Having now received a tsunami of messages from people across the US (and a few internationally) about the surveillance regimes being permanently installed at their educational institutions — in contravention of earlier assurances that the current academic year would mark a long-awaited “return to normalcy,” thanks to the onset of mass vaccination — there are a few conclusions to draw.
Can someone please explain something to me, why is there such crazy overlap with the "man, fuck the police" crowd to the now "I will obey" crowd? I swear many of the same kids on social media who are loving this insane lockdown stuff were last year proclaiming themselves against all police and government authority. I can understand one or the other, but someone having both views makes my head hurt.
The Venn diagram would look suspiciously like the diagram of “we must atone for the sins of racism!” vs “Unvaccinated (which most minorities are) must be excluded from society!”
Because most people are easily manipulated by mass propaganda. Consistency of thought isn't required, because anyone who thinks consistently is instantly in the enemy camp designated by such propaganda offenses. It's all about the "safety" of being in the largest crowd.
tbh it kind of makes a perverse amount of sense. You hear a lot of what amounts to "why didn't the police just nicely ask that man to drop his weapon?!" from that crowd, I presume because they imagine everyone is obedient like them, and so if someone is resisting the police it must be because the police did something wrong.
I spoke to a CC parent this weekend. An academic at another institution. He sneered and rolled his eyes at students who had to ruin everything going to BARS(!). It was such an odd exchange. I mocked him mercilessly but he was so enmeshed in his insane alternate reality he couldn't imagine I wasn't agreeing with him. He's a very nice guy but he's now clinically insane.
Sorry folks but the left-wing have gone insane. Do you have any idea what these morons are teaching your children. They are untether from any common sense reality and your children are being taught to be stupid. Don’t trust me go talk to your kid you’re gonna cry.
Blockbuster piece, Michael. Thanks for so assiduously, so starkly exposing the weak-minded, power-grubbing little totalitarians who run most of academia and all too many other institutions these days.
It is an interesting phenomena to be sure. As a teenager of the 60's and college student of the 70's in CA, we would no more be accepting of these promulgated norms from an over 30 academic bureaucracy than we were accepting the tenants of segregation or the Vietnam war. Kids today. Think for yourselves.
I agree. BUT... (wait for it...) It's not THEIR turn. Let 'em build the world they're gonna live in. Their kids will take us to another level. Just as they will take us to one.
Withe all the bs going on in academia... we still need to eat, communicate, etc etc.... It's also that generation which will do that work.
They're more likely to demand it than to revolt against it. The spirit that would animate such a revolt was drummed out of most of them years ago by helicopter parenting and the college admissions rat race. Look at the recent protests in Austrialia: it's the trade unionists not college students actually standing up to fight. I would expect it to be no different here.
I concur with your assessment, my sister a recent college grad (of an ridiculously expensive private school) told me the original lockdown should have continued indefinitely.
When you say 2016 happened I am going to interpret that as we got an on authorized president, who was in every way possible heterodox. Yes?
I keep arguing that trumps presidency was the most consequential of our time because he is the backdrop for this illiberal moment. As president he didn’t really do much.
I'm reminded of Camille Paglia's story of being an undergrad in the 60s, where women were forbidden to go out at night to bars (or anywhere else), curfews were enforced, and school administrators acted as nannies enforcing 1950s social mores -- which was what drew her and others at the time to feminism and demanding the same liberty male students enjoyed.
Around the time of the Arne Duncan era “Dear Colleague” letter it was prophesied that the smaller (no med/law school, etc.) co-ed colleges would soon wither away from becoming impossible to maintain — it was inherently contradictory, selling this product whose primary appeal, to both parents and students, was socializing with potential mates both in 4-5 or 6 or 7 years of classes and then afterward at some unspecified glorious career; but at the same time abiding by the runaway inflationary moral pressure that develops in affluence.
Then, with the advent of Coof, the seers just switched to predicting the end of college, period. I would say that our credit-based economy would need to collapse fully before everybody is switched over to Zoom U but I’m sure teenagers can adapt to the new normal that residential college life sucks now & is administered by freaks on behalf of greedy corporations and dickless bureaucrats. In Europe the youth already went through that rite of passage in the 1950s, they don’t treat the campus as a special party land.
