The irony is that covidianism (along with Marxism, communism, wokeism, transhumanism and many other ideologies and beliefs) are the product of Satanism - i.e. witches. The witch burners understood very well the dangers that witches presented to society, which is why they burned them.
Could you send me any data or resources on that? I’m a US airline pilot, and that is not a rule here. They’re trying to pretend the vaccines are still ‘safe and effective’
Ah I see. They sent that letter, which is a great letter, to the FAA, the companies, and the unions. Every single one of them chose to ignore that letter. We are all flying together, with no thought to who is vaxxed, unvaxxed, or which vax.
The war is getting boring now not enough death to cover. Now the new distraction caused by a leak and made it right for every left wingnut to protest by burning and destroying. The biggest will come after they release the final verdict. Do it during the election and give the wingnut crowd something shiny to distract them. Then they might forget to cast the 122 ballots they have signed up for.
Yeah My sister jumped from Covid to Ukraine memes and now the abortion outrage. I finally told her I was pro-life. I’ll probably never hear from her again.
In the pretty, ultraliberal town of Mendocino on the coast of Northern California, an older gentleman (read that, former hippy) made the news a month or so ago by putting up massive blue and yellow banners everywhere for people to see, so that everyone would be constantly reminded of Ukraine. He said in his interview that he'd asked himself, "What can one man do to make a difference". This was his answer. The news articles without exception gushed with syrupy praise, there was mention of tear-filled eyes, and we were told that "everyone was so happy about this", "we could all get behind it", etc., etc.. Virtue signaling on a grand scale. Cynical as ever, I threw up a little in my mouth. If anyone else besides me was disgusted by this egregious display, I'll never know.
Do none of these virtue signalers understand anything about history? The US used a former part of the USSR to pimp Putin and attack his Russian speaking cousins. The US supported real nasty Militias that killed people in the provinces adjacent to Russia who speak Russian and voted for the pro-Russian candidate to have the election stolen from them. Do you know the difference between a Bio-Weapons lab and a Bio-Weapons Defense lab? There is none. Did you know that Ukraine is where US and Ukrainian oligarchs have stolen American taxpayer money since the fall of the USSR? Do you know that the Ukrainian people are just the pawns of American Defense Contractors who after the inevitable truce where Putin wins will "rebuild" Ukraine with our money except that most of it will be diverted? So go morons, fly the yellow and blue and get even more poor Ukrainians killed before the peace agreement. Disgusting.
That's the Russian propaganda line. We're all familiar with the NATO propaganda line obviously. It's all BS - all sides of it - the leaders of Russia/NATO/Ukraine - they're all corrupt, power hungry, evil SOBs.
In this case I strongly suspect the whole thing is Great Reset part II and has been carefully precipitated at the right time by the selfsame power mad psychos who coordinated the covid psyop.
I just watched it. Rings absolutely true. Information in US Government is highly compartmentalized so the morons who represent us in UN or the mouthpieces for Dementia Joe just say what they are told to say. They never, ever ask any questions (or look at a video like the one above) or they are cancelled or blackmailed or killed by the CIA. Yes, Russia has chemical and bio weapons as we do but they are on Russian soil - awful but that's the way the game is played. Obama and Biden and who knows who else including many RINOs have made enormous amounts of money in and from Ukraine. Biden has been told to protect the investment. A few tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians killed are just the cost of doing business.
Here is another film I wish everyone would watch, and of course, even though it is by Oliver Stone, it's dismissed as Russian propaganda. Obama, Nuland and HRC orchestrated a massacre. They are murderers, and here is the proof. I saw it on Rumble - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_on_Fire
I talked to a woman the other day who had just moved here and she was complaining that it was too conservative for her. Turns out, she was from Portland. Which explains everything.
I'm really sad about Portland, I used to love that town. My mother and favorite aunt and uncle lived across the bridge in Vancouver, WA, so I knew Portland well, back in the day. Wonderful bookstores (omg, Powells!), restaurants, coffee houses, a great walking town...my genius uncle designed the MAX, Portland's light rail system, it was his baby. I have to say I'm glad my dear folks aren't alive to see what has happened - if they weren't all dead it would kill them. As for her comment - wow. Now, if you had actually used the word "Mendocino" in the same sentence as "conservative" - well, it would be a first. Fort Bragg, just a little to the north, is a little more balanced, not quite so many elitist lefties, more working class folks. But you've probably found that out already. On the other hand, you do have Fiddleheads Restaurant, which rose to national fame during lockdown by charging customers $5 extra if they wore a mask. Love those folks!
That is so sad. I am embarrassed that Portland is my home town. We almost moved back there last century (sounds so dramatic that way). Very glad we did not.
