One of the best things the coronavirus has done for our society is to expose just how bad we do government. Complete idiots, yet many cowered in their homes believing these clowns actually knew what their best interests were. We should have less faith than ever in the ability of “experts” and politicians to protect us- but millions of Americans have taken the wrong lessons from this catastrophe, and are completely devoted to national lockdown, outdoor masks, and obeying any order no matter how stupid.
Why is the beach closed? You can’t get this stuff outside unless you really make an effort like the close talker (Judge Reinhold) on Seinfeld. Getting a tan is the best way to build up the immune system. Really people?
COVID-19, a virus on a mission has essentially revealed everyone that’s a huge pussy and wants to live like a good little slave and everyone who is not.
Here’s the kind of the human garbage that lives in Cape Charles. Covid is showing us who these people are. This was posted by a reader, “Got snitching going on at the pub. Had a girl with her grandmother begging to use the bathroom (nothing open in town), she had to help her walk to it and then they(4) sat down outside unbeknownst to use inside to just rest. Well, that took the pub’s total over 10 and within minutes the police showed up. They were just doing their job after it was reported by someone. Those that are snitching shame on you.“
The fact that many of you are willing to snitch on your neighbors for violating these arbitrary yet nonsensical shelter-in-place orders… shows that we are absolutely not in this together. So please, shut up with that.
While this virus reminds many of only death, as I watched American college students on spring break, oblivious to the gathering danger and drunk out of their minds, getting ready to have sex they may or may not remember, it reminded me there is just as much life as there is death. I thought of Samuel Pepys dancing and drinking with them.
Pepys, of course, is known for his documenting the bubonic plague of 1665 -67. “The plague is got to Amsterdam,” Pepys wrote, in fall 1663, “brought by a ship by Argier.” As ways to fight the disease, there are “some saying one thing, some another,” he wrote.
Pepys took terrible risks and did not shy from the streets, or the bedrooms of his sexual liaisons. He viewed the plague, even if it killed him, as an opportunity to expand the scope of his thoughts, to become a man of greater sophistication and nuance. He wrote to find answers, and he recorded his fear.
He observed corpses being taken to their burial in the streets, and a number of his acquaintances died, including his own physician.
In summer, he drew up his will, writing, “that I shall be in much better state of soul, I hope, if it should please the Lord to call me away this sickly time.” Later, he wrote of deserted streets; the pedestrians he encountered were “walking like people that had taken leave of the world.” At the end of August, he recorded 6,102 victims but feared “that the true number of the dead this week is near 10,000,” mostly because the victims among the urban poor weren’t counted. A week later, he noted the official number of 6,978 in one week, “a most dreadfull Number.”
For Pepys, to master fear is to learn to live with it, knowing that it exists for a purpose. Pepys thought that his inner life was more important than what might happen to his material body and that this justified the risks he took. His family did not approve. They begged him to leave London and join them upcountry. He had the money to flee but stayed and worked.
What he feared most was the life unlived—the life of mere existence.
Even with his many walks to plague filled haunts, he was still all about life, “Thus ends this year, to my great joy, in this manner,” he wrote on New Year’s Eve, 1665. “I have raised my estate from 1300l in this year to 4400l. I have got myself greater interest, I think, by my diligence; and my imployments encreased by that of Treasurer for Tanger and Surveyor of the Victuals.” He really loved working and making money.
And so, we’ve reached almost two months of sheltering in place. What are we really hiding from? I’d call those in charge a bunch of wankers, but then we’d have to admit we are ruled by a bunch of wankers. To add insult to injury, we are now expected to go out and vote on May 19th for another confederacy of dunces. If you do vote, man up and do it in person.
Our once great country is completely gutted, destroyed by fearful suburban women and over-feminized men. Everything we have done has been out of fear. We have done probably the exact opposite if we are to build some form of herd immunity, and have done a poor job of protecting the most vulnerable, the elderly in nursing homes and continued care. Protect with our lives the ones that need it, but young, healthy people need to be out. Covid is the best, I believe there is no way to avoid contracting it–it’s how we deal with the contractions that matter.
Remember how much freedom we gave up trying to hide from the Al Quida Boogey Man, the Patriot Act? That’s going to seem like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood when it’s all said and done (under the guise of safety).
The irony, for a population that is so fearful of their own deaths, the death toll nobody talks about is the ~900,000 abortion kills a year in the U.S. Maybe it’s karma? COVID-19 does seem like it’s really, really good at what it does.
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“…obeying any order no matter how stupid.”
“Got snitching going on at the pub.”
Just like it was in USSR and is in Russia, North Korea, Cuba and etc. now!
Our current Deep State Shadow Government is getting us used to dictatorial governance!
“Love your country – Fear your government’!
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. I love you big brother.
Coming soon to CC ?…………….https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=viuR7N6E2LA&feature=emb_logo
Get outside and get some sun and fresh air.
Vitamin D and Covid-19
After studying global data from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers have discovered a strong correlation between severe vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-05-08/healthy-vitamin-d-levels-could-be-linked-to-covid-19-survival
The Sun Is Your Best Source of Vitamin D
When your skin is exposed to sunlight, 10 to 15 minutes a day, it makes vitamin D from cholesterol. The sun’s ultraviolet B (UVB) rays hit cholesterol in the skin cells, providing the energy for vitamin D synthesis to occur. Vitamin D has many roles in the body and is essential for optimal health.
This is a good read:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200507121353.htm
Amen, Joe McDonald!
I’m over 70, and I pay a great deal of attention to the maintenance of my innate and adaptive immune systems by doing just that, even today out in the rain.
Seems stupid to not do so.
