Know what I was told in college, way back in the 90's?  "You basically won't have a career.  You will just have to get in line in the cesspool at the bottom and wait it out."

Wait what out, you ask?  The world's supply of hairspray? Our incredible sense of fashion? 

No.... the dying off of the Baby Boomers. 

Yes, you read that right.  My generation was told we had to wait for our parents (or grandparents) to die before having any career success.  You see, it was expected that many then middle-aged boomers had achieved an impressive level of career success- and wouldn't be giving up their spots any time soon.

Add that to the influx of women into the workforce and the increasing life expectancy - and us Gen X'ers were, well "ass out" of any chance of a traditional climb up the proverbial corporate ladder. 

Yep.  My sociology and humanities instructors warned us to either get used to low and middle-management, at best, or enter the retirement home or funeral industries in preparation of the death boom.

Harsh but true.  And the world was expecting it.  We were expecting A LOT OF PEOPLE TO DIE in a relatively short amount of time.  I guess more than hair styles have changed since then.  

Ok, stop. It's Hammer Time.

In a non-emotional, statistical, biological way, it makes sense.  There was a "boom" of babies during the years 1946-1964.  The average human life span in America is 78 (in 2020).  In 2000, it was 76.  Split the difference and call it 77 years. That might not be the scientific method to calculate the life expectancy of boomers, but it will do for today's lesson.  That puts the boom of death roughly between 2023 - 2041.  (Reminder, it's now 2020.)

Now, factor in the American mid-life disease issue due to sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits, and you have a potential for an earlier start of the death boom.  Earlier by three years?  Yeah.

Cause for mass hysteria? Only if you don't know history. Only if you forgot we were warned about this 20 and 30 years ago. Only if you don't know the average death rate in any given year.  Or math.

Conspiracy theory?!?!?!  Hmmm, maybe.  More likely, critical thinking. Pondering.  Researching.  And math.

Let's just say human life expectancy + a large portion of the population reaching natural end-of-life age + increasing rates of heart disease and other medical conditions + where did all the yearly flu cases go + media hype, equals something. 

But, what?

Think for yourselves, friends.- M

​Compare the recovery rate of suicide to the recovery rate of covid. (That was a trick question. There is no recovery rate for suicide.) What about the recovery for their survivors?

How about the rate of recovery from domestic violence, child abuse and other violent crime??? Let's compare the recovery rate of drug addiction or drug overdose to covid?

The recovery rate of losing something you’ve worked your whole life for? Recovery from anxiety, depression, family breakup???

All of theses things already have a lower recovery rate than recovery from covid— yet all have increased since the devastation of the great overreaction. We are quite literally sacrificing one group of vulnerable people for another (larger) group. 

It’s a backwards world when we claim to be “in this together” while completely ignoring the far greater negative impact of the so-called help. Time to discern. Not everything you see and hear out there is truth.

​Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, my friends. - M
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​So when the CDC publishes a report stating that have no evidence that masks actually work to protect us from a virus with a 97- 99.75% recovery rate, it means we should all continue to wear masks and shame those who don't? Refuse service to those who are classified as exempt (read: engage in legalized discrimination)? Turn all retail workers into border patrol agents?
 
But, we're all in this together?
 
What exactly is "this" that "we" are in?
 
Let’s reason, shall we?

If this virus is so dangerous, where are the bio-hazard receptacles? It's worse than having a dirty needle, so how should I dispose of my potentially contaminated mask? Where is the 3-to-1 bleach solution required by Universal Precautions? Why are we still seeing new cases after months of sterile lock-down? When has the government ever "cared" this much about our health (at the expense of our children, our money and our mental health, nonetheless)? Why did a "two-week help the medical community from getting overwhelmed" voluntary stay-at-home plan turn into an exercise in government-inspired social conformity?
 
If you can logically, without quoting the media, answer these questions, I'd like to know. And while we're on the subject of the media, do you know who owns the media outlets ... who controls exactly which "news" is reported- and with what angle, intensity, and frequency? Why haven’t we heard that more than 28 million people worldwide have RECOVERED?  Why are we constantly bombarded with only the deaths? People die from lots of other things. Why aren’t all of those deaths being featured on the human-interest segments?  What’s the pay-off? Who’s benefiting? 
 
And mostly, why aren't more people screaming "What's happening?!?!?!?!"
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Ask questions, friends.  Ask lots of questions. - M


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