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I have stopped reading some of my covid related substacks.. to stay sane. It’s clear what happened and what’s going on, and hard to do much about it. Yet I do want to stay informed. What to do? C&C is a lightning bolt of lightness and humor on a dark and stormy night. Thank you, Jeff! You have me snarfing just about every morning. And today just nails it. Cheers to you.
Amen! Same. Lots of hardworking folks out there, and it's good stuff, but I already KNOW this was all a sham. I used to meticulously catalog all kinds of data points and use them in arguments with sheep friends and family to try to convince them but I am DONE. Cut most of them out of my life, or greatly reduced interactions. But I NEVER miss C&C!!
I made a random comment on a local group earlier this week after a poster noted that she was in HC and cases were rising fast and concern for blah blah blah...I just commented, So, do you trust the tests? For 2+ years EVERYTHING was covid. Oh my gosh, she lit into me with a rant that I thought had died in 2021. All the virtue signaling....'I was on the front lines'....'watched people say goodbye to loved ones on an ipad'....'I have multiple science degrees'....'people like you who deny science are making us unsafe'. In my previous and dumber days I would have tried to take her on, hitting her with studies, links, facts. I just shrugged and kept scrolling.
Ugh what a tool that person is 🙄 And saying goodbye on the iPad???? Whose fault was that??? Just the ridiculous panicked hysterics who wouldn’t let people be with their loved ones!!! 🤬
And yes, I never miss C&C (or the comments either!), it’s such a breath of fresh air!!! 😍
Sadly I have been super busy the last couple of weeks and have not had much time for the comments but I always prioritize at least reading the C&C blog. I love the comments section, but it's a giant sucking sound that once I go there I can lose track of time and next thing I know I am behind on everything else.
I am showing my age with that one. Ross Perot (ran as 3rd party for president in 1992) used that phrase to describe NAFTA's effect on American jobs, it was his signature line. People made fun of him, but I was a huge fan and volunteered for his campaign.
I thought the same thing at first! Saying good bye on an iPad?? Whose fault was that? Hers! If she was on the front line and seeing what the hospitals did to people, SHE was the buck. SHE had a chance to stop it or at least speak up instead of being a useless zombie mouthpiece.
Exactly!!! Just like all those fervent Covidiots who wring their hands and lament about how children are so behind on academics and have so many mental health issues 🙄😡 Well who insisted on creating the conditions for THAT??? 🤬 Jerks.
Oh yes, just move the goalposts, a perennial favorite of theirs to be sure… 🙄
Also since the ones suffering the worst effects are “the poors” it doesn’t really matter anyway. As long as their kids can get tutoring and help to keep up, it’s all good! Plus they can all virtue signal about how hard they worked to keep everyone safe, so no harmful effects from the lockdowns, masks and jabs will ever be bad enough to outdo the virtue high they get from their good deeds 🙄
Honestly the only way you have any Hope if you are white is if you identify as transgender. White women have been relegated to colonial oppressor pile with the men.
"The influential and prestigious Royal Society of the UK put out a huge study that concluded lockdowns and everything associated with them were all wonderfully effective."
"...........It’s because most of the world’s governments have an unthinkably massive investment, both financially and propagandistically, in the lockdown paradigm. They can never admit that it was all an unworkable disaster. The world is still far from recovering."
"The world is still far from recovering." I was at Home Depot this afternoon and a young couple was in there, basically by themselves, dutifully wearing their N95's. Worse was the woman I saw while on my way home who was masked while walking alone, outside.
Michael, finish the story: someone investigate the Royal Society and their entire board is deeply compromised - they all were decisive in instigating the lockdowns, etc. Hardly objective!
If there is any justice in the world (and we know ultimately, there IS), people will hang their heads in shame whenever the practice of "last good-byes via iPad" gets raised in conversation. What a shameful, shameful time for humanity and the medical profession in particular!
None the less, Hillary was wrong in what she said. Yes, nothing could be done, but then one does not learn from their mistakes. Proof: we are in another seemingly unending and unwinable war
INGRID--Please share a case series of exploding brains. There might need to be ICD10 diagnostic code for those conditions, especially if there seems to be an association with T-shirts.
Now now, Michael, remember, correlation isn’t causation 😬😆 There’s no reason to believe those t-shirt messages were responsible for the exploding brains. It was probably climate change. Or gardening. Or too much joy 😬😆
I agree. I just stopped entering in those discussions. You will never convince them. And that's okay. I'll stay true to me and see which one if us remain standing.
PS - didn't all those "misinformed " doctors tells us to watch and see where we are in two years? That people would be dying? Welp.... here we are.
They can't handle being wrong. I just quietly sit back while they are baffled and then they themselves get sick and die. It's all so pathetic but egos are strong. There's no point in saying anything. They won't accept it.
Smart people <can> use that intelligence to better at at confirmation bias.