Preferred? You bigot. It's human rights to _make_ people around you to help you extend children's pretend play into adulthood! Anyone noncompliant is obviously a human rights violator.
I'd say first that the class of person who'd prefer to cut his meat (or his tofu) with a butter knife because sharp things are scary should be purposefully caned every time he uses the term PTSD. This is what comes of deriding masculinity for two generations
I think actually that daycare is the abomination that largely brought us here. Regimented early childhood. Playtime in rigidly segmented--uh--blocks. Beating spontaneity out of children with no-sharp-edges foam bats.
And here we are. Everyone has learned to line up nicely for potty time.
As someone who grew up in a nation with (then) only state/local council run kindergartens with a national curriculum, I can attest to the truth of your words. The older keepers, and the very few men working there followed very basic principles, same as when parenting: no fighting, no bullying, and the kids should be kept reasonably clean and fed and in the same general shape as when dropped off by the parents.
The younger ones, who had been through state run education for kindergarten teachers (then it was two years add-on after compulsory school, meaning you could start such a job at age 18) only allowed regimented "play" as decide by schedule. "1400 to 1500, red group sandbox, blue group tricycles, green group shop room" and so on. Didactic. Pedadgogical and politically correct (marxist, what else?). Today, the "education" for kindergarten "teachers" is five years at college, meaning that the youngest are about 25 when they start working, with a student debt of $45 000 eq. In general, it takes about 40 years to pay that off on a kindergarten "teacher"'s pay. If they work full time, which they almost always opt not to do, instead blaming 'the patriarchy' for them not earning the same as real teacher with a couple of university degrees... and even higher student debt. :(
Anyone requiring education to care for children should not be allowed to care for children, I've said for twenty five years and I'll stand by that until I turn to stone.
Example: children at school or kindergarten may not climb trees. Trees are not EU-sanctioned playground equipment, thus voiding the school's insurance for injuries.
Meanwhile, me and my friends made home-made explosives with electrical triggers at age 12, could bring bikes and mopeds to school for shop class, and could start working at age 13, school permitting.
And since grandma and grandpa helped raise me, they thought it perfectly normal that half a dozen kids age 7 to 12 roamed the forest for the entre day. A forest with moose, bears, wolves, badgers, foxes, ravens, sinkholes, pitfalls, deadwood (trees felled by wind), and playing all kinds of games with home-made bows, spears and such.
Guess that would be child abuse today. Poor kids, all they get is an electrical pacifier saying "Well done!" when they touch it right.
I was so fortunate that even my lower-middle-class family had the custom in my youngest years of going to the "bungalow colonies" in the summers. The dads stayed in the city working all week and came up on weekends. Blessed break for everyone, really. I was probably four or so when we were trying to pick blueberries before the cows ate all of 'em. (Cows' mouths are huge!)
Those bungalow colonies in the beautiful Catskill Mountains eventually went bankrupt or were sold off. (A few might remain for ultra-Orthodox Jews.)
We used to go down to this wild creek in winter during a thaw and play around this huge culvert rushing water and ice flo thru to the big river. Such fun! I don’t even remember mom ever saying be careful. Of course she probably thought we were down at the barn. Now I think—yikes!!!
Great story - reminds me of my childhood playing cowboys and indians in the woods all day, climbing old apple trees, and jumping across creeks. Mom used a whistle to call us in for dinner. We built a 2' high log cabin in 6th grade, skinning the logs and notching them. We had archery lessons in 10th grade. We played DODGE BALL in elementary school - heaven forbid!
There is definitely something to this idea. I read the continuum concept as a new mom and it changed my life forever. My kids are still not as autonomous as I was growing up, but I’m doing my best to buck the wrongheaded trend. Highly recommended read for anyone with a curious mind, not just parents.
Many post-WWII planned urban neighborhoods included plenty of "sitting areas" for the older near playgrounds for the young, and it was normal and accepted for little kids to ask any grownup "can you cross me please" even with traffic signals because we were sternly told not to do it ourselves. Now there are just places where lots of strangers live. That's made a big difference in how even not-overly-crazy parents regard the safety of their communities. With even grandmas working salaried jobs these days, many fewer eyes on the kids in general.
Thanks for this insight! It’s really unfortunate and I’m hearing this same idea from multiple people including our esteemed host in one of his best (to me) essays. I found parenting in America more oppressive than in the Netherlands so we came back after a three year sampling. One major advantage is that at age 8 or so kids can be super independent on their bikes and safe bike paths while my mom had to chauffeur me around for years.... they could definitely use more outdoor unsupervised play than they get though, I blame technology for that. I try, but it’s hard to avoid it.
