Either we have the dumbest people in the world out here in Cali (a distinct possibility) or Newsom's all-mail-in ballots were obviously fixed.
It seems completely implausible that people could be locked up and their kids locked out for a year and he would win a slightly higher % in the recall than the last election.
Of course, it could all just be the 24/7 Trump Derangement Syndrome going on that fueled the results. My mom was much more concerned about Newsom losing his job than my wife losing her's (wife is in healthcare, somehow got a religious exception).
Yesterday, I found out my wife's fat-as-a-whale 35 year-old techie nephew wants everyone to test before her family Xmas. I have to get tested for work anyways, so it doesn't really matter to me on a physicalstandpoint, only psychologically and morally, but he's opening up Pandora's box on political comments during dinner. Guess what on the menu? An opening on vaxx injuries, a main course of OAS, a nice side of BMI and death rates, followed by a desert of vaccine efficacy. Gonna be a great day!!
And about the Times. Pravda writers in 1970 had more shame.
Have you seen that new BMJ article, "the end of the pandemic will not be televised"? Refreshingly makes the point that this all ends when we stop obsessing over data dashboards and go back to living.
I think if the BMJ is making a stumble back toward sanity, that is a good sign for here and now. But the rehearsal is still necessary because we're going to run into this same issue again sooner or later.
And remember this, everyone: when the media isn't able to string COVID along any longer, that doesn't mean it's halftime for everyone. The Great Resetters know the NYT headline is true, and they're going to be spending that downtime conditioning us while things are nice and calm.
Expect to be bombarded during the "post-covid truce" with messaging from every corner of culture about how medically fragile we all are, really, we could die at any moment from a million incredibly deadly things from which we have no defense. Really, it's amazing every single one of us isn't in our deathbeds right now.
Expect the medical-industrial complex to push harder than ever before: pharma, public health, and private health will be so cozy with federal government it'll look like we always had socialized medicine in the United States.
Oh, and expect the most aggressive push ever for socialized medicine in the United States.
Expect a shotgun marriage between woke ideology and safetyism/medicalism/biofascism (all the same thing). Yes, they've been seen going out in public constantly this whole pandemic, but they'll make it official with rings and everything. Expect you and especially your children to begin hearing that "health justice (read: biofascism) is racial justice" as explicit statements irreversibly coupling support for biofascism with not being a white supremacist (and the converse).
Now that millions of us in the US now have permanently compromised immune systems, expect health care to proceed swiftly along a subscription model for EVERYTHING, and the ripple effect of this to include subscription models for all kinds of things that profit federal governments and multinational corporations (but I repeat myself) but make life harder for you: expect the idea of buying your food ad hoc at a grocery store, in the quantities and on the schedule you want, to be painted as quaint and environmentally irresponsible and, let's face it, racist. Expect the idea of home ownership to be seen as antithetical to the advancement of the proletariat and, let's face it, white supremacy.
These all fit together, because economies and globalized business models of untouchable organizations are made of millions of things that all fit together. No crazy red string necessary.
Expect, again, tens and hundreds of millions of your fellow countrymen to act as stupid and slavish as they did this time, and for escape from this trajectory to eventually require things you're a fucking idiot to advocate for on public internet channels.
Ah, bad cat, I love you. You always make me feel like I'm one of the soldiers hearing King Henry V's rousing pre-Battle of Agincourt speech: "By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive."
Every day, El Gato Malo gives me courage, and Jeff Childers' Coffee & Covid gives me optimism.
For those of you who think, "I don't have any influence. I can't do anything". Stop!!! Just by doing small acts of non compliance you can give others hope and courage.
Take off the mask. Be cheerful. Ask people questions, like "How long are you willing to wear that thing?" Or "if they ask you to wear that mask for the rest of your life, will you?"
You will be SHOCKED at how many folks haven't even considered those types of questions. This is a tough one I know, but how about getting folks THINKING!!! for a change?
I posted the 2009 Slate article on our family thread yesterday and a shit storm ensued defending mask mandates. I pointed out to the group that wearing a mask was your personal choice. Someone piped up and said it was the law. Then I asked for the AB-CoVid requirement. I let them know a mandate is not a law. It’s an autocratic bureaucratic imposition. Crickets. Californians don’t understand freedom or choice. I responded my body my choice. The response was the virus isn’t a choice. Sounds a lot like a Democrat talking point.
Bad cat I don’t know exactly what your day job is, but you are one terrific writer.
The most important part of this article is this 5-word sentence: Your fear is their power.
Either we have the dumbest people in the world out here in Cali (a distinct possibility) or Newsom's all-mail-in ballots were obviously fixed.
It seems completely implausible that people could be locked up and their kids locked out for a year and he would win a slightly higher % in the recall than the last election.
Of course, it could all just be the 24/7 Trump Derangement Syndrome going on that fueled the results. My mom was much more concerned about Newsom losing his job than my wife losing her's (wife is in healthcare, somehow got a religious exception).
