This is a brilliant move by the owner of Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino, California. The owner charges an extra $5 to customers who wear masks. Not only does this discourage liberal moonbats from dining; thereby creating a more positive, fun and friendly atmosphere; the owner uses the $5 surcharge to fund charity. In addition there is an additional $5 surcharge if you are caught in the cafe bragging about your vaccination.
In many red states, and regions that value freedom, the aggregate mask-wearing populace is now self-identifying as leftist sheep. Any negative incentive against the masked moonbats is a method to cull the risk of contact with the unstable folks. Brilliant !
CALIFORNIA – A California cafe owner is charging customers who wear face masks $5 to dine at his establishment.
Chris Castleman, 34, who owns Fiddleheads Cafe in Mendocino, Calif., put up a sign on Sunday notifying customers of the additional fee, according to NBC News.
“I don’t think $5 to charity is too much to ask from mask wearing customers who claim to care so much about the community they live in,” Castleman told the news outlet.
[…] “It’s about time that the proponents of these ineffective government measures start paying for the collateral damage they have collectively caused,” the cafe owner said. (more)
as the commercial used to say BRILLIANT I say BRILLIANT!!!
I love to see it ???
I can see liberal minds exploding ?!
And… watch his customer base triple in as many days:)
How completely delicious! I hope this catches on. We could use this kind of sanity here in the OC. I called the restaurant to congratulate them. They’re overwhelmed with calls. Hip hip! ???
To avoid potential lawsuits from lib lawyers [which will be coming]:
Suggest raising all menu items $5 and offering a $5 discount for not
wearing a mask…instead of adding a surcharge.
That way the fanatics cannot say they are being punished;
they’re just not taking advantage
of a discount that’s available to everyone.
Similar to using a coupon 🙂
Very good ideas. However, maybe the restaurant wants the publicity.
Either way this made me smile big. ? Thanks sundance!
True.
No way. Someone hires a lawyer over $5, give it back, lawyer gets 1/3.
No, this is no different than saying you beed a mask unless you prove vaccination.
This is brilliant.
At the end of the news article it reads: “In March, Castleman reportedly introduced a 50 percent discount for customers who throw their masks in the trash.”
Great idea. Now that makes two great options merchants can employ!
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Nice but we need to use THEIR tactics. Hit them where they live.
Take the 666 vaccine and you will be dead in 3-5 years . If you survive you wont remember your human time.
Link to a source, please.
It was a joke.
Hard to tell these days.
Unfortunately we don’t know the long term effects of these shots his statement was probably more tongue in cheek.
NO !
Did Michael Yeadon Say COVID-19 Vaccine Will Kill …
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.snopes.com.icohttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michael-yeadon-vaccine-death/
“Michael Yeadon, a former employee of Pfizer, said that the government rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine is an attempt at “mass depopulation” with booster recipients expected to die within two years.”
I had the Pfizer jab.
I have not believed the news for the last 5 years.
Now satire and jokes need to be “sourced?” SMH…
As IF a link is any kind of “proof” anyway …
“proof” of the state of FEAR media wants us to have.
“…he who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind…
“…behind the iron curtain the most prominent complaint in the totalitarian system was the feeling of mental isolation.
“The individual feels alone and continually on the alert. There is only mutual suspicion.”
— Joost A.M. Meerloo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6736285-the-rape-of-the-mind
Won’t be long till he hears from Mike Bromwich.
I just LOVE this.
Those of you who live in the Red Free States May not believe that where I live in the Covid Compliant NY Gulag, most of the morons are still wearing face diapers in the stores.
There are stores that still require a mask in nj
Went to Napa auto parts
And they had a big sign on the door
I didn’t bother to enter and I drove 23 min away to a Napa that didn’t care
A few hundred dollars of lost business went somewhere else.
I suggest everyone do the same
I left the local hardware store. I drove 38 miles for a can of paint rather than wear a mask.
High five Patriot! What price freedom? That is how I look at it. I have not worn a mask and have patronized businesses that did not go along with the farce.
Yes! I switched my business to Tractor Supply because they never did the mask thing. And I cheerfully told them why they are seeing so much of me lately. 🙂
When this is all over, I’ll still remember.
I’ll never forget these crimes against humanity . And I won’t soon forgive those responsible for torturing people to death. I will harass them til my dying breath. But I smartly leave vengeance up to God. Keeps the door to Heaven open and the blood pressure down. ?
Tractor Supply where I live did the mask requirements. And now it has a huge sign on the door ….
If vaccinated for Covid-19 You don’t need to wear a mask
If not vaccinated, please wear a mask….think of others
It’s none of their business who is vaccinated and who is not. It is not their prerogative to even ask OR OFFER MEDICAL ADVICE and no one better ask me. Are any of these businesses going to assume potential liability for anyone injured by the non-vaccine covid shot? I would tell any employer or business requiring proof of vaccine to sign a legal document assuming medical responsibility for any injury due to vaccine.
