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-Land of the Free
Some people don't want the pandemic to end...
2021-03-23
Kurt Schlichter, of course
[Townhall] - It might not occur to you, because you are not a bizarre wierdo, but a lot of people really love the pandemic. Not just the little fascist gnome who changes his #science advice more often than a Wellesley girl changes her preferences during her sophomore year experimental phase, and not just the fascist pols who get off on exploiting their emergency powers to boss people around, but even some regular people. The masks, the paranoia, the constant talk about vaccines — some people love this stuff.

This is their Woodstock.

And they never want it to end.

Why would anyone enjoy this idiocy? Limits on your freedom, hectoring pests, nitwits riding around in their Priuses with face diapers wrapped around their talk-holes... it’s an abomination. Yet there’s this slice of the populace that gets into it. They resist a return to normalcy because their normal lives were not that great to begin with and this is the most exciting thing that will ever happen to them.

People crave a challenge, and for a while one of the most challenging things about America was its utter lack of challenge. It’s generally safe here. You probably won’t get hurt, except by accidents or if you live in a big Democratic city, and only then if you find yourself in the wrong neighborhood. You won’t starve — even if you are a bum, someone is handing you a ham sandwich. You really have to go looking for danger, and people do. They get into extreme sports, or flirt with crime, join the military, or date a Cuban chick.

The hardworking people who built America and made it safe, secure, and prosperous, also made it, in some ways, empty. We inherited a paradise. We paid nothing, did nothing, and most importantly, we risked nothing. But human beings are designed to do all those things. And we never really got a chance to.
Posted by:M. Murcek

#7  *with a zest

Also, it was then that Getting Paid to Not Work Because Covid started to get mentioned, as the ball fields at the centralized location (huh uh you will not travel to other towns, just this one) were not maintained like they had been. Get paid to mow the entire grounds, or get paid to wrap some construction fencing around everything but the ball field and just care for that area.

Why isn't the pitching rubber where it is supposed to be and the infield dragged? Nobody wanted to go to work that morning.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-23 14:51  

#6  It was plain to see during 2 Weeks to Flatten the Curve, Part 3 that there were CosPlayers and Karens who had formed their Id and Ego around the situation. The Petty Tyrants had come into their groove without a zest for things like, The New Rules for How You Will Now Play Softball.

These anti-social and mentally unbalanced people had found their niche.

It was official when the Daily Mail was attempting to re-define Karen into someone had done their requested mask time and actively defended themselves against the free agents.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-03-23 14:40  

#5  And for them, it never will.
Posted by: Angstrom   2021-03-23 10:27  

#4  

I'll Take Door #3 - Date a Cuban Chick

Posted by: Gerthudion Flusolet4182   2021-03-23 10:18  

#3  way more than 'some'
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136   2021-03-23 07:06  

#2  /\ ....and 'stimulus' checks.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-03-23 01:48  

#1  The US population in general is addicted to excitement & emotional agitation, that is the root cause of this.
Posted by: Thineger Sproing6704   2021-03-23 01:15  

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