How did we ever allow such evil, tyrannical, malevolent morons as these to take control of our government? The lunatic fringe who once merely were generously tolerated are now in charge and wreaking havoc on everything we once held dear.
Unfortunately the discourse on natural immunity has now progressed in one of a couple possible directions (pick your favorite flavor):
1. "But what about Delta?!?!"
2. "But your neutralizing antibodies increase if you get vaccinated with one dose after recovery!"
3. "But what about the CDC Kentucky study? It says you're more than twice as likely to be reinfected if you haven't been vaccinated!"
Peer review gets witheld (deliberately?) from the Israel and Cleveland findings while farce after farce regarding masks and viral load is cited by the CDC to back official guidance.
My boyfriend is about to lose his job in an isla verde restaurant because he wants no part of this gene therapy dressed up as a vaccine. I haven’t lost my job because I managed to get a doctor’s note, but no less than three HR employees called me and violated every HIPPA law (which is a source of comedy at this point) by trying to dig into my health history or my reasons to not get vaccinated. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if the company decides to get rid of me, as I’m the only one in the whole department to not get the useless injection. They made the building where I work restricted to “fully vaccinated” and moved me to another “mixed facility”, far from my team. Medical apartheid indeed.
What’s happening all around PR is repulsive, nobody is questioning anything, neither are they well-read or properly informed. Follow the science has simply turned into a game of monkey-see, monkey-do / follow-the-leader and ask no intelligent questions. Most certainly, one must avoid entering into an argument with any of the many mindless drones in the population. Get vaccinated whether you want to or not, data be damned, or get your life turned upside down.
I don’t understand why we’re not screaming our lungs out, clearly declaring “no, we will not comply” in numbers to rival the protests in France. We did it once before to remove an idiot from office, how is this not ten times more important?
That mayor is the single sensible voice speaking against the current tyrannical mandates and in favor of common sense, respect for personal choice and general decency. I’m utterly disappointed and appalled at Puerto Rico’s dispirited response when faced with the very real prospect of living under an authoritarian regime (considering we’re still an effing colony, it shouldn’t be so upsetting to me, and yet it is... I weep for what is to come)
My fear is this is just the tying of a bow on a package decades in the making. Our society's lack of educational standards or critical thinking skills, its elevation of collectivist action and demonization of rebellion against the "common good" is now paying the "dividends" that have ripened into negotiable stupidity.
The good news is that there are a few people who are horrified by all this, but the lockdowns created the perfect kind of isolation that wouldn't allow like-minded people to share information and gain enough strength that way to fight. That's no doubt why they had the quarantines from the start. Divide and conquer.
The media here hasn't been covering the protests much, but they have been getting larger. I found out about the protests through the Facebook group of Coalición Pro Consentimiento Informado y Salud (https://www.facebook.com/cpcispr/), and I know they're planning more. Last Saturday, about 2000 of us marched from el Capitolio to la Fortaleza. (The news apparently said there were only 185.)
I am so sorry to hear about your situation with your boyfriend's job and your own. That is difficult. My husband and I both work from home, so we've been spared some of the difficulties.
Thank you! This is so good to know. They’re doing great of not covering it (just as they did a great job of not covering the disastrous situation with unemployment checks which took a whole year to arrive for everyone I know! But that’s a different -although related- can of worms).
I gotta be honest, for a split second when I turned on the TV on the first day of the Cuban protests I heard "corona" and thought it was lockdown protests in San Juan or something.
No offense intended, El Gato, but Pierluisi has been absolutely banana republic from day one, like Duterte swaggering that the police were going to cap anyone who stepped outside their house. If you had each of them tuck a riding crop under one arm you probably couldn't tell them apart.
he's a horror, like some pastiche of a latin american stongman. the utter police state he inflicted on san juan to mandate curfews and attack a set of (admittedly somewhat rowdy) black tourists coming in in large numbers this year was like nothing i have ever lived through.
la placita felt like a prison tier.
ashford ave had 20 cops on every block, geared up for tactical and menacing everyone. they would swarm you in groups of 10 for not having a mask on outside.
there were motorcycle sweeps and traffic checkpoints.
i have never felt so unsafe in a city, and i've been to some scary places.
he's a cut rate thug and a nasty authoritarian despot putting on airs and feeding cronies.
All jokes aside, my hope rests on the fact that everything here is done so “manga por hombro” (messily and haphazardly) that nothing will work, none of the advanced digital passes they keep touting will function properly and we’ll basically revert to asking “everyone here’s vaccinated, right?” and life will go on with the same terrible inconveniences we’re used to.
For proof of this, just visit any of our government websites and try filling out a form.
They were incredibly diligent with their “guardias de palito” (for show guards).
