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?
“…….that never went back to the normal position after the COVID mitigation was ended.”
Oh…..so you think the COVID era has ended?? Silly goose. COVID and the mindless compliance directives that go with it are far from over. We’re just experiencing a little lull in the activities as our betters gear up for the next round of unwarranted panics.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
Just tonight, I went to a favorite store which has eliminated its paper coupons. You must now go to their kiosk and use your fob to electronically scan your coupons. BS.
And tonight, guess what? The kiosk isn’t working. A “glitch.”
The only work-around is to get their APP on your cell phone and do it that way. I told them, “No way in hell.”
I played their stupid game long enough, giving up personal info to have their stupid savings card, and having all my personal purchases tracked. And I’m spending my money with them, to get violated in this way.
But now, they want me to download an APP so it makes it even easier to get electronically raped? NO.
And they’re still overpriced with coupons. Winco foods is a god send in our area. Lower prices on almost everything, only cash or check accepted so no tracking!
That’s why they call them psyops: they induce mass-formation psychosis.
Occult Ritual Transformation and Coronavirus: How Mask Wearing, Hand Washing, “Social Separation” and Lockdowns Are Age-Old Occult Rituals Being Used to Initiate People Into a New Global Order:
https://haveyenotread.com/occult-ritual-transformation-and-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0N8ou4abDVSBuDg56G5mxMI7sD8ew-pG23jz5zUgzhfsVsVJ6rnGa5Mbw
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
This is your children’s brains on masks:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/?s=masks+children+harm
Great article on Rockwell’s site!
The MORE companies that REQUIRE MOI’ to have an app on my phone I say — BYE’!!!!!! It is a strange feeling when doing that BUT it is FREEDOM!!!!!!!
Electronically Raped??? Excellent Choice of words—BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT IT IS!!!!!!!
The price should be the price. BAN COUPONS. Fairness in cost of goods. Why should I pay more because I don’t have the time to waste hunting up coupons. FUORGET THAT. If you would like. I can tell you how I really feel about coupons.
Never in writing, always in cash…
Doesn’t really matter. If you shop somewhere that requires a saver’s card to get the discounts, all your purchases there are traceable no matter how you pay.
These cards are common at groceries, gas stations, auto supply stores, and many other retail outlets.
I refuse to use my smartphone to scan any menus or apps of any kind inside stores. I don’t plug my phone into car stereos except by the ‘cigarette lighter’ cord. And I use my data instead of plugging into outside WiFi signals.
From what I’ve seen already, from ‘chipping’ our credit cards, cash, ID and license plate tags and scanning our fingerprints and facial recognition I am no fan of big brother. But he is everywhere now, just like the Bible said.
I won’t let them mark my blood. That is where I draw the line.
And there is still low attendance in church.
Can’t deny churches were targeted too.
Churches went along with it. If there was ever a time to excercise the separation between church and state, it was during the COVID hysteria.
Amen. A thousand times, amen.
Not separation between church and state. The churches should have ROSE AGAINST THIS. They did nothing and handed their congregations over like sheep to the slaughter. They brought in critical race theory and shamed their congregations for the skin the Lord gave them. They demanded we bow the knee to others than the Lord, because if you were teaching CHRIST… none of the social hyperbole matters! But what do you expect from Mike Pence’s Indiana mega church? Disgusting. “Biblical Citizenship” speaks clearly as to what the roles of the Christians should have been and what the American public’s roles NEED TO BE.
Yes, churches should have risen against locking down. Of all places!! I was adrift looking for a new church when the Methodist left me in 2018. Come covid, the church that started holding services in a little league ball field got my attention and respect. It’s my church now, and they have a building but in good weather hit the field. 😎
Agreed.
It was an opportunity for everyone to understand the 501c designation and rid their fellowship of it.
Instead, the ‘church’enthusiastically obeyed the tormentors.
Small matter really, since the ‘church’ hasn’t been about genuine Christianity for a few decades now.
Agree with you that the church left Christianity. The pain and anguish caused to so many of our elders and their families who were abandoned by the “leaders” of their congregations at their time of greatest need, spefically the dying, should never be forgotten. Returning to business as usual is what brought us to where we are.
The attitude and words of Hillary “At this point, what difference does it make?” has become all too familiar behavior.
With all due respect, churches didn’t help themselves during this hoax. Their utter complicity was disgusting. During a time where the flock needed spiritual nourishment more than ever, they cowered behind the tyrants. IMO, many parishioners walked away. I know I did.
Lost some faith in the organizations. Home church makes more sense than ever before.
For wherever two or three are gathered in my name. . . .
Home church for the win!!
Something to consider… The context of the “two or three” in Matt 18 is the victim and his “one or two” witnesses (a party of two or three). It may be taking that verse out of context to apply that to what best fits God’s plan. We need each other.
Individual Christians have been absolute Godsends in my life (and I mean that as literally as possible) but not once ever has any organized Church done anything for us when we needed help.
Keep looking until you find a real church.
Also, consider that it is also about what you can bring for others. They need you.
