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    Roy Lichtenstein Crying girl 1964   • Kids, Adults Have Similar Seroprevalence (HT) • Avalanche of Numbers (D’Eramo) • VAERS ID: 1026783 (OpenVae
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 18 2021]

    #77624
    SeaBirds
    Participant

    Quoted from the New Zealand Herald 10th of June 2021:

    “Feihe, China’s largest infant formula maker, said sales would drop sharply in the next one to two years since many women cannot bear children within six months of coronavirus vaccination – and thus delaying births.”

    CHINA: Belief re pregnancy after vax

    Adverse effects from Chinese vaccines?
    As we all know, none of the vaccines have been tested properly.

    #77625
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Well, Mr. Snowden, I, for one, miss the tacky website graphics and the “glamorous MIDI audio” of Internet 1.0. That the blog-comments here are so structured like the message-boards of old is part of the reason I find myself drawn here. 😉

    #77626
    Dimitri
    Participant

    Snowden should stick to short messages. Longer pieces are not his forte.

    #77627
    Germ
    Participant

    Interesting chat between Jim Kunstler and Chris Martenson.

    https://www.stitcher.com/episode/84793408

    Not much that folks around here don’t already know, but good to have confirmation.

    One significant error that Chris makes is when he describes the fragility of the mRNA in the jab and the ease with which the body can metabolise and clear it out.

    In fact, for the scientists among you, they replaced the usually occuring Uracil base with “pseudo Uracil”. This was done to make the mRNA more resilient to degrading. I.e. even worse for the unlucky recipients.

    Pseudouridine

    #77628
    VietnamVet
    Participant

    Brett Weinstein’s “How to save the world in three easy ways” (the start is clipped above) is well worth the three hours and putting up with the loud serial entrepreneur and the too quiet scientist. Censorship and ostracization are real. Facebook has taken the video down. But linked podcasts can be googled. This video is too close to the truth. The discussion of science in the coronavirus pandemic is banned. Unpatentable treatments ignored. The question is by who? Perhaps, a dark force of Imperialists guided by group-think, money and hubris are the ones who have cost the West trillions of dollars in lost economic spending, grief and millions dead to generate a few more pharmaceutical billionaires.

    Clearly, the statement that mRNA vaccines are safe and effective is a lie. The real problem is that the risks are unknown. To earn a living, travel, receive acute medical or dental treatment, relief from long-COVID symptoms; vaccination may be worth the risks; especially if otherwise healthy and past the age of reproduction. Cancer is an unknown risk down the road. But the PR marketing is that there is absolutely no risk. But, indeed, you have no idea of how many empty chambers there are when you play jab Russian Roulette. It is criminal that there is no strenuous surveillance of the outcomes of the mRNA jabs nor a determination how effective the vaccines are in preventing transmission. The failure of the public health system is a deadly debacle

    The West is incapable of keeping its people healthy. Extracting wealth for the 1% from everyone else is the game being played. There is no alternative.

    #77630
    John Day
    Participant

    https://www.johndayblog.com/

    ​Russian President Vladimir Putin said his meeting with President Biden in Switzerland on Wednesday was hostility-free, adding that “on the contrary … it was very constructive.” Putin described Biden as a “balanced and professional man, and it’s clear that he’s very experienced,” and said “it seems to me that we did speak the same language.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/putin-portrait-biden-drawn-media-has-nothing-do-reality

    ​Oh, “we” got something. We kept Germany as an ally; maybe more, but it’s secret. What about that cyber-crime cooperation? Great Reset? Non-aggression pact?
    ​ ​Appearing on Hannity, Trump noted “We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing.”
    He continued, “We gave up something that was unbelievably valuable. I stopped the pipeline, NordStream II, and the pipeline was stopped, and it was given back [to Germany and Russia] and nothing was gotten for it.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-biden-putin-meeting-it-was-very-good-day-russia

    ​Moon of Alabama summarizes the 2 hour summit:
    There were a few results:
    The ambassadors of both sides, who had been recalled from Washington and Moscow, will return to their posts.
    There will be new expert rounds about cybersecurity.
    There may be talks about an exchange of prisoners.
    There will be new rounds about security, which means strategic nuclear weapons.
    A joint statement by both sides about Strategic Stability has been posted in Russian on the Kremlin site (machine translation):
    Today we reaffirm our adherence to the principle that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and should never be unleashed.
    To achieve these goals, Russia and the United States will soon launch a comprehensive bilateral dialogue on strategic stability, which will be substantive and energetic. Through this dialogue, we aim to lay the foundation for future arms control and risk mitigation measures.
    That is a very important result and the upcoming talks will be interesting. The U.S. will have to end its Missile Defense Program if it wants limits on any of the new strategic weapon types Russia has introduced.
    https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/summit-summary.html

