Comrade Rebels, there is a considerable disparity amid the Republic when it comes to authoritarian dictates and various State Ministries of Covid Compliance.
In recent developments NYC Comrade Minister DeBlasio has indicated he is allowing masked citizens to return to restrooms in restaurants which were previously forbidden. This is helpful progress to comply with the frequent hand-washing dictate; however, do not actually pause while in the restaurant venue proper or the Rona will apparently attack.
Perhaps these high-minded regulations from the New York Ministry are helping to drive people from New York to Florida where Rebel Alliance leader Ron DeSantis holds a more pragmatic perspective.
According to Florida officials the sunshine state strain of the Rona virus is not distinguishing between targets standing at a bar with a beer and targets sitting outside at a table with a beer. Apparently this is a conundrum not fully appreciated within the official COVID policy of the Minnesota, Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, New York and DC-based compliance authorities.
The northern regional ministry also indicates the virus in some states is triggered by rebellious activity at certain times of the evening. As a consequence many municipalities have curfews and hours of operation to avoid the greater Rona threat later in the evening.
WASHINGTON DC — With coronavirus numbers setting new daily records, the nation’s capital is temporarily suspending all indoor dining in restaurants over the holidays. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser issued an executive order Friday night banning indoor dining for three weeks, starting Wednesday at 10 p.m. and extending through Jan. 15.
PHOENIX – Arizona residents are being told to “shrink their circles” of personal contacts and gatherings to help the state’s health care system handle coronavirus cases.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Gov. Bill Lee has declined to require a mask order. Only a dozen other states lack a statewide mask requirement.
Interestingly, according to the AP “among the first 215,000 people to get vaccinated in the U.S., fewer than 1.5% of them had problems that left them unable to perform their normal activities or required medical care.” The current fatality rate for the Rona is around 0.7% so if the statistics hold up, twice as many people are injured by the vaccination as will likely suffer from the worst part of the virus.
Comrades, it is also good to know our proactive COVID ministry has mandated social distancing at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska.
Should a musher come across another team on the 1,000 mile expanse of isolated wilderness, said mushers will be required to put on a mask.
Obviously our nation breathes a collective sigh of relief for the hours of painstaking debate that went into the Rona preparations in the northern tundra. With the race scheduled in March 2021, decisions were coming down to the wire. Additionally, to ensure the safety of the polar inhabitants, each musher will be required to test for Rona exposure midway through the race.
MICHIGAN – Restaurants must remain closed; however, “casinos, movie theaters, bowling alleys and similar venues will be allowed to reopen on Monday, with some restrictions in place.” What type of restrictions?… “Indoor ice and roller rinks are allowed to operate, but only for individual workouts or one-on-one training, according to the order.” So if comrade rebels in Michigan can find an Ice-Skating rink open you will not ever suffer the embarrassment of another human seeing you fall down.
All of that said, what is your local areas’ current state of COVID-19 rules and regulations?
Feel free to share examples of Ministerial Compliance Decrees that seem to be, well, transparently silly.
Minnesota is insane.
Well, our gubner, little timmy walz is insane. He’s having fun seeing what he can do to pull the toys away just as they are in reach, and people are getting angry. Good.
I sent an email out last week to a handful of people who had made the most noise about ‘needing to do something.’ Some were in the political world, most in business, and the citizens who said they’d be willing to fight.
My email asked the question, ‘Are you ready to do something now?’ and the something I asked them about was meeting on the main drag of our small town to have a Christmas sing along with a bonfire, marshmallows and hot cider. Real rough and tumble, huh?
Sent the message to about 20 people and heard back from 2. Pitiful percentage, especially since everyone of the people who got the email was a big blow-hard saying they were willing to “fight.”
Yeah, right. You’re going to fight all the way to a socialist country.
Of the 2 people who responded the first person to answer is a mom with grown children and grandchildren. She said she was willing to bring the wood to burn, marshmallows, cider and get all her people there (kids and grandkids) and that’s what she did for the last two rallies we held.
It’s not mandatory in every public place here in MO but most businesses ask that you wear them. Some food places don’t allow inside dining, others do. Same with churches and schools. Some are closed, others are open. Depends on the number of Covid cases.
I do know many that have gotten Covid here in my town but I do find it amazing that you don’t hear of anyone with the “regular” flu or even having a cold these days.