I was a student at Caltech for 1 2/3 years before admitting I'd never make it there and transferring to a state U. But that does qualify me to join a Caltech alumni discussion group on facebook. I'm a loser in real life compared to most of these people. But almost all of them still have faith in organized science in the US and will not take off their blinders. At best, they will ignore the exhortations to take boosters if they know they have gotten COVID. At worst - you can guess. There is one exception besides me, who is considered a kook, of course.
You see I was openminded when I was told back in 2004 about the mercury in vaccines, and started biomed recovery of my older daughter, who had a milder form of autism. I've been skeptical ever since. And I've used my classes in probably and statistics, (in which I earned "C"s, thanks to untreated depression) as well as learning on the fly about ways to torture studies to provide desired outcomes, to see behind the curtain.
YOU ARE NOT A LOSER IN REAL LIFE! We are all children of God, and we all have different and valuable gifts. Book smarts is just one area of life and income level is just a way shallow people keep score. Skepticism is a gift, as is common sense. Being able to help your daughter is a gift. Look at a guy like Oliver Anthony, who went from an obscure guy with a substance abuse problem to a household name all because he gave it all to the Lord and trusted in Him, yet has turned down big contracts as he just wants to be his own person. Matthew 16:26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Good for you, now I just look at them and say, "Really" and wait for their response. I don't bother arguing or trying to convince anyone - it's an absolute waist of time.
Oh in person, I try to read the situation, and if they seem open I will go there, but if they are arrogant or virtue signalers, I just say guess we have to agree to disagree. But I really did try for about 18 months, in person, on the phone, online. Emailed articles, studies, links, tried to acknowledge that many people were leading with emotion/fear. But all I got back was anger and hatefulness. Sad how many still don't have a clue even now. 95% of the time, it is a waste of time.
I can't remember where I saw it, but there was some crazy op-ed about 'missing lockdowns'!! Just typed 'I miss lockdowns' into DDG, and OMG, there were a bunch of results!? WTH! I hated it with a passion. Granted MO was only shut down for a few weeks but everything was still cancelled for months on end. Lots of damaged people from this garbage.
The more I think about this, the more outraged I feel. It just shows how juvenile and selfish these people are. They’re nostalgic for lockdowns because they lacked the courage and the maturity to set appropriate boundaries. So they were grateful the government made an excuse for them. But they completely disregard all of the damage and harm it did to so many people in society. Oh but as long as THEY enjoyed it and felt relieved to be able to slow down the pace of life, as long as THEY still got paid, to hell with everyone else who suffered. So completely self centered!!! 🤬 Then they had the absolute gall to preen about how much they “cared” 😡
Those people…I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just an impossible pill to swallow for them. And it puts us in that awkward conspiracy theorist category. Even IF they could admit that mask and vaxes didn’t work that leads to the whys…why can’t I trust my doctor, why would our government do this to us? The answer to that is untenable.
I was blessed to stumble into mistrust in the government in my 20's, no one big lightning bolt, just a gradual awakening that social programs are the opposite of 'caring', that bureaucrats care more about policy than people, and that there are no incentives baked in to excel. But even so the past few years have 'turned it up to 11' (if you are a Spinal Tap fan ;-) for me.
If only he'd kept his panties on, he'd still be alive. There was another mystery panty left on shore. Size x small Hanes mom style briefs with no front pocket. Wonder who wore those.
Deer with cv-19? Not buying it. Do you know how much hunters spend to be able to sneak up on a deer so as to have a clean shot? Even when it's not hunting season getting within the magic 6' safety bubble is impossible!
I’m thinking they choose “deer” because they want to frighten us from harvesting deer meat when their great famine puts us in starvation mode. Wild feral hogs are probably next to vilify as covid contaminated, and then wild turkeys. Just a thought anyway. Remember how Venezuela people killed and ate zoo animals to survive? I don’t put anything past TPTB and their evil agenda.
We also love wild (feral) hog meat; especially hog sausage, it’s more like a steak patty than the greasy mess you get at the grocery store. In fact you have to add lard to wild hog meat as you make the sausage since it’s so dry compared to domesticated hog.
And I don’t think you need any kind of license (at least not in my state) since they are considered a menace, and you can hunt them year round.
I suppose it would be gutting and carrying them out of the woods. Then the butchering part. So this is how us hunters get the covid. And then of course we cook up that meat and eat it so there is more covid. I think I'll continue to eat wild meat and not suck up all the chemicals in the processed meats from the government run factories. If I drop dead in my sleep so be it. (there is still fake news all over out there)
In my neighborhood I can touch the deer they are so close and they could care less if I’m standing there or not with my dog barking, they just look us and go eating....
Sarah, welcome aboard the Sanity Ship! Reading C&C helped me to wake up about the goings on during the pl..demic. I've been skeptical of medical system for some time but this got me to a new level. Such a breath of fresh air with a twist :) Yes, I read daily. Thank you Jeff!
Left in 1980 though. The long cycle of SF life was behind me and my family.
Marin was the next stop and eventually Sonoma county.
