Filling in for Neil Oliver this week, GB News host Bev Turner delivers a monologue taking a look at the COVID changes that have seemingly become a permanent change.
From remote working to interactions with electronic apps and digital screens instead of people, Turner gives examples of things that changed in the COVID era that never went back to the normal position after the COVID mitigation was ended.
From self-checkout to restaurants using menu apps for the customers to do all the ordering themselves, to plexiglass cubicles, the human connection has been frayed. Mrs. Turner makes some good points that are well worth considering. Will the free market bring back these lost connections, or are they gone forever? WATCH:
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Whenever anyone tries to get me to use a self-checkout, I politely say no thank you and remind the lanyard wearing robot “I have done my part; the rest is up to you if you want to keep my business.” I have never experienced a restaurant where I had to order everything myself; from my perspective that would be akin to sitting in front of a vending machine, and I simply wouldn’t go there. But that’s me.
How do you feel about some of these COVID changes described?
Many of the changes in our broken system will be difficult to fix.
No, it just requires commitment to action of taking back what is OURS.
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas Jefferson
“If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” – Samuel Adams
“A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.’ – George Washington
“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.” – Thomas Jefferson
Love the quotes you posted! So true.
Our forefathers were wise men.
An excellent article by Allan Stevo linked on Lew Rockwell.com
“Americans Brought Down to the Level of Slovaks”
Just a small section of his thoughtful piece…
“The Way Out is Simple, The Solution is Clear, Victory is Within Reach.
The way out is simple: quit living like a slave. Demand better. Demand better at every turn in your life.
You do not need to change the world overnight. Lay one good decent step in front of another. Be as good as you can.
Nothing more is needed of you.
If you stop trying to change the entire world overnight, if you focus primarily on your behaviour, and secondarily on the behaviour of those closest to you, then you will come to change the most important thing about the world that you can ~~yourself.
In doing so, you will come to change the world as you know it.”
And really, this is all we can so within our individual purviews. As Catherine Austin Fitts so wisely made the point a year or so ago, we must focus on the bonds within our own communities.
There are truly grotesque satanic madmen working to rid the world of God Himself and planning through the foulest, most murderous means to install themselves in His place.
They will fail of course, in the end. But in the meantime, Mr Stevo is completely correct. In following his prescription, we might gain a measure of peace that these psychotic monsters have stolen from us.
My wife says I’m very outspoken, I speak my mind and make the managers know when I’m displeased. I also take my money elsewhere.
And I write certified letters to the “Office Of The CEO”… Not the CEO, the power is in the people in the “Office”.
If we were all outspoken, a lot of this BS would not happen.
as patriotic Americans it is our civic duty to buy at least one share of all the giant corporations that make up the fabric of our society so that as a group we can force them to uphold American Values.
Everyone needs to buy at least one share of:
Coca Cola
Pespi
Kurig Dr. Pepper
Mondelez
Kraft
Nestle
MMM
JNJ
Conagra
Unilever
Disney
Warner
Amazon
Apple
Microsoft
Google
AMD
Intel
and all the others…
please add more to my list. Maybe we start focusing on just one to take up enough shares to influence it? Letting only index funds and the companies that run our mutual funds and ETFs own all the shares in aggregate for us through retirement accounts has given them the power to control these companies that are the bedrock of our society. Join me in fighting back!
Alan stevo’s are always motivational
The wife and I were just discussing this.
In our neighborhood, people don’t visit each other inside their home anymore.
If people interact, it’s on the street in a little group.
It’s been 2 years now and it’s becoming normal.
Things may never go back to the way they were.
One time our neighbor across the street had her friend sit about 10 feet apart from her in front of their house. We could hear their conversation from inside our house because they have to shout at each other.
That’s pathetic, isn’t it? Here, rural MN, my neighbors aren’t like that at all.
My biggest shock was my Aunt telling me she’d call the police to report on neighbors who had more than the max number of people/family on Thanksgiving or Christmas! I was making fun of the governors in various states asking neighbors to report… Astounding and absolutely appalling.
We must make an effort to interact with our neighbors.
It’s the only way we can keep sane and human.
I’ve kept my mom’s tradition of sharing Christmas cookies with neighbors every year. Some mostly take. Some share later.
But we must learn to give to the other and not count the cost.
That’s what will break the evil system we are in.
Do the right thing, always.
The future generations may not know who you are, but God will-and that is the ultimate Gift.
Yes! ❤🙏
Especially what you said, “…always do the right thing.”
Sadly many people have no moral compass, no manners, no compassion…it’s heartbreaking.
The fish rots from the head down.
Agreed.
We’ll all die somebody, from something.
We need to live life as we did prior to 2020 and let the chips fall.
Otherwise, as you say, we give up our humanity.
The old saying goes” Snitches get stitches”
I would lose the Aunt, she sounds toxic and there is no fixing it.
My elderly neighbor and I used to go out for cheap lunch, since Covid she won’t go because I am not vaxx’d. We do the talking through the screen door. I haven’t been over in a while because I think it is just stupid. She lives w/her son, so I don’t have to worry about her safety. It is sad, because she used to love going out to eat and then we would hit the Goodwill for bargain browsing.
Strange….we have bbq’s and pool panties every week in our area. Of course we didn’t where masks as we knew after the first 2 weeks. Cheers
What is this pool panty activity of which you speak?
Sounds a little kinky.
I’ll bet it’s not on the pacific coast.
Our next door neighbors have an inground pool in their backyard.
In 43 years we have never seen them host a pool panty.
We are thankful.
A thong?
Really? Still? Everything’s normal where I live (eastern Midwest), except for a few mask wearers, and doctors’ offices insisting on masks because they actually still take the CDC seriously.
