I’m a retired fifth grade teacher, and I never caught anything from my students. When the flu was raging in the fall of 2009, there would be 13 or 14 students from a class out at the same time, and I didn’t even get sick then. I didn’t try to keep away from them either. We just carried on as normal. Students threw up in class, sneezed, coughed, and even bled on things, and I never even caught a stomach virus. When I had grandkids, however, they very kindly shared their stomach viruses with me.
Honestly, the only things I was worried getting from students were lice and later, bed bugs.
If you are worried about germs you shouldn’t be a teacher.
I now believe (never thought about it before) that the germs are all over the place, all the time, and whether or not you get sick (from most things) is not based on exposure, but based on your own immune system.
They are. To tell the truth, I always thought handling the snotty ( lol) papers they turned in, having them surround my desk if I was sitting, etc. really helped build up my immunity.
Omg, kitchen sponges are sooooo nasty! lol. But people are bathing in the Ganges River, ffs, millions of them, and they're healthy. Honestly, maybe this "germ theory" is not true at all. Wouldn't be the first time that "medical science" had it all backward.
Germ theory is very much real. A person's individual immune system, however, may tolerate some bugs more than others. The intestinal flora of someone swimming in the Ganges is likely incredibly different than someone swimming in a lake in Vermont. This is why traveler's diarrhea is so common--traveling to other countries can introduce you to other bacteria that you've never encountered, making you sick. People who live there, though, have lived with it forever and it doesn't make them sick.
Yep. Folks worried about germs should take steps themselves, NOT demand steps of others to quell their own fears.
One note: AFAIK, I caught a stomach bug on a flight to Boston two Christmases ago. Spent 5pm Christmas night to 3am the next day perched over porcelain. Since WuFlu arrived, I've flown maybe 50 legs from Jan 2020 thru today (some as little as 30 mins BWI-ORF, some as long as 4 hours (SJU-BOS). Never caught anything over that timeframe.
I'm a retired college professor, and I too spent years among people sneezing, coughing, and otherwise spraying germs all over the place. We (the faculty) sometimes caught the germs, and sometimes not, but we always joked about "catching the department cold (or flu)." It was no big deal, even when the flu was pretty bad. But in those Dear Old Days, if we got sick we could get a colleague to take a class or two for us while we recovered at home -- and (shock!) we also had medicines. And then we were back in the classroom. And if our students missed an exam or a paper due date, we gave makeups.
Ah, but those were the days when people were still sane. I wonder whether we'll ever be able to go back to a sane society again.
In the good old days, when it was allowed to be sick once in a while, and when doctors still knew to give you a bottle with cough syrup and tell you to sick it out for a day or two... those were the days !
Back when a few days of feeling awful meant lifetime immunity , and we had deliberate " parties " to get it over with , instead of being constantly bombarded by shrieking shills about the horrific danger of those same ( unpatented) childhood illnesses that we have now shifted to post childhood when the side effects are a whole different " ballgame
So much better to learn how to be sick for a short time, and then regain health and with a sigh realize how good it is. In the meantime, we have immunity, and those of us who have children, passed it on long enough for the child to be old enough and conquer the illness with their own immune system. And now, most children have autism or asthma or other disease, probably caused by the poisonous ingredients of vaccines that do not protect, or only very temporary, and some of the diseases like polio and pertussis, are now renamed, so you don't even recognize them when your child has it, although being multi jabbed.
Thank you. I totally agree. Health care workers, teachers etc. complaining about their job better go and find another one. I have cleaned houses for years. Well you take it as it comes, and you know what you are in for !
I have worked closely with kids my whole life also. Being a speech path I was close to kids, touching their faces, lips, even inside their mouths at times. Helped toilet speciaI needs kids and even changed diapers- rarely got a bug. Thankfully I never caught lice, hoof/mouth or scabies from those with whom I worked (reservation kiddos)- built up a grand immune system in 40+ years!
Bless you for being the kind of teacher all our kids deserve, canny granny! I can’t believe what’s happened to the state of public education in the last decades...before covid I rlly didn’t realize that the teaching profession had been taken over by an army of angry self-serving psychopaths. And your last sentence - I’ve literally said those exact words many times. For Pete’s sake!
Teachers and other public facing workers often have steeled immune systems. When I worked retail (and waited tables for that month one time), I never got sick. Once I started working in offices, then from home, my immune system started wussing out on me. My mother never got sick when she was a substitute teacher.