I left the Bay in 2014 for good. Started to feel suffocated and wanted to live in the SW.
Kids grown and on my own.
Life was a bit tough starting in March 2020 within my big family during that whole fiasco. I seemed to be the only one with “common sense” and able to stick to my guns. Nothing is going in my arm.
I did too much research early on..... way too much so that was a big NO.
Luckily Arizona had many pockets of sanity. Any many in my community didn’t buy it.
They turned off CNN’s ticker tape of death! Broadcast for months on end.
Now my fiancé and I travel full time in an RV
Traveling the west.
Oh the places we’ve been.... and the folks we’ve met.
Good news.... we’re not all divided and hate each other.
Met almost a thousand people out there.
Most are wonderful.
Two or three have been challenging.
But it has restored my faith that the entire country is not divided.
Now I’m back in the north bay for a month and well..... the masks are back on slowly but surely.
Sad to see a mom and two young kids masked up outside walking the dogs. Along with many others.
On a perfect sunny Sonoma county day.
Oh well.....
Visiting a family member who has blood clots in one leg and a very rare and unexpected cancer that just popped up.
Sadly Any information I shared with family back in 2020 seemed to fall on deaf or angry ears.
And so, here we are
We’re all talking now but it was a dark period.
Even lost contact with one of my daughters for too long. But even that has come back around and slowly mending that.
Excited to follow your Substack 🥳
I too have so so many great memories from my childhood in SF. But during the 60’s and 70’s.
Heavy but hints of Humor, a catastrophic comedy. After some Papal BULLSHI- and some Pearl Harbor II Lahaina updates this morning i needed a dose of C&C to offset the side effects of Globalism Unhinged. Drinking a full cup (actually 3) and praying I can actually smell and taste it while perusing tidbits of interest these past few years helps me hang on. Too Bad Cheeseburgers, Margaritas and Reefer don't counteract CoVid and mRNA spikes.
How do you know cheeseburgers, margarita's and reefer's do not counteract covid and the spike proteins? Science? I read back in 2020 that the tobacco smokers and the weed smokers were not getting bad cases of covid. Of course that news was buried fast by the media.
yes, more grants and gvt $$$ to fund the research!!! we must know! That dammed herbal tea sipping every 15 minutes to thwart the virus was worse than actual CoVid and peeing every half hour ruined productivity even while working from home!
That is a sign to many of us Catholics that war will break out soon in Europe. The world is on a precipice. Foretold by 4 little girls, in Garabandal Spain, receiving visions from the Virgin Mary, back in the early 1960’s.
“This prophecy has been on the watchlist of those who have been following prophecies made during the apparitions of the Blessed Mother to four girls (now in their senior years, except one who passed away as a "victim soul") in Garabandal, Spain from 1961-1965.
This Garabandal prophecy (in 1965) seems to be at the doorstep: that the pope would visit Moscow and upon his return to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in many parts of Europe.”
Critical Middle, Jeff's is the only one I continue to read. Like you, I had to stay sane. But Jeff, and more importantly - the community of commenters - makes me laugh and gives me hope.
I agree as the masks are returning to my area large grocery chain. About a half dozen spotted, and while not bad it is the start. I now believe these people are lacking some kind of discernment the rest of us possess. They are quite willing to spend the rest of their lives behind a mask and believe at the altar of msm. They certainly never got this from reading.
I think maybe, in my case, it's the Holy Spirit that gives me wisdom and understanding. I'm still working on the patience part, and love for my enemy. Always a work-in-progress.
Oh wow! I thought it was just me. I mean yesterday when I was reading FLCCC’s post, it just got me so mad and wound up. I was a mess for the rest of the day. Couldn’t sing, praise or worship my way out of a bad mood bc of the prospect of returning to COVID normal. Yeah, I think a little bit of blissful ignorance and “just Jeff” posts might set me right. I need to laugh more.
It is possible to overdo it on negative news and it can bring you down. I appreciate reading C&C every morning and there's always something positive thrown in.
Only in the early reports. When the autopsy was done, or if you read the Rolling Stone interview he did, you found out he had an enlarged heart. His doctor had told him about it in 2021 but said it was because he worked out!!! Athletes heart doesn't fit his 600 gram heart. It should have been 280-340!
They were my absolute favorite for nearly two decades until they did that song to benefit Planned Parenthood... The drummer was Taylor Hawkins. He had cleaned himself up and became a family man. I’d heard about his 600 gram heart, but thought they were still trying to blame drugs.
I loved them when they first came out because most of the Nirvana fans were still in a state of semi-mourning. It was good to have the blood pumping to grungy sound again but... I dunno, they were Nirvana lite. Became formulaic... meh.
and he fought to save the manatees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_bbxKGUaAI. We swam with them at Crystal River. You are not allowed to touch them, though the impulse to throw your arms around them and swim out to the gulf is as strong as having to get tied to the mast to not be seduced by the sirens. https://www.savethemanatee.org/
I was swimming off Anna Maria Island and a manatee came right up and swam around me. I touched it (accidentally!) with my foot. It felt like a moss covered rock. Hubs was watching from the shore with binos and said it made about 3 passes around me in a circle and swam away. It was THE BEST.
