Collective Psychosis in Vermont
Octoberfest canceled because DOOM DISEASE
This is a short one and an initial reaction.
Vermont is so far gone I see no hope for this place in the short or medium-term.
Burlington cancelled Octoberfest because of Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
I’ll reproduce a report from local station WPTZ:
This year's Oktoberfest Vermont, which was scheduled for Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21, has been canceled as health department officials recommend that people in parts of the state avoid being outdoors after dusk due to the risk of eastern equine encephalitis.
Max Orleans, one of the organizers, said that between the state's warning and the recommendation they received from the city of Burlington, they didn't feel it made sense to proceed.
"It's really a huge bummer," Orleans said. "It's not something you're expecting when you hear about these mosquitos, but it felt like the right move for us."
Orleans said they brainstormed alternative solutions, like holding the event during the day before the 6 p.m. warning kicked in.
However, he said the financial risk wasn't worth it.
It costs more than $135,000 to host an event down at the waterfront.
Orleans believes they would have ended up losing money.
"It's less to do with making a statement on the whole thing and more to do with taking that risk on the waterfront," Orleans said.
Ticket holders will be emailed on Tuesday about full refunds. All ticket prices will be refunded in full.
Last week, the Intervale Center announced that both dates for Summervale were canceled due to the risk of EEEV-bearing mosquitoes.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets and the Department of Health issued a joint statement saying that Alburgh, Burlington, Colchester and Swanton were at the highest risk for mosquitoes that carry the potentially deadly virus following extensive testing.
State officials recommended that residents avoid activities outdoors during the period between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. until the first hard frost kills off the mosquito population for the season.
Other areas throughout the state, including Milton, Vergennes, Sudbury and Whiting are at moderate risk for EEE-bearing mosquitoes, with low-risk towns include Cornwall, Grand Isle, Highgate and Fairfield.
One person in Vermont tested positive for EEEV this summer, but they were treated and released. A man in New Hampshire died from the disease last month.
Massachusetts and New York have also experienced an uptick in EEE cases this summer.
EEE is a rare but serious disease caused by a virus spread to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. EEE can result in encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain, and can be fatal in about one-third of people who develop severe EEE disease.
Most people infected with EEE do not develop symptoms, but those who do may experience a flu-like illness with fever, chills, body aches and joint pain.
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There are approximately 11 total cases found annually nationwide. Only three to four of those die.
Our population is 330 million (officially).
So, what motivates this? It's not rational. These decisions are not made through thought, but through emotion and religio-cult ecstasy.
For leftists, this is public mortification of the flesh. This the modern equivalent of making sure your hair shirt shows to other courtiers, the equivalent of parading down the street flogging your own back so that everyone might behold how penitent and good you are.
This is fantasy enactment, but we’re all conscripted in it. Our governments are taking power over all of us, and our neighbors are giving it to them joyfully, or at the very best, meekly. The social-cultural reward for being seen in certain roles is at a premium; it's a job-seeker's market. It pays handsomely to be seen as a victim, to be able to pose publicly as a person-in-danger, or as a sainted rescuer who has kept all the "kiddos" in the "community" safe from something Bad.
It is important that as many people as possible recognize the nature of this psychopathological dynamic. This is collective, and very real, mental disturbance.
Time is short.
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I forgot that I have to include the following disclaimer any time I talk about Vermont. It's the only way to deal with the common response: "Why don't you move?"
Why I don't move: There are practical and financial considerations that are real, but private to me, that make that difficult or impossible in the foreseeable future. I am not unaware that I have the ability to decide to move; I promise I'm a smart guy who understands the concept, "moving house." Readers will need to accept that I have considered this, and that I have good, solid reasons that would make sense to them, too, but that these reasons are my private business.
I live in Oaxaca, Mexico, where mosquitos carry dengue every summer. Every summer there are countless public events. Nothing ever gets cancelled. People live their lives.