I remember interviewing for a job as a teacher of pre schoolchildren at an English Academy in Thailand in 2018 and I was so taken aback about the daily temperature check thing they were supposedly doing every morning. The Thai administrator had been sure I'd get the position because the headmaster there was American and I was American so of course we'd hit it off great. We did not: she was slovenly and talked in overly guarded language about "my kids" and I am sure she was fine for the role, but I could sense the Asian germ obsession even back then.
I can't wear facemasks. It's to the point where I'd have to be very close to dead to see a regular medical doctor or go to a hospital. My trust in the entire system is 0 if not negative numbers, meaning I expect them to make things worse. That type of energy sounds hard to bear...it's not good training for the next generation
It sounds as if daily life for schoolchildren in Japan is conducive to emotional disturbance. I feel sorry for the Kid. I hate to ask but: What does PreExWife think should be done about the situation? (I doubt she'd allow you to take action to counsel the child without her approval.) And I'm afraid psych meds will be prescribed when "talk therapy" might help.
She indulges the kid. She works for Pf, and is thus of the idea that there is or should be a pill for every issue.
There is not a lot of help for anyone with emotional or mental issues. One of my nursing students missed most of the school of not only my classes but all and was seeking help. My boss related that during a school counseling meeting with her and her mother, she stated that she was seeking help, and her mother flew into a rage and demanded that she stop. There remains a social stigma against those and the families of those who need such help.
The issue/s with my kid could fill a small book. There may be help here but the preexwife doesn’t believe it is needed. We should have started with the Kid years ago.
As you rightly pointed out, far too late to do anything now and even if counselling was an option, the drugs will almost certainly cause permanent damage and are unlikely to solve any problems. Luckily for me, I started out early as someone who has never been to a doctor for decades apart to from gong there for a sick note for work, I would also push back when my kids had the usual coughs and colds and would only relent if they were really quite poorly and only because my wife wanted to do so. Knowing what I know now, I would probably not have allowed even a single visit. On one occasion, when my eldest was just a few months old, she developed a high fever. She was still responsive but at the time I had had the fear put into me about how dangerous fevers are. I was still in two minds but in the end we went to the local hospital in the early hours of the morning after the fever refused to subside for a number of hours. We came back with a handful of pills and tried to get some sleep. The next day the fever was still there and we returned to the hospital only to find that despite giving all those pills, they have left out the most “important” one which was the fever med. It was then that I realised that fevers are just the body’s natural response and in fact quite often they are due to earlier medical interventions in the form of toxic vaccines. The main thing is that as long as the kid remains responsive and alert, it is better just to monitor them and let the fever run its course and that is part of the healing process.
I had the flu shortly after Tamiflu hit the market and that was given to me and nothing else. I now know what they said way back, “mad with fever”. I also understand why teenagers on Tamiflu threw themselves off buildings, most miserable 3 days of my life. Had flu again last Fall and just stayed in bed and took symptom relieving meds, including aspirin for fever reduction. But aspirin is not good for children, so they just have to bear the fever.
About the mask…hypercapnia is a real problem. Refuse the stupidity. It’s been a very long time since I had to take a kid to the doctor, and that even incudes grandchildren (the youngest will be 12 in July). The tribulations of parenthood are never ending however. Once your kid, always your kid. Enjoy the years as much as you can because they are gone too soon. Cherish them. The time will come when you yearn for them. I speak from experience. Good luck. 😉
Can’t, wife is Japanese, works for Pf and is a mad maskers like all others I knew here prior to the panic save one. I have since met a few over Substack, but the in-laws, the matsuri group, the Kids teachers, classmates and their parents, everyone around me at work and at home are confirmed Covidians.
Yes, I know of the issues with masks, I am certified in respirator use. My main fear now is that plastic fibers are being found in lung tissue of the living. They no longer need to wear the damn things at school and they don’t, but carry one with them for whenever they are told to don it.
