"Currently, the Department of Health will not be executing this regulation, since it was approved at a time with different historical circumstances to comply with the legislation applicable to administrative regulations,"
It’s hard to believe that these people actually think anyone with ANY sense believes this crock in any country. It makes me sad Puerto Rico is enduring this madness and stupidity.
Not in Spain anymore. At least legally. A lot of people still in love, of course. But only required in hospital and public transportation. Stupid, but less than before
I read the original in Spanish and, frankly, GTrans did a fine work with the nauseating Newspeak. What else can we expect from Dr. Toothless (Mellado), who appeared on TV ads last December basically telling everyone that Christmas was cancelled.
Where was this "oligopoly that runs the island" the last two years?!?
If it takes two years to sort sanity return into global institutions, dictators, and political oligarchs... I'll take it. The coming of age of the internet was never going to be a cake-walk in its Political, Economic, and Social ramifications.
Historical circumstances? Either they printed 2022 by mistake, or they think people are blind, deaf, and stupid. Wow, what a dumb response. But, hey, at least they walked it back. Let Freedom Ring. Good for PR.
Lots of boricuas are holding on to the "masks protect you and me" camp. I've seen photos of friends having family reunions (as recent as Jan 2022) where ALL (even kiddos) are wearing N-95s. And my 3 sisters also believe this crap and continue to wear them in crowded places. I just can't with the covidians.
So if the oligarchs complain the masks go away but the plebes still count for nothing. I’m disgusted by all the images of celebs with no masks and the servant class wearing masks. See the Met Gala, especially the photo of Hillary Clinton and the servant straightening her gown. And the left says nothing.
I am made sick to my stomach for this exact reason every time I enter a restaurant and see the waiters/waitresses masked and the customers breathing free.
Truly the Reptiles running America, and the Formerly Free World have made a successful attempt to reintroduce slavery, throughout their lands.
You have NO RIGHTS, no PROPERTY, and will conveniently croak at 65.
Sigh.
Fight back, people! Demand air, breathing, health, and the right to keep the money you work for and the property you own.
Do your own damn fact-checking; it's worth the trouble! And stop backing candidates with too much money in their pockets and too much grease in their gaze.
You can spot these creeps a mile off once you get the hang of it...
TBH, food preparation people wearing masks are ok with me. And it's nothing to do with convid. In Japan, chefs and food prep people have always worn masks. I find the notion of snot free food appealing.
Its almost like America has been down this road before, I think it starts something like this:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
All those brave marchers for BLM but this guy couldn't stand up in front of the cameras and say "No, I am not your servant," in the certainty that the SJWs would have his back? Quelle surprise...
That picture was disgusting! Do they realize how it looks, and they're happy to be seen as privileged royalty? Or are they just so blind to their own arrogance that they don't get how it is perceived?
Hillary hasn't achieved one thing on her own, ever. She's our poster girl for women riding the coattails of men. Has not one principle she'd stand on (other than "always get your cut").
It's the grubbiest ones who cannot understand that courtesy to all is the mark of quality...
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
So true. Obviously this has been always the case, but never would I have expected how this would play out when you add world-wide fear to the equation. As others have pointed out many times, we saw this over and over and over. People love telling others what to do when they think they have the moral high ground. Never in my life time would I have expected to see the anger and rage directed towards the unmasked and unvaccinated that we saw.
This is the kind of uproar I was waiting for in the early fall of 2020 when all the big corporations imposed mandates. But no... people droned into WalMart from their car with covered faces like good boys and girls (I did not, and still got in no problem). Perhaps it's a positive that the mask thing was overplayed everywhere to the point where people will never tolerate it again.
I don't wear it. I even stopped wearing masks in airports for the past year or so, and did so with impunity. No one said a thing, not even in communist Boston's Logan Airport.
But when I've *had* to (on airplanes, for example), the only two I ever wore were MY GOVERNOR IS AN IDIOT and THIS IS DUMB.
