Pandemics are temporary, fear is permanent. I saw several N95 masks at the grocery store for Thanksgiving shopping. Have there been any studies on the adverse effects of living with perpetual anxiety and reduced oxygen flow?
This makes perfect sense, because part of the covid dance was the ever-changing rules and restrictions. Imagine waking up every day not knowing what the government was going to allow you to do that day.
We had it here to a degree in Georgia...and it was made evident how arbitrary and capricious it could be. Applebees they zip tied chairs together and to a table to prevent over occupancy and had plastic partitions between tables. But you could go down the street to a mom and pop restaurant and eat like it was 2019...save for the wing shortage.
Exactly. The 'trick' around here was simply finding places that ignored all the BS -- which was difficult, because King Jay sent his goons around to fine businesses who didn't enforce the stupid rules.
A partner and I run one of those businesses. We were fined 5 times. The fine van would roll up outside our building during the pandemic, park, and wait for someone to emerge unmasked. Bingo! Daily fine quota reduced by 1, cha-ching!
We didn't require anyone to wear masks the entire pandemic. Not once. We just took the fines.
There was a shop in the central valley of California that stayed open defying the mandates. Dictator Newsom's office called the local PD and said "shut them down now!" and he said "nope". Called the sheriff and got the same answer. So state LE were sent - to enforce "business licensing violations" - and got it done.
No that wasn't the salon where Nancy P. got her hair done ;-)
It was like this in Texas as well. In the big cities and surrounding suburbs it was mass panic and hysteria. Plastic, that we had be previously banning everywhere, was literally everywhere. There was so much acrylic & plexiglass that I laughed at said this was Big Oil reminding us of its importance. LOL
Meanwhile, you go out to the rural areas, it was 2019.
I'm in the foothills in Northern California. Same here...get away from Sacramento area and it was relaxed and very 2019. Some of the foothills towns 100% ignored masks and all the mandates, with no repercussions. I'm glad I wasn't in one of the crazy CA cities.
Spain was absolutely absurd with the rules. You had to wear a mask walking down the street. Could go into a restaurant and eat unmasked. But go to the toilet, you needed a mask on again. The most frustrating part was that people complied, especially the middle classes.
I live in Spain, too - in a small town, and for a while we couldn't go for a walk in the countryside (just out the back door) and later, when we could, we had to wear masks. But my favorite is that 2 people living in the same house and sleeping in the same bed couldn't ride in the same car unless the passenger sat diagonally from the driver in the back seat! And people complied - which I think is scary, because, maybe, they'll do it, again!
Her in the PRC (California) it was drastic. And some of the illegal, outrageous mandates were hard to ignore. Business closures, job elimination and "get jabbed or get fired" that resulted loss of firefighters and police officers, for example. Other things like the 10pm curfew were almost universally ignored.
It was of course arbitrary. Some things made sense: gun stores were of course first and foremost "nonessential" - and of course liquor stores and pot shops are "essential" because a stoned population is more compliant. Sense in terms of the overall goals of The Party - the people should be disarmed and dulled.
And it was serious stuff in some places. My SO's company works for the US Navy. She was told her work was "essential" and her people were to continue to work, but lord Newsom did not agree. He ordered all offices closed except those he ordained and her company wasn't one. When getting off the freeway to drive to the office, the Santa Clara PD were blocking the road, telling people to go home or get arrested. Yup, right in the middle of silicon valley. She instructed her people to comply (no budget for lawyers or bail). She contacted her customer and received letters for every member of her team to carry - signed by the Secretary of the Navy - that they were "essential" and instructing LE to let them pass. Armed with "their papers" they were able to get to work.
That's when it became clear to me health had nothing whatever to do with the COVID response.
In my state (NM), the sane part in southeast NM put up all the signs for masks & distancing but didn’t enforce. Although early on did make people stand outside in the cold for “occupancy restrictions”. Sheriff refused to shut any “nonessential” businesses & restaurants w/out patios were creative.
But I will never, ever forget shivering in a f’ing line outside a store or on an outdoor restaurant patio w/ inadequate heat n the winter of 2020
In Montgomery County, MD when our office sent us home to work remotely back in 2020, it was understood that some of us would occasionally have to come to the office to do "essential" work. We were given authorization letters ("papers") to carry with us in case we were stopped and questioned. No, we never were stopped and questioned, but it was just the very assumption that this could happen, and that our HR department was clearly following some orders from somewhere to do this, that was so suddenly chilling.
I've kept the letter, stashed in my COVID-19 time capsule I've been adding to (which also includes masks, "no entry without a mask unless you are vaccinated!" signs, and so forth); my thought has always been that one day, perhaps 3 years into the future (but hopefully sooner), we would look back and marvel at the insanity. By "we," I mean everyone, including those who are still buying into it. It's not time to open the time capsule yet, sadly.
I pray that you are correct with the "someday" but my optimism is getting harder and harder to maintain. The consequences of non-compliance are growing, not fading. I don't travel far from the front door without my passport and my COVID card - just in case. I just broke open a new box of masks (black - in morning of the death of sanity and liberty). Need one for my ophthalmologist visit on Monday (gov't mandate, not the doc's). As the days get shorter the earth is indeed plunging back into darkness.
Your HR department was doing what they had to do. In other places people were being stopped and told to go home and even arrested and put in jail for violating the lockdown orders (parts of California). I'd say keep that letter and show it to kids as a warning - but I'm afraid most publicly educated would say "so?" and think that needing permission from the proper authorities to move about is reasonable. But keep trying to educate the kids - they are our only hope.
Pedro just bought his way back into power with our money here in Spain. I assume that the media outside of Spain isn't covering this (though Tucker did turn up).
Much smarter and knowleagable people than I have commented in More than one Substack that there is a heck of a lot of people walking around now who are MENTALLY ILL.
does that explain all the people I see still wearing masks when they are alone in their cars? Are you saying that COVID compliance is a sign of mental illness? that does explain a lot...
So there was someone in the parks dept with multiple still functioning brain cells? Cool.
When Newsom dictated the 10pm curfew, he ordered all LE to enforce it by jailing those who defied if the would not comply. Even some of the most "true blue" counties such as Santa Cruz refused.
At one point, early on, I had picked up a package at UPS (fully masked) and was sitting in my car, in the parking lot, alone, at least 20' from any other vehicle, reading messages on my phone, sans mask. Two deputy sheriffs were talking (sans masks) about 20' away when this CHP pulled up, right next to me, rolled down his window and ORDERED ME in a threatening tone to put on my mask. Before I could speak one of the deputies got out of his car, walked over, and started to dress down the CHP officer for being an (abbreviation for posterior). I discretely started my car and backed out of the space.
They forced young kids into masks here in Spain for the best part of two years, including outdoors. I found it totally depressing seeing kids that had lived maybe a quarter of their lives in masks, as I walked my dog past a school every day.
Governments at all three levels are captured by WEF minions or wannabes and are busily attacking property, mobility, water supplies, impeding automotive traffic, and raising taxes to an extent which is starting to squeeze working people and certainly interfering with young peoples' ability to form families and afford homes.
They have been at this stealth expropriation for at least a couple of decades and pretending that doing nothing is going to work is dangerously out of date.
