When the lockdowns started I was disgusted and angry. As an ICU nurse I was "essential" as were my colleagues. My husband, a restaurant manager, was "nonessential." It took over a month for his unemployment to kick in. Thank God I was still working and we had the means to make up for his lost wages short term. I know millions were not so lucky. What pissed me off more than being forced to use unemployment during this period were my colleagues on FB telling everyone to basically fuck off and stay at home because the "essential" people were busy. Leaving your house was stabbing them in the back. We were heroes! You better listen to the heroes! Every time I called someone out on their bullshit post by pointing out that is was easy to tell people to stay at home when you were still getting a paycheck I was told "as a nurse you should know better." Yeah, as a human being YOU should know better! I got the same crap when I pushed back on the masks. "You should know better!" Looks like I did, doesn't it? Long story short. Sure is easy to lock people down when you don't suffer the consequences.
Yes, the zoom elitists don't care. Mind you I used to WFH before the pandemic, but couldn't tolerate the "stay at home"crew, because we couldn't get out, but "ok if it is a peaceful protest"... Then Newson was caught later at the French Laundry restaurant...
Remember Barbara Birx traveling for Thanksgiving while we had to stay at home. ?
Remember the Imperial College scientist of doom - Neil Ferguson in the UK? Imposed lockdown rules but broke it to see a his lover (who was married to someone else)
The grocery workers at my local Vons were all senior citizens, never stop working. Many instacart workers, seniors as well.
Lots of small business folded. We supported the local restaurants by ordering take-out and buying gift cards. But I will never forget the names and the policies... still hoping for some sort of jail time for these people.
The day I was told BLM protests were ok because racism was an "emergency" is the day I lost all respect for the public health system. Protest lockdowns and you were a selfish prick who didn't care about other people. Yeah, done.
read scott atlas book-birx was just another 40 some year bureaucrat that was obsolete years ago & just made the situation worse for her own self enrichment.
I am 100% with you Amy J! I want to know what a$$hole came up with this essential/non-essential crap. We are all essential in some way or another depending on the situation. Probably the same a$$hole that came up with an employer or business entity deciding on religious, medical or other “exemption”. Dear boss- would you please confirm my religious beliefs?
I saw a poll where those who could work from home were for mandatory vaccinations. Those who earned their paycheck in the real world were not. I'm uncertain just how many who were lucky to work from home, really didn't care enough about people who lost their jobs because they were considered non essential. There is something about the zoom class has me questioning their character. I really hope I'm wrong.
Deeming some things essential, while deeming other things "non-essential" is the core of communist central planning, which substitutes the state's preference set for the preferences revealed by the free exchange of goods and services between free actors.
I know it sounds a bit conspiracy-theory-ish, but suspending free exchange is basically economic central planning and should be fully resisted.
Hillary worked to institute School to Work, which was promoted as providing schoolchildren apprenticeships. So lofty, but I kept a newspaper article and photo of a fourth grade boy standing alone outside a big Denver hotel in an oversized uniform, apprenticing as a doorman. He looked forlorn, with the coat sleeves a foot too long. A girl was apprenticing as a maid and another as a kitchen worker. These children were all Hispanic. So centralized planning if allowed to go forth slots some children into low paying jobs with no opportunity for advancement. Here's a quote from a Penn State instructor: "Do we really have to provide a Cadillac education to all children when the available jobs are changing sheets at the local motel?"
Getting any apologies? No. I didn’t think so. The lockstep stupidity of my colleagues, nurses etc was breathtaking. I will never forget my multi-specialty group’s designated Infectious Disease point man on COVID boldly proclaim “Masks work!”
Or my masked PCP backing away from me as far as the tiny exam room would permit him to maintain the holy 6’ social distancing rule. Or being pressured (unsuccessfully) into taking the jab because he acknowledged that the jabbed now posed a greater threat of transmission than the unjabbed.
The sanctimonious FB videos really pissed me off. Dancing nurses and "woe is me how dare you want to live your life while I work hard" crap. These people wouldn't last a day as a military medic yet they acted like they were at war. We're still masking and distancing in my hospital. God forbid we go back to using PPE the way it was intended, for short periods of time in a patient room with known or suspected infection (due to actual symptoms).
