Thank you for this. It is a salve for the soul to know, though betrayed, we are not alone. There are some, though few, not willing to pretend it all away.
Consider if the "The Body Snatching Years" was a show playing on the Strand or off Broadway. Five years and still going strong! The producers would be thrilled.
The problem is that this is not theater, yet we are its thespians, in for life. And of course, the producers are stiffing the cast, us.
If this had ever been made into a movie or a play nobody would believe it, they would assume it’s satire. It’s interesting that we haven’t seen a movie that makes fun of the response to all this except for “Don’t Look Up” and that would have been too ridiculous to be successful if it had come out years before.
The only good thing that came out of the pandemic is that for a brief moment people stopped telling disabled people that “it must be nice to sit home all the time”. Everyone suddenly became real concerned about the fact that disabled people aren’t able to “live their life!”.
Seriously, I became disabled in 2012 and I didn’t start collecting disability until 2016, but it wasn’t until 2020 that anyone was concerned about my inability to eat in restaurants or go to concerts or socialize. In all those years nobody cared that I couldn’t go participate in capitalism, suddenly it’s so important that I do that I should be risking my life to do so? hahahhahahaha No.
My wife and I had to visit a U.S. government office yesterday. We were the only masked people inside. I carry a CO₂ monitor which showed a high likelihood of clean air which was a relief as my wife had to pose for a picture.
The officer actually told my wife to replace her mask if she wanted after the photo. That's good!
Now the not so good: The officer mentioned her son's elementary school class was averaging 8 absent students weekly. She attributed this to constant hand disinfectant usage and two years of mandatory masking which prevented training their immune systems. Not a thought that COVID infections were responsible. Nor a thought that these absences were caused by respiratory ailments which masking could help ameliorate. Why not reinstate mask mandates? This lack of understanding of immune system function is deeply embedded in our daily discourse.
This cattle call for our societies' children to attend school so that their parents may stay on the virtual hamster wheel spinning to feed billionaire revenue streams by going into the office is simply immoral.
I live in New Hampshire and we had a house bill introduced (HB361) recently that would prohibit ever requiring masks in school. It’s so disgusting here. I feel so sad for the kids and I’m just happy I didn’t sacrifice my body or my time or my finances to produce children for this system that just seeks to disable them before they can even start their lives.
It’s so weird to see people get it but not get it.
Your story reminds me of when I went to check into Nurology a couple months ago, I wear a mask everywhere so I was wearing a mask, I’m also disabled by MECFS so a lot of the symptoms they asked about in screening questions I experience all the time. Then when I confirm that I have a sore throat and headache and muscle pain and joint pain they look at me like they need to be afraid of me. Ma’am I’m wearing a mask when I’m not required to, you’re choosing not to wear a mask so apparently you aren’t that worried about getting infected.
When she said “well that’s how it starts you know!”, I said “yeah I know that’s why I’m wearing a mask.” Then she finally let me pass when I confessed that I have a chronic illness (MECFS) and I actually have these symptoms every single day.
It was such a strange experience though. So if I’m honest and I have symptoms and I’m wearing a mask I get hassled but if I don’t wear a mask and I lie and I sit in the waiting room coughing my head off the whole time that’s fine? Because that has been my experience in waiting rooms at Concord Hospital for the past five years.
My wife is a practitioner at the large hospital in our little upstate New York city. The hospital reinstated a mask mandate but most of her colleagues ignore it.
It is very depressing for my wife to see patients come in with the flu or COVID, or to acquire it there; to then see their families crushed when rather than a quick recovery, these patients die overnight.
Her colleagues take a lot of sick time -- it is a very depressing shit show!
I have so much empathy for her I don’t think I would continue to go to work if people were coming to me for help and infecting me on purpose while doing so. I’m not strong enough to handle all that. She’s amazing. 💚
I’d love to say everyone I know has been radicalised but most of my friends and family barely talk about any of it. They didn’t just check out in 2021 they checked out in 2008 after the global financial crash which acted as a catalyst for the situation that caused the pandemic and ensuing breakdown.
In 2008 when Citibank Obama, the "Hope and Change" fraud whose career was kick started by the Crown family of General Dynamics rewarded the financial parasites instead of prosecuting them, I wrote to my close friends and said, "We are now doomed." "The parasites have been given the signal to ravage at will." And then the FED further empowered them. They stole more than ever, and here we are, collapsing into fascist chaos. Doomed socially, politically and environmentally.