My elderly folks and others in the congregation, plus all the ‘shut-ins’ were abandoned when the COVID cr@p started. NO pastoral contact – no pushback against the restrictions on religious freedoms either, just “compliance”. Once in-person services were finally allowed, the church was jumping through all the “reservations” hoops, etc. with very limited attendance (50/service with hundreds of members unable to attend once the service was “full”) ….. many of the older folks couldn’t make online reservations. One elderly lady (former pastor’s wife) would just show up & demand to be seated – she told friends “I dare them not to seat me!” She got seated every time (good for her!!).
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Anyway, my SIL’s father was dying (on hospice) – not one visit until a former retired pastor just happened to move back to the area & seeing the situation, took on ‘visitation’ – he was appalled that no one was being visited, receiving Communion, etc. His first visit/Communion with my SIL’s father was also the last – the father died the next day … the same happened with another elderly church member ….. the need for pastoral care was dire, so this pastor feels like he was ‘called’ back to the area to fill this need.
I know things could have been handled differently & in a way to meet the needs of church members – the one thing people needed more than ever, was their church ‘family’ & to have their faith nourished, strengthened & supported. As an example of ‘doing it differently’, my niece’s pastor worked himself to the bone, making visits, bringing Communion, staying in contact with all of his flock – he was a true ‘shepherd’ to his church through the difficult times.
As a result of the neglect/abandonment, I am now considering myself “unchurched” and my SIL/brother have walked away as well. A lot of the really old folks died during the time when church was “unavailable” due to COVID policies. Our DemonRat governor was finally replaced by a Republican who did away with a lot of the cr@p so that loosened things up, but the church is not the same. My folks will never go back – in the two years of COVID, my dad has lost his mobility and cannot go back and mom stays home with him. My niece’s pastor, the ‘good shepherd’ has online services and that is where I spend my Sunday mornings – if closer, I would attend services in person. My brother/SIL would attend there as well – they are still looking for another church that is local (they found one they like at the beach 3 hours away & attend when they are there). To close, during a trip on a country road, there was a small church with the old timey signboard (not an electronic one). The message was “We will NEVER close our church doors again”. ………
One more thing ….. the retired pastor who moved back0 to the area & started visiting elderly, shut-ins, dying ….. he did not let COVID stop him because he said he always thought of Jesus, touching the leper and applied this to his own ministry. He almost broke down in tears when he was saying this. We feel God called him back to this area ….. he believes it as well.
Mathew 8:3
Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately he was cleansed of his leprosy.
I was done with churchianity long before that.
What the groveling compliance got , was my wife leaving her church.
I attended with her, but would never join. She went 2 times and had to wear a mask.
The preacher asked her why I wasn’t coming anymore.
She told him, he won’t go into a liquor store if they make him wear a mask. Why would he come here where he should even be asked to ?
Then she understood everything that I had been telling her for years about the ‘church’.
Jesus is my Lord and Saviour.
This is not his bride.
I have a cousin who is an Episcopal minister.. Just yesterday she told me that they have gained congregants after outdoor services,,, walk bys she called them. But, that is probably not typical..
My core revolts when I hear, “stay safe.”
Many, many small restaurants (and some large ones that had been around for a LONG time) were operating at the edge of insolvency when the plandemic hit. They closed down, never to reopen, and many of their storefronts are vacant still. Unfortunately they will never come back.
All part of the plan… Now gas at $4/5 (plus) gal to finish us off!!! Oh wait, “monkey pox” geezzzzzz – Anyone who doesn’t get it by now is a freakin idiot…
Dr offices still require it and hospitals too in Central California. Still see about 30% of people in Costco and other stores still wearing masks like hood little sheep. Me, I’m done with it, they can stick their mask mandates up their arse!
I’m in San Diego. Still a ton of mask wearing sheep down here. I just shake my head.
Bonnie Blue…: Same up in LA. We’ve gone backwards.
We still have morons over here alone in their cars masked…
I recently stopped at a rest stop in Alabama. Going into the facility, there are foot operated hand sanitizer dispensers by the doors. I wonder how much the taxpayers of AL got hit for these devices. They are dispensing HAND SANITIZER. Why on earth does it require a no touch foot operation?
That is to stop them from licking the glass.
In The OC I see some wearing masks… we went to Costco and The Home Depot today and I’d say about 10% were wearing masks… but I must say that they are either doofoos or just playing the game… because I saw a few with the mask under their nose.
And quite a few with the mask down around their neck…as if they are finally coming around.
We didn’t wear a mask.
True story. The other day I saw a guy shopping who was double masked… and both were pulled under his nose. Why?
Here in northern New England it’s one in a million wearing a mask. The pandemic is dead (finally).
I went to my Dermatologist last week and masks were gone, except for a few hangers on.
I recently saw a GI doctor and he not only wears a mask, but a face shield. It got me thinking that this man, who is purportedly educated– a Doctor, for God’s sake– and he STILL lives in a bubble….
Here in NC (Wake cty) pretty much done with masks… just a few (so I decided they have health issues) still mask up..
Personally, I never masked up – only few times at docs office. Ugh!
When I went to my ear doctor back in September of 2021 they didn’t say a thing about me not wearing a mask. My visit last week they were not only requiring a mask but giving them out if you didn’t have one. And they were being really strict about it. I didn’t ask why the sudden change but figured maybe someone in the office got a bad case of Covid and they were afraid of getting sued or something.
