You need to wear an N95 MASK. NO OTHER MASKS ARE ALLOWED, only the N95 MASK. You have to bring your OWN N95 MASK. We will NOT supply one. Our staff will be on-site to ENFORCE N95 MASK POLICIES. GAMES WILL BE STOPPED IF YOU'RE NOT WEARING YOUR MASKS RIGHT. If you keep not wearing them right we'll JUST CANCEL THE WHOLE THING. There are going to be FORMALIZED RULES, OK? You must HAVE AND WEAR your N95 MASK while playing. THIS IS NOT HARD PEOPLE. THESE ARE EASY TO GET. You can even find them online. There’s NO EXCUSE not to have one and IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN N95 MASK you WON'T be permitted to participate. This is for YOUR SAFETY.
Exactly , they push the boundaries to what we consider acceptable and before we know it we’ve slid into a very deep hole . These are young impressionable individuals who are taught to uphold new norms in order to participate in the society they are a part of . I remember university as something completely different to this .
I normally detest sports, but this sounds like it could be interesting. A random performance-robbing implement added to the players, like restrictor plate racing for NASCAR, only with much greater restriction. Will there be players passing out from hypoxia, like that old man solo-driving in his car with a restrictor... erm, N95 on his face did?
I hope it does not lead to increased morbidity from the clot shots. There's nothing amusing about that.
NO ONE WILL PASS OUT FROM PLAYING CARDIO-INTENSIVE ATHLETICS IN A MASK. That is misinformation, reportable to the authorities. Anyone who does pass out will have passed out due to entirely different reasons, and if anyone suspects mask-wearing as the cause, THEY WILL CANCEL THE WHOLE LEAGUE. Do not take pictures of players who pass out. Leave the court, go outside, and wait for emergency personnel to remove the passed-out player's mask. Do not discuss the incident(s) with other players. DO NOT REMOVE YOUR MASKS OUTSIDE OR THEY WILL CANCEL THE ENTIRE LEAGUE. Thank you. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
"Reportable to the authorities"? What isn't? Oh, you mean authorities like Fauci? You are mandating medical gear. Are the N95 masks fitted? Do you insist they be no more than 2 hours old? Do you forbid anyone from touching them? Do you make sure everyone washes their hands when they go #2? Are you in a sterile environment? Then they are useless. They cause 300 known health problems, all of which are "reportable to the authorities".
First class satire. Even though I knew it was satire, I felt anxious and my heartrate went up considerably just reading your "instructions." Gad, life is alarming these days...too dang real...
...I see you are being sarcastic, so I have edited my comment. There are plenty of people who cannot wear such a mask, even without exertion. Do you know that one of the primary triggers of seizures in epileptics is hyperventilation and oxygen reduction? Do you know that wearing almost any mask can reduce your oxygen uptake below the standard allowed by OSHA? I can't even wear one of those stupid, non-effective cloth masks...as it could kill me.
Not specified in the letter about the leagues and required masks. I'm guessing that the university policy is that students must be vaccinated, and probably boosted.
I have a rule for myself that I don't swear, or call people names, online. But it's getting harder and harder to restrain myself. Yeah, let's definitely give all the young healthy people clot-shots, a high risk of myocarditis, and nano graphene hydroxide to slice up their blood vessels when they get their heart rates up and blood flowing fast during vigorous exercise...and the coup de grace will be the CO2-concentrating N95 masks. It's not enough to have professional and champion amateur athletes dropping dead on the playing fields. Let's kill the college kids, too.
Did you see the video of the kids cheering when told they didn't have to strap snot rags to their faces for a third straight year because fugly women are frightened by sniffles?
Courtesy of mumbin’ Joe, you can pick up your free N95 off the table (or floor) of your favorite pharmacy. Plenty available on previously empty grocery store shelves as well. Due your duty comrades! This is science!
This is what I don’t understand. At my very liberal arts alma mater, known for protests and sit ins, not a single student has resisted these incredible measures. They have to be boosted, wear masks and sometimes be confined to their rooms. They think it’s noble and a part of a “community of care”. It’s frightening.
One theory is that dissent, for the left, was never really individually-reasoned dissent. It was collective action, then, and collective mass obedience now, with collective rage for those who don't go along. The hornet colony doesn't have any free agents, or systematic theology -- just mindless solidarity.
I have always been viewed suspiciously by the left despite thinking that's where my politics was. I wonder if it is in fact a club. A little like Antifa.
Why is that hard to understand? They're all leftists and the entire pandemic is a global leftist project designed to regain the lost ground following the collapse of the USSR.
This is their tribe, and those are their tribal rituals.
People who don't have any faith in God will put their faith in any authority figure. This replaces God in their minds. It is craziness because it is shot through with consistency. They believe in evolution but somehow our natural immune system is not enough to fend off a virus.
