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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis may be a bit long-winded, but please bear with me...
I was thinking today that the response by the idiots to all of this is rejection of fundamentals; "See, there are only 80,000 deaths, ya gotta die from something, right? More deaths by such and such or so and so than this..."
So it reminded me of the pre Y2K readying: many people with whom I'm acquainted did a lot of work for major firms with that and yes it worked out rather well. But all the naysayers, the usual crowd said: "I told you nothing would happen...all that for nothing." You idiots, that was because tens of thousands of people devoted millions upon millions of hours to ensuring that major systems would continue to work.
And so it is with quarantining: if we hadn't done this we would have had untold deaths and many more severely injured for life as a result of pulmonary scarring or other nightmarish results of the infection of this "Democrat Hoax" of course...
Now it's strange: I just watched two very interesting disparate films: the first was Kirk Douglas in Ace in the Hole, wherein he plays a reporter in the southwest who reports upon a man trapped in a cave. In the beginning of the unfolding story, Douglas and his coworker enter the cave and Douglas says, and i'll liberally paraphrase: sure you've heard of 240 people trapped in caves or thousands of people in trouble or even a million suffering and dying, but those are just numbers: this is one man and people will respond more intensely because it is one...and people can identify with one as opposed to a larger number. It's better news and better sales.
The second film was a documentary on Natalie Wood and I most highly recommend it to film buffs and to people interested in family dynamics. It is entitled: Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind It is superb in every respect...
So to my point: these people who are attempting to minimize the loss of 80000 people SO FAR are utterly without any redemptive qualities at all whatsoever. I'm sorry: if you don't truly feel for these people, many of who were cut down in their prime, you are subhuman. This is how genocides and Holocausts occur - there are a great many who simply do not care one whit about the lives of others. When faced of course with the loss of a single individual, perhaps their relative or close friend, then all of a sudden it's "different" in the same way that for many when a woman chooses to terminate her pregnancy it is murder but when their daughter does it, well, it's "different" because she is "special". I had posted a death notice earlier today in another thread which saddened me terribly from Sunday's Philadelphia Inquirer. This large family lost a young lady and is obviously bereft, my God her GRANDMOTHER outlived her. And this is not simply a disease of the elderly, as there are new syndromes being discovered it seems, weekly. I fully understand that life goes on but we are risking possibly the life and limb of millions here at this juncture. Now the reason I mentioned the Natalie Wood Documentary is that it was exceptionally moving: here is a woman, an actress who debuted at age 4 and was followed her entire life in film. The intensity of the people's feelings for her were remarkable: her children, her husbands, her fellow actors, her crew, her directors, nearly everyone. This is emblematic for the effect that we all have upon our environments and when people casually write off individuals as the cost of doing business, well, the family which lost its matriarch in the Natalie Wood example, is just like every other family anywhere. What is ours is very precious.
But these morans (sic) will never admit this until its one of their own...then he or she will be "special". Unlike your family member or my family member: we are "ordinary" and "expendable". The fact that these people cannot and will not process this is beyond reprehensible: it is, as I stated before, subhuman.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)cornball 24
(1,481 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,999 posts)A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Nobody ever accused Stalin of being a great humanitarian, and nobody will accuse Cheeto Benito of possessing that human trait either.
brooklynite
(94,792 posts)...because Y2K didnt require a Manhattan Project type effort to save society. It was never that risk that doomsday promoters claimed it was.
PCIntern
(25,601 posts)EndlessWire
(6,573 posts)It was the fear of what might happen, which wasn't completely known, that led to a massive effort to fix everything before Y2K arrived. In particular, I remember that there were millions of embedded systems that had to be addressed, stuff you are unaware of and wouldn't think about malfunctioning until it happened. Some of them were under the ocean. Y2K was a valid threat, with legacy programming that had to be corrected.
There were plenty of knowledgeable people that were alarmed, and the government had to address it.
hunter
(38,337 posts)It was a very big deal.
There was a shocking amount of software written in the days of punched cards that would have broken bad on Y2K.
malaise
(269,219 posts)and they are sub-human
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)PCIntern
(25,601 posts)Zambero
(8,974 posts)Pacific yew.
PCIntern
(25,601 posts)RVN VET71
(2,698 posts)Imagine how serious this plague will be to Trump if his precious daughter were in an ICU with a tube down her throat. (No, I do not mean Tiffany.) But that reaction is what makes Trump and others like him so reprehensible, so loathsome.
It is, sadly, very true that we citizens, the workaday sort, not wealthy, no yachts or private jets, we citizens are just, as Leona Helmsley famously said, "the little people." There's so many of us that we are all expendable, or considered to be by the current unelected leader of the Country, his social class, and his political sycophants and hangers on.
calimary
(81,527 posts)Yet we're all supposed to drop everything when it actually hits them, personally.
The mark of a genuinely kind and compassionate and highly-evolved, indeed, genuinely Christian person is how he or she feels and reacts when misfortune befalls NOT on him or her but on someone else.
And these yahoos and trump-jumpers utterly fail this test. They'd rather go the guns-'n'-bullying route.
niyad
(113,628 posts)Skittles
(153,226 posts)I was part of that "fix" and the meetings and maintenance windows went on for a few years prior to the moment 2000 hit......yes indeed.