LOL
That commentary proves the old adage about the ‘pebble in the shoe’ being more important than actual important things.
The ‘pebble in the shoe’ is also still the cheapest form of birth control on earth. It’ll make one limp.
OK, that is a case of very weak humor.
I have been in a hotel the last 4 days and no daily cleaning service is offered anymore. I am not happy about it and plan to start only giving my money to hotels who clean everyday.
LKAinLA: Soon, guests will need to bring their own sheets and towels.
With the bed bug issue, that might not be a bad idea anyway. And God alone knows what’s on the duvet covers.
Yep! This is what hotels have become: filthy!
How is it that skipping the daily cleaning is going
to help stop the spread of any illness??
More likely it’s due to lack of cleaning help. Covid is just an excuse.
I actually prefer no housekeeping services, if I’m only staying a few nights…..then I know nobody’s going through my stuff.
Good luck with that. In the past 2 1/2 years I have not stayed in a single hotel that will clean your room every day – supposedly “for your protection.” It’s a lot cheaper for the hotel as they don’t need as many maids. If you want towels, toiletries, etc., you call the front desk and then have to go down there to pick them up. When this first started they claimed it was “for the environment” but then it was all about COVID. It’s really just about the bottom line.
Our church is back to having potluck meals here in SE Wisconsin!
Easter Breakfast buffet made a welcome return this year!
Now would be a good time to talk with your pastor and have him commit to his congregation that he will NEVER shut the doors again.
This is how they advance their agenda. They capture us, abuse us and then we are sooooo happy to get a bit back. They win if we don’t hold them accountable.
Now would be a good time to educate him about the evil of lbj’s 501c3 deal.
Which makes them answer to the government, rather than God.
SE Wisconsin! Kettle moraine country.
The self-checkouts I like are the grocery stores and Costco. I don’t like waiting on checkers while they chit chat with the box person or whoever, AND they did away with training employees how to properly pack groceries! I am anal about it and pack my own to avoid irritation.
However, I will not use any food ordering machine, not that I eat out anymore, because I don’t.
Better than waiting for 20 minutes until “Hi, my name is Cheyenne and I’m your server tonight” shows up.
I don’t mind self-chcks, most of the time anyway because my time is better spent in ways other than waiting for checkers and waitresses.
Depends on the type of restaurant you go to.
We only go to good places…. unfortunately some of our favorite places shut down… so we’re doing a lot of cooking.
I complain that my wife hasn’t taken me out for dinner for quite a while. 😛 But we do have a Viking stove, so we cook pretty good meals.
Oh, Costco self checkout.. no alcohol allowed… pfffft… how can you go to Costco and not buy some wine, at the very least?
The wife and I loved our 3 martini lunches. Now all of our favorite places open at 5pm: no more lunches.
At a Lowe’s here in western Maine, no open check out lines in the times we’ve been there over the past two weeks. Only checkout has been self checkout. At this Lowe’s, they have 4 SCO terminals, and the area has had 2 or 3 “associates” in place to give aid and comfort to all those trying to complete a purchase.
In almost every town, even small ones, there is a local lumber yard, plumbing supply or electrical supply. They serve everyone, but that is where the contractors go. You go in with your list, sit at a counter and tell them what you want. They will write up a ticket and then bring everything to you or send you out on the yard where someone will help you load. The items are usually a better grade, particularly at the basic level, and the prices will be the same or better. In the ones in my small town, the Covid stuff lasted only as long as the government mandates. Try it. You may find you like it. If you need to go the the big box place to look around, go there to make your lists.
I prefer self checkouts in grocery and other stores. I hate waiting in line listening to cashiers whine about how long it’s been since their last break. I’d rather check myself out, bag my own stuff and get on my way.
Bezerkeley, CA is bringing back the indoor mask mandate. Here we go again y’all. People are done with it, I see a lot of people walking into stores without it and reduced enforcement. They went through this song and dance BS two years ago and I don’t see a lot of business owners and patrons complying. Not a good time to be a health department enforcement officer.
Saw a vid of a recent children’s Piano Recital fr/ that area.
All of the young kids wore masks while they played piano on stage, probably at least 15- 20 feet fr/ the audience.
Pretty sad to see that. And very surprised that they didn’t *seem* distracted by the mask while playing.
We’re talking 6 YO’s thru teens here.
In contrast, went to a Middle School orientation a few weeks back in N FL. Hundreds of kids running around, crammed together. Not one mask. Felt very normal.
Many adult neighbors are still not getting together indoors as much as they used to, tho. I think that will change eventually.
I am still kind of freaked about being indoors w/ vaxxed people. Or even too close to them outside.
Wish they had never pushed the vax on children. Some of my favorites got jabbed.
I need to get over my “fear” of the vaxxed. That’s my problem to fix.
Pity the vexxed. But gotta admit I like “social distancing” in public. We used to call it respect for personal space.
Any young kid playing, the piano while masked and ripping it off would have received a standing ovation from me!
We have restaurants and refuse to install “order stations” (IPad units) at our tables. You are there to relax and enjoy a nice meal. We are there to serve you. Simple.