I was being slightly (?) facetious, though a lot of people tired to ignore most of the crazy stuff coming from policy makers as much and as long as they could. But it was hard to ignore a lot of it. Like business closers, job loss, and mandates to do crazy stuff to remain employed. What many continue to ignore is the actual "cause and effect" behind it: as you say, was and still is a step in the progression of dominating the majority for the benefit of a tiny minority (those that will, in their minds, be in control of the "collective wealth" in the end). Many continue to ignore the obvious that mandates are about the power to mandate and the compliance of the masses (EOS). If the goal is to preserve any semblance of a peaceful, free society, then yes this is a very dangerous approach.
and now that the govt too is waking up, changing sides on them as well. And all the messages of death and mayhem and footballers dropping dead on the field.
I reckon a lot of it must be from the cognitive dissonance, it must be difficult to keep the faith after being so obviously lied to about the danger of the pandemic, the safety and efficiency of the vaccine. 100% effective, to boosters every few months, and they still catch covid.
You either have to admit you were lied to, or keep going along with it. Option two must be difficult at this stage, but many still are going with it.
Same here as much as I could but I live north of the 49th in Soviet Canuckistan and it was as bad or worse than the blue states and it was coast to coast. At least you had a few bastions of sanity in your 50 states.
Probably the worst physical health as well. Living like hermits, breathing through a filthy mask for years now. Scrubbing and sanitizing there hands every second. Jabbing themselves with all manner of pharma poison. These people are finished mentally, physically and emotionally. Few will ever be normal again, many will die before there time.
Not sure. I think people like us have the worst mental health because we knew it was complete BS and they kept up the tyranny to make us do things that were insane. Made me feel like I was insane. To get groceries I had to wear that stupid mask that everyone knew did nothing. Then more tyranny at the checkout with those stupid plastic shields from China that is stopping nothing. This, all this ridiculous nonsense, makes me feel like I’m losing my mind. But people who are so happy to be slaves of this global cabal, well, it’s like they’re drugged. Perfectly happy. 🙄🙄🤪
And mental illness is caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, which is also the cause of chronic disease and cancer. Stands to reason that a society plagued by chronic illness will also have higher numbers of mentally ill. And every Covid policy exacerbated this.
The N95 masks, the ones with the writing on the side of the box that says: does not protect the wearer against Covid 19 or any other virus?” Those masks? So tired of it all
This past three years, my husband would go to CVS to get his glaucoma eye drops, and then the pharmacist would hand him a bag of a dozen of those ridiculous masks. I gave them all to the next door neighbors, who were coo coo for covid
Save them. They are quite useful when sanding drywall or epoxy, or almost anything using a mechanical sander. (That is the N95 masks, not the stupid blue ones.)
The only guidance that was consistent during the pandemic came from the mask manufacturers: These masks do not protect you from COVID 19. Always makes me smile and snicker when I see people in masks.
I was talking with an acquaintance from my former workplace this afternoon. She was impressed with the sneer I gave the woman entering the store wearing the mask.
the studies that need to be done are never done. I am just reading a book about how your body keeps the fear inside, even years after a traumatic experience. Bessel van der Kolk - your body keeps the score. It handles more about rape, death etc. but I think what happened in the last 3 years can count as a traumatic experience, too. On both sides!
I still don’t understand how anyone was so scared. Scared of what? Empty hospitals? Forced mask wearing to obtain groceries? All of it was one giant BS lie and the trauma we are experiencing is that NO ONE is held accountable
Ingrid, van der Kolk is great, but you should also look up Datis Kharrazian. His book ‘Why Isn’t My Brain Working?’ and his courses at drknews.com offer so much hope for actual healing.
Emotional trauma does change our brains (see Daniel Amen’s work on brain scans). But Kharrazian offers remedies.
I think there’ll be a redux & the masses of asses WILL buy in again.
There’s no doubt in my mind they’ve brewed more toxic cocktails over many years & that 2020 was a dry run to see what they could get away with. Turns out it was depressingly A LOT.
Moobman Gates has already promised the “next” will really get our attention. I assume the next will be much more lethal to much younger people (including infants & children). Look what madness occurred when it was lethal only to the elderly who are on the way out anyway.
I read a study done some years ago on immigrants to one of the Scandinavian countries back in the post-wwll years who did not speak the language. They found that over a fairly short period of time, they self-isolated, rarely interacting with others, and became obsessed with their health. I see a similar phenom happening today, with people immersed in their cell phones - self-isolation - to the point of rarely talking to other people, and despite their lifetimes of getting sick and recovering, they eat up the fear-mongering BS, the blatant gaslighting by the media, and become easy targets for the grifters in the health industry and what have been dubbed the "Controligarchs". Does not bode well for the future...
Ms. Ripple and I are invited last week by new friends, a lovely couple Ms. Ripple met at a Buddhist retreat last summer. Imagine my shock when the woman asked us to take a covid test so everyone could be "safe". If it were just myself I would have declined the invitation right then and there. Unfortunately Ms. Ripple is not a covid skeptic. We'll take the freaking tests which will show nothing. Funny thing is, the tests I have are long expired...
I love it when I'm on the same page as the bad cat! At the risk of spoiling my upcoming article, less than 2% of hospital beds in the USA are taken up by a covid-positive patient. This is basically half of last year -- when covid also wasn't a problem.
Even then, some of those "the hospitals are at capacity" reports have little to do with actual capacity so much as staffing shortages - often caused by useless mRNA shot mandates for their employees. I've appreciated the many authors who pulled back the curtain on all of those stories about how busy/full the hospitals were. And if they'd only had a sane "treat the patient before it gets really bad" policy, the hospitals likely wouldn't have been nearly as full. So many "go home until you can't breathe, then go to the ER" prescriptions given out.... :(
My local hospital has been screaming about being "near capacity!" ever since the lockdowns. It has nothing to do with the amount of patients in there; it's all because they are way understaffed.
Our hospital utilization here in Washington was flat the entire 'pandemic' with one exception -- we lost roughly 10% of our staffed bed supply due to King Jay's vaccine mandate.
Yup, that was the prescription that I've got from my quack doctor. " yeah you got covid, yeah you have pneumonia, no there's nothing we can do for you, go home now, bye bye.
That's a point that I bring up in my article -- if everybody were testing all the time, cases would still be very high, though I believe that most hospitals are still doing tests upon admission to get that sweet sweet federal cash. (This is one of the reasons that I use hospitalizations as a metric in the first place)
I was reading today about how 19% of hospital beds in Canada were filled with Covid positive patients who acquired Covid after entering the hospital.
Except these are PCR tests. And did these people test at home? All of this propaganda again meant to foment fear.
I wonder why we aren't hearing from the "Covid Positive" patients. Probably because mainstream reporters are treating them like temporary lepers? And we know their vaccination status...because again...wouldn't that be front and center.
This was always one of the big problems with lockdowns and the like -- a LOT of people caught covid in the hospital, and if we can't stop spread in the hospital, what chance do we have to stop the spread in the general population? Roughly zero.
And again, by what measure do these people have Covid. Are they sitting in the prone position to evade intubation, or are they merely Covid positive as evidenced by a PCR test?