1. A small mass of protoplasm or cells from which a new organism or one of its parts may develop.
2. The earliest form of an organism; a seed, bud, or spore.
3. A microorganism, especially a pathogen."
See number 3.
Now, it could be argued that a virus technically isn't an "organism", but then that would just prove that your original argument is a semantic one, not a substantive one.
Like complaining that someone called a "bunker" a "sand trap", or a "magazine" a "clip". A distinction without a practical conversational difference.
I just don't understand how the people I once admired in my prior profession can be so damn uncaring about kids. I have to think most of them are young-but I have found out that older women I used to work with have this same mindset- that they are going to catch covid from young children and then somehow die, even when "fully" shot up. So disappointing and entirely goes against what you claim to be- for children. Glad I am retired because I really can't be around these people anymore. I will fight for unmasking senior citizens where I live....so many have been scared and re-scared. I will be the example.
I went to school oh so long ago in the 80's. Teachers have always been like this. Public schools are like prison camps. Nothing has changed with the guards. Only the prisoner uniforms.
Amen, I was there at the same time. I saw a lot of clock punchers and pension grabbers the oh so saintly, concerned about every student teacher of TV and movies was incredibly rare if present at all.
I'm guessing people never knew about "life-support" systems in hospitals and how horrible it is to get really really sick before, because it was never on CNN non-stop, and are now completely terrorized.
They want to behave stupidly and myopically and have the doctor give them a pill. Sometimes they want a pill for imaginary crap. I saw a video a few weeks back where a girl in her early 20's went around a room of 10-15 acquaintances listing what SSRI's each was on. They were ALL on some big pharma anti-depressant. It was stunning to me.
If administered sodium pentathol they might say "I just want to make completely stupid, self-destructives choices in my life and never ever feel sad! Is that so wrong?!"
My town reinstated the masks a/o December 28th after the Karen’s joined a BOH zoom meeting. We were told as soon as the town’s positivity rate is below 20% (which it now is) or the county’s transmission rate is no longer catergorized as ”high.” My husband called yesterday to get rid of the mandate. I assume the BOH just waits to see if anyone notices the town’s PR on the state website; it is no longer posted on the town website. So that’s how it works locally.
On a side note, the folks on Nextdoor are really excited about the fancy new vaccine passport app for their phones. Apparently, it shows your vaccines as far back as 2009! Wait, whut? I thought it was just for the Covid jab. Only three people in the thread questioned the wisdom of putting that on your phone. The problem with many folks is they don’t look much further than one step past where they currently are.
We need to start demanding that STDs, HIV, hepatitis status are on these apps also. And actually any issues with depression or mental health problems… We need to keep society safe for heaven sakes! Oh and alcohol use or recreational drug use.
I very strongly suspect that ND was/is being used to keep the pot stirred (meaning people on there are not necessarily people in your neighborhood, they are there to push the agenda). My observations at the beginning of 2020 made me suspicious. I deleted it after they put me in time out for posting actual science documents from the actual U.S. government regarding C-19. Strangely, I felt better after deleting my account - like I had closed the door on the vampire or something.
There was a blogger about ten years ago who gave up blogging which was a shame because he was quite brilliant. Anyway, one of his sayings that I repeat regularly was, "it's an endless universe of stupid."
One thing we know that history teaches us for certain is that we never learn anything from history except how utterly imbecilic the human race can be. Sad. Truly sad. Through it all I’ve found everyone in the substack community and remain optimistic.
I had an argument with one of the other physicians at the clinic where I work when we started masking around May 2020 and had basically no cases in our state. I asked her if we do this now what is our “end game” on not masking? Of course she had no answer. I also tried to discuss the CDC and WHO guidelines that show masks don’t work but she wouldn’t listen to that either.
People are in complete denial. Just had to cancel a visit to triple vaxxed friend today to pick up car parts because he wants me to wear a mask and it's "too dangerous" now in Vermont for social visits....ok, whatever. God forbid he gets covid and then blames me. But for this guy to believe that "masks and vaxes don't work" he also has to believe that everybody in the media, his doctor, his wife, the CDC, the Governor, and all the other "experts" and authority figures are wrong/lying. It's too much for him. This is a guy who trusts his doctors, gets all the tests, just had hip surgery, takes his statins, doesn't eat eggs, etc., etc. People like him (like many people) are just not mentally prepared for the fact that, yes, all of these people are wrong and lying, and have been for years. It's too much for them.
