Tell them so. They all need to know we see them and we see the ritual and we know they see it as bullshit and they don't need to comply either. That's what brought down the Soviets imo.
Why even bother enforcing your edicts with johnny law when restaurant managers, hospital lobby overseers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers, daycare staff, and every sad little level of manager where everyone works are all willing to turn the screw for free. I've fought them all and more for over two years and everything's starting to taste like ashes.
In a place that is supposed to use the logic of math and science, hospitals have become a concentration camp for those with covid. Their treatment protocol almost guarantees a negative result. They should be called the slaughterhouses they are because they sure aren't a place of compassion and care.
How utterly sad. A friend went to the hospital and had to go through security check for both COVID and weapons! Maybe the latter is a nod to how much people resent the former? I'm allowed to go back to my workplace now, but only if I prove each week to their satisfaction that I don't have COVID.
I refuse to do that. It's just a matter of humiliating those who resisted the vaccine now, since those vaccinated both get and spread the virus by at least the same rate. Our CEO lamented the January 6th incident since it reminded him of politics in his native land, but at least has been quiet since. The company also saw the sheer idiocy of firing 8-16% of our workforce and granted anyone who applied a religious exemption.
I may not fight, but I will not yield. "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann kein anders."
The surgeons where I worked thought the non experimental jabbed should be locked in their houses. Of course, I'm not employed there now. Rather flip burgers
Thanks Suzanne. I intend to keep refusing, but retirement and freelance writing are what's soon in store for me. I don't need to make a living on my writing anymore, so I can write what I want (when I retire). I stood up on my company's internal social media platform against the vaccine mandate and accompanying craziness mostly because others who had much more to lose were intimidated. The result was that the snarky SJW who tried to keep turning up the craziness was stifled at least until now as he tries to slink back in with a backdoor post on the company's expanded travel for medical treatment benefit.
For my co-workers, I can only feel sorry. Where could they go? Based on the job offers I see, Google, Apple, Lockheed, etc. Good luck on ending up with some company less in thrall to the current Mean Girls In Charge (MGIC) view. My company requires college degrees for all its (pardon but I haven't asked for my company's pronouns) employees, except perhaps the security guards and receptionists who are subcontracted anyway, and good luck finding alternate views in that crowd. My company is probably the least crazy around in that regard. (Least crazy is still crazy, but....whatever.)
Good luck to everybody else, but keep your integrity. As Neil Armstrong said, and I quoted to my bosses,
"The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man."
People at little windows/desks who “must see your papers”. The state or institution gets away with it because it gives “little nobodies” power and they get drunk on it. I saw it all over Bucharest, Romania when we moved there in 1990 and I saw it in a City of Austin food service office (where “Madam Stalin” tortured many a food truck vendor). Read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning to understand where this can go.
I can’t even fathom that happening here in NC. Even during the dark days, most regular employees were ignoring it unless a manager or someone was around. They might have had a sign because they were supposed to have a sign, but the employees weren’t even doing whatever the sign said. Now, in our blue capital city, there was a lot more of this. But I never wore a mask in Target and no one said a thing. At Costco the lady would say, “here’s a mask” and I’d wave mine and say, “I have one.” Then never wore it and no one ever commented.
