a simple 3 step plan to turn new years eve into the rodeo of 1000 goats and send hotels and hospitals alike into a tailspin.
step 1: mandate covid tests on top of vaccine proof for all large gatherings and for flying into puerto rico
step 2: panic everyone into wild over-testing
step 3: completely run out of not only rapid tests but even the actual reagents for PCR such that you literally cannot get a covid test on PR for love or money
this 3 step plan has literally inundated the emergency rooms with healthy people trying to get PCR tests so they can go to concerts, clubs, and big hotel parties for NYE.
pretty much every event over 100 people is demanding it.
in flawless, on point irony, the ER’s are struggling to provide the actual emergency care for which they are intended because of this and we’re having, for the first time all covid, an actual crisis at the hospitals, not because of disease, but because people want to hit the el san juan hotel party or club 787.
it’s going to be the perfect lose/lose scenario as these parties are going to get gutted because guests cannot enter, the ER’s are on tilt, and who knows how the incoming tourists or locals coming home are supposed to get a test within 48 hours of landing (per new rules).
apparently, trips and reservations are getting cancelled wholesale over it.
probably 1/3 of the restaurants in san juan are closed because staff got a positive covid test and the rest cannot get cleared with negatives as no tests are available.
so the health minister responds by cutting restaurant capacity to 50%. so now it’s bedlam everywhere.
a restaurateur i know said he’s forbidden his employees to get tested because if they do, he’ll get closed down. i doubt very strongly he’s the only one.
cruise ships are refusing to stop here because the rules are impossible.
it’s the boriqua classic:
honestly, i’m rooting for chaos. too many here have been far too complacent about far too much arbitrary and capricious stupidity.
i’m hearing endless grumbling and complaint about this. it’s time we demoted this absurdity of a health minister to “assistant dogcatcher 3rd rate” and got back to life.
i hope the hotels and tourism based business are livid.
On "Nextdoor", people near me are up in arms due to the long lines to get tested.. most people getting tested do not have any symptoms, but need tests to go back to work because they were in "close contact" or some b.s. with someone that tested positive. (Whether showing symptoms or not) It's a never-ending cycle of stupidity and testing.
Miles of lines of people who feel perfectly healthy enough to stand in long lines, often in the cold, to get a test to tell them if they're sick or not. Not sure any period in human history can match this period of mass stupidity.
Xiden told BinaxNow to halt production, probably other companies too. He's commissioning official gubmint tests. Probably pre-loaded with "positive" results.
Agree. Sad but True ! The Brainwashing is Supreme. People are terrified. They 'did everything right' ! Double vaxxed with a booster and they still get sick. The look of FEAR in their eyes is real & sad. Yet... they still can't put the pieces together so that they see what truly is ! And they're looking for someone to blame ! It's the UNVACCINATED !!!!
Here in Cali they test cause they had vague contact with a pos case and all dutifully line up for house to catch it from the person next in line 🤦♀️. You sometimes can’t help stupid.
4 months ago I went to my small hearing aid office to pick up a hearing aid that had been repaired. The only people there were the audiologist and one elderly masked up couple before me, who shuffled past my unmasked self as fast as they could. I was with the audiologist less then 5 minutes. A week and a half later, I got a call from their remote receptionist telling me I might have been there when someone else might have been exposed to covid. My response: So what? Don't waste my time with this. And I better not be in some government database! The woman on the phone clearly did not expect that reaction. She couldn't hang up quickly enough.
The western world is completely GA GA now. I’m packing my bags and moving to where it’s safe from these paranoid schizophrenics…I was thinking Moscow but Edward Salvsquat says the Kremlin is starting to jab and test like gangbusters as a well. Calcutta?
North Korea is starting to look sane and (classical sense) liberal - or at least the difference with the so-called ‘free’ World has become vanishingly small.
Most seem to be, and they're blaming it all on the unjabbed.. They seem to think they work, and certainly haven't seen the data that the Bad Cat has shared, especially the data on Omicron.
YES. AND I HAVE TO HAVE A MANDATED PCT EVERY WEEK TO WORK (i am vaccine free) and most have NO SYMPTOMS. But now they are smartening up, to get the PCR test now you HAVE TO HAVE SYMPTOMS. Girl next to me in line said yes she did. Wasn't sneezing, running nose, nothing. They are PILING IN THE TESTING PLACE and if they are sick I DO NOT WANT TO BE AROUND THEM. IT IS PUTTING ME IN JEOPARDY. IT is in a building with CLOSED WINDOWS.
crazy. Are you in the US? There are no PCR tests anywhere to be found. Hoarding perhaps? A testing place does not seem desirable unless you are congress you can wait in your very own car and pull up for a quickie test
Speaking of Congress, the list of who is exempt from mandates in ENRAGING. They won't give it to the illegals because they are afraid they will be sued...and they are not included in the no liability clause the rest of us live with.
It is beyond all common sense. I have two friends both jabbed and boosted. One has been testing every day and twice a week at CVS for Rapid and PCR. Other one wants to get tested because someone he sat next to on Friday tested positive. NO SYMPTOMS, Feels fine, BUT MUST GET TESTED. I asked him why he wanted to get tested (and he was really upset it took three days to get an appointment) and he said it is because he has workers coming to do something at his house and doesn't want to infect them. I told him GO SIT OUTSIDE OR OPEN A WINDOW. I really think people's BRAINS are BROKEN.
Meanwhile, I’m unvaxxed and just caught a flu. Am I gonna get tested for covid? Hell no! Who cares what it is; I’m not dying over here so I don’t give a flip if it’s covid or not.
Every year around this time I get a runny nose and sometimes a light cough. Usually it's because of the dry air where I live in the winter. According to the new "logic" I am now supposed to ignore something I've experienced my entire life at the same time every year and rush out and get tested for a scary scary *scary* virus with a 97 - 99% survival rate (Over 99% for healthy people and pretty much 100% for kids) to prove to myself and others that I already know that I don't have something. Sorry if that sounds confusing, but I'm confused. lol. JUST SAY *NO* TO TESTING and every other part of this madness.
I could swear that's exactly what happened to me last Wednesday. Left PR for VA. Not 5 minutes into my son's house in VA and my nose was running. Nighttime heat is forced hot air, via natural gas. I've had the runny nose on and off all week, but no other symptoms at all. (Could also be allergies to something in the house; I don't remember every blowing my nose when we've been out and about doing things this week).
Friday I head to my daughter's house in southern ME for a week there. Of course there will be dry air heat there as well (FHA, too).
Regardless, whatever the symptoms (or not), I'm not giving the testing bureaucracy any of my data. I'll only self-test at CVS for my return to PR, and I'll only pretend to stick the probe up into my nose. Eff them all.
I mean not that you have the flu, but your attitude! Who cares? What can they do for you in hospital even so? Test you for The covid you will GET in the hospital, move you to a ventilator and destroy you in three days with Remdesivir (Deathisnear). If it is the flu, take Tamiflu. If it is Covid, take the Drugs that should not be named...it is JUST like Tamiflu for Covid. Bless you and prayers for a rapid and full recovery. ( I think tamiflu is an anti viral...anyone know if it might work on Covid? I have a strong suspicion it does...)
The parents at my kids school figured it out finally. You never have Covid if you never get tested. There is literally ZERO reason to get tested at a health facility but even the home testing is dumb. Suddenly no kids at our school ever have Covid and I am certain its because parents stopped getting kids tested, as a positive test means your kid has to miss school for 10 days (or I guess 5 now). No test, stay in school. Simple.
It is beyond the pale. Even if you test positive for Covid, what are you going to do, you are already vaxxed and boosted you ninnies. I offered them HCQ or Ivermectin, but they are convinced it will kill them because Fauci said so. My god they won't even take a vitamin D pill. So I am done offering, and I have NO sympathy. I had to go stand in a line today out the door to get a mandated PCR AGAIN because I go back to work on Monday...which reminds me I need to write to HR about the increasing risk to me of getting this test. All these infected people!!!
I know...but they'll inject experimental MNRA into their bodies - Don't know or care to know how it works, not bothered it wasn't tested on animals first, not worried about long term safety......Really, I just don't get it...
Hilarious! Your rant is the mirror image of any recent rant against the unvaccinated. We might as well start calling this for what it is, a Pandemic of the Infected. And there's nothing they can do about it. Omicron, whenever it finally takes over, has really shown how naked our "Emperors" are.
I am gratified the worm is turning, but it really can't turn fast enough.
There is some old Caribbean folk wisdom. Say it with whatever Patwah or other accent you want, Mon! "Sometimes de brain she work, other time de brain she not work." 💩
This mom wants to have a playdate with our daughters. Ok, fine. She says, can we meet at a park due to the Covid surge? It's going to be in the 20's that day where I live. So what, is the solution to allow 6 year olds to play inside in the middle of winter that we should all get tested before? I didn't say anything, I'm like bet, you want chilly! I'll bring the hot chocolate.
Just read a FB thread for my kid’s college where all the parents are worried about getting tests and results on time for kids to go back to school. Ditto for the stupid boosters. A few were looking for boosters for their kids who literally just had Covid this week. Their doctors said it was ok to just get boosted once they felt better rather than wait the recommended 4 weeks. Whut? How is that sound medical advice? Would they recommend a chickenpox vax a week after they had the chickenpox?
Dad asked the pharmacist if it was okay to get a booster and the flu shot within a few weeks. First he was told to wait 4 weeks in between. Then he was told 2 weeks was fine. Then he was told it could be done in one session, just use the other arm. Science.
I love the separate arm suggestion. I've heard that before and after being absolutely stunned for a moment I busted out in hysterical laughter at the insanity of it all. WOW.
That’s why infants are given 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 different agents all at once and then get day-glow acetaminophen ladled down their gullets at the same time. It’s to “stop disease.” Of course not mitochondrial diseases or autoimmune diseases or ASDs. Just things that are transient like chicken pox and mumps….”Science” must be a much much reliable magical thinking system than the flying spaghetti monster’s right? (Just because guys like Gregor Mendel and Georges Lemaître were Catholic priests, those are just wild coincidences right?)
