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Well, I guess the peeps who want to go in with their tickets on their phones, and getting their faces scanned, and don't mind very uncertain public transportation to and from, will enjoy the game. The owners may wonder why they're having a hard filling the stadiums. Seems to me to be a formula for encouraging smaller venue local games.
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Hilariously awful that you had for reading material HEART OF DARKNESS.
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Thanks for sharing this essay. Your writing is a light in the darkness.
Wow. What a sobering and frankly depressing example of living during the demise of a society. We can see the destruction in real time and yet the masses are numb to it. Or too cowed to try to do anything about it.
I had read that the NFL was enacting facial recognition for ticket holders and I immediately thought, "And all the sheep will submit." I knew it was coming when I flew to Phoenix in 2021 for my only uncle's funeral--a healthy, active gentleman in his 70s, he "hit his head" while home alone and died suddenly--and the airport offered a fast pass through security if you'd let them scan your eyeballs. I figured that soon that would become mandatory and that was the last flight I'd be on. It's pretty demoralizing to watch your own nation crumble and remember what once was.
I’ve thought for a long time that we’d be okay if we just avoid big cities. Not true anymore…..they have exported their BS to the rest of the country and it appears there is no stopping it!
as of September 9 countries in Europe are starting with vaxx' passes. A friend is travelling to one in a few weeks and uncertain what is going on. Belgium, Germany, France, Luxemburg, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Latvia and Sweden, surprisingly. Have not been able to find out what consequences there will be for those unwilling to get these passes, or about people coming in or leaving the countries involved. God forbid that comes here, because I certainly won't want one !
Sorry about your uncle. In my circles, too, 2 previously healthy people died suddenly, one in 2021 in his bathroom, and another this year, 2023, on the street, when "they fell and hit their head." See, just amazingly, they fell, for some reason, and just amazingly, they hit their head just so, and therefore died instantly. "Freak accident." Really, that is what the bereaved were told. And the bereaved apparently believed it. No autopsies, of course.
The world we knew and used to live in will soon be a distant memory for many, and even as I type this, I have a sinking feeling that the zombies have already forgotten and we are in the foretold zombie apocalypse now. Parallel universe. So weird for us, as their reality has been superimposed over what seemed so solid, such a short time ago.
But yeah, these zombie folks are my longtime family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc. and it is exactly as you have noted on numerous occasions: "mistakes were made" and "I did my part" and "COVID is over" -- and I feel very much like their minds have been overwritten by new programming.
We have to keep the memory alive and find each other. I am pretty much giving up on the idea that I can wake anyone up, anymore.
So often I feel like I am living in an alternate universe…every once in a while, I’ll catch a glimpse of something familiar. I have found myself searching out “the familiar” like driving around my childhood neighborhood (looking at my childhood home and others, schools, restaurants, etc. that have been there forever) and yes, I still live in my hometown (never lived anywhere else). I find myself seeking music and movies that bring me back in time going over and over my precious memories as to not lose them. I will not lie…I have wept many a time at the thought of everything that was once familiar being erased. A couple days ago my youngest daughter (23 yrs.) went with me to pick up some chairs and I had to back into our garage…she made the comment that she didn’t know how we ever were able to back up (in the car) without the backup cameras lol…I said, we just did (there was no choice), but we had the review mirror and side mirrors and our eyes…didn’t seem so difficult. That made me think of all the ways in which we lived and survived without “modern” technology…it was actually pretty great! I even met my husband the “old fashioned” way…at a skating rink, LOL!!
Speechless 😶. So saddened Mark . I never made it back to Jersey. Turned into a cluster but the relative delivered in Princeton a few days ago . My brother said the delivery ward was empty and asked me , “ what happened to all the pregnant moms ?” I said “the jab causes infertility and the birth rate is down. “…… Silence 🤐 . Mark thanks for all your writings . 🤗
Great juxtaposition Mark!!! You show us just what "we" gave up out of fear, obedience, and a flight to safety. Didn't work did it? We now live in a broken, more dangerous world. And we probably deserve it.
