Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World.

[Mindful]

It is not in the absurdity of the world external that you need to place your focus. . . but the crus is where you consciously choose to place your consciousness on the Aesthetic.

Not focusing, but noticing.

 

[StormAl]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

650 a day are still dying, we have new variants, many people are still being stupid about not being vaxxed, and we have to listen to their nonsense.

 

[MisterBeale]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

650 a day are still dying, we have new variants, many people are still being stupid about not being vaxxed, and we have to listen to their nonsense.

This is a matter of definitions by the various authorities and jurisdictions. If it were not Covid? It would be the flu, or pnemonia.

 

[Mindful]

Mr. Beale :

Maybe individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. As Albert Camus stated.

 

[MisterBeale]

Mr. Beale :

Maybe individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. As Albert Camus stated.

Why? If they do, it leads to only hopelessness, depression, anxiety, and despondency.

Humans were not created for such a fate.

Only by realizing the deep and meaningful connection to the absurdity can they fully realize their potential.

 

[petro]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

650 a day are still dying, we have new variants, many people are still being stupid about not being vaxxed, and we have to listen to their nonsense.

So can you explain blacks hesitancy to get the vaccine or does that interfere with your broadbrushing that conservatives are the only ones refusing?

 

[petro]

Mr. Beale :

Maybe individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. As Albert Camus stated.

I still want an explanation for the toilet paper panic.
Like WTF?

 

[Mindful]

Why? If they do, it leads to only hopelessness, depression, anxiety, and despondency.

Not necessarily.

I could go on. Perhaps better not.

 

[Mindful]

Mr. Beale :

Maybe individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. As Albert Camus stated.

I still want an explanation for the toilet paper panic.
Like WTF?

Now that’s absurd.

 

[MisterBeale]

Why? If they do, it leads to only hopelessness, depression, anxiety, and despondency.

Not necessarily.

I could go on. Perhaps better not.

 

[StormAl]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

650 a day are still dying, we have new variants, many people are still being stupid about not being vaxxed, and we have to listen to their nonsense.

This is a matter of definitions by the various authorities and jurisdictions. If it were not Covid? It would be the flu, or pnemonia.

Nope. They don't kill like this, in these numbers, as a pandemic.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

650 a day are still dying, we have new variants, many people are still being stupid about not being vaxxed, and we have to listen to their nonsense.

Uh...no.
The media and politicians are contributing - BY FAR - to people not getting vaxxed than anti-vaxxers. It isn't even close.
When you tell people that you still need to wear masks, still shouldn't eat indoors at restaurants etc. - you are essentially telling them the vaccine is useless. When the media/politicians use fear mongering about new variants and start questioning will the vaccine work, bring in some person no one knows saying "it may not work against those" - again, you are telling people the vaccine is useless.

As Rand Paul said to the "advice chameleon" Fauci - "if you want to encourage people to get a vaccine, you should take off your mask and burn it on live TV saying you don't need it anymore because you are vaccinated" - still walking around with two mask on, even though you are fully vaccinated, sends the wrong message.

 

[Mindful]

As Rand Paul said to the "advice chameleon" Fauci - "if you want to encourage people to get a vaccine, you should take off your mask and burn it on live TV saying you don't need it anymore because you are vaccinated" - still walking around with two mask on, even though you are fully vaccinated, sends the wrong message

Now that is Kafkaesque.

 

[evenflow1969]

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens with this absurdist line which eerily resonates with the times we have come to live in – filled with utter confusion, anxiety and a profound sense of meaninglessness. Over the last few months, we have consistently woken up to the news of death and devastation caused by a deadly, contagious virus which has managed to wreak havoc across the length and breadth of the globe.

Life, in all the ways we have known it, has come to what seems like an interminable standstill. Employment, education, trade, commerce and economic activities of various kinds have not had to face this magnitude of uncertainty at any point in the recent past. Our everyday lives are irrefutably intertwined with thoughts of potential sickness, misery and death.

Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World

What if you woke up as an insect? Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a reminder how the reality of today is grossly absurd.

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I know it has been a rough year for most. My parents got the covid early in the pandemic and I and my family were pretty concerned for a while and I was forced to be their primary care giver during that period as I was self employed and was the only one capable. After they recovered though my life went pretty much back to normal. I had no trouble filling boats. Tips were down but I was running a couple of charters per day and doing what I loved so life was good. The only other area it effected was I had to piss in alit of ditches when I traveled because public restrooms were closed. Hopefully we turn the corner here and things become more normal this summer.

 

[evenflow1969]

Mr. Beale :

Maybe individuals should embrace the absurd condition of human existence. As Albert Camus stated.

I still want an explanation for the toilet paper panic.
Like WTF?

Now that’s absurd.

Accept and embrace. What will happen will happen. Life is a gift then you die. Don't waist time worrying about it. I don't spend much time worrying, I just enjoy what I got.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Accept and embrace. What will happen will happen. Life is a gift then you die. Don't waist time worrying about it. I don't spend much time worrying, I just enjoy what I got.

A truly great person I knew, who worked for me for 8 years before he passed from throat cancer - Dave Greischer. Fantastic human being.
This guy knew how to live one's life with what they had. He took time out everyday to enjoy small things. Our company sits at the edge of a woods, year round everyday at lunch tine he would walk around the grounds near the woods. Pick a flower and give it to a woman in the office, bring a funny looking stick or whatever else he found. When he died, his "funeral" was at his home. People were gathered in a large circle. Folks took turns telling a story, or whatever they wanted to. Many people there were neighbors. Jesus Christ, one after another people told stories about how Dave helped them with their garden, flower beds... mowed their yards when someone was ill.
TRUE STORY... this man even talked down a gunman that went nuts and shot up the neighborhood he lived in. The man busted in their house and held a gun on Dave and his wife. Dave talked the man into letting his wife go, and then talked the man into surrendering before the police had even arrived.
That is what I want to do. Be that guy. The one who finds ways to be satisfied and happy with what they have, and not fret about what they don't.

 

[evenflow1969]

Accept and embrace. What will happen will happen. Life is a gift then you die. Don't waist time worrying about it. I don't spend much time worrying, I just enjoy what I got.

A truly great person I knew, who worked for me for 8 years before he passed from throat cancer - Dave Greischer. Fantastic human being.
This guy knew how to live one's life with what they had. He took time out everyday to enjoy small things. Our company sits at the edge of a woods, year round everyday at lunch tine he would walk around the grounds near the woods. Pick a flower and give it to a woman in the office, bring a funny looking stick or whatever else he found. When he died, his "funeral" was at his home. People were gathered in a large circle. Folks took turns telling a story, or whatever they wanted to. Many people there were neighbors. Jesus Christ, one after another people told stories about how Dave helped them with their garden, flower beds... mowed their yards when someone was ill.
TRUE STORY... this man even talked down a gunman that went nuts and shot up the neighborhood he lived in. The man busted in their house and held a gun on Dave and his wife. Dave talked the man into letting his wife go, and then talked the man into surrendering before the police had even arrived.
That is what I want to do. Be that guy. The one who finds ways to be satisfied and happy with what they have, and not fret about what they don't.

Your blessings are many if you take the time to notice them. I am alot like that guy. I don't worry much. I am but a phone call away to a friend and I like to laugh and make people laugh. I had a girlfriend once tell.me I am so laid back there are times she was not even sure I was there. It helps that I find almost complete serenity on the water. So I spend most my time there.

 

[badger2]

We’ve addressed mask wearing and hypoxia on the Biological Politics thread. Increased CO2 intake caused by masks links to hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1). Both COVID-19 and fentanyl increase expression of the HIF-1 gene pathway. There is no doubt that both the drug and the virus were causing hypoxia in George Floyd’s brain before Chauvin‘s knee touched Floyd’s neck.