**BUMPED x2**
As the impacts of the various vaccination mandates take shape, it is worth a review of the current status as it impacts you and your family on a local basis.
As noted by a reader in Washington state, the cleaving of society on vaccinated status is having an unusual impact on many regions even within individual states.
As one anecdotal report is told, the eastern side of Washington state is essentially functioning as before the vaccination mandate; while the western side is seeing a substantial breakdown in local civic society.
Mandates by local officials are creating issues for local services. Local police, fire and first responders are leaving their jobs, creating issues for those in the leftist side of Washington state. Meanwhile the eastern, or more conservative side of the state, is relatively not impacted.
In another cleaving anecdote one business owner in southern California has told a rebel alliance member to discontinue the use of services from a vendor who does not share the leftist political perspectives of the owner; while other right-minded business owners (in the same industry) are looking specifically to gain advantage by seeking out vendors who are skilled, stable and independent.
As would be expected, the vaccination cleaving is creating two unique classes of workers and owners/operators. Those with the best expertise, skillset and work ethic all fall into the group who are more independently minded and not prone to the inherent peer pressure created by the vaccine mandate.
While the data is all still raw in this new cleaved socioeconomic environment, it does appear -in the aggregate- the unvaxxed are better workers, better problem solvers and carry a stronger work ethic. The vaxxed workforce, owners and operators appear less than.
This brings up an interesting dynamic that is still unfolding amid various regions. So the questions posed are these:
What do you see in your town, hamlet, city, neighborhood and/or region?
How are the various vaccine mandates impacting your area?
Additionally, what opportunities or challenges do you see currently? Do you see any benefits to the cleaving as it appears to be underway? Do you have any advice for readers who might be stuck behind enemy lines?
Here in SC not far from Charlotte NC it’s pretty much business as usual. No masks. Go into NC and am beginning to see some not wearing masks but many still are. Seems like most places there require them. I have a friend who has been banned from two NC establishments for refusing to wear a mask! And she wears that badge proudly!
Yes Mecklenburg county is and really and has been masked but go a little north to Iredell or Rowan and other surrounding counties it’s a different world.
When I go visit my daughter in Charleston SC the city is much like Mecklenburg it seems.
Alamance County has no local mandates. Go next door to Guilford County and you have to mask up. Orange County to the south…Katie Bar the Door. Home of UNC and you can let your imagination run wild. Thankful I live in Alamance where we have a great sheriff.
Here, in a small town 30-miles from the “Queen City”, fewer are wearing a mask since “requiring” changed to “recommending” for retail establishments. Chain store still require employees to wear a mask but costumers are not. I frequent several businesses that have never required masks for employees or customers. Medical buildings are the exception and still require masks for everyone.
Gov. Cooper won reelection but having had no coattails he has since backed off most E.O. mandates. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s popularity seems to have played a large part in the shift as well. As far as I can tell, Cooper is not fighting Federal Vaccination mandates but he is not pushing them at the state level. With the mid-terms not looking good for his party, he may be trying to coast for the next three years until he is term limited out of office.
Building/Construction/Remodeling/Repair contractors are still busy. Finally found one I trust to do 3 or 4 days of work on my home and they apologized for not being able to start for six weeks because they have so many projects booked.
Conservative as it supposedly is, here in western NC south of Asheville I still see 60 % masking in stores despite signs saying it’s only recommended. Restaurant patrons and sone staff are pretty much maskless and that gies even as you get close to liberal Asheville.
I’ve not noticed signs about vax status but admit I dont read most signs. I’ve been sans mask for the duration and have never been accosted.
Lots of hiring signs out but I’ve not noticed a drop in service. I’ve not noticed any unusual amour of empty store shelves.
Being retired I’m unaware of any vax mandates. I do know that according to the state over 80% in my 65+ age group are vaxxed (I’m not) and my impression is that the many retiree imports are still buying the COVID scare. This includes those of conservative political bent. And sadly it still includes my former Bible study group, half the attendees of which are on Zoom. I was told that those meeting person would be uncomfortable around an unmasked unvaxxed person. As Trump says, sad.
Located in the Charlotte area. Everyone us basically vaxxed and masked and not afraid to ask you about it! Being in the artistic community I have to be careful. As another poster stated, the surrounding counties are much more normal!
I live in Fort Myers, Florida(SWFL)…..Life is 100% normal…. No mask requirements anywhere……
My destination upon retirement in March! Very pretty place.
NH has legislation that the State cannot mandate the vax, allowing businesses and municipalities the option to mandate. Nowhere I have been lately has a mandate for customers.
One watering hole I sometimes patronize has a sign stating masks voluntary, otherwise no mention is ever made. Most customers everywhere are now unmasked. All employees at the grocery store I frequent, those at the library and at the bank still forced to wear a mask.
Shelves at grocery store sometimes thin, but no gaping empty spaces on them(I routinely go just before 5pm when I go). As I mentioned another time, no more kids or young people working there. Hardly any stockers or other employees, and the employees that are available are all older, some check out lanes have no baggers, and the open lanes are reduced by more than half.
Still though, if they don’t know you, people still seem to be in a distanced zombie fog, perhaps not as bad as before, but still there.
Agree with gldn2th 100%. I live in Central, NH and life goes on almost as if it were pre-covid with some caveats. Lots of businesses look like they’re requiring employees to wear mask but not customers. People do drive around in cars, alone and masked. Fed bldg requires masks, state bldgs, no. Lots of people apparently don’t see any of the contradictions. They’re like sheep. NH is an outlier though, surrounded by Mass, VT and ME. Our Governor is weak and if pushed, he’ll fold.
One more thing to add. I saw a sign at a local Subway. $19 an hour!!! to make sandwiches! We’re off the rails.
Also in NH! Lots of kids working at the grocery store here in southern NH this afternoon, and this particular store is making all employees wear masks, unfortunately. Shelves were well stocked, but prices are up, up, up!
Packed indoor sports complex this week and saw no masks anywhere.
Gas creeps up every other day or so. And we just filled our oil tank and I’m afraid to open the bill!
Many businesses are hiring, and many restaurants are cutting back on hours and services due to staff and product shortages. Many places are advertising that they are hiring 14-year-olds…
Lots of signs on stores/businesses saying that masks are required for unvaxxed, but nothing is ever enforced (at least that I’ve seen). Some places (gun stores) never required them. Some schools require masks for some things, some performance venues require masks for audience only (science!); it varies.
National chain pharmacy refused to fill our IVM prescriptions (from our family MD) when we had Covid last month. We had no plans to get the vax bc we are a fit, active, healthy family, and planned for preventative measures and treatments with our family MD.
Tons of double-vaxxed folks we personally know have and are getting sick with Covid, but I don’t know if that info is getting out there. Some very sick. Have personally heard lots of parents of elementary school kids say they are eager to get their youngsters jabbed. Many parents brought their teens as soon as the teens were eligible.
Governor is very unreliable when it comes to Covid, methinks. Still pushing the vax, but most likely everyone in the state who wanted the vax has gotten it. He is good on 2A and says he opposes govt mandates, but thinks businesses should be able to mandate. Likes to appear “reasonable” and “sophisticated” and calls those of us who question the narrative “crazy.” Shame.
Husband left his job (in Boston) bc of vax mandate. Was in that career/field for 20 years. Took a job in a completely new role, with a huge national company at a NH branch. If another vax mandate comes, we are strongly considering relocating Somewhere South – but we can’t all fit in Florida, can we?
We have always homeschooled, and kiddos are really involved in the community, activities, etc. We all are. Would be heartbreaking, but maybe something even better awaits us somewhere else? Kiddos are aware and understand that what is happening is wrong, and we refuse to live as 2nd-class citizens. I hope it doesn’t come to that.