This is what I am afraid of, to be blamed for carrying a sickness I don't have to a triple vaxed, face diaper wearing old person who wants me to visit... I am not going.
It’s likely already your fault if/when they catch the Cov. You’ll be blamed for giving it to them telepathically or through negative energy frequencies. It’s never their fault nor their responsibility.
I don't think it's mandatory here (I haven't checked lately), but the majority of shoppers at grocery stores in Austin are wearing masks these days, many of them N95. But my partner Benjamin and I do not, and no one says anything. We just pretend it's all over and go about our shopping (as best we can while facing a bunch of people in masks). One time Benjamin actually asked one of the employees to take his mask off for a second and show his smile. (Someone trying to sell us something at a food station, nice guy.) Hoping it's making a difference for some. It's sure helping our sanity!
It is mandatory in Los Angeles County (my residence) but I have not worn a mask in stores since last June. No one has said a word to me, certainly no employees have. There have been a few dirty looks but I smile and greet them warmly. It always defuses the situation.
If nothing else it sends a signal that some of us refuse to live in fear and will go about our lives despite the hysteria.
A smile and a warm greeting always fucks up the Karens. They have no idea what to do. Are they really going to yell at somebody who just said good afternoon?
I long for the day when we can look past covid and focus our attention on the very difficult and complicated questions: What was this really about? And why? And what made us so susceptible? This brings into question lifestyles, habits, addictions, common beliefs, cultural things we were all doing. It's hard enough answering a difficult question. It's nearly impossible when we're afraid of the answer.
One clue is the "VaxxPasses." Look at the Chinese Social Credit System and Central Bank Digital Currencies, which will be the foundations of "The New World Order." We have our quislings at the top of the totem pole in Canada, both Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are fully involved.
I am reading a book by Shoshana Zuboff this week, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalsm." It is a bit dense, but Substack readers can read, others could watch Netflix' "The Social Dilemma."
Not trying to be melodramatic, but this is a moving excerpt, almost choked me up:
"it is the founding principle of america, the bedrock notion of a republic, that most ennobling form of government which places the rights of the individual inalienably above the state and elevates subject to citizen."
The kids need to rally together. This ends when all of them unmask at school on the same day. I am getting popcorn ready for the epic TikTok videos of karent teachers melting down.
Let the Children anonomously pen their thoughts on the masks and leave those thought masks on the stairs of the schools. This was done in CA 6 months ago. The children all left their shoes with little paper notes There were 1000's of pairs of little shoes. The school threw them all away before anyone got to see but it was captured with pictures and shared widely.
Yes! I walk in the mall unmasked and it’s shocking to me the number of teens wearing masks. I think to myself, ‘I thought you guys were supposed to be the rebels.’
Muchas gracias, el gato. This will come in handy for the letter I’m drafting to the Oregon Health Authority, which is considering a permanent indoor mask proposal:
• Adoption of a rule requiring masks to be worn in indoor spaces in Oregon (OAR 333-019-1025)
If anyone would like to submit a public comment, they are accepting written submissions until 5 pm on January 24. You can email your comments to publichealth.rules@dhsoha.state.or.us and must include the rule number in your letter (OAR 333-019-1025).
Try try to hold on to agnostic. This has largely been a battle between atheists on the left (collectivism) vs atheists on the right (individualists). Atheism is a full rejection of the existence of the spiritual realm, especially one with a coherent system involved. If the problem of our society extends into anything remotely spiritual or even overly complicated, Atheism won't go there. It leaves us blind to the cause and crippled in our defense. So yeah, agnostic > atheist.
Noted. When I said "overly complicated", I meant from a spiritual standpoint where the spiritual intertwines with the subconscious and the psychological, not the physical. Team Reality has been absolutely phenomenal at debunking the Covidian scientific flaws and (especially Gato) making very complicated things understandable, even adding humor. I don't want to discredit that.
I live in Summit County. Want to highlight that this bill passing into law (as well as the one that nullified the OSHA mandate in Utah) was born of the hard work of our local health freedom movement. I haven’t been at the center of it but know the folks who are and I’m deeply grateful for their work. They helped draft both bills. Then they sent out alerts that made it possible for me to send emails and texts to our elected representatives and then on to others who I knew would do the same. Yes, we have a lot of Republicans at the Capitol who are more likely to vote for this, but they still need pressure from the people. Especially in the face of all the blue-tech money moving into the state and clearly using persuasion with Governor Cox.
