My latest in PJ Media:
The Left’s gallop toward tyranny took a great leap forward on Friday, when Santa Cruz County, California, mandated masks indoors, even in private homes. The mandate was issued in anticipation of the holiday season and went into effect a minute before midnight on Sunday night. So if you’re in Santa Cruz County today entertaining family or friends for Thanksgiving and you aren’t wearing a mask, you could run afoul of the local Stasi.
The county claimed that the measure was needed because “COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations increasing as we move into the holidays and winter months.” Yet area hospitals aren’t exactly being slammed: Santa Cruz County reported 213 Covid cases between November 18 and 25, and 77.96 cases per every one hundred thousand people; 70.8% of the County’s population is fully vaccinated.
For a disease with a survival rate of over 97% for most of the population, that doesn’t seem to be an acute crisis, but Santa Cruz County officials disagree. Santa Cruz County Health Officer Dr. Gail Newel explained: “Unfortunately, a potential winter surge appears to be a significant threat to the health and safety of our community.” And so it’s time to lower the boom: “As we look forward to spending time with those we love during the holidays, it is important to protect vulnerable friends and family members by wearing a mask indoors. Everyone who has not been vaccinated should get their first dose as soon as possible, and anyone who was vaccinated more than six months ago should seek out a booster.”
This means that yes, if you reached out in kindness and invited the lonely old widower down the street to join you for Thanksgiving, you all have to mask up: “Masks must be worn in private settings, including your home, when non-household members are present.” The Stasi will be checking on you in the workplace: “To help assure compliance, all businesses and governmental entities must require employees to wear masks and post signage that is clearly visible and easy-to-read at all entry points for indoor settings informing the public of the mask requirement.”
How the mask Nazis will enforce the masking rule in private homes is left unexplained. Will the secret police kick down your door at 4 a.m. and demand that everyone roll out of bed and present themselves before the agents fully masked? Will scofflaws be issued citations and have to pay fines, or is this a more serious offense than a parking ticket, and offenders will have to appear in court (fully masked, of course)?
There is more. Read the rest here.
JimJFox says
HOW can’t be check if you’re wearing a mask in your own home?
The world is full of idiots and here’s another one making a ridiculous law.
JimJFox says
HOW can they check…
Infidel says
Ah, Santa Cruz! The Berkeley wannabe south of the Bay that is just as lost in a time warp in the 60s. Main problem that city has, aside from being in California, is all the UCSC students who vote there despite being transitional residents, and leave the problems there w/ them when they graduate and move out. That town being so small that the student population of UCSC is a sizable voting block
I recall years ago driving into Santa Cruz from Capitola on a surface street, and seeing signs ‘Welcome to Santa Cruz: a nuclear free zone’. It was almost like I was leaving the Yucca Mountains ? ?
LB says
“How the mask Nazis will enforce the masking rule in private homes is left unexplained.”
Just like how they do in Australia: the state sends you a notification on your phone through the mandatory state-issued covid app, upon which you have exactly one minute to respond to it by taking a selfie (with your immediate surroundings) and sending it to the government. Failure to comply will be followed up by dispatching the law enforcement to your home for fining and potential arrest. If you are pictured without a mask or not in your home, officers will be dispatched to your phone’s location to arrest you.
“Welcome to the New Normal. You will own nothing and you will be happy.”
–World Economic Forum
gravenimage says
LB, do you have links about Australia doing this? I haven’t been able to find anything online.
somehistory says
Look at the Washington Standard web site. I read of it several days ago. It may also be on Epoch Times.
Can’t recall which ones…but I think I saw it two places.
They fly drones and copters over the major cities to see if people are going out, they also have begun putting people in isolation camps if they test positive.
I’ll see if something is still in my email and post it.
somehistory says
“Selfies are required by the Australian authorities > Selfies are required by the Australian authorities
https://world-signals.com/news/2021/10/06/selfies-are-required-by-the-australian-authorities/\
https://jesusthevampire.blogspot.com/2021/11/ausies-put-covid-positive-in-camps.html#comment-
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/australian-army-begins-transferring-covid-positive-cases-contacts-quarantine-camps?__s=yqencjxqaak7c300jtb1
“Five days ago, NT Senator Malarndirri McCarthy told ABC that over crowding in Indigenous communities was a “massive problem,” pointing to the region’s second cluster of new infections – which included nine members of McCarthy’s direct family, including her sister who flew from Katherine to Robinson River while unknowingly bringing COVID-19 with her, per the report.
