During the whole pathetic episode of last year, people turned wildly against physical things. No sharing of pencils at the schools that would open. No salt and pepper shakers at tables because surely that’s where Covid lives. No more physical menus. They were replaced by QR codes. Your phone probably has Covid too but at least only you touched it.
“Touchless”’ became the new goal. All physical things became the untouchables, again reminiscent of ancient religions that considered the physical world to be a force of darkness while the spiritual/digital world points to the light. The followers of the Prophet Mani would be pleased.
Already back in February, AIER reported that something was very wrong about all of this. Studies were already appearing calling the physical-phobic frenzy baseless.
The demonization of surfaces and rooms stemmed not just from active imaginations; it was also recommended and even mandated by the CDC. It offered a huge page of instructions on the need constantly to fear, scrub, and fumigate.
Related Belated Science: Sunlight Inactivates Coronavirus 8 Times Faster Than Predicted. We Need to Know Why
h/t Jojodogfacedboy
When I was a toddler in the early 1950’s, I apparently liked to eat dirt. While my mother was aghast, she gently told me that a cookie would taste better. What would these “nervous Nellies” be like today?
I hear you. Nothing like going out to the garden, pulling out a carrot and rubbing off (some of) the dirt on a grubby pant leg. Or a fresh turnip sliced with a tin can lid from the junkpile and sharing with your bud. Yikes!
That damn sunlight keeps coming up to kill those nasty bug-a-boos that we eat as well.
Keeping people housebound is NOT healthy in a multitude of ways.
The jump in cases in Ontario appear to be arising from industrial facilities like distribution warehouses, which are running 24/7 now. These facilities were never designed for social distancing. Instead of buying everything we can online as the experts have told us to do, might we not be better off actually picking up these items in store? If you go through a self-checkout, you can avoid all contact with retail personnel.
Tired, run-down people. Their immune systems compromised by stress. Add that with owning a Mercedes is more important than nice digs; thus, sharing accommodations with 10 or more. Of course, personal choices cannot be deemed to be why these and other Industries relying on TFW’s are hot beds of COVID spread.
One wonders if the consequences are intended or not.
“There is something fascinating about Science. One gets such wholesale returns on conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
Mark Twain
Could this be why Gates wants to block the sun with chalk dust?
He’s just a dick who wants revenge on us all for stuffing him in a locker in high school. Maybe.
You mean like this?
Where ya gonna go when da volcano blow. . .
Gonna go a bit conspiracy here…
QR menus were in China well before the pandemic. Linked to specific apps (e.g., WeChat), and of course, you can pay directly from your phone, also by the same apps. Right now, my only experience with QR menus in Canada is to link to their web pages, but I suspect at some point, we’ll all be required to use a trackable app to order and pay. “For convenience and to help us monitor our health”, you understand, and totally not to add more layers of control to our lives.
As a side note, the rapidity with which China converted from a cash-based economy to a phone-based one is startling. Five years ago, I could spend cash almost anywhere I went there, and I had to use cash in a lot of cases, b/c my foreign credit card wasn’t always accepted (I was told you needed official approval to be registered to use them). Only a few months before the pandemic locked us all down, it was hard to find people who wanted to take cash, even in the bazaars, which used to thrive on it. People should not be afraid to challenge their governments, but it’s the natural endpoint when we allow them to accrue more power to themselves, and allow less to us.
I was in Tofino and tried to use the QR code on my Chinese Umidigi android phone but it didn’t work. The nice server wound up having to give us a paper menu. I’ve tried using the QR code in a care facility to do the covid check-in but it didn’t work on my Chinese phone.
What app are you using? Are you blocked from using the Play Store? I use QR Droid Private, when I have to use one.
I was told to use my camera and take a picture of the QR code and somehow everything would miraculously load up. It makes sense that I would have to download a QR app then (no one mentioned this to me at the restaurant or care facility). Thanks for the tip, Marc. I should’ve realized I needed to download an app, Sheesh!
It’s possible some phones come with built-in QR support, but I haven’t seen that myself.
Glad I could help. 🙂
The only reason I have a cell phone (apple) is to keep in touch with my kids, who are not local, my son lives in England. That said, before then, I was happy with my flip phone. I’ve removed all apps from the apple and have never even wanted to use a QR code, or read a menu on it while in the actual restaurant. When they start forcing us to use our phones for such crap, mine will be deep sixed in the ocean (I live on the west coast) I’m retired and no longer care to follow all the idiocy. What a stupid shitshow Canada has become.
Immune systems: not just for show.
How many idiots wear three masks but take their cell phones to the bathroom with them?
Yep.
One of the most startling things about this (kinda sorta, but given some of my co-workers, not as much as you might think), is how actual, functioning adults needed to be told to wash their damn hands. Basic hygiene function has been lost, simply b/c people think there’s nothing out there to worry about.
Speaking of which, I wonder what happened to flesh-eating disease and MRSA?
I’ve always avoided touching things that are touched constantly and washed my hands often, because fundamentally, many people are kinda gross. Hot tip, pandemic or no, never, EVER under any circumstances shake hands with a salesman. Or eat communal food, especially that which has been in contact with sales personnel.
I carried sanitizer with me wherever I went for years, for such things. Never touched anything I was to ingest until I had, after shaking hands. Opened the bathroom door with my sleeve. Normal paranoia. 😀
Those diseases are mostly caught in the hospital and surgeries weren’t happening due to Covid hysteria. Or maybe all the frantic cleaning and disinfecting of surfaces in hospitals might actually be helping infection control for these other pathogens.
Amazing how doing “your job”, so to speak, makes good things happen,
I have been wondering about the effect of sunlight on CV19 virus.
Seems to me that many of the places that have the lowest rate of infections have the most available sunlight. Think Florida, Texas. Those areas with available sunlight and high CV19 may have lots of pollution – think Brazil, California etc, or lots of cloudy wet weather or lots of very long nights.
This can’t be the whole story – but it may be part of it.
Bleach?
Certain wavelengths kill everything. Others enhance plant growth. UV light is used in air purification. Hospitals and certain types of labs use UV light to kill the baddies in the air.
Yep. But we’re not supposed to talk about that kind of thing.
Keeping everything “lysol-ed” and sanitized is not so bad for hospitals, labs and grocery carts, but our immune systems have to learn, so placing a bubble around children is insane.
Has anyone ever caught the wuhan flu from a delivered box or at the grocery/liquor/pharmacy stores?
Has anyone here made $$ from investing in hand sanitizer/mask-making companies?