With an unerring instinct for focusing on the wrong thing, I must point out a flaw with the photo of the young lady.
Future stores will not have any human contact. Insert card/blip RFID-tag, enter code, enter desired goods, collect desired goods from box, collect card, leave.
Humans will possibly be needed for unloading and stocking and such.
After all, the less human contact, the lower the risk of humans acting in concert.
And think of the possibilities: if people are protesting, cut power. Now they can't charge their cars, computers, phones or even get food (or rather "iFood"). Isolate, encircle, annihilate.
If you own anything, including your life and self, you have anxieties about losing what you've got and "keeping up with the Joneses".
And even if you own nothing, not even your life or your self, you still have anxieties whether you are right or not, as in how you think and fell and live. But if you are nothing, that existential angst goes away too.
Just like animals. Warm? Y/N. Food? Y/N. Mate? Y/N. Danger? Y/N.
A simple and free existence.
Make it voluntary but necessary and the majority goes along. Make it a virtue. Make it profitable to the powerbrokers. And make it impossible to offer a functioning alternative. No military coup d'état needed.
We become un-invested in self, with no thoughts of interest, not even dreams. What will our minds do? We will devolve into that from which we have evolved.
Except for the wolves. They become our "shepherds," watching us disappear.
It will never sell, as the plot of a novel, this post-1984 future that is, in reality, our choice today to have or not.
Too boring, and that ending...(the horror)
Atlas Shrugged without John Galt's speech. Pointless drivel.
They’re already doing digital book burning- I went to the website you included by oralhealthgroup dot com, and this is what it said: “If you are looking for “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review” by John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC, it has been removed. The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate.”
So....my "independent spirit" has become a problem to the good doctor.
I wonder if he realizes that I consider that, not just progress, but some of the best news I've heard in a while. Perhaps there is hope for him yet.
The next step in his educational advancement will be when it dawns on him that the feeling is mutual (re: his "independent spirit" in exporting his gain-of-function research).
And to that end, Herr Gauleiter Inslee is retracting the statewide mask mandate for indoor space and schools as of March 21. (Remaining for healthcare facilities, buses, etc.)
No indication that's he's going to relinquish his arbitrary, tyrannical "emergency" powers, of course. No, he has to keep those in order to punish us if things get worse in the future, I'm sure.
State-level vaccine requirements are being revoked on March 1, same as King County (that's Seattle for the non-WA people here).
Naturally, they're claiming that "masks worked". Pfui.
For months now many of us on the right side of the state have ignored the supreme dictator's nonsensical mandates and just lived life as usual. Other than at my work (in a hospital) I have not worn a mask anywhere in a long time, I shake hands or hug people regularly, and I staunchly maintain my status as a member of the vax control group. Granted, Insanelee hates our region and goes out of his way all the time to make it sound like we're suffering a disproportionate number of cases because of our lack of compliance, but my daily experience is that our hospital has never been overwhelmed. Just about everyone I know has been ill at some point, and the vast majority recovered quickly with no problem. Governmental NPIs had nothing to do with it, and ending the mandates won't really change much here.
I'm looking for a used truck to buy, and I've been driving to used car lots out in the suburbs like Auburn and Lynnwood. Everyone seems way more chill about masks (at least in businesses) there and that's only 20 miles from the middle of Seattle.
Here in Georgia, we were all going to die when Kemp opened us up first. Even Trump shamed us. We're faring better than most blue states which kept their masks, lockdowns and edicts. Now Big Stacey wants to shut us down and mask us until we're all vaxxed. 🤬
Excellent points made, especially by including the reference links. Super important not to forget how badly things were destroyed by these NPIs, and who advocated for and implemented them.
With an unerring instinct for focusing on the wrong thing, I must point out a flaw with the photo of the young lady.
Future stores will not have any human contact. Insert card/blip RFID-tag, enter code, enter desired goods, collect desired goods from box, collect card, leave.
Humans will possibly be needed for unloading and stocking and such.
After all, the less human contact, the lower the risk of humans acting in concert.
And think of the possibilities: if people are protesting, cut power. Now they can't charge their cars, computers, phones or even get food (or rather "iFood"). Isolate, encircle, annihilate.
"With an unerring instinct for focusing on the only things that really matter, the big picture and the long run,..." fify.
And robots will do the unloading and stocking.
We become hive drones, latched on to State teat. Sorry, Mr. Cuomo: humans cannot "become essential" in the future you give us.
And we will own nothing, and be happy.
Which means we will BE nothing.
It has a definite Orwellian logic to it.
If you own anything, including your life and self, you have anxieties about losing what you've got and "keeping up with the Joneses".
