I am not a Christian. I’ve never made any secret of that here. However, the person I was staying with on the Isle of Man is. She is a devout Christian and derives great comfort from her faith. Likewise, her circle of friends and family share this faith. So far, so good. When I was laid up with WuFlu, she was planning to attend a baptism. Her niece and nephew told her not to come as she was living in a ‘covid house.’ Yup, this is how people behave now. Might as well have painted a big cross on the door. Now, she had tested negative, so did not catch the bug from me, but apparently, she could spread it far and wide as a ‘carrier.’ Yes, people really believe this nonsense because this is what the relentless propaganda has been telling them.
I asked her how they thought this might be – given that she didn’t have it and to be a carrier you would need to actually be infected, albeit asymptomatic. Not having it meant that she couldn’t spread what she didn’t have. Besides, as she had observed both with me and her grandson, it’s no big deal anyway. A very mild dose of the flu.
But, no, these pious folk didn’t want a plague carrier in their midst as this bug has superpowers and can spread among the uninfected without actually being present from the ‘covid house,’ which just goes to show just how powerful the propaganda is. People believe in magic now. Not one of them stopped to actually think about the nonsense they were peddling and weren’t in a mood to listen to cooler voices.
I did remind her about Jesus cleansing the leper, the significance of which point was not lost on her. However, she wasn’t the target of the point. Anyway, when a more knowledgeable friend of hers intervened, the nephew then tried to blame the grandson, saying that he was the one who advised her to stay away. This foolish lie was easily debunked, so there is now a family rift. My landlady rightly wants an apology before she feels ready to forgive. Meanwhile, I am reminded that people who call themselves religious, fall at the first hint of their faith being tested – and as tests go this one wasn’t exactly herculean.
So, no, I’m not a Christian. Even if I believed in Gods, I could not align myself with the hypocrites that masquerade as people of faith anyway. If ever there was an example of what Christ was preaching against, this little episode was it. Unfortunately, the people involved lack the self-awareness to see it. My landlady is left feeling pretty disappointed at people she believed were Christians, yet are really nothing of the sort.
” People believe in magic now.”
I was thinking just the same this morning as I walked down a street and watched several people walking towards me wearing masks. In some ways its good, it marks out the idiots to the rest of us.
I still see them on their own driving cars. We never really left the superstitions of the middle ages, frankly.
I thought that this was interesting, from Samizdata:
“At the beginning of the pandemic, Facebook took the step of removing content which promoted face masks as a tool to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Yet within a short space of time, the medical consensus on masks changed. But rather than acknowledge that it was wrong, Facebook flipped its position and censored in the other direction.”
How the things were supposed to protect anyone without actually being totally sealed so that they prevent breathing altogether I don’t know. What worries me is that the vast majority of people are prepared to just believe whatever they have been told, even when it contradicts what they were told yesterday.
It’s the inability to see through the contradictions that frustrates me.
As a believer, I completely agree. After my father died a few years ago, I started attending church again. I’d come to think of myself as agnostic, but the way the church community rallied round led me to understand that these are good people and started me thinking about the nature of God.
Then came Covid. Even then, I stuck with it through all the nonsense – the closures (later deemed, with no help from the Church of Scotland, to be illegal), the weekly “deep cleaning” of the pews, the Zoom services – but in the autumnn of last year, during our post-service tea in the hall, I was berated for not wearing a mask in church. By people who weren’t wearing masks. None of us were. Just a few weeks earlier, we’d held my mum’s funeral in the same building: nearly a hundred people, from all over Britain, together, unmasked, for several hours. I still haven’t heard of any of them catching anything. But apparently by sitting unmasked in a church built to hold 1,500, I was “endangering the health” of the other 19 people who were in attendance.
I haven’t been back. They’re still good people, don’t get me wrong, but there’s nothing Christian about that kind of magical thinking.
“Jesus loves you” is a phrase which gives comfort to some…
…but not when heard in a Mexican prison.
I see this incident as a matter of courtesy, plus an excuse to get out of buying even a trivial baptismal gift. An extreme excess of caution, yes, but not my party, not my monkeys. Not my caterer.
Here in Texas we don’t put up with that shit. ‘No Vax. no admission?’ Fine. (Crowds of people stay away. Much money is lost.) Fuck ’em
Forgotten already?
