TL contends that the first crucial step on the long road back has to be attitude adjustment.
Recently, where I work, because nothing I’ve written has ever been a commercial success and I like work, I ran into a Covid questionnaire at a customer’s business that I recognized as corporate required nonsense and for a while, not wanting to intervene in the relationship between these businesses, just sort of filled it out without divulging any information to which they had no right to obtain, basically, no, no, no, no, to get on with work. Sometimes I just wouldn’t, but every time I did, it grated on me. I resented it and finally, with a representative of that business standing there, expecting it to be filled out, having noticed that unless someone was there, I wouldn’t, I told him I resented it and he told me to leave. I expected to get fired over it. It was a big customer, a large part of our company’s income was derived from that source. I was grilled on why I didn’t just shut my mouth, fill it out and get on with work. My explanation was that I just couldn’t, it was wrong and if they had to fire me, then to get on with it.
Later, having kept my job, I was sent back. I refused, admitting that I hadn’t changed my mind and wouldn’t and sending me back there was just going to start it all up again. They did a work-around so I didn’t have to, but later still, they sent me to another facility for the same company. Braced for the clash, I entered and was quickly informed that those performing my task only had to sign one sheet and that was all job-related safety information, JSA to those who do them regularly. (don’t get me started on that)
None of us want to lose our jobs over this stupid, inane bs, but we have to be willing to risk it. This is how our successful society has been destroyed to replace it with the irrational, illogical commands of some quasi-authority, by failing to take these risks. Others have, the military washed a bunch of them out over it.
Now that it’s been revealed how deep the rot is, how it’s creeped into every corner of our world, it’s time to start being much more aggressive in defending one’s own rights. Question your doctor to find out how much of the pandemic he actually believes in; ask how much money he’s received from Pfizer or others. These are legitimate questions from someone asked to place their lives, literally, in another’s hands. Take the same aggressive belligerence they demonstrate into these interactions. If we want a free nation where individuals have rights, it’s obvious that we’re going to have to fight for them.
As emotionally and mentally draining as confrontations can be, I understand that few will want to take this advice, but it’s the only way. Maybe not every instance all at the same time, but something, somewhere. I’ve been lucky, I haven’t had to go through any of this before, because if they demanded I wear a mask, I refused to go there. If they got in my face over it, like they did at the post office one time, I got back in theirs citing that they were just following “advice” and that there was no law that required it. They promptly lost the package I mailed, the only one they’d ever lost. Forcing them to resort to that cowardice, that inability to do their job with integrity, was enough for me. Plus, we moved.
It’s in these battles that we must fight, until the great volcano, that’s currently building across the globe, erupts. When it finally does, all of this will be inconsequential, mere survival will be on everyone’s mind. One highly-connected and brilliant commenter recently remarked, “we will be counting our wealth, not in dollars, but ounces.”
All through the FauxVid scam, I refused to wear a mask, period. Even when I had to make a delivery inside the main hospital branch in CLT, I flatly told the security guy at the front door who tried to deny me entry unless I wore the Mask Of Cowardice And Submission, I didn’t; after a few minutes of arguing back and forth, the guy eventually handed me the stupid, grimy germ-catcher and told me to just carry it with me, so as to cover his own ass if anybody inside called me on it. They didn’t.
In fact, the one and only time I’ve ever come close to donning the MOCAS happened only a few days ago, as I was trying to pick up my insulin and other ‘scrips from the pharmacy I use for the purpose. I raised such a loud, intense ruckus with the lady at the front desk over their mask requirement that she actually went so far as to call the cops on the scary, one-legged, crippled old man. When the Gaston County Sheriff’s Deputy walked in the front door and over to me, I looped the thing over one ear and announced to those duly assembled that this was as far as I was willing to bend over for them. Whereupon Offissa Pupp laughed himself sick, slapped a thigh so great was his mirth, told me hey, that’s fine, and walked right back out again without saying a single word to front-desk bint.
From conformable to confrontational? Yeah, I believe I’m good with all that. In fact, I highly recommend it.
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The really grating thing about it is that these people irrationally believe it does something.
It doesn’t. Masks Don’t Work.
If they did YOUR Mask would protect you and you’d have no opinion on whether I wear one or not. You might think, “look at that reckless guy, maskless with Death Plague all around!” but then you’d just shrug and go about your business again.
These people have to be stopped when they try to shove their irrational ideas on us.
I recall hearing over and over that the death mask “possibly” would not protect you, but it would protect others. What kind of insane bullshit does a person have to torture theirselves into to believe that?
Good for you Mike!
Iron bear would wear a paintball mask when the nazi’s forced him into one, nice open mesh thing that fit the definition. And worked just as well as a surgical mask does on a virus.
“What kind of insane bullshit does a person have to torture theirselves into to believe that?”
General Aesop.
Did you wear the mask?
Enough said.
No.
You’re a liar.
Prove it.
I admit my mistake above. No need to prove anything.
Not only are you a liar regarding the wearing of a mask, putting up “General Aesop” is really rich, given that when Aesop, Kenny, and I were having our discussion here at Cold Fury you supported his take on the mask.
You are what you’ve always been, a POS liar.
Everything about you stinks. Go peddle your lies elsewhere.
And you used to appreciate the tits and ass fotos I occasionally posted at DP, only to sneer at them on another thread here. Who’s the stinky POS wanker?
I still appreciate good pics, asshole.
But that’s all you can do, you brainless twat.
I take that back, yes, upon occasion.
BS you were a full on Mask Karen as with everything else about the WuFlu Cooties.
I love it. You and Barry resent being banned from the DP Good Times Saloon so you take it out on me when it was your own damned fault for being such insufferable wankers.
henryKaren, ever the piece of shit fraud, caught lying again.
We were banned because we told the truth and we were 100% correct. Nothing, not one thing we said turned out to be incorrect. As has been admitted to. So fuck you.
As far as being banned goes, so what, DP’s loss. The DP blog is stuck with the likes of you.
If the mask couldn’t stop it going on it couldn’t stop it going out.
That was the BS they came up with after they realized their idiocy.
I did the same with a martial arts sparring mask with metal grid covering the entire face. Caused butthurt among karens and hoots of laughter amongst some IDGAF older men. “Now that’s the way to comply!”
“metal grid”
That’s a good one.
What’s even mo’ betta is when they…..
all puffed up with the self-righteousness born of protecting civilization (and themselves) …..
have their nose uncovered by the face diaper.
Oh, and maybe get another pharmacy. I don’t think any of the normal ones around here require a mask anymore.
I’ve been in several the past year and none did.