Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-16-2020, 03:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: The Reds and Blues are more or less separate cultures that don't do much socializing and intermixing. So, you blaming them for the COVID surge that Blue Culture is experiencing seems silly to me but normal as far as what Blues do and how they view things and respond to things happening that are related to them. As I've mentioned before, Red Culture isn't nearly as afraid of death or threatened by the possibility of getting sick and dying as Blue Culture today. Yet, Blue Culture will go along with violence, support violence by not opposing violence and go against those trying to protect them from violence which is strange but normal since there wasn't much actual killing of Blues associated with all the violence. I'd say more Trump supporters and cops were killed than Blue people were killed last summer.

I've been more or less isolating for some time, so I'm not the best source of information.  I did get out last week.  I had a once a year medical appointment, and was mildly surprised they didn't work it remotely.  I was halted at the door by someone thoroughly masked who asked a bunch of questions that came town to had I any chance of having the bug.  I got to the waiting room to discover they had removed most of the chairs and scattered the rest.  It didn't take me long to figure out they were associated with the local COVID hospital, and somebody who was familiar with the bug had implemented fulll precautions.

My handyman is picking up most of my groceries.  From what he reports, the local stores are all requiring masks, have put up one way signs, are trying to encourage social distancing, but some people are not only ignoring the precautions but rubbing in people's face the fact that they are ignoring precautions.  They are being deliberately pointedly rude about it.  Some stores have their employees enforce the precautions and such stores are still civil.  Other stores are not.  It seems like we are developing red and blue grocery stores.

I have somebody come do my cleaning, twice a week.  I generally stay in my computer room mostly.  She spends most of the time elsewhere.  Both of us are masked.  Belt, meet suspenders.  Suspenders, belt.

I am not surprised by your logic that those who take no precautions don't catch the bug.  It goes with the quality of the rest of your so called logic.  I figure you are mostly wrong, but pointing it out would be pretty futile.

(12-16-2020, 03:53 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I thought it was strange that Biden was railing on Trump about his mishandling of COVID as several vaccines were in the final stages of testing for approval. What this election proved is that there are a ton of suckers and clueless/selfish Blues who are mainly tied to a political brand and mainly influenced by years of its propaganda and reliance upon the state these days.

Turning down a reservation for vaccine doses?  Starting planning for distributing the vaccine only now when there were dugs available?  Yes, he acted like COVID was a hoax even though he knew better.  He deserved the railing, though it seems to have bounced of him as usual.  Lives don't matter to him.

I have been suggesting for some time that we are generally seeing clinging to worldviews and values more than stupidity.  There are extremists of all types, intelligent enough and able to defend their positions, posting regularly.  They can learn the Bible, or astrology, or learn Marxist theory, or have a hobby of classical music, or research exotic cultures, and still cling to their perspective absurdly tightly.  Stupidity and idiocy at one level has nothing to do with it.  At another, it gets to be a hard to defend that proposition at times.  The ability to adhere to a way of looking at the world in spite of all evidence from reality seems to simulate stupidity and idiocy pretty well at times.