Pre-“The Jab” asymptomatic – ie healthy, well – did not spread the virus
Now All Jabbed are potential spreaders regardless of symptoms and negative test. Prime example the Press Gala in USA, all triple, quadruple jabbed, negative test and a super spreader event where among others Biden infected
Maybe we should send All jabbed to a plague island
A test for Christian belief: Who do you trust? Welby or Calvin Robinson?
“Safe & Effective”? It unsafely, but effectively kills millions and creates billions of ‘Typhoid Marys’
https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/yet-more-vaccine-success/
I’m a Christian
As in bedridden? You’re a man-flu bloke then like my brother
Seems absurd when I knew it wouldn’t change anything for me and it didn’t
Yes, I was bed ridden. Unable to function for three days. I explained my symptoms in the previous post. Lucky old you being able to carry on as normal. I couldn’t. I spent time in bed unable to watch the racing. You think I wanted to do this? Or that I lack some sort of moral fibre? Even now, a week later, I’m still experiencing fatigue, although I’m pretty much carrying on as normal.
I haven’t forgotten anything. To be an asymptomatic carrier, you have to be infected. If you aren’t infected, you cannot infect others. This is basic biology.
As for the final point, there are too many Welbys and not enough Robinsons.
I’m sad you’ve been inflicted so badly by what for me was nothing other than bed 1 hr early one day. Awful that you also couldn’t eat. Especially so as this happened on holiday, really ruins what you’d looked forward to and paid for
I believe it’s genes And immune system priming by not beigng to hygenic, we need bacteria
On genes: before Omicron, ~4 years ago I had first respiratory illness in ~20 years. Sore throat, blocked nose, cough-up crap, one day I could barely speak.
However, still able to carry on as normal
You’re experience vs mine shows how we’re all different and Gov’t & NHS are wrong to impose blanket policies
Keep fighting
God bless
Well, yes. I tend to get flu every ten years or so. The effect is always the same.
Not implying anything, but “Me & Covid” didn’t make clear your Omicron had you bedridden for three days. Horrible when you’re on holiday and not enjoying what you’d look forward to and paid for
As I’ve said before, we’re all different and much defined by our genes
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/13/the-role-of-genes-in-determining-susceptibility-to-infection/
However, when it comes to cold, flu etc I strongly believe mindset plays a large part. I actively refuse to allow them to take control and that boosts immune system. Wheras my brother has a sniffle and dives into bed saying ‘I’m dying’ which surpresses immune system
True, but now irrelevant regarding Covid-19. The Typhoid Mary Jabbed are testing negative and still spreading it. One of first was the Dems who flew to DC from Texas. Recent was DC Press Gala
Mind over matter only goes so far. If your body won’t respond, then it won’t respond, no matter how much you will it to. I was laid up for two and a half days. I stand my my original comments that this was a mild attack. Seasonal flu usually lays me out for about five days and maybe ten days before I’m feeling normal again. This one is now, finally starting to lift. Perhaps the worst was the trying to ride a bike. Not only was it physically tiring, but I was experiencing a combination of brain fog and gastro intestinal discomfort. It’s only in the past twenty four hours that I’ve felt inclined to eat a proper meal. But, I repeat, this is still a mild bug.
O/T Old jokes’ home
Young chap gets a job as an apprentice zookeeper. On his first morning he’s patrolling the aviary when he sees a dead zebra finch in its cage. Anxious not to get the blame for its demise, he quickly throws it into the lions’ enclosure. In the primate house it gets worse – two dead chimpanzees. Over the lions’ fence they go. Finally in the insect house he finds a hive full of dead bees which have started to decompose. He tips them into the lion section
At this point one of the lions wakes up and asks his mate: ‘What’s for lunch today?’ ‘Oh, the usual,’ comes the reply. ‘Finch, chimps and mushy bees.’
H/T Alan Ashworth
🙂
Got one for you lot;-
Twitter thread regarding trans debate.
– A difference of opinions develops in the thread as to the amount of genders that now exist.
Fist person maintains that there are two and that’s that.
Second person categorically says 72.
Out of nowhere, third person states, actually there are 73!
:- Trans Parent
A person that identifies as being invisible
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New Zealand is still mask obsessed,we are supposed to cover up when in shops,public transport etc. As I am slightly asthmatic and have difficulty breathing in a mask,I asked for and received an exemption from wearing one.I have been challenged a couple of times in shops but the magic words ” I am exempt” has the challenger backing away usually with an apology for asking.
