I can only think that it's a sunken cost fallacy for these people. They're well aware of just how much they've fucked up their lives, their future, and their society by locking themselves in their home and hiding under their bed from the flu. They also know, in the back of their mind, that it isn't all that deadly/dangerous. That they didn't need to do what they did and they'll be feeling the consequences for a decade or more.
NO! This couldn't have all been for nothing! They need it to be a world-ending extinction-level event to justify, in their minds, that burning down society was actually necessary, that the social media attention they got for wearing a mask or sitting on their ass was because they were a good person and not a sheep. Whether they want to or not, they know that it isn't all that serious, but they want it to be so bad. They need it to be. They just can't admit to themselves that they were wrong, and that the people who did actually leave their house without a mask and live their lives were right. Can't have that, so let's double down on restrictions and lock down and virtue signal even harder until we have that magical vaccine that we ruined the entire year for.
I believe you hit the nail on the head with that statement. In the deep blue communist state of Connecticut, I am seeing more and more of these Karen’s who have been hiding in their house, admitting they didn’t even take a walk like they used to because they wanted to protect everyone from getting Covid in they were being a responsible citizen by doing so, etc. Starting to practically beg For a vaccine ASAP so they can get back to normal.
That fits perfectly with what you have described, they refuse to admit, and they will never admit it was not nearly as bad as they have made it out to be a continue to say how horrible it is and social media every day. They Will never admit that back in March or so they got scared and said I’ll stay inside for two weeks, and buy all the toilet paper, and then it’ll go back to normal, but then when the media kept scaring them they kept getting deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of fear.
I honestly believe this people will have some form of PTSD or mental health issues once all this is done. I don’t know if they’ll ever be “normal” again. They have spent almost an entire year at this point being scared of their fellow citizens in thinking all the ways their fellow citizens actions will kill With this mysterious scary virus.
You just made me aware of the idea of a sunk cost fallacy and I am absolutely going to remember it. Gosh 'pedes are so smart and I love this community.
Sunken colts fallacy is one of the absolutes of life. People will continue to do anything if they feel stopping means it was all wasted. Breaking that mentality in every aspect of your life is truly freeing!
Its why people finish bad books they are reading, and bad movies etc and stay in horrible relationships and a million other irrational things, business is overflowing with it as well as governments (billions into highspeed rails to no where etcetcetc)
Those things will give a wide range of temperature readings depending on the COLOR of the object that is being measured. It’s called emissivity and most those temp guns usually don’t have a way to change the default setting.
I missed out on a pretty good job opportunity a couple months ago because one of those things said I was running a 101 fever after they made us sit in our cars for two hours waiting for them to let us in one by one. I don’t have air conditioning. Of course, I didn’t actually have a fever when I measured my temp at home.
I can’t think of an easier way to spread germs than using the same head thermometer on everyone as they walk in.
We went into a restaurant last weekend and they took our temperature. I sat down at the booth, looked at my girlfriend and said, “We’re never coming here again.”
Yeah most likely, but they aren’t wiping it down between people, and if the so called experts say it’s “airborne” which is why a lot of restaurant that opened for inside dining refused to put the AC on during the summertime around here, then waving their hands in my face wouldn’t be a very good idea, right? And who the hell is going out if they have a temperature anyways? It’s so ridiculous.
Regardless if it’s airborne or not, I don’t want a strangers nasty ass hands waving around my face to begin with. COVID or no COVID, the average person’s hands are disgusting and I don’t want them anywhere near me.
Not to mention, these aren’t registered nurses or doctors taking my temperature it’s teenagers with no experience elsewhere.
The rules they put in place are so fucking ridiculous and laughably hypocritical, it’s foolish.
I tried going out to eat a week or so ago at a restaurant I hadn’t been to since they reopened and after the state force them to close. I ordered a steak. I was served a stake in a to go container with plastic knife. After speaking with the manager, who denied me a steak knife, due to health regulations saying that it is too dangerous to serve a meal on real plates with a real silverware “because the servers would touch the plate” but apparently the servers didn’t touch them to go container to bring it to my table?
I tried in the steak but after breaking several plastic knives I got the manager again who gave me a refund on the steak, paid for my appetizers and drinks and left.