Not in our neighborhood. Some people invited each other over for coffee, etc. all during the pandemic. We had a Christmas party in 2021 for the entire street. To my shock, 100% attended. Then another neighbor invited everyone to New Year’s Eve, potluck!
Why not invite some over? Someone needs to break the ice.
Glad everyone now knows how unnecessary, and often harmful, public education is.
Guess it must be a regional thing. We are still given menus here in SW MO, and the wait staff still takes our money
I LOVE Southwest Missouri (the people are soooooooo NICE) and used to live there; it’s a lovely area with a strong Christian presence. I miss that region and have been praying about whether to move back there. I have a close friend in that area who loves it; she grew up there.
I live here too and it’s just like you remember. I could live anywhere in the country but for some reason my wife and I stay here, it’s home.
Passed through the western edge of Missouri three weeks ago and felt like we were in America again, in every way.
Then we hit Minnesota and the idiots came out in force.
Yes, I am surprised/shocked that this has been going on and I wonder where exactly this is happening. This video clip is from the UK/Scotland. Is this the way it is in Glasgow?
I have never seen a kiosk for ordering (though I am not a fast food person) and I have never seen plexiglass in a restaurant. I’ve always been handed paper or laminated menus and the food is always brought by a waiter or waitress. I usually put a cash tip on the table and the waiters/waitresses seem happy to pick it up. The worst thing I experienced was signs in early 2020 to wear a mask which I did very few times only to walk to the table.
Come to think of it, I don’t usually go to chain restaurants either.
The karate place my son went to stupidly required a vax for all kids, we’re in north Alabama. Well, to show how that went: they’ve never had classes at that location again and we drove by yesterday where we saw a for sale sign in front of the building.
Regionally it may work, but for the most part people are over it. Mask usage is now down to a few black families and the occasional old person in our area.
I live in SE Alabama, and the vast majority of folks have been over this nonsense for quite a while. Same thing, however, regarding demographics for masks
Maskwearers here are also black, usually older women. I wonder who they are listening to because masks aren’t required anywhere here.
They listen to local and national “news” programs spewing their garbage.
Pray for them. They also vote straight Demonrat. Mask wearing has basically circumvented the secret ballot.
The blacks here inDC and NOVA mostly are double masked if they are maskers. Lots of white liberals still toting the chin diaper but only some still wear it constantly. Too many for me, but heavily democrat area. But I’m actually surprised by the majority going about without masks in this area.
They have not been vaxed. The African Americans have never trusted vaccines as they are a product of the government and they do not trust the government.
Can you blame them!
@Eric C.
Interesting. Here is DC, most Black people don’t wear masks are the gym and stores I frequent. A lot of people are tired of them.
My comment agrees with yours, but I was emphasizing on the ones that still do, go double masked.
Here in the Seattle area lots and lots of people still wear masks. I suppose the liberals here will continue to bow to the cdc and the democrats as long as Covid remains in the news cycle.
Inslee will give up his emergency powers 2 years after his own death, and the legislature here will be good with it. They need authoritarian directives so they do not have to think critically.
Inslee is a buffoon but also a smart libtard. As long as he is a good little governor and does exactly fellow libtard Tommy Steyer says , he will get a nice stipend . The climate change bullsh*t is just a façade for those who want power. When Inslee leaves the governorship he had better leave Washington. He will hang for treason when they find out all the terrible things he did.
The Puget Sound blows my mind…. people are sheep.
We got so tired of the direction that (I suspect) your area was taking a few years ago. We moved 45 mins south and haven’t regretted it a moment.
The recent congressional testimony from the woman advocating abortion at all stages was merely more proof we made the right choice. She’s from Huntsville.
When I go to the checkout, I forget myself and talk around the plexiglass. It feels like I’m at the DMV and I have never felt comfortable there.
It reminds me of a prison.
One you saw on TV or one you spent time in?
So you may know that was not a considerate comment offcoursenation.
TV has been ubiquitous for 70 years plus,,,
next time make a more reasonable comment
You should really consider buying a sense of humor.
Are you telling me you wish to be “moderated”?
Is humor to be moderated?
“Everything in moderation.”
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
– Mark Twain
You just answered my question…
The guy was funny, I’m hoping this is just the form of humor where you act super serious with a straight face while saying outrageous things for humor. If so, give us a /s at the end so we know you aren’t being real.
A sense of humor can’t be purchased, either you have one or you don’t. Some people have dark humor, some have quirky humor, others bland/dry, but dang if you can’t laugh and make a joke then you are no good at all.
LOL!
I ignore the plexiglass, the masks, and any of that Nazi crap.
Self-checkout was common on Long Island before Covid. I still see it after our move to Florida.
It is handy if you have an item or two, otherwise not interested.
I have never seen a self-order setup at any restaurant more formal than a McDonald’s. Hope I never do.
My daughter was elated this week to go back to her office again, although she is only about 10 minutes away. Not sure I would have felt the same about my 90-minute (each way) trip to NYC before Covid.
I saw self-checkout at a Walmart in Mesa, Arizona back in 2012.
I prefer self checkout at stores like Walmart, have you seen the quality of the people they hire as cashiers? Bring on the robots and either lower prices or raise the quality of goods.
I like self check out cuz I have this thing on how my groceries are bagged!! Like something damp put in a bag with sugar or flour….something getting smashed….I don’t trust them anymore…..lol
I simply tell the bagboy or baggirl or cashier not to put cleaning supplies in with my bread, etc. You would think this is common sense, but apparently sense is not common. Lol. One or two things to scan myself, maybe, but if I hear one more time, “Please put the item in the bag,” when it can’t get any more in the bag, or “Help is on the way,” I may do something rash. 😂
Totally agree. I always use self-checkout at grocery stores, Sam’s, Walmart, etc.
