Posted on 09/09/2021 9:34:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
On April 27, 2020, the Portland Press-Herald reported, "Rye [New Hampshire] police are advising surfers to catch a wave elsewhere or face the prospective of a fine.
"Rye Police Chief Kevin Walsh said his officers are weary of chasing off surfers in groups as large as 10 who are ignoring beach closures. "Many are parking in church lots and on private property, so Walsh is seeking permission from these property owners to ticket and tow the vehicles. Police may also start issuing tickets to surfers for trespassing on the beach."
Chief Walsh's efforts were in vain. Guarding 19 miles of ocean from 10 surfers did not work. Covid spread across the state.
Masks did not work.
Social distancing did not work.
Plexiglass did not work.
Bumping elbows instead of shaking hands did not work.
Separating loved ones from their dying relatives did not work.
Shutting down the economy did not work.
Vaccines don't seem to be working either. Israel, the most vaccinated country in the world, is suffering its worst covid wave yet.
Sweden didn't lockdown and it did little worse than anyone else and fared better than some.
It is time to live again.
Americans need to live like Americans again. Two centuries before Chief Walsh, another New Hampshire leader -- General John Stark -- the hero of the Battle of Bennington -- wrote to his men, "Live Free Or Die."
We need to be worthy of General Stark and go back to being Americans.
Yes, everybody with an ocean Across the U.S.A Go out and be surfin' Even Californi-a Go put on your baggies Huarache sandals too This is, this is what we do Surfin' U.S.A.
General Stark and his men and the Green Mountain Boys of the Republic of Vermont fought a Revolutionary War amid a smallpox epidemic in which one-third of those infected died.
Not 0.5%.
33%.
They did not Zoom the war. They fought. They did not allow an actual plague to stop them from living before they died.
What has living like inmates locked down on death row achieved?
Nothing.
The New York Daily News reported, "Daily coronavirus cases are four times higher than they were following Labor Day weekend of last year with the number of daily deaths twice as high as they were this time in 2020, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
"Since the global health crisis emerged in late 2019, the United States has recorded more than 40 million COVID-19 cases, including just 4 million in the last month alone.
"Health officials noted the biggest difference between this year and last is the delta variant. They blamed the 316% increase over last year’s daily infections on the highly contagious covid 19 mutation as well as a large number of Americans refusing to become vaccinated against the fast-spreading disease.
"According to data from Health and Human Services, hospitalization rates are also up 157% compared with Labor Day weekend 2020, leaving medical facilities packed to the brim and their staffs exhausted and overwhelmed.
"What’s more, intensive care units across several states are inching closer to full capacity, which could force doctors to make life-and-death decisions."
The report is a bunch of Bolshevik Propaganda.
But the Pandemic Panic Press inadvertently makes my point. A year ago, we had no vaccine. Now we do and half the population is vaccinated and cases have quadrupled, then nothing works.
Blaming the unvaccinated for the increase is ridiculous. Last year no one was vaccinated, and we had one-fourth the cases we have now.
We know why.
The government and the media are manipulating the data.
At some point, we have to quit being babies and go back to being Americans.
Oh sure. Take precautions. I am not really sure just what those precautions are because none of them have stemmed the spread of covid. I was vaccinated. That seemed to work. But you do you.
Above all live.
I’d like it a lot more if martin sheen wasn’t such a pizza chit lib.
Anyone who is still alive has/is learning to live with it:-)
Let’s see, tonight if not rained out I’m calling Adult Bingo out by the community pool.
Tomorrow night it’s either a cool Rolling Stone cover Band at Sophies or Karaoke at the Brickhouse.
Saturday I have my son and daughter inlaw’s baby shower and then it’s off to see the Black Crowes.
Nothing yet for Sunday.
Pluck Dying and or HIDING, going down LIVING!
pizza chit lib.
***Nice wordsmithing
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Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus. Anyone who promotes eradication as a policy goal is either a fool or a statist (or both). It's like the war on drugs...liberty is destroyed, lives are lost, and Leviathan grows.
A very likely reality, is that this bug will be with us forever - like influenza, it'll be a highly contagious but more fatal (case fatality rate of about 1.8% vs 0.2% for influenza) and seasonal annoyance.
When faced with this reality, we should follow the policy prescriptions of a wise FReeper: Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Free everyone else.
No, I hear ya...that nearly ruined it for me. But...it has Robert Duvall in it, and...that man is a Boss!
IMO, the ones who are so terrified of catching the virus should be the ones taking precautions.
Don’t try to control my life based on your fears.
THAT’S interesting.
I don’t have to live with covid anymore. I found out this morning that I have super immunity so covid can kiss my ass.
It looks like we’re officially getting gaslit as well.
So true...Funny, nobody wants to die in the middle of the summer, except the lunatics dashing in cars to the beaches or something!
And perhaps suicides. Everyone is having fun, but they aren’t.
But everything else dips there.
I am being flippant, but I agree wholly with your last line.
“When I was a kid I lived in Japan for a few years back in the Sixties, and I remember seeing the flocks of elementary school kids in their uniforms, backpacks, beanies, and...face masks.”
Maybe that is why Japan is headed toward extinction. The grown up kids just don’t give a d***.
Then you are a one-off. These guys & gals didn’t have very high IQ’s. Some dropped out of school to SURF their life away.
A group of them went on a road trip to places like Mexico and El Salvador in a ‘62 Dodge Dart or similar rust bucket to surf.
Last I heard of them was they ran out of money, got really banged up on some rocks and had to get mom and dad to send money to get their hospital bills paid.
I joined the Marines....................
Thanks. Goes for all the mouth breathers in the Whitehouse also.
We, as a human race, have always adapted to viruses, bacteria, fungus and mold. It is unreasonable to assume we can keep people from getting sick or dying.. Here we are a year and a half still talking about this. It’s never been about the virus. Our overlords in the NWO demand control. The time is right to pull the trigger after Trump was denied his second term. God help us!
I’ve noticed that people like me who don’t watch TV are not panicked over Covid. I got vaxxed and then I ceased to care. Got the Delta, didn’t get pneumonia, ceased caring about caring.
You are not planning on watching the GWB speech on Saturday?
I know he will place some blame on Trump, he will be concerned about the women of Afghanistan, he won’t say a word about the Christians in Afghanistan, and he will say something positive about most Muslims.
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE THEM DEATH
I love that scene too...hard to believe that is LARRY Fishburne...
Heck, few of us age gracefully...:)
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