My daughter goes to a Chicago public high school. The public schools finally, about 1.5 weeks ago, lifted the mask requirement, though this was communicated with insipid emails about how we were a community and had to care for each other as we moved forward blah blah blah. The heartbreaking thing to me is that my daughter still wears her mask at school, as she says all the kids do. We are very much an anti-vax, anti-mandate, this-is-control-not-science household, yet she wears the mask. She won't talk about it. Yes, peer pressure is very strong in high school. I also sometimes fear these kids have pulled into themselves so much that they're afraid to show their faces.
How can they be productive members of society—at least the one we have left— If this mass hiding continues? Will the “experts” then downgrade definitions of “society” and mental health to meet the cray-cray? Like they have pediatric growth objectives? Normalization of course. I’m old. I’ll be gone when this really hits the fan. And the fan it will surely hit.
I love life. But over the last 2 years I've been extremely happy that I'm getting close to the end of my life. There's no way in hell I could handle living in this dystopian nightmare for very long.
My thoughts exactly. I entered my seventh decade at the beginning of the pandemic and now due to all the restrictions, particularly for the unvaxxed like myself, I'm feeling quite disillusioned that this time in my life, when I should be enjoying it to the fullest, is being taken away from me. It certainly isn't how I expected to spend my " golden years".
You know my dad died in September and I SAW him go with God. My kids were with me and a few days later I had to ask the. If they saw what I saw and they did. I’m not that old yet but if this world ends I’m not afraid anymore.
There is sense in what you write (I’ve had the thought myself) but I can’t help finding it depressing.
Admittedly, I’ve been trying to get closer to God through all the shit we’ve gone through (plus all that remains, which will be a lot) and yet, the most nagging thought of all is, “a world of massive deception everywhere is the complete opposite of what god wants for us“.
It is a fallen world, but eye has not seen... And remember that before Christ's second coming, we have been warned that we won't see His Church triumphantly gathering in everyone; we'll see instead a great apostasy and many people worshipping the antiChrist. I hope that God keeps sending you graces and that you keep responding.
That nagging thought means the scales have fallen from your eyes. You see the Truth. Yes, God wants us to LIVE, not cringe from death. If more people believed that this earth and our mortal lives would be better.
While I am not in either extreme range of age, it burns me up what those who are have had stolen from them. Not only has my kid been denied the “graduation” and entrance ceremonies from kindergarten and elementary schools, so too have his grandparents been denied attendance of these for their only grand child. Even if another grandchild comes alone, at their age, it is not realistic to think they’ll still be with us when these children would be old enough for their turns, if even allowed by then.
Try to find some joy. I figured out I would be happy living in just my rural county. If my health holds out I can live well and I work very hard to make this so. I hike all year in northern Illinois. Observe nature. Bird watch. I paint indoors and out. Have a couple of good friends and a great guy for 55 years. I traveled the world from 37 to not too long ago so I’ve done that. I have a strong faith now and trust in God, who has promised, took away my fear. God is working and will stay the fear and terror we may think we see on the future. He loves his creation—all of it—and will overturn evil to return it to peace. It’s the fear—it’s debilitating and ruinous. Nurture hope and joy in whatever way you can. Resist the evil. Sorry. This is not a lecture but discoveries I have made and been open to. We have this. As I said above, much will hit the fan yet but being awake snd discerning will carry us through.
Thank-you for your inspiring comments. While I am disillusioned with the whole covid thing, I didn't mean to give the impression that I am miserable and unhappy with life. I, too managed to travel a lot prior to covid right up until we had to cancel a second visit to the United Kingdom in March 2020. I have a wonderful partner who is my second after losing my first one at age 55 from an unexpected heart attack. We are fortunate to own a comfortable trailer and living in British Columbia which is a beautiful province. I am looking forward to our upcoming four month visit to Vancouver Island in our trailer. I also love nature and being in it is my happy place. I am an amateur photographer and over the years have produced 60 plus hard covered books featuring my photos, which I treasure and often give as gifts. I am an avid reader and adore excellent crime/mystery television series. I have an extensive music collection which I listen to on a regular basis. Both my partner and I enjoy hiking and biking. I exercise regularly and lift weights to keep in shape. I also enjoy cooking and have always been interested in nutrition. Am I happy with the restrictions, lockdowns, masks and constant shilling for the Vaccines. No. But as you indicated, count your blessings. I am not religious as far as organized religion goes but am spiritual and look for God in nature.
I’m seeing the same thing with my newly teenaged middle school daughter. she’s tired of me talking about covid and asked her mom (my ex) to take her to get the shot. i’ve tried to explain to her she’s had covid, we all have, and already have a better immunity than the shots can give. i’ve explained the potential for severe side effects. unfortunately her mother, who was triple boosted before acquiring covid and who, by far, had the worst reaction to it, is convinced it saved her life. she uses all the same old, we vaccinate for other things and typical msm talking points when discussing it with me. i’ll show her mounds of research, including maddie de garay, and she calls me an antivaxxer and points to a blurb put out by nbc showing her that I’m lost to the antivax cause. never mind the fact my daughter is currently eligible for the hpv and cervical cancer vaccine which I am for and my daughter refused. the world is upside down and I’m convinced we’re not coming back from this. the propaganda is too strong, the sound bites are to easy to use to brush aside the mounds of documentation, including pfizer’s own documents. I’m still fighting the fight, but I fear i’ve lost this battle.
Keep fighting the good fight. My daughter doesn't want to talk about this stuff either. But I don't want her to play vax roulette, and I also want her to understand how we're being played.
Huh, i’ll have to watch that. I had my daughter get Gardasil unfortunately and my ex took my son to get it knowing I didn’t want him to have it. My son was so angry at me for not getting him the vaccine. He told me his girlfriend probably wouldn’t have had sex with him if he hadn’t gotten the vaccine. I told him that was a ridiculous statement since they were both virgins and it would be impossible for either of them to spread any sexually transmitted disease between the two of them.
I'm sorry. I'm in your boat with a son. Ever since I watched that film and "Vaxxed" this week, I've been filled with horror at my ignorance. What's astounding is I recall a conversation about whether to do Gardisil or not with a mom who has 2 children with Asperger - the first she believed was a vax injury as a baby. Why she kept going with the schedule after that is beyond my understanding.
A coworker of mine has and adult son with Asperger’s. She has long maintained it was a vax injury. Says her son’s body temp went up very soon after a certain vaccine as an infant and has never come down. She was, if not antivax, at least vax wary. She got the covid shot.
Required of at least the female med students in Japan. At least for one school but probably others too. They have no idea what it is, what its for, only that it is required so they get it. The Covid vax too.
Doh! I read it in email, seemed good to me. I agree with what your sent. Absolutely no argument with it. It is clear that they do not care about us, but that, I think, does not answer for their motivation to get all of us jabbed.
she’ll excuse it and hand wave it away. the problem is the vast majority of us understand nuance, covidiots are purposefully ignorant because it’s too concerning to pay attention. until we get easy to digest sound bites we’re behind the 8 ball.
Why is Yale so evil now? Between the woke lawyers (protesting against free speech and going full CRT), now this? There is more, but it seems that Yale decided to go downhill
Man, maybe it's because I'm sexist or whatever, but since the beginning of all this my heart breaks hardest for the teenage girls. Particularly the bright ones.
Just based on what I remember my gfs being like when I was a teen - IME they are a LOT more susceptible and potentially tormented by social pressures and norms than the boys. Social media in general is bad enough, but threatening a teenage girl with social isolation, quarantine, being a "dirty unclean outsider"... That's serious f business and sadistic IMO. Some of the boys can actually find defiant inspiration in being "right" while the lemmings around them are "wrong" (I know me and some of my homies were like that; not because were smart anything, just our personalities I think). I knew a lot less gals that were like that in high school. If any.
Really hard to forgive what these monsters have done to the kids...
I agree with you that girls seem to be more vulnerable to the peer pressure. I know a 16 y.o. who took the jabs because her circle of close friends told her that she would be excluded UNTIL she got them. How is that for friendship? The mother of one of those mean/ignorant girls even told her that in order to be welcomed back into her house (AFTER being jabbed) she would have to get tested because the mom (my cousin) is NOT 'vaccinated'. How is that for science? These are extremely liberal people, BTW. My 17 y.o. son has never experienced this sort of rejection by his buddies.
