Where We Are

28 thoughts on “Where We Are”

1. craig, mother nature’s way of culling the herd – just in time before all us frogs boil to death – perhaps the survivors will stall the current climate change catastrophe until they overpopulate again.

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3. déjà vu, mixers

   from the more things change, the more they stay the same file…
   this is a holderness family production at the start of this year – ground hog day year? 

4. Dave Barry’s 2021 Year in Review – The Washington Post

   Is there anything positive we can say about 2021?
   Yes. We can say that it was marginally better than 2020.
   Granted, this is not high praise. It’s like saying that somebody is marginally nicer than Hitler. But it’s something.
   What was better about 2021? For one thing, people finally emerged from their isolated pandemic cocoons and started connecting with others. Granted, the vast majority of the people who connected with us this year wanted to discuss our car’s extended warranty. But still.
   Another improvement was that most stores got rid of those one-way anti-covid arrows on the floor. Remember those, from 2020? You’d be halfway down a supermarket aisle, and you’d realize that you’d gone past the Cheez-Its but you couldn’t turn around and go back because you’d be going AGAINST THE ARROWS, which meant YOU WOULD GET COVID.
   Ha ha! Was that stupid, or what? Fortunately in 2021, we followed the Science, which decided that the coronavirus does not observe floor arrows. On the other hand, the Science could not make up its mind about masks, especially in restaurants. Should everybody in the restaurant wear them? Should only the staff wear them? Should people who are standing up wear them, but not people who are sitting down, which would seem to suggest that the virus can also enter our bodies via our butts? We still don’t know, and we can’t wait to find out what the Science will come up with for us next.
   Anyway, our point is not that 2021 was massively better than 2020. Our point is that at least it was different. A variant, so to speak. And like any year, it had both highs and lows.
   No, we take that back. It was pretty much all lows, as we will see when we review the key events of 2021, starting in …
   [continues with review of entire year until concluding]
   Finally, mercifully, the troubled year nears its conclusion. As the nation prepares to celebrate New Year’s Eve, the mood is subdued and thoughtful. People are still getting drunk and throwing up, but they’re doing this in a subdued and thoughtful manner. Because nobody knows what 2022 will bring. Will it suck as much as this year? Will it suck more? Or will it suck a LOT more? These appear to be our choices.
   ​Perhaps, as we face the new year, we should look beyond the confines of our troubled planet for reasons to hope. Perhaps we can turn for inspiration to the plucky NASA rover Perseverance, which, as 2021 draws to a close, sends a message back to Earth across millions of miles of space. It’s a simple message, but one that resonates deeply with all of humanity: Perseverance has detected omicron on Mars.
   ​Okay, so that’s not very hopeful. But don’t let it stop you from ringing in 2022 on a festive note. For one night, forget about the bad things. Be festive, party hard and, in the words of Anthony Fauci, “remove your mask before you throw up.”
   ​Happy new year.

5. Sadly, breakthrough cases in the vaccinated seems to be making the unvaccinated dig in their heels. It’s gone from being a tracking device to being nothing more than water.

6. BiD , it’s hard to convince the galactically stupid that contracting a disease and becoming seriously ill, hospitalized and dying from contracting a disease 🦠 are different things and that the difference lies in whether you are vaccinated. It’s also impossible (apparently) to explain the difference between a compellingly  described anecdote and a dryly reported statistical study of hundreds of thousands of human beings and that the former is interesting but the latter is infinitely more likely to describe how things are than the former.

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8. A long time ago I came to the acceptance that a COVID-19 booster would be given at the same time as the flu shot.  Why not?  My only concern is that it turns into something like the common cold, but deadlier.  That would mean that a shot will not be effective as a preventative measure.  But, I also have hope that the work on the COVID, and SaRS serums would also result in control of the common cold.

9. a lament from may 2020

   adam abrams 5/28/2020

   In which I harken back wistfully to that long-ago time, three whole months ago… when the world was a very different place. All to the tune of the Barbra Streisand classic. Enjoy! THANKS TO: Sarah Jaysmith – my remarkably talented colleague – for her expert piano backing Christine Abrams – my amazing wife – for her helpful vocal coaching Max Abrams – my delightful 9-year-old – for production assistance, camerawork and even directing a couple of shots!