Absolutely deserve it. Not me, probably not you or Mark -- obviously -- but thanks to the cowards, the obedient, the passive -- we did and will continue to suffer. Such schmucks.
as always, the good suffer together with the 'bad'. Just like the whole class was punished in school for something 2 or 3 did... unjust, but that is how it is!
Oh that clown costume line! You are my people, Mark. I was just sitting here thinking about how much life has changed in such a strangely short period of time. The world of scalpers and high fives and less blue hair and piercings was a better place. That former reality seemed so rich and robust and ended up being fragile. It’s shocking.
I live in a red state in a fairly rural area...not a major metro. The home improvement store (national chain) has a security system at the main entrance where you're video'd as u walk in. You can see the image on a TV screen up on a the wall. The system drops a yellow box over your face and captures your image. Apparently they need that in order for me to buy a weed whacker or a couple bags of mulch.
Struck me how deeply embedded this stuff has become given its accepted by all customers in a place that is pretty damn conservative politically and a store where people go who do things with their own two hands.
But it's for your own protection! What if a crazy person wanted to come in the store and shoot it up? The computers will save us! LOL. They'll use any excuse to monitor and control.
Yes the same here in Florida. If you want to use the self check out at Publix, they take your picture. I stopped doing that and will be inconvenienced by waiting for a human checker to be available. Not a big inconvenience, but many will just add their faces to Big Information out of impatience.
The CCP has been controlling our nation for decades now. The Biden family alone has made hundreds of millions to sell out this country. Many GOP as well.
Insomnia again tonight, got up around 3 and got on Instagram, saw Spike Cohen had posted a video of Secret Service agents breaking into a hair salon across the street from where Kamala was speaking, taped over the Ring security camera, and proceeded to use the bathroom, not cleaning up after themselves. And they left the door open, so the alarm sounded for the better part of two hours thereafter. Once the government gets away with commandeering people's bodies for the "greater good", obviously homes and businesses are fair game.
You will not be surprised to learn that they then retracted that and said "you cannot prove it was Secret Service so go pound sand". I wish I were making this up, but I am not.
Bedford Falls has become Pottersville. All in the blink of an eye. Thank you for having the vision, the voice, and the courage to write about the change. Perspective and context are fast being cancelled. This is evident through the hoaxes being promulgated at the highest levels of our government, through lawfare, and through assassination attempts. Grifts are now part of the government compact: Ukraine is little more than an artificial “national interest” for the sake of selling hundreds of billions in weapons and reconstruction contracts. Millions have died. “Putin invaded Ukraine” is analogous to the yellow journalism used by Hearst to sell papers during the fake “sinking of the Maine” that started the Spanish American War. The Covid war against citizens will appear again, this time as the M-pox or Bird flu, or some other such lab concoction. We are experiencing a Kafka-esque rendering of the oligarchic produced Madison Avenue hit “1984 meets Brave New World while Atlas Shrugged.”
Mark, while reading this I could feel my facial muscles tensing in sympathy. Your tale mirrors life in my part of the UK - failing infrastructure and the only possible remedy seems to be an increase in prices for poorer service. Nothing works and the powers that be couldn’t care less. You were fortunate to locate conductors - our experience is that management here are never available to the public but hide in their offices, afraid to face their irate customers.
That's the most Atlas-is-shrugging thing I've read all year.
It's been my contention since day one that people need to learn how to say "no" early and often. So many pathologies you see in the world today exist because decades ago, cowards wouldn't say "no" when it would have been socially cheap and easy to do it. Now it's expensive AF and it's going to get way worse before the bullshit ends.
..."This new arrangement wouldn’t work for me. I don’t carry a phone."...That is an excellent choice. I will avoid carrying mine quite often. And no more stadiums for picture taking by these thugs.
You are witnessing the beginnings of the breakdown of society there in the democrat/socialist utopia you live in. Stand back and take a look around you and wonder if you might decide that it's time. Time to abandon the familiarity of what you've grown up with in favor of moving to a place with fewer people and the bureaucracies that develop to rule over them.
Serious question, where is that? I have a friend in West Virginia which I assumed might be one of those places. But according to him, not so much. The "do-gooders" (i.e. control types) seem to be everywhere.
