Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
David analyzes the latest COVID vaccine FUD from Fox News. (Short commercial at the end.)
Devolution 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Clifford Lazarus takes a look at common myths and misinformation being spread about COVID-19, including the following:
- Myth 1: Masks Do Not Protect People from COVID-19
- Myth 2: Vaccines Cause COVID-19
- Myth 3: Vaccines Contain Micro-Tracking Technology
After demolishing them, he comes to a disheartening conclusion:
It is this latter fact that seems to support our species’ scientific classification as Homo sapiens — “wise man.” But, in general, that classification seems to be a misnomer. Why would people choose to ignore scientific realities and act in personally reckless, socially irresponsible, and globally destructive ways? Perhaps because the prevalence of superstition, fear, denial, greed, shortsightedness, and ignorance are integral aspects of our species? This is why I propose a different, seemingly much more fitting classification for our kind, Homo stultus — “stupid man.”
Follow the link for more about the myths, his debunking thereof, and the reasoning behind his suggested change in nomenclature.
Maskless Marauders, Suffer the Children Dept. 0
Julie Heller spent some time with school children to determine their feelings about wearing masks in school. She found that they did not consider themselves to be abused, despite what some parents might be thinking–and saying. She quotes one little girl as replying, when asked how she feels about wearing a mask, “Doesn’t matter,” she said, “as long as we get to go to school.”
So she wonders about the source of parents’ anxiety. Here a little bit (emphasis added):
So where’s all this added anxiety and stress parents claim kids are feeling from wearing masks?
Maybe, just maybe it’s the parents who are feeling this. Maybe they’re watching their kids get on the school bus with covered faces and it reminds them their kids aren’t having the “normal” childhood they had mask-free. . . .
But, logically, it makes no sense to care about your kids more than anything in the world while also pushing to send them into a microscopic war zone without protective gear.
Maskless Marauders 0
PoliticalProf parses the pathological pretzel logic.
Vaccine Nation 0
Writing at the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan expresses his puzzlement. A snippet (emphasis added); follow the link for the full article.
When two state governors, one of whom is infected himself, put a ban on mask mandates even though face covering prevents transmission of COVID, does that not make them indirectly responsible for illness and the potential death of infected children?
Nor Any Drop To Drink, Reprise 0
Central Florida is facing a water shortage. Unlike the water shortage in the western states, though, it’s not from lack of rain.
It’s from lack of competent governance in the face of a pandemic.
Vaccine Nation 0
Michael Harriot runs the numbers.
Ripping Off the Mask 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of The Roanoke Times explains his decision to stop wearing a mask.
No excerpt or summary can do it justice. Please just follow the link.
The Motive behind the Madness 0
Mac Stipanovich attempts to understand Florida’s Governor Maskless Marauder Ron DeSantis. A nugget (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the play-by-play.
It Is Seldom Wise To Tempt Fate . . . 0
. . . for Fate has notoriously little will power in the face of temptation.
Vaccine Nation 0
The coach of the Washington Football Team is fed up with vaccine disinformation and the anti-vaxx crowd. Here’s a bit from the report:
“And then one specific news agency, every time they have someone on, ‘I’m not a doctor, but vaccines don’t work,’ Or ‘I’m not an epidemiologist, but vaccines are going to give you a third nipple and make you sterile,’” Rivera continued. “Come on. That, to me? That should not be allowed.”
Hmmmmm. One wonders what “specific news agency” he has in mind. No, one doesn’t.
Fly the Fiendly Skies 0
SFGate talked with some flight attendants. What they learned about the conduct of passengers in these viral times is not pretty. A snippet:
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.