Don't know about you, but the weekends don't seem any more relaxing than the week - and they aren't close to relaxing either. Perhaps it is because we are home most of the time and there is little differentiation in the places we go.
We had the neighbours over last night so that their family could steal our sauna for an hour. Theirs is being renovated and should be finished soon, but they have gone without at home for about a year. They came back for a glass of wine after they had put the kids to bed.
Their children are older than @smallsteps and because there are two of them, they can spend time together and look after each other unsupervised.
I think that it will be quite a long time before we can leave ours alone for a few hours, for a night is even further away.
This ridiculous lockdown thing has meant that we don't really have any time to ourselves, as the only babysitters we have are the grandparents. And of course, they are "social distancing" to avoid getting the flu - something I think is a pretty ineffective solution considering how much people are breaking isolation.
What is strange is that from what I understand, the average age of death with Covid-19 is around 80 years old, which is around about, the average age of death normally. Doesn't this indicate that the risk of death is the same as normal life?
What I do believe is that the costs incurred by the Internet meme, knee-jerk reaction to this is going to have far-reaching affects that could be multi-generational. The economic effects from the destruction of small business, the social effects from the way people have changed their behaviour to disconnect even further from one another.
We have engineered a society that takes even more random out of our experience. This limits opportunity and makes us very predictable, very easy to target in many ways.
We have gone "remote" willingly and haven't considered that what this means is that we will end up mingling less, stay more tightly within our borders of experience, not branch out.
Many people welcome this as it is much easier as there is less chance of conflict, less challenge - our personal silos can remain intact. We have created life to resemble the Internet world where we can pick and choose what we will consume, and exclude anything that doesn't fit our view or desires.
Last night, we were talking about dating and how each couple met. We talked about the singles we know and how they date online, but do not seem to find anyone they want to be with long term. This is the problem with being able to curate all parts of our world, our expectations limit our choices to what we know and exclude the random that could introduce what we need.
The separation between us makes our lives as individuals much easier to manage, far less messy.
Divide and conquer.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
Your daughters appearance is changing, she is becoming a little girl from a baby and her face shows personality.
Your comment about death from corona and death with Corona is thought provoking.
We have many valid questions, but few valid answers. The result is bad theater disguised as governance.
Pray, it appears we can’t help ourselves.
It seems that we are all too ready to believe any nonsense and it is very easy to scare people into submission.
'This limits opportunity and makes us very predictable, very easy to target in many ways.'
We've made ourselves sheep and as a result soon the wolves wil eat us ...
Their bait is convenience.
And what terrifies me most is how easy it was to lock most of the humanity in tiny boxes... if you really think about it this is not some innocent act... Anyone who engineered it (if it was engineered) is genius. Like a kid lying creatively and does not get cought. Here you go :P
If you begin to dell on this it gets scary. How many people have died because of not having access to simple but needed medical care that did not "covid"i an first place?
Presented numbers differ in different countries greatly, in Lithuania we had ~50 covid related deaths... at what cost? And absolute majority of people believe this is because of the means applied. It gets scary how stupid the population has become, how easily manipulated through fear of something... something completely esoteric.
And you are very right about this:
I just wonder, what's next?
In Finland, people weren't going to the hospital - even though they were having heart attacks...
I still think there is a difference of dying of corona and dying with Corona. At 80 years of age, most are going to be dying of something pretty soon, what triggers that death could be just about anything.
Compulsory app tracking or you don't qualify for access to medical care?
Very possible. Or tracking chip cause app is too "unreliable"?
That is so damn unreal... and yet it is real very much.
We're living the plot of the movie "I, robot" except the robots are humans in uniform who follow orders like robots.
The automatic life; social programming
The stray angry bullet. It's a concept that dates back to Vietnam. You could do every single thing right, make every choice perfect, not miss a thing, and the stray angry bullet would kill you just as certainly as the well placed sniper's round. Sitting in the barber's chair or in a firefight, made no difference to the stray angry bullet.
Random. It's what makes us human. If it weren't for randomness (chaos) we would all be gods.
My mother said often "Something is going to get you. Nobody dies healthy" When she was 89 it turns out she was right.
I don't know where any of this is going. Thank you for making me think.
Randomness doesn't care who you are, it is not judgmental.
People often associate randomness with negative outcomes - but most people meet the love of their lives in unexpected situations.
I have a saying in my country, "small children are small problems, and large children are big problems." I think it makes sense, so enjoy it while you have a small child :)
And there is another sayin, "some people never grow up" - adult children are the worst :D
We are shut down for the walking dead anyway. The HIV patients who aren't on medication will die within a few years so what is the point if they die now or next year. Why wreck everyones life and give them treatment instead.
It is interesting times as it definitely seems to be that the position is to help the sick, but risk the health of the healthy long-term.
oh so posh
Nice