The New Normal

[gorgonzola]

How did we get so damn dumb?

The older I get the less I know and the better I was

 

[tirolski]

How did we get so damn dumb?

What do you mean we? ... Tonto replied to Lone Ranger after he said, “Tonto, we’re surrounded by Indians!”

 

[trackbiker]

How did we get so damn dumb?

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
H.L Menken

 

[Low Angle Life]

My girlfriend teaches and has two aids in her classroom that both believe in the power of crystals and wont shut the fuck up about the vaccine killing people. Ironically they both have gotten their first doses. I can't quite understand people who believe in eastern medicine and magic rocks but but won't give this vaccine a shot.

George Carlin sums it up best,
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

 

[Campgottagopee]

I can't quite understand people who believe in eastern medicine and magic rocks but but won't give this vaccine a shot.

right?

 

[XTski]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people."
H.L Menken

Makes sense coming from Menken who it’s noted was a racist and anti semetic, his hometown Baltimore being the hotbed of such

 

[XTski]

Makes sense coming from Menken who it’s noted was a racist and anti semetic, his hometown Baltimore being the hotbed of such too bad he didn’t stay in Germany

 

[Campgottagopee]

Dang!

Scientist behind coronavirus shot says next target is cancer

BERLIN (AP) — The scientist who won the race to deliver the first widely used coronavirus vaccine says people can rest assured the shots are safe, and the technology behind it will soon be used to fight another global scourge — cancer. Ozlem Tureci, who founded the German company BioNTech with...

cnycentral.com

 

[trackbiker]

I can't quite understand people who believe in eastern medicine and magic rocks but but won't give this vaccine a shot.

I know people who never met a conspiracy theory that they didn't believe. But the one's who have a condition that makes them more vulnerable to the virus wore their masks and were first in line for the vaccine. Funny how their actions changed when their life could depend on it.

 

[tirolski]

Russian spin via Macedonia is always more trustworthy than the US govt.

Putin wants to have a teleconference live with no delays with POTUS, allegedly.
Put it on pay per view and folks all over the world would watch it.
$ received could help with balancing budgets, pay for hospitals, nurses, education...