SDWs (Social Distance Warriors) and Shock Collars

Social Distancing Warriors (SDWs) are the new Social Justice Warriors (SJWs).

Fear wins the day. Do any of these Social Distance Warriors (SDW) ask the question: Where do we go from here? Do they actually believe that America’s entire infrastructure can and should be torn down and redesigned to conform to the arbitrary and laughable 6-foot rule? Bike paths, hiking trails, sidewalk, bars, restaurants, museums, parks, and all retail, just for starters? How in the hell are these people going to live lives of any quality whatsoever while they obsess on some nonsensical, arbitrary “rule” set by politicians? Already, Ford is having its workers try out ‘Shock Collar Lite,’ as I call ’em.

That buzz you just felt? It’s not a text or tweet. It’s your social distancing wristband telling you that another human is too close.

“The small group of volunteers at a Ford factory in Plymouth, Michigan, are trying out wristbands that vibrate when employees come within six feet of each another, said Kelli Felker, a company spokeswoman,” as reported by Bloomberg. “The aim is to keep workers from breaching the distance that health experts recommend to avoid spreading the coronavirus.”

Who could have written that science fiction two months ago?

This morning on my bike-trail Facebook groups: Idiots screeching about others not being 6 feet away. Idiots insisting you ‘social distance’, even if it means you get off your bike and go around off the trail (yea, never). And others saying that there are random cyclists of the authoritarian variety riding around and screaming at walkers for “not social distancing.”

Intentional divisiveness. The Dos (SDWs) versus the Do-Nots (normal people who don’t buy into SD). The new culture war.

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7:51 am on April 19, 2020