An email was recently sent out to our group that absolutely got my dander up. There were a series of attachments that surprised and then ... well... ticked me off.
Seriously?
You're saying you shouldn't have to wear a mask and you don't want government to establish some mandates that would protect everyone so you can do whatever you like, never mind the people you might infect, never mind the fact that you could be creating more variants?
And you should risk death so those people who don't seem to care about others can "preserve our way of life?"
And you equate this to brave soldiers who put their lives on the line for our country?
AND you're saying the 2 biggest things that led to the creation of our nation are guns and the Bible and that’s what liberals want to get rid of?
Have you heard of the separation of church and state? Not everyone is Christian in this country. There is a reason for that separation being established by our founding fathers.
And are you thinking that because guns were used during the Revolutionary War in 1775, that everybody should be allowed to have a gun today? Have you seen how many guns we have in this country compared to other countries? Have you seen how many deaths there have been due to gun violence?
I got this from Wikipedia:
"Person of the Year (called Man of the Year or Woman of the Year until 1999)is an annual issue of the United States news magazine and website Time that features and profiles a person, a group, an idea, or an object that "for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year".
Time did not think Hitler was a great person. They were just showing who "has done the most (and worst) to influence the events of the year."
And yes, he certainly did in the most evil of ways.
AND, of course, you had to expect this.
The person who sent these out to all of us probably thinks those were patriots who stormed and damaged the capitol building. Does he not realize that those were insurrectionists who violently injured and have now caused suicides of those who were fighting to protect democracy against these insurgents?
We had about 200 people last week protesting at our capitol because of mandates to vaccinate all state workers and requiring high school athletes to be vaccinated to play sports.
My daughter was surprised that our infection rate in Hawaii right now is worse than in Illinois. The Delta variant is the main cause and hospitals are in danger of overflowing.
A few mornings later, I saw this in the Star Advertiser Editorial page.
So yes, my dander is up. And I guess I'm not the only one.
My sentiments exactly! We have to stop at stop signs and not speed and all other kinds of infringements on our so called freedoms. Anyone who actually reads the second amendment will realize it is talking about a militia. There was no standing army or police force in those early days of our nation. A militia was all we had for protection. We no longer have a militia to protect us..
ReplyDeleteSecond Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated
https://constitution.congress.gov › amendment-2
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
It's the ignorant appealing to the ignorant. Each one of these depends for its appeal on the viewer being unaware of basic facts.
ReplyDeleteThe mask/soldier analogy is backwards. Soldiers accept great deprivation and the risk of death to protect their fellow citizens. Modern whiny wingnuts won't even accept the tiny inconvenience of mask-wearing to protect their fellow citizens.
I can't believe the way people are behaving with this pandemic. What has happened that the people who won't wear masks or get vaccinations are going to cause people besides themselves to become ill and possibly die. You would think they care enough about themselves and their families to be vaccinated. I understand that there are people who have allergic and other problems with vaccines, and I can understand their reasons for no vaccinations.
ReplyDeleteWith the attitudes our country has now seat belt wearing would have never been made into law, nor child safety restraints. In our state, I believe they have taken away the law to wear a motor cycle helmet. Now that is the person's own business if they want severe brain damage from a motor cycle wreck. They aren't taking others lives with that behavior. But not wearing masks around others in public places nor getting vaccinated is going to cost the lives of so many people. This virus keeps mutating and getting worse. We already have 2 more variants since it started, the Delta and the Lambda, The numbers of possible mutations may be infinite, who knows, but who is to say there won't be a mutation even more deadly than what we have had. Each time a different person gets this virus there are more chances of mutations.
I worry about my grandson. His middle school will allow kids not to wear masks if their parents object to them wearing masks. They start school on August 25. I don't know if they will be doing any virtual schooling from home this year or not.
I remember all of us kids in my grade school and the parents, too, lining up for polio vaccine when I was a very young girl. And remember how all of us had our round mark on our arms from our small pox vaccination. We've come a long way baby, in the wrong direction it seems to me. I hope people will snap out of their brainwash and really consider getting vaccinated and wearing masks for the children's sake at least.
If it wasn't so serious it would be amusing the way those who scream "my freedom" are so easily manipulated by misinformation. They hear it often and loudly stated -- oh, it must be true. The death bed regrets come too late.
ReplyDeleteIt's crazy. They used to call liberals snowflakes, but we have discovered it is the rednecks who lose it over a piece of cloth.
ReplyDeleteIt's a sad day for freedom and responsibility in our land...hate to watch the news and see how people are acting out for their different conflicting causes...
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm fortunate in that I ignore those sorts of things. Like someone mentioned above, it is only the ignorant that believe them and they will believe just about anything.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing I would like to gently correct however is that our goal is and will never be about reducing the variants created. the eta, iota and lambda variants are already about and yet the media, at least the ones I watch, have yet to report on it though you can google them. From the beginning, the top scientists have said that Covid will be here forever and that eventually it will mutate to a point where it will just be another cold virus that goes around constantly. The reason we wear masks and encourage people to get vaccinated is not to prevent the virus from mutating yet again but to slow down the spread so hospitals aren't overwhelmed and unnecessary lives lost.
I agree totally with you. Our hospitals are at their tipping point. My sister was supposed to go into assisted living. I'm keeping her with me because they had a vaccinated staff member test positive at the facility. I could not see her having to go into a 14 day quarantine. It is a mess here and we have those ignorant memes here too. Sad that some are so easily fooled. My 91 year old mother questions how they cannot see how foolish they are being.
