Posted on 09/21/2024 12:51:10 PM PDT by Twotone
~I have just returned from a rare post-cardiac public appearance - for Hillsdale College in Washington, DC. I was struck, as I always am on my increasingly infrequent ventures into internal travel in the United States, by the number of persons - fellow passengers, check-in agents, hotel staff - still wearing Covid masks. Are they now Monkeypox masks? Virus X masks?
Or maybe mosquito masks? Right now, the states of Vermont and Massachusetts have cancelled public events and are "strongly recommending" their citizens remain indoors between 6pm and 6am because of a killer mosquito on the loose. (But don't worry, the highly credentialed "fact-checkers" assure us it isn't Farmer Bill Gates playing with the old gain-of-function at the world's biggest mosquito farm.)
Be that as it may, it is all too clear that, were governments to announce Lockdown 2.0 tomorrow, half your neighbours would be eager to comply all over again - notwithstanding the ongoing economic and social devastation from last time round. The damage was not from Covid, but from Covid policy; the damage next time round will likewise be from rule by "experts".
~Speaking of which, two years ago we received the following letter from John Cross, a pharmacist in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove:
I was lucky in that I got an early Astra Zeneca Sars Cov 2 (Covid 19 vaccine) in January 2021. My wife was working as a vaccinator at a local surgery. There was 'overage', the little bit extra that pharmaceutical manufacturers have to put in liquid containers to ensure that there is no short dosage, so I was able to agree not to waste vaccine and get on with it! Remember how important it was at the time to get vaccinated against this novel virus...
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
IF “OUR BODIES-—OUR CHOICE” APPLIES TO ABORTION-—
THEN IT ALSO APPLIES TO VACCINES
PERIOD
My idiot brother (genius actually, probably 150+ IQ as I had 130 and he much smarter...) pressured my mom to have three shots! One more than the pharmacist said was needed. Within weeks, she was forgetting things and getting confused. Luckily, hers is a mild case of complications...
I read the Steyn posting. Horrible.
And yet, the UN wants powerful authority over nations and their citizens because of the “coming pandemics.”
If the UN/WHO gets such authority, the new normal will be ongoing pandemics. Count on it.
I live in MA. I havent heard of ny event being cancelled or where I have to wear a mask. Some of this is just BS.
In fact, I came from the largest fair on the east coast and I saw one person, obviously on chemo, wearing a mask. I likely saw about 80,000 people this morning. Not one sign or announcement or any indication for any “virus.”
Well, thats not true. In the farm building where they keep the 4H animals there was a sign that said you should probably wash your hands after touching the animals.
I understand there are people trying to drum up more fear/anger about COVID…but in the real world there are not many evident signs of it.
Take the fear/anger porn articles with a big gran of salt.
Lying isn’t as effective as they liked, so they are switching to fear. Combined with lying, of course…
Mom was 88 in what was believed to be the highest risk group at the first round of assisted living center vaccination runs. We consented at the time. When the renewal came around the next year we suggested to Mom that she get the flu but skip the covid. She has done that since.
Nuremberg 2.0.
but failing that, these god-complexed, leftist monsters like faschi will certainly face Judgement Day, the Second Coming of the King.
I suppose it depends on where you go. I still see people in masks & I’m in Idaho where people are generally more sensible. And I’m sure that every mask grates on Mark Steyn’s senses, given what he’s been through over covid.
Just the other day I saw someone driving on the highway and wearing a mask. Whatever.
People can do whatever they want. I really don’t care. But don’t write in generalities like, “They are shutting down events in MA…” when it’s simply not happening.
My wife works at a larger hospital network here in MA and CT. They have been busy…but there is no “crisis.” They don’t even wear masks except on the floors where the patients have immunity issues.
I am just suggesting that “anger porn” is as damaging as the “fear porn.”
I don’t think Steyn would’ve said it unless he’d heard reports to that effect. We have mini-tyrants in every location these days. A big fair might not have been shut down, but who knows what goes on in smaller venues.
It’s like the ‘pet eating’ reports out of Ohio. Some folks say it’s happening, others say it isn’t. Who to believe? I’ll go with Steyn.
Steyn, like a lot of people, sees a single story in some comment or on X and they take it as “real.”
That is dangerous. I usually like the guy, but in this case he is simply trying to evoke anger in people. That’s what is wrong with “commentary” being presented as if its news.
What cracks me up is this small group “people” wearing masks that have OBVIOUSLY been worn quite a few times. Some are quite dirty.
P95 masks are single use for maybe 5-8hrs at best.
Virtue Signaling with DIRTY MASKS!!!!
I don’t think he’s trying to evoke anger. HE IS ANGRY. While I still love his humor, the bitterness from what he’s been put through is evident in every column.
I’m rydin’ with Steyn.
Mark Steyn fell for the scamdemic and injected fake vaccines as he traveled quite a bit.
He is paying for it in spades with heart attacks.
He didn’t want to. Travel was a requirement for his profession & he wasn’t given any options. May the Good Lord inflict an appropriate judgment on those that did this to us.
We see a lot of articles where the headline reads “X is happening in state Y” where state Y has ten million people and X is happening in one location where ten people congregate.
It is a bit irritating.
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