Maybe it comes back in the fall, but right now I feel enormously relieved, and in fact a great joy about this, like a man finally released from prison. A lot of people seem to have positively enjoyed or been indifferent to the past two years, but I found them to be almost unendurable.
The restrictions have been unforgivable, I won‘t ever forget what Merkel‘s government did.
Here in the U.S. , in my small-medium city, non-profit "arts organizations" and the city itself continue the mask theatre and the v.status discrimination and segregation, as do businesses and employers.
I do not wish them the worst. But, and here’s where I’m with you in sentiment: we will see massive increases in so many diseases soon. Consequences. I can’t say that with 100 % certainty. But I’m watching closely and already seeing upticks.
We have discussed this on Kirsch and Berenson stacks and probably here too but I recognize individual health issues may not indicate a jab injury. Be careful pointing to this of that person as injured by a jab, you could be wrong. But it’s the numbers, the sheer numbers.
I work admin in a doctors office. In a year we might see a handful of 6th nerve palsy (causes a semi paralysis of the muscles near the eye and so the patient ends up with double vision). I’m watching THREE and possibly several more possible nervous disorders come into our clinic. We are eye docs, not neuro. One of our triple jabbed staff members prob. Has a heart condition (overheard they were wearing a monitor). Except for one of these, Four of the above are under the age of 40. One is in 50s and the one I suspect was possibly not a jab injury but the jab may have exacerbated her prior disposition toward dementia, is older. Again, I cannot sit here and say they are all jab injuries, but it’s sheer numbers.
So my point? They will get their reward. Many did not choose the jab. Some were unfairly compelled. But not all. Most chose it voluntarily. Many at my clinic. There is a jab mandate. Many would have gotten it anyway. I have a waiver.
My ire is for those who implement and enforce vax passes, thereby discriminating and marking others as diseased and dangerous. A seething contempt for these people is warranted, based on how such artificial measures of discrimination have played out in the past. I bear no ill will to anyone simply for getting injected.
In my long rant above ha ha, I forgot to mention a SIXTH or SEVENTh patient, a fairly young individual who now has a cancer that’s unusual. That’s over and above. Again, it’s the numbers. The sheer numbers in a clinic that doesn’t see stuff like this, it’s not our specialty. But the neuro and brain things can affect vision. And all of these are within the last three months except this person who was I think back late last year. Only slightly before.
kinda looking at all cause mortality. I agree with you that the general uptick is probably not a coincidence, especially since you are experienced and can see it and don't feel badly for them.
Yup, I still cannot attend the world-class symphony in my city because I'm not vaxxed. They've been around for over a hundred years, but I'm earnestly hoping that they go out of business. Call me juvenile. But I can't help it. Since their audience has been mostly white-haired for at least a decade, I'm guessing the symphony's days are numbered. To hell with them and their vax apartheid.
I hear you. Most small businesses in my neck of the woods did not comply with county ordinances that treated the unvaxxed as filthy disease-carriers. Why would they obey a decree that would cost them business, especially one proposed by a government that shuttered them down months earlier?
I have never been one to harbor hatred against others but, God help me, I have a seething contempt for those who advanced these hateful, divisive, discriminatory policies. Not sure if it's right, but I keep telling myself that anger in the face of such injustice is righteous...
You're right. I am still shedding the Vatican II "go belly up in the face of evil/Jesus is everyone's buddy" claptrap that they sold generations of unsuspecting kids.
Interestingly, I have very little visceral hate for those people. At some point I did experience it when they decided to jab children and put out the agitprop to encourage it. But it subsided since then. I feel some uneasiness for *not* hating them.
You bet. Here in Western U.S. also. The private sector has taken the baton and continues the crazy in the public relay race. A la CDC "Recommendations". The mindless appeal to authority.
Except for likely the largest industry in America, the healthcare system. They are all under the CMS regulation, and with the imprimatur of SCOTUS, that is unlikely to change -EVER. My son, like many, obtained a religious exception, but that does not free him from the tyranny of testing weekly as punishment. There is no logic or reason in testing only unvaxxed. Astoundingly stupid.
I’m in same boat as your son. Almost exact. After each test I clean my nose out thoroughly with a saline nasal wash with a few drops eucalyptus oil and then swab with coconut oil. I recommend b/c test swabs have EO (ethylene oxide) on them, a known carcinogen. “They” say it’s such a minor amount it’s negligible. “They” say a lot of things. I do not believe “them”. Other people have posted the tests are a way to collect our DNA. I’m still not on that particular bandwagon. But maybe......
The EO is a scandal, necessary only as an antiseptic. Occasionally RNs report seeing on the package that radiation is used instead. (My son is not a clinical employee, so his understanding of what is in stock is nil. He was using Xclear nasal spray before the test. Not sure if he’s still following that, after all, he is an adult. The hospitals in NJ are starting to have employees pay for the tests that THEY require. The reasonable accommodations have been punitive from the start.
I’ve been wondering when the tests will be something I have to pay for. Right now the PCR is being paid by insurance without cost to me. For literally 3 minutes of staff time (plus whatever stocking fee is necessary, plus probably 3 to 5 min of a fast clinic provider time for signature, they get $80. Well worth it to them. Their lab gets $100. Who do you think is subsidizing that? You and me. I saw the reimbursement.
Now I'm worried...because my daughter works in a nursing facility and must take a PCR test 2x a week. I'm wondering if she should use a saline nasal wash BEFORE or AFTER the test?
A good question. If she uses it after the test, the advantage is that it will dilute the chemical. Gravity is also working for her, in that the solution (and chemical) will run out of her nose. She shouldn’t tilt her head back because of the nares’ proximity to the brain. She should just swab the lowest portion if the tester is not doing it for her. These are my own thoughts, not from any bible of testing safety. Some RNs use vaseline. I would think Aquaphor would work well too. Believe it or not, some nurses find ways to spit on the tip or in the cup while the tester is looking away.
For legal reasons I will not exactly discuss what I do.
There are certain things that CAN and should be kept under the term “plausible deniability”. I’m actually chuckling writing this down. Lots you can do behind tinted car windows.
The masks are starting to get on my nerves so much I sometimes wear one on my head as a protest, I.e. “see I am protecting others by wearing a mask”. I am required to at work. But no where else at this time.
A local theater group here in Sacramento is the same, insane. Everyone masked, proof of vaxx or a negative test, as if the vaxx stops transmission. So SCIENTIFIC! It seems that I broke their little Nazi hearts when I told them I won't renew my subscription without an apology, in writing from the GM, for their medical apartheid belief system. I hope they get as many boosters as they want.
Won't happen, but, there is one way to stop all of this, that is when NO ONE, not a single member "obeys"... and yes, that will never happen ever, anywhere. But amusing to think about... EVERY single individual on EVERY commercial flight in the USA, synchronizing a time to removed their masks, en mass. While, at the same moment, every individual in any terminal in the USA removes their mask. Can you imagine the chaos as the "authorities" realize it is not just at "their" terminal, but in every terminal in every state. Then realize they have no spare resources, police, empty cells, vans to transport, etc. such an "emergency". To do so would be taking the police and emergency vehicles all off line to address this "national emergency"which is simultaneously taking place on every plane. The flight crews would be forced to ignore this, and turn their attention only to things like genuinely dangerous and/or violent passengers (hopefully this simple NON violent act of defiance would also end the growing problem of violent passengers pushed to their limits (such as parents being threatened to keep their crying child quiet and lower the child's oxygen intake by tying the mask on very tight). Passive resistance, worked for Gandhi ! You can stop some of the people all of the time, you can stop all of the people some of the time, there is no way to stop all of the people all of the time all over the country. A day, maybe two, of every single person NOT wearing a mask on a plane would mean total grounding of all flights, no crew could handle that. If 40,000 bought a ticket for a soccer game, were orderly, law abiding, BUT..... all 40K just marched in without a mask, what is the worst that could happen ? Can't arrest and jail 40 THOUSAND at once, most they could do is cancel the game. People who paid, and were just peaceful, getting some fresh air and sun, could just sit in the stadium for the duration of what SHOULD have been the game they paid for. (take your cell phone and a picnic lunch)... LOL !
Thank you, it's a fantasy of course, but just think if everyone could be convinced to do that even ONE day on every plane in the air on that day.. talk about a statement !
Did you see that video of the “Karen” who was on the plane (it was still on the runway/tarmac)? She was standing in the aisle ranting about s dude I think who was unvaxxed. She was demanding to sit elsewhere. The stewardess was explaining the plane was full, no options. The “Karen” kept on loudly stating she wasn’t going to sit in his airspace, etc.
Finally the pilot comes out and calmly explains to her if she doesn’t sit down and prepare calmly for takeoff, he was asking her to exit the aircraft. The entire plane erupts in applause.
Ah you see, we all have "Karen's", "Karl's" and even "gender neutral" privileged for whom any 'rules' simply do not apply..... LOL. I think they look absolutely STUPID, they think they look absolutely SUPERIOR.. if they only knew ! Oh, did you also notice they also made handy-capped parking spaces JUST for them. True story now (as our president always says....'true story here'...LOL!). Last week I pulled into local large grocery. Liquor store in same big plaza next to grocery. Into the handy cap space comes a "Karl", small white sports car. The "Karl" LITERALLY LEAPS OUT of the little auto, RUNS into the liquor store..... I walk into the grocery thinking, must be some emergency.... they are everywhere and they walk among us, those Karen's and Karl's ... lol !
I wish....but impossible for me for a number of reasons. Beautiful geography but the rest of it sucks....well, the corrupt politics and those who vote it in all suck.
I started to read this, even though I live two thousand miles away. I immediately felt hatred and anger coursing through my veins. These fanatics are vile. They must be punished.
That is obviously the best solution, but, not all are able to do that, jobs, take lower salaries, loose pensions, leave elderly family members who can't make major moves, on and on. I agree if it is at all possible. With the government expenses in California, can you imagine if just 20% of the working people left ? OMG ! Our friends, police officers in Oregon, were able to easily find work and move to Florida. They now have a home with a pool they can enjoy year round after work ! AND, can you believe this, they can ride their bikes to WORK and then pick up their patrol cars. Sad all can't just "pick up their marbles" and go to greener pastures !
That's why this is such a frustrating situation. People in a democracy SHOULD be able to simply fix their situation at the discretion of the majority. But, unfortunately, as a result of YEARS of ignoring the deeply hidden characteristics, beliefs, behaviors, even the financial backgrounds of candidates (for example, if the country is considering major issues, such as close all coal mines, or shut down all oil rigs, or such, does a candidate or candidate's family own any stocks that might benefit ? IF the house was considering going ALL electric, or ALL solar, it would be important to know if the house speaker, or the president of the senate, etc. have any "skin" in the electric or solar game ? Same goes for decisions about medicines and pharmaceutical development. Have you noticed that nearly 100% agree "follow the money". That phrase has gotten to be a rote response like "have a nice day", it's gotten to the point of meaningless ! Everyone says it, how many (when you look at our house and senate members) of any party seem to have taken the time to seriously dig into the backgrounds, and financial holdings, of these people ? I looked into the Biden's, took a LOT of research, before he even became the actual candidate. When I would mention some really disturbing FACTS, I was met (even from friends in the republican party) with things like, well HE turned over ALL his tax records/income, and other nonsense word salads !
We are just over the hill in NV. Have to get gov sisolek out!! It’s been great here. No masking. Went to a little city called Virginia city in Nv last wknd. It was incredible! Nobody followed any covid laws there the whole 2 years I heard!!!