Agree – grocery baggers used to know how to bag the food – not anymore. I tried telling some of the cashiers I didn’t want two one gallon milk jugs put in one bag – too heavy. But they just can’t seem to get it. So now I rearrange it all when I get to my car. Small thing to complain about – it’s just that it never used to be this way!
I think the improper bagging we see more and more is because a lot of the baggers don’t care at all about the quality of effort they put into their job.
Work ethic is shot in way too many nowadays.
Yeah it is, but so is pay.
I always tell them nicely how to bag my groceries and if they are doing it well, I compliment them and tell them they are the only checker at Walmart’s that knows how to bag. They like that and frequently talk to me alot. I am an old woman so I think I can get away with just about anything.
One of my favorite things about Aldi is doing my own bagging. All cold stuff together and that’s the first bag emptied at home.
I’m pretty sure years ago they had rigorous training for bagging groceries – probably dropped it along with their standards as a cost-cutting measure.
Things ain’t what they used to be. And I self-check and bag my own as well otherwise I leave the store pissed off.
Some still learn, and there are still savvy kids who figure out how to do things correctly in the three groceries I go to in blueMA.
I occasionally run across one who does such a good job I want to ask them whether they were homeschooled. ☺️ But in blueMA they might think I was trying to insult them…
My mom taught me to hit up the vegetable area for the plastic bags to hold them and then wrap all my stuff individually in them and tie a knot at the top so that it can’t be undone, that way your stuff has some protection from that and from grimey hands.
My husband loves working from home with no commute. It’s the only good thing to come from covid.
I love self checkout. The less interaction with people who are dumb enough to vote for democrats the better. In my neck of the woods that’s just about everybody.
After I realized the people here in the PNW generally prefer to be rude and standoffish, I began trying to give everyone a big smile (when unmasked) and a cheerful greeting. Most of them hate it, and I am often told to shut up (or something more rude), but the ones who respond positively make it worth it.
I make a habit of casually remarking to the remaining grocery clerks that I hope they don’t lose their jobs to the self-checkout. I also usually remind them that there used to be bank tellers.
I must live in a really different kind of place. There are still bank tellers where I live.
Go to Red Robin, they’ve had them for years before covid. I’m not sure anyone actually uses them though except to pay with card at the end.
Ordering and payment koisks are merely proof that the owner doesn’t really care about you any farther than your money. They are nearly as nasty and smeared as the workers phones.
No, I’m not a germaphobe either.
Sundance, I am the same way – I go to the supermarket, I interact with everyone I cross paths with – face to face, breath to breath, shoulder to elbow. I am there to bathe in humanity, to look each and everyone in the eye, talk with the cashiers and baggers and stock folk and managers and fellow customers – put down that phone!. I take joy in making each opportunity to swim in the stream of people a learning experience and a chance to make new friends and influence people.
This is what enraged me so in the early COVID masking days, the attempted murder of our common humanity. Don’t let it happen. As another favorite online haunt of mine, WRSA, is fond of saying, “Meatspace, Baby!”
My training session at Radio Shack, long ago, taught me that anyone who walks in the door is there to buy.
Surely not true: I visited Radio Shack while waiting for my wife at the hairdresser etc:
Malls are now suffering and struggling because the concept of window-shopping has been lost.
Teenagers visit the mall to meet other teenagers and nothing else. Surely a prosaic truth.
Once upon a time you visited the shoemaker to bargain with the shopkeeper. Other people (journeymen shoemakers) were in the back, making the actual shoes. A system that served Europe for centuries, now long gone.
I watched Alec Baldwin’s great performance in Glengarry Glenross again the other night, and one line struck me – “A guy walked onto the car lot because he WANTS to BUY a car!” – it never registered in the dozens of times I’ve watched that piece of the movie.
I miss Radio Shack. The closest thing left for me now for that experience is guitar shops and motorcycle stores. Always someone who just wants to talk in either one. These days I talk waaaay more than I buy!
Cheers, brother.
My co-worker took his car into a dealership for service.
I had to walk around the lot while the work was done.
A middle-aged salesman approached me and tried to sell me a car.
Now? I would have understood that the poor soul had no other choice than to approach me.
Then? I brushed off the poor guy. Either way, I would have bought a sex change before a car. No matter what Radio Shack says.
If you’re anywhere near NH, there’s a fantastic guitar shop in Manchester, the music mill. I got my beloved Martin there – unfortunately now arthritis has forced me to play mostly mandolin and I can’t manage the width of a guitar neck very well…
I always strike up conversations with other musicians there, and the staff is incredible. During the worst of the first year of COVID-1984 they didn’t turn a hair at my face shield substitute for a mask, as many other places did.
I miss a world like that, when I go to the store here in Alexandria I feel like the minority being American. I’d say 90% of the people are foreigners speaking strange languages not English.
I notice many fast-food restaurants no longer have inside dining or even inside ordering for takeout. I avoid fast-food most of the time anyway, but I definitely stay away from any business that won’t let me come inside.
I worked as a waitress for a few years while in college. It was a difficult job at times, but I remember the interactions with customers could often make my job more interesting and fun. And the coworkers throughout all the years I worked were my “work friends” who helped me make it through the tough days.
As for working from home helping out moms who have little ones to take care of – you can’t work at your job very well when you have crying babies or 3-year-olds tugging on your arms.
At least one of our local Sonics is making people go through the drive-thru or come inside because they don’t have enough people to bring food to the car. That’s what really appeals to me about them.
I worked from home from the summer of 2016 until I returned in January, 2020. We had to sign papers that said we had daycare arrangements made for all children 11 and under. There is no way to give work the time and attention for which they are paying you if you have kids at home, especially pre-school and under. A couple state employees went public complaining about how much they will need to pay for daycare if they are forced to go back to the office. General consensus was that they should already be paying for it and they and some other employees of various companies were SHOCKED that most people did not support them.