I lived in the UK, London, when the pandemic hit, although I’m not British. England has always been a bastion of common sense and a good balance between doing the right thing for society (politeness, queuing, etiquette etc) and personal freedom and privacy (“an Englishman’s home is his castle”) but no more. They went full Covid hysterical, just like everyone else, albeit with some resistance such that mask mandates did not emerge until late 2020 and vax mandates never quite fully materialised, although there was a government mandate for care home workers and one for health care workers that was repealed as the deadline loomed. Still there was peer pressure driven by fear, despite the protestations that it was about enforcing the common good. No one cared about the actual science, “it’s obvious isn’t it!” (Never a question, always a statement of “fact”). And despite now over 2 years of experience and emerging data that demonstrates as clearly as anyone can reasonably expect that masks don’t work, social distancing doesn’t work, lockdowns kill people and ruin lives and don’t work and most of all the experimental inoculations kill people, ruin lives and don’t work (in fact they are turning out to have negative efficacy), society as a whole seems to not recognise the terrible consequences of Covid policy and their personal choices to go along with it, to still go along with it. In the UK, while they have dropped masking and lockdowns (for now) they are still vaxing people, 23,573 first doses in the past 7 days (at the time of writing) and as there are no mandates or media pressure anymore this has to be mostly children. 46,152 “boosters or third doses”, you will notice they no longer refer to the third shot as a booster... Read into that what you will. And the infections are rising again and so are the deaths. The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) just released an update to their deaths by vaccination status report, a data set that the UK government vaccination surveillance report ceased to provide (because that’s not at all important because they have “other ways” to measure efficacy). The ONS data revealed that in April and May 2022 the deaths with Covid were 94% in the vaccinated population, chiefly boosted. More concerning perhaps is that the all causes deaths for April and May by vaccination status was 97% vaxed. Now the vax rate is high in the UK and it is actually quite difficult to compute it owing to the vagaries of the population estimates but they ain’t that high. Regardless, if the vax worked, I mean at all, then surely we would see a much higher percentage of unvaxed! (Statement not a question...). Another UK ONS report declares that between May 2021 and Jan 2022 the chances of being admitted to the ICU for Covid related illness was much higher if you are unvaxed, materially especially in the 60 to 69 age group. Well any analyst worth their salt would ask two questions: why is there such a huge anomaly in the 60-69 age group, is there a problem with the data overall?; if so many of the ICU patients are unvaxed why are the vast majority in of eventual deaths in the vaxed group, is there a problem with the data or the way it is being analysed? No one asks, no journalists challenge, they just read the headline and say, oh yeah, better get vaxed...
Now I live in the Far East and here matters are worse. They have only recently lifted the mask mandates for outdoors (yeah outdoors in 35 C heat!) and still have it indoors. Despite this most people still weak the masks outdoors and the vaxed level is off the charts high! No one seems to ask why they need for the masks when everyone is vaxed! They have vax passports and a tracker app. The only bright spot is the fact that it is an impossible task to keep it all up. This country did have lockdown but did not provide the same “support” as Western countries (not more wealthy as this is a wealth country) and poor people died and lost their livelihoods and lived in misery. Will it happen again when (not if) the next wave hits? Hard to see these bureaucrats and elites changing their tune, unless they are forced to and that will require the people to wake up. Still no sign. I am left wondering how bad it must get for people to wake up and how much damage will be done before that occurs? Meanwhile the WEF is pushing other societal changes up such as nitrogen caps (Trudeau in Canada joins Rutte of the Netherlands in this scorched Earth effort to take control of our food for the WEF). Two WEF young leadership alumni and surely Ardern in NZ won’t be far behind, nor Macron in France while the puppet master with his hand up Joe Biden is surely watching these “tests” with eager eyes. The November midterms in the US have never been more vital to freedom and democracy. Sorry to put this on you America but so it is. You are the ones with the constitution but be careful not to lurch to the right in a bid to steady the ship, you might make matters worse as over there Gilead lies in wait. These are treacherous waters. We need to navigate with the same open minded awareness that we thus far navigated the Covid fiasco. We need to wake people up and we need to do it before November.
Just a note of caution about the UK vaccination figures, from a Brit, they can't be trusted. UKHSA has it that in June 22 still 19m of the population aged 12 and over had not been vaxxed. There aren't that many kids in the UK....
Fully agree, hence my point about the difficulty of assessing vax levels as a percentage of population and indeed any data by vax status. There is also a difference between the methodologies used by the various different agencies in the UK and even variations between the countries within the UK, not to mention political “tune playing”. Professor Norman Fenton does a better job than I can of explaining this (check him out on YT). Still the UK ONS remains the beat and most consistent source of data, just don’t trust their analysis, do your own. And while I’m not a Brits, I lived there for 35 years so I may as well be 😉
I lived in the "Third World," Monty Python, The Meaning of Life, the UK in early 1970s which resembled Eastern Europe, Soviet Bloc in all the ways described. So I left. That was my only option because I refused to live like that. I've had a good run here, but if it gets too crazy, and it looks like it will, I'll vote with my feet again.