While over the past two years I have only on rare occasions seen others not wearing masks, they have all been men. The one exception was about two weeks ago in Omotesando station. There was a young non Japanese couple that were unmasked. The first unmasked female face I have seen outside the home in over two years.
my son is in PDX at college and they still have to wear masks in classes. Crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it is not worth arguing with them. Just not wear one around them and wait for them to come round.
my daughter took a GAP year, and has been working full time pretty much the whole time. She's ready to go back next fall. So my focus has been on gently pushing her to request the non-medical exemption. She lives at home (Oregon City) and would drive to school.
Yeah - same thing here. They are all still wearing the masks despite no longer needed here in CA - and I guess there is lots of peer pressure to keep it up now and my teen just wears the mask too but at least not the N95s. I have mentioned that at some point some of them have to brave enough to just stop wearing them or they'll be wearing them forever. Either that or remove her from the environment.
I have a friend who is not jabbed (they have an autoimmune disease and are older), but they are convinced that the masks work - despite me sending them evidence they don't. I think this person just wants to believe they work as this is their only line of defense against Covid, which they are petrified of. They were paranoid till just recently as my child is in school and they felt like this increased their risk being around me so continued to wear a mask around me in a car and sat in the back for "extra" protection. I've given up trying to convince them, but told them I don't want to wear one anymore. They seemed OK with that as they believe theirs works!
I’m sure my kids wear them everywhere still, they’re not confrontational, except to me. 🙄
The schools need the one trend setter or the most popular kid to take it off and then everyone will — it’s a case of the ‘tipping point’ like in Malcolm Gladwell‘s book.
The things what nature and sane mind requires from us.
Speak with them as much as you can. Speak about anything they ask you.
Now, more than ever in history of humans, now when this organized very carefully and really very effective social attack is deployed by evil forces (this whole operation is very carefully organized by teams of sociologists, they know exactly how to attack human integrity) NOW parents must stay with their kids.
They are the only things what stay after us. They are our future.
Evil Forces know that. They attack on the weakest ones.
yup...high schoolers and college kids (I have one of each) are the top target of these crooked agencies/pharma because they know how to manipulate social media and use peer pressure to get to them. We are also an anti-vax, anti-mandates family and my college daugther wore her mask several times while we were vacationing in Las Vegas last week. If I bring it up, she'll get defensive and things will escalate. If I share articles by aerosol physics experts, she won't read them. It's been mentally and emotionally exhausting just to get her to finally refuse the jabs (her college allows for a non-medical exemption). UGH. Hang in there, Kate!
Oh man thank you. Thank you for this. Because I've been saying this--the introductory part of this post--for almost half a century, and it's nice to have some company from someone more credentialed to discuss matters of, you know, science.
Funny what a long road it is that leads to hell. We've been primed for getting close to a century to this bullshit, and it's been the destruction of the concept of human agency in, like, everything. Now you're not a fucking drunk who's destroyed his family but a patient with substance abuse disorder.
In my early twenties I and a close friend founded a neighborhood Al-Anon group. We'd grown up with alcoholic dads and she had an alcoholic husband and a young child and she was dealing with a pretty overwhelming situation. So she asked me to do this with her.
And week after week it was the same story. It was almost entirely women in the group, and it was the same, same, same story and it never changed. And that mantra of acceptance for what you cannot change made you just never change anything. Because your husband wasn't a self-indulgent bastard who didn't give a shit if the family was gonna lose the house or the kids went to school after having cried all night. He had a disease.
And here we are! No one is responsible for anything. If you have a mental illness, seeking durable treatment for it is your last responsibility. You have full permission to whine or weep to your therapist for decades rather than grabbing yourself by your own head hair and struggling toward health. You have full permission to demand that your delusion be taken as reality and the entire medical, educational and legal establishments will let you take their hands and walk down that continuing road to implosion with you.
As someone who has dealt with addiction in my own life and in my family I can relate. One of my major disagreements with most of the recovery programs is "once an addict, always an addict". It wasn't until I decided I was DONE with it all that I was able to recover. And I never use "it's an illness" as an excuse for failure. I am 100% cured from my previous addiction. And I did it on my own once I removed that "victimology" mindset from my way of thinking. Of course we are all different, and different things work for different people. I guess what I'm saying in a roundabout way is that once I stopped making excuses and decided I wanted a better life the "cure" for my addiction became crystal clear.
A woman I became very friendly with at an office job turned out to have had an extremely--uh--interesting past. A husband got her into prostitution and addiction, and she finally reached a point in herself where she couldn't stand doing drugs anymore. She told me it was a really, really rough week of cold turkey that got her off it but off it she certainly stayed.
In my very early twenties two drug dealers befriended me and I spent a year of mild debauchery. For a middle-class extremely naive girl, it was just like the movies and I was too much of an idiot in those days to consider the possibilities if their place got busted. You walked in the door and someone handed you a shoebox full of grass and in the kitchen some guys who were of a different ethnicity from my friends were bagging up cocaine. I was so hopeless that when someone handed me a dollar bill to snort some, I was trying to, like, scoop it up,,,(only time trying it--not quite my thing) but what I really enjoyed was the nitrous oxide.
A year of this, and one day I looked at myself in the restroom mirror at work (not the job first referenced above but long before that) and I looked mighty haggard since I was partying so much I hardly got any sleep. And I thought--this is just bullshit. What the fuck am I doing? And that was pretty much that. I stayed friends with one of the dealers for a few years afterwards; aside from his side gig (he was a car mechanic) he was an extremely good friend and he'd kept me away from the worst of the idiocies I could've gotten into that had nothing to do with drugs.
But you need to know your own limits and use your own brains.
I was lousy at indulging in drugs. Grass made me depressed and nitrous oxide made me bang the back of my head against the wall. And everyone else was having so much fun...
Sounds like you had an extremely--uh--interesting past yourself! 🤣 I love people with stories. What an unexpected pleasure it is to discover a gold mine of captivating anecdotes in someone at work, of all places! (Never any judgments from me; sometimes, I’ve been the daredevil with the cache of risqué tales).
My feeling is that it's normal to be a moron when you're young. One must struggle often quite painfully towards any sort of wisdom. It's the refusal to learn from that journey that vaporizes my sympathy.
I will always remember reading an article in Scientific America about 50 years ago it was about heroin addiction. The article took up about 12 pages in the magazine. Very detailed in what takes place in a persons mind and body chemically. It explained not everyone gets the same wondrous first high and becomes addicted. But if you are that person you may try to reach for it again and again, never quite succeeding, but you can’t stop trying. There is no way of testing to see if you are that person.
It was one sentence I remember clearly. Never try heroin in the first place to find out.
I think the entire addiction recovery industry is built around confusing the definitions of "craving" and "compulsion." There's big money in assuring people--or the families and govt. programs providing the funding--that "they just can't help it." Yes, they can. Discipline is hard, sometimes extremely painful and exhausting.
Addicts suffer most profoundly from toxic boredom. That's the problem. Can only be self-cured.
Every single "addiction recovery" program currently used in this country merely substitutes one addiction for another considered less harmful.
In the olden days, the air in any room just used for an AA meeting was so thick with the stench of strong coffee and cigarette smoke you could cut it with a knife. And you never left the world of addiction. Meetings any time you felt itchy; dependence on your sponsor every time you felt agitated.
Methadone. Lifelong shackles to the aforesaid world of addiction.
Anorexia: Continued obsession with food. Measuring portions and calories to ensure you got enough. Plus the cat-and-mouse contest with your loved ones that kept their attention focused on you to the exclusion of anything else meaningful in each of your lives.
I got the treatment and I'm not kidding. Addicts need something to do with their hands. That's it. So:
Sentence them to a locked room with a nice older lady who will teach them to knit or crochet, and hand them a pile of yarn and teach 'em to make baby hats, and don't let them leave until they've finished one. Repeat daily.
Yarn addiction is powerful and the creation of a useful article will arouse the competitive instincts in the most hardened assholes. Before you know it they won't be able to put those hooks or needles down, and many of them will discover previously unsuspected gifts of creativity that they believed themselves incapable of or used to mock in others.
End of the first month, the finished hats are donated to the nearest worthy program, videotaped or whatever, so the treatment group can see a tangible result from all that captive stitching. Maybe they'll get to see their own hats on the head of a toddler with cancer.
