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Trapped in Fear
Ricochet ^ | October 15, 2020 | Susan Quinn

Posted on 10/17/2020 9:23:04 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

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To: Grampa Dave

“publications like the Washington Post have started to take a sick pleasure in highlighting the Covid neuroses which they themselves have inspired with their coverage.”

Compost is owned by Amazon which benefits immensely from shutdown and fear.

It’s a racket.


41 posted on 10/17/2020 10:47:30 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kirkwood
Why help her? She is thriving within the reality she has constructed in her world. It is a form of sociological dementia. Let her enjoy it.

Exactly.

Look at how many women marry drunks or wife beaters so they can carry their misery on their sleeve for all to see.....and pity them.

They justify their marriage and cultivate the pity by claiming they thought they could change him.

Just this week, I had a very interesting conversation with a young lady who has become upper level management in her company.

I remarked to her that picking the right people for the job was for me the biggest challenge faced

And she said “I can teach people to do their job, but I can't change their personality.”

That single statement provides the key to most of the world's problems.

We have great actors, doctors, financial wizards, athletes, etc., that are world champions at their skills but have a personality defect or character defect (which is one of the things that make up personality) that makes them insufferable black sheep.

42 posted on 10/17/2020 10:47:43 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: cyclotic
My daughter is one of the four known conservatives in Charlottesville, VA

There used to be a lot of us there. The others may just be hiding.

ML/NJ

43 posted on 10/17/2020 10:51:20 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: glennaro

I don’t think this is hokey at all. I think it is definitely worth a try and is probably the right approach with certain people. Thank you.

I might add to it asking them if they considered if making people fearful benefits certain people.


44 posted on 10/17/2020 10:53:11 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

I know lots of people that are in the same boat as your friend. They would rather live in fear than see any positive scenario. Any good news about the virus is always shut down, they don’t want to hear it. I don’t understand it.


45 posted on 10/17/2020 11:14:15 AM PDT by RatsDawg
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To: Pollard

I have a little flyer thing I give out to servers that I put their tip in.


46 posted on 10/17/2020 11:31:58 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: cyclotic
I wore a similar device when I had to go to a warehouse that demanded face masks to enter. One of these, with the purple "Defender" cartridges installed.
47 posted on 10/17/2020 11:34:19 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: BigEdLB

48 posted on 10/17/2020 11:41:23 AM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Part of it is caused by the medical community. They like being regarded as the Saviors of Us All. Worship is addictive.

The Senior pastor at my parents church was hospitalized, suspected Kung Flu. Turns out no, all the tests were negative. What he has is pneumonia. Ok, still deadly but now they know what to treat so good deal. Except, when they moved him from the small local hospital to the big city hospital they put him in the area with the Kung Flu patients.

Can anyone explain this in any way that does not include the concept that they are trying to infect him? Could it be that cold? Is it possible that people going in to the hospital with respiratory illness but not testing positive are being deliberately placed with patients who have tested positive so they will become infected? Or are they putting people with other respiratory illness in with the Kung Flu patients in hopes to drive the mortality rate up?

So maybe I am more then a bit paranoid. But it is weird.

49 posted on 10/17/2020 12:01:17 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (And lead us not into hysteria, but deliver us from the handwashers. Amen!)
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To: RatsDawg
They would rather live in fear than see any positive scenario. Any good news about the virus is always shut down, they don’t want to hear it. I don’t understand it.

Another reason people hold so tightly to that mindset is that they're unwilling to admit that their belief in Covidism (which really is a perverse form of religion)was wrong. They cannot admit to being mistaken about anything, period. Perhaps they believe that admitting they bought a crap sandwich would make them look like fools.

50 posted on 10/17/2020 12:07:06 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: TomServo
Grow a pair...

So you're telling Susan Quin to become a transgender? 8>)

51 posted on 10/17/2020 12:26:08 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Have any of you had any success with getting through to people you know who are of the type that Susan writes about?”

