The Tragedy of Prince Hamlet, Anti-masker
The tragic fate of the…anti-masker.
Where is he watching children turn on parents? Is he, like, looking into people’s windows? Or what? Because normally that’s not something you can just “watch,” like a football game. I also doubt that friends quarrel with friends over it right in front of him. It sounds dramatic though, to say you’re “watching” it. Drama drama drama, there can never be enough.
“Dangerous vermin”; “unclean.” We’re meant to think it’s like Nazi Germany, and he’s The Jews.
No, we don’t think that, we think people are stupidly and/or selfishly refusing to wear masks, for stupid or selfish or just no real reasons, and thus helping the pandemic kill and harm more people. Do we think that’s a bad thing to do? Yes, of course. It’s nothing to do with vermin, or with “unclean” except in the sense that the virus is contagious – but a mask doesn’t make you “clean,” it just hinders transmission of the virus.
Ah that old festering wound – the fact that smoking around other people became unpopular. So unfair and unkind, isn’t it? To not want other people’s cigarette smoke in your face? It’s not at all that the custom of smoking around other people was always quite rude, no no, it’s the other way around – it’s people who don’t want to be around cigarette smoke who are unreasonable and cruel. Same with masks.
No, being able to compel people is not the goal, the goal is not getting the virus and not allowing the virus to spread. That’s it. We’d love it if everyone had good sense and just did what needs to be done without all this mewling and puking.
What are the odds he’ll change his mind once he’s intubated?
I dunno, he’s sort of got a point… I’m not the only one that refers to them as “plague rats” I assume? And I’ve definitely considered hitting walking smokers on campus on the back of the head with a pipe (though that was nearly twenty years ago).
That’s really the only point he’s got though…
I thought lefties were supposed to be the snowflakes. This whole quoted post is just so…pathetic.
What does HE think that the goal of the government is in making the vaccine available to all, at no charge, as something that inhibits the spread of a terrible virus that is mutating rapidly, and will happily move to anyone around you for 14 days before you even know you’re carrying it (and most of us won’t even know that unless we are requred to get tested?)
Is it really just because we are snobby elites, or is there something longer term that we get out of it? Like the feeling of power coursing through our veins when we see that vaccine decliners cower as we threaten to drag them into a clinic for a jab?
Michael, I think it’s just projection of their own fascist tendencies.
Kris Kristofferson told us that “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.” Therefore, death is the ultimate freedom, and any government action that gets in the way of death reduces our freedom.
Yeah, I can see that. Puts the whole fear of “social control, conditioning, chip-emplanting/mind control” thing in a different perspective. The point of masks, lockdowns and vaccines is to END the need for masks, lockdowns and vaccines. These idiots are the equivalent of people who, in the midst of tinder-dry draught conditions, insist on exercising their God-given Right to toast marshmellows over an open fire on a windy day.
These anti-vaxxers are presenting the mask and vaccine regime as a dry run for more serios, intrusive government control. In a way, I agree with the “COVID-19 is a dry run” idea, but in a different way. I think we’ve been very lucky. Just as SARS in 2003 was a foretaste of COVID-19, our current, friendly neighbourhood pandemic should be being seen and used as a warning and dress rehearsal for any future diseases that could be even worse. We would be somewhat better prepared to handle a 1918 type influenza now, than we would have been before COVID-19. I think we were fortunate that the case fatalty rate was not much higher than it has turned out to be My fear is that the reservoir of the unvaccinated (which includes billions of people in countries that don’t have and/or can’t afford the infrastructure to vaccinate their populations) will be a breeding ground for variants that are much deadlier, and/or vaccine resistant. This is still early days; we’re not out of the woods yet.
If he thinks about it in such self-aggrandizing, self-pitying way, it helps to divert him from what is really happening.
Plus it also…you know…aggrandizes and pities him. Win/win.
WaM @#6:
Well, Kris Kristofferson was wrong, wasn’t he? I learned by about the age of 5 not to believe everything I was told, particularly by other kids. ‘Disaffected podcast’ is just playing ‘Poor Me’: from Games People Play ( # whatever.)
Omar,
Of course he was wrong, but the point is that it could explain why some people react so strongly to government regulations that are meant to protect life (cigarettes, motorcycle helmets, etc.) because FREEDOM!
He’s got deeply evangelical tendencies. Keto diet ( his carb cravings were his temptation to sin,) his preaching on borderline and cluster B personalities, his instructions for life, his distaste for Greta Thunberg, and his love of certain entertainers. Maybe this level of drama shouldn’t be such a surprise after all.
“children turn on parents” isn’t quite to the point. But that conflict does exist. See, e.g.
As Parents Forbid Covid Shots, Defiant Teenagers Seek Ways to Get Them https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/health/covid-vaccine-teens-consent.html
When Parents Forbid the COVID Vaccine https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/when-parents-forbid-the-covid-vaccine
I’ve also read first-person accounts of this conflict on reddit.com, but couldn’t find a good one to link to.
Here’s one
https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/orwzht/just_finished_my_job_interview_and_i_dont_wanna/
It’s pretty rich that he writes that he sees “friends (turning) against friends”, seeing as how he’s basically the poster child for a person who irrationally flipped out on every friend he had, leaving a trail of hurt and confusion in his wake*.
*Myself excepted. He very rationally flipped out at me when I told him to go fuck himself for the final time.
An ex-regular here, right?
Yes, as well as a friend in person and Facebook to many of us. And as James mentioned, flipped out on one-by-one, me for trying to explain why black people in Minnesota were pissed off about more than George Floyd.
It was trying to explain something in my case too – in my case that I’d thought he was saying all radfems are evil but then he cited one conversation so I realized it was just this one conversation. BOOOOOOOOM