This is the beauty of having OPTIONS. Patriots who are too lazy to boycott these fascists and fail to patronize those who do the right thing, deserve to lose their freedom.
I’m in a “Red Free State” and a dark blue city. Masks are EVERYWHERE here. They are in love with the whole fauciflu machine.???
In No VA….last week I’m the only person without a mask at Costco, Walmart and supermarket and people still wearing them outside……this afternoon I counted 20+ with no masks at Costco…maybe some cracks appearing
99 degrees today in my town….. people are wearing masks outside!
I have an uncle who lives in AZ, he is a democrat and since day 1 of the mask mandate he has been a militant mask nazi. He is obnoxious in the extreme, and he willingly sacrificed family relationships with anyone who disagreed with him and had the guts to say so, namely my mom. Apparently, Dr. Fauci who he has never met deserved more respect than my mom who has been there for him his entire life and helped him through many troubled times. Situations like these are and were happening since day 1 of this pandemic. Sad that so many relationships have been sacrificed over this non-sense.
I was talking with a friend the other day about the mass psychosis of mask wearers. In general, they only watch and believe what they see on TV and main stream media. They have next to zero critical thinking skills and if you ask any of them to explain any inconsistency in the information being pushed by govt and/or media they become extremely agitated and want the topic dropped all together. If you are asking questions you are immediately painted a “covid denier”. Willful ignorance and self-deception are deleterious to a society.
I’ve started seeing signs that the unvaccinated still have to wear a mask.
In Ohio most of the signs say the “fully vaccinated” are not required to wear masks. But they don’t ask for proof – yet. I feel like there is something up and they are going to sneak in the vaccine passports while we have our guard down. Be vigilant.
Maybe this will change June 2, Dewine’s announced freedom day! Somebody needs to primary him! I can’t believe he’s pushing vaccines for 12 year olds.
He knows he is done and is grasping at straws at this point.
My fear is that we will get a Gretchen Whitmer or Cuomo type democrat to replace him. You are correct, people in Ohio detest Mike DeWine’s handling of the pandemic but my fear is that we will cut off our nose despite our face to get rid of him. We are in a lose-lose scenario.
Why have Americans put up with this nonsense?
What the “experts” must do next, is announce that the FDA has miraculously halted all these mRNA trials to *officially* approve all these vaccines.
Just like that.
Of course, a thinking person would realize that this action flies in the face of *all* prior drug approvals, which should first require YEARS of study to determine both safety and efficacy.
But we do *not* live in normal times. Not by a long shot. And when the inevitable vaccine side effects finally hit, they will be blamed on a new variant, which also flies in the face of all known viruses, which *lessen* in severity over time.
But again, these are not normal times.
I think so too.
Hubby and I went to our Columbus area casino yesterday, and they had a table setup for ID check and the vaccine/no vaccine sign posted. I walked in “like a boss with no mask” and they didn’t ask for proof of vaccine. I would say 60% of patrons were maskless.
I think at this point, any business knows that if they require proof of vaccine, they will lose income.
Yep and I don’t wear my mask. I “identify as vaccinated”, mainly because I have naturally acquired immunity to COVID that will probably last a lifetime. As the doctor who testified before the Texas State Senate stated, those who survived SARS-COVI 1 in the early 2000’s were tested 17 years later and STILL HAD IMMUNITY!
Yes, they do still require masks in certain situations. The vaccinated enjoy no immunity from Covid-19, so they still contract and spread Covid-19, just like everybody else.
To cherry-pick specific locations where masks are mandated is ludicrous. These disparate mask policies expose the hypocrisy of lifting mask restrictions in certain places, but not in others.
If vaccinated people are bullet proof then they should remain so, nomatter where they happen to be. And if we are to believe that masks are worn to protect others, then the vaccinated, who can still contract and spread Covid-19, need to keep their masks on just like everybody else.
This is the beginning of the end of this mask nonsense.
For most people relying on vaccines to protect them from COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death, the J&J is a perfectly viable option.
In fact, as of Friday, the CDC will update its categorization to only count fully vaccinated patients who test positive for COVID as “breakthrough” cases if they’re hospitalized or die,
which means the current Yankees cases wouldn’t even be tallied.
Just goes to show you how statistics can be skewed any which way to please the greedy pharmaceutical companies. If they weren’t so desperate to shirk their liability in the first place, these emergency experiments would not have been authorized.
There has been no “emergency” since Dec 2020 when hospitalizations declined sharply due to good old-fashioned herd immunity. And we have always had much safer and effective early intervention options, which were all suppressed to pave the way for emergency vaccines.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” -Sir Walter Scott
Yes. At Harkins movie house if you are not fully vaccinated you need a mask.
I saw all the kids with a mask. ( at least they were not vaccinated thank the lord.)
