Diggin’ the Pandemic Lockdown

Baiting The Left Wuhan Flu 27 Comments

They might be your neighbours.  They might be family members.  They might be colleagues.  Whoever they are, rest assured that some people are loving this endless lockdown:

It might not occur to you, because you are not a bizarre wierdo, but a lot of people really love the pandemic. Not just the little fascist gnome who changes his #science advice more often than a Wellesley girl changes her preferences during her sophomore year experimental phase, and not just the fascist pols who get off on exploiting their emergency powers to boss people around, but even some regular people. The masks, the paranoia, the constant talk about vaccines – some people love this stuff.

This is their Woodstock.

And they never want it to end.

27 Replies to “Diggin’ the Pandemic Lockdown”

  2. I often encounter the people he describes. Many of them led drab lives to begin with or had lofty goals when they were younger and never achieved them. (To quote Marlon Brando’s character in On The Waterfront, “I coulda been a contender.”) This is their opportunity for them to get even with those who succeeded when they didn’t and it’s their moment to finally do, and be seen doing, something “important”.

    It’s a combination of schadenfreude and vindictiveness. I remember being out of work nearly 40 years ago. I worked hard to get an education and I played by the rules, only to find myself on the dole for months at a time. There were a lot of people who smugly thought I finally got what I deserved. After all, I “stole” all the “A”s in high school. (Uh, no, I worked for my grades. Those who felt they deserved them were often ones who were partying while I was at home studying.)

    This phony plague isn’t a whole lot different in its revenge mentality.

  3. Blacklock reports that China Patty is paying people to say nice things about her dept. on facebook and twitter.

  4. My wife and I have a policy of telling tradespeople who come to our condo to feel free to drop the mask. I usually say it’s all bullshit, akin to trying to block a mosquito with a chain link fence AND that neither of us has any symptons AND that, if we did we would not have them here even with a mask or two.

    Results have been mixed. I can recall a single instance of whew-thanks-be-to-gawd and an immediate pull off. Yesterday a 20-something window cleaner said he’s OK with the mask. I muttered under my breath, Geeziz, he likes it.

    Have noticed here in Kerrisdale Vancouver that the young seem to be the most compliant and Chinese young virtually 100%.

    I feel that the masks have become a fashion thing.

    1. The teens and young adults buying into masks and the rest of it so fully seems so bizarre to me. As a teenager everyone I knew couldn’t even be convinced to wear a proper winter jacket and god forbid put a toque or gloves on.
      When I out these days I’m way more likely to see a teenager with a mask on than a middle aged person. Crazy times when the people that are counter culture are middle aged conservatives.

    2. Ask a teacher which television network they primarily watch for news. That will explain much of youth behavior

    3. I can recall a single instance of whew-thanks-be-to-gawd and an immediate pull off. Yesterday a 20-something window cleaner said he’s OK with the mask.

      I dealt with the same sort of thing last week. My bathroom needed some drywall repairs after a plumbing job. First, my apartment’s rental office called to interrogate me (“Are you now or have you ever been a Covider?”) plus an order that I either stay in another room or wear a mask (like that was going to happen). I promptly ignored the latter, partly because it’s all BS anyway and the drywaller was already wearing a face diaper.

  5. I have neighbors who have always been socially awkward introverts with few friends. They seem to positively revel in a legally mandated lifestyle that closely parallels what they have always wanted to be the norm.

    1. That’s us, maybe we’re your neighbours?

      This “pandemic” hasn’t changed a thing about our lives except the BS COVID testing every time I turn around due to working out of country. This time returning I had a nice 24 hour stay at an Airport Hilton for $2,000. Paid by my company of course, and then the obligatory 14 day quarantine.

      Otherwise, what pandemic?

  6. Have we all seen the exciting new invention.
    A double mask with a difference.
    Two masks layered: a nose mask and a mouth mask. Remove the mouth mask and retain the nose mask for eating.
    When I saw it I chuckled thinking it was another mask-mocking thingee, yunno like Fauci with the full box of masks strapped over his face.

    The smile got wiped off pretty quick. This is happening a lot eh? as in now-this-HAS-to-be-a-joke, but ain’t.