My library might be the most hardcore of all places with kung flu hysteria. Must schedule pickup, only open like 6 hours a week. They come out in basically hazmat suit (outside) and hand you your books in a paper bag from behind a plexiglass barrier 🤡🌍
I had to make an emergency trip to my local target last week. As I walked in I grabbed one of the little hand baskets and after I got about 50 feet in the store some kid comes running up with a spray bottle and towels saying “sir, sir, sir, I have to sanitize the handle before you can take it” I asked them why wasn’t the Handle cleaned before you put the baskets out, he said they do it before you pick it up So it makes you feel comfortable shopping there.
Strangely, he nor any employee said anything about me not wearing a mask at all in the state where it is required.
I've lost all respect for our Police I used to always defend them, had family who were cops. Now I see them as the security force of the far left insurrection. Maybe I'll change my mind back if they start to do their fucking job.
Definitely the transients and low lifes ruining it for the rest of us.
Library when I was a kid made you go to the desk and sign in to get a bathroom key because druggies and hookers had been using them for their escapades. Also, the thievery was so out of control they only put empty boxes of media out in a small back room filled with cameras and then they were filled at the check out desk. Even popular and new books were in a locked case.
I moved to an upper middle class area and the library system is one of the best things about it. Clean, safe, and well stocked. They even put out free coffee and cookies.
Wow. Completely different from my experience with our little local library. Totally safe and cozy. I spent hours there as a kid. Rode my bike or walked there and hung out all day!
Police station is in the same building and right next to library. I'd be trespassed in less than 5 min if I didn't comply. I haven't been back since they recently reopened (sort of - limited hours and rules like OP).
Simple, we "peacefully protest" as BLM does, the library gonna get torched anyways, it's not the first time they have done this, so shit in the book, throw it in there, and leave, it's more peaceful than anything BLM did.
You are serious about them books, eh?
Well then I'll just check myself outta here then.
I'd rather shelve it for now.
SHHHHHHHHHHHH!
They'll throw the book at him in court.
Dewey protest?
THIS IS HOW WE FIGHT AND WIN THE MASK BATTLE
(see comments for tactics and useful scientific proof)
https://thedonald.win/p/HEzJp5LE/were-not-gonna-take-it--target-s/
Pack heat and don't hesitate to defend yourself.
Wait, books and libraries are still a thing ?
It’s for homeless people to go number 2 and dvd rentals for the hood...
Don't forget internet for porn.
Branch Covidians can all fuck right off.
I can only think that it's a sunken cost fallacy for these people. They're well aware of just how much they've fucked up their lives, their future, and their society by locking themselves in their home and hiding under their bed from the flu. They also know, in the back of their mind, that it isn't all that deadly/dangerous. That they didn't need to do what they did and they'll be feeling the consequences for a decade or more.
NO! This couldn't have all been for nothing! They need it to be a world-ending extinction-level event to justify, in their minds, that burning down society was actually necessary, that the social media attention they got for wearing a mask or sitting on their ass was because they were a good person and not a sheep. Whether they want to or not, they know that it isn't all that serious, but they want it to be so bad. They need it to be. They just can't admit to themselves that they were wrong, and that the people who did actually leave their house without a mask and live their lives were right. Can't have that, so let's double down on restrictions and lock down and virtue signal even harder until we have that magical vaccine that we ruined the entire year for.
I believe you hit the nail on the head with that statement. In the deep blue communist state of Connecticut, I am seeing more and more of these Karen’s who have been hiding in their house, admitting they didn’t even take a walk like they used to because they wanted to protect everyone from getting Covid in they were being a responsible citizen by doing so, etc. Starting to practically beg For a vaccine ASAP so they can get back to normal.
That fits perfectly with what you have described, they refuse to admit, and they will never admit it was not nearly as bad as they have made it out to be a continue to say how horrible it is and social media every day. They Will never admit that back in March or so they got scared and said I’ll stay inside for two weeks, and buy all the toilet paper, and then it’ll go back to normal, but then when the media kept scaring them they kept getting deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of fear.
I honestly believe this people will have some form of PTSD or mental health issues once all this is done. I don’t know if they’ll ever be “normal” again. They have spent almost an entire year at this point being scared of their fellow citizens in thinking all the ways their fellow citizens actions will kill With this mysterious scary virus.
You misspelled "12 cats"
You just made me aware of the idea of a sunk cost fallacy and I am absolutely going to remember it. Gosh 'pedes are so smart and I love this community.
Sunken colts fallacy is one of the absolutes of life. People will continue to do anything if they feel stopping means it was all wasted. Breaking that mentality in every aspect of your life is truly freeing!
