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I live in California, but at least I can tell myself I don't live in Puerto Rico.

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I'm in Commiefornia too. I thought Gruesome Newsom was whacky....but wow!

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He is--he has instructions to wait until after the elections, then game back on.

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Governor Navin Gruesome.

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Same here. Counting my blessings. But hey, let's get those masks on COWS!!

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Hey, maybe we could put them on chickens and since they work SO WELL they would help with that bird flu epidemic?

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OMG! I think you might've just earned a Nobel, Michele!

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I live in Australia and we are pretty much Puerto Rico by the sounds of it.

We are also run by clowns and virtue signallers.

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Victoria?

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Sydney. So not quite as bad as Melbourne but they did get the military to help with imposing curfews and locking down one major area where the muslins and newer immigrants live.

We never had that in my suburb but we had everything else including not being allowed to stop and converse with non family members in public and only being allowed out for 1 hour of exercise. Today most restrictions have been lifted but we are still forced to wear the useless mask when commuting on public transport and I now know they could easily impose the restrictions at any time they choose.

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😂 That’s funny, good to find humor where we can these days 👍

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Even those places are better than Hellinois

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Guess what the Puerto Ricans tell themselves...

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According to Stephen Sondheim, they say "I like to be in America! O.K. by me in America! Ev'rything free in America! For a small fee in America!"

Was I supposed to guess that Puerto Ricans pity Californians? Really?

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You know the world is in a sorry state when we cannot even rely on the eternal truth of Sondheim lyrics.

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I am convinced that masks are to many people like Linus' blanket. Makes then feel safe and secure. They can be anonymous in a crowd. I would say they are insecure, lack confidence and unsure of themselves around other people. I know it is a generalization but like all stereotypes it is based upon some truth.

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I saw an video interview with young (adults) people on the street wearing masks about wearing the masks. They absolutely want to keep wearing them because they think it will protect themselves and protect others. They have been so completely propagandized that they can’t not wear them. Even when queried if they knew about the studies about the ineffectiveness of masks protecting anyone or stopping the spread of anything (which they did not), they wouldn’t believe it. The ‘interviewer’ also asked them where they get their ‘news’ and to a fault they answered ‘social media’ and “people they follow on ‘social media”.

Though I don’t have too many years left here on the planet I fear what this planet will be like 20/30/40 years from now with these people at the helm! 🤨😬

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I am almost glad my years on this Earth are coming to an end sooner than later because, selfishly, I don't want to be here in another 20 years. Much too nuts.

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Yes I am not far behind you…but it saddens me that the end of my life, is shaping up the way it is. A life that when I was younger was a lot of fun & full of freedom to move about and believe in what you believed in, and not be ‘called out’ on it.

I may be starting my 7th decade but my mind and spirit is still that of my 20 year old self.

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Oh yes, Frontera! I'm 72 (and a half), and I think I'm still, well, maybe 30. But the loss of simple joys is both heartbreaking and anger-making. God help the children.

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I’ll be 70 in the fall…we came of age at the same tine…a time much different than today. I look at how people think and act who are in their 20’s now and feel so sorry for them. They are not adventurous, courageous nor do they know anything having to with life and life skills! If they can’t order it on Amazon, Uber Eats or Grub Hub they could t even feed themselves. As I always say…”they couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag” of they had to!

At 25 I lived on my own in Marin County & worked in the contract interior design field in San Francisco, got a car loan on my own, and was absolutely self reliant and independent from my parents!

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Yup. Pathetic, to us. I got a job as a truck-stop waitress and moved out of the home at 17. The job didn't last but it paid the first month's rent and I got a series of better jobs, and the rest is history. When I was 20 I took my bicycle down the West coast from Portland to San Francisco, solo, with two changes of clothes and a couple of bike tools.... Didn't think twice. Slept rough or with generous, warm-hearted townspeople on the way. No Grub Hubs out there, then!

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Agreed!!!