I’m always amazed at how PR goes all-in when cooler heads should prevail but not when it matters, such as when the Internet arrived. Businesses treated it as a fad and did not adapt accordingly in a timely matter. I can point specifically to ad agencies as an example, an industry where I spent many years and know most had the wealth and means to do so. A few years later, all were scrambling to create digital departments and quite a number of them lost so much business, they had to close down.
So why aren't the fine folks of PR out in the streets telling Pierluisi to pack his bags right now? It's not as though Puerto Ricans are averse to a rousing protest from time to time.
My biggest concern after reviewing the graphs that you have created, along with many others on Twitter, is not that masks don't work--you proved that many months ago. I'm concerned that masks aid in the transmission of the virus. You wear a mask, an infected person is talking and gesticulating near you. The particles land on your mask. It's the perfect incubator. Am I the only one seeing this?
When weak leaders excuse, rationalize and appease intolerance, mendacity and ignorance they become accepted norms. When those traits become accepted norms, the intolerant, mendacious and ignorant become the new leaders. As leaders, they don’t become more tolerant, less mendacious and more wise.
OT but somewhere I saw an analysis of why the “99% of hospitalizations are the unvaxxed” cannot be true and I think it was the bad cat but I can’t find it. Can anyone help?
I read from Alex Berenson that one reason the percentage is off is because of how they define vaccinated and unvaccinated in at least some places. If someone has had one shot or two shots but are still within the two-week window after the second dose, they are counted as unvaccinated. Maybe that's what your thinking of? This comes from his July 12 Substack post called "Vaccines, reasons for concern, part 3."
How did we ever allow such evil, tyrannical, malevolent morons as these to take control of our government? The lunatic fringe who once merely were generously tolerated are now in charge and wreaking havoc on everything we once held dear.
Unfortunately the discourse on natural immunity has now progressed in one of a couple possible directions (pick your favorite flavor):
1. "But what about Delta?!?!"
2. "But your neutralizing antibodies increase if you get vaccinated with one dose after recovery!"
3. "But what about the CDC Kentucky study? It says you're more than twice as likely to be reinfected if you haven't been vaccinated!"
Peer review gets witheld (deliberately?) from the Israel and Cleveland findings while farce after farce regarding masks and viral load is cited by the CDC to back official guidance.
i donot care! i will not carry a vax passport. i will not patronize anyone who requires one, no matter!
My boyfriend is about to lose his job in an isla verde restaurant because he wants no part of this gene therapy dressed up as a vaccine. I haven’t lost my job because I managed to get a doctor’s note, but no less than three HR employees called me and violated every HIPPA law (which is a source of comedy at this point) by trying to dig into my health history or my reasons to not get vaccinated. Still, I wouldn’t be surprised if the company decides to get rid of me, as I’m the only one in the whole department to not get the useless injection. They made the building where I work restricted to “fully vaccinated” and moved me to another “mixed facility”, far from my team. Medical apartheid indeed.
What’s happening all around PR is repulsive, nobody is questioning anything, neither are they well-read or properly informed. Follow the science has simply turned into a game of monkey-see, monkey-do / follow-the-leader and ask no intelligent questions. Most certainly, one must avoid entering into an argument with any of the many mindless drones in the population. Get vaccinated whether you want to or not, data be damned, or get your life turned upside down.
I don’t understand why we’re not screaming our lungs out, clearly declaring “no, we will not comply” in numbers to rival the protests in France. We did it once before to remove an idiot from office, how is this not ten times more important?
That mayor is the single sensible voice speaking against the current tyrannical mandates and in favor of common sense, respect for personal choice and general decency. I’m utterly disappointed and appalled at Puerto Rico’s dispirited response when faced with the very real prospect of living under an authoritarian regime (considering we’re still an effing colony, it shouldn’t be so upsetting to me, and yet it is... I weep for what is to come)
My fear is this is just the tying of a bow on a package decades in the making. Our society's lack of educational standards or critical thinking skills, its elevation of collectivist action and demonization of rebellion against the "common good" is now paying the "dividends" that have ripened into negotiable stupidity.
The good news is that there are a few people who are horrified by all this, but the lockdowns created the perfect kind of isolation that wouldn't allow like-minded people to share information and gain enough strength that way to fight. That's no doubt why they had the quarantines from the start. Divide and conquer.
The media here hasn't been covering the protests much, but they have been getting larger. I found out about the protests through the Facebook group of Coalición Pro Consentimiento Informado y Salud (https://www.facebook.com/cpcispr/), and I know they're planning more. Last Saturday, about 2000 of us marched from el Capitolio to la Fortaleza. (The news apparently said there were only 185.)
I am so sorry to hear about your situation with your boyfriend's job and your own. That is difficult. My husband and I both work from home, so we've been spared some of the difficulties.
