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List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplays th
e gravity of the covid situation in news & public media
By: Masked Man Date: September 10, 2024, 5:27 pm
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In this post, Feel free to List your pet peeves in semantics and
language that downplays the gravity of the covid situation in
news and public media… or simply post bad choices of wording
that are upsetting to you or doesn’t reflect a grasp of reality
especially in news reports..
For example, I hate it when the news reports covid symptoms as
being “mild symptoms” …
.. to me all symptoms are serious symptoms . I don’t like how
news downplays serious symptoms calling them “mild”. That’s just
one of many pet peeves of mine.
Other pet peeves might be the terminology the news has adopted..
For example, I just personally hate the word “uptick” in deaths
.. are people trying to get cute with this word “uptick” it’s
not an uptick .. what they really mean to say is that a horrible
rise in disease or other affliction is occurring where a
significant number of people just died a hideous death.
Yet another pet peeve of mine is when newscasters say “no need
for alarm” “no need for concern or panic” ..
.. I’m thinking I am “concerned” of course this is a matter of
concern! Why would it be in the news and why report anything if
it doesn’t concern me!!??
Newscasters are always contradicting themselves and trying to
make us all feel good and innocent about everything instead of
focusing on the grim truth of the matter.. drives me nuts!
I don’t want my news sugarcoated.. I want the truth! Lol
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: September 10, 2024, 6:26 pm
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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
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Steve Date: September 11, 2024, 2:00 pm
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[quote author=Masked Man link=topic=1585.msg2219#msg2219
date=1726007268]
In this post, Feel free to List your pet peeves in semantics and
language that downplays the gravity of the covid situation in
news and public media… or simply post bad choices of wording
that are upsetting to you or doesn’t reflect a grasp of reality
especially in news reports..
For example, I hate it when the news reports covid symptoms as
being “mild symptoms” …
.. to me all symptoms are serious symptoms . I don’t like how
news downplays serious symptoms calling them “mild”. That’s just
one of many pet peeves of mine.
Other pet peeves might be the terminology the news has adopted..
For example, I just personally hate the word “uptick” in deaths
.. are people trying to get cute with this word “uptick” it’s
not an uptick .. what they really mean to say is that a horrible
rise in disease or other affliction is occurring where a
significant number of people just died a hideous death.
[/quote]
I would agree that the word "uptick" is not conducive towards
informing the public about Covid-19 infection rates.
The use of the term "mild," though, is definitely unfortunate
and misleading. It conveys a prognosis that mis-characterizes
what a Covid infection is for many people. It also has the
tendency to encourage being maskless which, in turn, promotes
the continued spread of this disease and allows it to mutate
into new and potentially deadlier forms.
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: September 11, 2024, 2:33 pm
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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!
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: November 20, 2024, 4:24 pm
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Time for me to act like Andy Rooney on 60 minutes ..
..I feel a big pet peeve coming on all the time on some public
news media especially the local 6 o'clock type news here in the
USA, as patriotic as I am ...
...My pet peeve is in regards to the statement"It isn't of
public concern" or "its not anything the public should be
concerned about yet" ...
.. oh those statement make me angry and shouldn't be uttered to
begin with!... I decide whether to be a concerned citizen or
not... Not the news anchor!
It's up to each of us if we are concerned about a child getting
the bird flu and if farmers are catching bird flu. I decide
(not a reporter) whether to be concerned and if another covid
outbreak in an assisted living center affects me. Of course
these findings affect me! Of course I feel something when a
whole lot of my species starts suffering or even dying off!