What are your places’ names and locations–will patronize if in the area.
Way before Covid, I noticed doctors offices and urgent cares using iPad-type kiosks for patients to check themselves in.
So.. every person in there is sick enough to see a doctor but all must touch the same gross computer screens and keypads to “check-in?” cough cough
Way to share your germs, people.. What a bunch of “maroons” who dreamed up this stuff!
I remember the game show host Pat Sajak describing his trip to Russia during the cold war.
He described the quality of the food. It was not over-cooked or under-cooked.
It was like “what is this blue stuff?”.
If you accept the leftist concept of food distribution or economics, you are accepting their concept of “blue stuff” as food.
I guess to match their hair.
I use the self checkout out some times if I can see I got a couple of items and I can get out faster…
…but my take is that unless they pay me to do the job of a cashier or give me a 20% discount, I’m not doing no self check out. And sometimes, if the manager is only keeping ONE lane opened with a cashier, I’ll go the self checkout, act like I have no clue and have them do it all for me… 😉
I have also walked out… gone to the manager, given him/her my putative purchase and told him I was no coming back.
My favorite store, the local Ganahl’s Lumber, doesn’t do masks… hasn’t done masks since last summer.
What I have noticed is that FOB Asians tend to be the most mask wearing people… most long term and native Americans don’t do masks much anymore…
Wherever you are now, Tony, I am in Toronto, and yes, Asians seem the most likely to wear masks, even outdoors.
On this past Friday, I grew frustrated with a bad driver who couldn’t stay in his lane. J pulled alongside, and it was an elderly Asian man, wearing a mask while driving alone. Sorry for all the stereotypes..
I visited Tokyo a couple years prior to the Covid PLANdemic. All the Japanese wore masks in Tokyo. They are already conditioned.
At self checkout all peppers are jalapenos, all tomatoes are Romas, and all green herbs are 1 bunch of parsley or cilantro. Voila! You’ve been compensated for checking yourself out.
None in our Amish community followed mandates. And they were never confronted or refused service. I got in line behind them.
We bought a lot of produce from our Amish neighbors. They were Covid Restriction Free zones. BTW, Covid tore through the Amish communities quickly. The typical percentage of about 1% high risk did not make it. Just like everyone else.
At least eighty percent of that 1 % at “high risk” could have made it through with *early* therapeutics like HCQ, Zinc and Vitamins. They died of medical malfeasance, not Covid.
Ditto. The other day, walking the St George St tourist area of downtown St Augustine, I could not help but notice and point out to the lil lady that the five, count them, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 mask wearers we encountered were all Asian and only one was elderly.
I understand the fear instilled in the elderly even if I would be considered the same and reject it. However, for the younger than 60-65 larger group I have no tolerance for their abject idiocy.
I simply refuse to do business with or go to healthcare visits with any business or provider that still honor the scamdemic with such things as social distancing, masks etc.
This has been inconvenient at times and has required me to leave healthcare practitioners I have had for decades. Sadly, most of the “patriots” I know as well as all my immediate and beyond family members except my son and his family, just can’t be inconvenienced in the slightest and thus give in to all of the scamdemic—-including getting the killer shots.
The punk and New Wave night clubs in Hollywood (*) and The OC are not coming back.
I feel really sad for these generations, not to have the opportunity to get drunk, watch the body slammers, pick up some nice looking punkette señoritas and have a good time under 110 db “music”.
(*) OK, that was in the early 80s…
I’m in my 70s. I experienced something miraculous today. Waiting with my full grocery cart outside a store today to let some pedestrians pass, I saw a young 30-ish man apparently taking a photo of our gray sky (beautiful overcast day in So. California). I laughed and blurted out: “So, you’re documenting California sometimes has a gray sky?” He laughed and smiled. As he passed me, he gently put his hand on my shoulder and gave it a squeeze. I thought that brief connection between strangers was very special and precious. I feel we ARE coming OUT of this insane time. We stopped having interactions quite a while ago.
great post, Eliz. Thank you.
Some hopeful news out of CA. !!!
Ever since my single days when I was very lonely, I refuse to use self-checkout if I can help it. I remember the checkout person being the only one I might have a conversation with on weekends.
I actually get annoyed when Walmart type stores don’t have self check out available. I find it to be quicker and easier.
On the other hand I hate using my phone to order in any way. I want a physical menu. I would be open to using a tablet to order if the restaurant has one at the table but think waiters are still better(despite my own hatred of actually doing that in the past).
I despise cashless situations and most businesses who do it will lose my business completely. You have to be pretty special(ie Gorge Amphitheater/Red Rocks) for me to still continue with the business going cashless.
When I told my mask-enforcing dentist that I refused to pretend that the naked emperor is wearing clothes and would therefore have to find another dentist, he worked out an accommodation for me. My long-time hair stylist also accommodated me when I said I could not return if required to wear a mask. We don’t have to be unpleasant about it, but we do have to be willing to walk out of the store or give up the service provider we’ve been going to for decades.
In both cases, I was not threatening or using a ploy. I simply stated what I would not do, and meant it.
Good for you, Kay! I am with you on this.
