Much to the chagrin of many thousands of internet commenters, I’ve never thought that COVID, at least in the first instance, was any sort of concerted conspiracy or plot. It seemed doubtful that global health bureaucrats — or whichever other co-conspirators are alleged to have been involved in hatching the scheme — could be so ruthlessly competent at doing much of anything.
I'm in the bad neighborhood school. I'd love for this college admin to come to my place - no white students, 70% (at best) mask compliance, and on top of that we had a huge fight down the hall during 7th pd. today. Let's just say not everyone fights while wearing a mask. Hey connecticut college dean guy, come here and set these black teens straight - I double dog dare you. We need dean whats his face to come in and run his nonsense here.... he'd last 15 minutes maybe.
Only coddled white liberals go for $70,000 per year masktardery and get their jollies out of screaming COVID!!! all the time. I wonder what would happen if you asked the midwit university guy "how are there even cases if everyone is vaccinated - does it mean the vaccines don't work? I thought they were 'safe and effective(TM)'"
I love working in the crappy school. I'd rather be here where we have our own brand of dysfunction, but it sure as hell isn't this white wealthy liberal goblin progressive sheeple dumpster fire.
The obsession with masks by people strung out on their own sense of power is not coincidental. In light of the science (as opposed to The Science discussed so earnestly on lawn signs) suggesting masks really are not very useful in curtailing the spread of the virus, mask wearing is really now more a matter of compliance theater. The mask, if not so useful against the virus, is extremely valuable in identifying and punishing dissent.
"Never let a crisis go to waste!" - way too many people
I have a quick question for anyone who might remember. Did the Terror Alert Level at any time drop to Guarded or Low? I cannot remember anything lower than yellow and I suspect it never did.
I love this piece. OMG. I especially love the part about the "honor code" where they twist it to mean you have to snitch on people for minor infractions in order to get brownie points from the establishment. They sure are preparing them for life in the establishment cesspool. I can imagine their future as bureaucrats who rat out their fellow colleagues for minor infractions in order to get ahead while allowing their bosses actual evil shit to go unreported. We're watching in real time how a future go along to get along personality is formed.
Your piece also gave me great hope watching the anti-establishment students recognize the real problem and speak out. These are our future whistleblowers. Just imagine what a better world it would be if we would stop rewarding the snitches of the world when they first display this type of creepy behavior. Maybe we would have a better shot at having a more honorable world instead of what we have.
For fucks sake kids, quit. You’ll be paying the entire rest of your lives for this. Just read the books. Find another school if you must. Just get up and fucking leave.
In the alternative, stage an unmasked sit in at the dean’s house after you cuff him. Stay door weeks. Make him pee in squirts and count each squirt out loud or loose peeing privileges. Have some fun.
Reminds me of Harry Potter when Dolores Umbridge anoints herself High Inquisitor and turns Hogwarts into what's essentially a prison for students. Sounds like this college is doing the same thing. Fun!
And here is my thinking on that: if you are STILL sending your kid to that school, you're a dummy and deserve the mistreatment and psuedo-science you get in life.
These kids are restricted to a greater degree than they would be in an actual maximum security prison. And if classes and even extra-curriculars are being done by video, why on earth don't they just close the campus and send students home?
To state the obvious: It is difficult to opt-out of Australia (unless you have resources); it is quite easy to opt-out of Connecticut College. Why are the students still there? Just leave. Come back when it's over or go to another college. Although this is beyond disgusting, I certainly don't feel the same kind of sympathy for these students as I do for Australians. If all the students left, it would send quite a message.
Also, the $70k a year thing, I dont know how great that school is. (Ive never heard of it. My daughter goes to Colgate, tuition free due to aid) but my guess is only families earning well over $150k a year are paying anywhere NEAR that. The fact that students are still going there is mind boggling after two years of this nonsense.
Good lord, do I ever loathe the language of these whiner ultimatum lists -- "demands", "will accept nothing less", etc. It very much activates a "you'll get nothing and like it" response from me. Oh, they're *demands*, are they? Really? GTFOH.
It seems to me that no one being willing to provide these crusading mini-authoritarians with the reality check they so desperately deserve is the root of the problem. It's the utter cowardice of the adults in the room -- and their failure to actually *be* the adults in the room -- that allows all this to continue. Is anyone ever going to tell these young people things they don't want to hear? Because it seems like corporate America is doing a pretty piss-poor job of it too.
Why are parents and students paying for this nonsense? If you want to go to jail, there are much cheaper ways of doing it.
