Meanwhile my doctor husband who had Covid was mandated by his employer yesterday to get the jab or get fired (thanks federal appeals court in the Houston Methodist case.) He will not be coerced. This should be fun. He makes them wayyyy too much money to get canned.
I remember you from over at The Dispatch. I left there partially because I was tired of listening to the commenters (and authors) defending The Narrative around COVID. Is it still as crazy over there or have some people woken up?
LOL, I'm famous! No, it's the same but I have a few favorites over there, CynthiaW, RA Watman (we met each other in real life) Earl King, Ryan from Canada....Kevin Durant was my brother from another mother but he was banned. Despise censorship.
I hope this turns out well for you both. Unfortunately it seems that many new administrators feel we are easily replaceable and I have seen a number top staff exit suddenly over the years. Among other things they are likely considering marketing and want the “gold star” for 100% participation. Early retirement an option?
He’s an ENT in a small town and has been trying to recruit a partner for 5 years. They honestly can’t afford to replace him. He’s too nice and won’t hold firm, I suspect. I would make them tell me I’ll be fired just to make them squirm. He could retire but truly loves his job.
We live in the stupidest times, when Remnick can be fooled into thinking 14 year old gamers are actually talking about the vaccine. I think the wool has been pulled over Remnicks eyes. This all reeks of a very elaborate Jussie Smollett ploy wherein the parents are die hard progressives and in a move to acquire Greta Thunberg levels of recognition for their teen, they’ve manipulated the teen to reach out and tell this story…because it’s going to make everyone safer - you know, for our own good.
I find this whole article about the 14-year-old suspicious...especially if he's public school educated. Fourteen-year-old boys aren't much for "research". (Unlike the trans stuff out there I can't imagine that much of the mRNA stuff would be interesting enough for a gamer to plod through.)
And were 14-year-olds ok'd for the shot in Jan (or even 3 months later)?
And for Remnick to interview a 14-year-old? The old man must be grasping at anything to keep his magazine alive. Did the far-rignt Trump-supporting parents know about & allow this interview?
Not to mention that unless it was a board game, this kid could, and absolutely would, just get online and join remotely. It is a bit odd. What pack of 14 year olds are talking about the virus and the vaccine, especially the gamer community. My 27 year old isn’t; my 25 year old isn’t; my 18 year old absolutely isn’t; my 14 year old couldn’t care less about it (because he’s busy playing Battlefield V online). None of this makes any sense. It honestly Sunds manufactured. I also wonder if this psychologist thinks that 14 year olds can also critically think about sexual relationships with adult? Psychology is really losing its grip on reality.
Good point. Hard to believe that a 14-year old would know how to attract the attention of New Yorker magazine and get interviewed. So many of these things that get wide exposure are just set ups and using a 14 year old as a prop feels inappropriate.
These teens are portrayed as heroes because they are exactly the end result of 40 years of progressive education "reform" they had hoped to create. Detached from parents and gravitating to the state.
Yes, that's an interesting question: "why"? I believe the answer is: "this is all in service to an extremely powerful entity, that wants literally every man, woman, and child on Planet Earth to get the shot." To achieve this end, they had to be able to "capture" not only the regulators, but media, and the current Administration also. The unified message: "get the shot - even if immune from prior COVID - even if you're a 6-year-old and not at risk" comes from the White House, from Media, and from CDC/NIH. With 6136 deaths in VAERS - most ever in history.
And I have a sense that VAERS may not be catching all the events.
But my mind now moves beyond "why" - to "who". Who is behind this complete capture of media, government, and our regulators?
I suspect the 0.001% who own a large fraction of the earth have realized that modern surveillance and military technology enables them to take it all for themselves. All that is required is to enslave or eliminate the rest of us. They view themselves as a different, higher species whose future is threatened by subhumans demanding freedoms and resources.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
A good friend of mine told me that it was a "no brainer" to get her 14 year old vaccinated because the vaccines were so effective. When I asked her if she was concerned about any short or long term side effects, she just spit out the word "misinformation ". The lack of any curiosity and skepticism around these vaccines is astonishing to me. I admit that I didn't do much research when my children were vaccinated with all of the standards as babies, but those were NOT experimental vaccines! I ask everyone i know who gets the shot 2 questions: 1. Did you find out if you have antibodies? And 2. Did you do a little research about this new vaccine? 100% of the answers are No and No. These answers are worrisome enough for your own body- but your child? No Brainer indeed.
When I was 14, I did a lot of things against the wishes of my parents. It never occurred to me to seek national media attention for those acts or maybe no one was interested. I hope that they remove the teen-ager from his dangerous home lest he face repercussions for his defiance.
That David Remnick interview makes me sick. He found the kid on Reddit. Maybe he can interview my 16 year old daughter, because she lives in Arizona too. Her dad and I told her we would not give her permission to get the vaccine, but that she could do whatever she wanted when she was 18.