Many of those folks are California refugees. We all cut or refined our political organizing chops fighting the grotesque overreach of California Democrats that began with their mandatory vaccination bills in 2015. Meanwhile in California the evil continues and grows as they introduce bills to give 12 year olds the option of getting medical treatments with no parental involvement.
This is a multi-layered fight. We need people who will show up at the legislature and people who will, en masse, let our reps know what we think.
You could join Summit County Health Freedom and/or ask them about an affiliate group in SLC. I do minimal social media and stay in touch with them through their email list and go to some in-person meetings. https://summitcountyfreedom.com
Thanks- I just got suspended from Nextdoor so I am off all social media but I am sure there is a lot of weeping and wailing and pearl-clutching in my neighborhood regarding the legislature.
I live in a Summit County, but the one in Colorado, land of ski resorts. Our county commissioners imposed a mask mandate again about a month or so ago. But I never wear a mask anywhere. I was in my post office and one of commissioners saw me walk in sans mask and she had a deer in the headlights look. I was hoping she would say something to me, but no. The masked single driver disappeared in 2021 but the masked drivers have come back. What is going on in those brains?? Under my real name I post on the FB pages of the news rags Summit Daily and Vail Daily (Eagle County) when articles about covid nonsense appear. The mask mandate is going away in Eagle County. But not Summit. They cling to fantasy still. Summit's commissioners consist of two overweight women and a guy who doesn't know where his private parts go. Just the people to give health advice!
I didn’t know this had happened because I don’t read or watch news, local or national, so I’m very happy to read this. We live in south Utah County where there are no mask mandates (that I know of), but plenty of people who choose to wear them. last time we went to Red Iguana in SLC, for mole, the stupidest of all mask mandates had just been enforced; you must wear a mask while entering and exiting the restaurant. Shows complete ignorance of how respiratory viruses operate. We had planned on doing a couple other things while in the “big city” but figured it would be the same all over and so left for home, resolving not to return until that mask crap was over.
I’m a retired fifth grade teacher, and I never caught anything from my students. When the flu was raging in the fall of 2009, there would be 13 or 14 students from a class out at the same time, and I didn’t even get sick then. I didn’t try to keep away from them either. We just carried on as normal. Students threw up in class, sneezed, coughed, and even bled on things, and I never even caught a stomach virus. When I had grandkids, however, they very kindly shared their stomach viruses with me.
Honestly, the only things I was worried getting from students were lice and later, bed bugs.
If you are worried about germs you shouldn’t be a teacher.
I now believe (never thought about it before) that the germs are all over the place, all the time, and whether or not you get sick (from most things) is not based on exposure, but based on your own immune system.
They are. To tell the truth, I always thought handling the snotty ( lol) papers they turned in, having them surround my desk if I was sitting, etc. really helped build up my immunity.
Absolutely did. " Priming" the immune system . They should probably study veteran teachers blood for immunity aspects.
Phones, kitchen sponges, toothbrushes, menus, etc. The list is seemingly endless.
Omg, kitchen sponges are sooooo nasty! lol. But people are bathing in the Ganges River, ffs, millions of them, and they're healthy. Honestly, maybe this "germ theory" is not true at all. Wouldn't be the first time that "medical science" had it all backward.
Germ theory is very much real. A person's individual immune system, however, may tolerate some bugs more than others. The intestinal flora of someone swimming in the Ganges is likely incredibly different than someone swimming in a lake in Vermont. This is why traveler's diarrhea is so common--traveling to other countries can introduce you to other bacteria that you've never encountered, making you sick. People who live there, though, have lived with it forever and it doesn't make them sick.
Remember for how long - YEARS - ulcers were thought to be caused by stress, spicy foods, etc.? For years that was the prevailing wisdom (sic).
Turns out the h. pylori (sp?) bacterium is the culprit.
For just one of, no doubt, many examples.
Absolutely!
Yep. Folks worried about germs should take steps themselves, NOT demand steps of others to quell their own fears.