Imagine being 53 years old and this is the very first time ever
in your entire life that a disease like covid comes along and
stays around four seasons out the year for maybe five years
straight now with no signs of stopping and then this is the very
first time that many diseased chickens and turkeys get killed
and farmers come down with a disease from other animals and
animals are sick with covid just like people and some young 6
o'clock newscaster reports this and smiles and says "no worries"
or utters "that's nothing to be concerned about"...lol.. believe
me I am concerned about it! I am concerned enough to to alter my
lifestyle to take precautions such as mask to avoid the long
term repercussions of getting sick from relatively new
mysterious mutating diseases ..lol I'm 53 years old and diseases
like covid and bird flu and the host of other older diseases
weren't as prevalent like whopping cough etc till the last few
years. Yeah I am part of the public and it is concerning..
...I can't stand that: a news anchor telling me what to "feel'
or if I should not be concerned over horrendously bad news... a
news anchor or most anyone is supposed to state the facts or the
events and not make such remarks such as: "its not a concern for
the public" when obviously we decide our feelings as to whether
to be concerned about an issue or not.
..anyway that's the latest pet peeve Ive got I enjoyed ranting
on that...
Anyone here in the forum please feel free to rant here and to
add to my pet peeve list in your replies :)
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Steve Date: November 23, 2024, 6:03 am
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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.
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: November 23, 2024, 2:54 pm
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… Steve excellent pet peeve… I’m with ya there… I like how you
use significant events in the not so far away past to illuminate
the current happenings today in your revealing essay.
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man!
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: December 6, 2024, 1:02 am
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Time for more pet peeves... I call this next feature."Moreonic
News!" This kind of news drives me crazy… I just can’t stand it;
A hospital getting news coverage complaining about how they are
over crowded .. they complain about the flu, covid and airborne
diseases and how overwhelmed they are and basically almost every
single patient and doctor and nurse is maskless and more than
likely the elderly couple (one of which had pneumonia) and the
newscaster featured on the news is likely to contract covid at
the hospital.. this news is maddening to me and makes me think
the hospital’s lack of masks and precautions only make the
problem worse .. I have seen so much footage like this that
makes me fear hospitals like I fear the plague and believe
hospitals to be super spreader events where new variants are
formed…
Oh I just can’t stand Maskless newscasters interviewing maskless
doctors visiting one another smiling for the camera to publicize
their strife at super-spreader event held at a hospital! It’s
demented. It’s sickening.
Here are the maskless doctors and maskless nurses complaining
about covid and airborne diseases LINK:
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-IWv_iTLvA
I mean what is this!? am I watching "Saturday Night Live"!? Are
these people for real!?We are talking staff infections..no not
staph infection..I mean infections from the staff.. they got a
maskless reporter roaming the hall with a maskless doctor for
crying out loud its an unnecessary risk! Hospitals complaining
about germs and being crowded while sporting pneumonia inviting
the prime minister to visit the wretched conditions they are in?
People complaining about how crowded their hospital is and about
how the vomiting is piling on pressure for them while nobody
wears masks for airborne diseases? They must be on drugs.. it's
crazy to not protect against germs at a hospital... This is what
I call "Moreonic news"... If someone is throwing up around you,
put on a mask... that's just common sense to not breathe in an
undetermined disease in an enclosed area ! lol Its gross and
should be gross.. vomit and diseases should scare people enough
to wear masks.
It just doesn't make sense not to be wary of someone who is
suffering and gagging and stuff is coming out of their faces
like coughing and vomit. It seems to me that normal people would
be afraid of suffering from whatever the sufferer has got. I
question the sanity of a person that thinks its okay to breathe
in the air around that many people that are sick and crowded at
a hospital. How is the behavior of these maskless doctors and
maskless nurses different than some guy sniffing on a sick or
dead animal on the side of the road?