These students have been skillfully and effectively propagandized. Now they are like cult members. Do you live near the college? Can you reach any of the students? Like have two of them over for dinner and a relaxed evening of talking and watching a video or two? You could acknowledge their lovely intentions in participating in the "community of care" but encourage them to broaden their perspective. I'm thinking of three things:
1. A talk given by Tom Woods at Mises Institute in July 2020 (about 50 miutes). The title is a bit jolting -- "The Fact-Free Lockdown Hysteria" -- but Woods's talk is wise and rich in humor, and ends on a poignant note with a plea from an elderly person for the young to "Live their lives" instead of sacrificing themselves unnecessarily in a futile effort to protect old folks from a virus.
Using official statistics displayed as graphs, Cummins shows that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing have no impact on COVID-19.
3. A little pocket-size book by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century"
You could read your young guests page 17, the one-paragraph introduction to the first lesson, which is "Do not obey in advance." Then give each young person a copy of the book to take home and read (it costs $10 per copy) and invite them to come back in a week to have dinner with you again and talk about the twenty lessons. At that second dinner and discussion, you could encourage them to broaden their sources of news -- perhaps just subscribe to the Children's Health Defense email newsletter; read the headlines and an article or two?
This small beginning might blossom into ongoing discussions that could help de-program a good number of young people and break the spell at the college. Maybe you know another alumnus, or other well-educated adult, who'd like to join you in this project?
that was my first thought, too. Are they so desparate to play a game? ridiculous. At thought Arizonans were smarter than that. But I thought that about a lot of other people too
After a year of maskless, I notice that stores here in the deep south are obviously requesting their employees to mask up again. I try to avoid masked cashiers but sometimes I can't. Now I will drive over to the next town, where the store never asked anyone to mask up.
I was just commenting yesterday to a family member that these employees are enabling the Covidians by giving in to the arbitrary mask orders.
I am not talking about people in positions that took years of work to get into... I mean people working for wages in largely unskilled positions. I do not denigrate them, as I have been in that position, and it's honest (though not well-paying) work. But still, if I were a cashier at a grocery store or a drive-thru order taker at McDonald's, and they asked me to mask, they'd get my notice instead. I will not comply. There are jobs for unskilled where no masks are required around here. If McDonald's and such can't get enough workers who will diaper up, they will have to change their policy, or at the very least make it worth the while of the remaining ones to keep remaining.
This pandemic will never go away by complying. No, the pandemic is not COVID... that's merely the excuse. The pandemic is tyranny, still in a nascent but rapidly growing form. Choose not to comply while choice still exists!
The "woke" admins don't count as Arizonans, and as for the participants, if there are any, they're young and indoctrinated. I'd bet most of the people on campus think this is patently stupid.
Do we know for sure that students are signing up for this nonsense? Maybe there will be resistance. For sure some people who sign up will quit once they discover how fun it is to play with an N95 on.
Outside, where there has never been any evidence that it is possible to catch or spread COVID, a disease that (even in its most dangerous strains) poses no threat to elementary school kids, and where the dominant strain now is the sniffles.
When my daughter was just learning to talk we played a game where I would say "you put your shoes on your...". And she would say "feet". You put your hat on your..."head". This kinda seems like the same game, but the only question is "mask" and the only answer is "face". Over and over. But instead of playing this game with 3 year olds, they're playing it with young adults who are paying $30k per year for the privilege of never being able to be functioning members of society. I hope you're stuffing money into that college fund for your little face. It will be money well spent!
You are the dumbest human being who ever existed on Earth. I hope you choke versus anyone dumb enough to play with a sock shoved in their mouth to protect old, sickly, fat people.
As a resident and an alumnus of Arizona State University I'm also disgusted. This is why ASU was always the butt of jokes on so many sitcoms. I assure you I will be contacting department heads and administrators regarding this. The salutation for my emails will be - "You dim-witted imbecilic morons,"
I think this manifests malfeasance. I think this is the word, the concept, the legal crime we need in consciousness right now.
Malfeasance has been and is being practiced everywhere. Every where.
People in public office all over the place doing insane things.
And getting away with it because it is not exactly criminal.
We don't find it in the criminal code that mandating this and mandating that are exactly criminal.
Especially when States of Emergency are declared which specifically allow for untrammeled power.
But there is something that's been overlooked.
A prior consideration.
On taking the Oath of Office virtually all of these people swear to do their utmost to perform their office in the purest interests of the relevant public.
And it goes without saying that means using all tools to hand and using reason, logic, common sense and on and on and on - all the things they don't use.
Like consultation. Like evidence.
So simply on their past performance alone, the figures on what's happened during their term, and quite often their tacking and changing about, it's evident they have not had the interests of their people at heart at all and certainly have not done what was best for them.
They are, technically, Malfeasants. And Malfeasance is a crime.
