Comments on: Roundup

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 20 May 2021 04:17:33 +0000

Took a group to the Denver Botanical Gardens today.
Masks were recommended but not required, outside of the buildings.
Beautiful sunny day, temps in the low 70s.
People were still wearing masks outside, with some on their kids.
Most were not.
As is usual with the Covid Theater, we had to wear our Virtue Girdles at the outdoor restaurant while waiting in line to order, removed them to eat while sitting in much closer proximity than when in the socialistically-distanced queue, put them back on to walk 5 feet to the edge of the eating pavilion, and removed them promptly.
I’m beginning to understand why the American Revolutionaries forced the recalcitrant Tories to leave after winning the war. They decamped to Canada as well as back to Britain, so there may be a lesson in that somewhere.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 20 May 2021 00:31:02 +0000

om, Ben Crump has already been in Elizabeth City, and also the Rev. William Barber. But the video is pretty damning, so we’ll see if Crump moves on quickly.

By: geoff+b

geoff+b — Wed, 19 May 2021 23:03:23 +0000

J. J. & I am Spartacus.

Went to both Menards and Meijer today. No masks if vaccinated and honor system, I am so no mask – finally. About 90% were masked but no one was avoiding me or yelling, so for me it was just a normal shopping trip.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:43:25 +0000

Kipling referred to trust from time to time. There were “the things no fellow could do”. And so you didn’t.
And in “A Counting Out Song” are the lines

“But grass or glacier,
Cold or hot,
The men went out
Who would rather not”

And
“Never yet has a boy been found
To shirk the turn when his turn came ’round”.

It’s harsh. The men who went out when they would rather not
“fought with the tiger, the pig and the ape, To hammer the world into decent shape”

A high trust society has high costs for those bearing the trust. A low trust society has high costs for everybody.
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By: TomR

TomR — Wed, 19 May 2021 13:49:48 +0000

Meanwhile, in the Glorious People’s Bear Republic of California, officials are busy planning how their subjects can be required to “prove” that they are vaccinated in order to enjoy the “privileges” of not wearing a mask and interacting at customary interpersonal distances. As an Oakland bar owner (quoted in today’s Mercury News) said, “I don’t think people will feel safe with the honor system.”

High trust society, it was nice knowing you.

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Wed, 19 May 2021 12:38:05 +0000

The family, naturally, say it was unjustified.

1. The family succored him. It’s a reasonable wager the intramural culture of that family isn’t the best.

2. It’s the view of white liberals and black chauvinists that blacks are an aristocratic stratum and properly immune from arrest by the mere deplorables who staff police departments.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 19 May 2021 09:20:22 +0000

RVD asks “What the hell are we going to do about it?!”

They will not be reasoned with. Compromise is out. If you want the benefits of Liberty and Peace, prepare to wage war.

The dead don’t need compromise.

By: John Guilfoyle

John Guilfoyle — Wed, 19 May 2021 06:15:28 +0000

Boss…that knitted penis thing is just wrong on so many levels.
We’re so FUBAR as a society…it ain’t even funny anymore.

By: I am Spartacus

I am Spartacus — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:55:14 +0000

I went to Costco here in Michigan Saturday after the mask mandate was relaxed. Only two other people were unmasked out of several hundred. When we saw each other we acknowledged that we were the few. Same experience at Lowe’s, Target and Kroger. I expect more and more to “doff the cloth” as time rolls on.

I will never put down a person for wearing a mask. But I will aggressively defend my not wearing one (outside a medical setting for the time being). My body, my choice.

The CDC knows of a bunch of studies and exposes that are shortly coming down the pike and wants to be ahead of the curve. Also the Zhou Baiden mal-administration urgently needs the economy to open up. The April economic numbers were just awful.

By: J.J.

J.J. — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:38:50 +0000

Well, today was our day to go to Costco. They now have a new policy. No masks required for vaccinated people. Whoopee! And it’s all on your honor. No checking vaccine cards. Felt good – almost back to normal except for the number of people who were wearing masks. A surprising number of gray panthers were wearing masks. I wondered if they had not been able to get vaccinated yet, or were they still being cautious? Oh well, whatever. It feels like we’re on the road back to normal.