The latter in a whole lot of cases. They took the page down, but the last time I checked "pregnancy" made up almost 40% of covid hospitalizations -- meaning the women were in the hospital for something else but happened to test positive.
There is a good twitter account PlaForScience who demonstrated that is the case here in Spain. Most of his posts are in Spanish, but his earlier ones where he was pointing this out were often done in English as well.
I didn't even trust them when they said "15 days to flatten the curve." I looked around me and saw that people weren't exactly dropping like flies, or even getting particularly sick -- unlike the flu season of two years before that, when almost everyone I knew had some strain or other of flu, including what we called the "3-week flu." So from the beginning I knew something was wrong with the narrative.
Here in the DR the gubmint, at the mercy of the World Bank and WHO, required a 3-day old PCR or proof of jabs to go into *any* public place, so you couldn't even buy food.
Heck, you couldn't go into a clinic!
Screw them. Screw ANYONE who is still pro-jab and spreads coof fear porn.
I was a total non-law scoundrel, and I will NEVER forget those a$$wipes.
Sadly, I saw some in those early days who had already been bitten by the fear bug. Was out shopping with my kid and one person told me I was brave to bring a kid out with the virus spreading like crazy. At the time, little was known, but even then I agree that it was apparent that people weren't dropping like crazy. We took some precautions for a couple of weeks, but then just said "this is silly". If anything, I left the kid at home to not have her wear a mask to be out and "safe".
Yes, the same nasty cold has been going around my part of central Ohio. I'm now coming down the home stretch of my own case, and I know what you mean about "enough congestion to truly make me wonder if snot is somehow outside rules about conservation of matter." But somehow my memory wasn't erased during the covidmania like so many other people's. I remember that I've had colds before. I've had flu before. I've had other illnesses before. I'm still here, at age 81, and I know how illnesses come and go. I also know we used to have a real medical system in the USA. That, I'm afraid, is almost defunct.
My 4 year old started a nasty cough about 3 weeks ago. I took him to the doc after 10 days of it not going away and his fever spiking out of nowhere. The nurse practitioner said they had been seeing lots of kids with this cough and it was lasting 6 weeks!! My son still has it on and off, but it is definitely better.
I've got it also. Sometimes I think it is because the vaxxed are walking variant factories...other times I think well, a couple of meteors have stuck in the past month, and we know they carry viruses or pick them up in our atmosphere....hence the middle ages prognostications about comets or asteroids being bad omens....
On the other hand, haven't checked my D levels in about a year, so.....
Look up Marek's disease in chickens. A leaky vaccine has driven the virus to evolve to more lethal strains.
I was worried about this scenario when they first insisted on jabbing everyone. Fortunately the jabs are less than useless for their intended purpose, so actually might have helped the milder Omicron become the dominant strain.
Or then again, it may just be the beginning of cold and flu season. I remember years when everyone I knew had at least a cold during the course of a season. People forget....
When my buddy first started working in the CDC media relations, I would write scripts and have people pretend to be reporters call him up to ask questions like, "Hi, Im from the Mississippi Enquirer, and there is a real fear of the Ebola virus getting into the snakes that are found around the Mississippi and then used in religious ceremonies in some of our churches. Can you please give a comment?" A personal fave I had a coworker call and say they were from Highlights Magazine (that old one for kids) and they were doing a story on how to prevent kids from contracting computer viruses, now that children were using computers, and could he comment on how the viruses could jump from the computer to the children.
I took it as a personal goal to come up with some hair-brained idea and have the CDC have to comment on it. That was in the early 1990s. Today, I am upstaged by all of these "reporters" out there, and the CDC itself. It's truly remarkable that I could have, and should have started a blog way back then (never knew what one was in those days) and capitalized on fake news stories. I could've been a pioneer!
I hear you are having a problem with the cover sheets for your TPS reports. Did you get the memo? I'm going to send you the memo again, just to be sure.
cover sheets can be deep faked. beware of sketchy looking official cover sheets. only repeat the memos with very official looking cover sheets. only those. or there'll be wwiii I'm told by the memo originators.
Tom Harwood's lockdown drawing looks like it was drawn by a child and uses the logic of a child. I self-flagellated and didn't find God, therefore next time I will self-flagellate harder!
and yet a california county has just imposed a mask mandate for healthcare facilities to run until march 2024 and there is zero mass uprising against stupidity. and doubtless all blue-run localities are watching eagerly to see how smoothly this will be accepted.
Was listening to a streamer in CA who was talking about a couple years ago he had some good money and was looking to buy a house. He could have bought a modest house and lived okay outside of CA...but on a lark he decided to check out how many houses were on the market in CA for 100k. He said out of all of California...only two houses were on the market for 100k. One was a cabin that actually straddled a property line...so if the neighbors got a whim..you would have to move it. I asked if the other house was haunted.
Regardless...and this is my constant refrain. In LA they had valet parking at the Sizzler. That's an indicator.
100k that must be many years ago! I don't think you can buy anything more than a simpleton for 300k. Well, now that half CA has moved elsewhere, the prices should go down a bit. To be honest they could give me one for free I wouldn't want to move there.
a goodly amount. the problem is the impact on revenue. as in there is a LOT less than the state expected or budgeted for. And when the state can't pay people, or fix things ... more people leave.
"The department projected that California would collect $42 billion in October. But, as of Oct. 25, California collected just $18 billion."
Damn, now I gotta put a mask on him too. Even the dog snout ones are not a perfect fit and I gotta stick him in a cone so he doesn't scratch it off. What's next? Cat Scratch Fever?
The feral cat I feed in my backyard only eats organic pole-caught tuna from the can, he won't touch Starkist or Chicken of the Sea. When a wild feline turns down mainstream tuna, it really makes you think about the product, or rather, what is in the product.
This is also me. What is happening? I don't give much credence to the vax shedding, but who knows.
I have two friends who have dogs who supposedly have this. One is in East Texas, the other more western Texas. It was told to them it wasn't in Texas. Both have similar symptoms of reverse sneezing, lethargy, coughing, etc. They are raw fed dogs. But it's not responsive to antibiotics and the vets are trying prednisone. I asked about fungal & parasite infections. We had a drought all summer then just got hit with a bunch of flooding rain. Wonder if it stirred up something. I mention fungal because my nephew was just diagnosed with fungal pneumonia.
Interestingly, it sounds a lot like the symptoms of this "bad cold."
Within the past couple of days, the dog illness was identified as a bacterium. It wasn’t identified earlier because it is a very, very small bacterium so it didn’t show up on their tests. Stay away from other dogs and possibly contaminated water sources.
They haven’t really figured it out though. They think it’s a bacterium but it appears to be a new bacterium, maybe a mycoplasma maybe a strep zoo, but they still can’t even be sure that the bacterium they identified is the problem and they don’t know the identity of that bacterium. I suspect they are right about it being some sort of mycoplasma bacteria because that would account for it not responding well to the normal antibiotics and it is behaving much like mycoplasma pneumonias in cattle. So they think they have a direction to head but are far from sure exactly what it is.