I dropped my hard-core leftist acquaintances during the, ‘0bama Reign of Error.’

I have three very good friends, all Democrats, that I am also thinking of dropping. Their Covid Fear is just ridiculous. They are so un/ill-informed.

Actually, Covid may be a good thing for those of us that have been tolerating these idiots in the name of Love or Brotherhood, or whatever you want to call it. It’s a perfect hill for a friendship to die on.

I learned a long time ago that when someone ‘shows you who they are’ the very FIRST time, you NEED to believe them...then RUN! ;)


52 posted on 10/17/2020 12:49:31 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: cyclotic

“...paralyzed by fear but really needing some fresh Basil.”

LOL! Perfect description!


53 posted on 10/17/2020 12:50:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: RatsDawg

Well, she isn’t my friend, fortunately. She is Susan Quinn’s friend.

But I think Susan does speak for people who have friends like this and are sad that they are living their lives this way.

I don’t know what I would do if I had a friend like this. I probably would not have her as a friend for long because I would get exasperated and tell her how insane she is. But Glennaro a few posts up had a good idea as to how to approach these people.


54 posted on 10/17/2020 12:57:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Wiser now

“My daughter works as a nurse at the largest hospital there and tells us they never got close to capacity, even in the retirement capital of the world.”

You’ve probably heard about the up-tick in cases in Wisconsin, recently.

None of our hospitals have been at capacity either. They opened the 530 bed Tent City at our State Fairgrounds last week, but so far have had no takers. And, they haven’t had a single patient since the beginning of this boondoggle!


55 posted on 10/17/2020 1:00:36 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Today's the annual fall/Halloween festival out here in northern California and despite the fear, I've lived here for 20 years and have never before seen so many cars, adults and kids in costumes and DAMNED FEW masks (other than the halloween type at our nice little park out here .... and despite the crowd it's a beautiful warm day and everyone -- and I mean everyone -- is so happy!

I've taken this little event for granted for many years, but today's is simply a wonderful -- if not wondrous -- sight to behold!

56 posted on 10/17/2020 1:36:02 PM PDT by glennaro (Know that a muzzle is a symbol of subservience, of self-degradation and, most tragically, of fear.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

No, I don’t know of any such website. My daughter shuns social media, so she wouldn’t know either.
Ironically, I am 75 with co-”morbidities”. I am singing with our church choir tomorrow morning, eating out more often than not, and I have a nasty habit of forgetting my mask and leaving it in the car, or on the table when I visit the restroom. Two of the women I mentioned are a good five to ten years younger. My fearful sister, the world’s biggest victim (just ask her) is 76. And while she won’t go out, she babysits three of her grandsons after school four days a week! LOL


57 posted on 10/17/2020 2:29:32 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: xp38

When Obama won, I moved almost all my 401K investments overseas. When Trump won I moved them back.

After the fact analysis has shown those were two excellent moves.


58 posted on 10/17/2020 2:57:07 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: CheshireTheCat

You sound like me. I am a bit of a hermit too. Very independent at 2 months short of 87. I live alone and love it. My family ignores me. My liberal collage prof hates to be around me because...well, you know why (she is a prof.)I am a conservative so that cancels out my Master’s degree. There is no point in trying to talk sense to a liberal. Their “truth” is all around them in a community of like minds. I gave up trying to convince her that we are not all going to die from Covid19. Some of us will die from regular flu or heart attacks or strokes or an accident. I don’t fear much of anything and death will be a relief. I keep busy reading, going for walks, and checking out Free Republic for news.


59 posted on 10/17/2020 7:41:13 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Wiser now

Over 2 weeks ago my husband and I attended The Prayer March in Washington, DC...(Franklin Graham)
.....along with approximately 100,000 people

We are fine!


60 posted on 10/17/2020 7:48:18 PM PDT by Guenevere (**See you at the Franklin Graham Prayer March in DC on September 26!**)
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