General statement: Think this won't work? Prove it.
Thank you for this. I think we need to be very careful how we see each other. Not to simplify, villainize or think we know about another. We must ask, we must wonder. Not judge or be so sure. Our 'mental health' system is destructive enough. (this is not aimed at you, I'm just having a baby rant)
It's amazing. What floors me are the people who dutifully wear their useless diaper and still get sicker than hell and it still doesn't dawn on them that masks cannot and don't stop most viruses.
What's funny is how in Vermont it's town by town. In the college towns it's crazy mask city. In the "working class" towns it's only the crazies who wear masks. And of course it makes no difference to the rate of "cases" in the area who's wearing what.
I visit a local thrift shop frequently. The lady who runs it has gone crazy with this stuff. Last time the masks were dropped for summer, I overheard her and a colleague talking about how weird it was to go into restaurants and how they didn't feel safe with the waitstaff and the people next to them being uncovered. This time around, she is still running around the shop with her mask on and I notice all the employees are still having to wear them as well. I used to think her to be a nice lady, and maybe she's still nice, but I think she's nuts now too.
I can't remember if I already posted this comment... Spoke with an older lady a few weeks ago. Told me her entire family was masked up and shot up to the hilt and they we're all "battling covid". She told me they were all recovering but, "we are really scared we're going to get sick again because the mask mandate was dropped in her area." My jaw hit the floor. We have a long road ahead of us.
The plandemic was here in fall of 2019, if not even earlier, in summer. I knew lots of people w/ mystery illnesses Oct-Dec 2019 & then in early 2020 (including me). That means that by the time mask theater & lockdowns were mandated in mid-to-late March 2020, this had already circulated/ ripped thru the US & the world. Many never knew they had it, some w/ mild or even severe cases would’ve assumed a mild or severe cold or flu. There are ALOT more Americans & people globally who’ve had it
My family had it at that time-Late Oct 19 into Nov19, I wasn't feeling completely well until about the second week of Dec. We were all just, "Wow, that was a crazy flu". I had never had ropy mucus before, but I got to see it up close. In fact, I began using NAC then because of its ability to clear such mucus. But we came thru fine. I'm glad we had it before the panic really, we might have done something stupid like go to a hospital.
I had a major dry, hacking, nonproductive cough for ~3 weeks in Feb 2020. Just assumed it was a bad bronchitis, never saw a doctor or took anything but over the counter cough meds. But then this past Christmas & into Jan 2022 my husband & I were diagnosed w/ covid-pneumonia & I was pretty sick, on home O2 for 2 weeks but I’ve come out of that ok too. Biggest fear was getting so sick I’d have to be hospitalized because I knew they’d kill me there. Anyway, now that I’ve had 2 “variants”, I feel my God-given natural immunity is damn near bullet proof. No one will ever convince me I wouldn’t have been as sick this 2nd time if I’d just had 1, 2 or 3 poison jabs. ¡NO GRACIAS!
I think it is a given that the number of cases is so abstract that no matter where you get the numbers, they are wrong. But you get my point that the odds are in your favor that you won't even contract the virus. The odds are much higher that Americans get the injection and the resulting side effects. But no one in the MSM will even mention any negativity regarding the injection.
Covid is a coronovirus, like the common cold. You will get it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, ad infinitum until you die.
Well, we’re all gonna die of something sooner or later, Corona or no. But people have different constitutions & ability to w/stand various diseases, pathogens, etc. And this “virus” is man made. Not sure what that adds or distracts from what it is or isn’t compared to natural virus
Once you've accepted the doctrine you never fully, completely escape its shadow even if you think you've become an apostate. Always looking over one's shoulder for the wrathful Higher Authority.
The thing they kills me about the mask zealots are those who play the “you’re being cruel to the immunocompromised and people with cancer”... pre-Covid those things existed, we weren’t expected to mask up, and I rarely saw anyone masked. I find myself so angry at people wearing masks. It’s irrational anger, I know. They have been poisoned. But I’m angry just the same.
I'm not sure if it's irrational anger. For me it's kind of a combo of anger, frustration and disappointment. I believe we are completely justified to feel this way. People who have blindly gone along with this madness truly are destroying our society. IMNSHO
Yup. family get together coming up. Can’t say I’m not feeling more apprehensive than recent past get together. 90% qualify as msm junkies. Only my husband since his heart attack has questioned the necessity of the jab (triple jabbed for job).
You have a right to be angry. Addicts are manipulative bastards a good deal of the time. Feeling anger at being manipulated by them is a reasonable reaction.
Absolutely. It's how we deal with our anger that's important. It's ok to be angry, though. And yeah I've been saying for awhile, as someone who's had several close relationships with people who struggle with addiction to substances both legal and illegal (as in, had children with two of them! gee do I have a type?)---I could see through all this bullshit earlier on than most BECAUSE I've had to see through so much bullshit in my own personal life! "Don't you all know what it feels like to be lied to or manipulated?" I'd want to ask people! "Haven't you all ever seen people behave delusional-ly? (myself included?!" So many people seem so naive to me. This piece is so wonderful, though, because it reminds me, again, to be more compassionate. And I'm not sure having compassion means letting go of all the anger.
Excellent piece señor gato. The same concept seems to fit just as well with the current fad of denying the reality of men and women in order to make that very small percentage of people who suffer from gender dysphoria feel comfortable. Everyone knows that what the character Joseph in "Kindergarten Cop" said is true: "Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina." It truly is kindergarten-level knowledge. Yet people have been goaded into taking the stance that this fact, as old as the human race itself, is false. Now, even a supreme court nominee can't admit it and can't define what a "woman" is. Tell me this isn't an addiction.
There’s a smart lawyer who has made a connection between said people that, all of a sudden, too many seem to suffer gender dysmorphia and vaccines, starting around the early 80s There’s a two-part interview that I downloaded and saved (thinking it wouldn’t last very long). Part two is the more relevant one but I’m sharing both in case you’re interested.
I refused to wear a mask the entire time. In March 2020 I was still doing a radio show and was researching all things Covid, masks, social distancing, China, etc.
According to the BIG THREE, Lancet, NEJM and JAMA, masking was not EVER intended for airborne viruses. All three had research published as late at early April, 2020 that said precisely that. All three articles had many links to actual studies and research.
BUT...BUT!!! By May of 2020 all three had published retractions of sorts saying masks are essential to stopping the spread of the Wuhan Flu. HOWEVER, not a single one of the retractions had any scholarly links to research or studies of ANY KIND!!! I knew then, it was all a scam.
In the ensuing months I was thrown out of quite a few establishments but I held my ground. There was a time when my levels of anxiety were quite high but I knew I had to remain strong.
When I would engage folks with math, facts, etc. after the stupid questions about "are you a doctor" I would be faced with blank stares or with a response of why don't you do it to make other people comfortable?
Here is why. God calls us Christians to be salt and light in a dark and fallen world. I.e. To shout TRUTH from the highest mountaintops. Enabling fearful behavior isn't helping those who are fearful. That would be like enabling an addicted child by letting them use in my home.
Mass Formation Psychosis is REAL. Like the BAD CAT I predict that it will return with a vengeance. Just look at the public's reaction to Ukraine vs. Russia. Total pysop. And most folks have taken the bait; hook, line, sinker, rod, reel, fisherman, boat, trailer...ALL OF IT!!!
When will it return? Can anyone say "Midterm Elections"?
I started finding there's a certain rush to going in without a mask when everyone else is wearing one! Even now, when the mandate has lifted and I'm "allowed" to not wear one, the feeling of almost-rebelliousness-because-everyoneelsestillhastheirson is real. It's kind of fun. Ahhhh the little things.
thing about junkies is that they don't live very long. there's a reason why it's called dope. seems safe to say that the hardcore muzzle addicts will line up for booster after booster until they're boostered to death. you can't play russian roulette - woops, sorry, ukrainian roulette - forever
"indoor mask requirements were finally lifted on puerto rico about 2 weeks ago. i was at the supermarket last week. there was no mask requirement."
Got a haircut here this morning. First time in 18 months I didn't have to mask up - no one inside was masked, either, which was encouraging - and first time in 18 months I didn't have to worry about the haircutter being careless and cutting the elastic on my THIS IS DUMB mask (which she had done twice in the past).