I walked out of an eyewear store recently because the greeter attempted to hand me a paper mask and was insistent that I wear it. I remained friendly and polite but explained that while the store can make-up whatever rules they wish, I don’t wear a mask under any conditions—and because I get to choose where I spend my money—I would be spending my money elsewhere. Then I drove down the road three blocks, entered another eyewear store, and spent my $359 mask-free.
I don’t understand why others are reluctant, afraid, etc. to stand their ground. If it’s inconvenient, isn’t it worth a little inconvenience to have the freedom to be true to yourself???
Here in Carroll County MD, our local supermarket has for years had the best self-checkout process on Earth. Customers scan each item as they take it from the shelf and bag it in their carts. When done shopping, the customer simply pays for the order and immediately rolls his cart out the door with his items already bagged. It’s the fastest, simplest shopping ever.
Similar to the Sam’s Club app. Very convenient and efficient–if only they’d allow liquor purchases with it. Don’t see why they couldn’t allow me to scan my DL, just like they’ll do after waiting 20 minutes to get to a cashier.
I do use self checkout, but it’s because I used to be a cashier and I like checking myself out. I haven’t experienced the plexiglass and app ordering at restaurants, thankfully my area never did that. I do enjoy curbside pickup for my groceries, but its because I have 2 toddlers and I’m pregnant (so much easier). Some of the changes are convenient, but I do miss the connection part. We do a lot of social stuff as a family though, so I think it evens out. I worry about the people who rely in social media for their connections. Those are the people lacking the most!
Worked in a grocery store as a teenager (40 years ago); because of that, always prefer to bag my own groceries. 😁
Self checkout is to eliminate a stores highest cost…it’s employees. They will still bake that cost in if they got rid of all of them.
Never use self checkout unless something small and quick.
Patience is not one of my virtues, but I won’t use self checkout either. I am disappointed my Publix put some in. So far, they are still opening registers when lines form.
The worse is the Publix deli, the sandwhich shop is their priority so you stand and wait to get lunchmeat. the larger stores have the precut in a cooler but I live near the beach and the small stores don’t have it.
I get a little frustrated because I am a regular customer and the beach folks who are there occasionally are their priority. I talked with the deli manager who is a nice lady and she told me she cannot get any help. this seems to be the problem in my area.
The manager also told me that most of their orders are online , I told her the priority should be to the customer who is standing there for 15 minutes.
Small purchases are the only reason for self checkout. I can’t stand to see someone with a full cart in the self checkout area. It’s no different than the rude guy with30 items in the 10 items or less express lane.
How about the impatient person who starts scanning their items and sending them down the belt when you’re still bagging your groceries?
I try to scan a few, then bag them, scan a few more, then bag those, etc., so by the time I am paying the bill, everything is already bagged.
Only problem is that pesky voice that keeps saying, “If you are finished scanning, please press finish and pay.
“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.”
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I’m an independent contractor who works with a VA Medical Center & Clinics, and THEY STILL REQUIRE MASKS that are proven to be totally ineffective.
I went to a Surgery Center recently to see if I could schedule a screening colonoscopy, and (1) I had to return to my car to get a required mask; (2) they made me wait between the first & second automated doors while another person spoke with the receptionist; and (3) they made patients scan their temperatures on some automated thermometer device.
I would have just walked away from the idiocy, but since the DogEater intentionally destroyed the U.S. Health Care system (formerly, the greatest in the world) and they’re scheduling people SIX MONTHS OUT as a result — and have decided to just pay cash since the insurance is obscene — I decided to stay and give it a shot.
Many people had to put off those screenings and some died because of that. I was behind schedule but mine is coming up too. Some things you just cannot walk out the door and tell them you aren’t coming back. Prayers that yours turns out well.
We’re gonna need
#twoweeks#twothousandweeks to flatten the Monkeypox curve and elections will have to be indefinitely suspended. Thank you for your cooperation …The idea of using a smartphone to order in a restaurant is a non-starter with me. I don’t have one. Call me a dinosaur, but there it is. Narrowing my life down to a 4 inch screen would be positively claustrophobic.
I stubbornly refuse to purchase a smart phone. People think I must be old or inept at using one, but it’s neither.
A few restaurants started this in my area but we do have an older clientele so they dropped it.
Ive noticed businesses trying to force me to use their QR Code BS. I always decline.
I hate that! My phone doesn’t scan QR codes. When I say that, the employee looks at me like I have 2 heads.
Sundance and others …
Monkey Pox
Truth versus Fearporn.
-Robert W Malone MD, MS
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/monkey-pox?s=r
We’ve had self check-out options in the Netherlands for years before Covid. In supermarkets there are a bunch of hand scanners and you take one from the holder before entering the gate. Then you scan every item as you go and at the check out you hand in the scanner. It depends on the store how much human contact you have at the self check-out. The store where I often shop always has a person who checks you out. You hand in your scanner, check-out person asks you whether you managed to scan all and often the system tells them to do a spot check scanning of random items indicated by the system. You pay either with card or cash and off you go. It’s just sometimes convenient to use the self scan option and avoid the piling of goods onto the conveyor belt.
