I made a video about it, but here's the entire exchange if you'd prefer to read it yourself...
Hello,
Woke is a compliment not a disparagement. Since I am type 2 diabetic, I can only attend conventions that wear masks and people get vaccinations.
Wow, a lot to unpack here! Where to begin?
Assuming this isn't a joke/troll, here goes...
1) Woke has a whole range of meaning besides mask + vax. It's radical-leftism and the political weaponization of consideration for others. For me, woke is a disparagement because I'm against cultural fads that have appeared in the last 5 minutes of human civilization (men and women being interchangeable), rather than objective facts that have been proven true over thousands of years.
2) The CDC's latest guidelines, and the country's own anecdotal analysis, has determined that both masks and vaccinations are more or less ineffective when it comes to covid-19.
3) With type 2 diabetes, your best defense is going to be diet and exercise. One way or another, you're going to get covid. I'd be very much surprised if you haven't had it already. And if you have, then chances are good (99.8%) that you won't need to be hospitalized or die from it.
4) The first VENGER CON from a couple weeks ago had an outbreak/spread of zero covid (and monkeypox), unlike GENCON. Yes, I know GENCON has several orders of magnitude greater attendance than my little convention, but it goes to show that 27 people in close proximity for an entire weekend without masks and questionable vaccination/booster status posed LESS risk of getting or spreading covid than a convention that pride's itself on masks, vaccinations, boosters, etc.
5) Besides standing out like a sore thumb, diminished vocalizations, and not being able to emote with your face, you can wear a mask at VENGER CON. I'm not going to rip the mask off your face. You can also vaccinate and booster yourself up the wazzo, but I'm not going to be the vax, booster, mask police for those who aren't interested.
Have a good weekend,
VS
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p.s. The fact that Dragon's Foot forum locked the VENGER CON II thread because it "leans into politics" is both hilarious and pathetically distressing for those who love old-school, OSR, and traditional RPGs. Your hobby is being stripped of its awesomeness right before your eyes, hoss. Wake up!
Bravo, Venger! Whoever wrote that small message to you is beyond pathetic. In that person's mind, their voluntary victim-hood is a virtue. Quite literally, the more they view themselves as "suffering," then the more self-righteous they believe they are.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine what this person would do if someone suggested that placing one's thumb up one's rectum would block covid. If so, we'd see videos and pictures of thousands of greasy, overweight, neck-beards and green-haired, nose-ringed pear-shaped feminists walking around looking sanctimonious with one hand down their pants.
These people deserve to be mocked.
You conjured an awfully descriptive image, hoss. Damn you! Put your tentacled God-given talent towards Game Mastering. ;)
DeleteIf masks and vaxx's worked the way they were said to by the government/media complex, you wouldn't care if anyone else was doing it. Woke=unthinking acceptance and promotion of the Agenda's narrative.
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be nice to live in an agenda-free country? We can have that again, reclaim it; fight extremism on both sides... but at the moment, 90% of the extremism is coming from the far-left. So, that's where our work takes us.
DeleteWell said and very diplomatic. It's hard to tell nowadays whether someone is being serious or just baiting you into a response to later use against you.
ReplyDeleteCha'alt!
Yes, it is. I believe that's the sign of things coming to, or just passing, a threshold. Won't be long now... woke will be on the run!
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