Despite my boomer-hood, I found the "boomer remover" tag amusing, I protested (lockdowns) for the first time in my 6 decades, and I have not returned to church. You expressed your disappointment with "faith" so sharply (If I had your way with words, I could express better the depth of my appreciation for that accurate and damning judgement of the church's response. Apparently the people in buildings are not "the church" as they didn't prevail against the threats of government and the flu, let alone the gates of hell).
As a nurse, I signed the Barrington Declaration early and as a Florida resident, I was pleased that DeSantis seemed to be able to weigh math and science accurately and keep our schools open and open up businesses and parks. Loved his roundtable discussions with Jay Battacharya, Martin Kuldorff, and Sunetra Gupti.
Thank you for your thoughtful response and for subscribing!
As far as Boomers go, though we use that for shorthand, the truth is it is very specifically people born in the 1940s- split between Silent Generation and the Boomers- who have caused a great amount of our political problems. Of course it is a ruling cabal of people that age, not everyone born in that decade, but they have held enormous amounts of power for around 40 years now. Did you know that Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born in 1945? As I explained in some other articles, international relations had been ran on the "Post-WW2 Peace" for almost 80 years before the invasion, so it should actually be no surprise that the men who won WW2 should hold power for a very long time [every president from Eisenhower to Bush I was a WW2 veteran] and then pass it directly to their children. But they've done a profoundly bad job of ruling, this is an incredibly incompetent ruling coalition.
I also learned about Ionnides early on in this. We did in fact knew everything we needed to and their fear of the unknown was made up. Its the main reason it seems they may have known it was lab designed the whole time, is that they suddenly refused to act like anything we knew about epidemiology applies. The truth is though, I learned early into this that covid fearers are immune to statistics so I only use them for lulz [such as New Zealand's chart currently.] I stopped arguing about the numbers a very long time ago because it doesn't matter. It was al unfortunate though because I hate medical science, in the sense that it's not a topic that I am interested in, and this all caused me to learn far more about epidemiology than I ever cared to know.
Regarding church, I was a Protestant, but it is stunning to think of what the Catholic Church told people about the necessity of communion and confession etc for many hundreds of years then suddenly they just stopped providing those services and said it was fine. A church closing for a couple of weeks here or there because the pastor or many members of the congregation are sick is one thing but my erstwhile church (which I never regularly attended anyhow) was closed for like a year and a half. Even the nearby Christ Church (a notorious Calvinist sect in Moscow, Idaho) closed for a few weeks. It was a funny thing though, Moscow had far lower cases and deaths than Pullman, Washington, which was under far stricter restrictions being in WA and has much younger population...and no huge church holding in person services for the vast majority of the "Pandemic".
I was lucky as far as restrictions go because I live two miles from the border of Idaho which had what my friend described as a "mostly fictitious response to covid", which is to say, the governor played along enough to not draw the ire of the media like Noem or DeSantis but he the state did very little. Moscow is a university town though, so the city government and the non-Christ Church population went wild.
Thanks again for your response, you are definitely lucky to have been in Florida for this, though nursing has been one of the hardest professions for sane people.
Well done! I am among your despised boomers ("drunk at the mall with their grandchildrens' credit cards"?; had to look up NPC in the urban dictionary). The innumeracy of the populace stunned me. I read John Ionnides article early in Stat and latched onto that like a life raft- used to search his name weekly to find anything else he was doing. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ (and found and followed some of his like minded colleagues-see below)
Despite my boomer-hood, I found the "boomer remover" tag amusing, I protested (lockdowns) for the first time in my 6 decades, and I have not returned to church. You expressed your disappointment with "faith" so sharply (If I had your way with words, I could express better the depth of my appreciation for that accurate and damning judgement of the church's response. Apparently the people in buildings are not "the church" as they didn't prevail against the threats of government and the flu, let alone the gates of hell).
As a nurse, I signed the Barrington Declaration early and as a Florida resident, I was pleased that DeSantis seemed to be able to weigh math and science accurately and keep our schools open and open up businesses and parks. Loved his roundtable discussions with Jay Battacharya, Martin Kuldorff, and Sunetra Gupti.
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Thank you for your thoughtful response and for subscribing!
As far as Boomers go, though we use that for shorthand, the truth is it is very specifically people born in the 1940s- split between Silent Generation and the Boomers- who have caused a great amount of our political problems. Of course it is a ruling cabal of people that age, not everyone born in that decade, but they have held enormous amounts of power for around 40 years now. Did you know that Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born in 1945? As I explained in some other articles, international relations had been ran on the "Post-WW2 Peace" for almost 80 years before the invasion, so it should actually be no surprise that the men who won WW2 should hold power for a very long time [every president from Eisenhower to Bush I was a WW2 veteran] and then pass it directly to their children. But they've done a profoundly bad job of ruling, this is an incredibly incompetent ruling coalition.
I also learned about Ionnides early on in this. We did in fact knew everything we needed to and their fear of the unknown was made up. Its the main reason it seems they may have known it was lab designed the whole time, is that they suddenly refused to act like anything we knew about epidemiology applies. The truth is though, I learned early into this that covid fearers are immune to statistics so I only use them for lulz [such as New Zealand's chart currently.] I stopped arguing about the numbers a very long time ago because it doesn't matter. It was al unfortunate though because I hate medical science, in the sense that it's not a topic that I am interested in, and this all caused me to learn far more about epidemiology than I ever cared to know.
Regarding church, I was a Protestant, but it is stunning to think of what the Catholic Church told people about the necessity of communion and confession etc for many hundreds of years then suddenly they just stopped providing those services and said it was fine. A church closing for a couple of weeks here or there because the pastor or many members of the congregation are sick is one thing but my erstwhile church (which I never regularly attended anyhow) was closed for like a year and a half. Even the nearby Christ Church (a notorious Calvinist sect in Moscow, Idaho) closed for a few weeks. It was a funny thing though, Moscow had far lower cases and deaths than Pullman, Washington, which was under far stricter restrictions being in WA and has much younger population...and no huge church holding in person services for the vast majority of the "Pandemic".
I was lucky as far as restrictions go because I live two miles from the border of Idaho which had what my friend described as a "mostly fictitious response to covid", which is to say, the governor played along enough to not draw the ire of the media like Noem or DeSantis but he the state did very little. Moscow is a university town though, so the city government and the non-Christ Church population went wild.
Thanks again for your response, you are definitely lucky to have been in Florida for this, though nursing has been one of the hardest professions for sane people.