Exactly. The ones who don’t die of “sudden infant death syndrome” which is vaccine death, will likely have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, or develop an autoimmune disease etc, etc, but the takeaway is that they’ll likely never marry or reproduce, and mom and dad will certainly take steps to ensure that no more siblings arrive after the impaired child’s arrival. No need to push women into the abortionist’s stirrups when numerous vaccines will guarantee mom’s future sterility through a series of “unfortunate coincidences.”
the cases should have never happened at all (you know, due to our government funded health protective agencies)...but as we see, those no longer exist and have not existed for a long time. i feel for parents who don't where to turn. It's a nightmare for those who want health for their families.
Well, my 7 week old baby boy gets only his breast milk! nothing less, nothing more :)
If there's one good thing that came out of this whole dumpster-fire-fuckery-horror-show is that it made me aware that something ain't quite right and after I went digging this was the result -> (((O.O)))
Could you give a little more context to your reference to Mandel and Lemaître?
I think one of my kids got them at the same time. He seems ok. I really hope that the worst that comes out of these jabs is that they are not effective. I dread to think what the future may hold. I’ve seen the data on the adverse effects though.😕
Getting healthy college kids vaccines they don't need isn't sound medical advise all by itself. Getting them boosters they really don't need is flat out quackery medical advise.
The roles have been reversed. What regular medicine used to call quacks are the real healers. Regular med are the quacks. They have hardly any idea of healing. Only of making chronic patients. Milking cows.
I am starting to wonder how long the presidency has been part of the show put on to turn people away from the real problems. It looks like quite some time now !
In other news--the U. Penn girls' swimming team is afraid to ruin their chances for the Ivy League all-champs if they protest against teammate "Lia." They're miserable, but that brass ring is still glittering in their tear-drenched eyes.
I'd say a ruined New Year's Eve is, as El Gato says, just what PR really needs right now. Hope it works...
i had to look this person up as it's not something we've heard about in the frozen north...'eligible to compete on the women's team after a year of testosterone blockers'? WTF? that is just complete nonsense. are the women allowed to take testosterone or some kind of testosterone booster? c'mon! dude is a dude is a dude. but, maybe, just maybe, this is the kind of attention seeking idiot that would undergo a gender change just so it could 'win' and get said attention....??
The lunatic crowd says "transgirls" for a reason. Gives you a mental vision of some poor frail soul needing comfort and protection. Not a big hearty teen boy or adult man with the torso of same. Stop using those terms. Stop using "she" and "her." The tongue will retrain after a few weird dissonant moments. If people you like try to correct you, you know where you'll stand with them on a lot more than this.
honestly...this gender identity stuff has me flummoxed! when did this all start? it is nothing short of just plain weird. why are all these young people so frigging CONFUSED? i think i'm just getting old...sigh... either way, he/she doesn't belong on a girl's swim team. if he/she wants to compete, then he/she should be competing against same. just, shouldn't be allowed. oh, but then i guess we have issues of 'equality'...SNORT!
View Yuri Bezmenovs interviews, where he details how the old KGB would go about destabilising a country and then realise that the left in the US and UK, have been doing exactly that since Alinsky's time.
I suspect that trans rights, BLM, climate change, stolen elections, terrible pandemic, manufactured crises, are all part of the same agenda and are being forced upon humanity to keep us off balance and confused as to the truth, enabling whatever manipulation of humanity they want. Just look at how utterly blind so many people are about the sniffles.
It is not just PR that needs a ruined New Years Eve. It is the entire US...I hope ALL OVER THE US the TEST KITS RUN OUT/REAGENT not available, etc. etc. etc. Best thing that could happen to people.
The solution is not for the women to have to take a stand, but for them to enlist as many sympathetic male swimmers, who will claim to be trans women, as they can.
When actual biological women never win another swim meet, the absurdity of letting biological men compete in women's sports will be apparent to even the wokest nut jobs out there.
No--I think those women need to stand up for themselves as feminists have always claimed they can. They built this trap for themselves. They wanted to be "good allies" and prove they weren't "transphobes." Feminists betrayed other women from the get-go, with contempt for women who wanted to be wives and mothers. Their version of "choice" has always been "be like us." They got themselves co-opted with a vengeance.
Exactly, SCA. The women should stand and say he is biologically a man, no matter what he thinks in his head. Saying this does not make you transphobic in my opinion. I am not transphob, be who you want to be but don't piss on my leg and tell me its raining when I know what is under your swim trunks or in your abdomen and you want to compete against biological women.
The concept of "transphobia" is nonsense. No one is "trans," or "queer." You're male or female, and that's true regardless of whom you're sexually attracted to.
I remember decades ago feeling the aching poignancy of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." It's hard not to be loved by ones you love, and even a man in a really hot dress has real emotions. That doesn't mean we must realign the natural axis of the universe for those who cannot fit on a spectrum of normality. "Normal" is not a bad word. It's a base from which some diverge slightly and some diverge greatly. But it's a necessary measure because some divergences are extremely unhealthy. Gay and straight are normal categories. We need the guts to say many other categories aren't.
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Thank you. I remember finding Tim Curry incredibly sexually attractive in that role, just as I did Freddy Mercury in his beefcake years and David Bowie in his androgynous phase. Didn't make me "queer." I think the young'uns have a remarkably straitlaced view of sexuality--and life, for that matter...
You know that even if every female event was won by a man, too many lefties would still celebrate it as being "stunning and brave", even if the losing child was their own.
I fell t kind of badly that I was hoping that this whole thing blows up in their face but after reading you I guess that's the only thing that has a shot at waking people up!
We've bailed out the idiots who make these rules by adapting and overcoming. Time to abide by every rule to the letter. Slow the whole world down... let the shelves empty. Get tested numerous times and when positive get your paid time off.
Enough. Don't just comply. Comply to the letter and when the rule is confusing send a memo/email asking for clarification and wait for it before going on to the next task. Retire in place.
I now understand why everyone is so eager on testing ! I am retired and had no idea they got paid time off if positive. I wonder if they would have been so eager if it had been UNpaid time off
There is no more "government" pay for when you have to take time off due to positive test. My husband's company doesn't pay either - you have to use your own PTO. I think it depends on the company whether they'll pay you or you have to use your own PTO. You'd think if you had to burn your own PTO you'd think twice about getting tested.
I can’t help it but this made me giggle out loud. Witnessed this same thing last week in Austin Texas. The stores were out of tests and everyone was scrambling to get tested because their covidiot friends and families were requiring BOTH vaxxed and vaxfree guests to be tested. Cue the long lines at the drive-through testing centers giving the false impression that all these people were sick. Every gathering the conversation was about all the tests being sold out. We are living in a clown world. PS. I don’t go to parties that require tests. No tests or masks required for the party at my house! We ask for your cocktail order at the door!! Woohoo!
If I was invited to a party or gathering that required a test, I wouldn't go. And I wouldn't associate with them again until they had a mental health test.
I’m trying my best to stay away from the testing mania…but I came down with what I’m pretty sure was Covid - I REALLY wanted a home test so that I knew if it was a cold/flu or Covid and would then start Ivermectin. Of course, all home tests were sold out before Christmas…tried to find veterinarian Ivermectin but that was all sold out too, so decided to give it a couple days and if I got bad, pay the $500 to get it expedited from Frontline Doctors or similar…never got bad. Eh - my point is the home test is good to know whether or not to start a Covid protocol when getting those meds are hard to come by and not wanting to take them unnecessarily
In Belgium the government tried to lock down, but business owners have decided otherwise. Now the government has put a step backwards and does not think it is necessary to lock down LOL
The son of friends and his wife went to France a few months ago. They were both vaxxed with documents, but coming back, had to pay a whopping 1330 dollars for tests ! These things should have costed no more than 75. I am not going anywhere until this whole mess is over. Might be never, but that is fine !
Chaos coming to ERs here in California too. People test positive for the rona and run to the ER. Heard of plenty folks clogging up a major hospital because they test positive and feel short of breath with elevated heart rate. = over 100bpm is normal with infections, o2 well above 95%, they just scared shitless cause MSM says everyone dies from rona. By showing up at the ER needlessly omicron and co are exhaled all over the place infecting double and triple vaxxed doctors and nurses… 🍿
I wonder just how many people are either having panic attacks and/or symptoms they have literally convinced themselves of in the last 2 years. My Grandmothers on both sides of my family lived very long lives and they always told me that a lot of illness was in our imagination at times. My Grandma on my Dad's side always said, "I don't have time to be sick." And I'll be darned if she didn't live till 102 years of age *without* shots of any kind.
Exasperated, of course, by all the illegals who have been instructed to get health care and social services at emergency rooms. We are being led by morons.
Want this crap to end? Go nowhere. We all (or mostly) got cable? Know how to cook? (Or open cans and defrost stuff?) Buy only groceries and urgent necessities. Stay home. Get your money's worth (not really, but still...) from your cable subscription. The country would open without restrictions in a week. It's the coastal and DC elites (I hate cliche terms but things become cliches for a reason) prolonging the agony. Undercut 'em every way you can. Businesses will howl and then this will end.
Whatever happened to the #1 goal of protecting hospital capacity? How selfish do you have to be to push your way into an emergency room just to get a covid test so you can go to a party?
I have never taken a covid test. Oh, I haves suffered because of it. But I have never wanted me or anyone I might have come in contact with be subject to isolation and disgrace.
If more people would have refused to test, we wouldn't be here. Just as if more people refused to fly because of the masks, masks would be gone by now.
