Comments on: OCD symptoms post-COVID: easy to start, hard to end

By: AppleBetty

AppleBetty — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:38:19 +0000

apropos of above

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By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:23:09 +0000

om. Correct. Good one.

And there are those who think inconvenience is inescapably connected to efficacy. The harder it is to do it, the more they want to do it. I swear, if somebody started a goof about a plastic bag and two feet of duct tape….

And, I swear, there’s the MAKE ME DO STUPID STUFF…OOOHHHH YEAAHHHHH crowd. Doing it isn’t the thing. It’s being forced to do it.

By: om

om — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:44:25 +0000

HOAs, the pox on our houses?

By: J.J.

J.J. — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:40:28 +0000

What I would like to see is a law that requires all governors, mayors, and medical bureaucrats, who impose medical lockdowns, to take a 75% pay cut during the lockdown. That would at least make them consider the economic damage they are doing to their fellow citizens, and make them have some skin in the game. It’s too easy for a bureaucrat or politician, whose salaries continue unchanged, to impose draconian measures that wreak economic damage on others. However, I doubt that legislatures and councils would be wiling to pass such laws, much less the governors or mayors to sign them. Well, it’s an idea.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:16:29 +0000

Not sure I’d call it a “fall from grace”, though. More like a betrayal finally revealed.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 14:07:45 +0000

Things are spotty and I suspect that’s why reactions differ. I have a friend who knew four people who died of (or with) Covid. I know nobody who was sick with it but one woman had a positive test and wasn’t sick. So she was either asymptomatic or it was a false positive.
Our church prayer chain, when referring to Covid, is about half of the folks–many of whom I might not recognize on the street–wanting prayers for people they know. About one degree of separation.
My wife and I drive Meals on Wheels, so we’re out two or three times a week. And in our area, we like to say, we have to coordinate our surgeries. My wife and I have been healthy the last year or so, and so we’ve been busy with one thing or another having to do with less fortunate neighbors. None of whom have been sick with the Kung Flu.
And so the tempo of our lives hasn’t changed much, although the issues which fill our calendar are not the same as in better times. So we don’t feel locked in. Our neighbors don’t bother to mask when visiting. It’s like we go into a somewhat alien world when we’re out. Mask up for Walmart.

But I think I’ve discovered a demographic. It’s people flunked out of HOA school for being insufficiently annoying. They have new opportunities.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 07:47:31 +0000

And…after a year of Fauci News, the long climbdown begins.
The kicker:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1373031808481292290

(Short version: “You f%#@ers actually believed us!?”)

File under: Giving Jonathan Gruber a run for his money…

By: Sharon W

Sharon W — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 05:00:03 +0000

Just before I read this post my husband and I discussed when we would go back to attending Mass at our local parish that we have continued to support financially throughout this California lockdown and for me it will be when masks are optional. Until then I will continue to observe the YouTube Sunday Mass from Sioux Falls, SD. 2 + 2 = 5 cannot subsist in the exercise of my faith.

By: Molly+Brown

Molly+Brown — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 04:35:12 +0000

R2L and Jimmy,
My former commercial short term rental policy specifically excluded loss from a pandemic event.
On another note, I’ve never stopped the practice of ‘Euro air kiss and hug’. I offer a hand to shake, too. I consider these principled acts of civil disobedience.
I have to be reminded frequently about the 6′ distance.
I never left the ‘old normal’.
Been a hand washer long before Covid.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 03:34:42 +0000

R2L “But such a possibility or risk is exactly what insurance is designed to mitigate.”

I’m pretty sure that business interruption insurance has exclusions for mass events like the lockdowns. Otherwise the insurers themselves would go bankrupt, as your second paragraph hints at.