    1. Saw diners with black-colored-fabric nose masks on TV. Looked like the middle part of their faces were missing. Very ghoulish.

          2. Right, Nicholson wore a white bandage that covered his nose after it was slashed with a knife.
            (a difficult scene to film, it was said)

  7. One thing is certain, pretty much every low life Politician and parasitic government employee is loving the lockdown vay-kay. The biggest disruption to their life is putting in a days work in a couple of hours at home, and deciding the netflix line up for the day. All without a hick-up to their pay stub or gold plated pension. Put everyone getting a taxypayer funded pay check on CERB and the virus and lock-down would vanish in a flash, guaranteed.

  8. I am SO over this whole pandemic paranoia. Wearing a mask like a ChiCom peasant struggling to breathe in Beijing is NOT how MY PEOPLE live their lives. Uh oh!? That statement is “racist violence against Asian peoples” … Right? Refusing to live like a ChiCom ‘subject’ of a Dear Leader … is designated “racist violence” against Asians here in Chinafornia

    It’s interesting how the pandemic protocols have seamlessly morphed into another “systemic racist” trope (Leftists love that word, don’t they?). From Jan. 20 forward … we have been inoculated against everything EXCEPT … our deep-seated HATE and VIOLENCE against Asians … Right?

    This is a sick, sick, world

  10. I was out walking yesterday on the local trails with the wife. So many people wearing the mask. I speculated that not all were deluded idiots. They had come to feel more comfortable hiding behind the mask than facing the world. In other words, a niqab without the cultural association. It will be interesting to see how many retain the habit after masks are no longer required.

  11. Just to add my ten cents worth, Up here in a small coastal town a hundred kliks from Vancouver, I had a roofer over on Monday to do some storm damage repairs and install a couple of vents. A affable middle aged man, that engaged in conversation about the work, in under three feet of distance, inside the house, and then continued interaction throughout the work, with me assisting. A total of four hours on site at my house, and the Covid, and masks didn’t even get mentioned. Hell, I didn’t even think about it until reading this thread. I guess there are some pockets of sanity left.

  12. I do this:

    I consider myself EXEMPT….and tell any store security precisely that. Now the fact of the matter is, what I’m truly exempt from is their complete insanity…and as such I refuse to Submit to their abject idiocy. They don’t have a need to know.

    I will be taking an identical tack vis a vis the Magic Potions. No I will not partake in some man made garbage (“synthetic fragments trained within a fatty emulsion” – Pfizer’s own words), Potions DESIGNED to ONLY treat the symptoms – Also as per Pfizer.

    The above being the reason why “passports” are total BS…cause what’s the difference hmmm..?? Inoculated and but not Immunized…??? Ok….But cause I decided to forgo said Inoculation, I’m somehow potentially more “dangerous” than some submissive gomer who took the shot(s)..? How FUCKED UP IS THAT..?

    IT literally blows my mind seeing folks go walk their dog , drive their cars stand out side a registry all wearing their masks….

    I live in a Country of NPC’s…vacuous Bitchy Arrogant Stupid SUBMISSIVE DRONES…and the Politicians damned well know it…and to be honest, it depresses the daylights out of me…to think I once wore a uniform and served this country – Unreal.

    The vast majority DESERVE the Gulags GOOD N FKING HARD.

  13. Over here in the UK, I’ve spent the past year really really really enjoying the empty roads.

  15. We live in a small city in SW Ontario which is in ‘lockdown”
    Yesterday was warm and sunny and, as a result we sat on our porch.
    Soon after, several neighbours dropped over, each carrying a beer.
    Best I counted was 10, along with myself and the missus.
    Moral of the story? Nobody gives a sweet fuck about the “lockdown”
    Oh, and no masks were in evidence.

  17. I was just listening to an interview with Jordan Peterson where he quotes Kierkegaard as saying (approx): “Life is too easy and too soft, and becoming easier and softer. My job is to make life more difficult.” Peterson elaborated by saying we all need challenge to create meaning in our lives.

    Well, of course, being boomers (of which I’m one), they would want the softest, easiest challenge possible, wouldn’t they? Working from home, wearing a mask, and hunting for toilet paper – that’s the type of challenge today’s paper tigers cam meet.

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