It's truly remarkable how many people seem to positively revel in the petty tyranny covidianism gives them the permission to inflict. This has been building for a long time, though. Something seemed to change in the American character after 9/11 - a new authoritarian type emerged, who would cheerfully admit that the rules made no sense, but the rules are the rules and they're going to enforce them anyways. Other contributing factors are the school system, which is all one-size-fits-all zero tolerance policies, and the change in livelihood from independent shop owners to large corporations with vigilant HR departments riding herd over the workforce. Americans have been subjected to a lifetime of compliance training.
I once visited a hospital in LA. The very polite functionary who dealt with me was illiterate. I mean, not completely. He could - laboriously, slowly - make out words. But his job was with a computer, and he couldn't type, and he couldn't associate the words I said with my mouth with the letters he had to produce on the screen. Of course my taking over the keyboard was completely out of the question - I didn't even need to ask that. So we spelled my name, one letter at a time, together. He tried to jump ahead, once; I had to correct him and we slowed back down. And eventually, the symbols painstakingly punched, the computer said no, and I left unsatisfied, and I went to a private clinic and was done in five minutes.
I'd like to say I hadn't been back to LA since, but of course I have; what I will say is that with my dying gesture I will commandeer a helicopter to get me to a public hospital literally anywhere else in the lower 48.
And on the subject of these COVID testing labs: I'm recently returned from Latin America, where they ring the airport in that particular country, and but for their white coats and those ridiculous plastic visors (is someone going to tell these people they look like a Dollar Tree Robocop?) the barkers there can't be differentiated from the cabbies and scammers and "porters" who have separated unwary travelers from their money since time immemorial, but for the fact that we have to have our big serious faces on - and our masks, of course - when we deal with the former, the latter being easily waved away.
Closer to home, I was delighted last week to see the COVID hatchery in my local airport darkened and closed at peak travel time. But I won't rest easy until the signage is completely removed. Overnight a COVIDian operative could scuttle back in place for all I know. It could be their policy.
Had to visit Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara multiple days consecutively to visit/care for dad post heart surgery. "Cases" have been up, so they changed their test-to-enter policy for The Unclean to PCR within 24 hours (down from 48).
When Homo Covieticus was at the door, 24 hours was interpreted to mean: you had to PCR test that very same day.
"But you see, kind sir, it shows here that I took the swab at 11 am yesterday. And its currently 7 am today. Which is but 20 hours later. Is that not within the permitted 24 hour time frame?"
Back and forth, on and on. I was always able to get through -- but as you say it took 30 seconds or 10 minutes.
Oh and when they let (all PCR negative) Unclean in, we get different colored wrist bands.
"Is my access any different from other visitors?"
"No - it's the same."
"So why the different colored wrist bands?"
"Because, you know, cases are way up."
"But why do you need different colors for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated visitors? We're permitted the visit all the same places. There's no reason to do this, is there?"
"It's just a precaution. Because cases are really high right now."
Yup...and these are the people entrusted to repair my dad's leaky heart! Which went well, thank god. Notwithstanding that they masked him, a man recovering from open heart surgery, every time a caretaker entered the room.
I have had that exact conversation about the interpretation of "within 24 hours." Today an East German border guard at the hospital entry announced that she was "making some calls" about my questionable claims about being allowed to visit a patient in the Secure Zone, and she parked me in a holding area to be watched by security while she dialed a bunch of numbers and glowered at me. Then she went on break, announcing that she would continue to think about the matter when she returned, and one of her colleagues ran over and handed me a pass while the East German was away from the desk. The personal cruelty is obvious and repulsive.
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If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… it’s a duck. These dehumanizing rules are not there to keep anybody safe. Because they don’t. The rules are about compliance. Do what I say - or else, peasant. The Neo-Marxists, who are really a regressive group of elitists posing as humanitarians, are working hard on recreating a modern feudal system in league with a bunch of megalomaniacal billionaires, big corporations, academic shills for that patina of expertise, and the administrative state, which includes the intelligence and military apparatuses. And it’s global and it’s technologically advanced for 360 degree control - money, food,healthcare, the law, science, travel, your relationships, and even your perception of reality. It’s quite amazing what these little shits have put together. The propaganda is top notch and 24/7/365.They simply know better, and well this democratic process is quite tiresome, and by the way there are too many of you untermenschen barking about your rights and your little lives, so the big boys are making some long overdue changes here at GloboCommie Inc..