Another big change is how over half the country has lost faith in our institutions. The medical community has lost a tremendous amount of credibility, and Big Pharma is the new ‘Big Tobacco’.
Big Tobacco products are probably safer than Big Pharma jabs. s/
That is true. But Big Pharma’s lobbying strength stands on the shoulders of other dependency promoting products.
I started losing faith in our institutions after first going to the VA over 30 years ago.
It seriously picked up speed when Obumble was occupying the White House. It seemed as if any leftist you encountered believed they just did not need to do their job, and there was nothing you would be able to do about it. Their little smirk was most telling.
The Ebola cases here in the US and how they were handled was very telling at how our bad our medical institutions had gotten.
Any medical institution since the COVID nonsense started, and their blatant bending to whatever was the political flavor of the day destroyed them. Ignoring therapeutics, pushing untested medicine, ignoring adverse reactions, ignoring how individuals react differently to medical interventions, ignoring medical privacy, demanding fealty to whatever their latest prevention measure was and finally allowing companies/groups with nothing whatsoever to do with medicine setting a requirement of getting a medical intervention was the final straw.
Every one of them should be burned to the ground with the earth salted.
Agree – I don’t even want to go to a doctor anymore. You make an appt. and next thing you know they want you to “log in” online and fill out some kind of form. It never works anyway – it ends up with the msg being, your userid and password don’t match – please reset your information. I just ignore all that stuff now – it’s absurd. I’m not going to live like that – tethered to a stupid computer for everything. Of course, this rant does not include the CTH.☺
My husband walked out of the dentist for just that reason. I went and what I did is say in a loud voice I am too old and can’t work a computer- my hands are arthritic and it never works, if you want it completed you will have to do it for me. And I said, “You are not discriminating against old people now are you?”
She did it, I told her what the answers were and it got done. My visit otherwise was uneventful.
I think this is a good way to go and I plan to do this from now on. I am about to be 74 so its believable. They don’t know that I work from home doing computer work. (Hahaha- my little joke on them!) All it takes is not being proud. It’s my way of throwing sand in the machine.
When I was young I used to play dumb all the time (I grew up in the era of Marilyn Monroe) and that worked too.
So true. I avoid going or taking my children to the family doctor unless absolutely necessary. I got transferred to a new office when my doc got arrested for attempted murder. (Crazy, right!) The new doc answers every question with “according to the CDC”. I kid you not, the murderer guy was more trustworthy.
Yikes! 🙁 If it were me, I’d have to find a different doctor because my disdain for the C.D.C. (aka, “Center for Disinformation & Control) would be quite apparent; I couldn’t hide it.
Thank you so much for this story. Many things I find hilarious other people wouldn’t even chuckle at. This story was hilarious.
Perhaps I’m lucky I don’t deal with any of that where I live here in the south.
New York has to be the worst. These morons still love the damn face diapers even in summer weather.
Worst of all they brought back the Gulag laws, aka Isolation and Quarantine regs.
Can anyone say Monkey Pox?
Any excuse to force mail in ballots.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/new_york__the_state_in_which_covid_restrictions_will_never_die.html
New York may be worse, but its pretty bad out here in California, especially in coastal cities. Texas is great everywhere except Austin, although I don’t spend time in Houston or Dallas.
The OC is on the Coast, not much mask wearing… and we were up in Santa Barbara and Santa Maria counties not so long ago and people are not much wearing masks either.
California is a BIG state.
Must be the city because rural new york state is over the masks. They are definitely the exception not the rule. Just a few ridiculous people who can’t let it go. They look stupid.
So glad to hear that – we’re going to a big bluegrass festival in very-rural New York this summer, and crossing fingers we won’t encounter medical tyranny.
Here in blueMA about a third of the bluegrass players in our circle are still showing the COVID-1984 mental illness, but it is decreasing gradually.
When one’s (positive) addiction is playing music and singing in person with a group of people, it’s a powerful incentive NOT to buy the propaganda, even here amongst the mostly brainwashed…
One fellow in the comments on the article mentioned that he turns his phone off when he goes for a ride on his motorbike.
That does not disable its transponder, folks. You need to put it in a Faraday pouch.
Also pay attention to the fact that the cell phone manufacturers shifted to making phones whose batteries Cannot be removed.
This is deliberate.
Not only to force frequent upgrades but also to keep its tracking and spying software active on at least some functions at all times. The off button does not really turn off the phone.
In my office line of work, I have noticed that many people between the ages of about 23-33 have none or very little social skills. They don’t shake hands when meeting, do not look you in the eye when talking, mumble when speaking. In addition, they have no fun or joy in their lives. It is very sad to see. They should be out dancing with their friends, going to the beach, having family and friends over for BBQ in the back yard. Covid has destroyed their social lives.
Cellphones as a form of socializing may also be responsible for poor face-to-face interaction.
As a high school teacher, I cannot tell you enough how damaging those are to kids (and adults).
EXACTLY…..I would take my dog to the dog park and young people (I’m in my 50’s) would act nervous and squirm when asked a simple question such as “how old is your dog”. They would answer quickly then go back to staring at the idiot screen no eye contact , smile or anything. Acting more like a zombie.
Yes.
in the summer of 2020, we invited our 22 y.o. granddaughter’s Starbucks coworkers over for a garden weeding party. This was at the height of the lockdowns and social distancing, masks etc. All of the twenty-something folks had a grand time, chatting, laughing, no masks, outside, on the deck. We supplied plenty of food and nonalcoholic drinks. They talked about it for weeks afterwards, according to our granddaughter. I don’t think they were really used to the mandates at that time. Now, two years later, I can imagine that some of them have been permanently frightened into permanently acting as if there’s a deadly disease still lurking. Sad.
