I’m Pretty Convinced…

…that Covid provides a disturbing proportion of our society with a reason to wake up in the morning; “enforcing the misery” gives their lives whatever meaning it has.

Which brings us to this:

https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1474782186972893185

First, kudos to the guy, who learned the important lesson: when a woman, no matter how wrong, no matter how impaired, no matter how depraved, attacks you, don’t hit back; your best bet is to hope for enough bruising (or, nowadays with video everywhere, clear video) to make your case in court.

Which I hope the guy does – winning everything this vile shrew owns or will ever own.

Back on point: as the emergency winds down, expect more of this, as Karens, bereft of their purpose and. meaning, lash out.

And – given that most “wars of religion” are really wars over other longstanding fault lines that happen to have a veneer of religious difference slapped on, what other fault lines will the pandemic adhere to?

We’ve got race, class, region, economics…?

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December 28, 2021

Covid19, The Second Civil War

Mitch Berg

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16 responses to “I’m Pretty Convinced…”

Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 28, 2021

The broadcast news is reporting that the CDC reduced its guidance on self-isolation for people with covid at the request of the airlines. The ten day rule was ruining their business.
There is no science behind the change in guidance.
Here is the CDC announcement on the change:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html
You see any science referenced? No? Me neither.
Joe Doakes

December 28, 2021

The CDC doesn’t explain the science behind its decisions because the proles wouldn’t understand the science anyway.

It’s enough for proles to know that People Smarter than You have reviewed the science, and the science is completely settled, so we need only to obey.
bosshoss429

December 28, 2021

Gotta love the blatant hypocrisy of that Karen. Has her own mask down, throwing a spittle filled tirade and deliberately spits in his face, after punching him. He didn’t strike back, so he indeed handled it correctly. If I were him, I would have told the police that I wanted to prefer charges for assault, which may be attempted murder by spitting on him (a stretch, I know, but with the “deadly WuFlu…) and ask that she be held until I came in to file said charges. The utter stupidity and arrogance of entitled witches like her, continues to provide comedy gold.
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 28, 2021

It is strange that the new guidance says that while self-isolation ends five days after you test positive, you are supposed to wear a mask for a further five days.
One of the big unanswered questions about cloth face coverings is whether they prevent people from contracting covid or prevent the infected from spreading it.
Apparently the CDC now takes the position that wearing a cloth face covering — any old thing will do, the CDC does not specify a medical-grade mask — will prevent an infected person from spreading the disease.
Of course, no actual science is referenced to justify this claim.
So, if you aren’t infectious after five days of self isolation, why wear a mask?
The flailing continues.
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 28, 2021

Probably mental health issues + covid stress + menopause fueled hysteria.
This is the ugly picture of toxic femininity.
Joe Doakes

December 28, 2021

Slavery was a great moral wrong. It was abolished by brave people fighting a noble cause. We should honor their memory.

Defeating the Nazis in World War II was a great moral victory fought by brave people fighting a noble cause. We should honor their memory.

But that’s about it. The truly worthy battles have all been won. Oh sure, people tried to create new ones so we’d honor the new memories – Vietnam War, Feminism, Transgender – but those don’t feel like they’re in the same class of battle, they feel more like First World Problems. There’s no heft to them, no ‘gravitas.’ They’re not great moral wrongs and they were fought for show, not for serious, a way to signal virtue without much effort or risk, like changing the background on your Facebook page to show solidarity with the cause-du-jour.

The battle against Covid feels even less significant. It’s a bad flu. There’s nothing anybody can do to prevent the flu from spreading. Stay home if you’re sick. Don’t hang around people who are sick. Wash your hands. That’s about it.

Slapping people over masks is not the equivalent of bayoneting a Nazi. Time to quit pretending there’s any great moral crusade component to dealing with Covid.
Mr. D

December 28, 2021

And – given that most “wars of religion” are really wars over other longstanding fault lines that happen to have a veneer of religious difference slapped on, what other fault lines will the pandemic adhere to?

