Right? I found out who my allies were with covid. Though I refused to believe government bullshit anymore after the (deliberate) home mortgage collapse and the illegal foreclosures of more homes than in all of world history, a few stuck with me as I told anyone who would listen that worse was coming But I managed, despite my sour cynicis…
Right? I found out who my allies were with covid. Though I refused to believe government bullshit anymore after the (deliberate) home mortgage collapse and the illegal foreclosures of more homes than in all of world history, a few stuck with me as I told anyone who would listen that worse was coming But I managed, despite my sour cynicism, to be worth having as a friend.
Until covid.
By early in March of 2020 my van was plastered with anti 'cower-in-place' posters, pleas to "think of your (grand)children", "You're eventually going to die, but why not LIVE in the meantime" memes, which were changed weekly, until July of 2020. It was then that I finally realized that people were impossibly blinded by the narrative. In my little town it was a friend and his woman and I who refused to wear masks or be afraid of the scamdemic. The whole town turned against him. He had a small café and refused to require people to wear masks, refusing to wear them himself. Every misfit in town bought his fare, maskless. Tourists would come in, many of them would turn around and leave because, by summer, he was requiring people to remove the mask so he could understand what they were saying.
Then the county (unlawfully) fined him $10,000 for failing to follow 'safety guidelines'. Some of the local business owners conspired to heap fresh manure in front of the door to his business, to spit on his windows, and of course threatened him online. They ripped quotes from the declaration of Independence off his windows, declared him persona non grata. Cowards all.
His landlord refused to extend his lease, even after initially agreeing to renew after some news services carried a story of his plight, making the absent landlord look anti American for denying him his right-to-renew after they heard he wasn't complying with the narrative. But people from all over the US called to either threaten or praise him.
Eventually he bought a piece of land far far north of here and now has a fully sustainable farm, of which I am about to buy 3/4's of an quarter acre and join him building an agoric enterprise.
Right? I found out who my allies were with covid. Though I refused to believe government bullshit anymore after the (deliberate) home mortgage collapse and the illegal foreclosures of more homes than in all of world history, a few stuck with me as I told anyone who would listen that worse was coming But I managed, despite my sour cynicism, to be worth having as a friend.
Until covid.
By early in March of 2020 my van was plastered with anti 'cower-in-place' posters, pleas to "think of your (grand)children", "You're eventually going to die, but why not LIVE in the meantime" memes, which were changed weekly, until July of 2020. It was then that I finally realized that people were impossibly blinded by the narrative. In my little town it was a friend and his woman and I who refused to wear masks or be afraid of the scamdemic. The whole town turned against him. He had a small café and refused to require people to wear masks, refusing to wear them himself. Every misfit in town bought his fare, maskless. Tourists would come in, many of them would turn around and leave because, by summer, he was requiring people to remove the mask so he could understand what they were saying.
Then the county (unlawfully) fined him $10,000 for failing to follow 'safety guidelines'. Some of the local business owners conspired to heap fresh manure in front of the door to his business, to spit on his windows, and of course threatened him online. They ripped quotes from the declaration of Independence off his windows, declared him persona non grata. Cowards all.
His landlord refused to extend his lease, even after initially agreeing to renew after some news services carried a story of his plight, making the absent landlord look anti American for denying him his right-to-renew after they heard he wasn't complying with the narrative. But people from all over the US called to either threaten or praise him.
Eventually he bought a piece of land far far north of here and now has a fully sustainable farm, of which I am about to buy 3/4's of an quarter acre and join him building an agoric enterprise.