You probably remember when credit card companies were shutting down peoples credit lines without warning and for no reason just because they were afraid people would use them and then not pay them. It started happening again (in the US) last month two of my cards reduced my available credit. One of them didn’t notify me, or maybe that letter hasn’t made it here yet because the USPS is still broken.
USAA told me they were doing it because I wasn’t using the full credit line, which is true, but there’s also no reason to give me less of a credit line that I had when I opened this card five years ago. It’s a really great way for them to lower everyone’s credit score so banks can charge them more for loans. Also in NH our car insurance companies can use our credit scores to determine our rates.
This is such an interesting time for me because I was in my 30s during the housing market crash and I was still fully buying into capitalism. At the time I lived in Southern California and I had a lot of younger friends who buckled down and stopped spending money and refused to deal with price gouging prices. And I was stupidly trying to get them to “support” businesses to keep the economy going. And they weren’t having it. And I thought “Oh they’ll understand when they are older.”
So now those people are in their late 30s/early 40s and we have swapped spots. They’re supportive of the system and I have locked down spending out of spite and I’m telling them all how right they were in their 20s. And part of them must know that I was wrong, because they don’t reply to me telling me “no no you were right we should spend money!”
It has just been so fascinating to see how the propaganda works differently depending on where people are in their stages in life. Because it’s the same propaganda over and over and over again.
Oh ... and I omitted a key one. The population as a whole may no longer notice or care, providing that they ever did.
If the data is right, as it surely seems to be, now five years on, the population has lost a full standard deviation of IQ. What was 100 is now 85.
By 2030, make that two, with formerly "average" people with IQs of 100 qualifying as morons under outdated psychological terms with average IQs of 70, and half being below that.
For those of average IQ that were never infected, by 2030, they will count as "geniuses" with new IQs relative to the new mean of over 140.
Oh the joys of COVID, and the pandemic we chose to ignore.
This morning in New Hampshire the Health and Human Services committee is hearing house bill 679 which would make it law in New Hampshire that no vaccine would be required for children that doesn’t prevent infection. I am pro science and pro vaccine, but I’m really having a hard time thinking of a good reason to oppose this bill. I feel scammed by Joe Biden and Trump pushing this warp speed vaccine then telling everyone to throw away their mask because it’s a scarlet letter. Nevermind the “winter of death” where Blue MAGA was rejoicing shopping without a mask because “if you don’t want covid get vaccinated!” even though that doesn’t stop you from catching covid.
It was so gross and the eugenics program worked perfectly over here. Americans were encouraged to infect their friends and neighbors and communities because only the sick will fall by the wayside and they could’ve been vaccinated so oh well.
I hate that I kind of agree with the Republicans on this kids vaccine thing. We shouldn’t be pretending vaccines do things they don’t do. If they’re not going to stop infections people should be able to decide if they want to risk hospitalization and death since that CAN still happen if you get covid even vaccinated.
I’m going to hate Joe Biden for the rest of my life because he has made me side with Republicans here and there. They’re right on this one.
Right from the start, it's been the jew. Everything about Corbyn to the Plandemic. It's all been a build up to what they are now doing to the Children of Gaza and the West Bank. Open your eyes. They are a death cult. A genocidal death cult.
Speaking of time being different, I wrote a little tool to help with Covid timekeeping, back when March of 2020 could still be measured in double-digits. https://codepen.io/dethe/full/jOVOOZd
Thank you for this. It is a salve for the soul to know, though betrayed, we are not alone. There are some, though few, not willing to pretend it all away.
“Our shared experience of time now splintered, pockets of people began residing in different pockets of time.
Maybe this is the multiverse”.
You hit the nail in the head. This is the multiverse…an apocalyptic multiverse.
Great writing.
Consider if the "The Body Snatching Years" was a show playing on the Strand or off Broadway. Five years and still going strong! The producers would be thrilled.
The problem is that this is not theater, yet we are its thespians, in for life. And of course, the producers are stiffing the cast, us.
If this had ever been made into a movie or a play nobody would believe it, they would assume it’s satire. It’s interesting that we haven’t seen a movie that makes fun of the response to all this except for “Don’t Look Up” and that would have been too ridiculous to be successful if it had come out years before.