It is rather wonderful what covid has done for all the other disease stats.
Nobody’s dying of heart attacks or kidney disease or diabetes complications any more.
Mysterious indeed.
Of course, if they ever give up using the covid tools, deaths from cancer, heart failure, diabetes, kidney failure, etc. etc. etc. are going to spike noticeably and for a considerable amount of time. It’s already happening but not being documented clearly yet. It will be. (Maybe)
International bankers/central bankers/banking cartel are at the top of the pyramid here and around the world. They are the power behind this Covid psyop (they control the global mainstream media).
https://thenakedhedgie.com/2020/08/27/covid-19-the-banking-cartel-is-driving-the-agenda/
As Napoleon Bonaparte understood all too well, “When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation.” In each nation we seem to be opposed by some government bureaucracy. But while those bureaucracies and the officials who work there are becoming the targets of public resentment, it is critical that we recognize the puppeteers behind the agenda that’s playing out.
There can be little doubt that the enemy is the international banking cartel headquartered in the City of London and on Wall Street, together with their agencies like the Bank of International Settlements, the IMF, World Bank, the global systemically important banks and institutions like the World Economic Forum, big pharma corporations, World Health Organization, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI and numerous others.
As Lord Acton warned over a century ago, “the issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks” This fight is now upon us. It might be the ultimate struggle between humanity’s emancipation or our final enslavement. To prevail, we must understand our true enemies and the financial, economic, political and social structures enabling their agenda.
Ron Paul warned us that, “It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.”
In short, we must not be distracted by the bullfighter’s red cloth: the ultimate culprits, the super-predator are the bankers: a handful of families and individuals who control and manage the present monetary system. (and now they are ready to destroy the current monetary system and move us to digital/cashless society, where our money will be turned off if we speak out)
Bars close at 10
I ate lunch indoors in Greenville, SC a couple days go. The staff were wearing masks, but none of the patrons were. Tables were six feet apart. Next door was a crowded kids playground and neither the kids nor parents were wearing masks.
Good to hear, neighbor to the south of me. That’s a but of progress.
IN OREGON NEWS: This morning at our Church, our Pastor reminded that our Church was being investigated by the State of Oregon for not complying with the Governor’s edicts and may be sued (since we are meeting & many are not wearing masks), but then he reported that Governor just notified us that in lieu of recent federal court orders, the state is now only offering RECOMMENDATIONS to Churches not mandates. HALLELUJAH!!!
That is good news (if confirmed.…not to doubt your pastor, but y’know how it is………….:) )
I live in the Willamette Valley 35 miles south of Portland. The churches around here are suffering in so many ways, as groups and as individuals. I make good use of phone, email, and Skype to have regular and ongoing fellowship with a number of people. Many elderly are not comfortable doing that and/or simply don’t think of it when they have been so accustomed, perhaps their entire lives, to enjoying and expressing their faith with a group.
Anne Arundel County, MD. Finally, a sign that people are fighting back. Our awful county exec (thanks, union people for voting out the Republican exec in 2018 for the sin of being wealthy) announced he would close all restaurants except for carry out and delivery for four weeks starting Dec. 16. Later found out that restaurant owners went to Annapolis to fight the order. Judge agreed and restaurants are still open at 25% until 12/28 when they have to return to court. This is the first true effort I’ve seen to fight this insanity.
Saw a commercial with Lockdown Larry telling us we all need to “wear the damn mask.” Stay classy, Hogan.
Peak insanity: County schools are telling students and parents any photos submitted to the school must meet social distancing requirements. Non-related students must be 6 feet apart or wearing masks in the photos. I can’t tell you what I uttered when I received the email. Parents complained in a meeting with the principal, who was sympathetic, but his gatekeepers will hold firm. No one will fight because so many are employed by government here (fed, state, and local), and they are the only guaranteed jobs here. The restaurant pushback is at least a start.
Sorry, but that brings hilarious images to mind. I can see the school yearbook now with every student wearing a face mask. That will be something to remind people of their great high school experiences as they pass through the years.
If it weren’t my kid’s senior year I’d probably be a bit more amused. A lot of kids organized their own events around homecoming season before MD started clamping down again, and the schools won’t even let those group photos be included. A lot of parents are demanding refunds. It’s insanity.
