Posted on 08/25/2021 6:24:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...New polling proves as much. Axios/TheGenerationLab just surveyed college students about their comfort level with various forms of social activity. The poll finds that students, many of whom are vaccinated, are essentially scared of their own shadow — in a way utterly untethered from actual risk levels and scientific reality.
It also reports that 68% of students think it is unsafe to speak closely with someone without masks when their vaccination status is unknown. Similarly, 62% believe it is unsafe to attend an indoor party, and 66% think dancing with others is dangerous under the same conditions. Meanwhile, more than 80% of students view activities such as sharing drinks and kissing strangers as dangerous in terms of COVID-19 exposure....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I can get on board with the idea that you shouldn't drink out of the same glass as people you don't French kiss and you should not French kiss just any old person.
Close talking? Well, it was always something I tried to avoid, but I wouldn't freak out about either. I would certainly not do it with someone who sounded congested. I always assumed that people who felt like they might have something out of politeness would just keep a few feet distance.
Dancing? Really? Do college kids waltz? I did not know that.
Back when we had "slow dances" in high school, we weren't really face to face. We just kind of hung each other's head over each other's shoulder.
College students could use some drunken fast dance and line dance type parties, if you ask me.
The psycho-ops is working.
Weird.
The university I received my STEM degree from, only approved
dancing the year I graduated and only “line dancing was approved”
class of 1990.
I was an older student, married and had a family so watching the kids was interesting.
What’s funny about it?
Inhave on good authority of a family college student in Boston beer parties and yard concerts are happening all over up there this summer.
Well, these kids were never taught critical thinking. They will fall for anything.
They obviously did not poll the students in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
From https://quillette.com/2018/09/02/is-safetyism-destroying-a-generation/
Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff’s new book, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, persuasively unpacks the causes of the current predicament on campus – which they link to wider parenting, cultural and political trends. Haidt is a social psychology professor at New York University and founder of Heterodox Academy. Lukianoff is a constitutional lawyer and president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. In 2015, they wrote The Atlantic cover story of the same name.Haidt and Lukianoff’s explanation for our era of campus craziness is primarily psychological. In sum, a well-intentioned safety culture which has led to ‘paranoid parenting,’ and screen time replacing unstructured and unsupervised play time, has created a fragile generation. Haidt and Lukianoff focus on people born after 1995, iGen or Generation Z, who began attending college in the last five years – just when things started to escalate.
This cohort is experiencing a dramatic rise in anxiety, depression and suicide. When they arrived on campus, in an increasingly polarised political climate, they were unprepared to be intellectually challenged. They – or at least the ‘social justice’ activists of this generation – responded by creating a culture of censorship, intimidation and violence, and witch hunts against non-believers. Universities, led by risk adverse bureaucracies, are treating students like customers and allowing an aggressive, censorious minority set the agenda.
Haidt and Lukianoff focus on the unintended consequences of safetyism – the idea that people are weak and should be protected, rather than exposed, to challenges. Safety culture has the best of intentions: protect kids from danger. It began with a focus on physical safety – removing sharp objects and choke hazards, requiring child seats, and not letting children walk home alone. Safety, however, has experienced substantial concept creep. It now includes emotional safety, that is, not being exposed ideas that could cause psychological distress. Taken together, the focus on physical and mental safety makes young people weaker.
As much as it pains me to say, it's not surprising that we're where we are with Afghanistan, we're so risk averse as a society that we're paralyzed. It's only going to get worse until we fall.
I have been streaming CNN to get Afganistan news...then COVID comes on if you listened to the Doctors they have on were all going to die....
They just showed Desantis poll numbers and cannot believe them....they have not changed since his election...
They think just because there Are more cases there are more death...
There were Three yesterday
And then the ICUs are at 90%....there at that level all the time plus or mi us
Thanks for the post.
One term for what is happening is Neoteny:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
Human culture has reinforced infantile traits and denigrated adult traits.
One more buzzword—human culture is Epigenetic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
This is typical for late stage Empires.
All the talk about “keep us safe” and “don’t be selfish” are dead giveaways.
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The Wuhanic Plague is the wakeup call for high school students to pay attention in their science classes before becoming ignorant college students. Otherwise they’ll wear face diapers and bleat like sheep. They’ll likely join the Branch Covidian cult.
“Similarly, 62% believe it is unsafe to attend an indoor party, and 66% think dancing with others is dangerous”
Stupid. How exactly are they gonna get laid?
Americans are actually quite easy to condition to a desired mindset when fear is added to the mix.
I live in a college town and the few maskers that I see are college age women. Occasionally I see a male but he fits into the 45 lb bench press club category.
They use the new remote control vibrators now ... works through a cell phone app.
This just shows HOW BAD we’ve lost. The virus is really no different than the flu at that age...and yet the media masters make them think they’re 95 years old and have a good chance to die of the virus.
“Hysterical” Fear!
About 1 and a Half YEARS
worth of unfettered, unchallenged LIES and Political Propaganda are
Produce a Very disturbed
Populace,,WorldWide.
That’s pathetic.
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