“If we could get housing in there right now, I would be pushing that straight away to the federal government and the NT government to work on that, but we obviously need the resources to do so,” she said.
Of the nine new cases in Binjari, four are women and five are men, including a 78-year-old woman who has been transported to Darwin Hospital.”
somehistory says
https://world-signals.com/news/2021/10/06/selfies-are-required-by-the-australian-authorities/
“Selfies are required by the Australian authorities > Selfies are required by the Australian authorities”
gravenimage says
Completely nuts, Somehistory–thanks for those links.
Besides the appalling crushing of freedom, is Australia really so low crime that it can send police to people’s homes on an instantanous emergency basis? Of course not–they are giving public safely short shrift.
And what about people who don’t have cell phones? My husband has a cell phone, but I don’t–and some people simply can’t afford them. This is terribly alarming.
somehistory says
Yes, it is terrible. I also saw that brunei is not allowing those who have not gotten the shots to go to the market, or work, and if someone is allowed in a business, the business if fined.
I didn’t have a cell phone for a long time, and when I got one, it didn’t have a camera.
No allowances are made, I guess, for those who can’t afford the phones, or those who might not be free at any sudden notice to take a photo of themselves.
It’s absolutely crazy…control is out of control.
Infidel says
Yeah, not everybody has a smart phone. Yeah, while some people keep upgrading to the latest and greatest iPhone or Android, there are people for whom their good ole flip phones were good enough, and those who accurately predicted the invasion of our privacy that this would bring. And like Graven notes, it’s all at the cost of ignoring public safety. Dunno about Australia, but I’m pretty sure that in Santa Cruz, any Walgreens or CVS would have shut down by now to prevent the rampant theft that’s epidemic (a different type of epidemic than the Chinavirus) throughout the state
Does Australia have a big enough police force to handle the load once thousands of people in every city start refusing to comply?
Infidel says
I think LB was writing a satire. Although these days, it’s hard to tell which is which, which is why Seth Dylan of Babylon Bee said that he might have to make the Babylon Bee a regular newspaper instead of a satire publication ? ? ?
somehistory says
No, it’s for real. People have complained because they never know when the call will come and they might be in bed, showering, etc. and can’t answer within five minutes with a photo.
If I recall correctly, they may be given a second call if the first one is not answered in time or properly with a photo at home, and if the second one is not answered, there will be a knock on the door.
LB says
Unfortunately it’s all true, check out somehistory’s links above and you’ll see. Though I can’t say I blame you for thinking this is satire for the precisely the exact reason you mentioned. We live in a parody of a normal world. What was once common sense and obvious comedy/satire is now a reality, at least in the West.
Thankfully, almost none of this leftist garbage came over here to Eastern Europe… yet… but god knows they are trying their hardest to import it. That’s why it’s up to the PEOPLE to preserve and maintain their culture, because once the common folk start to denounce their religion and customs, that’s when globohomo multiculti pedo satanic leftist degeneracy starts creeping in; the West is a perfect example of this.
Infidel says
That’s insane coming out of a country that prides itself as a leader in taking on China. I doubt that even the CPC is that demanding of its citizens, even though on the flip side, they are happy to lock people in their homes for days, and then discover everyone inside dead when they open up. This is what happened in Wuhan early last year
somehistory says
The “leaders” of the world have all gone off the deep end.
Masks do not provide protection from viruses. And they all know it…or as Wellington frequently points out, “they should know it.”
The shots don’t prevent anyone from “catch and release” of the virus, but the “leaders” and “experts” are all insisting that the shots are the answer…even with 70+% of the population having had the shots…they demand **everyone** get shot.
And now, there is a “new” variant…with a different spike…out of Africa.
This is what a “leader” in Israel had to say, after they banned travel from Africa:
“Minister Naftali Bennett said a few cases had been reported there.
Israel’s Ynet news website said that, according to the Health Ministry, one of those individuals had received a third shot, or booster, of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine two months ago.”