Been to Mexico a few times this year. Don't need a test for anything except to return the US (land of the not-so-free). 'Borrowed' a friend's PDF of his 'Rona test and just modified the name and date.....walla! No problems and have used the same PDF each time
Gato Malo: it's absolutely insane! My BIL went to ER last night at Auxilio Mutuo. Got admitted today for diverticulitis. My sis just told me that ER is "FULL with covid". I asked her how did she know they are not flu cases, etc. She was told by the ER staff. Anyhow, she witnessed a crowded ER in one of the largest hospitals in the SJ metro area. Mind you, she's vaxxed and even got the flu shot this year for the 1st time ever. So, there is no talking her out of the Pierluisi roller-coaster. In true covidian fashion, she wore an N95 and 2 extra masks while waiting in the ER with her husband. Sigh... I just can't... And as weird as this sounds, I'm glad to be in crazy Oregon rather than lunatic PR.
They have already retreated so much because of fear of omicron. Hospitals are never fun but he got a good room according to my sister. God-willing, this experience may help him adjust his eating habits. He's still young 59. Hard working man. Thanks!
I hope so, More fiber, no fried food, fast food and no oils-better to use butter, no sugar and prepackaged food and less alcohol. Organic and fresh and less red meat. Will create less inflammation in the gut. Wishing him a speedy recovery and more wisdom.
Thank you - (I love butter) - I just saw a report on med research (I know, fwiw): the guidance (circa 2005 or so) that moderate alcohol (esp red wine) consumption is health enhancing is now being seriously re-thought. It's really just a big sugar shot post metabolization.
At least we can play golf in the winter! Wait, make that: at MOST we can play golf in the winter.
Wait again...are golf courses - golf is played outside across 200 acres - mandating the vaxxes??? If they are, Florida here we come. And taking our tax base with us. I'll find out in a couple of weeks.
Well, I was born in upstate NY and my heritage is primarily Scots...so it'll be my 'Rican wife (born in Miami to Cuban parents who fled in late 1960 and settled in PR after she was born).
So I don't really know what our correct "'Rican" nomenclature is!
I agree that it is good overall that people are starting to experience some major pain and inconvenience due to the idiocy of our elected or appointed officials. I think of how much college students have to put up with the masking and the shots and the boosters. I went to college during the Vietnam war and students did not put up with anything like this. Of course the danger was they would get drafted and sent off to war. There seems to be no downside for college students these days and in addition they have been taught to drink the Kool-Aid.
Sounds like Italy, too..horeca owners were all on Green Pass and Super Green Pass (for vaxxed & recovered only) to create a "safe environment" so the Saint Vaxxed cuold safely enjoy theyr holidays; enter Omi and testing frenzy (test for Xmas gatherings, test for cinemas, theatres, clubs, test for visit grandma) chaos! Endless queues for testing, 2.5 million people on quarantine (now reduced for vaxxed only, of course...) owners are pissed, vaxxed are pissed, unvaxxed are pissed forever...but they still go on and are about to go with work mandates
thanks for the belly laugh--not at the situation, but at the absurdity of it all! i think NZ is also there, but things are so buttoned-up here you don't hear about it as much. thanks for the brilliant writing ;>)
Please do not insult dog catchers. LOL! The so called HM is beneath that position. For those that can't get in to party, have a party at home, live it up, drink and dance til the sun comes up. Don't let the suckers get you down or out! This will all work out in time....it really will. Party like its 1999 in 2021!!!
I would think a few island drinks 🍹 on the beach 🏖 and maybe some takeout party appetizers would be the best way to celebrate NYE in PR ! (Sorry for all the venue owners and employees though.)
In my county, we are also getting urgent pleas NOT to go to the ER for a PCR test.
Just another moment when I feel like a martian. At least in PR they are doing it for a reason. Here, people just really, really want to know whether or not they have covid!?!?
I love PR. I took my kids there on vacation when they were young teens. I rented a house in Luquillo. So beautiful, the memories are so special to me. I can image the chaos in the best of times, I don’t want to in the times you are describing now…enough with the fucking testing!!!!
"it’s time we demoted this absurdity of a health minister to “assistant dogcatcher 3rd rate” and got back to life."
No, please don't do that to the dogs--they deserve so much better!
I'm in Virginia and I'm also voting for chaos! As much as I want this stupid shit to be over--as I have since Mar 2020--sadly, I know that if it ends too soon too many of the dumbasses that have finally started to get angry will just go back to their lives and nothing will change. I've been taking action all over the place but me and ten friends can't do it alone.
Testing rates soaring here in New England - haven't seen numbers but i have seen the sheep lined up around the block at local testing center. Not sure it was that bad even a year ago. Not one of them looked/acted sick in any way.
Aw, jeez. After they did away with testing, I scheduled my first Covid-era trip to PR for mid-January. I'm vaxed, but I don't want to test and and don't want to vacation is Hysteria World. It's even hard to get a test on the mainland now due to all the hysteria. I guess we'll see what happens. I fear 3 weeks is too short to restore sanity. I suppose I can always go back to Florida.
I live in Puerto Rico, and I'm thinking you'll have more fun in Florida. The government and media have created such a fearful climate here that a significant number of people are mean little tinpot hall monitors. You deserve a nice vacation.
Sophia - I saw pictures of a cousin and her family vacationing in Culebra this week, and all 3 of them were wearing N95s in the golf cart at the resort!! These are all vaxxed people. Her 16 y.o. was wearing a stupid mask while strolling on the desolate beach. They've damaged that kid forever. Who wears a freaking mask out in Culebra? SMH
BTW. from personal experience, I know PR's public health care system and emergency medicine isn't very good to start with. My wife once had a relapse of a back industry and needed some pain medication. Easy to do on the Mainland, almost impossible on PR. After endless waits, they told her to go get some CBD because they couldn't prescribe the pain killers and the pharmacies weren't allowed to stock the medicine anyway. She flew home early for treatment. FWIW, this has been one of my hesitations to go back to PR during Covid. God forbid I needed treatment, this would be one of the worst places to get it.
I had to leave the island (for the holidays to visit family, so it worked out well) to Tele-Med with my new doctor, from the FLCCC group, because my PR doctor is #DeadToMe. Had a great consult, covered the things a regular in-person new doc visit would cover, AND, got my IVM script filled and overnighted to me in VA.
That's fantastic, Andrew!! So glad to hear. I watched the FLCCC zoom meetings every week. LOVE them!! Was it easy to schedule the telemed appt with them?
It was quite easy. I contacted three or four of the docs who can practice or prescribe in Virginia (I was spending 10 days in VA over the holidays). One of them called my back two days later, at 8pm two days before Christmas. We talked for about 20 minutes, then she made an appointment for noon on Monday the 27th. We had a Tele-Med consult for about 30 minutes and discussed a variety of subjects - it wasn't just for IVM - and when all was said and done she gave me advice on supplementation, she gave me several prescriptions (?) for blood work for different things, and she called in the IVM prescription before our consult was done. The pharmacy called me less than an hour later to confirm my VA shipping address, and the IVM arrived by 5pm the next day. I'm very happy with the doc's thoroughness and her contempt for the sht and the shtheads who have corrupted our health care system. All of this is OOP because my health insurance plan is only valid in PR, but such is life. You get what you pay for, as the saying goes.
Fly to DR and take a ferry to PR. Or just hang in DR, I enjoyed Majestic Mirage in May. And since the negative test stuff is for air travel only, you can always just ferry into PR and fly back domestically.
I'm avoiding the Island like the plague, and as much as I miss my sisters and extended family, I won't subject myself nor my family to the idiocy of testing/quarantining, and the tyrannical vax passports to enjoy a good meal. Forget it!! We're planning to meet in Florida. That's as far east and tropical as I'll go. As a matter of fact, my 19 y.o. daughter and I will be enjoying a lovely time in South Beach/MIA in February. I need to show her a bit of free country lest she forgets what it's like outside of nazi Oregon.
Yet another example of a problem caused not by the virus, but by the idiotic rules the 'leaders' imposed in response to the virus. A couple days ago the Blazers only had 7 guys able to play their game -- not because the players were actually sick, but because they tested positive.
But I'm old enough to remember the Jordan Flu Game.
I was in Vegas that week, and you will never guess who was also there partying in the wee hours. A really bad hangover can have "flu like symptoms." Just saying....
They had an interview with a big wig from the Island's Restaurant Association on Noticentro. He was not happy at all, and complained vigorously that the rules were totally illogical. He knew it was not going to change anything, but it would give a voice to restaurant owners and workers.
There are a few signs that the media dam is starting to have cracks. Last week there was a mask "debate" on one of the morning shows between two non-experts. It was pointless and stupid, but at least they are talking about it. Before, there was no talk just obey.
More promising was a news story about boosters. As part of the story there was a clip of Dr. Robert Malone explaining some of the issues. It was very light stuff, but the fact that he was included at all blew my mind. For the past year, he was excluded from the conversation. I was so shocked that I took a picture of my TV with my phone.
Yes, I was shocked when I saw they interviewed Malone. After the 2nd report with him, the reporter said they'd be giving the other side of the coin the next day, as though the other side of the coin hasn't been what they've been focusing on all along. But something is something.
In Quebec, the government is going to allow vaccinated asymptomatic people with a positive SARS-COV2 test to work in hospitals, but an unvaccinated person with a negative test cannot work. Why? Shortage of workers due to firing unvaccinated workers.
Also, on my neighborhood web site, people are frantically looking for home testing kits. They’ve run out all over the city, so people can’t attend their holiday festivities unless tested….. Me, I’ll stay home with a pizza and Alex’s #1 seller….
The problem is, that this: "...the ER’s are struggling to provide the actual emergency care...and we’re having...an actual crisis at the hospitals" is easily spun by the left-stream media as "Covid is causing hospitals to be overrun". It doesn't matter the reason but if hospitals are packed, and especially for anything covid-related, then it's just fodder for more fear-mongering headlines.
University of Michigan leaders state that everyone must be vaxxed and boosted and show a negative test throughout winter quarter. Now, do you know how many people worship at the altar of this university and their health system?? Gazillions. So....are we to say that every leader and medical professional there agrees with this requirement? And if they do, what's up with them? And if they don't agree but stay silent...whats up with them?