I will not mask up otherwise I will not go in.
Movie houses coercing experimental vaccines should be outright shunned. This isn’t complicated. Change the channel, shop the friendly competition, shun the fascists. We can DO this, Patriots. Believe me, we can!
If I were to be asked such an illegal question I would reply to a male “What was the result of your last PAP smear?” and a female “What was the result of your last Prostate Exam?”.
Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
RULE 6: “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
RULE 8: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
^^^^^This^^^^^^!
Their own playbook must be used against them
How is that enforceable? I can’t wait for someone to ask my vaccination status in a store.
Out and about today-gym, bakery, Walmart’s, restaurant, neighborhood walk. Saw not one person wearing a mask. It’s over. Plenty of New York and California license plates too.
Here in the SF Bay Area … masks are mandatory EVERYWHERE. However, I went into my local Home Depot without a mask … bought a stack of lumber … self checked-out … and made it out without a single hysterical double-masker assaulting me.
Gavin Newsom is “keeping us all safe” … until June 15. Then we will have suddenly licked the Chyyynaah Flu !! Thank you Gavin! So scienci. Such salvation!!
I went into my local Home Depot without a mask no bad looks ,..it was great.
” Gavin Newsom is “keeping us all safe” … until June 15.”,
I have mentally prepared myself for Newsom to backtrack..
Was in Laguna Beach 3 weeks ago and no one was wearing a mask outside.
Employees at two different businesses relented when I told them I was ADA exempt in response to their mask request/demand.
Good times.
Same here in the Hampton roads area of SE VA. No way am I wearing a damn face diaper.
Geez, the state of Hawaii is always behind the times. Just released the mask mandate for outdoors.
Heck, they’re still driving cars with boom boxes and dudes still wearing skinny jeans.
Now that is a beautifully worded message. One that I have been praying to see.
IF only our CongressCritters would think like this. FIGHT like this!
I was just thinking yesterday of all the kids who are being ostracized by their own high schools, regarding prom and everything else, should have their own, even better prom. And make sure no vaxxers are allowed.
Too bad it’s such a long drive from AZ.
I’d go just to support some independent thinking!
Fantastic idea! I can’t wait to see the shakeout here in blueMA between the free restaurants and the ones owned by Karens.
Today is the day this state is set free from the mask mandate (of course with multiple exceptions, caveats,and no admission by Charlie Baker that he had no right to impose it in the first place).
I had occasion yesterday to wander one of the state’s most serious moonbat epicenters at lunchtime: Concord center.
Still pretty masked up outdoors, but noticed that several older folks weren’t, which I hadn’t seen all year practically anywhere. Sadly, all the idiot young moonbat moms still towed young children with masks of submission on.
Excellent MAGA conversation with a young guy working in a sports clothing store because I happened to strategically drop the term COVID-1984 – he seized upon it like a starving man does a piece of bread. I congratulated him on being a rare smart and sane person in that town.
Today we head to Nashua NH – we’ll see how it is there. NH has been consistently a couple to a few weeks earlier than blueMA, with Nashua itself moonbat as blueMA, but if we’re stopping, they may be too.
I know one or two restaurants to whom I could suggest a $5 deal like this – or perhaps WordMan’s variation… It should spread!
Governor Sununu dropped the mask mandate here in NH several weeks ago… Some cities and towns kept theirs up as they are allowed to do…
Nashua kept up the masks for a while after the state stopped, but they dropped their mask mandate on Wednesday of this week…
Nashua isn’t as Moonbat-blue as blueMA, though it is purple…. 2020 was a resurgence for redness in the state and my guess (hope) is that you will find many more kindred spirits in Nashua than the young unicorn you found in the clothing store in the People’s Republic of Concord, MA…
Usually I say to folks from Massachusetts “welcome to New Hampshire, now please go home” but I would never say such a thing to a fellow Treeper from The Last Refuge… Enjoy your day in Nashua…
Thanks LiveFree! It was indeed as you said: no signs requiring masks (at least none I stopped to read – I usually ignore them anyway), no door monitors – we went to Home Depot, Trader Joe’s, Guitar Center, and the delightful Lui Lui restaurant.
A pleasure. But I will indeed be keeping my guard up watching for sneaking in of vaccine passports or anything like them.
I will say, however, still loads of masked sheeple walking around. I wonder whether services will pop up for saner families to do psychological intervention for their poor brainwashed relatives…
Mass resident visiting my mom in western NY. Went to grocery store and Walmart, didn’t wear a mask and loved having my freedom back. If stores in MA keep this up, I’m telling them I’m going to NH to shop!
I think there is a yuuuuge amount of pent-up demand even here for personal freedom. Hope it’s better by the time you get back home!
Went to the supermarket the other day noticed that one of the checkout clerks was not wearing a mask. Told her nice to see you got your freedom back. She said its good to be able to breath.
Masks are the new dunce cap. Be sure to cover both your mouth and nose.
