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EarlG

(23,627 posts)
Sat May 8, 2021, 02:04 PM May 2021

I've got an idea for the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and Covid-deniers

I was just reading an article about the crowd who went to gawk at Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Villages recently. Here's a comment from one of the attendees:

"It only holds 400 people," the maskless Trumper told The Daily Beast. "But they crammed in as many as they could. I'm just so glad so many people showed up."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142740262

It seems to me like one of the central tenets of the anti-maskers is that they really, really like the idea of crowding into as small a space as possible, with as many people as possible, without taking any kind of Covid precautions whatsoever. Like, they're REALLY into it -- as if the real American Dream is standing in an enclosed space and getting right up in the grill of as many random unvaccinated people as possible.

With that in mind, remember how people used to smoke literally everywhere? In offices, courtrooms, on TV, on planes? And then we figured out that smoking is really bad for everybody, and now they're forced to stand in glass booths even while outside:



So I propose that we put these booths up everywhere for the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. You're only allowed to use them if you HAVEN'T been vaccinated and are NOT wearing a mask. The air inside is not treated or sterilized in any way. Covid-deniers can step inside and fraternize with their fellow patriots. Get in there -- the more the merrier! Extra props if you're elderly or have underlying health conditions.

Thanks to their completely glass exteriors, non-brainwashed people will be able to step inside and socially signal how unafraid and untainted by big government pro-vaccine propaganda they are. We'll call them Freedom Booths!



(The saddest thing about this obviously ridiculous and tongue-in-cheek idea is that people would probably actually use them. Hell, Tucker Carlson would likely promote them on his show.)
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I've got an idea for the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and Covid-deniers (Original Post) EarlG May 2021 OP
Sounds like a winner, my dear EarlG! They'll eat it up. CaliforniaPeggy May 2021 #1
On streets and in full view? Great idea! PERFECT for "owning the libs." Hortensis May 2021 #2
More owning libs in Utah Nevilledog May 2021 #3
I think he said they were in "Moron-uh" Utah. justhanginon May 2021 #6
Ah, so THAT's why I woke up as a pile of hypocritical cinders. Hortensis May 2021 #8
TUCKER SELF SPONSORSHIP Goonch May 2021 #4
FISHBOWLS!!! YoshidaYui May 2021 #5
Yep. Let them breathe real freedom. dalton99a May 2021 #7
I must live in the hinterlands, EarlG. I have not seen smoking booths anywhere here. But what a niyad May 2021 #9
I love a good win-win solution IronLionZion May 2021 #10
The pro-covid crowd world wide wally May 2021 #11
ALL they care about is "sticking it to the libs" acting out righteous indignation in public forums. Evolve Dammit May 2021 #12
Brilliant idea! Brother Mythos May 2021 #13
Call them "Freedom Booths" DBoon May 2021 #14
Bahaha! And tell them libruls hate it when they go in them. Scrivener7 May 2021 #15

CaliforniaPeggy

(156,619 posts)
1. Sounds like a winner, my dear EarlG! They'll eat it up.
Sat May 8, 2021, 02:11 PM
May 2021

They're like lemmings--can't wait to show their loy--er, stupidity!

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. On streets and in full view? Great idea! PERFECT for "owning the libs."
Sat May 8, 2021, 02:12 PM
May 2021

My currently pigtailed 80-year-old husband dropped by his haircutter, someone he's enjoyed visiting for years, to ask hopefully if she was also vaccinated now. She told him NO and that she NEVER WILL BE! My husband wasn't about to get into what would obviously be a religious-level dispute on her side, just left without a word. End of that friendship.

Sad.

niyad

(132,352 posts)
9. I must live in the hinterlands, EarlG. I have not seen smoking booths anywhere here. But what a
Sat May 8, 2021, 04:29 PM
May 2021

great idea.

Evolve Dammit

(21,768 posts)
12. ALL they care about is "sticking it to the libs" acting out righteous indignation in public forums.
Sat May 8, 2021, 05:01 PM
May 2021

I think it's that simple. They have been brainwashed for over 35 years to hate. Not sure where that goes, but that's where it is.

Brother Mythos

(1,442 posts)
13. Brilliant idea!
Sat May 8, 2021, 05:33 PM
May 2021

And, since anti-maskers, etc. absolutely hate government funding, except for farm subsidies, enterpreneurs could set these lounges up privately, add a bill acceptor, and charge them for admission!

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