It's going to be like this more and more until we finally break through on the issue of treatment. As long as there are no widely-available, affordable, easily-accessed FDA-approved treatments for milder cases, then there is always going to be enough fear of transmission to warrant this kind of irrational nonsense. But all attempts to discover and disseminate treatments have been met with the most extreme kinds of hostility, presumably out of fear that if people think that there are treatments, then they won't get vaccinated. Faced with a worldwide pandemic of unprecedented proportions, I fail to see why, "all of the above" is not always the right answer.
I'm bombarded daily with claims about the utility of Ivermectin. Often accompanied by the bromide that the delay in treatment is so that Pfizermectin can be developed and sold at a much higher price.
This is one source constantly cited, it appears it is where other articles and studies about Ivermectin can be found. Of course they don't discuss the failed studies.
Also, it's clear by now that natural immunity is the only way from pandemic to endemic. Vaccines don't work, they only delay; even the reduction in hospitalizations and deaths is merely temporary, as Israel announced this week. Healthy young people and children need to get sick in massive numbers. Lockdowns are only worsening the problem.
Michael Great article. Thanks for pursuing this and bringing this nonsense into the daylight. I suspect the college kids are afraid of reprisals so they stay quiet and comply.
It seems to me that the best way to put a stop to this idiocy is to Defund Academia! Keep the pressure on. Well done.
Academia won't be "defunded" so might as well give up that pipe dream and prepare for the trends incubated in academia to become society's dominant governing ideology at an accelerated pace.
Actually there is talk among Yale alumni of subjecting the endowment to taxation. A long shot but if it happens they know already that they’re fucked; all recent capital campaigns have been disasters.
I know you are right. The real issue is that these students will grow accustomed to this life and want it to continue or at least not care for their freedoms back. A bit like my grandchildren (ages 6, 6, 8, 8) who now tell me they don't mind wearing their masks!
counter-culture died at Kent State and Jackson State. Everyone fell in line when McGovern was destroyed. Reagan was elected by the counter-culture which allowed Bush to invade Iraq. In turn, the Clintons took over the Democratic Party and so here we are.
It just hit me right between my boomer eyes, esp after reading 20@20's and Blair's statements below regarding the mindset of the college kids:
The current generation (X?Y?Z? Mellianls? Whatever...) in college now are basically frightened people that scream for conformity on all fronts so that the world will become a better place.
It's happened before.
My parent's generation endured the Great Depression, and then WW 2. They were ultimately frightened people. If you read the stories of how Alan Shepherd and John Glenn were lionized after their Mercury flights you'd see the depths of fear that fed their adoration.
But then...their kids said basically 'WTF is up w/ that?' Starting in the mid-late 60's against Vietnam, in the 50's Civil Rights began, and on and on.
(Please don't think I'm bragging, K? You have NOOO idea how obnoxious we became in the 80's)
These munchkins- and their profs w/their useless post-modern grievance degrees who remain moronically ignorant of human nature- will eventually have kids of their own.
Who will, as kids are wont to do, rebel.
(I also suspect that there's an enormous cohort of these elite college munchkins who despise what's going on at their overpriced degree mills...wait'll those kids grow a pair of balls).
I'm not sure, but looking at the profiles that you gave us of admins doing this work in your article, Mike...I got a hankering suspicion that all of the grievance studies profs are realizing that there's no real future in what they're doing and it pisses them off.
These controls they're installing in higher ed can be interpreted as flailing by a culture that is coming to terms w/ its own irrelevance in the real world. I mean, after all, food's gotta be harvested, and no, the military is incapable of running a tomato field or an abattoir. (Thanks for the observation Blair Davis!)
I hope you’re right, it may be the tide is turning, maybe people are becoming aware of the ridiculous nature of the victim culture and they are as you say flailing, desperate in the last throws of this weird phenomenon. They are so far adrift it is absurd the lengths they go!