I was 8 yrs. old 64 yrs. ago. We ran all over the neighborhood, including "woods" and construction sites, all day, and my mother and the mother of my best friend were the real anxious types. By the time I had a kid 32 yrs ago, I'd never have allowed that level of unsupervised play. I was raising a child in an era that saw kids snatched from their own bedrooms and murdered or held captive. Changes one's viewpoints a lot.
While I can’t take the time just now to give you a source, I looked into this some 10 years back and found that the safety of communities hadn’t changed a whit — it was the attitudes of parents that gave rise to our hyper vigilant status. Think about how “parenting” (how I hate that word, and all the other nouns turned into verbs against their will) has changed over our lifetimes (I’m 70) — our parents operated under the principle of benevolent neglect, believing that children needed to learn to be independent and to deal with the consequences of their decisions at a time when the worst of it might be a skinned knee or a broken window. Now we’re at some hyper-protective version of child-rearing that extends into adulthood. It’s no longer the college student who negotiates a disagreement with a professor, it’s the student’s parent (typically the mother).
All of which is a long way of getting to my opinion that a return to benevolent neglect would go a long way towards raising a competent, confident next generation, at no more risk to the child’s safety than there was when we grew up.
Maybe depends where you live. I can assure you that the boroughs of NYC of my childhood were considerably safer than they were in the '70s (I'm 72) and they're going back to the worst of times. My grandma's neighborhood in the Bronx was gorgeous and she was a poor woman. We used to hang out on the fire escapes in the summer and didn't fear stray gunshots.
Same here. I am almost 80. My running buddy and I rode our bikes all over town at 8, 9, 10 years old. Fished in Mr. Judd's lake and the local creek. We were allowed to stay out until the First Methodist Church chimes rang at 6:00 pm. We couldn't give our children the same freedom. Things have changed.
Good point SCA. I recently moved to a "bad" neighborhood and I've noticed more unsupervised children than in other areas. This area feels like a community: we chat on the street, join neighbours out front for a cold one on hot nights, and scold anyone not picking up after their dog. I actually know many of my nieghbours by name! I didn't know any of my neighbours when I lived in upper class suburbia. I suspect that the sense of community is much better in poorer areas (not ghetto gangland, but poor folks like: some subsidized housing, some retirees, some working class folks, some bikers keeping the riff-raff out), and that influences how safe parents feel when letting their children wander a bit. I feel safer walking my dog in this area late at night than I ever did in suburbia.
I actually hated living in upper class American suburbia. Our rich neighbors weren't that nice if we ever saw them after ferrying their children all over town for over scheduled activities to get them on the ladder to "success." So when we moved back to the Netherlands we choose to live in a nice house in a mixed neighborhood instead of one exclusively available to others in the upper end of our budget. it was a good choice. Urban planning is really key in creating the communities we want to live in. That's my lived experience and is reflected in SCA's comment above. I'm of two minds about crime and anxiety though. I tend to believe that crime data paints a different picture than the media dose, but I would never invalidate someone's personal experience. I am all about allowing people to determine their own risk tolerance. The Dutch have been historically quite risk tolerant--they don't wear bike helmets for example. But if an expat family wants to continue their American practices, have at it. I won't laugh at you to your face. But don't go trying to enact laws making other people live with your media-hyped neuroses.
What a great dog video that is - you have to watch closely for him to descend the ramp under the sheep - after mission accomplished. Dogs, if I may say so, are "under served" at this site - Be That Dog!
I used to love watching the sheepdog trials on UK TV whenever I visited, and discovering, once I'd gotten cable here, that they are broadcast everywhere was a happy happy moment...
I have friends here who raise pedigreed Border Collies and take them to trials all over the the western U.S. and Canada (yes, they have quite a large flock for training purposes). Watching those dogs in action is spellbinding. I've seen it in Wales, that was fun, too, but not the same as when it's in your backyard and you know the dogs.
I think a lot of the "experts" started out as 50% worried, 50% cynical. As they became more famous and accreted power, they became 90% cynical. But as they kept on lying and lying, they started to believe their own lies. Now they are 100% out of touch with reality (technically, "crazy")
I flew in July of 2020 with my grandson. Amazingly enough, neither of us caught Covid or died. We didn’t get Covid until January 2022, we both survived. 😆
And what about the "safe and effective" shots and "masks"? I'm sure he's taken all of his"boosters" and wears his face diaper religiously. If all of that works, one would think he has nothing to worry about. Good grief! 😳🙄
That sheepdog is a rockstar! My kids loved that video!
