On twitter there was a woman rejoicing on the return of masks being mandated at one clinic. She said , and I am paraphrasing, that she was simply looking for masking to be accepted again and was waiting for someone else to make the decision for her. Nothing about masks being the best strategy, or science at all, but rather...she just wanted them back and the only thing preventing her from wearing one is perceived acceptance.
I should underline and pin that. How many people are like this...simply waiting for the consensus.
Another guy on twitter has the #Davossafe hashtag on his account, and he burns calories creating charts, and as of late seems hell bent on making covid about kids. If you can't get kids as the victims (and they are trying to say there are a lot of Long covid Kids out there) then they will endeavor to try to make them vectors of the disease.
Do any search on Covid spread and children and early on it was known Covid was not being transmitted by kids. Another study was trying to delve into the mystery of it, but the truth of it is:
Children had mild to no symptomatic response to Covid.
Covid does not spread asymptomatically
Thus them being the primary source of transmission is a ridiculous notion.
As of late they tried to trot out a study that proved this using phone app thermometers. They were trying to pass off children's high temperatures as proof of Covid. Mr. #DavosSafe who probably even knew the study was a bust only posted a picture of the headline which was meant to scare people into once again accepting all of this BS.
A term that has been out there long before the panic and one that I was offended by has been proven to be correct; sheeple. A great majority of the human race are nothing but sheeple and they are by choice.
For me, I am not sure if it is choice, but by many years of indoctrination. We did the pledge of allegiance before class started each morning in elementary school. We were taught to regurgitate facts, not to question them. I don't want to slide into the victim mentality, but my dad's assertion that we had to "take" an education resonates now more than it ever did when I was a kid. School to me as a kid was a necessary drudge we all had to go through. Some did better at it than others. I don't remember ever being "motivated" to learn anything. I had a few teachers who encouraged by artistic side, and had passion for the subjects they taught, but by and large it was mainly go along to get along.
And yet, we made it through. Though, not exactly on the top of the heap professionally or financially. Still, without the facts you brought up in the first post of this thread, anyone can observe that what they told us is false. If the virus took two weeks to incubate, then why are we still wearing masks almost 4 years into this? If masks work, then why social distancing, plastic sheeting, lockdowns, remote learning and the shots? The ability to compare what we are told with what we observe is with in all but the dimmest amongst us. Yet, only a few choose to make this comparison. Most get agitated when you point out these obvious discrepancies.
Part of this is mass formation, or as Bonhoeffer states, getting "made stupid." Anyone can observe these things, but those that could observe those things already knew before the two weeks that it wasn't going to work.
I was wrong because I thought to myself "Let's go along with the lockdowns, because surely they will see it will not work and then we can go back to normal."
Two weeks to stop the spread was a gateway drug.
I remember thinking that this was only the beginning though, and I was kidding myself. At least I can say is I never realized how many people who were not only cool with it being two weeks, but wanted a subscription.
On a show called "No Agenda" they would constantly say things like "Move Along, Nothing to See Here" and that was shorthand for "don't probe or think too much, it won't lead anywhere good."
For some, for myself for the longest time...I didn't want to know. But for the most part, I wasn't made to participate. In fact, I avoided participation. I am referring to the schism between reality and the narrative that existed before 2020. Dennis Miller would say something to the effect of "I don't think that some of these people even invited reality for a cup of coffee together." I think I am horribly paraphrasing his quote...and it might have been the truth.
It's never been a question of lack of intelligence. Those that often are the proclaimers of the narrative are those with PhD's after their names and Dr.'s before. And I know they are not the architects, but are as unsure as all others. But part of the process of becoming a PhD is defending their uncertainty.
Maybe part of it is that some people need an intercessor to reality, like a priest is the intercessor for God. Do I need people to tell me that there are sick people around me? Either I see people sick or I don't. But others need the reassurance. And in some cases, some needed the reasons they were feared into isolation to be addressed. That's where masks came in.
I am an amateur historian. I was screaming “NO! Do not fall for it.”, at every policy they put forth. I knew the reasons they gave publicly were bunk and that once accepted by enough, would become policy from that day forward. But masks and lockdowns were my biggest focus as they, in my opinion, held and still hold the biggest threats.
I had never thought about this intercession angle but it might be the case. There is a phenomenon I have witnessed repeatedly where people either discount what I say or are violently opposed to my view only to accept it later on from another source, their intercessor perhaps; usually someone with lots o letters after their name. These same people often try to get me to discount my own observations because I can not, in a microsecond, cite an appropriate intercessor who lead me to my own thoughts.
Not any name with letters trailing behind will do, mind you. Each has their own individual lists and only they are worthy of note. Our lists are just filled with morons.
Just etting out of the big city would be a big improvement if that were an option. I'm in a mid-size city in Shizuoka and it sounds like Tokyo is far more uptight. Get way in the inaka and - depending on lifestyle it could lower your overhead to such and extent that it would likely more than make up for a huge hit in income...