Some other stores have you interact with a machine only but there’s always an employee hanging out at the self-check-out in case people have problems with using the system. The stores using fully automated self-check-out systems tend to have throughput problems with their cashier check-outs. Either the store is huge and already has a dozen or so traditional check-outs but which have queues on all of them at busy hours with most of people with full shopping carts. Or they have a queue problem with no space to build extra traditional check-outs. They may also be unwilling to build extra manned check-outs as they have a low-cost concept and don’t want to have too many people sitting at the cash registers simultaneously combined with space issues. Or the throughput needed is simply too high to handle otherwise like at a Burger King at an airport or a minisupermarket at a train station where lots of people come to grab a few things on their way to a train with no time for queuing.
Working from home max. 2 days a week has since Covid become allowed at the company I work for. I like it because I get the best of both worlds. I get contact and interaction with my colleagues at the office when I am at the office. But I also get 2 days of working with less distractions from people popping in to ask me something. Plus I can have lunch together with my partner on a weekday as he works from home anyway. He’s an IT consultant and if he can get the customer to agree, he prefers working from home. Otherwise he’ll have 1.5-2.5 hour drives one way to the customer sites as he hardly ever has a project close to home. We have a room set up as home office and I actually have a better work station at home than in the office.
It’s not a bad thing to have these options as options to be freely chosen where they can give more flexibility and convenience as well as solve a real problem. But making them mandatory is a bad idea. Except for kiosk ordering at fast food restaurants in very busy locations where the alternative is to put a couple of people who currently are focusing on getting food ready and handed out to customers to share their time between ticking in orders and actually working on getting the food for the customers. They would be able to serve less customers who are pressed for time and can’t wait for long in lines. No kiosks could mean people will skip their burger as they can’t wait twice, first to order and then to get the food, or they’ll miss their train or flight.
I rebel against anything COVID related! I’ve switched eye doctors and primary care from hospital connected dr offices to smaller, private independent practices who do not force masks! I also do kit use self checkout for the same reasons Sundance stated. I do not wear a mask anywhere and boycotting any businesses that would require it!
Dehumanization makes it easier to kill millions of people that disagree with the State.
I don’t know, I’m actually liking self checkout. I’m the type that gets frustrated watching someone else doing the work.
At the supermarket checkout, where everyone is using their cellphones or an app to pay (even for a $5 purchase!), the checkout asks me how I’m going to pay. I always say ‘Cash. There is no reason for the government to know what I’m purchasing or when I was here’.
Makes me think of this.
Well I see a market for total human interaction. Businesses that support and encourage the human connection. We must stop supporting businesses, as much as we can, that support automation and start going to city parks instead.
This is not permanent.
The great war between Christendom and Globohomo will set things back to Christian norms.
In the meantime, be the civilized people on this planet and make your fellows grateful for all that is good in this world.
As the great Sam Gamgee stated, “There is some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it is worth fighting for”
Fight we are.
I only do self checkout, but that’s because I shop so early that the store doesn’t have a regular check out open.
More people have been killed and maimed by the clot Shot than the Covid escalated numbers. I have several more healthy friends in the hospital. One has been put in Hospice with liver cancer. She is one of the sweetest woman with 3 young children. Yet these scum are still hanging around. Where is Karma when you need it.
I think COVID was the excuse for a lot of changes they’d been dying to do. For instance, cash is no longer accepted at Citizens Bank Park (where the Phils play). And those self checkout lines. I think the work from home thing was a big screw up from their perspective as the commercial real estate market is on the verge of collapse. And it’s why the big banks are requiring their employees to return to the office. We converted our dining room to an actual office. My husband’s office is downtown but he rarely goes back in. The savings in gas and parking are huge.
The powers that be who orchestrated business shutdowns knew what they were doing. Now their friends can scoop up prime urban real estate bargains abandoned by a once thriving commercial real estate market.
They did the same thing to shutter the malls and downtown storefronts some years back, by using Amazon and other online shopping networks to bypass box stores. In this way, products are shipped directly from their warehouses without the expense of staffing multiple physical locations.
We’ve gone back to normal here in the UK with waiters/waitresses taking your order and check out operating normally but with the stupid plexiglass still up. That doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere soon though. Mind you, pre COVID self check out was a failure at Tesco’s and our local Lidle’s had to remove their self check out section because the population in our market town in Cambridgeshire refused to use them. We back to largely operating as normal but I don’t think it will take much for people to embrace COVID measures again at the slightest hint of another scamdemic.
One thing I have noticed is that health care is unobtainable and the near sanctity the NHS enjoyed during lockdown disappeared as lockdown supporters are now running into health problems they cannot get treated. I think they should be denied health care alltogether because they are the cause of the problem but there you go.
We love Chili’s. Their waitresses are using tablets at the table for their customers’ orders. For years, we’ve been using the little kiosk in the tables to pay. It’s just now dawned on me that eventually we’ll be using the kiosks for our orders too. 😟
I use self-checkout a lot due to speed, however, all those machines are wearing out. Many say “no cash”, or you have to swipe after putting your chip card in three times. The card CPUs are falling off the stand or the Scanner will not stay in its mount which is required to pay. Last week the store I was shopping at had three of the seven self-check machines out of order.
I went to Lowe’s yesterday, there was no human checkout open but there were two employees in the self-check area.
