#Great Barrington

[daysinayear2015]

Day 045: February 15, 2025

Great Barrington, MA.

[buzzbuzzwhs]

On top of all this, we’re very excited to announce that several well-known actors have volunteered to be part of our upcoming fundraising event, Bring Back the Movies, to be held at Saint James Place in Great Barrington at 5:30 p.m. on August 8. The event, a staged reading that will put a new spin on iconic movie moments, will feature an all-star cast of Karen Allen, Lauren Ambrose, Jayne Atkinson, Greg Boover, McConnia Chesser, Michel Gill, Melissa Leo, and David Rasche. Michelle Joyner is directing, and Gigi and Tom Teeley are performing the music.

General Admission tickets will be $50, and tickets for the reading, plus a post-show reception with drinks, bites, and an opportunity to meet the cast and see plans for the new Triplex, will be $150. All proceeds go toward renovating and reinvigorating the Triplex. Purchase your tickets for the event here.

Eternally fascinated by Lauren going off, acting her ass off in Servant or YJ? Then just going back to the Berkshires.

This is Wife behavior (Mr. Lauren Ambrose is on their board. Nice girl from Connecticut marries young*, has kids, stays married.

This is so severely Van-coded behavior.

[keithgoldstein]

Parking Lot

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American Auto Trail-Henry Knox Trail (Otis to Great Barrington MA)

American Auto Trail-Henry Knox Trail (Otis to Great Barrington MA) https://youtu.be/OFPo8CGTx_g This American auto trail follows a portion of the route of Henry Knox and his men from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston in 1774 and 1775.

[devonellington]

Tues. Aug. 8, 2023: Creative Weekend Before the Road Trip

image courtesy of Mier Chen via pixabay.com Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Waning Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron Retrograde Foggy, stormy, rainy Phew! Busy times. But good busy. Today’s serial episode is from Legerdemain: Episode 109: Princess Hester’s Intel A strong, smart princess has information on the upcoming trouble. Legerdemain serial link Legerdemain website Friday, I hit…

[gudemaart]

The joy of music 🎶

📸: Debra Gudema

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

President-elect Donald J. Trump late Tuesday nominated Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., if the Senate will confirm him!

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/health/trump-taps-dr-jay-bhattacharya-co-author-of-great-barrington-declaration-to-lead-nih

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[daysinayear2015]

Day 159: June 7, 2024

Great Barrington, MA.

[fangomusic]

JPEGMafia and Danny Brown, Scaring The Hoes

New music Wednesday

Twenty years of experimental hip-hop clash on this album and it immerses us in a colorful digital universe with their trademarks, a hyper-detailed production technique and those rapid-fire attacks on posers and twitter critics. The surprising, bombastic production continuously keeps you on your toes as bass-boosted percussions cut through sped up pop and soul samples.

[fishelfe]

Considering what happened/is happening re: COVID, all those apocalyptic films portay humanity correctly.

hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.

bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end up building communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that's what humans do. that's what they DO!!!

[verschlimmbesserung]

"Our governments encouraged us to ‘get back to normal’ and take a ‘you do you’ approach to the pandemic as soon as they possibly could, stating clearly that the vulnerable would simply ‘fall by the wayside.’ As one of the ‘vulnerable’… I’ve been paying attention to what that messaging has created. It’s not good."

[devonellington]

Wed. Aug. 2, 2023: Shake It Off

image courtesy of Jack Geoghegan via pexels.com Wednesday, August 2, 2023 Last Day of the Full Moon Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, Venus, Chiron Retrograde Sunny and cool We have two full moons this month! Makes August quite special, don’t you think? Today’s Process Muse is about reading and re-reading. You can READ it here. We have TWO serial episodes going live today, from two different…

[radioprune]

like can i be honest the first of december was covered with snow. so was the turnpike from stockbridge to boston

[theculturedmarxist]

The Great Barrington Declaration was an open letter published in October 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.[1][2] It claimed harmful COVID-19 lockdowns could be avoided via the fringe notion of "focused protection", by which those most at risk could purportedly be kept safe while society otherwise took no steps to prevent infection.[3][4][5] The envisaged result was herd immunity within three months, as SARS-CoV-2 swept through the population.[1][2][4]

Signed by Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford, Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, it was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), a conservative think tank, and drafted in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, signed there on 4 October 2020, and published on 5 October.[2][6] At the time, COVID-19 vaccines were considered to be months away from general availability.[4] The document presumed that the disease burden of mass infection could be tolerated, that any infection would confer long term sterilizing immunity, and it made no mention of physical distancing, masks, contact tracing,[7] or long COVID, which has left patients with debilitating symptoms months after the initial infection.[8][9]

The World Health Organization (WHO) and numerous academic and public-health bodies have stated that the strategy is dangerous and lacks a sound scientific basis.[10][11] They say that it would be challenging to shield all those who are medically vulnerable, leading to a large number of avoidable deaths among both older people and younger people with pre-existing health conditions.[12][13] As of October 2020, they warn that the long-term effects of COVID-19 are still not fully understood.[11][14] Moreover, the WHO said that the herd immunity component of the proposed strategy is undermined by the unknown duration of post-infection immunity.[11][14] They say that the more likely outcome would be recurrent epidemics, as was the case with numerous infectious diseases before the advent of vaccination.[13] The American Public Health Association and 13 other public-health groups in the United States warned in a joint open letter that the "Great Barrington Declaration is not grounded in science and is dangerous".[10] The Great Barrington Declaration received support from some scientists, the Donald Trump administration, British Conservative politicians, and from The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.

The Great Barrington Declaration was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian free-market think tank associated with climate change denial.[15][16][17]

Something about the fact Covid is being talked about like a common cold now is horrifying to me.

"Oh yeah I got covid again, gonna be resting for a week or so"

"Coworkers came in sick again, now I've got covid. Oh well, whatcha gonna do"

Its normal now. The new strains, the repeated catching, the fact its no longer a pandemic and is now a part of our daily lives.

A deadly disease that can and does permanently disable people who catch it is being treated like an inconvenient stomach bug.

And it was avoidable.

People are dying and being disabled in fucking droves and all anyone can say is "whelp, that's how it goes!" As if there wasn't/aren't vaccines, as if there wasn't/aren't methods that can help (masking, social distancing, etc), as if other places who took it more seriously didn't have better survival rates.

This outcome wasn't a guarantee. Selfish, ableist, racist, conspiracy loving ass-hats made sure it happened.

Looking at the numbers and then talking to people who didn't want to mildly inconvenience themselves to save lives is horrific.

Millions died.

Millions more will follow.

Thousands were disabled by it.

Thousands will follow.

And it. Was all. AVOIDABLE.