I actually love that you posted this on Mother’s Day - it was yet another great reminder to keep on with the hard but immensely important work of raising my kids to be bold, think critically, and love well. IMHO one of the biggest reasons the sheep these days are so scared is because they don’t have authentic, secure relationships...thanks for coming to my TedTalk. 🤣
Another nail on the head comment, another connection to the most formative parenting book I ever read: the continuum concept. I was so excited when we watched that Netflix docu about Jane Goodall and she basically said she observed the same thing among chimpanzees. Keep up the good work mama and happy Mother’s Day! Thread by thread we are weaving inspiring tapestries. High five ✋🏼
After the "2 weeks to slow the spread", I've pretty much said every day that I trust gas station sushi more than I trust anyone in the medical community.
Funny, when masks first came to be recommended I was at the all-essential adult beverage store and the burly gentleman in front of me was giving the cashier grief for wearing a mask and someone said something about Fauci and the Locksmith I believe he was / is says don't give me that BS I know all about that guy. Go search him on Youtube. And I did . . .
I would never have guessed prior to 2020 the number of people in epidemiology and the health field in general that were closet hypochondriacs. What a wonderful feeling it must have been for them to finally be able to come out as their true selves and be praised for it.
And then here's me, whose recent health knowledge was gleaned off the internet from a bad cat and a gummibear (just to name two), running around since May of 2020 without a mask and not being concerned about being shoulder to shoulder with people. How am I still alive?
As a scientific discipline epidemiology is useless. Until COVID came around these people had no purpose. There's no way they're giving it up easily now.
Last time I looked, medical “error” was the third leading cause of death in the US. Also good to keep in mind is that 49% of doctors graduated in the bottom of their class.
Me too, Mary. I lost all faith with them years ago. The best doctor I ever knew was my dearest friend, and she died from breast cancer. Today I see my doctors in order to 1) get a diagnosis, which I know may or may not be accurate. I will then decide how to proceed. 2) Have imaging or surgery done 3) Get a referral to a specialist. I consider putting my health (and trust) completely into their hands to be folly.
Love your articles - so full of wit and sarcasm. Kabuki theater is a perfect term for all this nonsense. Here in NY people are very much attached to their masks. I guess they really don't want to go through mask separation syndrome, that's why they keep wearing them.
Arguments from authority tend to fail when the supposed authorities lack auctoritas. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, lest you realize what a deeply unimpressive man he really is.
I’m not afraid of the air on planes, rather I’m afraid of flying on an aircraft flown by jabbed pilots + copilots.
Hurry and get this news to Spellberg so that he will know to stay secluded and not pop his head back up unitl told it is safe!
Don't worry. Airline rules state that the Pilot and Co-Pilot must have had different jabs.
I think.
Incidentally, it’s against FAA regulations for a pilot to take any experimental medication. 😳
That didn't stop them from forcing them to. Insanely irresponsible. That rule is there for a reason
Covididians have cleared up one long-standing logic problem I never could solve:
Witch Burning.
How could human beings do something so cruel, so lunatic?
Now, sadly, I know.....
Give people enough power & enough fear and ANYTHING is possible.
The irony is that covidianism (along with Marxism, communism, wokeism, transhumanism and many other ideologies and beliefs) are the product of Satanism - i.e. witches. The witch burners understood very well the dangers that witches presented to society, which is why they burned them.
Except their testing was less reliable than a PCR.
It’s not an experiment, it’s a safe and effective vaccine with well designed, long term clinical trials…just ask Pfizer!
In the UK they require one pilot to be not jabbed.
Could you send me any data or resources on that? I’m a US airline pilot, and that is not a rule here. They’re trying to pretend the vaccines are still ‘safe and effective’
False.
Not where I work. Got any resource on this?
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-letter-to-faa-warns-that-federal-law-prohibits-commercial-pilots-from-flying-after-taking-experimental-shots#toggle-gdpr
Ah I see. They sent that letter, which is a great letter, to the FAA, the companies, and the unions. Every single one of them chose to ignore that letter. We are all flying together, with no thought to who is vaxxed, unvaxxed, or which vax.
Hope there is no plane crash, but that warning letter to FAA will be court evidence if there is.
Exactly right. They knew.
Phew, THATs a relief
How i knew the experts were wrong:
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/how-i-knew-the-scamdemic-experts?s=w
The war is getting boring now not enough death to cover. Now the new distraction caused by a leak and made it right for every left wingnut to protest by burning and destroying. The biggest will come after they release the final verdict. Do it during the election and give the wingnut crowd something shiny to distract them. Then they might forget to cast the 122 ballots they have signed up for.
They were talking?
More of us are unvaxxed than you think. The media got this one wrong. Only United mandated it and that doesn't even apply anymore.
yes.
me too
This really concerns me as well.
