I live in a more open state but am bordered by crazy lockdown states. There is a clear difference in the attitudes of the residents between the 2 states. It's striking, really. What you've written is demonstrably true...my eyes show me this every day I travel to the closed state from my open state. It's strange and I can't wait to get home.
Imagine if it was proven that the "virus from hell" was already here, circulating in October/November 2019 and that "scary curve" showing a severe spike in march/april 2020 (with the downturn in the parabola in may 2020) was actually only the "last third" of the downward parabola i.e. the true peak of the curve was December 2019/Janurary2020?
If that is proven to be a true reflection of the alleged pandemic (and i think that will eventually be revealed in time) then lord knows how we survived from November 2019 to March 2020.
Simple answer- if you were sick, and didn't know "how bad" it really was, you got over it and moved on.
Panic is contagious and causes a worse result than what would have ordinarily resulted.
Fear is addicting. Also it gives a kind of purpose to life because a person feels they are up against something that makes them heroic. We live in a lockdown state, but for those of us out in the country I’m not sure much changed. We visited with neighbors outside, went to the feed store and box stores , had professionals like vets and farriers in, and figured out you could have lunch with friends in the winter by sitting in our cars like the police do. We’ve been going to in person church since last August. Life doesn’t need to return because it never left.
i do not care for the word "hesitant" about being skeptical about the vaxx. it implies wrongly an emotional response to the experiment, while most who do not vaxx do a risk under uncertainty analysis and decided the chances are better with a the remote possibility of getting the disease.
i do go along with hesitance when describing how the frightened remain so after vaxx......... not logical, as is most of the media driven, political malpractice applied to this virus......
If, by “learning that lesson” you include forever banishing the malevolent, ignorant, megalomaniacal, tyrants who perpetrated this unconscionable devastation on us, then yes, I agree.
Call me Captain Obvious, but it looks to me like the scaredy-cats (sorry about that) are leftward on the political spectrum. Didn’t some say they were hesitant to unmask for fear of being mistaken for Conservatives? Which came first, the politics or the disease? Mmmmm
Mea culpa: After my previous bold statement on an earlier thread about how ready Florida is to be done with this whole sad affair, I entered a clothing store that looked like a packed emergency room. Horrified, I left for the mall and, mercifully, far more free faces. Not sure how to reconcile. People are crazier than cats and much more scaredy.
Maine's mask mandate ended today for everyone except school children; it was dismaying to see how many people (all age groups and most likely vaccinated) stayed masked up.
The psychological damage done to society in the name of safety will take years to undo and there are many who won't ever fully recover from 18 months of relentless gaslighting and terror tactics.
I live in a more open state but am bordered by crazy lockdown states. There is a clear difference in the attitudes of the residents between the 2 states. It's striking, really. What you've written is demonstrably true...my eyes show me this every day I travel to the closed state from my open state. It's strange and I can't wait to get home.
Imagine if it was proven that the "virus from hell" was already here, circulating in October/November 2019 and that "scary curve" showing a severe spike in march/april 2020 (with the downturn in the parabola in may 2020) was actually only the "last third" of the downward parabola i.e. the true peak of the curve was December 2019/Janurary2020?
If that is proven to be a true reflection of the alleged pandemic (and i think that will eventually be revealed in time) then lord knows how we survived from November 2019 to March 2020.
Simple answer- if you were sick, and didn't know "how bad" it really was, you got over it and moved on.
Panic is contagious and causes a worse result than what would have ordinarily resulted.
Just a theory--
Fear is addicting. Also it gives a kind of purpose to life because a person feels they are up against something that makes them heroic. We live in a lockdown state, but for those of us out in the country I’m not sure much changed. We visited with neighbors outside, went to the feed store and box stores , had professionals like vets and farriers in, and figured out you could have lunch with friends in the winter by sitting in our cars like the police do. We’ve been going to in person church since last August. Life doesn’t need to return because it never left.
i do not care for the word "hesitant" about being skeptical about the vaxx. it implies wrongly an emotional response to the experiment, while most who do not vaxx do a risk under uncertainty analysis and decided the chances are better with a the remote possibility of getting the disease.
i do go along with hesitance when describing how the frightened remain so after vaxx......... not logical, as is most of the media driven, political malpractice applied to this virus......
If, by “learning that lesson” you include forever banishing the malevolent, ignorant, megalomaniacal, tyrants who perpetrated this unconscionable devastation on us, then yes, I agree.
Call me Captain Obvious, but it looks to me like the scaredy-cats (sorry about that) are leftward on the political spectrum. Didn’t some say they were hesitant to unmask for fear of being mistaken for Conservatives? Which came first, the politics or the disease? Mmmmm
Mea culpa: After my previous bold statement on an earlier thread about how ready Florida is to be done with this whole sad affair, I entered a clothing store that looked like a packed emergency room. Horrified, I left for the mall and, mercifully, far more free faces. Not sure how to reconcile. People are crazier than cats and much more scaredy.
Maine's mask mandate ended today for everyone except school children; it was dismaying to see how many people (all age groups and most likely vaccinated) stayed masked up.
The psychological damage done to society in the name of safety will take years to undo and there are many who won't ever fully recover from 18 months of relentless gaslighting and terror tactics.