So, this patient had “3” shots and still caught the virus.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/new-covid-variant-europe-asia/2021/11/26/id/1046240/?ns_
Science…health…and **control** of behavior. “Alex, I’ll take control, for 4 hundred.”
tgusa says
Put on a mask to stop the spread of the ccp plague. I wonder if Santa Cruz residents are putting up chick wire to keep mosquitos out. In a short time China has been elevated in to the world of advanced civilizations proving that advanced civilizations are not for everyone. I hope every American, past and present, that have helped in elevating China choke on a covid hair ball.
Just forget about all the apocalyptic problems the left claims to be threatening the planet. Give the ccp another 100 years, or less, and every living thing on this planet will be eradicated. I am really surprised that all of the countries f the world are not working to drive the ccp back to the 1930s. If that were to be accomplished every living thing on the planet would be breathing a collective sigh of relief.
#two weeks to flatten the curve! And here we are. two years later.
I would suggest we revise the lyrics of Nat King Cole’s Wonderful World to fit in with today’s world.
Yes I think to myself, what a miserable world.
somehistory says
This whole thing has divided many families. The ones who have gotten the shots give in to fear that their relatives…old and young…who remain jab-free, are dangerous to them; and so have ordered that they stay away from family gatherings.
I was reading the comments on an article about that and some are really broken-up, others resigned to the situation; but all are affected in that they now have rifts that can’t be so easily mended, if at all.
Everyone should listen to Dr. Jamie Glazov as he interviews the Dr. who once worked for fema as an “operative,” read the earliest medical reports of the patients in china, and attended conferences at the wef.
She has a lot of inside information on the virus and the jab ingredients.
somehistory says
The name of the video:
[2] Celeste Solum: Inside the Deep State’s Attack on Humans’ Genetic Code.
tgusa says
I am watching some of the videos that deal with this. It all sounds like something straight out of the movie, Resident Evil.
somehistory says
I just listened, for the second time, to Dr. Solum and Dr. Glazov.
And then, I looked up the hydrogel she talks about that is in the shots. They “self-assemble” and grow when in contact with liquid and there is an interaction with DNA.
Dr. Solum says each shot is like a computer update that edits the DNA a little bit more with each shot.
I refused the shot…and if I had taken it, and then heard her and read about the hydrogel in biomedical stuff, I would be so sick…and depressed.
My daughter has to wear a mask when she’s working, and most of her co-workers have gotten the jabs, but she’s there every day and they keep calling in sick.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212614/
tgusa says
I feel for your daughter. She is going to work in an alternate universe. You must be proud of her.
somehistory says
Thank you. So do I and I am very proud. She has asthma and comes home very tired, sighs a lot and when I say, “Are you okay?” she says, “Yes, just breathing.”
Someday this will all be in the past. It will not become the new “normal” because it isn’t normal.
joan_of_ark2005 says
How about “CovidLand”? It’s by Alex Jones, but still, says a LOT of what people should see and hear!! Be prepared at the end to shed a tear at the showing and telling of how many old people, in nursing homes, had to die alone, as family was not allowed in to see them…criminal stuff!
tgusa says
That is sad. We had a nice mask less un-vaccinated Thanksgiving get together at my house just as we did last year. Both my parents died as a result of heart issues and the shot appears to lead to heart complications in some people. No thanks, I’m not getting the shot. I am sure they know where I would tell them to put that. I will rely on my tried, tested and trusted immune system and let the chips fall where they may. If you research the lunacy that lefties support and then take a shot that they promote you might be a little bit crazy. Frankly, as a man without the shot, I am more concerned with coming in contact with those that have had the shot. But I don’t really dwell on that too much, if at all.
gravenimage says
Frankly, as a man without the shot, I am more concerned with coming in contact with those that have had the shot. But I don’t really dwell on that too much, if at all.
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tgusa, do you believe that those who have been vaccinated are contagious–and if so, with what disease? Do you have links with information on this?
tgusa says
gravenimage,
The vaxed are shedding something and that something and that something could be anything and is a result of the vax. More vaxed people are now dying than un-vaxed a year ago. Other than that I really have no idea what is going on because for some reason or another people in the know are not giving me all the facts.
tgusa says
From what I have observed over the last two years I am beginning to think that in many people, I couldn’t say how many, the body treats the virus as if they were swimming in cool water. The body simply does not care.