Even unjabbed pilots should be always your biggest concern. The longer they touch nothing the better!
How can he possibly be a twitter expert? He doesn’t show a Ukraine flag 🇺🇦.
Best memes on the net EGM. Bravo.
Is the Ukraine flag still a thingy? I thought abortion is the thingy now.
Yeah My sister jumped from Covid to Ukraine memes and now the abortion outrage. I finally told her I was pro-life. I’ll probably never hear from her again.
These days I'm guessing to sport a Ukrainian flag means you're a bubble head of some kind. Well, at least in media.
In the pretty, ultraliberal town of Mendocino on the coast of Northern California, an older gentleman (read that, former hippy) made the news a month or so ago by putting up massive blue and yellow banners everywhere for people to see, so that everyone would be constantly reminded of Ukraine. He said in his interview that he'd asked himself, "What can one man do to make a difference". This was his answer. The news articles without exception gushed with syrupy praise, there was mention of tear-filled eyes, and we were told that "everyone was so happy about this", "we could all get behind it", etc., etc.. Virtue signaling on a grand scale. Cynical as ever, I threw up a little in my mouth. If anyone else besides me was disgusted by this egregious display, I'll never know.
Bet they're all made of nylon canvas...or cotton farmed in Xinjiang...
And half of them have probably blown into the ocean where they'll kill several dozen whales.
Or they'll just form polyamorous domestic partnerships with a bushel or so of masks each, and build colorful new archipelagos.
Ah, you've been here.
There's little doubt.
Do none of these virtue signalers understand anything about history? The US used a former part of the USSR to pimp Putin and attack his Russian speaking cousins. The US supported real nasty Militias that killed people in the provinces adjacent to Russia who speak Russian and voted for the pro-Russian candidate to have the election stolen from them. Do you know the difference between a Bio-Weapons lab and a Bio-Weapons Defense lab? There is none. Did you know that Ukraine is where US and Ukrainian oligarchs have stolen American taxpayer money since the fall of the USSR? Do you know that the Ukrainian people are just the pawns of American Defense Contractors who after the inevitable truce where Putin wins will "rebuild" Ukraine with our money except that most of it will be diverted? So go morons, fly the yellow and blue and get even more poor Ukrainians killed before the peace agreement. Disgusting.
That's the Russian propaganda line. We're all familiar with the NATO propaganda line obviously. It's all BS - all sides of it - the leaders of Russia/NATO/Ukraine - they're all corrupt, power hungry, evil SOBs.
In this case I strongly suspect the whole thing is Great Reset part II and has been carefully precipitated at the right time by the selfsame power mad psychos who coordinated the covid psyop.
Facilitated by President Sippy Cup, who would hurl us into nuclear war rather than have his family's nefarious doings in Ukraine be exposed.
Excellent post, thank you. Have you seen this video? Posted on this thread earlier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvhbFoUe4ZM&ab_channel=TheTruthFactory
I just watched it. Rings absolutely true. Information in US Government is highly compartmentalized so the morons who represent us in UN or the mouthpieces for Dementia Joe just say what they are told to say. They never, ever ask any questions (or look at a video like the one above) or they are cancelled or blackmailed or killed by the CIA. Yes, Russia has chemical and bio weapons as we do but they are on Russian soil - awful but that's the way the game is played. Obama and Biden and who knows who else including many RINOs have made enormous amounts of money in and from Ukraine. Biden has been told to protect the investment. A few tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainians killed are just the cost of doing business.
Here is another film I wish everyone would watch, and of course, even though it is by Oliver Stone, it's dismissed as Russian propaganda. Obama, Nuland and HRC orchestrated a massacre. They are murderers, and here is the proof. I saw it on Rumble - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_on_Fire
I just moved to Mendocino county two years ago and it's even crazier than where I used to live in Monterey county.
Welcome to Wokeville, neighbor! We're trying like hell to GTFO.
I talked to a woman the other day who had just moved here and she was complaining that it was too conservative for her. Turns out, she was from Portland. Which explains everything.
I'm really sad about Portland, I used to love that town. My mother and favorite aunt and uncle lived across the bridge in Vancouver, WA, so I knew Portland well, back in the day. Wonderful bookstores (omg, Powells!), restaurants, coffee houses, a great walking town...my genius uncle designed the MAX, Portland's light rail system, it was his baby. I have to say I'm glad my dear folks aren't alive to see what has happened - if they weren't all dead it would kill them. As for her comment - wow. Now, if you had actually used the word "Mendocino" in the same sentence as "conservative" - well, it would be a first. Fort Bragg, just a little to the north, is a little more balanced, not quite so many elitist lefties, more working class folks. But you've probably found that out already. On the other hand, you do have Fiddleheads Restaurant, which rose to national fame during lockdown by charging customers $5 extra if they wore a mask. Love those folks!