Thank you! This is so good to know. They’re doing great of not covering it (just as they did a great job of not covering the disastrous situation with unemployment checks which took a whole year to arrive for everyone I know! But that’s a different -although related- can of worms).
I gotta be honest, for a split second when I turned on the TV on the first day of the Cuban protests I heard "corona" and thought it was lockdown protests in San Juan or something.
No offense intended, El Gato, but Pierluisi has been absolutely banana republic from day one, like Duterte swaggering that the police were going to cap anyone who stepped outside their house. If you had each of them tuck a riding crop under one arm you probably couldn't tell them apart.
he's a horror, like some pastiche of a latin american stongman. the utter police state he inflicted on san juan to mandate curfews and attack a set of (admittedly somewhat rowdy) black tourists coming in in large numbers this year was like nothing i have ever lived through.
la placita felt like a prison tier.
ashford ave had 20 cops on every block, geared up for tactical and menacing everyone. they would swarm you in groups of 10 for not having a mask on outside.
there were motorcycle sweeps and traffic checkpoints.
i have never felt so unsafe in a city, and i've been to some scary places.
he's a cut rate thug and a nasty authoritarian despot putting on airs and feeding cronies.
duerte is a good analogy.
Just reading this together with news ftom Latvia, where they will start vaccinations on public transport.
Starting here in San Francisco now, too. & LA. It's not like this is a concerted attack or anything.
L.A. councilman Mitch O'Farrell says it's "immoral" not to be vaccinated. Science or medicine isn't enough. This is Hegelian.
Of course O'Farrell is a former cruise ship dancer so there is a deep banque of experience in these matters.
I'm trying to figure out how to leave. I realize this won't stop here but getting out of SF would help me mentally.
Hi Mimi, we have like-minded groups here in SF & the Bay Area that get together all the time, if you're interested.
My twitter handle is BuffaloDog2....if you could DM me?
You can always come to Puerto Rico!
All jokes aside, my hope rests on the fact that everything here is done so “manga por hombro” (messily and haphazardly) that nothing will work, none of the advanced digital passes they keep touting will function properly and we’ll basically revert to asking “everyone here’s vaccinated, right?” and life will go on with the same terrible inconveniences we’re used to.
For proof of this, just visit any of our government websites and try filling out a form.
yet bizarrely, they has BS temperature takers at every san juan restaurant and most grocery stores and shops.
and they took your temp every single time.
i could not believe the way PR went in for covid nonsense.
They were incredibly diligent with their “guardias de palito” (for show guards).
I’m always amazed at how PR goes all-in when cooler heads should prevail but not when it matters, such as when the Internet arrived. Businesses treated it as a fad and did not adapt accordingly in a timely matter. I can point specifically to ad agencies as an example, an industry where I spent many years and know most had the wealth and means to do so. A few years later, all were scrambling to create digital departments and quite a number of them lost so much business, they had to close down.
We live in the land of Up is Down.
So why aren't the fine folks of PR out in the streets telling Pierluisi to pack his bags right now? It's not as though Puerto Ricans are averse to a rousing protest from time to time.
My biggest concern after reviewing the graphs that you have created, along with many others on Twitter, is not that masks don't work--you proved that many months ago. I'm concerned that masks aid in the transmission of the virus. You wear a mask, an infected person is talking and gesticulating near you. The particles land on your mask. It's the perfect incubator. Am I the only one seeing this?
Brilliant... Right on... Gracias !
Meanwhile in Illinois vaccine passports tied to our credit score at Experian. Our legislature did not vote on this. They are getting closer to the mark of the beast—where buying and selling is tied to it. https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/pritzker-administration-releases-vax-verify-program-digital-proof-of-covid-vaccine/article_ea5188e6-fac1-11eb-a774-8b184089fb75.amp.html
When weak leaders excuse, rationalize and appease intolerance, mendacity and ignorance they become accepted norms. When those traits become accepted norms, the intolerant, mendacious and ignorant become the new leaders. As leaders, they don’t become more tolerant, less mendacious and more wise.
OT but somewhere I saw an analysis of why the “99% of hospitalizations are the unvaxxed” cannot be true and I think it was the bad cat but I can’t find it. Can anyone help?
I read from Alex Berenson that one reason the percentage is off is because of how they define vaccinated and unvaccinated in at least some places. If someone has had one shot or two shots but are still within the two-week window after the second dose, they are counted as unvaccinated. Maybe that's what your thinking of? This comes from his July 12 Substack post called "Vaccines, reasons for concern, part 3."
I read that one. It’s useful but not the one I was thinking of. I recall it being statistically impossible for 99%
Perhaps is this the article you are looking for?
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/npr-national-propaganda-readers