As everyone knows by now I speak weekly to My Friend From Fifth Grade and on Monday she sneered at me for saying that Biden's is the worst Administration since John Adams' regarding our Constitutional liberties because of its assault on free speech, and she wanted to know what it was that I felt I couldn't say, and I told her I write ema…
As everyone knows by now I speak weekly to My Friend From Fifth Grade and on Monday she sneered at me for saying that Biden's is the worst Administration since John Adams' regarding our Constitutional liberties because of its assault on free speech, and she wanted to know what it was that I felt I couldn't say, and I told her I write emails with extreme care because so many common expressions and phrases contain words and concepts the Big Eared Bureaucrats would sweep for.
And she kept sneering of course. This is a big-city girl with several degrees and yet again I thank God I never bothered to become more credentialed than having a HS diploma.
I lost my mom to Newsom's lockdowns, partly. She had dementia, and her husband (who is not my father... do they call him stepfather when they were married long after I was up and out?) had kept her alive when she would not feed herself (or submit to being fed) by bringing her McDonald's milkshakes, into which he would mix Ensure supplements. It was not much nutrition, but it was the only thing she would eat.
I guess he was hoping to get past the pandemic and find some people who were more willing to help. No one seemed to think anything but COVID mattered for a few years there. No one would do anything to help but her husband, not even the care facility staff.
And then Newsom put that to a stop.
Clearly, the dementia was the real cause of death, and Newsom just hastened it. Others were less lucky.
Newsom knew, or should have known, that lockdowns are not only unacceptable morally, constitutionally, and legally, but they are also extremely deadly. He signed the death warrants of a lot of innocent people with his callousness.
Cutting off society's most vulnerable people from their jobs, their businesses, their friends, their therapists, their group sessions, their social activities, all the things they do instead of dwelling on their mental issues or on their desire to have a drink or a fix, cut them off from their 12 step sponsors, their golf, bowling, movies, their just hanging out with supportive friends, and in the more tyrannical states, even any attempts at catching up on the "honey do" list to pass the time (Whitmer famously demanded Wal-Mart close off the sections of the store that were not "essential")... you cut that stuff off all at once, add a heavy dollop of stress, leaving nothing but time, boredom, and constant fear porn in the media, and what do you think will happen?
Even normal people were reporting high levels of depression and suicidal ideation they had never had before during the lockdowns. What did these people think it would do to those already struggling with mental illness or addiction? It has been proven that the death rate rises and falls in correlation with the unemployment rate, as stress takes its toll, and him and people like him made most people unemployed, on purpose. This was all known well in advance of the pandemic, when broad scale "quarantines" were considered and rejected by epidemiologists for all of these reasons, along with mask orders. It was well understood they would only make things worse.
The lockdowns killed scores of people and saved none. They were completely ineffective at their stated goal, and were deadly in their own right, just like the deadly and nearly completely ineffective vaccines.
Masks, of course, were also completely ineffective, and they have inflicted great damage too, and not a small amount of "mask mouth" and bacterial respiratory illnesses, but a lot of the unseen damage falls on children who missed out on seeing facial expressions and how the mouth moves for various words during some incredibly important developmental years. It's a great time to train to be a speech-language pathologist, I would say; you are going to have a bumper crop of kids who need help as they get older.
And now, of course, Whitmer and Newsom, who both tried to outdo one another to see who could kill more of their own constituents, are names some Democrats are proposing as replacements for Biden, now that his dementia can no longer be hidden from the public.
the damage was 💯 intentional harm. These "policies" were not ineffective; they had exactly the intended, anticipated effect. This is what we need to fully process. These weren't mistakes.
I knew it from the moment they were announced that the lockdowns were some kind of criminal insanity. Naively, however, I assumed professional journalists would be reporting on all the sure-to-ensue horrors. LOL, it's mid-2024, professional journalists who deserve the name, I can count them on one hand.
No words can undo what it has done to you, her and so many others of us. I still feel the pin pricks in hands and feet but I am alive to tell you about it.
Even being the only Catholic in my entire family wasn't bad enough for them to shun me but not getting one or more of the jabs has cut me off from several of them completely. They refuse to ever speak to me again.
Good. You are well rid of such tyrants and I suggest that when you cross paths with them at funerals or weddings, you freeze them out in the most obvious manner.
Just remember religion means nothing. In my family I'm the only one not actively practising Catholicism and I was extremely shunned for not taking the quakcine. We were not invited for certain family gatherings during Christmas(!) because we were unquakcinated with my wife.
Dear SCA- I am so sorry you lost your friend to the vax— I have one friend from 9th grade and I cherish our phone calls (we are at opposite ends of the country). And since my family moved 11 times in 12 years, she is a blessing and a unique part of my life.
