I had always thought of it as protection from the elements. Wind, sun. Pandemic?
Yes. Now, that's a reasonable explanation for why it's still worn. As far as being protection from a pandemic, there was a devastating 6th Century A.D. plague that began in Egypt and was still a danger decades later, when Muhammad founded the religion of Islam.
There are many many people in the United States who actually look up to the Leader of the country, in this case, djt, as the "authority figure" and indeed, the 60 year old man in question who died from ingesting this drug, obviously, did not call his doctor first, because he BELIEVED everything djt said or says.
That is the sad part. As I said, there are many like him. You may consider him "silly" but I 'm sure his family doesn't. One thing we can agree on however, he believed literally in what trump said, and now he's DEAD. i.e. "he ain't comin' back" I'm sure that was not his intent to kill himself nor was his wife's intent.
Ref:
It is both dangerous and extremely irresponsible of Trump to do what he did and continues to do. Calling people "silly" does not change this fact. Nor calling anyone names.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
"The perfect dictatorship will look like democracy, a prison without walls where prisoners never dream of escaping. A system of slavery where, thanks to consumption and fun, slaves will love their slavery."
Purported excerpt from a letter from Huxley to Orwell
"FREE YOUR MIND!" Morpheus
Or, it's like in the movie "Matrix", and the A.I. running the program has decided that we need a change of pace.
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
"The perfect dictatorship will look like democracy, a prison without walls where prisoners never dream of escaping. A system of slavery where, thanks to consumption and fun, slaves will love their slavery."
Purported excerpt from a letter from Huxley to Orwell
"FREE YOUR MIND!" Morpheus
He took this photo at Saint Samaan, the Tanner Monastery in Mokktam.
Many Egyptian Christians expressed their sadness on how they were not allowed to pray in their churches and as Muslim, I feel them. The Mosques are all closed, we do not hear the Adhan and Ramadan will commence at the end of the month.
I totally relate to this sadness but this is for the greater good.
Happy Palm Sunday to all those celebrating on Sunday according to the Orthodox Church and Happy Easter to all those celebrating it as well in the West.
This time shall pass inshallah.
You know, they had these in our English schooling curriculum.
Brave New World - Huxley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuUviwo5W-A
Animal Farm - Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXkicQRl6vg
1984 - Orwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rBDUJTnNU
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvlZtlBfCi0
Soylent Green - 1973 Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jGOKYHxaQ
And yet, with our minds being prepared by the curriculum, we still willingly believe that they are looking out for our well being. We do not think for ourselves. We blindly do as we are told. Those that don't are bullied and shamed by the believers.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" Goethe
Appleo: Do you know what I learned? How stupid people actually are. They just eat whatever is on social media – buying into all the nonsense and creating mass hysteria.
I agree. It is not just the social media, it is the media, and our governments feeding the frenzy.
AppLeo: Thanks a lot, Jupiter, for making this relatively manageable Saturn-Pluto conjunction utterly destructive.You know masks don't help. They create a false sense of security. Do you know social isolation is the last thing you want to implement in a pandemic? It's epidemiology 101.
I am thinking we will all have to wear masks soon to go in all shopping facilities. Shopping is strange. You can feel and sense the feelings from the surrounding shoppers. We are lining up outside with an 8' space between us to get in. A security guard with two click counters attends the door. I am doing shopping for the elderly and shut ins. Only one door is open for exit and one for entry.
AppLeo: All these restrictions and limitations, not to mention completely stupid, but for some old people. OLD PEOPLE. People in their 70s! People who are going to live what, maybe another 2-3 years at most??? So what if the virus kills them. They are just as likely to die from the actual flu, or a heart attack or respiratory distress.
I really like old people. My shut in are in their 80's. While I don't agree with what is going on, because I have looked at the statistics from 2000 to now in Canada, the USA, the UK, and Europe and the flu has always been a danger to people that are aged, and that have respiratory issues, and the weak of the young.
Unlike you, it would seem, I do care about the old people.
AppLeo: We do not sacrifice the young to the old. That is just backwards nonsense. I hate old people. They created a garbage world. This postmodern shithole. Climate change and pollution. Wars. A pathetic education system. And now, they want me to put my life on hold?
You are confusing old people with people of power. Do you really think that what your Generation will be duped with, that you and your Generation should be held responsible for? The money people will do what they do. The old people, they were not responsible for the above statements. They just did, like you will do to survive in their time.
Direct your anger appropriately.
AppLeo: Our destruction of the economy has put the world back in more ways than you can imagine. We lost 2 trillion dollars! So much productivity and progress GONE. Never to be seen again. Because of some virus...
Well, to be honest, paying $6.00 for a loaf of good bread, isn't really a good economy. And the money numbers, really don't matter, it is Monopoly money. A correction had to be made. Minimum wage at $20 per hour is not a sustainable reality. How much do you want to pay for food? If people that pick apples make $20 an hour the apples will cost at least $5 per apple. Is that what you would like to see? Is this what your Generation would prefer to be know as being responsible for?
AppLeo: The aftermath will be mental chaos. Suicide and mental illness will skyrocket when our already atomized and fragmented society becomes even more so.
Yes, the weak and destitute will die. We are extremely overpopulated on Earth. Oh well.
AppLeo: Meanwhile, Capricorn elites are rushing to grab more power and money while people willingly give up their freedoms. No anger. No rebellion. No nothing. Just a blind acceptance.
There is a lot of anger. The rest I agree with.
AppLeo: All these idiots who prefer security over their freedom. What is life if you aren't free? You're already dead. DEAD. You ******* zombie.
Freedom is not a word that ever should have been coined. It is a falsehood. No one is free. One persons freedom is an infringement on another. The price of "Freedom" is very high.
I answered this rashly yesterday. I would like to clarify.
I agree, the world is in rough shape. Being extremely overpopulated, extremely polluted and diseased, and run by people that the blame goes to the little guys. Do you really think that the old people are responsible for this?
Are you responsible for what is happening now?
Apps, this pandemic isn't restricted to the elderly, it's attacking anyone with a weakened immune system.
I do think the hyped-up fear and hysteria is ridiculous though, and that masks shouldn't be mandatory.