James Lincoln says
somehistory says,
“This whole thing has divided many families. The ones who have gotten the shots give in to fear that their relatives…old and young…who remain jab-free, are dangerous to them; and so have ordered that they stay away from family gatherings.”
Yes, this has unnecessarily divided many families. And the vaccines are more of a therapeutic than a more traditional vaccine.
I am not aware of any peer-reviewed evidence that shows that unvaccinated people are a threat to others. It certainly would be medically advisable for people in high risk groups to get the Covid vaccine in order to avoid very serious medical problems for themselves, but it should not be mandated.
And…
Fully vaccinated people can still get Covid – now mostly the Delta variant. This means that they can spread Covid to others, possibly as readily as unvaccinated – nobody knows for sure as the current data is inconclusive.
In other words, Covid vaccines will help to protect the health of properly targeted individuals – a very good thing- but not entirely clear if it will help stop the spread to others.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3897733
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/07/30/1022867219/cdc-study-provincetown-delta-vaccinated-breakthrough-mask-guidance
somehistory says
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/naturally-immune-people-at-little-risk-of-reinfection-severe-disease-from-covid-19-study_4126747.html?utm_source=News&utm_medium
“Naturally Immune People at Little Risk of Reinfection, Severe Disease From COVID-19: Study”
“People who recovered from COVID-19 are at little risk of contracting the disease again, according to a study published this week.
Researchers in Qatar examined a cohort of over 353,000 people using national databases that contain information about patients with polymerase-chain-reaction-confirmed infections.
The studied population contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, between Feb. 28, 2020, and April 28, 2021.
Reinfections were counted if a person tested positive at least 90 days after their first infection.
After excluding approximately 87,500 people with a vaccination record, researchers found those with immunity from having recovered from COVID-19 had little risk of reinfection and severe cases of the disease.
Just 1,304 reinfections were identified. That means 0.4 percent of people with natural immunity and without a vaccination record got COVID-19 a second time.
The odds of severe disease were 0.1 percent that at primary infection, according to the study. Just four such cases were detected.”
Infidel says
You’re right. My sister is one of the big vax champions, but still supports mandating masks even if one has been vaccinated. It’s hard to get an answer out of her as to what good did the vaccine do. And I hadn’t even started on the issue that tgusa mentions below: the average mask being like a chain linked fence to keep out mosquitoes. If one is that paranoid, one needs an N-95 or better, and that too, fitted in a clinic. Oh, and make sure you never touch your face!
Also, on one hand, we keep hearing that we need the third (second if one took the J&J like I did) booster shot, and on another, that this virus is now endemic i.e. will recur every year. I’ll pass the booster shot, and will consider a jab next year once we’ve had more data on the efficacy of each vaccine, be it Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astrazeneca, Soyuz, Covaccine or whatever. Oh, and I’ll make sure I get really examined for whether I need it or not, any side-effects or whatever, from a doctor who doesn’t just take marching orders from the CDC
tgusa says
Former Pfizer employee and whistleblower Karen Kingston says, “when they weren’t injected, their infection rate was 1.3% and when they got injected, it was 4.34%. It went up by over 300%. They had less infection when they had no protection. So, that’s a problem.”
She also said, “if you have two doses of Pfizer, your rate for getting infected with COVID-19 increases over time.”
Yes, that is a problem.
tgusa says
I used to do tech support at a pharma company. When I went in to labs where they were working with infectious stuff they suited me up with gear that made me appear to be heading to the moon on a rocket.
somehistory says
“The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said a new CCP virus variant first identified in southern African will now be dubbed “Omicron” and has “a large number of mutations.”