The first blow to that was when her private voice teacher (who is vaccinated) told my daughter she would not resume giving her in person voice lessons until she got vaccinated (lessons had been on Zoom since March 2020). My daughter goes to a small performing arts public charter school. The theater teacher said kids couldn't rehearse without masks until they were vaccinated. Then the school director said they were thinking of changing the school policy to allow vaccinated (only) to go without masks. Can you imagine what this is like for a teenager who wants to fit in and be accepted?
The final straw was her being offered a job at a local restaurant where the waiters and waitresses sing Broadway show tunes to customers. They told her they required the vax, and the very next day, she went to Walgreens with an adult (pretending to be me), filled out the consent form forging my signature, and got her first Pfizer dose. I'm sure she thought I'd never find out, but I have Walgreen's text alerts on my phone. Apparently the word had gone around her school that Walgreens didn't check the "parent's" ID, so you could easily get the vax there.
The next three weeks was a whirlwind of me and her dad staying to stop her from getting the second dose. But she did it anyway, the second time going to Safeway... because they "advertised" online that for 16-18 year olds, the "parent, guardian, or non-custodial adult" doesn't even have to be present.
The law in AZ that says minors need parental permission to get a vaccine is a total joke when it comes to covid. I erroneously thought that would stop my daughter from being able to get this vax, but, boy, was I wrong. I definitely would have approached this whole thing differently if I had known that ahead of time.
"In Philadelphia, children ages 12-15 can consent for their own COVID-19 vaccination, subject to the vaccine provider’s determination that they can provide informed consent. This aligns with a longstanding City policy that allows children ages 11 and above to consent for vaccines, without approval or consent of a parent or guardian. On May 14, the Board of Health ruled that this also applies to a vaccine with an FDA Emergency Use Authorization."
Keep up thje good work. I hope people who imply that Trump supporters are incompetent do not understand thje implicatopms of what they are saying, any more than Biden did whern hed threatened gun control opponents with nukes.
Meanwhile my doctor husband who had Covid was mandated by his employer yesterday to get the jab or get fired (thanks federal appeals court in the Houston Methodist case.) He will not be coerced. This should be fun. He makes them wayyyy too much money to get canned.
I remember you from over at The Dispatch. I left there partially because I was tired of listening to the commenters (and authors) defending The Narrative around COVID. Is it still as crazy over there or have some people woken up?
LOL, I'm famous! No, it's the same but I have a few favorites over there, CynthiaW, RA Watman (we met each other in real life) Earl King, Ryan from Canada....Kevin Durant was my brother from another mother but he was banned. Despise censorship.
Ohhh, Kevin....He was hilarious. I enjoyed his commentary because it usually asked the obvious questions that everyone was afraid to ask.
I liked The Dispatch when it started - but it quickly became a place that refused to question Democratic-party narratives.
I pretty much knew it was a broken website when David French defended CRT.
I hope this turns out well for you both. Unfortunately it seems that many new administrators feel we are easily replaceable and I have seen a number top staff exit suddenly over the years. Among other things they are likely considering marketing and want the “gold star” for 100% participation. Early retirement an option?
He’s an ENT in a small town and has been trying to recruit a partner for 5 years. They honestly can’t afford to replace him. He’s too nice and won’t hold firm, I suspect. I would make them tell me I’ll be fired just to make them squirm. He could retire but truly loves his job.
The trans cult and the vax cult has a lot of overlap with regard to undermining parenting
We live in the stupidest times, when Remnick can be fooled into thinking 14 year old gamers are actually talking about the vaccine. I think the wool has been pulled over Remnicks eyes. This all reeks of a very elaborate Jussie Smollett ploy wherein the parents are die hard progressives and in a move to acquire Greta Thunberg levels of recognition for their teen, they’ve manipulated the teen to reach out and tell this story…because it’s going to make everyone safer - you know, for our own good.
I find this whole article about the 14-year-old suspicious...especially if he's public school educated. Fourteen-year-old boys aren't much for "research". (Unlike the trans stuff out there I can't imagine that much of the mRNA stuff would be interesting enough for a gamer to plod through.)
And were 14-year-olds ok'd for the shot in Jan (or even 3 months later)?
And for Remnick to interview a 14-year-old? The old man must be grasping at anything to keep his magazine alive. Did the far-rignt Trump-supporting parents know about & allow this interview?
Not to mention that unless it was a board game, this kid could, and absolutely would, just get online and join remotely. It is a bit odd. What pack of 14 year olds are talking about the virus and the vaccine, especially the gamer community. My 27 year old isn’t; my 25 year old isn’t; my 18 year old absolutely isn’t; my 14 year old couldn’t care less about it (because he’s busy playing Battlefield V online). None of this makes any sense. It honestly Sunds manufactured. I also wonder if this psychologist thinks that 14 year olds can also critically think about sexual relationships with adult? Psychology is really losing its grip on reality.