You just described all of communism
Its why people finish bad books they are reading, and bad movies etc and stay in horrible relationships and a million other irrational things, business is overflowing with it as well as governments (billions into highspeed rails to no where etcetcetc)
That is not why I watch 'bad movies' sir. My love for nicholas cage has no bounds!
I've never seen this... it's beautiful
Yep then the vaccine is gonna be a whole other fight. le sigh...
How about just making a post for that instead of going around multiple times in the same thread replying it to completely unrelated comments.....
Tell them, "No thanks, I'm no longer participating in the China Virus hoax"
“It’s fine you can call the cops on me.”
Goodfellas laughing meme
That’s what I told my reserve unit when I last went to drill lol “why won’t you wear a mask, didn’t you just have a baby? What about his safety?”
“A. I don’t believe in hoaxes and B. I’m not sick so why would I wear a mask?”
Exactly. I'm not sick so fuck off.
C. early exposure actually improves a childs immune system
He did not know what calibrate even means.
should have Tare him a new one
That's one Mode of taking care of it
Those things will give a wide range of temperature readings depending on the COLOR of the object that is being measured. It’s called emissivity and most those temp guns usually don’t have a way to change the default setting.
I missed out on a pretty good job opportunity a couple months ago because one of those things said I was running a 101 fever after they made us sit in our cars for two hours waiting for them to let us in one by one. I don’t have air conditioning. Of course, I didn’t actually have a fever when I measured my temp at home.
So you're saying that they're racist...
I can work with that.
Thermometers are racist! Let’s cancel that too!
Black people be cold as ice mufugga
I can’t think of an easier way to spread germs than using the same head thermometer on everyone as they walk in.
We went into a restaurant last weekend and they took our temperature. I sat down at the booth, looked at my girlfriend and said, “We’re never coming here again.”
It’s probably a laser thermometer
I went to the Doctor the other day and he did it the same way! Damned if I know how he did it either, both his hands were on my shoulders.
I bet you liked that, commie.
Probably unrelated to covid. Just some curious rando.
“They stuck the thermometer up my ass”
I want to read the Yelp review on that restaurant!
Yeah most likely, but they aren’t wiping it down between people, and if the so called experts say it’s “airborne” which is why a lot of restaurant that opened for inside dining refused to put the AC on during the summertime around here, then waving their hands in my face wouldn’t be a very good idea, right? And who the hell is going out if they have a temperature anyways? It’s so ridiculous.
Regardless if it’s airborne or not, I don’t want a strangers nasty ass hands waving around my face to begin with. COVID or no COVID, the average person’s hands are disgusting and I don’t want them anywhere near me.
Not to mention, these aren’t registered nurses or doctors taking my temperature it’s teenagers with no experience elsewhere.
The rules they put in place are so fucking ridiculous and laughably hypocritical, it’s foolish.
Its all for show like the TSA
If the DNC wins in November expect millions of useless jobs, taking temps and CONTACT TRACING bullshit.
And once they have those jobs it cements them into society even deeper.
I tried going out to eat a week or so ago at a restaurant I hadn’t been to since they reopened and after the state force them to close. I ordered a steak. I was served a stake in a to go container with plastic knife. After speaking with the manager, who denied me a steak knife, due to health regulations saying that it is too dangerous to serve a meal on real plates with a real silverware “because the servers would touch the plate” but apparently the servers didn’t touch them to go container to bring it to my table?
I tried in the steak but after breaking several plastic knives I got the manager again who gave me a refund on the steak, paid for my appetizers and drinks and left.
you were surrounded by retards
They shouldn't be treating their customers like patients in a locked mental ward. I would have left, too.
Ban lasers! They transmit viruses over distances!
-CNN, probably.
You are also forcing contact with people
it doesn't touch your head genius lol
Honk honk, bitches
🤡🌏
Throw the book in the door and walk away.
lmao just Gronk that shit
I still sort of remember being able to walk into a library.
Fuck Maryland and Uncle Fester Hogan.
Amen to that.
My library might be the most hardcore of all places with kung flu hysteria. Must schedule pickup, only open like 6 hours a week. They come out in basically hazmat suit (outside) and hand you your books in a paper bag from behind a plexiglass barrier 🤡🌍
Honk Honk 🤡🌎…
Just do what I do at work, walk past security with it on and ditch it when you get past them. They don’t check it after that.
Don't comply
I’ll get fired
Find a new job or start your own business as soon as possible.
Do it pussy I bet you won’t
I’m in academics. I for sure will.
