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Originally Posted by Looking for next wife
So the world was going to hell and millions and millions of people were dying and then the vaccines were developed as fast as possible in the middle of a pandemic, not to avert one in the future; and then the world started to get better and better and all the numbers were dropping all over the place and millions upon millions of lives were being saved and then this variant popped up as can and does happen routinely and you can't find the proof that it is a good thing to adjust the vaccine a little and take another shot because you can't seem to find the logic in it and everyone else be dammed if someone tells you otherwise it's all about your rights. You can't be serious. This has to be about something else. It is only the antivaxxers that are dying now. Why the hell not get it. Do you use band aids to stop a tiny infection at the beginning so your leg won't have to be amputated. It's coming for you. Don't you see the videos of the dying and just died family members lamenting that were wrong to not get it. This band aid helps everyone, not just you. You can't wait for the polio shot after you are already limping. Why aren't you embarrassed by your own logic. I think you can still read that deaths to Blacks and Latino from covid are twice that of white and Asians. I heard a guy say that the presidential race was close enough that if a bunch of blacks (democrats in his eyes) die before the next election; the republicans (white in his eyes) would win again because the population of them would be depleted just enough. He also said that Blacks and Latinos have more and more babies than whites that grow up to vote and whites will not ever again be in charge of their country. Is this what this actually is? Racial genocide in a thin disguise? That would be a form of logic at least from an idiot crazy man. What about you? What is it really that is driving you guys?
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The post quoted above brings a few thoughts to mind.
For some time now I've been noticing an ever-widening gap between what we read and the reality of what we're reading about. Case in point: the Minnesota Metro newspapers will occasionally run stories about this-or-that situation or occurrence in Florida. The gap was not nearly so evident to me before I moved here as it is now; after spending nearly a year now it is becoming apparent that a lot of these stories try to make a point by presenting or reinforcing a stereotype. Florida is NOT filled with ignorant violent hayseeds being led around by the nose by some cowboy officed in Tallahassee. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Closer to home: if all one ever knew about The Villages is what one reads here in TOTV, it would be very easy to get the mental image of the population here as a group of fogies (not ALL the fogies, but a lot--probably the majority--of them) are people hidden behind masks, lining up for shots, and rigorously enforcing social-distancing when they're rarely out in public. Again, the reality is far different. Last Wednesday evening my wife and I attended a meeting over fire and rescue services in The Villages that was held at the Wildwood Community Center. Standing-room only: probably 350 people there at a minumum. Mainly the aforementioned fogies but also a sizeable number of young firefighters and paramedics. Out of those estimated 350 attendees, I saw maybe a total of 30 people wearing masks, if even that many. Social distancing? Forget it. Not happening.
So why this disconnect? Message boards, Twitter, newspapers...people have always been able to seek out views and interpretations of events and situations that reinforce their particular points of view, at least up to a point, but today it seems to be an epidemic. An epidemic that, in my opinion, is far more dangerous than COVID.
People need to see REALITY. Forming your opinions based on what other people say or write has always been dangerous, but never more so than today.