On the highest level with the most prestigious positions it is a crime potentially after the nature of treason. As we can clearly see in these covid days when irrational mandates, insane behaviour, malfeasance, by these people is literally crippling a nation, bankrupting a nation and destroying democracy. What could be more treasonous than that?
Sweeping the road and you do a bad job we simply sack you. No big deal.
You swore no oath of office. You just took the job.
Captain of an aircraft or a ship you assume greater responsibility and make greater commitments and are held to greater account.
And we move 'up' the chain assuming ever greater powers and taking ever greater remunerations and interfering in people's lives in ever greater ways and making ever more pompous 'oaths of office'.
And the more pompous, ceremonious and elaborate the oaths of office and their setting the more the risks of Malfeasance. The greater the responsibilities you've undertaken. The bigger the promises you have made. The wider your responsibilities for proper behaviour.
But everything is upside down. Now we sack a doctor or a nurse for saying 'you could try Ivermectin' but we do nothing to Malfeasance of the highest possible order that has led to - and no one, either side of the fence doubts or challenges this - unnecessary and avoidable deaths by the thousand.
Lots of instances. Find you own. State Governors. Fauci. Mandating procedures that kill. Preventing treatment. Crowding sick in aged care. On and on and on...
The last two years have been nothing else but this. Nothing. Nothing else. That's what we've been looking at.
A raging epidemic of simple malfeasance.
And no one knows what to do about it. Well, we can recognise it and call it out, call them out.
And so many people still believe it was all for the Greater Good. It is sad to see comments in newspapers, where people still side with the malfeasants. How they scold the protestors, the ones that refuse the experimental shots, the ones that plead for the lives of their loved ones in hospitals refusing the meds they require. Where is humanity gone to?
I think perhaps we've just for the first time seen what (our section of ) humanity is actually like - when it's caught flat footed by the world's greatest ever pandemic of malfeasance.
And it's very saddening often, and infuriating, aggravating, unbelievable even but they were caught unprepared, they were subject to a monolithic propaganda campaign (remember little corners like this are miniscule, they never see them, they don't see/follow the data and debates we see/follw) and they have nearly always acted in accord to two predominant desire, neither of which we can really quarrel with: (1) protection of self and family and (2) believe in their own elected governments and need to abide by law and be part of the collective whole.
This doesn't mean they will perform this same way ever again. They'll never again be so naive. They'll never again be without precedent. It doesn't mean this is 'who they ARE'.
It's who they WERE when that happened.
They will be different and better in the future I'd expect. :)
This is a beautiful essay and I hope you can find places to publish it. Perhaps do a little research -- I think grand juries could be called to investigate malfeasance at the level of U.S. counties...At the end, suggest a step or two beyond "calling them out."
Rainer Fuelmilch and his group are conducting a court of the people right now At least some of the crooks will be sentenced I hope. I am not sure how such court of the people works
Imagine if no one went to watch and no one watched online. Imagine if, instead, we all just went to a local park and played basketball and other games without a diaper on our face. Just imagine...
that's what that awful race of primitives used to do - what did they call them - humans? nicer purer place now they're banished.... must go, have to take a shot... put on my protective clothing, fill out the forms...
I'm a staff member at ASU, and find this frankly mystifying in the context of the university's other policies. The mask policy for campus buildings in general is "face coverings" of any type "strongly encouraged", with basically no enforcement. Who knew that playing basketball made one uniquely susceptible to COVID infections?
To be fair, I've long suspected that the administration would prefer much more draconian restrictions, but has largely had its hands tied by our governor. This may be some sort of loophole that the bureaucrats were able to exploit.
Well....you know, you breathe harder during exercise. These masks will make sure none of those little buggers will get out and infect everybody. Of course, you will over heat, and probably not be able to breathe well, but, hey, you're getting to play basketball, what more could you want?
Some people, including some kids, just LOVE this -- the masks, the shots, social distancing, they love all the devotions. But the mask thing has gotten kind of stale after almost two years, so wearing a special N95 mask is a way to freshen it up. It's like ascending to a new level. I won't be surprised if the league fills right up.
Ok. I may be the only one on here that is an Alumni from ASU. In fact when I saw ASU in the title I assumed it was typo. ASU was slipping into lunacy even in 1981 when I graduated. Its something to do with the relentless sunshine, so I am told. Being a true Arizona Native, I am skeptical. Rather it was due to the large influx of out of state students (think: California). ASU's in-state tuition was very low. So the out of staters would flood in and try and establish in-state status quickly. It was a cottage industry for lawyers to actually assist these 'illegal' immigrants become in-state. We were one of the first universities to have Blue Jeans Day. What's that you ask? It is a day to celebrate and affirm sodomy. That's right. Everyone was encouraged to wear blue jeans on that day to support the sodomites. I think it started around 1979 if memory serves. Of course everyone on campus wore blue jeans every day back then, so this really turned into Kahki Day for obvious reasons. But ASU was on the front lines of normalizing madness. ASU also was featured in Playboy Magazine as part of a university edition. Why? Because one of the larger dorms was known for being a free-sex dorm "Sin City". It was near the Engineering Building. So I parked by Sin City every day. Since Engineering students back then were celibate :-), we could only wonder at what was happening all-day every-day there. So a mask-league doesn't surprise me. It is pretty tame by ASU standards.
