How are we getting through it?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Ohio has less than 50% vaccination rate. The city of Toledo has ordered all city employees to wear masks indoors again, and to do so if travelling together in the same vehicle.

Listening to R4 on the way home - late night news . Ran a report from I think Louisiana - in a church...The peps interviewed all said that the jab was aganist the will of god. That's what the US authorities are up against fortuneatly the uk has very few like that.

[FierceKitty]

If you're a believer and have actually read the Bible, the opinion is defensible. Ridiculous, but credo qvia impossibile est.

[Orcs]

If you're a believer and have actually read the Bible, the opinion is defensible. Ridiculous, but credo qvia impossibile est.

Its still  a very dubious (I am being polite here) take on things.

Fundamentalist Believers (of most if not all faiths) generally thank God for his provision of most things. _E.G Believers pray or say grace before a meal  to thank God for the food on the table. They do not refuse to eat because the food was produced using machinery - They would say "God helped us build the machinery"

So surely  People have used their God given intellect to produce  the vaccine to help keep you alive. Therefore in the believers case the vaccine is God given. So how could they  refuse it.

As far as I am aware the vaccine contains nothing that is forbidden in any of the mainstream religions of the world.

[FierceKitty]

I'm not supporting them at any level.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

If you're a believer and have actually read the Bible, the opinion is defensible. Ridiculous, but credo qvia impossibile est.

Alexander you can prove any opinion with the old testament - and it is full of contrdictions.

[FierceKitty]

The New too. I had a Catholic friend once who was much troubled by the way you can't really combine faith and hope (if you believe it, hope doesn't make sense, and if you hope for it, where's the certainty of faith?).

I'll keep to my own credo - cats, nookie, harpsichord music, espresso, and try to leave room for other people to live their own lives too, except fantasy gamers.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Me likewise similar if slightly different.

[Westmarcher]

Recently returned from a short break down in Ingerlund and wrote a review on one of the hotels we stayed at (Holiday Inn, Riverlights, Derby).

First attempt barred for "inappropriate language." 

So I deleted a competitor's name (Hilton by Doubleday) and replaced this with "another hotel chain" - and the review was successfully submitted!   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Mask wearing seems to have ceased round here on public transport. Just the odd few peps seen with them.

[toxicpixie]

Pretty much over and done with here, not just on the bus (actually might be fine on the bus for all I know, I never use them!) but shops, pubs, offices etc etc seem to have abandoned it.

[Westmarcher]

I would guess mask wearing has certainly diminished in Derby and York (still in force indoors in Scotland and I don't really know what it was like in England before this easement) but saw hotels and many shops and pubs still politely requesting people to wear masks and a number of peeps (including my wife and I) did so.

[I assume my "inappropriate language" post wasn't funny then ....    Well, our break was good anyway in helping to "get through it."   ]

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

[I assume my "inappropriate language" post wasn't funny then ....    Well, our break was good anyway in helping to "get through it."   ]

Don't call us we won't call you 

[steve_holmes_11]

Its still  a very dubious (I am being polite here) take on things.

Fundamentalist Believers (of most if not all faiths) generally thank God for his provision of most things. _E.G Believers pray or say grace before a meal  to thank God for the food on the table. They do not refuse to eat because the food was produced using machinery - They would say "God helped us build the machinery"

So surely  People have used their God given intellect to produce  the vaccine to help keep you alive. Therefore in the believers case the vaccine is God given. So how could they  refuse it.

As far as I am aware the vaccine contains nothing that is forbidden in any of the mainstream religions of the world.

Funnily enough; Pharmaceutical companies (or Big Pharma for the tinfoil hat crowd) are quite alert to taboo ingredients in their products.

As for fundamentalists: History shows that their favourite pastime involves inflicting their commandments on others.

[Poggle]

The State of Illinois mandates wearing masks inside public places. My wife and I were at the Archon SF/Fantasy convention in Collinsville Il  this weekend and I'd say masks were worn 99% of the time, and when they weren't it was where people could be socially distanced. It's the only time I can recall NOT suffering from 'Con Crud' after I got home so I guess the masks work.

By contrast Missouri across the river is a Covid hell hole. I talked to many people who were glad Archon wasn't hosted there.

[toxicpixie]

Good stuff Poggle! People not breathing in each other's faces and actually washing sanitising hands?! Who'd a thnuked that would help...

Westmarcher, there's no laugh response