And even if you own nothing, not even your life or your self, you still have anxieties whether you are right or not, as in how you think and fell and live. But if you are nothing, that existential angst goes away too.
Just like animals. Warm? Y/N. Food? Y/N. Mate? Y/N. Danger? Y/N.
A simple and free existence.
Make it voluntary but necessary and the majority goes along. Make it a virtue. Make it profitable to the powerbrokers. And make it impossible to offer a functioning alternative. No military coup d'état needed.
Excellent.
We become un-invested in self, with no thoughts of interest, not even dreams. What will our minds do? We will devolve into that from which we have evolved.
Except for the wolves. They become our "shepherds," watching us disappear.
It will never sell, as the plot of a novel, this post-1984 future that is, in reality, our choice today to have or not.
Too boring, and that ending...(the horror)
Atlas Shrugged without John Galt's speech. Pointless drivel.
And extracting truckers with the jaws of death.
Can't risk a rouge cashier allowing the unpersoned to get food!
Let's not call the enormities of the past two years "NPIs".
Let's not play along with this stupid charade even another minute longer.
Let's call 'em what they are: crimes against humanity. Deranged, cruel, heinous crimes against humanity.
They’re already doing digital book burning- I went to the website you included by oralhealthgroup dot com, and this is what it said: “If you are looking for “Why Face Masks Don’t Work: A Revealing Review” by John Hardie, BDS, MSc, PhD, FRCDC, it has been removed. The content was published in 2016 and is no longer relevant in our current climate.”
No longer relevant in our current climate.
Our current climate.
I sure do love checking in with SIMCOM for the situation report!
Excellent piece, SC!
Let's give him the credit all criminals get, and then the benefits.
So....my "independent spirit" has become a problem to the good doctor.
I wonder if he realizes that I consider that, not just progress, but some of the best news I've heard in a while. Perhaps there is hope for him yet.
The next step in his educational advancement will be when it dawns on him that the feeling is mutual (re: his "independent spirit" in exporting his gain-of-function research).
And to that end, Herr Gauleiter Inslee is retracting the statewide mask mandate for indoor space and schools as of March 21. (Remaining for healthcare facilities, buses, etc.)
https://crosscut.com/politics/2022/02/washington-state-mask-mandate-ends-march-21
No indication that's he's going to relinquish his arbitrary, tyrannical "emergency" powers, of course. No, he has to keep those in order to punish us if things get worse in the future, I'm sure.
State-level vaccine requirements are being revoked on March 1, same as King County (that's Seattle for the non-WA people here).
Naturally, they're claiming that "masks worked". Pfui.
For months now many of us on the right side of the state have ignored the supreme dictator's nonsensical mandates and just lived life as usual. Other than at my work (in a hospital) I have not worn a mask anywhere in a long time, I shake hands or hug people regularly, and I staunchly maintain my status as a member of the vax control group. Granted, Insanelee hates our region and goes out of his way all the time to make it sound like we're suffering a disproportionate number of cases because of our lack of compliance, but my daily experience is that our hospital has never been overwhelmed. Just about everyone I know has been ill at some point, and the vast majority recovered quickly with no problem. Governmental NPIs had nothing to do with it, and ending the mandates won't really change much here.
I'm looking for a used truck to buy, and I've been driving to used car lots out in the suburbs like Auburn and Lynnwood. Everyone seems way more chill about masks (at least in businesses) there and that's only 20 miles from the middle of Seattle.
LOL only another 4 weeks to flatten the curve!
Here in Georgia, we were all going to die when Kemp opened us up first. Even Trump shamed us. We're faring better than most blue states which kept their masks, lockdowns and edicts. Now Big Stacey wants to shut us down and mask us until we're all vaxxed. 🤬
Big Stacy? Oh, the "actual" governor of Georgia, right? The one that never conceded because of Republican cheating and voter "suppression," right?
The "independent spirit" is STRONG with that one. Does the "good" doctor know about her?
Excellent points made, especially by including the reference links. Super important not to forget how badly things were destroyed by these NPIs, and who advocated for and implemented them.
Denmark publishing a counter to US misinformation on their CDC equivalent site yesterday was priceless.
https://en.ssi.dk/covid-19/typical-misinformation-regarding-danish-covid-numbers
It's been a true test of one's sanity, not easy to be gaslit for almost two years.
they are claiming credit so they can do it again
Yep. And again, and again. And remember the Statists always have that second option, too. If something fails, well, we just didn't do it ENOUGH.
It's a win-win!
I agree. Let's give them credit so hard they can't walk right for a week! Or run for office ever again!