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<blockquote data-quote="Max Roscoe" data-source="post: 1365308" data-attributes="member: 17845"><p>I used to work in the airport, and I never accepted all the silly 9/11 things we implemented until this year. This year I walked into one of the irradiating naked body scanners for the first time in my life. I have just accepted that travel will be brutal and barbaric and we are not going back to the freedoms we once had. But the airline metaphor really helped me understand the coronavirus hysteria immediately.</p><p></p><p>Every time I would fly, I would look around at the fearful people in the line with me, and I know that none of us has anything dangerous, that none of our deodorants are really masquerading as bio-weapons, and that none of our bottles of water are really highly flammable liquids that will be used to create firebursts in the sky, that none of our tennis shoes are concealing some secret James Bond era weaponry. And I stood there, incredibly frustrated and annoyed at the whole process, sure in my belief that one day everyone else will realize this absurdity as well, that we will stop banning the universal solvent, which makes up 70% of the planet and the majority of the human body (water) and get rid of the pointless ID checks and other absurdities like removing your shoes and walking barefoot like a peasant across the dirty ground. But of course they haven't. </p><p></p><p>I now accept that everyone in the TSA line with me at the airport views the entire absurd security theater process as a "vital and essential part of safety", and I know they all believe that if we didn't check everyone's driver license and confiscate their water and touch old ladies in their private parts, that our skies would become a war zone (in reality if you ever worked in air transportation you would realize it is an incredibly simple feat to do something dastardly, and that for decades people traveled completely unscreened and there were rarely if ever any incidents).</p><p></p><p>Just as essentially everyone in the airport is walking around with the silent fear that some bad guy is trying to conceal a horrible weapon and smuggle it on board a plane in some insane plot to murder a bunch of strangers, and we need an army of agents, irradiating machines, and long security lines or else we would surely die, I similarly understand that essentially everyone in the grocery store believes if I pull off my piece of cloth for too long, then everyone might die of the flu. The air travel thing pissed me off for 15 years, but the coronavirus has finally put my anger to bed and I understand and accept it all. We are a nation of cowardly frightened children, and we gladly follow a Pied Piper to our death or destruction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Max Roscoe, post: 1365308, member: 17845"] I used to work in the airport, and I never accepted all the silly 9/11 things we implemented until this year. This year I walked into one of the irradiating naked body scanners for the first time in my life. I have just accepted that travel will be brutal and barbaric and we are not going back to the freedoms we once had. But the airline metaphor really helped me understand the coronavirus hysteria immediately. Every time I would fly, I would look around at the fearful people in the line with me, and I know that none of us has anything dangerous, that none of our deodorants are really masquerading as bio-weapons, and that none of our bottles of water are really highly flammable liquids that will be used to create firebursts in the sky, that none of our tennis shoes are concealing some secret James Bond era weaponry. And I stood there, incredibly frustrated and annoyed at the whole process, sure in my belief that one day everyone else will realize this absurdity as well, that we will stop banning the universal solvent, which makes up 70% of the planet and the majority of the human body (water) and get rid of the pointless ID checks and other absurdities like removing your shoes and walking barefoot like a peasant across the dirty ground. But of course they haven't. I now accept that everyone in the TSA line with me at the airport views the entire absurd security theater process as a "vital and essential part of safety", and I know they all believe that if we didn't check everyone's driver license and confiscate their water and touch old ladies in their private parts, that our skies would become a war zone (in reality if you ever worked in air transportation you would realize it is an incredibly simple feat to do something dastardly, and that for decades people traveled completely unscreened and there were rarely if ever any incidents). Just as essentially everyone in the airport is walking around with the silent fear that some bad guy is trying to conceal a horrible weapon and smuggle it on board a plane in some insane plot to murder a bunch of strangers, and we need an army of agents, irradiating machines, and long security lines or else we would surely die, I similarly understand that essentially everyone in the grocery store believes if I pull off my piece of cloth for too long, then everyone might die of the flu. The air travel thing pissed me off for 15 years, but the coronavirus has finally put my anger to bed and I understand and accept it all. We are a nation of cowardly frightened children, and we gladly follow a Pied Piper to our death or destruction. [/QUOTE]
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