COVID-19 | Effects on Skoolies - No Politics please.

[EastCoastCB]

Definitely TDS.

I hope they find a cure for those poor folks.

Meh, that's just a common blanket statement. I don't really get why folks showing any amount of scrutiny for the man automatically are met with names and rhetoric.
Being delusional and criticizing leadership regardless of one's voter record seem to be easily confused.


Gone by April. Miraculously. Yeah effin right.

 

[kazetsukai]

Meh, that's just a common blanket statement.

Perhaps sometimes it is misused, but if you believe that half the country is either malicious, stupid, being deceived or otherwise don't have good reasons to think the way they do, you likely have TDS.

Beginning a statement with "His supporters" is guaranteed to result in a blanket statement. And then you have things like "basket of deplorables". Why on earth people on the other side of the political spectrum expect me to vote for those who openly declare how much they despise me and constantly berate or belittle my values, I'll never understand. Not winning hearts or minds over with that approach.

You can't call for "solidarity" while simultaneously taking cheap shots at your political opposition. Not saying you have, I'm saying others do.

 

[JDSquared]

Perhaps sometimes it is misused, but if you believe that half the country is either malicious, stupid, being deceived or otherwise don't have good reasons to think the way they do, you likely have TDS.

Beginning a statement with "His supporters" is guaranteed to result in a blanket statement. And then you have things like "basket of deplorables". Why on earth people on the other side of the political spectrum expect me to vote for those who openly declare how much they despise me and constantly berate or belittle my values, I'll never understand. Not winning hearts or minds over with that approach.

You can't call for "solidarity" while simultaneously taking cheap shots at your political opposition. Not saying you have, I'm saying others do.

It's not half the country. His supporters make up about 25% of the country. Personally, I can't wait to piss on the man's grave. And if you're somebody who still supports him then you are not and never were somebody who would listen in good faith to any argument I made against him or his policies. There are kids in cages who might die of covid and it's not because they have to be at Walmart getting groceries.

/end rant. Block me if I bother you, because I'm not listening if you decide to reply here anyway.

 

[gs1949]

I took every course on psychopathology that my university offered, and got an A everytime, so I thought I was pretty at psychological acronyms, but TDS stumped me.

So I had to look at online dictionaries to figure out what TDS means. Like anything else to do with Trump there is some disagreement, but I think this definition is the best, and also the most appropriate in this case: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TDS

 

[Oscar1]

Perhaps sometimes it is misused, but if you believe that half the country is either malicious, stupid, being deceived or otherwise don't have good reasons to think the way they do, you likely have TDS.

Beginning a statement with "His supporters" is guaranteed to result in a blanket statement. And then you have things like "basket of deplorables". Why on earth people on the other side of the political spectrum expect me to vote for those who openly declare how much they despise me and constantly berate or belittle my values, I'll never understand. Not winning hearts or minds over with that approach.

You can't call for "solidarity" while simultaneously taking cheap shots at your political opposition. Not saying you have, I'm saying others do.

Well said and fully agreed from this side of the fence.

As always stay safe

 

[Native-SKO]

I would respetfully like to request that this thread get back on topic.

 

[UFO pilot]

I was just hoping for an escape from the absolute hurricane of political BS all over FB about this.....and here it is 'infecting' Skoolie.



Here is a pic of a growing group of people who could not give a toss about any of this anymore. I wonder who they voted for and what it means to them now.

 

[Native-SKO]

I was just hoping for an escape from the absolute hurricane of political BS all over FB about this.....and here it is 'infecting' Skoolie.



Here is a pic of a growing group of people who could not give a toss about any of this anymore. I wonder who they voted for and what it means to them now.

Thank you for posting that picture. It is a simple reminder of the stark realities of this pandemic.

 

[EastCoastCB]

Perhaps sometimes it is misused, but if you believe that half the country is either malicious, stupid, being deceived or otherwise don't have good reasons to think the way they do, you likely have TDS.

Beginning a statement with "His supporters" is guaranteed to result in a blanket statement. And then you have things like "basket of deplorables". Why on earth people on the other side of the political spectrum expect me to vote for those who openly declare how much they despise me and constantly berate or belittle my values, I'll never understand. Not winning hearts or minds over with that approach.

You can't call for "solidarity" while simultaneously taking cheap shots at your political opposition. Not saying you have, I'm saying others do.

i'm not the one, man. I know you wana make this a political debate.
I'm talking about individual responsibility. I even provided the Kennedy speech for context.

IDK what acronym is right for folks who forget that to criticize authority IS American.

I'm looking to get an antibody test and volunteer at the hospital. Whats your idea of how to help? Blind allegiance to a guy from WWE Wrestling?
You're saying now I'm a clinton supporter or are you just naming her book?

 

[EastCoastCB]

I took every course on psychopathology that my university offered, and got an A everytime, so I thought I was pretty at psychological acronyms, but TDS stumped me.

So I had to look at online dictionaries to figure out what TDS means. Like anything else to do with Trump there is some disagreement, but I think this definition is the best, and also the most appropriate in this case: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TDS

Agreed. especially #3.

 

[Native-SKO]

Remember folks, COVID-19 itself is not political. It has no mind, it has no thought. It does not care about your background, your education, your ethnicity, your religion nor your politics. It only infects to reproduce and infect again.


Let's stop this virus ... stay the course ... stay at home if you can and be as safe as you can when you are not at home.

 

[EastCoastCB]

Remember folks, COVID-19 itself is not political. It has no mind, it has no thought. It does not care about your background, your education, your ethnicity, your religion nor your politics. It only infects to reproduce and infect again.