The alacrity with which most of the population masked up in 2020 must have given some people a taste of power they are reluctant to relinquish. Because if you are honestly interested in whether masks stop the virus, and look at the evidence, you must admit they don’t. It must be intoxicating to tell people what to do and see them comply. What they don’t realize is that the driver was fear, and not their own high holiness. Fear has a fatigue factor. Two years is long enough to figure out for most of us, this virus isn’t deadly. We’re done.
I was dismayed with your previous post and thoughtfully considered inviting you to stay with us in Texas. This brightened my weekend and delighted my chubby little gato, Toula. Before anyone chastises me for fat shaming, Toula actually prefers the moniker Two Ton Toula. Have a great weekend Gato!
O let’s not even go to that place of fat shaming and telling people it’s perfectly healthy to weigh 1/4 of a ton, speaking as someone who struggles with weight.
“in addition, to be judicious and determine not to participate in any activity or conduct that they understand, could put your health at risk,”
Great. I’ve judiciously determined that taking an mRNA vaccine fits this definition beautifully. So I will not be participating. Thanks for your permission to have my life back. Now give it.
Like we've been saying the whole time: the only way forward is mass non-compliance. And you're right, kitty, there's zero chance is was a 'mistake'. This is them walking back a policy because upholding it would be politically devastating.
It is remarkable how potent a symbol/crutch that masking has become. It is reminiscent of the burqa under the taliban. Expression of emotion via the lower face has become subject to censorship.
‘… to be judicious and determine not to participate in any activity or conduct that they understand, could put your health at risk…’
So that’s the following off my list: skiing, horse riding, sailing, pot holing, surfing, cycling, mountaineering, abseiling, driving, football, walking, home decorating, swimming… in fact everything.
This is exactly what will happen when 'the public' in charge of your healthcare. "You don't have the right to endanger yourself and threaten my money."
Thus it is in the UK with the State National Health Service - which is a sacred cow and must be adored and worshipped. During the Panicdemic, lockdown was ‘to save the NHS’.
We now have a Health Security Agency - what?
Being ‘obese’ (everyone is apparently who doesn’t look like Gandi, because it’s on the crisis list) is a ‘burden’ on the NHS, along with drinking, smoking so we must all change our lifestyles to serve the State institution rather than it change to serve us. There is serious discussion that burdensome people should not get treatment and drying the Panicdemic, the unvaxxed should be denied treatment if the contracted CoVid.
We have a sugar tax on fizzy drinks, food manufacturers have been given a calorie count to observe so pizza, sandwiches, ready leaks must not exceed these, for example, also manufacturers must reduce salt and sugar content in confectionary. It’s all to save us from ourselves and to save the NHS.
Currently there are 6 million people on the waiting list for our glorious, ‘free’ NHS.
"Currently, the Department of Health will not be executing this regulation, since it was approved at a time with different historical circumstances to comply with the legislation applicable to administrative regulations,"
What word salad is this? Who are these people?
to be fair, it's a google translation from spanish, but yeah, the "wow, a week ago was nothing like today!" claim is not terribly compelling.
It’s hard to believe that these people actually think anyone with ANY sense believes this crock in any country. It makes me sad Puerto Rico is enduring this madness and stupidity.
Incidentally, Spain is still deep in its romance with masks. Them and Portugal. The last places in Europe.
Quebec just dropped it's mask mandate. Lots of people all over Canada still wear them, even alone in cars.
Not in Spain anymore. At least legally. A lot of people still in love, of course. But only required in hospital and public transportation. Stupid, but less than before
I read the original in Spanish and, frankly, GTrans did a fine work with the nauseating Newspeak. What else can we expect from Dr. Toothless (Mellado), who appeared on TV ads last December basically telling everyone that Christmas was cancelled.
They walked it back because nobody will put up with this bullshit any more. Politicians are whores who smell the wind for the current trend.
Where was this "oligopoly that runs the island" the last two years?!?
If it takes two years to sort sanity return into global institutions, dictators, and political oligarchs... I'll take it. The coming of age of the internet was never going to be a cake-walk in its Political, Economic, and Social ramifications.