The only good thing that came out of the pandemic is that for a brief moment people stopped telling disabled people that “it must be nice to sit home all the time”. Everyone suddenly became real concerned about the fact that disabled people aren’t able to “live their life!”.
Seriously, I became disabled in 2012 and I didn’t start collecting disability until 2016, but it wasn’t until 2020 that anyone was concerned about my inability to eat in restaurants or go to concerts or socialize. In all those years nobody cared that I couldn’t go participate in capitalism, suddenly it’s so important that I do that I should be risking my life to do so? hahahhahahaha No.
My wife and I had to visit a U.S. government office yesterday. We were the only masked people inside. I carry a CO₂ monitor which showed a high likelihood of clean air which was a relief as my wife had to pose for a picture.
The officer actually told my wife to replace her mask if she wanted after the photo. That's good!
Now the not so good: The officer mentioned her son's elementary school class was averaging 8 absent students weekly. She attributed this to constant hand disinfectant usage and two years of mandatory masking which prevented training their immune systems. Not a thought that COVID infections were responsible. Nor a thought that these absences were caused by respiratory ailments which masking could help ameliorate. Why not reinstate mask mandates? This lack of understanding of immune system function is deeply embedded in our daily discourse.
This cattle call for our societies' children to attend school so that their parents may stay on the virtual hamster wheel spinning to feed billionaire revenue streams by going into the office is simply immoral.
I live in New Hampshire and we had a house bill introduced (HB361) recently that would prohibit ever requiring masks in school. It’s so disgusting here. I feel so sad for the kids and I’m just happy I didn’t sacrifice my body or my time or my finances to produce children for this system that just seeks to disable them before they can even start their lives.
It’s so weird to see people get it but not get it.
Your story reminds me of when I went to check into Nurology a couple months ago, I wear a mask everywhere so I was wearing a mask, I’m also disabled by MECFS so a lot of the symptoms they asked about in screening questions I experience all the time. Then when I confirm that I have a sore throat and headache and muscle pain and joint pain they look at me like they need to be afraid of me. Ma’am I’m wearing a mask when I’m not required to, you’re choosing not to wear a mask so apparently you aren’t that worried about getting infected.
When she said “well that’s how it starts you know!”, I said “yeah I know that’s why I’m wearing a mask.” Then she finally let me pass when I confessed that I have a chronic illness (MECFS) and I actually have these symptoms every single day.
It was such a strange experience though. So if I’m honest and I have symptoms and I’m wearing a mask I get hassled but if I don’t wear a mask and I lie and I sit in the waiting room coughing my head off the whole time that’s fine? Because that has been my experience in waiting rooms at Concord Hospital for the past five years.
I appreciate your perceptive replies!
My wife is a practitioner at the large hospital in our little upstate New York city. The hospital reinstated a mask mandate but most of her colleagues ignore it.
It is very depressing for my wife to see patients come in with the flu or COVID, or to acquire it there; to then see their families crushed when rather than a quick recovery, these patients die overnight.
Her colleagues take a lot of sick time -- it is a very depressing shit show!
I have so much empathy for her I don’t think I would continue to go to work if people were coming to me for help and infecting me on purpose while doing so. I’m not strong enough to handle all that. She’s amazing. 💚
No.i am not the same in many ways, but my ethics are stronger and not in doubt.
Great writing.
Yep. And most sadly, we ain't seen nothin' yet!
The great dying has just barely begun. As COVID-AIDS is finally recognized and bites hard.
As climate destabilisation shifts into the first of a dozen higher gears.
As mama nature wipes out large swaths of birds (H5N1) and targets humans with a second simultaneous pandemic.
With several added flu pandemics (H3N3, H9N4, H9N5) in line and warming up.
As two or is it three other SARS, (HKU4 and HKU5) get ready to jump to humans from bats and pangolins.
As the ability of LEO to drag satellites down declines and launches increase, headed to Kessler by 2035 and the collapse of technology.
As the polar vortex comes unstuck, harkening the collapse of the Ferrell and Polar cells ending agriculture.
As concrete holding back a billion plus curies of radioactive material crumbles under the onslaught of gamma rays, causing a thousand chernobyls.
As the lights burn our eyes, blinding the survivors and killing them with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, depression and cancers.
And as COVID-progeria seals the deal.