For all the good they do, the maskers might as well cover both eyes and ears with masks as well.
You know, Since they don’t use either anyway.
Unfortunately they don’t seem to be able to mask the one organ that is never used, their brain.
This makes me so happy!! Use their tactics against them. Make them live by their own “standards”
I guess a business owner shouldn’t have a voice after being shut down for over a year.
We can’t cast out judgmental behavior with judgmental behavior.
Really I can!
So take it out on elected officials instead of customers. Nice straw man argument.
For some reason the Communists/RINOs/UniParty/Faux-Xis now want to forget about the China Virus. In Michigan my Govenor “leaked” a photo of her and her staff, not masked and not distancing in a restaurant, in an effort to show people she does not believe in masks or distancing. She said in a presser “You no longer have to distance of mask. And all CV restrictions end July 1”. Still, go to any grocery store and see the sheep in masks. I believe this is a big problem for the Control-Left ists.
Yes – I believe some of their sheeple have strayed further than the deranged shepherds expected!
The ‘control leftists’ are desperate to continue the masking and plandemic. The 2022 elections will need their continued panic for needing “ Mail in voting”.
They expect HR1 to solve that…
Uh…wait…
Sorry not sorry! Good use of the filibuster!
Witchy Whitmer never did comply with her Covid mandates she imposed on y’all.
I’ll tell you the reason they *now* want to forget about masks. They’re trying to use their experimental biological agents to buy back your freedoms. And I’m not having any of it.
I have my Ivermectin. Those masks are history.
This made my weekend!!!
Thanks & God bless, Patriots…
So you love it when the GOV. shoves it up your ass?
His business. You don’t have to be a patron.
You want ro wear a maxi pad on your face. Cool.
It helps me to identify the idiots.
I am a strong conservative and I still wear a mask when in crowds….I am high risk and refuse to take the “vaccine”…I do it in part to compromise with my SO ( also very conservative and high risk) ..he is fully “vaccinated” and has pleaded with me to get the jab…
I’m worried about HIM because he got the jab…
I just don’t BELIEVE 99% of the end-of-the-world hype about this particular virus. I just DON’T. And my wife and I, both in our 60s and she has MS, have only worn masks when required for her doctor appointments. And even then we loudly complain and take them off at every opportunity. This is just a glorified flu/cold virus…. it’s just that the PTB finally realize they could EXPLOIT it. They could have done it with any number of viruses in years past, but they didn’t plan it in advance, so it was too late. Oh but not this time!
Anyway, earlier this month we both had OUR little COVID experience. We had been in constant contact with people who are in “high risk” jobs, meaning they are often in contact with people with the virus. We knew we’d eventually “catch” it ourselves, and we finally did. I had mild flu symptoms for a couple weeks, with about 3 days in the middle of that I didn’t feel that great at all. But even during those 3 days, I felt NO WORSE THAN ANY OTHER FLU I’VE EVER HAD. And my wife? A slight cough for a few days… that’s it.
So the virus itself may be real, but I am 100% convinced that the DANGER from it is blown hugely out of proportion. Oh… and do I believe that over half a million people in the US have died from (not “with” but “from”) this virus? NOOOOO!!!
I got it too-after my (estranged) husband showed up and spent 2 days at my house and we shared beers and such. I first noticed lung inflammation, the fatigue and loss of appetite and a sore back of the neck and realized I had covid- he had 2 moderna boosters, and he came down with it too. Discomfort level- a 2 out of 10. Glad it’s over, and my kids never got it even though we spent the entire mothers day weekend with them. Total scamdemic, and epstein didn’t kill himself.
I believe the percentage of death from nothing-but-Xi’s-Disease (no co-morbidities) is now considered 5% of the about 600,000 deaths they claim, or about 30,000.
So that would be, if my math is correct (always a very large if!), 0.0009% of the USA population of about 330 million. ??
Hope better mathematicians will check my work…
If correct, I can definitely get on board with your comment blown hugely out of proportion. Hey, I’d say that even with a couple fewer zeroes after the decimal.
That 5% is also with the blown out numbers of cycles to claim covid and the cdc’s statement Alert 14 that covid can be listed as the cause of death even without a covid test.
So what are the real numbers when the cold and flu seasonal deaths dropped to near ZERO along with many other deaths. Just look at the year to year death totals and you will see that the highest death totals per year were from 2015 which was higher than 2016 – 2020 and to current of 2021. There are no extraordinary number of deaths above and beyond the normal yearly totals.