Given the amount of fetal material used in testing drugs, and I suspect processed foods, it may already be taking place. But the ASU Cafateria saved me a bunch of money when I was there, and Thursday all-you-can eat Steak Night was the time we did our Chemistry Lab reports!
I honestly thought it was a joke when I first read it, but I should have known better. Mask-y people have no sense of humor. Nor do they realize how ridiculous they sound to sane people.
My conspiracy theory is that he wants to bring on the new aids epidemic Fauci is angling for. And/or decimate the neighborhoods that 'just said "NO"' to his shot.
[cough cough] I felt the same way when I read it. No shame in wanting to watch a dumpster fire of nutjobs wackos and pathetic mindless [non-engineering] university students. To steal a title: a bonfire of the vanities!
Someone should ask the organizers whether they've considered the possibility that at least one person will lose consciousness during a game, sustain a head or other injury and sue them.
It’s downright bizarre how fast KN95 masks became the new shibboleth. Almost makes you think the Covidiots are receiving coordinated messages from HQ via nano-transmitters that self-assembled in their bodies after they were vaxxed. Oh wait ...
(I am not committed one way or the other on the whole “nanotech in the vaxxes” thing, but the weird structures found in the vials by multiple scientists worldwide need explaining. I have enough professional knowledge about nanotech to be of the opinion that what they’re talking about is, in fact, technically possible.)
ASU is still requiring masks in classes as well. My niece said the teachers stop class to ask students to properly wear their masks. The teachers that don’t really want to enforce it have to because of the student snitches that report them. At least there is a reduction in students wearing them outside. Nothing like walking around campus in 110 heat with the sweaty face mask. There are a couple of bills in legislation to make it option any place that receives state funds. Other places in AZ that require masks are doctor offices and tribal land (casinos). Lots of signs and announcement in stores in the Phoenix area to mask up and it being required if you are unvaccinated but there is no enforcement.
It is frightening to think about the level of insanity people have stooped to! Eye-opening, too! I am afraid we have stood back and let this happen for many years.
You need to wear an N95 MASK. NO OTHER MASKS ARE ALLOWED, only the N95 MASK. You have to bring your OWN N95 MASK. We will NOT supply one. Our staff will be on-site to ENFORCE N95 MASK POLICIES. GAMES WILL BE STOPPED IF YOU'RE NOT WEARING YOUR MASKS RIGHT. If you keep not wearing them right we'll JUST CANCEL THE WHOLE THING. There are going to be FORMALIZED RULES, OK? You must HAVE AND WEAR your N95 MASK while playing. THIS IS NOT HARD PEOPLE. THESE ARE EASY TO GET. You can even find them online. There’s NO EXCUSE not to have one and IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN N95 MASK you WON'T be permitted to participate. This is for YOUR SAFETY.
It's hard to tell if this is an invitation for a basketball game or a psychological experiment.
Both.
Exactly , they push the boundaries to what we consider acceptable and before we know it we’ve slid into a very deep hole . These are young impressionable individuals who are taught to uphold new norms in order to participate in the society they are a part of . I remember university as something completely different to this .
I normally detest sports, but this sounds like it could be interesting. A random performance-robbing implement added to the players, like restrictor plate racing for NASCAR, only with much greater restriction. Will there be players passing out from hypoxia, like that old man solo-driving in his car with a restrictor... erm, N95 on his face did?
I hope it does not lead to increased morbidity from the clot shots. There's nothing amusing about that.
NO ONE WILL PASS OUT FROM PLAYING CARDIO-INTENSIVE ATHLETICS IN A MASK. That is misinformation, reportable to the authorities. Anyone who does pass out will have passed out due to entirely different reasons, and if anyone suspects mask-wearing as the cause, THEY WILL CANCEL THE WHOLE LEAGUE. Do not take pictures of players who pass out. Leave the court, go outside, and wait for emergency personnel to remove the passed-out player's mask. Do not discuss the incident(s) with other players. DO NOT REMOVE YOUR MASKS OUTSIDE OR THEY WILL CANCEL THE ENTIRE LEAGUE. Thank you. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
So nothing to see, but don't take pictures. And don't take a mask off the victim outside. I guess that's to ensure he doesn't survive and talk.