The Kohl Mansion in Burlingame requires up to date vaccinations (means boosters) for anyone to attend. I’ll shun them for life. It’s a small venue anyways. Even chase center (the large basketball stadium / concert hall in San Francisco) allows unvaccinated folks with a test attendance.
Paul McCartney is supposed to play at the Camden Yards Stadium in Baltimore in June. Right now the stadium does not requires shots or tests, but I'm not buying tickets, as much as I would like see/hear him, just in case the stadium changes its RuleZ in the meantime. There are no refunds, no matter what.
You've just reminded me that the government in NZ made millions available in covid response grants including to 'creative industries'. Mostly a huge waste of money but I had a laugh as one Maori woman got $70,000 or so created and created an installation which included the vax injured. The bought off MSM were not impressed!!
I love Austria and Germany. I like them so much that I learnt German just to enjoy those countries more. But now I don’t feel like visiting anymore. Their measures during this madness (and most probably next fall as well) have been too much. I need reasons to go back and we should make lists of not discriminatory businesses in our cities. I don’t want to visit a restaurant that 3 months earlier (or later) didn’t let me in.
Might be very good advice if you can leave, reminds me of Herman Wouk's Winds of War novels... the SIGNS, the "gathering clouds" what happens when we tell ourselves it's not REALLY going to happen...
That’s how I felt when California last month finally officially allowed the dirty unvaccinated back into stores sans mask. Sadly though 80-90% of folks still run around with masks indoors (and many outdoors - FFP2 for a dog walk 🤦♀️).
I really don’t much care what most people think they need to do. I just don’t mask and enjoy seeing them smile behind the mask when I smile big at them without one. You can tell they are usually pleased to see a human face.
However, and I’m not one to use bad words ever but certainly not gratuitously, however, when kids are masked, blood is boiling right now I am thinking about it. Stupid parents. I know they are required, but NOT in the car or out on the sidewalk!!!!! Teach your kids it’s stupid and only make them do it when they get to the school doors. But no. Every single weekday morning. I have to drive past the elementary school. Masked kids. Walking on the sidewalk or riding bikes. And their parents drop them off and the parent walks away, in open air, no one around, mask on. Huh?????????
Been gone for months here but I am enrolled in two "senior" classes at the University of Utah. The students in the class on John Stuart Mill are 100% masked and the class on Kent Haruf (writer) is 5% masked and all women (full disclosure-I am not a biologist). Senior clown world.
Not the east side of Salt Lake City. Full social acceptance requires lgbt, Trans, BLM, Ukraine lawn flags plus the "trust the science, love is love, hate has no home here, etc." sign. I spent two months in Palm Springs which 20%? gay and zero yard signs.
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Think it was Voltaire who first said it, perhaps later Will Rogers said approximately the same, yet it still applies to all ages, genders, and cultures ! I believe I had previously mentioned somewhere on this platform, that Catherine the Great of Russia always espoused that the peasant masses loved to "feel the whip"... just a less refined way of what Voltaire meant when he said fools REVERE their chains (masks and lock-downs?)
There is an interesting psychology to be witnessed on both sides of 'The Great Plague Divide'. There are maskers and Vax'ers who still scold & scowl... But, surprisingly, from the obverse direction, some of my most ardent combatants in the war against Mandates & Lock Downs are sounding a bit uneasy. They seem a bit like a Sancho Panza who's windmills have all been removed from the landscape. Oh, there are still the persistent Ivermectin Study fabrications to rail against, and our Govt's desperate clinging to the Vaccine Narrative. But we know that it is just a matter of time until the weight of upholding the false narrative becomes to great to go on and their voices trail off into anonymity. But my warrior friends worriedly say "What will Eugyppius write about once the Pandemic is over?"
Personally, as a physician who lost his DEA License for 6 months prescribing the forbidden fruit of IVM & HCQ, I look forward to a modicum of sanity. There is much hard work to be done trying to root out the vermin who have infested the Cathedral of Medicine. It will likely fail. Money, arrogance, ego and that strange taste of Power derived from forcing colleagues to swallow a false narrative & bend the knee will not vanished easily. I do not mean what I'm about to say in a Germanic sense, but there is a little bit of Nazi in each of our hearts. Jung called it The Shadow. We have lived under the ruling flag of The Shadow for more than two years now. And, there are those small matters of the likes of Putin, Zelensky, Schwab, Trudeau and my favorite maniacal authoritarian fetishist... Jacinda Arden to cope with.
The slow winding down of the so-called Medical Crisis is not like the triumphant end of a War where the losing Leaders and Generals can be rounded up and retribution exacted. At best, we can hope a few lessons were learned. We thought during the faux Pax Americana of the last 70 years we had moved beyond The Shadow... But he is still here... in each heart... we need to cleanse our elongated shadows and strive for a small shift back toward "Normalcy"... But, we must be clear we likely will never "Make Western Civilization Great Again:
Nothing worst than a missing windmill. I wish, oh how I wish, I could disagree with you. But, sadly, I suspect that Jungian Shadow will prevail. The world I grew up in is gone. The freedoms I took for granted in my misspent youth have been consigned to history. (And history itself is being rewritten). The past two years have put paid to pretty well all of our freedoms. Speech, Movement, Assembly, Religion, Association are now at the pleasure of the ruling elite, (whoever they are).
If you need any more to lament, look into the details of the new, much anticipated, roll out of 5G cell service. Faster (oh hooray, hooray), what ELSE goes along with that ? Look DEEPLY into the details... like the fabulous invention of "apps", and tracking watches that even keep track of the number of hours you sleep AND the quality of that sleep (might you need a sleeping "medication", or just a new mattress ?).... all is so convenient (for WHO and WHY ?). Mommy always said, if it sounds too good to be true...BEWARE !) IF you have the tenacity to dig for the details of what else 5G brings in addition to speed, you will probably not like what you find.... China, China, China...
We are of a similar mind. Finding myself daring to hope for small turning back of the WEF Narrative... while hoping that these victories are something more than Pyrrhic Exercises in self-congratulations. I continue to enjoy Eugyppius' Postings and trust that the width and breadth of his scope will allow him to continue to be as insightful as his handling of 'The Plague Chronicle.' I have a collection of first draft manuscripts about things other than just The Plague Narrative. Thank you for your note. --ejd
The virus will "return" in autumn- I think that is pretty much guaranteed. If the testing regime remains in place the rest of the year, then the safety circus will likely return to the same places that kept them for the entire last 2 years, but there will almost certainly be less compliance. What happens then, I don't know.
In Germany we have record case numbers, as in a quarter a million a day, over half of official test results positive. We have had record case numbers more days than not since November. THis is the great benefit of the world's strictest corona regime (over that time period) and one of the highest vaccination rates in the world!
So "return of the virus, Part IV" will have a high bar to clear, even on the currently favoured "case count".
Except of course by t hen, everyone will have forgotten...
Ugh. I am sick and tired of these inaccurate (and thus worse than worthless) tests. They just perpetuate the sham. I hope we can all refuse testing, along with refusing masks, antisocial distancing, shots. Refuse all of it!
I've heard way worse than 90% inaccurate. PCR is useless, the way it's done-- 40+ cycles will "reveal" viral trace anywhere. 'Cause guess what-- viruses ARE everywhere.
Are there statistics available in Germany to make it possible to follow actual sickness rates, like ICU admissions, hospitalizations, etc. I know they aren’t reliable, but at least here in San Diego they have been indicative.
Are you one of those "Seasonality Theorist" people?
Do note that all of the rules and regulations , plus some new ones with more powers, are still "on the books." Look at the new WHO pandemic rules quietly passed last month.
In terms of the "Psyop", this is just another cycle of Mass Formation.
Intermittent reinforcement is one of THE most powerful, if not THE most powerful, conditioning techniques in the world. Intermittent application of torture with intermittent positive reinforcement of prisoners of war is legendary for breaking down all resistance and gaining complete control over an individual or a population.
Probably why Fauci has reemerged to prep everyone for the coming "New Covid Restrictions". Still gotta nail that stubborn 30% or so that didn't immediately capitulate the first go around. And further identify and isolate the 5-10% that will never comply. The spiritual warriors.
It is clear that a shockingly large number of people succumbed to the propaganda almost immediately, but I take heart in the fact that so very many did NOT, and we're out there in seemingly increasing numbers as people have the courage to admit that fact. I wish I knew how many, what percentage of the world's people caught on to the fraud early on and have been clear minded about the need to continue resisting the brainwashing. Certainly I know there is simply nothing the covidiots could ever say to change my way of thinking. If enough people can get to that point, it will finally be over and we win.
The "pandemic treaty" is still in its early stages. Below are three paragraphs from an April 1st 2022 post to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the folks who set the Doomsday Clock.
Last December, at a special meeting of the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the WHO, country representatives agreed to kick off reforms when they voted for negotiating an international agreement or pandemic treaty. With the vote, the conversation seemingly moved beyond simply reforming the WHO and towards the creation of a stand-alone legally binding instrument: a new international structure to address pandemics.
Pars. 13, 14
A WHO-adjacent organization. WHO members agreed to start the reform process when they met at the World Health Assembly in May 2021. Informed by the independent panel, members called for a special meeting on reform to be held in the fall, signaling that a new organization would likely be related to, but not under WHO leadership. The proposed global health threats council led by heads of state could serve as a model for this agreement.
At the November 2021 special meeting, countries formally agreed to initiate a process “for negotiating a pandemic treaty or other international pact.” The move was seen as an important step that could lead to “sweeping reforms of global health if it succeeds.” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the decision a “cause for hope”—the goal would be to begin negotiations in March 2022 and to develop a “global agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention and response” by as early as May 2024.
Just went to the link and read the entire thing ! Absolutely horrifying, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, I have literally begged friends and colleagues to look up every detail of this man, his background in a deeply authoritarian government, look up the Ethiopian cholera event and Mr. Ghebreyesus, he is also the very first director of the World Health Organization to not be a medical doctor. Carefully research (which does NOT mean reading a Yahoo article) his ties to, and activity in, terrorist organizations. Ask yourself, WHY ? Why, after reading the truth about this ambitious, self-serving, individual, why would you, or ANY American, rather democrat or republican, ANY tax paying worker "agree" to fund this organization and this man ? Again, just another part of the Alice Through the Looking Glass crazy down is up world !
If it's his book on Fauci, I JUST bought a copy for my personal library TODAY, have not started it yet, probably tomorrow. That is MY personal paranoia, that hard print copies of ALL books, recorded history, etc. will go the route of our "textbooks", all on I-Pads. and I fear soon, "libraries" too will be reclaimed, their space needed for more "important" things...after all, we now have all books on technology files... takes up little physical space, and, better yet, an entire chapter, history, incident, date, anything, can be changed with a few keyboard strokes. The Alamo ? A few strokes, and, it never happened, an aggression, assignation, or even an important invention or discovery, can be changed with a few key strokes. If it would become inconvenient for those of Italian heritage to be known as making great contributions, Marconi, even Columbus, could be instantly changed to, say Portuguese, ALL records the same, since no actual books could ever be discovered hidden away some day..... so, today I added The Real Fauci to my EXTENSIVE library (might have to consider saving for an extension to the house !
Hard to wrap my head around this. I don’t see the US willfully overriding our Bill of Rights and Constitution. I don’t see the international community overriding its other codes (Nuremburg). Frankly, I am not a citizen of the world, but a US citizen.