The new yearbook “most likelies” will include:
Most likely to be a professional Karen.
Most likely to snitch
Most likely to do a stuoud TikTok healthcare “hero” video
Most likely to be sent to the gulag
Yes, I recoiled when I saw photos of masked 8th graders in a school photo here in eastern Iowa. Such psychological damage to our children.
In the great state of Connecticut, His Excellency Ned Lamont has decreed that all sports are suspended with the exception of certain professional and college sports. This virus is so intelligent it knows to leave the professional and collegiate athletes alone, but will strike everyone else without mercy.
I referred to our esteemed governor as His Excellency because all of his sundry executive orders are signed “By Command of His Excellency.”
#StopThe Steal
DeWine has a curfew of restaurants and bars closing at 10 pm. There is no reason for this, especially restaurants, because not many people are there at that time anyway. We dined at 9 pm last night because we were busy running around but didn’t get out of there until 10 pm. We didn’t get to pick up any cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory because no new people in the restaurant after 10 pm. This is very inconvenient and doesn’t do anything to stop the virus. It’s all theater.
Wearing a light cotton mask, not a jersey knit, but a thin fabric like poplin inside buildings that doesn’t do squat to stop the virus. Except last night in the restaurant, when we left to leave, I forgot to put it on and was in the lobby when I realized, then I saw someone else who didn’t have hers on standing in the lobby.
At least we can still dine out in this state.
Are the sled dogs required to wear masks also?
I guess watching Blackhawks hockey in person is out as well. Watching on TV with piped in crowd noise just doesn’t do it for me.
In blue mass restaurants limited to 40% capacity and must close by 930pm. Have to wear masks except taking a sip or bite. Meanwhile Walmarts limited to 1,000 customers at a time. People been masked up since March and numbers keep going up. Obviously masks and gov’t mandates not stopping the spread.
“Arizona residents are being told to “shrink their circles” of personal contacts and gatherings to help the state’s health care system handle coronavirus cases.”
I despise this line of “reasoning”. Every sector of the economy and society must suffer and even collapse so that one part of one segment, made up of the so-called front line heroes, isn’t inconvenienced in the way it’s been inconvenienced in past bad flu seasons. Sick and evil.
Meanwhile, her in suppisedly conservative southwestern NC, I continue to see 98% masking when shopping. Most stores I frequent, Sam’s, Aldis, Ingles gricery, Home Depot, and Lowes, don’t bother the few who are unmasked, but I was told to mask up at the entrance to a Workd Market and promptly took my money elsewhere.
I haven’t been to the gym in months so can’t speak to that. And my wife now cuts my hair. My weekly musician get-together in a local bar is unmasked despite the mandate.
Sadly, my fearful Bible study group has suspended meetings once again. I fear the long-running group will disappear in the wake of this madness
Overall, I feel a nagging dread when having to leave the house to engage the community, dreading seeing no change in the number of sheep and being made to feel like an outlaw. The bright spots come only from seeing God’s gorgeous creation here and when I engage with each of the few unmasked patriots I see.
My weekly musician get-together in a local bar is unmasked despite the mandate.
Jealous! We have only the two other musicians who are willing to play with us in either of our homes unmasked – occasionally a fifth…
Hoping all the sheeple musicians I used to play with take the
placebovaccine quick as they can… well, at least the good players!Once again, the only metric that matters us deaths and not cases, which in reality are only positive tests, many if which are false and/or asymtomatic.
‘Cases’ does matter but because there’s no standard definition the case numbers are utterly corrupt.
‘Case’ was at first someone with the right symptoms who was sick enough to seek care. That’s a sound definition.
‘Case’ then became — briefly — someone with the right symptoms, needing care, who tested positive. That’s an even better definition.
Then they dropped both ‘symptoms’ and ‘needs care’ from the definition at the same time testing was massively ramped up without guidance regarding the sensitivity of the test protocol. That’s just a number that measures only ‘how many tested positive according to some (unknown) protocol; it’s utterly useless for tracking trends, comparing to other countries, and so on.
Deaths are a little better: Most such patients are actually dead. But given the number of comorbidities most have and the lax standard for ‘COVID-19 death’ (“he tested positive”) there’s no meaningful use of these numbers either.