That is so sad. I am embarrassed that Portland is my home town. We almost moved back there last century (sounds so dramatic that way). Very glad we did not.
Ah 😄😂😉
That's too bad. Both areas are so beautiful. I suppose it was inevitable for the insanity to spread out, seems to be contagious.
The California school systems are to blame.
Indeed!
Remember #givebackourgirls ?
That lasted five minutes...
(And to drift completely off-topic: Imagine how the parents of African schoolchildren would describe appropriate hair grooming...)
Ýep. Five cringe-worthy minutes...
He needs to wake up and smell the damned sunflowers!
Nor his preferred pronouns 🤪
Preferred? You bigot. It's human rights to _make_ people around you to help you extend children's pretend play into adulthood! Anyone noncompliant is obviously a human rights violator.
What a fool not to support The Latest Thing (TM).
I'd say first that the class of person who'd prefer to cut his meat (or his tofu) with a butter knife because sharp things are scary should be purposefully caned every time he uses the term PTSD. This is what comes of deriding masculinity for two generations
I think actually that daycare is the abomination that largely brought us here. Regimented early childhood. Playtime in rigidly segmented--uh--blocks. Beating spontaneity out of children with no-sharp-edges foam bats.
And here we are. Everyone has learned to line up nicely for potty time.
As someone who grew up in a nation with (then) only state/local council run kindergartens with a national curriculum, I can attest to the truth of your words. The older keepers, and the very few men working there followed very basic principles, same as when parenting: no fighting, no bullying, and the kids should be kept reasonably clean and fed and in the same general shape as when dropped off by the parents.
The younger ones, who had been through state run education for kindergarten teachers (then it was two years add-on after compulsory school, meaning you could start such a job at age 18) only allowed regimented "play" as decide by schedule. "1400 to 1500, red group sandbox, blue group tricycles, green group shop room" and so on. Didactic. Pedadgogical and politically correct (marxist, what else?). Today, the "education" for kindergarten "teachers" is five years at college, meaning that the youngest are about 25 when they start working, with a student debt of $45 000 eq. In general, it takes about 40 years to pay that off on a kindergarten "teacher"'s pay. If they work full time, which they almost always opt not to do, instead blaming 'the patriarchy' for them not earning the same as real teacher with a couple of university degrees... and even higher student debt. :(
Anyone requiring education to care for children should not be allowed to care for children, I've said for twenty five years and I'll stand by that until I turn to stone.
Example: children at school or kindergarten may not climb trees. Trees are not EU-sanctioned playground equipment, thus voiding the school's insurance for injuries.
Meanwhile, me and my friends made home-made explosives with electrical triggers at age 12, could bring bikes and mopeds to school for shop class, and could start working at age 13, school permitting.
And since grandma and grandpa helped raise me, they thought it perfectly normal that half a dozen kids age 7 to 12 roamed the forest for the entre day. A forest with moose, bears, wolves, badgers, foxes, ravens, sinkholes, pitfalls, deadwood (trees felled by wind), and playing all kinds of games with home-made bows, spears and such.
Guess that would be child abuse today. Poor kids, all they get is an electrical pacifier saying "Well done!" when they touch it right.
I was so fortunate that even my lower-middle-class family had the custom in my youngest years of going to the "bungalow colonies" in the summers. The dads stayed in the city working all week and came up on weekends. Blessed break for everyone, really. I was probably four or so when we were trying to pick blueberries before the cows ate all of 'em. (Cows' mouths are huge!)
Those bungalow colonies in the beautiful Catskill Mountains eventually went bankrupt or were sold off. (A few might remain for ultra-Orthodox Jews.)
We used to go down to this wild creek in winter during a thaw and play around this huge culvert rushing water and ice flo thru to the big river. Such fun! I don’t even remember mom ever saying be careful. Of course she probably thought we were down at the barn. Now I think—yikes!!!
Great story - reminds me of my childhood playing cowboys and indians in the woods all day, climbing old apple trees, and jumping across creeks. Mom used a whistle to call us in for dinner. We built a 2' high log cabin in 6th grade, skinning the logs and notching them. We had archery lessons in 10th grade. We played DODGE BALL in elementary school - heaven forbid!
There is definitely something to this idea. I read the continuum concept as a new mom and it changed my life forever. My kids are still not as autonomous as I was growing up, but I’m doing my best to buck the wrongheaded trend. Highly recommended read for anyone with a curious mind, not just parents.