One note: AFAIK, I caught a stomach bug on a flight to Boston two Christmases ago. Spent 5pm Christmas night to 3am the next day perched over porcelain. Since WuFlu arrived, I've flown maybe 50 legs from Jan 2020 thru today (some as little as 30 mins BWI-ORF, some as long as 4 hours (SJU-BOS). Never caught anything over that timeframe.
I think all the "extra" sanitizing has been really effective for stomach bugs/bacteria etc.
The air filtration is excellent even BEFORE this on planes.
I'm a retired college professor, and I too spent years among people sneezing, coughing, and otherwise spraying germs all over the place. We (the faculty) sometimes caught the germs, and sometimes not, but we always joked about "catching the department cold (or flu)." It was no big deal, even when the flu was pretty bad. But in those Dear Old Days, if we got sick we could get a colleague to take a class or two for us while we recovered at home -- and (shock!) we also had medicines. And then we were back in the classroom. And if our students missed an exam or a paper due date, we gave makeups.
Ah, but those were the days when people were still sane. I wonder whether we'll ever be able to go back to a sane society again.
In the good old days, when it was allowed to be sick once in a while, and when doctors still knew to give you a bottle with cough syrup and tell you to sick it out for a day or two... those were the days !
Back when a few days of feeling awful meant lifetime immunity , and we had deliberate " parties " to get it over with , instead of being constantly bombarded by shrieking shills about the horrific danger of those same ( unpatented) childhood illnesses that we have now shifted to post childhood when the side effects are a whole different " ballgame
So much better to learn how to be sick for a short time, and then regain health and with a sigh realize how good it is. In the meantime, we have immunity, and those of us who have children, passed it on long enough for the child to be old enough and conquer the illness with their own immune system. And now, most children have autism or asthma or other disease, probably caused by the poisonous ingredients of vaccines that do not protect, or only very temporary, and some of the diseases like polio and pertussis, are now renamed, so you don't even recognize them when your child has it, although being multi jabbed.
Thank you. I totally agree. Health care workers, teachers etc. complaining about their job better go and find another one. I have cleaned houses for years. Well you take it as it comes, and you know what you are in for !
i once threw up in front of the class in 4th grade during spelling recitation... my belated apologies to everyone... including the janitor
I threw up all over my desk in 5th grade. To be fair, I had raised my hand so I could ask to go to the loo but Sister James Margaret ignored me.
"Mr. Smith, please bring sawdust to Room 210!" came over the loudspeaker so the whole school knew. haha
NEVER ignore a kid when they need to go to the loo!... just saying...
💕🐱💕
I have worked closely with kids my whole life also. Being a speech path I was close to kids, touching their faces, lips, even inside their mouths at times. Helped toilet speciaI needs kids and even changed diapers- rarely got a bug. Thankfully I never caught lice, hoof/mouth or scabies from those with whom I worked (reservation kiddos)- built up a grand immune system in 40+ years!
Bless you for being the kind of teacher all our kids deserve, canny granny! I can’t believe what’s happened to the state of public education in the last decades...before covid I rlly didn’t realize that the teaching profession had been taken over by an army of angry self-serving psychopaths. And your last sentence - I’ve literally said those exact words many times. For Pete’s sake!
Hear it like a prophecy from the master: https://youtu.be/Ck4ap9mb-H4
Not much of a life living in fear!
Teachers and other public facing workers often have steeled immune systems. When I worked retail (and waited tables for that month one time), I never got sick. Once I started working in offices, then from home, my immune system started wussing out on me. My mother never got sick when she was a substitute teacher.
Thank you for proving that youcantcatchavirus.com
COVID isn't a germ. It is a dangerous virus that has serious long-term effects. Even in kids!
This is a facetious comment- right? If not, you really need to read more of gato...
I was wondering if he read the article. The lady was vaxxed and still got Covid.
three family members fully shotted and boosted...actually four if you count my hubby. (one and done!)
"germ
jûrm
noun
1. A small mass of protoplasm or cells from which a new organism or one of its parts may develop.
2. The earliest form of an organism; a seed, bud, or spore.
3. A microorganism, especially a pathogen."
See number 3.
Now, it could be argued that a virus technically isn't an "organism", but then that would just prove that your original argument is a semantic one, not a substantive one.
Like complaining that someone called a "bunker" a "sand trap", or a "magazine" a "clip". A distinction without a practical conversational difference.
Do what will help you feel safe.