I think most folks know about D3 + K2 + zinc, but you could probably avoided the excess-snot-problem by taking 10,000mg of vitamin C daily in divided doses - works for me - see The Healing Factor by Irwin Stone (and as soon as the itchy throat starts, double the dose etc until you get the runs, then back off, tracking the disease down with decreasing doses accordingly - see Thomas Levy's books).
Stick with grandma's advice: an ounce of prevention. Perhaps address the obesity and overweight, the lack of movement, the hand-wringing and buck up, buttercups. Heck, even salt water gargles are seen as helpful... again. Whyever, do we forgo our common sense?
Had it here in Florida. Seriously considering getting a shot. It was so bad that I got two. Bourbon that is, Knob Creek 9 year old. Took care of it nicely. Enjoyed the coughing up snot though.
I feel it coming on again though, is it too early for bourbon?
KatManDO - "how many times has pro med warned of something and been wrong? how often has it come to nothing? saying “well, they were early on covid” is not actually meaningful if covid was just one of 100 times they cried wolf and the other 99 were nothingburgers."
About as often as the useless tools from Imperial College who said 2M US would die & 20M saved by the jab. Batting .000 for six "pandemics" over the last 20 years indicates, they couldn't hit water if they fell out of a f-ing boat.
Pandemics are temporary, fear is permanent. I saw several N95 masks at the grocery store for Thanksgiving shopping. Have there been any studies on the adverse effects of living with perpetual anxiety and reduced oxygen flow?
People who followed Covid rules the most have the worst mental health.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/people-who-stuck-by-uk-covid-rules-have-worst-mental-health-says-survey
This makes perfect sense, because part of the covid dance was the ever-changing rules and restrictions. Imagine waking up every day not knowing what the government was going to allow you to do that day.
We don’t have to imagine Sim, we all suffered through it (@ least in tyrannical blue states like mine)
We had it here to a degree in Georgia...and it was made evident how arbitrary and capricious it could be. Applebees they zip tied chairs together and to a table to prevent over occupancy and had plastic partitions between tables. But you could go down the street to a mom and pop restaurant and eat like it was 2019...save for the wing shortage.
Exactly. The 'trick' around here was simply finding places that ignored all the BS -- which was difficult, because King Jay sent his goons around to fine businesses who didn't enforce the stupid rules.
A partner and I run one of those businesses. We were fined 5 times. The fine van would roll up outside our building during the pandemic, park, and wait for someone to emerge unmasked. Bingo! Daily fine quota reduced by 1, cha-ching!
We didn't require anyone to wear masks the entire pandemic. Not once. We just took the fines.
There was a shop in the central valley of California that stayed open defying the mandates. Dictator Newsom's office called the local PD and said "shut them down now!" and he said "nope". Called the sheriff and got the same answer. So state LE were sent - to enforce "business licensing violations" - and got it done.
No that wasn't the salon where Nancy P. got her hair done ;-)
It was like this in Texas as well. In the big cities and surrounding suburbs it was mass panic and hysteria. Plastic, that we had be previously banning everywhere, was literally everywhere. There was so much acrylic & plexiglass that I laughed at said this was Big Oil reminding us of its importance. LOL
Meanwhile, you go out to the rural areas, it was 2019.
Same in MO.
I'm in the foothills in Northern California. Same here...get away from Sacramento area and it was relaxed and very 2019. Some of the foothills towns 100% ignored masks and all the mandates, with no repercussions. I'm glad I wasn't in one of the crazy CA cities.
Spain was absolutely absurd with the rules. You had to wear a mask walking down the street. Could go into a restaurant and eat unmasked. But go to the toilet, you needed a mask on again. The most frustrating part was that people complied, especially the middle classes.
I live in Spain, too - in a small town, and for a while we couldn't go for a walk in the countryside (just out the back door) and later, when we could, we had to wear masks. But my favorite is that 2 people living in the same house and sleeping in the same bed couldn't ride in the same car unless the passenger sat diagonally from the driver in the back seat! And people complied - which I think is scary, because, maybe, they'll do it, again!
Now I am really envious.....
Her in the PRC (California) it was drastic. And some of the illegal, outrageous mandates were hard to ignore. Business closures, job elimination and "get jabbed or get fired" that resulted loss of firefighters and police officers, for example. Other things like the 10pm curfew were almost universally ignored.
It was of course arbitrary. Some things made sense: gun stores were of course first and foremost "nonessential" - and of course liquor stores and pot shops are "essential" because a stoned population is more compliant. Sense in terms of the overall goals of The Party - the people should be disarmed and dulled.
And it was serious stuff in some places. My SO's company works for the US Navy. She was told her work was "essential" and her people were to continue to work, but lord Newsom did not agree. He ordered all offices closed except those he ordained and her company wasn't one. When getting off the freeway to drive to the office, the Santa Clara PD were blocking the road, telling people to go home or get arrested. Yup, right in the middle of silicon valley. She instructed her people to comply (no budget for lawyers or bail). She contacted her customer and received letters for every member of her team to carry - signed by the Secretary of the Navy - that they were "essential" and instructing LE to let them pass. Armed with "their papers" they were able to get to work.
That's when it became clear to me health had nothing whatever to do with the COVID response.
In my state (NM), the sane part in southeast NM put up all the signs for masks & distancing but didn’t enforce. Although early on did make people stand outside in the cold for “occupancy restrictions”. Sheriff refused to shut any “nonessential” businesses & restaurants w/out patios were creative.
But I will never, ever forget shivering in a f’ing line outside a store or on an outdoor restaurant patio w/ inadequate heat n the winter of 2020
In Montgomery County, MD when our office sent us home to work remotely back in 2020, it was understood that some of us would occasionally have to come to the office to do "essential" work. We were given authorization letters ("papers") to carry with us in case we were stopped and questioned. No, we never were stopped and questioned, but it was just the very assumption that this could happen, and that our HR department was clearly following some orders from somewhere to do this, that was so suddenly chilling.
I've kept the letter, stashed in my COVID-19 time capsule I've been adding to (which also includes masks, "no entry without a mask unless you are vaccinated!" signs, and so forth); my thought has always been that one day, perhaps 3 years into the future (but hopefully sooner), we would look back and marvel at the insanity. By "we," I mean everyone, including those who are still buying into it. It's not time to open the time capsule yet, sadly.
There are already people Jones-ing for a replay
I pray that you are correct with the "someday" but my optimism is getting harder and harder to maintain. The consequences of non-compliance are growing, not fading. I don't travel far from the front door without my passport and my COVID card - just in case. I just broke open a new box of masks (black - in morning of the death of sanity and liberty). Need one for my ophthalmologist visit on Monday (gov't mandate, not the doc's). As the days get shorter the earth is indeed plunging back into darkness.
Your HR department was doing what they had to do. In other places people were being stopped and told to go home and even arrested and put in jail for violating the lockdown orders (parts of California). I'd say keep that letter and show it to kids as a warning - but I'm afraid most publicly educated would say "so?" and think that needing permission from the proper authorities to move about is reasonable. But keep trying to educate the kids - they are our only hope.
that is disgusting. I have heard too many stories like this.
US is turning in to a cesspool, not just Washington DC anymore
You just made an excellent case for abolishing all governments.
SimCom 2024!