Executive Council (essentially a check on the gov) recently declined Covid $. Gov was pissed. I thought it was an important pushback – if only symbolic – given the federal overreach that is happening everywhere.
Real estate here has been insane since Covid. My fear, though, is that we are losing the liberty-minded folks to places like Florida, etc., although there is a strong contingent of us here on the “southern border.” We are doing what we can in our small circle to refute the narrative, and hold the line.
Central Alabama.
Nothing different. Those who did vaxx are saying no to boosters. My job isn’t in jeapordy, but were it I have many talents to fall back on.
This cleaving will be a good thing. People being fired are likely to gravitate to areas that think like them and reinforce numbers, while the Gestapo run areas see chaos.
To those behind enemy lines, particularly near large cities, I would advise to look for clusters of like-minded, and if you can’t find any, it is time to leave before it is to late.
Went to the doctor today
First time the fear card was played hard on me
As I would be eligible for the 4th jab with my health issues
Doctor told me I needed the poison due to my issues
I told him no
And then asked him if there was a peer reviewed study on that
He could refer me to?
He told me not that he was aware of one
I asked then how can you say that blanket statement to me?
He told me experts said so
I told him if nobody is reviewing or questioning what the experts say
That is called propaganda
He shut me right down and said he did not want to discuss this anymore
I told him that was best because I didn’t even get started on the topic yet..lol
My trust is gone now
Time for a new doctor. Spouting talking points of the “experts”.
.
“Experts” with no studies, yet!
The thing is I have more knowledge/background on the subject
Then he ever will.
I worked in a microbiology lab that tested for contamination in product
The product was eye drops that have to be made in a clean room
That is 10 times more clean then any hospital operating room
I was the person who verified that.
On top of that I’m long term study patient
The study at one time used a experimental vaccine
To boost the immune system.
So the subject of masks,pcr testing,vaccines are all in my wheelhouse
I have lived it
I have had this knowledge well before I ever heard of the word covid.
No doctor will ever win a argument with me on the subject
“Eligible for your 4th jab”?
So you took 3 shots already?
With my immune system health issues
they have recommended 4 jabs
I have taken none and refuse to take any
Right, which means he admits he’s not an expert.
So why use him?
Good for you!
The pediatrician on call recently asked me if my daughter was vaxxed. I said no. He asked if I was, I said no. He asked if he could talk to me about the vaxx. I said no, and we started to discuss her symptoms.
They have lost all my trust as well.
I would find another MD.
I’m NOT having those liberal MD’s talk down to me…
The ENTIRE med world, for most part, are the ruination of world….
Were one to breach the subject with me, I would not argue with them, I would simply ask;
“Is the vax available in suppository form?”
I assume they would respond along the lines of “God NO! WHY would you ask THAT? Are you afraid of needles?”
To which I could reply;
“No, just thought it would make it easier for YOU,…to shove it, cause I ain’t taking it!”
I got no problem being hostile with idiot Dr.’s.
???
My internist told me he knows Dr Fauci and that Fauci was very honorable. I’m looking for a new internist. Not kidding!
Is there an online website or rating for your doctor where you can warn others “pushes vaccination without proper informed consent to back up claims”?
start it, they will come
Saw this on another page today and loved it…
“If you go to your medical provider with a problem and he doesn’t ask about your diet, your exercise habits, or your lifestyle but simply offers you a pill, then he is not a doctor but is in reality just a drug pusher and you need to walk out of that office and find a new medical provider!”
Friend of mine said he went to hospital in Utah having Covid symptoms. He’s 75 years old. He tested positive and asked for Regeneron. Doctor did not know what that was, but would go check on it.
Doctor returned, one hour later, with a list of qualifying questions, which was easily passed. So, he administered Regeneron to my friend by an IV that took 30 minutes. Two days later, no symptoms and he is perfectly fine today. That was last month.
My un-vaccinated friend noted that the doctor said that was the first time he had ever administered Regeneron. Gee, I wonder why?
Yikes! Never heard of it? It’s the biggest medical issue in the last 2 yrs and he doesn’t know about potential lifesaving treatments? Wow, just wow!
Now the doctor knows and the hospital (ER?) has monoclonal antibodies on hand.
Your friend likely has performed a service for the people in his community. Good work.
Had a yearly physical earlier this month. A young lady medical student was with Dr. At the end of he asked if I was vaxxed. Said no. He asked if I wanted facts on the vaccine. Said: Let your student tell me the facts without using the words safe and effective. Her jaw dropped to the ground and eyes got as big as silver dollars. Doc choked his laughter and said see you next year.
Had a yearly physical today. Tech comes into room, takes blood pressure, goes over history in computer, current meds, etc., makes changes as needed, asks if I want the flu vaccine – no, how about the covid vaccine – no.
My NP comes in (I started with the Doctor years ago and actually liked the NP better so see her instead), brings in a Student NP, says she will go through my exam (actually did a good job), consult with my NP, then NP will come back and go over everything.
Student NP asks if I would like flu or covid vax – no. NP asks if I would like flu or covid vax – no.
Besides being asked by 3 different people during one exam, no pushing beyond asking, but resented the subtle pushing just the same – you didn’t see my NO answer RIGHT THERE IN THE COMPUTER from the first time I was asked at the beginning of my visit?
Excellent! This is the way to do it.
We should all be prepared to cite three studies on the non-effectiveness of the vax, vax side effects, etc. along with media reports from non-right wing sources about such things as Scandinavian countries banning the vax for people under a certain age.
We should ask “Are you familiar with the Smith and Jones study on X?” If they say yes, ask a question designed to test if they really read it or not. If they say no, give them a 3-sentence summary and ask them why you should listen to any of their recommendations on the vax if they cannot make themselves familiar with the literature on it.
Also ask them how they will feel when the damage done to people from the Notavaxes comes to light and you post on one of those rate-your-doctor sites that they were one of the doctors who denied this was happening and told you that you should get the vax.
Doherty: Murphy’s Vaccine Mandate Intentions are Clear
Governor Murphy has publicly insisted he had no immediate plans to invoke more restrictive COVID mandates similar to what New York City Major Bill de Blasio has done, but Senator Mike Doherty isn’t buying it. https://www.senatenj.com/index.php/doherty/doherty-murphys-vaccine-mandate-intentions-are-clear/54791
project veritas exposed Gov Murphy campaign
will implement vaccines after election
plan to hand out money to illegal immigrants
Project Veritas just did a few vids on this!!
I’m being put on unpaid leave on Dec 8th if I don’t vaccinate here at Red Wing shoes in California. I just want someone to stop this mandate or at least slow it down !!!
Leave.
Yes it’s rough, moved on a shoestring from <any state> to Texas in 1989. Wound up with a good job in a rural area. One of the best moves in my life, thankful every day.
Moved to central Tx and life is normal – I even visit the dentist and doctors offices without a mask. Stores seems fine and no empty shelves so far
Great state. Lived there 50 years. Been in the Ozarks 14 years. Quiet, conservative and peaceful.
Everyone reading this – get the word out to boycott Red Wing.
I abandoned Red Wing years ago. The store people stopped being helpful and had become automatons who could only sell current inventory. Since I was not affiliated with a referring company, my money was not important.
Bree – life is a river; you gotta go where it takes you 🙂
Bree,
Come to NW Az, the Kingman area. LOTS of jobs available, $15.00-$23.00/ hr, to start working for True value, its warehouse work.
No mask mandates, (for General public) except at healthcare facilities, SOME national chains are requring employees to mask up, some not and no “independant” businesses are.
Any employer that mandates their employee get the jab, is an employer you don’t want to work for.