Where I live, we don’t have all the hospital testing issues you have in Los Angelesgrad. But we all have bigger fish to fry. COVID was not an accident. Shinzo Abe wasn’t an accident. The January 6th Deep State Entrapment Fest wasn’t an accident. The Canadian truckers being demonetized from their banks wasn’t an accident. The BS Ukraine war. The opening of our borders. Taking farmers’ land because a cow made a number 2 or because fertilizer is “bad” isn’t an accident. It’s all happening at the same time, coordinated by the same sadists, and this isn’t going to end with polite negotiations or funny memes. These people need to be stopped by whatever means necessary, and for good. At the top levels, these are mass murderers and totalitarians. Not in the future. Right now. COVID and it’s surrounding epiphenomena - the dangerous “vaccines”, the lockdowns, the resulting supply chain issues, are killing and starving people. We fought them and we beat them before. Now it turns out that they never went away and are running the show here. It’s the same drill. Whether we have the will and the fortitude to give these people what they deserve is another question. Fucking bastards.
read Joel Salatin's book Everything I Want to do is Illegal. there are too many initialed bureaucracies with too much control over the minutiae of your life. you spend $200 a ticket in NYC to see a Broadway show and your attention is taken up by the mask nazis patrolling the audience to make sure you can't breathe properly. before the pandemic, they were merely ushers who gave you a program and escorted you to your seat. now they have the power to ruin your ability to enjoy the spectacle.
thank god we moved to a red state but even here, my job of 40 years was taken from me and none of my co-workers even called to check on me or express their regrets. we house musicians for the symphony and are offered comp tickets but because we are unvaccinated, we would have to show negative tests unlike all the vaccinated who get a pass even though the vaccines have never prevented infection or transmission AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS! i always turn the tickets down, mentioning that as long as discriminatory practices are in place, we will not attend
Death by paperwork. It's all part of the thousand cuts.
And the obvious meaningless of so much of the paperwork is just part of the degrading compliance ritual.
Tell them so. They all need to know we see them and we see the ritual and we know they see it as bullshit and they don't need to comply either. That's what brought down the Soviets imo.
Death by a thousand papercuts. Ouch.
Why even bother enforcing your edicts with johnny law when restaurant managers, hospital lobby overseers, grocery store clerks, bus drivers, daycare staff, and every sad little level of manager where everyone works are all willing to turn the screw for free. I've fought them all and more for over two years and everything's starting to taste like ashes.
In a place that is supposed to use the logic of math and science, hospitals have become a concentration camp for those with covid. Their treatment protocol almost guarantees a negative result. They should be called the slaughterhouses they are because they sure aren't a place of compassion and care.
Death camps. I won’t go near one. Same with doctors.
The new Killing fields
“Compliance is a business, and that’s a good part of the reason it’s so hard to kill the thing.”
Yes, “Covid” isn’t a “pandemic” it’s an industry.
Great one. Can I use this?
How utterly sad. A friend went to the hospital and had to go through security check for both COVID and weapons! Maybe the latter is a nod to how much people resent the former? I'm allowed to go back to my workplace now, but only if I prove each week to their satisfaction that I don't have COVID.
I refuse to do that. It's just a matter of humiliating those who resisted the vaccine now, since those vaccinated both get and spread the virus by at least the same rate. Our CEO lamented the January 6th incident since it reminded him of politics in his native land, but at least has been quiet since. The company also saw the sheer idiocy of firing 8-16% of our workforce and granted anyone who applied a religious exemption.
I may not fight, but I will not yield. "Hier stehe ich. Ich kann kein anders."
The surgeons where I worked thought the non experimental jabbed should be locked in their houses. Of course, I'm not employed there now. Rather flip burgers
Keep refusing. And get a different job.
Thanks Suzanne. I intend to keep refusing, but retirement and freelance writing are what's soon in store for me. I don't need to make a living on my writing anymore, so I can write what I want (when I retire). I stood up on my company's internal social media platform against the vaccine mandate and accompanying craziness mostly because others who had much more to lose were intimidated. The result was that the snarky SJW who tried to keep turning up the craziness was stifled at least until now as he tries to slink back in with a backdoor post on the company's expanded travel for medical treatment benefit.