    #77631
    John Day
    Participant

    https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/06/constructive-discussions.html

    Questioning the timeline of ersatz-reality again…
    I had a patient almost die of multi-organ infection in November-December 2019. All the hospital found was “coronavirus”, nothing.
    ​ ​Confidential documents have surfaced in a Confidentiality Agreement between the U.S. National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Moderna showing they transferred “potential coronavirus vaccine candidates” to the University of North Carolina, on December 12, 2019
    . . . which was nineteen (19) days BEFORE the outbreak of novel coronavirus in China!
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/documents-u-s-gov-t-sent-mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-candidates-to-university-researchers-weeks-before-covid-outbreak-in-china-how-did-they-know-unless-they-caused-it

    ​This experiment was carried out in Central America, too. The special tetanus vaccine causes “spontaneous” abortion.
    ​ ​This “vaccine” against pregnancy was developed by Dr G.P. Talwar in 1972. The idea is to produce antibodies to the pregnancy hormone, such that the women would not be able to carry a normal pregnancy. Women who were pregnant would abort and those not pregnant would be rendered infertile. The report is indeed disturbing. A few months earlier an article entitled “HCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World” was published by Oller and colleagues in the Open Access Library Journal.
    ​ ​The Oller report described young women in Kenya who were vaccinated with this “Talwar vaccine” on the pretext of preventing maternal and neonatal (baby) tetanus. Many of the samples of the tetanus vaccine that tested positive for hCG was sourced from the Serum Institute of India.
    ​ ​The vaccine programme was promoted by the WHO and the Kenyan government, funded by the Gates Foundation. Mothers-to-be were encouraged to take the vaccine to prevent tetanus in their unborn babies, without being told that the vaccine would prevent the baby from ever being born.

    Ethical questions surround vaccine to reduce fertility

    #77632
    John Day
    Participant

    The rationale of an unvaccinated worker transmitting COVID to a vulnerable patient seems to hold similarly well for those vaccinated, since the vaccines are “non-sterilizing”, in the current parlance, not really doing much for the innate immune system in the nasopharynx.

    I have been following, for almost a year, “the Linux of COVID vaccines”, an open source nasal spray vaccine, developed in Finland, and languishing for over a year, due to lack of political/monetary backing. Nobody can make billions on it.

    This from this March:

    Finland Had a Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago — But Still Went With Big Pharma
    Saksela’s team has had a patent-free COVID-19 vaccine ready since May 2020, which they dubbed “the Linux of vaccines” in a nod to the famous open-source operating system that also originated from Finland…
    They believe their nasal spray, built on well-established technology and know-how, is safe and highly effective.
    “It’s a finished product, in the sense that the formulation will no longer change in any way with further testing,” Saksela says. “With what we have, we could inoculate the whole population of Finland tomorrow.” …
    In the mainstream narrative, the first-generation COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca are typically presented as an illustration of how markets incentivize and accelerate vital innovation. In reality, the fact that the profit motive is the overriding force shaping medical research has been devastating — particularly in a global pandemic. The Finnish vaccine provides a striking case study of the many ways in which the contemporary patent-based funding model has slowed down vaccine development, and how it currently hampers the possibility of conducting effective mass-inoculation campaigns.
    “We felt it was our duty to start developing this type of alternative,” says professor Kalle Saksela, chair of the Department of Virology at the University of Helsinki. “Back in the spring, I still thought that surely some public entity will get involved and start pushing it forward. Turns out that no situation is urgent enough to compel the state to start actively pursuing something like this.”
    https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/finland-vaccine-covid-patent-ip

    #77633
    Germ
    Participant

    “Bioethics of Experimental COVID Vaccine Deployment under EUA: It’s time we stop and look at what’s going down.”

    Dr Robert Malone, the discoverer of in-vitro and in-vivo RNA transfection and the inventor of mRNA vaccines, at the Salk Institute in 1988.

    Bioethics of Experimental COVID Vaccine Deployment under EUA: It’s time we stop and look at what’s going down.

