- Hot
- New
- Categories...
- Producer's Lounge
- Producer's Vault
- The Gulch: Live! (New)
- Ask the Gulch!
- Going Galt
- Books
- Business
- Classifieds
- Culture
- Economics
- Education
- Entertainment
- Government
- History
- Humor
- Legislation
- Movies
- News
- Philosophy
- Pics
- Politics
- Science
- Technology
- Video
- The Gulch: Best of
- The Gulch: Bugs
- The Gulch: Feature Requests
- The Gulch: Featured Producers
- The Gulch: General
- The Gulch: Introductions
- The Gulch: Local
- The Gulch: Promotions
- Marketplace
- Members
- Store
- More...
And am shocked at people, ALONE, OUTSIDE, wearing a mask while walking...
Has been Vaccinated.
Works from home, and is a bit of a loner.
Wears an N95 Mask, with a SECOND Mask to cover that... Because 2 masks.
While driving his car...
ALONE.
I was out walking, I had him stop his car so I could call him an Idiot. FL, so his windows were up, and his A/C was on. DOUBLE MASKED.
After taking the vaccine.
He said "I am just trying to be polite!"...
I wish this virus targeted the STUPID instead of the OLD!
That is the reason for the vaccine.
...think about that...
But my problem goes back to the "mark of the beast" concept in play here.
If I want to go into a grocery store, I have to wear a mask or they won't let me buy food. Even their curbside delivery requires me to wear a mask while they're loading the groceries into my car. I'm comfortable eating in restaurants; but I have to wear my mask unless I'm seated at the table or else they won't let me into the restaurant. I'm in a grief support group on Thursday nights; the meeting takes place in the lobby of a hospital. If I don't wear the mask, I can't attend the group.
I have to wear the mask to "live"; if I don't wear it, I'm forcibly segregated (and yeah, I know that's a bit redundant) and prevented from doing almost anything.
And no, I haven't been vaccinated, and I seriously doubt I get "the jab". In addition to strongly resenting the idea of being forced to get vaccinated for something that has a 99.7% survival rate (which is where this is all heading), I have medical reasons for not wanting it. I've got allergies, and my reactions are anaphylactic (sp) in nature. There have been a number of stories of people with the same allergies as I having severe reactions, and a few of them have died.
So me, and those like me, are faced with an ugly choice. Wear our face panties and get jabbed, and we'll be "allowed" to live a normal life. Or stand on principles and not endanger my health, and be ostracized.
Bud: "Hippie, you think everything is a conspiracy."
Hippie: "Everything is."
I agree that those who do want to go should not be force vaccinated. That said, there are a lot of other water craft in the area that will take them to another island for a price.
My wife and I had a cruise booked for May '20 that was obviously cancelled. Rather than take a refund, we underestimated the length of time until C-19 was brought under control; we transferred what we'd paid to Cruise Credit accounts at Norwegian. Big mistake.
Late last summer, we re-booked the cruise for May '21, thinking things would be relatively normal by then; when it was obvious that wasn't going to happen, that cruise was cancelled by NCL. But since our payment for that cruise was with our Cruise Credit rather than with cash, our only option was to have the money transferred back to our Cruise Credit accounts.
Now the cruise line has mandated vaccinations for all crew and passengers. Yeah, that rule, at least at NCL, is only in effect thru 10/31/21. But I have absolutely no doubt that this vaccination mandate will be permanent, and across all cruise lines. Won't surprise me to see airlines also adopt the policy.
My wife has been vaccinated; she works at a hospital, and for her, it was an easy choice to get the shots. So Norwegian will gladly allow her to board the ship whenever they finally get reopened.
But now I'm truly on the horns of a dilemma.
If I don't get the vaccination, they won't let me on board and I'm out a bunch of money, and my wife either doesn't take the cruise or she goes by herself. Or I violate my principles and put my health at risk from an adverse reaction standpoint by getting jabbed.
Unless something changes in the next 6-8 months that gives me a different perspective on things, I will remain un-vaccinated for a disease that has a 99.7% survival rate. I'll take my chances that I'll be one of the 997 out of the 1000.
Not sure if they'll go along, but I'm going to ask Norwegian to allow a name change, which would in essence let me give my Cruise Credit to someone my wife would want to travel with: her daughter, or one of her sisters. that way, she could still take the cruise, and she'd have a travelling companion.
It's another of those "us vs. them" situations that the great unwashed..er, un-vaccinated...are being put in if we refuse to get vaccinated.
I will not be taking a vaccine or getting tested.
Also people take off their masks and lay them on the table, putting them back on when they are through eating. Seeing a lot of masks now in the parking lots, on the ground, and along the road. Soon they will have mask islands floating in the oceans that will need to be cleaned up. I think this is all part of the Bill Gates (and other elites) plan to reduce the Earth's population. As soon as they get the MSM's full support we can count on it getting started..
Cynicism? I suspect the kiddies at the border are fomenting a new variant that will bypass the vaccines single defensive posture requiring another shot,and another and another, if it doesn't kill the sheeple first (and it will kill many, that's the plan). In the meantime everyone else not vaccinated will have to social distance, be pressured into mask wearing again, and stringently coerced if not physically forced to vaccinate. At that point the suicide rate in this country will skyrocket while people drop like flies from the more lethal Covid strain they are entirely unprepared for.
I hope I am wrong.
Unconventional? yes.
Information warfare? Yes.
Good vs Evil.
The Evil ones “ mask” their true intentions under the guise of public safety. Weird that the same folks who funded and created a weaponized SARS infection also are the ones who are advising US. Dr Fucki has been committing crimes against humanity for decades. Your life ,my life it means nothing to them.
My comment/question to complacent America now: So....how does it feel to be "Black"?
Is the implication that refusing to wear a mask precipitates the same bigotry as black people used to see?
Victor Hugo Les Mis... " It is nothing to die, but is horrible not to have lived."
"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."
I am losing hope in the human race.