For my co-workers, I can only feel sorry. Where could they go? Based on the job offers I see, Google, Apple, Lockheed, etc. Good luck on ending up with some company less in thrall to the current Mean Girls In Charge (MGIC) view. My company requires college degrees for all its (pardon but I haven't asked for my company's pronouns) employees, except perhaps the security guards and receptionists who are subcontracted anyway, and good luck finding alternate views in that crowd. My company is probably the least crazy around in that regard. (Least crazy is still crazy, but....whatever.)
Good luck to everybody else, but keep your integrity. As Neil Armstrong said, and I quoted to my bosses,
"The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man."
People at little windows/desks who “must see your papers”. The state or institution gets away with it because it gives “little nobodies” power and they get drunk on it. I saw it all over Bucharest, Romania when we moved there in 1990 and I saw it in a City of Austin food service office (where “Madam Stalin” tortured many a food truck vendor). Read Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning to understand where this can go.
I can’t even fathom that happening here in NC. Even during the dark days, most regular employees were ignoring it unless a manager or someone was around. They might have had a sign because they were supposed to have a sign, but the employees weren’t even doing whatever the sign said. Now, in our blue capital city, there was a lot more of this. But I never wore a mask in Target and no one said a thing. At Costco the lady would say, “here’s a mask” and I’d wave mine and say, “I have one.” Then never wore it and no one ever commented.
excellent job, NC. Keep up the good work.
You forgot the part about being submissive.
That's our problem, we're barely fit to be called Americans anymore.
Thank-you for voicing my exact thoughts.
Damn right
I lived in the UK, London, when the pandemic hit, although I’m not British. England has always been a bastion of common sense and a good balance between doing the right thing for society (politeness, queuing, etiquette etc) and personal freedom and privacy (“an Englishman’s home is his castle”) but no more. They went full Covid hysterical, just like everyone else, albeit with some resistance such that mask mandates did not emerge until late 2020 and vax mandates never quite fully materialised, although there was a government mandate for care home workers and one for health care workers that was repealed as the deadline loomed. Still there was peer pressure driven by fear, despite the protestations that it was about enforcing the common good. No one cared about the actual science, “it’s obvious isn’t it!” (Never a question, always a statement of “fact”). And despite now over 2 years of experience and emerging data that demonstrates as clearly as anyone can reasonably expect that masks don’t work, social distancing doesn’t work, lockdowns kill people and ruin lives and don’t work and most of all the experimental inoculations kill people, ruin lives and don’t work (in fact they are turning out to have negative efficacy), society as a whole seems to not recognise the terrible consequences of Covid policy and their personal choices to go along with it, to still go along with it. In the UK, while they have dropped masking and lockdowns (for now) they are still vaxing people, 23,573 first doses in the past 7 days (at the time of writing) and as there are no mandates or media pressure anymore this has to be mostly children. 46,152 “boosters or third doses”, you will notice they no longer refer to the third shot as a booster... Read into that what you will. And the infections are rising again and so are the deaths. The UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) just released an update to their deaths by vaccination status report, a data set that the UK government vaccination surveillance report ceased to provide (because that’s not at all important because they have “other ways” to measure efficacy). The ONS data revealed that in April and May 2022 the deaths with Covid were 94% in the vaccinated population, chiefly boosted. More concerning perhaps is that the all causes deaths for April and May by vaccination status was 97% vaxed. Now the vax rate is high in the UK and it is actually quite difficult to compute it owing to the vagaries of the population estimates but they ain’t that high. Regardless, if the vax worked, I mean at all, then surely we would see a much higher percentage of unvaxed! (Statement not a question...). Another UK ONS report declares that between May 2021 and Jan 2022 the chances of being admitted to the ICU for Covid related illness was much higher if you are unvaxed, materially especially in the 60 to 69 age group. Well any analyst worth their salt would ask two questions: why is there such a huge anomaly in the 60-69 age group, is there a problem with the data overall?; if so many of the ICU patients are unvaxed why are the vast majority in of eventual deaths in the vaxed group, is there a problem with the data or the way it is being analysed? No one asks, no journalists challenge, they just read the headline and say, oh yeah, better get vaxed...