10. Saw 2022 referenced as 2020 part III

     

     

11. I say if it might save my ass from serious disease or death, boost the shit out of me.  
     
    Poobah, along the lines of the your thread starter – as the sage (one of them0 once said – No matter where you go, there you are.  IMHO we (me included) spend a ton too much time dwelling on where we ought to be and where we could be rather than where we are. If we (collectively – but translated into individually) are at a 4th booster stage of prevention/management, well, there we are.  The smarter ones among us will roll up our sleeves.  The dumber ones might will do teh medical equivalent of subscribing to an online betting app and take their chances.
     
    So over the weekend my MIL told us that her former RW idiot anti-vaxxer close friend from Cleveland and her husband had contracted Covid AGAIN.  And I thought you supposedly had lifetime immunity – much stronger than carrying antibodies from vaccines, right/  Dumbasses.
     
    Have been laughing my nuts off at Dave Barry’s 2021 recap.  The man is a national treasure.

12. i’ve enjoyed pandemic.  society of whiners

13. Oh no a fourth shot with almost no side-effects 🙄

14. Oh no i have to continue to be considerate of others, the horror!

15. ok one more:
     

    we grossly underestimated this virus

    “We” didnt underestimate it, dolts who failed high school science did.   No lasting immunity means perpetual boosters and that it’s never doing away, get used to it, and have a great day!🌞

16. They do have progress in these things……maybe multiple boosteries is wha’s happening for now but soon they will have better stuffs. When I was a kid, for instance, they made a medicine which prevented pregnancy…..now THAT was progress……..

17. Influenza transmission has been studied for about 100 years and still isn’t completely understood.  No lasting immunity is no lasting immunity😭
     
    The good news is ad-hoc treatments are becoming available that will cut covid-mortality rates dramatically, two were released last week

18. Hemingway always called her “the kraut”
     
    

19. Book of the Season:    WHITE WIDOW, by Jim Lehrer.    Had a character whose standard repsonse to anything was always. “Now,  that’s progress.”
    Jim Lehrer was a classic bus enthusiast, and wrote eloquently and lovingly about them, and the special breed of men who drove them and brought them in on time.

20. christians got a serious “punishment” problem.  they need to find a “punishment management” course out there somewhere and take it.

21. Trumps daily email scamming for money has him actually telling the truth for a change:

    The Democrats are now on a new kick with their so-called Voting Rights Bill, which is a disaster for our Country and certainly the Republican Party.
    
    This is Democrat-controlled legislation that will make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win elections. 
    
    

    In other words, if they can’t cheat they can’t win.

     

22. Sturegeone – Ms. M. Dietrich is someone I would like to know more about.  The little I do know makes her sound very interesting.
     
    Shot a lot of video of Christmas and Boxing day/nights.  For some reason, not understood yet, my video camera did a handful of pictures, not videos.  Damned computers, computers be damned.

23. From the underestimating the virus hit parade. Brookings . 

    February 27, 2020
    White House
    At press conference, President Trump suggests that while Americans hoping to travel abroad may have their plans disrupted, the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. is likely to be cut off, claiming, “when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

    Way to go Donnie. 

24. Has anyone else noticed the deafening silence from Erich and Dumbass Jr? Or am I just not looking closely enough at alt right disinformation sources?

25. Pogo

    Almost constant emails from Dumbass and Jr or at least someone writing in their names pleading to send daddy more money.  Totally missing in action:  Jared and Ivanka.

     

26. Jamie, emails?  How far the once mighty have fallen. 

27. Jamie – I saw the upcoming year referenced as “2020, too.”

    pogo – Not sure about Earache, but Cokey McSnorts-a-lot Jr. may be out of pocket for awhile, as in hell-to-pay, if evangelicals actually believe in God.

    “The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.”

    “And the former president’s son has a message for the tens of millions of evangelicals who form the energized base of the GOP: the scriptures are essentially a manual for suckers.”

    “We’ve turned the other cheek, and I understand, sort of, the biblical reference—I understand the mentality—but it’s gotten us nothing.”

    Whined the spoiled, white boy to the white fools in the audience.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/gospel-donald-trump-jr/621122/

28. NEW THREAD

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