Let's stop this virus ... stay the course ... stay at home if you can and be as safe as you can when you are not at home.

You're very right, Sam.
My mom and I are excited about the antibody tests.
I know she'd love to get back to work. She does heart monitoring at the hospital. I'm hoping I already had it like I think I did and can volunteer to help out over there at the hospital or wherever needs a hand.

 

[Native-SKO]

You're very right, Sam.
My mom and I are excited about the antibody tests.
I know she'd love to get back to work. She does heart monitoring at the hospital. I'm hoping I already had it like I think I did and can volunteer to help out over there at the hospital or wherever needs a hand.

I had heard there was an antibody study being performed. Is that in Florida?

 

[EastCoastCB]

I had heard there was an antibody study being performed. Is that in Florida?

Miami and Los Angeles CA are both doing this testing. But its randomly done to track the virus is poor neighborhoods.
The antibody test is FDA approved and they're working on getting them to folks so they can get back to work.

A couple weeks before skoolie swarm I was having all the symptoms.

 

[kazetsukai]

i'm not the one, man. I know you wana make this a political debate.

No, that is precisely what I do not want to do. I'm not lashing out, all I'm trying to do is remind people who think they speak for 75% of the country that they only speak for themselves, that there is another side to this and that by "going there" you are antagonizing people of different beliefs.

I'm not even a Twitter Tiger supporter. I didn't vote for him in the primary. When Nov-2016 came around, the other side had nothing I could vote for.

What I think we'll have to decide here is, whether we'll want to make ourselves feel better in the short term by saying things that are going to antagonize others, or whether we want a truly welcoming community for all creeds and walks of life. I don't want my politics to discourage someone who has different beliefs from engaging here on skoolie. You do you, I do me. I harbor no ill towards you for how you vote. Some people here apparently, do.

Online communities have been destroyed over this (one knitting community is pretty famous for it), that's why there are rules about it. You can't tiptoe right on the line and expect nobody from the other side to engage, which fires things up. We should just leave it alone, use pseudonyms, or criticize action and leave the characters out of it (something I think you in particular have done a good job of).

 

[EastCoastCB]

No, that is precisely what I do not want to do. I'm not the one lashing out, and all I'm trying to do is remind people who think they speak for 75% of the country that they only speak for themselves, that there is another side to this and that by "going there" you are antagonizing people of different beliefs.


I'm not even a Twitter Tiger supporter. I didn't vote for him in the primary. When Nov-2016 came around, the other side had nothing I could vote for.



What I think we'll have to decide here is, whether we'll want to make ourselves feel better in the short term by saying things that are going to antagonize others, or whether we want a truly welcoming community for all creeds and walks of life. I don't want my politics to discourage someone who has different beliefs from engaging here on skoolie. You do you, I do me. I harbor no ill towards you for how you vote. Some people here app


Online communities have been destroyed over this (one knitting community is pretty famous for it), that's why there are rules about it. You can't tiptoe right on the line and expect nobody from the other side to engage, which fires things up. We should just leave it alone, use pseudonyms, or criticize action and leave the characters out of it (something I think you in particular have done a good job of).

I've not purposely steered the thread to partisan politics and don't plan to.
And you're totally preaching to the choir. I fought on here for a long time to make this forum accept and welcome all kinds of folks.
There are some egregious threads on here from like 8+ years ago. There was even once a private thread on the forum defending the use of the N word to describe black people. So this place has come a long way. And I'm very proud to have been a part of that. I'm certainly hoping you're not taking my criticism of the Gov't personally. I think I'm starting to understand where you're coming from, though. My parents voted under the same sort of circumstances as you describe.
Peace, man.

 

[kazetsukai]

I'm certainly hoping you're not taking my criticism of the Gov't personally. Peace, man.

For what its worth, I do apologize for how I've contributed to this distraction. I need to be better about it for sure.

 

[banman]

I took every course on psychopathology that my university offered, and got an A everytime, so I thought I was pretty at psychological acronyms, but TDS stumped me.

So I had to look at online dictionaries to figure out what TDS means. Like anything else to do with Trump there is some disagreement, but I think this definition is the best, and also the most appropriate in this case: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=TDS

I too was at a loss for what that meant --
Thank you for finding some definitions I can work with...

I would respectfully like to request that this thread get back on topic.

I'll try and honor that.

 

[gs1949]

Back on topic would be very good, But hopefully antibody tests is on topic enough. I would love to hear more on that subject, because I think I might have had COVID-19.

And if I did have it, the strong doses of echinacea tincture I took every 2 or 3 hours suppressed most of the symptoms, and I would like to be able to tell others about that with a high degree of certainty. I just ended up with a bad cough and a bunch of crap in my lungs, which is now almost gone.

But it could have been a bad cold that I got that last time I went out in public without a mask, and an antibody test would tell me that.

 

[Booyah45828]

It's not half the country. His supporters make up about 25% of the country. Personally, I can't wait to piss on the man's grave. And if you're somebody who still supports him then you are not and never were somebody who would listen in good faith to any argument I made against him or his policies. There are kids in cages who might die of covid and it's not because they have to be at Walmart getting groceries.

/end rant. Block me if I bother you, because I'm not listening if you decide to reply here anyway.

Here's a simple question, and I pose it to both sides who make the statement you just did.

Why should anyone listen to you, when you refuse to listen to them?

Sorry native for contributing to a derail, but what was said I felt needed addressed. Americans are more alike then they aren't, I don't know why it's such a pride thing to identify by who one voted for in the last election. You meet some really great people when you don't label and chastise those on the other side.