As far as infection is concerned we have two friends who have had the bug, both triple vaccinated and avid mask wearers.So much for vaccines and masks.
And likely both nonsmokers as well?
I admit I’ve become converted on the road to De-Mask-Us. You can reasonably argue that the first lockdown was justified as a precautionary measure because no-one knew enough facts to stand against the apocalyptics. You can argue that mask-wearing was (initially) regarded as more effective than it was in practice.
I remember hearing that the Great Barrington Declaration (focused protection, no general lockdown) ran counter to the lines of various Governments. But now that we can see the death by age heatmap on the page https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=nation&areaName=England it strikes me that the Great Barrington Declaration was correct. Strangely the Great Barrington Declaration still doesn’t receive the attention it deserves.
The GBD always made sense because it followed scientific principles.
Bollocks excuse. We Knew in Feb 2020 it was no worse than Flu and hit mostly old. We had figures from around world that showed this plus the huge floating petri-dish lab Diamond Princess
Equal bollocks on masks, until summer 2020 “The Science” said they didn’t work and Facebook was blocking posts saying they did. Then all change, information now disinformation and disinformation now information
“…the road to De-Mask-Us.”
Best pun of the day.
“Apocalyptics”
Best newly coined word of the day.
Interesting graphs. Particularly interesting are the dips that appear during summer. I always felt that during those times we should have been out and about getting ourselves exposed to the bug when it was least likely to do us any harm. It is interesting that I have been out and about for two and a half years without being smitten. I seem to have picked it up at a Queen concert. My wife came down with it a couple of days later which suggests that she didn’t pick it up there but then caught it from me.
I picked it up on the IoM ferry.
I’ve just been shopping at Asda and there seemed to be a lot of masks about. The numbers did seem to have dwindled down to a handful of idiots but today there were loads. Has the BBC been pumping out some gaslighting propaganda?
There was a scare story in the news, so, yeah, bodies on the streets and all that.
Only saw two in masks in Morrisons today – both middle aged women
I’m not sure of anything anymore. I was raised in the Russian Orthodox Christian tradition, which when admitted, I used to detect a definite cooling from most protestants that I met.
However the point I want to make is that one of the major issues J.C. had was with hypocrisy. As you say LR, so many profess to be ‘ christian ‘ but have no self awareness of how much they are not.
I think a lot of protestants are unsure if Russian Orthodox Christian tradition is RC or not or even what it is. I don’t know. What is it most like Lutheran, RC, CoE, Methodist, Presbyterian…?
Orthodox Christianity has similarities to R.C. but is fundamentally different in certain vital theological issues. It is a very involved and complex subject. The whole ethos of Orthodoxy is very different to R.C. One major difference is that there is a definite sense of sorrow based on a very strong feeling of loss through sin to being close to God. However, this is not the forum to discuss such things!
Thanks
I got a hint it was different from Hitchens
Pope Francis, who has also been very rude about Russia´s Orthodox Church leaders, has now twice stated that there was some provocation of Russia in this conflict…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-10930249/
Snigger:
Double/Triple-masking quadruple vaccinated Anthony Fauci has Covid-19 (Again)
In the end, neither double masks nor double boosters could save him: NIAID director and unflushable turd Anthony Fauci, who in 2021 declared that “When people are vaccinated, they can feel safe that they are not going to get infected,” has tested positive for Corona. Like all the other celebrities to catch SARS-2, he is reported to be suffering “mild symptoms,” and he’s on Paxlovid
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/double-masking-quadruple-vaccinated
Remarkable how on the one hand, covidians can observe they they’re all getting COVID despite being “protected”; on the other, how they can all admit that it’s basically a cold; and yet, they can continue insisting that masks, vaxx mandates, etc., remain in place. It’s like their brains are composed of a set of hermetically sealed chambers incapable of passing information between them
Farage: ‘This isn’t about health, it’s about control’ Novak Djokovic blocked from attending US Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RfyYBx1O9M
The other tennis players just show what supine overpaid twats they are. They should have boycotted the australian event and should be boycotting this one too.
Promotors need to be starved. Fans need to vote with their wallets.
The whole thing needs smashing down and start again.
Get well, LR.
Had a swim today. About two weeks after first being smitten I seem to be firing on all cylinders again.
I’m just getting there now. Still tired at the end of the working day, though.