"every restaurant on the island struggled to staff even when open at 50% capacity limits."
And nearly every restaurant now sh*ts on those of us who are unvaxxed AND who fought our idiot governor Wanda's destructive closures of restaurants tooth-and-nail.
WE patronized restaurants as soon as they reopened, WE double- and triple- tipped waitstaff because they went so long without paychecks, I paid the woman who cuts my hair for the two or three visits I couldn't go to because she was forced to close.
And now THEY demand that WE, those of us who fought our tyrannical dictator of an incompetent governor, Wanda Vazquez Garced, they demand that WE get the vaxx, or we are not welcome in their establishments.
Fuck. That. I don't take medical advice from burger joints, lechonetas, or hair salons.
I'm taking names (Buns Burger Shop, you're first on the list), and they can all rot in hell for all I care now. They will NEVER get even a plug nickel out of me ever again.
Middle of last year, I'm walking alone, all by myself, on a city street in Condado, no one anywhere near me, 100 yards away maybe the closest person. I'm walking back to the apartment from Walgreens, I'm not wearing a mask.
Cop car pulls over to the curb, calls for my attention. I look. There are FOUR COPS IN THE CAR, ostensibly four cops on the beat for mask scofflaws. I tried to have a civil conversation with them about the uselessness of masks (which *was* known back then). Made no difference. Didn't get ticketed, but put my mask on...until they turned the corner.
Crime here - especially violent and drug-related crime - is epidemic. And our idiot governor Wanda (at the time), or her police chief, thought it was a wise use of resources to stick FOUR COPS in a cruiser to harass single, solitary people walking around maskless.
“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.” Ashley Wilkes (Margaret Mitchell), Gone With The Wind
If I had a billion dollars...sadly, I don't...I would start a program of seeding local businesses with guaranteed support for five years and the proviso that the business owner could only sell to another individual at the end of term. They would not be permitted by contract to sell to a conglomerate or even a private equity company. I see this as a way to undo the damage wrought by the pandemic and the attempted consolidation of the globalists.
It's a sad fact that American culture is defined by business chains (food, stores, malls, movie theaters), stupid television shows, and stupid movies. We've lost the local and regional magic of American life.
“…’only by controlling covid can we give you your life back’ is the lie told to a brutalized circus bear on a tricycle that if he only rides a little better and obeys a bit more, he’ll one day be free…it’s how you die in a cage….”
I’ve said many times, my relatives in a former communist country readily accepted all of these mandates. So I think those countries never really escaped communism.
This is precisely why they started sending the child tax credits out like paychecks. It is also the reason for not being afraid of inflation. Government checks of printed money can be earmarked to any inflation rate no matter how absurd while the private economy will constantly struggle to keep up.
Destroying industry, innovation and productivity all fit into the carbon reduction plan and translate to the reduced standard of living that they expect non-elites to accept.
Isn't it amazing how well all of these things work together so synergistically? Almost as if it isn't a coincidence.
Do I still have time to move to a free State? Pretty soon the free States will have to close their boarders because the riff-raff will come in and vote for more free stuff! It’s probably happening to Texas (they can’t even close their Southern boarder) and will happen to FL! TX CAN succeed from the Union...and they should!
I think you could have written this about many (most? all? I'm not sure I'd include Grenada) of the islands in the Eastern Caribbean. It's as if they delight in this locked-down state. It's pitiful. And maddening.
collapse of complex civilizations - joseph tainter. this could have been written about ontario, canada. there is a mass exodus here. businesses are packing up and leaving. my husband would love to just john galt. it is a fine line right now...a tight rope.... do we stay bc we are positioned with self sufficiency for a great collapse or do we flee before we are locked in the cage. this very article is like a polaroid of this once great northern land. doing business here is a nightmare. all you do is feed the wolf.
One problem with SF and NYC people leaving to free states is that these specific people tend to be pro-government Covidians. They hate the free states and believe they can make them better by making them into CA and NY. They are connected to the “elite” the media and the far-left university system.
Every time I try sharing any of your articles or Alex Berenson's with my sisters, I get the same response: "but that doesn't happen here, fijate" UGH... the Dept of Health on the Island is just as bad if not worse than the CDC. Vax injuries are a myth according to her. SMH... I still believe that trusting your priest AND your doctor is in the majority of boricuas' DNA. You did nail it with your analysis. Mas claro no canta un gallo!! Can't wait to get updates on your 'visit' (not sure if you live there or just visiting). Have a great time!!
"every restaurant on the island struggled to staff even when open at 50% capacity limits."
And nearly every restaurant now sh*ts on those of us who are unvaxxed AND who fought our idiot governor Wanda's destructive closures of restaurants tooth-and-nail.