Our son had the same experience off the beach in Naples. A group of them swam to him and even got near enough to him their fins touched him as they swam around him. It surprised him a bit but after he realized what it was he enjoyed the experience. He said they appeared very gentle and he never felt threatened.
Eric Clapton, telling it like it is. Notes that his bullshit meter was going off even before covid, but he pushed it to the back of his mind, and he believed the doctors. https://rumble.com/embed/vg3ban/?pub=4&
“Its very polarized and alienation doesn’t work, it’s not going to help.”
“I caught this anxiety sickness – by following the news. I’ve STOPPED watching TV. So much of the sickness is in our heads now. We’ve become weak.”
“What disturbs me the most? The corrosion of freedom.”
“I was reading 1984: How do you control people? Not fear, it’s suffering. You get caught in the trap.”
Why aren’t more people speaking out? FEAR. Reprisals.
I think Eric was silent until he spoke out about potential dangers of the shot. I remember him not enforcing shot at shoes and getting bad press about it. N. Young, J Mellencamp, and so many others are wackos and it makes their music unenjoyable now.
I have stopped reading some of my covid related substacks.. to stay sane. It’s clear what happened and what’s going on, and hard to do much about it. Yet I do want to stay informed. What to do? C&C is a lightning bolt of lightness and humor on a dark and stormy night. Thank you, Jeff! You have me snarfing just about every morning. And today just nails it. Cheers to you.
... Covidians... people who identify as deer... 😂😂😂 Jeff's sharing is medicine for the body, mind, heart & soul!
Amen! Same. Lots of hardworking folks out there, and it's good stuff, but I already KNOW this was all a sham. I used to meticulously catalog all kinds of data points and use them in arguments with sheep friends and family to try to convince them but I am DONE. Cut most of them out of my life, or greatly reduced interactions. But I NEVER miss C&C!!
I made a random comment on a local group earlier this week after a poster noted that she was in HC and cases were rising fast and concern for blah blah blah...I just commented, So, do you trust the tests? For 2+ years EVERYTHING was covid. Oh my gosh, she lit into me with a rant that I thought had died in 2021. All the virtue signaling....'I was on the front lines'....'watched people say goodbye to loved ones on an ipad'....'I have multiple science degrees'....'people like you who deny science are making us unsafe'. In my previous and dumber days I would have tried to take her on, hitting her with studies, links, facts. I just shrugged and kept scrolling.
Ugh what a tool that person is 🙄 And saying goodbye on the iPad???? Whose fault was that??? Just the ridiculous panicked hysterics who wouldn’t let people be with their loved ones!!! 🤬
And yes, I never miss C&C (or the comments either!), it’s such a breath of fresh air!!! 😍
Sadly I have been super busy the last couple of weeks and have not had much time for the comments but I always prioritize at least reading the C&C blog. I love the comments section, but it's a giant sucking sound that once I go there I can lose track of time and next thing I know I am behind on everything else.
Oh yes I definitely can spend far more time here than I should but it’s way better than TV (which I don’t have anyway!) 😁
Giant sucking sound lol 😂 too true !
...as I sit here scrolling 😂😂😂
I'm back for the second time. I'm glad it's Saturday
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Same here... LOL
I am showing my age with that one. Ross Perot (ran as 3rd party for president in 1992) used that phrase to describe NAFTA's effect on American jobs, it was his signature line. People made fun of him, but I was a huge fan and volunteered for his campaign.
I thought the same thing at first! Saying good bye on an iPad?? Whose fault was that? Hers! If she was on the front line and seeing what the hospitals did to people, SHE was the buck. SHE had a chance to stop it or at least speak up instead of being a useless zombie mouthpiece.
Exactly!!! Just like all those fervent Covidiots who wring their hands and lament about how children are so behind on academics and have so many mental health issues 🙄😡 Well who insisted on creating the conditions for THAT??? 🤬 Jerks.
Well, you will be happy to know that they are no longer behind on academics. 2nd grade standards have now been adopted for 12th grade. Problem solved!
And mental health issues. pfffssshhhh...you can be anyone or anything you want to be (except white, male, and/or conservative).
/sarc off/
Oh yes, just move the goalposts, a perennial favorite of theirs to be sure… 🙄
Also since the ones suffering the worst effects are “the poors” it doesn’t really matter anyway. As long as their kids can get tutoring and help to keep up, it’s all good! Plus they can all virtue signal about how hard they worked to keep everyone safe, so no harmful effects from the lockdowns, masks and jabs will ever be bad enough to outdo the virtue high they get from their good deeds 🙄
Honestly the only way you have any Hope if you are white is if you identify as transgender. White women have been relegated to colonial oppressor pile with the men.