Now I live in the Far East and here matters are worse. They have only recently lifted the mask mandates for outdoors (yeah outdoors in 35 C heat!) and still have it indoors. Despite this most people still weak the masks outdoors and the vaxed level is off the charts high! No one seems to ask why they need for the masks when everyone is vaxed! They have vax passports and a tracker app. The only bright spot is the fact that it is an impossible task to keep it all up. This country did have lockdown but did not provide the same “support” as Western countries (not more wealthy as this is a wealth country) and poor people died and lost their livelihoods and lived in misery. Will it happen again when (not if) the next wave hits? Hard to see these bureaucrats and elites changing their tune, unless they are forced to and that will require the people to wake up. Still no sign. I am left wondering how bad it must get for people to wake up and how much damage will be done before that occurs? Meanwhile the WEF is pushing other societal changes up such as nitrogen caps (Trudeau in Canada joins Rutte of the Netherlands in this scorched Earth effort to take control of our food for the WEF). Two WEF young leadership alumni and surely Ardern in NZ won’t be far behind, nor Macron in France while the puppet master with his hand up Joe Biden is surely watching these “tests” with eager eyes. The November midterms in the US have never been more vital to freedom and democracy. Sorry to put this on you America but so it is. You are the ones with the constitution but be careful not to lurch to the right in a bid to steady the ship, you might make matters worse as over there Gilead lies in wait. These are treacherous waters. We need to navigate with the same open minded awareness that we thus far navigated the Covid fiasco. We need to wake people up and we need to do it before November.
Just a note of caution about the UK vaccination figures, from a Brit, they can't be trusted. UKHSA has it that in June 22 still 19m of the population aged 12 and over had not been vaxxed. There aren't that many kids in the UK....
Fully agree, hence my point about the difficulty of assessing vax levels as a percentage of population and indeed any data by vax status. There is also a difference between the methodologies used by the various different agencies in the UK and even variations between the countries within the UK, not to mention political “tune playing”. Professor Norman Fenton does a better job than I can of explaining this (check him out on YT). Still the UK ONS remains the beat and most consistent source of data, just don’t trust their analysis, do your own. And while I’m not a Brits, I lived there for 35 years so I may as well be 😉
I lived in the "Third World," Monty Python, The Meaning of Life, the UK in early 1970s which resembled Eastern Europe, Soviet Bloc in all the ways described. So I left. That was my only option because I refused to live like that. I've had a good run here, but if it gets too crazy, and it looks like it will, I'll vote with my feet again.
It's truly remarkable how many people seem to positively revel in the petty tyranny covidianism gives them the permission to inflict. This has been building for a long time, though. Something seemed to change in the American character after 9/11 - a new authoritarian type emerged, who would cheerfully admit that the rules made no sense, but the rules are the rules and they're going to enforce them anyways. Other contributing factors are the school system, which is all one-size-fits-all zero tolerance policies, and the change in livelihood from independent shop owners to large corporations with vigilant HR departments riding herd over the workforce. Americans have been subjected to a lifetime of compliance training.
I once visited a hospital in LA. The very polite functionary who dealt with me was illiterate. I mean, not completely. He could - laboriously, slowly - make out words. But his job was with a computer, and he couldn't type, and he couldn't associate the words I said with my mouth with the letters he had to produce on the screen. Of course my taking over the keyboard was completely out of the question - I didn't even need to ask that. So we spelled my name, one letter at a time, together. He tried to jump ahead, once; I had to correct him and we slowed back down. And eventually, the symbols painstakingly punched, the computer said no, and I left unsatisfied, and I went to a private clinic and was done in five minutes.
I'd like to say I hadn't been back to LA since, but of course I have; what I will say is that with my dying gesture I will commandeer a helicopter to get me to a public hospital literally anywhere else in the lower 48.
And on the subject of these COVID testing labs: I'm recently returned from Latin America, where they ring the airport in that particular country, and but for their white coats and those ridiculous plastic visors (is someone going to tell these people they look like a Dollar Tree Robocop?) the barkers there can't be differentiated from the cabbies and scammers and "porters" who have separated unwary travelers from their money since time immemorial, but for the fact that we have to have our big serious faces on - and our masks, of course - when we deal with the former, the latter being easily waved away.
Closer to home, I was delighted last week to see the COVID hatchery in my local airport darkened and closed at peak travel time. But I won't rest easy until the signage is completely removed. Overnight a COVIDian operative could scuttle back in place for all I know. It could be their policy.
