“In the supermarket this morning ... 99 9/10 percent
of people were wearing masks. Signs were all over about masking up, but while
people I spoke to are not happy with the mandate, people are putting masks on.
There are always going to be a couple of stragglers, but just about everyone had a mask on.
At my son's bowling league, masking was 100 percent. One participant didn't have it on, and when he was asked to put one on, he did so without any incident at all.
I don't like the mandate at all, and once the New Year comes, it won't be enforced at all in Nassau County, but it is what it is.
To demonstrate the stupidity of the whole thing, in New York City, where Broadway shows and other venues have closed because of this latest wave--and where I have been told by someone who lives in Manhattan that mask wearing is almost universally accepted--the mayor continues to welcome everyone from around the world to congregate at New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop--
And you wonder why people are fed up with these rules and regulations and laws that don't mean a hill of beans and are little more than double-talk.”
Again, Journalism 101 not in practice here, but I think I skirted that by putting up a really good quote to open up this edition of the Ranting and Raving Blog.
Yes, that quote is from me, posted this past Sunday about my views of what we are going through right now, a view that is probably shared by as many people as those who probably oppose it.
Look, I just had to go through testing myself—with my family—because of a scare, and that is all that it was, and yes, we are being made scared right now by the people who are leading us into the hell that they have created for us.
COVID-19 is not done, nor will it be in the near or far future.
We are stuck with this virus, just like we are with the flu and the common cold.
And do you really believe omicron is the final variant of this virus?
I think not; in fact, I will bet that over the next several years, we encounter dozens of variants of this scourge that will pop up, some worse than others ….
Just like we somehow manage to get through with the multiple variations of the flu that we encounter year after year after year.
We have never shut down the world because of the flu, and we should never have shut down the world a year ago, nor do so in the future, because of COVOD-19, but we haven’t yet learned from the hell that was caused when we did it once, and we probably won’t ever learn that this is not the way to go.
There is just too much at stake for us to treat this like people are dying in the streets from it.
They aren’t, but you would think they were based on the measures taken by our elected leaders.
I am certainly not going to deny that this thing is real, but what we have done with these extraordinary measures is create another virus, and that one is called paranoia and panic.
The latest variant, while it appears to spread easier than prior variants, appears to be mild if you are unlucky enough to get it.
It appears that it is no worse than the common cold or a mild touch of the flu; you feel lousy for a few days, but then you are back to normal after proper rest.
This is a reason to begin closing down the world again?
And yes, with all that taken into account, I do believe that one way to beat this virus at its own game is to wear masks.
I don’t see what the big deal is at wearing masks, but some people actually believe that it is a visible political statement that you are making if you mask up, which I don’t understand at all.
Doctors and nurses and other hospital personnel have been wearing masks since day one in hospitals, and they don’t wear it for show, but to protect themselves against contracting different airborne diseases.
It has worked for them for eons; why can’t it work for us right now, whether you have gotten the shots or not?
As you know, I have terrible allergies, and I—and my family—have worn masks since day one of this pandemic.
It hasn’t killed us yet, and the fact of the matter is that while everyone around us—family and friends—have contracted the virus, we have not.
And I count as 'we" my 90-year-old mother, a person whose age group is probably must susceptible to the virus, and she hasn’t gotten anything, thank goodness.
So yes, I do think that there is something to wearing the masks, whether you want to believe it or not.
When we traveled to South Korea six years ago, we saw plenty of people wearing masks. It has become part of their culture, since they live so close to the rancid North Koreans, who could do anything with the flip of a switch.
Nobody thinks anything of it there, and while I don’t like it as much as the next guy, wearing masks is the least we can do to prevent us from getting this thing.
And I am going to conclude today’s Rant with one more point:
The way we are going to combat this virus, and the only way we can truly combat this thing, is to accept that it is going to be here forever.
We are all going ot have to get shots, whether we like it or not, as part of our normal health regimen.
One day, we will combat this thing with a Z-card of pills, taking five one day, four the next, etc., but this thing is NOT going away.
As we take the measles and polio and other shots from our earliest days, a coronavirus shot will simply be added to that regimen.
And for those who continue to state that the shots aren’t true vaccines and are not safe, yes, you are right about the former, but you are not right about the latter.
You can get sick—and die—from getting an allergy shot, and any shot carries risks.
The risks have proven to be minimal with the COVID shot—maybe 1 percent of the people who get it suffer some type of measured reaction—but just about everyone who gets it is fine after a day or two, just like any other shot.
The speed and rapidity that the shot was created in will one day be looked upon as legendary, but one day, perhaps we will have such a shot that we can list with the measles and polio shots as true vaccines, not the way we use “vaccine” to denote the coronavirus shot.
There are always going to be a couple of stragglers, but just about everyone had a mask on.
At my son's bowling league, masking was 100 percent. One participant didn't have it on, and when he was asked to put one on, he did so without any incident at all.
I don't like the mandate at all, and once the New Year comes, it won't be enforced at all in Nassau County, but it is what it is.
To demonstrate the stupidity of the whole thing, in New York City, where Broadway shows and other venues have closed because of this latest wave--and where I have been told by someone who lives in Manhattan that mask wearing is almost universally accepted--the mayor continues to welcome everyone from around the world to congregate at New Year's Eve to watch the ball drop--
And you wonder why people are fed up with these rules and regulations and laws that don't mean a hill of beans and are little more than double-talk.”