The WHO already has authority to make legally binding international health regulations. Thankfully they've only used it once, in 2005 with their Tobacco Free Initiative. Now they're actually seeking a new "international structure" for "sweeping reforms." I certainly hope this is just a pipe dream for them, but who would've thought in January 2020 that lockdowns and vax mandates were possible in the West?
WHO news Jan 12 2021
"Article 19 of the WHO Constitution provides the World Health Assembly with the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on any matter within WHO’s competence. The sole instrument established under Article 19 to date is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which has made a significant and rapid contribution to protecting people from tobacco since its entry into force in 2005."
I have read every syllable of the assembly proceedings and hoped for proposal agreements. I doubt those of us on here who have, and who realize how absolutely horrifying the specter of this is, will be able to convince our neighbor, or colleague just how serious this is, and how way beyond any frivolous party affiliations. While we squabble about the liberal/conservative views, THESE ARE EXACTLY THE KINDS OF THINGS HAPPENING while we pay no attention !
I feel exactly the same way. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the mask mandate was dropped two weeks ago. I have hated them since the beginning and I am amazed at how many people are still wearing them both inside and outside. Supposedly next week on April 8th the need for a vaccine passport will be dropped in this province. However, I have a horrible feeling they will be reinstated in the fall along with the hated masks. Probably a temporary reprieve at best.
Just learned that certain activities offered to employees at a large regional accounting firm are only offered to the vax’d, even though all related travel is within the boundaries of the U.S. So, one of my grown children would be allowed to participate but not the other. Even though both have had Covid and are equally immune. When will this madness ever end?
My daughter works at a hospital in Arizona. She’s a registered nurse. During this entire thing, the injected (it’s not a vaccine!) employees have been provided extra perks not provided to the unjabbed.
I empathise. After 20 years I fled France towards the end of last year back to the UK at significant cost and disruption, to escape as good as mandatory vaccination without which normal life was not possible, and obligatory masks. The huge sense of freedom I felt in non-mandate UK was immense.
almost nobody wears masks - not even on public transport, now. in hospitals, yes, as it's still 'required', though outside of medical settings people 8 times out of 10 no longer wear them. a few weeks ago, it was 50/50.
Masks have been horrible for me. They are not just an inconvenient annoyance. Today my husband and I were watching some silly TV show in which one character places an iron mask like from Dumas' book on someone else's head. I felt horrifically claustrophobic seeing this even though I'm not claustrophobic. Just thinking about it now makes the inside of my head feel all burny (best way I can describe it) and I can't quite breathe. We watched the show hours ago, and I am still incredibly unsettled. I feel like a terrible wimp, but there you have it. I can't stand wearing a mask. (Thankfully the tyrants removed mask requirements for most places about there weeks ago.)
It took me six months to be able to keep a mask on long enough to grocery shop. I couldn’t breathe and felt such anxiety about seeing everyone around me in masks, like being in a horror movie. It almost felt like a panic attack at times. One time, a guy started shouting at me and chasing me when I pulled it down to breathe for a minute. Security had to escort me to my car! They feared for my safety. Needless to say, this increased my anxiety from that day forward.
Sounds like mask exemptions were not possible then? Here you could just decide for yourself (which I did) and download a card which was not compulsory to show even. However, I being an anxious sort, I ended up being very reclusive for months and just not going anywhere. We live in a beautiful place which made this easier. The last few weeks, I've got brave and am going into shops mask free. I have only been challenged once but it was no problem. At 11.59 pm tonight, vax passports are being dropped which means I can go to places like restaurants, hairdressers, concerts and other events. Feel like telling them to stick it!! We've saved a lot of money though.
These same people, who now want to go to War with Russia, do so with their rallying cry of "Freedom, liberty and democracy". Their actions do not match their words.
I have felt like a cat bouncing against the walls I'd suddenly found around me. I've become frustrated and feral. I'm angry for others for whom it is worse.
We should never forget and remind those around us constantly lest they forget.
No need to add a single word here. I Invested in a new lipstick and am planning go to three shops on Monday to show it off. :-) Not quite sure how many people will turn up maskless on Monday at work or in the shops, though.
I was so scared that they would not take the exit ramp now (after not taking the one on 20th of March) that I did not dare check the proposed regulations, so was actually a bit surprised that we were at the point where mandates would be done away with.
This has truly been such a winter of discontent, and folly, and incompetence, may nothing like this ever return!
I'm so glad for you. It's been a bad 'un over there in Teutonland. Your counter-narrative campaign has been tireless and hell-bent on preserving what's left of logic and reason and scientific enquiry. Enjoy the reprieve. You deserve to savour it. Let's hope all the reprieves last, when they come eventually. And that our worst predictions don't come to pass.
Let's remember the loved ones who were not complicit in jailing us, marginalizing us, even when they didn't see the absolute lies we saw.
My vaxxed husband, who never pressured me to get jabbed, just told me that he will find a way to take me on a tour we just found out about. He said he won't do it without me.
That's actually quite a commitment because we don't know what fuckery will be taking place in the autumn. I won't hold him to it, but it made my heart sing.
Your husband sounds lovely. Mine is the same way regarding vaccines. He has had both plus a booster and I remain unvaccinated. He is fine with that and has never pressured me to get the shots, which takes the pressure off me. Because we live in Canada I can't travel in this country by train or plane. However, we are fortunate to have a really comfortable trailer which we spend several months a year in on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We leave on May 5h for four months and are both really looking forward to it. We used to camp in the United States at a resort we are members of, but sadly we can't go there anymore. I agree with your comments regarding our loved ones. However, I do worry about the long term effects that they may experience in the future. I am the only unvaccinated person in our blended family of twenty people.
Have been to BC and Vancouver Island. We are thinking of getting a caravan and doing some travelling soon as well but need to sort out our finances first. Hope you travels go well.
So sorry to hear about both your father and sister. Both my siblings are jabbed, both my daughters and all four of my grandchildren. So far, they are all fine but who knows what the future will bring? My eldest grandson who will be 27 this spring did have a reaction to his second shot. He spent 24 hours shaking and vomiting. It terrified him and he told me he has a friend in the United States that had the same reaction. Thankfully, at this point he has no intentions of getting a booster. Unfortunately, like so many other people he only agreed to the shots in order to keep his job.
Our business calls for a lot of travel...really fun travel... so it has been inconvenient for him that I refuse to take the clot shot, esp. since I am his bg singer and am really good at organizing travel and keeping things running smoothly.
Even if things go back to lockdown, and I don't go, he's not considered fully jabbed in some of those countries due to the passage of time.
I work as a teacher for a distance education provider. The vax was mandated for teachers on 15 Nov 2021. A small group of us declined and were given permission to work from home until the end of the school year. Teachers who do not have in person contact with students are NOT mandated (we potentially have a small amount of contact but not regularly). Our boss decided everyone WAS mandated so we have been fighting to keep our jobs. The government mandate is being lifted tonight. But we have been told that until the end of term (14 April) we must be based at home. Throughout this whole period most employees (teachers and non-teachers) have been based at home apart from some senior managers and maybe a once a fortnight meeting in the office. Also we are not going to get paid any lost wages so we are getting paid for NOT working as opposed to getting paid for working. It's government money so.......
DO NOT LET DOWN YOUR GUARD. Look at what is happening in Australia and in California. In CA the legislature is proposing bills that will take away free speech- Senate Bill 1390 prohibits any person/entity from making statements the State deems untrue or misleading by any means including on the internet or ads. Then they have Assembly bill 2098 which classifies anti-covid medical opinion as unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by medical boards and potentially the loss of their licenses. And of course they still want everyone vaxxed- see SB871 and AB 1993. The bills require EVERYONE who wants to work or go to school to get covid vaxxed. All of this is being done with little notice and no attention from the MSM. They are also re-creating the Gestapo by a bill that would require law enforcement to enforce public health guidelines of lose their funding. There is more too about required testing and disclosure to third parties without consent. And oh yes, they want to make 12 year old children capable of consenting to vaccinations without parental consent or notification before or after!!
"Assembly Bill 1993, which would require all California businesses to require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, is being halted by the author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, Tuesday afternoon".
I'm so glad this one is not being pursued for now, but it's disgusting that these bills are so under the radar. Thanks for your post. Many of these tyrannical CA bills are covered in depth on the Highwire's podcast on Friday, April 1, entitled "California Screamin'"
Yes .. some public pressure has been shifting the worst of the bills in CA (see Amy Bohn on the highwire this week) ( https://thehighwire.com/watch/ ) But other bills, and the mass formation where people believe this is actually protecting health, remain ...
Also, the WHO Pandemic Treaty has implications for the whole world, overriding constitutions / national laws. https://jamesroguski.substack.com/ - *Lots* of good info here on this substack about pandemic treaty. He is new on substack, after his website was taken down.
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw20220331/ - smartphones capable of QR codes are how IDs and everything else is linked to medical compliance (although the WHO has generously, inclusively, stated that those without smartphones need access to digital identities also).
(Yet, still, find joy in life and nature and sky and air and trees and travel ... )
Globalist are not fans of national sovereignty or the concept of the modern nation-state. Any action that contributes to the weakening of such is a plus to them. I may be wrong but I think the modern nation state and personal autonomy are closely linked. Why? Because there is an understanding that the nation state is for the most part a political one and subject to the will of its citizens. A free populace is essential to this. Squash personal autonomy with mandates from those who are not beholden to the people is one way to make people forget they are free. Serfs all.
There is nothing we should be happy about until they are all in jail. They are giving us something back that they had no right to take away in the first place.
Oh we're still locked up, it's just that the cage is much bigger now. Enjoy your summer indulgences from the warden. And thank you for inspiring us prisoners!
Same here.. We used to have decades-long memberships to the Boston Museum of Science and several other museums in New England. Since the madness those have all been cancelled with strongly worded emails about vaccine induced medical apartheid and useless masking regulations. Never got a response to any of them, not one. So Fuck them.
My world has gotten so much smaller too but it's not the museums I miss most. It's the friends and family that became devout Covidians and excommunicated us maskless purebloods from their broken lives of imaginary fear. Truly the most terrible toll is those lifelong relationships just blown away by this evil scheme.
"It's the friends and family that became devout Covidians and excommunicated us maskless purebloods from their broken lives of imaginary fear. Truly the most terrible toll is those lifelong relationships just blown away by this evil scheme."
That's me, too. Alone out here with my pureblood lil self. I sometimes cry for my whole family, who are all vxd, put their kids through it, and have written me off as hopelessly deluded.
Same. Feeling very alone. I'm the only one in my family who is not vaxxed. Daughter currently not speaking to me because I tried to convince her getting a booster (for a vacation!) might not be a good idea.
aye.... I gotta admit I've cried over it a fair number of times myself. But hard times make for strong men and those hard times have just yet begun. Stay true.
this whole plandemic was a sham. Yes, there are viruses and many are more virulent, yes, this one was most probably created in a petri dish, but I honestly do not believe that this is the very first manufactured virus. We just have to always be prepared to survive the actions of insane people.
From what I've been reading about past virus infestations, I increasingly think there have been quite a few "releases" in past decades. This virus was more deadly for the elderly and compromised, but not for most other groups. And prior to Covid, the viruses that were circulating were not hijacked for political purposes.
News15 mins ago: Pregnant women next door (early 30s) in hospital with pregnancy "issues". While in hospital learns her father has died from heart "issues". Husband doesn't know which way to turn. Climate change is merciless.