"Vote for Pedro"
Pedro just bought his way back into power with our money here in Spain. I assume that the media outside of Spain isn't covering this (though Tucker did turn up).
Much smarter and knowleagable people than I have commented in More than one Substack that there is a heck of a lot of people walking around now who are MENTALLY ILL.
And we wonder why......
These days it's a badge of honor, somehow.
For what perverted definition of "honor"?
does that explain all the people I see still wearing masks when they are alone in their cars? Are you saying that COVID compliance is a sign of mental illness? that does explain a lot...
well, some people that are mentally ill, think they are really doctors (delusional) and tell others that they are "sick".
My son in law told my daughter (my poor daughter but it is too late to save her) that I was "sick" 😂😂😆😆
Yes. Btw. Epoch news: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/consumer-watchdog-lists-5-woke-companies-to-avoid-during-holiday-buying-5533641?src_tmp=POPULAR+NEWS_2_Consumer+Watchdog+Li&src_cat=article_widget&src_cmp=article_widget_POPULAR+NEWS
I could never follow all of the rules. It was tough to keep up.
Taped off play grounds outside. That was the biggest crime. Absolutely stunning idiocy. And the kiddos staying inside. Just super shitty
In our area, they took the disc golf holes out of the park.
This caused people to go 'old school' and use the trees as 'holes'.
The 'real' disc golf holes reappeared a couple weeks later.
So there was someone in the parks dept with multiple still functioning brain cells? Cool.
When Newsom dictated the 10pm curfew, he ordered all LE to enforce it by jailing those who defied if the would not comply. Even some of the most "true blue" counties such as Santa Cruz refused.
At one point, early on, I had picked up a package at UPS (fully masked) and was sitting in my car, in the parking lot, alone, at least 20' from any other vehicle, reading messages on my phone, sans mask. Two deputy sheriffs were talking (sans masks) about 20' away when this CHP pulled up, right next to me, rolled down his window and ORDERED ME in a threatening tone to put on my mask. Before I could speak one of the deputies got out of his car, walked over, and started to dress down the CHP officer for being an (abbreviation for posterior). I discretely started my car and backed out of the space.
They forced young kids into masks here in Spain for the best part of two years, including outdoors. I found it totally depressing seeing kids that had lived maybe a quarter of their lives in masks, as I walked my dog past a school every day.
I think you should add "and not realizing that you could mostly ignore it".
That's the coping mechanism used by millions.
I'm told by Canadian friends this is the main tool sane people use to deal with governments in Canada ;-).
Sadly it doesn't work here.
Governments at all three levels are captured by WEF minions or wannabes and are busily attacking property, mobility, water supplies, impeding automotive traffic, and raising taxes to an extent which is starting to squeeze working people and certainly interfering with young peoples' ability to form families and afford homes.
They have been at this stealth expropriation for at least a couple of decades and pretending that doing nothing is going to work is dangerously out of date.
I was being slightly (?) facetious, though a lot of people tired to ignore most of the crazy stuff coming from policy makers as much and as long as they could. But it was hard to ignore a lot of it. Like business closers, job loss, and mandates to do crazy stuff to remain employed. What many continue to ignore is the actual "cause and effect" behind it: as you say, was and still is a step in the progression of dominating the majority for the benefit of a tiny minority (those that will, in their minds, be in control of the "collective wealth" in the end). Many continue to ignore the obvious that mandates are about the power to mandate and the compliance of the masses (EOS). If the goal is to preserve any semblance of a peaceful, free society, then yes this is a very dangerous approach.
and now that the govt too is waking up, changing sides on them as well. And all the messages of death and mayhem and footballers dropping dead on the field.
I reckon a lot of it must be from the cognitive dissonance, it must be difficult to keep the faith after being so obviously lied to about the danger of the pandemic, the safety and efficiency of the vaccine. 100% effective, to boosters every few months, and they still catch covid.
You either have to admit you were lied to, or keep going along with it. Option two must be difficult at this stage, but many still are going with it.
We did. Where were you?
Ignoring the fuck out of all of it -- with my mental health intact.
Same here as much as I could but I live north of the 49th in Soviet Canuckistan and it was as bad or worse than the blue states and it was coast to coast. At least you had a few bastions of sanity in your 50 states.
It was revolting but you could not revolt unless you were Antifa or BLM
you don't say. or perhaps those with the worst mental health followed the covid rules.
Probably the worst physical health as well. Living like hermits, breathing through a filthy mask for years now. Scrubbing and sanitizing there hands every second. Jabbing themselves with all manner of pharma poison. These people are finished mentally, physically and emotionally. Few will ever be normal again, many will die before there time.
Also I would contend actually are sick and get Covid more.
An inevitable consequence of taking multiple vaxxes.
They haven't understood the physiology of the immunologic damage.
Not sure. I think people like us have the worst mental health because we knew it was complete BS and they kept up the tyranny to make us do things that were insane. Made me feel like I was insane. To get groceries I had to wear that stupid mask that everyone knew did nothing. Then more tyranny at the checkout with those stupid plastic shields from China that is stopping nothing. This, all this ridiculous nonsense, makes me feel like I’m losing my mind. But people who are so happy to be slaves of this global cabal, well, it’s like they’re drugged. Perfectly happy. 🙄🙄🤪
And mental illness is caused by mitochondrial dysfunction, which is also the cause of chronic disease and cancer. Stands to reason that a society plagued by chronic illness will also have higher numbers of mentally ill. And every Covid policy exacerbated this.
I’m thinking chicken or egg?
What came first, the mental illness or the scamdemic compliance?
I would believe this, basing my opinion on people I know. They're f'n nuts!
Yes, speaking of mental health Epoch News: https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/consumer-watchdog-lists-5-woke-companies-to-avoid-during-holiday-buying-5533641?src_tmp=POPULAR+NEWS_2_Consumer+Watchdog+Li&src_cat=article_widget&src_cmp=article_widget_POPULAR+NEWS
The N95 masks, the ones with the writing on the side of the box that says: does not protect the wearer against Covid 19 or any other virus?” Those masks? So tired of it all
This past three years, my husband would go to CVS to get his glaucoma eye drops, and then the pharmacist would hand him a bag of a dozen of those ridiculous masks. I gave them all to the next door neighbors, who were coo coo for covid
Save them. They are quite useful when sanding drywall or epoxy, or almost anything using a mechanical sander. (That is the N95 masks, not the stupid blue ones.)
Like coocoo for coco puffs. So cute.
Ugh. The covidians, right?! So weird.
The only guidance that was consistent during the pandemic came from the mask manufacturers: These masks do not protect you from COVID 19. Always makes me smile and snicker when I see people in masks.
I was talking with an acquaintance from my former workplace this afternoon. She was impressed with the sneer I gave the woman entering the store wearing the mask.
the studies that need to be done are never done. I am just reading a book about how your body keeps the fear inside, even years after a traumatic experience. Bessel van der Kolk - your body keeps the score. It handles more about rape, death etc. but I think what happened in the last 3 years can count as a traumatic experience, too. On both sides!
Oh yes...the Government traumatized the entire nation. I don't think anyone got away unscathed..its like living with an abusive spouse.
Some of us got away from this spouse faster than others...but it always leave a scar somewhere.
