Carl D wrote on Nov 17
th, 2023 at 2:33pm:
aquascoot wrote on Nov 17
th, 2023 at 1:58pm:
you and gweg however, by your own words
"care only for myself and my family'
You can include me in that as well.
As I've said many times before - if the majority of the population cannot even do something as simple as wear a mask in crowded places to protect the elderly and vulnerable during an ongoing pandemic caused by a dangerous Level 3 Biohazard virus then they can all go to h3ll as far as I am concerned.
It's not like they're being asked to donate a kidney or a lung but you'd think that was the case with the way most of them carry on about their FREEDUMB!
And, as I've also said many times - governments, big business and the media are just as much to blame for this situation by deliberately 'selling' masks and other Covid containment measures as
restrictions rather than
protections. That's the thing, action, reaction.
For nearly 20 years I'd given blood, done meals on wheels, was a member of various community groups, donated thousand and thousands to various community groups and charities, joined the mud army twice and I tried to instil the sense of community I felt into my kids. Our eldest wanted to join us on during the last flood in the mud army, so we let him.
I chose to ignore all the selfish people around me, the ones who leave their trolley in the middle of a parking spot, the people who don't give up their seat to the elderly or pregnant women on the train etc, they were the exceptions to the mateship we all shared. The Aussie way.
Well, COVID finally woke me up to what c
un
ts most people are. Especially the conservative types, the ones who demand anyone who needs help is lazy and just have their hand out, until the very moment they or someone close to them (and sometimes not even then) hit any kind of adversity, they're the first to put their hand out and ask, nay, feel entitled to help.
I stopped giving blood and had started to peel back a lot of the other things I did. Why donate my money to someone else, that could pay for my Netflix...
Why can't I be as selfish as everyone else?!
Then winter last year, I was going to visit a friend to help her to the hospital for a pretty big procedure. She needed help getting there and would need help 5 days later to get home. Of course, I'm going to help.
So about a week and a bit before the date, my wife and I started wearing our masks out and about again, so winter 2022. Mainly to get used to wearing them but to try whatever we could to reduce the chance of us getting COVID just before needing to see our friend, or when she was in recovery given the expected immunocompromised state she'd be in during recovery.
And at the supermarket, just doing the normal shop in kind of a well off area (so lots of cooker trophy wives, and rich business owning tradies thick as a brick but now "internet smart" aka cooked) I'm just getting some apples and the guy reaches over me so I turned to him and said,
"You right mate"
Like first of all, just wait your turn fu
ckwit
, but when he saw my mask...
And the rant this c
unt
went on about masks and social distancing, globalists blah blah, it was like talking to one of you fu
ck
ing morons irl, that was it. From then on I've just had enough.
I know I've said it before but I usually calm down and go back to my normal ways, but since then I'm done doing things for others.
F
uck
em. Mateship is a lie.
The only important thing is mine and my own.
I'm sick of giving to people who only take.
The only exception is a few of my elderly neighbours who I still check in on, help with their shopping if they don't want to do a whole delivery order which they struggle to bring in anyway, help with their Bins every week (even pay to get them cleaned with mine) but I guess they're in my circle, I consider them my own.
But I'm just tired of being exploited by people like you Scoot. So f
uck
em. Money can be replaced, by my time can't. I'm not wasting it on c
unts
any longer.
You can call it ugly, I call it freeing.
Mateship is a lie, why pretend otherwise.