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Me too

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And they call US spreaders of misinformation !?! 🤦‍♀️

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I've worn face masks to cover my face in highly surveilled protest situations to minimize the facial recognition captures that would certainly happen.. also leave the GPS tracking phone at home all the time just like the rotary days... old fashioned low tech opsec :~)

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Yes indeed…one of the only reasons to wear a mask! Also I leave the GPS tracking device at home a lot. Plus you have you camera to document the event!

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Would an old cell phone deactivated but just used as a camera work?

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Not sure why you wouldn't get a $50 point and shoot camera. Edward Snowden did a demonstration in like 2015 showing the level of hardware and software function embedded and needed to be disabled to fully bypass tracking... top tier hacker / cracker level effort.. if the phone is a supported model anything made after like 2003 it has GPS you cannot disable

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You would have to physically desolder the radios from the phone's motherboard to make it 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 for a phone that had been compromised by the NSA's worst software weapons to reveal anything. That doesn't mean it takes quite that level of protection for the ordinary person who is not being targeted by the NSA. For most of us, if the NSA and the like decide that we are an enemy of the (deep) state, we're not going to have the ability to evade them even if we have no phone at all. The rest of us are still going to be toast if the government decides they want us as much as they want Snowden.

Even if you could disable the GPS receiver, the phone can still determine its location quite precisely with wifi alone.

A compromised phone can also monitor all calls, texts, emails, and every other thing you do with the phone. Even if the phone can't tell you where it is, precisely, having the rest of that data silently transmitted somewhere is not going to be a good thing.

The radio signal you need to block is not the GPS, or at least not just that. It's the cellular and wifi radios too. A GPS receiver in and of itself is harmless... it may know exactly where it is, but if it can't tell anyone, it can't harm you.

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Just so.

You can use a Faraday case to block the GPS signal but the moment you take it out...

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Have one of those for traveling.. exactly right perfect as long as it's sealed! :~)

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I have cameras but like the photos better. I walk alone in nature areas to paint and birdwatch so I do need some cell ability. On more “government determined” nefarious activities I would not carry a phone. 🤔🙄.

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If they want to come after me watching birds. Have at it. It’s concealed carry here and I can shoot it fine.

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This likely will not work. The "911" WE MUST ALWAYS KNOW WHERE YOU ARE capability cannot be disabled by law...even if deactivated it still operates.

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Masks are the new pacifiers. BTW, word has it that plenty of insecure high schoolers wear masks to simply hide their face. So sad.

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I went out with the family today to eat pizza at a good place in the city center (full of restaurants, bars, etc. ). The weather was perfect. Kids were playing, street performers were singing, couples walking... Except for the odd person here and there, nobody wore masks. There were so many people talking, smiling and enjoying themselves.

It felt good :)

P.S.: "driven only permitted on even or odd days depending on your license plate number". You know who did that? The communist party in Romania. They also rationed the amount of fuel to 20liters or so/month.

Yeah, the western countries are free democracies my a$$.

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Where are you located?

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Romania :)

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Good points--they can also be rude and felonious in masks

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95% here in grocery stores too.

Get this. unvaxxed still CANNOT fly. Yet the other day there were 2+ hour wait for security @ YYZ airport due to "staffing shortages".

aka they ALL GOTS COVID. But everyone at the airport is vaxxed, triple and quad vaxxed. Whaaaaaat?

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It appears it may already be happening. The more you vax the weaker you become to fight off the variants.

Then again who really knows what people are actually testing positive for.

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So true! There are still lots of TV and radio ads urging people to get tested for HIV and hepatitis.

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Gato. I live in Puerto Rico... this needs to stop. I have been saying it since March 2020, but this time we really need to do something BIG to stop the nonsense. This new "regulation" is the ultimate abuse.

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Just stop complying. If enough people do that, they have no power.

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I agree with you, Ki. "If enough people stop complying"... The problem is that there is such a huge amount of people that will just believe and do anything they are told, that the non-compliers become a minority. Everywhere you go, people are scared shitless of getting covid from anyone on the street. It is an irrational collective madness.