Also there has been proof of T cells already protecting people who may have had contact with another SARS variant and already increased immunity by a much higher percentage than previously thought. Last I read was around 80%, but I am having trouble finding the source …
Here are some older and mid aged mentions of the T cell immunity, the older one from NIH August 2020 : https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/immune-cells-common-cold-may-recognize-sars-cov-2
And some News Medical … https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201109/Majority-of-population-likely-has-pre-existing-immunity-to-SARS-CoV-2-claim-researchers.aspx
Yeah, after hearing the 500K+ number it got me wondering what percentage of TOTAL deaths that would be. Well, turns out an average of a little less than 3 million people per year die in the US, from ALL causes. Which means that about ONE IN EVERY SIX PEOPLE who died in the US last year DIED FROM COVID! How can anyone believe that?! Again: ONE OF EVERY SIX PEOPLE WHO DIED LAST YEAR DIED **FROM** COVID!
How can ANYONE believe that?
Anyone with compromised breathing should have a doctor that will tell his patient not to wear a mask or anything else that would inhibit air flow. Otherwise the doctor is not being a doctor.
94% of Covid deaths (if we can trust the info) had 2.9% co-morbidities.
If you have the occasion, check out the website: America’s Frontline Doctors.
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A mask protects you from NOTHING. AND it’s a health risk.
See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Before covid I use to play acoustic guitar at the library once a month.
A woman who never missed a session always wore her mask except when it was her turn to play.
nice lady, definitely not a moron.
I have mentally prepared myself to never play at the library.
Newsom’s mask mandate would take away the fun .
Bravo!
Ladies… gentlemen…
“AN ADDITIONAL $5 FEE WILL BE ADDED IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR VACCINE”
Too much fun…
Other signs on their website:
https://cafefiddleheads.com/pages/signs
Nice.
Reply to everyone above:
$5 surcharge for wearing a baseball cap backwards
$5 surcharge for not calling your server “Grand High Wazoo”
$5 surcharge if you haven’t shaved today
$10 surcharge if you have a moustache
$5 surcharge if your name is Bill
None of it has anything to do with food and neither does wearing a mask or not. I hate people imposing their views on others, and penalizing them if they don’t agree. Wear one. Don’t wear one. None of the restaurant owner’s damned business.
LOL….it is a play on their overreaction KAREN
Oh but it literally IS his business. And since it’s private property, he can charge whatever he likes, refuse service to cranky pants, etc. The same way it’s none of Kroger’s business but they made wearing masks terms of entry until they didn’t. Private property. You don’t have the right to dictate otherwise and be on his property.
In all fairness…
#2 should only apply if your server
actually is the ‘Grand High Wazoo’ 🙂
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My crankiness (see post a little further down) has disappeared!
Thanks wordman! It’s going to be a good day, good day indeed!
I have awakened cranky everyday since Feb 2020. In nov. of 2020 the crankiness intensified. In Jan. Of 2021 the crankiness has continued to gather steam…..but you know what?
I love this. Throw it right back in their faces, along with their vaccine requirements and masks requirements. I will not go quietly……
Also, my crankiness is kept to myself.
There is no excuse for foul-mouthed name-calling.
What is the problem? The restaurant owner is serving everyone.
You must not have gotten out much in the last year plus of planned ‘demic’ democide of the small businesses, the Faithful, the Constitution, and the citizenry as we have been under a constant barrage of these exact same types of attacks by all the “right thinking” pundits ,platforms, and government subsidized businesses.
I was always taught that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander so I have no problems using Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” against these Collectivist radicals. It’s actually quite fun.
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Have a nice day and remember everyone …
Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. – Samuel Adams
I saw an elderly man wearing a mask today. It dawned on me that perhaps he didn’t want to be a guinea pig for the vaccine any more than I did. He’s wearing a mask likely because he’s honest and the store has a policy that you have to wear one if you didn’t get the vaccine. I’m not so honest. Anyway, a fellow like this is stuck in the middle.
What I’m trying to say is: Can we stop beating up on each other? Singling one another out as the bad guy? Wear a mask, don’t wear a mask, get the vaccine, don’t get the vaccine. Do what’s right for you. It’s between you and God and the Holy Spirit.
Our enemies are not us. I never liked that Pogo quote.
<I saw an elderly man wearing a mask>
I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand. No mask 🙂
His hair was perfect….
LOL! Yes it was…no mask to muss it up!
How did his hair look?
Check with Nathan 🙂
Yes and he did not have to remove his mask to take bites from his big plate of beef chow mein.
The restaurant owner has not banned anyone from his premises unlike the frantic face diaper fanatics.
I have a friend who is immunocompromised and has diabetes. She wore a mask, too. Her daughter works retail though, and caught it, and passed it around – luckily my friend did okay (I dropped her a hint about zinc.) I disagree with her on masks, and vaxxes, but I understand her worry.
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I worry about “immunocompromised” people who are breathing in the bacterial detritus in their masks, reducing their oxygen levels, and further impairing their immune systems by wearing masks.
Obviously. However, it’s worth remembering that not every American is aware of the Treehouse, and many may be operating on the best information they have.
