Last week, Christian Drosten – Germany’s Anthony Fauci – finally declared the pandemic over: The head of virology at Berlin Charité, Christian Drosten, believes that the Corona pandemic in Germany has ended. “We’re experiencing the first endemic wave with SARS-CoV-2 this winter; in my opinion the pandemic is over,” Drosten said in an interview …
Ultimately I feel that the "work from home" movement is bad for the mental health of most people. Especially in hourly "clock in and out" type jobs that are fundamentally routine and boring, but also were traditionally collaborative and social. Everyone worked together to complete the stupid and boring tasks correctly, sharing the frustration and occasionally, by the weight of sheer numbers, forcing a change for the better. No creativity or concentration is required for the work -- only attention to detail and a good memory. You have to be "on the clock" for a full 40 hours a week -- but the "work" only takes maybe 5 or 10 hours at most? People no longer say "I have to go back to work," they say "I have to clock in for a few hours." So people are just babysitting their email accounts until they can clock out. That is, if they aren't just sleeping.
I persist in driving an hour to get to my old office, but there's only 4 or 5 of us there anymore -- out of the 1000 employees. Everyone else is "at home." I joke that I am performing a "historical reenactment" which always gets a big laugh -- signaling the truth of it. I dress up and pretend that I am an office worker from 2019.
I now have an upstairs corner cubicle and I enjoy watching the various employees who still need to occasionally return to the office -- to my mind they seem to be deteriorating: gaining weight and losing agility, many are still masked and eye other people with suspicion. Others leap on you to chat like prisoners suddenly released from solitary confinement.
People wear sweatpants and sandals to the office, hair is long and beards are reaching Biblical levels. Many of the men look homeless, or like they've been shipwrecked on a desert isle and now prefer the isolation. Women stopped dyeing their hair or getting hair cuts. By and large the work quality has declined exceedingly, not that it was high to begin with. People no longer even fake work. It's impossible to feel pride or accomplishment -- confidence has been replaced by shame, like how the family of looters might feel when they wear the purloined sneakers.
Employees openly announce that they can no longer contribute as much to the work because they have "adopted a new puppy" or they have to babysit because the schools are closed. Upper management will "leave" the virtual meetings to go "stir the soup" or "talk to the plumber." Questions on how to perform a task or solve a problem take ages to get answered as no one can be found to answer them. Most of the time I just "wing it." Most of the time everyone is just "winging it." I fully expect in a year or two that someone will realize they can save 100s of millions of dollars by shutting the office down entirely and having a random number generator do our work.
Thank you for making 2022 better informed for me. I appreciate your research, writing, and your incredible photography.
Listening to Alabama football radio pre-game and hearing ads with players pushing Covid vax as the best way to keep your family and friends safe. Sigh.
I now work from home full time. I did this part time pre-pandemic, so it wasn’t a huge shift for me. I love it. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to an office if I can help it.
I gained some new friends and lost friends. Some friendships have simply changed. Close friends and family have revealed themselves to be fools. I don’t think I’ll ever trust them the same way again. I’ve lost the closeness we once shared.
I’ve lost all trust in government, media, and the healthcare industry. I wasn’t nearly this skeptical before. I trusted my doctor and got all my shots. Now I’m not sure I’ll ever get another one. I’m not sure if I had a child today that I wouldn’t be a complete anti-vaxxer, something I’d never even considered before.
I live in a desirable area that I never thought I’d leave. I now can’t wait to go. I can’t believe what my fellow citizens did to each other. Although I feel absolutely fed up, until that time comes that I can leave this area, I’m determined to start working to make it better. At least then I can leave with a clean conscience knowing that I tried. Just before covid, I worked to get a community group together for litter pickup. The group was shut down by covid before we even got started. I’m going to try to get that going again in 2023.
I’m going to join whatever volunteer community group that I have opportunity to. I’ve learned that people who join these groups tend to be people who have agendas or people who are easily swayed by group think. They need more people like us, people who have no wish to control others and can act as sand in the gears to whatever stupid idea they come up with. I think for all of us, the one way we can start to make a difference is to do this - join the PTA, join your HOA, join the hospital’s patient advocacy group, join the community groups and start speaking up. Lot’s of local government agencies have community advisory groups. Join these.