Early evidence, WHO said in a statement, suggests the COVID-19 strain, first identified as B..1.1.529, has a higher risk of reinfection compared to other variants such as Delta or the Alpha strain.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/who-labels-new-covid-19-variant-omicron-possible-increased-re-infection-risk_4125906.html?utm_source=News&utm
David M says
Yeah, it’s another variant caused by the covid 19 vaccines. First detected in fully vaccinated people.
https://www.infowars.com/posts/omicron-variant-first-detected-in-four-people-who-were-fully-vaccinated/
somehistory says
Viruses change, mutate, and this one is doing that in rapid fashion in order to overcome the challenge. The shots have the spike protein in the jillions, and lower resistance in those getting jabbed.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
To your point, the best – and broadest – resistance is from acquired natural immunity.
Infidel says
James
One question: if one is vaccinated, does that have any impact – short or long term – on one’s natural immunity? In other words, once the vaccine ‘wears out’, does the body’s own immunity kick back in, or is it permanently impaired?
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
I do not know for sure – I’m not sure that anybody does – but from what I’ve read professionally, I have found nothing to suggest that one’s own “baseline level of immunity” would be permanently impaired following “waning immunity” to the vaccine.
Also:
The so-called waning immunity to the COVID vaccine is mostly due to the mutated Delta variant. Protection against a severe Delta infection is still very robust – but not as robust as against the original COVID virus.
Keep in mind that B cell and T cell lymphocytes have memories and work behind-the-scenes to stimulate additional antibody responses when exposed to COVID. So the waning immunity may not be quite as “waning” as suggested by the CDC.
Hope this helps, and best wishes.
Infidel says
James
Thanks for the explanation
Infidel says
Omicron? As in the Greek ‘ο’? Last I had heard about was the Lambda variant, so what happened to Mu, Nu and Xi?
Honestly, I think they should pick the Mandarin alphabet to name each variant, and stick it up to the Chicoms
somehistory says
I just read that who skipped xi to avoid offending…you-know-who.
gravenimage says
California County Mandates Masks for Private Thanksgiving Celebrations at Home
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Well, this is just absurd. And I live near Santa Cruz County and hadn’t heard about this.
Official overreach at its most stupid–even in Santa Cruz I doubt anyone observed this diktat.
Walter Sieruk says
All that empty talk about those masks being used a self-protection for the may be nothing but balderdash. For example a few brave scientists have come right out and explained that those masks are a useless hoax for a person to protect himself or herself from being infected by COVID -19.
This is because the viruses is so very small that will though the fibers of that mas straight into that person. It’s just trying to stop a BB shot out from a BB gun with a tennis net.
James Lincoln says
Walter,
May I add…
The only masks that really do much good are the N95 “masks” – which are actually classified as respirators. They also need to be professionally fit tested and changed often.
Cloth and paper masks – even when used absolutely correctly – provide only minimal benefit, mostly as sneeze guards for droplets.
joan_of_ark2005 says
Most people don’t even think about this. With a mask, your only breathing in half of the oxygen that a person should be getting, or to put another way, your not getting all the oxygen your body needs, and what is it that your body breathes OUT? Carbon Monoxide? With a mask, what you breath out, the mask stops, and you BREATHE it BACK IN to yourself!
Walter Sieruk says
It’s totally dishonest of Joe Biden to fake being concerned about the public health of the American people. It’s more likely that this the very beginning of a behavior control that is a ”test’ for a set up for future tyranny in American. A Red/Green alliance tyranny starting by Biden/Harris and other evil man and women in power.
That mask is really a social experiment of the power elite to observe just how easily many people can be manipulated to behave and live in unnatural ways. The type of mind conditioning and thought control that may then be also applied to the subtle and gradual forcing of tyranny upon the people.
David M says
Face masks don’t stop covid 19 anyway, it actually says on the face mask box they don’t stop any viruses. The covid 19 virus is about 90 nanometres, & the gaps in the masks are at least 1000 nanometres. The argument is if you wear a face mask you reduce the risk of giving it to someone else if you have it. Whatever, I can’t breathe properly in them & they don’t work anyway.
https://www.studyfinds.org/face-masks-wont-stop-covid-indoors/
Walter Sieruk says
There’s now a new common sense,, which is “The mask is just as useless as Joe Biden.”
tgusa says
“The mask is just as useless as Joe Biden.” Or, Joe Biden is more useless than the mask, Either way works.
somehistory says
The mask might limit odors. from reaching the olfactory.
Infidel says
Yeah, Marjorie Taylor Greene once wore a mask that said precisely that