I just don't understand how the people I once admired in my prior profession can be so damn uncaring about kids. I have to think most of them are young-but I have found out that older women I used to work with have this same mindset- that they are going to catch covid from young children and then somehow die, even when "fully" shot up. So disappointing and entirely goes against what you claim to be- for children. Glad I am retired because I really can't be around these people anymore. I will fight for unmasking senior citizens where I live....so many have been scared and re-scared. I will be the example.
I went to school oh so long ago in the 80's. Teachers have always been like this. Public schools are like prison camps. Nothing has changed with the guards. Only the prisoner uniforms.
Amen, I was there at the same time. I saw a lot of clock punchers and pension grabbers the oh so saintly, concerned about every student teacher of TV and movies was incredibly rare if present at all.
I'm guessing people never knew about "life-support" systems in hospitals and how horrible it is to get really really sick before, because it was never on CNN non-stop, and are now completely terrorized.
Personal responsibility for one's health and wellness...it's really not a thing with most people. They want to be "fixed".
They want to behave stupidly and myopically and have the doctor give them a pill. Sometimes they want a pill for imaginary crap. I saw a video a few weeks back where a girl in her early 20's went around a room of 10-15 acquaintances listing what SSRI's each was on. They were ALL on some big pharma anti-depressant. It was stunning to me.
These are the "long covid" people...
If administered sodium pentathol they might say "I just want to make completely stupid, self-destructives choices in my life and never ever feel sad! Is that so wrong?!"
And it would be your fault...
Problem is, CNN, and every other useless MSM outlet, were too bought off to report how to *avoid* ending up on the death-a-lators in the first place.
My town reinstated the masks a/o December 28th after the Karen’s joined a BOH zoom meeting. We were told as soon as the town’s positivity rate is below 20% (which it now is) or the county’s transmission rate is no longer catergorized as ”high.” My husband called yesterday to get rid of the mandate. I assume the BOH just waits to see if anyone notices the town’s PR on the state website; it is no longer posted on the town website. So that’s how it works locally.
On a side note, the folks on Nextdoor are really excited about the fancy new vaccine passport app for their phones. Apparently, it shows your vaccines as far back as 2009! Wait, whut? I thought it was just for the Covid jab. Only three people in the thread questioned the wisdom of putting that on your phone. The problem with many folks is they don’t look much further than one step past where they currently are.
We need to start demanding that STDs, HIV, hepatitis status are on these apps also. And actually any issues with depression or mental health problems… We need to keep society safe for heaven sakes! Oh and alcohol use or recreational drug use.
And a daily weight number...that should shut them up.
Nextdoor is full of Karens.
I very strongly suspect that ND was/is being used to keep the pot stirred (meaning people on there are not necessarily people in your neighborhood, they are there to push the agenda). My observations at the beginning of 2020 made me suspicious. I deleted it after they put me in time out for posting actual science documents from the actual U.S. government regarding C-19. Strangely, I felt better after deleting my account - like I had closed the door on the vampire or something.
I suspect that a large fraction of the Covid apologists on social media are bots and paid trolls.
Indeed.
What town / state do you live in ?
I’m in MA, so this is not surprising.
People are dumber than we suspected.
There was a blogger about ten years ago who gave up blogging which was a shame because he was quite brilliant. Anyway, one of his sayings that I repeat regularly was, "it's an endless universe of stupid."
One thing we know that history teaches us for certain is that we never learn anything from history except how utterly imbecilic the human race can be. Sad. Truly sad. Through it all I’ve found everyone in the substack community and remain optimistic.
You suspected wrong, they are actually way dumber than imaginable. By a mile. Maybe two.
"If you're a step ahead of everybody else, you're a genius. If you're two steps ahead of everybody else you're a lunatic."
I had an argument with one of the other physicians at the clinic where I work when we started masking around May 2020 and had basically no cases in our state. I asked her if we do this now what is our “end game” on not masking? Of course she had no answer. I also tried to discuss the CDC and WHO guidelines that show masks don’t work but she wouldn’t listen to that either.
People are in complete denial. Just had to cancel a visit to triple vaxxed friend today to pick up car parts because he wants me to wear a mask and it's "too dangerous" now in Vermont for social visits....ok, whatever. God forbid he gets covid and then blames me. But for this guy to believe that "masks and vaxes don't work" he also has to believe that everybody in the media, his doctor, his wife, the CDC, the Governor, and all the other "experts" and authority figures are wrong/lying. It's too much for him. This is a guy who trusts his doctors, gets all the tests, just had hip surgery, takes his statins, doesn't eat eggs, etc., etc. People like him (like many people) are just not mentally prepared for the fact that, yes, all of these people are wrong and lying, and have been for years. It's too much for them.