Good point. Hard to believe that a 14-year old would know how to attract the attention of New Yorker magazine and get interviewed. So many of these things that get wide exposure are just set ups and using a 14 year old as a prop feels inappropriate.
These teens are portrayed as heroes because they are exactly the end result of 40 years of progressive education "reform" they had hoped to create. Detached from parents and gravitating to the state.
And the results of education reform are dismal.
What better way for the left to undermine the nuclear family than to pit kids against their parents on vax issues.
Yes, that's an interesting question: "why"? I believe the answer is: "this is all in service to an extremely powerful entity, that wants literally every man, woman, and child on Planet Earth to get the shot." To achieve this end, they had to be able to "capture" not only the regulators, but media, and the current Administration also. The unified message: "get the shot - even if immune from prior COVID - even if you're a 6-year-old and not at risk" comes from the White House, from Media, and from CDC/NIH. With 6136 deaths in VAERS - most ever in history.
And I have a sense that VAERS may not be catching all the events.
But my mind now moves beyond "why" - to "who". Who is behind this complete capture of media, government, and our regulators?
I suspect the 0.001% who own a large fraction of the earth have realized that modern surveillance and military technology enables them to take it all for themselves. All that is required is to enslave or eliminate the rest of us. They view themselves as a different, higher species whose future is threatened by subhumans demanding freedoms and resources.
To whom can I speak today? The iniquity that strikes the land Has no end.
To whom can I speak today? There are no righteous men; the earth is surrendered to criminals.
Egypt, circa 2000 BC
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
-Ecclesiastes 1: 9,10
That is essentially it, in a nutshell.
A good friend of mine told me that it was a "no brainer" to get her 14 year old vaccinated because the vaccines were so effective. When I asked her if she was concerned about any short or long term side effects, she just spit out the word "misinformation ". The lack of any curiosity and skepticism around these vaccines is astonishing to me. I admit that I didn't do much research when my children were vaccinated with all of the standards as babies, but those were NOT experimental vaccines! I ask everyone i know who gets the shot 2 questions: 1. Did you find out if you have antibodies? And 2. Did you do a little research about this new vaccine? 100% of the answers are No and No. These answers are worrisome enough for your own body- but your child? No Brainer indeed.
When I was 14, I did a lot of things against the wishes of my parents. It never occurred to me to seek national media attention for those acts or maybe no one was interested. I hope that they remove the teen-ager from his dangerous home lest he face repercussions for his defiance.
Some interesting reading...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/magnetofection?fbclid=IwAR2uvCLr4du4WMTcTKe-EroGQijZewA3DoW2rFz-usc5gLEKycgQpkBt5cQ
That David Remnick interview makes me sick. He found the kid on Reddit. Maybe he can interview my 16 year old daughter, because she lives in Arizona too. Her dad and I told her we would not give her permission to get the vaccine, but that she could do whatever she wanted when she was 18.
The first blow to that was when her private voice teacher (who is vaccinated) told my daughter she would not resume giving her in person voice lessons until she got vaccinated (lessons had been on Zoom since March 2020). My daughter goes to a small performing arts public charter school. The theater teacher said kids couldn't rehearse without masks until they were vaccinated. Then the school director said they were thinking of changing the school policy to allow vaccinated (only) to go without masks. Can you imagine what this is like for a teenager who wants to fit in and be accepted?
The final straw was her being offered a job at a local restaurant where the waiters and waitresses sing Broadway show tunes to customers. They told her they required the vax, and the very next day, she went to Walgreens with an adult (pretending to be me), filled out the consent form forging my signature, and got her first Pfizer dose. I'm sure she thought I'd never find out, but I have Walgreen's text alerts on my phone. Apparently the word had gone around her school that Walgreens didn't check the "parent's" ID, so you could easily get the vax there.
The next three weeks was a whirlwind of me and her dad staying to stop her from getting the second dose. But she did it anyway, the second time going to Safeway... because they "advertised" online that for 16-18 year olds, the "parent, guardian, or non-custodial adult" doesn't even have to be present.
The law in AZ that says minors need parental permission to get a vaccine is a total joke when it comes to covid. I erroneously thought that would stop my daughter from being able to get this vax, but, boy, was I wrong. I definitely would have approached this whole thing differently if I had known that ahead of time.
Terrible, what states is this happening in?
"In Philadelphia, children ages 12-15 can consent for their own COVID-19 vaccination, subject to the vaccine provider’s determination that they can provide informed consent. This aligns with a longstanding City policy that allows children ages 11 and above to consent for vaccines, without approval or consent of a parent or guardian. On May 14, the Board of Health ruled that this also applies to a vaccine with an FDA Emergency Use Authorization."
https://www.phila.gov/programs/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/faq/
Keep up thje good work. I hope people who imply that Trump supporters are incompetent do not understand thje implicatopms of what they are saying, any more than Biden did whern hed threatened gun control opponents with nukes.