Oh and while all these Californians are coming down with bird
flu, then there’s this crazy news where the newscaster actually
erroneously says bird flu is "not harmful to humans"
LINK:
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nNT0yfBXmIA
Of course I will spare you the countless photos in the news of
maskless farmers gloveless with no goggles proudly standing next
to their livestock while scores and scores of chickens have been
prematurely beheaded due to bird flu which is no doubt a
pandemic for the birds... also don't get me started on the
maskless newscasters who are always talking covid interviewing
maskless doctors face to face in the studio during flu season to
discuss the dangers of being in public gatherings together this
Xmas season..or the maskless news reporters who stands next to
cattle that might have bird flu or maskless newscaster reporting
there are viruses in wastewater treatment plants .. while it is
true there are viruses in the wastewater, must they report it
maskless amidst that runny pit that emits such smelly bile?
Here's a big pet peeve and a big no-no in a pandemic. It's a
photo right before the president came down with another case of
covid LINK:
HTML https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zRY5fWvCrHWYZNt4yF6XRYIcSShWvqUG/view
Everybody is masked playing it smart and then a big shot hollers
"grab a little stranger girl and hold her up above the war torn
streets (sort of like Michael Jackson holding a child over the
balcony for the world to see) yeah that's it pull your mask
under your chin and risk a virus right in the middle of a
pandemic and hold a little unmasked girl close to your face for
a photo op..say cheese!".
Is it wise to breathe in the face of a little Ukrainian girl
right in the middle of a pandemic when many school children
teachers and school bus drivers in America were masked while
covid is raging!?
Never get caught with your mask down in a pandemic,
The Masked Man
P.S. Seriously too many people treat the pandemic like a joke. I
wear a mask and I take it seriously. I take care of myself and I
take care of my immunocompromised loved one. I work hard very
hard to not catch covid and other diseases and I respect
diseases for what they are and expect doctors and nurses and
people who work closely with the public to take these matters
of concern seriously and to create safe areas rather than spread
diseases during their gatherings. Do and think as you will, but
personally I don't think that was right for that guy or any guy
pulling down his mask like that. It put the little girl and
therefore her family at risk. It just didn't make any sense a
whole lot of guys all masked up but just one guy exposing a
little girl to a virus..It just ain't right in the head. Its
nothing political as I may have voted democrat(although that's
nobody's business). I just can't tolerate endangering a child's
life for a photo...It's exploitation and It's just not
protective or acceptable behavior during a time when American
schoolchildren are masking and people are being mandated to take
vaccines or lose their jobs. That is not how to protect a child.
A protector wears their mask during these times of covid out of
common sense and decency towards others especially little
foreign girls. That's what they did in the Spanish flu that
killed more people than four major wars combined..the pandemic
of 1917.. a bunch of soldiers basically helped spread a disease
all over the world haphazardly killing more people with disease
than with their guns... At least have the decency to wear to
wear a safety mask during military expeditions when ya hop off a
packed jet in a dirty suit full of men in black to hug little
girls in a foreign land for your photo op and try not to make
others sick while playing the hero.
... no doubt that's enough "Moreonic News" for now! :)
Its now getting closer to Christmas be careful Santa doesn't
bring us a new variant or something while currently the XEC
variant just took the lead of the sleigh of mutations.
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Masked Man Date: December 18, 2024, 7:11 pm
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Its Pet Peeve time
..a place where one can say whatever they feel and rant and rave
about whatever gets their goat so to speak and drives them crazy
or to other modes of feelings...
Time for what I call "MoreOnIck News" commentary.
Okay first here's the news with my comment appearing after the
news:
"Vermont Governor Phil Scott tested positive on Monday, December
16th 2024.
Gov. Phil Scott tests positive for COVID-19, cancels public
appearances
Gov. Phil Scott speaks during a press conference at his office
in Montpelier on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Gov. Phil Scott has canceled public appearances early this week
as he recovers from COVID-19.
A press release issued Monday says Scott tested positive for the
virus late last week, and is able to work remotely with mild
symptoms.
Scott and members of his cabinet were scheduled to participate
in a special day-long tour of Orange County on Tuesday to
discuss health care, affordable housing, and workplace issues.
The events will still take place as the governor recovers.