"Reportable to the authorities"? What isn't? Oh, you mean authorities like Fauci? You are mandating medical gear. Are the N95 masks fitted? Do you insist they be no more than 2 hours old? Do you forbid anyone from touching them? Do you make sure everyone washes their hands when they go #2? Are you in a sterile environment? Then they are useless. They cause 300 known health problems, all of which are "reportable to the authorities".
Satire
First class satire. Even though I knew it was satire, I felt anxious and my heartrate went up considerably just reading your "instructions." Gad, life is alarming these days...too dang real...
Nicely put. (Although I expect some won't have their Irony/Sarcasm Detectors switched on)
The irony/sarcasm detectors have been dulled by two years of clowns in seats of authority.
...I see you are being sarcastic, so I have edited my comment. There are plenty of people who cannot wear such a mask, even without exertion. Do you know that one of the primary triggers of seizures in epileptics is hyperventilation and oxygen reduction? Do you know that wearing almost any mask can reduce your oxygen uptake below the standard allowed by OSHA? I can't even wear one of those stupid, non-effective cloth masks...as it could kill me.
Are these N95-attired contestants also clot-shot?
Not specified in the letter about the leagues and required masks. I'm guessing that the university policy is that students must be vaccinated, and probably boosted.
Or a request to "i've had enough, just kill me now"
🙌
Yes
Or a joke
It’s a little like swimming with a weight around your neck….but it’s good for you.
N be grateful we're letting u have recess!
I have a rule for myself that I don't swear, or call people names, online. But it's getting harder and harder to restrain myself. Yeah, let's definitely give all the young healthy people clot-shots, a high risk of myocarditis, and nano graphene hydroxide to slice up their blood vessels when they get their heart rates up and blood flowing fast during vigorous exercise...and the coup de grace will be the CO2-concentrating N95 masks. It's not enough to have professional and champion amateur athletes dropping dead on the playing fields. Let's kill the college kids, too.
Did you see the video of the kids cheering when told they didn't have to strap snot rags to their faces for a third straight year because fugly women are frightened by sniffles?
Courtesy of mumbin’ Joe, you can pick up your free N95 off the table (or floor) of your favorite pharmacy. Plenty available on previously empty grocery store shelves as well. Due your duty comrades! This is science!
Over night crack became safer than Ivermectin 🤡🌎
Why are they trying to kill their students?
It's like the hunger games for these people 🙄
Suffocation Games.
So they can promote a new virus with more shots. More lockdown, etc.
This is what I don’t understand. At my very liberal arts alma mater, known for protests and sit ins, not a single student has resisted these incredible measures. They have to be boosted, wear masks and sometimes be confined to their rooms. They think it’s noble and a part of a “community of care”. It’s frightening.
One theory is that dissent, for the left, was never really individually-reasoned dissent. It was collective action, then, and collective mass obedience now, with collective rage for those who don't go along. The hornet colony doesn't have any free agents, or systematic theology -- just mindless solidarity.
I have always been viewed suspiciously by the left despite thinking that's where my politics was. I wonder if it is in fact a club. A little like Antifa.
Why is that hard to understand? They're all leftists and the entire pandemic is a global leftist project designed to regain the lost ground following the collapse of the USSR.
This is their tribe, and those are their tribal rituals.
People who don't have any faith in God will put their faith in any authority figure. This replaces God in their minds. It is craziness because it is shot through with consistency. They believe in evolution but somehow our natural immune system is not enough to fend off a virus.
These students have been skillfully and effectively propagandized. Now they are like cult members. Do you live near the college? Can you reach any of the students? Like have two of them over for dinner and a relaxed evening of talking and watching a video or two? You could acknowledge their lovely intentions in participating in the "community of care" but encourage them to broaden their perspective. I'm thinking of three things:
1. A talk given by Tom Woods at Mises Institute in July 2020 (about 50 miutes). The title is a bit jolting -- "The Fact-Free Lockdown Hysteria" -- but Woods's talk is wise and rich in humor, and ends on a poignant note with a plea from an elderly person for the young to "Live their lives" instead of sacrificing themselves unnecessarily in a futile effort to protect old folks from a virus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RDffMCAujg
2. A video by Ivor Cummins (engineer with expertise in heart disease) --
"Viral Issue Crucial Update: Some of the Science, Logic, and Data -- Sept 8, 2020" (37 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhGch0C6hE&t=695s
Using official statistics displayed as graphs, Cummins shows that lockdowns, masks, and social distancing have no impact on COVID-19.
3. A little pocket-size book by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder: "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century"
You could read your young guests page 17, the one-paragraph introduction to the first lesson, which is "Do not obey in advance." Then give each young person a copy of the book to take home and read (it costs $10 per copy) and invite them to come back in a week to have dinner with you again and talk about the twenty lessons. At that second dinner and discussion, you could encourage them to broaden their sources of news -- perhaps just subscribe to the Children's Health Defense email newsletter; read the headlines and an article or two?
