I have to tell you that this morning as I write this, I’ve got a pretty bleak outlook on the people of this country.
As I scanned through the editorials in the Lugenpresse for my semi-daily column here, I found this gem:
Isn’t it funny how our attitudes have changed over the course of this pandemic?
Two years ago, we couldn’t go out and we were all hankering to. Now, we can go out and many of us are scared to.
That fear is completely understandable. Omicron is real, and it’s serious - I know, I’ve had it. And it’s true that the best way to keep ourselves safe is to limit our exposure to other people.
Oh, funny, for sure. Hilarious. A real knee-slapper.
A population whipped up into almost unbelievable levels of hypochondriasis by a double-team of hysterical scientists and hysterical bureaucrats, with the hysterical lib-arts majors playing journalist to cheerlead.
The reason I don’t go out is not because I’m terrified of the Omni-tron. I caught it. I felt the onset of a cold for about 3-4 days and then life continued on.
No, I don’t go out because until yesterday I wasn’t allowed into hospo establishments because I won’t use an illegal and immoral health passport.
Today, I don’t want to go out because I don’t want to support any places that didn’t want my money yesterday.
I don’t want to fuel this completely over-the-top mob-mindset that says that discrimination and segregation according to medical history is a-okay if you can buy an illusion of safety.
Mostly I don’t want to deal with the tedious, and equally useless, mask rules. If the virus is smart enough to tell when I’m sitting down versus standing up, we’re already outmatched.
We know it’s a lie, they know it’s a lie, and yet the lie continues on.
That’s in large part due to the credulous idiocy of people like our lib-arts major here.
Many of these nitwits honestly, genuinely believe that a health passport keeps them safe.
Even though it is known that the double and triple jabbed spread the virus as well and as easily as us untainted.
Even though every place of interest, back when the bureaucrats still did that, was a jab-only venue. It never seemed to come up at the supermarkets, where all were allowed.
But no, there’s always some stupid AWFL or soy-boy convinced that the passport keeps them safe. From what, I have no idea. The voices in their heads, maybe.
I guess it’s safer if you catch the bug from a vaccinated person.
There’s only so much I can blame the media and the government for this.
I don’t know any other way to say it. These people are genuinely stupid.
I don’t say that in anger or spite. It’s as cold and clinical an observation as I can make.
There is something broken inside them that leaves them unable to process truth.
That rupture of sanity has made them incapable or unwilling to appreciate the basic facts of the situation.
This comment, for example:
Its very condescending to call people "frightened".
They're making rational decisions to keep themselves healthy during a pandemic that isn't over yet
My sides, they ache with the laughter.
Rational decisions require that two conditions be met:
The claim accurately represents the facts
The claim is consistent with other facts known to be true
The arguments for mandates, jab or mask, fail both tests. To believe them is to believe in falsehoods and contradictions. There is nothing rational about supporting them for their stated purpose.
What we have here a series of delusions and fears playing rationality dress-up.
These are frightened people who also lack the ability to rationally asses their own beliefs and the reasons for believing them. They can believe they are rational because they have no frame of reference to believe otherwise. The possibility that they might be wrong doesn’t factor in.
Fear is no excuse. We’re not talking about children here. These are physically mature adults who can be and ought to be responsible for their own beliefs and choices.
I don’t even know what to say.
Usually I’d have a smug little laugh and go on about my day. But this has become a civilization-scale joke that has poked its grubby greasy fingers in my eye for two years and counting.
I have to believe that this isn’t everybody. Not even a majority. It’s a loud activist minority that projects an illusion of popularity.
If that’s not the case…
When you are next in Christchurch, I would be delighted to shout you a meal at our leading consistently maskless and passless hostelry!
At an intersection today there was one guy in a car with a mask on. No passengers. The interesting thing was, it being a busy intersection, that he (probably late 20s) was the only one with a mask on in about 30-40 cars.