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Imagine all this behaviour compared to wearing a mask.
Why not have grace and dignity by taking the ever present risk of death in stride?
Dec 6, 2020 3:51 PM
professionalopinion
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Imagine all this behaviour compared to wearing a mask.
Why not have grace and dignity by taking the ever present risk of death in stride?
ralphie84
I've had many blackouts in Massachusetts... mostly at UMASS Lowell. RUSH SIG TAU
diganddug
Obviously this was worse, but humanity is better at coping with difficult times together rather than separated as covid regulations require
ironchef2047
I thought it was for electrical blackouts not war time blackout drills. I was reading the homeowner one in confusion before I figured it out
Jackrackem
Honestly everyone, I don't see what all the fuss is about. I blackout all the time and I've only caused a few interruptions of power.
wandergeist
It's December 1942. USA has been at war for an entire year! Worst year of my life! Why can't we pretend it's over and go back to our lives?
APerfectlyNormalPieceOfToast
People who didn't follow these guidelines faces a rather dramatic demonstration as to thier importance
BisAndThighHighs
My Great Grandad was a warden, he'd go around making sure there was no light peeking through windows. 1/
BisAndThighHighs
Then he'd watch the sky light up as the nearby city got bombed. 2/2
PTNLemay
I thought this was from England during the Blitz. But it says Massachusetts? What were they preparing for, war with the Russians?
bunnyandbear
Complete success! There was not a single successful bombing raid on Massachusetts during the war.
sweetdaddyg
Unless you were republic of Ireland and left the lights on to guide the German bombers...
wozat
*Original UNUSED 1939 poster, only to be brought out when the Germans had a land invasion going
biscutbob
I’d probably take my city being bombed a little more serious than Covid tbh
leroy666
And there you have it, folks. How many died from bombings in the U.S. during WW2. Covid numbers will exceed all US ETO casualties soon.
SteelKnight
Keep calm and carry on was never actually published because ministers thought it was too pandering
localsurfer
Why did Massachusets need a blackout?
AxelBeingCivil
The entire reason they have police enforcement of blackouts listed there is that people *didn't* obey these rules. It was always this bad.
iambrose
The original keep calm poster was amazing and now every uses bastardizations of it, not even realizing its history. I have a lot of feelings
iambrose
About it.
SonderingStrike
"Listen here Tom, that pint better be here when I get back, else I'm telling Marjorie what you did to her summer dress"
professionalopinion
The first poster is Massachusetts.
roguishdrummer
WhereDoesThePoopGo
It was ignored and resisted in the US. We lost a lot of ships on the east coast.
klivie
"Cross streets at intersections", does anybody know why?
SexDrugsandSausagerolls
Maybe because people were driving on the roads without using headlights? So motorists were to take more care at intersections?
klivie
That might be the reason, sounds smart. Thank you!
chaosgza12
As someone from that place. Wtf?
Zaayl
the east coast would blackout because the lights from the cities silhouetted ships against the coast for German U-Boats.
Zaayl
Apparently they kept it going after the war as a way to make people feel more patriotic for participating in them.
darthstormer
bUt MuH RiGhTs!?!?
alternator43
Sir, you MUST wear a face!!
SilverShade
You want me to wear my chin diaper on my face?! That's disgusting!
vonsmallhausen
aNd MuH fReEdOmS!?!?
Cinemagik
aNd MuH ApPLeBeEs!
Melonfish
America didn't initially blackout the eastern seaboard on entering the war, though ships did run dark, this meant when the uboat fleet 1/2
Melonfish
2/2 arrived, they had clear shots against silhouetted ships running along the coast at night.
straha242
For anyone who wants more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time
AscendedTroll
Thought it was talking about electrical blackouts that happen during storms till I saw "don't give them a target" oof scary times
Kaboom36
I thought it was aliens until I saw keep calm carry on
sakela
Same, I was like why don't they want light to show and then oooooh now I get it
Arenlor
I thought it was some satire against darkness or something.
opossumistic
I hope none of you experienced this. It was really scary,the entire country went into blackout and then the sirens started,and the bombs hit
penzick
As a child in Germany, my MiL remembers the 1st Americans she ever saw. 6 of them came to her tiny town & gave her the 1st chocolate of her
penzick
life. She was so happy & thought the war was over. Within hours, air-raid sirens. When she came out of the cellar, all 6 GIs were dead. She
penzick
helped plant flowers after the town buried them. A line of blue & yellow flowers. At 85, she talks about those boys all the time now.
flexflint
Any particular reason for blue and yellow?
penzick
Catholic church. Blue symbolizes Mary and conveys fidelity & aspiration. Yellow symbolizes the presence of God and conveys renewal & hope.
skellington01
Experienced similar during Iraq war, I live in Israel. We had rooms sealed off Incase of gas attack. Sirens all hours of the day, then for
skellington01
every siren, a missile dropping. Booom. I was 7yo.
skellington01
Oh yeah and we had to sit with gas masks on, while waiting for the boom.
ThanosWasNotWrong
I'm sorry you had to experience that friend :(
skellington01
Could be worse, I do not envy our neighbors to the south :/
professionalopinion
My grandma was in London and gave birth to my mom in 1944 and said that men did awful things to women in the poorly lit, tubes during raids.
opossumistic
Yes,unfortunately many nasty things can and will happen in those circumstances.I was lucky, the shelter was for my family and neighbours.
Jazzcabage
Tubes?
lenomdeplume
Fallopian
professionalopinion
Underground subway
Counterfit
Lava tubes. London is notoriously volcanically active
flexflint
Metro. Underground rail. "The tube".
Glorioussuparman
Subways
ochermes28
Sometimes it was a joint decision.
neomagus00
True, but it didn't need to be said.