Costco, Supermax, PetSmart, Petco, post office, Marshalls, Stuffed Avocado, pro shop at Coco Beach, all the same.
But the cowardly fools at the Shipping Unlimited store at Garden Hills Plaza in Guaynabo still waved their arms like they were on the tarmac, landing a wayward plane, when I tried to enter maskless. Fools are still among us, and now I know they're addicts.
'course the guy who should be the most edumucated - my vet - still requires masks in his office. Arguably the smartest guy of all the businesses I've listed, and he requires masks. Useless, pointless, worthless masks.
I would be smiling at you in your grocery store. Just because someone else had (has) on a mask doesn't make me feel as thought I should cover my face. I never had that "feeling" that I "should" for others' sake. Does that make me a (1.) selfish/bad person (2.) thinking person (3.) rebel ? Dunno. Don't care at this point.
I never did either. The rest didn’t look like people anyway. I don’t care if thought selfish. I’m 74 this year. This has been the most nuts time I have ever lived through and there have been a few—personally and societal. None of which required a face muzzle or forced experiment into my actual body. Pot was MY choice.
I hear you...turning 69 this year. Grew up in Kent, Ohio in the 60s/70s so was exposed to quite a bit during those changing times. (And the current gummies are great when you "need" them!)
Look at it this way....Think of the people you work(ed) with. Aren't the ones wanting you to wear a mask to keep them safe, the same ones that always came to work (prior covid) sick and gave everyone else whatever they had? I bet most, if not all, of them are.
YES! I'll never forget my ridiculous coworker who sat in the cube next to me who sneezed all day long. Probably 500 sneezes a day. It was wonderful. In Feb 2020 she waltzes in sick as a dog. I told her to go home. She said she was on antibiotics so couldn't spread IT. I told her so what, go home anyways. She didn't and sat there sneezing again. A week later I caught the covid cold. In March 2020 right before we were all sent home, I told her that covid was a cold and this hysteria was BS. She screamed and raved of how we were all going to die. I then told her maybe she shouldn't come in to work when she is sick. She literally screamed at the top of her lungs for me to get OUT OF HER CUBE!
My Mom was a teacher. She missed her kids a lot after she retired. --- There are a few co-workers I miss, but they didn't work in my department and I didn't get to see them often.
oh exactly! I can probably name the people I worked with three years ago who did just that- when I subbed I usually came home with SOMETHING (preschool). Daughter is ONLY one in her workplace (that she knows of) who has NOT gotten sick (covid-repeatedly like the vaxxxed) and her boss pointed to her mask and assured her it was her mask that was keeping her "well"- not the fact that she is not overweight, eats well and exercises...(everyone else masked and shotted has used up their "covid" days). They can't seem to make the connection!
Oh, yeah, I got yelled at by a coworker for not coming in sick. Yes, she knew I was really, not a mental health day, sick. Yelled at me in front of other co-workers, because she was sick too and came to work, so I should have, too. That was one of the last straws. Not THE last straw, but really close.
We're blessed that we live in a state (NH...the "Live Free or Die" state) where we only had about a three month mandatory mask mandate and even though our cases surged once the vaccines started rolling out, our governor (who is pretty wishy washy) refused to re-introduce the mandate. That said, many towns instituted their own.
I almost never wore a mask and at times it was difficult to be the only person in an entire grocery store, for example, without a mask. Thankfully, I was never harassed like some of my friends, but it was hard to stand alone. My heart would be beeping hard the entire time I was in the store and I avoided eye contact and stay smiling while I shopped. (I was pretty excited when I made it back to the car without a confrontation! LOL!) And, yes, there were masked people at the front of the store, but I would just walk past them and not respond, and thankfully no one ever called the cops. LOL! (Actually, our governor said he would not enforce the mask mandate so..).
My kids had to wear them at work for a while and the most interesting thing happened...my youngest, who was an even bigger anti-masker than I am...started to say things like, "It's not that bad...I'm used to it..." It kind of freaked me out because you saw this change in attitude from someone who was very strongly against it to it not being that big of a deal. Thankfully, they don't need to wear them anymore but I can't imagine the mental issues this is going to cause young children who sit in masks all day at school. It's abusive and I struggle to not say something to unmasked adults I see out with their little masked children. It's a grotesque abuse of power, telling little impressionable children that they're going to kill grandma if they don't wear their useless mask.
I had a hairdresser tell me that her clients were "good people" because they masked up (I didn't). I told her that's a bad measure of whether someone is "good." Isn't it far better and more loving to tell someone the truth? This has been my mantra all along, I refuse to wear it because it gives people a false of security and I'm participating in lying about it's usefulness. It's better, and I would say right, to tell my neighbor the truth instead of supporting their delusion. The analogy of having a beer with an alcoholic because it makes them feel better is spot on.
With the exception of tending to my father in long term care, I never wore a mask. I refused to wear it because I refused to participate in the bigger lie, that covid was an actual health emergency. The masks were a lie, not because they don't work, but because they never had to work.
My daughter goes to a Chicago public high school. The public schools finally, about 1.5 weeks ago, lifted the mask requirement, though this was communicated with insipid emails about how we were a community and had to care for each other as we moved forward blah blah blah. The heartbreaking thing to me is that my daughter still wears her mask at school, as she says all the kids do. We are very much an anti-vax, anti-mandate, this-is-control-not-science household, yet she wears the mask. She won't talk about it. Yes, peer pressure is very strong in high school. I also sometimes fear these kids have pulled into themselves so much that they're afraid to show their faces.
How can they be productive members of society—at least the one we have left— If this mass hiding continues? Will the “experts” then downgrade definitions of “society” and mental health to meet the cray-cray? Like they have pediatric growth objectives? Normalization of course. I’m old. I’ll be gone when this really hits the fan. And the fan it will surely hit.
I love life. But over the last 2 years I've been extremely happy that I'm getting close to the end of my life. There's no way in hell I could handle living in this dystopian nightmare for very long.
My thoughts exactly. I entered my seventh decade at the beginning of the pandemic and now due to all the restrictions, particularly for the unvaxxed like myself, I'm feeling quite disillusioned that this time in my life, when I should be enjoying it to the fullest, is being taken away from me. It certainly isn't how I expected to spend my " golden years".
Maybe this is for you a gift from God, weaning you from the transitory pleasures of this life and turning your attention to the joy of being with Him.
You know my dad died in September and I SAW him go with God. My kids were with me and a few days later I had to ask the. If they saw what I saw and they did. I’m not that old yet but if this world ends I’m not afraid anymore.
I’m sorry for your loss but what a wonderful gift for you and your kids to have been able to be there at that moment and witness that!
Wow - what a blessing for you to see, and to have had such a good man as a father.
There is sense in what you write (I’ve had the thought myself) but I can’t help finding it depressing.
Admittedly, I’ve been trying to get closer to God through all the shit we’ve gone through (plus all that remains, which will be a lot) and yet, the most nagging thought of all is, “a world of massive deception everywhere is the complete opposite of what god wants for us“.
It is a fallen world, but eye has not seen... And remember that before Christ's second coming, we have been warned that we won't see His Church triumphantly gathering in everyone; we'll see instead a great apostasy and many people worshipping the antiChrist. I hope that God keeps sending you graces and that you keep responding.
That nagging thought means the scales have fallen from your eyes. You see the Truth. Yes, God wants us to LIVE, not cringe from death. If more people believed that this earth and our mortal lives would be better.
Don't give up.
Idiots die faster than others.
They'll disappear, you'll live.
You also have a point
Why is fauxci still alive?
He's not an idiot... he's a villain.
While I am not in either extreme range of age, it burns me up what those who are have had stolen from them. Not only has my kid been denied the “graduation” and entrance ceremonies from kindergarten and elementary schools, so too have his grandparents been denied attendance of these for their only grand child. Even if another grandchild comes alone, at their age, it is not realistic to think they’ll still be with us when these children would be old enough for their turns, if even allowed by then.
Evil.
