COVID Caution Tape

Remember during COVID all of the playgrounds had caution tape? The guys are still pissed. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Remember me talking about so I live right next to
a park and they had yellow police tape around the
playground equipment at the park. It makes me so angry.
At the time, chuckleheads like ourselves were saying, you're outdoors
in the breeze, You're not going to pass a respiratory disease.

(00:21):
We knew it, yet the authorities did that. Filled in
skate parks with sand so no kids would have outdoor recreation,
stay indoors. They told the kids. Got it makes me mad.
I hadn't seen this picture. It's a basketball hoop, outdoor
basketball hoop at a park, on a big slab of concrete,
where you'd been out in the space getting some exercise,

(00:42):
not staring at your phone or your Nintendo switch, getting
more and more depressed and fas as a healthy young person.
Right now. It's a picture of a basketball goal and somebody,
I'm sure the city crafted a couple of tubai fours,
one that went under the hoop, one over the hoop
with a bolt through it, so that no ball could

(01:02):
possibly pass through the hoops, so nobody could even if
they came out in the middle of the night, There's
no way they could illegally start shooting baskets outdoors. That
has got to be the craziest time in US history.
That's got to be a symbol of something there ought
to be, That ought to be the meme of the

(01:25):
decade for people with similar points of view to ourselves.
The overreach and stupidity of authority. Why do you restrain
governments from having too much power because they're so damn
bad at it? Always have been, always will be. How's
your utopia? How's your government provided utopia coming along? So

(01:47):
they were filling in skateboard parts with sand, chasing people
down the beach, waiting for them to paddle in and
arrest them. Single people, parasailing or whatever you call that.
Putting bull words over basketball hoops and police tape around
swing sets, that has got to be the craziest thing
that has ever happened in our nation's history. Corona, kick

(02:10):
me off on how about it? Michael, Michael Michael, that,
while hilarious, wrecked our dramatic momentum. And you introduced the
term safetyism to us last week or this week, and
that has got to be something that gets thrown around more.
I was watching my son at the pool, so I
think I mentioned yesterday that he went off the high

(02:30):
dive for the first time, my eleven year old, and
he was so thrilled about it and everything like that.
Oh my god. The rules at the pool, as I've
been complaining about for years now, at the municipal pool,
but the high dive, you've got like three lifeguards with
their eyes trained on the high dive, whistles in mouths

(02:51):
like on the balls of their feet. Wow. And they
got all these rules about how far everybody has to
be away from the stairs, and then one person can
go up the stairs and walk out there, and nobody
can get even anywhere near the stairs until somebody has
jumped off, and then nobody can touch the stairs until
they get completely out of the pool. I mean, there's
what do they think is gonna happen? Are they all

(03:12):
being raised in orphanages because their parents died going to
municipal pools like I did, where the ladder was full
of kids just waiting to run out there and jump
in the pool, inching up like ants on a hill.
Soon somebody jumped off, another person jumped in, and everybody
was fine. I don't remember a single person ever getting hurt.
But so these young people are growing up thinking that's normal.

(03:35):
How sick is that? And when when us old people
are dead, they'll never know that there was a wild
West that existed where people could jump off the diving
board and nobody was really worried about it. That's, of course,
if you have a diving board. So many people have
said you have a diving board still, they took it
out in my town. Boards. The kids can jump into
the pool, but they can't jump in and do a twist.

(03:57):
That would be too dangerous. You can't turn sideways. You
need to keep facing the same direction you left. The
Busselman and I've been saying for years for new listeners
that we've were creating a nation of veal calves. And
that's what I'm talking about. Call it safetyism if you like.
It will ruin people because taking on risk, confronting it, winning, losing,

(04:17):
being sadder but wiser, et cetera. That is how you
become an adult who's not terrified by the world and
not depressed at every little setback. Resilience or do you
say resiliency? Resiliency is the best thing we can teach kids.
I mean, maybe better than reading and writing. Oh yeah, absolutely,
And we're systematically denying them resiliency and so weird, and

(04:41):
these poor, like sixteen year olds have come to embrace
that because that's what they've been told. Oh, it's just sad.