PS: Thanks for the tedious* work, Adam.

For SafeNow, was that picture to be embedded in that UR comment of yours. My feeling is, since Mr. Unz admitted that some comments had been lost, what happened to yours was purely from a bug, not purposeful censorship. If you look pretty near the bottom of that "Bugs & Suggestions" thread on the site, you'll see discussion on this. I even had a comment reinstated that I had trashed myself. (It was something just now worth saying, so I'd erased it early in the 5 minutes of that EDIT window. I reappeared!)

Was this a few days ago, SafeNow?


* That is, unless you used some character recog. software or found a tweet or what have you with copyable text.

PS: Good morning, everyone!

Mr. Moderator,

𝑅𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝐼'𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑉𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑛𝑟𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑎 𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 2𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑜𝑜𝑧𝑦! 𝐼'𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑛, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙.

Here you are...

Violet Affleck is a Yale student who has gained attention for her intellect, activism and advocacy for public health and climate issues. Though the daughter of actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, she has carved her own path outside of Hollywood.

What Violet Affleck has going for her:

• Intellectual rigor: A student at Yale University, Affleck is noted for her sharp mind. In May 2025, she published a research paper in the Yale Global Health Review that compared the response to the COVID-19 pandemic with that of the Los Angeles wildfires, arguing that society should apply lessons from one crisis to another.

• Passionate public health advocacy: Affleck has become a strong and thoughtful advocate for public health. Speaking at the United Nations in September 2025, she called for greater investment in clean air infrastructure and universal access to masks to prevent th long term effects of COVID-19. in 2024, she spoke before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to oppose mask bans and advocate for better health measures.

• Experience-driven conviction: Her advocacy is rooted in personal experience. Affleck has publicly shared that she contracted a post-viral condition in 2019, which gave her firsthand insight into the long-term consequences of even minor viruses.

• Early activism for privacy: As a child, she was instrumental in her parents' fight for "anti-paparazzi" legislation in California. At just 8 years old, she testified about her experience of being relentlessly hounded by photographers, which helped pave the way for a 2013 law that protected celebrity children from being photographed without consent.

• A strong sense of self: Affleck was raised with her privacy guarded by her parents, limiting her exposure to social media and the public eye. Her mother, Jennifer Garner, has described her as a "self-starter" and "hyper-articulate".

• A voice for her generation: She has used her public platform to express a sense of disappointment in how leaders have handled the ongoing pandemic, voicing concerns that her generation's "present is being stolen right in front of our eyes."

***

Mr. SafeNow,

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑖𝑟𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 2025 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑢...

COVID killed the flu...

https://i.ibb.co/B2Hthwsp/Flu-Chart.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/B5hDFKjQ/dhec-flu-graph.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/G4fHwKh2/Influenza-in-Poland.png

Because so called "COVID" was always just the common cold and flu rebranded as the most sinister of viruses.

Cheers! ☮️

PS
I had a proposed comment moderated-out on TUR. This was a first for me. I had tried to inform readers that Hanan Issa had been made “The National Poet” of - - of all places - - Wales. This appointment is significant…for the obvious reasons. Just ask Paul Craig Roberts. Why was this deemed too much…in Ron’s parlance..unhinged, deranged, wild-eyed. So, I will post the above here, where it will not be seen as too incendiary to see the light of day. Hey, I really enjoyed that post on the demise of salad bars…no sarcasm…we can talk about anything.

https://drsw10gc90t0z.cloudfront.net/AcuCustom/Sitename/DAM/419/Issa_Hanan_1920-X-1080.jpg

PS: "Who on earth would feel heat for Violet? " Hopefully, she can grow up and maybe it will change for her. (I saw a picture of her mother in that scene in "Catch Me If You Can". Yes, some heat, I could see that...

PS: "Generally it's just minor untreated depression. Major depression is now "trans" stupidity." Yep, gotta come up with something if you need off work or get insurance to cover it.

PS
Violet reminded me that I once read this: In any great new man/woman relationship, the man must feel “heat” ..because without “heat,” what he’s got is just a very good friend. The Woody Allen movie Another Woman explores the flip side of this..that is, it is ideal for the woman, too, if the man loves passionately..if he hungers for her; he is not going to be a financial high flyer..but hey, he hungers.
The Romantic poets of course understood this better than anyone.

I am left perplexed. Who on earth would feel heat for Violet? Who would hunger?

PS. Notice that since " long covid" became a thing people have a lot less asthma or Lyme or other mysterious long term hard to prove illness. Generally it's just minor untreated depression. Major depression is now "trans" stupidity.

PS: I'm watching and listening to (OK, just the latter) this Youth Advocate right now, as I write. I see some dude coincidentally named Adam Smith wrote a comment:

@AdamSmith-cf1tl
1 hour ago
My heart goes out to Miss Affleck. People with Fear of Unmasked Faces (FUF) can be triggered by the unmuffled sound of a maskless face. This is why I always wear my mask on conference calls, even when my camera is off. It's a really small gesture but it's the right thing to do. ☮

Heh, heh!

The comments are a hoot. The problem is, I can't tell which people are serious. I can't tell if the people voting thumbs up are seriously thinking the comments are serious or they glad for the LOLs like me. (I have no virtual thumbs, myself.)