I live 150 miles from the coast of Maine. 40 miles from the nearest stop light and it's getting .........not crowded.........but, invaded by people that have come here to own their little bit of heaven, bringing their city ways with them. I don't know where I'll go, but having traveled to the NY metroplex more times than I can remember, I would classify it as "uninhabitable".
It used to be that our hard winters kept the "flatlanders" away, but that has somehow changed. And not by global warming.
The tipping point came when the National Park Service came in and took 80,000 acres of industrial timberland (that we had nearly unfettered access to) to establish a National Monument when all of the notable features have been protected by the state for decades.
That designation triggered a tsunami of city people moving here to build their McMansion dream castles and get involved in local politics. Retired no jobs no kids, and the people coming to work in the natmon are transient at best. Not much to build a vibrant community on.
The local high school graduated 21 people this year.
Thank you Mark. My husband and I were having “issues” about the telephone company’s wish to switch our services to 5G. We live in an old house with previous renovations, and switching to Ethernet will be more or less complicated. To explain to him why I was so adamant that we convert to Ethernet, I read your article to him. Peace has been restored. He gets it now.
Several of my co-workers at the department store are still wearing masks. It has to be terrible- We do tons of walking and moving, etc.
I took my 92 year old mother to the doctor recently. My mom and I were not wearing masks but the PA was wearing one. She could tell we were having a hard time understanding what she was saying so she said: Would it be better if I removed my mask? I said: Yes! I felt so bad for her. I know they make her wear that. I'm sure she would love to go back to the way things were.
Maybe that's a way to get mask wearers to realize they don't need to wear it. Just tell them you can't understand what they're saying. Hopefully they will eventually get frustrated and see the foolishness of wearing one!
I live in a small city on the gulf coast of florida. we are having a primary election which will include new hospital board members. During covid, the hospital adhered to the draconian non treatment protocol except for remdesivir and vents. Our esteemed florida surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo has recommended that all hospitals include on their website, a statement explaining the risks of vax. He has recommended discontinuing its use statewide. Our medical freedom board representative, Victor Rohe, proposed a resolution to include that information and warning on the hospital website. None of the traditional, so -called conservative candidates have endorsed the proposed resolution. We do have four authentic medical freedom candidates: Rosenwein, Guffanti, O’ Neill and Parus. They have a snowball’s chance in hell getting in based on the lies, big mo ey, and ignorance of the significance of this issue. Our supposed conservative columnist in our small local paper, Matt Walsh ( not the same as the journalist famous for speaking at board of ed meetings) has stated that covid is over, get over it, it is not an issue now. I write this to remind people that although the virus has mutated milder, the danger of sweeping the policies of those three years under the rug is as signifiant as ever. Two renowned doctors, Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory had their certifications revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine for prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. The persecution and lies continue. Do not comply!
Bless Guffanti especially for his efforts. His testimony on the madness in the hospitals was among the first I encountered. And he made the point that it would be very important to get doctors and nurses on the hospital boards. Here goes:
Kissimmee, FL Press Conference: Your Story Counts — The Untold Atrocities of COVID-19
DR. STEPHEN GUFFANTI: OK. I'm Dr. Stephen Guffanti. I was minding my own business. I'm an emergency room doctor so my job is to find people who are dying and stop that. And I was admitted to the hospital with covid 10 days after I contracted it, which means I was no longer contagious. My doctor told me I was no longer contagious, but he had no explanation for why I was in isolation or why I was getting remdesivir, which is an anti-viral evidently used in this protocol.
The fact that my doctor could not explain his treatment plan meant that it was not his treatment plan. So whoever's pulling the strings, it was not the MD whose name was on the order.
So this young man [indicates a photograph], 20 years younger than me, a marathon runner, became my roommate. And I watched him get sicker and sicker. Now I'm an ER doc with my own two cents in the 80s, but I can recognize when somebody's, you know, having a hard time breathing. So I grabbed my IV pull, I went over to him, I tested his inspiration volume, and he's running on one fourth of a lung, and I say to him, Keith! Why are you so sick? And he says, I don't know. I said, Do you want me to be your patient advocate? He said, sure.
So I go to the nurse, I say, I'm his patient advocate, let's take a look at his lab. The guy's got a bacterial pneumonia for the last 4 days and nobody's giving him any antibiotics! They're not even working him up! They're just watching his pneumonia get worse, watching his white count go up, and they're doing nothing!