Had to visit Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara multiple days consecutively to visit/care for dad post heart surgery. "Cases" have been up, so they changed their test-to-enter policy for The Unclean to PCR within 24 hours (down from 48).
When Homo Covieticus was at the door, 24 hours was interpreted to mean: you had to PCR test that very same day.
"But you see, kind sir, it shows here that I took the swab at 11 am yesterday. And its currently 7 am today. Which is but 20 hours later. Is that not within the permitted 24 hour time frame?"
Back and forth, on and on. I was always able to get through -- but as you say it took 30 seconds or 10 minutes.
Oh and when they let (all PCR negative) Unclean in, we get different colored wrist bands.
"Is my access any different from other visitors?"
"No - it's the same."
"So why the different colored wrist bands?"
"Because, you know, cases are way up."
"But why do you need different colors for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated visitors? We're permitted the visit all the same places. There's no reason to do this, is there?"
"It's just a precaution. Because cases are really high right now."
Yup...and these are the people entrusted to repair my dad's leaky heart! Which went well, thank god. Notwithstanding that they masked him, a man recovering from open heart surgery, every time a caretaker entered the room.
I have had that exact conversation about the interpretation of "within 24 hours." Today an East German border guard at the hospital entry announced that she was "making some calls" about my questionable claims about being allowed to visit a patient in the Secure Zone, and she parked me in a holding area to be watched by security while she dialed a bunch of numbers and glowered at me. Then she went on break, announcing that she would continue to think about the matter when she returned, and one of her colleagues ran over and handed me a pass while the East German was away from the desk. The personal cruelty is obvious and repulsive.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck… it’s a duck. These dehumanizing rules are not there to keep anybody safe. Because they don’t. The rules are about compliance. Do what I say - or else, peasant. The Neo-Marxists, who are really a regressive group of elitists posing as humanitarians, are working hard on recreating a modern feudal system in league with a bunch of megalomaniacal billionaires, big corporations, academic shills for that patina of expertise, and the administrative state, which includes the intelligence and military apparatuses. And it’s global and it’s technologically advanced for 360 degree control - money, food,healthcare, the law, science, travel, your relationships, and even your perception of reality. It’s quite amazing what these little shits have put together. The propaganda is top notch and 24/7/365.They simply know better, and well this democratic process is quite tiresome, and by the way there are too many of you untermenschen barking about your rights and your little lives, so the big boys are making some long overdue changes here at GloboCommie Inc..
Where I live, we don’t have all the hospital testing issues you have in Los Angelesgrad. But we all have bigger fish to fry. COVID was not an accident. Shinzo Abe wasn’t an accident. The January 6th Deep State Entrapment Fest wasn’t an accident. The Canadian truckers being demonetized from their banks wasn’t an accident. The BS Ukraine war. The opening of our borders. Taking farmers’ land because a cow made a number 2 or because fertilizer is “bad” isn’t an accident. It’s all happening at the same time, coordinated by the same sadists, and this isn’t going to end with polite negotiations or funny memes. These people need to be stopped by whatever means necessary, and for good. At the top levels, these are mass murderers and totalitarians. Not in the future. Right now. COVID and it’s surrounding epiphenomena - the dangerous “vaccines”, the lockdowns, the resulting supply chain issues, are killing and starving people. We fought them and we beat them before. Now it turns out that they never went away and are running the show here. It’s the same drill. Whether we have the will and the fortitude to give these people what they deserve is another question. Fucking bastards.
Now its America's turn to lose the Cold War.
read Joel Salatin's book Everything I Want to do is Illegal. there are too many initialed bureaucracies with too much control over the minutiae of your life. you spend $200 a ticket in NYC to see a Broadway show and your attention is taken up by the mask nazis patrolling the audience to make sure you can't breathe properly. before the pandemic, they were merely ushers who gave you a program and escorted you to your seat. now they have the power to ruin your ability to enjoy the spectacle.
thank god we moved to a red state but even here, my job of 40 years was taken from me and none of my co-workers even called to check on me or express their regrets. we house musicians for the symphony and are offered comp tickets but because we are unvaccinated, we would have to show negative tests unlike all the vaccinated who get a pass even though the vaccines have never prevented infection or transmission AND EVERYONE KNOWS THIS! i always turn the tickets down, mentioning that as long as discriminatory practices are in place, we will not attend