Wish I could spend time with my kids. Wife is throwing me out one the oldest finishes their entrance exams for Jr. high school.
One idea on the mask. I found 2 ways to pretty much avoid them during the panic. The first was when a well intentioned friend gave us some hand made masks from thin cotton material with an added lining. The first thing I did was rip out the lining and the thin material allowed me to breathe not quite normally but better than anyone else. I suggest you experiment with “modifying” a mask for such situations. The second thing I did was to go out and buy a wide brimmed hat with integral mesh which was intended to block out the sun. The holes in the dark mesh were very large but because it was so dark, nobody could see that I was not wearing a mask underneath. I could pretty much breathe normally in that. I even had fun with it by going to the bank. Whereas at one time the police would have been called immediately and alarm buttons pressed, the teller didn’t even bat an eyelid and was probably even thinking what a model citizen I was! I even walked past a group of policemen right in the middle of the city centre. I guess terrorism was also affected by covid!
Masks are not benign. As one certified in respirator use, if I allowed my work force to wear any safety gear not suited to purpose, which masks are not for stoping viruses, I and my employer would be in jeopardy of civil and possibly criminal citation. I did buy two “Un-Mask”s for a specific purpose, visit my wife in the hospital, but have never used them.
Un-masks are great. We used them on the plane during our escape from totalitarian Canada in early-2022. The tyrannical Air Canada stewardesses tried repeatedly to make our small kids wear them in their sleep but even our kids resisted them. Our last case scenario would be to slap on the Unmask which the kids knew was for show. I wrote to personally thank the Unmask creators.
Tom Woods (Libertarian podcaster) had a guest on his show that created something called..fakemask.com or similar, where the material was made with a dark yet porous substance easy to breathe through. The problem is that it still makes you appear compliant. That's why I didn't think it was a serious address of the issue.
Here, the stupid mandate was enforced even outdoors. People would be walking by themselves in the hills and people would report them to the police and they’d be waiting to arrest them when they returned. I couldn’t afford the huge fines or possible arrest as I have others who depend on me. If it had just been me then maybe I would’ve been more defiant but even citizens were chasing down others in the streets and wrestling them to the ground for not wearing a mask. The insanity was off the scale. If they were so scared of the deadly plague why would they even go near someone like that!!! So, for me, I had a choice of staying at home, which would also be complying or find a way to have the last laugh at their expense.
I’m in the once great city of Hong Kong. Sadly the city is just an empty shell of what it was and even the shell is crumbling. Nobody else will have me and I don’t like cold weather so going back to UK after spending my entire adult life away is not an option.
Thankfully it was not as severe as that here in Japan, just sever enough to prevent me from replacing lost jobs and leading to divorce, but at least not fines and arrest. However, given that I am actually certified in respirators and that the boxes and inserts there of specifically state what they are to be used for and protection against virus not amount them and warnings against using them against bacteria, which are larger, I suspect I still would not wear them. Especially during hay fever season, such as now. I can barely breathe in my own home without a mask.
I know this will probably be controversial even to someone as awake as yourself but there’s another more fundamental reason why masks are not effective against viruses and that is because there is absolutely no proof whatsoever that viruses exist. It was a theory put forward a couple of hundred years ago, long before they had the technology to magnify down to such a level. Even today it’s know as viral or germ “theory” for good reason. When you start to research this topic, it soon becomes clear that all evidence actually points away from viruses. A virus has never been isolated from a sample taken from a sick person. It needs to be “processed’ and incubated before what is wrongly interpreted as a virus can even be observed. That doesn’t mean people don’t get ill but you can explain away the mass “panic” to a very large extent purely by the power of suggestion. Ordinary colds suddenly become magnified and the stress caused by the panic and the seeming confirmation by everyone around you, not to mention the 24/7 news, just makes it all the more real. Such mass psychosis over a prolonged period will cause illness in the normally healthy and just to make sure, just get the population to line up and poison everyone by direct injection. That aside, people do of course get sick under normal conditions, but that is merely due to environmental and lifestyle factors. This is also a theory and has yet to be proven beyond all doubt but some brave and highly qualified individuals from mainstream medicine given up their careers on the basis of what they have discovered. And when you look at all the other lies and deliberate deception that has been going on, it’s really not such a big stretch of the imagination to assume the things we once considered beyond question are just another part of an even longer running scam.