None of the restaurant menu issues here. I have noticed plexiglass still up between booths in a few places, but that is not the norm.
No hideous recordings in stores. Very few masks. (probably down 90%)
Self check-out is totally optional.
Hand sanitizer dispensers still on walls everywhere, but that may be a good thing.
The working at home option may be here to stay.
Large groups, crowds, and hugging are in abundance here in Texas.
Praise the Lord!
A lady came to my greenhouse recently, wearing a mask, but soon took it off and ended up hugging me as she left…..I just smiled to myself
One of the fundamentals of horse training is making the horse come to you.
Look for the documentary Buck.
The loss of the concept of natural hierarchy (not the the artificial version: Hunter Biden has high standing under the artificial version) has meant that humans are lost at sea waiting for leadership.
The appeal of Donald Trump is mostly the appeal of natural leadership skills. And we need more.
Buck….one of the greats!
TOTALLY agree. Was just talking to a friend about the woeful lack of leadership in our country….includes every facet from the fathers to business to government to the church. God, raise up some mighty men! 🙏🏼 I have always said that was one of the main things that made Donald Trump so appealing to so many: leadership!
I prefer humans. I recently tried to speak via phone with a human at a local office a windshield replacement company that does a lot of national advertising with a nice jingle at the end. IT WASN”T POSSIBLE! Found a local company instead.
I used grocery pick up before covid.
I used self checkout before covid.
I sanitized my hands before covid.
I was hoping to work remotely so I could live on some land..before covid!
I didn’t change anything because of covid and I’m not changing anything because of covid!!
Weird
Retired Magistrate here: We still stop and visit with our neighbors and go inside; has been this way even during covid. Our little country church is in person and has been except for the first two weeks of covid.
For the past two years we have had our Christmas Open House; not as many people but we still had it. As far as grocery shopping, here in Delaware County, Ohio a lot of grocery stores have been going to self check out even before covid hit. Most of the fast food restaurants around here have inside dining if they have enough people to work. The days they don’t, no inside dining. The “fine dining” restaurant we occasionally visit has reduced hours mainly due to a lack of servers.
In general, things in our area are pretty much back to normal. We are old and are going to live our lives to the fullest extent.
It is interesting to watch how everyone continues to maintain six feet apart while standing in line. We have been programmed.
I kind of sidle on up to mask wearers in line just to watch their shoulder hunch up.
I admit I’ve done that, too, just to see the Cootie Cringe.
–“…just to see the Cootie Cringe”–
The “Cootie Cringe” = perfect description, thanks!
Guilty! In SW FL.
I’ve been doing that for quite a while.
The best was NOT wearing a mask at CVS and getting in line to get meds. Not one person dared confront me… I think the majority of the mask wearers are sheep and cowards and don’t have the fortitude to stand for themselves.
Best thing was that a couple of time I have struck up really good conversations while on line at CVS, me not wearing a mask.
And, of course, there’s always that camaraderie in public between those of us who don’t wear masks.
joeknobi; The line distancing behavior is particularly annoying.
Pretty simple for me and maybe crude in using the term, but all I do is stay away from what I refer to is retards and their retarded policies. We are talking about the private sector here where we still have a say /choice who we give our hard earned money to. Re: .gov retardeness, I quietly throw sand in the gears at all times. Stay stealthy folks until the time we have 10s of millions throughout the country out on the streets. We don’t need to have unnecessary targets on our backs from the gestapo.
( even though there are teleconference / online meetings )
The lessor face to face communications leads to a lower quality business communication,
and
thereby a reduction in productivity…which affects worker behaviors and is detrimental to the economy – w/c the current miss leadership does not care – as shown by miss actions.
( in comparison to 2019 productivity. There is productivity data. )
Some people may never be returning to daily office, work environments. It is already proven. Seen it.
The outdoor work environments are getting to be about the same as before 2020 – pending govm’t or who future shutdown$.
Imho
where I live we go to bars restaurants stores etc and looks pretty normal. Occasional masks here-there but that’s it. The theme seems overstated.
In Mexico everything is back to normal! Pool party manana. Bring your own beer’s!
Self checkout has been around since before Covid and mostly I like it. It saves me irritation with other shoppers, their children, their masks, food assistance, the narrow aisles loaded with stuff people don’t need or want. It saves enormous time not to be forced to wait in line and saves time putting groceries away when I get home because I bag them by what goes where at home.
However, stores that do not have self check have enough people working so I don’t have to wait long. There is nobody standing there with suspicion, eyes scanning to make sure that nobody leaves with something they shouldn’t. I do enjoy talking with the checkers and bagging guys at those stores because they were hired to be personable and friendly.
I go to restaurants maybe 2 or 3 times a year – to be with people, to visit, to spend time with them. I wouldn’t order by phone which is done by people who want to eat, but don’t or won’t cook for themselves. Other than those 2 or 3 times a year, I cook what I want to eat and like it better than what I get at most restaurants.
Self-checkout: it’s been evident for some time that old people want the meager human contact of dealing with a cashier or clerk. Is the corner store selling lottery tickets, or something else?
I was baffled why my elderly father bought his cigarettes, one pack at a time. Surely, after a day of staring at the TV, old folks want that few seconds of interaction with another human. The Fox News robots build up a facsimile of human relationship with their audience. Why else take Hannity seriously?
I’ve long avoided the self-checkout to protest the fact that no discount is offered. Surely the corporation that operates the supermarket is saving money by creating self-checkout. Where is my cut? But maybe I too want that contact with a cashier (and I certainly prefer a personable female clerk to a male punk).
“(and I certainly prefer a personable female clerk to a male punk).”
It’s getting somewhat difficult to tell the difference nowadays.