Give her a copy of “The True Believer” and a mirror.
justplainangry

December 28, 2021

My wife says: “I never could understand the mentality and mental state of the people who ratted out Anne Frank. Now I do.”
bikebubba

December 28, 2021

The mistake he made, IMO, is to cuss at her. Atlanta area juries might see that as provocation. Probably the best thing that can be done is to make sure she gets indicted, and then approach her employer with the evidence. I think even the most Karen-ish employers would look askance at an employee screaming, slapping, and spitting on a fellow airline passenger.
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 28, 2021

One interesting effect of the new CDC guidance is that it makes one measure of the progress of covid useless.
All of the county dashboards report a number called “currently isolated.” This is basically a rolling number of the people who have tested positive for covid in the last ten days. It is a good way to figure out how prevalent covid is in your county.
Drop the number of days to five and you can’t compare the old number to the new number, it’s apples and oranges.
The flailing continues.
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 28, 2021

From the end of WW2 through the 1990s there was a cottage industry of writers who attempted to explain the horrors of Nazism in various ways. Hitler was mad. The German people were mad. The insane cruelty of the Nazis was driven by historical accident or maybe some mental defect in the minds of Germans after the First World War.
Then the USSR collapsed, and we all discovered that what the Soviets did, what the ideological enemies of the Nazis did, was as bad or worse. There was no sadistic practice devised by the Nazis that was not duplicated by the Russian commies.
The cottage industry of Nazi-whisperers died out. But maybe it should not have.
The truth is that you do not need to demand that people be cruel. All you have to do to create dystopia is to tell people that their is no penalty for being cruel and unjust.
When the Nazis invaded the Baltic and middle European countries, all that they had to do to destroy the Jewish population was to tell the locals that the Jews had no legal rights, that they could be beaten, robbed, killed, with no fear of the police interfering or prosecuting the offenders.
bosshoss429

December 28, 2021

Turns out that Karen is Patricia Cornwall, a former Playboy model and bit part actress. She spent Christmas in jail and had to post $20,000 bail. She also injured a Delta Flight Attendant when Karen knocked her down.
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 29, 2021

Fauci admits that there is no science behind the decision to change CDC guidance on self-isolation time.
“”Dr. Fauci: “There is the danger that there will be so many people who are being isolated who are asymptomatic for the full ten days, that you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running. So the decision was made of saying let’s get that cut in half.”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1476255696807243789

The flailing continues:
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 29, 2021

And Walensky admits that a positive covid test does not mean that you are contagious:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1476236664741769218

There was never any science at all behind the CDC’s economy-crippling “guidance.”
Mammuthus Primigenesis

December 29, 2021

Imagine a different world. Let’s call it “sane world.” A global pandemic of an airborne respiratory disease has broken out. It appears to be highly contagious, with a case fatality rate of 1%, almost entirely among people of advanced age with multiple comorbidities. Younger, healthy people are hardly affected at all, children virtually never.
In sane world, the feds immediately begin a “Manhattan Project” to research the effects of the disease, the effectiveness of mitigation measures, including treatment, as well as a vaccine. Governors take action to protect the act risk population in care facilities. Governors convene emergency sessions of their state legislatures to debate and deliberate the usefulness and the cost of things like school and business closures, and other mandates to protect public health. Expert witnesses and stake holders are called to testify. An attempt is made by the peoples’ representatives to balance public health mandates with other economic and social concerns. As the pandemic progresses, governors and state legislatures evaluate the positive and negative effects of the balance other states have made between mandates and liberty.
Sure wish I lived in sane world.
bikebubba

December 30, 2021

Regarding Ms. Cornwall, she is a “Karen”, but she’s also one with a recent arrest after crashing her car while intoxicated, and whose relative got a restraining order due to her erratic behavior. I think it’s fair to say she’s likely dealing with some kind of mental illness. Hope she gets help, and I have to wonder if her former (?) career as a model (and being “taken advantage of” in that career) is related.