I have now put you on ignore. That is the only time in my 20 years on BS that I have ever done so. Congratulations, son!
This is day 146 of SIP for my family. This pandemic is getting really old, and it's especially galling to realize that if most people had been as careful as many of us have been, we would have been back to almost-normal in June. And here we are, a summer like the summer of 1816 (the "year without a summer") unable to travel or go to soccer games or even go out to eat without extensive preparation. I don't think we will see any progress until/unless Fox jumps on board with the mask wearing/social distancing messages. The 40% of this country who insist that the president is doing a bang-up job (so does he! watch the Axios interview) need to be fed some new propaganda. Our society is only as smart as our lamest covidiot.
It's like Dylan Thomas wrote the obit: ""Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
I’m still amazed by the number of people that seem to think COVID is no big deal. Even if you don’t die from it, you can face a shorter lifespan because of it. https://www.newsweek.com/most-recovered-covid-19-patients-left-heart-damage-study-shows-1521456 The belief that COVID is only dangerous to old or sick people is bullshit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...season-because-heart-ailment-linked-covid-19/
Since Paulo Dybala was mentioned earlier in this thread -- he was very sick with Covid in March, and reading his story motivated my oldest son to take this disease seriously. Apparently Paulo tested positive for many weeks. Fortunately for him, he seems to have recovered but I recently read a German study that evaluated young seemingly healthy Covid survivors and found significant cardiac damage in many -- the kind of damage you normally see after a heart attack. This disease is insidious and there is so much we do not know. Sure, half the people infected have no symptoms, but those are not great odds. I'm not willing to roll that dice.
And we already know how that's going to go in Atlanta: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel-schools-reopen.html
Particularly poignant was the letter from the 60-ish kindergarten teacher who died. And who said little kids aren't contagious?
My surprised face is getting a workout. Elementary school in Cherokee County, Georgia (just outside Atlanta) reports a positive test result on a second grader, on the second day of school. https://www.tribuneledgernews.com/l...nts-quarantine-following-positive-virus-test/
"Nobody knows less than me about the China Virus"... I have listened to portions of the interview and determined that it would be useful as evidence in a hearing for involuntary commitment to an institution...
Thanks for the explanation. It’s still calling one side’s candidate a Mussolini. It would be the same if someone called Biden a hair plugged Stalin
Also makes you wonder on why there is so much backlash and/or "caring/concern" about Herman Cain's passing. I never heard or read this much about him when he was alive and now that he died, its all I read about online. How sad that someone has to die to be recognized. I hope he gets to now rests in peace in the glory of the Lord! RIP!
LMAO, if Heaven was real, there’s a zero percent chance Cain would end up there, he sexually assaulted multiple women.
Therefore, by this reasoning, its even more surprising that there is so much "concern" over his passing.
As someone who has a history -- as I know many of you do -- of relatives murdered under fascist regimes, I don't use that f-word lightly. But, by the same token, I've spent my whole life on the lookout for potential fascists, hoping I would have the wherewithal to escape a fascist government before it was too late. (Oh well! I didn't foresee the pandemic.) I didn't expect great things from a failed business owner turned reality show host as president. But I also never anticipated that he'd pick up where the tyrants of the 1940s left off. Stupefying Stalin or Hefty Hitler might work as a nickname, but Mango Mussolini both describes his color and his political leanings, so it has stuck. I don't doubt that the original would have considered him a worthy successor, even if MM hasn't killed quite as many people...yet.
Actually Mussolini gave the Vatican orders to save a lot of Jews just before the Raid of the Rome Ghetto. Some in the Church closed their eyes to what was going on but at the same time, other members of the Catholic Church provided assistance to Jews and helped them survive the Holocaust in Italy and getting deported to concentration camps. My uncle and his family was an Italian Jew and they were saved by priests who hid them otherwise they will have been sent to Auschwitz.
So, Mussolini not such a bad guy after all? All those hundreds of thousands murdered, including every Italian Jew he could get his hands on? I'm glad to hear a few were spared. And in any case, this isn't about religion -- it's about fascism. This time, the first round of targets are the poor, immigrants, and POC. Does that somehow make it better for those of us who aren't on the firing line?
Mussolini saw that the church was a tool he could use to his advantage as the people didn't want to lose their religion. Sadly, although there are mostly horror stories about WW2, so many different things went on during that time that none of us today would even dream about what went on back then. Some good did come out of it though. At least for my uncle and his descendants, they lived on because they were protected. Otherwise they will have all perished in Auschwitz. Sad to see that even today the Jewish Ghetto in Rome have armed guards with machine guns on alert.
Pumpkin Pol Pot or Pomegranate Pinochet. Carrot Caligula. Tangerine Tito. Having trouble finding more shades of orange to go with Franco, Che Guevara, Duvalier, etc. I don't understand why mentioning the name Mussolini is somehow off-limits. It's a historical fact that he was a fascist leader of Italy who led his country from being a world power, into a war they couldn't win, and damaged the future of his country. You don't try to erase history, you remember it and learn from it, and where appropriate, say "never again". As an American, I will be forced to acknowledge that Trump was elected President, despite his obvious criminal behavior - all the safeguards built in to our system to stop a terrible person from gaining power, were bypassed, and the damage he and his party are doing to my country are something that we have to address. For the rest of my life, when people say "Trump", I'm going to hang my head, remember how we got here, and do whatever I can to make sure it doesn't happen again. What I'm not going to do is pretend that he didn't happen.