Adam, you provided a link to the original article a post here was about. I meant to paste that in. Perhaps this one, and the choicest of comments would be a good post for tonight, even though I have dozens of other posts backed up.

As for me, my only question for Miss Affleck on her speech would be "Mind if I fart?"

PS: OK, Mr. Tyre, per Mr. Smith's AI question, you are taking a principled stance by wearing a mask when no one is looking. There are also 5, count 'em, 5 other reasons why this practice of yours is good and virtuous.

Hopefully you weren't kidding. Hopefully I am.

PS: Regarding AI's take on Violet Ganrer's bona fides, that 2nd point was a doozy! I'd like to paste it in, but that was an image, and too lazy to type it all.

If I didn't know better, I'd think that Miss Garner, the teenager, is a big fan of Primetime #99 Alex Stein. I look forward to videos of her at city council meetings.

Interesting stuff, that FUF, but the AI lies about the PanicFest having "exacerbated" this syndrome. No, it STARTED it.

PS: "𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒 𝐼𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐶𝑎𝑛" I DID see that one too, but it didn't appear in the list I saw, or I missed it. I'd thought that movies was from earlier, but the web says 2002. Great movie, IMO.

I looked it up. Jennifer Garner played the hooker Cheryl who "Frank" (Leo DiCaprio) swindled like everyone else. He was gonna pay her $1,000, but he only had a check made out for $1,400 - can't remember how that came about. She gave him the $400 "back", and then, well, that guy's checks weren't usually good.

I'll check out your AI links now, Adam.

PS: Me again...

Here's a link to Miss Affleck's 𝐹𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑈𝑁 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑐ℎ 𝑂𝑛 𝐶𝑂𝑉𝐼𝐷 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝐴𝑖𝑟...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNP_dsfWzFA


And a little more AI overview info on FUF...

https://i.ibb.co/5x4hz2L8/Fear-of-Unmasked-Faces-FUF.jpg

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good afternoon, Mr. Moderator and Friends!

𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐽𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑟 - 𝐼'𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Garner_filmography

Apparently she was an extra in 𝐷𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑦. (I didn't realize this until I looked at her filmography page.) She was also in 𝐶𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑀𝑒 𝐼𝑓 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐶𝑎𝑛. (Again, I didn't know this but it has been about a thousand years since I watched that movie. Also... I'm pretty sure these are the only two movies in her filmography list that I have seen.)

https://i.ibb.co/DPm6S8YS/What-does-Violet-Affleck-have-going-for-her.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0jQkzmmR/Hey-you-re-that-How-dare-you-chick-Can-I-get-a-selfie-with-you.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/XxTxvWf5/I-always-wear-my-mask-on-conference-calls.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/sxjmfHh/United-Federation-of-States.jpg

Seriously, though... Why would the United Federation of States even invite this girl to speak about this? What sort of nonsense is this?

☮️

PS: Heh, Mr. Trye, nice satire there!

Were you 7 years old right now, I'd think you were serious... not just because of 7 years old, but because you might have been exposed to the masking stupidity for a very significant part of your toddler years. Not good.

On some business calls, I could see masking up being of real benefit. If they come back at you later saying "you told us to do this, and the whole project is now in disarray!", you can simply say "You heard wrong."

PS: My heart goes out to Miss Affleck. People with Fear of Unmasked Faces (FUF) can be triggered by the unmuffled sound of a maskless face. This is why I always wear my mask on conference calls, even when my camera is off. It's a really small gesture but it's the right thing to do.

PS: Good morning, SafeNow. Yeah, I didn't even add the "Humor" tag, but it creeps in insidiously lots of the time.

Right. The viruses mutate, and when they get the least deadly, they are better at spreading because people live with them. The common cold is not fun, but with a sore throat for a day, maybe some bouts of sneezing, and a day where my sleeves are used as tissues for a while, it's something that doesn't stop me from any normal activities. That last bit by Violet Alfac that I included has her worried that kids can't live normal lives. We got colds as kids (more than I do now). We lived normal lives. We didn't have the internet on which to experience stupidity like this, so that was a big plus.

Has anyone asked AI what's the difference in symptoms between the common cold or the '25 variants of Covid-19?

I hope Trump does say something like that. I wonder if he still feels invested in his "moon shot" or whatever they called that quick release of those vaccines and his words actions in '20 in which he went along with "The Experts". The guy doesn't like to admit he was wrong, but I've heard of him doing that a couple of times now.

PS
An extremely funny column, thank you!
Now, technically, Covid as one might think of it, IS actually “ongoing,” …but at a very small incidence. The CDC’s Covid hospitalization frequency for Sept of 2025 is minuscule. But assuming a person’s Covid case is a standard one, and not one of the rare, unlucky hospital cases, what does his Covid look like? Here’s where it gets really interesting. and important. AI tells us that a bad cough, or smell/taste loss, are no longer the frequent symptoms. Rather, “the variants circulating in 2025 often cause symptoms that resemble a common cold or flu.” AI then goes on to list the symptoms, and these sure look like cold or flu symptoms. I believe Trump was premature when he said Covid is the flu, but it is clear that NOW he could say Covid is a cold or the flu.