The fact that the greatest generation sacrificed and united patriotically doesn't negate the trauma caused them by the great depression. My grandparents, who raised my parents during the depression, always worried about their security. They were very reluctant to take chances. People talk about safetyism today. Those folks were the original adherents. Again, you cant underestimate the personal emotion shock trauma that the collapse of the economy caused
Except for that part about fighting World War II and leading the Civil Rights movement and going to the moon and stuff. Oh and also expecting their children to get off their asses and go bike through the woods while they were busy.
Yeah, they were frightened. They lived through uncertainty, upheaval, war, and hardship. Thing is, they had no choice but to overcome it and they understood that. Living through the times they did made them resilient and gave them perspective. In the end they became rather fearless because they had already been through so much. Then we ended up with the Boomers, but that is another story.
I’m not here to help you cope with irritability from your dying balls. Run along and make angry pigeon chested gestures into your mirror without bothering anybody or I’ll tell the nurse you need another hard enema. Shoo!
Please elucidate me on your knowledge & experience of the 'Greatest Generation' then. (Oh... and if we met IRL, I'd give you the same caution about your yap)
So, you to sense the Collapse that is coming? 15,000 migrants under a Del Rio bridge is more proof of a dying Empire. The Oligarchy wants it all and AOC (etc.) is letting them have it. In fact, just giving it to them.
A collapse? I go back and forth on that possibility; I just can't land on a yes/no answer yet.
Here's what I do know: a LOT of ppl are making a LOT of $ keeping the US population at each other's throat. On one side is Rachel Maddow, and on the other is Glen Beck or whoever is on the cover of 'Hate Inc' (Sean Hannity maybe?). (I don't think Carlson's as bad as Maddow or the other guy b/c he DOES bring opposing viewpoints on his show (Greenwald/Dore for example)
However...the trust in MSM is at an all time low and continues to drop. For example I read the NY Times daily, but w/the same attitude as if I'm reading the National Enquirer- skeptical right out of the gate. I don't have cable. I get 'news' from RT and Breaking Points and subscribe to Mike/Greenwald/Taibbi/Useful Idiots here on substack and also read Stoeller. When their stuff drops, I snooze the emails until Sunday Mornings.
I kinda make up my own 'Time' or 'Newsweek' I guess?
My point is that 'the media' has much, much less influence on daily American life nowadays.
BUT there is a true schism in the USA. And it's b/t the college educated (30% of the pop) and the non degree. That's always been there (used to be in the 20% range for college, but what the hell- grievance studies really don't count for me, y'know?)
The working people USED to have unions (for good or ill) who made the case for them w/the powerful, and that's no longer the case.
There's an enormous percentage of the US population aching for genuine leadership. They were fooled 2x by Sanders et al. I think the storm that's coming will be the rise of a viable new party. This video introduces you to a brilliant historian, and his website's great: https://youtu.be/XUJr651-E8U
The party that starts at a grass roots level (city/statewide) will grow phenomenally. I think there's some interesting stuff happening right now in Rhode Island. If that sticks and succeeeds... uh-oh for the current parties that are in power.
Given all you've written here, I find it hard to understand how you can't believe in Collapse.
We have been lied to
about so much
for so long
by so many
we can no longer believe anything.
Thus people turn to their "guru" (or their "god") and allow shysters direct their thoughts. They are "right" and everyone else is "wrong". There are examples of this all around the world. Democrats vs Republicans is probably the one you might be most familiar with. Neither party cares about you or me. I've finally recognized that voting is a complete waste of my time.
I dunno ... "leadership oversight" sounds awfully oxymoronic, don't you think?
This has got to make some of these students want to transfer to a school in a big time football conference so they can get drunk with 100,000 of their closest friends every Saturday and engage in maskless "fuck Joe Biden" chants. I wonder why everyone at those schools hasn't dropped dead already.
If I wasn't being sarcastic I don't know how I could bear this crap. I'm 64 and vaccinated in San Diego county. Since I was vaxed I havent worn a mask anywhere I wasnt required to - which has only been in medical offices and my mother's care facility. I know I, unlike college age folks, am in a higher risk group (I am in general good health and fit). All evidence is that if I now get Covid the case will be mild. I have no intention of living in fear, and giving up my life to ridiculous nanny state restrictions.