What is up with them is probably the same as what is up with me. I am a doc at an institution like this. No vax, doing weekly testing which I despise, don’t agree with any of this. But also getting threatening emails nearly every week about how I will be fired for noncompliance if I miss testing. If it were just me I would probably quit, but my wife asked me not to. She is thinking of our kids and stability. Also I have spent a decade building my medical practice and have a large number of patients I have built relationships with. I feel a responsibility for these people and always envisioned staying in this role in the long term. There isn’t much else I want to do. I like my community and don’t want to move. I also have a research program I have been building for the past few years. I have a lot of people counting on me to see our project through. Even despite all this I still think of ending compliance every day. But this has already been hard on my family. There is no going back on this decision so have been trying to wait it out. Whether that is the best decision or not I can’t say. This is putting people in very difficult situations. I am sure there are others in positions like mine.
I’m with you and before everyone else is so quick to judge, be happy that there are some on the inside who won’t judge your personal health decisions. You need us more than you think, we are your advocates.
My son has a 2-year old daughter, a mortgage, and a wife who doesn't make a third of his salary and could never support them. He was willing to be fired from his job before succumbing to the vax mandate before they "paused" it due to the court challenges. Grow some balls and stand up, find others willing to stand up. Your silence is complicit. Enough!
Spending a lot of time thinking about your post. I have been completely ready to be fired over the vax mandate but have been skating by as your son is. I have informed all of my colleagues and my boss about my status which has caused me great difficulty. So I dont think it is fair to say I am being silent. The issue for me is the ongoing testing regimen. For me it has been a tough call to put it all on the line over that. But it is disgusting. Perhaps you are right. enough is enough. Maybe it is worth it to simply say no and let the chips fall as they may. I just picture what life is like afterward. I have no job. my research is gone. i cant see my patients. I am sitting at home, and then what? I am not one to make youtube videos. I am a fairly reserved person. Just sit at home? try to find a new job?
I don't know what your area of practice is, but where I am, independent GP docs have busy practices. My former GP (before I moved 45 minutes away) accepted insurance and Medicare as well as cash payments, and his office was always packed, despite being down the street from a hospital and no dearth of GPs with that hospital system in the area. He was the kind of doc who thought outside the big pharma box, e.g., prescribed bioidentical hormones (hint: if you have a negative reaction to that, it's due to big pharma propaganda).
My current MD/naturopath operates a concierge practice. Her patients pay a monthly fee for as much care as they need. She doesn't accept insurance or Medicare but will bill them for bloodwork. She gets additional income for providing acupuncture, vitamin IVs, selling high-quality supplements, etc., at a discount to existing patients and at full price for non-enrolled patients. Pre-covid, she was looking for another doc to add to her practice but couldn't find anyone. When I saw her last month, she had several to choose from, probably due to docs fleeing vaccine mandates.
My grown son wanted to have ivermectin, etc. on hand but his hospital-system doc won't prescribe early treatment. I found a functional medicine doc near him. My son said the place was packed. I forgot to ask if that doc accepted insurance. Most don't.
I have a doc in my family (sadly, in the Covid Cult) who is a partner in an independent medical group. Pre-covid, he told me he had a hard time recruiting new docs to his practice, said new docs don't want to be in business, preferred to be employees.
One of the frontline doctors groups (AFLDS maybe) talked about opening clinics in various states. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has information on doctors opting out of Medicare. I pay for Medicare because I have no other option for a worst-case scenario, but I hate it. With a passion. I saw how bad it was when I was a patient advocate for my elderly parents. That's why I'm willing to pay even more money for my concierge doc.
Being self-employed isn't for everyone. I was self-employed providing services to the legal profession for over 40 years. The expenses, fluctuation in income, tax hassles, were worth dealing with in exchange for freedom.
And I agree that mandating you test, but not the vaxxed, is disgusting. And absurd.
IMO, all these universities are criminals pushing these injections on young people that were never at risk of hospitalizations nor death. I'm glad my daughter took a gap year, and I'm looking for religious exemption forms for next year when she plans to go back. WHY isn't our youth fighting back? What happened to this generation of young people that seems incapable or afraid to question the propaganda? I'm struggling with my 19 y.o. but at least I managed to have her skip the appt at Walgreens a few months ago. Praying daily that she'll keep listening to me and keep putting it off.
Oh, I there are some people running with the fake cards here. (I know of someone who knows of someone who's allegedly given fake papers to the governer and his team). But the cards come at a price. Plus, too many people have drunk the Kook-Aid and believe their lives are in danger.
Quick Brazilian fix ("Jeitinho Brasileiro") you can borrow: diagnose covid cases as influenza and the problem disappears immediately (and nobody will question vaccine "effectiveness"). We are in a big "influenza" outbreak in the 30+ degrees Celsius summer... believe or not :D
Interesting. Same sort of thing happening in Australia - not on quite that scale though. People coming into Queensland (crossing a state border!) are required to show a negative PCR test no more than 72 hours prior. Plus up until a few days ago, another one after 5 days.
However, of course the testing places are overloaded, so people line up for hours (5-8 hours, by some reports) but nobody gets their tests results in time, so they have to start over...
Plus all the usual scare about close contacts to get tested, etc.
Qld has now announced they will accept rapid antigen test results. Except that everywhere is sold out of RATs...
Maybe it will wake people up and help damp down the obsessive testing...
They ran similar scams here in Australia. Now they have been overwhelmed by omiburger, they reversed course and will introduce RAT for "leisure testing".
It’s actually not too far off this in the uk. The government and the press encouraging us to go out on nye but to be cautious and responsible and take a test before going out. We’ve ran out of lateral flow tests and you can’t book a pcr. Different restrictions in Scotland and Wales means that folk from the border towns will come into England and party. The Scottish pm says this wouldn’t be within the spirit of the guidelines. Yeah, we know
They’re starting to spin that we need to reduce quarantine time because there’s too many people off work. This is the prime minister today
“I’m sorry to say this but the overwhelming majority of people who are currently ending up in intensive care in our hospitals are people who are not boosted,” he said. “I’ve talked to doctors who say the numbers are running up to 90% of people in intensive care.”
He added: “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re eight times more likely to get into hospital altogether. So it’s a great thing to do. It’s very, very important. Get boosted for yourself, and enjoy new year sensibly and cautiously.”
Hey Boris! "In a published video interview yesterday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “the overwhelming majority of people currently ending up in intensive care in our hospitals are people who are not boosted.” He added that “over 90%” of ICU patients were “not boosted.”
So … I guess that also means that 90% of people in the ICU in Britain are vaccinated, right? I mean, I suppose that “unboosted” technically includes uninjected people, but that doesn’t really work, does it? Johnson could have easily said, 90% of people in the ICU were “not boosted or not vaccinated.” But he just said “not boosted.”
So anyway, I suppose that where we’re at now is: it’s the boosted versus everyone else. Are you surprised that they are using the same shaming techniques against the previously fully-vaccinated? You shouldn’t be. After all, the fully-vaccinated taught them those techniques work, by giving in and getting the first set of jabs.
On "Nextdoor", people near me are up in arms due to the long lines to get tested.. most people getting tested do not have any symptoms, but need tests to go back to work because they were in "close contact" or some b.s. with someone that tested positive. (Whether showing symptoms or not) It's a never-ending cycle of stupidity and testing.
Miles of lines of people who feel perfectly healthy enough to stand in long lines, often in the cold, to get a test to tell them if they're sick or not. Not sure any period in human history can match this period of mass stupidity.
The really bizarre thing is I bought stock in a company that sells Covid tests and the stock is doing squat. How is that possible?!?!
You shouldn’t do that and you know it.
Xiden told BinaxNow to halt production, probably other companies too. He's commissioning official gubmint tests. Probably pre-loaded with "positive" results.
Don't know. Maybe not the official COVID test of the US government TM?
Eloquently put.
Agree. Sad but True ! The Brainwashing is Supreme. People are terrified. They 'did everything right' ! Double vaxxed with a booster and they still get sick. The look of FEAR in their eyes is real & sad. Yet... they still can't put the pieces together so that they see what truly is ! And they're looking for someone to blame ! It's the UNVACCINATED !!!!
Here in Cali they test cause they had vague contact with a pos case and all dutifully line up for house to catch it from the person next in line 🤦♀️. You sometimes can’t help stupid.
4 months ago I went to my small hearing aid office to pick up a hearing aid that had been repaired. The only people there were the audiologist and one elderly masked up couple before me, who shuffled past my unmasked self as fast as they could. I was with the audiologist less then 5 minutes. A week and a half later, I got a call from their remote receptionist telling me I might have been there when someone else might have been exposed to covid. My response: So what? Don't waste my time with this. And I better not be in some government database! The woman on the phone clearly did not expect that reaction. She couldn't hang up quickly enough.
ha ha ha....LOVE IT!!
A week and a half later!!!
So being triple vaxxed and asymptomatic isn't enough. You need to still prove that you're not really infected .
And with a test that cannot really prove it.
The western world is completely GA GA now. I’m packing my bags and moving to where it’s safe from these paranoid schizophrenics…I was thinking Moscow but Edward Salvsquat says the Kremlin is starting to jab and test like gangbusters as a well. Calcutta?
A couple months ago I looked into Russia because they didn't seem insane at the time, crossed it off due to climate.
North Korea is starting to look sane and (classical sense) liberal - or at least the difference with the so-called ‘free’ World has become vanishingly small.
Yeah... never-ending cycle of stupidity and testing ! Yeah... that's it !
Are all or most of these people clamoring for tests vaxxed/boosted?
Most seem to be, and they're blaming it all on the unjabbed.. They seem to think they work, and certainly haven't seen the data that the Bad Cat has shared, especially the data on Omicron.
