Wimpification of America — y'all think this is going to end well?

© 2021 Peter Free

 

18 April 2021

 

 

A cultural annoyance

 

For a group of internationally bullying louts, the US has way more than its share of cowering wimps.

 

 

Two points in illustration

 

First, Cancel Culture's attempt to bar us all against anything that might hurt our most trivial feelings. No stoutness of heart, spirit and mind built upon that foundation.

 

Then second — and more directly pertinent to today's take-away thought — is the latest consumer protection warning, regarding the alleged hazards posed by the Peloton's Tread+ indoor treadmill:

 

 

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Saturday said consumers should stop using the Tread+ treadmill from exercise equipment maker Peloton if small children or pets are around.

 

The announcement came one month after Peloton itself disclosed an accident involving the treadmill that resulted in the death of a child.

 

The U.S. agency said it knew about 39 incidents, including one death, and it said there had been reports of a pet and objects getting sucked underneath the treadmill. The agency released a video of one child getting stuck under the device as it was running, although the child was able to get out.

 

If people want to keep using the Tread+, they should only do so in a locked room and they should keep other objects away, the agency said. It advised people to unplug the treadmill while not using it and to keep the key to turn it on elsewhere and away from the reach of kids.

 

© 2021 Jordan Novet, Consumers should stop using Peloton’s Tread+ treadmill, U.S. agency warns, CNBC (17 April 2021)

 

 

I suppose that

 

We should keep cook stoves, fans, knives, scissors, glass and maybe 'slippery' sand — and anything else potentially and remotely unpleasant — inside locked rooms.

 

Preferably secured there with face or fingerprint-recognizing locks.

 

And child-protect those electrical outlets!

 

God knows that children only became safe, when kid-proof outlet plugs became available.

 

 

Certainly and for sure

 

Farmers — with all their dangerous equipment just lying around — should warehouse their offspring at gramma's house in town.

 

And, by golly, we've just got to do something about the hazards posed by trees, ponds and potentially accessible rooftops.

 

Fright and hazard are so abundantly everywhere, you know.

 

 

The moral? — Instilling fraidy-catness in everyone is not . . .

 

. . . (in my Curmudgeon's regrettably too substantial experience with Life) — not a good national policy.

 

Especially not, when we're trying to start wars with arguably tougher folk almost everywhere else.

 

Which may explain why American War Policy has evolved into filling its comparatively enslaved ranks — with people from disproportionately impoverished backgrounds — who cannot afford treadmills, or political correctness, in the first place.

 

Maybe someone should get upset about that particular Seed of Evil, instead of Peloton's treadmill and the allegedly harsh words that people often and honestly sling.