If she administered Remdesivir, she is a murderer.
From this morning's Brownstone:
"The influential and prestigious Royal Society of the UK put out a huge study that concluded lockdowns and everything associated with them were all wonderfully effective."
"...........It’s because most of the world’s governments have an unthinkably massive investment, both financially and propagandistically, in the lockdown paradigm. They can never admit that it was all an unworkable disaster. The world is still far from recovering."
"The world is still far from recovering." I was at Home Depot this afternoon and a young couple was in there, basically by themselves, dutifully wearing their N95's. Worse was the woman I saw while on my way home who was masked while walking alone, outside.
Michael, finish the story: someone investigate the Royal Society and their entire board is deeply compromised - they all were decisive in instigating the lockdowns, etc. Hardly objective!
If there is any justice in the world (and we know ultimately, there IS), people will hang their heads in shame whenever the practice of "last good-byes via iPad" gets raised in conversation. What a shameful, shameful time for humanity and the medical profession in particular!
saying goodbye on an ipad... The victim is dying (or being killed). As Hillary would say "what difference will it make now"?
No doubt there is a special covidian line while awaiting judgment in Heaven. Very cruel people.
Cruel is right!!
None the less, Hillary was wrong in what she said. Yes, nothing could be done, but then one does not learn from their mistakes. Proof: we are in another seemingly unending and unwinable war
Of course she was wrong. And yes, learning from your mistakes is crucial.
Absolutely!!!
She is one of those people we wear the “Shut up! Science!” T-shirts for… 🙄
ETA: I guess it’s technically actually “Science! Shut up!” But same idea 😁
My sister bought me that t-shirt for my birthday last year! It's a great conversation starter!
My sister bought me a tee that says:
This is NOT my circus, these are NOT my monkeys.
I bought her one that says: This is ALL bull shit!
Those are great !
That’s awesome!! What a great sister!!
mine arrived last week. I also got the uninjected T from Mark Oshinskie. And all the different ones from Sharyll Attkisson. And 3 from JP
Wow that’s great! Now you can go out and see some people’s brains explode 🤯
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hey hey do not spill the brains on my brand new shirts LOL
Ewwww 😝😂
INGRID--Please share a case series of exploding brains. There might need to be ICD10 diagnostic code for those conditions, especially if there seems to be an association with T-shirts.
Now now, Michael, remember, correlation isn’t causation 😬😆 There’s no reason to believe those t-shirt messages were responsible for the exploding brains. It was probably climate change. Or gardening. Or too much joy 😬😆
More like: ID10T code!
experts will be baffled
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I agree. I just stopped entering in those discussions. You will never convince them. And that's okay. I'll stay true to me and see which one if us remain standing.
PS - didn't all those "misinformed " doctors tells us to watch and see where we are in two years? That people would be dying? Welp.... here we are.
They can't handle being wrong. I just quietly sit back while they are baffled and then they themselves get sick and die. It's all so pathetic but egos are strong. There's no point in saying anything. They won't accept it.
Exactly. No point in saying anything. Took me a long time to learn that. 🙃
Yup!
Yeah better not to engage. They are not open to hearing anything that’s not in their Covidian bible so it’s a waste of breath.
Thanks for the reminder. I got sucked into the vortex and wound up being called names that should not be allowed on the internet.
You should have asked her if she made TikTok dance videos since she was so "busy."
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Smart people <can> use that intelligence to better at at confirmation bias.
I was a student at Caltech for 1 2/3 years before admitting I'd never make it there and transferring to a state U. But that does qualify me to join a Caltech alumni discussion group on facebook. I'm a loser in real life compared to most of these people. But almost all of them still have faith in organized science in the US and will not take off their blinders. At best, they will ignore the exhortations to take boosters if they know they have gotten COVID. At worst - you can guess. There is one exception besides me, who is considered a kook, of course.
You see I was openminded when I was told back in 2004 about the mercury in vaccines, and started biomed recovery of my older daughter, who had a milder form of autism. I've been skeptical ever since. And I've used my classes in probably and statistics, (in which I earned "C"s, thanks to untreated depression) as well as learning on the fly about ways to torture studies to provide desired outcomes, to see behind the curtain.
YOU ARE NOT A LOSER IN REAL LIFE! We are all children of God, and we all have different and valuable gifts. Book smarts is just one area of life and income level is just a way shallow people keep score. Skepticism is a gift, as is common sense. Being able to help your daughter is a gift. Look at a guy like Oliver Anthony, who went from an obscure guy with a substance abuse problem to a household name all because he gave it all to the Lord and trusted in Him, yet has turned down big contracts as he just wants to be his own person. Matthew 16:26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
Good for you, now I just look at them and say, "Really" and wait for their response. I don't bother arguing or trying to convince anyone - it's an absolute waist of time.
