Having been a pretty solid user of club drugs and coke through the late 90's and 00's I was conflicted on this. I mean it's one thing to snort a line of blow that was smuggled in some 3rd world chicks stomach into the country and then smuggled into a club in a bag attached to some ratty drug dealers sack only to snort it off of a $0 hookers titls but fuck me if a flu isn't going to cause me to give up on life. I thought back to buying pills in thailand and facing a decade or so in The Bangkok Hilton all to fuck around with 3 chicks who at the time might have been ladyboys (they weren't) but fuck me if I'm going to take a chance with getting the flu by not wearing my mask while taking a bath. I remembered the time I accidently smuggle coke into Amsterdam because I didn't check my pockets when I picked my jacket to go to the airport in and being glad because it let me do a couple of lines on the flight and compared it to the terror I felt going to a grocery store and not wearing a full rubber suit with a respirator.
I didn't lock my front door in Toronto for a period of over a decade and never got robbed, I drove a convertible and didn't lock the doors, I've gone on a zipline in a country where making a body disappear costs less than a decent steak at a steakhouse, I drove a car in the middle of winter that was a death trap and should have been illegal because I had somewhere I wanted to go. I worked in a self serve gas station that was open 24/7 on a desolate road in a desolate town with a cop station that closed at 10pm.
Life is fucking dangerous. Do I consider COVID to be dangerous? Well not as dangerous as my motorbike or scuba diving or telling my wife I want to fuck her little sister now that she got her new fake tits. We have to consider danger in relation to experience and personal acceptable risks. There are people who would never fly to a resort in Mexico because its dangerous, there are people who would go and wouldn't leave the resort because its dangerous, there are people who would head out of the resort to try a street taco in the bright of day and then there are those who would leave the resort to buy coke at night and take a half dozen scantily clad girls to a no tell motel for a hundred dollar orgy. To the last group COVID isn't scary to the first group its the scariest thing on earth, my worry is that most Canadians are actually in the second group and not the third group. My bet is most of this subs folks fall into category 4 and 5.
Since the beginning? No. I have to admit I was fooled at first because at first they said flu-like symptoms and 2% mortality rate. It wasn't until we started seeing numbers out of non-China countries that I saw what was going on.
I was afraid early early on. Pictures came out of China of people just falling down dead in the streets which led to our lockdowns. I was washing hands etc.
I wasn't ever afraid of it but I was willing to comply at first. They lost me completely when they said "no symptoms is one of the symptoms." That was still during the "just two weeks to slow the spread."
You aren't alone. Nothing added up when this first started. Same in 2009 with the H1N1 scare. For whatever reason, I've developed a pretty good bullshit detector and just know that these type of things are scams. Many times I don't know why, at first but, eventually the info gets out that confirms my feeling.
Yes, if their lips are moving, right? Politicians, experts and most "professionals" are easy pickings. My BS detector is pretty sensitive at my age. I can usually pick out a bullshitter/loser/parasite just by how they carry themselves. Body language is very telling. Listening to them talk for the first minute, or less, usually confirms my suspicion. Common sense and life experience are core components of a good BS detector.
Having been a pretty solid user of club drugs and coke through the late 90's and 00's I was conflicted on this. I mean it's one thing to snort a line of blow that was smuggled in some 3rd world chicks stomach into the country and then smuggled into a club in a bag attached to some ratty drug dealers sack only to snort it off of a $0 hookers titls but fuck me if a flu isn't going to cause me to give up on life. I thought back to buying pills in thailand and facing a decade or so in The Bangkok Hilton all to fuck around with 3 chicks who at the time might have been ladyboys (they weren't) but fuck me if I'm going to take a chance with getting the flu by not wearing my mask while taking a bath. I remembered the time I accidently smuggle coke into Amsterdam because I didn't check my pockets when I picked my jacket to go to the airport in and being glad because it let me do a couple of lines on the flight and compared it to the terror I felt going to a grocery store and not wearing a full rubber suit with a respirator.
I didn't lock my front door in Toronto for a period of over a decade and never got robbed, I drove a convertible and didn't lock the doors, I've gone on a zipline in a country where making a body disappear costs less than a decent steak at a steakhouse, I drove a car in the middle of winter that was a death trap and should have been illegal because I had somewhere I wanted to go. I worked in a self serve gas station that was open 24/7 on a desolate road in a desolate town with a cop station that closed at 10pm.
Life is fucking dangerous. Do I consider COVID to be dangerous? Well not as dangerous as my motorbike or scuba diving or telling my wife I want to fuck her little sister now that she got her new fake tits. We have to consider danger in relation to experience and personal acceptable risks. There are people who would never fly to a resort in Mexico because its dangerous, there are people who would go and wouldn't leave the resort because its dangerous, there are people who would head out of the resort to try a street taco in the bright of day and then there are those who would leave the resort to buy coke at night and take a half dozen scantily clad girls to a no tell motel for a hundred dollar orgy. To the last group COVID isn't scary to the first group its the scariest thing on earth, my worry is that most Canadians are actually in the second group and not the third group. My bet is most of this subs folks fall into category 4 and 5.
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You are not the only one.
Since the beginning? No. I have to admit I was fooled at first because at first they said flu-like symptoms and 2% mortality rate. It wasn't until we started seeing numbers out of non-China countries that I saw what was going on.
I was afraid early early on. Pictures came out of China of people just falling down dead in the streets which led to our lockdowns. I was washing hands etc.
A couple months in my BS alarm went off
I wasn't ever afraid of it but I was willing to comply at first. They lost me completely when they said "no symptoms is one of the symptoms." That was still during the "just two weeks to slow the spread."
Yes. This. Not after they shut everything but would not provide “Evidence”.
You aren't alone. Nothing added up when this first started. Same in 2009 with the H1N1 scare. For whatever reason, I've developed a pretty good bullshit detector and just know that these type of things are scams. Many times I don't know why, at first but, eventually the info gets out that confirms my feeling.
Yes, if their lips are moving, right? Politicians, experts and most "professionals" are easy pickings. My BS detector is pretty sensitive at my age. I can usually pick out a bullshitter/loser/parasite just by how they carry themselves. Body language is very telling. Listening to them talk for the first minute, or less, usually confirms my suspicion. Common sense and life experience are core components of a good BS detector.
I could have written this word for word.