Again, Journalism 101 not in practice here, but I think I skirted that by putting up a really good quote to open up this edition of the Ranting and Raving Blog.
Yes, that quote is from me, posted this past Sunday about my views of what we are going through right now, a view that is probably shared by as many people as those who probably oppose it.
Look, I just had to go through testing myself—with my family—because of a scare, and that is all that it was, and yes, we are being made scared right now by the people who are leading us into the hell that they have created for us.
COVID-19 is not done, nor will it be in the near or far future.
We are stuck with this virus, just like we are with the flu and the common cold.
And do you really believe omicron is the final variant of this virus?
I think not; in fact, I will bet that over the next several years, we encounter dozens of variants of this scourge that will pop up, some worse than others ….
Just like we somehow manage to get through with the multiple variations of the flu that we encounter year after year after year.
We have never shut down the world because of the flu, and we should never have shut down the world a year ago, nor do so in the future, because of COVOD-19, but we haven’t yet learned from the hell that was caused when we did it once, and we probably won’t ever learn that this is not the way to go.
There is just too much at stake for us to treat this like people are dying in the streets from it.
They aren’t, but you would think they were based on the measures taken by our elected leaders.
I am certainly not going to deny that this thing is real, but what we have done with these extraordinary measures is create another virus, and that one is called paranoia and panic.
The latest variant, while it appears to spread easier than prior variants, appears to be mild if you are unlucky enough to get it.
It appears that it is no worse than the common cold or a mild touch of the flu; you feel lousy for a few days, but then you are back to normal after proper rest.
This is a reason to begin closing down the world again?
And yes, with all that taken into account, I do believe that one way to beat this virus at its own game is to wear masks.
I don’t see what the big deal is at wearing masks, but some people actually believe that it is a visible political statement that you are making if you mask up, which I don’t understand at all.
Doctors and nurses and other hospital personnel have been wearing masks since day one in hospitals, and they don’t wear it for show, but to protect themselves against contracting different airborne diseases.
It has worked for them for eons; why can’t it work for us right now, whether you have gotten the shots or not?
As you know, I have terrible allergies, and I—and my family—have worn masks since day one of this pandemic.
It hasn’t killed us yet, and the fact of the matter is that while everyone around us—family and friends—have contracted the virus, we have not.
And I count as 'we" my 90-year-old mother, a person whose age group is probably must susceptible to the virus, and she hasn’t gotten anything, thank goodness.
So yes, I do think that there is something to wearing the masks, whether you want to believe it or not.
When we traveled to South Korea six years ago, we saw plenty of people wearing masks. It has become part of their culture, since they live so close to the rancid North Koreans, who could do anything with the flip of a switch.
Nobody thinks anything of it there, and while I don’t like it as much as the next guy, wearing masks is the least we can do to prevent us from getting this thing.
And I am going to conclude today’s Rant with one more point:
The way we are going to combat this virus, and the only way we can truly combat this thing, is to accept that it is going to be here forever.
We are all going ot have to get shots, whether we like it or not, as part of our normal health regimen.
One day, we will combat this thing with a Z-card of pills, taking five one day, four the next, etc., but this thing is NOT going away.
As we take the measles and polio and other shots from our earliest days, a coronavirus shot will simply be added to that regimen.
And for those who continue to state that the shots aren’t true vaccines and are not safe, yes, you are right about the former, but you are not right about the latter.
You can get sick—and die—from getting an allergy shot, and any shot carries risks.
The risks have proven to be minimal with the COVID shot—maybe 1 percent of the people who get it suffer some type of measured reaction—but just about everyone who gets it is fine after a day or two, just like any other shot.
The speed and rapidity that the shot was created in will one day be looked upon as legendary, but one day, perhaps we will have such a shot that we can list with the measles and polio shots as true vaccines, not the way we use “vaccine” to denote the coronavirus shot.
It is NOT a vaccine, and that is why it was created with such rapidity.
Again, it is as much of a vaccine as my allergy shot is, no matter what the new politically-spawned definitions in the updated dictionaries might say.
But we need to stop the panic in its tracks, and that really is the bottom line here.
Stopping the panic will allow us to really study this thing for what it is, and to combat it not only with science, but with public perceptions of what to do if and when you get it and how to deal with it in the supposed rational society that we live in.
Right now, the panic created by this thing appears to be worse than the current variant; mix the two together, and you get an incredible dose of health dynamite that is more lethal than any virus that even a great writer could ever conceive for his next novel.
Let’s stop this nonsense by being rational, in spite of the environment our elected officials have put us in.
Their day is coming, whether on Election Day or when they knock on the gates.
I can guarantee that they will get theirs, one way or the other.
Again, it is as much of a vaccine as my allergy shot is, no matter what the new politically-spawned definitions in the updated dictionaries might say.
But we need to stop the panic in its tracks, and that really is the bottom line here.
Stopping the panic will allow us to really study this thing for what it is, and to combat it not only with science, but with public perceptions of what to do if and when you get it and how to deal with it in the supposed rational society that we live in.
Right now, the panic created by this thing appears to be worse than the current variant; mix the two together, and you get an incredible dose of health dynamite that is more lethal than any virus that even a great writer could ever conceive for his next novel.
Let’s stop this nonsense by being rational, in spite of the environment our elected officials have put us in.
Their day is coming, whether on Election Day or when they knock on the gates.
I can guarantee that they will get theirs, one way or the other.
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