Try to find some joy. I figured out I would be happy living in just my rural county. If my health holds out I can live well and I work very hard to make this so. I hike all year in northern Illinois. Observe nature. Bird watch. I paint indoors and out. Have a couple of good friends and a great guy for 55 years. I traveled the world from 37 to not too long ago so I’ve done that. I have a strong faith now and trust in God, who has promised, took away my fear. God is working and will stay the fear and terror we may think we see on the future. He loves his creation—all of it—and will overturn evil to return it to peace. It’s the fear—it’s debilitating and ruinous. Nurture hope and joy in whatever way you can. Resist the evil. Sorry. This is not a lecture but discoveries I have made and been open to. We have this. As I said above, much will hit the fan yet but being awake snd discerning will carry us through.
"...You need not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrows that fly by day..." Psalm 91?
Amen. ❤️
Thank-you for your inspiring comments. While I am disillusioned with the whole covid thing, I didn't mean to give the impression that I am miserable and unhappy with life. I, too managed to travel a lot prior to covid right up until we had to cancel a second visit to the United Kingdom in March 2020. I have a wonderful partner who is my second after losing my first one at age 55 from an unexpected heart attack. We are fortunate to own a comfortable trailer and living in British Columbia which is a beautiful province. I am looking forward to our upcoming four month visit to Vancouver Island in our trailer. I also love nature and being in it is my happy place. I am an amateur photographer and over the years have produced 60 plus hard covered books featuring my photos, which I treasure and often give as gifts. I am an avid reader and adore excellent crime/mystery television series. I have an extensive music collection which I listen to on a regular basis. Both my partner and I enjoy hiking and biking. I exercise regularly and lift weights to keep in shape. I also enjoy cooking and have always been interested in nutrition. Am I happy with the restrictions, lockdowns, masks and constant shilling for the Vaccines. No. But as you indicated, count your blessings. I am not religious as far as organized religion goes but am spiritual and look for God in nature.
I've had similar thoughts. I do hope I don't live to be 99 as my grandmothers did
Has already hit. I know some messed up young people.
I’m seeing the same thing with my newly teenaged middle school daughter. she’s tired of me talking about covid and asked her mom (my ex) to take her to get the shot. i’ve tried to explain to her she’s had covid, we all have, and already have a better immunity than the shots can give. i’ve explained the potential for severe side effects. unfortunately her mother, who was triple boosted before acquiring covid and who, by far, had the worst reaction to it, is convinced it saved her life. she uses all the same old, we vaccinate for other things and typical msm talking points when discussing it with me. i’ll show her mounds of research, including maddie de garay, and she calls me an antivaxxer and points to a blurb put out by nbc showing her that I’m lost to the antivax cause. never mind the fact my daughter is currently eligible for the hpv and cervical cancer vaccine which I am for and my daughter refused. the world is upside down and I’m convinced we’re not coming back from this. the propaganda is too strong, the sound bites are to easy to use to brush aside the mounds of documentation, including pfizer’s own documents. I’m still fighting the fight, but I fear i’ve lost this battle.
Keep fighting the good fight. My daughter doesn't want to talk about this stuff either. But I don't want her to play vax roulette, and I also want her to understand how we're being played.
And if you're talking about your daughter getting Gardasil, reconsider: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/25-reasons-to-avoid-the-gardasil-vaccine/ I am increasingly anti-vax, and proud of it.
You and me both! Just watched "Sacrificial Virgins" yesterday abt that vax thanks to a commenter on Kirsch's newsletter. Horrifying to say the least.
Huh, i’ll have to watch that. I had my daughter get Gardasil unfortunately and my ex took my son to get it knowing I didn’t want him to have it. My son was so angry at me for not getting him the vaccine. He told me his girlfriend probably wouldn’t have had sex with him if he hadn’t gotten the vaccine. I told him that was a ridiculous statement since they were both virgins and it would be impossible for either of them to spread any sexually transmitted disease between the two of them.
So sad. I'm sorry!
Gardisil is a bad idea. I have 2 daughters and allowing that shot was a big fail on my part as a mother.
Don't beat yourself up about it.
It's a big shock to most of us, when we first realize that we can no longer trust the "experts".
There are a lot of decisions I wish I had known enough to make differently, in hindsight.
We were misled and pressured. We’re learning.
I said "No."
The only real pressure is a gun to the head.
Oh, I don’t know. Starvation from lack of income, especially watching your kids suffer from want of your now gone income is some potent pressure.
I'm sorry. I'm in your boat with a son. Ever since I watched that film and "Vaxxed" this week, I've been filled with horror at my ignorance. What's astounding is I recall a conversation about whether to do Gardisil or not with a mom who has 2 children with Asperger - the first she believed was a vax injury as a baby. Why she kept going with the schedule after that is beyond my understanding.
A coworker of mine has and adult son with Asperger’s. She has long maintained it was a vax injury. Says her son’s body temp went up very soon after a certain vaccine as an infant and has never come down. She was, if not antivax, at least vax wary. She got the covid shot.
It's crazy isn't it how people compartmentalize things! How can you have a vax injured child and then get an experimental agent put in your body?!
Required of at least the female med students in Japan. At least for one school but probably others too. They have no idea what it is, what its for, only that it is required so they get it. The Covid vax too.
The propaganda is very strong. I am surprised how many kids had the shot, but the pressure was insane, specially for sports
What is up is that they want every single human on the planet to get the shot, no exceptions. Obviously, the reason can not be for health.
Doh! I read it in email, seemed good to me. I agree with what your sent. Absolutely no argument with it. It is clear that they do not care about us, but that, I think, does not answer for their motivation to get all of us jabbed.
Just say no to Gardasil, also. I let my children decide for themselves on that one. They refused it also.
Show her this was all intentional. Remember Yale's study to coerce vax uptake? They may recognize their exact words in this PsyOp roadmap:
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/why-anger-towards-the-unvaccinated
she’ll excuse it and hand wave it away. the problem is the vast majority of us understand nuance, covidiots are purposefully ignorant because it’s too concerning to pay attention. until we get easy to digest sound bites we’re behind the 8 ball.
I suspect that even then they’ll dismiss it.
Why is Yale so evil now? Between the woke lawyers (protesting against free speech and going full CRT), now this? There is more, but it seems that Yale decided to go downhill
💔 I am so sorry, that is really tough…
What's this about a cervical cancer vaccine. Why are you not skeptical about it?
And this HPV.
Man, maybe it's because I'm sexist or whatever, but since the beginning of all this my heart breaks hardest for the teenage girls. Particularly the bright ones.
Just based on what I remember my gfs being like when I was a teen - IME they are a LOT more susceptible and potentially tormented by social pressures and norms than the boys. Social media in general is bad enough, but threatening a teenage girl with social isolation, quarantine, being a "dirty unclean outsider"... That's serious f business and sadistic IMO. Some of the boys can actually find defiant inspiration in being "right" while the lemmings around them are "wrong" (I know me and some of my homies were like that; not because were smart anything, just our personalities I think). I knew a lot less gals that were like that in high school. If any.
Really hard to forgive what these monsters have done to the kids...
I agree with you that girls seem to be more vulnerable to the peer pressure. I know a 16 y.o. who took the jabs because her circle of close friends told her that she would be excluded UNTIL she got them. How is that for friendship? The mother of one of those mean/ignorant girls even told her that in order to be welcomed back into her house (AFTER being jabbed) she would have to get tested because the mom (my cousin) is NOT 'vaccinated'. How is that for science? These are extremely liberal people, BTW. My 17 y.o. son has never experienced this sort of rejection by his buddies.
And we think we have a hope against our kids doing drugs and having sex.
While over the past two years I have only on rare occasions seen others not wearing masks, they have all been men. The one exception was about two weeks ago in Omotesando station. There was a young non Japanese couple that were unmasked. The first unmasked female face I have seen outside the home in over two years.
Seattle school kids are threatening to walk out unless mask mandates are reinstated! Scary!
Girls are having a tough time dropping masks, they enjoy the comfort and anonymity. Sad.
Oh my gosh I used to live there. Thank God I don't anymore. Up here in Vancouver is pretty nuts, but not that nuts!!! That makes me just feel so sick.
horrible. I'm glad my son is attending a small high school in Canby, Oregon. Things are not that much better in PDX, though.
my son is in PDX at college and they still have to wear masks in classes. Crazy. I've come to the conclusion that it is not worth arguing with them. Just not wear one around them and wait for them to come round.
my daughter took a GAP year, and has been working full time pretty much the whole time. She's ready to go back next fall. So my focus has been on gently pushing her to request the non-medical exemption. She lives at home (Oregon City) and would drive to school.