I might be considered old people, but I prefer self-checkout. Likely because I am a veteran and don’t like putting up with the foolishness around me. Get in, get it, get out the fastest way possible while avoiding what is left of humanity.
You should see some of the freaks working checkout in my neck of the woods.😵💫
I don’t want the government to do anything! I just want the freedom to do it for myself!
How true.
Governments don’t care. They can’t care. Only people can care.
Bureaucracy warps people. Both those in it and those it deals with. It is dehumanizing and numbing.
Government be created to serve people, but it can’t care about them. It can only care about itself.
I like working from home. It has saved me untold amounts of money on gas, and my electric bill really hasn’t gone up a whole lot. I’ve been using self checkouts for years… they’ve been normal around here for a very long time, but no one is forcing anyone to use a self checkout. There are still cashiers and you have to wait in line to use both. Still idiots around here wearing masks, bunch of f’ing morons in this state.
The store managers are scheduling fewer checkers to “force” customers through self-checkouts. Making you ‘feel the pain’ until you give in.
But the store is full of stockers and people who ‘shop’ for the pickup and delivery service. They are the ones blocking all the aisles.
Well I live in the Peoples Republic of Assachusetts and I’ve got a great mask story. I pulled into a parking space at the local hospital. You have to wear a mask to go in. So an older women, alone in her car pulls up next to me with her mask on. Then she pulls down the mask and smokes a cigarette! As far as masks go, Dr. and Dentists office you must but elsewhere is optional. Plenty of plexiglass at restaurants still.
On these and similar pages, we often deride, criticize and even curse our wannabe Lords and pseudo-Masters as idiots and worse.
But what if they aren’t?
What if they, in spite of arrogance, insouciance, mistakes aplenty and seeming idiocy, what if they not only know exactly what they are doing, but they are in full control of circumstances and situations?
Commenters often say, “There are more of us than them.” And I believe that is true. Yet, no one from our side does a thing—there is nothing but silence and grudging acceptance. Oh yes, we have our podcasts, our talk radio, our CTH sites and the like, but where is REAL resistance; the kind of resistance our opponents don’t walk away from?
A presidential election was stolen, the entire world was gaslighted about the theft, and any domestic opposition has been harshly punished. Pray tell, who thinks that voting and other such niceties will be respected, let alone accepted?
The elites who delight in violating our rights–indeed the desecration of our culture–do not recognize the Constitutional norms that have governed us for the past 200 years plus. They mean to rule us with an iron fist and any attempt to thwart them will be harshly punished.
Against such madness, cruelty and determined megalomania, what are we to do?
First, we cannot–we must not–see our enemies as human. They are soulless things….mindless orcs, animals bent on ravaging civilization. Second, we must accept the bitter fact that norms, traditions and practices of our civilized society are, for the foreseeable future, lost and not soon to return.
The following quote is how we must order our minds and sprits. To win, we must prepare. And to prepare, we must focus our thoughts and emotions to accept what is, versus what we wish.
“The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’
They try, so very hard to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love.
They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it.
They know the moment they fight back, the lives as they have lived them, are over.
The moment the ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’ are forced to fight back, it is a small form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be.
Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these ‘Men who wanted to be left Alone’, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives.
They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror.
TRUE TERROR will arrive at the Left’s door, and they will cry, scream, and beg for mercy, but it will fall upon deaf ears.”
Thumbs up for using the word “insouciance”.
Very well said.
YEP………………The LEFT organizes much better than the people on the right. The part about wanting to be left alone is what interrupts our ability at organizing ….it’s not natural for us because we solve our own problems most of the time. For example, when a natural disaster happens we organize, provide needed assistance to get it under control then we return to our own lives making our own individual decisions.
I quite like self checkout at Whole Foods myself. No being stuck behind the various types of doofuses one encounters at regular checkout that slow everybody down.
Not having table service at a restaurant, that’s another thing altogether.
Automated restaurant stuff snuck its way in when the left started running minimum wage up to $15 under Obama.
“How do you feel about some of these COVID changes described?”
Before I stopped putting up with this nonsense and retired, teleworking was a disaster. Policies were in place for supervisors to monitor work performed and availability, but productivity dropped significantly, and trying to reach people got much worse. Trying to get supervisors to actually adhere to the policies was a lost cause.
As for things I still encounter, it is the moronic plexiglass screens. They serve no purpose other than suggesting to a millennial that they should continue speaking softly to customers. I have no problem sticking my head around the screen making it clear I cannot hear them.
I wear hearing aids, so the mask and plexiglass doesn’t help me interact with those props.
What is UNFORGIVABLE is this governments response to what amounts to a flu. Denied medicine, denied families being present when love one leave this world.
This government attacked the medical community, holding their medical license hostage, while they took medicine denied us.
Worst still was media the supposed vanguard of truth created false stories.
This government made a mockery of our values and our trust. It will only be restored when Congress is replaced.
we must NEVER forget it was the Democrats who locked our cities down and forced vaccine mandates on us. I will never forgive them for this.
Re. self-checkout at supermarkets:
I highly prefer it, and have used it basically 100% of the time for years now.
When I moved out of St Louis (pre-COVID by a couple of years), I “checked-out” the local supermarket where I wanted to move – to make sure they did have self-checkout (and that it could handle more than a handful of items or small-orders).
I do full-cart self-checkout (like over $200) regularly.
I “bag” things the way I like – taking into account how and where things go when I get home. No worries about how the cashier is “bagging” things (good or bad). No dodging the “wet-spots” on the conveyor, etc.
I don’t really ever want to go back to waiting in the cashier-line again.
Self-checkout all the way for me baby!
Reminder: The WHO discussion of a Global Pandemic Treaty At the World Health Assembly starts tomorrow.