It's not over in health care. The VA hospital is trying to void my religious exemption. The university system is just now implementing weekly testing for the unvaxxed. We have almost no patients in the hospital with covid. It is maddening that after working in a hospital for the entire pandemic I may lose my job now.
I retired early from the VA two weeks ago. I was just exhausted...after 22 years of excellent nursing then having this ax hanging over my head for 18 months. I am protected by natural immunity...the cognitive dissonance, the manipulation, the outright hostile workplace this inspired. In my smallish facility in Boise, Idaho probably a third of the staff has either been coerced into submitting to this or is preparing to be fired or retire early. Just today I saw an ad placed by the VA for job openings do to the "nursing shortage". The man Biden chose to head this system is not even a veteran! Like I said...The cognitive dissonance!!!
We are losing the best people! The ones who remain would not be the ones I’d hire or trust with my own healthcare. I’m looking into alternative healthcare providers as a result.
My husband was in a VA clinic today, trying to get a deeply embedded splinter removed. His doctor met with him, FINALLY without a face shield. Hubs asked the doctor about Covid deaths with his patients. He had to admit there had been none that he knew of the whole time. Then he mentioned that NOW they were seeing an inexplicably high number of deaths but not from Covid, and they can't figure out why. DUH! No mention of the vaccines, although my husband suspects that most veteran patients had the jab because every time he was in for a checkup or whatever, they would ask if he wanted a vaccine. He always declined, thank goodness, but they keep asking.
Healthcare is maddening. There is no logic to the rules. The CMS regulation that SCOTUS approved was based on the facts as the Court and the parties understood them months earlier. The reasonable accommodations are unreasonable and unhealthy.
Pirna was an early centre of resistance to all this nonsense, even in spring 2020, part of the reason I‘m here. A lot of people just don‘t wear them and nobody bothers you. But today it‘s a solid majority ignoring, you can tell many were just putting up with it.
I've been really surprised at how compliant so many people are willing to be. I was in a particular local market today, a market in which people persisted in wearing masks long after people who shopped in other markets were maskless. The mask mandates were recently lifted, and all those formerly compliant mask wearers in this market are ALL maskless. When I was there today, I saw only one woman wearing one. I had previously felt that this particular market attracted the really fearful part of our local population, but I guess that wasn't really the case. I'm not sure what the explanation is for this market's mask obsession, but it sure disappeared quickly. For months I went in there and was virtually the only customer without a mask, yet no one said a word to me about it. I found it all rather amusing, actually.
We're all prisoners sitting on an ocean beach. The waves have strangely stopped. The strangest thing of all is the water has receded back out so far..... poisonous pFauci-fish are numerous and flopping in the sun on the damp sand, their stupid mouths frantically moving but now no sounds come out.
Some prisoners from the beach are wandering out miles to see what else this mysterious tide has left behind.. Where has all the water gone?
Mask mandate gone in Hessen, most people still following it.
Went to favourite sushi place, we used to go almost every weekend. The last 2 years? Perhaps 3/4 times. I am very bloody minded about not having tests or proving vaccination status.
Some morons still putting masks on to stand up.
Shops in Frankfurt full of maskies, I was the only one without, but for the first time no one complained.
I don't give the remaining masking long, but the risk is this is a feint. The legal basis of this must be removed. In time, the maskies are not ready for it, there must be investigations and punishments. And there are still travel restrictions and such.
I suppose that on this post is an appropriate place to report my experience with vax mandates:
As an old and taxable U S person, I am in a position to make donations to various charitable organizations. Last year I donated to over 3 dozen of them.
This year, I am gradually emailing inquiries: Do you require your employees, clients, or volunteers to have been vaxxd, as I will not donate to such organizations? A few (notably archive.org and realclearfoundation.org) have responded that no, of course we don't require it. One responded saying no, we do not require it, but our entire board has been vaxxd (as if they did not understand my concern!).
Several simply did not respond, so I suppose they wouldn't qualify for donations. And the director of one responded that they do not require the vax but are "going to start a new policy of turning down donations from people who I’m aware are outspoken opponents of vaccine mandates."
I probably won't bother to make inquiries before donating to organizations formed largely to oppose vaccine mandates or to aid vaccine victims.
If I may put in my two cents as the mother of an autistic person, I'd like to suggest that, if you contribute to an charity for people on the spectrum, that you look to local or more autistic-friendly organizations. Autism Speaks! is NOT that.
Those of us who advocate and have done our research see that they are oriented towards preventing autistic persons not helping people on the spectrum.
They also, last I looked, are very vehement promoters of more vaccines in the childhood schedule. To be on the message boards is to hear conversations of people complaining about their children for being different. They also had an ad out promoting the ridiculous idea that autistic kids don't love.
I'm just saying that because they soak up so much of the contributions that should go to organizations that actually like autistic people and don't wish to institutionalize them.
Thanks for that note. So far, none of the local organizations I've queried has responded (other than the one cited in my original comment). I would have thought local groups would have humans who read and respond to inquiries, but my experience thus far is that it's the national orgs who actually read their messages.
Thanks, this is a great idea. When I was prevented from attending Mass as an unvaxxed person, I wrote to my parish priest explaining why as a matter of conscience I could not support this so was withdrawing my regular online donation. Previously, I had already moved towards more discerning charity giving as I believe some are no different than government or corporations. Because many workers were mandated here and then the health and safety people for non mandated groups rushed in to keep everyone 'safe' It's difficult to know what organisations are in which camp. But I will certainly be reviewing my giving again.
Let’s hope it goes away. I’m still waiting for the weird travel procedures to go away. As a non vaccinated German citizen living in the USA apparently I am allowed in with a test and quarantine but it’s incredibly poorly written (Beamtendeutsch), United told me they wouldn’t let me board 😱. I’d love to go back home and see family and go on long hikes in the forests whilst feasting on Ritter Sport 😂
I agree! I'm waiting for the Biden Administration to allow unvaccinated tourists to enter the US- the legal way. I'm so desperate for my unvaccinated best friend to come here, I'm going to send her a sombrero and some cheap tanning cream and a ticket to Mexico soon...
Yes, same here in New Zealand. Because I am a permanent resident (not a citizen), if I leave for a trip to Ireland (where I'm from) I don't need the vax or a test (on certain airlines only btw - their mandate!) but on return I would have to go into quarantine but not my husband because he's a citizen. Planning a trip for maybe next year now.
Square-shaped candy bar with some of the best chocolate you'll ever wrap your lips around. Produced in Germany and, as Charlotte pointed out, comes in an incredible variety of filling including the whole hazelnut (my fave), butter cookie (my second favorite), marzipan, caramel, almond, etc. The chocolates are also available in milk, dark, and white.
I’ll buy some extras hehe. Many markets carry them. World market too. My fave is prolly the mousse au chocolate one. Though th Xmas editions are tasty too.
People are so damn ridiculous. I collect fountain pens and one company acknowledged that some customers were asking if they'd still sell a brand called Benu because they were, until recently, based on Russia. The company stuck by them but, I think, mostly because Benu has relocated to Armenia.
Just got back from a trip to Atlanta, where the 1 in 50 people still wearing masks stuck out like turds on the sidewalk, but officious signs limiting elevator occupancy, etc, remain, and probably will until they crumble and peel away.
I was skiing yesterday we were outside in the deck enjoying a beer. A young mom had her 3 year old completely masked up. Outside. I felt sick. She was not masked. Also another young man out on the deck with his huge k95 mask on! I just can not believe it!!
Maybe it comes back in the fall, but right now I feel enormously relieved, and in fact a great joy about this, like a man finally released from prison. A lot of people seem to have positively enjoyed or been indifferent to the past two years, but I found them to be almost unendurable.
The restrictions have been unforgivable, I won‘t ever forget what Merkel‘s government did.
Here in the U.S. , in my small-medium city, non-profit "arts organizations" and the city itself continue the mask theatre and the v.status discrimination and segregation, as do businesses and employers.
Horrible human beings, to discriminate based on being jabbed with an ineffective "vaccine."
Am I a bad guy for wishing nothing but the worst for these self-righteous bigots?
Nope--they are 'trans-human' now and have little in common with us pure bloods. They will be self destructing in 5-4-3-2-1.
I do not wish them the worst. But, and here’s where I’m with you in sentiment: we will see massive increases in so many diseases soon. Consequences. I can’t say that with 100 % certainty. But I’m watching closely and already seeing upticks.
We have discussed this on Kirsch and Berenson stacks and probably here too but I recognize individual health issues may not indicate a jab injury. Be careful pointing to this of that person as injured by a jab, you could be wrong. But it’s the numbers, the sheer numbers.
I work admin in a doctors office. In a year we might see a handful of 6th nerve palsy (causes a semi paralysis of the muscles near the eye and so the patient ends up with double vision). I’m watching THREE and possibly several more possible nervous disorders come into our clinic. We are eye docs, not neuro. One of our triple jabbed staff members prob. Has a heart condition (overheard they were wearing a monitor). Except for one of these, Four of the above are under the age of 40. One is in 50s and the one I suspect was possibly not a jab injury but the jab may have exacerbated her prior disposition toward dementia, is older. Again, I cannot sit here and say they are all jab injuries, but it’s sheer numbers.
So my point? They will get their reward. Many did not choose the jab. Some were unfairly compelled. But not all. Most chose it voluntarily. Many at my clinic. There is a jab mandate. Many would have gotten it anyway. I have a waiver.
My ire is for those who implement and enforce vax passes, thereby discriminating and marking others as diseased and dangerous. A seething contempt for these people is warranted, based on how such artificial measures of discrimination have played out in the past. I bear no ill will to anyone simply for getting injected.
In my long rant above ha ha, I forgot to mention a SIXTH or SEVENTh patient, a fairly young individual who now has a cancer that’s unusual. That’s over and above. Again, it’s the numbers. The sheer numbers in a clinic that doesn’t see stuff like this, it’s not our specialty. But the neuro and brain things can affect vision. And all of these are within the last three months except this person who was I think back late last year. Only slightly before.
may I ask what cancer?
Well said. I feel the same.
kinda looking at all cause mortality. I agree with you that the general uptick is probably not a coincidence, especially since you are experienced and can see it and don't feel badly for them.
Yup, I still cannot attend the world-class symphony in my city because I'm not vaxxed. They've been around for over a hundred years, but I'm earnestly hoping that they go out of business. Call me juvenile. But I can't help it. Since their audience has been mostly white-haired for at least a decade, I'm guessing the symphony's days are numbered. To hell with them and their vax apartheid.
I hear you. Most small businesses in my neck of the woods did not comply with county ordinances that treated the unvaxxed as filthy disease-carriers. Why would they obey a decree that would cost them business, especially one proposed by a government that shuttered them down months earlier?
I have never been one to harbor hatred against others but, God help me, I have a seething contempt for those who advanced these hateful, divisive, discriminatory policies. Not sure if it's right, but I keep telling myself that anger in the face of such injustice is righteous...
And we are allowed to hate evil.
You're right. I am still shedding the Vatican II "go belly up in the face of evil/Jesus is everyone's buddy" claptrap that they sold generations of unsuspecting kids.
Evil needs to be opposed fiercely.
We have to have contempt for those who are helping this creeping authoritarianism along.
I hate to say it but I feel that their virtue signaling asses need to find other work, especially the administrators.
I hope they all have to take massive amounts of pills and booze to get one minute of sleep. May they be convicted to the core.
Nope. You're normal.
Interestingly, I have very little visceral hate for those people. At some point I did experience it when they decided to jab children and put out the agitprop to encourage it. But it subsided since then. I feel some uneasiness for *not* hating them.