So I say, well, the doctor's probably missed this pneumonia. Even though he's the one that ordered the lab! So let's talk to the doctor. Twelve hours later they still would not talk to the doctor. Keith is now looking like this [indicating photograph]. He's drowning in pus and I say to the night nurse, this man needs to see his doctor. She would not tell us who his doctor was.
I got an infectious disease doc on the phone at 3 in the morning because in the emergency room you're allowed to do that. So I did that. And they wouldn't tell the infectious disease doc which of his colleagues was taking care of this guy.
They tied me to my bed and they put me in isolation. And the only reason I can have for them doing that to an MD who is on the spot—- right—- in medical protocol the MD who is at the bedside has priority over the nurses and any of the other, you know, personnel. The only doctor that could have had protocol over me would have been the patient's doctor—- if he showed up at the bedside.
Well, I got tied to my bed. I got put in isolation. I was [inaudible] even though I told them, you know, you don't have to do any of this, I'll sign out AMA [against medical advice]. They wouldn't let me sign out AMA. Finally, some doc came by and said, Why are you here? I said, I'm being held against my will. He released me and let me go home.
When I left that hospital my oxygen saturation was 81. Normal oxygen saturation is between 95 and 100, and if you've got normal lungs and you hold your breath you will never break it down below 90. You'd be lucky to break it down below 95. So my lungs were really damaged. Turned out I had a bronchitis. I started treating myself, I went and got some oxygen and then — [indicating photo] This happens to be a FaceBook post done at 3 in the morning. The other FaceBook post I did was the last nurse walking out on the patient that he desperately needed.
That got me here because for some odd reason people think if you're a retired doctor and you've had covid, you know how to treat it. So I talked to Dr. Littell,[1] I don't know, about a month after I got out, and I just started picking his brain.
All I'm telling you is this is not real medicine. Medicine does not give mandates. We give advice. Whenever you hear medicine mandate, that's not doctors, that's the government. And I've had patients worse than me that I've brought oxygen to and given them Ivermectin and given them high-dose Vitamin C. And now there's this wave of long-haul covid.
If you take anything from my story, understand this: The hospital has become a jail. Based on the nurses reaction, the doctor is not in charge, and 6 nurses willing to abandon a patient drowning in pus means that this is a systemic problem.
So what have I done? You know, I'm an ER doc so I do whatever it takes. I have replaced half the hospital board. [Inaudible] is the fifth board member. If I get [inaudible] on Sarasota Memorial Hospital's board we can do an investigation into what laws created this chaos.
Now, you're probably not from Sarasota. But out of the 67 counties in Florida, 21 of them have elected hospital boards. So if you belong to a county that has that I highly recommend you go to the board and find out who's going to listen and who's not.
I went of course to doctors and nurses to get on the board because if you get a businessman on the board he has no clue what you're talking about when you talk medicine. We had a guy on the board for 20 years, we asked him, what's informed consent? And he had no idea. Can you imagine being on a hospital board and not knowing what informed consent is?
I've probably talked more than my 3 minutes. Thank you very much for coming here and telling your stories.
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Well, I guess the peeps who want to go in with their tickets on their phones, and getting their faces scanned, and don't mind very uncertain public transportation to and from, will enjoy the game. The owners may wonder why they're having a hard filling the stadiums. Seems to me to be a formula for encouraging smaller venue local games.
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Hilariously awful that you had for reading material HEART OF DARKNESS.
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Thanks for sharing this essay. Your writing is a light in the darkness.
Wow. What a sobering and frankly depressing example of living during the demise of a society. We can see the destruction in real time and yet the masses are numb to it. Or too cowed to try to do anything about it.
I had read that the NFL was enacting facial recognition for ticket holders and I immediately thought, "And all the sheep will submit." I knew it was coming when I flew to Phoenix in 2021 for my only uncle's funeral--a healthy, active gentleman in his 70s, he "hit his head" while home alone and died suddenly--and the airport offered a fast pass through security if you'd let them scan your eyeballs. I figured that soon that would become mandatory and that was the last flight I'd be on. It's pretty demoralizing to watch your own nation crumble and remember what once was.
