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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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 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 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.
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.
"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.
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!
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
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."
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!!!!
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.
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
This is beautiful. God bless. I'm actually an agonistic, leaning hard atheist, but let me repeat myself, God bless you.
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 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.
> 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?