We see similar reluctance in the US in the states that have had the strict lockdowns and “show us your vaccination papers”. Meanwhile in states like Florida, life goes on maskless and without hospitals overwhelmed with Covid patients. Some people are still drinking the kool-aid and think we are foolish. We think they are the foolish ones having succumbed to fear driven by politicians and a Public Health Service that has become politicized.
Yep, Florida here. Moved down last year. Just got back from Publix; counted two masks. My husband calls the adult binkies.
Julian Farrows
2 years ago
It’s about loss of face. So many people got caught up in the COVID fear-mongering that it would make them look silly if they simply put their masks away.
It’s certainly more of a mental health problem now than a public health one
R Wright
2 years ago
Germans loving authoritarianism? You don’t say.
Jim Davis
2 years ago
Even though Los Angeles has finally lifted most restrictions, on my daily drive to the office I see people walking alone on the street wearing masks, when there is no one else around. But the most surprising is to see drivers wearing masks when there is no one else in the car. Wake up sheeple.
These people are the saddest people in the world. I want nothing to do with them. Sick of their compliant stupidity.
A Spetzari
2 years ago
“we are currently in the middle of the rise up to the second peak of the Omicron wave”.
That says it all. In other words – the middle of the start part of the second wave of the 3rd (major) variant of the disease.
When would enough be enough for some people? Are people so blind that they cannot see the knock on effects of covid taking place? Do they want forever covid?
One of the many downsides of the situation in Ukraine is that many people will see that conflict as a major source of instability and economic difficulties – rather than the inter-national decision making that closed our economies for months on end
One could even say that the crisis in Ukraine was an indirect result of Covid.
In history the pattern seems to be that conflict tends to follow events that cause upheaval and upset the status quo. What was once unthinkable becomes not so unthinkable particularly if bad actors sense weakness and opportunity.
That sounds similar to a phrase a blogger i follow used frequently: COVID didn’t wreck the economy, the reactions of so many governments to Covid wrecked the economy.
The frustrating part is how even places that never went insane, or at least corrected course after a few weeks, remained affected by bad decisions elsewhere. Inability to get raw materials, depressed demand, etc. hammered even the places that didn’t buy the panic
Allison Barrows
2 years ago
When this nonsense first started, a local coffee shop left a notebook for patrons to “sign in” by leaving our names, addresses, phone numbers, and date of visit. I ignored it. One day, a waitress came to our table and insisted we sign in. I was tempted to write something very rude, but simply said “No” and walked out, never to return. No one has since asked me to show any form of ID or shot status since, and I wouldn’t if such a request was made. Why people meekly comply is beyond me.
Warren T
2 years ago
Even prisoners who are let free after being jailed for several years feel out of place and confused.
Malcolm Ripley
2 years ago
If anyone sits their “socialising” like that couple in the photo then they are deluded if they think they are enjoying themselves!
That is not living that is merely existing.
We see similar reluctance in the US in the states that have had the strict lockdowns and “show us your vaccination papers”. Meanwhile in states like Florida, life goes on maskless and without hospitals overwhelmed with Covid patients. Some people are still drinking the kool-aid and think we are foolish. We think they are the foolish ones having succumbed to fear driven by politicians and a Public Health Service that has become politicized.
Yep, Florida here. Moved down last year. Just got back from Publix; counted two masks. My husband calls the adult binkies.
It’s about loss of face. So many people got caught up in the COVID fear-mongering that it would make them look silly if they simply put their masks away.
They look quite silly enough with their masks on.
I suppose it’s a kind of Stockholm syndrome
Patricia Hearst comes to mind.
It’s certainly more of a mental health problem now than a public health one
Germans loving authoritarianism? You don’t say.
Even though Los Angeles has finally lifted most restrictions, on my daily drive to the office I see people walking alone on the street wearing masks, when there is no one else around. But the most surprising is to see drivers wearing masks when there is no one else in the car. Wake up sheeple.
They must be the CNN watchers.
These people are the saddest people in the world. I want nothing to do with them. Sick of their compliant stupidity.
That says it all. In other words – the middle of the start part of the second wave of the 3rd (major) variant of the disease.
When would enough be enough for some people? Are people so blind that they cannot see the knock on effects of covid taking place? Do they want forever covid?
One of the many downsides of the situation in Ukraine is that many people will see that conflict as a major source of instability and economic difficulties – rather than the inter-national decision making that closed our economies for months on end
One could even say that the crisis in Ukraine was an indirect result of Covid.
In history the pattern seems to be that conflict tends to follow events that cause upheaval and upset the status quo. What was once unthinkable becomes not so unthinkable particularly if bad actors sense weakness and opportunity.
That sounds similar to a phrase a blogger i follow used frequently: COVID didn’t wreck the economy, the reactions of so many governments to Covid wrecked the economy.
The frustrating part is how even places that never went insane, or at least corrected course after a few weeks, remained affected by bad decisions elsewhere. Inability to get raw materials, depressed demand, etc. hammered even the places that didn’t buy the panic
When this nonsense first started, a local coffee shop left a notebook for patrons to “sign in” by leaving our names, addresses, phone numbers, and date of visit. I ignored it. One day, a waitress came to our table and insisted we sign in. I was tempted to write something very rude, but simply said “No” and walked out, never to return. No one has since asked me to show any form of ID or shot status since, and I wouldn’t if such a request was made. Why people meekly comply is beyond me.
Even prisoners who are let free after being jailed for several years feel out of place and confused.
If anyone sits their “socialising” like that couple in the photo then they are deluded if they think they are enjoying themselves!
That is not living that is merely existing.