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Couple more  pet peeves…

Why does American news act like everything will be okay when it’s not okay?

Curiously enough I find some news from India or Australia seem to take certain issues such as covid more serious when they report than The typical American newscaster does.

Why isn’t covid always in the local news considering it’s constant impact on society?

Personally I am at odds with how media reports covid issues .. covid is an ongoing that simply requires ongoing daily attention which is one of the reasons why I follow the Data presented to me by Data Report.. Data Report’s data should be a feature of daily local news everyday just like the weatherreport is. My pet peeve being the local news is always seeking a new story while it should be focused on covid everyday.

Oh another pet peeve is the omission of stuff like : long covid… long covid is not mentioned as often as should be amongst the symptoms… not n local news channels I’ve been watching. It’s like long covid is a bad word or something.

Oh seen so many crazy ones:

A maskless reporter standing next to a bunch of cows in the middle of avian flu scare saying"these cows may have avian flu right now for all I know".

There's a woman who lost both legs to covid complications receiving new artificial set of legs then running in competitions again with no mask amongst the very same peers that probably gave her covid I mean c'mon even after losing both legs not wearing a mask risking covid again... that's nuts!

There's acountless stupid behavior ..one guy loses his daughter to covid and is just sitting there totally unmasked with unmasked reporters ..I mean its just crazy someone dies in his family because they didn't mask up and then the just sit around crying about the horrible hideous loss and they still don't mask up for the next variant amongst them while they are on tv publicizing their masklessness.

Then I think of the wonderful MASK again , All I could of think of was if only they had heard my voice and taken my advice about wearing the mask.. I could have saved that girls legs or kept that guy's daughter from having died from Covid "the breath it in and die disease" as should have been said in her case. But woe is me I can't can't go back in time and make them wear the mask for me and for their own goods...

but enough about their goods..

here's the good news for all you MASKER's out there:CONGRATULATIONS to all N95 mask wearers! Scientifically it has been proven that You n 95 mask wearers have not only prevented yourselves from contracting covid(like 99.99% success rate), you have also not spread the disease to others (like 10 -15 other contacts average) therefore preventing a colossal amount of covid infections and even  covid deaths! Excellent work my masked friends! Ye masked  have prevented more covid infections and deaths than maskless have with any other measures taken besides isolation and quarantining measures. Thank you!!!,

Just 'MASK' and you shall receive!,
The Masked Man

Feels good to preach  to the choir and know someone else respects the nature of this beast called the new emerging variant…

I look through a picture book of 1917 about the spanish flu and I look at all people pictures in the book and I say all the maskless people are idiots.. the masked nurses have a chance and the occasional masked farmer and a masked horse might survive most comfortable in the 1917 Spanish influenza book .. then I look at the people on 2020 pandemic and think thank God for my mask I feel safer in it ! The Spanish flu killed more people than a couple wars put together just to make the point of the destruction  these tiny microscopic entities today are capable of  (only seen through an electron microscope).

…Yet another  pet peeve of mine which should be called a monster peeve are politicians that don’t even follow the data or news. On one channel we got the biggest summer surge on the globe , school has just gotten started and on the other channel my choice of smiling politicians… it’s hard to see these  penguins super spreading.  When I See maskless politicians at super spreading events it’s like in the movies where the driver is not staring straight ahead at the road while talking and eyeballing the passenger… I can’t hear a word they are saying as these maskless people dont  have their eye on the ball. What happens when I watch the maskless people I’d All I can see is that face is going to make that other face sick and that one is standing awfully close to that one .. in my mind I can just see the invisible germs in the air at these political events…
For me . Reality is my significant others online friend just lost a friend to covid (just last night)in Nebraska and that person died within 24 hours of having covid.. then my significant others cousin died from covid having gotten it in the hospital.. that’s close enough for me .. I’m not breathing what they breathed in!

.. I live with the reality there’s a good chance my mother and father who probably don’t mask are next to die for real  .. not too mention covid’s numbers and a vicious variant may prove fatal for all we know..
I can’t connect to the maskless.  I don’t understand why the maskless can’t fathom or envision the invisible germs like I can and I don’t understand their lack of fear and respect of disease. I simply am at odds with the maskless.. I don’t understand their strategy of survival. My guess is that the multitude of maskless simply have not experienced chronic disease in their lives before therefore are simply ignorant and unable to respond to fear or stimuli that can not just kill but also maim and basically make the maskless body so itchy and intolerable to live in .. My pet peeve being: aren’t they scared? Number one goals in life Fear or gravitate away from things that kill .. Death is pretty top of line when it comes to things to avoid.. number two to avoid: provably pain like disease and injury  .. unless your a masochist we typically hate pain and suffering especially prolonged suffering like diseases often carry. As for numbers 3 and 4 things to avoid: probably meaningless if one is in pain and misery and sick … It’s suicide to go maskless… I certainly expect more of people to protect themselves..
I for one , live in a reality that long covid exists and that diseases are unpleasant torture like being a prisoner of ones own body! Lol …my message to political candidates  who may be  driving through a pandemic.. I don’t vote for maskless mortals so stop smiling like a sleaze bag for the camera if you drove by house.. this ain’t no vacation friends of mine dying overnight with covid .. put a mask over that silly grin .. this is Hell ..we are in a pandemic!  people are still getting sick!