YES. AND I HAVE TO HAVE A MANDATED PCT EVERY WEEK TO WORK (i am vaccine free) and most have NO SYMPTOMS. But now they are smartening up, to get the PCR test now you HAVE TO HAVE SYMPTOMS. Girl next to me in line said yes she did. Wasn't sneezing, running nose, nothing. They are PILING IN THE TESTING PLACE and if they are sick I DO NOT WANT TO BE AROUND THEM. IT IS PUTTING ME IN JEOPARDY. IT is in a building with CLOSED WINDOWS.
crazy. Are you in the US? There are no PCR tests anywhere to be found. Hoarding perhaps? A testing place does not seem desirable unless you are congress you can wait in your very own car and pull up for a quickie test
Speaking of Congress, the list of who is exempt from mandates in ENRAGING. They won't give it to the illegals because they are afraid they will be sued...and they are not included in the no liability clause the rest of us live with.
It is beyond all common sense. I have two friends both jabbed and boosted. One has been testing every day and twice a week at CVS for Rapid and PCR. Other one wants to get tested because someone he sat next to on Friday tested positive. NO SYMPTOMS, Feels fine, BUT MUST GET TESTED. I asked him why he wanted to get tested (and he was really upset it took three days to get an appointment) and he said it is because he has workers coming to do something at his house and doesn't want to infect them. I told him GO SIT OUTSIDE OR OPEN A WINDOW. I really think people's BRAINS are BROKEN.
Meanwhile, I’m unvaxxed and just caught a flu. Am I gonna get tested for covid? Hell no! Who cares what it is; I’m not dying over here so I don’t give a flip if it’s covid or not.
Every year around this time I get a runny nose and sometimes a light cough. Usually it's because of the dry air where I live in the winter. According to the new "logic" I am now supposed to ignore something I've experienced my entire life at the same time every year and rush out and get tested for a scary scary *scary* virus with a 97 - 99% survival rate (Over 99% for healthy people and pretty much 100% for kids) to prove to myself and others that I already know that I don't have something. Sorry if that sounds confusing, but I'm confused. lol. JUST SAY *NO* TO TESTING and every other part of this madness.
I could swear that's exactly what happened to me last Wednesday. Left PR for VA. Not 5 minutes into my son's house in VA and my nose was running. Nighttime heat is forced hot air, via natural gas. I've had the runny nose on and off all week, but no other symptoms at all. (Could also be allergies to something in the house; I don't remember every blowing my nose when we've been out and about doing things this week).
Friday I head to my daughter's house in southern ME for a week there. Of course there will be dry air heat there as well (FHA, too).
Regardless, whatever the symptoms (or not), I'm not giving the testing bureaucracy any of my data. I'll only self-test at CVS for my return to PR, and I'll only pretend to stick the probe up into my nose. Eff them all.
You know that is probably what happened to me. Heat on.n
same here. I am never ever ever gonna get tested.
Me too. Sniffles. Going through Kleenex boxes. Not interested in tests.
Someone just mentioned his was caused by heating coming on...I think that might have been what happened to me...
Love this!! Good for you!!
I mean not that you have the flu, but your attitude! Who cares? What can they do for you in hospital even so? Test you for The covid you will GET in the hospital, move you to a ventilator and destroy you in three days with Remdesivir (Deathisnear). If it is the flu, take Tamiflu. If it is Covid, take the Drugs that should not be named...it is JUST like Tamiflu for Covid. Bless you and prayers for a rapid and full recovery. ( I think tamiflu is an anti viral...anyone know if it might work on Covid? I have a strong suspicion it does...)
We never even told the school. Who cares, sick is sick. Enough already.
Hurray! Need more like you!
The parents at my kids school figured it out finally. You never have Covid if you never get tested. There is literally ZERO reason to get tested at a health facility but even the home testing is dumb. Suddenly no kids at our school ever have Covid and I am certain its because parents stopped getting kids tested, as a positive test means your kid has to miss school for 10 days (or I guess 5 now). No test, stay in school. Simple.
That is very heartening to hear!! Some people are waking up at last!!
Agree... its hysteria. FEAR... ridiculous but Real !
It is beyond the pale. Even if you test positive for Covid, what are you going to do, you are already vaxxed and boosted you ninnies. I offered them HCQ or Ivermectin, but they are convinced it will kill them because Fauci said so. My god they won't even take a vitamin D pill. So I am done offering, and I have NO sympathy. I had to go stand in a line today out the door to get a mandated PCR AGAIN because I go back to work on Monday...which reminds me I need to write to HR about the increasing risk to me of getting this test. All these infected people!!!
You spelled Dr "Fauci's" name wrong. It's Dr Feces
typo!!! Thanks for the correction!!!
They really think vitamins are dumb and that D3 is bad for you.
I know...but they'll inject experimental MNRA into their bodies - Don't know or care to know how it works, not bothered it wasn't tested on animals first, not worried about long term safety......Really, I just don't get it...
Hilarious! Your rant is the mirror image of any recent rant against the unvaccinated. We might as well start calling this for what it is, a Pandemic of the Infected. And there's nothing they can do about it. Omicron, whenever it finally takes over, has really shown how naked our "Emperors" are.
I am gratified the worm is turning, but it really can't turn fast enough.
I know, huh?
There is some old Caribbean folk wisdom. Say it with whatever Patwah or other accent you want, Mon! "Sometimes de brain she work, other time de brain she not work." 💩
Love that. Always wanted to learn Patwah!
My God, people really are STOOOOPID.
This mom wants to have a playdate with our daughters. Ok, fine. She says, can we meet at a park due to the Covid surge? It's going to be in the 20's that day where I live. So what, is the solution to allow 6 year olds to play inside in the middle of winter that we should all get tested before? I didn't say anything, I'm like bet, you want chilly! I'll bring the hot chocolate.
Just read a FB thread for my kid’s college where all the parents are worried about getting tests and results on time for kids to go back to school. Ditto for the stupid boosters. A few were looking for boosters for their kids who literally just had Covid this week. Their doctors said it was ok to just get boosted once they felt better rather than wait the recommended 4 weeks. Whut? How is that sound medical advice? Would they recommend a chickenpox vax a week after they had the chickenpox?
Dad asked the pharmacist if it was okay to get a booster and the flu shot within a few weeks. First he was told to wait 4 weeks in between. Then he was told 2 weeks was fine. Then he was told it could be done in one session, just use the other arm. Science.
I love the separate arm suggestion. I've heard that before and after being absolutely stunned for a moment I busted out in hysterical laughter at the insanity of it all. WOW.
that is because you are awake. Unfortunately most are asleep.
I think that comes from the utterly stupid idea that the only vaccine reactions are very localized. It's criminally ignorant, at best.
That’s why infants are given 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 different agents all at once and then get day-glow acetaminophen ladled down their gullets at the same time. It’s to “stop disease.” Of course not mitochondrial diseases or autoimmune diseases or ASDs. Just things that are transient like chicken pox and mumps….”Science” must be a much much reliable magical thinking system than the flying spaghetti monster’s right? (Just because guys like Gregor Mendel and Georges Lemaître were Catholic priests, those are just wild coincidences right?)
It is a miracle that children still survive this attack on their small bodies
they aren't 'surviving'. the statistics on autism have skyrocketed and it it so overlooked and suppressed!
Exactly. The ones who don’t die of “sudden infant death syndrome” which is vaccine death, will likely have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, or develop an autoimmune disease etc, etc, but the takeaway is that they’ll likely never marry or reproduce, and mom and dad will certainly take steps to ensure that no more siblings arrive after the impaired child’s arrival. No need to push women into the abortionist’s stirrups when numerous vaccines will guarantee mom’s future sterility through a series of “unfortunate coincidences.”
the cases should have never happened at all (you know, due to our government funded health protective agencies)...but as we see, those no longer exist and have not existed for a long time. i feel for parents who don't where to turn. It's a nightmare for those who want health for their families.
Well, my 7 week old baby boy gets only his breast milk! nothing less, nothing more :)
If there's one good thing that came out of this whole dumpster-fire-fuckery-horror-show is that it made me aware that something ain't quite right and after I went digging this was the result -> (((O.O)))
Could you give a little more context to your reference to Mandel and Lemaître?
I think one of my kids got them at the same time. He seems ok. I really hope that the worst that comes out of these jabs is that they are not effective. I dread to think what the future may hold. I’ve seen the data on the adverse effects though.😕
The US does not see a problem at all in giving 7 at a time. And I am still alive. I don't know but my brain seems a bit off now and then LOL
Time was, you could get medical advice from medical professionals.
Co-worker did this...now both arms hurt. Duh!
similar to: drink it or you can shove it up your arse, it all gets in there somehow
So…what did “Dad” decide?
have both at once
Sounds like a dangerous recipe for spike protein overload to me !
Exactly! When did doctors stop being scientists? Rhetorical question, really. And it doesn’t apply to all of them, of course.
In med school. Pharma brainwashing… you must act within guideline as ordered by the Science TM. That’s the only medicine allowed.
Most doctors don't know what science is I guess
I received a letter from my MD encouraging me to get an mRNA booster because I took one J&J jab back in the spring. I laughed and threw it out.
Getting healthy college kids vaccines they don't need isn't sound medical advise all by itself. Getting them boosters they really don't need is flat out quackery medical advise.
The roles have been reversed. What regular medicine used to call quacks are the real healers. Regular med are the quacks. They have hardly any idea of healing. Only of making chronic patients. Milking cows.
Sounds like Vermont. And New Jersey. And every other state and subunit run by mini-Birx's (I'm reading Scott Atlas's book - OMG!).
Just finished. What a clown show.
I am starting to wonder how long the presidency has been part of the show put on to turn people away from the real problems. It looks like quite some time now !
Decades. And *both* "sides".
I’m rooting for full FUBAR and the resultant awakening / red pilling
It’s happening here in deep blue MD
Lines, closures, depleted testing
People don't rebel under tolerable conditions.
In other news--the U. Penn girls' swimming team is afraid to ruin their chances for the Ivy League all-champs if they protest against teammate "Lia." They're miserable, but that brass ring is still glittering in their tear-drenched eyes.
I'd say a ruined New Year's Eve is, as El Gato says, just what PR really needs right now. Hope it works...