Historical circumstances? Either they printed 2022 by mistake, or they think people are blind, deaf, and stupid. Wow, what a dumb response. But, hey, at least they walked it back. Let Freedom Ring. Good for PR.
I think they’re just allergic to admitting being wrong and will do whatever they can to avoid it, even if they sound stupid 😀
Lots of boricuas are holding on to the "masks protect you and me" camp. I've seen photos of friends having family reunions (as recent as Jan 2022) where ALL (even kiddos) are wearing N-95s. And my 3 sisters also believe this crap and continue to wear them in crowded places. I just can't with the covidians.
Word salad!! 🤣😂🤣😂 hilarious!! I thought the same thing!!!!
Chief Administrator of the Administrative Affairs Administration.
Word salad 😂
So if the oligarchs complain the masks go away but the plebes still count for nothing. I’m disgusted by all the images of celebs with no masks and the servant class wearing masks. See the Met Gala, especially the photo of Hillary Clinton and the servant straightening her gown. And the left says nothing.
All the animals are equal but some are more equal.
Sounds like “Animal Farm”. That used to be required reading in high school.
Yes, just re-read it. Making people read it didn't seem to make them more independent minded...
Indeed.
I recently came to the realisation that the phrase, "Those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it", needs to thrown in the garbage can.
LOL that was literally the caption I used when I posted the AOC dress pic.
"some" being the pigs...
It is truly disgusting!!
I am made sick to my stomach for this exact reason every time I enter a restaurant and see the waiters/waitresses masked and the customers breathing free.
Truly the Reptiles running America, and the Formerly Free World have made a successful attempt to reintroduce slavery, throughout their lands.
You have NO RIGHTS, no PROPERTY, and will conveniently croak at 65.
Sigh.
Fight back, people! Demand air, breathing, health, and the right to keep the money you work for and the property you own.
Do your own damn fact-checking; it's worth the trouble! And stop backing candidates with too much money in their pockets and too much grease in their gaze.
You can spot these creeps a mile off once you get the hang of it...
; ))
Agreed. It’s horrifying to see the celeb/politicrat class being served by mask wearing people. Shocking to me.
TBH, food preparation people wearing masks are ok with me. And it's nothing to do with convid. In Japan, chefs and food prep people have always worn masks. I find the notion of snot free food appealing.
What do you say to the proprietors when you see it?
Its almost like America has been down this road before, I think it starts something like this:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
One small issue- then those bonds were with a dictator on the other side of the ocean and there were no airplanes!
Golden.
All those brave marchers for BLM but this guy couldn't stand up in front of the cameras and say "No, I am not your servant," in the certainty that the SJWs would have his back? Quelle surprise...
Yes!! Such a great point!
That picture was disgusting! Do they realize how it looks, and they're happy to be seen as privileged royalty? Or are they just so blind to their own arrogance that they don't get how it is perceived?
Hillary hasn't achieved one thing on her own, ever. She's our poster girl for women riding the coattails of men. Has not one principle she'd stand on (other than "always get your cut").
It's the grubbiest ones who cannot understand that courtesy to all is the mark of quality...
Because it’s the Left that wants it that way. Note at Republican gatherings no one is masked. At Democrat gatherings only the ‘help’ is masked.
It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
So true. Obviously this has been always the case, but never would I have expected how this would play out when you add world-wide fear to the equation. As others have pointed out many times, we saw this over and over and over. People love telling others what to do when they think they have the moral high ground. Never in my life time would I have expected to see the anger and rage directed towards the unmasked and unvaccinated that we saw.
Thank you Yuri; sobering words
This is the kind of uproar I was waiting for in the early fall of 2020 when all the big corporations imposed mandates. But no... people droned into WalMart from their car with covered faces like good boys and girls (I did not, and still got in no problem). Perhaps it's a positive that the mask thing was overplayed everywhere to the point where people will never tolerate it again.
Good. So I can stop looking at properties in Florida. For now.
As my mask says, however, MY GOVERNOR IS [STILL] AN IDIOT.