Your putting immunocompromised in quotation marks is interesting. Do you not believe in immune disorders, such as celiac, psoriasis, and cancer (not to mention those who have undergone transplants)? Or do you think those people should simply go ahead and die off?
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I know a lot of hypochondriacs who are not all that immunocompromised. People claiming that they are is part of the fear porn they’ve been fed from the media. It’s a shorthand for “I’m not at the peak of health”.
I am someone who never had a serious health issue prior to Covid-19. AFTER I suffered a bout of flu in January 2020, I was left with residual asthma, difficulty concentrating, high blood pressure, borderline diabetes, heart flutters and I had a lumpectomy. Plus I may have had a blood clot in my arm and leg.
This sh!t is no joke.
But I now take HCQ, Zinc, Vitamins C & D & Ivermectin, along with other medications, in the hope I can finally put this thing to rest.
I recommend that people take Covid-19 seriously, but without submitting to Dr FauXiStein’s mad scientist experiments. These people are guilty of crimes against humanity.
And PS: masks don’t do sh!t.
Are you saying that the flu left you with all that? Perhaps you didn’t think you had serious health issues and then having the flu exposed them. High blood pressure, borderline diabetes and heart flutters? Those aren’t the normal residual affects of Covid; what were you ignoring?
Actually, Covid-19 is said to be vascular in nature, it’s spike proteins may impact the heart, lungs, brain and cause complications like thrombosis and cytokine storms when the viral load surges. Early interventions like Ivermectin suppress that surge and save lives.
I don’t know what happened to me, but I was healthy before I was exposed numerous times to a gentleman who worked in a hospital morgue, and died on a ventilator of a “mystery” illness in January 2020.
I think he / I had Covid-19. But yes, I admit this may all be a spectacular coincidence. But ..I’m not taking any more chances.
And are you aware that before there was Covid, persons with compromised immune systems as a result of many conditions, including organ transplants, had to take marked precautions to avoid all infectious?
The misinformation & fear exploitation being force-fed now is pure politics.
Yep it really is like tying dirty underwear to your face. We get rid of waste at both ends.
This is a two part discussion. Covid-19 is a bioweapon that keeps on giving. For some -admittedly the 1 percent with comorbidities- it CAN be a death sentence. These people should take precautions to prevent a viral surge. Ivermectin, HCQ, Zinc, Azithromycin, Vitamins C & D, are recommended for SAFETY and efficacy. Ignore the dangers at your peril.
Others may clear the virus initially, but it still may cause lingering problems. For this reason I recommend Ivermectin prophylaxis to prevent viral surges and long COVID.
I find myself also trying to read the minds of those I see with masks, and even sometimes without. I also have a tendency to think the one with the mask is high-risk, especially if it’s an elderly person. The young ones with masks I think maybe they are informed about the vaccine risks so would rather wear a mask or…?
It’s a weird phenomenon. I didn’t used to try to read people’s motives. Like you, I don’t think it’s constructive to waste my time wondering why some wear or don’t wear masks. I probably have just a lingering side effect of covid hysteria. I’m trying to break myself of it.
I’ve been checking out all year how people reacted to my plastic face shield.
It’s unusual and no one knows quite where it stands on the spectrum of Virus Virtue Signaling. Therefore I think the stress response from victims of CDS (COVID Derangement Syndrome) is mostly just to ignore it. I had only two extreme examples of severe CDS who ordered me to wear a mask under it to attain access somewhere.
I too wore a plastic face shield instead of the cloth mask because it made it difficult to breathe. No one ever said anything to me except a cashier at the Dollar Store. She said: I am not trying to tell you what to do but the plastic shield is not as effective as a mask. I smiled and politely said I like to breathe and i cannot breathe in a mask. I wasn’t about to get into an argument with an ignorant person who didn’t know that masks don’t work. Shields may have been more open on the sides but they are plastic in front of your nose and mouth and nothing is getting though that head on so whatever. I am done wearing anything now. And I am judgey when I see people wearing masks outside or alone in their cars, i never did that with the shield even when it was mandated in my County to wear it outside. I did that for about two weeks with a cloth mask and could not breathe before I got the plastic shield so that was that. Besides mandates are not laws and no police officer was going to say or do anyhing to me for not wearing a mask outside. The Chief of Police pretty much said that on the news. So….
The air you breathe & exhale passes right through the nice big opening at end of shield.
The shield protects blood & body fluid splatter from entering the facial orifices of the medical personnel.
Masks are a separate protective device used to protect caregiver &/or patient depending on reason for use.
Think shield –
think fomites.
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A mask does not protect anyone against an airborne virus, but the wearing of it does spread propaganda, fear and ignorance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Masks also spread the virus. Sneezing/coughing/singing/yelling through the mask atomizes the droplets containing the virus which are then suspended midair face level for an extended time increasing spread.