This small beginning might blossom into ongoing discussions that could help de-program a good number of young people and break the spell at the college. Maybe you know another alumnus, or other well-educated adult, who'd like to join you in this project?
that was my first thought, too. Are they so desparate to play a game? ridiculous. At thought Arizonans were smarter than that. But I thought that about a lot of other people too
Meanwhile in Illinois high school kids are walking out of school protesting wearing of masks. Is college just for the stupid now?
After a year of maskless, I notice that stores here in the deep south are obviously requesting their employees to mask up again. I try to avoid masked cashiers but sometimes I can't. Now I will drive over to the next town, where the store never asked anyone to mask up.
I was just commenting yesterday to a family member that these employees are enabling the Covidians by giving in to the arbitrary mask orders.
I am not talking about people in positions that took years of work to get into... I mean people working for wages in largely unskilled positions. I do not denigrate them, as I have been in that position, and it's honest (though not well-paying) work. But still, if I were a cashier at a grocery store or a drive-thru order taker at McDonald's, and they asked me to mask, they'd get my notice instead. I will not comply. There are jobs for unskilled where no masks are required around here. If McDonald's and such can't get enough workers who will diaper up, they will have to change their policy, or at the very least make it worth the while of the remaining ones to keep remaining.
This pandemic will never go away by complying. No, the pandemic is not COVID... that's merely the excuse. The pandemic is tyranny, still in a nascent but rapidly growing form. Choose not to comply while choice still exists!
The "woke" admins don't count as Arizonans, and as for the participants, if there are any, they're young and indoctrinated. I'd bet most of the people on campus think this is patently stupid.
Do we know for sure that students are signing up for this nonsense? Maybe there will be resistance. For sure some people who sign up will quit once they discover how fun it is to play with an N95 on.
Outside, where there has never been any evidence that it is possible to catch or spread COVID, a disease that (even in its most dangerous strains) poses no threat to elementary school kids, and where the dominant strain now is the sniffles.
it is beyond belief, that people prefer to get these poisonous ingredients shot into their bodies for so much as a cold
There edumacation. Duh
When my daughter was just learning to talk we played a game where I would say "you put your shoes on your...". And she would say "feet". You put your hat on your..."head". This kinda seems like the same game, but the only question is "mask" and the only answer is "face". Over and over. But instead of playing this game with 3 year olds, they're playing it with young adults who are paying $30k per year for the privilege of never being able to be functioning members of society. I hope you're stuffing money into that college fund for your little face. It will be money well spent!
Like Simon says game
So it is safer to deprive yourself of oxygen and instead substitute CO2?
You are the dumbest human being who ever existed on Earth. I hope you choke versus anyone dumb enough to play with a sock shoved in their mouth to protect old, sickly, fat people.
Um, he was being sarcastic/satirical. Or are you attempting satire in return?
I stand corrected and apply it to the author then.
and thank us!
As a resident of Arizona, this is fucking disgusting.
As a resident and an alumnus of Arizona State University I'm also disgusted. This is why ASU was always the butt of jokes on so many sitcoms. I assure you I will be contacting department heads and administrators regarding this. The salutation for my emails will be - "You dim-witted imbecilic morons,"
I think this manifests malfeasance. I think this is the word, the concept, the legal crime we need in consciousness right now.
Malfeasance has been and is being practiced everywhere. Every where.
People in public office all over the place doing insane things.
And getting away with it because it is not exactly criminal.
We don't find it in the criminal code that mandating this and mandating that are exactly criminal.
Especially when States of Emergency are declared which specifically allow for untrammeled power.
But there is something that's been overlooked.
A prior consideration.
On taking the Oath of Office virtually all of these people swear to do their utmost to perform their office in the purest interests of the relevant public.
And it goes without saying that means using all tools to hand and using reason, logic, common sense and on and on and on - all the things they don't use.
Like consultation. Like evidence.
So simply on their past performance alone, the figures on what's happened during their term, and quite often their tacking and changing about, it's evident they have not had the interests of their people at heart at all and certainly have not done what was best for them.
They are, technically, Malfeasants. And Malfeasance is a crime.
On the highest level with the most prestigious positions it is a crime potentially after the nature of treason. As we can clearly see in these covid days when irrational mandates, insane behaviour, malfeasance, by these people is literally crippling a nation, bankrupting a nation and destroying democracy. What could be more treasonous than that?
Sweeping the road and you do a bad job we simply sack you. No big deal.
You swore no oath of office. You just took the job.
Captain of an aircraft or a ship you assume greater responsibility and make greater commitments and are held to greater account.
And we move 'up' the chain assuming ever greater powers and taking ever greater remunerations and interfering in people's lives in ever greater ways and making ever more pompous 'oaths of office'.