I’ve thought for a long time that we’d be okay if we just avoid big cities. Not true anymore…..they have exported their BS to the rest of the country and it appears there is no stopping it!
as of September 9 countries in Europe are starting with vaxx' passes. A friend is travelling to one in a few weeks and uncertain what is going on. Belgium, Germany, France, Luxemburg, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Latvia and Sweden, surprisingly. Have not been able to find out what consequences there will be for those unwilling to get these passes, or about people coming in or leaving the countries involved. God forbid that comes here, because I certainly won't want one !
Please post any sources for this here if you find one. This is scary. We are traveling to Germany, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovenia in October.
I believe it's not a pass for border control but a unified form of medical record. For now.....
Sorry about your uncle. In my circles, too, 2 previously healthy people died suddenly, one in 2021 in his bathroom, and another this year, 2023, on the street, when "they fell and hit their head." See, just amazingly, they fell, for some reason, and just amazingly, they hit their head just so, and therefore died instantly. "Freak accident." Really, that is what the bereaved were told. And the bereaved apparently believed it. No autopsies, of course.
The world we knew and used to live in will soon be a distant memory for many, and even as I type this, I have a sinking feeling that the zombies have already forgotten and we are in the foretold zombie apocalypse now. Parallel universe. So weird for us, as their reality has been superimposed over what seemed so solid, such a short time ago.
But yeah, these zombie folks are my longtime family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, etc. and it is exactly as you have noted on numerous occasions: "mistakes were made" and "I did my part" and "COVID is over" -- and I feel very much like their minds have been overwritten by new programming.
We have to keep the memory alive and find each other. I am pretty much giving up on the idea that I can wake anyone up, anymore.
Your last 2 sentences: yep.
So often I feel like I am living in an alternate universe…every once in a while, I’ll catch a glimpse of something familiar. I have found myself searching out “the familiar” like driving around my childhood neighborhood (looking at my childhood home and others, schools, restaurants, etc. that have been there forever) and yes, I still live in my hometown (never lived anywhere else). I find myself seeking music and movies that bring me back in time going over and over my precious memories as to not lose them. I will not lie…I have wept many a time at the thought of everything that was once familiar being erased. A couple days ago my youngest daughter (23 yrs.) went with me to pick up some chairs and I had to back into our garage…she made the comment that she didn’t know how we ever were able to back up (in the car) without the backup cameras lol…I said, we just did (there was no choice), but we had the review mirror and side mirrors and our eyes…didn’t seem so difficult. That made me think of all the ways in which we lived and survived without “modern” technology…it was actually pretty great! I even met my husband the “old fashioned” way…at a skating rink, LOL!!
Speechless 😶. So saddened Mark . I never made it back to Jersey. Turned into a cluster but the relative delivered in Princeton a few days ago . My brother said the delivery ward was empty and asked me , “ what happened to all the pregnant moms ?” I said “the jab causes infertility and the birth rate is down. “…… Silence 🤐 . Mark thanks for all your writings . 🤗
The silence is deafening, isn’t it Bro? 😢
If you believe the media, they’re all having abortions now. That splains it, it’s not the jab at all.
Great juxtaposition Mark!!! You show us just what "we" gave up out of fear, obedience, and a flight to safety. Didn't work did it? We now live in a broken, more dangerous world. And we probably deserve it.
Absolutely deserve it. Not me, probably not you or Mark -- obviously -- but thanks to the cowards, the obedient, the passive -- we did and will continue to suffer. Such schmucks.
as always, the good suffer together with the 'bad'. Just like the whole class was punished in school for something 2 or 3 did... unjust, but that is how it is!
Oh that clown costume line! You are my people, Mark. I was just sitting here thinking about how much life has changed in such a strangely short period of time. The world of scalpers and high fives and less blue hair and piercings was a better place. That former reality seemed so rich and robust and ended up being fragile. It’s shocking.
It seems mandatory that every female 20/30 something has to have a nose piercing…
I live in a red state in a fairly rural area...not a major metro. The home improvement store (national chain) has a security system at the main entrance where you're video'd as u walk in. You can see the image on a TV screen up on a the wall. The system drops a yellow box over your face and captures your image. Apparently they need that in order for me to buy a weed whacker or a couple bags of mulch.