I cruise real estate ads sometimes just to check on that sort of thing - there are places where you can pick up (what for me would be) liveable houses for under a million yen (US$ 8 grand or so).
Since you're stuck in the megalopolis for now, what about this:
You mention elsewhere you can't even talk to your wife about vax issues due to her company policies. So, in Japan (as I understand it) a person can be held liable for damages if they have an affair with a married person and it results in damage to the marriage relationship. So... why not claim the the company is interfering with your relationship by making it impossible to discuss important health issues - and try SUEING the scumbags. Minimal chance of your winning, of course, but they may not want the publicity and spring for enough of a settlement to cover that boat - or an old minka with a killer view in the mountains of Shikoku...
Don't know about the view from this place, but for about $6000 US - plenty of space to start building your boat..
If my wife were aboard, anything would be possible. But as she is not and I now broke, it’s a nonstarter. Additionally, she has paid off the house in full. And she does not want to leave the high concentration of cram schools and “good” schools for our kids. She has off the deep end on that too.
Intriguing idea suing Pf over threat. Would wait until. After she gets her severance package before pulling that one.
But the biggest issue is as it always is with living out in the country, lack of jobs. While not all my classes are, all my employers are back to on campus instruction. I would need to still be able to make it into class on time. Then there are the deserted school houses leaving us to likely have to ship the kids off somewhere for school. There are reasons those fine old homesteads sell for so little.
I was a pit snipe for 6 years. You have no idea what such folk can put up with. Not that we or anyone should ever have to, mind you.
All of my major problems could have been easily avoided if I only had better information before making specific decisions at specific points in my life. No, however, I am intractably stuck.
Yes, all of our major problems could have been avoided had we known better at the time. I've made numerous huge mistakes in my life because of the lack of hindsight, combined with a lack of more careful forethought, it must be said.
I should have added that in many of these cases, I did research and asked those who I should have been able to count upon for sound information, officials in the government offices involved. Ha!
If all the doom and gloom predictions are correct, you won't have to sell anything but will be released from the compliance crowd someday soon - all of them.
He he he. Yeah, when young and single and without kids going through this sorry excuse of an education system, yeah sitting back and watching would probably have been great entertainment.
Outrageous it is,but also accurate. I think it goes beyond communism and straight to totalitarianism.
On twitter there was a woman rejoicing on the return of masks being mandated at one clinic. She said , and I am paraphrasing, that she was simply looking for masking to be accepted again and was waiting for someone else to make the decision for her. Nothing about masks being the best strategy, or science at all, but rather...she just wanted them back and the only thing preventing her from wearing one is perceived acceptance.
I should underline and pin that. How many people are like this...simply waiting for the consensus.
Another guy on twitter has the #Davossafe hashtag on his account, and he burns calories creating charts, and as of late seems hell bent on making covid about kids. If you can't get kids as the victims (and they are trying to say there are a lot of Long covid Kids out there) then they will endeavor to try to make them vectors of the disease.
Do any search on Covid spread and children and early on it was known Covid was not being transmitted by kids. Another study was trying to delve into the mystery of it, but the truth of it is:
Children had mild to no symptomatic response to Covid.
Covid does not spread asymptomatically
Thus them being the primary source of transmission is a ridiculous notion.
As of late they tried to trot out a study that proved this using phone app thermometers. They were trying to pass off children's high temperatures as proof of Covid. Mr. #DavosSafe who probably even knew the study was a bust only posted a picture of the headline which was meant to scare people into once again accepting all of this BS.
A term that has been out there long before the panic and one that I was offended by has been proven to be correct; sheeple. A great majority of the human race are nothing but sheeple and they are by choice.
Sheeple, by their own choice, it is outrageous, and Communistic.
For me, I am not sure if it is choice, but by many years of indoctrination. We did the pledge of allegiance before class started each morning in elementary school. We were taught to regurgitate facts, not to question them. I don't want to slide into the victim mentality, but my dad's assertion that we had to "take" an education resonates now more than it ever did when I was a kid. School to me as a kid was a necessary drudge we all had to go through. Some did better at it than others. I don't remember ever being "motivated" to learn anything. I had a few teachers who encouraged by artistic side, and had passion for the subjects they taught, but by and large it was mainly go along to get along.
We were being taught to be compliant and conform.
And yet, we made it through. Though, not exactly on the top of the heap professionally or financially. Still, without the facts you brought up in the first post of this thread, anyone can observe that what they told us is false. If the virus took two weeks to incubate, then why are we still wearing masks almost 4 years into this? If masks work, then why social distancing, plastic sheeting, lockdowns, remote learning and the shots? The ability to compare what we are told with what we observe is with in all but the dimmest amongst us. Yet, only a few choose to make this comparison. Most get agitated when you point out these obvious discrepancies.
Part of this is mass formation, or as Bonhoeffer states, getting "made stupid." Anyone can observe these things, but those that could observe those things already knew before the two weeks that it wasn't going to work.