WE patronized restaurants as soon as they reopened, WE double- and triple- tipped waitstaff because they went so long without paychecks, I paid the woman who cuts my hair for the two or three visits I couldn't go to because she was forced to close.
And now THEY demand that WE, those of us who fought our tyrannical dictator of an incompetent governor, Wanda Vazquez Garced, they demand that WE get the vaxx, or we are not welcome in their establishments.
Fuck. That. I don't take medical advice from burger joints, lechonetas, or hair salons.
I'm taking names (Buns Burger Shop, you're first on the list), and they can all rot in hell for all I care now. They will NEVER get even a plug nickel out of me ever again.
We need our own country. Just sane people. And cats. Lots of cats.
Oh, and another thing.
"police handed out steep tickets for violations"
Middle of last year, I'm walking alone, all by myself, on a city street in Condado, no one anywhere near me, 100 yards away maybe the closest person. I'm walking back to the apartment from Walgreens, I'm not wearing a mask.
Cop car pulls over to the curb, calls for my attention. I look. There are FOUR COPS IN THE CAR, ostensibly four cops on the beat for mask scofflaws. I tried to have a civil conversation with them about the uselessness of masks (which *was* known back then). Made no difference. Didn't get ticketed, but put my mask on...until they turned the corner.
Crime here - especially violent and drug-related crime - is epidemic. And our idiot governor Wanda (at the time), or her police chief, thought it was a wise use of resources to stick FOUR COPS in a cruiser to harass single, solitary people walking around maskless.
The stupidity and tyranny here runs deep.
“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.” Ashley Wilkes (Margaret Mitchell), Gone With The Wind
If I had a billion dollars...sadly, I don't...I would start a program of seeding local businesses with guaranteed support for five years and the proviso that the business owner could only sell to another individual at the end of term. They would not be permitted by contract to sell to a conglomerate or even a private equity company. I see this as a way to undo the damage wrought by the pandemic and the attempted consolidation of the globalists.
It's a sad fact that American culture is defined by business chains (food, stores, malls, movie theaters), stupid television shows, and stupid movies. We've lost the local and regional magic of American life.
“…’only by controlling covid can we give you your life back’ is the lie told to a brutalized circus bear on a tricycle that if he only rides a little better and obeys a bit more, he’ll one day be free…it’s how you die in a cage….”
bam!! nailed it!
I’ve said many times, my relatives in a former communist country readily accepted all of these mandates. So I think those countries never really escaped communism.
This is precisely why they started sending the child tax credits out like paychecks. It is also the reason for not being afraid of inflation. Government checks of printed money can be earmarked to any inflation rate no matter how absurd while the private economy will constantly struggle to keep up.
Destroying industry, innovation and productivity all fit into the carbon reduction plan and translate to the reduced standard of living that they expect non-elites to accept.
Isn't it amazing how well all of these things work together so synergistically? Almost as if it isn't a coincidence.
Do I still have time to move to a free State? Pretty soon the free States will have to close their boarders because the riff-raff will come in and vote for more free stuff! It’s probably happening to Texas (they can’t even close their Southern boarder) and will happen to FL! TX CAN succeed from the Union...and they should!
I think you could have written this about many (most? all? I'm not sure I'd include Grenada) of the islands in the Eastern Caribbean. It's as if they delight in this locked-down state. It's pitiful. And maddening.
It sounds like a few States in America.
collapse of complex civilizations - joseph tainter. this could have been written about ontario, canada. there is a mass exodus here. businesses are packing up and leaving. my husband would love to just john galt. it is a fine line right now...a tight rope.... do we stay bc we are positioned with self sufficiency for a great collapse or do we flee before we are locked in the cage. this very article is like a polaroid of this once great northern land. doing business here is a nightmare. all you do is feed the wolf.
One problem with SF and NYC people leaving to free states is that these specific people tend to be pro-government Covidians. They hate the free states and believe they can make them better by making them into CA and NY. They are connected to the “elite” the media and the far-left university system.
Gato, it sounds awful. Why do you stay?
You see this with the airlines especially. They got that sweet bailout money, now they have to play by the government's idiotic rules.......
Every time I try sharing any of your articles or Alex Berenson's with my sisters, I get the same response: "but that doesn't happen here, fijate" UGH... the Dept of Health on the Island is just as bad if not worse than the CDC. Vax injuries are a myth according to her. SMH... I still believe that trusting your priest AND your doctor is in the majority of boricuas' DNA. You did nail it with your analysis. Mas claro no canta un gallo!! Can't wait to get updates on your 'visit' (not sure if you live there or just visiting). Have a great time!!