Hate Sells category archive

David marvels at the depth and craziness of the COVID conspiracists.

We are a society of stupid.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Bill Torpy is not sanguine. Here’s a bit from his article:

There was an event at an unnamed North Georgia town where an organized group showed up to badger and intimidate health care workers trying to vaccinate people. State officials have declined to say where this occurred, apparently not wanting to egg on the nutjobs.

(snip)

Months ago, I thought civil discourse had bottomed out when self-deputized members of the Stop the Steal crowd stalked, yelled at and menaced election workers. But this new brand of madness is more loathsome and its perpetuators border on being domestic terrorists. They aren’t trying to undo an election. They’re playing with people’s lives.

David Horn is fed up with the “Me! Me! Me!” generation. Here’s a bit of his article in The Roanoke Times:

So yes, you need to get your vaccination; you’re being incredibly selfish not to. No, you have no freedom to infect others. That’s assault by any measure of the offense. Doing it intentionally or, worse, pulling masks from the faces of more responsible people is tantamount to battery, whether it meets the legal definition or not.

Follow the link for the rest of his screed, and a well-deserved screed it is, I must say.

At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston discusses recent spate of threats and acts of physical and verbal violence directed at school boards, faculty, and even students over common-sense precautions against pandemic, including–indeed, primaril–mask requirements. Here’s one example; a web search will turn up many more.

Here’s a bit from his piece; follow the link for the rest:

And so the armies of the angry relentlessly scour society for new targets to turn upon. And that’s the problem with conspiracies. Once you accept a perceived reality of nefarious forces working secretly to achieve their ungodly goals, then all the world’s a threat, and all the men and women merely combatants to be crushed under the holy dictum that the ends justify the means, no matter how distasteful the means may be.

SFGate talked with some flight attendants. What they learned about the conduct of passengers in these viral times is not pretty. A snippet:

(A flight attendant who requested anonymity) recounted an incident in which a passenger had a mask pulled down her face during boarding. She asked the passenger to put her mask back over her nose and mouth, to which she said the passenger rolled her eyes and then coughed on her. The flight attendant was so taken aback, she said she didn’t do anything.

We are not a civil society.

But we are a society of stupid.

Afterthought:

I see persons every day in stores wearing masks pulled down below their noses. I can’t help but wonder, “What the bleeding hell do they think they are accomplishing?”

I note that, in the past weeks, stores that once posted notices that masks for vaccinated visitors are optional have changed that to masks requested (or required) for all.

I find wearing a mask a small inconvenience in the face of the threat of death.

Yet another marauded school board.

I used to think I lived in a civilized (and civil) society.

No more.

Marauders at a school board meeting want to suffer the children.

Kudos to the school board for making the right decision, but, really, the stupid . . . .