🙄 geezus. I’m sure you do know what you’re doing. I’m very sympathetic to your plight. I wish you the very best, dude. I’m disappointed and somewhat disgusted by your answer. I’m pulling for you. Keep up your mood and keep your faith, wherever it may be placed. You have an ear with me anytime.
Long ago I started a multi part series on the costs of the panicked response to covid. I posted only two of these but have worked on and off on the personal effects . Haven’t finished it as it is too painful to spend a lot of time on it in one sitting. Much of it is the damage to my kids, what was stolen from them and myself and their grandparents due to the lockdowns lite we were compelled to suffer through.
Myself, I refused to wear a mask throughout the madness and while this did not lead to my losing any of my jobs teaching English at medical schools in Japan, it did prevent we from being able to land new positions. Would have to mask for interviews. My stance also destroyed the good will of employers from whom I desperately need references as I lack a master’s degree which also blocks employment opportunities. My preexwife is still working from home and the tension over my refusal to go along with the madness has, after 5 years, proven too much for her as well as my recent inability to provide any financial support to the family. Been ugly lately.
I can relate with your pain more than you know. What is left of my “family” is essentially ripped apart and will never be healed. My first son died of fentanyl poisoning at 41, eight years ago. The other two are extremely disrespectful to me and I have reached the limit of their insolence. My wife and I have been through 54 years together yet we are struggling to keep whatever semblance of normality alive. It is sometimes an hourly fight for the survival of our family. I am one of five brothers. One died five years ago. Only one other will even talk to me. I’m devastated by this. Losses such as these can never be reversed. I’m beyond trying to understand what has occurred. My marriage is still going but we fight daily. They are fuelled by our utter despair. It’s essentially all my fault. I am quickly reaching the point of no return. I have no firearms, but I own one which is in another brother’s hands for reasons I can’t quite grasp. Can’t speak to that one anymore. It’s not an easy life. The idiots in charge of our lives have only disdain for all of us. The world is full of fools and they are running the show. I will be 70. God willing I will not be here very much longer.
They have been exceptionally successful in destroying families. I have heard that a lot in recent years leading up to the panic, elderly grateful that the majority of their time on Earth has already been lived. I understand that all too well.
I don't know what to tell you, only that you aren't alone.
I lost my parents in '03 and '07 and am glad that I don't know how they would have reacted during Covid. My Dad had rheumatoid arthritis, and never demanded accommodation for his disease. Would he have been compliant due to the propaganda?
My sister hasn't spoken to me since June of 2023. I had my leg amputated due to diabetes in late 2021, but our relationship went critical in 2020. I remember debating her (PhD in Education) about how dangerous Covid was. She claimed it was going to be the next Spanish Flu, and I explained how it never would be. I bet she and others speculate that my amputation could have been due to Covid..since Covid is the source of everything. No..I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2016.
I think she thought I was nuts.
After my amputation, she and my brother (liberal and conservative, respectively but both government workers) showed up to visit me in a long-term care facility, both wearing masks.
You are very brave and I am extremely sorry for your plight. I’m going to believe that their masks were to “protect you” from the spread of the nonexistent disease but they likely thought they were protecting themselves from your diabetes. That’s in keeping with their own beliefs, methinks 🙄At least they came. Could look at it as a start, but it’s maybe a little premature. Maybe not. Stay as positive as you can. It’s the best defence. I wish you all the best things in your life and thank you for your message. I’m not the only one on this thread who you were texting to, I am well aware. I weigh in to make you aware that someone is paying attention to you.