Make Angle Homes more money.
Thank you. I have been thinking about Arizona.
Submit religious exemption and sue if not honored.
I agree, however, everyone must be aware lawsuits take time and you have to cover living expenses so keep that in mind.
File with the State and Fed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as well. Go to Liberty Council for lots of great info @ LC.org.
Thank you.
I’m a State of MA executive branch employee. There is no State Mandate, but the Gov put the mandate on exec. branch employees and employees of State run Nursing Homes. Of course it’s MA so lots of mandates at colleges, universities, and hospitals (don’t know if on all of them).
Some stores have signs suggesting masks and that’s it, so mix of masks/no masks. Restaurant and bank employees still wearing masks. Customers (mostly) no longer wear masks to enter restaurants, etc., and have not for some time now. Supermarket workers, other retail, some wear them, others do not, same with fast food.
I’m not in the Boston area, I’m on the opposite coast (Southcoast) about a half an hour’s drive from the start of the Cape and Providence, RI in the other direction.
The Boston Mayor has a mandate in place for City employees but there is an option to choose to test once per week instead of getting vaxxed. Boston also has an indoor mask mandate for everyone – whether vaxxed or unvaxxed.
I do not know the status of other private employers – whether they are requiring vax or not.
In my case, was mandated to be vaccinated by 10/17 or lose my job. Submitted Religious exemption which was accepted, but the requested accommodation (continue to do what I’ve been doing since March, 2020 – screened each morning, masks in common areas, tested once per week – I work in an inpatient mental health facility) could not be honored without causing “undue hardship” to employer. (This is an Equal Employment Opportunity Standard (EEOC) – they must accommodate your request or suggest other accommodations unless it really would be an undue hardship).
So far I was called back to work on 10/18 (on 10/15 when accommodation was denied letter stated “not authorized to report to work after 10/17”) and was told last week I would be receiving suspension, but whatever is happening, still have not been suspended.
Push back, request accommodation, stand your ground. File a complaint with the EEOC if your request is denied. Go to Liberty Council, lots of good info to check out @ LC.org. See if like-minded coworkers are interested in banding together and bringing suit if your accommodation requests are denied.
Not sure where I stand at the moment but would appreciate their letting me know sooner rather than later. I had planned to file with the EEOC but have not yet done so due to my employer has not taken any action against me (yet).
As to other State Employees, the MA State Police and the Corrections Officers are still pushing back. Charlie “Parker’s” (Baker- let’s go Brandon calls him Parker ) mandate DOES NOT INCLUDE options to regularly test and that is all the employees are asking for as accommodation. Additionally, Charlie’s mandate states to include recommended boosters as well.
Lastly, I have a strong suspicion that No Exemption Requests are being honored but cannot say with certainty.
Non existent in north Georgia/southeastern Tennessee.
Life is pretty much returned to normal. Vaccine mandates are nowhere to be found. Employees are hard enough to find much less adding a requirement that eliminates half the labor pool.
In NC, many biz’s are now closing..re-opened or tried after Gov CLOSED them down for 15-18 mos but NO WORKERS to be found….HELP WANTED signs are at every biz you see..
JUST NO workforce b/c the govt showed them HOW to sit home and get paid and now employers don’t pay the $500-$700 wk wages….that was GIVEN by govt.
Just more Dem devastation of economy, jobs, biz sector.
I came down to Florida on vacation from Maskachusetts, it’s been lovely here, with very little Covaids hysteria. I haven’t worn a mask since I left. I actually live in NH which pretends to be a red state but is truly, truly a cucked liberal state. One of my Dad’s best friends lives in St Augustine, we went to visit him but he wouldn’t let us in the house once he found out we were unva666ed. He was totally perplexed when I told him that I’m not afraid of Covaids, I see zero point in risking an injection of God knows what to fight an illness that poses very little threat to me and that the injected can still get sick, Pass Covaids around and die from it. He said “good luck with that” and slammed the door in my face. I’m going back to New England, quitting my job and moving to St Petersburg. I’m done with the hysterical Covaids memeflu theater.
Yikes – can we all fit in Florida?
I just spoke to one of the vendors here in my small town. North of Baton Rouge. He claimed just this morning this morning a manager at the grocery store was filming any vendor not wearing a mask.
manager a Nazi Snitch?
I am an RN. I receive 2-3 offers of employment from all across the fruited plain at astronomical rates of pay every day. Doesn’t matter if I have experience in a specialty field, the employer “will train.” A license. A pulse. And a documented jab is all that’s required. As health care facilities fire their own former “heroes”, they need to keep the surgical suites, labor and delivery rooms, and intensive care units operational. It is a potentially dangerous and cost ineffective strategy. Remember what Ayn Rand said; “You can ignore reality. But you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
And what will these mega-corporate medical businesses do, as their income stream dries up, due to not enough workers?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of bastards!
What are these mega-corporate medical businesses going to do when their staff starts going belly up form being triple jabbed, and then 4 and 5 times jabbed by next year?! The bastards are going to get what they deserve, it’s just a matter of time – but those poor people that got forced??? They didn’t deserve this.
What are they going to do?? The same thing they’re doing now-scam and skim off taxpayer $$$ Hold onto your wallets
Along those lines:
From Karl Denninger’s blog:
Most of you all here know where this is coming from…copied and pasted.
“IM Doc
October 27, 2021 at 2:33 pm
I feel like I need to give an update from my world. Many things are happening all at the same time.
In brief, I feel that the troubles have started in earnest now in medicine in ways I did not see coming just weeks ago. What we in medicine are simply not going to be able to abide right now is a surge like we saw last winter.
First of all, as a PCP, I have always had the ability to zap small non-invasive skin cancers. We do that with liquid nitrogen. We have been out of this for a week or so now. Sourcing a new supply is now virtually impossible. And the amounts being asked for what is left are so astronomically high that we simply cannot afford it. Medicare reimbursement (which is most of these patients) will not even come close to recovering the cost. I understand from the supplier that the same issues are occurring to some degree with dry ice and more ominously liquid oxygen (used in hospitals of patient oxygen). I heard from 2 different suppliers the reason why this seems to be happening but the reason is so tin foil that I am not going to repeat it here until I can confirm this more reliably.
I know there are lots of biomedical folks here in labs that are frequent commenters.Are any of you having the same problems?
If this becomes a pattern, I would recommend to all to get your derm visit scheduled ASAP my understanding is this will not be temporary.
Our hospital staff is so diminished that my clinic employees are constantly being pulled to cover issues there. Outpatient clinical medicine is no longer organized here it has become a frantic triage. Right now, I would urge all Americans to not take their anger and temper out on medical office employees. They and their physicians are absolutely overwhelmed.
That problem however is minor. The hospital system pre-COVID was a disaster area it is now officially a **** show. The discharge process is now turned into a complete cludge.
The problem in brief is that the companies that do home health and home oxygen and nursing home care have had their staffs now vanish to unworkable levels. Much of this has to do with exhaustion. But it is also the vaccine mandates. These are all national corporations so they instituted mandates weeks ago. And promptly lost large segments of their staff. Enough time has now passed for the remaining employees to experience complete exhaustion. You can only do so many 80 hour work weeks after all. So now there is nowhere for these discharging patients to go that is safe. They are having to stay in the hospital but that is simply not going to be workable for long. The hospital too has had its staff decimated.
I have sat through a whole 4 months or so of patients condescendingly tell me they would never allow an unvaccinated HCW to touch them. Over and over. My constant refrain was to be very careful about that feeling you may have NO health care workers to touch you if you keep that up. And we are slowly but surely arriving at that destination. At least two of these patients stuck in the hospital are two who could not bash the intransigent HCWs enough. They have now received their wish. Payment in full.