I really appreciate this anonymous community. There really were very few to turn to in the height of covid to commiserate with. Almost everyone I knew was all-in. My direct boss was wonderful and supportive. She’s won my lifelong loyalty. One of my old friends, a big fan of the vaccines, was absolutely open-minded and supportive of me and my decisions. I’ll always remember her for that.
At the end of it all, I’m just sad and very disappointed. I’m trying to regain some optimism, but it’s hard. That you, Eugyppius. I really appreciate what you’ve done with this blog and knowing that I wasn’t alone.
Happy New Year and congrats on your new career!! I am so grateful for all the comments and personal stories posted here - I am comforted knowing that there are others like me, who are struggling with similar life observations and situations....trying to square up the changes from pre-plandemic life to today. I fall into the “wfh” category and while I am naturally self disciplined to put in an honest days work, I absolutely am soul searching for another career path that doesn’t involve bending the knee to woke ideologies and cultural Marxism in the form of identity politics! On the topic of jabs and covid, an engineer at work told me that he believed whole heartedly in the “vax” and boosters as the only way out of the “plandemic”, and that after his 3rd or 4th booster he developed a severe pain in his kidney. I suggested that he take Advil - he replied with, “I don’t like to take medications”. I just smh... Like living in twilight zone!! It is difficult to continue having meaningful relationships with friends (& some family) who believe in all the government lies and brainwashing on covid and jabs.... I do believe it is a gift to have awareness. We are not alone, just surrounded by too many brainwashed sheep! Substack is a Godsend. Thank you for sharing your work!!
"Colleagues I once admired have totally discredited themselves in my eyes, and I’ll never get over it. "
To have had this happen in my little corner of clinical research, with people who should always be questioning, has been a huge eye-opener, and indicator of the massive psy-op that was done on them. What was the difference? Why was I resistant and not them? Resigned to the fact I will never know, I shake the dust of more than one (de)mentor from my feet. I am better off without them from now on.
Happy New Year! Wishing you a lovely New Year in 2023. I'm hoping that the changes you've encountered will reveal a better environment for you. Glad you got the masked bandit out of our space! If one believes even a smidgen in astrology- and look back at history when these same alinements occurred- big changes are coming in the next years. Top down government will be flipped to bottom up which would be a breath of fresh air. Thank you for providing us with the truth and hope for a better world,
A new nest for Eugyppius and his thoughts! I’ve been encouraging my friends to all feather their nests too- I fear the elites enjoy a bit too much tightening the vise on us with higher electricity and food prices. My new chicken coop arrives in February (hopefully) and I continue to feather my own new nest. Still waiting for my star link dish, though, and I hope that comes soon...
Any thoughts on the new Igor Chudov post with the newest variant? It does appear that the boosters keep giving rise to waves of Omicron.
You are absolutely correct in that the world has changed forever.
But mostly through revelation. "Masks have fallen". (No pun intended.)
The mask of consultative/representative democracy. Gone.
The mask of free speech and debate. Gone.
The mask of the scientific method. Gone.
All replaced by loose-fitting plastic-cloth that does nothing but transmit fear through superstition.
For Dorsten et al, this is now a damage-limitation exercise. They attempt to retreat without admitting wrong or defeat.
This, they must not be allowed to do, and this is the true purpose of calls for an "amnesty": to allow the retreat without liability.
I predict in 2023 we will see more tactical retreats without admitting any wrong or liability. The lies must be exposed. I hope Dorsten and his ilk are as successful as Napoleon on his way back from Moscow.
"Colleagues I once admired have totally discredited themselves in my eyes, and I’ll never get over it". Yes, there was one medic friend that I always used as my moral pointer - what would Dr X do, I would ask myself in order to follow. Not anymore, I can't believe the change.
So well said. Makes me grateful all over again for Substack. Thank you!