We created a "free school" in Japan, which are legal but not registered as such, not taking any government or industry funds, and not publicized so it's completely off the grid. It's been surprising (and not surprising) how much interest it's generated even in our small circle. People want to spread the word but we don't want the attention. There are more awake people in Japan than we realized coming out of the woodwork. People realize that the system is failing them and their children. It's too bad we don't have the capacity to handle more than a few kids at the moment.
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with American university schools. I found an article on free schools here that seems to describe it better than I ever could:
There are numerous free schools and homeschools of all sorts, but in ours we intend to provide an education to develop their thinking, feeling, and and will to become independent-thinking free human beings more than capable of higher education, employment, and human relationships, fitting into society as it suits them or checking out of a deteriorating transhuman society with confidence. Nothing's ever perfect but we follow a pedagogy that has been pretty effective over the past century.
That would change nothing. Can’t afford it anyway. If younger, one of those areas where countries are offering free land, house and monthly stipends to populate empty areas or help with certain industries would suit me fine.
I went through the entire scamdemic refusing to wear masks. I found an exemption card which I showed getting on buses. It mostly worked. Eventually I stopped carrying it as it seemed like a form of compliance and I just refused and said they had no right to enforce it. The only place I wore one was in customer meetings, as I couldn't afford to get fired.
I last got asked to put a mask on in a dispensary a couple of months ago. I walked out and went to another. I am very lucky in that my Japanese wife is not a covidian, to the extent she frantically tried to talk her mother and sister out of getting the jabs.
Can’t. It has long been a problem where the Japanese parent of kids of mixed marriages would take their kids to Japan either to visit their Japanese grandparents or after a judgment went against them outside Japan and that would be that. Japan would not lift a finger to help the non Japanese parent. In the spirit of transparency, Japanese courts do not aid Japanese parents against each other in similar cases either. Until recently, they have a hands off approach to what happens within a family. This includes even murder. However, enough non Japanese parents, I do believe mainly fathers, have made enough of an issue about losing their kids this way that their governments have pressured Japan to join a treaty that compels them to aid in the enforcement of family courts abroad. It rarely does. What has been done in is that Japan requires certification from the other parent whenever one parent is departing the country with one or more of the kids.
But even without this, I would not. I have no job nor home in the States and no money, now. The kids do not speak English. All their friends are here in Japan. And, given that we cannot discipline them in anyway and yet I try, they prefer their mon over me as she indulges their bad behaviors. That is an indirect way to say that they hare me.
By the way, there’s a fantastic video with links on multiple platforms including here on Substack I believe. It’s just 22 mins and features Mike Yeadon who is an absolute hero in my opinion. Just search Silver Bullet and Mike Yeadon and you should be able to find the video in question. He’s even added subtitles in many languages and I think even has a Japanese version. I doubt if it would do any good but it would be interesting if your Pf wife got to see what kind of criminal organisation she’s working for and that she is complicit in these crimes. Maybe “accidentally” leave some copies that could be found by her and also perhaps your students!
I remember interviewing for a job as a teacher of pre schoolchildren at an English Academy in Thailand in 2018 and I was so taken aback about the daily temperature check thing they were supposedly doing every morning. The Thai administrator had been sure I'd get the position because the headmaster there was American and I was American so of course we'd hit it off great. We did not: she was slovenly and talked in overly guarded language about "my kids" and I am sure she was fine for the role, but I could sense the Asian germ obsession even back then.
I can't wear facemasks. It's to the point where I'd have to be very close to dead to see a regular medical doctor or go to a hospital. My trust in the entire system is 0 if not negative numbers, meaning I expect them to make things worse. That type of energy sounds hard to bear...it's not good training for the next generation
My choice to refuse to go to doctors anymore has served me in good stead these last few decades.