My niece just graduated from nursing school in June. Immediately hired on a COVID unit in a major hospital in one of our big cities. She has been there three months as dozens and dozens of nurses, MAs and RTs have left. My mind was completely and totally blown when she called to ask my advice last night THEY HAD JUST OFFERED HER THE JOB OF FLOOR CHARGE NURSE in her hospital a 3 month nurse a job that in other times was given to grizzled veterans.
I am not sure we are going to have to wait for judicial input into these vaccine mandates.
The slow motion implosion has already begun at least in medicine. I am hearing the same stories if not worse from colleagues everywhere.
I am not trying to alarm or scare. I am presenting my world as it is. I do not believe most Americans understand how dire this situation really is.”
Phoenix VA has been playing games with my spouses medical care for a long time during this Covid-19. They screwed up many appointments (when they finally started making them again.) There has been multiple times that we have made the trip, driving an hour each way, only to be told that we didn’t have an appointment (despite auto call, text and email reminders) or that they had called 1st thing that a.m. to cancel/reschedule – a call that we never received and at one point during my many hours spent trying to get medical care a worker told that my spouses medical file was marked as having Covid-19 exposure. I blew up on that one. How did they arrive at that conclusion? When were they going to inform us that we had been exposed? There is no proof of all this of course except for when they finally made an appointment that they intended to honor we instantly received multiple communications via all avenues (text, email, phone calls and snailmail) wanting us to confirm how great and productive they are – all before we even went to the appointment – so we didn’t know if we would be turned away yet again. The appointment did happen but we refused to fill out their paperwork for finally doing their job right for once or whatever it was that they were doing to us repeatedly.
I wondered how the vaccine mandate would affect the VA. They put a job offer on the message that inbound callers must listen to prior to navigating the prompts. Sounds like they are asking people to volunteer their time in the way it is phrased – wages probably so low that it basically is volunteer work.
New hires are thrown onto the phones without proper training which increases work for all. At my end – I get hung up on when the employee doesn’t know where to send my call. Other new employees send you to wrong person/department which often requires needing to hang up and start anew because transfer is not possible or failed. Longtime employees are frustrated as #3[[ and losing their temper becoming dysfunctional totally.
Outside medical care is becoming extremely difficult as well. We prepped for needed colonoscopy and went for procedure earlier today but they refused us due to my spouse being high risk and like everyone else thinks that we have all the free time in the world to reschedule for an in hospital procedure. We are resigned to maybe not being able to get one. We already refused one at another outpatient facility because of the swab. When you are senior, a fall risk with vestibular disorder you don’t need that swab aggravating it. We offered blood or saliva but the facility refused to consider. This cancer is familial so getting it cut out timely is important. The doctor owned facility that today’s appointment was scheduled at is being sabotaged on internet by continuous attempts to redirect to incorrect address. Multiple employees were brand new and multiple interviews of potential employees were being conducted in front of us.
Above post resonated with me because already months ago I tried to get a painful thing burned off and was refused.
My PCP will never complain but I feel that the company has killed all her joy and pride in her practice and the Covid-19 has finished her off but like so many of us she has family to support.
Only one of our doctors tried to push the vaccine on us and unfortunately it was the one that we liked and trusted the most. He did it at the desk, in front of all the employees. I told him that my SIL had a stroke probably from vax and that event had caused us to question it. Then asked him if he had gotten the vax yet. After all the scare tactics he had used pressuring us to get the vax he suddenly became like a little child, looking down and unable to speak. I won’t return to him.
My little corner of Eastern Washington is acting like Idaho – no on masks in businesses and no on vaccines. School is in session (masked unfortunately) but there’s a big push on exemptions for the vaxx among the teachers and staff. On the other side of the Snake River, schools are not masking. The county I reside in as a whole is less than 1/3 vaccinated.
We’re working hard, playing hard, and want a divorce from the west side of the state.
Sounds like you may be in Clarkston. I lived for a quarter of a century up the hill from you in Moscow.
Glad to hear Eastern Wash is ignoring the clown show in Olympia.
Near enough. Asotin. Pretty big difference between the Lewis Clark Valley and up on the Palouse, mainly due to the influence of WSU and UofIdaho, though even there the residents are more casual about masking, etc. compared to King County.
I did get a report that the vaccine clinic in Moscow for 5-11 year olds was filled with a waiting list. Not surprising. I expect Pullman will experience the same thing.
If I never checked the news, I wouldn’t even know the virus was still a thing. Cases, deaths, and hospitalizations have dropped to barely noticeable levels and people are out and about like it’s just about normal.
Where we see that things are not the same as they were is in the shortages and high prices. A year ago gasoline was $1.60/gallon. I filled up last Sunday and it was $3.20/gallon. That’s a 100% increase according to my math.
I never thought I’d see empty store shelves in my lifetime, but they’re here now. The only time I’ve ever seen empty shelves in Alabama is when somebody mentions snow. Everybody runs out and buys all the milk and bread, knowing damned well that the snow won’t be around more than a day or two.
If it weren’t for the news, I never would have noticed a thing. I know 2 people that were pretty sick with it, that’s it. In CA.
The media is riding the shortage thing pretty hard too. I don’t believe anything they say, but the desired social behavior is real. People see it on the news, then they talk about it, then voila – desired outcome.
4% of 10 million in NC. Down, down, down hospital numbers YET in State of Emergency under Gov Cooper (Biden’s Dem friend).
EVERY 6:00 and 11;00 newscast IS of COVId, COVID, COVID as if people dying in the streets….death’dom….over-run hospital, full morgues, etc……
Just gonna be a Dem power grab, power control for the remainder of 4Y…no doubt.
Many/several school districts removed mask mandates. Larger metro areas and liberal centers like Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte will NEVER RELENT of that power grab, control. THOSE Boards are DEM MOB rule.
See my comment below; re, Western NC..masks forever as far as I can tell…does anyone know if Arkansas is safe or is it a fear state? How about Kansas…I want to move out of this place.
I’m in rural northeast coast. Few masks. I KNOW OF NO BIZ that requires masks…Hospital I suppose, don’t visit. MD office I’m told. Been to dentist well over a yr and have yet to wear a mask there….
NO grocers; see someone every now and then masked shopping. Few though. Don’t go in pharmacies so unsure about those but places such as Lowe’s, Dollar General, etc no masks and few if any ever masked inside there when I’m shopping. Don’t go to Wal-Mart so don’t know their policy. No restaurants have a mask requirement and haven’t in months and months…..Servers aren’t wearing masks either. The Sheriff in my county, back when Gov Coop mandated masks and EXPECTED local law enforcement to enforce, issued a letter stating, his charge and duty was NOT MASK enforcement…..
My county sheriff wouldn’t enforce Coop’s crap either.
My sister lives in rural south central Arkansas. She told me there were only two of three cases in their county and no mask mandates.
Fleeing Chicago in retirement, I moved to western NC (Henderson county) only six years ago. It was a dream of mine to live here. I sure pray I won’t have to move.
Why not sneak into those hospitals & take some pictures of the empty wards.
Post them everywhere. Make liars of them all.
The county I live in, Buncombe, still has a mask mandate but the neighboring county does not have one. No one is really enforcing the mask mandate but this is a blue area so people are still wearing them but no one, except a few businesses, require one. But if you go to the neighboring county, no one is wearing one including the employees of the local grocery chain, even though in Buncombe the employees still have to. There is no mask mandate in the state but we have a crooked Dem governor and he said this week that people should keep wearing them.