Ultimately I feel that the "work from home" movement is bad for the mental health of most people. Especially in hourly "clock in and out" type jobs that are fundamentally routine and boring, but also were traditionally collaborative and social. Everyone worked together to complete the stupid and boring tasks correctly, sharing the frustration and occasionally, by the weight of sheer numbers, forcing a change for the better. No creativity or concentration is required for the work -- only attention to detail and a good memory. You have to be "on the clock" for a full 40 hours a week -- but the "work" only takes maybe 5 or 10 hours at most? People no longer say "I have to go back to work," they say "I have to clock in for a few hours." So people are just babysitting their email accounts until they can clock out. That is, if they aren't just sleeping.
I persist in driving an hour to get to my old office, but there's only 4 or 5 of us there anymore -- out of the 1000 employees. Everyone else is "at home." I joke that I am performing a "historical reenactment" which always gets a big laugh -- signaling the truth of it. I dress up and pretend that I am an office worker from 2019.
I now have an upstairs corner cubicle and I enjoy watching the various employees who still need to occasionally return to the office -- to my mind they seem to be deteriorating: gaining weight and losing agility, many are still masked and eye other people with suspicion. Others leap on you to chat like prisoners suddenly released from solitary confinement.
People wear sweatpants and sandals to the office, hair is long and beards are reaching Biblical levels. Many of the men look homeless, or like they've been shipwrecked on a desert isle and now prefer the isolation. Women stopped dyeing their hair or getting hair cuts. By and large the work quality has declined exceedingly, not that it was high to begin with. People no longer even fake work. It's impossible to feel pride or accomplishment -- confidence has been replaced by shame, like how the family of looters might feel when they wear the purloined sneakers.
Employees openly announce that they can no longer contribute as much to the work because they have "adopted a new puppy" or they have to babysit because the schools are closed. Upper management will "leave" the virtual meetings to go "stir the soup" or "talk to the plumber." Questions on how to perform a task or solve a problem take ages to get answered as no one can be found to answer them. Most of the time I just "wing it." Most of the time everyone is just "winging it." I fully expect in a year or two that someone will realize they can save 100s of millions of dollars by shutting the office down entirely and having a random number generator do our work.
Thank you for making 2022 better informed for me. I appreciate your research, writing, and your incredible photography.
Listening to Alabama football radio pre-game and hearing ads with players pushing Covid vax as the best way to keep your family and friends safe. Sigh.
My own assessment of the covid era:
I now work from home full time. I did this part time pre-pandemic, so it wasn’t a huge shift for me. I love it. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to an office if I can help it.
I gained some new friends and lost friends. Some friendships have simply changed. Close friends and family have revealed themselves to be fools. I don’t think I’ll ever trust them the same way again. I’ve lost the closeness we once shared.
I’ve lost all trust in government, media, and the healthcare industry. I wasn’t nearly this skeptical before. I trusted my doctor and got all my shots. Now I’m not sure I’ll ever get another one. I’m not sure if I had a child today that I wouldn’t be a complete anti-vaxxer, something I’d never even considered before.
I live in a desirable area that I never thought I’d leave. I now can’t wait to go. I can’t believe what my fellow citizens did to each other. Although I feel absolutely fed up, until that time comes that I can leave this area, I’m determined to start working to make it better. At least then I can leave with a clean conscience knowing that I tried. Just before covid, I worked to get a community group together for litter pickup. The group was shut down by covid before we even got started. I’m going to try to get that going again in 2023.
I’m going to join whatever volunteer community group that I have opportunity to. I’ve learned that people who join these groups tend to be people who have agendas or people who are easily swayed by group think. They need more people like us, people who have no wish to control others and can act as sand in the gears to whatever stupid idea they come up with. I think for all of us, the one way we can start to make a difference is to do this - join the PTA, join your HOA, join the hospital’s patient advocacy group, join the community groups and start speaking up. Lot’s of local government agencies have community advisory groups. Join these.