It sounds as if daily life for schoolchildren in Japan is conducive to emotional disturbance. I feel sorry for the Kid. I hate to ask but: What does PreExWife think should be done about the situation? (I doubt she'd allow you to take action to counsel the child without her approval.) And I'm afraid psych meds will be prescribed when "talk therapy" might help.
She indulges the kid. She works for Pf, and is thus of the idea that there is or should be a pill for every issue.
There is not a lot of help for anyone with emotional or mental issues. One of my nursing students missed most of the school of not only my classes but all and was seeking help. My boss related that during a school counseling meeting with her and her mother, she stated that she was seeking help, and her mother flew into a rage and demanded that she stop. There remains a social stigma against those and the families of those who need such help.
The issue/s with my kid could fill a small book. There may be help here but the preexwife doesn’t believe it is needed. We should have started with the Kid years ago.
As you rightly pointed out, far too late to do anything now and even if counselling was an option, the drugs will almost certainly cause permanent damage and are unlikely to solve any problems. Luckily for me, I started out early as someone who has never been to a doctor for decades apart to from gong there for a sick note for work, I would also push back when my kids had the usual coughs and colds and would only relent if they were really quite poorly and only because my wife wanted to do so. Knowing what I know now, I would probably not have allowed even a single visit. On one occasion, when my eldest was just a few months old, she developed a high fever. She was still responsive but at the time I had had the fear put into me about how dangerous fevers are. I was still in two minds but in the end we went to the local hospital in the early hours of the morning after the fever refused to subside for a number of hours. We came back with a handful of pills and tried to get some sleep. The next day the fever was still there and we returned to the hospital only to find that despite giving all those pills, they have left out the most “important” one which was the fever med. It was then that I realised that fevers are just the body’s natural response and in fact quite often they are due to earlier medical interventions in the form of toxic vaccines. The main thing is that as long as the kid remains responsive and alert, it is better just to monitor them and let the fever run its course and that is part of the healing process.
I had the flu shortly after Tamiflu hit the market and that was given to me and nothing else. I now know what they said way back, “mad with fever”. I also understand why teenagers on Tamiflu threw themselves off buildings, most miserable 3 days of my life. Had flu again last Fall and just stayed in bed and took symptom relieving meds, including aspirin for fever reduction. But aspirin is not good for children, so they just have to bear the fever.
I miss NiQuil.
But that is from my own experience.
About the mask…hypercapnia is a real problem. Refuse the stupidity. It’s been a very long time since I had to take a kid to the doctor, and that even incudes grandchildren (the youngest will be 12 in July). The tribulations of parenthood are never ending however. Once your kid, always your kid. Enjoy the years as much as you can because they are gone too soon. Cherish them. The time will come when you yearn for them. I speak from experience. Good luck. 😉
Can’t, wife is Japanese, works for Pf and is a mad maskers like all others I knew here prior to the panic save one. I have since met a few over Substack, but the in-laws, the matsuri group, the Kids teachers, classmates and their parents, everyone around me at work and at home are confirmed Covidians.
Yes, I know of the issues with masks, I am certified in respirator use. My main fear now is that plastic fibers are being found in lung tissue of the living. They no longer need to wear the damn things at school and they don’t, but carry one with them for whenever they are told to don it.
Wish I could spend time with my kids. Wife is throwing me out one the oldest finishes their entrance exams for Jr. high school.
One idea on the mask. I found 2 ways to pretty much avoid them during the panic. The first was when a well intentioned friend gave us some hand made masks from thin cotton material with an added lining. The first thing I did was rip out the lining and the thin material allowed me to breathe not quite normally but better than anyone else. I suggest you experiment with “modifying” a mask for such situations. The second thing I did was to go out and buy a wide brimmed hat with integral mesh which was intended to block out the sun. The holes in the dark mesh were very large but because it was so dark, nobody could see that I was not wearing a mask underneath. I could pretty much breathe normally in that. I even had fun with it by going to the bank. Whereas at one time the police would have been called immediately and alarm buttons pressed, the teller didn’t even bat an eyelid and was probably even thinking what a model citizen I was! I even walked past a group of policemen right in the middle of the city centre. I guess terrorism was also affected by covid!