Thank you. She was in the UK and was an instrumental blessing that led eventually to my greatest treasure.
This is why I tolerate the not-infrequent lunacies of the other. People who know your whole history, who've met your now-gone parents, who knew your senior citizen brother when he was just an annoying little kid, you don't let them go easily.
You are NOT alone. Against my advice, I have lost friends to that Warp Speed Vaxx. mRNA should have been a disqualifier for that concoction. And there are things that should never be done at Warp Speed!
She was a fragile transplant patient. When the vaxxes were rolled out here, and over there, she asked if I was going to take it and I said "no." But I didn't say anything further. How could I possibly advise her, an intelligent woman who had always advocated vigorously for herself, what would be the right thing in the circumstances of those days and with her multiple health conditions?
Well, it blew up that transplanted kidney and then took three more years to kill her. Man, if I had means of retribution in my own hands there'd be a lot of people removed forthwith from the gene pool.
We seem to be kindred spirits and have lived parallel existences. All I could do was offer my opinion and let them decide. In this matter it is my opinion that trump failed, mRNAs have a long troubled history, it was his responsibility to investigate the matter. When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
My friend was in the UK. Anyone thinking of praising the NHS in my presence, they better hold their tongues. I'd rather not spend my tarnishing years in prison.
There is so much anguish created in the world from this that it's just beyond any describing. And yet there is no mass uprising across all the Western world to take down every bureaucrat and enabler whose hands have been in this, one way or another.
Until common cause is made by people from every part of society because the can't avoid seeing what was done, there will be no justice obtained. It's on us now.
To be fair, had the FDA done its job correctly, warp speed would not have turned out as badly as it has.
The goal was to develop a safe, effective vaccine at warp speed, but we got something that was, at best, an unfinished product.
It is the fear of liability that makes big pharma avoid releasing dangerous products, but when the government gives them a liability shield and approves the product for distribution, why would they spend another dime finishing the product and making it actually safe and effective? If you can make the money now, and if you are completely shielded from lawsuits, why spend the money?
According to Steve Kirsch, some of the most common Big Pharma claims about the testing of vaccines in the U.S. (not just the covid shots) are suddenly being admitted to being nothing more than gaslighting.
She voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020 and I have voted for neither but any time I remark that even people we despise deserve the fair administration of justice she screams that I'm a Trumper, and anytime I remark on something that she herself has not read or heard about she accuses me of getting that info from the Dark Web.
It seems you echo one of my Favorites: I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I had to do that --several years before all this stuff-- when composing an e-mail reply to a parent. Often took the draft to others for criticism. How much time did that take? I could use up a whole 40 minute prep period on one stupid e-mail. That of course is snowflakery, not censorship, but they are not un-related.
It isn't the degrees, it is her lack of common sense but I get what you are saying. I had the same sad problem with a friend who does not have degrees. We have been friends since kindergarten and I was 4 years-old, another was a Godparent to one of my children. They learn on FB for whom you voted and suddenly they slam the door in your face.
It is a matter of attaining some maturity which is not often done in life before having walked through a lot of broken shards and learning from the scars. There's quite a lot of antique babies around these days.
Between the fact that some people will never mature regardless of age and the other... that young people rarely understand that those older than they just might have some wisdom, it is scary and it is why we're staring WWIII in the face. At age 18, a sophomore in college, I saw Jimmy Carter's lack of maturity on a TV debate and I knew at once that I would never vote for him. I have never been a liberal and with all my faults, common sense came with the package at birth. It is why I am the family scapegoat, LOL!
I have been that which was appropriate for every stage of life and I am grateful to have survived long enough to have gotten smarter because it is entirely normal to be an idiot when young.
I am certainly not a conservative and I am a strong supporter of the ideals of the Western Enlightenment. It is just the tragedy of human life on earth that history is a cycle and there is no permanent holding onto moments of time of unique wisdom.
As everyone knows by now I speak weekly to My Friend From Fifth Grade and on Monday she sneered at me for saying that Biden's is the worst Administration since John Adams' regarding our Constitutional liberties because of its assault on free speech, and she wanted to know what it was that I felt I couldn't say, and I told her I write emails with extreme care because so many common expressions and phrases contain words and concepts the Big Eared Bureaucrats would sweep for.
And she kept sneering of course. This is a big-city girl with several degrees and yet again I thank God I never bothered to become more credentialed than having a HS diploma.
With friends like that who needs enemies?
The vax killed my friend of 51 years. I can't really afford to lose any more people I've known my entire life.
Sorry for your loss.
I lost my mom to Newsom's lockdowns, partly. She had dementia, and her husband (who is not my father... do they call him stepfather when they were married long after I was up and out?) had kept her alive when she would not feed herself (or submit to being fed) by bringing her McDonald's milkshakes, into which he would mix Ensure supplements. It was not much nutrition, but it was the only thing she would eat.
