The Coronavirus

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(02-16-2021, 06:01 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-16-2021, 06:23 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 11:05 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 03:49 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(02-15-2021, 02:16 PM)beechnut79 Wrote: I am wondering if any of you feel that once this pandemic is behind us, will there be a pent up demand for at least small to mid-size get-togethers, where you can let your hair down and have some fun. Have argued that nightlife was in short supply even before the pandemic hit. Where did all the fun loving, let your hair down, dance the night away single women go?  They were once in abundance. Any comfort for those like me who sorely miss the freer, more swinging times I came of age in?

Good questions.  It's not typical for a 4T to be wild and crazy, but it's not the uptight 1T that's just around the corner either.  2Ts and 3Ts are much more wide open, but crisis-stress leads to stress relief.  So maybe, yeah.

And yet I grew up in the 1T and to me it seemed less uptight than has the period from the late 1980s onward. In earlier times you could go shopping for groceries and have a friendly conversation with the checkout person about everything under the sun. No way have you been able to do that today. Over on the sister Facebook site I posted that there is now a much worse societal malaise than ever existed during the Jimmy Carter years, which was the beginning of the drift toward greater uptightness. Have you noticed that increasing uptightness has coincided with the advent of ever greater corporate concentration and power?.

The whole period from Nixon on has been increasingly awful.

We don't agree on much.  We agree on that! The political drift to the right has left most of us exposed to harm -- even those of us in relatively decent financial and social condition.  Improvement requires a spine injection, and that may be starting, albeit slowly.

What's wrong with you people these days? Why do so many of you rely on the spine of someone else and why are so many of you afraid of harm and being exposed to harm these days? So, what do you think about the new strains of COVID that Biden doesn't seem care about entering the country along our southern border these days? Dude, if you're looking for people with spines who aren't criminals or crooks, you're not going to find them on the Left these days. I mean, it took some people with spine who didn't care about laws to convince someone with no spine to break some election laws by changing election laws in key battle ground states to help Biden win. Oh, it also took some people with spine to fight with police and place their lives in harms way while destroying American monuments, police precincts and private property for months while being cheered on and supported by Democrats in higher office for several months which resulted in a bunch of them having the shit scared out of them while at work by an angry Right Wing mob. I think it's pretty clear that Eizige isn't going to fight to enrich big tech or the uber rich or die for Biden either.