If we were to “follow the science”…a simple DNA test would prove the fact
this swimmer is a male…hairlength, clothing, even surgery and hormones…
DO NOT CHANGE DNA 🧬
and if you looked under his/her "kilt" there would be no vagina and there is no uterus...so case closed...
get that attention seeking idiot lia person outta there. sorry but she is a man...period, end of story. has no reason to be on a womans swim team.
HE is a man. We all gotta stop falling into that usage trap...
yuppers...
i had to look this person up as it's not something we've heard about in the frozen north...'eligible to compete on the women's team after a year of testosterone blockers'? WTF? that is just complete nonsense. are the women allowed to take testosterone or some kind of testosterone booster? c'mon! dude is a dude is a dude. but, maybe, just maybe, this is the kind of attention seeking idiot that would undergo a gender change just so it could 'win' and get said attention....??
He's not just a guy but a big, long-limbed guy.
The lunatic crowd says "transgirls" for a reason. Gives you a mental vision of some poor frail soul needing comfort and protection. Not a big hearty teen boy or adult man with the torso of same. Stop using those terms. Stop using "she" and "her." The tongue will retrain after a few weird dissonant moments. If people you like try to correct you, you know where you'll stand with them on a lot more than this.
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honestly...this gender identity stuff has me flummoxed! when did this all start? it is nothing short of just plain weird. why are all these young people so frigging CONFUSED? i think i'm just getting old...sigh... either way, he/she doesn't belong on a girl's swim team. if he/she wants to compete, then he/she should be competing against same. just, shouldn't be allowed. oh, but then i guess we have issues of 'equality'...SNORT!
View Yuri Bezmenovs interviews, where he details how the old KGB would go about destabilising a country and then realise that the left in the US and UK, have been doing exactly that since Alinsky's time.
I suspect that trans rights, BLM, climate change, stolen elections, terrible pandemic, manufactured crises, are all part of the same agenda and are being forced upon humanity to keep us off balance and confused as to the truth, enabling whatever manipulation of humanity they want. Just look at how utterly blind so many people are about the sniffles.
I know Sue, it is just too much. You got a penis, you are a guy, you have a uterus, you are a woman, full stop.
like Bruce Jenner?
oh sorry, Caitlyn Jenner
It is not just PR that needs a ruined New Years Eve. It is the entire US...I hope ALL OVER THE US the TEST KITS RUN OUT/REAGENT not available, etc. etc. etc. Best thing that could happen to people.
Amen with a vengeance.
The solution is not for the women to have to take a stand, but for them to enlist as many sympathetic male swimmers, who will claim to be trans women, as they can.
When actual biological women never win another swim meet, the absurdity of letting biological men compete in women's sports will be apparent to even the wokest nut jobs out there.
No--I think those women need to stand up for themselves as feminists have always claimed they can. They built this trap for themselves. They wanted to be "good allies" and prove they weren't "transphobes." Feminists betrayed other women from the get-go, with contempt for women who wanted to be wives and mothers. Their version of "choice" has always been "be like us." They got themselves co-opted with a vengeance.
Exactly, SCA. The women should stand and say he is biologically a man, no matter what he thinks in his head. Saying this does not make you transphobic in my opinion. I am not transphob, be who you want to be but don't piss on my leg and tell me its raining when I know what is under your swim trunks or in your abdomen and you want to compete against biological women.
The concept of "transphobia" is nonsense. No one is "trans," or "queer." You're male or female, and that's true regardless of whom you're sexually attracted to.
I remember decades ago feeling the aching poignancy of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." It's hard not to be loved by ones you love, and even a man in a really hot dress has real emotions. That doesn't mean we must realign the natural axis of the universe for those who cannot fit on a spectrum of normality. "Normal" is not a bad word. It's a base from which some diverge slightly and some diverge greatly. But it's a necessary measure because some divergences are extremely unhealthy. Gay and straight are normal categories. We need the guts to say many other categories aren't.
Great points and I agree....I love RHPS btw!, Tim Curry was amazing! I agree, normal is not a bad word and is a base. Thank you for your insight.
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Thank you. I remember finding Tim Curry incredibly sexually attractive in that role, just as I did Freddy Mercury in his beefcake years and David Bowie in his androgynous phase. Didn't make me "queer." I think the young'uns have a remarkably straitlaced view of sexuality--and life, for that matter...
Strong post !
You know that even if every female event was won by a man, too many lefties would still celebrate it as being "stunning and brave", even if the losing child was their own.
No--rich donor alum families are gonna start screaming out loud (instead of just muttering to their fellows) real, real soon.
Are your sure they didn't leave out a letter on "her" name - should it be "Liar"? Just sayin'...
I fell t kind of badly that I was hoping that this whole thing blows up in their face but after reading you I guess that's the only thing that has a shot at waking people up!
I'm with you regarding the chaos.
We've bailed out the idiots who make these rules by adapting and overcoming. Time to abide by every rule to the letter. Slow the whole world down... let the shelves empty. Get tested numerous times and when positive get your paid time off.
Enough. Don't just comply. Comply to the letter and when the rule is confusing send a memo/email asking for clarification and wait for it before going on to the next task. Retire in place.
I now understand why everyone is so eager on testing ! I am retired and had no idea they got paid time off if positive. I wonder if they would have been so eager if it had been UNpaid time off
I'm self employed, but all of the wage slaves I know get PTO with a positive test and when something is incentivized then you get more of it.
There is no more "government" pay for when you have to take time off due to positive test. My husband's company doesn't pay either - you have to use your own PTO. I think it depends on the company whether they'll pay you or you have to use your own PTO. You'd think if you had to burn your own PTO you'd think twice about getting tested.
I can’t help it but this made me giggle out loud. Witnessed this same thing last week in Austin Texas. The stores were out of tests and everyone was scrambling to get tested because their covidiot friends and families were requiring BOTH vaxxed and vaxfree guests to be tested. Cue the long lines at the drive-through testing centers giving the false impression that all these people were sick. Every gathering the conversation was about all the tests being sold out. We are living in a clown world. PS. I don’t go to parties that require tests. No tests or masks required for the party at my house! We ask for your cocktail order at the door!! Woohoo!
If I was invited to a party or gathering that required a test, I wouldn't go. And I wouldn't associate with them again until they had a mental health test.
Find out who is taking Nexium or Omeprazole... pneumonia risk! Strange but true 🙀
I'd like an Irish Mule, please. BTW, you're my kind of people! 😉
I’m trying my best to stay away from the testing mania…but I came down with what I’m pretty sure was Covid - I REALLY wanted a home test so that I knew if it was a cold/flu or Covid and would then start Ivermectin. Of course, all home tests were sold out before Christmas…tried to find veterinarian Ivermectin but that was all sold out too, so decided to give it a couple days and if I got bad, pay the $500 to get it expedited from Frontline Doctors or similar…never got bad. Eh - my point is the home test is good to know whether or not to start a Covid protocol when getting those meds are hard to come by and not wanting to take them unnecessarily
Have the meds on hand, take it anyway. Helps with flu also. Nothing to lose. No damage done.
I’ll have a double Woohoo!
way to go Mary!
Is it time? To become ‘ungovernable’?
Seems like it is….
way past it actually
almost 2 years
exactly Ingrid and counting...
In Belgium the government tried to lock down, but business owners have decided otherwise. Now the government has put a step backwards and does not think it is necessary to lock down LOL
Wow, now I'm EXTRA-glad I cancelled that January trip to PR (after they mandated a 10-day quarantine) :-o What a cluster ...
The son of friends and his wife went to France a few months ago. They were both vaxxed with documents, but coming back, had to pay a whopping 1330 dollars for tests ! These things should have costed no more than 75. I am not going anywhere until this whole mess is over. Might be never, but that is fine !
Gosh, it's almost as if someone's making a metric assload of money off of this "crisis" ...
Wow ! I had not even thought of that LOL
yes, I already missed the boat on Plexiglass shares. drats
i will finish your sentence.cluster fuck indeed
Well, I was trying to be polite :-D Not this this situation deserves anything like polite, of course.
I know you were. Since I am not PC and have a gutter mouth, I took it on for you:}.
I'm sorry, but I find this kind of funny.
I'm not sorry that I find this kind of funny. It must be Trump's fault.
I had a loud laugh. Sorry for the cat, who probably won't be able to get there, but if there is one thing to wake people up it is this !
Instead f unvaccinated let's use the words Vaccine-Free!
Or needle free.
Why isn't the other side called Pro-Pharma? That's all it is.
Chaos coming to ERs here in California too. People test positive for the rona and run to the ER. Heard of plenty folks clogging up a major hospital because they test positive and feel short of breath with elevated heart rate. = over 100bpm is normal with infections, o2 well above 95%, they just scared shitless cause MSM says everyone dies from rona. By showing up at the ER needlessly omicron and co are exhaled all over the place infecting double and triple vaxxed doctors and nurses… 🍿
I wonder just how many people are either having panic attacks and/or symptoms they have literally convinced themselves of in the last 2 years. My Grandmothers on both sides of my family lived very long lives and they always told me that a lot of illness was in our imagination at times. My Grandma on my Dad's side always said, "I don't have time to be sick." And I'll be darned if she didn't live till 102 years of age *without* shots of any kind.
Exasperated, of course, by all the illegals who have been instructed to get health care and social services at emergency rooms. We are being led by morons.
Exacerbated
Exasperated worked too. 👍
Want this crap to end? Go nowhere. We all (or mostly) got cable? Know how to cook? (Or open cans and defrost stuff?) Buy only groceries and urgent necessities. Stay home. Get your money's worth (not really, but still...) from your cable subscription. The country would open without restrictions in a week. It's the coastal and DC elites (I hate cliche terms but things become cliches for a reason) prolonging the agony. Undercut 'em every way you can. Businesses will howl and then this will end.
AMEN.
Whatever happened to the #1 goal of protecting hospital capacity? How selfish do you have to be to push your way into an emergency room just to get a covid test so you can go to a party?
I have never taken a covid test. Oh, I haves suffered because of it. But I have never wanted me or anyone I might have come in contact with be subject to isolation and disgrace.
