I think you might just have weird relatives. I've never seen anything like that, and I have been to a lot of funerals over the past 60+ years.
Funerals are for closure mostly. You know someone isn't coming back ever, if you see them boxed up and put in the ground.
I'm older and have never once had the flu. I think I might be naturally immune. I also never once wore a mask. A couple of places, such as Family Dollar and Wendy's, stopped us at the door, so I put them on my permanent shit list. I never got the shots, didn't stay home, and didn't follow the direction arrows in the grocery store. Enough of us didn't that the store gave up and took away the arrows.
I remember getting a lot more notifications a few years ago, including a number of X-class flares that were enough to affect satellites and radio. The biggest one yesterday was M 6.9.
I am on a mailing list from: https://listserver.ips.gov.au/mailman/listinfo/ips-flare-alert
"Emma Lazarus was born in New York City, July 22, 1849, into a large Jewish family. She was the fourth of seven children of Moses Lazarus, a wealthy merchant and sugar refiner, and Esther Nathan (of a long-established German-Jewish New York family)." - - Wikipedia
The video claims we'll have more tornadoes in the winter in the southeast, but we don't have them in the winter, just in the spring (March and April mostly).
It cites the very slightly lower than average hurricane counts, which aren't enough to really count. 15 down to 13 is little more than noise. NHC has never been right in their estimates.
Not "boomers," but old people. I'm not old yet, and I'm staying in my house. My parents stayed in their house until they died. Both my grandfathers died at home. I might be old when I get to my 90s. I'm in better shape now than I was 10 years ago.
Country singer Stringbean originated the look, but he never showed his underwear. Here's a photo of him: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS1bSgm6OE2MBqcUwHMkmhPJ7UiAzXF6N5POhotGXrl9Q&s
"Officially," not in reality. The CDC was moving normal flu deaths to the virus column. That was proved by a paper posted on the Johns Hopkins website. They don't like it, but they still posted it.
The deaths on ventilators and in nursing homes might not have been the virus, but they were directly caused by the criminals.
At this point, everyone alive is a descendant of the "ten tribes." But if you check Y-DNA, most people in Ireland, for example, are descended in the male line from Japheth, not Shem. There are also ancient genealogies that modern historians don't count, even though those genealogies are from different countries but agree completely in the earlier generations.
There were only natural borders in ancient times, rivers, mountains, oceans, etc. There were no lines on any map. Cultures were developed over hundreds of years by people separated from other people. It's like culture here in the South is very different from that in other parts of the country. The earliest basic language groups (around 70 to 100) came at the Tower of Babel, but there have been other languages (around 7,000) since then that developed over time.
I have a wealthy cousin who owns two Tesla Plaids and a Cybertruck. He says the Plaids can beat anything he owns for acceleration. He has a huge collection of Ferraris, Rolls-Royces, muscle cars, and older cars he's just interested in.
I don't use a cellphone. I do have a machine with no SIMS card or plan just so I can take photos (no GPS), play games, and have hundreds of books I can read wherever I happen to be. Wi-fi is turned off all the time. I have a 1TB card in it so I can carry thousands of songs, books, and other files. It's just handy. Also, without a plan means that I don't get bombarded with ads while I play a game I got for free.
I am free to go as I please. I didn't stay home during the fake virus. I also didn't wear a mask ever, get shots, or even walk down the store aisles following the arrows.
Apple was always overpriced for what it could do.
The Radio Shack Color Computer was the most fun computer I ever owned. You could connect it directly to almost everything. I bought an extra printer cable, removed one end and added a MIDI plug, and was able to play and record on a Yamaha electronic keyboard. I also used the cassette cable to connect the computer to my shortwave radio. I typed in a program from Rainbow Magazine and was able to receive weatherfax and news photos that were transmitted on shortwave. That made a $100 computer exactly equivalent to a $1,000 weatherfax machine. Today's PCs require additional hardware to do those things and aren't nearly as much fun to play with.
The Color Computer was what I used in the late 1980s for play and online research. There were BBS systems all over the country, as well as CompuServe, America Online, GEnie, and other services.
Why? I have no GPS in my car. My town is too cheap to have "traffic cameras" all over the place. They have them at a couple of major intersections, and I don't have to go through any of those to get anywhere I need to go. The station might have surveillance inside, but I could always wear "something."
Perhaps we should go back to the old days of self-serve gas where there was no building at all, and the pumps would accept currency.
I spend less than $900 per year on full coverage auto insurance, and it goes down every year.
There are very few charging stations still. In my multi-county area, there are now five outlets. Two are at hotels. One is at the waterfront park. The original one is at a McDonald's and still has just one outlet. The local hotel has three outlets, but only one of them is currently working. So you might want to stay away from northeastern NC unless you already have a full charge. If you go to the Outer Banks, there are more chargers, as there are more rich people living there. The map I used is: https://chargehub.com/map/#/en/map
I can get a top of the line new car like my current car with all the bells and whistles cheaper than the cheapest new Tesla available in my area. I will be keeping my current car for a few more years. I don't spend much on service, just a standard oil change about once a year. After five years, I bought new tires, not because of tread wear, but because of age. I've had it almost six years, and it still looks brand new and drives like new. I may never need to buy another car, as I may not even be able to drive by the time this car hits 100,000 miles.
My current car doesn't have GPS, but does have Sirius-XM radio. Nothing in my car has "updated" in almost six years. I don't use a GPS, as I can still read maps. I don't want an electric car.
My great-grandfather died from stomach cancer in 1918.
My great-great-grandmother probably died from stomach cancer in 1928, but it wasn't described well on her death certificate. It just said indigestion or something like that.
I took general business in high school. We were taught how to fill out income tax forms and how to write a check properly. I take care of donations at church once in a while, and 95% or more of checks are written incorrectly, just good enough for the bank to accept.
My father bought using cash. He bought a car on credit one time and said it took forever to pay it off. The last car he bought was a 1976 Cougar he bought for cash. The local dealer was actually bringing cars to the house for him to look at and test drive. He said you can save multiple ways by paying cash. He bought a refrigerator at Sears for cash, and he saved a lot of ways. First of all, it was on sale. Paying cash meant he could wait for the sale and take advantage of it. Second, his money was in the bank drawing interest until he bought the refrigerator. Third, he didn't pay interest on a loan. Fourth, by paying cash, he got the salesman's commission lowered for the quick sale. Fifth, by paying cash and insisting on same day delivery, he got the display model which saved even more money. You can always get the first three savings and sometimes the fourth and even the fifth.
In 8th grade, I was required to pick my high school classes for all four years. My father looked at the list, told me I could pick what I wanted, but that the only thing on the list I'd ever use later was typing. He was mostly right. My last job before retiring was almost all typing on a computer. I'm typing now on a computer.
That never happened when I was in school in the 60s.
There was a famous kidnapping in the 1930s, and young children in school were fingerprinted in an attempt to find the child. So my mother's fingerprints are at the FBI today.
Not exactly so. Regular aspirin is over-the-counter as here. For some odd reason, the low dose aspirin for cardiovascular purposes is prescription only. If you wanted to self-prescribe, you could just buy regular aspirin and cut the tablets.