Masks are not benign. As one certified in respirator use, if I allowed my work force to wear any safety gear not suited to purpose, which masks are not for stoping viruses, I and my employer would be in jeopardy of civil and possibly criminal citation. I did buy two “Un-Mask”s for a specific purpose, visit my wife in the hospital, but have never used them.
Un-masks are great. We used them on the plane during our escape from totalitarian Canada in early-2022. The tyrannical Air Canada stewardesses tried repeatedly to make our small kids wear them in their sleep but even our kids resisted them. Our last case scenario would be to slap on the Unmask which the kids knew was for show. I wrote to personally thank the Unmask creators.
I have two but have never used them. The kids each have one. The Kid lost theirs soon after I gave it to them.
Damn, they're pricy. :(
Tom Woods (Libertarian podcaster) had a guest on his show that created something called..fakemask.com or similar, where the material was made with a dark yet porous substance easy to breathe through. The problem is that it still makes you appear compliant. That's why I didn't think it was a serious address of the issue.
https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-tom-woods-show-29260/episodes/ep-1975-entrepreneur-sells-bre-98633686
That too is a big reason I did not, do not wear the damned things.
Here, the stupid mandate was enforced even outdoors. People would be walking by themselves in the hills and people would report them to the police and they’d be waiting to arrest them when they returned. I couldn’t afford the huge fines or possible arrest as I have others who depend on me. If it had just been me then maybe I would’ve been more defiant but even citizens were chasing down others in the streets and wrestling them to the ground for not wearing a mask. The insanity was off the scale. If they were so scared of the deadly plague why would they even go near someone like that!!! So, for me, I had a choice of staying at home, which would also be complying or find a way to have the last laugh at their expense.
I forgot to ask, where are you?
I’m in the once great city of Hong Kong. Sadly the city is just an empty shell of what it was and even the shell is crumbling. Nobody else will have me and I don’t like cold weather so going back to UK after spending my entire adult life away is not an option.
Thankfully it was not as severe as that here in Japan, just sever enough to prevent me from replacing lost jobs and leading to divorce, but at least not fines and arrest. However, given that I am actually certified in respirators and that the boxes and inserts there of specifically state what they are to be used for and protection against virus not amount them and warnings against using them against bacteria, which are larger, I suspect I still would not wear them. Especially during hay fever season, such as now. I can barely breathe in my own home without a mask.
I know this will probably be controversial even to someone as awake as yourself but there’s another more fundamental reason why masks are not effective against viruses and that is because there is absolutely no proof whatsoever that viruses exist. It was a theory put forward a couple of hundred years ago, long before they had the technology to magnify down to such a level. Even today it’s know as viral or germ “theory” for good reason. When you start to research this topic, it soon becomes clear that all evidence actually points away from viruses. A virus has never been isolated from a sample taken from a sick person. It needs to be “processed’ and incubated before what is wrongly interpreted as a virus can even be observed. That doesn’t mean people don’t get ill but you can explain away the mass “panic” to a very large extent purely by the power of suggestion. Ordinary colds suddenly become magnified and the stress caused by the panic and the seeming confirmation by everyone around you, not to mention the 24/7 news, just makes it all the more real. Such mass psychosis over a prolonged period will cause illness in the normally healthy and just to make sure, just get the population to line up and poison everyone by direct injection. That aside, people do of course get sick under normal conditions, but that is merely due to environmental and lifestyle factors. This is also a theory and has yet to be proven beyond all doubt but some brave and highly qualified individuals from mainstream medicine given up their careers on the basis of what they have discovered. And when you look at all the other lies and deliberate deception that has been going on, it’s really not such a big stretch of the imagination to assume the things we once considered beyond question are just another part of an even longer running scam.
