A culmination of four months of dealing with the world…
The following is based upon my own personal experiences and in no way reflects the views or opinions of the management here in my head. Being such I shall not argue or debate any points of this post, and I shall most likely never read any replies if there happen to be any. Thank you…
First of all I would just like to state I am tired of what I shall refer to as ‘shelter shaming' – the whole ‘stay at home, save lives’ thing. I have worked six days per week during pandemic. It is not my first pandemic nor shall it be my last though it is my first (so far at least) where it seems as if the rules are being changed and updated much like Windows operating systems. I was perfectly fine with flattening the curve, it made perfect sense to keep everyone safe, pause the world for a brief time, and let life reset. Then the rules changed and we needed testing to resume our way of life. Okay, not too bad, a test for the virus is not terribly difficult to develop and being the corona virus is a broad category of viruses this should be relatively quick to implement. Then? THEN! We cannot resume our lives until a vaccine has been developed? A freakin' vaccine, a vaccine takes years of research, development, testing, and so on and so forth…
Secondly I have grown tired of the entire “but science" answer to any and all disagreements upon this here virus. That is not how science works. If one is to never question anything we have concluded science, and we can move on to something more important. If one's hypothesis is flawed or incorrect from the onset, the conclusion will be meaningless. If the data collected to support the hypothesis is wrong, again the conclusion will have no merit. I do not know how many times I have been dumbfounded by the fact that someone's argument will revolve around this scientist said this, this group of “smart" people concluded this as if their conclusion was set in stone and shall never be deviated from. Degrees do not equal intelligence, all it show is the degreed individual did the required work to achieve the “smart" status. And OMG! If someone has a doctorate or postdoctoral degree, we must kiss their butts and worship them for they are divinity (please note that the sarcasm in the previous sentence was intentional). I would like to note for anyone who feels that I am antiscience, I would just like to point out that I have donated almost 45 years of computer time to scientific research (no, not Seti@home, which I felt was a colossal waste of time and resources to try to hear something profound from a race that may have died off millions of years ago), and I am employed as a supervisor in a materials testing and research facility…
I do not have many years remaining on this planet and I have done my part to flatten the curve and through it all I drove my 300 plus miles per week and worked. I have eaten in the parking lot at the Mickey D's closest to work five days per week through rain and snow and sunny days and cloudy days, and I am tired of it all…
There is a little secret that those controlling our lives won't tell – if one keeps everything 100% sterilized and never comes in contact with another living being, at the end of the journey your only reward is death. One can do one's best to postpone it, but the results are always the same. History books are filled with page after page of those who are no longer amongst the living and countless more who lived out their lives and did nothing that was recorded for posterity…
I am tired of everything…