Such fun times ahead, as we crash upon the rocks of history in global war over the scraps of civilization.
Brilliant. Thank you.
Yup.
Wanna come over to hang out and watch Idiocracy again?
Everything delivers now…
I’d love to say everyone I know has been radicalised but most of my friends and family barely talk about any of it. They didn’t just check out in 2021 they checked out in 2008 after the global financial crash which acted as a catalyst for the situation that caused the pandemic and ensuing breakdown.
In 2008 when Citibank Obama, the "Hope and Change" fraud whose career was kick started by the Crown family of General Dynamics rewarded the financial parasites instead of prosecuting them, I wrote to my close friends and said, "We are now doomed." "The parasites have been given the signal to ravage at will." And then the FED further empowered them. They stole more than ever, and here we are, collapsing into fascist chaos. Doomed socially, politically and environmentally.
You probably remember when credit card companies were shutting down peoples credit lines without warning and for no reason just because they were afraid people would use them and then not pay them. It started happening again (in the US) last month two of my cards reduced my available credit. One of them didn’t notify me, or maybe that letter hasn’t made it here yet because the USPS is still broken.
USAA told me they were doing it because I wasn’t using the full credit line, which is true, but there’s also no reason to give me less of a credit line that I had when I opened this card five years ago. It’s a really great way for them to lower everyone’s credit score so banks can charge them more for loans. Also in NH our car insurance companies can use our credit scores to determine our rates.
This is such an interesting time for me because I was in my 30s during the housing market crash and I was still fully buying into capitalism. At the time I lived in Southern California and I had a lot of younger friends who buckled down and stopped spending money and refused to deal with price gouging prices. And I was stupidly trying to get them to “support” businesses to keep the economy going. And they weren’t having it. And I thought “Oh they’ll understand when they are older.”
So now those people are in their late 30s/early 40s and we have swapped spots. They’re supportive of the system and I have locked down spending out of spite and I’m telling them all how right they were in their 20s. And part of them must know that I was wrong, because they don’t reply to me telling me “no no you were right we should spend money!”
It has just been so fascinating to see how the propaganda works differently depending on where people are in their stages in life. Because it’s the same propaganda over and over and over again.
Oh ... and I omitted a key one. The population as a whole may no longer notice or care, providing that they ever did.
If the data is right, as it surely seems to be, now five years on, the population has lost a full standard deviation of IQ. What was 100 is now 85.
By 2030, make that two, with formerly "average" people with IQs of 100 qualifying as morons under outdated psychological terms with average IQs of 70, and half being below that.
For those of average IQ that were never infected, by 2030, they will count as "geniuses" with new IQs relative to the new mean of over 140.
Oh the joys of COVID, and the pandemic we chose to ignore.
Where did you find that data?
Science papers more than a year ago, evaluating the cognitive impacts of COVID as part of investigating long COVID
This morning in New Hampshire the Health and Human Services committee is hearing house bill 679 which would make it law in New Hampshire that no vaccine would be required for children that doesn’t prevent infection. I am pro science and pro vaccine, but I’m really having a hard time thinking of a good reason to oppose this bill. I feel scammed by Joe Biden and Trump pushing this warp speed vaccine then telling everyone to throw away their mask because it’s a scarlet letter. Nevermind the “winter of death” where Blue MAGA was rejoicing shopping without a mask because “if you don’t want covid get vaccinated!” even though that doesn’t stop you from catching covid.
It was so gross and the eugenics program worked perfectly over here. Americans were encouraged to infect their friends and neighbors and communities because only the sick will fall by the wayside and they could’ve been vaccinated so oh well.
I hate that I kind of agree with the Republicans on this kids vaccine thing. We shouldn’t be pretending vaccines do things they don’t do. If they’re not going to stop infections people should be able to decide if they want to risk hospitalization and death since that CAN still happen if you get covid even vaccinated.
I’m going to hate Joe Biden for the rest of my life because he has made me side with Republicans here and there. They’re right on this one.
Right from the start, it's been the jew. Everything about Corbyn to the Plandemic. It's all been a build up to what they are now doing to the Children of Gaza and the West Bank. Open your eyes. They are a death cult. A genocidal death cult.
Speaking of time being different, I wrote a little tool to help with Covid timekeeping, back when March of 2020 could still be measured in double-digits. https://codepen.io/dethe/full/jOVOOZd