Yes, those were f us who saw through the ruse are traumatized by the viscousness of those who ate it whole.
heartbreakingly true
I still don’t understand how anyone was so scared. Scared of what? Empty hospitals? Forced mask wearing to obtain groceries? All of it was one giant BS lie and the trauma we are experiencing is that NO ONE is held accountable
Ingrid, van der Kolk is great, but you should also look up Datis Kharrazian. His book ‘Why Isn’t My Brain Working?’ and his courses at drknews.com offer so much hope for actual healing.
Emotional trauma does change our brains (see Daniel Amen’s work on brain scans). But Kharrazian offers remedies.
thanks for the tip ! I will check it out.
it is called ABUSE
Great book!
Yes. It's called "Wifey Host Thanksgiving Syndrome".
It manifest itself like T-rex for 5 days prior to company and quickly transitions to Barnie upon arrival.
From what I hear this is a universal phenomenon.
Like the wife gets nutty prior to company but then so sweet when they arrive? Omg that’s me. Can’t even be in the kitchen with me.
Exactly
"transitions to Barnie" - LMAO. Now there's the ultimate "tranny"
Lolol.
You know it's true though...:)
.... funny but I do not get it - feeling thick now 🤷🏻♀️
....well my wifey gets real anxious before hosting holiday gatherings. But once the guests show up she's all smiles
Barni is an easy going happy cartoon dinosaur that children used to love watching
Ohhhh you mean the Purple Dinosaur? Barney? LOL
My younger daughter loved him My older daughter called him "couch head" hahahaha
Yes. Exactly
that description of your wife is hysterical
Barney is so annoying thought I always felt like punching him
I am sure your wife is not annoying. Barney, oh gosh suuuper annoying
Lol. Just read. Yes.
😂😂😂
Reduced oxygen flow in the elderly results in permanent cognitive impairment. And that only takes a few hours a day for some extended period of time.
People have finally caught on to "the worst virus ever" scam. Very few will buy Scamdemic Redux.. The goals of the first scam were accomplished.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-magical-emergence-of-the-worst
I think there’ll be a redux & the masses of asses WILL buy in again.
There’s no doubt in my mind they’ve brewed more toxic cocktails over many years & that 2020 was a dry run to see what they could get away with. Turns out it was depressingly A LOT.
Moobman Gates has already promised the “next” will really get our attention. I assume the next will be much more lethal to much younger people (including infants & children). Look what madness occurred when it was lethal only to the elderly who are on the way out anyway.
Oh gosh isn't he the most pathetic? "king" Charles is even more manly than Gates - - and that is a real stretch of imagination right there
🤭
Apparently 30% of Americans would vote Biden again, and Justin Trudeau is running about the same in Canada.
Never underestimate the...
How the hell isn't Trudeau hanging from a lamppost already?
rjt, every time I hear about a “poll” w/ LGB-FJB @ 30-some%, it’s like, who ARE these people???
Come out to California, some people never let go of their little mask Binkley. It's bananas.
I read a study done some years ago on immigrants to one of the Scandinavian countries back in the post-wwll years who did not speak the language. They found that over a fairly short period of time, they self-isolated, rarely interacting with others, and became obsessed with their health. I see a similar phenom happening today, with people immersed in their cell phones - self-isolation - to the point of rarely talking to other people, and despite their lifetimes of getting sick and recovering, they eat up the fear-mongering BS, the blatant gaslighting by the media, and become easy targets for the grifters in the health industry and what have been dubbed the "Controligarchs". Does not bode well for the future...
Ms. Ripple and I are invited last week by new friends, a lovely couple Ms. Ripple met at a Buddhist retreat last summer. Imagine my shock when the woman asked us to take a covid test so everyone could be "safe". If it were just myself I would have declined the invitation right then and there. Unfortunately Ms. Ripple is not a covid skeptic. We'll take the freaking tests which will show nothing. Funny thing is, the tests I have are long expired...
Have you considered lying about the result like the government?
You would then have the choice of attending or avoiding the woman.
We did the damn tests and they were negative.
I love it when I'm on the same page as the bad cat! At the risk of spoiling my upcoming article, less than 2% of hospital beds in the USA are taken up by a covid-positive patient. This is basically half of last year -- when covid also wasn't a problem.
Whatever they're doing, it's not about a virus.
Edit to add the citation: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_percent-inpatient-beds-state
% INPATIENT BEDS OCCUPIED BY COVID-19 PATIENTS (PAST WEEK) -- 1.9%
A second edit to add in my article, which features some pretty shocking covid stats coming out of Hawaii...... https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-holiday-be-thankful-you-see
Even then, some of those "the hospitals are at capacity" reports have little to do with actual capacity so much as staffing shortages - often caused by useless mRNA shot mandates for their employees. I've appreciated the many authors who pulled back the curtain on all of those stories about how busy/full the hospitals were. And if they'd only had a sane "treat the patient before it gets really bad" policy, the hospitals likely wouldn't have been nearly as full. So many "go home until you can't breathe, then go to the ER" prescriptions given out.... :(
My local hospital has been screaming about being "near capacity!" ever since the lockdowns. It has nothing to do with the amount of patients in there; it's all because they are way understaffed.
They are not profitable unless they operate at near capacity. This is nothing new, other than the weaponized usage.
YES!
Our hospital utilization here in Washington was flat the entire 'pandemic' with one exception -- we lost roughly 10% of our staffed bed supply due to King Jay's vaccine mandate.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/lying-with-statistics
I got banned from Twitter for pointing this out.
Did you get unbanned ? I am still banned.
I have a dumb throwaway account I don't care about -- main account still banned after I don't know how many appeals.
Yup, that was the prescription that I've got from my quack doctor. " yeah you got covid, yeah you have pneumonia, no there's nothing we can do for you, go home now, bye bye.
Check out chbmp.org
Shows what the hospitals were really busy doing
I wonder how much less they are testing.
That's a point that I bring up in my article -- if everybody were testing all the time, cases would still be very high, though I believe that most hospitals are still doing tests upon admission to get that sweet sweet federal cash. (This is one of the reasons that I use hospitalizations as a metric in the first place)
I was reading today about how 19% of hospital beds in Canada were filled with Covid positive patients who acquired Covid after entering the hospital.
Except these are PCR tests. And did these people test at home? All of this propaganda again meant to foment fear.
I wonder why we aren't hearing from the "Covid Positive" patients. Probably because mainstream reporters are treating them like temporary lepers? And we know their vaccination status...because again...wouldn't that be front and center.
This was always one of the big problems with lockdowns and the like -- a LOT of people caught covid in the hospital, and if we can't stop spread in the hospital, what chance do we have to stop the spread in the general population? Roughly zero.
And again, by what measure do these people have Covid. Are they sitting in the prone position to evade intubation, or are they merely Covid positive as evidenced by a PCR test?
The latter in a whole lot of cases. They took the page down, but the last time I checked "pregnancy" made up almost 40% of covid hospitalizations -- meaning the women were in the hospital for something else but happened to test positive.
Here's an archived page with the data still up:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230710234646/https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html
When symptoms can include everything from "asymptomatic" to death, we really have decoupled a "case" from being ill.