The health care facilities are caught in a bind: admit they were taken for a ride just like all the unwashed, untrained, uncredentialed masses, or persist in the fantasy that the Wuhan Bat Flu is the deadliest disease ever to visit humanity, or admit they willingly, stupidly, zealously abandoned all scientific reason and were active participants in this colossal fiasco.
Amen sister….then they told all of the “heroes” to get the jab or go home…what a sick world we live in. Every day is a damned shit show of one kind or another
Right. I just found out the one of the BLM founders was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders and those pallets of bricks just made a lot more sense.
How people who are wrong over and over and still have jobs, platforms and influence is a symptom of the idiocracy. Paying 3.4 mil for a condo in Minneapolis is all you need to know about this guy 😂
Talk about disinformation - Osterholm said on Rogan (Feb 18) that 1,334 kids 0-17 died from COVID, the vast majority happening over the past 6 weeks. As of March 8, CDV shows total of 894 kids 0-17 dying over the entire course of the pandemic. Other factually incorrect information. He’s very smart, and when Joe asks about certain hypotheses that run counter to the Narrative, Osterholm will say he hasn’t seen compelling evidence (not that it doesn’t exist, but that he hasn’t seen it), yet on speculation supporting the Narrative, he’s happy to throw out the weakest evidence. The worst type of expert. And one championed across the media. Vomit.
Yeah, it was interesting. Rogan clearly thought he was wrong, but Osterholm was insistent that Omicron was especially deadly to healthy kids, and he didn’t push it. There were a few other topics that followed the same path. Once, Rogan tried to find studies online but stumbled in doing so, same result, Osterholm appearing to be right by default.
I didn't until 2 yrs ago. Sadly, my eyes are now open to the evil, corruption, deceit, crime, carelessness, apathy, etc that exists on earth (in abundance). I now believe in the devil and thus hope for a hell.
Mike is another looter & parasite. How do we bankrupt everything he is affiliated with, or is he suckling on the public teat like all of the worthless public health morons?
The only health these public health experts are concerned about is the health of their personal income stream. There are many who would sell anyone down the river for a buck.
That a lifelong academic can afford a $3.4 million apartment raises the same question as how a lifelong Senator/VP can afford multi-million dollar properties. I'll give you a hint. The answer is the same for both and it starts with a "G."
This substack arrived right after Emerald Robinson’s article on the Forbes writer who was fired by DHS and how the government paid media companies big bucks to quash stories. The two substack together paint a terrifying picture that the US is not a democracy, or even a republic. We’ve moved right into something I don’t recognize.
He came back to the show just a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't bear to watch/listen to even 5 minutes of him, much less 3 hours. & that was before I knew about his condo.
When the lockdowns started I was disgusted and angry. As an ICU nurse I was "essential" as were my colleagues. My husband, a restaurant manager, was "nonessential." It took over a month for his unemployment to kick in. Thank God I was still working and we had the means to make up for his lost wages short term. I know millions were not so lucky. What pissed me off more than being forced to use unemployment during this period were my colleagues on FB telling everyone to basically fuck off and stay at home because the "essential" people were busy. Leaving your house was stabbing them in the back. We were heroes! You better listen to the heroes! Every time I called someone out on their bullshit post by pointing out that is was easy to tell people to stay at home when you were still getting a paycheck I was told "as a nurse you should know better." Yeah, as a human being YOU should know better! I got the same crap when I pushed back on the masks. "You should know better!" Looks like I did, doesn't it? Long story short. Sure is easy to lock people down when you don't suffer the consequences.
Yes, the zoom elitists don't care. Mind you I used to WFH before the pandemic, but couldn't tolerate the "stay at home"crew, because we couldn't get out, but "ok if it is a peaceful protest"... Then Newson was caught later at the French Laundry restaurant...
Remember Barbara Birx traveling for Thanksgiving while we had to stay at home. ?
Remember the Imperial College scientist of doom - Neil Ferguson in the UK? Imposed lockdown rules but broke it to see a his lover (who was married to someone else)
The grocery workers at my local Vons were all senior citizens, never stop working. Many instacart workers, seniors as well.
Lots of small business folded. We supported the local restaurants by ordering take-out and buying gift cards. But I will never forget the names and the policies... still hoping for some sort of jail time for these people.
