Postcard From California
We’re publishing a new addition to our long-running series ‘Around the World in 80 Lockdowns’ today, this one from California. It’s by Clive Pinder, one of the tireless Daily Sceptic moderators who’s been labouring for free for more than a year. Here is an extract:
Today San Francisco feels like a ghost town, highlighting the detritus and misery of a growing homeless population. Businesses are closing not just because people with means are fleeing the city, but because the District Attorney refuses to prosecute any theft of property worth less than $999 or any business that refuses to police the mandatory vaccinations required of customers. (See this article in the Babylon Bee that sums up the absurdity of the situation in San Francisco.)
A visit to see Mickey, Snow White and Goofy at Disneyland is hardly an escape to a magic kingdom. Parades, fireworks and other activities are suspended and while Mickey isn’t wearing a mask, all up-close encounters with him, Minnie, Cinderella and other characters are forbidden.
Vaccinations don’t help either. Despite 61% of Californians being fully vaccinated with many more having antibodies, the mantra of ‘flatten the curve’ has been condemned to the dustbin of broken promises just as it has in the U.K.. In its place California became the first state in the nation to insist school children from five years old and college students are vaccinated. Strangely, in another act of gross hypocrisy, the Governor declined not to mandate vaccines for teachers after the all-powerful unions, who happen to be among his largest donors, objected.
Worth reading in full.
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That sums up the teachers at home and abroad; “feel free to ‘jab’ the kids, but don’t come near me!”
Not every on is a hypocrite
Health Care Workers Speak Out on Why They Would Rather Lose Their Jobs Than Take a COVID-19 Vaccine
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/health-care-workers-speak-out-on-why-they-would-rather-lose-their-jobs-than-take-a-covid-19-vaccine_4065164.html?utm_source=morningbriefnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=mb-2021-10-26&mktids=4393bd947bd545e31711ca61f8cf4867&est=XfyOcTO0oo5izsb2Hm4qdNblcnTt3T9GOxZ4KlekX8i0r0h52MurC5LGfzpL6w3mocwb
…. join the peaceful resistance …..
Wednesday 27th October 11:30am
Yellow Boards Event – Stand by the Road
(If we start at 11:30am some people might join on their lunch break.)
Tesco Superstore
17 County Ln, Warfield, Bracknell RG42 3JP
Saturday 30th October 2pm
SPECIAL STAND WINDSOR with Yellow Boards
Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Stand in the Park
Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor SL4 1QY
Meet in the Park 2pm followed by walk to
Stand in the Town Centre By the Castle
About 2 hours in total.
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Stand in the Park Wokingham Sundays 10am
Make friends – keep sane – talk freedom and have a laugh
Howard Palmer Gardens Wokingham RG40 2HD
behind the Cockpit Path car park in the centre of the town
Bracknell Stand in the Park
Sundays from 10am Wednesdays from 2pm
South Hill Park, Rear Lawn, (nr Terrace bar), Bracknell RG12 7PA
JOIN Telegram http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
Oh I can assure you the teachers I know were just as eager to be experimented on! I think I’m one of two teachers in my large secondary school who has declined!
Contrast the number of weeks Disney Land was closed compared to Disney World in Florida (which really never had to close).
How many Disney employees at these theme parks have died of COVID. How many visitors to these theme parks?
Thanks for the update on California Clive.
And thanks for your moderation work; that’s a bit of a thankless job. But personally I think the moderation is good here, I hardly notice it, so it must be working.
Yes, quite. It’s like all internet talkboards and forums used to be 20 years ago before the darkness swallowed up the West.
I was a moderator on a tiny board years ago but got sacked for moderating a fellow mod😕
yeah, great moderation
Speaking of west coasts, and things of a posterioral nature…
Judging from the layout, and the uniforms, I’m pretty sure this was filmed at a branch of Bunnings, which has teamed with the WA government to offer vaccinations to their customers.
Make sure you have the volume up!
https://twitter.com/TurekAndrew/status/1452781673276325889
Thanks for the moderation. I left an early hours message in the forums relating to the recent ‘nonce’ is invalid’ outage, it was answered by a mod well before the start of the normal working day.
nonce in this case stands for number used once.
has an unfortunate terminology collision
Indeed, that message confused (me) and offended a number of DS readers. Whichever IT nerd decided it was appropriate either needs medication or has led a very sheltered life!
Not sure why that is in first place? Not remotely important as other reasons
Murkier, thanks for your observation. Here in California polls show that the difference between the wealthy and ordinary people is a major cause of dissatisfaction. People see the rich getting richer and the less well off struggling, especially during the pandemic.
Yes… human nature.. maybe direct it to government and laws (not the same for everyone)
I just wish lower income demographics to get higher. Get the opportunity.
Easier said than done, most of the problems come from the welfare state for billionaires AKA rent-seeking.
You’ll find work taxed heavily and economy title subsidised (with massive tax breaks)..
sure… but they are not directly taxing you, enforcing compliance. they need useful, well compensated ‘idiots’ to do their bidding. and who voted those in the place of power?
this is getting off the topic of the only small issue with the well written article. greatly appreciate the author for sharing this. my ‘contention’, being a pedantic hairsplitter, is the order of the ‘matters to ordinary people’.
keep up the good work 🙂
Victims of property theft worth less than $999.00 which the California DA will not prosecute the perp (as per the postcard) will, presumably, be the poor.
I’ve posted on before Dr Victor Davis Hanson who is a 5th generation farmer near Fresno California (then average income $16kpa) and a tenured Professor at UCLA on the West Coast where the tech giants are (average income $120kpa). In his lecture 2 States of California Dr Hanson, conservative Republican, examines the inequalities within his State which has more billionaires than anywhere else in the world (possibly by now overtaken by China and who knows how many PPE billionaires); 5 of the richest Counties in the country but also 20% of Americas welfare claimants. More top universities than any country except the USA itself yet whose High School grades rank #46 along with healthcare. Whose road infrastructure has not improved since the introduction of the interstates while the population has increased fourfold and not a single resevoir has been built in that same time. The moderate climate at his university (average and stable 70 degrees F) means he does not need air conditioning or heating while back home in Fresno large numbers of poor (1/3 diabetic) Hispanics spend the day in Walmart to keep cool or warm. Wealthy West Coasters embraced green energy by installing sun panels for their limited… Read more »
Curious that California’s DA refuses to prosecute thefts of less than $999.00 while the IRS is demanding any cash transaction over $600.00 be reported to that Agency ‘to prevent money laundering’.
Easier just to steal 990 dollars now and then; the UK unofficial limit before the Police take action for shoplifting is, I believe, currently £100.
This about sums it up (from postcard, emphasis added):
Boris, a supposed champion of individual rights, chose the same policies as Governor Newsom, a self-proclaimed champion of progressive collectivism and woke culture:
“Engage mainstream media to spread hysteria.
Suspend personal liberties.
Lock down businesses.
Rat on neighbours.
Mandate masks and vaccinations while censoring or maligning anyone who dares to question ‘The Science’ or their policies.”