348 Comments
User's avatar
тна Return to thread
INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

i woke up from the repeated line - the virus came to be on the wet market in Wuhan (while they were experimenting with bat virus a few miles down the road according to I think, a South Korean news outlet). And then the dems took over without the blink of an eye where trump left off, even though insisting they would not. And then I found you all here on Substack. Still suffering from anxiety moments due to all the hetze. But getting better.

Expand full comment
SomeDude's avatar

the blatant convid censorship, watching studies and articles go from being search results to being off the grid without some really creative and specific seeking, was what brought me to substack.

that definitely got more prevalent once the figurehead was a media darling instead of being advertised by them as fake news.

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

PLEXIGLASS, CIRCLES & ONE-WAY ARROWS...OH MY

Expand full comment
INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

I was through the whole walmart before it dawned on me that I was going the wrong direction ROFL

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

Don't worry, you only killed 10 people by breaking the rules that day.

Good thing you didn't sneeze....you might have murdered everyone in the store.

Expand full comment
Mrhounddog's avatar

Gosh Ingrid, you are an absolute crazed anarchist...ЁЯджтАНтЩВя╕П See my reply to Ryan Gardner about joining the "People Person" club. It is pretty exclusive, and we are getting our own t-shirts made.

Expand full comment
TIOK's avatar

Remind me to send Ingrid her membership card ;-).

Expand full comment
Mike Rogers's avatar

I never cared about the arrows. I would step back a little to let people pass, but mostly it was fun to watch them skitter away in abject fear.

Expand full comment
I am not your Other's avatar

In a rehab hospital, I was very sad to see the 70-80-90 year olds sitting around in their plexiglass cafe' ... I named the sad place Covid Cafe' and made sure the admins heard me. Hard enough to be ill / injured and separated from family. Or required to mask when they do their PT (!) ... Still goes on to this day. Fk the masks and plexiglass. That's what I say.

Expand full comment
St. Alia the Knife's avatar

My grandmother was in a group home for the last few years of her life in New Mexico. When the scamdemic hit, no one was allowed in except staff. She turned 100 years old in Oct 2020. Coming from out of state (WA), we were shocked to see how much she had deteriorated in the 6 months of the lockdown. We were "allowed" to "celebrate" her 100th birthday by driving in our cars by the home, while she was sitting in a wheelchair on the sidewalk. The head nurse "graciously" allowed us to stand 6 feet away from her on the sidewalk and take a picture to commemorate her Century mark.

About that time, NM's crap governor decreed that nursing home residents would be allowed 1 visitor for 1 hour, once a month. Since I had come from out of state, I was given the honor of sitting on the home's patio, 6 feet away from her, for an hour before I had to head back to WA state and OUR crap governor.

She passed away 5 1/2 months later, almost exactly 1 year after NM's lockdown of care facilities. She had been doing fairly well for her age and medical condition, looking forward to visits from kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and friends from church. After the lockdown, she seemed to lose her will to live.

When we celebrated her 98th birthday, she told us she "had decided to live to 100 so she could get that letter from the President." She made it to 100 and a bit more, but the last year of her life was lived in solitary confinement, for all intents and purposes. During the 2 weeks before her passing, they allowed 1 person per day to sit with her, 6 feet away, for 1 hour. I am grateful for that much of a reprieve from the draconian measures; I know other families were not allowed even that much

Maybe they did keep some elderly people from dying of the Wu-flu, but at what cost? Every older person I talked with during that time (and to this day) would rather take the risk and be surrounded by their loved ones, than be locked away "for their own good/safety." What good is an extra few months, or a year or two, if you are shut away from all those you love?! It has been over 2 years and the anger and tears are welling up all over again.

My other grandma was kept at home with her oldest daughter, allowed to have visitors and passed away 2 weeks shy of HER 100th birthday, surrounded by her daughters and one granddaughter, the hospital having bent the rules so that more than 1 family member could be with her at the end. (She had fallen and badly broken her leg, came through surgery fine, but her heart gave out after all of the trauma.)

My lesson from all of this: do everything I can to keep my mom and MIL out of hospitals and care facilities.

Mrs. "the Knife"

Expand full comment
I am not your Other's avatar

I'm so sorry for your grandma ... and all the grandmas we were supposedly saving. I have a similar situation in my family. It's too painful to recall again at this moment. There were plenty of crap governors and mayors and especially health officials. Unfortunately my family member was affected the most by Newsom (it's OK for care homes to remain severely understaffed; ratios of 1:6 on a good day were sometimes 1:25) and Cody (severe and unnecessary lockdowns for months; there is NO WAY she did not realize that Covid was already in the county in late 2019, it was too obvious with all the 'severe pneumonia' going around).