It’s time to write the whole thing off, stop all the mandates, tell people to keep as much distance as is practical for their circumstances, vaccinate front line health workers and such others among high risk groups as want to be vaccinated.
The rest of us should get back to work — and life.
You may be borg, and “they” may be trying really hard to make “us” borg, but I am not borg nor never will be, so I’ll stay maskless and keep my plastic bottles in the recycling bin.
Middle of nowheresville, Idaho here. We’re all just doing our thing. My county went 75% for Trump, no one has died, and most people aren’t wearing the very germy face covering. Now, down in Boise where the Liberals live, they have a mask mandate, but a lot of us ignore it since we know the masks are ineffective and useless. Our town mayor’s mantra: COMMON SENSE – like your mother taught you – wash your hands, sneeze into your sleeve, stay home if you’re sick, etc. I did take a trip through Oregon, Nevada, and California. Spent the night at a casino hotel one night. The only way the casinos are able to stay open is temperature checks upon check-in, face masks required, and copious “security” guys in brightly colored jackets yelling at anyone who’s mask slips slightly down. Normally, if casino security approaches you, you’ve broken the law so it was a bit unnerving to have a towering security guy demand that you move your mask up higher on your nose because it’s starting to slip. I don’t recommend staying at any casino hotel for love or money. Pit stops on the road varied – some places had big signs MASKS REQUIRED and other places had a small sign and no one bothered anyone else. I didn’t wear a mask except where it was REQUIRED in order to check into a hotel. I started feeling like the lack of oxygen + elevation was getting to me. I was so very glad to arrive safely back home. But, I realize that’s *their goal*: demoralize you, make it difficult to travel, ruin small businesses, control your every move, etc. The Governor of Idaho, who, by the way, is on the “China friendly” list, has tried to stay out of it (for the sake of his career) and left mandates to the local commies – the mayor of Boise being one. There are a few commies in Moscow, a college town. But most of Idaho is FREE, uses COMMON SENSE, and CARRIES. It’s glorious because there is precious little crime.
omg. I burst out laughing so hard and so long at this mental image. Were you being funny or serious? I was thinking how fun it would be to use colored sharpies to make long eyelashes, rosy cheeks, and bright red lips with TRUMP4EVER written all around the edges and maybe a few extended middle fingers here and there.
Worship his morning:
Here is an account or part of our service, the Kyrie, which speaks to us through the centuries of Christian Worship, LORD, Have Mercy:
KyrieIn this world of sin and death, Christians have plenty of opportunities to join in the brief, yet all-encompassing prayer of the Kyrie: “Lord, have mercy.”
All around us we see the results of hatred, envy, lust, and greed. Surely, the world is in need of God’s mercy. It’s no wonder that the church, in her worship, pleads before God on behalf of the whole world. It’s a prayer that no one else is going pray.
Yet, when we cry out, “Lord, have mercy,” there is confidence in our voices because we know that God is indeed merciful. He desires to bring relief to the suffering that is all around us.
Our prayer may not always bring an immediate response — at least, not the response that we are seeking — but even then, we commend ourselves and the whole world to a merciful God.
Like the confession of sins, however, our cry for mercy will be silenced in heaven. There we will see the results of God’s mercy, as before the throne and in front of the Lamb will stand all the redeemed — not one of them worthy of the honor.
https://www.lcms.org/worship/liturgy-parts#kyrie
As SUNDANCE posted a few days ago, we need to fix our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith. Let us worship Him in our lives in all aspects, even as we Americans are blest with the right and Obligation to petition for the Redress of Wrongs, and yet in the end, surrender to Him to direct the affairs of Nations as He sees fit.
Portions of Psalm 33:
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The Lord foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
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But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations.
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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
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From heaven the Lord looks down
and sees all mankind;
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from his dwelling place he watches
all who live on earth—
So in my little corner of this Nation, County of Sauk, State of Wisconsin, I also know:
Govenor Evers is sort of a vapor, wafting to and fro, no real substance or direction and much of Madison seemingly enthralled along with him.
Having attempted to absorb the State legislative hearings about a week ago, Senator Johnson’s hearing in Washington DC and our State Supreme Court apparently ruling that almost two hundred thousand ballots should be discarded because voters were wrongfully instructed to vote as one indefinately confined, and that there is an apparent slate of 10 competing Republican Electors sent to the Electoral Collage… The election may be done, but the echos and ripples continue to slosh around the electoral pool of Wisconsin. And if anything those ripples are gathering force.