This is what I am afraid of, to be blamed for carrying a sickness I don't have to a triple vaxed, face diaper wearing old person who wants me to visit... I am not going.
It’s likely already your fault if/when they catch the Cov. You’ll be blamed for giving it to them telepathically or through negative energy frequencies. It’s never their fault nor their responsibility.
Yep, and you *will* get blamed, for sure.
I know people like that too. You know deep down they know better but they're in too deep at this point.
It's a shame about the eggs - most likely one of the best things for his overall health.
I don't think it's mandatory here (I haven't checked lately), but the majority of shoppers at grocery stores in Austin are wearing masks these days, many of them N95. But my partner Benjamin and I do not, and no one says anything. We just pretend it's all over and go about our shopping (as best we can while facing a bunch of people in masks). One time Benjamin actually asked one of the employees to take his mask off for a second and show his smile. (Someone trying to sell us something at a food station, nice guy.) Hoping it's making a difference for some. It's sure helping our sanity!
It is mandatory in Los Angeles County (my residence) but I have not worn a mask in stores since last June. No one has said a word to me, certainly no employees have. There have been a few dirty looks but I smile and greet them warmly. It always defuses the situation.
If nothing else it sends a signal that some of us refuse to live in fear and will go about our lives despite the hysteria.
And you're not dead yet, which is an important signal too! lol
A smile and a warm greeting always fucks up the Karens. They have no idea what to do. Are they really going to yell at somebody who just said good afternoon?
It is not mandatory anywhere in the state of Texas except if a business requires its employees to wear one.
It is a horrible crime when a worker is forced to suffocate himself with a muzzle as a condition of employment.
Only 6,183 people died solely of COVID-19 in England & Wales
And only 833 under 60s.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/only-6183-people-died-solely-of-covid
I long for the day when we can look past covid and focus our attention on the very difficult and complicated questions: What was this really about? And why? And what made us so susceptible? This brings into question lifestyles, habits, addictions, common beliefs, cultural things we were all doing. It's hard enough answering a difficult question. It's nearly impossible when we're afraid of the answer.
And people having to face a lot of hard truths about themselves which some people, unfortunately, will never do.
One clue is the "VaxxPasses." Look at the Chinese Social Credit System and Central Bank Digital Currencies, which will be the foundations of "The New World Order." We have our quislings at the top of the totem pole in Canada, both Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland are fully involved.
I am reading a book by Shoshana Zuboff this week, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalsm." It is a bit dense, but Substack readers can read, others could watch Netflix' "The Social Dilemma."
Not trying to be melodramatic, but this is a moving excerpt, almost choked me up:
"it is the founding principle of america, the bedrock notion of a republic, that most ennobling form of government which places the rights of the individual inalienably above the state and elevates subject to citizen."
It's ok - I can never read the Bill of Rights without tears. 🇺🇸
Exactly. This is what it’s all about. Thanks for posting it.
Where I live legislation is in place against vaccine mandates and employers asking for proof of vaccination against covid.
I just had surgery and I was not asked if I was vaccinated against covid.
Only the flu shot.
The school here in town FINALLY removed the mask mandate on kids in January.
About time.
I am so grateful my kids are grown and finished with school.
This abuse against our children has been criminal.
Since when did we sacrifice the young for the old????
Upside down world!!!!
Wonderful news. Where do you live?
Montana.
The kids need to rally together. This ends when all of them unmask at school on the same day. I am getting popcorn ready for the epic TikTok videos of karent teachers melting down.
Let the Children anonomously pen their thoughts on the masks and leave those thought masks on the stairs of the schools. This was done in CA 6 months ago. The children all left their shoes with little paper notes There were 1000's of pairs of little shoes. The school threw them all away before anyone got to see but it was captured with pictures and shared widely.
Yes! I walk in the mall unmasked and it’s shocking to me the number of teens wearing masks. I think to myself, ‘I thought you guys were supposed to be the rebels.’