You bet. Here in Western U.S. also. The private sector has taken the baton and continues the crazy in the public relay race. A la CDC "Recommendations". The mindless appeal to authority.
Except for likely the largest industry in America, the healthcare system. They are all under the CMS regulation, and with the imprimatur of SCOTUS, that is unlikely to change -EVER. My son, like many, obtained a religious exception, but that does not free him from the tyranny of testing weekly as punishment. There is no logic or reason in testing only unvaxxed. Astoundingly stupid.
I’m in same boat as your son. Almost exact. After each test I clean my nose out thoroughly with a saline nasal wash with a few drops eucalyptus oil and then swab with coconut oil. I recommend b/c test swabs have EO (ethylene oxide) on them, a known carcinogen. “They” say it’s such a minor amount it’s negligible. “They” say a lot of things. I do not believe “them”. Other people have posted the tests are a way to collect our DNA. I’m still not on that particular bandwagon. But maybe......
The EO is a scandal, necessary only as an antiseptic. Occasionally RNs report seeing on the package that radiation is used instead. (My son is not a clinical employee, so his understanding of what is in stock is nil. He was using Xclear nasal spray before the test. Not sure if he’s still following that, after all, he is an adult. The hospitals in NJ are starting to have employees pay for the tests that THEY require. The reasonable accommodations have been punitive from the start.
I’ve been wondering when the tests will be something I have to pay for. Right now the PCR is being paid by insurance without cost to me. For literally 3 minutes of staff time (plus whatever stocking fee is necessary, plus probably 3 to 5 min of a fast clinic provider time for signature, they get $80. Well worth it to them. Their lab gets $100. Who do you think is subsidizing that? You and me. I saw the reimbursement.
Now I'm worried...because my daughter works in a nursing facility and must take a PCR test 2x a week. I'm wondering if she should use a saline nasal wash BEFORE or AFTER the test?
A good question. If she uses it after the test, the advantage is that it will dilute the chemical. Gravity is also working for her, in that the solution (and chemical) will run out of her nose. She shouldn’t tilt her head back because of the nares’ proximity to the brain. She should just swab the lowest portion if the tester is not doing it for her. These are my own thoughts, not from any bible of testing safety. Some RNs use vaseline. I would think Aquaphor would work well too. Believe it or not, some nurses find ways to spit on the tip or in the cup while the tester is looking away.
I hope at least one conspiracy theory is untrue. At least one. Please God!
For legal reasons I will not exactly discuss what I do.
There are certain things that CAN and should be kept under the term “plausible deniability”. I’m actually chuckling writing this down. Lots you can do behind tinted car windows.
If you saw what I wrote before, you can guess.
See other reply. I have 2 elderly people who depend on me. Quitting my job is not, at this time anyway, an option. Or moving.
Yeah. Everyone is masking at CVS again... Grrrr
The masks are starting to get on my nerves so much I sometimes wear one on my head as a protest, I.e. “see I am protecting others by wearing a mask”. I am required to at work. But no where else at this time.
The trans-humans will follow until their death. Which is not far off.
A local theater group here in Sacramento is the same, insane. Everyone masked, proof of vaxx or a negative test, as if the vaxx stops transmission. So SCIENTIFIC! It seems that I broke their little Nazi hearts when I told them I won't renew my subscription without an apology, in writing from the GM, for their medical apartheid belief system. I hope they get as many boosters as they want.
https://www.sactheatre.org/about-stc/keeping-you-safe/
Won't happen, but, there is one way to stop all of this, that is when NO ONE, not a single member "obeys"... and yes, that will never happen ever, anywhere. But amusing to think about... EVERY single individual on EVERY commercial flight in the USA, synchronizing a time to removed their masks, en mass. While, at the same moment, every individual in any terminal in the USA removes their mask. Can you imagine the chaos as the "authorities" realize it is not just at "their" terminal, but in every terminal in every state. Then realize they have no spare resources, police, empty cells, vans to transport, etc. such an "emergency". To do so would be taking the police and emergency vehicles all off line to address this "national emergency"which is simultaneously taking place on every plane. The flight crews would be forced to ignore this, and turn their attention only to things like genuinely dangerous and/or violent passengers (hopefully this simple NON violent act of defiance would also end the growing problem of violent passengers pushed to their limits (such as parents being threatened to keep their crying child quiet and lower the child's oxygen intake by tying the mask on very tight). Passive resistance, worked for Gandhi ! You can stop some of the people all of the time, you can stop all of the people some of the time, there is no way to stop all of the people all of the time all over the country. A day, maybe two, of every single person NOT wearing a mask on a plane would mean total grounding of all flights, no crew could handle that. If 40,000 bought a ticket for a soccer game, were orderly, law abiding, BUT..... all 40K just marched in without a mask, what is the worst that could happen ? Can't arrest and jail 40 THOUSAND at once, most they could do is cancel the game. People who paid, and were just peaceful, getting some fresh air and sun, could just sit in the stadium for the duration of what SHOULD have been the game they paid for. (take your cell phone and a picnic lunch)... LOL !
Like button not working for me. Add a like. Very good comment.
Thank you, it's a fantasy of course, but just think if everyone could be convinced to do that even ONE day on every plane in the air on that day.. talk about a statement !
Did you see that video of the “Karen” who was on the plane (it was still on the runway/tarmac)? She was standing in the aisle ranting about s dude I think who was unvaxxed. She was demanding to sit elsewhere. The stewardess was explaining the plane was full, no options. The “Karen” kept on loudly stating she wasn’t going to sit in his airspace, etc.
Finally the pilot comes out and calmly explains to her if she doesn’t sit down and prepare calmly for takeoff, he was asking her to exit the aircraft. The entire plane erupts in applause.
For me too. Happens a lot here... so, add another Like!
Ah you see, we all have "Karen's", "Karl's" and even "gender neutral" privileged for whom any 'rules' simply do not apply..... LOL. I think they look absolutely STUPID, they think they look absolutely SUPERIOR.. if they only knew ! Oh, did you also notice they also made handy-capped parking spaces JUST for them. True story now (as our president always says....'true story here'...LOL!). Last week I pulled into local large grocery. Liquor store in same big plaza next to grocery. Into the handy cap space comes a "Karl", small white sports car. The "Karl" LITERALLY LEAPS OUT of the little auto, RUNS into the liquor store..... I walk into the grocery thinking, must be some emergency.... they are everywhere and they walk among us, those Karen's and Karl's ... lol !
genius
Or just common "sense".... ? Very little of that around any more !
indeed
Get out of Calistan while you still can.
Tyranny knows no boundaries. It's coming to every state.
I wish....but impossible for me for a number of reasons. Beautiful geography but the rest of it sucks....well, the corrupt politics and those who vote it in all suck.
I started to read this, even though I live two thousand miles away. I immediately felt hatred and anger coursing through my veins. These fanatics are vile. They must be punished.
CA the worst! We left. I could not take it.
That is obviously the best solution, but, not all are able to do that, jobs, take lower salaries, loose pensions, leave elderly family members who can't make major moves, on and on. I agree if it is at all possible. With the government expenses in California, can you imagine if just 20% of the working people left ? OMG ! Our friends, police officers in Oregon, were able to easily find work and move to Florida. They now have a home with a pool they can enjoy year round after work ! AND, can you believe this, they can ride their bikes to WORK and then pick up their patrol cars. Sad all can't just "pick up their marbles" and go to greener pastures !
I'm so glad they were able to do that.
Wish my family could move but I'd be leaving other family members in a situation
That's why this is such a frustrating situation. People in a democracy SHOULD be able to simply fix their situation at the discretion of the majority. But, unfortunately, as a result of YEARS of ignoring the deeply hidden characteristics, beliefs, behaviors, even the financial backgrounds of candidates (for example, if the country is considering major issues, such as close all coal mines, or shut down all oil rigs, or such, does a candidate or candidate's family own any stocks that might benefit ? IF the house was considering going ALL electric, or ALL solar, it would be important to know if the house speaker, or the president of the senate, etc. have any "skin" in the electric or solar game ? Same goes for decisions about medicines and pharmaceutical development. Have you noticed that nearly 100% agree "follow the money". That phrase has gotten to be a rote response like "have a nice day", it's gotten to the point of meaningless ! Everyone says it, how many (when you look at our house and senate members) of any party seem to have taken the time to seriously dig into the backgrounds, and financial holdings, of these people ? I looked into the Biden's, took a LOT of research, before he even became the actual candidate. When I would mention some really disturbing FACTS, I was met (even from friends in the republican party) with things like, well HE turned over ALL his tax records/income, and other nonsense word salads !
where'd you end up?
We are just over the hill in NV. Have to get gov sisolek out!! It’s been great here. No masking. Went to a little city called Virginia city in Nv last wknd. It was incredible! Nobody followed any covid laws there the whole 2 years I heard!!!
There are areas in the California foothills like that.
The Kohl Mansion in Burlingame requires up to date vaccinations (means boosters) for anyone to attend. I’ll shun them for life. It’s a small venue anyways. Even chase center (the large basketball stadium / concert hall in San Francisco) allows unvaccinated folks with a test attendance.
I wouldn’t patronize any place that ‘allows attendance’ per a required test.
Yep. Me neither. I’m done.
Keep your money. You’re going to need it at this rate.
I say spend it all now so they can’t take it away. I feel soon our money will be worthless anyway.
Ditto !
Paul McCartney is supposed to play at the Camden Yards Stadium in Baltimore in June. Right now the stadium does not requires shots or tests, but I'm not buying tickets, as much as I would like see/hear him, just in case the stadium changes its RuleZ in the meantime. There are no refunds, no matter what.
I don’t go there. Hells no.
You've just reminded me that the government in NZ made millions available in covid response grants including to 'creative industries'. Mostly a huge waste of money but I had a laugh as one Maori woman got $70,000 or so created and created an installation which included the vax injured. The bought off MSM were not impressed!!
You must be living in Calistan.
I love Austria and Germany. I like them so much that I learnt German just to enjoy those countries more. But now I don’t feel like visiting anymore. Their measures during this madness (and most probably next fall as well) have been too much. I need reasons to go back and we should make lists of not discriminatory businesses in our cities. I don’t want to visit a restaurant that 3 months earlier (or later) didn’t let me in.
I love it so much I moved here. 17 years ago. Integrated. Took citizenship. Having second thoughts that will likely never go away.
Get out--asap--while you can. Climate lockdowns (due to no fossil fuel) are next.
Might be very good advice if you can leave, reminds me of Herman Wouk's Winds of War novels... the SIGNS, the "gathering clouds" what happens when we tell ourselves it's not REALLY going to happen...
I moved there for job reasons but we are considering going back home. The political class seems hell-bent on destroying the country.
That's a great idea, the lists of Branch Covidian Businesses.
I want to go back to Germany. not yet.
That’s how I felt when California last month finally officially allowed the dirty unvaccinated back into stores sans mask. Sadly though 80-90% of folks still run around with masks indoors (and many outdoors - FFP2 for a dog walk 🤦♀️).
I like masks. They show you who the sheep are
Maybe in the Bay Area, but here in San Diego maskeraders are a tiny minority.
I sadly am stuck in the Bay Area.
That would be depressing.
The trans-humans are now the walking dead. They just don't know it. Yet.
I really don’t much care what most people think they need to do. I just don’t mask and enjoy seeing them smile behind the mask when I smile big at them without one. You can tell they are usually pleased to see a human face.