And the more pompous, ceremonious and elaborate the oaths of office and their setting the more the risks of Malfeasance. The greater the responsibilities you've undertaken. The bigger the promises you have made. The wider your responsibilities for proper behaviour.
But everything is upside down. Now we sack a doctor or a nurse for saying 'you could try Ivermectin' but we do nothing to Malfeasance of the highest possible order that has led to - and no one, either side of the fence doubts or challenges this - unnecessary and avoidable deaths by the thousand.
Lots of instances. Find you own. State Governors. Fauci. Mandating procedures that kill. Preventing treatment. Crowding sick in aged care. On and on and on...
The last two years have been nothing else but this. Nothing. Nothing else. That's what we've been looking at.
A raging epidemic of simple malfeasance.
And no one knows what to do about it. Well, we can recognise it and call it out, call them out.
And so many people still believe it was all for the Greater Good. It is sad to see comments in newspapers, where people still side with the malfeasants. How they scold the protestors, the ones that refuse the experimental shots, the ones that plead for the lives of their loved ones in hospitals refusing the meds they require. Where is humanity gone to?
I think perhaps we've just for the first time seen what (our section of ) humanity is actually like - when it's caught flat footed by the world's greatest ever pandemic of malfeasance.
And it's very saddening often, and infuriating, aggravating, unbelievable even but they were caught unprepared, they were subject to a monolithic propaganda campaign (remember little corners like this are miniscule, they never see them, they don't see/follow the data and debates we see/follw) and they have nearly always acted in accord to two predominant desire, neither of which we can really quarrel with: (1) protection of self and family and (2) believe in their own elected governments and need to abide by law and be part of the collective whole.
This doesn't mean they will perform this same way ever again. They'll never again be so naive. They'll never again be without precedent. It doesn't mean this is 'who they ARE'.
It's who they WERE when that happened.
They will be different and better in the future I'd expect. :)
This is a beautiful essay and I hope you can find places to publish it. Perhaps do a little research -- I think grand juries could be called to investigate malfeasance at the level of U.S. counties...At the end, suggest a step or two beyond "calling them out."
Rainer Fuelmilch and his group are conducting a court of the people right now At least some of the crooks will be sentenced I hope. I am not sure how such court of the people works
Imagine if no one went to watch and no one watched online. Imagine if, instead, we all just went to a local park and played basketball and other games without a diaper on our face. Just imagine...
that's what that awful race of primitives used to do - what did they call them - humans? nicer purer place now they're banished.... must go, have to take a shot... put on my protective clothing, fill out the forms...
There are smart Arizonans, I knew it !
I'm a staff member at ASU, and find this frankly mystifying in the context of the university's other policies. The mask policy for campus buildings in general is "face coverings" of any type "strongly encouraged", with basically no enforcement. Who knew that playing basketball made one uniquely susceptible to COVID infections?
To be fair, I've long suspected that the administration would prefer much more draconian restrictions, but has largely had its hands tied by our governor. This may be some sort of loophole that the bureaucrats were able to exploit.
Well....you know, you breathe harder during exercise. These masks will make sure none of those little buggers will get out and infect everybody. Of course, you will over heat, and probably not be able to breathe well, but, hey, you're getting to play basketball, what more could you want?
and if any cardiac-related collapses should occur, OF COURSE that will be due to the overheating ...
Well, of course! What else could it be?
haha sorry I had not yet read your excellent question
has anyone died ? or has anyone of them had heart problems ? I am sure they were all jabbed.
Some people, including some kids, just LOVE this -- the masks, the shots, social distancing, they love all the devotions. But the mask thing has gotten kind of stale after almost two years, so wearing a special N95 mask is a way to freshen it up. It's like ascending to a new level. I won't be surprised if the league fills right up.
That's pretty sad.
N95 + playing basketball + 3x vax... the heart failure combo meal
Supersized! Like their hearts.
You are both so wrong, but I am still laughing.
😁 I love to bring sunshine to someone's day!
I thought I had seen the entirety of pandemic absurdity
I was wrong
The sad thing is, they will get players...
Also, holy crap the universities need to be dismantled right to the cobblestones. Institutes of insanity...
Endowments more critical.
Expect increased myocarditis events...............