Yeah - and it hides the zits!
Yeah - same thing here. They are all still wearing the masks despite no longer needed here in CA - and I guess there is lots of peer pressure to keep it up now and my teen just wears the mask too but at least not the N95s. I have mentioned that at some point some of them have to brave enough to just stop wearing them or they'll be wearing them forever. Either that or remove her from the environment.
I have a friend who is not jabbed (they have an autoimmune disease and are older), but they are convinced that the masks work - despite me sending them evidence they don't. I think this person just wants to believe they work as this is their only line of defense against Covid, which they are petrified of. They were paranoid till just recently as my child is in school and they felt like this increased their risk being around me so continued to wear a mask around me in a car and sat in the back for "extra" protection. I've given up trying to convince them, but told them I don't want to wear one anymore. They seemed OK with that as they believe theirs works!
Good for you not wearing a mask around these friends. True friends don't support irrational fears.
I’m sure my kids wear them everywhere still, they’re not confrontational, except to me. 🙄
The schools need the one trend setter or the most popular kid to take it off and then everyone will — it’s a case of the ‘tipping point’ like in Malcolm Gladwell‘s book.
The culprit is the addiction to the devices.
That is certainly not helping. But would we have done any better a generation ago?
Yes. A lot better.
Please, stay with your kids.
Teach them only RIGHT things.
The things what nature and sane mind requires from us.
Speak with them as much as you can. Speak about anything they ask you.
Now, more than ever in history of humans, now when this organized very carefully and really very effective social attack is deployed by evil forces (this whole operation is very carefully organized by teams of sociologists, they know exactly how to attack human integrity) NOW parents must stay with their kids.
They are the only things what stay after us. They are our future.
Evil Forces know that. They attack on the weakest ones.
STAY STRONG STAY SANE and FIGHT
yup...high schoolers and college kids (I have one of each) are the top target of these crooked agencies/pharma because they know how to manipulate social media and use peer pressure to get to them. We are also an anti-vax, anti-mandates family and my college daugther wore her mask several times while we were vacationing in Las Vegas last week. If I bring it up, she'll get defensive and things will escalate. If I share articles by aerosol physics experts, she won't read them. It's been mentally and emotionally exhausting just to get her to finally refuse the jabs (her college allows for a non-medical exemption). UGH. Hang in there, Kate!
so sad... I feel for you.
I’m more concerned about my daughter, but I appreciate your thoughts.
I am so sorry for her. And for all of our children. What we’ve done to them is horrific.
Oh man thank you. Thank you for this. Because I've been saying this--the introductory part of this post--for almost half a century, and it's nice to have some company from someone more credentialed to discuss matters of, you know, science.
Funny what a long road it is that leads to hell. We've been primed for getting close to a century to this bullshit, and it's been the destruction of the concept of human agency in, like, everything. Now you're not a fucking drunk who's destroyed his family but a patient with substance abuse disorder.
In my early twenties I and a close friend founded a neighborhood Al-Anon group. We'd grown up with alcoholic dads and she had an alcoholic husband and a young child and she was dealing with a pretty overwhelming situation. So she asked me to do this with her.
And week after week it was the same story. It was almost entirely women in the group, and it was the same, same, same story and it never changed. And that mantra of acceptance for what you cannot change made you just never change anything. Because your husband wasn't a self-indulgent bastard who didn't give a shit if the family was gonna lose the house or the kids went to school after having cried all night. He had a disease.
And here we are! No one is responsible for anything. If you have a mental illness, seeking durable treatment for it is your last responsibility. You have full permission to whine or weep to your therapist for decades rather than grabbing yourself by your own head hair and struggling toward health. You have full permission to demand that your delusion be taken as reality and the entire medical, educational and legal establishments will let you take their hands and walk down that continuing road to implosion with you.
As someone who has dealt with addiction in my own life and in my family I can relate. One of my major disagreements with most of the recovery programs is "once an addict, always an addict". It wasn't until I decided I was DONE with it all that I was able to recover. And I never use "it's an illness" as an excuse for failure. I am 100% cured from my previous addiction. And I did it on my own once I removed that "victimology" mindset from my way of thinking. Of course we are all different, and different things work for different people. I guess what I'm saying in a roundabout way is that once I stopped making excuses and decided I wanted a better life the "cure" for my addiction became crystal clear.
A woman I became very friendly with at an office job turned out to have had an extremely--uh--interesting past. A husband got her into prostitution and addiction, and she finally reached a point in herself where she couldn't stand doing drugs anymore. She told me it was a really, really rough week of cold turkey that got her off it but off it she certainly stayed.
In my very early twenties two drug dealers befriended me and I spent a year of mild debauchery. For a middle-class extremely naive girl, it was just like the movies and I was too much of an idiot in those days to consider the possibilities if their place got busted. You walked in the door and someone handed you a shoebox full of grass and in the kitchen some guys who were of a different ethnicity from my friends were bagging up cocaine. I was so hopeless that when someone handed me a dollar bill to snort some, I was trying to, like, scoop it up,,,(only time trying it--not quite my thing) but what I really enjoyed was the nitrous oxide.
A year of this, and one day I looked at myself in the restroom mirror at work (not the job first referenced above but long before that) and I looked mighty haggard since I was partying so much I hardly got any sleep. And I thought--this is just bullshit. What the fuck am I doing? And that was pretty much that. I stayed friends with one of the dealers for a few years afterwards; aside from his side gig (he was a car mechanic) he was an extremely good friend and he'd kept me away from the worst of the idiocies I could've gotten into that had nothing to do with drugs.
But you need to know your own limits and use your own brains.
Nitrous Oxide is the funnest thing about giving birth in Canada. Great story, btw!
I was lousy at indulging in drugs. Grass made me depressed and nitrous oxide made me bang the back of my head against the wall. And everyone else was having so much fun...
Sounds like you had an extremely--uh--interesting past yourself! 🤣 I love people with stories. What an unexpected pleasure it is to discover a gold mine of captivating anecdotes in someone at work, of all places! (Never any judgments from me; sometimes, I’ve been the daredevil with the cache of risqué tales).
Thank you.
My feeling is that it's normal to be a moron when you're young. One must struggle often quite painfully towards any sort of wisdom. It's the refusal to learn from that journey that vaporizes my sympathy.
I will always remember reading an article in Scientific America about 50 years ago it was about heroin addiction. The article took up about 12 pages in the magazine. Very detailed in what takes place in a persons mind and body chemically. It explained not everyone gets the same wondrous first high and becomes addicted. But if you are that person you may try to reach for it again and again, never quite succeeding, but you can’t stop trying. There is no way of testing to see if you are that person.
It was one sentence I remember clearly. Never try heroin in the first place to find out.
I think the entire addiction recovery industry is built around confusing the definitions of "craving" and "compulsion." There's big money in assuring people--or the families and govt. programs providing the funding--that "they just can't help it." Yes, they can. Discipline is hard, sometimes extremely painful and exhausting.
Addicts suffer most profoundly from toxic boredom. That's the problem. Can only be self-cured.
I wonder about that right now as well, 'toxic boredom'. People loosing choices, jobs, and most importantly a sense of purpose.
Every single "addiction recovery" program currently used in this country merely substitutes one addiction for another considered less harmful.
In the olden days, the air in any room just used for an AA meeting was so thick with the stench of strong coffee and cigarette smoke you could cut it with a knife. And you never left the world of addiction. Meetings any time you felt itchy; dependence on your sponsor every time you felt agitated.
Methadone. Lifelong shackles to the aforesaid world of addiction.
Anorexia: Continued obsession with food. Measuring portions and calories to ensure you got enough. Plus the cat-and-mouse contest with your loved ones that kept their attention focused on you to the exclusion of anything else meaningful in each of your lives.
I got the treatment and I'm not kidding. Addicts need something to do with their hands. That's it. So:
Sentence them to a locked room with a nice older lady who will teach them to knit or crochet, and hand them a pile of yarn and teach 'em to make baby hats, and don't let them leave until they've finished one. Repeat daily.
Yarn addiction is powerful and the creation of a useful article will arouse the competitive instincts in the most hardened assholes. Before you know it they won't be able to put those hooks or needles down, and many of them will discover previously unsuspected gifts of creativity that they believed themselves incapable of or used to mock in others.