    #77634
    Germ
    Participant

    Mississippi — 33 year old pilot can no longer tolerate altitude after the Pfizer jab. No prior medical issues.

    https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/covid-full-data/1026783

    #77635
    Germ
    Participant

    “A British Airways airline pilot found dead at a well-known mountain trail bike park: A post mortem examination showed two conditions, abdominal trauma and haemoperitoneum, but no cause of death had yet been ascertained”

    Airline pilot in mystery death

    #77636
    Germ
    Participant

    Claims that British Airways is in “crisis talks” with the British government due to the deaths of three pilots who received COVID-19 shots are unfounded, a company representative and British medicines regulator spokesperson has told Reuters.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-aviation-idUSL2N2NZ1ZO

    Actually – there IS a crisis at British Airways re. vaccinated pilots!

    #77637
    Germ
    Participant

    Vaccinologist Dr. Byram Bridle (and two other Canadian doctors, Dr. Patrick Philips and Dr. Don Welsh) speaks out about the dangers of the COVID-19 jab, the personal attacks he’s experienced since speaking publically about the COVID-19 jab and its link to myocarditis, and the unprecedented suppression and censorship of doctors and scientists who dare to raise concerns.

    #77638
    Germ
    Participant

    Absolutely nothing to see here.
    Move along!

    #77639
    Germ
    Participant

    8 VACCINATED Crew Members Test Positive for Covid-19 on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship

    8 VACCINATED Crew Members Test Positive for Covid-19 on Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship

    #77640
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Biden video clip up top shows the man is completely senile.

    “The question of whether it’s real when its there …..
    requires enormous transparency ….
    you gotta make it available to all the experts across the nation so they can look and see…..”

    Pathetic drivel from a grifting sock puppet

    Hey man, you’re pretty tall for your height

    #77641
    Germ
    Participant

    Reverse repo explodes to stunning $756 billion overnight, a level never seen before – brace for impact !

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4GhXFZWEAYf87A?format=jpg&name=medium

    #77642
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “Anyone who has had a family member harmed by a vaccine should ban together and file a class-action lawsuit, for these people are NOT immune. This FactCheck.org is funded by the same $1.9 billion vaccine lobby group that it is supposedly independently checking. This is a MAJOR FRAUD, and on top of that, this site is a Facebook partner whose articles are used to censor critical voices on the social media platform. They are instrumental in having people canceled on Facebook.

    In any other regulated field, FactCheck.org is a criminal organization deliberately pushing vaccines and is instrumental in shutting down any opposition. This criminal organization under TRICO statutes is headed by a former CDC director, which is once again a conflict of interest. He is being paid by the drug lobby indirectly. Facebook partnered COVID fact-checker is an outrageous fraud. FactCheck.org was funded by the same $1.9 billion vaccine lobby. A US congressman Thomas Massie has pointed out a fact that a COVID-19 vaccination “fact-checking” project conducted by a Facebook-partnered website was actually funded by a group that holds $1.9 billion in Johnson & Johnson stock.”

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/rule-of-law/factcheck-org-is-a-fraud-might-be-a-criminal-organization/

    This is why as the market fails here, people are going to wake up to being betrayed. By everyone. On everything. What is your anchor?

    “Vaccine Passports: Business Rights vs Personal Freedom (Smith)”

    They make this sound new and mysterious, but it’s been hashed out for hundreds of years and enshrined in law. I can make a case in 10 seconds on any of several platforms and positions that would stop this instantly. But the only answer is: oligarchy, controlling government-enforced monopoly, which has legal immunity from all law and consequences while reaping all the benefits wrested from the people. TINA. There is no alternative.

    How about this: the country was founded, there were NO corporations. To get one you had to pitch to government and explain EXACTLY how giving you the power of a mercenary army would specifically benefit the citizens, or no business charter. If you stopped benefiting the citizens, made mistakes, your charter was erased and you ceased to exist. How’s that sound to you Fargo? You into “Capitalism” Google, Facebook? For that matter, Blackrock, Blackwater and Exxon? Nope. So the system you presently have is fascism, or near enough as makes no difference. There’s a light dusting of capitalism from Jimmy’s Coastal Crab Shack and Joe’s Garage, but they’ve all been bankrupted by COVID that left Midas and Wal-Mart (and casino/liquor stores/prostitution) wide open.