I really appreciate this anonymous community. There really were very few to turn to in the height of covid to commiserate with. Almost everyone I knew was all-in. My direct boss was wonderful and supportive. She’s won my lifelong loyalty. One of my old friends, a big fan of the vaccines, was absolutely open-minded and supportive of me and my decisions. I’ll always remember her for that.
At the end of it all, I’m just sad and very disappointed. I’m trying to regain some optimism, but it’s hard. That you, Eugyppius. I really appreciate what you’ve done with this blog and knowing that I wasn’t alone.
We eagerly await the book, E.
Happy New Year and congrats on your new career!! I am so grateful for all the comments and personal stories posted here - I am comforted knowing that there are others like me, who are struggling with similar life observations and situations....trying to square up the changes from pre-plandemic life to today. I fall into the “wfh” category and while I am naturally self disciplined to put in an honest days work, I absolutely am soul searching for another career path that doesn’t involve bending the knee to woke ideologies and cultural Marxism in the form of identity politics! On the topic of jabs and covid, an engineer at work told me that he believed whole heartedly in the “vax” and boosters as the only way out of the “plandemic”, and that after his 3rd or 4th booster he developed a severe pain in his kidney. I suggested that he take Advil - he replied with, “I don’t like to take medications”. I just smh... Like living in twilight zone!! It is difficult to continue having meaningful relationships with friends (& some family) who believe in all the government lies and brainwashing on covid and jabs.... I do believe it is a gift to have awareness. We are not alone, just surrounded by too many brainwashed sheep! Substack is a Godsend. Thank you for sharing your work!!
"Colleagues I once admired have totally discredited themselves in my eyes, and I’ll never get over it. "
To have had this happen in my little corner of clinical research, with people who should always be questioning, has been a huge eye-opener, and indicator of the massive psy-op that was done on them. What was the difference? Why was I resistant and not them? Resigned to the fact I will never know, I shake the dust of more than one (de)mentor from my feet. I am better off without them from now on.
Happy new year.
Happy New Year! Wishing you a lovely New Year in 2023. I'm hoping that the changes you've encountered will reveal a better environment for you. Glad you got the masked bandit out of our space! If one believes even a smidgen in astrology- and look back at history when these same alinements occurred- big changes are coming in the next years. Top down government will be flipped to bottom up which would be a breath of fresh air. Thank you for providing us with the truth and hope for a better world,
A new nest for Eugyppius and his thoughts! I’ve been encouraging my friends to all feather their nests too- I fear the elites enjoy a bit too much tightening the vise on us with higher electricity and food prices. My new chicken coop arrives in February (hopefully) and I continue to feather my own new nest. Still waiting for my star link dish, though, and I hope that comes soon...
Any thoughts on the new Igor Chudov post with the newest variant? It does appear that the boosters keep giving rise to waves of Omicron.
With all due respect, Josef Mengele was clearly more qualified to be Dr. Fauci's mentor than any other German.
You are absolutely correct in that the world has changed forever.
But mostly through revelation. "Masks have fallen". (No pun intended.)
The mask of consultative/representative democracy. Gone.
The mask of free speech and debate. Gone.
The mask of the scientific method. Gone.
All replaced by loose-fitting plastic-cloth that does nothing but transmit fear through superstition.
For Dorsten et al, this is now a damage-limitation exercise. They attempt to retreat without admitting wrong or defeat.
This, they must not be allowed to do, and this is the true purpose of calls for an "amnesty": to allow the retreat without liability.
I predict in 2023 we will see more tactical retreats without admitting any wrong or liability. The lies must be exposed. I hope Dorsten and his ilk are as successful as Napoleon on his way back from Moscow.
Happy New Year and best of luck to you in your new office!
Best wishes for 2023. Thank you for the opportunity to see ‘quotidian’ in a written piece.
"Colleagues I once admired have totally discredited themselves in my eyes, and I’ll never get over it". Yes, there was one medic friend that I always used as my moral pointer - what would Dr X do, I would ask myself in order to follow. Not anymore, I can't believe the change.
The Fauci here is retired. But the one in his place is as bad. Your Drosten declares the thing over - then it surely must be, whatever it was!
Best wishes and see you Next Year !
Grateful