Amen, coki — and thank you. I totally agree. I’m tired of people on either side of the mask debate mocking and ridiculing others for a personal health decision, or respecting the policy of our local businesses that have been through enough grief. I am 65, and my mom who lives near me is 90 — neither of us has had covid, and we are both relatively healthy — but neither of us trust the vaccines. We take supplements, and I sometimes take quercitin/zinc as a preventative. (I’m also tracking the Novavax vaccine, which sounds promising, but it has been delayed by supply issues.)
And we wear a mask in stores or other buildings, without judging what others do. Not a “face diaper” or a “muzzle” — a simple mask, just while we’re in the store. For us, it’s a personal health decision. Not everyone who wears a mask is a sheep, a liberal, virtue signaling, or whatever other negative insulting terms people throw around here.
As more people are taking the vaccine and covid numbers go down, I feel like I’m benefiting from herd immunity, and feeling safer in more group situations like church and other gatherings. We love God, and we are conservatives who love Trump and miss him. But we are not the enemy, and don’t appreciate being regarded that way. Thanks for speaking up, coki.
I appreciate what you are saying, and the reason I wear a mask into grocery stores is purely out of respect for the frail and elderly who must venture out for food. I can see how scared and upset they are, wearing the same stretched out, fuzzy blue masks that slip below the nose for weeks on end. You just know they’re not replacing them.
That said, anywhere else besides the grocery store is fair game. Nobody is “forced” to patronize a restaurant or a movie theater. We cannot tiptoe around the frail and elderly every time they venture out for fun and entertainment, while college kids hole up inside their bedrooms for online classes. That’s a bridge too far.
Those who believe the world is truly that dangerous and fraught with peril should sequester themselves at *home* so the rest of us can go about our normal routines unimpeded.
Masks are not the answer, and they never were. The tide has turned. Now it is incumbent upon the frail and the elderly to find better ways to protect themselves besides the equivalent of a garlic clove necklace.
Anyone wearing a mask, helps the cause of taking away all our liberties. And it’s a good sign they are a lefty – so should be avoided.
I agree, Trapper. See my post about an elderly man “likely stuck in the middle.”
Too much friendly fire, lack of good will toward our fellow man.
….” In addition there is an additional $5 surcharge if you are caught in the cafe bragging about your vaccination.”……
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For Christians reading, I think the “weaker brethren” rule applies. It calls for grace and understanding until they get stronger.
They are precisely the ones who will join in giving the nod to children getting experimental Covid vaccines and wearing masks.
Hosea 4:6 (KJV)
This is true, and it’s the reason my patience with them has now worn thin.
I can’t stand the hypocrites.
I know seventy-somethings who have gone out every night for early bird specials because that’s what *they* love to do. Some swim at the local aquatic center for exercise, one is an ice skater who frequents the ice rink at every opportunity.
These are the same people who shamed everybody else into stopping their lives to forego weddings, outdoor events, graduations, birthdays, travel, school and work.
It is unacceptable to continue this charade any longer.
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After more than a year of patience and tyranny already having entered the gate, I think it calls for speaking up and providing accurate information.
I agree. For those of us who recognized this was mostly hype from the beginning and being shamed for saying so, I’ve had it. No apologies from the the mask Karens (I’m in retail, I’ve had my share.) for their belittling, condescending, nazi behavior. I’m not talking about the people who feel the need to wear a mask. By all means, I don’t know your situation. I’m talking about the “in your face” uninformed sheep who were made to feel like lions for a brief moment. ARGH!!!!!
This is an obvious miss application of the text(s) and its context. Many things to un-pack BUT clearly this text is directed at followers of Yeshua (Jesus) only, not folks that are children of darkness. Further read the text 1 Cor 8 and Rom. 14 and much will become clear.
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Love in Him
Siding with evil forces for the benefit of the ignorant helps no one.
And if they scream not fair- the same has to be applied to those who give incentives to anyone shouting their vaccinated status.
Mr. Castleman’s surcharge for mask wearers appears to be a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title III, Public Accommodations), covering intellectual disabilities. He better get hisself a good lawyer.
No one is denying anyone a service.
I think “intellectual disabilities” is the clue that there is an invisible /sarc tag there…
I added the word “hisself” just in case. I ain’t no Bill Maher….
Thankfully you are not Bill Maher! You are a classic and I missed it!
Yesitis! You are a peach!
Dumbazzitis I hear is spiking in certain areas.
This is clear discrimination and will lose instantly to anybody willing to challenge them in court and Liberals love the courts…
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Possibly. Perhaps the sign should be changed to require people who are either presumably infectious or so feeble that they are desperate to be protected from adequate breathing to purchase for $5 a large paper bag to over their heads before entering the premises.
Paper bag?
Give them a plastic bag!!
Why is it so hard for people to mind their own business? Be it right or left someone is always in your business. People in this country need to grow up.
You woke up more than cranky! Nasty is more like it! Considering you had to add the “f” word to make your point!
Can you imagine how much is being donated to his charity by the ones not wearing masks and making donations freely?