I don’t know too much about the vaccine mandate. I have a work from home job and the company I work for is in Texas. They haven’t said a thing yet. They do have more than 100 employees so I have no idea what will happen there but I will not get one so I would just wait for them to terminate me I guess. My neighbor works for a multinational corporation; she works from home. The company recently held a virtual meeting for their employees and asked them to let them know if they will be asking for an exemption. They also gave everyone a raise for no reason, but she figures they want to bribe people to stay. She has a serious medical condition that should easily give her an exemption but her doctor told her oh , she should be ok with getting it. No way she is doing that it could kill her and she still has a minor child that she is sole support of.
I know the yoga center I used to attend and one of the breweries/pizza places are requiring proof of vaccine and both got a ton of blow back but I don’t know what is happening there and haven’t heard about any other businesses doing the same.
Asheville area? May as well be in NY City!!
In the past we would travel there in the fall and stay for 3-4 days and enjoyed the Asheville restaurants/breweries. We stopped several years back b/c of the downtown area….unreal how it turned and the liberal ways of the town.
We now go to other western areas that tend to be much more conservative.
Asheville is San Francisco east now.
Well the tourists are here in full bore…foliage season. I do not live in Asheville and I do not go there for anything other than Harris Teeters that does not enforce masks etc…I go there because of organic vegies and I do not want to deal with health food nazis. However interestingly Whole Foods is not enforcing masks and I have started going to one of them for specific reasons and they never have turned me away because I stopped going there even before the mask thing because they set up this maize to get to the produce, which is why I go there…and I am not a rat in a social science experiment. I have no interest in that town but Soros has taken over WNC….even small towns although some are fighting back…maybe too late.
Black Mountain is no different than Asheville and its hard to even tell wheree The line separating Swananoa, Black Mountain, and Asheville is. You’ve moved to one of the top 5 most liberal areas in the entire South and the most liberal county in the 100 counties of NC. Life magazine did a cover and story of Asheville labeled Freaksville USA. It is known across the country as San Francisco East, Little San Fran, or Lesbian San Francisco. If we North Carolinians could, we would pay Tennessee to take Buncombe country but no one is that dumb.
I sure wish you would stop disparging all the God-fearing conservates that are are 90-95% of the rest of WNC and quit lumping them in with Buncombe county.Even the few Democrats in the rest of WNC are Blue Dogs and despise Buncombe. I don’t blame you for wanting to move and I will come help you pack to get outta that place but please quit insulting 90-95% of WNC.
If you’ll drive 5 miles outside Buncombe county east, north, or southwest you’ll find a WHOLE OTHER WORLD. It’s not far you should try it sometime instead of just insulting us.
You won’t find Soros in WNC outside of Buncombe. The only places outside Buncombe in WNC that at all Liberal are Cullowhee, Boone, Marshall/Hot Springs, and Blowing Rock, two college towns, a tourist trap, and a rich retirement community.
Transylvania County, adjoining Buncombe, is full of mask demanding locations. I live in a rural area. My neighbors wear masks outside when taking a walk. This area deserves the name, “Transylvania”. Dracula loves the masked, vaxxed in the Brevard area.
You’re right,
I forgot about Cary and Brevard. But it seems to me that Brevard IS Transylvania county. All the money and political power is there controling the whole county. Whatever Brevard says and does is what the county does. Years ago the Florida retirees only lived right in Brevard. Now they have spread through the county. Traditional conservatives populated everything outside the city limits 25-30 years ago when I was in Transylvania more often. Now the rich retirees seem to have seeded themselves throughout the whole county.
I’ll knock down my assessment to 75-85% of WNC is traditional conservatives but I stand by most of what I said. Note that we are still talking areas that have been over-run by rich down-staters and especially rich out-of-staters. When people judge all of WNC by the outsiders who cling to their little communities modeled from the places they left, they are doing a dis-service to the vast majority of WNC natives and residents who DIDN’T move here just to relocate/rebuild the places they were fleeing from.
If you look at the 7 WNC counties between Boone and Asheville (that includes McDowell and Caldwell and is the area I live in), the only place that has has enough mask-nazis to matter is the largest town, Lenoir, and its not bad there at all. Less than 1/2 the people have taken the vaccine but if you add the people who say they will if their job forces them, you come up with probably close to 1/2 of the population. About 1/2 of the folks in this whole area have never taken the vaccine and don’t plan on taking it. About 3/4’s of those say they will take prison or death first.
I am still kind of , but less familiar with the counties north of Watauga (includes Boone and Blowing Rock), but I’m pretty sure they’re about the same shape as the 7 counties I mentioned and the same goes for the southwest of Asheville. From Waynesville southwest through Jackson, Swain Graham, Cherokee, etc, again I believe you’ll find the same except for possibly the town owned by WNCU.
Probably should clarify the mask wearing thing a bit. In the 4 towns I frequent the most, I only know ONE business that stands by the mask policy. Quite a few still have the please wear a mask sign up and make their employees wear a mask put seem to not care a whit if customers wear a mask or not. Those are almost exclusively the larger corporate owned stores, although some large corporate stores seem not to care beyond the signage. I think that stands for all of the small towns in WNC except the 6-7 we mentioned above ( not sure about Hendersonville. I don’t make there often).
South east Michigan is devided People just go about our business. Many, many folks are jab vaxed and have/are getting sick. Some die in some hospitals, some recover. Some have had clots, heart attacks…they do not attribute their “ setbacks” to their jabs. Many many people have not & will not be jabbed under any circumstances. Nurses know what is going on.
Some could lose their jobs, like many defense department employees.
The Big Three have not fired non vaxxed yet. They have been quiet.
People hate Gov. Whitless. We have municipal elections coming Tuesday.
Many are still working non vaxxed.
Some wear masks. Many do not.
Religious exemptions have been accepted by Oakland University for students and for nursing students in hospital rotations.
The rules for visitors to hospitals are cruel to families & patients.
People are devided.
They are mostly conservative here but the liberals are loud. And one now saying unvaccinated shouldn’t get medical services. Do they even hear themselves? It’s weird. Wow. Now we know how it happened in Germany. And China.
I’ve been pleased some people are fighting back, history tells us what happens when you stay quiet.
I am in southern New Jersey. I go everywhere with no mask and so does my family with no issues. We wouldn’t obey if there was an issue. Problem is I work mainly in Philadelphia(center city). I have been working in a federal facility as a contractor for years now on and off doing various renovations. They are apparently going to enforce a vaccine mandate in a few weeks. I run construction projects there. My company does not give me any ultimatums but I told them if this goes through they need to find me somewhere else to work because I will bend my knee to no-one. I am a young man with a wife and children to provide for, but money isn’t everything. I talk to my sons all the time and what kind of man would I be if I talked the talk but didn’t walk the walk. My sons will judge me when I’m gone based on my principles not on how much money I made for them.
This has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with power. If the people who own everything can make you put something into your body or worse your childs body then are you free? Sounds like they own YOU!
A-freakin-men!!
I only grocery shop at the best Organic Food Co-op on the west coast, by many people’s opinion. Half masked, half not, but being that it is always a place for lively conversations between customers as well as between customers and workers, it is a very interesting experience seeing to what lengths they feel they have to go to stay in business. A lot of speaking out about the mandate has people just sort of waiting for the other show to drop, to tell the truth!
Seems less about the vax and more about financial bottom line. Not too much price change. Don’t know how long they can hold out. 40 years in San Diego, CA.
The staff is dedicated, but overworked. I offered we need to start a volunteer program among members. Think they’re going to do it.
Reporting from the northeast Georgia mountains, our home for the past 23 years: I’m self-employed, an online restorer/reseller, and in my early 70s. Zero local vax mandates here, not even at the local hospitals. Maybe that’s because Stacy Abrams is busy campaigning in Virginia for Terry McAwful and has no time to screw up Kemp’s reasonably good efforts here at home.