Many post-WWII planned urban neighborhoods included plenty of "sitting areas" for the older near playgrounds for the young, and it was normal and accepted for little kids to ask any grownup "can you cross me please" even with traffic signals because we were sternly told not to do it ourselves. Now there are just places where lots of strangers live. That's made a big difference in how even not-overly-crazy parents regard the safety of their communities. With even grandmas working salaried jobs these days, many fewer eyes on the kids in general.
Thanks for this insight! It’s really unfortunate and I’m hearing this same idea from multiple people including our esteemed host in one of his best (to me) essays. I found parenting in America more oppressive than in the Netherlands so we came back after a three year sampling. One major advantage is that at age 8 or so kids can be super independent on their bikes and safe bike paths while my mom had to chauffeur me around for years.... they could definitely use more outdoor unsupervised play than they get though, I blame technology for that. I try, but it’s hard to avoid it.
I was 8 yrs. old 64 yrs. ago. We ran all over the neighborhood, including "woods" and construction sites, all day, and my mother and the mother of my best friend were the real anxious types. By the time I had a kid 32 yrs ago, I'd never have allowed that level of unsupervised play. I was raising a child in an era that saw kids snatched from their own bedrooms and murdered or held captive. Changes one's viewpoints a lot.
While I can’t take the time just now to give you a source, I looked into this some 10 years back and found that the safety of communities hadn’t changed a whit — it was the attitudes of parents that gave rise to our hyper vigilant status. Think about how “parenting” (how I hate that word, and all the other nouns turned into verbs against their will) has changed over our lifetimes (I’m 70) — our parents operated under the principle of benevolent neglect, believing that children needed to learn to be independent and to deal with the consequences of their decisions at a time when the worst of it might be a skinned knee or a broken window. Now we’re at some hyper-protective version of child-rearing that extends into adulthood. It’s no longer the college student who negotiates a disagreement with a professor, it’s the student’s parent (typically the mother).
All of which is a long way of getting to my opinion that a return to benevolent neglect would go a long way towards raising a competent, confident next generation, at no more risk to the child’s safety than there was when we grew up.
Maybe depends where you live. I can assure you that the boroughs of NYC of my childhood were considerably safer than they were in the '70s (I'm 72) and they're going back to the worst of times. My grandma's neighborhood in the Bronx was gorgeous and she was a poor woman. We used to hang out on the fire escapes in the summer and didn't fear stray gunshots.
Same here. I am almost 80. My running buddy and I rode our bikes all over town at 8, 9, 10 years old. Fished in Mr. Judd's lake and the local creek. We were allowed to stay out until the First Methodist Church chimes rang at 6:00 pm. We couldn't give our children the same freedom. Things have changed.
And none of the parks or city playgrounds or little odd pockets of greenery were carpeted with used syringes or condoms...
Good point SCA. I recently moved to a "bad" neighborhood and I've noticed more unsupervised children than in other areas. This area feels like a community: we chat on the street, join neighbours out front for a cold one on hot nights, and scold anyone not picking up after their dog. I actually know many of my nieghbours by name! I didn't know any of my neighbours when I lived in upper class suburbia. I suspect that the sense of community is much better in poorer areas (not ghetto gangland, but poor folks like: some subsidized housing, some retirees, some working class folks, some bikers keeping the riff-raff out), and that influences how safe parents feel when letting their children wander a bit. I feel safer walking my dog in this area late at night than I ever did in suburbia.
I actually hated living in upper class American suburbia. Our rich neighbors weren't that nice if we ever saw them after ferrying their children all over town for over scheduled activities to get them on the ladder to "success." So when we moved back to the Netherlands we choose to live in a nice house in a mixed neighborhood instead of one exclusively available to others in the upper end of our budget. it was a good choice. Urban planning is really key in creating the communities we want to live in. That's my lived experience and is reflected in SCA's comment above. I'm of two minds about crime and anxiety though. I tend to believe that crime data paints a different picture than the media dose, but I would never invalidate someone's personal experience. I am all about allowing people to determine their own risk tolerance. The Dutch have been historically quite risk tolerant--they don't wear bike helmets for example. But if an expat family wants to continue their American practices, have at it. I won't laugh at you to your face. But don't go trying to enact laws making other people live with your media-hyped neuroses.
Yes, and it's good to bear in mind that the doctors could have made a mistake when ze was born. Happens all the time.
Please do not get me started on that...
What a great dog video that is - you have to watch closely for him to descend the ramp under the sheep - after mission accomplished. Dogs, if I may say so, are "under served" at this site - Be That Dog!
Thank you for the, dare I say Much Deserved, recognition. I will seek to live up to it. Cats...humpf!