Never heard of the restaurants that ask you to order for yourself on an app either. I would never patronize that kind of place.
Was just at a restaurant last night with the family. There is an outdoor eating area on the side of the building where we were eating. While leaving their car, I saw a married couple (assumed by their wedding rings) keep their masks off while walking to the restaurant, put the masks on just before entering the restaurant, wore them while walking 25 feet through the restaurant to the side door to the outdoor eating area where they removed them. Why on earth would they put the masks on for the, literally, 7-10 seconds it took them to walk through the restaurant? But I’m also still seeing people driving alone with a mask on and walking alone outside on a 90+ degree day with a breeze with a mask on. The conditioning, which was one of the goals, really worked on some people and, it isn’t right to judge, but all I can assume is that they are weak-minded to have fallen for it.
I remember back when EZ pass started. Don’t get me wrong I like my EZ pass. During rollout I remember toll takes handing out flyers extolling the virtues of EZ pass blah blah blah. One day I stopped looked that toll taker right in the eye and said, “ handing out those flyers you are slitting your own throat, you won’t eventually have a job.” The look in their face was was utter shock of recognition that I was accurate. Today there are NO toll takers on PA Turnpike and other tolled bridges and highways.
As far as *interaction* with the person behind the counter, et al – I have avoided that as much as possible over many years! So this doesn’t bother me at all 🙂
I come from an era when a customer approaches, you pick up your head, say hello – how may I help you, and after whatever transaction is completed, a thank you and goodbye.. For the most part, that has been dead for years now.. So much so, that if you do get what I just described, you start *gushing* about how “very nice” the person who helped was… LOL
As a former cash register jockey, this is one of my pet peeves. Often I will confront the clerk with a “You’re welcome, I’m sure,” or I will patiently stand there and wait until they actually tell my how much my purchase costs. “I’d be glad to pay you, just as soon as you tell me how much.” Talk about getting some blank looks.
And don’t even get me started on making change….
Things I have rejected:
Any restaurant that wants me to use a kiosk or electronic device to order.
I won’t do self-checkout unless it’s one or two things.
This one is silly – but I deleted the emoji’s on my phone. Texting is bad enough – a staccato conversation easily misunderstood. Emoji’s that force me to choose an “emotion” to express myself.
Technology, is good for certain things, like tracking inventory for a large store. It’s not good when it begins to replace human interactions. The globalists foresee a future of “hacked humans” – half human/half computer – transhumanism. I reject that 100% and I won’t cooperate or support it. This is where someone like Elon Musk could make a real difference – reject the replacement of human interactions in full. Maybe that’s the real “replacement theory”.
I’ll add that “healthcare”, in my opinion, has collapsed. I had the strangest experience in a few months ago. The healthcare entity forces people to register online and you must “pick a body part” that is giving you trouble. If your issue(s) are systemic, that doesn’t work. When I arrived for my appointment, I was shuffled through various stations, and then someone tried to usher me into an x-ray room before I’d seen a doctor because according to the “body part” I was forced to select online, that area needed to be x-rayed. I refused and was told to sit back down and wait for the doctor. Finally, a nurse came to get me and said, “I see you refused your x-ray, is there a reason for that?” I tried to explain why I was there, but at that point I was frustrated. She point blank told me, “that’s not how we do it”, and cancelled my appointment right there. Exasperated I said, “No one is listening to me!” She apologized, but ushered me to the door. Wow.
I’ve heard from other people that they have to do everything online first, and then lucky if they get a “virtual appointment”. People are going to die if this continues. But that seems to be part of the plan.
Easier than ever to tell freemen from natural slaves. That’s all I’ve to say.
We had dinner reservations planned last night at one of the best and newest Italian restaurants in the area. Reservations are impossible but luckily we got one. Well yesterday morning one of their employees tested positive for Covid so they closed the restaurant and told everyone your reservation is canceled. All running scared and for the vaccine or flu shot or whatever the F#%K is was for, well never mind.
Remember when gas stations introduced self service and it was an option? Now self service is all there is. Nobody will fill your tank for you much less check your oil for you at a fueling stop.
…this is where self checkout is going. Sadly I believe the next generation will have no idea what it’s like to have someone else do your checkout.
The self-ordering and automated payments were there before Covid. Silicon Valley stands to gain a lot of money if these take permanent hold.
I know – I was part of that system. Good when unemployment is really low – but sucks now.
I always use humans.
TBCH, I’m quite happy to distance myself from many people out there.
I’ve always used self check. It’s faster.
Sundance wrote: “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.”
I have a flip-phone, talk and text only. No data. (Aside: my old 3G flip phone would no longer be supported, so I bought a 4G flip phone 😁)
Mrs. H.R. and I have been to a couple of restaurants where you are supposed to use your phone to get the menu, but so far, there is still waitstaff that comes and takes your order. My phone won’t scan the code and Mrs. H.R.’s phone somehow is never successful scanning the code. We gave up even trying.
Right off we just ask for a menu, and those restaurants have always had B&W plain copy paper menus; no pictures, just text and prices. Fine by me.