Especially for those in college there are things WORSE than Covid. Such as those loss of freedom and liberty. The one student in the Zoom session who worried about freshman transferring out hit the nail on the head. Not every school is doing this crap. Transferring, or doing college online at much lower cost, makes a lot of sense. If enough vote with their feet these admins will see the light.
So right. I'm on the other end of the political spectrum from FDR, but he was basically right when he said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Here is the simple reason why this continues at these (lets face it) mostly white colleges. Because 95% (at least) of the parents AND students do NOTHING about it. They DO comply. If just 20% said, fuck it, Im dropping out, Connecticut College would go bankrupt. But they don't. They, therefore, ALLOW for this to happen. And that's why this will never change.
This is the leftist, control freak mindset in places like NYC, LA, SF, and practically all campuses. Give me a conservative area any day of the week. We are already looking to move. Hell, the people in Northern ID already have a mantra 'only the slaves wear the mask'.
Can someone please explain something to me, why is there such crazy overlap with the "man, fuck the police" crowd to the now "I will obey" crowd? I swear many of the same kids on social media who are loving this insane lockdown stuff were last year proclaiming themselves against all police and government authority. I can understand one or the other, but someone having both views makes my head hurt.
The Venn diagram would look suspiciously like the diagram of “we must atone for the sins of racism!” vs “Unvaccinated (which most minorities are) must be excluded from society!”
Because most people are easily manipulated by mass propaganda. Consistency of thought isn't required, because anyone who thinks consistently is instantly in the enemy camp designated by such propaganda offenses. It's all about the "safety" of being in the largest crowd.
tbh it kind of makes a perverse amount of sense. You hear a lot of what amounts to "why didn't the police just nicely ask that man to drop his weapon?!" from that crowd, I presume because they imagine everyone is obedient like them, and so if someone is resisting the police it must be because the police did something wrong.
The irony is rich.
Only obey the left. Colleges seen as institutions of the left.
I spoke to a CC parent this weekend. An academic at another institution. He sneered and rolled his eyes at students who had to ruin everything going to BARS(!). It was such an odd exchange. I mocked him mercilessly but he was so enmeshed in his insane alternate reality he couldn't imagine I wasn't agreeing with him. He's a very nice guy but he's now clinically insane.
I sometimes thing that the more academically learned some become, the more they lose common sense.
Sorry folks but the left-wing have gone insane. Do you have any idea what these morons are teaching your children. They are untether from any common sense reality and your children are being taught to be stupid. Don’t trust me go talk to your kid you’re gonna cry.
Blockbuster piece, Michael. Thanks for so assiduously, so starkly exposing the weak-minded, power-grubbing little totalitarians who run most of academia and all too many other institutions these days.
Nothing would please me more than to see this generation of university students launch a massive revolt against this nonsense.
Don't hold your breath
It is an interesting phenomena to be sure. As a teenager of the 60's and college student of the 70's in CA, we would no more be accepting of these promulgated norms from an over 30 academic bureaucracy than we were accepting the tenants of segregation or the Vietnam war. Kids today. Think for yourselves.
I agree. BUT... (wait for it...) It's not THEIR turn. Let 'em build the world they're gonna live in. Their kids will take us to another level. Just as they will take us to one.
Withe all the bs going on in academia... we still need to eat, communicate, etc etc.... It's also that generation which will do that work.
They're more likely to demand it than to revolt against it. The spirit that would animate such a revolt was drummed out of most of them years ago by helicopter parenting and the college admissions rat race. Look at the recent protests in Austrialia: it's the trade unionists not college students actually standing up to fight. I would expect it to be no different here.
I concur with your assessment, my sister a recent college grad (of an ridiculously expensive private school) told me the original lockdown should have continued indefinitely.
Incredulously I asked who would harvest the food?
Her response was "the Army".
When you say 2016 happened I am going to interpret that as we got an on authorized president, who was in every way possible heterodox. Yes?