My pup(14.5 yrs old pup)Cammie, is a Rough Collie mix. She's the one in the circle btw. She heartily agrees with you.
I used to love watching the sheepdog trials on UK TV whenever I visited, and discovering, once I'd gotten cable here, that they are broadcast everywhere was a happy happy moment...
I have friends here who raise pedigreed Border Collies and take them to trials all over the the western U.S. and Canada (yes, they have quite a large flock for training purposes). Watching those dogs in action is spellbinding. I've seen it in Wales, that was fun, too, but not the same as when it's in your backyard and you know the dogs.
Ohhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
The bounding up on their backs is what had me guffawing!! " Traffic on the way to work? Naw, I'll just take the Wooly Highway, thanks tho!"
I think a lot of the "experts" started out as 50% worried, 50% cynical. As they became more famous and accreted power, they became 90% cynical. But as they kept on lying and lying, they started to believe their own lies. Now they are 100% out of touch with reality (technically, "crazy")
I flew in July of 2020 with my grandson. Amazingly enough, neither of us caught Covid or died. We didn’t get Covid until January 2022, we both survived. 😆
And what about the "safe and effective" shots and "masks"? I'm sure he's taken all of his"boosters" and wears his face diaper religiously. If all of that works, one would think he has nothing to worry about. Good grief! 😳🙄
That sheepdog is a rockstar! My kids loved that video!
I actually love that you posted this on Mother’s Day - it was yet another great reminder to keep on with the hard but immensely important work of raising my kids to be bold, think critically, and love well. IMHO one of the biggest reasons the sheep these days are so scared is because they don’t have authentic, secure relationships...thanks for coming to my TedTalk. 🤣
Another nail on the head comment, another connection to the most formative parenting book I ever read: the continuum concept. I was so excited when we watched that Netflix docu about Jane Goodall and she basically said she observed the same thing among chimpanzees. Keep up the good work mama and happy Mother’s Day! Thread by thread we are weaving inspiring tapestries. High five ✋🏼
After the "2 weeks to slow the spread", I've pretty much said every day that I trust gas station sushi more than I trust anyone in the medical community.
Funny, when masks first came to be recommended I was at the all-essential adult beverage store and the burly gentleman in front of me was giving the cashier grief for wearing a mask and someone said something about Fauci and the Locksmith I believe he was / is says don't give me that BS I know all about that guy. Go search him on Youtube. And I did . . .
This guy has nothing on Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the NYC Public Health Commissar: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-win-friends-and-influence?s=w
What?
No pronoun list?
The NPC's will be restless...
I would never have guessed prior to 2020 the number of people in epidemiology and the health field in general that were closet hypochondriacs. What a wonderful feeling it must have been for them to finally be able to come out as their true selves and be praised for it.
And then here's me, whose recent health knowledge was gleaned off the internet from a bad cat and a gummibear (just to name two), running around since May of 2020 without a mask and not being concerned about being shoulder to shoulder with people. How am I still alive?
As a scientific discipline epidemiology is useless. Until COVID came around these people had no purpose. There's no way they're giving it up easily now.
Good golly…reading some of the comments on the Twitter thread from “professionals”. I may not ever go to a doctor again.
I’m doing my best to avoid them for the rest of my life and persuading others to do the same. It’s kinda upsetting and liberating at the same time.
Last time I looked, medical “error” was the third leading cause of death in the US. Also good to keep in mind is that 49% of doctors graduated in the bottom of their class.
And they know bugger-all about nutrition.
I made that choice long before this debacle.
Me too, Mary. I lost all faith with them years ago. The best doctor I ever knew was my dearest friend, and she died from breast cancer. Today I see my doctors in order to 1) get a diagnosis, which I know may or may not be accurate. I will then decide how to proceed. 2) Have imaging or surgery done 3) Get a referral to a specialist. I consider putting my health (and trust) completely into their hands to be folly.
You still see them waaay more than me. I diagnose presumed whatever, then treat.
Good for you! Understand, I average a visit about every 1 1/2 years, and that's after my dance with cancer. My GP despairs of me.
Love your articles - so full of wit and sarcasm. Kabuki theater is a perfect term for all this nonsense. Here in NY people are very much attached to their masks. I guess they really don't want to go through mask separation syndrome, that's why they keep wearing them.
Arguments from authority tend to fail when the supposed authorities lack auctoritas. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, lest you realize what a deeply unimpressive man he really is.
"Bureaucracy is an institution that exercises enormous power over you but with no locus of responsibility." - Aaron Kheriaty (as far as I can tell)
"...the safety of numbers from which to hector under cover of credentialism."
I'm stealing that...
one cannot steal that which is freely given.
it's all fair game.
enjoy.