stupid safety

STUPID SAFETY

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Remember the Age Of The Lawyers?  A time of mass litigation, where anything and everything which had any liquefiable assets would be sued.  As a nation, we have a surplus of lawyers.  China has a surplus of engineers.  Can you guess which nation builds everything for everyone and which nation gathers around a stagnant black hole of an economy and argues over the rules of which rich bitch gets more money?

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From this Age Of Lawyers came Stupid Safety, from wherein everything was labeled dangerous ( danger, this toy, a small rock in your yard, a button your child saws off his clothing with his teeth and any bug he catches constitutes a chocking hazard ), everything that was obviously dangerous STILL needed a safety warning ( warning, falling off this tall ass ladder might pose a danger.  Warning, putting smoke in your lungs might be considered by some to be dangerous ), and from then on all activities had to have safety classes ( warning, sitting in this chair all day will give you hemorrhoids.  Or cause a blood clot.  Or atrophy your muscles-so exercise.  But don’t exercise in an unapproved manner because you might get cramps!  And if you get a cramp, please go see a doctor.  In fact, if you ever feel the slightest bit bad, go see one.  But only one officially approved ).

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From Stupid Safety there then emerged the quite natural reaction of pretty much ignoring any and all Stupid Safety Rules because they were, well, pretty humping stupid.  When there is a sign every three and a half feet in a huge room, you pretty much stop reading signs, or if you do read them you cannot remember 90% of them ( talking to you, Post Office ).  When everything can harm you, well, then you can’t remember what is dangerous and what is not.  By purposely ignoring Stupid Safety Rules,  not only do we regain our slipping sanity, we also flip off the Nanny State.  I’ll live like those bad boys in the movie Jackass, so there!

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I’m not stating that a proliferation of stupid safety warning leads to abandoning common sense, but I do worry that the reaction to them might cause problems in the future.  We are so used to Uncle Sam and his fifty retarded dysfunctional cousins on the local state level nagging us incessantly on behalf of the bygone era of ravenous lawyers cashing in their law degrees for several pieces of silver, that we are tone deaf to worrying about all the small dangers life will provide after health care and medicines are no longer available. 

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Not that I’m blaming the lawyers and PC Brigades and Nanny State officials for everything ( just most things ).  We have gotten used to the cheap antibiotics that are supposed to smooth out any accident prone activities we might have, like humping a skeevy crack whore without a raincoat on, skipping gaily through a field of scrape lumber with rusty nails attached, using power tools with reckless abandon,  eating twenty three slices of extra meat lovers pizza at the buffet then exploding afterwards with a gallon of fecal soup after which you emerge from the bathroom somehow forgetting to wash your damn hands, or any number of other such activities.

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After the collapse, or even before the collapse as our medical industry implodes and just walking into a hospital sees you being attacked by Super Germs which laugh mirthfully at the puny earthling antibiotics, out inattention to basic safety rules is going to get some of us killed.  And while that wouldn’t be a bad thing, since the Darwin Awards will continue through time immemorial, dumb ass behavior tends to bite innocent bystanders on the ass.  Now, to be clear, I am NOT playing that Badly Written Post Apocalypse Novel trope of “one cut on his finger killed him by infection”. 

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That has some relevance, although the odds of a healthy person dying that way is small as long as there is basic sanitation.  I’m speaking of institutionalizing safety.  Not like we do today, such as safety campaigns everyone ignores because they are insultingly stupid, such as insisting one washes their hands should you touch anything at all, even your exposed skin.  What was that retarded movie with all the top stars about some pandemic, that essentially propagandized that merely washing your hands fifty-three times a day would stop all diseases in its tracks?

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What we need to relearn is how to slow down and do things the proper way, rather than the quick or easy way.  At a time when we should have far more leisure time than ever ( isn’t essentially every human activity commercialized, luxuriated and robotized? ) in the history of forever, why do we bounce around unrelentingly?  Go, go, go without pause or stop.  We are always rushing about accomplishing absolutely nothing.  We want to do everything and so everything is multitasked poorly and incompletely. 

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Perhaps we are so overfed, so stuffed with extra fats and sugars, that we are over stimulated with excess energy and in effect act like a tweaker sitting down and bouncing up and down in his seat.  The only time we are not bursting with energy is when we sit down to shovel more sweetened fat down our gullet.  Even when we sit in our car, we burst with energy, getting ourselves worked up with road rage, gunning the engine to be the first at the stop light, bobbing and weaving about the lanes.  And if we went to Starbucks first, or drank a Red Bull, that gets added to the sugar and deep fried calories.

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We need to learn to be slow and methodical.  Almost anal compulsive.  Don’t just throw in the dishes and scramble to wash them as quickly as possible.  First wash all the sharp knives and get them out of the way safely.  Then take the time to put on gloves so the water can be as hot as possible.  Don’t slam out of the bathroom ready for your next adventure, take your time to wash your ass and hands properly.  Don’t try to attack an entire forest, taking chances getting cut or maimed.  Take the time to sharpen dulled tools.  Take the time to NOT get hurt.  Don’t rush so you become winded or fatigued and make mistakes.

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Slow and steady wins the race.  And you use common sense.  Don’t wash your hands all day long and don’t over bathe.  Your body needs to build up its own immunity, and past washing your hands after dropping a duce or cutting raw meat, as far as washing to sterilize, let your damn body be exposed to minor unsanitary items.  It is just like parents today to immunize against minor disease, when they should be letting the kids body build up its own immune system by being exposed.  But the same parents deathly afraid of any germ will engage in plenty of other dangerous activities since they are in such all fired hurries.  Most parents drive like idiots, then worry Junior has a boo-boo on his hand and bury it under a gallon of anti-bacterial soap ( I thought all soap was anti-bacterial, but what do I know? ).

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Remember, follow the money.  If a fear pays someone, it is usually irrational.

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