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UPDATE: Thanks to Anastasia for pointing out a major flaw with the comment sections the past two weeks. I've been copying and pasting the same comment button from another post, and apparently it's only designed to take people to that unique post's comment section and not the comment section below like I assumed. Seems like a flaw, but my fault. I apologize. All fixed.

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Just think of all the heart attacks a tense Super Bowl will cause. It could surpass Antietam as the deadliest day in American history. I say we cancel it now, for the good of all. If it saves just one life...

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Your satirical skills are award worthy, Citizen. The Bee would love to have you as a guest contributor.

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Thank you humdeedee. That would be quite the honor.

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Thank you. You're funny! Yes, protecting people from themselves has reached fever pitch. I have railed against the "safety first" mindset since I saw it gaining traction in the early 60's. People from earlier times would laugh at how ridiculous we are now. The local government where I live forbade children to ride down our biggest hill lest they hurt themselves. Their hero was bubble-boy, I suppose. I can't remember the last time I saw a child climb a tree.

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My father, in 1937, from West Virginia, was a migrant farm worker in California. He kept a daily pocket diary of his work and pay received. Got a snow shoveling job with SPRR. Southern Pacific Railroad? for 0.37 cents/hr. Snow was 4 to 7 feet deep on railroad tracks. Feb 9th 14.5 hrs, 10th 10 hrs, 11th 13.75 hrs, 12th 9 hrs. And got laid off. The years he worked as a migrant farm worker the 0.37 cents/hr shoveling snow was his highest paid job.

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Feb 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Interesting. I am 71 with heart problems and still shovel snow when I have to. That high potency cayenne tincture works wonders. But there are varying types of snow...the very dry, fluffy light stuff and the ultra heavy nearly liquid stuff. It makes a big difference, especially as you age.

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Just gave you a plug on the latest Substack Shoutout :-)

Great work!

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Thanks Winston! At the risk of looking a fool...what's a 'substack shoutout' and where does one shout?

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Don't know how much traction you get - they are very popular with hundreds of comments very quickly, so your comment is buried in a flash - nevertheless it's a place to promote.

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ok. thanks.

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Aha, the "joys" of snow shoveling. I spent many hours in such activity growing up in Philly in the 50's and early 60's. My enduring memory of that was the great piles of shoveled and plowed snow along side the streets and walks turning black before the spring thaw would finally melt it away. Back then before "globul" warming, those piles would be started in early November, and last until April some years.

Left Philly for the free state of Texas just as early as possible (1964), and have been here ever since with the exception of a couple of years spent "defending democracy" in an even warmer place. This morning I was greeted with about 2 inches of the evil white stuff, and spent a couple of miserable hours tending to my animal's needs. Now my hands have finally stopped hurting from cold injury years ago, and my feet are still numb. What ever happened to the "end of snow" we were promised by one of the hysterical climate scientist years ago. I'd really like to see a little of that global warming right about now, but will have to wait a few days for the thaw.

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Nice move. Timely. The extreme weather events won't end until we pay enough carbon taxes to management's vault. Keep warm down there.

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

As a self professed English "Snow Shovellor" of many decades (weather permitting), please note that in Ye Olde English, "Shovellor" is spelt with double L and O not E ;-) Jorn is obviously of good country stock and he kept me chuckling throughout the article. The only people who are in danger from snow and shovel's are the overweight city dwellers, whom I gather, you describe as "Couch Potatoes", who must be very good at shoveling processed stuff in their mouths. Love your work, one of the few things that bring a smile to my face these days, must get back to my "Shovelling" :-)

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Thanks. Haaha I wondered about that. The auto correct in my wp must use these language heretics https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoveler

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Feb 4, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

lol, correct. my favourite wordsmith! notice the correct spelling of favourite, as defined by the Oxford and Cambridge English Dictionary. Took me years to work out that American's do not speak English but have their own language "American". search "american/english dictionary". Forgive my rambling, gone a bit snow blind from the Shovelling ;-)

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Hahaha! A great bit of satire. These real articles you have screenshots of are just ridiculous. Of course people with serious heart conditions are going to have an issue with any kind of strenuous activity, that's a no brainer.

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Scary if you read between the lines.

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You know I always had a sneaky suspicion that snow shoveling (or is it shovelling?) wasn't good for your heart! But here in Queensland, Australia, it's a taboo topic - no one talks about it. You won't find the newspapers talking about any sort of local snow shoveling 'accidents' - it's a huge cover up if you ask me.

Anyway, I'm glad you are onto it and revealing just another key to sudden death syndrome in 2022.

Boy, we are getting smarter every day!

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Media will push fear at us any way possible. As if we are all simpletons and need daily warnings. So yeah, if your 80+ neighbor is shoveling snow, offer a hand or a cup of hot cocoa, then behold his fortitude.

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Along the lines of pushing fear, notice how upcoming storms are blown out of proportion so the gullible will rush to the store and buy a bunch of stuff to "prepare" for the storm.

All to show the advertisers how effective they are.

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Those get on my nerves, for sure. AND people go and get milk, bread, and eggs. The joke is, they get those items so they can have French toast. --- I will admit it is enjoyable to eat French toast, while watching it snow.

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Amazing writing as always! Thank you! (P.S. is it me, or is it getting harder to navigate your substack? The link from the email goes to a different post, as well as the comment button at the bottom of the relevant post. I had to use the little comment bubble at the top of the post to leave this comment in the correct place.)

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It's my fault. I copied the comment button from that one essay into many others. Apparently I need to create a new comment button without copying and pasting. Weird. It'll get fixed. thx

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Oh, great! I didn't see this before leaving my latest comment.

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Thanks. Is it going to your inbox at least? I keep reading comments on one single post "Everything is Clear from up here", that are about other articles, so I think it's happening to many people. I will look into it and contact substack.

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Feb 3, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Yes. The Snow Shoveling post came to my inbox, but the comment button went to the All Clear post. Even the comment button at the bottom of Snow Shoveling went over to All Clear. Good luck! Love your substack!

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Ok. Thanks Anastasia!

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Great story!!!! Guess they shouldn't have gotten boosted!!! Linking again @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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