If more people would have refused to test, we wouldn't be here. Just as if more people refused to fly because of the masks, masks would be gone by now.
Been to Mexico a few times this year. Don't need a test for anything except to return the US (land of the not-so-free). 'Borrowed' a friend's PDF of his 'Rona test and just modified the name and date.....walla! No problems and have used the same PDF each time
niiiice
Gato Malo: it's absolutely insane! My BIL went to ER last night at Auxilio Mutuo. Got admitted today for diverticulitis. My sis just told me that ER is "FULL with covid". I asked her how did she know they are not flu cases, etc. She was told by the ER staff. Anyhow, she witnessed a crowded ER in one of the largest hospitals in the SJ metro area. Mind you, she's vaxxed and even got the flu shot this year for the 1st time ever. So, there is no talking her out of the Pierluisi roller-coaster. In true covidian fashion, she wore an N95 and 2 extra masks while waiting in the ER with her husband. Sigh... I just can't... And as weird as this sounds, I'm glad to be in crazy Oregon rather than lunatic PR.
diverticulitis,,,,,hope he is better soon, that is not an easy diagnosis:{ damn colon....
apparently he's gonna stay a few days in the hospital. Thanks!
yes,, that is common. so sorry this is happening at all but especially around the holidays......
They have already retreated so much because of fear of omicron. Hospitals are never fun but he got a good room according to my sister. God-willing, this experience may help him adjust his eating habits. He's still young 59. Hard working man. Thanks!
I hope so, More fiber, no fried food, fast food and no oils-better to use butter, no sugar and prepackaged food and less alcohol. Organic and fresh and less red meat. Will create less inflammation in the gut. Wishing him a speedy recovery and more wisdom.
Thank you - (I love butter) - I just saw a report on med research (I know, fwiw): the guidance (circa 2005 or so) that moderate alcohol (esp red wine) consumption is health enhancing is now being seriously re-thought. It's really just a big sugar shot post metabolization.
At least we can play golf in the winter! Wait, make that: at MOST we can play golf in the winter.
Wait again...are golf courses - golf is played outside across 200 acres - mandating the vaxxes??? If they are, Florida here we come. And taking our tax base with us. I'll find out in a couple of weeks.
Now just a doggone minute. We have plenty of Orlando-Ricans here already, not to mention all those Newyoricans too. 🙂
Well, I was born in upstate NY and my heritage is primarily Scots...so it'll be my 'Rican wife (born in Miami to Cuban parents who fled in late 1960 and settled in PR after she was born).
So I don't really know what our correct "'Rican" nomenclature is!
LOL... I don't like hanging out around too many Ricans... call me a snob. LOL May explain why I chose to move to Oregon in 2006.
I agree that it is good overall that people are starting to experience some major pain and inconvenience due to the idiocy of our elected or appointed officials. I think of how much college students have to put up with the masking and the shots and the boosters. I went to college during the Vietnam war and students did not put up with anything like this. Of course the danger was they would get drafted and sent off to war. There seems to be no downside for college students these days and in addition they have been taught to drink the Kool-Aid.
Sounds like Italy, too..horeca owners were all on Green Pass and Super Green Pass (for vaxxed & recovered only) to create a "safe environment" so the Saint Vaxxed cuold safely enjoy theyr holidays; enter Omi and testing frenzy (test for Xmas gatherings, test for cinemas, theatres, clubs, test for visit grandma) chaos! Endless queues for testing, 2.5 million people on quarantine (now reduced for vaxxed only, of course...) owners are pissed, vaxxed are pissed, unvaxxed are pissed forever...but they still go on and are about to go with work mandates
bien venue au Canada!
YES: honestly, i’m rooting for chaos. A thousand times, YES.
thanks for the belly laugh--not at the situation, but at the absurdity of it all! i think NZ is also there, but things are so buttoned-up here you don't hear about it as much. thanks for the brilliant writing ;>)
Please do not insult dog catchers. LOL! The so called HM is beneath that position. For those that can't get in to party, have a party at home, live it up, drink and dance til the sun comes up. Don't let the suckers get you down or out! This will all work out in time....it really will. Party like its 1999 in 2021!!!
That's pretty much our plan every year - party at home, live it up! Go to bed early enough to get up and feed the farm animals next morning. ;-)
Sounds like a fulfilling and happy life, kudos to you and the family!!
I would think a few island drinks 🍹 on the beach 🏖 and maybe some takeout party appetizers would be the best way to celebrate NYE in PR ! (Sorry for all the venue owners and employees though.)
In my county, we are also getting urgent pleas NOT to go to the ER for a PCR test.
Just another moment when I feel like a martian. At least in PR they are doing it for a reason. Here, people just really, really want to know whether or not they have covid!?!?
Why aren't PR's already incandescent? How your government has eluded the noose...
I love PR. I took my kids there on vacation when they were young teens. I rented a house in Luquillo. So beautiful, the memories are so special to me. I can image the chaos in the best of times, I don’t want to in the times you are describing now…enough with the fucking testing!!!!
"it’s time we demoted this absurdity of a health minister to “assistant dogcatcher 3rd rate” and got back to life."
No, please don't do that to the dogs--they deserve so much better!
I'm in Virginia and I'm also voting for chaos! As much as I want this stupid shit to be over--as I have since Mar 2020--sadly, I know that if it ends too soon too many of the dumbasses that have finally started to get angry will just go back to their lives and nothing will change. I've been taking action all over the place but me and ten friends can't do it alone.
Testing rates soaring here in New England - haven't seen numbers but i have seen the sheep lined up around the block at local testing center. Not sure it was that bad even a year ago. Not one of them looked/acted sick in any way.
I've been in VA for the past week, head to ME/NH on Friday, then back to Puerto Rico on the 8th.
I may need a new travel agent...
Aw, jeez. After they did away with testing, I scheduled my first Covid-era trip to PR for mid-January. I'm vaxed, but I don't want to test and and don't want to vacation is Hysteria World. It's even hard to get a test on the mainland now due to all the hysteria. I guess we'll see what happens. I fear 3 weeks is too short to restore sanity. I suppose I can always go back to Florida.
I live in Puerto Rico, and I'm thinking you'll have more fun in Florida. The government and media have created such a fearful climate here that a significant number of people are mean little tinpot hall monitors. You deserve a nice vacation.
Sophia - I saw pictures of a cousin and her family vacationing in Culebra this week, and all 3 of them were wearing N95s in the golf cart at the resort!! These are all vaxxed people. Her 16 y.o. was wearing a stupid mask while strolling on the desolate beach. They've damaged that kid forever. Who wears a freaking mask out in Culebra? SMH
It's so crazy, so sad. People are broken.
BTW. from personal experience, I know PR's public health care system and emergency medicine isn't very good to start with. My wife once had a relapse of a back industry and needed some pain medication. Easy to do on the Mainland, almost impossible on PR. After endless waits, they told her to go get some CBD because they couldn't prescribe the pain killers and the pharmacies weren't allowed to stock the medicine anyway. She flew home early for treatment. FWIW, this has been one of my hesitations to go back to PR during Covid. God forbid I needed treatment, this would be one of the worst places to get it.
I had to leave the island (for the holidays to visit family, so it worked out well) to Tele-Med with my new doctor, from the FLCCC group, because my PR doctor is #DeadToMe. Had a great consult, covered the things a regular in-person new doc visit would cover, AND, got my IVM script filled and overnighted to me in VA.
That's fantastic, Andrew!! So glad to hear. I watched the FLCCC zoom meetings every week. LOVE them!! Was it easy to schedule the telemed appt with them?
It was quite easy. I contacted three or four of the docs who can practice or prescribe in Virginia (I was spending 10 days in VA over the holidays). One of them called my back two days later, at 8pm two days before Christmas. We talked for about 20 minutes, then she made an appointment for noon on Monday the 27th. We had a Tele-Med consult for about 30 minutes and discussed a variety of subjects - it wasn't just for IVM - and when all was said and done she gave me advice on supplementation, she gave me several prescriptions (?) for blood work for different things, and she called in the IVM prescription before our consult was done. The pharmacy called me less than an hour later to confirm my VA shipping address, and the IVM arrived by 5pm the next day. I'm very happy with the doc's thoroughness and her contempt for the sht and the shtheads who have corrupted our health care system. All of this is OOP because my health insurance plan is only valid in PR, but such is life. You get what you pay for, as the saying goes.
Fly to DR and take a ferry to PR. Or just hang in DR, I enjoyed Majestic Mirage in May. And since the negative test stuff is for air travel only, you can always just ferry into PR and fly back domestically.
I'm avoiding the Island like the plague, and as much as I miss my sisters and extended family, I won't subject myself nor my family to the idiocy of testing/quarantining, and the tyrannical vax passports to enjoy a good meal. Forget it!! We're planning to meet in Florida. That's as far east and tropical as I'll go. As a matter of fact, my 19 y.o. daughter and I will be enjoying a lovely time in South Beach/MIA in February. I need to show her a bit of free country lest she forgets what it's like outside of nazi Oregon.
Yet another example of a problem caused not by the virus, but by the idiotic rules the 'leaders' imposed in response to the virus. A couple days ago the Blazers only had 7 guys able to play their game -- not because the players were actually sick, but because they tested positive.
But I'm old enough to remember the Jordan Flu Game.
I was in Vegas that week, and you will never guess who was also there partying in the wee hours. A really bad hangover can have "flu like symptoms." Just saying....
They had an interview with a big wig from the Island's Restaurant Association on Noticentro. He was not happy at all, and complained vigorously that the rules were totally illogical. He knew it was not going to change anything, but it would give a voice to restaurant owners and workers.
Too little, too late. But perhaps it's a good sign that the news even let him on the air.
There are a few signs that the media dam is starting to have cracks. Last week there was a mask "debate" on one of the morning shows between two non-experts. It was pointless and stupid, but at least they are talking about it. Before, there was no talk just obey.