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the other problem is that the PNP are the party of hysterical blue hairs. the clucking old hens that constitute the meat of their voting block are terrified of covid because they have been force fed fear narratives like pate geese.

they clamor to "do something" and masks are an easy, high visibility response.

it's just crappy politics and lots of people here love it or, at least, go along to get along because every bit of boriqua machismo and spirit disappears in an instant when abuela threatens to hit you with a wooden spoon.

(does not help that half the young adults here still live with their parents)

most of the people who might fight this moved to new york or miami years ago.

we can put 50k in the streets over ricky's "mean telegrams" but for this, nada.

it's depressing.

this island simply cannot get out of its own way.

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Gato, isn't the PPD just as bad? Basically, in PR, there are two Democrat parties.

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probably worse.

there were a surprising number of independents that won as mayors last election. one nearly took san juan.

this could be a promising trend, but who knows?

this place always finds a way to do the wrong thing.

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"pate geese"

Oy, I think I finally found a form of foie gras that I could get behind banning.

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Yes... Agree with all you say. I have suspected for a long time that there is someone making big $$$ out of selling masks.

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Plenty of companies just started making masks in China even if their main business was completely unrelated to health.

Good old fashioned supply and demand.

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Just say no.

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Nobody seems to have reported on this, but the people of Tanzania just told the government to piss off with their Covid regulations, and they did.

Be like Tanzania, please. For the rest of us.

https://credenceonline.co.uk/ecpages/report-from-tanzania-more-good-news-from-africa/

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Thank for posting the Tanzania article. That’s a beautiful picture of the way this should work.

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"Every natural person..."

Just identify as an unnatural person and you should be exempt.

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That caught my eye as well. Not sure what an unnatural person is but I’m in

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Wait, aren’t the jabbed actually unnatural people? Guess I’m out

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Mask mandates are a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

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I see what you did there.

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Hey, maybe that's the loophole Newsom and others have been using - they're politicians, thus extremely unnatural.

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When Lizard People such as Carlos Lopez and other Reichsärzteführern throughout the land speak of "natural persons", we know they are not referring to the reptilian ruling class, but rather we, the tax cattle that feed them.

https://libertate.substack.com/p/a-rogues-gallery-of-covidian-hypocrisy

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Yep - the idiots here in Wokevilley, CA are back to masking again. And the school is sending home extra test kits just in case you didn't go to the now after-school testing. I had an idea to collect all the masks strewn about the town on the sidewalks and streets and dump them on the doorstep of the health department to dispose of. What a mess - and oh - we obviously don't care about all the garbage we are creating with these disposable N95 masks and all the harm being done breathing in microplastics - just to keep little kids from catching a cold that they already probably had. What a joke!

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The mask litter is real in NYC as well. They are on every street and sidewalk. I saw some dog poop that also had with it a blue medical mask in the shape of a turd because it had passed through the dog!

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I just don't know anymore. This is insane.

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Some information has come past me that in 3 or 4 months something will be unleashed on us that will give mental illness and brain disease. From what I see it’s been out and infecting many for sometime now.

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I stopped using Twitter a while ago.

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and I quit Facebook, much to the consternation of friends and their queries of "So WHYYYYYY did you leave FB?"

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Same here in the People's Republic of Silicon Valley.

I see them everywhere around town: in roads, parking lots, blowing around in the wind.

And likely not one diapered covidian moron thinks for a moment that if the diapers actually worked, they would be a biohazard.

Collecting and dumping a large pile of them on the front stoop of the health nazis is an excellent idea, but if caught they would probably prosecute you as a Domestic Terrorist™.

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Wait! The way to keep from being identified as the perpetrator is to... wait for it...

Wear a mask!

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Mass Non Compliance. This is the only way out. Do not cover your whiskers amigo.

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Do Not Comply

Boycott. Resist. Ignore.

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I ignore all signs except the time my library forced me out and called me a physical danger to them. . I then did not return and picked up materials on a table outside. I worked with these same people for 14 years. I go in now but I’m sure the director will clamp down again soon. Then I’ll be picking up outside again. There is one employee I will never speak to again. Ever. She hides behind her mask so I can ignore her.

