Mask as symbol of oppression

April 27, 2020

So, we are approached 6 weeks of total madness and still have not resolved the fact that we are coming to the end of the flu season rather than the end of the world.

The one thing this lockdown did is bring together a strange group of civil liberties people who might not have united under any other circumstance.

Since it is mostly the Democratic states that have violated civil liberties in so-called protection against this plague those on the left who fought for civil liberties prior to this are very confused.

In the past they focused on Trump as the evil emperor but now I've come to realize there are no good guys in this game and that all the people involved in the political theater have one aspiration and that's the game Power.

Even conservative parts of the state have now taken the next step to curtail civil liberties forcing people to wear masks in certain parts of the city.

While some towns are opening parks, they will not give up the great symbol of Oppression that has made this pandemic different from any other.

 If you don't wear a mask you've be fined and if you don't pay the fine you could be arrested.

 One video in New York should cops dragging a person off a train because he would not wear a mask.

There is a lot of irony in all this. Government officials knew the flu was coming months ago and either downplayed or ignored it. then completely panicked and said the most odious rules for containing the population.

But even then, they did not mandate these rules about wearing masks in stores or on the street but invented these things as they went along -- as if the flu for some reason was more threatening as it started to expire not less.

We are now learning that to justify these actions the government is paying doctors more to report a death due to the virus rather than other causes.  We are never going to know the truth of this because his is not in the interest of government officials to admit that they made a mistake or worse that they deliberately conspired to violate the most sacrosanct rights we have as Americans.

Both sides Democrats and Republicans are pointing fingers at each other when they are all equally culpable.  And we all now know that once a right was taken it will be taken again. If you can remove civil liberties with an executive order, then you haven't had civil liberties at all.

But we have been going down this road for quite some time violating free speech in the same manner.

We have passed laws condemning people for something called hate speech which is exactly the speech that most the Constitution was designed to protect.

The fact is government ignored its most significant Duty in protecting those people most vulnerable sending the elderly to nursing homes as if being sent to death camps well freeing prisoners who the government is too lazy to protect or provide for in a controlled setting to wander the streets jobless and hungry and perhaps even desperate enough to return to a life of crime.

We are seeing a complete breakdown of government on every level, incompetent leaders who make either bad or corrupt choices that kill people and steal civil liberties while hiding behind the idea that they are saving us from a fate worse than death.

Blood on their hands

April 25, 2020 

So, it turns out it's true -- at least in New York. We got an exact repeat of what happened in Italy where the government largely left seniors in nursing homes to die, refusing to supply them with life-saving equipment, while at the same time ordering ill seniors to be relocated to those facilities.

And here I thought it was an accident and oversight or a blunder the government largely let these people rot while locking down everybody else in a move that completely destroyed the economy.

This is power play at a level not seen since Soviet Russia or maybe The Killing Fields innocent people's lives lost for this Obsession to regain power.

One idiotic Democratic think tank guy keeps blaming Trump for 50,000 deaths when it is clear that a vast majority of the deaths in the United States happened under Democratic Governors watches and now we learn that in some cases they refused to supply those things that might have prevented those deaths.

My governor actually said he didn't want blood on his hands by opening the parks or beaches yet sent seniors back to nursing homes to di, we later hearing reports as nursing home after nursing home produced bodies.

Does this all sound idiotic or perhaps calculated as numbers mount up even when sometimes the people who died didn't die from the virus but are listed that way.

And yet my governor gets high marks for handling the pandemic by a terrified public hiding under our beds too scared to climb out to actually see what is going on.

If you can't or won't protect the most vulnerable in your state, then don't blame other people for the massive deaths don't even blame the virus

I'm trying to figure out what pathetically sick Democratic think-tanks thought this scheme up and has left 50,000 bodies in its wake to regain power.

I can't believe Democrats are so callous as to let our grandparents and our parents and our cousins died in order that they can win the White House in November,  building up their body count on the misery of people who can't even look in the eyes of their dying loved ones because they are condemned to be locked up in their homes.

The governor of New York said it is not his responsibility to send respirators and gloves and mask to nursing homes to protect these people while at the same time he and the other Governors say locking us up and making us wear masks at our own expense is somehow protecting lives .