However, and I’m not one to use bad words ever but certainly not gratuitously, however, when kids are masked, blood is boiling right now I am thinking about it. Stupid parents. I know they are required, but NOT in the car or out on the sidewalk!!!!! Teach your kids it’s stupid and only make them do it when they get to the school doors. But no. Every single weekday morning. I have to drive past the elementary school. Masked kids. Walking on the sidewalk or riding bikes. And their parents drop them off and the parent walks away, in open air, no one around, mask on. Huh?????????
Been gone for months here but I am enrolled in two "senior" classes at the University of Utah. The students in the class on John Stuart Mill are 100% masked and the class on Kent Haruf (writer) is 5% masked and all women (full disclosure-I am not a biologist). Senior clown world.
Trans-humans will obey from here on in. Avoid them at all cost---they will be shedding C19 for years to come.
Sad. I thought Utah was doing better than that.
Not the east side of Salt Lake City. Full social acceptance requires lgbt, Trans, BLM, Ukraine lawn flags plus the "trust the science, love is love, hate has no home here, etc." sign. I spent two months in Palm Springs which 20%? gay and zero yard signs.
I hope they stay in their own area.
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.” Think it was Voltaire who first said it, perhaps later Will Rogers said approximately the same, yet it still applies to all ages, genders, and cultures ! I believe I had previously mentioned somewhere on this platform, that Catherine the Great of Russia always espoused that the peasant masses loved to "feel the whip"... just a less refined way of what Voltaire meant when he said fools REVERE their chains (masks and lock-downs?)
There is an interesting psychology to be witnessed on both sides of 'The Great Plague Divide'. There are maskers and Vax'ers who still scold & scowl... But, surprisingly, from the obverse direction, some of my most ardent combatants in the war against Mandates & Lock Downs are sounding a bit uneasy. They seem a bit like a Sancho Panza who's windmills have all been removed from the landscape. Oh, there are still the persistent Ivermectin Study fabrications to rail against, and our Govt's desperate clinging to the Vaccine Narrative. But we know that it is just a matter of time until the weight of upholding the false narrative becomes to great to go on and their voices trail off into anonymity. But my warrior friends worriedly say "What will Eugyppius write about once the Pandemic is over?"
Personally, as a physician who lost his DEA License for 6 months prescribing the forbidden fruit of IVM & HCQ, I look forward to a modicum of sanity. There is much hard work to be done trying to root out the vermin who have infested the Cathedral of Medicine. It will likely fail. Money, arrogance, ego and that strange taste of Power derived from forcing colleagues to swallow a false narrative & bend the knee will not vanished easily. I do not mean what I'm about to say in a Germanic sense, but there is a little bit of Nazi in each of our hearts. Jung called it The Shadow. We have lived under the ruling flag of The Shadow for more than two years now. And, there are those small matters of the likes of Putin, Zelensky, Schwab, Trudeau and my favorite maniacal authoritarian fetishist... Jacinda Arden to cope with.
The slow winding down of the so-called Medical Crisis is not like the triumphant end of a War where the losing Leaders and Generals can be rounded up and retribution exacted. At best, we can hope a few lessons were learned. We thought during the faux Pax Americana of the last 70 years we had moved beyond The Shadow... But he is still here... in each heart... we need to cleanse our elongated shadows and strive for a small shift back toward "Normalcy"... But, we must be clear we likely will never "Make Western Civilization Great Again:
Nothing worst than a missing windmill. I wish, oh how I wish, I could disagree with you. But, sadly, I suspect that Jungian Shadow will prevail. The world I grew up in is gone. The freedoms I took for granted in my misspent youth have been consigned to history. (And history itself is being rewritten). The past two years have put paid to pretty well all of our freedoms. Speech, Movement, Assembly, Religion, Association are now at the pleasure of the ruling elite, (whoever they are).
If you need any more to lament, look into the details of the new, much anticipated, roll out of 5G cell service. Faster (oh hooray, hooray), what ELSE goes along with that ? Look DEEPLY into the details... like the fabulous invention of "apps", and tracking watches that even keep track of the number of hours you sleep AND the quality of that sleep (might you need a sleeping "medication", or just a new mattress ?).... all is so convenient (for WHO and WHY ?). Mommy always said, if it sounds too good to be true...BEWARE !) IF you have the tenacity to dig for the details of what else 5G brings in addition to speed, you will probably not like what you find.... China, China, China...
We are of a similar mind. Finding myself daring to hope for small turning back of the WEF Narrative... while hoping that these victories are something more than Pyrrhic Exercises in self-congratulations. I continue to enjoy Eugyppius' Postings and trust that the width and breadth of his scope will allow him to continue to be as insightful as his handling of 'The Plague Chronicle.' I have a collection of first draft manuscripts about things other than just The Plague Narrative. Thank you for your note. --ejd
The virus will "return" in autumn- I think that is pretty much guaranteed. If the testing regime remains in place the rest of the year, then the safety circus will likely return to the same places that kept them for the entire last 2 years, but there will almost certainly be less compliance. What happens then, I don't know.
In Germany we have record case numbers, as in a quarter a million a day, over half of official test results positive. We have had record case numbers more days than not since November. THis is the great benefit of the world's strictest corona regime (over that time period) and one of the highest vaccination rates in the world!
So "return of the virus, Part IV" will have a high bar to clear, even on the currently favoured "case count".
Except of course by t hen, everyone will have forgotten...
Ugh. I am sick and tired of these inaccurate (and thus worse than worthless) tests. They just perpetuate the sham. I hope we can all refuse testing, along with refusing masks, antisocial distancing, shots. Refuse all of it!
yes. I agree. Stop the testing. How is testing helpful? I have never had a test. I will never submit to one.
The tests are 90% inaccurate and designed to keep this plan going indefinitely.
I've heard way worse than 90% inaccurate. PCR is useless, the way it's done-- 40+ cycles will "reveal" viral trace anywhere. 'Cause guess what-- viruses ARE everywhere.
Pandemic of testing, as someone said (I have forgotten who).
Are there statistics available in Germany to make it possible to follow actual sickness rates, like ICU admissions, hospitalizations, etc. I know they aren’t reliable, but at least here in San Diego they have been indicative.
You can put whatever country you want into the "Our World in Data" site. On this page there is a box at the top where you can change the metric: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=USA~GBR~CAN~DEU~ITA~IND
As they try to reignite fear about yet another variant, I wonder how quickly the former maskoids will go right back into sheeple mode.
Are you one of those "Seasonality Theorist" people?
Do note that all of the rules and regulations , plus some new ones with more powers, are still "on the books." Look at the new WHO pandemic rules quietly passed last month.
In terms of the "Psyop", this is just another cycle of Mass Formation.
I have to agree. Think of the effectiveness of intermittent reinforcement and how it turns us all into salivating dogs.
Intermittent reinforcement is one of THE most powerful, if not THE most powerful, conditioning techniques in the world. Intermittent application of torture with intermittent positive reinforcement of prisoners of war is legendary for breaking down all resistance and gaining complete control over an individual or a population.
Probably why Fauci has reemerged to prep everyone for the coming "New Covid Restrictions". Still gotta nail that stubborn 30% or so that didn't immediately capitulate the first go around. And further identify and isolate the 5-10% that will never comply. The spiritual warriors.
Watch for the timing of the HUGE outbreak and the CRITICAL midterm election !
It is clear that a shockingly large number of people succumbed to the propaganda almost immediately, but I take heart in the fact that so very many did NOT, and we're out there in seemingly increasing numbers as people have the courage to admit that fact. I wish I knew how many, what percentage of the world's people caught on to the fraud early on and have been clear minded about the need to continue resisting the brainwashing. Certainly I know there is simply nothing the covidiots could ever say to change my way of thinking. If enough people can get to that point, it will finally be over and we win.
Yep, we're all getting a food pellet this spring/summer.
(like) and. "hahahaha!"
Soylent green is coming soon.
The "pandemic treaty" is still in its early stages. Below are three paragraphs from an April 1st 2022 post to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the folks who set the Doomsday Clock.
https://thebulletin.org/2022/04/six-paths-forward-to-a-pandemic-treaty/
Par. 2
Last December, at a special meeting of the World Health Assembly, the governing body of the WHO, country representatives agreed to kick off reforms when they voted for negotiating an international agreement or pandemic treaty. With the vote, the conversation seemingly moved beyond simply reforming the WHO and towards the creation of a stand-alone legally binding instrument: a new international structure to address pandemics.
Pars. 13, 14
A WHO-adjacent organization. WHO members agreed to start the reform process when they met at the World Health Assembly in May 2021. Informed by the independent panel, members called for a special meeting on reform to be held in the fall, signaling that a new organization would likely be related to, but not under WHO leadership. The proposed global health threats council led by heads of state could serve as a model for this agreement.
At the November 2021 special meeting, countries formally agreed to initiate a process “for negotiating a pandemic treaty or other international pact.” The move was seen as an important step that could lead to “sweeping reforms of global health if it succeeds.” WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the decision a “cause for hope”—the goal would be to begin negotiations in March 2022 and to develop a “global agreement to strengthen pandemic prevention and response” by as early as May 2024.
Just went to the link and read the entire thing ! Absolutely horrifying, and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, I have literally begged friends and colleagues to look up every detail of this man, his background in a deeply authoritarian government, look up the Ethiopian cholera event and Mr. Ghebreyesus, he is also the very first director of the World Health Organization to not be a medical doctor. Carefully research (which does NOT mean reading a Yahoo article) his ties to, and activity in, terrorist organizations. Ask yourself, WHY ? Why, after reading the truth about this ambitious, self-serving, individual, why would you, or ANY American, rather democrat or republican, ANY tax paying worker "agree" to fund this organization and this man ? Again, just another part of the Alice Through the Looking Glass crazy down is up world !
Mr. Tedros figures in Robert Kennedy Jr.'s book, as I recall.
If it's his book on Fauci, I JUST bought a copy for my personal library TODAY, have not started it yet, probably tomorrow. That is MY personal paranoia, that hard print copies of ALL books, recorded history, etc. will go the route of our "textbooks", all on I-Pads. and I fear soon, "libraries" too will be reclaimed, their space needed for more "important" things...after all, we now have all books on technology files... takes up little physical space, and, better yet, an entire chapter, history, incident, date, anything, can be changed with a few keyboard strokes. The Alamo ? A few strokes, and, it never happened, an aggression, assignation, or even an important invention or discovery, can be changed with a few key strokes. If it would become inconvenient for those of Italian heritage to be known as making great contributions, Marconi, even Columbus, could be instantly changed to, say Portuguese, ALL records the same, since no actual books could ever be discovered hidden away some day..... so, today I added The Real Fauci to my EXTENSIVE library (might have to consider saving for an extension to the house !
Hard to wrap my head around this. I don’t see the US willfully overriding our Bill of Rights and Constitution. I don’t see the international community overriding its other codes (Nuremburg). Frankly, I am not a citizen of the world, but a US citizen.
Hard to wrap your head about is an UNDERSTATEMENT !
The WHO already has authority to make legally binding international health regulations. Thankfully they've only used it once, in 2005 with their Tobacco Free Initiative. Now they're actually seeking a new "international structure" for "sweeping reforms." I certainly hope this is just a pipe dream for them, but who would've thought in January 2020 that lockdowns and vax mandates were possible in the West?