Muchas gracias, el gato. This will come in handy for the letter I’m drafting to the Oregon Health Authority, which is considering a permanent indoor mask proposal:
• Adoption of a rule requiring masks to be worn in indoor spaces in Oregon (OAR 333-019-1025)
If anyone would like to submit a public comment, they are accepting written submissions until 5 pm on January 24. You can email your comments to publichealth.rules@dhsoha.state.or.us and must include the rule number in your letter (OAR 333-019-1025).
See this link for more details:
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORLEG/bulletins/305bc08
I already sent mine!
Bravo and thank you!!
This is beautiful. God bless. I'm actually an agonistic, leaning hard atheist, but let me repeat myself, God bless you.
You literally cannot explain the human immune system without some sort of intelligent designer.
Try try to hold on to agnostic. This has largely been a battle between atheists on the left (collectivism) vs atheists on the right (individualists). Atheism is a full rejection of the existence of the spiritual realm, especially one with a coherent system involved. If the problem of our society extends into anything remotely spiritual or even overly complicated, Atheism won't go there. It leaves us blind to the cause and crippled in our defense. So yeah, agnostic > atheist.
I am an agnostic, as I said. I don't know what I don't know and I'm unwilling to assert that that which I doing know exists, or that it doesn't.
Noted. When I said "overly complicated", I meant from a spiritual standpoint where the spiritual intertwines with the subconscious and the psychological, not the physical. Team Reality has been absolutely phenomenal at debunking the Covidian scientific flaws and (especially Gato) making very complicated things understandable, even adding humor. I don't want to discredit that.
I live in Summit County. Want to highlight that this bill passing into law (as well as the one that nullified the OSHA mandate in Utah) was born of the hard work of our local health freedom movement. I haven’t been at the center of it but know the folks who are and I’m deeply grateful for their work. They helped draft both bills. Then they sent out alerts that made it possible for me to send emails and texts to our elected representatives and then on to others who I knew would do the same. Yes, we have a lot of Republicans at the Capitol who are more likely to vote for this, but they still need pressure from the people. Especially in the face of all the blue-tech money moving into the state and clearly using persuasion with Governor Cox.
Many of those folks are California refugees. We all cut or refined our political organizing chops fighting the grotesque overreach of California Democrats that began with their mandatory vaccination bills in 2015. Meanwhile in California the evil continues and grows as they introduce bills to give 12 year olds the option of getting medical treatments with no parental involvement.
This is a multi-layered fight. We need people who will show up at the legislature and people who will, en masse, let our reps know what we think.
I am in Salt Lake. How do I contact a Health Freedom movement? ( I suppose this means this means rejoining Pfacebook?)
You could join Summit County Health Freedom and/or ask them about an affiliate group in SLC. I do minimal social media and stay in touch with them through their email list and go to some in-person meetings. https://summitcountyfreedom.com
Thanks- I just got suspended from Nextdoor so I am off all social media but I am sure there is a lot of weeping and wailing and pearl-clutching in my neighborhood regarding the legislature.
Ugh. How did SLC get so woke? It's awful.
I live in a Summit County, but the one in Colorado, land of ski resorts. Our county commissioners imposed a mask mandate again about a month or so ago. But I never wear a mask anywhere. I was in my post office and one of commissioners saw me walk in sans mask and she had a deer in the headlights look. I was hoping she would say something to me, but no. The masked single driver disappeared in 2021 but the masked drivers have come back. What is going on in those brains?? Under my real name I post on the FB pages of the news rags Summit Daily and Vail Daily (Eagle County) when articles about covid nonsense appear. The mask mandate is going away in Eagle County. But not Summit. They cling to fantasy still. Summit's commissioners consist of two overweight women and a guy who doesn't know where his private parts go. Just the people to give health advice!
Lovely description of our overlords. Sadly, very unWoke!
I didn’t know this had happened because I don’t read or watch news, local or national, so I’m very happy to read this. We live in south Utah County where there are no mask mandates (that I know of), but plenty of people who choose to wear them. last time we went to Red Iguana in SLC, for mole, the stupidest of all mask mandates had just been enforced; you must wear a mask while entering and exiting the restaurant. Shows complete ignorance of how respiratory viruses operate. We had planned on doing a couple other things while in the “big city” but figured it would be the same all over and so left for home, resolving not to return until that mask crap was over.
> anyone falling for THAT pile of steaming excrement after the manner in which “2 weeks to flatten the curve” worked out is truly, deeply stupid.
"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
- Milton Friedman
One might say Friedman was onto something, right?