Good morning patriots
Hope everyone slept well after the president soundly beat up China Joe.
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We've had some great threads and comments about what happened last night. Now that you've had time to digest it we'd like to give you the opportunity to seriously discuss any questions, issues, or anything that happened.
Top level comments should be only something that happened during the debate. Links to highlights, fact checks, questions, etc.
For those who missed it.
I plan on writing a letter to the President, whether or not it gets to him, I won’t know, but, I’m going to talk about COVID from the point of view of someone who is in Public Education. That opening salvo in the debate last night enraged me.
I cannot tell you the number of times the students ask me “Why do we have to wear masks?” You hear it in their voices, they just don’t understand why they are being prevented from being kids. It breaks my heart every single time because I want to say “Because your parents listen to the corrupt, dishonest media, they trust subversive government officials far, far too much, and they don’t scream bloody murder and start to riot if their rights are impeded and your parents are declared “essential” and “nonessential” thereby creating a bourgeoisie and a plebeian class.” “Our governor, our lazy state superintendent, and our local public health officials are total smooth brain morons that don’t understand how “Science”TM is being both weaponized and politicized in a way that undermines the objective norms of the scientific method for the last few centuries.” However, I doubt the students could understand that kind of nuance. It enraged me that Joe Biden tried to speak on my behalf because that son of a bitch doesn’t speak for me.
I walk into work every single day hating it because we are acting like COVID is a death sentence, when, even according to the corrupt bastards at the CDC, it is not, especially for anybody under 70! The masking, the hand sanitizer constantly, the anti-social and distrusting behaviors we are implementing upon our youths and our adults is insanity. The actual medical white papers that used the true objective methodology of the Scientific Method for a hundred years result conclusively in that masks do not work and can lead to higher levels of bacterial or viral illness while wearing a mask. Fauci was even a part of a paper that expressed that conclusion and the CDC proved it with THEIR OWN STUDY. The activist American medical community is creating a sense of perpetual distrust worse than Fauci ever did with A.I.D.S. When President Trump belittles Fauci, I clap every single time because how short of memory do Americans have and how much that Keebler elf screwed up A.I.D.S. with pointing out the real symptoms and transmission of that disease.
I walk in to work every single day and there is a general distrust of everybody in regards to the possibility of being an asymptomatic carrier of COVID. The general distrust I see and the hot gossip that goes on amongst teachers is sickening to me. COVID has taken “See something, say something,” to a whole new extreme. Teachers are afraid to cough in front of each other, sneeze, or even breathe because of “the ‘Rona.” There is a general exhaustion and malaise that is tearing the will of teachers apart because they have to enforce Draconian rules that our moronic leaders have implemented to seem like they believe “Science” TM. I hear constantly about “I know so-and-so’s aunt’s brother’s nephew has been quarantined with the Plague and now I’m afraid I’m going to get it because I was around them peripherally.” And under my stupid mask my jaw is agape because I’m like “You, an intelligent individual, are worried about third hand transmission of something that is a 99.7 survival rate for your age group? GTFOH.”
My short break is coming to a close, but I just wanted to post my thoughts about what I see in the field of Public Education and how that son of a bitch Joe Biden doesn’t speak for me and how I hope President Trump can use my anecdotal story in some shape, form, or fashion. Stay safe today frens.
The science says it isn't airborne and that people need to wash their hands. The actual science.
By washing your hands I mean on every ingress. At the gym you should sanitize equipment before and after use. Fresh food should be washed with soap. Dilute dawn works great.
Magically, you won't get sick.
You do none of that and the flu is deadlier for your age group.
I started when people started getting the shits from spinach and laughed when they got them from chipotle. Ate the same spinach, never got sick, haven't been sick in 5 years save the fucking flu but 4 yr olds can't be helped
I work in a public education environment and I WISH more teachers were like you. Godspeed!
Thank you. Same to you, too.
I do not work in public education but I do relate to the unease and distrust you speak of after Alabama mandated masks in mid July. I told my boyfriend that it feels like everyone is walking around half-cocked just waiting for something, anything to set them off. You can feel the tension in the air.
The sneering, name calling, and hatred I would get not wearing a mask and protesting against it is despicable. I wondered if this is what wartime feels like, it's hellish. Even my family was breaking apart because one person in my household is conservative normally but is all for the state regarding the COVID-19 Scare. (This is what I call it in my essays in school). We had many stressful arguments over it.
A few nights after the mandate went into effect me and my boyfriend were driving home after trying to get water for my family (our well has problems) and a guard at Wal-Mart stopped us and physically blocked us from entering. On the way home we talked about how wrong this was and how people didn't used to be like this and seeing all the businesses shuttering and putting up mask entry signs made me break down.
I was weeping for my beautiful Country seemingly dying right in front of my eyes. So many people died for freedom we just... threw away at a whim.
I vowed to resist the mask mandate as much as possible and with the help of God I've been successful. I'm normally a quiet and meek person but God put a fire in me.
I called the police departments to ask how they would enforce it (it depends on the department apparently. They all gave me different answers but overall it doesn't have teeth). I protested for several days in the heat sometimes alone. A man told me to die and a woman called me racist. Many cars had people scoffing, sneering, shaking their heads, and arguing amongst themselves.
I hope they remember me once they realize how wrong they were.
I'm so happy that it's not nearly as bad now since even the women who saw COVID-19 as a fashion trend are getting sick of it. Thank God Almighty. There may be peace yet.
Don’t forget, ever, Kay Ivey is the number one most friendliest Governor to the Chinese. I would be willing to bet she’s getting some kind of financial incentive to play the game. Tate Reeves of Mississippi may be in that same realm.
I come from a place where masks are “mandatory.” I laugh and stare people dead in their eyes when I don’t have a mask on. I dare them to say something. Walk with confidence and energy, nobody will say anything to you. I also wear hats that say “Join, or Die”, “Liberty or Death”, or “No Step on Snek” because I make it known their opinions mean nothing to me. Let the insults of sheep roll off your back and just say “God Bless You” or “Baaaahhhhh” in return.
Mask mandates don’t have teeth whatsoever because that opens up the issue of liability for medical deaths due to masks. The CDC study of 85% of mask wearers got COVID is the only thing any person needs to know to get a bulldog ambulance chaser to sue the state for millions of dollars because THEY caused their family member’s death as a result of unconstitutional assumption of emergency powers beyond their role as chief executive of the state. If the state legislatures passed the order, there would be a stronger legal basis to support the mandates, but there’s a simple reason no state legislature has not done so: it’s illegal and opens the state up to massive legal liability and class action suits.
I am terribly sorry you’ve been mistreated for not wearing a mask. I would smile at you, say “Hello”, and go about my way because you’re an American and you decide what’s best for you :-).
There’s a reason why youth suicide has skyrocketed, especially in Blue States, during the “pandemic.”
Excellent post, and thanks for a teachers' perspective. We MUST overcome this climate of fear.
I agree. It flabbergasts my co-workers when I say “Take down your masks around me, no need to be covered up.” They also can’t believe I’ve not gotten sick because I’m so nonchalant. I believe in the evolution of the immune system and I just say “I believe in vitamins and getting sun, and if I get it, I know medicine will allow me to survive. Until then, c’est la vie.”