🙄 geezus. I’m sure you do know what you’re doing. I’m very sympathetic to your plight. I wish you the very best, dude. I’m disappointed and somewhat disgusted by your answer. I’m pulling for you. Keep up your mood and keep your faith, wherever it may be placed. You have an ear with me anytime.
Long ago I started a multi part series on the costs of the panicked response to covid. I posted only two of these but have worked on and off on the personal effects . Haven’t finished it as it is too painful to spend a lot of time on it in one sitting. Much of it is the damage to my kids, what was stolen from them and myself and their grandparents due to the lockdowns lite we were compelled to suffer through.
Myself, I refused to wear a mask throughout the madness and while this did not lead to my losing any of my jobs teaching English at medical schools in Japan, it did prevent we from being able to land new positions. Would have to mask for interviews. My stance also destroyed the good will of employers from whom I desperately need references as I lack a master’s degree which also blocks employment opportunities. My preexwife is still working from home and the tension over my refusal to go along with the madness has, after 5 years, proven too much for her as well as my recent inability to provide any financial support to the family. Been ugly lately.
I can relate with your pain more than you know. What is left of my “family” is essentially ripped apart and will never be healed. My first son died of fentanyl poisoning at 41, eight years ago. The other two are extremely disrespectful to me and I have reached the limit of their insolence. My wife and I have been through 54 years together yet we are struggling to keep whatever semblance of normality alive. It is sometimes an hourly fight for the survival of our family. I am one of five brothers. One died five years ago. Only one other will even talk to me. I’m devastated by this. Losses such as these can never be reversed. I’m beyond trying to understand what has occurred. My marriage is still going but we fight daily. They are fuelled by our utter despair. It’s essentially all my fault. I am quickly reaching the point of no return. I have no firearms, but I own one which is in another brother’s hands for reasons I can’t quite grasp. Can’t speak to that one anymore. It’s not an easy life. The idiots in charge of our lives have only disdain for all of us. The world is full of fools and they are running the show. I will be 70. God willing I will not be here very much longer.
They have been exceptionally successful in destroying families. I have heard that a lot in recent years leading up to the panic, elderly grateful that the majority of their time on Earth has already been lived. I understand that all too well.
'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breaking us down when they all should let us be
We belong to you and me ~The BeeGees
I don't know what to tell you, only that you aren't alone.
I lost my parents in '03 and '07 and am glad that I don't know how they would have reacted during Covid. My Dad had rheumatoid arthritis, and never demanded accommodation for his disease. Would he have been compliant due to the propaganda?
My sister hasn't spoken to me since June of 2023. I had my leg amputated due to diabetes in late 2021, but our relationship went critical in 2020. I remember debating her (PhD in Education) about how dangerous Covid was. She claimed it was going to be the next Spanish Flu, and I explained how it never would be. I bet she and others speculate that my amputation could have been due to Covid..since Covid is the source of everything. No..I was diagnosed with diabetes in 2016.
I think she thought I was nuts.
After my amputation, she and my brother (liberal and conservative, respectively but both government workers) showed up to visit me in a long-term care facility, both wearing masks.
You are very brave and I am extremely sorry for your plight. I’m going to believe that their masks were to “protect you” from the spread of the nonexistent disease but they likely thought they were protecting themselves from your diabetes. That’s in keeping with their own beliefs, methinks 🙄At least they came. Could look at it as a start, but it’s maybe a little premature. Maybe not. Stay as positive as you can. It’s the best defence. I wish you all the best things in your life and thank you for your message. I’m not the only one on this thread who you were texting to, I am well aware. I weigh in to make you aware that someone is paying attention to you.
P.S. I recognized the Bee Gees tune 🎶 immediately
We started our own school. We refuse to submit our children for state indoctrination.
That is the way to go, if both parents agree. Wife never would. Doubt it’s legal in japan anyway.