WHO news Jan 12 2021
"Article 19 of the WHO Constitution provides the World Health Assembly with the authority to adopt conventions or agreements on any matter within WHO’s competence. The sole instrument established under Article 19 to date is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which has made a significant and rapid contribution to protecting people from tobacco since its entry into force in 2005."
https://www.who.int/news/item/01-12-2021-world-health-assembly-agrees-to-launch-process-to-develop-historic-global-accord-on-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response
I have read every syllable of the assembly proceedings and hoped for proposal agreements. I doubt those of us on here who have, and who realize how absolutely horrifying the specter of this is, will be able to convince our neighbor, or colleague just how serious this is, and how way beyond any frivolous party affiliations. While we squabble about the liberal/conservative views, THESE ARE EXACTLY THE KINDS OF THINGS HAPPENING while we pay no attention !
The U.S. Supreme Court held back in the 1950s in Covert v. Reid that a treaty cannot override the U.S. Constitution.
Off to the Uyghur camps for sure. These WEF/NWO fascists are not done by a long shot.
Irish Democracy is the way!! (quiet non-compliance)
Yup--I'm ready to die in my driveway. Come on up---uninvited.
I feel exactly the same way. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the mask mandate was dropped two weeks ago. I have hated them since the beginning and I am amazed at how many people are still wearing them both inside and outside. Supposedly next week on April 8th the need for a vaccine passport will be dropped in this province. However, I have a horrible feeling they will be reinstated in the fall along with the hated masks. Probably a temporary reprieve at best.
Just learned that certain activities offered to employees at a large regional accounting firm are only offered to the vax’d, even though all related travel is within the boundaries of the U.S. So, one of my grown children would be allowed to participate but not the other. Even though both have had Covid and are equally immune. When will this madness ever end?
My daughter works at a hospital in Arizona. She’s a registered nurse. During this entire thing, the injected (it’s not a vaccine!) employees have been provided extra perks not provided to the unjabbed.
coercion and can't really be legal
I think people should not go. Let them see no attendance.
Just a suggestion.
I empathise. After 20 years I fled France towards the end of last year back to the UK at significant cost and disruption, to escape as good as mandatory vaccination without which normal life was not possible, and obligatory masks. The huge sense of freedom I felt in non-mandate UK was immense.
So, I'd like visiting UK again? No masking, etc.?
almost nobody wears masks - not even on public transport, now. in hospitals, yes, as it's still 'required', though outside of medical settings people 8 times out of 10 no longer wear them. a few weeks ago, it was 50/50.
Yay! I can hear England Swings in my head right now. (My first visit a couple of Bobbies sang it to me.)
hah! i think that these days they're likely instead to either ignore you or hassle you, sadly
sad. Well, I'm glad I had that moment
Masks have been horrible for me. They are not just an inconvenient annoyance. Today my husband and I were watching some silly TV show in which one character places an iron mask like from Dumas' book on someone else's head. I felt horrifically claustrophobic seeing this even though I'm not claustrophobic. Just thinking about it now makes the inside of my head feel all burny (best way I can describe it) and I can't quite breathe. We watched the show hours ago, and I am still incredibly unsettled. I feel like a terrible wimp, but there you have it. I can't stand wearing a mask. (Thankfully the tyrants removed mask requirements for most places about there weeks ago.)
It took me six months to be able to keep a mask on long enough to grocery shop. I couldn’t breathe and felt such anxiety about seeing everyone around me in masks, like being in a horror movie. It almost felt like a panic attack at times. One time, a guy started shouting at me and chasing me when I pulled it down to breathe for a minute. Security had to escort me to my car! They feared for my safety. Needless to say, this increased my anxiety from that day forward.
Sounds like mask exemptions were not possible then? Here you could just decide for yourself (which I did) and download a card which was not compulsory to show even. However, I being an anxious sort, I ended up being very reclusive for months and just not going anywhere. We live in a beautiful place which made this easier. The last few weeks, I've got brave and am going into shops mask free. I have only been challenged once but it was no problem. At 11.59 pm tonight, vax passports are being dropped which means I can go to places like restaurants, hairdressers, concerts and other events. Feel like telling them to stick it!! We've saved a lot of money though.
sounds awful, and criminal. That is legally assault what he did. You could have had him arrested.
"... like being in a horror movie." Yes, it's horribly unsettling.
I just felt my blood pressure go up.
The masks are such a filthy habit to force on us.
It's grooming.
Very good way to describe forced masking.
These same people, who now want to go to War with Russia, do so with their rallying cry of "Freedom, liberty and democracy". Their actions do not match their words.
I have felt like a cat bouncing against the walls I'd suddenly found around me. I've become frustrated and feral. I'm angry for others for whom it is worse.
We should never forget and remind those around us constantly lest they forget.
No need to add a single word here. I Invested in a new lipstick and am planning go to three shops on Monday to show it off. :-) Not quite sure how many people will turn up maskless on Monday at work or in the shops, though.
I was so scared that they would not take the exit ramp now (after not taking the one on 20th of March) that I did not dare check the proposed regulations, so was actually a bit surprised that we were at the point where mandates would be done away with.
This has truly been such a winter of discontent, and folly, and incompetence, may nothing like this ever return!
Now people can see why Trump refused to shake Merkel's hand. He knew. Now we all know...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfukuEutIU
Well, Merkel's gone but the new government is not a jot better than hers.
I'm so glad for you. It's been a bad 'un over there in Teutonland. Your counter-narrative campaign has been tireless and hell-bent on preserving what's left of logic and reason and scientific enquiry. Enjoy the reprieve. You deserve to savour it. Let's hope all the reprieves last, when they come eventually. And that our worst predictions don't come to pass.
Let's remember the loved ones who were not complicit in jailing us, marginalizing us, even when they didn't see the absolute lies we saw.
My vaxxed husband, who never pressured me to get jabbed, just told me that he will find a way to take me on a tour we just found out about. He said he won't do it without me.
That's actually quite a commitment because we don't know what fuckery will be taking place in the autumn. I won't hold him to it, but it made my heart sing.
Your husband sounds lovely. Mine is the same way regarding vaccines. He has had both plus a booster and I remain unvaccinated. He is fine with that and has never pressured me to get the shots, which takes the pressure off me. Because we live in Canada I can't travel in this country by train or plane. However, we are fortunate to have a really comfortable trailer which we spend several months a year in on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We leave on May 5h for four months and are both really looking forward to it. We used to camp in the United States at a resort we are members of, but sadly we can't go there anymore. I agree with your comments regarding our loved ones. However, I do worry about the long term effects that they may experience in the future. I am the only unvaccinated person in our blended family of twenty people.
Have been to BC and Vancouver Island. We are thinking of getting a caravan and doing some travelling soon as well but need to sort out our finances first. Hope you travels go well.
May we all have wonderful travels with our decisions the ones that rule.
I, too, worry that the poisons are still circulating and doing Lord knows what to my loved ones. I am the only one not.
My father has def suffered and my sister (who insisted he get jabbed) is not doing well.
So sorry to hear about both your father and sister. Both my siblings are jabbed, both my daughters and all four of my grandchildren. So far, they are all fine but who knows what the future will bring? My eldest grandson who will be 27 this spring did have a reaction to his second shot. He spent 24 hours shaking and vomiting. It terrified him and he told me he has a friend in the United States that had the same reaction. Thankfully, at this point he has no intentions of getting a booster. Unfortunately, like so many other people he only agreed to the shots in order to keep his job.
I pray that they are alright. Thankfully, 20 somethings are resilient.
I hope they haven't poisoned our kids.
Yours sounds great too.
Our business calls for a lot of travel...really fun travel... so it has been inconvenient for him that I refuse to take the clot shot, esp. since I am his bg singer and am really good at organizing travel and keeping things running smoothly.
Even if things go back to lockdown, and I don't go, he's not considered fully jabbed in some of those countries due to the passage of time.
This is just insane!
My husband supported me too (although initially he was angry and upset). He then refused to get the booster. I am starting back at work tomorrow.
I'm glad you're back.
It's all a bit strange. Not allowed to go in the office for two weeks. Decided to be positive and polite but am not forgetting.
but why?
I work as a teacher for a distance education provider. The vax was mandated for teachers on 15 Nov 2021. A small group of us declined and were given permission to work from home until the end of the school year. Teachers who do not have in person contact with students are NOT mandated (we potentially have a small amount of contact but not regularly). Our boss decided everyone WAS mandated so we have been fighting to keep our jobs. The government mandate is being lifted tonight. But we have been told that until the end of term (14 April) we must be based at home. Throughout this whole period most employees (teachers and non-teachers) have been based at home apart from some senior managers and maybe a once a fortnight meeting in the office. Also we are not going to get paid any lost wages so we are getting paid for NOT working as opposed to getting paid for working. It's government money so.......
That is the adult badass way
So, they put us through such a journey but we end up almost at the same place, except for the insecurity...
Thank you, that's such a good reminder - and a good way to spread some love and positivity! I hope you'll have a great tour together!
Thank you so much! 💕
If the countries he's going to block the unjabbed, I'll pack his bags for him and push him onto the plane, of course.
DO NOT LET DOWN YOUR GUARD. Look at what is happening in Australia and in California. In CA the legislature is proposing bills that will take away free speech- Senate Bill 1390 prohibits any person/entity from making statements the State deems untrue or misleading by any means including on the internet or ads. Then they have Assembly bill 2098 which classifies anti-covid medical opinion as unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by medical boards and potentially the loss of their licenses. And of course they still want everyone vaxxed- see SB871 and AB 1993. The bills require EVERYONE who wants to work or go to school to get covid vaxxed. All of this is being done with little notice and no attention from the MSM. They are also re-creating the Gestapo by a bill that would require law enforcement to enforce public health guidelines of lose their funding. There is more too about required testing and disclosure to third parties without consent. And oh yes, they want to make 12 year old children capable of consenting to vaccinations without parental consent or notification before or after!!
"Assembly Bill 1993, which would require all California businesses to require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, is being halted by the author, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, Tuesday afternoon".
I'm so glad this one is not being pursued for now, but it's disgusting that these bills are so under the radar. Thanks for your post. Many of these tyrannical CA bills are covered in depth on the Highwire's podcast on Friday, April 1, entitled "California Screamin'"
They quietly shelfed the employment mandates this week.. in California.
Great---every MD should Calistan asap--and leave the trans-humans to do their own surgery.
Yes .. some public pressure has been shifting the worst of the bills in CA (see Amy Bohn on the highwire this week) ( https://thehighwire.com/watch/ ) But other bills, and the mass formation where people believe this is actually protecting health, remain ...
Also, the WHO Pandemic Treaty has implications for the whole world, overriding constitutions / national laws. https://jamesroguski.substack.com/ - *Lots* of good info here on this substack about pandemic treaty. He is new on substack, after his website was taken down.
https://www.corbettreport.com/nwnw20220331/ - smartphones capable of QR codes are how IDs and everything else is linked to medical compliance (although the WHO has generously, inclusively, stated that those without smartphones need access to digital identities also).
(Yet, still, find joy in life and nature and sky and air and trees and travel ... )
Globalist are not fans of national sovereignty or the concept of the modern nation-state. Any action that contributes to the weakening of such is a plus to them. I may be wrong but I think the modern nation state and personal autonomy are closely linked. Why? Because there is an understanding that the nation state is for the most part a political one and subject to the will of its citizens. A free populace is essential to this. Squash personal autonomy with mandates from those who are not beholden to the people is one way to make people forget they are free. Serfs all.
There is nothing we should be happy about until they are all in jail. They are giving us something back that they had no right to take away in the first place.
oh believe me I know, but not being locked up is the first step in a long journey
Oh we're still locked up, it's just that the cage is much bigger now. Enjoy your summer indulgences from the warden. And thank you for inspiring us prisoners!