Looking back now, it is clear to me that they are no better than the Nazi "leaders" were. And I feel the remorse of not fighting back harder for my family memberS (in the care facility and in school). When I was in school in the 60s and 70s, I often wondered what the average German people could possibly have been thinking. Now I have an idea. Hope I personally 'do better' next time.

Expand full comment
St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Thank you. And I am sorry for your loved ones, as well. None of it should have happened to anyone.

All of us need to keep up the good fight against all of this darkness, in whatever arena we find ourselves.

Peace and blessings to you and yours,

Mrs. "the Knife"

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

God. That gives me a heavy heart.

The cruelty is totally lost on these people

Expand full comment
St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Mr. "the Knife" said it was a good time to be in the "Plexiglass and circle stickers" business.

Mrs. "the Knife"

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

Lolol.

They'll all be relics of shame in 10 years

Expand full comment
St. Alia the Knife's avatar

I never did get the hang of the one way arrows, which annoyed some people no end while others just smirked and did the head nod thing. Around our neck of the woods the circles on the floor disappeared first. The Plexiglass finally came down at Costco, but we still see it here and there. Our corrupt Gov, Jay-dolph Inslee, ended the state of "emergency" 975 DAYS (ya know, 15 days to slow the spread?) after declaring it. Mask "mandate" ended April 11th? or 12th? this year.

It has been very eye-opening to live in Covidistan. I know there were other states that were even more draconian, but it was especially galling in the Pacific Northwest where "tolerance" is practically the state religion. 'Course they are only tolerant as long as you participate in their group-think.

Mrs. "the Knife"

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

I felt compelled to walk against the arrows and stand outside the circles. Sometimes I would even press my ears against the plexiglass for effect...no joke...:)

It almost became a tick, simply triggered by how moronic the symbolism was...I just couldn't help myself.

Oh and just the slightest of brush with the new_normal personal space, would send the fear addled brains into unrelenting primordial fear.

.

Expand full comment
Elaine's avatar

I too live under the dictator Inslee. Still, today my health "care" providers are still wearing masks. This makes it perfectly clear to me that I was right over 20 years ago that our medical institution is filled with sheep who are guided by the corrupt CDC/FDA and dare not deviate from their "recommendations" or their career is guaranteed to be short.

What really opened my eyes to this truth is an article in the Seattle Times entitled "change the numbers, create a disease" which pointed out how the normal ranges for establishing "high blood pressure", "high cholesterol", and "bone density" were recently changed which created millions more people "eligible" for prescribing a pharmecutical to be taken for the rest of their lives.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

I love looking up the etymology of words, it's very educational since english is notmy native language. Your post made me look up "tolerate/toleration":

toleration (n.)

1510s, "permission granted by authority, licence," from French tol├йration (15c.)

Huh. How about that. Oh, and the page on Etymonline has a nifty graph from Google (eurhg) showing frequency of usage:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/tolerate

Notice the wee dip right at 2019!

Expand full comment
NanaW's avatar

Plexiglass still up at some of our local markets. So ridiculous at this point.

Expand full comment
INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

plexi is going to stay for good in small town GA

Expand full comment
TIOK's avatar

That definition of "tolerance" has been the standard of the self proclaimed (but really not very) "liberals" and the party they claim for quite some time. It is the opposite of tolerance, just as what they pass for "liberal" is not.

I still live in California. You know, the state half your population fled so that they could turn Oregon and Washington down the same path to ruin. For the record, none of that is my fault ;-).

Expand full comment
Peter Yim's avatar

"Covidistan" !!!

Expand full comment
rjt's avatar

If you are homesick for circles and plexiglass, they are still in full deployment just a short drive north, into the land of Queen Bonnie and King Adrian, where outdoor masking and solo driver masks are still a common sight.

Expand full comment
Mckeekitty's avatar

I don't think we have to wait 10 years. I think the shame has already arrived.

Expand full comment
Pi Guy's avatar

I don't think they're capable of shame.

Expand full comment
TIOK's avatar

You're right, but the whole thing is a crying shame....:-)

Expand full comment
Pi Guy's avatar

Too late!

Expand full comment
P. Reay's avatar

In addition to the convid and mRNA studies disappearing, even many of the older coronavirus vaccine studies (and associated animal trial data) fell off the grid.

Expand full comment
Lincoln Microphone LLC's avatar

lol bat soup fucking get out

Expand full comment
Efferous's avatar

I think South Park's explanation was more likely than what the official line tried to get us to believe.

"Boy, you sure know

how to party, Mick!

Oh, my God! Look at her! Ha ha!

She is so hot!

I think that's a bat.

Yeah! It's a bat!

It's a mouse with wings!

Hey, Mick? Where'd ya go?

Ha ha! Ha ha! Ooh, boy!

- Ohh!

- Ha ha!

Randy, you gotta try it!

Go ahead. Take a turn.

Ohh-oh-oh-oh!

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!"

Expand full comment