My favorite experience so far with the bat flu zaniness was last year walking into a Catholic chapel trying to find some holy water but I kid you not! - only to find a gallon jug of hand sanitizer plopped into a free-standing holy water font. On a wall nearby was the traditional wall niche for holy water: bone dry. I gazed up at the one religious piece of art on the walls, a Virgin of Guadalupe painting, and asked her if holy water was no longer "the thing" for Catholic churches. At least I then knew what the Branch Covidians used for holy water. I took a photo of the jug as proof for the day no one will believe what I saw.
l'm very ecumenical and try to look for the best in people. My best experiences in this whole fiasco besides finding almost a half dozen people in my life unjabbed were (1) going to an evangelical protestant church for a lecture when my county was still mandating masks indoors to see no one indoors wearing a mask in a group of over 1,000 people and (2) exiting a church after a 2020 midnight Christmas Eve vigil to find the priest who never wore a mask indoors was at the door outside still unmasked and ready to shake anyone's bare hand with his bare hand, the first skin-to-skin handshake I'd had with a stranger in 9 months - steeled me good for getting kicked out of a family Christmas dinner the next day for being unwilling to disclose by jab status. Yay me and my new pal, the unclean leper in the New Testament!
I believe the PTSB Committed Covidians have fried their brains from a lack of enough oxygen by masking way too much plus have weakened their neural pathways for the love hormone oxytocin which is activated quickest with skin to skin contact. Add jab blood clots and other nasty side effects like addiction to dopamine hits from virtue signaling or being stuck with fear or flight adrenaline junky behavior and here we are. It's like dealing with drug addicts. As others have written in this thread they have to want to change. Until then, I give them and all hand sanitizer containers at building entrances a wide berth and pass out mentally a lot of Darwin Awards.
A big warm hug to all of you for the always welcome laughs.
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l'm very ecumenical and try to look for the best in people. My best experiences in this whole fiasco besides finding almost a half dozen people in my life unjabbed were (1) going to an evangelical protestant church for a lecture when my county was still mandating masks indoors to see no one indoors wearing a mask in a group of over 1,000 people and (2) exiting a church after a 2020 midnight Christmas Eve vigil to find the priest who never wore a mask indoors was at the door outside still unmasked and ready to shake anyone's bare hand with his bare hand, the first skin-to-skin handshake I'd had with a stranger in 9 months - steeled me good for getting kicked out of a family Christmas dinner the next day for being unwilling to disclose by jab status. Yay me and my new pal, the unclean leper in the New Testament!
I believe the PTSB Committed Covidians have fried their brains from a lack of enough oxygen by masking way too much plus have weakened their neural pathways for the love hormone oxytocin which is activated quickest with skin to skin contact. Add jab blood clots and other nasty side effects like addiction to dopamine hits from virtue signaling or being stuck with fear or flight adrenaline junky behavior and here we are. It's like dealing with drug addicts. As others have written in this thread they have to want to change. Until then, I give them and all hand sanitizer containers at building entrances a wide berth and pass out mentally a lot of Darwin Awards.
A big warm hug to all of you for the always welcome laughs.