#lock-downs

[ronaromero]

China: Riots Over Covid Lock-downs Break Out in Zhengzhou

China: Riots Over Covid Lock-downs Break Out in Zhengzhou

Courtesy Intel Republic Protests and Riots broke out yesterday near the IPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China. Officers are seen being pelted by IPhone employees with barricaded and other metal objects injuring several officers. Strict Covid lock-downs were imposed again Wednesday because of a rise in Covid Cases The Hang Seng index fell 3.4% and closed down at 1.9% on fears that China’s new…

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[joachimkrudtson]

2021 was a wasted year

I cannot remember when I ever had such an isolated life. I go to work and then I come home and then nothing!!!

Before the pandemic, I went to the Gym at least 5 days per week and I was in town every single Friday and Saturday.

Then the pandemic came and both gyms and bars closed down. Goodbye social life!

At some point both opened again but not everyone came back. Some checked out of life. They were not killed by the virus but their life ended and in the end their health failed.

My uncle has for some years been partly dementia but he got daily visits from both family and professionals. Due to the pandemic the visits became difficult to conduct and without the social interaction, his health failed totally. He no longer recognize me and also not his wife and children.

At the bar we talked about the many who we lost when we came back. Some people cannot bear to live alone. They become depressed and some ended up in the river. I saw some of their obituaries. It is not fun when people who barely made it to 30 decide to end its all.

At work some has been hired. I know them only by email because without Christmas party or the bar crawling after work, it is difficult to learn them by name. Some have left also and it is strange that we were not able to say goodbye over a beer or two. Suddenly they are gone like they were run over in traffic and you never got to say goodbye.

2021 has been a very difficult year. Once this pandemic thing is over, unless it is a thing which is kept going so our Prime minister can get prime time coverage so she can announce lockdowns, I will start a new life where I have decided that I have been outside Denmark for the last time in my life.

This evilness came to Denmark because we lived in a world where people could go everywhere instead of sticking to their own community. We need to change that and settle with Google maps or the social media if we really want to see what it going on in other countries. No I will not miss lying in the sun on some beach in Spain if it means that we can live normally with our bars open in Denmark.

I really doubt that people can have it worse in any other country on this Earth. 2021 was really bad. Now I will look forward to 2022. I will try to get into town once the central government over in Copenhagen allows it. 2021 was the year where the government divided the population into two groups:

1) The superhumans who took the vaccine. I am one myself but I do not feel like a hero just because I took it.

2) Those who endanger our society by not taking the vaccine. At least so the prime minister says so. In other countries those people are restricted. I do not know how far governments will go. Will they place such people in Ghettos? Will they eliminate them?

Sometime I feel the governments attack on the unvaccinated people like we were back in the 1930's where governments around the world took at a aim on people they believe could endanger the society and brought it to an extreme which people later condemned.

What about the treatment of those who for some reason cannot endure the vaccines? Will future generations condemn how governments treat this minority today? I am sure they will.

2021 was a year which showed us the most nasty side of ourselves.

Will 2022 be an improvement? I doubt it but I hope for the best.

[parentinghelp1]

How to prepare your kids for school - post lock-downs?

This post is all about how to prepare your kids for school post lock-downs. This post will guide you to relax all your kids anxieties.

[fluidcomplex]

The truth about the Covid-19 lockdowns

PANDA’s co-founder, Nick Hudson, was the keynote speaker at the March 2021 inaugural BizNews Investment Conference in South Africa. The pres

This is one of those wonderful, and all too rare, insights into how we are being swamped with outdated facts, half-truths, selective statistics, outright lies, and full on propaganda to serve the global pandemic of fear.

I think that one of the reason that powers-that-be have been able to get away with this is that there has not been any meaningful respiratory pandemics during the Gen-Y/Millenials' lifetime, and so they have nothing to compare this with.

There have been many major flu outbreaks since the great Spanish flu of WW1, yet during those times we did not take the types of steps we have been taking during this COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns were unthinkable, and isolation measures were restricted to the vulnerable and those who were infected. Masks were not mandated, and travel was open. A number of those flu outbreaks had similar mortality rates as COVID-19 (over 2 million people died from the Hong Kong flu of the late 60's), yet because we have a large generation of young people who have no realistic context into which COVID-19 should sensibly fit, they have been gladly cheering on the lockdowns and extreme punitive measures against humanity.

[daveinediting]

Before there were lock-downs and masks and social distancing and experiences with “closed” signs on ‘em, I lived a different set of personal and professional habits.

Is that important?

Well... it depends on where I think my creativity comes from. Because for sure I don’t believe it’ll always be at its peak if I don’t exercise it.

If I don’t maintain and nourish it.

To some degree, I rely on my experiences as part of that  exercise regimen. I observe. I soak in the moment. I feel it.

To its fullest.

However.

Many of those experiences are no longer available to me.

Is that a problem?

No. Not really. Because, well, I’m an introvert. I spend an awful lot of time in my own head to re-energize myself. So the lack of crowds isn’t necessarily a problem for me even as I feel the loss of hanging out with friends and enjoying every moment. Even as I feel the loss of event experiences.

Movie theaters.

Concerts.

Bars and clubs.

Still, the current story in which I find myself affords more opportunity for active thinking, introspection, daydreaming, and pondering the What Ifs of life.

It also affords me time to look. Time to see. The time it takes to be aware of the striking images that pass before my eyes on a daily basis.

To not be so busy and consumed with doing that I literally become blind to the sights and sounds that legitimately add color and flavor to our days.

If we let them.

For example, getting out of bed this morning and looking out the window BAM.

This.

You see I wasn’t in a hurry to get out the door so I actually had the time to soak in the image and let it impress me.

Then later in the day there was something about the light that I liked... so I soaked that in, too.

Of course it isn’t the Me show, 24/7. Which brings me to the fact that my wife ‘n I over the last year have taken the time... to take the time... to walk every day (ish). To see what there is to see and experience what there is to experience and talk to the occasional stranger at a distance every so often.

So yeah.

Before there were lock-downs and masks and social distancing and experiences with “closed” signs on ‘em, I lived a different set of personal and professional habits.

And the biggest difference between then and now is that it’s a bit more introspective, a bit more thoughtful, a bit more considered in sight and sound and experience.

Even if it is on a much smaller scale.

There’s a lot to see and do and think about down here.

:-)

[satanic-poodle]

Lock-downs make no sense

Why cover your neck and leave your entire fucking spine open to shards of building to impale you and a) kill you instantly b) paralyse you and leave you alive with a life of wheelchairs and misery from your newfound lack of mobility due to the absolute dumbassery of people in these situations Lie on your back with your knees covering your chest and cover your face with your hands/arms for fucks sake. seriously people, you're dumb enough to let a bunch of kids lay in the hallway with their spines /completely exposed/ instead of having them curl up on their backs to: a) make it waaaaaaayyy more comfortable for their incoming death b) COVER THEIR SPINE,ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BODY PART HUMANS HAVE