I guess he was hoping to get past the pandemic and find some people who were more willing to help. No one seemed to think anything but COVID mattered for a few years there. No one would do anything to help but her husband, not even the care facility staff.
And then Newsom put that to a stop.
Clearly, the dementia was the real cause of death, and Newsom just hastened it. Others were less lucky.
Newsom knew, or should have known, that lockdowns are not only unacceptable morally, constitutionally, and legally, but they are also extremely deadly. He signed the death warrants of a lot of innocent people with his callousness.
Cutting off society's most vulnerable people from their jobs, their businesses, their friends, their therapists, their group sessions, their social activities, all the things they do instead of dwelling on their mental issues or on their desire to have a drink or a fix, cut them off from their 12 step sponsors, their golf, bowling, movies, their just hanging out with supportive friends, and in the more tyrannical states, even any attempts at catching up on the "honey do" list to pass the time (Whitmer famously demanded Wal-Mart close off the sections of the store that were not "essential")... you cut that stuff off all at once, add a heavy dollop of stress, leaving nothing but time, boredom, and constant fear porn in the media, and what do you think will happen?
Even normal people were reporting high levels of depression and suicidal ideation they had never had before during the lockdowns. What did these people think it would do to those already struggling with mental illness or addiction? It has been proven that the death rate rises and falls in correlation with the unemployment rate, as stress takes its toll, and him and people like him made most people unemployed, on purpose. This was all known well in advance of the pandemic, when broad scale "quarantines" were considered and rejected by epidemiologists for all of these reasons, along with mask orders. It was well understood they would only make things worse.
The lockdowns killed scores of people and saved none. They were completely ineffective at their stated goal, and were deadly in their own right, just like the deadly and nearly completely ineffective vaccines.
Masks, of course, were also completely ineffective, and they have inflicted great damage too, and not a small amount of "mask mouth" and bacterial respiratory illnesses, but a lot of the unseen damage falls on children who missed out on seeing facial expressions and how the mouth moves for various words during some incredibly important developmental years. It's a great time to train to be a speech-language pathologist, I would say; you are going to have a bumper crop of kids who need help as they get older.
And now, of course, Whitmer and Newsom, who both tried to outdo one another to see who could kill more of their own constituents, are names some Democrats are proposing as replacements for Biden, now that his dementia can no longer be hidden from the public.
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the damage was 💯 intentional harm. These "policies" were not ineffective; they had exactly the intended, anticipated effect. This is what we need to fully process. These weren't mistakes.
agree totally
"Sorry to know this" is just not much of a comfort to offer but...
God's Big Tandoor in the Sky is never gonna run out of people needing kebabbing for eternity.
Now THERE'S a metaphor I can embrace.
Condolences on the loss of your mother.
I knew it from the moment they were announced that the lockdowns were some kind of criminal insanity. Naively, however, I assumed professional journalists would be reporting on all the sure-to-ensue horrors. LOL, it's mid-2024, professional journalists who deserve the name, I can count them on one hand.
No words can undo what it has done to you, her and so many others of us. I still feel the pin pricks in hands and feet but I am alive to tell you about it.
Even being the only Catholic in my entire family wasn't bad enough for them to shun me but not getting one or more of the jabs has cut me off from several of them completely. They refuse to ever speak to me again.
I have the same situation. So very sorry.
I have been very, very lucky that the people who love me and who have chosen otherwise than I have not found it a gulf between us.
But then, I'm such a unique character, you accept me for anything you might as well take the all.
Yes, you are lucky and its good that you realize that.
No one could pay my guardian angels enough for their lifelong labor. At least they got my eternal gratitude.
Good. You are well rid of such tyrants and I suggest that when you cross paths with them at funerals or weddings, you freeze them out in the most obvious manner.
I am Catholic and cannot do anything but forgive them. And pray that their minds and hearts open to the truth.
Am trying so very hard to do the same. Hope I can master it before my time is up here.
With you on that.
Just remember religion means nothing. In my family I'm the only one not actively practising Catholicism and I was extremely shunned for not taking the quakcine. We were not invited for certain family gatherings during Christmas(!) because we were unquakcinated with my wife.
Dear SCA- I am so sorry you lost your friend to the vax— I have one friend from 9th grade and I cherish our phone calls (we are at opposite ends of the country). And since my family moved 11 times in 12 years, she is a blessing and a unique part of my life.
Thank you. She was in the UK and was an instrumental blessing that led eventually to my greatest treasure.
This is why I tolerate the not-infrequent lunacies of the other. People who know your whole history, who've met your now-gone parents, who knew your senior citizen brother when he was just an annoying little kid, you don't let them go easily.