    Do private property rights and free markets extend to them as well,”

    This is the world’s oldest, most pawed-over question ever. They just refuse to enforce a single one of 1,000 years of established law. Look at Musk, Twittering on against specific SEC judgements, Banks breaking their charters 100,000 times a quarter, pharma killing 10,000 people per harmful drug judgement, nobody goes to jail.

    Private property rights? Whiskey Tango. Who is going to enforce them when the government recognizes no rule of law but collusion and bribes?

    There is no conflict here. Not between property and freedom nor anything else. Just as in most articles or ideas, just incredible ignorance of law, facts, and history, and no attempt to ask or find out. HereLetMeGoogleThatForYou.com You know, we all thought that once people could get free access to books without limit or shame, had a Star Trek computer that had the sum total of all human knowledge, people would get smarter, stop being deadly ignorant. The opposite has happened. Look for joke memes from social media on the level of people’s (i.e. mens’) sex education. And their deep, abiding to-the-death confidence in their astonishing level of misunderstanding. With nothing but hundred-million videos out there, with no age-set firewall or protection.

    The answer to defending ignorance? “No it isn’t. I refuse to look.” Just like Epstein, Russia, MIC contracts, elections… “Look at me! I’m a bunny rabbit! If I don’t look at it, it doesn’t exist!” The rest of society sees that and says, “Looks good to me! Why you harshing my vibe, man? Why you attacking him? Words are violence.”

    Like this: Fact, Truth, and Science deniers. To the Death!

    Scientist Backing Probe into Wuhan Lab: We Waited Because of Trump (DW)”

    That goes with the scientists, corporations, even media platforms and groups: they are not immune from liability of shouting “Sit Down or I’ll arrest you: There’s no fire!” in a theatre on fire. Legal liability for active harm is never suspended. Not even for Pharma companies despite their (il)legal carve-out. It just takes a little longer to remove their illegal protections, just like constitutional amendments protecting Illinois unions doesn’t make more money exist.

    the statement that mRNA vaccines are safe and effective is a lie”

    Since they clearly do not know — or actually, knew from 10 years of previous tests that it was deadly and is acting the same — and say it, that is “lie” anyway, the only conclusion is that they WANT people to die. Particularly older ones to actively solve their Social Security and Medicare problems. This has been well-discussed back into the ’80s. Look! You were a problem and I killed you. Problem solved! Useless eaters attained. Level 100.

    #77643
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The Pathocrats have shifted from lying about the origins of Covid to lying full tilt bore about the adverse effects that the ‘vaccine’ (gene manipulation) is having.

    The panic to get to 70% ‘vaccinated’ rate is because the vaccinated zombies shed spike protein in public like crazy and at a 70% rate it establishes the critical mass to have the spike protein, which is toxic, self perpetuate and self spread ad infinitum.

    The critical mass necessary to mass culling

    #77644

    Mississippi — 33 year old pilot can no longer tolerate altitude after the Pfizer jab. No prior medical issues.

    https://www.openvaers.com/covid-data/covid-full-data/1026783

    See above

    #77645
    zerosum
    Participant

    Contrary to • Lifting The Mask (Edward Snowden) piece that you picked, I prefer a few words to doing long essays.

    ” I’d like to do my part in encouraging a return to longer forms of thinking and writing, which provide more room for nuance and more opportunity for establishing consensus or, at the very least, respecting a diversity of perspective and, you know, science.”

    I consider myself as being a minority temporary passenger on the “ship of life” involved in a discussion with other passengers while the crew members are operating the “ship of life”.

    The weather patterns affect life more than any of my opinions.

    #77646
    zerosum
    Participant

    Vaccine passports are irrelevant to a society which is computerized.
    You info is already on file, in data bases, (birth, census, banking, social insurance number, health number, passport, vaccination number, employment, driving license, credit cards, security cameras, etc)
    Linking all this data can be done without your knowledge.
    All of these data bases can track your movements without your input.

    #77647
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    Honestly, I think that while it is clear there is good reason to perceive the Western Covid vaccines as dangerous, this business about “shedding spike proteins” really sounds more like one of those Facebook-memes posted by Boomer and Gen-Xer “crazy uncles”.

    #77648
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Vaccine passports are psychological instruments of humiliation.

    That is their purpose, to remind you that you have no control of your life

    #77649
    Django
    Participant

    Scientists say Trump said pussy so the virus came from a pangolin.

    #77650
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    • Hong Kong Pays Off 3 Patients Who Suffered “Adverse” Reaction To Vaccines (ZH)

    I think the real story is: Which vaccine is causing the worst adverse reactions in Hong Kong?