I had to make an emergency trip to my local target last week. As I walked in I grabbed one of the little hand baskets and after I got about 50 feet in the store some kid comes running up with a spray bottle and towels saying “sir, sir, sir, I have to sanitize the handle before you can take it” I asked them why wasn’t the Handle cleaned before you put the baskets out, he said they do it before you pick it up So it makes you feel comfortable shopping there.
Strangely, he nor any employee said anything about me not wearing a mask at all in the state where it is required.
Yet people go in and touch merchandise all over the store before they finally check out.
And that's when you accuse them of misgendering you
Dig Bick Energy
Just yell black lives matter and punch a passerby. He'll leave you alone.
Punch him... He'll probably kneel.
I wish this was not true, but we have seen 100s of videos of this happening.
I've lost all respect for our Police I used to always defend them, had family who were cops. Now I see them as the security force of the far left insurrection. Maybe I'll change my mind back if they start to do their fucking job.
What kind of library needs a cop? Yikes!
Or shoot up in the bathrooms
Porque no los dos?
I prefer the candy aisle at Wawa.
My suburban privilege is showing! lol
Definitely the transients and low lifes ruining it for the rest of us.
Library when I was a kid made you go to the desk and sign in to get a bathroom key because druggies and hookers had been using them for their escapades. Also, the thievery was so out of control they only put empty boxes of media out in a small back room filled with cameras and then they were filled at the check out desk. Even popular and new books were in a locked case.
I moved to an upper middle class area and the library system is one of the best things about it. Clean, safe, and well stocked. They even put out free coffee and cookies.
Wow. Completely different from my experience with our little local library. Totally safe and cozy. I spent hours there as a kid. Rode my bike or walked there and hung out all day!
Lt. Bookman of the NYPL was definitely needed...
"Yeah, 1971. That was my first year on the job. Bad year for libraries.
Bad year for America. Hippies burning library cards, Abby Hoffman
telling everybody to steal books. I don't judge a man by the length of
his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But
you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public
Library, fella.
Well, let me tell you something, funny boy. Y'know that little stamp,
the one that says "New York Public Library"? Well that may not mean
anything to you, but that means a lot to me. One whole hell of a lot.
Sure, go ahead, laugh if you want to. I've seen your type before:
Flashy, making the scene, flaunting convention. Yeah, I know what you're
thinking. What's this guy making such a big stink about old library
books? Well, let me give you a hint, junior. Maybe we can live without
libraries, people like you and me. Maybe. Sure, we're too old to change
the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right
now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees
and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers?
Doesn't HE deserve better? Look. If you think this is about overdue
fines and missing books, you'd better think again. This is about that
kid's right to read a book without getting his mind warped! Or: maybe
that turns you on, Seinfeld; maybe that's how y'get your kicks. You and
your good-time buddies. Well I got a flash for ya, joy-boy: Party time
is over. Y'got seven days, Seinfeld. That is one week!"
This is great.
Police station is in the same building and right next to library. I'd be trespassed in less than 5 min if I didn't comply. I haven't been back since they recently reopened (sort of - limited hours and rules like OP).
Got it! That's too bad. I am sure you just want to return a book, not have a medical exam!
Libraries where the "urban element" is thick.
If you dress like Antifa, the cop will leave you alone.
around here they hired only black people to be the "mask security"
seems more like a sick joke tbh
At least it created a few more jobs...
Reading is fundamental
We call them- Lenin’s kids
Username checks out
sir were going to need that temperature its cruxial to save the lives
Just put the books in the drop box, but be careful not to cough and/or sneeze all over them along the way, in full view. Safety first!
Like that name! 👍
Do your part: Rent a Robert Deniro movie. Illegally copy it. Then immediately delete the copy cause he’s trash.
Look them right In the eyes and tell them you have asthma.
Reading books is a form of white supremacy. Blacks never read or made books in ancient history. Know your privilege. bigot.
No worries, you’ll be able to bypass the temperature checks and mask requirements once you have proof that you’ve been vaccinated!
We need to build more Helicopter pads!
I want a recording!
LEBRON CANT READ
pull an Alex Jones on them
if they wont let you in, just give them the books lol.
My library doesn't do any of this, super based
Read them like a book!!!
Oh yeah the book drop-off deposit slot wouldn't be used during the wuhan virus lol.
I was wondering "why go inside to drop off"
Christ the mods are on it this morning
They are gods.
Simple, we "peacefully protest" as BLM does, the library gonna get torched anyways, it's not the first time they have done this, so shit in the book, throw it in there, and leave, it's more peaceful than anything BLM did.