset. That only become clear as time passed, and other scientists or science-minded members of the public could get a grip on what was wrong with the narrative. Although you are correct about the lack of efficacy of any attempted vaccine against rhinoviruses, covid was quite vividly presented as a lethal anomaly of the rhinovirus family. Again, I am speaking of the early stages, where the information available to the public was unarguably abbreviated, where it existed at all. And at the end of your commentary, you segue rather clumsily and not unexpectedly into how your self-lauded psychic divination of what *you knew*, was something that was universally shared by *every smart person*, and that you utilize this more as w a weapon to be used against Trump, rather than real concern for your fellow Americans, who were---despite your characterizations of them as *bovine*---functionally forced to do or die. You should be grateful that you were not deleteriously impacted as millions of others were. I lost my job precisely because of my unwillingness to submit, but I was thankfully, also not in a position of dire financial need. I had the luxury of choice that many did not.
You don’t know me, nor do I know you, mutual deprivations of which we can both be appreciative. But if you did know me, then you would know that I would have quit my job as I have done so elsewhere on lesser provocation. It comes down to abiding with one’s own principles (which I do, others be damned). This posture, combined with a commensurate lack of tact, finds me routinely alienating people who don’t want to be reminded of their own limitations (of which principles is a forgone reality owing to the others). I have no such problems. I readily accede to suffering from everything from penis envy to a willed ignorance of all manner of implements. My strengths are compensatory. I know how to creatively make money, communicate, generally use the right metrics in evaluating life or death concerns, and keep my ass in the game (when it’s not in the penalty box). This allows me to hire the skilled workman to fix what I can’t, and recognize that while I don’t know epidemiology or immunology, I sure as hell recognize sociopathic behavior. I sleep well knowing I don’t co-sign the bs of others and happily wear the mantle of Shaw’s unreasonable man. I sincerely feel for any person impacted by this needless, genocidal charade. But at least I have argued against its facilitating precursors for decades - which include everything from nepotistic promotions to affirmative action travesties. Yeah, all that shit factors into all manner of enabling idiots and collateral damages.
Nothing wrong with being honest, or even brusque. You seem like a very independent, self-sufficient sort. Nor is there nothing less than admirable about abiding by one's principles....when that option is present. Sadly for many, it wasn't, not in a practicable sense, as it regards this hoax ( I think we can safely use that word). I don't particularly feel sympathy for the folks who had the *go along to get along* approach, i.e, 'but I wanted to travel' or 'I wanted to eat at certain restaurants'. To them...que sera, sera. I'm referring to the folks who functionally had no choice, for the sake of blunt survival. No one can have the wisdom of Solomon, when the issue is survival, especially where one is responsible for keeping their family afloat by any means possible.
Fair enough. Sometimes in anticipation of further opprobrium I seek to earn it. And for all my bloviating, I know courage can be fickle thing. While I have acquitted myself under fire both metaphorically and literally, who knows what I might do under different circumstances - particularly if my family’s welfare was dependent upon that decision. Finally, I could have done better on the taxonomic front: not everyone that partook did so out of an extorted compliance.
No, it is not crap. I will state the obvious...you nor I nor anyone could have accurately gauged the threat---or lack thereof---posed by this real or alleged virus, at the outset. That only become clear as time passed, and other scientists or science-minded members of the public could get a grip on what was wrong with the narrative. Although you are correct about the lack of efficacy of any attempted vaccine against rhinoviruses, covid was quite vividly presented as a lethal anomaly of the rhinovirus family. Again, I am speaking of the early stages, where the information available to the public was unarguably abbreviated, where it existed at all. And at the end of your commentary, you segue rather clumsily and not unexpectedly into how your self-lauded psychic divination of what *you knew*, was something that was universally shared by *every smart person*, and that you utilize this more as w a weapon to be used against Trump, rather than real concern for your fellow Americans, who were---despite your characterizations of them as *bovine*---functionally forced to do or die. You should be grateful that you were not deleteriously impacted as millions of others were. I lost my job precisely because of my unwillingness to submit, but I was thankfully, also not in a position of dire financial need. I had the luxury of choice that many did not.
You don’t know me, nor do I know you, mutual deprivations of which we can both be appreciative. But if you did know me, then you would know that I would have quit my job as I have done so elsewhere on lesser provocation. It comes down to abiding with one’s own principles (which I do, others be damned). This posture, combined with a commensurate lack of tact, finds me routinely alienating people who don’t want to be reminded of their own limitations (of which principles is a forgone reality owing to the others). I have no such problems. I readily accede to suffering from everything from penis envy to a willed ignorance of all manner of implements. My strengths are compensatory. I know how to creatively make money, communicate, generally use the right metrics in evaluating life or death concerns, and keep my ass in the game (when it’s not in the penalty box). This allows me to hire the skilled workman to fix what I can’t, and recognize that while I don’t know epidemiology or immunology, I sure as hell recognize sociopathic behavior. I sleep well knowing I don’t co-sign the bs of others and happily wear the mantle of Shaw’s unreasonable man. I sincerely feel for any person impacted by this needless, genocidal charade. But at least I have argued against its facilitating precursors for decades - which include everything from nepotistic promotions to affirmative action travesties. Yeah, all that shit factors into all manner of enabling idiots and collateral damages.
Nothing wrong with being honest, or even brusque. You seem like a very independent, self-sufficient sort. Nor is there nothing less than admirable about abiding by one's principles....when that option is present. Sadly for many, it wasn't, not in a practicable sense, as it regards this hoax ( I think we can safely use that word). I don't particularly feel sympathy for the folks who had the *go along to get along* approach, i.e, 'but I wanted to travel' or 'I wanted to eat at certain restaurants'. To them...que sera, sera. I'm referring to the folks who functionally had no choice, for the sake of blunt survival. No one can have the wisdom of Solomon, when the issue is survival, especially where one is responsible for keeping their family afloat by any means possible.
Fair enough. Sometimes in anticipation of further opprobrium I seek to earn it. And for all my bloviating, I know courage can be fickle thing. While I have acquitted myself under fire both metaphorically and literally, who knows what I might do under different circumstances - particularly if my family’s welfare was dependent upon that decision. Finally, I could have done better on the taxonomic front: not everyone that partook did so out of an extorted compliance.
'Sometimes in anticipation of further opprobrium I seek to earn it'. LOL, meet me, the chairman of that club.