My opinion of boosters is that they're for persons so frail that they'd dare not catch covid at the best of times. Boosters are for those who need to field a standing army constantly. But it doesn't matter to me if the boys are back in the barracks. My body isn't going to collapse if COVID makes a beachhead, on the contrary it will drive the invader back into the sea.
None. I'm banking on the idea that one dose will suffice. Seeing anything even remotely like covid before will give your T Cells the ability to fight off the infection. And this protection will last for the rest of your life. All that truly matters is that you're not a complete virgin.
Conservatives aren't funny for the same reason girls aren't funny. It's safe and it wins unless something rocks the boat. That's not what a joke is. I think a conservative society is perhaps one where you love a person so deeply that you laugh at the same routine over and over again. Predictability is the very essence of conservatism, what it does. Now for something completely similar.
And the worst part is they do it to themselves. All the best comedians did come from the left possibly because comedians are victims choosing to laugh rather than cry. What right wing comedians are there? Comedy doesn't come from being good looking or from holding all the cards. It comes from a place where everything is against you. Subverting the pecking order is what it does.
We might get lucky and omicron might turn out to be very mild. Objectively very mild. But if South Africa copes solely because it faced up to previous waves then we could have a problem. Such a scenario proves the inferiority of vaccines, and that the real gamechanger is when everybody has caught covid at least once. Just don't let that happen all at once.
Now is the time to social distance and wear masks, and build the nightingale. We did far too much before and it's stored up so many problems for right now.
For the first time in this pandemic there may be too many people catching it at once. And this is risky because not enough caught it before. We shouldn't have been wearing masks before but I would wear one now. We should always be aiming for the maximum rate of infection within the limits of hospital capacity. Dodging covid when the hospitals were quiet means that we could easily overwhelm now. The dodging before was a folly but that folly has created a real reason to dodge covid now. We could have too many cases now because we didn't expose ourselves enough before. Deferring every previous battle has lead up to this big battle. The time has finally come to buy us some time.
We went to the pub from about 15 onwards. Which was illegal but also the done thing, conforming to the way of life in a liberal time different to the illiberal control freaks of today's neo-puritan world.
God-fearing is very old-fashioned coming from a time when there wasn't much to reward people. They had to be much more serious about the threat of hell fire.
Problem being that it doesn't work well against psychopaths because taking a threat seriously is not really possible. Psychopaths blend seamlessly into the modern world because of incentives, because of profit. You can pay them to behave as we move toward the society of reward. Here's a medal for being a law abiding citizen.
I'm sure that eating the nest egg felt very good at the time but it didn't work out long-term. There was only London left and it makes people rather unhappy as far as the rest of the country is concerned.
They weren't her houses to sell and that generation had no right to loot them. Same goes for the utilities and to a lesser extent north sea oil. In Norway that still pays dividends right up until this very day, for all of its people.
Advantage: the sincere desire to spend time with someone. Plus it's owning up to a negative, at least you're not a narcissist saying that you're definitely not lonely, you're just alone. You could become less lonely through good company. Which is something. You could be lonely and insisting that you're not lonely because you trust no one, and will therefore always be lonely because you trust no one.
Intelligence is always a little bit foreign. Slightly removed from the way things are whenever and wherever they are. Intelligence is in the minority and it's usually the intelligent person that needs to change to assimilate into society. To ease things along. But sometimes society becomes like one of those insane bee hives bent on self-destruction acting out the orders of a mad queen. Entire colonies can and do kill themselves.
Intelligence is in a sense multicultural. Past, present and future. Everything in the present will be met with a certain scepticism because you're quite aware of what you're going through, that the present will change and become past. You take it with a pinch of salt because what people are so sure about today is massively inconsistent. You know that tomorrow will be different, you know that today is not the be all and end all.
More to the point it transgresses. An intelligent person is not "in the moment" they've got a much grander scope of the way things were and the way things might turn out if they continue as they are.
But most people are much more local in time and space. They could hang someone for what they themselves did 6 months prior.
Intelligence is always a bit disobedient because it works like a doubting Thomas. Everything is wrong and the best we can be is less wrong. It's philosophy is one of inaction, it's a call to disarms.
But when you need confidence, loyalty and fanaticism , the intelligence can be a problem. Always reason to doubt including self-doubt.
And what's a silverfox? More attractive for having grey hair? Perhaps. Or more attractive for not doing anything about grey hair? Certainly. He has no fear of looking like a proper grown up and that is vital.
And then it's just feminine to look dainty and youthful. All women look more like children and all men look more like an adult. Instagram face is getting very close to a 12 year old face on a grown body. The filters, the freckles, the big eyes, the skin like a China doll.. everything a woman does is try to look younger.
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RE: Share What You Are Listening To -- Part 99
The Killers. All these things that I've done