You are NOT alone. Against my advice, I have lost friends to that Warp Speed Vaxx. mRNA should have been a disqualifier for that concoction. And there are things that should never be done at Warp Speed!
She was a fragile transplant patient. When the vaxxes were rolled out here, and over there, she asked if I was going to take it and I said "no." But I didn't say anything further. How could I possibly advise her, an intelligent woman who had always advocated vigorously for herself, what would be the right thing in the circumstances of those days and with her multiple health conditions?
Well, it blew up that transplanted kidney and then took three more years to kill her. Man, if I had means of retribution in my own hands there'd be a lot of people removed forthwith from the gene pool.
We seem to be kindred spirits and have lived parallel existences. All I could do was offer my opinion and let them decide. In this matter it is my opinion that trump failed, mRNAs have a long troubled history, it was his responsibility to investigate the matter. When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
Thucydides
My friend was in the UK. Anyone thinking of praising the NHS in my presence, they better hold their tongues. I'd rather not spend my tarnishing years in prison.
I am so very sorry to hear this. No words can undo the harm that politicizing the useless vax has done.
There is so much anguish created in the world from this that it's just beyond any describing. And yet there is no mass uprising across all the Western world to take down every bureaucrat and enabler whose hands have been in this, one way or another.
Until common cause is made by people from every part of society because the can't avoid seeing what was done, there will be no justice obtained. It's on us now.
To be fair, had the FDA done its job correctly, warp speed would not have turned out as badly as it has.
The goal was to develop a safe, effective vaccine at warp speed, but we got something that was, at best, an unfinished product.
It is the fear of liability that makes big pharma avoid releasing dangerous products, but when the government gives them a liability shield and approves the product for distribution, why would they spend another dime finishing the product and making it actually safe and effective? If you can make the money now, and if you are completely shielded from lawsuits, why spend the money?
According to Steve Kirsch, some of the most common Big Pharma claims about the testing of vaccines in the U.S. (not just the covid shots) are suddenly being admitted to being nothing more than gaslighting.
https://kirschsubstack.com/cp/146513145
Agree. Sadly, we are punished for believing in the truth.
Maybe she can't help but sneer. Guillain–Barré syndrome is a known side-effect of the covid vaxx.
Maybe making sweeping assumptions about people based on their viewpoints is a fools' game.
so your friend from 5th grade is a Biden voter? or was she just sneering bc you were being a "meanie"?
Oh gosh, I have to keep my freaking mouth shut about everything now.
Hubbs and I are all about free speech with each other but that is just about where it ends. So many snowflakes and Karens etc
She voted for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020 and I have voted for neither but any time I remark that even people we despise deserve the fair administration of justice she screams that I'm a Trumper, and anytime I remark on something that she herself has not read or heard about she accuses me of getting that info from the Dark Web.
It seems you echo one of my Favorites: I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Thomas Jefferson
Oh heck. It's just a real taste for arguing.
Hubs and I in that boat with you. Bow or stern your preference?
good to know. At least we know it is not "our problem" haha
Seriously, visiting or relating to sensitive people gets tiresome.
they do not even enjoy kidding around.
I observed long years ago that a sense of humor seems always on back-order for the
'liberal" left
I had to do that --several years before all this stuff-- when composing an e-mail reply to a parent. Often took the draft to others for criticism. How much time did that take? I could use up a whole 40 minute prep period on one stupid e-mail. That of course is snowflakery, not censorship, but they are not un-related.
I amuse myself sometimes thinking of all the no-no words.
It isn't the degrees, it is her lack of common sense but I get what you are saying. I had the same sad problem with a friend who does not have degrees. We have been friends since kindergarten and I was 4 years-old, another was a Godparent to one of my children. They learn on FB for whom you voted and suddenly they slam the door in your face.
It is a matter of attaining some maturity which is not often done in life before having walked through a lot of broken shards and learning from the scars. There's quite a lot of antique babies around these days.
Between the fact that some people will never mature regardless of age and the other... that young people rarely understand that those older than they just might have some wisdom, it is scary and it is why we're staring WWIII in the face. At age 18, a sophomore in college, I saw Jimmy Carter's lack of maturity on a TV debate and I knew at once that I would never vote for him. I have never been a liberal and with all my faults, common sense came with the package at birth. It is why I am the family scapegoat, LOL!
I have been that which was appropriate for every stage of life and I am grateful to have survived long enough to have gotten smarter because it is entirely normal to be an idiot when young.
I am certainly not a conservative and I am a strong supporter of the ideals of the Western Enlightenment. It is just the tragedy of human life on earth that history is a cycle and there is no permanent holding onto moments of time of unique wisdom.
I so agree. Our wisdom goes-away when we do and history repeats itself.