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Same thing here in Wokeville, California, where our library people are the biggest Nazis going. They just lifted their mask rule - continued for weeks AFTER the state and county had dropped it. Their main librarian was who they were taking orders from - and her name's Karen, btw. Apologies to all Karens reading this but hey, my name's Nina. Their "Friends" group just canceled an outdoor fundraiser - the man in charge said he had been tossing and turning, just absolutely sleepless with worry, poor dear. Was considering having all volunteers wear masks (in a hot kitchen) and/or do "a quick test" immediately before the event. Oh but then, his wife found the article about cases rising!! Oh My God, we're all gonna die!! I swiftly responded that OF COURSE we needed to cancel. This startled them, as they know I am unjabbed (one of two out of 30). No way was I going to wear their f*cking mask while I flipped pancakes for three hours. Craven is the word for these people. Disgusting, bleating, craven little sheep.

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Seriously. What is it about public libraries??

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I know. I work with those people. They are so frightened, and so frightening.

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Is this in the US?

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Shouldn't we all be wearing space helmets since a virus can enter our bodies via our eyes *sarcasm*. The "experts" rarely mention that form of transmission.

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Government reminds me of

helicopter parents. By 2023, we will all be living in giant bubbles

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Just yesterday I saw a research paper claiming that people who wear eyeglasses catch less Covid.

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I wear glasses and had it 2x so not sure about that. I'm actually glad I got it over with and I have rock star T cells and antibodies now. Geez, all this fear crap is actually lowering immunity.

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Oh no doubt that "research" is absolute nonsense. Like so many these days.

I had my first covid three weeks ago, at least I was feeling sick and the rapid said it was covid. No big deal. Two days with a fever and a few days to get my mojo back. No vaxx no mask and no glasses 😉

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Once psychopaths get a taste of power, they are as addicted as methheads...

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"masks have become a disease, and the disease looks increasingly chronic."

I believe it is a symptom of an extremely virulent, dangerous and ubiquitous mental and cognitive disorder that has afflicted humanity for centuries and is by far the most serious global pandemic of them all:

Leftism.

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Maybe beyond a disorder. Maybe a mental illness. Claustrophobia is a mental disorder, for example. Leftism is an illness, IMO.

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Not being a doctor in the medical sense, I accept and adopt your opinion as my own.

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That’s how I accepted and adopted it!

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IMO the disease is not leftism but authoritarianism. Unfortunately we see examples of this on both the left and the right.

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I disagree.

That which has been branded the right is actually left.

Fascists and Nazis are socialists. Admittedly so. All authoritarianism is left-wing because it subsumes the rights of the individual to the "needs" of the collective, and requires a powerful State to enforce the ideology, which is of course the hallmark of all flavors of leftism.

The only real "right wing" are classical liberals, minarchists and ancaps.

To paraphrase Tricky Dick Nixon, the progressive-leftist that destroyed the last remnant of the gold standard, saddled us with the EPA, and broke bread with Mao, the greatest mass-murderer of all time:

"We are all progressives now".

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I am so sorry. It is all bullshit. All of it. Fake virus, fake vax, fake data and fake politicians. Can you get yourself to the mostly free state of Florida?

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Florida has never looked so beautiful.

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Texas runs a close second. Red state = freedom. It's kinda that simple. Of course they have their ugly blue cities, like Austin. To be avoided.

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Saw a lot of folks masked up outside in heavy winds in Dallas in January. I need to see more of the state but Dallas just looked like more of the same.

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Granted I haven't lived there since the late '80s, but when I did live in Dallas 80% of the people I met there were from New York and Illinois. You had to go to a dive bar in Oak Cliff or halfway to Oklahoma to meet an actual Texan.

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The locals would tell me that downtown is not the place to go, the good parts of Dallas are in the suburbs.

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At this stage mass non-compliance is our only hope but the brainwashed will not join the party.

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They are lost forever

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