Oh in person, I try to read the situation, and if they seem open I will go there, but if they are arrogant or virtue signalers, I just say guess we have to agree to disagree. But I really did try for about 18 months, in person, on the phone, online. Emailed articles, studies, links, tried to acknowledge that many people were leading with emotion/fear. But all I got back was anger and hatefulness. Sad how many still don't have a clue even now. 95% of the time, it is a waste of time.
Anger and fear somehow give meaning to their lives, so they hold onto that anger and fear stubbornly and ferociously.
I can't remember where I saw it, but there was some crazy op-ed about 'missing lockdowns'!! Just typed 'I miss lockdowns' into DDG, and OMG, there were a bunch of results!? WTH! I hated it with a passion. Granted MO was only shut down for a few weeks but everything was still cancelled for months on end. Lots of damaged people from this garbage.
I mean, I can understand people who had the privilege, being nostalgic for the days of "sit around at home and still get paid".
The more I think about this, the more outraged I feel. It just shows how juvenile and selfish these people are. They’re nostalgic for lockdowns because they lacked the courage and the maturity to set appropriate boundaries. So they were grateful the government made an excuse for them. But they completely disregard all of the damage and harm it did to so many people in society. Oh but as long as THEY enjoyed it and felt relieved to be able to slow down the pace of life, as long as THEY still got paid, to hell with everyone else who suffered. So completely self centered!!! 🤬 Then they had the absolute gall to preen about how much they “cared” 😡
Yes I’ve seen that as well and had the same reaction as you did. WTH is right!!!! I hated that period too.
Those people…I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s just an impossible pill to swallow for them. And it puts us in that awkward conspiracy theorist category. Even IF they could admit that mask and vaxes didn’t work that leads to the whys…why can’t I trust my doctor, why would our government do this to us? The answer to that is untenable.
I was blessed to stumble into mistrust in the government in my 20's, no one big lightning bolt, just a gradual awakening that social programs are the opposite of 'caring', that bureaucrats care more about policy than people, and that there are no incentives baked in to excel. But even so the past few years have 'turned it up to 11' (if you are a Spinal Tap fan ;-) for me.
I just say screw it and go —- paddle boarding. Uh oh!
If you aren't vaxxed, paddle boarding is perfectly safe for you. 😉 just an FYI - get out of the water if you see bathhouse barry.
Ok thanks, paddle boarding looks like fun but have become hesitant to try it. I'm not vaxxed, so I can try it with confidence. Thank you.
“bathhouse barry” 🤣
If only he'd kept his panties on, he'd still be alive. There was another mystery panty left on shore. Size x small Hanes mom style briefs with no front pocket. Wonder who wore those.
Bad visual but intriguing.
Omg that’s what I thought too 🤦♀️😭😂
That is JUST what the Chef said.
Makes one wonder what was on the a la cart menu...
Where else but here can you reliably get updates on paddle boarding deaths?
Totally agree. I’m only on day 3 as a reader. I’m hooked and admit to a snort laugh about the how the deer contagion might have occurred...
Deer with cv-19? Not buying it. Do you know how much hunters spend to be able to sneak up on a deer so as to have a clean shot? Even when it's not hunting season getting within the magic 6' safety bubble is impossible!
I’m thinking they choose “deer” because they want to frighten us from harvesting deer meat when their great famine puts us in starvation mode. Wild feral hogs are probably next to vilify as covid contaminated, and then wild turkeys. Just a thought anyway. Remember how Venezuela people killed and ate zoo animals to survive? I don’t put anything past TPTB and their evil agenda.
fake news to go with the fake meat.
That's exactly what I thought. Hunting season coming up soon, and deer meat is healthy.....
I agree with you.
We also love wild (feral) hog meat; especially hog sausage, it’s more like a steak patty than the greasy mess you get at the grocery store. In fact you have to add lard to wild hog meat as you make the sausage since it’s so dry compared to domesticated hog.
And I don’t think you need any kind of license (at least not in my state) since they are considered a menace, and you can hunt them year round.
prions in deer and elk, don't forget that (additive) from 20 years ago
I suppose it would be gutting and carrying them out of the woods. Then the butchering part. So this is how us hunters get the covid. And then of course we cook up that meat and eat it so there is more covid. I think I'll continue to eat wild meat and not suck up all the chemicals in the processed meats from the government run factories. If I drop dead in my sleep so be it. (there is still fake news all over out there)
Seems to me that you cannot catch a respiratory virus from an animal that is not breathing. I'm not an expert though.
mouth to snout resuscitation attempted by do-gooder PETA type who pulled their mask down after the wounded animal fell?
Pshaw! You can catch Covid anytime anywhere from anyone or anything except people wearing cloth masks and people behind plastic partitions 😛
do the deer lose smell and taste and get a dry cough? fatality rate far less than during hunting season i'm sure
In my neighborhood I can touch the deer they are so close and they could care less if I’m standing there or not with my dog barking, they just look us and go eating....
Right???
