Saturday morning. Not as much sleeping as the past two days, but I think I’m getting more on schedule.
Going to address the prompt early today because the news section really is what I want to deal with today.
So. Prompt.
Is there someone you were close to at one point in time, that you can no longer stand to be around?
Absolutely. Her. Him. Her. No ill-will towards him. Well, I still talk to her sometimes. Him, too. *shrug*
I don’t have a lot of friends. I never have. Few people get close to me, understand how I work. Some of that is me, but things fall away.
Some of that is a function of my nomadic upbringing. Some of it is a function of how I behave.
The amount of ill-will i bear towards those with whom I really don’t have contact varies.
By and large, I’m civil.
Significantly limiting time spent in the cesspool that is Facebook goes a long way to ensuring that.
I use the mute function liberally. That’s kind of eliminated my original concept of just unfriending them there.
This is related to the news section today.
I’m becoming increasingly convinced of two things:
- The solutions proffered for combating the virus don’t work, and;
- There’s really not a lot anybody can do about it.
I admit that I’m listening to this right now.
What I’ve been looking for is solid evidence that the sorts of measures recommended by lockdown proponents that the lockdowns actually work.
Okay. It’s an island with relatively few residents. Let’s look at Australia.
The numbers there are increasing, too, despite it being late spring.
Science doesn’t know how to control this. Government, especially ones “following the science” don’t have answers, either.
So you’re left with a choice of doing something that probably won’t work, or doing nothing.
Politicians are accepting whichever option justifies more authoritarianism.