The sister of an acquaintance caught covid in the hospital while there to give birth. They put her on remdesivir + ventilator and killed her.
I wonder what percent of people in hospitals were put there by the current medical system?
"Me"
*tries to remember when first drink was*
I posted this?
yeah, just take your medicution and everything will be fine.
And the more diseases we test for, the more pandemics we can create.
There is a good twitter account PlaForScience who demonstrated that is the case here in Spain. Most of his posts are in Spanish, but his earlier ones where he was pointing this out were often done in English as well.
There are a number of twitter posts going around just now about wastewater level of covid. Literally sifting through shit in order to generate panic.
I do not trust *ANY* "public health" agency or *ANY* pharma crapweasels.
Or *ANY* politician who says "trust health officials."
Or *ANY* doctor, ever again, that advocated for the jabs.
I "trusted" them with "11 days to flatten the curve." But when they said "two more weeks", they lost me.
Fool me once...
"Never Again" is no longer a holocaust reference.
I didn't even trust them when they said "15 days to flatten the curve." I looked around me and saw that people weren't exactly dropping like flies, or even getting particularly sick -- unlike the flu season of two years before that, when almost everyone I knew had some strain or other of flu, including what we called the "3-week flu." So from the beginning I knew something was wrong with the narrative.
Total ditto.
Here in the DR the gubmint, at the mercy of the World Bank and WHO, required a 3-day old PCR or proof of jabs to go into *any* public place, so you couldn't even buy food.
Heck, you couldn't go into a clinic!
Screw them. Screw ANYONE who is still pro-jab and spreads coof fear porn.
I was a total non-law scoundrel, and I will NEVER forget those a$$wipes.
Sadly, I saw some in those early days who had already been bitten by the fear bug. Was out shopping with my kid and one person told me I was brave to bring a kid out with the virus spreading like crazy. At the time, little was known, but even then I agree that it was apparent that people weren't dropping like crazy. We took some precautions for a couple of weeks, but then just said "this is silly". If anything, I left the kid at home to not have her wear a mask to be out and "safe".
That was code for 11 years to flatten all of humanity.
Oh that was great. Clapping madly Crixcyon. Keeping, please?
remember when you told me, after muh tupee was spouting hate towards jews, that he had a right to 1A?....after i already said 1A was unconditional?
Remember 1A is my right too.
And don't ever forget what the Founders warned about: Never trade Freedom for Safety.
looks like you did big boy
What the hell are you fapping about?
Who is trading Freedom for Safety?
you did. you "trusted them".
call your bullshit. you remember the gratuitous comment you made.
own it.
What the hell are you fapping about?
Yes, the same nasty cold has been going around my part of central Ohio. I'm now coming down the home stretch of my own case, and I know what you mean about "enough congestion to truly make me wonder if snot is somehow outside rules about conservation of matter." But somehow my memory wasn't erased during the covidmania like so many other people's. I remember that I've had colds before. I've had flu before. I've had other illnesses before. I'm still here, at age 81, and I know how illnesses come and go. I also know we used to have a real medical system in the USA. That, I'm afraid, is almost defunct.
Yeah I had it too. It's all over Florida. Last week 32% of the kids were called out sick at my kids school. It's mostly gone now.
C19 would've been over as quick as this crud run if people wouldn't have behaved as cowards.
Biology gonna Biology
My 4 year old started a nasty cough about 3 weeks ago. I took him to the doc after 10 days of it not going away and his fever spiking out of nowhere. The nurse practitioner said they had been seeing lots of kids with this cough and it was lasting 6 weeks!! My son still has it on and off, but it is definitely better.
Uggh poor guy
Yeah my boy has had a cough for two weeks.
I hope it doesn't last 6 weeks. Ouch.
Seems like he's on the mend though.
Saline rinses of sinuses really help reduce the congestion.
Actually, it's been more of a waterfall than a logjam. 🙄😁
Helps with that as well.
I've got it also. Sometimes I think it is because the vaxxed are walking variant factories...other times I think well, a couple of meteors have stuck in the past month, and we know they carry viruses or pick them up in our atmosphere....hence the middle ages prognostications about comets or asteroids being bad omens....
On the other hand, haven't checked my D levels in about a year, so.....
Look up Marek's disease in chickens. A leaky vaccine has driven the virus to evolve to more lethal strains.
I was worried about this scenario when they first insisted on jabbing everyone. Fortunately the jabs are less than useless for their intended purpose, so actually might have helped the milder Omicron become the dominant strain.
Or then again, it may just be the beginning of cold and flu season. I remember years when everyone I knew had at least a cold during the course of a season. People forget....
Yeah, I'm on the final stages of mine as well. My sore throat was brutal, but other than that it wasn't too bad (my nose is sore tho).
When my buddy first started working in the CDC media relations, I would write scripts and have people pretend to be reporters call him up to ask questions like, "Hi, Im from the Mississippi Enquirer, and there is a real fear of the Ebola virus getting into the snakes that are found around the Mississippi and then used in religious ceremonies in some of our churches. Can you please give a comment?" A personal fave I had a coworker call and say they were from Highlights Magazine (that old one for kids) and they were doing a story on how to prevent kids from contracting computer viruses, now that children were using computers, and could he comment on how the viruses could jump from the computer to the children.
I took it as a personal goal to come up with some hair-brained idea and have the CDC have to comment on it. That was in the early 1990s. Today, I am upstaged by all of these "reporters" out there, and the CDC itself. It's truly remarkable that I could have, and should have started a blog way back then (never knew what one was in those days) and capitalized on fake news stories. I could've been a pioneer!
gold!
😂😂😂 you are too much! Well played.
Wait a minute...a PCR test is an "accurate test?" The "gold standard?"
After 37 cycles, it's more of a "precise" test.
Yes, it can even tell if a rock has Covid, the Flu, RSV, or globbners disease. It is the cold standard.
Old rocks are at particularly high risk of RSV this season, I hear.
yes yes yes ... you got that memo. just repeat the memo.
Did the memo have a proper cover sheet attached to it. You did get the memo that memos need proper cover sheets?
I hear you are having a problem with the cover sheets for your TPS reports. Did you get the memo? I'm going to send you the memo again, just to be sure.
cover sheets can be deep faked. beware of sketchy looking official cover sheets. only repeat the memos with very official looking cover sheets. only those. or there'll be wwiii I'm told by the memo originators.
Trust teh memo™
HAHAHA!
You guys all spelled meme wrong. "Trust the memes!"
That was a pure FAUCI-ISM. THe Lying Sack of SNOT.
With a 97% false positive rate.
They are killing our chickens because of that "gold standard".
You will neer convince me they ddn't infect and kill Kary Mullis just for this reason.
It may not be an accurate test, but it's sadly "the gold standard". :/
Will they ever just fuck off?
still among my fav people on the internet: https://twitter.com/timerolde/status/1525612744363606016?s=21
This is just great! Thanks for posting.
He's just the best!
no, but I guarantee they masturbate to winning naked and afraid in their own house.
Tom Harwood's lockdown drawing looks like it was drawn by a child and uses the logic of a child. I self-flagellated and didn't find God, therefore next time I will self-flagellate harder!
