It was recently pointed out to me that I had used a cheesy Irish pop band’s album title to name my refrigerator, so I decided it would be okay to use an old 1960’s movie title for today’s post. I am fast approaching the one year anniversary in this new wilderness I call home, and my timing was quite lucky indeed. I am not referring to the recent influx of humans or the recent insane elevation in property valuations but more so what is going on in the real world that most of you live in.
I take great care to avoid much of what is happening out there, and I am not one to often spout a particular stance, but, my friends, the times they are a-changing. It has recently been suggested in the main stream press, simply for a personal, moral, health-based life decision I have chosen to make, that I should be banned from concerts, schools, shops, hospitals, and even grocery stores. It has been suggested that, simply for this personal decision I made, I am “killing people“, I am risking children and the future of humanity itself. I am now selfish, ‘less intelligent’, so says our leader, and the very reason the pandemic still exists. Yesterday I saw footage of a man polling the public in which the majority concurred with his satirical premise that those who feel as do I should be arrested, jailed, and stripped of their freedoms. In what world is that normal think?
I am curious why the me-too movement fell silent in regards to one owning their body. I am curious where the abortion activists (my body, my decision) have gone. I am curious where the HIPPA activists have gone. I am curious where those that oppose medical records being stored in public clouds have gone. I am curious why, a man at my age, fitness level and overall well being should subject himself to an experiment in which he chose not to be part of. It is a mass hysteria forming. A mad, mad, mad, mad world indeed.
To state that one should be denied access to food, clothing and medical care for a personal decision on what they choose to put into their own body?
Do you sense the absurdity in the previous sentence?