Health and Sanity category archive
Maskless Marauders 0
At the link, George Danby, the cartoonist, points out that
In the span of six months, the country has gone from the mantra of “We’re all in this together” to cries of “You can’t make me wear a mask.”
Aside:
I don’t remember a “we’re all in this together” period, nope, not at all.
And speaking of masks, I am again reminded of Professor Bill Shade’s mantra that history is irony.
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Sam and his crew struggle to understand maskless morons.
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Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
Maskless Marauders 0
Joan Quiqley fears we are losing the war on stupid. Here’s a bit from her column:
He added that whether it’s information backed by science or common sense, people throughout the U.S. are not listening.
“The thing that annoys me the most is that we keep on doing our best to save all these people, and then you get another batch of people that are doing exactly the opposite of what you’re telling them to do.”
We are a society of stupid. And selfish.
The Reopening, COVID Roulette Dept. 0
The superintendent of schools of a Georgia county is less than impressed by his state’s response to COVID-19 as regards schooling. His comments, methinks, could more generally. Here’s a bit of his piece (emphasis added):
(snip)
Don’t suddenly tell me, as educators, we have now become “essential workers” just to get us back to work. What were teachers before now, unessential?
In a similar vein, Portland, Maine, Press-Herald contributor Victoria Hugo-Vidal is not impressed:
Methinks many decisions about reopening and about COVID-19 are based on magickal mystical thinking alloyed with political and moral cowardice. Politicians, in a mirror echo of Captain Picard, keep saying, “Make it not so.”
But it is so. And will continue to be so for some time. And the virus will feed on their cowardice and denial of science and fact.
My town seems to be acting responsibly.
Individual Blights 0
Many seem to forget–or ignore–that one of the phrases in the preamble to the United States Constitution is “to promote the general welfare.”
At the Idaho State Journal, Leonard Hitchcock points this out in the context of a failure to do just that. A snippet (emphasis added):
The willful stupidity of those remarks is astonishing. It’s true that we, as citizens of a democracy, enjoy a wide range of personal freedoms, some of which are spelled out in our Constitution. It’s also self-evident that exercising those freedoms entails personal decision-making and that we can do what we want as long as we are not harming (or are at high risk of harming) someone else.
Maskless Marauders 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Sara Gorman and Jack M. Gorman explore the reasons why persons choose to refuse to wear masks in these viral times. Here’s one of the possible reasons they explore; follow the link for the others.