I keep arguing that trumps presidency was the most consequential of our time because he is the backdrop for this illiberal moment. As president he didn’t really do much.
Also Brexit.
Fantastic, orange rodeo clown!
It’s a shame he is such a crass individual. With some tact he could achieve more.
That said I’m a big fan
I'm picturing a future that involves angry working class people, smug liberal smiles turning into screams of fear, and guillotines.
Trumpistas throwing NY Times folks off the roof of their building?
I’m also picturing feckless whinging about counter-productive behavior right up until the basket fills up.
20 20, you got that right.
I'm reminded of Camille Paglia's story of being an undergrad in the 60s, where women were forbidden to go out at night to bars (or anywhere else), curfews were enforced, and school administrators acted as nannies enforcing 1950s social mores -- which was what drew her and others at the time to feminism and demanding the same liberty male students enjoyed.
Everything seems so ass backward.
Around the time of the Arne Duncan era “Dear Colleague” letter it was prophesied that the smaller (no med/law school, etc.) co-ed colleges would soon wither away from becoming impossible to maintain — it was inherently contradictory, selling this product whose primary appeal, to both parents and students, was socializing with potential mates both in 4-5 or 6 or 7 years of classes and then afterward at some unspecified glorious career; but at the same time abiding by the runaway inflationary moral pressure that develops in affluence.
Then, with the advent of Coof, the seers just switched to predicting the end of college, period. I would say that our credit-based economy would need to collapse fully before everybody is switched over to Zoom U but I’m sure teenagers can adapt to the new normal that residential college life sucks now & is administered by freaks on behalf of greedy corporations and dickless bureaucrats. In Europe the youth already went through that rite of passage in the 1950s, they don’t treat the campus as a special party land.
It's going to be like this more and more until we finally break through on the issue of treatment. As long as there are no widely-available, affordable, easily-accessed FDA-approved treatments for milder cases, then there is always going to be enough fear of transmission to warrant this kind of irrational nonsense. But all attempts to discover and disseminate treatments have been met with the most extreme kinds of hostility, presumably out of fear that if people think that there are treatments, then they won't get vaccinated. Faced with a worldwide pandemic of unprecedented proportions, I fail to see why, "all of the above" is not always the right answer.
It’s not being discussed
I'm bombarded daily with claims about the utility of Ivermectin. Often accompanied by the bromide that the delay in treatment is so that Pfizermectin can be developed and sold at a much higher price.
This is one source constantly cited, it appears it is where other articles and studies about Ivermectin can be found. Of course they don't discuss the failed studies.
https://covid19criticalcare.com
Also, it's clear by now that natural immunity is the only way from pandemic to endemic. Vaccines don't work, they only delay; even the reduction in hospitalizations and deaths is merely temporary, as Israel announced this week. Healthy young people and children need to get sick in massive numbers. Lockdowns are only worsening the problem.
I had the same thought while reading this essay. Who better to spread asymptomatic cases that vaccinate young adults?
Prolonging the problem
Unfortunately, the culture war has inverted the incentives for who can (or should) pursue immunity without vaccination.
Michael Great article. Thanks for pursuing this and bringing this nonsense into the daylight. I suspect the college kids are afraid of reprisals so they stay quiet and comply.
It seems to me that the best way to put a stop to this idiocy is to Defund Academia! Keep the pressure on. Well done.
Academia won't be "defunded" so might as well give up that pipe dream and prepare for the trends incubated in academia to become society's dominant governing ideology at an accelerated pace.
Actually there is talk among Yale alumni of subjecting the endowment to taxation. A long shot but if it happens they know already that they’re fucked; all recent capital campaigns have been disasters.
Damnit. Your article was depressing enough—now your comments are even worse. Unfortunately… you’re probably right.
I know you are right. The real issue is that these students will grow accustomed to this life and want it to continue or at least not care for their freedoms back. A bit like my grandchildren (ages 6, 6, 8, 8) who now tell me they don't mind wearing their masks!