Same here.. We used to have decades-long memberships to the Boston Museum of Science and several other museums in New England. Since the madness those have all been cancelled with strongly worded emails about vaccine induced medical apartheid and useless masking regulations. Never got a response to any of them, not one. So Fuck them.
My world has gotten so much smaller too but it's not the museums I miss most. It's the friends and family that became devout Covidians and excommunicated us maskless purebloods from their broken lives of imaginary fear. Truly the most terrible toll is those lifelong relationships just blown away by this evil scheme.
"It's the friends and family that became devout Covidians and excommunicated us maskless purebloods from their broken lives of imaginary fear. Truly the most terrible toll is those lifelong relationships just blown away by this evil scheme."
That's me, too. Alone out here with my pureblood lil self. I sometimes cry for my whole family, who are all vxd, put their kids through it, and have written me off as hopelessly deluded.
Same. Feeling very alone. I'm the only one in my family who is not vaxxed. Daughter currently not speaking to me because I tried to convince her getting a booster (for a vacation!) might not be a good idea.
Lots of us out here in the same boat with you, Finnbuck. Stay strong. We're alone but not alone.
aye.... I gotta admit I've cried over it a fair number of times myself. But hard times make for strong men and those hard times have just yet begun. Stay true.
nicely said
By jail you meant cages, of course.
Shark cages with missing bars.
this whole plandemic was a sham. Yes, there are viruses and many are more virulent, yes, this one was most probably created in a petri dish, but I honestly do not believe that this is the very first manufactured virus. We just have to always be prepared to survive the actions of insane people.
From what I've been reading about past virus infestations, I increasingly think there have been quite a few "releases" in past decades. This virus was more deadly for the elderly and compromised, but not for most other groups. And prior to Covid, the viruses that were circulating were not hijacked for political purposes.
News15 mins ago: Pregnant women next door (early 30s) in hospital with pregnancy "issues". While in hospital learns her father has died from heart "issues". Husband doesn't know which way to turn. Climate change is merciless.
F*k climate change, of course.
Alternately, f**k Trump.
True. Personally responsible for every death of a polar bear since 1880, that man.
It's not over in health care. The VA hospital is trying to void my religious exemption. The university system is just now implementing weekly testing for the unvaxxed. We have almost no patients in the hospital with covid. It is maddening that after working in a hospital for the entire pandemic I may lose my job now.
I retired early from the VA two weeks ago. I was just exhausted...after 22 years of excellent nursing then having this ax hanging over my head for 18 months. I am protected by natural immunity...the cognitive dissonance, the manipulation, the outright hostile workplace this inspired. In my smallish facility in Boise, Idaho probably a third of the staff has either been coerced into submitting to this or is preparing to be fired or retire early. Just today I saw an ad placed by the VA for job openings do to the "nursing shortage". The man Biden chose to head this system is not even a veteran! Like I said...The cognitive dissonance!!!
We are losing the best people! The ones who remain would not be the ones I’d hire or trust with my own healthcare. I’m looking into alternative healthcare providers as a result.
My husband was in a VA clinic today, trying to get a deeply embedded splinter removed. His doctor met with him, FINALLY without a face shield. Hubs asked the doctor about Covid deaths with his patients. He had to admit there had been none that he knew of the whole time. Then he mentioned that NOW they were seeing an inexplicably high number of deaths but not from Covid, and they can't figure out why. DUH! No mention of the vaccines, although my husband suspects that most veteran patients had the jab because every time he was in for a checkup or whatever, they would ask if he wanted a vaccine. He always declined, thank goodness, but they keep asking.
Small world, my father is retired from that same facility.
Healthcare is maddening. There is no logic to the rules. The CMS regulation that SCOTUS approved was based on the facts as the Court and the parties understood them months earlier. The reasonable accommodations are unreasonable and unhealthy.
Beautiful city. Hope you will jettison the mask a bit early just to be rebellious! Es lebe der Widerstand! (I hope I got this right).
Pirna was an early centre of resistance to all this nonsense, even in spring 2020, part of the reason I‘m here. A lot of people just don‘t wear them and nobody bothers you. But today it‘s a solid majority ignoring, you can tell many were just putting up with it.
I've been really surprised at how compliant so many people are willing to be. I was in a particular local market today, a market in which people persisted in wearing masks long after people who shopped in other markets were maskless. The mask mandates were recently lifted, and all those formerly compliant mask wearers in this market are ALL maskless. When I was there today, I saw only one woman wearing one. I had previously felt that this particular market attracted the really fearful part of our local population, but I guess that wasn't really the case. I'm not sure what the explanation is for this market's mask obsession, but it sure disappeared quickly. For months I went in there and was virtually the only customer without a mask, yet no one said a word to me about it. I found it all rather amusing, actually.
Like being on the battlefield on the last day of a war. Be careful out there.
Safe travels 🌞☮️✝️
We're all prisoners sitting on an ocean beach. The waves have strangely stopped. The strangest thing of all is the water has receded back out so far..... poisonous pFauci-fish are numerous and flopping in the sun on the damp sand, their stupid mouths frantically moving but now no sounds come out.
Some prisoners from the beach are wandering out miles to see what else this mysterious tide has left behind.. Where has all the water gone?
And what is that deep rumbling sound?
Damn - that's an apt metaphor! And probably prescient.
Well, I'm gonna suggest to the Pfauci fish to head out there for a closer look...
Yikes! I fear that's it exactly?
Mask mandate gone in Hessen, most people still following it.
Went to favourite sushi place, we used to go almost every weekend. The last 2 years? Perhaps 3/4 times. I am very bloody minded about not having tests or proving vaccination status.
Some morons still putting masks on to stand up.
Shops in Frankfurt full of maskies, I was the only one without, but for the first time no one complained.
I don't give the remaining masking long, but the risk is this is a feint. The legal basis of this must be removed. In time, the maskies are not ready for it, there must be investigations and punishments. And there are still travel restrictions and such.
Same here (also not far from Frankfurt). Around 20% unmasked / 80% masked in shops this morning.
Thanks for keeping us up to date. How's the watch collecting/repair going?
I suppose that on this post is an appropriate place to report my experience with vax mandates:
As an old and taxable U S person, I am in a position to make donations to various charitable organizations. Last year I donated to over 3 dozen of them.
This year, I am gradually emailing inquiries: Do you require your employees, clients, or volunteers to have been vaxxd, as I will not donate to such organizations? A few (notably archive.org and realclearfoundation.org) have responded that no, of course we don't require it. One responded saying no, we do not require it, but our entire board has been vaxxd (as if they did not understand my concern!).
Several simply did not respond, so I suppose they wouldn't qualify for donations. And the director of one responded that they do not require the vax but are "going to start a new policy of turning down donations from people who I’m aware are outspoken opponents of vaccine mandates."
I probably won't bother to make inquiries before donating to organizations formed largely to oppose vaccine mandates or to aid vaccine victims.
Thank you for being so generous and thoughtful!
If I may put in my two cents as the mother of an autistic person, I'd like to suggest that, if you contribute to an charity for people on the spectrum, that you look to local or more autistic-friendly organizations. Autism Speaks! is NOT that.
Those of us who advocate and have done our research see that they are oriented towards preventing autistic persons not helping people on the spectrum.
They also, last I looked, are very vehement promoters of more vaccines in the childhood schedule. To be on the message boards is to hear conversations of people complaining about their children for being different. They also had an ad out promoting the ridiculous idea that autistic kids don't love.
I'm just saying that because they soak up so much of the contributions that should go to organizations that actually like autistic people and don't wish to institutionalize them.
Thanks for that note. So far, none of the local organizations I've queried has responded (other than the one cited in my original comment). I would have thought local groups would have humans who read and respond to inquiries, but my experience thus far is that it's the national orgs who actually read their messages.
Personally, I appreciate that you are doing it that way.
Thanks, this is a great idea. When I was prevented from attending Mass as an unvaxxed person, I wrote to my parish priest explaining why as a matter of conscience I could not support this so was withdrawing my regular online donation. Previously, I had already moved towards more discerning charity giving as I believe some are no different than government or corporations. Because many workers were mandated here and then the health and safety people for non mandated groups rushed in to keep everyone 'safe' It's difficult to know what organisations are in which camp. But I will certainly be reviewing my giving again.
Awesome
Let’s hope it goes away. I’m still waiting for the weird travel procedures to go away. As a non vaccinated German citizen living in the USA apparently I am allowed in with a test and quarantine but it’s incredibly poorly written (Beamtendeutsch), United told me they wouldn’t let me board 😱. I’d love to go back home and see family and go on long hikes in the forests whilst feasting on Ritter Sport 😂
Ritter Sport is one of the best things to come out of Germany! The whole hazelnut is my favorite. 😋
I agree! I'm waiting for the Biden Administration to allow unvaccinated tourists to enter the US- the legal way. I'm so desperate for my unvaccinated best friend to come here, I'm going to send her a sombrero and some cheap tanning cream and a ticket to Mexico soon...
you mean, so she can walk across the border...
Yes, same here in New Zealand. Because I am a permanent resident (not a citizen), if I leave for a trip to Ireland (where I'm from) I don't need the vax or a test (on certain airlines only btw - their mandate!) but on return I would have to go into quarantine but not my husband because he's a citizen. Planning a trip for maybe next year now.
Yay! go soon before they reel us all back in! Ireland. So. Much. Fun. Must be even more so when it's hometown
I like those little hippos.
What is Ritter Sport? Never heard of it.
Square-shaped candy bar with some of the best chocolate you'll ever wrap your lips around. Produced in Germany and, as Charlotte pointed out, comes in an incredible variety of filling including the whole hazelnut (my fave), butter cookie (my second favorite), marzipan, caramel, almond, etc. The chocolates are also available in milk, dark, and white.
Poor Ritter Sport is now right in the middle of a shit storm, for not having stopped delivery to Russia...
I’ll buy some extras hehe. Many markets carry them. World market too. My fave is prolly the mousse au chocolate one. Though th Xmas editions are tasty too.
People are so damn ridiculous. I collect fountain pens and one company acknowledged that some customers were asking if they'd still sell a brand called Benu because they were, until recently, based on Russia. The company stuck by them but, I think, mostly because Benu has relocated to Armenia.
I just ordered some, thanks!
You will not regret it. Enjoy!
It's a like a kitkat bar, but comes in many flavors.
Yum! 👍
Just got back from a trip to Atlanta, where the 1 in 50 people still wearing masks stuck out like turds on the sidewalk, but officious signs limiting elevator occupancy, etc, remain, and probably will until they crumble and peel away.
"turds on the sidewalk". thank you! Now I'll laugh instead of glare at them
In Denver there are a lot more turds on the sidewalk.
How are things in CO?
hahaha
I've accelerated that sign erosion for the past 2 years... join us.
me too! Especially the ones that have Cuomo's name on them
Even when the rules are gone, the insanity remains. I one of my neighbors ride his bike to work, masked, every day. The Submitted are everywhere.
I was skiing yesterday we were outside in the deck enjoying a beer. A young mom had her 3 year old completely masked up. Outside. I felt sick. She was not masked. Also another young man out on the deck with his huge k95 mask on! I just can not believe it!!
child abuse.
how did we get so many stupid people?
Yeah....that has been my question for 2 years now!
Maybe hand him a big cardboard box and tell him this is his new nuclear bomb shelter in case Putin gets any funny ideas.