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Celia Farber's avatar

All typos have been fixed now. Sorry about that. I do need to proof read better but was racing to my Spanish lesson. Thank you, those of you who have the gift of helping me understand how important copy editing is without being underhanded or insulting. ANTI thank you to the shamers. Took one of them off the email list. There was nothing to reimburse so that was good.

Anyway, I am reading all the interesting comments and will hopefully be able to respond either later tonight or tomorrow. Thank you all so very much for joining in so enthusiastically. I love this place.

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Dani Richards's avatar

This is such an important post.

I live near DC and have experienced this (people avoiding human connection; averting eyes from one another) for years, but it has been getting worse, rapidly, since COVID. I had attributed it to cell phones, those earplugs (which I refuse to ever use), and constant attachment to some form of electronic stimulation (podcast, music, being on the phone, etc.) rather than ambient vibes of nature, or even just background noise while waiting in line somewhere.... it's as though people can no longer be human with one another -- no patience, avoidance of the reality of the space and time we find ourselves in..... needing some type of escape or whatever. I don't get it, but I'm grateful that I am so old that I remember what it was like before all of this technology and yes, of course, the shots and poisons (we did have shots and poisons, of course, but not mRNA).

I go where the people like me are -- I go to locations where people put their phones away and talk to one another, looking directly at each other. Whether friends or strangers. I like nature. I go for walks in my neighborhood and I deliberately say hello to people -- a lot of the older ones respond in kind, and the ones younger are more likely not to. It's very noticeable.

I am concerned for humanity. And knowing, too, that these shots definitely have harmed or killed off a bunch of us olders, the ones who are the keepers of the memories of the way we used to be. How can we pass that information on? Many youngers have no idea what it was like, unless they tune into old movies to get some hints.

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