Great job on Tucker Carlson tonight!
counter-culture died at Kent State and Jackson State. Everyone fell in line when McGovern was destroyed. Reagan was elected by the counter-culture which allowed Bush to invade Iraq. In turn, the Clintons took over the Democratic Party and so here we are.
I don’t think the college kids are aware of the foolishness that they are being fed. They have been marinated in this stuff their entire lives.
It just hit me right between my boomer eyes, esp after reading 20@20's and Blair's statements below regarding the mindset of the college kids:
The current generation (X?Y?Z? Mellianls? Whatever...) in college now are basically frightened people that scream for conformity on all fronts so that the world will become a better place.
It's happened before.
My parent's generation endured the Great Depression, and then WW 2. They were ultimately frightened people. If you read the stories of how Alan Shepherd and John Glenn were lionized after their Mercury flights you'd see the depths of fear that fed their adoration.
But then...their kids said basically 'WTF is up w/ that?' Starting in the mid-late 60's against Vietnam, in the 50's Civil Rights began, and on and on.
(Please don't think I'm bragging, K? You have NOOO idea how obnoxious we became in the 80's)
These munchkins- and their profs w/their useless post-modern grievance degrees who remain moronically ignorant of human nature- will eventually have kids of their own.
Who will, as kids are wont to do, rebel.
(I also suspect that there's an enormous cohort of these elite college munchkins who despise what's going on at their overpriced degree mills...wait'll those kids grow a pair of balls).
I'm not sure, but looking at the profiles that you gave us of admins doing this work in your article, Mike...I got a hankering suspicion that all of the grievance studies profs are realizing that there's no real future in what they're doing and it pisses them off.
These controls they're installing in higher ed can be interpreted as flailing by a culture that is coming to terms w/ its own irrelevance in the real world. I mean, after all, food's gotta be harvested, and no, the military is incapable of running a tomato field or an abattoir. (Thanks for the observation Blair Davis!)
Jim M great post.
Ignore sevender.
I hope you’re right, it may be the tide is turning, maybe people are becoming aware of the ridiculous nature of the victim culture and they are as you say flailing, desperate in the last throws of this weird phenomenon. They are so far adrift it is absurd the lengths they go!
If you think the Greatest Generation was driven by fear, you are a deeply fucked up individual.
The fact that the greatest generation sacrificed and united patriotically doesn't negate the trauma caused them by the great depression. My grandparents, who raised my parents during the depression, always worried about their security. They were very reluctant to take chances. People talk about safetyism today. Those folks were the original adherents. Again, you cant underestimate the personal emotion shock trauma that the collapse of the economy caused
Except for that part about fighting World War II and leading the Civil Rights movement and going to the moon and stuff. Oh and also expecting their children to get off their asses and go bike through the woods while they were busy.
Yeah, they were frightened. They lived through uncertainty, upheaval, war, and hardship. Thing is, they had no choice but to overcome it and they understood that. Living through the times they did made them resilient and gave them perspective. In the end they became rather fearless because they had already been through so much. Then we ended up with the Boomers, but that is another story.
Whatever, dude.
Please... you need to STF up, K? Every word you type is only serving to display how little you know. (And BION, I was kind the way I put that)
I’m not here to help you cope with irritability from your dying balls. Run along and make angry pigeon chested gestures into your mirror without bothering anybody or I’ll tell the nurse you need another hard enema. Shoo!
You should apologize.
No biggie, man, it's the internet, y'know? LOL
How about you watch your mouth, kid.
Brave typing.
Please elucidate me on your knowledge & experience of the 'Greatest Generation' then. (Oh... and if we met IRL, I'd give you the same caution about your yap)
So, you to sense the Collapse that is coming? 15,000 migrants under a Del Rio bridge is more proof of a dying Empire. The Oligarchy wants it all and AOC (etc.) is letting them have it. In fact, just giving it to them.
A collapse? I go back and forth on that possibility; I just can't land on a yes/no answer yet.
