COVID-19 'Pandemic'
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Anti-maskers explained?
...refusal to wear a mask in public settings has become a mark of being “a man’s man”—someone who won’t be pushed around or “muzzled” by governmental “tyranny.” To be clear: I’m not saying anything new here. In April of this year, social scientist Prof. Peter Glick wrote, “Why the reluctance to model safe behavior? My research with Jennifer Berdahl and others suggest one critical reason, which is that appearing to play it safe contradicts a core principle of masculinity: show no weakness. In short, wearing a mask emasculates . . . [mask refusers] prove their manhood by showing resistance to experts’ opinions, hypersensitivity to criticism and constant feuding with anyone who seems to disagree with them.”
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/masks-machismo-american-man-child
...refusal to wear a mask in public settings has become a mark of being “a man’s man”—someone who won’t be pushed around or “muzzled” by governmental “tyranny.” To be clear: I’m not saying anything new here. In April of this year, social scientist Prof. Peter Glick wrote, “Why the reluctance to model safe behavior? My research with Jennifer Berdahl and others suggest one critical reason, which is that appearing to play it safe contradicts a core principle of masculinity: show no weakness. In short, wearing a mask emasculates . . . [mask refusers] prove their manhood by showing resistance to experts’ opinions, hypersensitivity to criticism and constant feuding with anyone who seems to disagree with them.”
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/masks-machismo-american-man-child
More Donald dog and pony show :
He arrives at the Whitehorse and TAKES off his mask. His followers must love that.
Now there are nine people that tested positive from that event ( re: potential new supreme court judge)
Donald is feeling good. ( so he says.........but it is worthy to note that he is on steroids. Steroids make one feel good and energetic . Some people even go manic. Judgement can b e impaired. Given his behavioral baseline........it is hard to tell if he is acting crazier........but his stunt at the return to the withe house He had the photographers RE SHOOT his staged stance on the balcony because the first takes were not to his satisfaction.
He is behaving like all this is one giant PUBLICITY stunt Now that is crazy behavior for someone with the virus.......or anyone in that position.
He arrives at the Whitehorse and TAKES off his mask. His followers must love that.
Now there are nine people that tested positive from that event ( re: potential new supreme court judge)
Donald is feeling good. ( so he says.........but it is worthy to note that he is on steroids. Steroids make one feel good and energetic . Some people even go manic. Judgement can b e impaired. Given his behavioral baseline........it is hard to tell if he is acting crazier........but his stunt at the return to the withe house He had the photographers RE SHOOT his staged stance on the balcony because the first takes were not to his satisfaction.
He is behaving like all this is one giant PUBLICITY stunt Now that is crazy behavior for someone with the virus.......or anyone in that position.
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Try this and poke buttons.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cor...msung-ga-rev1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
That the mask issue is still being debated is tiresome. It's been politicized, it's an "us vs them" stance that the anti-maskers have adopted because they fear the truth and they don't want to appear weak by wearing one. That is why they throw out all the conspiracies about bacteria, carbon dioxide, stale air and my personal favourite, lung cancer. They do this to convince themselves that they are right, and that they know better than anyone because they read on an obscure site that someones brother's neighbour has an aunt who has a friend who has a cousin who has a half sister on her dad's side who worked in a hospital cafeteria in 1988 who said that masks are bad.
Does Don Jr. think that Daddy is acting crazy?
Donald Trump’s erratic and reckless behavior in the last 24 hours has opened a rift in the Trump family over how to rein in the out-of-control president, according to two Republicans briefed on the family conversations. Sources said Donald Trump Jr. is deeply upset by his father’s decision to drive around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last night with members of the Secret Service while he was infected with COVID-19. “Don Jr. thinks Trump is acting crazy,” one of the sources told me. The stunt outraged medical experts, including an attending physician at Walter Reed.
According to sources, Don Jr. has told friends that he tried lobbying Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner to convince the president that he needs to stop acting unstable. “Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he’s doing,” a source said. Don Jr. is said to be reluctant to confront his father alone. “Don said, ‘I’m not going to be the only one to tell him he’s acting crazy,’” the source added.
One area where the family seems united is over the president’s manic tweeting early Monday morning. After Trump sent out more than a dozen all-caps tweets, the Trump children told people they want Trump to stop. “They’re all worried. They’ve tried to get him to stop tweeting,” a source close to the family told me.
The Trump family’s private concern about Trump’s behavior could raise questions about his fitness for office. Trump has been prescribed drugs that medical experts say can seriously impair his cognitive function. Last night the New York Times reported that steroids, which Trump is reportedly taking, specifically dexamethasone, are known to “affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.”
There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.
The White House did not immediately respond for comment.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...y-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided
Donald Trump’s erratic and reckless behavior in the last 24 hours has opened a rift in the Trump family over how to rein in the out-of-control president, according to two Republicans briefed on the family conversations. Sources said Donald Trump Jr. is deeply upset by his father’s decision to drive around Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last night with members of the Secret Service while he was infected with COVID-19. “Don Jr. thinks Trump is acting crazy,” one of the sources told me. The stunt outraged medical experts, including an attending physician at Walter Reed.
According to sources, Don Jr. has told friends that he tried lobbying Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Jared Kushner to convince the president that he needs to stop acting unstable. “Don Jr. has said he wants to stage an intervention, but Jared and Ivanka keep telling Trump how great he’s doing,” a source said. Don Jr. is said to be reluctant to confront his father alone. “Don said, ‘I’m not going to be the only one to tell him he’s acting crazy,’” the source added.
One area where the family seems united is over the president’s manic tweeting early Monday morning. After Trump sent out more than a dozen all-caps tweets, the Trump children told people they want Trump to stop. “They’re all worried. They’ve tried to get him to stop tweeting,” a source close to the family told me.
The Trump family’s private concern about Trump’s behavior could raise questions about his fitness for office. Trump has been prescribed drugs that medical experts say can seriously impair his cognitive function. Last night the New York Times reported that steroids, which Trump is reportedly taking, specifically dexamethasone, are known to “affect mood, causing euphoria or a general happiness.”
There is a long history in the Trump family of denying serious illness. According to a Trump family friend, Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., insisted on working even after his Alzheimer’s disease advanced in the 1990s. “To retire is to expire!” Fred Sr. would say. The friend said that as Fred Sr.’s disease worsened––he once came down the stairs wearing three neckties––the family created a system so that Fred could think he was still running the Trump Organization. Every day Fred Sr. would go to the office in Brooklyn and they would give him blank papers to sort through and sign. The phone on Fred’s desk was set up so that it could only dial out to his secretary. “Fred pretended to work,” the family friend said.
The White House did not immediately respond for comment.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/202...y-presidents-covid-joyride-has-family-divided
informative !! and concerning. Trump IS acting like a maniac. His judgment is usually impaired.........but it is even more so now. But lets not forget he is on steroids. He is feeling invincible. Steroids can make a person feel good , and as stated before...... can make folks go manic
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Is there not something in the rule book that states a presidential candidate must be of sound mind? This guy clearly is NOT!
where did you get THAT from??
Steroids can make one feel good and energetic. as I said........some people can actually have a manic episode on them. Behavioral changes have been noted routinely.
Off topic for a moment: But are YOU REALLY a mod?? If so, youshould be an example of tactful /diplomatic posting.
I think it is not limited to boomers. There are simply a lot of rebellious and immature / irresponsible people around who have certain views. Those that hold parties of large numbers hardly fall into the boomer category.