We as taxpayers pay for those things and pay to be protected.  If the government wants to protect us, they should provide those things that are necessary for protecting us. If they want seniors to be alive, they need to supply those things that will save their lives.  If they want us to wear masks in public then they should be giving us the masks rather than taking from unemployed people resources that are better needed for buying food.

These Democratic governors clearly already have blood on their hands and are washing it off the way pilot did the blood of Christ.

Terminator 2020

April 24, 2020

 You have to wonder who wrote the script for this science fiction movie.

 Everybody is hiding in their basements convinced that if they stick their noses out their doors they are going to die.

This kind of Hysteria it can only be manufactured by a very powerful media and it appears that they really did want to bring down the economy to keep Trump from winning re-election.

This is not to say that the pandemic isn't bad, but it is on the same scale as others I have been through in my life and pandemics that killed some of my relatives when I was young.

No one was panicking and looking to the sky to see if it was falling.

The fact that the worst abuses of authority coming from states where the governors are Democratic suggest collusion.

 But we are certainly not going to get any kind of federal investigation the way we did over the phony Russian collusion or the Ukraine collusion.

The fact is we are watching the biggest political theater in the history of America where everybody is putting everything at stake for control at a time when Trump threatens to bring down the establishment.

That probably is the real motivation behind this assassination attempt (and I mean that in a philosophical and metaphorical way) it started when Trump won in 2016.

Democrats began the campaign to retake power that rivaled anything from Macbeth or Hamlet.

The “not my president campaign” that was supposedly spontaneous funded by powerful Democratic money me; the Russian collusion Scandal which turned out to be based on a hit man from England named Steele hired by Hillary Clinton.

Most recent misquoting of Trump by media concerning how to treat the virus only shows the consistency of media to misrepresent facts on behalf of the Democratic Party.

Media Twisted Trump's words concerning immigrants from the start and later what during the Charlottesville Massacre completely turned around what he said to make it seem like he supported extremism. The current campaign of misinformation spread by media concerned treatment of the virus by injecting certain anti-cancer drugs commonly known to disinfect the body.  Media went off the deep end and started claiming Trump intended for people to inject Lysol into their bodies.

So, the same science fiction writers who gave us the virus story in the beginning now got busy and remanufactured his quote into a brilliant campaign against him.

This misdirection may be well-founded since the Democratic candidate sounds like he has dementia and the real president will be whoever he picks his vice president if the public is stupid enough to vote for the same party who deliberately destroy the economy.

 Gauging from the approval numbers here in New Jersey for the governor I believe people are that stupid.

Don’t trust leaders and pay your parking meters

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

They tell us we’re at the back end of this international disaster, this plague many are blaming on China although to me it became a convenient political tool for a number of Democratic governors to bring down the economy.

Between media and the hype, we get from the government, everybody seems convinced if they go outside, they will die.

One friend claimed we are living in a science fiction movie. I think of it as more of a Shakespearean play.

The whole pandemic seems as contrived as all the other political dramas drawn up after the 2016 presidential election, only more desperate.

After all the previous attempt to bring down Trump, the pandemic seems like a hail Mary pass designed to create chaos and fear, out of which the Democrats might be able to reshape the upcoming election in their favor.

This may explain why Democratic governors are the most resistant to helping restore the economy.

Even the plague itself isn’t cooperating, ending far too soon with far too few casualties – far from the 200,000 to 1.6 million the CDC originally predicted and more in line with the 20,000 deaths annual Flu season brings.

There is a new move to claim that there was an undercount.

The most obvious manipulation is the “positive” count that we get from the various testing centers – designed apparently to make up in volume for the lack of bodies.

This hasn’t stopped media from playing the death card to the hilt – naming every celebrity that has passed the way they never did in past pandemics.

Scared people everywhere point to the fact that many more people are being hospitalized and put on ventilators when none of us really know if this was a problem in the past – I have headlines from previous pandemics that sound nearly as hysterical at the current ones, but seem to lack the backdrop of the upcoming election to give them emphasis.