Hope he has a donation jar so people can walk in with a mask and wave a vaccine card, then subsequently drop $10 in the jar and remove their masks for the laugh.
A smart salute to this business owner. Well done!!! Just watch your back, this is Kalifornia after all.
I live in Massachusetts. As of today masks are not required. The vast majority of people in the supermarket were wearing masks, even though they were not required to do so. A bunch of cowards with Stockholm syndrome.
My sister lives in Austin, TX and even though the governor has done away with masks many still wear them. She said she was going to the HEB store and saw a woman in the parking lot with a mask on and she said to the woman, I thought you didn’t have to wear a mask anymore and the woman said oh, you don’t I’m just used to it.
Although they said they were “masking for others because they love them so much”, it doesn’t take a long discussion with a voluntary mask-wearer to realize that this was really just a disingenuous pretext for masking for themselves because other people disgust them so much.
The vaccinated, who assume they are now bulletproof, should need no protection from MY mask, right? But since I am *not* vaccinated and I can still catch Covid-19 from THEM, then THEY should mask up for MY sake. Correct? Just sayin follow the science ? for Heaven’s sake! /s
Sad the sheeple are used to their liberty stripped away.
You can guarantee that there will be no Liberals dining if you say that the money raised will go to paying for gun safety courses.
Why did my post disappear with most other posts.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/05/29/brilliant-move-california-restaurant-charges-customers-wearing-masks-extra-5/comment-page-1/#comment-7794727
NC dropped the mask mandate with no stipulations and yet there are still many many people wearing masks…but this week I have seen an increase in maskless. Especially in Lowe’s and even the many employees were maskless. I like this cafe owners ideas. I was thinking that some businesses here should put up signs saying no masks permitted…this is a mask free business.
A Breathe Freely Zone.
It takes awhile for some to be comfortable again without a mask. I think many sheep are still anxious after more than a year of fear mongering.
It has been a good 3 weeks since mandate lifted here, and still nearly half of the customers and 90% of employees wear face coverings.
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Fear? Or some weird sense of shame, after being shamed for a year. Like Victorian ladies horrified at the show of an ankle.
Heh heh, could be that too.
People wearing masks should be thanked for improving the view. ?
Not sure I agree with it, but do understand where there are coming from. To me this is just adding more fuel to the fires. I know peace within America is probably impossible unless we have another Pearl Harbor or 911 event, but I just don’t want to be the one adding fire to the flames.
But if they did that and said something like when I grew up, people who wore a masks into a places where hiding their identity in order to commit a crime that might be one way to go
Just my two cents
Well done Mr.Castleman! This is a bump in the right direction!
Now THAT’S THROWING SAND!!
Well Done.
Well Done, Indeed!
This is a funny about-face take on those vaccine nazis gunning for our children and others, to force them into the mRNA experiment. They SHOULD be ashamed of themselves and pay a surcharge for their ignorance.
That is great. The maskers must be ridiculed.
Indiana. Just went to Target and Kroger. Probably still over 50% wearing masks. Employees also about 50/50.
Travel baseball. There has been pretty much zero wearing masks at the games. Lots of sad people traveling here from Michigan, Illinois, and Minnesota to play since we actually are pretty much open.
I’ve known this was way overblown since May 2020.
No shirt, no shoes, no snout, no service!
Sounds like this guy took Sundance’s advice and is throwing some sand in the machinery. Good for him.
Is it possible to not wear a mask, to not get the vaccine, but to be okay with others who make their own choices? Or are conservatives now as nasty as the left a–h—-?
Really. After over a year of having this stupidity rammed down our throats you want civility?
I have been yelled at chastised and generally treated poorly by the mask nazis. I have been refused service by several businesses over the last year.
Naaa. Ridicule just might keep this phony security blanket from becoming a thing next flu season.
The masks DO NOTHING.
Vast majority treated me with respect. Only one incident with Sprouts. Still not shopping there.
If only their choices hadn’t stolen my freedom and hugely deteriorated my life and the lives of practically everyone I know…
Don’t equate “being nasty” with standing up in place and pushing back. Would you also suggest, on Memorial Day (the day after tomorrow) that all of those dead soldiers, airmen, and sailors wouldn’t have had to die if they just hadn’t taken to shooting back? Launching torpedoes back? I guess in shooting back and fighting back they became just as nasty as their enemy. Misguided souls. I guess?
Constantly “being nice” (no matter what they did) is exactly what got us to this point. Do you not understand that? This is actually pretty minor pushback.
You’re free to do exactly as you wish. So are the rest of us.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
This store policy ridicules mask nazis. After what we were forced to endure this past year, anybody who willingly wears a mask deserves to be mocked for their ignorance.
Totally agree, coki.
Wearing a mask/getting the vaccine indicates blind ignorance and a servile willingness to be oppressed by the criminal cabal running America.