I just received a call from a medical university. A former boss asked me if he could send them my CV and they called me for an interview. However, masks are mandated on medical school campuses, so I as compelled to decline the interview.
My wife is not American. Even though we are married, she can not just follow me there if I must return. While she has worked there for extended periods of time, I doubt she would want to move there now. Our kids do not speak English. I was away during their waking hours teaching our people’s kids English during their early childhood years and my wife did not make the effort required to bring up bilingual kids despite her excellent English as we planned. They have an understanding of English, but that is a far cry from understanding it at the level of kids their age. Then again, few kids understand their native languages at grade or age level due to the utter failure of education world wide these past 3 + years. May not be a big deal now, at least not as big as it would be otherwise.
The biggest hurdle is that the wife and kids are confirmed Covidians. It was they more than all others who kept shouting at me to wear a mask in public. Once my wife learns that it is my “selfishness” for not following masking rule that is preventing me from finding new work, I cn not fathom anything other divorce as the result.
If the mad masking age does not abruptly end, I am dead in the water.
I am not sure about the educational system in Japan, but listening to the John Gatto videos concerning American education, education was not the paramount motivation for what we were "treated" to growing up.
Are they still firmly in the pro-covid safety narrative? You have shared their paradoxical behavior before that displayed at least if not falling for the narrative, at least not following it with the intellectual consistency of someone who does (but then, who does?"
Sorry about your brother. Does your nephew feel any remorse over his potential role in his passing or is does he remain completely blind to what the shots are known to do. I mean no disrespect in that question nor in the one that follows, no autopsy?
Did your kids get the shots? Mine are grown up (19, 21, 23) and despite rarely listening to me, they didn't get the jabs. One "small" victory that is actually quite large.
I know the feeling. It's personal and global. Watching the trailer fire in the middle east, seeing that in some aeas of the country mask season is returning, and still on twitter those steadfast in the narrative are still going to narrative.
Yes, all that and more. Wife just bought a new car. Picked it up the day before yesterday. Never saw the face of the dealer nor anyone at the dealership despite the hours spent there during the visits to the lot. My oldest kid is in the 4th grade and I have never seen the face of any home room teachers. Still, to this day I have not. Most of my own students these past 3 1/2 years I would not recognize as I have never seen them. Even at the convenience store or supermarket, the clerks are masked and we now feed money into an ATM like device to pay for our purchases. Even through there is a person there, there is zero human interaction. Surreality.
That is freaking surreal. And it does affect social interaction. If someone sat down at my table wearing a mask, I was far less likely to interact with them. How many times do you ask someone to repeat themselves before you give up? How many. times do they temporarily remove the mask to tell you again before you call "shenanigans?"
And I think I stated this before. It's also impacted our ability to recognize people.
In class, 5 times. The amount I can cover in class is less by far than before because even after 3 1/2 years, mad maskers still have not learned that you must speak louder when wearing a mask. Outside the classroom it depends but my starting point is if it is not important enough for the speaker to remove the mask so that I can hear clearly it is not important enough for me to strain to find meaning to the garbled mess of sound coming through the mask. I ignore them. If I am not being paid to listen to a mad masker, as a rule, I do not.
I teach fewer hours a week now than I did on Mondays alone before the panic. If I were single, I would have had to return to the US on May 1st last year as my expenses have been greater than my income since then. When my wife learns that I declined work over masks, I will be single but may not have funds to return to the US. It does not feel like a bravo situation.
They very well might know it is all BS. In June 2020 an infectious disease control professional told me it was all “political” while wearing a mask. I bet they know and hate those of us strong enough to say “no” because they were not.
The problem is that fear does not evaporate, and the social contract lines in some places have been redrawn. I imagine to the young we look like daft fools for not wearing a mask. It's only common sense/courtesy to wear one because we are all asymptomatic potential carriers of disease...according to their indoctrination.
Yes, echo that, but it's total nuts what you're having to go through on account of the unscientific, superstitious woo-woo of mask mandates, enforced everywhere from convenience stores to prestigious medical universities. The former, you might forgive for their uncritical acceptance of Medievalist-thinking mask woo woo, but the latter is unforgivable.
Yeah, and Gates's children's pediatrician spilled the beans years ago at a medical convention that Gates would not allow his kids to get the recommended children's vaccinations.
Already seeing that. One thing to really keep in mind, at least here in the states, not sure what it is like in Japan, but doctors and nurses are employees. They have an employer they have to answer to. They are not allowed to use critical thinking and interact with their patient..and put the patient first.
True. There are hardly any sole practitioners left in the US. It's too expensive to even keep malpractice insurance for a single doctor or very small, private group of docs.
During a trip home 20 years ago I saw a headline in the local paper decrying the huge increase in malpractice insurance for the state. From 50 grand a year to over 150,000 for heart surgeons is the one I recall. The result was unexpected to all but the state insurance board and perhaps the insurance company; retirements and others left the state, leaving far too few to meet the needs of the state’s residents. The situation has not improved.
Cindi, forgive me. I met with my friends from Substack but completely forgot to ask. I emailed the next day and just got a reply tonight. They are busy having fun in Kyoto at the moment.
