Posted on 09/20/2021 2:02:08 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The reasons why international travel is off-limits and shameful have nothing to do with medical facts
We recently left the country for the first time since the pandemic began. I could say that we’d always wanted to go to Iceland, but the truth is, we’d wanted to go to Iceland ever since we heard how sanely they handle visitors. Even at the height of the pandemic in 2020, they didn’t require COVID tests for children. They still don’t.
Iceland is the world’s most vaccinated nation, with 86 percent of the country having gotten the jab. A recent ‘spike’ (they peaked at 170 cases per day in mid-August) led to an indoor mask mandate, but it doesn’t apply to kids. The mandate is also very loosely enforced. There are no Karens shrieking at people to mask up in shops, and I saw many unmasked Icelanders indoors. The only people masking outdoors in Iceland, and the only people masking their children anywhere in Iceland, were Americans.
My kids didn’t need a COVID test to get into Iceland, but they did need one to return to the US. And though Iceland has always exempted kids from masking, America demands masks even for toddlers. We are in a moment of profound fear in the US. The pandemic has broken something in us that has been cracking for some time. The way we look at travel, especially travel abroad, shows we are losing our minds.
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Exactly.
...or football games.
It is a sin to live in a state of fear and/or worry. Both show a lack of faith in God almighty.
Government education. They have catechized kids for three decades to be terrified of everything from global warming to white men in vans - COVID was just the cherry on top.
I used to say, semi-jokingly, that people are the worst kind. Little did I know.
Good statement.
I guess maybe we could apply the same principle to intra-US travel. Pick the places that seem most sane. I.e., avoid liberal areas. I can verify my lib area is too insanely paranoid.
MayI ask how you mean “medical trans” and “demands from medical facilities”?
I’m curious if your experience correlates with mine, as a patient. It’s not fun being a patient in the hysteria. As if the ailments we can have aren’t bad enough, this plague hysteria makes it much more stressful.
When Covid hit and after President Trump declared a state of emergency (huge mistake imho), the hospitals immediately issued dictates regarding coming 'on the premises'. Must mask up! Cannot go into the building unless you have a firm appointment! etc.
One of the hospitals, early on, was expecting a 'surge' in patients and so, they actually built a temporary structure to accommodate the influx of people (which never happened). They ended up taking it down about 4 months later. It just was never used. But the hysteria continues in the area, mostly from politicians and leftist doctors/nurses and of course the democrat population.
Every week, the local newspapers print 'letters to the editor', excoriating those who have not gotten the jab. We're lower than whale dung. Of course they never print letters written from the other side. Only those from the hysterical.
I 'retired' in June of 2020 because of the b.s. Was sick of seeing the cowering and the irrational reaction to the virus.
I could go on about my experiences with medical in this nonsense.
From my own visits (or NOT) to various doctors for chronic problems to the death of my MIL from COVID itself!
In some ways it’s like unless you’re COVID, you’re back of the bus…but still, with actual COVID, you’re treated poorly! It’s like they really don’t want to treat anyone! The cooties are too insurmountable!
You and me sister. I kept living life and just shook my head at all the BS.
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