Struck me how deeply embedded this stuff has become given its accepted by all customers in a place that is pretty damn conservative politically and a store where people go who do things with their own two hands.
But it's for your own protection! What if a crazy person wanted to come in the store and shoot it up? The computers will save us! LOL. They'll use any excuse to monitor and control.
Yes the same here in Florida. If you want to use the self check out at Publix, they take your picture. I stopped doing that and will be inconvenienced by waiting for a human checker to be available. Not a big inconvenience, but many will just add their faces to Big Information out of impatience.
I will never use self checkout. Human contact is important, as are those jobs.
At the Lowe’s near my house, it’s the only way to check out.
That's awful. Can you go somewhere else?
The CCP has been controlling our nation for decades now. The Biden family alone has made hundreds of millions to sell out this country. Many GOP as well.
Insomnia again tonight, got up around 3 and got on Instagram, saw Spike Cohen had posted a video of Secret Service agents breaking into a hair salon across the street from where Kamala was speaking, taped over the Ring security camera, and proceeded to use the bathroom, not cleaning up after themselves. And they left the door open, so the alarm sounded for the better part of two hours thereafter. Once the government gets away with commandeering people's bodies for the "greater good", obviously homes and businesses are fair game.
I read that as well. Disgusting wasn’t it? Who do they think they … oh yeah Never mind
Have they been reprimanded for doing that?
Possibly. The agency apologized on their behalf and offered to pay for damages, or so I read somewhere.
You will not be surprised to learn that they then retracted that and said "you cannot prove it was Secret Service so go pound sand". I wish I were making this up, but I am not.
The spokesperson who apologized to the salon owner tried to gaslight at the same time, saying "our agents would never do" exactly what they did. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/08/12/reports-secret-service-broke-into-salon-used-bathroom-during-harris-campaign-stop-in-pittsfield/
Bedford Falls has become Pottersville. All in the blink of an eye. Thank you for having the vision, the voice, and the courage to write about the change. Perspective and context are fast being cancelled. This is evident through the hoaxes being promulgated at the highest levels of our government, through lawfare, and through assassination attempts. Grifts are now part of the government compact: Ukraine is little more than an artificial “national interest” for the sake of selling hundreds of billions in weapons and reconstruction contracts. Millions have died. “Putin invaded Ukraine” is analogous to the yellow journalism used by Hearst to sell papers during the fake “sinking of the Maine” that started the Spanish American War. The Covid war against citizens will appear again, this time as the M-pox or Bird flu, or some other such lab concoction. We are experiencing a Kafka-esque rendering of the oligarchic produced Madison Avenue hit “1984 meets Brave New World while Atlas Shrugged.”
Great references! Spot on.
Mark, while reading this I could feel my facial muscles tensing in sympathy. Your tale mirrors life in my part of the UK - failing infrastructure and the only possible remedy seems to be an increase in prices for poorer service. Nothing works and the powers that be couldn’t care less. You were fortunate to locate conductors - our experience is that management here are never available to the public but hide in their offices, afraid to face their irate customers.
That's the most Atlas-is-shrugging thing I've read all year.
It's been my contention since day one that people need to learn how to say "no" early and often. So many pathologies you see in the world today exist because decades ago, cowards wouldn't say "no" when it would have been socially cheap and easy to do it. Now it's expensive AF and it's going to get way worse before the bullshit ends.
..."This new arrangement wouldn’t work for me. I don’t carry a phone."...That is an excellent choice. I will avoid carrying mine quite often. And no more stadiums for picture taking by these thugs.
It's time to get out!
Seriously!
You are witnessing the beginnings of the breakdown of society there in the democrat/socialist utopia you live in. Stand back and take a look around you and wonder if you might decide that it's time. Time to abandon the familiarity of what you've grown up with in favor of moving to a place with fewer people and the bureaucracies that develop to rule over them.
Serious question, where is that? I have a friend in West Virginia which I assumed might be one of those places. But according to him, not so much. The "do-gooders" (i.e. control types) seem to be everywhere.