More promising was a news story about boosters. As part of the story there was a clip of Dr. Robert Malone explaining some of the issues. It was very light stuff, but the fact that he was included at all blew my mind. For the past year, he was excluded from the conversation. I was so shocked that I took a picture of my TV with my phone.
Baby steps, but it is progress.
Yes, I was shocked when I saw they interviewed Malone. After the 2nd report with him, the reporter said they'd be giving the other side of the coin the next day, as though the other side of the coin hasn't been what they've been focusing on all along. But something is something.
Agreed. I saw that Noticentro had Dr. Malone the other day. He's on a mission to save as many kiddos from these toxic jabs as he can.
I see your stupid and raise you one:
In Quebec, the government is going to allow vaccinated asymptomatic people with a positive SARS-COV2 test to work in hospitals, but an unvaccinated person with a negative test cannot work. Why? Shortage of workers due to firing unvaccinated workers.
Also, on my neighborhood web site, people are frantically looking for home testing kits. They’ve run out all over the city, so people can’t attend their holiday festivities unless tested….. Me, I’ll stay home with a pizza and Alex’s #1 seller….
The problem is, that this: "...the ER’s are struggling to provide the actual emergency care...and we’re having...an actual crisis at the hospitals" is easily spun by the left-stream media as "Covid is causing hospitals to be overrun". It doesn't matter the reason but if hospitals are packed, and especially for anything covid-related, then it's just fodder for more fear-mongering headlines.
Fuck the bullshit covid testing.
University of Michigan leaders state that everyone must be vaxxed and boosted and show a negative test throughout winter quarter. Now, do you know how many people worship at the altar of this university and their health system?? Gazillions. So....are we to say that every leader and medical professional there agrees with this requirement? And if they do, what's up with them? And if they don't agree but stay silent...whats up with them?
What is up with them is probably the same as what is up with me. I am a doc at an institution like this. No vax, doing weekly testing which I despise, don’t agree with any of this. But also getting threatening emails nearly every week about how I will be fired for noncompliance if I miss testing. If it were just me I would probably quit, but my wife asked me not to. She is thinking of our kids and stability. Also I have spent a decade building my medical practice and have a large number of patients I have built relationships with. I feel a responsibility for these people and always envisioned staying in this role in the long term. There isn’t much else I want to do. I like my community and don’t want to move. I also have a research program I have been building for the past few years. I have a lot of people counting on me to see our project through. Even despite all this I still think of ending compliance every day. But this has already been hard on my family. There is no going back on this decision so have been trying to wait it out. Whether that is the best decision or not I can’t say. This is putting people in very difficult situations. I am sure there are others in positions like mine.
I’m with you and before everyone else is so quick to judge, be happy that there are some on the inside who won’t judge your personal health decisions. You need us more than you think, we are your advocates.
Nahhh...not buying it. Giving the middle finger to the Hippocratic oath?
could you read through the hippocratic oath and cite which part of it you think my behavior violates?
My son has a 2-year old daughter, a mortgage, and a wife who doesn't make a third of his salary and could never support them. He was willing to be fired from his job before succumbing to the vax mandate before they "paused" it due to the court challenges. Grow some balls and stand up, find others willing to stand up. Your silence is complicit. Enough!
Spending a lot of time thinking about your post. I have been completely ready to be fired over the vax mandate but have been skating by as your son is. I have informed all of my colleagues and my boss about my status which has caused me great difficulty. So I dont think it is fair to say I am being silent. The issue for me is the ongoing testing regimen. For me it has been a tough call to put it all on the line over that. But it is disgusting. Perhaps you are right. enough is enough. Maybe it is worth it to simply say no and let the chips fall as they may. I just picture what life is like afterward. I have no job. my research is gone. i cant see my patients. I am sitting at home, and then what? I am not one to make youtube videos. I am a fairly reserved person. Just sit at home? try to find a new job?
I don't know what your area of practice is, but where I am, independent GP docs have busy practices. My former GP (before I moved 45 minutes away) accepted insurance and Medicare as well as cash payments, and his office was always packed, despite being down the street from a hospital and no dearth of GPs with that hospital system in the area. He was the kind of doc who thought outside the big pharma box, e.g., prescribed bioidentical hormones (hint: if you have a negative reaction to that, it's due to big pharma propaganda).
My current MD/naturopath operates a concierge practice. Her patients pay a monthly fee for as much care as they need. She doesn't accept insurance or Medicare but will bill them for bloodwork. She gets additional income for providing acupuncture, vitamin IVs, selling high-quality supplements, etc., at a discount to existing patients and at full price for non-enrolled patients. Pre-covid, she was looking for another doc to add to her practice but couldn't find anyone. When I saw her last month, she had several to choose from, probably due to docs fleeing vaccine mandates.
My grown son wanted to have ivermectin, etc. on hand but his hospital-system doc won't prescribe early treatment. I found a functional medicine doc near him. My son said the place was packed. I forgot to ask if that doc accepted insurance. Most don't.
I have a doc in my family (sadly, in the Covid Cult) who is a partner in an independent medical group. Pre-covid, he told me he had a hard time recruiting new docs to his practice, said new docs don't want to be in business, preferred to be employees.
One of the frontline doctors groups (AFLDS maybe) talked about opening clinics in various states. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has information on doctors opting out of Medicare. I pay for Medicare because I have no other option for a worst-case scenario, but I hate it. With a passion. I saw how bad it was when I was a patient advocate for my elderly parents. That's why I'm willing to pay even more money for my concierge doc.
Being self-employed isn't for everyone. I was self-employed providing services to the legal profession for over 40 years. The expenses, fluctuation in income, tax hassles, were worth dealing with in exchange for freedom.
And I agree that mandating you test, but not the vaxxed, is disgusting. And absurd.
Cowards
IMO, all these universities are criminals pushing these injections on young people that were never at risk of hospitalizations nor death. I'm glad my daughter took a gap year, and I'm looking for religious exemption forms for next year when she plans to go back. WHY isn't our youth fighting back? What happened to this generation of young people that seems incapable or afraid to question the propaganda? I'm struggling with my 19 y.o. but at least I managed to have her skip the appt at Walgreens a few months ago. Praying daily that she'll keep listening to me and keep putting it off.
The entrepreneurial answer is: Fake Vaccine Cards. Surprised someone down there hasn’t run with it.
Oh, I there are some people running with the fake cards here. (I know of someone who knows of someone who's allegedly given fake papers to the governer and his team). But the cards come at a price. Plus, too many people have drunk the Kook-Aid and believe their lives are in danger.
Hi I was booked into La Concha late January 2022- cancelled my booking today due to the 12-27-21 imposition of 7 day quarantine.
Sad, that’s a lovely resort.
smart move
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
One word for our wonderful PR Governor... FLORIDA !!!
My daughter had a 🐈⬛ once named Chaos. 👍
Beautiful 😻
What's happening with your own NYE, Gato?
Yeah, pictures, man! Just like Thanksgiving.
Quick Brazilian fix ("Jeitinho Brasileiro") you can borrow: diagnose covid cases as influenza and the problem disappears immediately (and nobody will question vaccine "effectiveness"). We are in a big "influenza" outbreak in the 30+ degrees Celsius summer... believe or not :D
Interesting. Same sort of thing happening in Australia - not on quite that scale though. People coming into Queensland (crossing a state border!) are required to show a negative PCR test no more than 72 hours prior. Plus up until a few days ago, another one after 5 days.
However, of course the testing places are overloaded, so people line up for hours (5-8 hours, by some reports) but nobody gets their tests results in time, so they have to start over...
Plus all the usual scare about close contacts to get tested, etc.
Qld has now announced they will accept rapid antigen test results. Except that everywhere is sold out of RATs...
Maybe it will wake people up and help damp down the obsessive testing...
We will see.
A local hospital is telling people not to come there to be tested.
They ran similar scams here in Australia. Now they have been overwhelmed by omiburger, they reversed course and will introduce RAT for "leisure testing".
hysterical 😱😂😂😂
What is leisure testing
Travelling; for events, etc. Not as directed or have symptoms.
It’s actually not too far off this in the uk. The government and the press encouraging us to go out on nye but to be cautious and responsible and take a test before going out. We’ve ran out of lateral flow tests and you can’t book a pcr. Different restrictions in Scotland and Wales means that folk from the border towns will come into England and party. The Scottish pm says this wouldn’t be within the spirit of the guidelines. Yeah, we know
They’re starting to spin that we need to reduce quarantine time because there’s too many people off work. This is the prime minister today
“I’m sorry to say this but the overwhelming majority of people who are currently ending up in intensive care in our hospitals are people who are not boosted,” he said. “I’ve talked to doctors who say the numbers are running up to 90% of people in intensive care.”
He added: “If you’re not vaccinated, you’re eight times more likely to get into hospital altogether. So it’s a great thing to do. It’s very, very important. Get boosted for yourself, and enjoy new year sensibly and cautiously.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/up-90-covid-patients-icu-unboosted-boris-johnson
Boris always had a way with words, but in the old days he was at least funny.
Hey Boris! "Preliminary UK data: Triple vaccinated SARS-2 positives are more than four times more likely to have Omicron than unvaccinated."
https://bit.ly/3ExLKpy
Hey Boris! "In a published video interview yesterday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that “the overwhelming majority of people currently ending up in intensive care in our hospitals are people who are not boosted.” He added that “over 90%” of ICU patients were “not boosted.”
So … I guess that also means that 90% of people in the ICU in Britain are vaccinated, right? I mean, I suppose that “unboosted” technically includes uninjected people, but that doesn’t really work, does it? Johnson could have easily said, 90% of people in the ICU were “not boosted or not vaccinated.” But he just said “not boosted.”
So anyway, I suppose that where we’re at now is: it’s the boosted versus everyone else. Are you surprised that they are using the same shaming techniques against the previously fully-vaccinated? You shouldn’t be. After all, the fully-vaccinated taught them those techniques work, by giving in and getting the first set of jabs.
https://bit.ly/3FJtvyM