And its real easy.
Simply choose a healthy lifestyle, and then defend it 24/7/365.
It probably sounds “New-Age” to some, but speaking as someone over 70, following general good-health guidelines is the single best step one can take toward naturally keeping one’s immune system strong and healthy.
Every part of one’s body, including one’s immune system, functions better when protected from environmental assaults and bolstered by healthy-living strategies such as these:
• Don’t smoke.
• Eat a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
• Exercise regularly.
• Maintain a healthy weight.
• If you drink alcohol, drink only in moderation.
• Get adequate sleep.
• Take steps to avoid infection, such as washing your hands frequently and cooking meats thoroughly.
• Try to minimize stress.
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Right now that last is critical for older people suddenly thrust into forced social isolation which drives their immunity down hard into the ground, especially if they are in a state of despair because their home health aide no longer shows up because she has kids now at home who have to be home-schooled, which happens to be Andy Cuomo’s plan for education in the future, no more classrooms, so they simply give up on living.
You forgot the most important one…
. Keep your foot up a liberal’s a$$ every day and twice on Sunday.
How young and liberal is your pontificating ass?
Note: How old and stupid is your ignorant, non-contributing ass?
I pay more taxes each year than you’ve probably payed in your whole life when it comes to contributing. As far as the rest of your insane diatribe; pull your head out of your ass and see what’s going on. And if you’ve got enough time to write this idiocy, go get a job, or another job and stop being a mouthy waste of skin.
Note: Get a job old man. McDonald’s is hiring frightened, non-contributing seniors. Make yourself useful, and don’t forget your mask.
We can only hope you and your ilk will be perpetually trapped in Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell for potentially causing ill upon your neighbor. It is there that people boil in blood for their transgressions.
Note: I have no neighbors. If I did, I believe in choice and free will. They should be free to do whatever they want, they should be free to choose, and accept the consequences of that choice. It’s called living a life, something you have obviously never known how to do. You also were probably never on the debate team. Wishing harm doesn’t seem very nice. If that is what’s in your heart, it seems you will be joining us in the inferno.
You say, I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. ‘But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, blind and naked.
Speaking merely as a casual observer here, I think that has a good beat, and good rhythm, easy to dance to, which is as important today as it ever was, and damn good lyrics with the right amount of angst and sense of drama and impending doom packed in those couple of lines, when you come right down to it, and I’m thinking if you got hooked up with a dude like Billy Strings, you can turn that into a top-of-the-charts Country/Western crossover into Reggae or Hip-Hop, or both.
With lyrics writing like that, Nashville and the Big Time, here you come!
You obviously have a problem, leave a phone number and I will be sure to give you a call. I am not much for moderation and you and I are just guest here.
‘We can only hope you and your ilk will be perpetually trapped in Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell for potentially causing ill upon your neighbor. It is there that people boil in blood for their transgressions.’
Typical Liberal….are you not wishing ilk upon Your Neighbors? Why do you people always condemn others for the things you do? Have you been reading Alinsky? You Sir, are a Damned Fool, if there ever was one.
Bless you Heart
Bell’s definition of a Liberal – anyone he disagrees with.
“We can only hope you and your ilk will be perpetually trapped in Dante’s Seventh Circle of Hell for…..POTENTIALLY……. causing ill upon your neighbor.”
Eh, you want to damn people to eternal damnation because they MIGHT cause ill?
Sounds rather drastic, if you don’t mind me saying so.
Actually, I don’t really care if you do or don’t, I just like taking the opportunity to tweak the virtual nose of bleeding hearts.
As a great man once said, get a job.
I love all my liberal neighbors, here on earth, they just are not welcome to borrow a wrench/tool to complete a project they may be working on.
Wow! Why did your mind go straight to ‘Young A$$es’. You must be a Jeffrey Epstein associate. You have a sick mind to go there.
I will pray for your wretched soul.
Kp, let me say from a socio-political perspective that your soliloquy above here sounds positively Shakespearian, to be truthful, like some lines from out of Hamlet or MacBeth or maybe even Romeo and Juliet.
The question you raise is who exactly is it in here, or perhaps out there, that they are aimed at?
Who is it that possesses the “pontificating ass,” as you call it?
And where is the pontificating going on?
Do you mean Stuart Bell @ May 12, 2020 at 3:02 pm saying:
You forgot the most important one…
Keep your foot up a liberal’s a$$ every day and twice on Sunday.
It’s whom
Just tap our….you are done.
Tap
Thanks for that.
I have to confess to having trouble as to when one might be correct, versus the other, and here was a case in point.
Here’s the kind of the human garbage that lives in Cape Charles. Covid is showing us who these people are. This was posted by a reader, “Got snitching going on at the pub. Had a girl with her grandmother begging to use the bathroom (nothing open in town), she had to help her walk to it and then they(4) sat down outside unbeknownst to use inside to just rest. Well, that took the pub’s total over 10 and within minutes the police showed up. They were just doing their job after it was reported by someone. Those that are snitching shame on you.“
I was raised with the total belief that….’Snitches get Stitches’.
I guess they lied to me?
An interesting comment, but if one studies the accuracy of WWII bombing, which could be called execrable, one finds the flak likely to be as heavy or worse even when you are nowhere near the target, an observation verified by my uncle who was a waist gunner on a WWII bomber.
Flak before you got there, flak while you were there, flak while you were leaving – lot’s of flak is what he said – “you’d think they were trying to shoot us down!”
I think flak makes one laconic, to be truthful.
I used to fly on helicopters at night in VEET NAM, and one night, Charlie had a flak gun going, trying to hit helicopters.
Interesting stuff is flak.