I was wrong because I thought to myself "Let's go along with the lockdowns, because surely they will see it will not work and then we can go back to normal."
Two weeks to stop the spread was a gateway drug.
I remember thinking that this was only the beginning though, and I was kidding myself. At least I can say is I never realized how many people who were not only cool with it being two weeks, but wanted a subscription.
On a show called "No Agenda" they would constantly say things like "Move Along, Nothing to See Here" and that was shorthand for "don't probe or think too much, it won't lead anywhere good."
For some, for myself for the longest time...I didn't want to know. But for the most part, I wasn't made to participate. In fact, I avoided participation. I am referring to the schism between reality and the narrative that existed before 2020. Dennis Miller would say something to the effect of "I don't think that some of these people even invited reality for a cup of coffee together." I think I am horribly paraphrasing his quote...and it might have been the truth.
It's never been a question of lack of intelligence. Those that often are the proclaimers of the narrative are those with PhD's after their names and Dr.'s before. And I know they are not the architects, but are as unsure as all others. But part of the process of becoming a PhD is defending their uncertainty.
Maybe part of it is that some people need an intercessor to reality, like a priest is the intercessor for God. Do I need people to tell me that there are sick people around me? Either I see people sick or I don't. But others need the reassurance. And in some cases, some needed the reasons they were feared into isolation to be addressed. That's where masks came in.
I am an amateur historian. I was screaming “NO! Do not fall for it.”, at every policy they put forth. I knew the reasons they gave publicly were bunk and that once accepted by enough, would become policy from that day forward. But masks and lockdowns were my biggest focus as they, in my opinion, held and still hold the biggest threats.
I had never thought about this intercession angle but it might be the case. There is a phenomenon I have witnessed repeatedly where people either discount what I say or are violently opposed to my view only to accept it later on from another source, their intercessor perhaps; usually someone with lots o letters after their name. These same people often try to get me to discount my own observations because I can not, in a microsecond, cite an appropriate intercessor who lead me to my own thoughts.
Not any name with letters trailing behind will do, mind you. Each has their own individual lists and only they are worthy of note. Our lists are just filled with morons.
Just etting out of the big city would be a big improvement if that were an option. I'm in a mid-size city in Shizuoka and it sounds like Tokyo is far more uptight. Get way in the inaka and - depending on lifestyle it could lower your overhead to such and extent that it would likely more than make up for a huge hit in income...
I cruise real estate ads sometimes just to check on that sort of thing - there are places where you can pick up (what for me would be) liveable houses for under a million yen (US$ 8 grand or so).
Since you're stuck in the megalopolis for now, what about this:
You mention elsewhere you can't even talk to your wife about vax issues due to her company policies. So, in Japan (as I understand it) a person can be held liable for damages if they have an affair with a married person and it results in damage to the marriage relationship. So... why not claim the the company is interfering with your relationship by making it impossible to discuss important health issues - and try SUEING the scumbags. Minimal chance of your winning, of course, but they may not want the publicity and spring for enough of a settlement to cover that boat - or an old minka with a killer view in the mountains of Shikoku...
Don't know about the view from this place, but for about $6000 US - plenty of space to start building your boat..
https://jmty.jp/tokushima/est-buy/article-16ekbb
- Cheers
If my wife were aboard, anything would be possible. But as she is not and I now broke, it’s a nonstarter. Additionally, she has paid off the house in full. And she does not want to leave the high concentration of cram schools and “good” schools for our kids. She has off the deep end on that too.
Intriguing idea suing Pf over threat. Would wait until. After she gets her severance package before pulling that one.
But the biggest issue is as it always is with living out in the country, lack of jobs. While not all my classes are, all my employers are back to on campus instruction. I would need to still be able to make it into class on time. Then there are the deserted school houses leaving us to likely have to ship the kids off somewhere for school. There are reasons those fine old homesteads sell for so little.
Darn near everyone
Do it. You can't live like that. You can only die slowly whilst pretending to live. Get out while you can.
I was a pit snipe for 6 years. You have no idea what such folk can put up with. Not that we or anyone should ever have to, mind you.
All of my major problems could have been easily avoided if I only had better information before making specific decisions at specific points in my life. No, however, I am intractably stuck.
Yes, all of our major problems could have been avoided had we known better at the time. I've made numerous huge mistakes in my life because of the lack of hindsight, combined with a lack of more careful forethought, it must be said.
I should have added that in many of these cases, I did research and asked those who I should have been able to count upon for sound information, officials in the government offices involved. Ha!
If all the doom and gloom predictions are correct, you won't have to sell anything but will be released from the compliance crowd someday soon - all of them.
Need cash NOW. The doom and gloom is largely upon me anyway.
Oh dear - I hope you can attract the cash. All is not lost if you can keep your head/wits about you.
I did Nazi this coming! My advice? Get some popcorn and enjoy the show.
He he he. Yeah, when young and single and without kids going through this sorry excuse of an education system, yeah sitting back and watching would probably have been great entertainment.