Scott appeared remotely on Vermont Edition on Monday to discuss
property taxes and other topics related to the upcoming
legislative session.Vermont Public | By Bob Kinzel
Published December 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM EST"
Masked Man comment:
Did you all read that.. I'm gonna tell you what is wrong here..
This is big no no to me.. people pretending to work and 'do a
good job' while sick; it is stated he "is able to work remotely
with mild symptoms"...
.. PLEASE Governor! don't do anything when you are suffering
from symptoms of covid or are sick! Think I trust a guy who is
sick to make decisions about healthcare or my taxes!!? That's
crazy. People who are sick are not legally of sound body or
mind. Ya don't ask a sick guy to change his will and ya don't
ask a governor to govern when he is sick. I don't buy this that
everytime a politician gets sick they say they have mild
symptoms and will work remotely from home.. that's hogwash and
untrustworthy. Work remotely if you'd like while not sick to
avoid getting sick but don't act smart or do anything on my
behalf while you are sick with covid. Take a break and pray it
doesn't get worse or your symptoms don't become long covid and
act your age and take covid serious as I do.
I mean reality check here.. people who are sick shouldn't do
stuff...I mean c'mon, am I the only one who get nervous when
people try to do things when they are sick? Who's taking care of
this gov while he's sick? What if he gets thirsty or simply
starts feeling so bad he needs help to the john? Does he have a
significant other watching over him? Are they masking around him
as they help him get through this?
It would be totally unacceptable, immoral, and even unethical
for me to allow a sick guy sporting a relatively new variant of
covid for his very first time to work for me even on the phone.
Wouldn't it!? It would be totally wrong for me to make a guy
work for me who just got covid. Please rest now... don't do
anything for now...rest your voice for now because your body
needs all the strength it can get because it is fighting a
disease now...Now you have a disease that might even cause
longterm health mind and body repercussions... and we hope you
get well Governor but you are sick so give it a rest and don't
try so hard.. you need rest.
Or do I have it wrong and now that the governor that is
concerned about healthcare is actually sick and actually with a
disease yet is able to work remotely, is this the time to strike
and ask him about healthcare such as "Do you think people in
healthcare should be mandated to wear masks for airborne
diseased people such as yourself that they work with everyday" ?
Should we ask these whyhile he is sick before he gets better?
Will the life altering experience of contacting covid and
possibly long covid influence the governor (a person with great
influence) views or stance on healthcare issues?
The Masked Man
P.S. He does say he is working from home remotely..fair
enough..guy gets sick and wants to give me advice about
healthcare..says he can work remotely with a disease I don't
want..very well.. I will take the liberty to write him with my
healthcare questions here just incase he reads this he can reply
back via email since he says he can work remotely while
suffering from covid...
Dear Vermont Governor Phil Scott,
I am so sorry you and your cabinet won't be able to participate
in a special day-long tour of Orange County on Tuesday to
discuss health care, affordable housing, and workplace issues.
how about who you were in contact with?.. shouldn't your news
story include advice to those you had contact with this week
that they should get tested for covid? Which variant did ya
catch or do ya even know? What are your views on masks? Do you
think people in healthcare should be mandated to wear masks for
airborne diseased people such as yourself that they work with
everyday?
Get well soon and hope you don't have long covid now,
By the way, These are serious questions and I am truly terrified
of catching diseases and have a right to be and I am sincerely
and extremely concerned about these issues as difficult as they
may be to address.
Speaking for myself, The Masked Man, I haven't been sick with
anything in five years because of my lifestyle and because of my
safetey mask since 2020 however when I used to get sick with
anything like allergy/asthma attacks as a child or the flu that
involved vomiting and diarrhea or fevers and ear infections etc.