.
Online sales are down for all but the two price extremes of the vintage goods I sell: The top quality items and the el-cheapo stuff continues to sell, but the middle has dropped out.
.
The local schools have been open for in-person instruction all this year. CRT is not a factor here, because I suspect the closet progressives in the school system know most of the locals are skilled shooters, ex-military, ex-LEOs many of them.
.
There are still Trump signs in yards here, and my car proudly displays a “Trump 2024 The Revenge Tour” sticker next to the GA Sheriffs’ Association logo.
.
We have a few manufacturing operations here, and none have placed their workers under mandate. Ditto the community college.
.
Some shortages of packaged food items are noted; mostly single-serve frozen meals, which leads me to speculate that the little plastic trays they are packaged in, are stuck in a container in the Port of Long Beach. Otherwise, food and drink items are available about as normal, just at 20% to 30% higher cost. Building supplies are another story with dimensional lumber now both scarce and pricey.
.
Gasoline is holding at $2.99 – $3.19 per gallon for the past three weeks. Propane is plentiful enough that my local supplier offered me a $50 discount if I ordered a tankload by the end of this month.
.
As to the “cleaving” as you call it, I’m a secessionist who believes that two or three “united states” would be a better longterm solution to our irreconcilable differences. The stumbling blocks are how to handle future legitimate transfer payments: SSA and Medicare to older American citizens who’ve paid into the system for decades and are legally as well as morally owed future payouts; plus how to handle defense against militarized intruders (not “refugees”, but Xi’s troops).
Gas up to $3.29/gallon.
Many, many bare grocer shelves and getting worse weekly in rural NC.
I’m an Unvaccinated Plant Manager in Western NC with a plant of 125 people. They just did a survey of the whole company with 3 factories and multiple sales offices. My plant scored lowest on acknowledged vaccination at 53% with 47% saying not vaxed or not saying one way or another. I would say that most of the staff seems to be vaccinated. Some are very smart, extremely productive people. The big group of unvaccinated are the machinists and operators that make the stuff we sell. Already, we can’t find people to hire with openings for Operator and Machinists staying open for months. If the mandates go through, many folks will quit, including me, and the plant will not function because there will be no one to make stuff.
Overall, the company is ~70% vaccinated, with the majority of workers on the West coast vaccinated from 75% to 87%.
I live I Chicago where masks are mandatory. The positivity rate in Illinois is about 20,000 ÷ 11.8M which is basically zero. I don’t wear the dumb thing but alot of people do especially blacks. I haven’t been kicked out of anywhere but I try to spend zero money in Illinois. Chicago mayor Lightfoot just passed her 16B budget with guaranteed income to 5,000 families. It saddens me but hopefully I will move soon. I am a 3rd generation Chicagoan.
I left Illinois – best move ever. I just read today that 77.8% of covid deaths in Illiois are from the fully vaccinated. The income $ will backfire as the illegals crossing the TX border will be heading your way for free $. Crime and drug issues will escalate beyond previous levels . People working for $ will get pissed.
My state of Colorado is great. /s
Going back to businesses requiring masks (Village Inn, King Soopers, Sam’s..
Now hockey
”The Avalanche have played three games so far at Ball Arena, and fans who attended were not required to show proof of vaccination for Covid-19, nor show any proof of a recent negative test. That all changes on Nov. 10.
Starting with that date, any fan wishing to attend an event at Ball Arena must show proof of the jab, or if not that, proof of a negative test within the past 72 hours.”
Oh and to add insult to injury, the county is proposing
“WHAT THIS IS ABOUT: On Oct 15th the county announced the Vaccine Verified Facility & Event Program in conjunction with the mask mandate that went into effect on Oct 20th.
Their description of the program would indicate that it is a move toward a vaccine passport system. By linking it to the mask mandate, in our view they were bullying and bribing businesses and churches into doing the dirty work of mandating the vaccine. These kind of programs are popping up around the nation and world, and it WILL happen here if we do not take a stand NOW.”
I live over on the western side of the mountain. I read an article today about Colorado having one of the highest rates, if not the highest rate of Chicom flu in the nation.
OK, I click and read the article, and found it is driven by the rates of 3 counties all around Denver.
The politicians quoted were surprisingly trying to not commit to doing anything mandatory.
I was in Denver last January, and shocked at how locked down they are compared to over here.
Many less over here wearing the mask, anywhere.
I’m in Larimer County. It’s feeding off Denver.. Polis is bad..
I’m in south metro area, and it’s interesting, pretty much as soon as you get outside the metro area, there are no masks but a whole lot of trucks with Trump flags. Our area is not taking masks very seriously; most people don’t argue when told to wear them, but don’t put one on unless they think a mask Nazi is watching.
Illinois continues its lurch toward full blown tyranny:
SPRINGFIELD – State Rep. Patrick Windhorst (R-Metropolis) voted no on the latest attempt by Illinois Democrats to hand more executive authority to Governor JB Pritzker as he continues to issue mask, testing, and vaccine mandates for various sectors of the Illinois economy.
“The Governor’s desire for endless power to manage COVID-19 has now been aided along by his fellow Democrats. For the first time, the legislature has decided to involve itself in managing the pandemic, and right on brand, House Democrats capitulated to the wishes of Governor Pritzker. The administration got caught breaking the Healthcare Right of Conscience law, got sued, and then invoked its partners in the legislature to change the law after the fact.
I believe the right of anyone to cite their conscience or strongly held belief in objecting to performing or receiving a medical procedure or service should be protected. Federal law still allows religious objections, but now, Illinois will not. I am disappointed, especially after more than 50,000 people signed witness slips opposing the bill. Tonight’s removal of the right to conscientious objection is a direct attack on the religious liberties of every Illinois citizen.”
Windhorst says the House also passed controversial legislation that will remove the current requirement that a parent or guardian be notified within 48 hours of a minor child having an abortion.
“I do not believe removing parents from being notified that their minor child is going to have an abortion is in any way the right direction for the State of Illinois. A minor child in Illinois cannot receive a Tylenol at school, get a piercing, a tattoo, watch an R rated movie, or be out past 12:00 AM without being accompanied by a parent or guardian or having that person’s express permission,” Windhorst said. “The law as it currently stands does not require parental consent, it only requires parental notification, and it includes exceptions for medical emergencies and cases of abuse. Removing the parents from a situation where a minor child is going to have an abortion is wrong. I voted no.”
HB 370, the legislative vehicle that changes parental notification has passed both the House and Senate and will now be sent to the governor.
Source:
https://repwindhorst.com/2021/10/28/windhorst-rejects-changes-to-health-care-right-of-conscience-act-and-parental-notification-of-abortion-2/
Pritzker is a total nut job. He said today that Illinois parents can now breathe a sign of relief because they will have plenty of shots to give the kids!
My daughter is stuck in the Chicago area, and though i hate to admit it, I pray it will get bad enough that she’ll be forced to follow my lead and leave.
I live in south Mississippi. No mandates here and am seeing fewer and fewer masks. Shelves are about 75% full. Gas prices ~$3/gallon. Big worker shortage. Sign at local Wendy’s has a $500 sign on bonus.
One more thing from Chicago, Alderman (city employees) are exempt from the vax mandate. Every other employee must be vaxed or be put on no pay status.
I’m a civilian working on a USAF base. They are requiring our Vaxx status but did not provide a date when the information was required. Word is if you have not reported by Dec 8th you will be put through Education, Counseling and then Enforcement. I expect by that time the number of COVID positive of the Vaxxed will exceed the number of non Vaxxed COVID positive and they will give up. On a side note: I was contacted by two Chicago Cops who are looking for police work out here to get away from Chicago. My only question to them was if their Mayors eyes are natural on the sides of her head or did she have surgery.