    Hong Kong is giving only two types of Covid vaccine: Pfizer (“Comirnaty”) and Sinovac (“CoronaVac”). Through the end of May, they’ve given 1.3 million injections of the Pfizer, and 1.0 million of the Sinovac.

    Hong Kong’s records of major adverse events such as hospitalization or death, during the last two weeks of May:

    Deaths: Pfizer 1, Sinovac 0
    Hospitalizations: Pfizer 34, Sinovac 18
    Bell’s Palsy: Pfizer 10, Sinovac 4
    Guillian-Barre Syndrome: Pfizer 1, Sinovac 0

    For the entire vaccination period (not just the last two weeks of May), the data in the report was limited, but this was noted:

    Total number of adverse event reports (including the less serious symptoms): Pfizer 1,502, Sinovac 1,787
    Bell’s Palsy (per million doses): Pfizer 29, Sinovac 37
    Deaths reported (supposedly not linked to the vaccines): Pfizer 8, Sinovac 13
    Thrombocytopenia: Pfizer 1, Sinovac 0

    https://www.drugoffice.gov.hk/eps/do/en/doc/Safety_Monitoring_of_COVID-19_Vaccines_in_Hong_Kong.pdf

    #77652
    Django
    Participant

    Masks are a humiliation and an insult to our intelligence.

    #77653
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    I unsuccessfully tried to post a comment with some data about adverse reactions to the vaccines in Hong Kong, so I’m hoping that Ilargi can unblock it.

    Only two types of Covid vaccines are given in Hong Kong: Pfizer and Sinovac. Guess which one has the worst adverse events.

    #77654

    I unsuccessfully tried to post a comment with some data about adverse reactions to the vaccines in Hong Kong, so I’m hoping that Ilargi can unblock it.

    Done. It registered as spam. No idea why.

    #77655
    Dr. D
    Participant

    The Gamma expired yesterday, levitating stocks. Today, right on cue, stocks (continue) to fall.

    MarketWatch? “Stocks fall on Powell threat to (maybe) raise rates a tiny bit TWO YEARS from now, after the 2022 election”. Right.

    Anyway, I was watching the 10-year but it’s starting in the 2-year:
    2Year
    https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm25FA.jpg

    Rose 600% an hour. But hey: the Fed was overnight RePo’ing $1 TRILLION a day. On TOP of the $100B a month, on TOP of the $6T federal budget, on TOP of the Covid checks, on TOP of the 0% money (that is: totally 100% free money for pals) for BlackRock to over-bid residential houses, on TOP of…

    “Outlook Not so Good”

    Or as Orlov would say: “If there is anything at all that you can do to prepare, your time is short. This is not a drill.”

    #77656
    Antidote
    Participant
    #77657
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    This …

    Oroboros: “Vaccine passports are psychological instruments of humiliation.”

    Django: “Masks are a humiliation and an insult to our intelligence.”

    #77658
    upstateNYer
    Participant

    Dr D: ““Stocks fall on Powell threat to (maybe) raise rates a tiny bit TWO YEARS from now …”

    I saw that yesterday and had to read the sentence a few times, think about what year we are currently in (2021), convince myself the year 2023 wasn’t a typo, then reread how little the rate would be raised … ??

    Alice, my dear, we ain’t in wonderland anymore.

    #77659
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Why would you be surprised by the 2023 dotplot? They won’t raise rates in 2023. That is what 2008 was all about, the system is bankrupt and has been ever since. I still think 100 years from now it will be well known that covid was a scam and an excuse to print money because the system required it. The great reset is an admission by the “elites” that the system doesn’t have much time left. They are putting out feelers, getting your mind ready for what they think should come next as long as they remain in charge.

    #77660
    Mr. House
    Participant

    rates will stay at zero to combat covid 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, ect ect ect

    #77661
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Covid in a skit

    “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” Monty Python –

    Isabella of Spain ran the franchise into the ground in the late 1400’s

    Ferdinand was a moron, she was the brains with very expensive tastes.

    She bankrolled Columbus because he promised lots of Gold Booty

    Isabella also wanted the Moors and the Jews kicked out of Spain so she could confiscate their booty.

    She dropped the Pope a line and she, can she, Isabelle of Spain, have all the material possessions of the Moors and Jews, and he, the Pope, could ‘have’ their souls. He loved the idea.

    A win-win

    Thus the Spanish Inquisition, the Great Reset of 15th century Spain.

