[Boomer]

Thank you to all of posters who appreciated my sharing of the op-ed piece, "The 7 Stages of Covid" that started this thread.

Primary sources are valuable and that is exactly what the respiratory therapist's writing is. She is on the front lines, caring for severe Covid patients, and she is telling us about it in her own words. That's what is known as a primary source.

The writer describes what she sees as a severe Covid patient's condition gets worse, in stages, until sometimes death is where it ends. It is not an easy read. But it is the reality of where Covid can go.

But now this thread has filled up with the relentless linking from a few posters who did not like seeing the reality of what Covid can do, especially to the unvaccinated. And they do not want anyone else to see it either. And so, they go to war. And they are loving it. They must because they spend a helluva lot of time at it.

They will never run out of material.

Their "research" is bottomless. — grasping at straws or just plain made up.

Sometimes I wonder if these posts are all from just a couple of people with different names.

There is definitely a pattern to some of these posts. I am no Nancy Drew, but c'mon, an all day obsession with posting link after link after link -- some probably from shadow sources. . .

Ever hear of a leaflet drop? The term can refer to something as innocuous as a flyer on your windshield or an ad hung on your front door. . .

BUT, a leaflet drop is also a term that has been used for a form of psychological warfare -- airborne leaflet propaganda, scattered in the air, in an attempt to alter the behavior of combatants and civilians in enemy-controlled territory. . .

It is not a big leap to see the constant repetition and the endless links as an attempt to get inside the heads of those who think differently.

Obviously, those who do not agree with vaccination being our ticket out of this mess could say that we pro-vax thinkers are guilty of doing leaflet drops, too. But I don't think that the term fits so perfectly. . .

Why do I think that? Because most of us pro-vax thinkers do other things with our days. We do not appear to be obsessive -- just pizzed off sometimes. We use our own words significantly more often than the perpetual linkers do -- redundancy rules those posts -- effortless redundancy.

Again, thank you to those who thanked me for posting that reality check to start this thread. But now we are engaged in the usual back and forth with the faceless other that gets us nowhere. We are being baited.

I wish everybody would just go outside and play or watch Ted Lasso or listen to Jimmy Buffett.

Mr. Moderator, tear down this thread!. . .please and thank you. . .well, actually I did not mean for you to tear it down, just close the darned thing. I was just being dramatic, invoking those years when it was my party — and I’ll cry if I want to.

Boomer