TrueNorthernLights
So the woman decided to be violently sexually assaulted? Odd.
ThanosWasNotWrong
They were talking about rape not consensual sex you dumb bastard. God damnit quit being a fucking mouth breather jackass.
ochermes28
I probably know a hell of a lot about ww2 than you you moron. Certainly some rapes occurred in the tubes but also consensual sex.
ThanosWasNotWrong
You're quite literally the dumbest fucking person I've encountered on this website and thats saying something
TheMajesticHarpyEagle
Im sorry, where did it say otherwise? Maybe if you actually knew how to read this conversation wouldnt have happened.
goddamimgur
Yea, and specifically they're talking about the rape that most definitely occurred, while you're trying to delegitimize that. Learn2read. ;)
Rkfinecake
My grandmother was the civil defense officer in her neighborhood during WW2. Her job was to enforce the rules and they gave her a special>
FsImgur
> rectal exam along with 50 cents and a pack of smokes.
Rkfinecake
>hat and a little hand pump fire extinguisher that could hardly blow out a match. Obviously this was set up not for effectiveness, but >
Rkfinecake
> instead to keep people connected with the war effort. Please note I am not drawing a direct parallel with face masks.
TheobromineAddict
I'd love to see mask wardens armed with a cattle prod.
joot
Do you have the hat or any photos? Would love to see it.
VitaminJay
#1 is why the old warner brothers cartoons had someone shout 'Put out that light!' when characters would strike a match.
PotatOSLament
I thought it was because they were trying to sleep...
VitaminJay
Cities did blackouts in the US so uboats couldn't see ships leaving port at night via silhouettes, ...
VitaminJay
And in Europe so bombers couldn't tell where they were during nighttime missions.
PotatOSLament
I meant in the cartoons.
qtRaven
I never got that as a kid.
Counterfit
Shit, I didn't get that until just now
VitaminJay
Well my parents lived through it so they could explain it to me. Some people on this site are old AF.
TrueNorthernLights
And some just know about history.
Exyr
To be fair there were protests against the blackouts in the UK
Anfalicious
Probably also incited by the Daily Mail (who would've wanted to be directing Nazi bombs in - we should never forget that)
popejubal
I’ll be honest. I don’t even remember any of my blackouts.
wadatahmydamie
And against masks during the “Spanish” Flu
tgeliot
Thank you for those quote marks.
Delta2Almanac
bray1028
The Germans called those targets.
ToSisPoS
Don’t live in fear. Germans can’t harm you
Turbolibros
Ihatepickingusernamesgb7488
Bob forever
SrMordred
And the "Keep Calm" poster wasn't actually distributed before this millennium.
localsurfer
It was ready to go if there'd been an invasion though.
geraint616
It was a saying during ww2 in britian though, it just hadn't been commercialised
PL84
Were they protesting that Nazis are fake and more people die to season influenza than Nazi bombs?
TrueNorthernLights
There were. But it's hard to deny the need when your house explodes.
Noughmad
That's exactly it, it wasn't *their* house that exploded, but someone else's, and who cares about someone else. Just like now.
Exyr
No they were saying that it was an unfair restriction of their freedoms
TrueNorthernLights
No, I'm just saying that unlike today with Fovid deniers, it would be hard for someone to deny there was a need for blackouts once a (1
TrueNorthernLights
- bomb drops on your house.
confanity
Ironic, given that the UK got bombed a hell of a lot more than Massachusetts ever did.
SobchaksWorldOfPain
Well, if they'd have known about the NE Patriots, they might have pre-emptively bombed Massachusetts...
alcaray
Over 10,000 covid deaths in Massachusetts, and counting.
cowinspace
Blackouts in the US were to prevent U-boats easily tracking merchant ships leaving harbour and grouping up along the north-east coast.
localsurfer
I'm not sure smoking a cig in Springfield would have been a problem.
dancingbarefootonlego
Blackouts in Massachusetts?
Deadhorsedoctor7
The police shot them.
tlamstrike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time
IamtheAIyoushouldfear
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
prettydumb
cold war lasted decades broseph.
Eightylb
I have lived in mass my whole life never heard of this.
leroy666
when were you born?
Eightylb
Not during ww2 lol 87
WherePoetryComesToDie
US Office of Civilian Defense organized blackout drills in most major cities during WW2.
professionalopinion
There were also collaborators.
BriefausdemGeist
First pilot shot down in the Battle of Britain was a Mosleyite
Silverbananahorse
A what?
jamisonletter
"A supporter of Oswald Moseley, English politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists."
d3c1m4t0r
Mosleyite (plural Mosleyites) A supporter of Oswald Mosley (1896–1980), English politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists.
confanity
Implying that the people protesting against masks are... collaborating with Covid.
AimlessSavant
Covid is a sentient scumbag confirmed
DarthGoodguy
No, just hosting it, spreading it, helping it hurt and kill more people. Wait...
13fingerfx
They may as bloody well be.
JustDontCare
Technically not, as collaboration requires consciousness from covid. But there are people purposely spreading it.
OaksParcel
It's not a very far fetched concept that a lot of the anti mask propaganda online could be made by foreign powers to kill westerners.
FuzzyBear
Why just Westerners.... look at India and Brazil covid counts... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_superpowers
Kaleopolitus
I distinctly recall rich people getting richer because of the effects Covid has had on society, so........... Yeah, collaborators.
aflarge
Even when they're getting rich specifically because our lockdown measures funnel all business through online sellers/corporate box stores?
aflarge
Because I really don't see how to do a lockdown WITHOUT it massively benefiting, say, Amazon and Wal-Mart. We shut down their competition.
confanity
Tell that to the Tyson people.