I'm in the bad neighborhood school. I'd love for this college admin to come to my place - no white students, 70% (at best) mask compliance, and on top of that we had a huge fight down the hall during 7th pd. today. Let's just say not everyone fights while wearing a mask. Hey connecticut college dean guy, come here and set these black teens straight - I double dog dare you. We need dean whats his face to come in and run his nonsense here.... he'd last 15 minutes maybe.
Only coddled white liberals go for $70,000 per year masktardery and get their jollies out of screaming COVID!!! all the time. I wonder what would happen if you asked the midwit university guy "how are there even cases if everyone is vaccinated - does it mean the vaccines don't work? I thought they were 'safe and effective(TM)'"
I love working in the crappy school. I'd rather be here where we have our own brand of dysfunction, but it sure as hell isn't this white wealthy liberal goblin progressive sheeple dumpster fire.
The obsession with masks by people strung out on their own sense of power is not coincidental. In light of the science (as opposed to The Science discussed so earnestly on lawn signs) suggesting masks really are not very useful in curtailing the spread of the virus, mask wearing is really now more a matter of compliance theater. The mask, if not so useful against the virus, is extremely valuable in identifying and punishing dissent.
"Never let a crisis go to waste!" - way too many people
I have a quick question for anyone who might remember. Did the Terror Alert Level at any time drop to Guarded or Low? I cannot remember anything lower than yellow and I suspect it never did.
I love this piece. OMG. I especially love the part about the "honor code" where they twist it to mean you have to snitch on people for minor infractions in order to get brownie points from the establishment. They sure are preparing them for life in the establishment cesspool. I can imagine their future as bureaucrats who rat out their fellow colleagues for minor infractions in order to get ahead while allowing their bosses actual evil shit to go unreported. We're watching in real time how a future go along to get along personality is formed.
Your piece also gave me great hope watching the anti-establishment students recognize the real problem and speak out. These are our future whistleblowers. Just imagine what a better world it would be if we would stop rewarding the snitches of the world when they first display this type of creepy behavior. Maybe we would have a better shot at having a more honorable world instead of what we have.
For fucks sake kids, quit. You’ll be paying the entire rest of your lives for this. Just read the books. Find another school if you must. Just get up and fucking leave.
In the alternative, stage an unmasked sit in at the dean’s house after you cuff him. Stay door weeks. Make him pee in squirts and count each squirt out loud or loose peeing privileges. Have some fun.
Reminds me of Harry Potter when Dolores Umbridge anoints herself High Inquisitor and turns Hogwarts into what's essentially a prison for students. Sounds like this college is doing the same thing. Fun!
And here is my thinking on that: if you are STILL sending your kid to that school, you're a dummy and deserve the mistreatment and psuedo-science you get in life.
These kids are restricted to a greater degree than they would be in an actual maximum security prison. And if classes and even extra-curriculars are being done by video, why on earth don't they just close the campus and send students home?
To state the obvious: It is difficult to opt-out of Australia (unless you have resources); it is quite easy to opt-out of Connecticut College. Why are the students still there? Just leave. Come back when it's over or go to another college. Although this is beyond disgusting, I certainly don't feel the same kind of sympathy for these students as I do for Australians. If all the students left, it would send quite a message.
There appears no awareness by the authorities of the false-positive issue with PCR testing—the primary method used in Covid testing.
"Signed with great disappointment:" ... Doug Niedermeyer and Greg Marmalard
Also, the $70k a year thing, I dont know how great that school is. (Ive never heard of it. My daughter goes to Colgate, tuition free due to aid) but my guess is only families earning well over $150k a year are paying anywhere NEAR that. The fact that students are still going there is mind boggling after two years of this nonsense.
Zoom classes for $70k a year! 😆 I suppose the only thing these students can do is remain there and take it in a$$. 🤷🏽♂️
Sadly, what happens on campus doesn’t stay on campus. This is a test run.
Good lord, do I ever loathe the language of these whiner ultimatum lists -- "demands", "will accept nothing less", etc. It very much activates a "you'll get nothing and like it" response from me. Oh, they're *demands*, are they? Really? GTFOH.
It seems to me that no one being willing to provide these crusading mini-authoritarians with the reality check they so desperately deserve is the root of the problem. It's the utter cowardice of the adults in the room -- and their failure to actually *be* the adults in the room -- that allows all this to continue. Is anyone ever going to tell these young people things they don't want to hear? Because it seems like corporate America is doing a pretty piss-poor job of it too.