University town in Alabama. You see very few masks in stores. All businesses are open and busy but desperate for employees. The university has federal contracts and has just announced vaccine mandates for all employees, effective in December. The university is by far the largest employer in the region. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in this very red state.
Huntsville, AL here, I was looking at Software and Electrical engineering openings for informational purposes. A lot of government contracts with employers like Raytheon, Boeing, etc. I noticed a lot of openings for senior positions. I don’t know if this is normal or based on all the companies requiring new hires to be jabbed. I saw one employer who listed that new hires must be jabbed, show proof of a medical exemption or religious exemption – I’m sure they are just checking boxes in order to keep people from leaving and being able to hire people.
Note, all of these positions require at least Secret, if not Top Secret clearance. Good luck filling those spots with experienced people that want to get jabbed and can pass a security clearance – it only takes 9+ months for Top Secret clearance I hear.
A lot of the work needs to be done. I personally foresee the smart engineers who don’t want to get the jab starting their own venture and performing the work as an independent contractor for their former employer or other firms. Their Secret/Top Secret clearance and skill set will be invaluable.
Top Secret is taking 9 months if you’re lucky and have a clean background.
don’t count on the clearance being useful, President can waive the requirement and will
ContraCosta County CA, as in where the Pleasant Hill CA In-n-Out location was just closed down by the CoCoCO “health” board. It is opened back up after one day but drive-up only. A clear case of punishing a Christian run restaurant company. Other than that it is still full BranchCovidian madness here, masks required everywhere (shopping, restaurants, bars, gyms et al) with the additional mandate that one must show their vaxx card to enter a bar, restaurant, gym etc. It is complete and total madness particularly when one looks to the state of Florida with better covid results despite having none of the mask or vaxx card or lockdown madness.
This latest move by CoCoCo has been the proverbial last straw for me. It is no longer if but when I leave this state for either southern Wisconsin, Tennessee or Florida. California can fall in the ocean for all I care at this point.
I don’t think a lot of people are hearing about Florida. I mean, the recall ad was “CA could turn into Texas or Florida” – well yeah, that’s why we want to recall you! I sure miss the old CA, when I was a kid. Or even 15 years ago, it’s changing that much.
Here in suburban/rural TN people are just done with COVID. I’m retired, so I can’t comment on the employment situation directly.
As far as the state government, it’s a bit of a cluster, with the a special session and a flurry of anti-mandate and anti-mask bills. My impression is that Gov. Lee is trying to make the right noises while staying clear of anything that has teeth. Naturally, I hope the laws pass and hold up in court…we’ll see.
In terms of general impressions, I heard a canned announcement to ‘wear a mask and distance or use contactless shopping’ at the local Target. It was probably required by corporate. Out of a store full of people, one or two were wearing face diapers. I saw one cashier with a mask around her neck.
We’ve been to medical and dental visits with clear signage saying to wear masks. Nobody did; nobody complained. Same with people coming to the house to work. A few months ago, they would ask if they should mask up. Now, not so much.
Here in NJ, there is a lot of Pharma companies, and most are mandating vax or else will terminate due to being thought as federal contractors . But stores and other places except doctors’ offices, no mask mandate or vax. Pretty much normal unless Murphy re-elected. Those who work for pharma seem to be stuck unless approve medical or religious exception. Thing I don’t understand, is how can mandate investigational products to their employees? Shouldn’t they know better?
Power and money are infinitely more important to them than their workers’ lives!
vax rate already plateaued here about three months ago.
same with cases.
SW Louisiana.
masks…signs here and there, everyone ignores them.
economy is not quite back prehurricane Laura last year, but it was one hell of a year with two back to back.
guy walks into a bar in Cameron
I’ll have two hurricanes and a Corona
that’ll be 20.20!
let’s go Brandon!
God Bless America
Palm Beach County FL.
Surprisingly life is relatively normal here for me and my friends. There are masks and no masks but there are no tensions that I’ve seen. I hear of them but where I am some are masked and others aren’t. We just go about our business with no issues. Again I am in the northernmost part of PBC bordering Martin County. South County may be different. The only place I’ve encountered mask requirements are medical facilities.
I had a great conversation with my Dr. who is a millennial. He asked me about the vax and I said I haven’t gotten it and don’t intend to. I explained they’re trying to hard and that’s a red flag. The roll out has been atrocious. He agreed and said remorsefully that the awful rollout is ruining his profession. He finished up with saying he just doesn’t want to get a call that I am in the hospital and I can’t breath. He wasn’t fear mongering. I actually felt bad for the guy. Wanted to be a Dr. for all the right reasons apparently. We’ll see next time.
They wouldn’t have to force it if we actually saw a pandemic.
You should tell that he wouldn’t get that hospital call if doctors would prescribe therapeutics early on.
I strongly suspect that the names of Congressional Vitamin I users will come out. A Project Veritas video or few with those folks admitting it on camera would be great.
We’ve been back to normal in West Georgia since April of 2020, but I have to admit, there have been more people close to my age(50) recently passing with covid. Our latest spike is now waning greatly and there are currently only 21 people hospitalized with covid at our local regional hospital.
We are blessed to have a local clinic that does offer ivermectin and other options that are not the “official” path for treatment. We know many who have utilized them with great results. Our local hospital and schools are pushing the vaccines constantly with each having “vaccine clinics” to increase the numbers. But, I think our county is only 37% vaccinated at this point.
Atlanta is definitely an outlier in that many venues require proof of vaccination to enter. My daughters are going to a concert tonight at State Farm arena and they either have to have proof of vaccination or a negative test result to enter. We attended a Bill Burr show a couple of weeks ago at the Fox Theater and masks were required, but everyone took them off as soon as we were seated.
I do have many older friends and acquaintances(grandparent age) who are wanting their grandchildren 5-12 to be vaccinated. It makes no sense to me and I will not be vaccinating my youngest. My oldest is almost 21 and did get vaccinated on her own, so we’re hopeful she won’t have any issues going forward into the future.
Someone from our hospital was speaking to us at a local meeting and answering questions. She mentioned how safe the vaccine was, but that when you administer 410 million doses there will be side affects. Vaers has the vaccine death count at just under 7000 at this time and we’ve had 220 million who have taken at least one dose. That means that one out of every 31,000 dies from the vaccine….that doesn’t sound so safe to me.
As of October 15th, VAERS has 17,500 deaths and over 22,000 permanently disabled.
Both numbers are said to be very low due to so few taking the time to report adverse events. Someone dies that you love , you are not running to the VAERS website I imagine. Some of the other adverse effects sound horrible too. Over 10k with bells palsy which I has as a kid and it sucks having half your face paralyzed
Warning sign #1: Your kid was vaccinated for Covid
I just reloaded some 200 grain vaccines here in NW MO. LOL. In my area you’d have a hard time finding a mask anywhere. If we see some idiot with one we just consider it an IQ test.
I read an article about the MO AG sending sheriffs in with a doctor to administer Ivermectin because the hospital refused.
Montana AG Sent Trooper Into Hospital Amid Ivermectin Dispute: Official (insider.com)
What a crazy sad world we’re living in.
All the same in Central Missouri. Businesses all have signs stating CDC recommendations; no one gives a flying forest squirrel.
I work at a major pharmacy chain. No mention of any vaccination mandate for the employees. Since the booster was ‘approved’ we have done upwards of 30 covid vaccinations every day. Finger Lakes area of NY. The people getting the vaccine are split between wanting to get the vaccine and not wanting it, but having to get it.
I keep my mouth shut because I have to. I am not permitted to give any recommendations regarding any medications or vaccines. That is my position as a pharmacy technician. I love my job! I love helping people!