The day I was told BLM protests were ok because racism was an "emergency" is the day I lost all respect for the public health system. Protest lockdowns and you were a selfish prick who didn't care about other people. Yeah, done.
The minute this started, it screamed another, "Orange Man Bad!!!" scheme.
Exactly. If covid was over for protestors, it was over for everybody.
read scott atlas book-birx was just another 40 some year bureaucrat that was obsolete years ago & just made the situation worse for her own self enrichment.
I'm reading it now. I have to take breaks because it makes me so angry. Not that all the news doesn't these days.
did the same myself. I worked in govt. for years the amount of waste, fraud, & incompetence is worse than most know.
(I think I speak for all of us when I say, $3.4 million on an apartment in Minneapolis?!?)
One of the funniest lines in all of Alex's work.
Megyn Kelly did an excellent interview with him about 2 weeks ago as well👍
I am 100% with you Amy J! I want to know what a$$hole came up with this essential/non-essential crap. We are all essential in some way or another depending on the situation. Probably the same a$$hole that came up with an employer or business entity deciding on religious, medical or other “exemption”. Dear boss- would you please confirm my religious beliefs?
If your job pays the bills and feeds you, it's essential. Period!
I saw a poll where those who could work from home were for mandatory vaccinations. Those who earned their paycheck in the real world were not. I'm uncertain just how many who were lucky to work from home, really didn't care enough about people who lost their jobs because they were considered non essential. There is something about the zoom class has me questioning their character. I really hope I'm wrong.
Illustrating that this is more of an up/down rather than a left/right divide, although there is a lot of “mapping” of one onto the other.
Deeming some things essential, while deeming other things "non-essential" is the core of communist central planning, which substitutes the state's preference set for the preferences revealed by the free exchange of goods and services between free actors.
I know it sounds a bit conspiracy-theory-ish, but suspending free exchange is basically economic central planning and should be fully resisted.
Hillary worked to institute School to Work, which was promoted as providing schoolchildren apprenticeships. So lofty, but I kept a newspaper article and photo of a fourth grade boy standing alone outside a big Denver hotel in an oversized uniform, apprenticing as a doorman. He looked forlorn, with the coat sleeves a foot too long. A girl was apprenticing as a maid and another as a kitchen worker. These children were all Hispanic. So centralized planning if allowed to go forth slots some children into low paying jobs with no opportunity for advancement. Here's a quote from a Penn State instructor: "Do we really have to provide a Cadillac education to all children when the available jobs are changing sheets at the local motel?"
Life is hard enough without creating additional, artificial problems. I'll never forgive the Coronamaniacs for what they did to people.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/ill-never-forgive-the-coronamaniacs?s=w
Thank you for putting down in writing what a whole lot of us have experienced.
Getting any apologies? No. I didn’t think so. The lockstep stupidity of my colleagues, nurses etc was breathtaking. I will never forget my multi-specialty group’s designated Infectious Disease point man on COVID boldly proclaim “Masks work!”
Or my masked PCP backing away from me as far as the tiny exam room would permit him to maintain the holy 6’ social distancing rule. Or being pressured (unsuccessfully) into taking the jab because he acknowledged that the jabbed now posed a greater threat of transmission than the unjabbed.
The sanctimonious FB videos really pissed me off. Dancing nurses and "woe is me how dare you want to live your life while I work hard" crap. These people wouldn't last a day as a military medic yet they acted like they were at war. We're still masking and distancing in my hospital. God forbid we go back to using PPE the way it was intended, for short periods of time in a patient room with known or suspected infection (due to actual symptoms).
The health care facilities are caught in a bind: admit they were taken for a ride just like all the unwashed, untrained, uncredentialed masses, or persist in the fantasy that the Wuhan Bat Flu is the deadliest disease ever to visit humanity, or admit they willingly, stupidly, zealously abandoned all scientific reason and were active participants in this colossal fiasco.
I wish my hospital would have the courage to act on their own and do away with the hygiene theatre. Too cowardly to go against the CDC.
Amen sister….then they told all of the “heroes” to get the jab or go home…what a sick world we live in. Every day is a damned shit show of one kind or another
covid=ukraine - all those not effected in the least telling us to suffer
Holy crap that is disgusting. I wonder how many of the people who were forced out of work he could have housed for that $3.4M.