Our governor changes the rules daily – so that by the height of the disaster, he has us all wearing masks when for more than a month, this was optional. He closed the parks because some people came too close to each other, people he called knuckleheads.

Old people suffered the most and were ignored most in our state, as the governor spent most of his effort making prisoners of the healthiest yet sent no medical help to those people most threatened. He seems to have to abandoned the old and vulnerable in the same way they did in Italy, pumping up the volume of dead.

Each day, we get more restrictive rules that seem pointless since we’ve lived with the virus since November when businesses and the U.S. Post Office reported numerous sick outs.

Everybody is too scared to go out or when they do, they are wrapped up like mummies, wearing masks they hope will keep them from becoming ill, and gloves to keep them from touching anything that might give them the disease.

Since the state is only testing those who are already ill, and guarantee an increased rate of positives, we really don’t know how bad this epidemic is – New York has more than 4000 deaths, but all but slightly over 100 were people already at death’s door from some other ailment, often well over 70.

It’s almost like this is a baby boomer virus, designed to rid the world of the excess population that changed the social dynamic of the planet after World War II.

Since I’m of that age and have some risk factors, I ought to be as terrified as everybody else.

But I refuse to live in fear. I gave up looking for ghosts under by bed when I was 10, and think it is absurd to trust leaders who have an agenda that does not correspond with my best interests.

One friend called this the greatest story of the 21st Century, in itself a vast exaggeration considering the short-term memory of the masses. Even media – which fed on the dead like vultures for weeks – has turned its attention to new disasters, looking in the path of tornados for bodies the virus cannot longer supply them.

I hope to look back at this moment from a time when we all realize just how much we were manipulated and understand the real virus was the terror, not the disease, and the real lesson is not to rely on media or government as a savior. Neither can be trusted.

Bob Dylan said it best, “don’t trust leaders and pay your parking meters.”

PCBs

Ripkin won’t touch the water because of the PCBS

He says he doesn’t want to turn into anything unnatural.

He mumbles this as he tries to squeeze the last drops of rot gut from a bottle.

Since we can’t afford a full bottle, we keep sucking the old ones dry

We line them up along the dock and Ripkin goes from one to the next like a bee desperate to make honey.

I try, too, only I keep seeing my own reflection in the bottom of each bottle.

“It’s the genes,” Ripkin says. “Once those PCBs get into your genes, you’re a dead man.”

I look over the edge of the dock and see my reflection there, too.

Not my blood shot eyes, but dark things stirring in the water behind my face.

When I ask Ripkin what PCBs look like, he looks at me like I’m crazy.

He doesn’t answer the question.

He just puts down one bottle and picks up the next.

I suggest we go downtown to panhandle.

Neither of us moves.

It’s like the PCBs have a hold on us, waiting for the moment when Ripkin reaches for that last bottle before he starts it all again.

I need to know what they are, what they look like, feel like, are they hot or cold.

Will they hurt if I stick my finger in the water the way Ripkin won’t

And how will they change me if I do.

I need to know them so when they finally come, I will still have time to run.

Sundial

We’re at war with a virus, only it’s not the virus the government tell us it is, but this oppression by those we elected to control us, and make us all do “the right thing’ – which means, sit down, shut up and do what we’re told.

I always thought criminals wore masks. You know those bad guys in old westerns who held up stage coaches and ripped off antique jewelry from pretty women and old men.

Now everybody wears them, only they don’t cover enough of their faces to keep me from seeing how terrified they are – each one thinking if they breathe too keep or touch too much they will die.

My best friend died back in January before all this madness started. In his last conversation before going off to die of a massive heart attack he and his neighbor talked about a sundial he had just installed on an old stoop. The neighbor was convinced the sundial was set wrong. My friend insisted otherwise.

Perhaps, my friend was right. Somehow the world had shifted and now all the good guys wear masks and live in terror, created largely by people they elected to protect them, and that from now all, we will never be able to realign our reality with the new standard which says we just sit down, shut up and do what we’re told.

Unfortunately, the sundial I have installed in my head doesn’t work that way.

Neither did my best friend’s.

Nuclear option?