I haven’t decided what I will do if a parent comes in wanting to have their child vaccinated. I need to do more research to see if I am able to decline processing the paperwork. I don’t know. This is really a quandary for me. Children shouldn’t be getting the vaccine, but I don’t have the authority to decide this for other children. Their parents have the authority. I just don’t know. More research is required regarding my prerogatives.
Regardless, I give people the Right to decide that I want them to give me.
In Northern VA, as you might guess, I was in just in line to early vote and most were masked even though line was outside. Man behind me commented that you could tell who the R’s were by no masks (few of us :() Since I don’t mask unless required, I stand out in any stores so just don’t go unless I must. As for vax, it’s separated our family. That’s all I have to say about that.
We are somewhat retired in Arizona though I work out of the home. We live in outer suburbs pretty rural.
Life is relatively normal. No one discusses whether they are vaxxed and no one wears masks. I assume everyone is vaxxed except our neighbors who had Covid and refuse to get the vax and of course us and our family. Everyone seems to think it’s impolite to inquire and no one wants to discuss politics. Too divisive.
Last night went to busy, crowded HOA meeting. Police officers spoke . Not one mask. No social distancing.
At grocery store Walmart’s there are 30% masks. Restaurants, near us no masks but if we were to go into Phoenix there would be masks I suppose.
YMCA classes no masks.
Purebloods vs Demon blood. Theres no in between anymore, either you stand with the Archangels or you dont. Choose.
I like the pure-blood description! Pretty soon, they will be begging for organ transplant donors from “non-GMO” or pure-blood donors. FYI…42 year old healthy RN in large community hospital just had one of her kidneys removed. It had failed and was full of clots…she did have the clot-shot back in March. A DIRECT RESULT of the clot-shot.
According to a colleague, the organ had dozens of clots in the vasculature…extremely frightening. That’s a consequence and side effect of these cytotoxic shots. A damn shame. And a crime.
Illinois here. Nothing but a puppet show for Pritzger. He will probably lift the mask mandate when Newsance in California does. He has followed in his footsteps since 2020. Most of the places I frequent have the “better mask up” signs but I have never worn a mask nor am I going to start. I will not inject myself with their poison either. I just laugh when I am out because because it is obvious who the democrats are. They are the ones that are masked up like puppets. It appears that there are more conservative people. Last Sunday went to Chinamart and did not put a mask on like the door stated. I did head counts in aisles that I went down and it seemed that there were fewer people masking up. This tells me there are alot of us like minded conservatives standing up for our rights. The only reason I can see for the democrats pushing masked mandates is to push the criminal activity to burn and ruin our country. They get a free pass right now to do bad to others because they are already masked up and unrecognizable. They ready to carjack, rob and steal from businesses and set fire to cities with no fear of getting caught. So how this mail order president got in to ruin our great country is still puzzling to me. 1178 days!!!TRUMP 2024!!!!
State employees on the eastern side of Washington as well as the western that did not take the shot got fired from their jobs regardless of their positions.
That is true, however city and county employees on the east side in most places were given exemptions or not asked at all. Spokane County didn’t even ask about vax status from the deputies.
Essex County DSS in New York fired me in September for refusing the JAB.
Praying you will find a wonderful position without the vax requirement and that you will be blessed many times over.
Lone Star state –
Grocery store shelves thinning out;
@work psych pressure to get the jab;
Expecting more scapegoating of #Purebloods.
Advice?
Stock up on food – long lasting dry goods and water – at least a month’s worth (prep for electricity cuts this winter and fuel shortages);
Get sleeping bags that will keep you warm below 0 ( zero) degrees. We have sleeping bags for -25F.
Accept that we’re under seige, acquire a Seige Mentality, prepare accordingly…
The coming battle will be The Mothers War. Those who will not allow their children to be vaccinated against those who vaccinate their children and demand those unvaccinated be forced to do so. WAR
Here in the People’s Republic of Washington, Supreme Leader Inslee the Idiot continues his fevered campaign to be the most totalitarian Governor in the county, with absolutely ZERO accountability from either the Legislative or Judicial branches…
In Seattle, the CHAZ/CHOP vibe continues to rule the day, and the City Council appears poised to get their wish of defending the police department by 50%, by hook or by crook. Over 300 officers either lateraled out or retired in the past 18 months and now another 100+ are about to be fired due to their refusal to be injected with an experiment concoction in seervice to a city that despises them, no matter what they do! Crime is up, there are shootings almost every night, response times for Priority One calls (which are the only ones they are even responding to) are close to 10 minutes!
Seattle, and surrounding King County, also instituted mandatory proof of vaccines to enter bars, restaurants, gyms, sports arenas, and theaters and the collectivists are practically wetting themselves with pride in their morally superior position, even as many restaurant owners say they are bleeding customers because of the policy and may not be able to stay in business…
In Tennessee: Federal judges have blocked Gov. Lee’s EO that gives parents the right to chose for their children whether to wear masks at school. There is currently a special legislative session underway that is fielding many new proposals to oppose Covid related mandates. The Knox county (Knoxville) Sheriff has stated that the department will not act as vaccine police. Outside the Blue cities the populace is overwhelming against mandates of any kind. There is no Tennessee law that mandates masks in the workplace, and some public workplaces like Knox County Schools have repeatedly voted against requiring masks.
https://fox17.com/news/local/third-judge-blocks-gov-lees-mask-opt-out-in-schools
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/tennessee-attorney-general-challenges-vaccine-mandate-in-letter-to-president-joe-biden/51-93ce47cf-521b-4183-99c7-ff6730448808
Pretty much business as usual here in SE AZ. It is controlled by Dems but they seem to know their limits and are behaving accordingly.
I’m in Boston.
Initially, my religious request was accepted, but I was told that my current position couldn’t be accommodated because I was “patient-facing” as a nurse. I was directed to look at job openings to find a position not patient facing.
The next day they called to amend their instructions: My accommodation is pending, I can continue to work with an n95 and testing twice weekly (despite my natural immunity).
It was fine for the past few weeks until this past Tuesday when I went to see patients in an elderly facility. The fear on the woman’s face: [Gasp] Your not vaxxed!? ?? She checked with her boss, who denied me entry. It was a surreal feeling – being prejudiced against like that.
As far as stores and restaurants go, masks aren’t being enforced.
My bro and sil have drunk the coolaid. Got their boosters already. They have two young kids 5&4, and with the FDA panel 17-0, I sent them a text discouraging the vax…
They think the kids can transmit Covid. They, in their “opinion,” think the risks of an adverse covid outcome outweighs the risk of myocarditis, unknown side effects, with this vaccine. ?
My sharing studies with them was “too political.”
I don’t think they read any of them… they didn’t text me back… 🙁 it is what it is, but I feel so sad about it, as I am sure others can relate to..
There has been a huge psyops on the population and unfortunately many will not budge from their positions until released by those who brainwashed them…Lately I have been providing information in a super cheery voice agreeing with them such as: “it is really wonderful only 20 kids will have to die from the vaccines so one kid MIGHT be saved from illness. The medical science really has improved beyond our wildness imagination.”
Or say, “It’s too bad that 58 might die or have permanent heart damage in order to keep 200 elderly people who are frail and have a year or so ahead of them from dying this year, but if that’s the way it has to be, so be it. We can’t be selfish with the lives of the elderly, can we?”
Yeah, its crazy. When I was in my HR meeting, I felt like a media talking head was talking to me. I was all quick on the draw with facts and sent information to them in a follow up.
The whole thing just becomes more and more horrifying!
Currently in the Phoenix, AZ, suburbs. Virtually everything is the same. No masks, no mandates