As far as the remember, they just posted one of their several email addresses and after we connected that way, we moved over to a different platform.
If that is acceptable to you, either I can post an email address that I can not reply from but can read and you can send an email address to it. Then I will use my preferred email address to contact you via email; or, you can post an email address here and I can than contact you with my preferred address.
At this very moment, I am on the train into Tokyo to meet one of my Substack readers. We met just as you and I have but I do not recall how we did. I’ll ask them as they are much more experienced with Substack than I am.
We were together for 3 1/2 years before we married. I was in my 30s and had been through a break up with a previous fiancé and had many friends who went through worse to know not to rush. People change.
Then we have the fact that I being unemployable was never supposed to be a factor. Nor that my government would put such horribly restrictive requirements upon me an my family from afar.
I think the same guidance would apply after the marriage as well. It helped me to more easily accept that the person I thought was my life mate was not and was never going to be.
Of course you now have the children so naturally there is a compelling reason to maintain at least the facade of compatibility until such time as they are self sufficient - then again, if their mother's diktats in tandem with the government's continue to be observed, that day may never come. Nevertheless, what a dreadful position to be in....not sure if you saw there was a part II to that article, I recommend it as well. This wisdom is priceless in my mind in helping to determine the future you want to have and with who. As #7 says - "It is imperative that you be ruthlessly honest with yourself." #10 is valuable as well. Heck I found each to be very compelling in giving me clarity. While it wasn't what I wanted to find out, it was necessary.....while I am to this day unmarried and regretful that I never had kids, I am thankful that I am not made miserable by others....https://dennisprager.com/column/if-youre-thinking-of-marrying-part-ii
Disclaimer: I am not posting these articles as part of any effort to say that you made a mistake, or that you need to move on without. They simply helped me to understand more clearly relationship dynamics and ultimately I think they can help people who may be in a less desirable position to manage that situation more effectively.
Boy, unwittingly, you have opened up a whole new universe. I would trade the shame I have over the limitations my nationality (US) places upon my children with being a confirmed bachelor in a heartbeat. Had I known that my own, distant government would make me choose which country’s law to violate; the US’s or that of the country I reside in, Japan, by either not spying on my wife’s finances for the US in violation of the laws of the land of my birth or doing so and violating Japan’s law, and that I have passed this curse on to my kids through my “US blood”, I would never have married. I and they are required to spy on our employers too, if we are ever entrusted with any business accounts. In the end, this means that marriage and employment opportunities are extremely limited for my kids as by the time they are in the workforce, these responsibilities will be common knowledge. Marrying an American means marrying the whole of the US governments regulatory system regardless of where they reside. Hiring an American means you have a Trojan horse through which the US will engage in regulatory and lawfare. We are not irreplaceable. They just will not marry or hire us. And to have done that to my own kids.
I am looking at Costa Rica or Panama for next phase in life. The WEF and Gates types are coming for all of us - once digital currency is implemented, it's game over. Just trying to find a place where it will take longer for the infrastructure to toggle over by which time I may be pushing up daisies anyway
They really do appear as a juggernaut. Would be easy to stop IF everyone just said “No”. I need to run this down, but I recently ran across a study, not recent, that found that 80% of people simply do not have the moral or character strength to even contemplate saying “no” to authority. If true, a lot is explained by this.
Yeadon has been right on this from the beginning. I remember in fall of 2020 he was one of the very first to come out and say he didn't think it was incompetence but rather nefariousness that drove the whole thing....this is from later in 2021: https://odysee.com/@KlaTV-English:c/ex-president-pfizer-gates-hell:0
Someone uploaded it to YouTube about a month ago. It was taken down within a week
I heard from a teacher who visited Tokyo during the summer holidays that most people are ditching masks in public, like on trains and in shops. Here it's still 95% face nappies.
Wow, that high still. In Tokyo it depends greatly upon where you are. On the trains it usually hovers around 50% but sometimes trends down in percentage masked and sometimes back up.
At med school and at the nursing school, almost 100%. At some outdoor events, almost every one is masked and at others almost none. At a class observation a week or so ago, over half the kids and teachers I saw were still masked and most, but not all of the parents were still wearing masks. Still seeing more entire families masked. Only more recently have I seen so many young kids masked with their parents through I have long seen school kids in uniform masked on their way to and from school. Still have a lot who are masking between bites and sips.
Yes, a medical school. They say, they all do, that since they are medical facilities they must adhere to “the science”. Wonder if they are going to return to blood letting soon.
Lol! Thanks, I needed that. At this point, I would.
I view snake oil salesmen and other scammers quite differently now. After years of trying to prevent calamity only to be shouted down by those I tied to help and losing my career, livelihood and at risk of losing my family too, how is it wrong to better my situation at the expenses of fools?
It's not, the government is full of them, it's what they do.
Maybe you have gone about this the wrong way, you should become a mask advocate, do you sleep with one on, do you have sex with one on, do you shower with one on? And f not, why not?
It is not for the protection, it is for the control!
I commend you on your decision. If you fall to the mask, what next? I believe there will always be
something else. I'm sorry about your financial and home life situation. Keep us posted as to
how things are going. GOD BLESS + I was thinking about you the other day. I hadn't seen
you post anything. :-)
Have been quite demoralized of late. Hard to post.