Times like this, I wish I could post pictures, but this link will have to do:
This chart has just as much meaning as the one in the article:
https://ibb.co/rcxMHmm
I was hoping for a turkey hand drawing where only one feather is prominent.
LOL!
Is this a Hunter Biden original?
Is that not the artwork for which the National Gallery paid $4.5 million?
I believe you're thinking of the Hunter Biden paintings. This was just a kid with crayons -- although I can understand the confusion.
This graph is totally convincing. Full of science and stuff!
and yet a california county has just imposed a mask mandate for healthcare facilities to run until march 2024 and there is zero mass uprising against stupidity. and doubtless all blue-run localities are watching eagerly to see how smoothly this will be accepted.
we ain't won nuthin' yet.
is anybody still living in Ca? I thought it would be empty by now.
Was listening to a streamer in CA who was talking about a couple years ago he had some good money and was looking to buy a house. He could have bought a modest house and lived okay outside of CA...but on a lark he decided to check out how many houses were on the market in CA for 100k. He said out of all of California...only two houses were on the market for 100k. One was a cabin that actually straddled a property line...so if the neighbors got a whim..you would have to move it. I asked if the other house was haunted.
Regardless...and this is my constant refrain. In LA they had valet parking at the Sizzler. That's an indicator.
100k that must be many years ago! I don't think you can buy anything more than a simpleton for 300k. Well, now that half CA has moved elsewhere, the prices should go down a bit. To be honest they could give me one for free I wouldn't want to move there.
Many addicts have to hit rock bottom before they realize they need help.
many addicts never realize they need help. many others don't want to kick the drug.
we are nowhere near injecting sufficient doses of common sense into the american public and, more importantly, the electorate.
if only common sense were for sale
90% will always be "senseless commons"
All tyrants know this. That's why they put the remaining 10% against the wall first.
It feels like we’ve all been shoved downhill and we are traveling terrifyingly fast. Like there’s no stopping the stupid.
each one brake one.
With the incidental music supplied by the ubiquitous Taylor Swift.
Now I’m really depressed 🥺. Ugh! Lol
they won't have any patients left by march 2024 because everyone's leaving cali.
this of course is not true.
well, okay, not everyone. some are going down with the ship.
https://californiaglobe.com/fl/california-loses-nearly-700000-residents-since-2020/
and what percentage of the population is that?
a goodly amount. the problem is the impact on revenue. as in there is a LOT less than the state expected or budgeted for. And when the state can't pay people, or fix things ... more people leave.
"The department projected that California would collect $42 billion in October. But, as of Oct. 25, California collected just $18 billion."
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article281212308.html
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/south-dakota-is-obviously-doomed
There’s alarm about a mysterious dog pneumonia starting. Saw reports on ABC news and local news. Ugh.
Damn, now I gotta put a mask on him too. Even the dog snout ones are not a perfect fit and I gotta stick him in a cone so he doesn't scratch it off. What's next? Cat Scratch Fever?
They warned you that you were likely to get toxoplasmosis around here.
Could be! There’s a big recall on dog and cat food too! Ugh.
There are always big recalls on cat and dog food.
Home cook their food, worked wonders for my girls! Waaaaayyyyy healthier! 🐩🐾🥰
My two serial killers refuse home cooked chicken hearts, or liver, and even turn their whiskers up at TuNA straight from the can.
What is the MATTER with them?
The feral cat I feed in my backyard only eats organic pole-caught tuna from the can, he won't touch Starkist or Chicken of the Sea. When a wild feline turns down mainstream tuna, it really makes you think about the product, or rather, what is in the product.
ummm, cats will be cats 🐈 🐈⬛😂😝🤣 do they even turn up their noses to all forms of seafood? 🦐🐠🦞
One of my many arguments about Covid and those who had the "zero Covid" narrative was animal reservoirs would ensure we never reach it.
Zero anything is impossible. Crazy for them to try.
It won't stop them from trying though.
We have zombie deer running around now. Although that's chronic wasting disease and has been around forever.
China is reporting a pneumonia going around kids.
You might have been OK killing granny, but think of the children!
This is also me. What is happening? I don't give much credence to the vax shedding, but who knows.
I have two friends who have dogs who supposedly have this. One is in East Texas, the other more western Texas. It was told to them it wasn't in Texas. Both have similar symptoms of reverse sneezing, lethargy, coughing, etc. They are raw fed dogs. But it's not responsive to antibiotics and the vets are trying prednisone. I asked about fungal & parasite infections. We had a drought all summer then just got hit with a bunch of flooding rain. Wonder if it stirred up something. I mention fungal because my nephew was just diagnosed with fungal pneumonia.
Interestingly, it sounds a lot like the symptoms of this "bad cold."
Within the past couple of days, the dog illness was identified as a bacterium. It wasn’t identified earlier because it is a very, very small bacterium so it didn’t show up on their tests. Stay away from other dogs and possibly contaminated water sources.
That is good they figured it out.
They haven’t really figured it out though. They think it’s a bacterium but it appears to be a new bacterium, maybe a mycoplasma maybe a strep zoo, but they still can’t even be sure that the bacterium they identified is the problem and they don’t know the identity of that bacterium. I suspect they are right about it being some sort of mycoplasma bacteria because that would account for it not responding well to the normal antibiotics and it is behaving much like mycoplasma pneumonias in cattle. So they think they have a direction to head but are far from sure exactly what it is.
At any it’s very worrisome.
That’s so scary.
I saw that. I wondered about all those people who were getting their pets covid vaxed!
Are they nuts? Why vax your pets against Covid?
I think most folks know about D3 + K2 + zinc, but you could probably avoided the excess-snot-problem by taking 10,000mg of vitamin C daily in divided doses - works for me - see The Healing Factor by Irwin Stone (and as soon as the itchy throat starts, double the dose etc until you get the runs, then back off, tracking the disease down with decreasing doses accordingly - see Thomas Levy's books).
Ivermectin Prophylaxis and supplements. Need help? Go to FLCC website.
woodland essence is having a sale. herbals and homeopathics are my thing.
Yes & XLEAR nasal spray at the first sign of trouble.
I also use colloidal silver nasal spray as prophylactic when I am in crowds or traveling
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
Stick with grandma's advice: an ounce of prevention. Perhaps address the obesity and overweight, the lack of movement, the hand-wringing and buck up, buttercups. Heck, even salt water gargles are seen as helpful... again. Whyever, do we forgo our common sense?
Had it here in Florida. Seriously considering getting a shot. It was so bad that I got two. Bourbon that is, Knob Creek 9 year old. Took care of it nicely. Enjoyed the coughing up snot though.
I feel it coming on again though, is it too early for bourbon?
KatManDO - "how many times has pro med warned of something and been wrong? how often has it come to nothing? saying “well, they were early on covid” is not actually meaningful if covid was just one of 100 times they cried wolf and the other 99 were nothingburgers."
About as often as the useless tools from Imperial College who said 2M US would die & 20M saved by the jab. Batting .000 for six "pandemics" over the last 20 years indicates, they couldn't hit water if they fell out of a f-ing boat.
"Is it safe to dine indoors [in winter no less]?"
FY Bitch.