We created a "free school" in Japan, which are legal but not registered as such, not taking any government or industry funds, and not publicized so it's completely off the grid. It's been surprising (and not surprising) how much interest it's generated even in our small circle. People want to spread the word but we don't want the attention. There are more awake people in Japan than we realized coming out of the woodwork. People realize that the system is failing them and their children. It's too bad we don't have the capacity to handle more than a few kids at the moment.
Would those then be legally similar to the American university schools in Japan?
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with American university schools. I found an article on free schools here that seems to describe it better than I ever could:
https://educationinjapan.wordpress.com/education-system-in-japan-general/alternative-education-in-japan-introduction/alternative-education-in-japan-the-context-and-the-challenges/alternative-education-in-japan-free-schools/
What are the prospects of children who attend such schools of gaining entrance to universities, employment or marriage?
There are numerous free schools and homeschools of all sorts, but in ours we intend to provide an education to develop their thinking, feeling, and and will to become independent-thinking free human beings more than capable of higher education, employment, and human relationships, fitting into society as it suits them or checking out of a deteriorating transhuman society with confidence. Nothing's ever perfect but we follow a pedagogy that has been pretty effective over the past century.
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OMG, this story is crazy. I'm sending good juju to you.
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I think the first comment you made fits ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!
LOL, You really have no good options, USA sucks, Japan even more .. You should look for a third country.
That would change nothing. Can’t afford it anyway. If younger, one of those areas where countries are offering free land, house and monthly stipends to populate empty areas or help with certain industries would suit me fine.
That is the problem, we are not getting any younger .. by the time you figure out what the problem is you are too old to solve it :(
That and they keep coming up with new problems to throw in our way.
The temperature-taking at school just blows my mind.
One of my now former med schools demanded that during the panic too. I refused. The were not happy.
I went through the entire scamdemic refusing to wear masks. I found an exemption card which I showed getting on buses. It mostly worked. Eventually I stopped carrying it as it seemed like a form of compliance and I just refused and said they had no right to enforce it. The only place I wore one was in customer meetings, as I couldn't afford to get fired.
I last got asked to put a mask on in a dispensary a couple of months ago. I walked out and went to another. I am very lucky in that my Japanese wife is not a covidian, to the extent she frantically tried to talk her mother and sister out of getting the jabs.
https://x.com/bfacedplague/status/1900235827122246109
Take the children, didn't some person remark on that?
Can’t. It has long been a problem where the Japanese parent of kids of mixed marriages would take their kids to Japan either to visit their Japanese grandparents or after a judgment went against them outside Japan and that would be that. Japan would not lift a finger to help the non Japanese parent. In the spirit of transparency, Japanese courts do not aid Japanese parents against each other in similar cases either. Until recently, they have a hands off approach to what happens within a family. This includes even murder. However, enough non Japanese parents, I do believe mainly fathers, have made enough of an issue about losing their kids this way that their governments have pressured Japan to join a treaty that compels them to aid in the enforcement of family courts abroad. It rarely does. What has been done in is that Japan requires certification from the other parent whenever one parent is departing the country with one or more of the kids.
But even without this, I would not. I have no job nor home in the States and no money, now. The kids do not speak English. All their friends are here in Japan. And, given that we cannot discipline them in anyway and yet I try, they prefer their mon over me as she indulges their bad behaviors. That is an indirect way to say that they hare me.
Then again, they do not have US passports.
By the way, there’s a fantastic video with links on multiple platforms including here on Substack I believe. It’s just 22 mins and features Mike Yeadon who is an absolute hero in my opinion. Just search Silver Bullet and Mike Yeadon and you should be able to find the video in question. He’s even added subtitles in many languages and I think even has a Japanese version. I doubt if it would do any good but it would be interesting if your Pf wife got to see what kind of criminal organisation she’s working for and that she is complicit in these crimes. Maybe “accidentally” leave some copies that could be found by her and also perhaps your students!