Sent by reader Zeigfried Whiffle
Me AT GROCERY STORE:
Why is there plastic on the payment keypad?
Cashier: to protect people from Covid.
Me : but isn’t everyone touching the plastic keypad the same way they would the regular keypad?
Cashier: no words. Confused look.
Me : Why Don’t you pack the grocery bags anymore?
Cashier : Because of covid 19 to reduce the spread of catching or spreading the virus.
Me : But a shelf packer took it out of a box and put on the shelf, a few customers might of picked it up and put back deciding they Don’t want it, I put it in my cart then on the conveyer belt, YOU pick it up to scan it.. But putting it in a bag after you scan is risky??
Cashier : no words, confused look
Me AT DRIVE-THRU
Server: (holds a tray out the window with a bag of food for logical friend to grab)
Me: why is my bag of food on a tray?
Server: so I don’t touch your food because of Covid.
Me: didn’t the cook touch my food? Didn’t the person wrapping my food touch it and then touch it again when placing it in my bag? Didn’t you touch the bag and put it on the tray? Didn’t you touch the tray?
Server: no words. Confused look.
Me in SOCIETY
Society ; If you cough or sneeze do it in your elbow or sleeve,
Also society : Dont shake hands or hug anyone or you will spread the virus..
To greet people do an elbow tap instead.
Me : Elbow tap ? Isn’t that where you tell people to sneeze or cough? into their elbow? Now you want people to tap each other with that elbow
wouldn’t it be safer to sneeze into elbow and shake hands like we did before Covid
Me AT RESTAURANT:
Hostess: ok, I can seat you at this table right here (4 feet away), but I will need you to wear a mask to the table.
Me: what happens when I get to the table?
Hostess: you can take off the mask.
Me: then it is safe over there?
Hostess: yes.
Me: are those fans blowing above the table? Is that the air-conditioning I feel? Is the air circulating in here? Hostess: no words. Confused look.
SOCIETY : You are not allowed to stand and drink at the pub you have to sit down.
But at the shopping centre you are not allowed to sit down, all the chairs are roped off.
Who thinks this stuff up?
Life is hard for logical people right now. We are being raised without the ability to process and execute logic
That’s how you know it’s all BS. Go look up what they wear and do in a virology lab with dangerous stuff. What we’re doing is as a good as carrying rabbit’s foot.
Not even. A rabbit’s foot also serves as a worry toy.
To be fair, the drive through one is about protecting the server from accidental contact with the customer, not to protect the customer from the staff. All the rest are pretty spot on though. We are indeed raising whole generations incapable of applying simple logic to a situation. . .
Actually, no. In each of these cases, the businesses are trying to protect their staff from frivolous lawsuits and cancel culture attacks.
Then shouldn’t the company be instructing their staff as to the real reason instead of leaving them thinking and saying the other load of BS? At least then the staff would better understand and respond to their instructions more appropriately.
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Being taught WHAT to think. Not HOW to think. And work wants us to “take it seriously”…..
It’s hard not to despair at the thought that we’re literally too stupid as a culture to run the place any more.
This is an unholy combination of feckless, idiotic, hypocritical leaders wanting not to get blamed for screwing things up while tryin to exact whatever political advantage they can, combined with a generation of clueless imbeciles.
You left out:
Mayor (or Governor): The virus is spreading too fast, and the hospitals will get overrun. I will have to close down restaurants and bars. The order will be effective seven days from now.
Population: (confused look…) How bad is this emergency that restrictions can wait a week????
That’s like the FDA having a meeting to approve an “Emergency Use Authorization” for a vaccine — with a 25 day delay.
Some high school math shows that this lackadaisical attitude on the part of those scum bureaucrats is responsible for the death of at least 70,000 people.
I went to urgent care for a bad cut. Lots of sick people there, some WITH kung flu to be sure. I was wearing an N99 mask because those people are nasty, coughing in the hallway etc. The intake nurse says I can’t wear the N99 I have on (!) and tells me to take it off and put on one of their cheesy paper ones, that is totally useless. I go back and forth with her about N99 being WAY better, but she’s not having it. Turned around and left. I sutured it myself. Looks great.
Bunch of Kool aid drinking sheep…
Seems like you need to look for a hospital that actually hires qualified people.