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The No No Blog
Author: TriSec
Date: 02/05/2022 11:19:00
Two years ago, February 5 2020, I was in Lake Worth Florida, doing some work around our place down there and tending to my rapidly aging aunt. According to my travelogue, it was the "best weather day of the entire trip", and I spent many hours by the poolside in the sun.
Two days later, I was up at the fabulous Disney World, then made my way back home, arriving in this fair Commonwealth on February 10. Things were just starting to awaken from their winter slumber at work - but then on February 26 came the Biogen Conference and all hell broke loose promptly after that.
Since then - two years and counting - I have not travelled any further from home than the campus of Johnson & Wales in Providence. 52 miles at the greatest distance.
In two years -
No Scouting.
No Meetings.
No Training.
No Vacations.
No Travel.
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No Movies.
No Restaurants.
No Shopping.
No Malls.
No Day Trips.
No Museums.
No Music.
No Concerts.
No YMCA.
No Swimming.
No Sauna.
No Seeing People.
No Talking.
No Human Interaction.
In short - NO SOCIETY.
We have gone around the sun twice in all this time. Is it really just two years? It feels like it may as well be two thousand.
2022 may or may not be our "coming back party". There are still morons out there that deny any of this is real. Like the meme says, refusing to wear a mask or get vaccinated to 'oppose a mandate' ensures that we will continue to have them.
The country remains as balkanized as ever; perhaps even more so than at any time in our history. What should have been a unifying event ended up having the opposite effect, and I see no road to recovery.
The United States has changed; we are no longer United, and we are certainly far from a functioning society in the eyes of the rest of the world.
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Comment by 
BobR on 02/05/2022 14:34:50
BobR on 02/05/2022 14:34:50
I imagine there is a certain segment of the population which is just waiting for the CDC to proclaim the pandemic "over" so they can yell "I TOLD you I didn't need the vaccine!!"
That segment shrinks daily as they give into either the shot or the disease.
I remember when 9/11 happened, and it "changed everything", uniting the country. It didn't last long.
I think the tribalistic "us -vs- them" is part of the American DNA, and in the absence of a true enemy we create one amongst ourselves.
That segment shrinks daily as they give into either the shot or the disease.
I remember when 9/11 happened, and it "changed everything", uniting the country. It didn't last long.
I think the tribalistic "us -vs- them" is part of the American DNA, and in the absence of a true enemy we create one amongst ourselves.
Comment by BobR on 02/05/2022 14:37:50
BobR on 02/05/2022 14:37:50
Oh, and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISEC!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISEC!!
Comment by 
Will in Chicago on 02/05/2022 15:55:03
Will in Chicago on 02/05/2022 15:55:03
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISEC!!!!!!!! 
Comment by Will in Chicago on 02/05/2022 15:56:26
Will in Chicago on 02/05/2022 15:56:26
I will agree with BobR in that we have often seemed to be the Divided States of America.
I am worried that this will get worse before it gets better. The GOP now is calling the attack on January 6, 2021 a form of legitimate political protest.
We have weathered worse but no one knows the future.
I am worried that this will get worse before it gets better. The GOP now is calling the attack on January 6, 2021 a form of legitimate political protest.
We have weathered worse but no one knows the future.
Comment by TriSec on 02/05/2022 19:23:08
TriSec on 02/05/2022 19:23:08
Now, now. 'tis only the birthday of my TriSec persona; not my actual birthday.
It was on this date forty years ago (at damn near this hour, too) that I became the Tribunal Secretary (or TriSec), a title I retain to this day.
Sadly, my compatriot, known as The Chancellor, has chosen a different path. Many poor choices led to his current state, and despite being like brothers for most of our lives....we no longer speak.
It was on this date forty years ago (at damn near this hour, too) that I became the Tribunal Secretary (or TriSec), a title I retain to this day.
Sadly, my compatriot, known as The Chancellor, has chosen a different path. Many poor choices led to his current state, and despite being like brothers for most of our lives....we no longer speak.