Ok. I may be the only one on here that is an Alumni from ASU. In fact when I saw ASU in the title I assumed it was typo. ASU was slipping into lunacy even in 1981 when I graduated. Its something to do with the relentless sunshine, so I am told. Being a true Arizona Native, I am skeptical. Rather it was due to the large influx of out of state students (think: California). ASU's in-state tuition was very low. So the out of staters would flood in and try and establish in-state status quickly. It was a cottage industry for lawyers to actually assist these 'illegal' immigrants become in-state. We were one of the first universities to have Blue Jeans Day. What's that you ask? It is a day to celebrate and affirm sodomy. That's right. Everyone was encouraged to wear blue jeans on that day to support the sodomites. I think it started around 1979 if memory serves. Of course everyone on campus wore blue jeans every day back then, so this really turned into Kahki Day for obvious reasons. But ASU was on the front lines of normalizing madness. ASU also was featured in Playboy Magazine as part of a university edition. Why? Because one of the larger dorms was known for being a free-sex dorm "Sin City". It was near the Engineering Building. So I parked by Sin City every day. Since Engineering students back then were celibate :-), we could only wonder at what was happening all-day every-day there. So a mask-league doesn't surprise me. It is pretty tame by ASU standards.
It's just a matter of time before aborted fetuses appear on the cafeteria menu.
Given the amount of fetal material used in testing drugs, and I suspect processed foods, it may already be taking place. But the ASU Cafateria saved me a bunch of money when I was there, and Thursday all-you-can eat Steak Night was the time we did our Chemistry Lab reports!
Argh cannibalism?
Isn't it crazy how basketball is safe in Texas and Florida but dangerous in Arizona?
At least they aren't out in the rain, waterboarding themselves with the masks like the kids out in the NW rain.
It’s not Arizona. It’s the universities.
Well then change that to "Weird how basketball is safe anywhere but the colleges" ;)
I honestly thought it was a joke when I first read it, but I should have known better. Mask-y people have no sense of humor. Nor do they realize how ridiculous they sound to sane people.
Yes, I thought so too! Great Babylon Bee material, but unfortunately, would be Not Babylon Bee.
Many headlines are sounding like Babylon Bee material, for example: Biden Administration Allocates $30 million for Crack Pipe Distribution.
Seriously?!
I can’t even fathom what the reasoning is behind that one.
My conspiracy theory is that he wants to bring on the new aids epidemic Fauci is angling for. And/or decimate the neighborhoods that 'just said "NO"' to his shot.
He keeps losing his, so he's setting in a supply. 😉
Phew! At least it’s not about impacting anyone else’s health, then!
There was a funny Babylon Bee about how satire can't stay ahead of reality. It explains how the progressive mind will go to illogical extremes.
Covid is a virus that mainly effects cognitive function. Once it gets hold of a victim, it turns the brain to mush. Call it Biden Syndrome.
I actually think it’s the killshot. Don’t know if you’ve heard but there’s proof that it cause neurological damage. Here is one paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xDjKJ0VIlgvJKAQN4qaOJDMLEu8798iA/view?usp=drivesdk
Does the ball have to be masked as well?
it is sufficient to tape the valve.
And for the players to socially distance from it?
lol!!
"These people sound totally sane and reasonable."
It's the humour and sarcasm that gets me every time. Well done!
🤣
Wow. Queue basketball players dropping of oxygen deprivation in 3...2...1...
In a weird way I find myself wanting to watch this. Is that wrong?
[cough cough] I felt the same way when I read it. No shame in wanting to watch a dumpster fire of nutjobs wackos and pathetic mindless [non-engineering] university students. To steal a title: a bonfire of the vanities!
Only if they are also doing standup comedy. Falling down gets applause I hear
What about a N100 mask? It might do a better job? Nope dem da rules
Someone should ask the organizers whether they've considered the possibility that at least one person will lose consciousness during a game, sustain a head or other injury and sue them.
It’s downright bizarre how fast KN95 masks became the new shibboleth. Almost makes you think the Covidiots are receiving coordinated messages from HQ via nano-transmitters that self-assembled in their bodies after they were vaxxed. Oh wait ...
(I am not committed one way or the other on the whole “nanotech in the vaxxes” thing, but the weird structures found in the vials by multiple scientists worldwide need explaining. I have enough professional knowledge about nanotech to be of the opinion that what they’re talking about is, in fact, technically possible.)
This has got to be a sick joke! 🙏🙏 I thought Arizona had done with their restrictions -or are the unis and colleges hanging on for $$$???!!
my informant reports that the student gym remains one of the last outlets for hygiene harassment there.
ASU is still requiring masks in classes as well. My niece said the teachers stop class to ask students to properly wear their masks. The teachers that don’t really want to enforce it have to because of the student snitches that report them. At least there is a reduction in students wearing them outside. Nothing like walking around campus in 110 heat with the sweaty face mask. There are a couple of bills in legislation to make it option any place that receives state funds. Other places in AZ that require masks are doctor offices and tribal land (casinos). Lots of signs and announcement in stores in the Phoenix area to mask up and it being required if you are unvaccinated but there is no enforcement.
Sorry to hear this-lots of work to be done undoing the propaganda!
It is frightening to think about the level of insanity people have stooped to! Eye-opening, too! I am afraid we have stood back and let this happen for many years.