Yesterday, I found out my wife's fat-as-a-whale 35 year-old techie nephew wants everyone to test before her family Xmas. I have to get tested for work anyways, so it doesn't really matter to me on a physicalstandpoint, only psychologically and morally, but he's opening up Pandora's box on political comments during dinner. Guess what on the menu? An opening on vaxx injuries, a main course of OAS, a nice side of BMI and death rates, followed by a desert of vaccine efficacy. Gonna be a great day!!
And about the Times. Pravda writers in 1970 had more shame.
Fear is the currency of tyrants.
I think Thomas Sowell said (paraphrased), “Never give power to anyone who won’t pay a price for being wrong.”
I suppose the corollary to that is, “And if you do, you’ll have to *impose* that price upon them.“
Have you seen that new BMJ article, "the end of the pandemic will not be televised"? Refreshingly makes the point that this all ends when we stop obsessing over data dashboards and go back to living.
I think if the BMJ is making a stumble back toward sanity, that is a good sign for here and now. But the rehearsal is still necessary because we're going to run into this same issue again sooner or later.
What's more, THEY agree with the headline, too.
And remember this, everyone: when the media isn't able to string COVID along any longer, that doesn't mean it's halftime for everyone. The Great Resetters know the NYT headline is true, and they're going to be spending that downtime conditioning us while things are nice and calm.
Expect to be bombarded during the "post-covid truce" with messaging from every corner of culture about how medically fragile we all are, really, we could die at any moment from a million incredibly deadly things from which we have no defense. Really, it's amazing every single one of us isn't in our deathbeds right now.
Expect the medical-industrial complex to push harder than ever before: pharma, public health, and private health will be so cozy with federal government it'll look like we always had socialized medicine in the United States.
Oh, and expect the most aggressive push ever for socialized medicine in the United States.
Expect a shotgun marriage between woke ideology and safetyism/medicalism/biofascism (all the same thing). Yes, they've been seen going out in public constantly this whole pandemic, but they'll make it official with rings and everything. Expect you and especially your children to begin hearing that "health justice (read: biofascism) is racial justice" as explicit statements irreversibly coupling support for biofascism with not being a white supremacist (and the converse).
Now that millions of us in the US now have permanently compromised immune systems, expect health care to proceed swiftly along a subscription model for EVERYTHING, and the ripple effect of this to include subscription models for all kinds of things that profit federal governments and multinational corporations (but I repeat myself) but make life harder for you: expect the idea of buying your food ad hoc at a grocery store, in the quantities and on the schedule you want, to be painted as quaint and environmentally irresponsible and, let's face it, racist. Expect the idea of home ownership to be seen as antithetical to the advancement of the proletariat and, let's face it, white supremacy.
These all fit together, because economies and globalized business models of untouchable organizations are made of millions of things that all fit together. No crazy red string necessary.
Expect, again, tens and hundreds of millions of your fellow countrymen to act as stupid and slavish as they did this time, and for escape from this trajectory to eventually require things you're a fucking idiot to advocate for on public internet channels.
Now time for my morning coffee.
Ah, bad cat, I love you. You always make me feel like I'm one of the soldiers hearing King Henry V's rousing pre-Battle of Agincourt speech: "By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honor,
I am the most offending soul alive."
Every day, El Gato Malo gives me courage, and Jeff Childers' Coffee & Covid gives me optimism.
If I could heart this 1000 times, I would!
Good news out of New York: Our legal team won a stay of implementation of Mayor De Blasio's vaccine mandate for City employees. No telling what happens next. The incoming Mayor may just shut it down... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/judge-blocks-nyc-vaccine-mandate-for-detective-who-sued-city
There's that great Gandhi quote about vaccines, but lockdowns, tyranny, evil can all be used interchangeably in place of vaccination.
"Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand alone, if need be, against the whole world, in defense of their conviction."
Keep building out the structures to resist and you will expose the cracks in their structures
Thank you. We all need to smile and say NO!
And STOP getting tested!!!!!
I'll bet that chart from Denmark with the rising om gives Neil Ferguson more of a lift than his cross-town honey.
For those of you who think, "I don't have any influence. I can't do anything". Stop!!! Just by doing small acts of non compliance you can give others hope and courage.
Take off the mask. Be cheerful. Ask people questions, like "How long are you willing to wear that thing?" Or "if they ask you to wear that mask for the rest of your life, will you?"
You will be SHOCKED at how many folks haven't even considered those types of questions. This is a tough one I know, but how about getting folks THINKING!!! for a change?
I posted the 2009 Slate article on our family thread yesterday and a shit storm ensued defending mask mandates. I pointed out to the group that wearing a mask was your personal choice. Someone piped up and said it was the law. Then I asked for the AB-CoVid requirement. I let them know a mandate is not a law. It’s an autocratic bureaucratic imposition. Crickets. Californians don’t understand freedom or choice. I responded my body my choice. The response was the virus isn’t a choice. Sounds a lot like a Democrat talking point.