I got scared every time I ever got sick praying I'd get better
wondering if I would get better and basically I hated the
suffering of just about any illness I ever got. It scared me
personally wondering "Am I going to get better"? and I feel
horrible when sick or ill so much so I'd try to make deals with
my Maker to please make me better... so that's why I mask.. I
hated getting sick and hated living in fear I might get sick and
I also watched enough people get sick since 2020 to know I don't
want those germs and I don't want covid. It scares me and I
don't mind living with that healthy rational fear so the mask
makes me feel better. besides I live with a beautiful older
woman whom I don't want to make inadvertently sick from others
therefore I mask outside my home. That being said I chose mask
for my health outside my home regardless of my significant
other. I like maintaining the health I have and want to stay the
same so I mask for those reasons as well.
There but for the grace of the mask go I,
The Masked Man!
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Re: List your pet peeves in semantics and language that downplay
s the gravity of the covid situation in news & public me
By: Steve Date: December 19, 2024, 1:36 pm
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[quote author=Masked Man link=topic=1585.msg2509#msg2509
date=1734570706]
Its Pet Peeve time
..a place where one can say whatever they feel and rant and rave
about whatever gets their goat so to speak and drives them crazy
or to other modes of feelings...
Time for what I call "MoreOnIck News" commentary.
Okay first here's the news with my comment appearing after the
news:
"Vermont Governor Phil Scott tested positive on Monday, December
16th 2024.
Gov. Phil Scott tests positive for COVID-19, cancels public
appearances
Gov. Phil Scott speaks during a press conference at his office
in Montpelier on Wednesday, Nov. 13.
Gov. Phil Scott has canceled public appearances early this week
as he recovers from COVID-19.
A press release issued Monday says Scott tested positive for the
virus late last week, and is able to work remotely with mild
symptoms.
Scott and members of his cabinet were scheduled to participate
in a special day-long tour of Orange County on Tuesday to
discuss health care, affordable housing, and workplace issues.
The events will still take place as the governor recovers.
Scott appeared remotely on Vermont Edition on Monday to discuss
property taxes and other topics related to the upcoming
legislative session.Vermont Public | By Bob Kinzel
Published December 16, 2024 at 5:25 PM EST"
Masked Man comment:
Did you all read that.. I'm gonna tell you what is wrong here..
This is big no no to me.. people pretending to work and 'do a
good job' while sick; it is stated he "is able to work remotely
with mild symptoms"...
.. PLEASE Governor! don't do anything when you are suffering
from symptoms of covid or are sick!
[/quote]
I must agree -- If you are sick with Covid, the only activity
that you should be performing is getting rest and recovering.
Granted, I understand that there are some caveats to that
assessment.
First, there may be legal reasons for the word salad. In many
cases, if a politician is incapacitated, there are
legally-binding steps that often occur to compensate for that
incapacitation (ex. A Vice-President being sworn in to replace a
president). I know that, in some states, the lieutenant governor
is often chosen separately from the governor and can have
drastically different agendas than the governor.
Second, there may be political reasons. Politicians want to get
re-elected and all males (and especially male politicians) are
sensitive in having their virility challenged. In the minds of
many, you are not a 'strong' leader if you do not portray
physical health. The Soviet leader Stalin took that name because
it meant "strength." A later Russian president, Vladimir Putin,
bent frying pans (of questionable integrity) in a show of
physical strength. Politicians of a strongman mindset can not
show any sort of weakness because that is part of their trade.
It would have been preferable if there had been clarity. What
are the "mild symptoms"? Is it brain fog? Is it slugishness?
Perhaps a better statement from them would have been, "The
governor has tested positive for Covid. He has symptoms that are
not intense enough to interfere with his capacity to govern the
state remotely. He is being monitored by health professionals
who will continually ascertain if he may continue to govern at a
sufficient level. The lieutenant governor has been informed of
the situation and a plan is already in place should the
lieutenant governor need to step in briefly for the governor. At
this time, no modification to state leadership is needed. The
governor wishes to stress that anyone who is afflicted with
Covid should isolate themselves appropriately and seek proper
medical treatment until such time that they may return back into
society responsibly."
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