Horrible people. WHO, WEF. Successfully destroying the entire world.
At work, we make it a point to meet in person as often as practical. My colleagues all feel relieved to meet in person. I’m running a relay race next month with a group of friends and the feeling that the bonds have been broken – the need and desire for people to get together and have some fun – is real. Sadly, some of the people in that group are part of the problem wearing masks, doing the COVID kabuki dance, and race organizers have been Nazis about it often requiring participants to wear masks. Outdoors. At 9,000 feet where the UV radiation kills covid in less than a second. It’s just batshit crazy what they call did.
So, now that people are temporarily allowed to think they have some say in their lives, I’ve noticed people trying to get together more. But there’s an awkwardness to it because people have forgotten how to be social and everyone is waiting for that one guy or gal to make the “wrong” comment about vaccines or masks and get hurled into the void. The one rule that persists? You are not allowed under any circumstances to point out what a load of horseshit that was we all were forced to deal with. Some random receptionist where I work was praising a guy for wearing a mask because he had a cold. She’s a nice lady, but she kept going on that “you would think people would know by now” to avoid all human contact if they’ve got the sniffles.
I looked at her and said, “I have seasonal allergies. I spend 1/2 the year with the sniffles. Does that mean I have to wear a mask the rest of my life?” She replied, “Yeah, but people who have colds should respect others. I don’t want to get a cold.” “Then wash your hands,” I said, “Cold viruses have been part of human existence since the first humans walked the earth.” I just walked away. There are people who can’t be saved because they like being afraid.
As far as people being isolated: you have to remember that Globalism requires the atomization of culture down to the point where all you and I represent are economic units. Our job is to spend money to keep GDP going and periodically pretend that voting matters.
But for what it’s worth, I don’t mind the self-checkout at restaurants. I don’t have to wait for a busy, overworked, server to drop off my check, go run my card, and return. I’m helping that person out by swiping it myself. I use self-checkout most of the time at the grocery store too.
The government schools are going to suffer the most from the forced isolation they compelled. e-learning proved to be a sick joke, and parents quickly learned that a lot of their kids’ “teachers” are useless morons. Sure, there are good and there are great teachers, but too many are lazy dullards and way too many more are just Education Brown Shirts. People would be wise to get their kids out while they can, and find ways to build relationships outside the boundaries of the local government school.
Surprised no one is talking about how all reps and senators no longer have to engage with constituents at town hall meetings, something I realize they love.
I called the local office for my do-nothing House rep (oh yeah, he was all for publishers refusing to publish books Dems didn’t like) and complained that it was time for him to hold a town hall meeting, that he could wear a hazmat suit if he was afraid to talk to us.
Don’t you all think it’s time to require them to meet w/ us again. How about having live people answer phones rather than having leave a message?
“Whenever anyone tries to get me to use a self-checkout, I politely say no thank you and remind the lanyard wearing robot “I have done my part; the rest is up to you if you want to keep my business.” I have never experienced a restaurant where I had to order everything myself; from my perspective that would be akin to sitting in front of a vending machine, and I simply wouldn’t go there. But that’s me.”
Bill Burr: “I gave you 100% of the money to make 100% of the sandwich.”
Had to stop going into self check out lines because THEY have lines now and the longer I stand in LINE in a self check out line with one checker just standing there like an overseer, the pricklier I get and by the time I get to the machine I’ve lost the ability to be cordial.
LOL!!!
They are also inefficient and time consuming, for the customer.
But they make sure you have to wait even longer for the very few checkers still employed.
Who should you thank for it:
Who are they?
-Fauci, Hillary, the WHO guy, Zuck from Facebook, Obama (the devil himself), Biden, Prince (?) Charles, Boris Johnson, Bill Gates, the one from New Zealand, Schwab, Justin BlackFace, Macron, Tony Blair, Greta
Xi, Putin, Zelenskyy
What do you do when then are 9 self-checkout lanes and just one lane with a cashier, and that one line is already a mile long? It seems the choice has been made for us already.
You could try shopping in the inner cities.
I doubt they have self-checkout there.
Some have self-walkout.
They have cashless self self checkout. But it sometimes requires running out of the store
I went to a CVS the other day in Cleveland where there was only self checkout. It felt weird and must have been monitored with cameras.
Americans, and others, were stampeded into doing lots of stupid things becauswe of a virus no worse than the seasonal flu. The mass psychosis was way over the top. I still, even today, see asinine fools driving around in their cars with the windows rolled and wearing a mask. I had no idea I was living among so many dullards. The plastic dividers are still being used everywhere. Floors are still marked with the stupid and useless 6′ distancing. I find I must concentrate on those people who are still sane and rational or I will be constantly pissed off. And that includes some family members.
I get frustrated hearing, seeing, experiencing, the never ending “we don’t have enough staff” and “we can’t find anyone to work”. That has become the accepted normal. We all have to make do w/less employees. It irks me.
Tired of everything being those QR code thingys. Whatever happened to the bar code?
I still use cash, and I still tip in cash. I avoid the self-checkouts, hate dealing w/the bags that stick, and at more than one place I have told them it is time to take down the plexiglass-glass barriers and/or stop wearing the mask. I actually don’t mind hand sanitizer being everywhere.
Fortunately where I live most people seem to be over it. A few masks here and there but most people ignore them and w/out being mean manage to convey they are idiots. No one says anything or gets in their face, but when a masker walks into a small diner or store and they are the only one wearing a mask they get the glance w/a prompt turn of the head of ignoring their presence.
The thing I miss most is healthcare, it has been on decline since Hillary started the managed care crap, but some of the things I have been seeing and dealing with are horrendous. One way or another they are going to kill us.