End of the first month, the finished hats are donated to the nearest worthy program, videotaped or whatever, so the treatment group can see a tangible result from all that captive stitching. Maybe they'll get to see their own hats on the head of a toddler with cancer.
General statement: Think this won't work? Prove it.
I am a yarn addict! It’s a thing. 😜
(When I say "I got the treatment" I mean I have the solution...
Thank you for this. I think we need to be very careful how we see each other. Not to simplify, villainize or think we know about another. We must ask, we must wonder. Not judge or be so sure. Our 'mental health' system is destructive enough. (this is not aimed at you, I'm just having a baby rant)
Thank you for that! The last thing we need right now is more shaming. From any direction.
Shame is often an essential prelude to change and growth.
Being ashamed is not the same as being shamed.
Shaming is so prevalent and so easy and toxic.
Thank you too!
❤️
Where I live there has been no mask mandate since Feb. 2021.
Still yesterday while grocery shopping there are maskers.
Not the majority at all, but they’re still out there.
The super serious ones have 95’s and they all walk in and use hand sanitizer before they touch their cart. I watch.
Occasionally I see the masked child. That one bothers me the most.
Honestly I think in my head these people are mentally ill.
It's amazing. What floors me are the people who dutifully wear their useless diaper and still get sicker than hell and it still doesn't dawn on them that masks cannot and don't stop most viruses.
What's funny is how in Vermont it's town by town. In the college towns it's crazy mask city. In the "working class" towns it's only the crazies who wear masks. And of course it makes no difference to the rate of "cases" in the area who's wearing what.
I visit a local thrift shop frequently. The lady who runs it has gone crazy with this stuff. Last time the masks were dropped for summer, I overheard her and a colleague talking about how weird it was to go into restaurants and how they didn't feel safe with the waitstaff and the people next to them being uncovered. This time around, she is still running around the shop with her mask on and I notice all the employees are still having to wear them as well. I used to think her to be a nice lady, and maybe she's still nice, but I think she's nuts now too.
I can't remember if I already posted this comment... Spoke with an older lady a few weeks ago. Told me her entire family was masked up and shot up to the hilt and they we're all "battling covid". She told me they were all recovering but, "we are really scared we're going to get sick again because the mask mandate was dropped in her area." My jaw hit the floor. We have a long road ahead of us.
A friend who’s a teacher has the same worries about unmasking her young students. Hmmmm… how did anyone stay healthy two years ago?
According to NBC (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-u-s-map-where-virus-has-been-confirmed-across-n1124546) there have been about 80 million American cases of COVID19. That means there are about 260 million Americans, or about 77%, who have not gotten COVID19. I still like my odds without masks, without injections, without social distancing, etc.
The plandemic was here in fall of 2019, if not even earlier, in summer. I knew lots of people w/ mystery illnesses Oct-Dec 2019 & then in early 2020 (including me). That means that by the time mask theater & lockdowns were mandated in mid-to-late March 2020, this had already circulated/ ripped thru the US & the world. Many never knew they had it, some w/ mild or even severe cases would’ve assumed a mild or severe cold or flu. There are ALOT more Americans & people globally who’ve had it
My family had it at that time-Late Oct 19 into Nov19, I wasn't feeling completely well until about the second week of Dec. We were all just, "Wow, that was a crazy flu". I had never had ropy mucus before, but I got to see it up close. In fact, I began using NAC then because of its ability to clear such mucus. But we came thru fine. I'm glad we had it before the panic really, we might have done something stupid like go to a hospital.
I had a major dry, hacking, nonproductive cough for ~3 weeks in Feb 2020. Just assumed it was a bad bronchitis, never saw a doctor or took anything but over the counter cough meds. But then this past Christmas & into Jan 2022 my husband & I were diagnosed w/ covid-pneumonia & I was pretty sick, on home O2 for 2 weeks but I’ve come out of that ok too. Biggest fear was getting so sick I’d have to be hospitalized because I knew they’d kill me there. Anyway, now that I’ve had 2 “variants”, I feel my God-given natural immunity is damn near bullet proof. No one will ever convince me I wouldn’t have been as sick this 2nd time if I’d just had 1, 2 or 3 poison jabs. ¡NO GRACIAS!
And where are those numbers coming from 🙄 Yes, odds are you’ll be fine (if you don’t listen to the MSM and their confounding #’s)
I think it is a given that the number of cases is so abstract that no matter where you get the numbers, they are wrong. But you get my point that the odds are in your favor that you won't even contract the virus. The odds are much higher that Americans get the injection and the resulting side effects. But no one in the MSM will even mention any negativity regarding the injection.
Covid is a coronovirus, like the common cold. You will get it again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, ad infinitum until you die.
Well, we’re all gonna die of something sooner or later, Corona or no. But people have different constitutions & ability to w/stand various diseases, pathogens, etc. And this “virus” is man made. Not sure what that adds or distracts from what it is or isn’t compared to natural virus
Once you've accepted the doctrine you never fully, completely escape its shadow even if you think you've become an apostate. Always looking over one's shoulder for the wrathful Higher Authority.
It's such intense brain washing based on trust. It's so sad, heartbreaking.
It’s SO BAD!!! I can’t believe ppl still believe we are in this “health crisis”.
Yeah I know, I'm sorry.
Perfect illustration: Saw a young boy about six (with unmasked parent) wearing a black mask WITH NECK STRAP. Damage is real.
many of these parents are forcing masks on their kids until the clotshots are authorized for their age group. It's so heartbreaking.
That’s the worst! But the mother didn’t have one on. I took that as a sign the child was brainwashed by peers and
”authority figures”/“experts” but you may be correct. There may be no fix for it.
At least it makes identifying Trudeau voters easy.
Problem is there are a *LOT* of them where I live. But I can easily see MY people!!!!!!
So true!!!
At least the drug cartels don’t force you to take their drugs. Don’t get high on your own supply!
But this is exactly what we are seeing, drug cartels forcing drugs on an unsuspecting trusting terrified public.
As Charles Murray said a few years back, we've become too concerned about being *nice* and we're not concerned enough about being *good*.
Masks are secular veils for those still wearing them.
The thing they kills me about the mask zealots are those who play the “you’re being cruel to the immunocompromised and people with cancer”... pre-Covid those things existed, we weren’t expected to mask up, and I rarely saw anyone masked. I find myself so angry at people wearing masks. It’s irrational anger, I know. They have been poisoned. But I’m angry just the same.
I'm not sure if it's irrational anger. For me it's kind of a combo of anger, frustration and disappointment. I believe we are completely justified to feel this way. People who have blindly gone along with this madness truly are destroying our society. IMNSHO
NS - "not so"?? I like it!
Yup. family get together coming up. Can’t say I’m not feeling more apprehensive than recent past get together. 90% qualify as msm junkies. Only my husband since his heart attack has questioned the necessity of the jab (triple jabbed for job).
100%

You have a right to be angry. Addicts are manipulative bastards a good deal of the time. Feeling anger at being manipulated by them is a reasonable reaction.
Absolutely. It's how we deal with our anger that's important. It's ok to be angry, though. And yeah I've been saying for awhile, as someone who's had several close relationships with people who struggle with addiction to substances both legal and illegal (as in, had children with two of them! gee do I have a type?)---I could see through all this bullshit earlier on than most BECAUSE I've had to see through so much bullshit in my own personal life! "Don't you all know what it feels like to be lied to or manipulated?" I'd want to ask people! "Haven't you all ever seen people behave delusional-ly? (myself included?!" So many people seem so naive to me. This piece is so wonderful, though, because it reminds me, again, to be more compassionate. And I'm not sure having compassion means letting go of all the anger.
Excellent piece señor gato. The same concept seems to fit just as well with the current fad of denying the reality of men and women in order to make that very small percentage of people who suffer from gender dysphoria feel comfortable. Everyone knows that what the character Joseph in "Kindergarten Cop" said is true: "Boys have a penis; girls have a vagina." It truly is kindergarten-level knowledge. Yet people have been goaded into taking the stance that this fact, as old as the human race itself, is false. Now, even a supreme court nominee can't admit it and can't define what a "woman" is. Tell me this isn't an addiction.
There’s a smart lawyer who has made a connection between said people that, all of a sudden, too many seem to suffer gender dysmorphia and vaccines, starting around the early 80s There’s a two-part interview that I downloaded and saved (thinking it wouldn’t last very long). Part two is the more relevant one but I’m sharing both in case you’re interested.