As is suggested here from time to time, be the sand in the gears. Don’t comply. Become ungovernable. By happenstance, we can’t comply. But even if we could, we will not comply.
Restaurants need us. We don’t need them. I have a frying pan and an oven and I know how to use them. 😉
You went the step further that I’m not willing to go. I was a smart phone hold out for many years (first one being in 2013 and it was pretty basic at that). Now I run a stripped down and customized phone that is mostly unable to run their stupid apps. Not that I would want to even if I could…So when I’m asked to install their nonsense or visit their online menu, I simply say no. I’ve only once ran into an issue where they had no way for me to view it. They lost my money.
You’re absolutely right and not alone, sand in the gears. The saying that the “customer is always right” wasn’t a statement on correctness, but on the fact that they’ll never give you their money if they must first admit they’re wrong. So YOU, being in need of a money to stay in business, do everything possible to ensure they’re right…especially when they’re wrong.
Modern businesses, especially the larger ones, have forgotten this fact because they’re Goliath and we’re David. It’s time we remind them the cost of fighting against the free market. Most companies can’t afford to loose 30% of their revenue. Are there simply not 30% left in this nation willing to stand? In my social group of a given size, it feels as though I’m in the 3%
We work, we spend, we consume, we save, we invest, we borrow, we pay taxes. Exercise some freedom. Suffer a little. Plenty of us have. Back in the 80’s I opined the best way to defeat an enemy is to destroy them economically then literally kill them.
That’s what the enemy is doing to us now. Those humans. Fortunately, we can talk about that here, how they’re taking us out.
Everyone goes to God.
We are systematically being replaced by a less willful and truly subjugated foreign mass..
This is the short version and I hope everyone at least reads this.
Replacement theory, which was concocted by a dem back in the 1920’s. And they think us righties are pushing it. Nope, we are WARNING others about it by mentioning it. Just listen to Tucker he is no fan of it. He is warning us this is part of the evil dems plans.
Yep. The UN spells it out here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130113131218/http://www.un.org:80/News/Press/docs/2000/20000317.dev2234.doc.html
He.moved his entire family to Maine, far away from the centers of power. Very prescient.
Not all of them. While we were sleeping, the 80s produced the first generation of brainwashed Americans in our public grammar schools. Those people are now the parents of the thoroughly brainwashed and “woken” Millennial and Gen Z children. This is due to the fact that our entire K-12 and beyond educational system is now being run by a couple of Marxist Labor Unions.
The idea of Public Sector Labor Unions was a creation of the real culprits, the Baby Boomers, and it immediately became obvious that this was a terrible idea for every child in America. Nothing was ever even mentioned about it until the third generation of American children to be brainwashed by the Collectivist clap trap of the Marxist political movement.
Too late, now. The brainwashed children now outnumber everyone else on the planet. Communism will spread until these kids discover what has been done to them. I would not bet that their real awakening will come way too late to matter.
The best way to destroy an enemy is economically, doubly so if they assist you in that goal via their greed. Ala China undercutting us.
Difference is, God isn’t limited by the walls of a bank account. I believe, by worldly standards, Christians are about to be the brokest of all. But by God’s and happiness standards we’ll be richer than kings.
When a 6 pack of tomatoes costs $12 and the average wage is like $20/hr…those of us with our own gardens will appear rich beyond measure.
I still love the movies from that time, and also many during the 90s. Today’s movies are way too dark. They’re corrosive, degrading, full of violence and degradation.
I’m still holding out and it becomes more and more difficult every day.
Great question, about c the 30% remaining in the US…Been wondering that myself.
Same here. I have a flip phone and won’t upgrade.
Me too.
Me too smart phones make me physically ill, literally so nope.
Ours are flip too.. $18.99 works well..
This isn’t about covid. This is simply a way to get access to your phone so they can send you a bunch of useless marketing. Even before covid, restaurants wanted your cell phone number so they could text you when your table was ready. I asked if they had pagers or could they come and get me in the bar and they said no. We said no, we’re leaving.
No idea of service. Pisses me off. Useless eaters.
I am very late to the discussion. I had to recently upgrade to a 4g flip phone and its a POCrap. Anymore, when I go to a place where there is 5G blasting I start feeling disoriented and it takes me the rest of the day to “get over it.” You couldn’t pay me to go near a “restaurant” where the food is irradiated by 5G. And you should see the lines in my grocery store where people refuse the “self check out Line.” I can tell you there are many people who seem to be willing to wait.
Don’t care if I’m not up with the “times.”
I’ve worked with computers most of my lifetime. About 20 years later when I was in grad school I learned that email was invented as a form of conversation between USA Defense Labs. Imagine AL Gore taking credit for the development of inventing the Internet? There’s a sucker born every minute. Or promotes themselves as one.
I can’t even comprehend relying on a hand held device BLASTING 5g around me every second of my life. Ever hear of WestonPrice? I’ve been a member for longer than I can remember.
I have ideas about what is true, only have hunches anymore. But did you know that Wuhan China was the first place on the planet that started using 5g back when the virus started? And the symptoms of 19 Coven are the same as radiation exposure? I put that pamphlet on hold as I do not know what to think.
I figure if a person cannot survive a day in their life without a handheld electronic device in their hand they are doomed.