The absolute worst is the people that are dying and getting sick due to the vaxx. Just found out a friend of mine, older but healthy, has tumors on his kidney. Another friend’s son, they thought he had a stroke, but turned out to be Bell’s Palsy. The prayer list from church is filled w/requests for people that have vaxx injuries, of course no one speaks of it in those taboo terms. Unexpectedly passed seems to be code for a vaxx death.
Gwinnett County, GA (NE Atlanta)
Went to Frontera restaurant (2137 Lawrenceville, GA 30024) not long ago. Sat down and waited a long time. No one came to our table. Eventually, I flagged someone down and they came over. They told me I had to order from their app. I’ve been to this restaurant dozens of times over the years and have never seen this before (anywhere). I could not download their app from that location. I told the lady I couldn’t (and wouldn’t) do that. She took my order. The service sucked. The place had about a quarter of the personnel I’d expect. This place used to be rated one of the top Mexican restaurants in the county (years ago). Since COVID, the food sucks and the portions are waaaay down. I’ll never go back. This is an idiotic way of doing business. If I sit down, I don’t want to get the same service I’d expect from a carryout or delivery order.
“Turner gives examples of things that changed in the COVID era that never went back to the normal position after the COVID mitigation was ended.”
People having a sense of humor sure took a hit.
I’m not sure how many of these changes are from COVID and how many are due to the labor shortage.
The “Labor Shortage” is because of the reaction to Covid-19. People got used to get paid to stay home.
It is also a way to coerce you to use those stupid aps so you can be tracked. Chick-Fil-A is the only FF that doesn’t seem to have a problem, that place is a machine.
The world has changed, and those who haven’t changed with it will be penalized, shunned, locked up, or cast out. That also includes countries. We can sit and bitch about Russia, or China, but show me a country that hasn’t done what Russia has done? Show me a country that day in, day out produces goods for the greedy who then take advantage of their customers?
Yes, technology and industry was handed to China. Along with the recyclable trash that ended up in oceans, the west created smog pollution to get their cheap goods. Imagine wearing a mask not just for COVID crap, but because the west demanded goods that spew crap!
I have always tried hard to hold governments, not a peoples responsible for these actions, and many forget when they tap their latest iPhone, that a slave fkin made that, and now its their PAYBACK TIME!
I want industry back home, job security for the youth, and responsibility for actions. I don’t want to see wealthy left wing AH’s in TESLAS not giving a crap about the African kid neck deep in mud digging the minerals for their crappy electric batteries!
I am sick of everything!
Walmart Neighborhood Markets are only self- checkout and on the few occasions I have gone there, it’s been fine. I don’t buy much there. I LOVE curbside pickup for some purchases, mainly heavy ones like 28 pound boxes of cat litter and bags of potting soil, mulch and fertilizers at Lowe’s. I already had all cat supplies delivered because one cat needs a prescription food and I can get it all from one place, usually Chewy. I think FedEx hates me when I get cat litter so I sometimes pick it up locally.
I have yet to be in a restaurant where I entered my own order. We did a lot of take out in 2020 but I like to be waited on at restaurants so we did and still do sit down as much as possible. I’ve increased how much I tip as well.
I know a couple people who won’t hang out with anyone who hasn’t gotten the not-a-vaccine and both of them, plus a couple other people, have been negatively affected mentally by covid. It’s rather sad to see but they are convinced they will die any time now. I’m not vaxxed and most of my friends are. We no longer discuss it because none of us are changing our minds. They really – I mean REALLY – don’t want to hear anything negative about vaxx side effects. A friend’s unvaxxed brother died from covid so that’s their proof. My next door neighbor and two people with whom I used to work all died from covid even though they were fully vaxxed but that’s just an aberration to them.
My daughter and son-in-law have both had big increases in their wages to help retain people. His increased 50% before he was promoted and went up another 8% while she went up 50% per hour by changing from a part- time place to a full time job that she loves. Neither of them would be making this much without the plandemic. They were under $25K in 2020 when she was laid off for 10 weeks and couldn’t collect unemployment because she could never get through. Their combined annual income is now just about $80K.
SC never shut down state wide although various municipalities, counties and school districts had varying level of requirements and rules. Most of the masking rules were really from companies. A local quilting supply shop STILL requires masks according to their website. I would not know because I will never go back in it. The entire staff and most customers are apparently named Karen. I no longer patronize a used book store because they, too, hung onto masking long after it was needed. I might forgive but I’m not forgetting and I’m not spending my money at these places.
I have a family member that has Covid right now. I went to see her as she lives alone and has no one else. I did not wear a mask. No I did not. Yes I met with her in person. I refuse to participate in the baloney and isolation scare tactics. We are humans and humans need interaction and contact. I am not afraid. How sad that people have become mindless followers and are not using their hearts and brains.
I live in a small town and I am lucky, so far, because things have not changed that much. No restaurants here have those self checkout things. We still have wait staff that take orders and bring your check and take away either cash or a credit card. My wife and I attended a large garden party this evening. Maybe 150 folks or so. Absolutely no one had on a mask. Almost all our friends greeted with handskakes or a hug. Just like pre-China flu virus days. Everyone serms to be getting back to normal.
The most ridiculous of all were the arrows on the floor showing which direction you were supposed to walk. That didn’t last long. Too many of us walking the wrong way on purpose, irritating the right-way walkers.
Dis someone say monkeypox?
Folks, it’s not this way in my part of the world. Come to SW Missouri and find normalcy if you want to.
Some of the permanent changes had nothing to do with Covid but were the result from Pres. Trump:
We don’t trust Government,
We don’t expect justice from the DOJ,
We will not call the FBI to report ANYTHING,
We recognize the FAKE news for what it is !!!
And partially Covid, we DON’T FOLLOW doctor’s orders.
Please feel free to add to my list; I am trying to keep score.