A better message would be not to wear it in the first place.
I don't wear it. I even stopped wearing masks in airports for the past year or so, and did so with impunity. No one said a thing, not even in communist Boston's Logan Airport.
But when I've *had* to (on airplanes, for example), the only two I ever wore were MY GOVERNOR IS AN IDIOT and THIS IS DUMB.
I’m surprised they didn’t kick you off the plane for wearing that like they did to the guy with an anti-JoeB t-shirt.
The alacrity with which most of the population masked up in 2020 must have given some people a taste of power they are reluctant to relinquish. Because if you are honestly interested in whether masks stop the virus, and look at the evidence, you must admit they don’t. It must be intoxicating to tell people what to do and see them comply. What they don’t realize is that the driver was fear, and not their own high holiness. Fear has a fatigue factor. Two years is long enough to figure out for most of us, this virus isn’t deadly. We’re done.
It must be intoxicating to tell people what to do and see them comply.
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“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“
Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said.
“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?"
I come for the science and commentary and stay for the memes. That little clip at the end just made my day.
I was dismayed with your previous post and thoughtfully considered inviting you to stay with us in Texas. This brightened my weekend and delighted my chubby little gato, Toula. Before anyone chastises me for fat shaming, Toula actually prefers the moniker Two Ton Toula. Have a great weekend Gato!
O let’s not even go to that place of fat shaming and telling people it’s perfectly healthy to weigh 1/4 of a ton, speaking as someone who struggles with weight.
Two Ton Toula! That's a cute name.
“in addition, to be judicious and determine not to participate in any activity or conduct that they understand, could put your health at risk,”
Great. I’ve judiciously determined that taking an mRNA vaccine fits this definition beautifully. So I will not be participating. Thanks for your permission to have my life back. Now give it.
Carlos Lopez. Just another Health "Expert" with man boobs and a BMI over 50.
Like we've been saying the whole time: the only way forward is mass non-compliance. And you're right, kitty, there's zero chance is was a 'mistake'. This is them walking back a policy because upholding it would be politically devastating.
It is remarkable how potent a symbol/crutch that masking has become. It is reminiscent of the burqa under the taliban. Expression of emotion via the lower face has become subject to censorship.
I just got done reading your masks are back essay, and then was delighted to read this follow up.
Philadelphia tried to bring masks back but it only lasted 4 days before they reversed it. We must keep pushing back!
‘… to be judicious and determine not to participate in any activity or conduct that they understand, could put your health at risk…’
So that’s the following off my list: skiing, horse riding, sailing, pot holing, surfing, cycling, mountaineering, abseiling, driving, football, walking, home decorating, swimming… in fact everything.
This is exactly what will happen when 'the public' in charge of your healthcare. "You don't have the right to endanger yourself and threaten my money."
Thus it is in the UK with the State National Health Service - which is a sacred cow and must be adored and worshipped. During the Panicdemic, lockdown was ‘to save the NHS’.
We now have a Health Security Agency - what?
Being ‘obese’ (everyone is apparently who doesn’t look like Gandi, because it’s on the crisis list) is a ‘burden’ on the NHS, along with drinking, smoking so we must all change our lifestyles to serve the State institution rather than it change to serve us. There is serious discussion that burdensome people should not get treatment and drying the Panicdemic, the unvaxxed should be denied treatment if the contracted CoVid.
We have a sugar tax on fizzy drinks, food manufacturers have been given a calorie count to observe so pizza, sandwiches, ready leaks must not exceed these, for example, also manufacturers must reduce salt and sugar content in confectionary. It’s all to save us from ourselves and to save the NHS.
Currently there are 6 million people on the waiting list for our glorious, ‘free’ NHS.
Wearing a mask long term will kill you. 100% proven science..
Very Nice
Great Success
So now we have Tanzania and Puerto Rico telling the tyrants to screw.
It's a start.
if they had stood by their stupid mask bs whats to stop a person cutting a large breathing hole in a mask, you are still wearing one?
make a mockery out of the rules, put gloves on when being asked to hand sanitize!