(Trick question! Seattle already tried that. The answer is 3.)
Doesn't matter. He's far above the yucky riot mobs. Eewww.
He is a con man like BLM.
Right. I just found out the one of the BLM founders was a World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders and those pallets of bricks just made a lot more sense.
COVID19 policy response = a wealth transfer. From people and small business to The Shareholders. You'll own nothing - and you'll be happy!
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/about-us/cidrap-staff/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph
"In October 2008, he [Osterholm] was appointed to the World Economic Forum Working Group on Pandemics."
Thanks for that...now it makes better sense.
It's a lot easier to lock down the serfs when you live in an ivory tower. Just keep enough serfs on the payroll to deliver the organic avocado toast.
The work of getting others not to work appears to really work.
How people who are wrong over and over and still have jobs, platforms and influence is a symptom of the idiocracy. Paying 3.4 mil for a condo in Minneapolis is all you need to know about this guy 😂
Talk about disinformation - Osterholm said on Rogan (Feb 18) that 1,334 kids 0-17 died from COVID, the vast majority happening over the past 6 weeks. As of March 8, CDV shows total of 894 kids 0-17 dying over the entire course of the pandemic. Other factually incorrect information. He’s very smart, and when Joe asks about certain hypotheses that run counter to the Narrative, Osterholm will say he hasn’t seen compelling evidence (not that it doesn’t exist, but that he hasn’t seen it), yet on speculation supporting the Narrative, he’s happy to throw out the weakest evidence. The worst type of expert. And one championed across the media. Vomit.
Surprised Rogan didn't call him out on that misinformation (easy link to CDC website). Sadly, perhaps Joe is catering to the fanatics
Yeah, it was interesting. Rogan clearly thought he was wrong, but Osterholm was insistent that Omicron was especially deadly to healthy kids, and he didn’t push it. There were a few other topics that followed the same path. Once, Rogan tried to find studies online but stumbled in doing so, same result, Osterholm appearing to be right by default.
They put that in a local Santa Clara county paper too. The young and healthy are dying and will die from Covid. No questions asked. Wtf
YES!
He hasn't seen it? Did he LOOK?
Michael osterholm makes me wish I believed in hell
I didn't until 2 yrs ago. Sadly, my eyes are now open to the evil, corruption, deceit, crime, carelessness, apathy, etc that exists on earth (in abundance). I now believe in the devil and thus hope for a hell.
We’ve just lived through the earthly version for the past two years. Hell is real.
There is a hell for people like this.
People like him and this satanic psyop have convinced me that hell does exist.
I’m hoping it’s real.
Mike is another looter & parasite. How do we bankrupt everything he is affiliated with, or is he suckling on the public teat like all of the worthless public health morons?
Employed by University of Minnesota. AKA the taxpayers. Except I doubt his largess comes entirely from UM.
The only health these public health experts are concerned about is the health of their personal income stream. There are many who would sell anyone down the river for a buck.
That a lifelong academic can afford a $3.4 million apartment raises the same question as how a lifelong Senator/VP can afford multi-million dollar properties. I'll give you a hint. The answer is the same for both and it starts with a "G."
Graft? Grift? Goon? God complex?
Government
This substack arrived right after Emerald Robinson’s article on the Forbes writer who was fired by DHS and how the government paid media companies big bucks to quash stories. The two substack together paint a terrifying picture that the US is not a democracy, or even a republic. We’ve moved right into something I don’t recognize.
Cunts will always behave cuntishly (Pronounced with an English accent so it makes it all good) ...
We should never be surprised by them...
No.
Fascinating given his Mar '20 Joe Rogan interview where he sounded rational and grounded. Always wondered why he changed gears so easily.
He came back to the show just a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't bear to watch/listen to even 5 minutes of him, much less 3 hours. & that was before I knew about his condo.
I did watch. I couldn't believe anything he was saying--contradicted so much that we know to be reasonable and realistic.
By the end, I thought, There's 3 hours of my life I'll never get back.
Yes he did sound rational then. Unfortunately Rogan kept bringing him on even as he became an establishment fanatic.
Rogan flipped too. The Overlords got to him.
Shitbag Osterholm helped kick this whole thing off with his march 2020 appearance on Rogan's show. I hope he rots in hell.