ReplyDeleteThe religion part dumbfounds me. It is a quirk in that I am descended from the pilgrims and like. Ironic in that the original Puritan religion does not believe in proselytizing. They believe in Free Will. Some of these Evangelism beliefs have arose in the past 50 or 70 years, especially the prosperity gospel some of them toot. I can go on and on. I don't believe any one religion is the religion. They all lead to something better.
Preach it, Sister! You and I are on the same page.
ReplyDeleteI so agree! My dander is often up these days which can't be good for my blood pressure. I feel like I'm living in an issue of the "Onion." Surely this must be satire? But no, these people don't understand satire or irony.
ReplyDeleteYes!
ReplyDeleteAnd too, the founders were Masons. I too am truly grateful that I have been vaccinated for Polio...two ways. If there had been a measles vaccination, my mother would have gotten that one for me too. I'd be able to see well. I so agree with you. This is not a medical freedom act at all.
I guess my dander will be up also as soon as I get over my bewilderment at the so called rational of some folks. What planet are they from?
ReplyDeleteThe polio vaccine came out in the days, when people generally believed they could trust the medical community - and government in general. You see, back in the 1950s, our nation was generally Christian - not so today. Today, like a quarter (if not more) of the us population is either pagan, atheI$t or whatever (same difference, really) ... not exactly trustworthy. Bible explains.
ReplyDeleteI could get on board with the "Holy Bible" part of the third meme if the principle could be extended to include any type of morals-based spiritual principles. However, I know that's not what the author had in mind.
ReplyDeleteHorror stories all the time, it extends into Canada.
ReplyDeleteI am dealing with this resistance to vaccine and mask wearing personally. At the end of the month we are having a family picnic hosted by my late sister's sons in their small town in Oregon. They are all COVID deniers, vaccine and mask resistors. They won't change their minds. They see it all as government interference in their lives. They even believe in many of the conspiracy theories. It bugs the H--l out of me but there is nothing I can do or say to change it.
ReplyDeleteI'm "ticked off" too.
It's my job to send out notices to the family about the picnic and the family cabin meeting to follow. I will be there wearing a mask part time and not hugging some of them, but I will also, as part of my notice, inform the family that some of our adult family members are not vaccinated. It may cause some blowback on me but I think it's my responsibility to warn our folks.
Good for you Linda. My family has a wedding coming up and it's the no-mask, no vaccine family of one of my sisters. It's heartbreaking, and so sadly many of us will not be going. My sister is 78 and has many "underlying conditions" and I have my fingers crossed she survives this gathering.
DeleteYes , I agree with you. There are some very twisted people out there. As in religion, many people think there country is only Christian. They haven't done any research. There you've got me going!
ReplyDeleteIt's true what you say about seat belts and child restraints. In this day and age, they wouldn't have a chance of becoming law. Those are some scary pictures you posted. I am sad that my country has become so bigoted. :-(
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to believe what's being printed and said these days. My dander is up, my ulcers are trying to return, I'm scared because my home health patient, his wife, and half of the other nurses and therapists taking care of him aren't vaccinated.
ReplyDeleteNot sure we can win, when hospital nurses and doctors report that those dying of covid, taking their last breaths, still refuse to believe they have covid, and that it must be a bad cold!
As far as religious beliefs go: seems that any religion's god gave us brains to use too, in order to make healthy decisions.
I can't wait to be approved to get a 3rd Moderna shot; experts are saying that 8 months after the 2nd shot is when boosters for the general population should get them. I don't buy the line that booster shots take away from others getting their first two: PUUTOOIE! They've had plenty of time to get them.
There's no lifeguard at the gene pool. Linda in Kansas
Looks like mid September is when it opens up for boosters. Art and I will probably go in late October to November… whenever Tripler emails us. I’m really worried about my ER nephew right now. He’s seeing a lot of asymptomatic people coming in and testing positive.
DeleteWhat people want to believe is unbelievable! I hope we survive.
ReplyDeleteYay :) So glad to hear that at least a few doctors and nurses have NOT taken the shot.
ReplyDeleteI’m trying to be patient with anti-vaxxers who do not care about how they are affecting others. However, one of my dear relatives is an ER nurse at the hospital here and he’s seeing all kinds of cases coming in without symptoms but test positive for COVID and are therefore passing it on to others. AND NOW one of my dearest friends whose son-in-law is a nurse contracted COVID while caring for other patients in the ICU unit before the vaccine was available and now has brain fog, tires easily and suffering greatly. He’s no longer able to work. And now there are countless other health care providers who have to care for uncaring anti-vaxxers who think only about themselves instead of others. And those heroes are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line for these people. Buddhism teaches us to think about others, to be kind and caring. My grandfather was a Buddhist priest. I asked him what the best religion was and he said no religion is the best, it’s how each person uses that religion that makes it good or bad. I certainly see the truth of his words now.
DeleteWe have antimaskers here, too. It is ridiculous. Great rant! I hear you!
ReplyDeletei guess my dander is up too and i worry about our country!!
ReplyDeleteSociety has rules and responsibilities. If you don't like that, go to some deserted island with no infrastructure and see how long you last.
ReplyDeleteThere are those bent on doing away with our democratic republic form of government and what they've sent you is part of the effort to destroy our democracy and freedoms as we've known them. Dangerously, one of our major political parties seems to be abetting this goal though some of them don't seem to realize that's what they're doing -- and it's not the Democratic Party.
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