Part 1 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J725Joeu2iRYJu3ZO9KWh0Ylf_WWKKwm/view?usp=drivesdk
Part 2 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rgTFem1ri2Je-tmzwV2FoVfi5BqQNKJO/view?usp=drivesdk
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I refused to wear a mask the entire time. In March 2020 I was still doing a radio show and was researching all things Covid, masks, social distancing, China, etc.
According to the BIG THREE, Lancet, NEJM and JAMA, masking was not EVER intended for airborne viruses. All three had research published as late at early April, 2020 that said precisely that. All three articles had many links to actual studies and research.
BUT...BUT!!! By May of 2020 all three had published retractions of sorts saying masks are essential to stopping the spread of the Wuhan Flu. HOWEVER, not a single one of the retractions had any scholarly links to research or studies of ANY KIND!!! I knew then, it was all a scam.
In the ensuing months I was thrown out of quite a few establishments but I held my ground. There was a time when my levels of anxiety were quite high but I knew I had to remain strong.
When I would engage folks with math, facts, etc. after the stupid questions about "are you a doctor" I would be faced with blank stares or with a response of why don't you do it to make other people comfortable?
Here is why. God calls us Christians to be salt and light in a dark and fallen world. I.e. To shout TRUTH from the highest mountaintops. Enabling fearful behavior isn't helping those who are fearful. That would be like enabling an addicted child by letting them use in my home.
Mass Formation Psychosis is REAL. Like the BAD CAT I predict that it will return with a vengeance. Just look at the public's reaction to Ukraine vs. Russia. Total pysop. And most folks have taken the bait; hook, line, sinker, rod, reel, fisherman, boat, trailer...ALL OF IT!!!
When will it return? Can anyone say "Midterm Elections"?
Scariest day of my life. A day in July of 2020 when I was the only one in a huge major airport without a mask. And I'd do it again if I had to.
I started finding there's a certain rush to going in without a mask when everyone else is wearing one! Even now, when the mandate has lifted and I'm "allowed" to not wear one, the feeling of almost-rebelliousness-because-everyoneelsestillhastheirson is real. It's kind of fun. Ahhhh the little things.
thing about junkies is that they don't live very long. there's a reason why it's called dope. seems safe to say that the hardcore muzzle addicts will line up for booster after booster until they're boostered to death. you can't play russian roulette - woops, sorry, ukrainian roulette - forever
"indoor mask requirements were finally lifted on puerto rico about 2 weeks ago. i was at the supermarket last week. there was no mask requirement."
Got a haircut here this morning. First time in 18 months I didn't have to mask up - no one inside was masked, either, which was encouraging - and first time in 18 months I didn't have to worry about the haircutter being careless and cutting the elastic on my THIS IS DUMB mask (which she had done twice in the past).
Costco, Supermax, PetSmart, Petco, post office, Marshalls, Stuffed Avocado, pro shop at Coco Beach, all the same.
But the cowardly fools at the Shipping Unlimited store at Garden Hills Plaza in Guaynabo still waved their arms like they were on the tarmac, landing a wayward plane, when I tried to enter maskless. Fools are still among us, and now I know they're addicts.
'course the guy who should be the most edumucated - my vet - still requires masks in his office. Arguably the smartest guy of all the businesses I've listed, and he requires masks. Useless, pointless, worthless masks.
I would be smiling at you in your grocery store. Just because someone else had (has) on a mask doesn't make me feel as thought I should cover my face. I never had that "feeling" that I "should" for others' sake. Does that make me a (1.) selfish/bad person (2.) thinking person (3.) rebel ? Dunno. Don't care at this point.
I never did either. The rest didn’t look like people anyway. I don’t care if thought selfish. I’m 74 this year. This has been the most nuts time I have ever lived through and there have been a few—personally and societal. None of which required a face muzzle or forced experiment into my actual body. Pot was MY choice.
I hear you...turning 69 this year. Grew up in Kent, Ohio in the 60s/70s so was exposed to quite a bit during those changing times. (And the current gummies are great when you "need" them!)
You just reminded me of this https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mv12wm/when_mom_finds_your_gummys/
hahahaha!
They can put a fucking gas-mask on if they want. I do not have to protect them.
Look at it this way....Think of the people you work(ed) with. Aren't the ones wanting you to wear a mask to keep them safe, the same ones that always came to work (prior covid) sick and gave everyone else whatever they had? I bet most, if not all, of them are.
YES! I'll never forget my ridiculous coworker who sat in the cube next to me who sneezed all day long. Probably 500 sneezes a day. It was wonderful. In Feb 2020 she waltzes in sick as a dog. I told her to go home. She said she was on antibiotics so couldn't spread IT. I told her so what, go home anyways. She didn't and sat there sneezing again. A week later I caught the covid cold. In March 2020 right before we were all sent home, I told her that covid was a cold and this hysteria was BS. She screamed and raved of how we were all going to die. I then told her maybe she shouldn't come in to work when she is sick. She literally screamed at the top of her lungs for me to get OUT OF HER CUBE!
Good times I'll never miss.
"Good times I'll never miss." --- Amen. I sometimes kinda miss what I did at work, but never the people. Never.
I miss both...especially the kids I taught.
My Mom was a teacher. She missed her kids a lot after she retired. --- There are a few co-workers I miss, but they didn't work in my department and I didn't get to see them often.
So did she? (die?) :-P
No such luck. 🙄
But she never apologized for her horrible behavior to you either, did she? She should.
Oh, Lord no! She isn't the apologizing kind.
Excellent observation
oh exactly! I can probably name the people I worked with three years ago who did just that- when I subbed I usually came home with SOMETHING (preschool). Daughter is ONLY one in her workplace (that she knows of) who has NOT gotten sick (covid-repeatedly like the vaxxxed) and her boss pointed to her mask and assured her it was her mask that was keeping her "well"- not the fact that she is not overweight, eats well and exercises...(everyone else masked and shotted has used up their "covid" days). They can't seem to make the connection!
Oh, yeah, I got yelled at by a coworker for not coming in sick. Yes, she knew I was really, not a mental health day, sick. Yelled at me in front of other co-workers, because she was sick too and came to work, so I should have, too. That was one of the last straws. Not THE last straw, but really close.
ugh...wth is WRONG with people?
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We're blessed that we live in a state (NH...the "Live Free or Die" state) where we only had about a three month mandatory mask mandate and even though our cases surged once the vaccines started rolling out, our governor (who is pretty wishy washy) refused to re-introduce the mandate. That said, many towns instituted their own.
I almost never wore a mask and at times it was difficult to be the only person in an entire grocery store, for example, without a mask. Thankfully, I was never harassed like some of my friends, but it was hard to stand alone. My heart would be beeping hard the entire time I was in the store and I avoided eye contact and stay smiling while I shopped. (I was pretty excited when I made it back to the car without a confrontation! LOL!) And, yes, there were masked people at the front of the store, but I would just walk past them and not respond, and thankfully no one ever called the cops. LOL! (Actually, our governor said he would not enforce the mask mandate so..).
My kids had to wear them at work for a while and the most interesting thing happened...my youngest, who was an even bigger anti-masker than I am...started to say things like, "It's not that bad...I'm used to it..." It kind of freaked me out because you saw this change in attitude from someone who was very strongly against it to it not being that big of a deal. Thankfully, they don't need to wear them anymore but I can't imagine the mental issues this is going to cause young children who sit in masks all day at school. It's abusive and I struggle to not say something to unmasked adults I see out with their little masked children. It's a grotesque abuse of power, telling little impressionable children that they're going to kill grandma if they don't wear their useless mask.
I had a hairdresser tell me that her clients were "good people" because they masked up (I didn't). I told her that's a bad measure of whether someone is "good." Isn't it far better and more loving to tell someone the truth? This has been my mantra all along, I refuse to wear it because it gives people a false of security and I'm participating in lying about it's usefulness. It's better, and I would say right, to tell my neighbor the truth instead of supporting their delusion. The analogy of having a beer with an alcoholic because it makes them feel better is spot on.
With the exception of tending to my father in long term care, I never wore a mask. I refused to wear it because I refused to participate in the bigger lie, that covid was an actual health emergency. The masks were a lie, not because they don't work, but because they never had to work.