Here's what I do know: a LOT of ppl are making a LOT of $ keeping the US population at each other's throat. On one side is Rachel Maddow, and on the other is Glen Beck or whoever is on the cover of 'Hate Inc' (Sean Hannity maybe?). (I don't think Carlson's as bad as Maddow or the other guy b/c he DOES bring opposing viewpoints on his show (Greenwald/Dore for example)
However...the trust in MSM is at an all time low and continues to drop. For example I read the NY Times daily, but w/the same attitude as if I'm reading the National Enquirer- skeptical right out of the gate. I don't have cable. I get 'news' from RT and Breaking Points and subscribe to Mike/Greenwald/Taibbi/Useful Idiots here on substack and also read Stoeller. When their stuff drops, I snooze the emails until Sunday Mornings.
I kinda make up my own 'Time' or 'Newsweek' I guess?
My point is that 'the media' has much, much less influence on daily American life nowadays.
BUT there is a true schism in the USA. And it's b/t the college educated (30% of the pop) and the non degree. That's always been there (used to be in the 20% range for college, but what the hell- grievance studies really don't count for me, y'know?)
The working people USED to have unions (for good or ill) who made the case for them w/the powerful, and that's no longer the case.
There's an enormous percentage of the US population aching for genuine leadership. They were fooled 2x by Sanders et al. I think the storm that's coming will be the rise of a viable new party. This video introduces you to a brilliant historian, and his website's great: https://youtu.be/XUJr651-E8U
The party that starts at a grass roots level (city/statewide) will grow phenomenally. I think there's some interesting stuff happening right now in Rhode Island. If that sticks and succeeeds... uh-oh for the current parties that are in power.
Given all you've written here, I find it hard to understand how you can't believe in Collapse.
We have been lied to
about so much
for so long
by so many
we can no longer believe anything.
Thus people turn to their "guru" (or their "god") and allow shysters direct their thoughts. They are "right" and everyone else is "wrong". There are examples of this all around the world. Democrats vs Republicans is probably the one you might be most familiar with. Neither party cares about you or me. I've finally recognized that voting is a complete waste of my time.
I dunno ... "leadership oversight" sounds awfully oxymoronic, don't you think?
This has got to make some of these students want to transfer to a school in a big time football conference so they can get drunk with 100,000 of their closest friends every Saturday and engage in maskless "fuck Joe Biden" chants. I wonder why everyone at those schools hasn't dropped dead already.
If I wasn't being sarcastic I don't know how I could bear this crap. I'm 64 and vaccinated in San Diego county. Since I was vaxed I havent worn a mask anywhere I wasnt required to - which has only been in medical offices and my mother's care facility. I know I, unlike college age folks, am in a higher risk group (I am in general good health and fit). All evidence is that if I now get Covid the case will be mild. I have no intention of living in fear, and giving up my life to ridiculous nanny state restrictions.
Especially for those in college there are things WORSE than Covid. Such as those loss of freedom and liberty. The one student in the Zoom session who worried about freshman transferring out hit the nail on the head. Not every school is doing this crap. Transferring, or doing college online at much lower cost, makes a lot of sense. If enough vote with their feet these admins will see the light.
So right. I'm on the other end of the political spectrum from FDR, but he was basically right when he said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It's intoxicating for many people. I could see that after 9/11.
After reading this it’s clear blue America is, and will continue to be, the centre of Covid crazy. And yes — that includes Australia.
Here is the simple reason why this continues at these (lets face it) mostly white colleges. Because 95% (at least) of the parents AND students do NOTHING about it. They DO comply. If just 20% said, fuck it, Im dropping out, Connecticut College would go bankrupt. But they don't. They, therefore, ALLOW for this to happen. And that's why this will never change.
How the hell did all these humanities graduates becomes epidemiological experts anyway?
This is the leftist, control freak mindset in places like NYC, LA, SF, and practically all campuses. Give me a conservative area any day of the week. We are already looking to move. Hell, the people in Northern ID already have a mantra 'only the slaves wear the mask'.
And their hospitals were full of Covid patients.
Track it yourself.
https://data.sctimes.com/covid-19-hospital-capacity/idaho/16/
I love reading your stuff on CC Michael. The CC Dean needs the continued pressure, or he will go even more off the rails.