Where exactly should he/ we go is the question I have been mulling over.
I live 150 miles from the coast of Maine. 40 miles from the nearest stop light and it's getting .........not crowded.........but, invaded by people that have come here to own their little bit of heaven, bringing their city ways with them. I don't know where I'll go, but having traveled to the NY metroplex more times than I can remember, I would classify it as "uninhabitable".
It used to be that our hard winters kept the "flatlanders" away, but that has somehow changed. And not by global warming.
It’s the same in Montana. Theres no where else to go. We just have to watch it crumble away and live with memories, I guess.
The tipping point came when the National Park Service came in and took 80,000 acres of industrial timberland (that we had nearly unfettered access to) to establish a National Monument when all of the notable features have been protected by the state for decades.
That designation triggered a tsunami of city people moving here to build their McMansion dream castles and get involved in local politics. Retired no jobs no kids, and the people coming to work in the natmon are transient at best. Not much to build a vibrant community on.
The local high school graduated 21 people this year.
There are 18 slated for next year.
Thank you Mark. My husband and I were having “issues” about the telephone company’s wish to switch our services to 5G. We live in an old house with previous renovations, and switching to Ethernet will be more or less complicated. To explain to him why I was so adamant that we convert to Ethernet, I read your article to him. Peace has been restored. He gets it now.
Wow! What a night.
Things are really going to you-know-where.
Several of my co-workers at the department store are still wearing masks. It has to be terrible- We do tons of walking and moving, etc.
I took my 92 year old mother to the doctor recently. My mom and I were not wearing masks but the PA was wearing one. She could tell we were having a hard time understanding what she was saying so she said: Would it be better if I removed my mask? I said: Yes! I felt so bad for her. I know they make her wear that. I'm sure she would love to go back to the way things were.
Maybe that's a way to get mask wearers to realize they don't need to wear it. Just tell them you can't understand what they're saying. Hopefully they will eventually get frustrated and see the foolishness of wearing one!
I live in a small city on the gulf coast of florida. we are having a primary election which will include new hospital board members. During covid, the hospital adhered to the draconian non treatment protocol except for remdesivir and vents. Our esteemed florida surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo has recommended that all hospitals include on their website, a statement explaining the risks of vax. He has recommended discontinuing its use statewide. Our medical freedom board representative, Victor Rohe, proposed a resolution to include that information and warning on the hospital website. None of the traditional, so -called conservative candidates have endorsed the proposed resolution. We do have four authentic medical freedom candidates: Rosenwein, Guffanti, O’ Neill and Parus. They have a snowball’s chance in hell getting in based on the lies, big mo ey, and ignorance of the significance of this issue. Our supposed conservative columnist in our small local paper, Matt Walsh ( not the same as the journalist famous for speaking at board of ed meetings) has stated that covid is over, get over it, it is not an issue now. I write this to remind people that although the virus has mutated milder, the danger of sweeping the policies of those three years under the rug is as signifiant as ever. Two renowned doctors, Dr. Paul Marik and Dr. Pierre Kory had their certifications revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine for prescribing ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. The persecution and lies continue. Do not comply!
Bless Guffanti especially for his efforts. His testimony on the madness in the hospitals was among the first I encountered. And he made the point that it would be very important to get doctors and nurses on the hospital boards. Here goes:
Kissimmee, FL Press Conference: Your Story Counts — The Untold Atrocities of COVID-19
October 13, 2022
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/kissimee-fl-press-conference-your-story-counts--the-untold-atrocities-of-covid19/your-story-counts--untold-atrocities-of-covid19/
TRANSCRIPT [EXCERPT]
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DR. STEPHEN GUFFANTI: OK. I'm Dr. Stephen Guffanti. I was minding my own business. I'm an emergency room doctor so my job is to find people who are dying and stop that. And I was admitted to the hospital with covid 10 days after I contracted it, which means I was no longer contagious. My doctor told me I was no longer contagious, but he had no explanation for why I was in isolation or why I was getting remdesivir, which is an anti-viral evidently used in this protocol.
The fact that my doctor could not explain his treatment plan meant that it was not his treatment plan. So whoever's pulling the strings, it was not the MD whose name was on the order.