Meanwhile, Ammo continues to be in extraordinarily short supply. Even .22LR. Even 30.30. Even AK47/SKS ammo. Even Muzzleloader supplies.
Most daily essentials are in good supply however. Even Toilet Paper.
So in general, All is Well, God is on His Throne and Jesus has promised to never leave us or forsake us.
Found in the bin…. 🙁
Saw in the WSJ last week that the the reporting of common flu “cases” is way down from years previous. HMMM…Covid cases are spiking…leads me to believe all cases with a temperature and are general usual flu are being reported as Covid.
Given the lack of cajones by the states leadership and buying the media “all Covid all the time “narrative save and except Florida…unfortunately this will consume all of 2021 as well.
Central Oregon coast everything locked up. Grocery stores at limited capacity. Masks required (I wear mine under my chin). No school but teachers paid with benefits. Little kids sit in leaky trailers wishing they were back in clean, warm school with friends. Everyone depressed and angry that I see. Some explosion and what looks like ocean surface to air missle recorded on many cell phones. Sheriff’s office saw it but were given no explanation. Chinese troops massed on Salt Island just across from Port Angeles, WA. We have our tin foil hats on expecting doom. Rain blowing sideways by gale force wind. Merry Christmas frowned on again.
“among the first 215,000 people to get vaccinated in the U.S., fewer than 1.5% of them had problems that left them unable to perform their normal activities or required medical care.” The current fatality rate for the Rona is around 0.7% so if the statistics hold up, twice as many people are injured by the vaccination as will likely suffer from the worst part of the virus.”
I don’t understand your point. Dividing total U.S. deaths by total U.S. cases gives a case fatality rate of 1.7% — it’s lower now than in the past so your 0.7% number may be correct. Both numerator and denominator are badly screwed up stats — both inflated — but we’ve no way to get inside that, so it’ll have to do.
1.5% had problems that left them temporarily unable to perform normal activities or required medical care. That would be like getting a bad cold or the flu. Comparing ‘get a bad cold’ to ‘die’ isn’t a meaningful thing to do.
The much bigger issue with the new vaccines is that there has been no (as in ‘zero’) long term testing. That’s real scary, especially when we consider that these vaccines work in an entirely new way, never before used.
I appreciate all those who have volunteered to be part of the long term study now being rev’ed up under the label ‘vaccinate everyone.’ I will be eager to get vaccinated when the study results satisfy me, say about five years from now.
Project Warp Speed was a brilliant idea and it appears to have succeeded. But we’ve found over these nine months that this is a minor disease except for those few who are in the worst health. (Average number of comorbidities of those who die, 2.4; about 85% had a Do Not Resuscitate order before being diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2) It’s good to have that vaccine — the disease could have been a disaster — but now that we know that the danger from it is small very few of us need vaccination and a mass program is beyond foolish.
America seems to have been gobbling stupid pills by the handful.
Update from the Eastern end of the Great White North: the Ontario Government has announced that the province will be locked down from December 24th to January 11th ?
January 11th? Ridiculous! Anyone with a brain knows “the science” says January 10th at 3:03 PM is the correct end time!
In my world, I quit giving a rat’s patootie what anyone thought of the mask hysteria. I have not and I will not wear one. Period. I will sacrifice even things or events I really wanted experience because mask er something. I refuse to wear one at work.
Just this morning I stopped at a coffee shop downtown and was greeted by a male Karen blah blah mask. I politely asked, you are refusing to serve me? Yes. I again politely said I’ll take my money elsewhere from now on. Your loss son, not mine.
Eastern TN is mostly over the whole covid thing and are out having a good time in the Smokeys is my observation. That and a crap ton of trucks and Jeeps – hugely popular here – sporting great big Trump flags and or American flags.
The left really should be worried. There continues to be, as I stated in the very early days of President Trump’s first campaign, absolutely more of US than there are of THEM. The Fed Up vote.
People like me who say “you know what? No way in hell am I going to leave an godless power mad shit show like that to my babies, grandbabies, and great-grandbabies. And we will indeed fight like true insurgents to make that happen. Like Mama Bears..