If only if we could trace (like we do in genealogy) who is making who sick and finally hold those responsible accountable for their fault.. or at least give compensation for all the medical bills… that’s why I mask .. I don’t let people get me sick… and I don’t get people sick.. that’s my strategy: this old boy masks up! I’ve seen too many sickos falling to  bended  knee and..
…the sick all have one thing in common: they were all maskless!
and they are sick for real… 

Ah another pet peeve: politicians who get sick then say they are going to “work remotely or from home” .. c’mon! I don’t trust a sick guy or woman to make decisions for me or the public if they are sick! Sick people are not of sound mind! If anything politicians should be working from home isolating themselves so they are able to stay healthy and work from home or their office instead of drawing a crowd during pandemic.. Every election time never fails to become a super spreader for the past four years. Again if your sick don’t work, it’s dangerous and the sick will make mistakes.

Okay big pet peeve for the tiny five minute typical local news channel reports is the impression I get is the myth: 'people don’t have to worry about covid if they are not  older'… this is hogwash .. c’mon you got you’re whole life ahead of you young people ! Don’t play with long covid! as we all must take responsibility for this disease besides there is long covid and if I’m not mistaken long covid can affect people who survived so called mild cases of covid .. I mean who wants living with long term repercussions and symptoms regardless of your age? And who wants everybody around them to be sick even if one personally survives covid.. nobody wants to infect numerous people down the line? Again it’s that new variant we want to avoid making (wear a mask to actually prevent infection and spread !)
My pet peeve being in many local area news channels) is a pet peeve of ommision..the omission of 'long covid' in the local news... long covid isn’t listed amongst the typical symptoms or feared enough..and young people should fear Long covid as well as old people … I don’t like taking chances  with prolonged suffering regardless of my age!

That whole ‘don’t worry about covid if your not older’ idea is really dumb given there have been four and a half years straight of covid and all these mutations are not necessarily getting less dangerous…
The possibility is that young people or any people for that matter who survive the so called mild symptoms only became instrumental in developing  long covid and could inadvertently develop the next variant that could very well prove a greater mortality rate or simply greater success rate for virus!

I’m scared of covid. Particularly long covid especially the long term health repercussions that in particular may be experienced by those  that catch bout after bout of covid... we don't know and can't know yet what long term repercussions may be in store for those that catch covid even once may occur later on down the road..It doesn’t sound good. I would feel a lot better if I saw people around me masking up real good.. I just can’t stand maskless people no matter how hard I try. There is evidence proper mask wearing  helps tremendously and since it’s a no brainer kind of noninvasive procedure a great tool to prevent airborne diseases I can’t help but encourage mask usage. Masks don’t wane variant to variant and one isn’t altering their body with any drugs or anything .. if you use filters to protect your car engines from debris I definitely recommend same protection for your body namely;  filter out dangerous particles with a mask.

.. Keep your eyes on the road when you drive and Keep on maskin’ brothers and sisters and we’ll make out alright!,
The Masked Man!

I was recently reminded of this phrase that you see (and hear) frequently in obituaries of one type or another:

"A brief illness."

More and more, I feel that this is the 'go-to' phrase when someone dies of Covid-19 but whomever is in charge of the obituary or news story does not want to report that detail (for one motivated reason or another).

I am old enough to remember when AIDS was dominant in the news and people (both ordinary and prominent) were dying from it quite frequently. For the record, AIDS is still a menace to our society and, despite advances in medicine, is still causing great calamity wherever it strikes.

When someone died of AIDS but their family did not want to advertise that fact (because, especially in the beginning of that pandemic, it was also a de facto admission of the person being homosexual), they would say that the person died because of "heart failure" or "a heart condition." And the snarky response was always, "Well, yes - When your heart stops beating, you die. But HOW did the heart stop beating?" One famous example that comes to mind was the entertainer Liberace.

Granted in both cases (heart condition & brief illness), there are always several legitimate reasons to use both phrases that don't amount to any nefarious purposes. However, "a brief illness" is right up there with "heart failure / a heart condition" and "exhaustion" (I remember when "Lyme disease" was briefly popular in the entertainment industry as an euphemism for recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction, as in "they're recovering from a bout of Lyme disease.")

I have no doubt that, as the years go by, loose tongues will eventually reveal (especially for the prominent personalities) how many of these "brief illnesses" were connected to Covid-19.