Welcome! Don't snort around the deer though, You might give them Covid : )
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Sarah, welcome aboard the Sanity Ship! Reading C&C helped me to wake up about the goings on during the pl..demic. I've been skeptical of medical system for some time but this got me to a new level. Such a breath of fresh air with a twist :) Yes, I read daily. Thank you Jeff!
Love your writing!! “...lightening bolt and humor on a dark stormy night” just nails how I feel and this scary night just goes on and on.
I have over a dozen covid-inspired essays posted now, which I wrote to process my experience. Hope you enjoy
https://thecriticalmiddle.substack.com/
Just subbed
Great writing CM.
I am a 3rd gen San Franciscan.
Left in 1980 though. The long cycle of SF life was behind me and my family.
Marin was the next stop and eventually Sonoma county.
I left the Bay in 2014 for good. Started to feel suffocated and wanted to live in the SW.
Kids grown and on my own.
Life was a bit tough starting in March 2020 within my big family during that whole fiasco. I seemed to be the only one with “common sense” and able to stick to my guns. Nothing is going in my arm.
I did too much research early on..... way too much so that was a big NO.
Luckily Arizona had many pockets of sanity. Any many in my community didn’t buy it.
They turned off CNN’s ticker tape of death! Broadcast for months on end.
Now my fiancé and I travel full time in an RV
Traveling the west.
Oh the places we’ve been.... and the folks we’ve met.
Good news.... we’re not all divided and hate each other.
Met almost a thousand people out there.
Most are wonderful.
Two or three have been challenging.
But it has restored my faith that the entire country is not divided.
Now I’m back in the north bay for a month and well..... the masks are back on slowly but surely.
Sad to see a mom and two young kids masked up outside walking the dogs. Along with many others.
On a perfect sunny Sonoma county day.
Oh well.....
Visiting a family member who has blood clots in one leg and a very rare and unexpected cancer that just popped up.
Sadly Any information I shared with family back in 2020 seemed to fall on deaf or angry ears.
And so, here we are
We’re all talking now but it was a dark period.
Even lost contact with one of my daughters for too long. But even that has come back around and slowly mending that.
Excited to follow your Substack 🥳
I too have so so many great memories from my childhood in SF. But during the 60’s and 70’s.
Anyway.....Cheers to you across the miles ~
Thanks for the comment! I appreciate hearing thoughts on the state of the rest of the country.
Thank you! Sitting at the beach in Alabama on a road trip as I read this, with tears in my eyes. ❣️
Well you have a nice trip on the coast out there.
Road trips really help to clear the mind. And of course all the wonderful random people you meet.
My favorite part of our extended nomad life at the moment.
Take in all the nature you can.
Gray drizzly day so far in the NBay.
Maybe Bodega Bay for us today..... look for sea shells.
Safe travels now🥰
Thanks I will check them out!!
Heavy but hints of Humor, a catastrophic comedy. After some Papal BULLSHI- and some Pearl Harbor II Lahaina updates this morning i needed a dose of C&C to offset the side effects of Globalism Unhinged. Drinking a full cup (actually 3) and praying I can actually smell and taste it while perusing tidbits of interest these past few years helps me hang on. Too Bad Cheeseburgers, Margaritas and Reefer don't counteract CoVid and mRNA spikes.
How do you know cheeseburgers, margarita's and reefer's do not counteract covid and the spike proteins? Science? I read back in 2020 that the tobacco smokers and the weed smokers were not getting bad cases of covid. Of course that news was buried fast by the media.
yes, more grants and gvt $$$ to fund the research!!! we must know! That dammed herbal tea sipping every 15 minutes to thwart the virus was worse than actual CoVid and peeing every half hour ruined productivity even while working from home!
I heard the pope is supposed to stop
In Russia.....😩
That is a sign to many of us Catholics that war will break out soon in Europe. The world is on a precipice. Foretold by 4 little girls, in Garabandal Spain, receiving visions from the Virgin Mary, back in the early 1960’s.
“This prophecy has been on the watchlist of those who have been following prophecies made during the apparitions of the Blessed Mother to four girls (now in their senior years, except one who passed away as a "victim soul") in Garabandal, Spain from 1961-1965.
This Garabandal prophecy (in 1965) seems to be at the doorstep: that the pope would visit Moscow and upon his return to the Vatican, hostilities will break out in many parts of Europe.”
I haven't thought about Garabandal in years. I may need to revisit it.
Please do. Fascinating that much of what the children said are coming in focus right now.
Critical Middle, Jeff's is the only one I continue to read. Like you, I had to stay sane. But Jeff, and more importantly - the community of commenters - makes me laugh and gives me hope.
He's the only one I have been reading on a daily basis for 3 years now.
Why would I go to a second rate newsletter?
Debra, I agree that Jeff has an unbeatable blend and I think others are trying to emulate his style. I do read others as there is good info to be found there as well, much of which comes from the community. James Lyons-Weiler had a meme that was new to me. https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/spit-out-my-coffee?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=475124&post_id=136670586&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
I agree as the masks are returning to my area large grocery chain. About a half dozen spotted, and while not bad it is the start. I now believe these people are lacking some kind of discernment the rest of us possess. They are quite willing to spend the rest of their lives behind a mask and believe at the altar of msm. They certainly never got this from reading.
