Posted on 10/15/2020 5:55:47 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Come midnight it will be 215 days since the institution of the infamous “Flatten the Curve.” 15 days, they told us, for 15 days/roughly 2 weeks we need to work from home, close non-essential business, cancel concerts, baby showers, bingo games, etc., yada, yada, you know “the thing” (to show my solidarity with a certain presidential candidate) in order to give hospitals a chance to gear up for huge, terrible, overwhelming waves of ‘rona patients.
15 days.
Instead, 15 days has now become 215 days. We can argue as to the exact start date of the implementation of Operation Curve Flattening. I am punctuating it from the first day I began working from home per the guidelines in my state.
Some states have more or less gotten back to normal. A couple states were always fairly normal. But now there is talk in the land, starting in the lands across the Atlantic, about mounting cases and the possible need to lockdown again, especially as the flu, colds, strep throat, and pesky fall allergies allow doctors to code patients who test negative for cronyvirus as COVID-19 possible nevertheless.
Soon, I fear, the F word will uttered, and I don’t mean f*ck, which is unfortunate because I rather like that word and use it liberally.
Yes, the WHO has recently & surprisingly expressed reservations about lockdowns. But politicians drunk on power crave wielding it and Marxist groups want economic collapse in order to use it to foment desperation and the easy ability to take over that comes from it.
What to do? What to do? Those who have read me know that I like to be bit of a gadfly.
So, I was thinking today while participating in a totally worthless Zoom meeting for work: What if I wore a mask during this meeting? I know what you are thinking. Stick with me for a minute.
Some of you may remember that a couple or more months ago someone, I think more than one someones, posted about, I may have the exact details wrong, a state government entity in MN or thereabouts mandating that employees wear masks while on video conferences with members of the public in order to set a good example.
You may say, “Thankfully, this idea has not taken off. This is just too absurd.”
But maybe we need to get absurd. Really absurd. Rush Limbaugh-style absurd.
Those of us who work from home (even if you work in an office, alone, with a door) and are meeting with people via computer a good deal, should start wearing masks while meeting with people online.
We can explain that we think it is important to do this to set a good example and to show solidarity with the store clerks, waitresses, and other essential workers, many of them “wage laborers,” who must mask up 8 or more hours a day.
We can say that we wear a mask our whole workday. (They don’t have to know that that isn’t true.) We can say we do this because this is the compassionate thing to do because it is not fair that we have the type of job where we can work alone much of the time and be comfortably facemask free. After all, it is bad enough that we make more money than the Kroger clerk, who now has to worry about paying higher dental bills and dermatologist bills due to the effects of “maskne” and “mask mouth.”
Think of the cognitive dissonance this will cause your lib co-workers. They like to think of themselves as far above and superior to the clerks of the world and to have the privilege of having earned a lofty position of sitting mask-free at the computer in their comfy study while at the same time thinking they are so superior to conservatives who have no compassion for the workers of the world.
Think of how much more tolerable the meetings will be now that you can make all sorts of facial expressions that you colleagues can’t see because you are masked.
There is the danger that this will really catch on, of course. However, I think this will actually have the effect perhaps in engendering some spark of compassion among people who heretofore only have to mask up for limited periods of time as they shop for food or walk to a restaurant table, things that don’t require one to talk or concentrate too much.
I have heard, due to the nature of my job, about bank tellers making more and more mistakes and getting fired. I blame the masks for hurting their ability to concentrate.
My previous post on this subject is here: Day 200 of ‘Flattening the Curve” AKA The Deep State’s Plot to Drive Us Crazy, Make Us Stupid, and Take Over the World
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3889702/posts
Blame one of the posters on the Flubros thread for giving me this idea, or at least inspiring me.
There are the three daily coronavirus threads on FR that are fine threads and that I follow. I certainly don't think we need another daily thread. I just thought something to mark each 15 days in this continuing madness might be something some people might find appealing.
Who would have thought 2 weeks would have turned into this...
So, what is your “F” word?
Thank you. Thought it was just me. :)
Starting to suspect that they might have lied to us ...
It’s beyond ridiculous - I had an eight step visit to the dentist today that started in the parking lot.
and we pray to God this is not the new normal
Praying God will save us from this absurdity and insanity.
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