Thursday, April 9, 2020

We are watching political theater at its best.

I only wish this really was a Shakespearian play rather than a pack of political wolves devouring us in order to regain power.

We have watched the Democrats pull so many stunts since Trump won in 2016 that it is very difficult to ignore the possibility that they – with their media accomplices – have deliberately brought down the economy to keep Trump from winning again.

It was inevitable after all the failed attempts to bring down Trump that Democrats would resort to “the nuclear option,” and ruin the one thing that almost guaranteed a Trump victory – near full employment and a booming economy.

It’s hard to believe even Democrats could be so heartless and would go do far as to ruin ordinary people’s lives in order to regain power.

Yet the progression of lies and deceit over the last four years seem to indicate they are capable of anything because power means more to them than people.

The fact that Democrats and media conspired for the last four years to create myths that targeted Trump and other individuals is far less odious than the attempt to bring down the economy, especially when this myth required the pumping up of a flu epidemic to justify creating of a police state, and then when the number of deaths did not meet the necessary quantity, forcing doctors to sign off on deaths that may or may not have been associated with the virus, and then later to claim the deaths were undercounted instead of bloated.

Using the nuclear option such as this is risky because there is so much collateral damage, hurting democratic supporters well as those who might support Trump – unlike the strategy of tearing down statutes of confederate heroes, clearly aimed at those who voted for Trump.

The other risk is the fact that pumping up the flu actually resulted in killing of people since government did little or nothing to actually protect the most vulnerable such as sending doctors and nurses and equipment to nursing homes, senior centers and such, but instead closed down parks and condemned otherwise healthy people to prisons of their own homes.

Now, we’re requiring people to wear masks – not because they actually protect anyone, but because they serve a constant reminder of the fearful plague and so continue this message of terror the government has been promoting.

Since most of this affects city centers were many people are already brainwashed with the Democrat agenda (no single us plastic bags, and anti-white supremist few of them ever met) city centers will not likely revolt in the way more conservative places might – and so jobless, and soon to be homeless people simply stumble along buying this bullshit the way they bought all the bullshit before it.

I had a dream last night (Murphy’s law? Contemporary title)

October 3, 1983

I dreamed of a major social change, of fear, of pain, of strangeness in the streets.

In my dream, I was near the college campus when it began, hiding in a house, afraid to wander through Paterson because there seemed to be some kind of foreign takeover occurring.

At one point, I was in a house with Frank and Jimmy; Jimmy was leaving but promised to come back.

He said he just had to collect some things he’d left in Towaco.

All this came after I had journeyed there from some other location, and at that point, I ached to return to, going out into the streets despite the terror I felt, feeling the strangeness in the air.

I didn’t belong there; none of us did.

It was as if some kind of new religion had taken over the world, dictating new rules for us to follow, new bureaucracies telling us how to live our lives.

Then, I was standing in line holding my daughter in my arms. People around us began to feel sorry for us. I remembered at that point that I had left my daughter’s coat at Rosemary’s house and went in search of it, only to discover Rosemary had moved – or perhaps I was going in the wrong direction, it’s hard to tell. I only know that with each step my daughter grew heavier.

We stopped to look at a street map. We were heading back up the hill towards Haledon and the college campus.

Jimmy came along and said Rosemary now lived with Frank and Dawn used to live. So, we all started for that place. I arrived a moment before Jimmy did. But he had to unlock the door. We went in, climbed the stairs, neither of us certain whether the door had been locked at all.

The next thing I remember I am in a car, driving through streets filled with madness, new rules for everything.

Then I’m sitting in a classroom learning some hard science – at least, it is supposed to be something like chemistry, but all that comes out of the professor’s mouth is philosophy – dark, frightening philosophy.

Some of the women in the class talk about leaving, mysteriously vanishing, and I wonder what the rest of us will do when all the women are gone.

I go for a drive again, only to show up for the next session, most of the women gone, but we’re still going through the pretense of an education (at least the usual liberal education – which is largely propaganda.

I’m scared to death and find myself bracing to run.

But to where? It all feels like 1984 with Big Brother watching, with the changes being imposed on me.