So this young man [indicates a photograph], 20 years younger than me, a marathon runner, became my roommate. And I watched him get sicker and sicker. Now I'm an ER doc with my own two cents in the 80s, but I can recognize when somebody's, you know, having a hard time breathing. So I grabbed my IV pull, I went over to him, I tested his inspiration volume, and he's running on one fourth of a lung, and I say to him, Keith! Why are you so sick? And he says, I don't know. I said, Do you want me to be your patient advocate? He said, sure.
So I go to the nurse, I say, I'm his patient advocate, let's take a look at his lab. The guy's got a bacterial pneumonia for the last 4 days and nobody's giving him any antibiotics! They're not even working him up! They're just watching his pneumonia get worse, watching his white count go up, and they're doing nothing!
So I say, well, the doctor's probably missed this pneumonia. Even though he's the one that ordered the lab! So let's talk to the doctor. Twelve hours later they still would not talk to the doctor. Keith is now looking like this [indicating photograph]. He's drowning in pus and I say to the night nurse, this man needs to see his doctor. She would not tell us who his doctor was.
I got an infectious disease doc on the phone at 3 in the morning because in the emergency room you're allowed to do that. So I did that. And they wouldn't tell the infectious disease doc which of his colleagues was taking care of this guy.
They tied me to my bed and they put me in isolation. And the only reason I can have for them doing that to an MD who is on the spot—- right—- in medical protocol the MD who is at the bedside has priority over the nurses and any of the other, you know, personnel. The only doctor that could have had protocol over me would have been the patient's doctor—- if he showed up at the bedside.
Well, I got tied to my bed. I got put in isolation. I was [inaudible] even though I told them, you know, you don't have to do any of this, I'll sign out AMA [against medical advice]. They wouldn't let me sign out AMA. Finally, some doc came by and said, Why are you here? I said, I'm being held against my will. He released me and let me go home.
When I left that hospital my oxygen saturation was 81. Normal oxygen saturation is between 95 and 100, and if you've got normal lungs and you hold your breath you will never break it down below 90. You'd be lucky to break it down below 95. So my lungs were really damaged. Turned out I had a bronchitis. I started treating myself, I went and got some oxygen and then — [indicating photo] This happens to be a FaceBook post done at 3 in the morning. The other FaceBook post I did was the last nurse walking out on the patient that he desperately needed.
That got me here because for some odd reason people think if you're a retired doctor and you've had covid, you know how to treat it. So I talked to Dr. Littell,[1] I don't know, about a month after I got out, and I just started picking his brain.
All I'm telling you is this is not real medicine. Medicine does not give mandates. We give advice. Whenever you hear medicine mandate, that's not doctors, that's the government. And I've had patients worse than me that I've brought oxygen to and given them Ivermectin and given them high-dose Vitamin C. And now there's this wave of long-haul covid.
If you take anything from my story, understand this: The hospital has become a jail. Based on the nurses reaction, the doctor is not in charge, and 6 nurses willing to abandon a patient drowning in pus means that this is a systemic problem.
So what have I done? You know, I'm an ER doc so I do whatever it takes. I have replaced half the hospital board. [Inaudible] is the fifth board member. If I get [inaudible] on Sarasota Memorial Hospital's board we can do an investigation into what laws created this chaos.
Now, you're probably not from Sarasota. But out of the 67 counties in Florida, 21 of them have elected hospital boards. So if you belong to a county that has that I highly recommend you go to the board and find out who's going to listen and who's not.
I went of course to doctors and nurses to get on the board because if you get a businessman on the board he has no clue what you're talking about when you talk medicine. We had a guy on the board for 20 years, we asked him, what's informed consent? And he had no idea. Can you imagine being on a hospital board and not knowing what informed consent is?
I've probably talked more than my 3 minutes. Thank you very much for coming here and telling your stories.
[applause]
1:39:44
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
See also: "Doctor Restrained, Put Into Solitary Confinement After Advocating For Mistreated COVID Patient"
The Stew Peters Show, August 13, 2021
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2021/08/doctor-restrained-put-into-solitary-confinement-after-advocating-for-mistreated-covid-patient/
[1] Dr. John Littell's website is https://www.johnlittellmd.com/