    The Inquisition confiscations gave the crown the financial ‘investment capital’ to finance the Rape and Plunder of the New World for a century, a big payoff.

    Spain would have sunk to backwater status in Europe had the Inquisition not paid off so spectacularly.

    #77662
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    VAERS is currently down…

    #77663
    Noirette
    Participant

    The article on Swexit was sorta OK. Skipping the comparison with the UK – they are too different to be useful for comprehension imho.

    The number of EU_CH bi-lateral accords (not treaties; they are in the main commercial agreements) is about say 200 or more, not 100 – (it depends what you count) and they are a pain in the neck.

    An infuriating (to some) and clumsy patchwork of piece-meal ‘legal stuff.’ Moreover, and here is the kicker – there was (and is) built into the overall picture, what is called the “guillotine clause” – which stipulates that if one, 1, accord is denounced by CH, all the rest fall flat, are nullified as well (total isolation! – this applies to ‘paquets’ of bilateral accords and not all of them.. more horrid detail..)

    This dismaying situation was, is, the result of decades of drifting about, of quarreling around the edges, of compromises, good and bad. The guillotine clause was always hanging over CH! (And F, D, etc.) Both parties wanted to end this state of affairs.

    Support from the Swiss ppl for an ‘institutional’, ‘supra-ordinate’ or ‘generalist’ accord – clarifying and settling all the issues was thus quite high, in 2015 or so, 64% would have voted yes to such an accord.

    In 2020 that % was 22, and this March it was 15%. The ‘liberal left’ mentioned in the article is a tiny, really very marginal, part of the population. (Even that is a stretch, those for the accord come from all over the pol spectrum. Here the author applies his own lenses..) Even the Socialists – the ‘liberal’ left – have for the past 25 years not dared to speak one hushed word about joining the EU, they can foresee their demise.

    in F. https://www.24heures.ch/une-majorite-de-la-population-est-favorable-a-laccord-cadre-419355155386

    Yet, both parties soldiered on, neither of them wanting to stymie, spoil or destroy relations. However, it has been understood for a long time, 10 years or more, that certain obstacles could never be overcome. The PPLs party (so called populist right) adherents could never accept the super-ordinate EU courts.

    The devil is in the details. One ex. re. the mention of high salaries in CH in the top article. The EU allows, nay champions, *detached workers.* Fantastique! Wunderbar! So Polish and Slovak guys and gals go and work in Germany and France, and they are paid …like in their country (the details are too bothersome, long..) These contracts are supposed to be limited in time, exceptional, only temp. but of course they are abused. It is a kind of legal ‘sub-par’ or even ‘slave’ (when sent by a company with no way out) labor, made ‘respectable’ by complex rules, bureaucratic obfuscation. (Almost) no Swiss ppl, not even Swiss bosses can accept this.

    #77664
    phoenixvoice
    Participant

    Oroboros: Vaccine passports are psychological instruments of humiliation.

    Touche’.

    At first it was just Walmart — I complained online, and wore no mask, defying the rule that only the “fully vaccinated” may enter maskless. Now WinCo (grocery chain, ESOP) has the same sign. Next week, the city public library follows suit. Now, with the library, it hurts. I feel betrayed. I have always loved libraries. (Was able to enter — not just “curbside” service now — with my daughter this week. The new librarian who helped us was delighted to actually meet my daughter…apparently my daughter has borrowed more books by reserving them and picking them up “curbside” in the past year than any other library patron of this small branch…and the librarian was finally able to put — half — of a face to the name.). The rule that all must wear masks is stupid — masks don’t protect us — but a rule that the unvaccinated be masked is insidious.

    On Saturday I’ve been asked to be a ringer at a singing event at the local retirement community. I’ll likely be the only one masked, the only “unvaccinated” soul, making a non-verbal declaration to all present of my perfidy. I told my friend who invited me (he apologized for the mask rule) that I would wear my scarlet letter (for that is what it is.) If there is no instruction regarding dress that I need to abide by as a performer, I’ll wear one of my “Covid survivor” t-shirts. I feel that I need to shout from the rooftops about this insanity, but I tread warily, knowing that if I step too boldly that cognitive dissonance will come down hard on those whose ear I wish to bend, and will shut their minds. Better to start with just a foot in the door: “Oh, look, she is unvaccinated….and already had Covid…so how then is she still a risk?” If I have to wear a scarlet letter, then wear with pride and make it count!

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