I think maybe, in my case, it's the Holy Spirit that gives me wisdom and understanding. I'm still working on the patience part, and love for my enemy. Always a work-in-progress.
It's important to remember the maskers have brain damage from breathing in all the carcinogens. Say a little prayer when you pass by them.
Oh wow! I thought it was just me. I mean yesterday when I was reading FLCCC’s post, it just got me so mad and wound up. I was a mess for the rest of the day. Couldn’t sing, praise or worship my way out of a bad mood bc of the prospect of returning to COVID normal. Yeah, I think a little bit of blissful ignorance and “just Jeff” posts might set me right. I need to laugh more.
Amen!
It is possible to overdo it on negative news and it can bring you down. I appreciate reading C&C every morning and there's always something positive thrown in.
In 2021, Jimmy Buffett required proof of vaccination to attend his shows. Do the math.
I loved Jimmy Buffet’s music. It’s a shame he bought into the narrative and it most likely cost him his life. He had beautiful energy.
Same thing happened to the drummer from Foo Fighters.
Exactly. What a sad, sad loss and they try to make it look like a drug overdose.
Only in the early reports. When the autopsy was done, or if you read the Rolling Stone interview he did, you found out he had an enlarged heart. His doctor had told him about it in 2021 but said it was because he worked out!!! Athletes heart doesn't fit his 600 gram heart. It should have been 280-340!
The Foo Fighters were my favorite, then they decided to discriminate at their concerts by requiring proof of jab.
They were my absolute favorite for nearly two decades until they did that song to benefit Planned Parenthood... The drummer was Taylor Hawkins. He had cleaned himself up and became a family man. I’d heard about his 600 gram heart, but thought they were still trying to blame drugs.
I loved them when they first came out because most of the Nirvana fans were still in a state of semi-mourning. It was good to have the blood pumping to grungy sound again but... I dunno, they were Nirvana lite. Became formulaic... meh.
Cobain would never, never have taken the jab.
Cobain took other jabs, which may be statistically safer.
With a gun at my head I know which needle I'd choose, if it came to that.
Drummer never wanted the shots. They were kicking him out of the band without them. So tragic.
If I remember correctly he didn't want it he already had covid and had a bad reaction to another vaccine.
Wow I hadn't heard that. Makes me look at Grohl differently. Obviously he is as much a sell out as say, Eddie Vedder, but still. Brutal.
and he fought to save the manatees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_bbxKGUaAI. We swam with them at Crystal River. You are not allowed to touch them, though the impulse to throw your arms around them and swim out to the gulf is as strong as having to get tied to the mast to not be seduced by the sirens. https://www.savethemanatee.org/
I was swimming off Anna Maria Island and a manatee came right up and swam around me. I touched it (accidentally!) with my foot. It felt like a moss covered rock. Hubs was watching from the shore with binos and said it made about 3 passes around me in a circle and swam away. It was THE BEST.
Our son had the same experience off the beach in Naples. A group of them swam to him and even got near enough to him their fins touched him as they swam around him. It surprised him a bit but after he realized what it was he enjoyed the experience. He said they appeared very gentle and he never felt threatened.
What an amazing experience!! 😍
Save the manatees, not the mandates.
Awww my kids dream of doing this someday!! They love manatees!
Jimmy, Eric Clapton, Neil Young -- Whot happened to these guys who used to be my role models and taught me to question Big Brother???
Eric Clapton was injured by the AZ shots and is now an activist against the jabs. I don’t think he was pushing them before his injury.
Thank you for posting this
Correct-a-mundo. There’s a YT doc about it. If it’s still allowed on.
Eric Clapton, telling it like it is. Notes that his bullshit meter was going off even before covid, but he pushed it to the back of his mind, and he believed the doctors. https://rumble.com/embed/vg3ban/?pub=4&
“Its very polarized and alienation doesn’t work, it’s not going to help.”
“I caught this anxiety sickness – by following the news. I’ve STOPPED watching TV. So much of the sickness is in our heads now. We’ve become weak.”
“What disturbs me the most? The corrosion of freedom.”
“I was reading 1984: How do you control people? Not fear, it’s suffering. You get caught in the trap.”
Why aren’t more people speaking out? FEAR. Reprisals.
Astra-Sickenya jabz (the British Invasion indeed) thank God we could produce our OWN Domestic brands of poison! USA 3 UK 1 we win again Royalists!
I think Eric was silent until he spoke out about potential dangers of the shot. I remember him not enforcing shot at shoes and getting bad press about it. N. Young, J Mellencamp, and so many others are wackos and it makes their music unenjoyable now.
Switch to Van the Man. He never gave in. No more lockdowns!
Forget Neil Young - what a total idiot. His music is ruined for me for ever.