Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
Quote:Getting through the pandemic would mean going back to normal, which is something Democrats and the media only sometimes pretend to wish for. Most of the time, though, they’re practically cheering on the new coronavirus.
More spread means more mandates and there’s nothing liberals love more than a good government mandate (except calling white people “racist,” their first love).
And this is why the New York Times opinion page has become the place for a steady stream of peppy pieces on how great masks, restrictions and higher prices really are.
To wit, the paper ran a column on Wednesday looking at all the upsides of making children cover half their faces in schools. “Wearing a mask can also help teach children to pay more attention to their own bodies and physical behaviors,” wrote Judith Danovitch, a professor at the University of Louisville “Keeping a mask on over the course of a school day involves the kind of self-control and self-regulation that many children find challenging. Younger children must inhibit the urge to pull off their mask, and older children must be mindful of when their mask is slipping down or when it’s OK to take it off.”
See that, moms and dads? It’s not just a mask. It’s an educational tool!
Last week the Times ran a separate piece authored by a restaurant owner actually encouraging people to eat out less and at the same time, welcome higher menu prices. “Adjusting to the price of better work cultures will be difficult for many,” wrote Peter Hoffman. “But dining out less isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Treating a restaurant meal as a special occasion rather than a frequent convenience may represent a quality of life improvement for all.”
The pandemic has become a religion for these people. Hoffman owns his own fine eateries where he could very easily raise menu prices and begin a “quality of life improvement for all” of his own staff. But that’s not enough. He wants to make converts out of everyone else.
Hoffman’s reasoning is that restaurants are often less-than-ideal places to work. That’s probably true. So are landfills. But what does it have to do with me or anyone else who enjoys frequently dining out?
Well it’s a pandemic! Didn’t you like it when restaurants tacked on special COVID fees, forced you to eat outside, or only served pick-up orders? That was a quality of life improvement for all!
It’s been obvious for a long time that Democrats and the media were enjoying the pandemic. It ensured that people stayed home and relied on a government check. That’s the stuff their dreams are made of. Lockdowns mean more welfare, and more importantly, less energy consumption. That’s better for the planet which they believe is far more important than your hopes to see friends, family, and places that aren’t within walking distance.
Professional nag Farhad Manjoo of the Times wrote last month that even as it became safer to resume normal air travel, thanks to vaccine distribution, maybe you’d better not. “Sure, there’s something magical about meeting face to face, but in an age of pretty good videoconferencing, there isn’t magic enough to justify the extreme environmental costs of routine flight,” he said. “But flying is so carbon intensive — your share of the emissions from a single round-trip trans-Atlantic flight are almost enough to wipe out the gains you might get from living car-free for a year — that it’s worth considering limiting leisure plane trips, too.”
The phrase “it’s worth considering” is liberal speak for, “Do it, moron.”
Democrats will occasionally say something about going back to “normal” but that’s not really what they want. They’re enjoying this too much.
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
Its a police state dream. Just appoint some clown who makes medical declarations that cannot be questioned and lock the whole country down, and only activities "they" approve of can happen.
Unless you're one of them, you're locked down. Google execs can fly around the world and get exceptions, and expedited service in whatever country you want.
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
(08-20-2021 12:53 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote: Considering vaccinated people catch and spread it just like unvaccinated people, how pray tell do we go back to normal twit?
And fyi, where I live we long ago went back to normal.
Where are you getting your numbers from because the vast majority of people getting sick are unvaccinated.
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
Artist: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention
Album: Freak Out!
Song: "Who are the Brain Police?"
June 27, 1966 Verve Records
Quote:"A lot of people police their own brains. They're like citizen soldiers, so to speak. I've seen people who will willingly arrest, try and punish their own brains. Now that's really sad. That's vigilante brain policism. It's not even official, it's like self-imposed. ... It's hard to pin it down to one central agency when you realize that so many people are willing to do it to themselves. I mean, the people who want to become amateur brain police, their numbers grow every day – people who say to themselves, 'I couldn't possibly consider that', and then spank themselves for even getting that far. So, you don't even need to blame it on a central brain police agency. You've got plenty of people who willingly subject themselves to this self-mutilation."
--Frank Zappa
While comparing it to Kafka, Mojo described the song as "a vision of contemporary America where personal identity and individuality is erased".
Quite interesting how this song plays in today's world.
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
I disagree. A lot of libs (mostly the more social white upper middle class libs) want to get back to normal. Seems like many of the Covid cheerleaders from 2020 have splintered into two sects: Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine. Team Lockdown are comprised of mostly loners, traumatized from a less than happy childhood, that doesn't see much social interaction anyway, and driven by desire that the "cool" kids from HS days share in their misery. Team Vaccine is more upper middle class white liberals that are either socially active or getting worried about their finances. They are socially driven to get back to normalcy but are convinced that it can't happen until everyone is vaccinated. They'd put the unvaxxed into camps if they thought it meant they could resume their cocktail parties. This is the same group that you'd see in crowded restaurants while publicly cheerleading school closures.
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
(08-23-2021 11:50 AM)EverRespect Wrote: I disagree. A lot of libs (mostly the more social white upper middle class libs) want to get back to normal. Seems like many of the Covid cheerleaders from 2020 have splintered into two sects: Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine. Team Lockdown are comprised of mostly loners, traumatized from a less than happy childhood, that doesn't see much social interaction anyway, and driven by desire that the "cool" kids from HS days share in their misery. Team Vaccine is more upper middle class white liberals that are either socially active or getting worried about their finances. They are socially driven to get back to normalcy but are convinced that it can't happen until everyone is vaccinated. They'd put the unvaxxed into camps if they thought it meant they could resume their cocktail parties. This is the same group that you'd see in crowded restaurants while publicly cheerleading school closures.
The true believers versus that want to be onboard but care more about how it effects them personally
RE: Leftists Love The Pandemic And Want You To Learn To Love It, Too
(08-23-2021 12:13 PM)solohawks Wrote:
(08-23-2021 11:50 AM)EverRespect Wrote: I disagree. A lot of libs (mostly the more social white upper middle class libs) want to get back to normal. Seems like many of the Covid cheerleaders from 2020 have splintered into two sects: Team Lockdown and Team Vaccine. Team Lockdown are comprised of mostly loners, traumatized from a less than happy childhood, that doesn't see much social interaction anyway, and driven by desire that the "cool" kids from HS days share in their misery. Team Vaccine is more upper middle class white liberals that are either socially active or getting worried about their finances. They are socially driven to get back to normalcy but are convinced that it can't happen until everyone is vaccinated. They'd put the unvaxxed into camps if they thought it meant they could resume their cocktail parties. This is the same group that you'd see in crowded restaurants while publicly cheerleading school closures.
The true believers versus that want to be onboard but care more about how it effects them personally
And politically. Much of the early motivation for Team Vaccine was to dump Trump.
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