I'm sorry. It must be hard living in another country, too. Maybe, you can get back to
the United States soon.
Returning to the US would mean without my wife and kids.
Your wife wouldn't want to come to the US? Maybe, in time you will have to with
what's going on in this world today. Praying for YOU and wishing you the BEST.
Take Care + I lost my Brother on 9/5/23. You know that died suddenly thing.
His son wouldn't let him see his grandson, if he didn't get the JAB. We believe
he died of a massive heart attack at the age of 65.
My wife is not American. Even though we are married, she can not just follow me there if I must return. While she has worked there for extended periods of time, I doubt she would want to move there now. Our kids do not speak English. I was away during their waking hours teaching our people’s kids English during their early childhood years and my wife did not make the effort required to bring up bilingual kids despite her excellent English as we planned. They have an understanding of English, but that is a far cry from understanding it at the level of kids their age. Then again, few kids understand their native languages at grade or age level due to the utter failure of education world wide these past 3 + years. May not be a big deal now, at least not as big as it would be otherwise.
The biggest hurdle is that the wife and kids are confirmed Covidians. It was they more than all others who kept shouting at me to wear a mask in public. Once my wife learns that it is my “selfishness” for not following masking rule that is preventing me from finding new work, I cn not fathom anything other divorce as the result.
If the mad masking age does not abruptly end, I am dead in the water.
I am not sure about the educational system in Japan, but listening to the John Gatto videos concerning American education, education was not the paramount motivation for what we were "treated" to growing up.
Are they still firmly in the pro-covid safety narrative? You have shared their paradoxical behavior before that displayed at least if not falling for the narrative, at least not following it with the intellectual consistency of someone who does (but then, who does?"
Sorry about your brother. Does your nephew feel any remorse over his potential role in his passing or is does he remain completely blind to what the shots are known to do. I mean no disrespect in that question nor in the one that follows, no autopsy?
Did your kids get the shots? Mine are grown up (19, 21, 23) and despite rarely listening to me, they didn't get the jabs. One "small" victory that is actually quite large.
I know the feeling. It's personal and global. Watching the trailer fire in the middle east, seeing that in some aeas of the country mask season is returning, and still on twitter those steadfast in the narrative are still going to narrative.
Yes, all that and more. Wife just bought a new car. Picked it up the day before yesterday. Never saw the face of the dealer nor anyone at the dealership despite the hours spent there during the visits to the lot. My oldest kid is in the 4th grade and I have never seen the face of any home room teachers. Still, to this day I have not. Most of my own students these past 3 1/2 years I would not recognize as I have never seen them. Even at the convenience store or supermarket, the clerks are masked and we now feed money into an ATM like device to pay for our purchases. Even through there is a person there, there is zero human interaction. Surreality.
Then we have my employment situation.
That is freaking surreal. And it does affect social interaction. If someone sat down at my table wearing a mask, I was far less likely to interact with them. How many times do you ask someone to repeat themselves before you give up? How many. times do they temporarily remove the mask to tell you again before you call "shenanigans?"
And I think I stated this before. It's also impacted our ability to recognize people.
In class, 5 times. The amount I can cover in class is less by far than before because even after 3 1/2 years, mad maskers still have not learned that you must speak louder when wearing a mask. Outside the classroom it depends but my starting point is if it is not important enough for the speaker to remove the mask so that I can hear clearly it is not important enough for me to strain to find meaning to the garbled mess of sound coming through the mask. I ignore them. If I am not being paid to listen to a mad masker, as a rule, I do not.
the absurdist in me would be to ask them if they are trying out to be the next voice of Charlie Brown's teacher in an upcoming animation special.
Bravo!
I teach fewer hours a week now than I did on Mondays alone before the panic. If I were single, I would have had to return to the US on May 1st last year as my expenses have been greater than my income since then. When my wife learns that I declined work over masks, I will be single but may not have funds to return to the US. It does not feel like a bravo situation.
Thanks all the same, though.
Time to get a new wife.
Nah, homelessness attracts no one.
Sell it as being a free spirit with a progressive nomadic lifestyle.
Seriously though, I hope you find a way through this absolute nonsense.
It shocks me how such institutions can still not realise it was bollocks from the start.
Good luck.
Thanks, I need it.
They very well might know it is all BS. In June 2020 an infectious disease control professional told me it was all “political” while wearing a mask. I bet they know and hate those of us strong enough to say “no” because they were not.
The problem is that fear does not evaporate, and the social contract lines in some places have been redrawn. I imagine to the young we look like daft fools for not wearing a mask. It's only common sense/courtesy to wear one because we are all asymptomatic potential carriers of disease...according to their indoctrination.
Yes, echo that, but it's total nuts what you're having to go through on account of the unscientific, superstitious woo-woo of mask mandates, enforced everywhere from convenience stores to prestigious medical universities. The former, you might forgive for their uncritical acceptance of Medievalist-thinking mask woo woo, but the latter is unforgivable.
Just think of the quality of MDs and nurses they are churning out.
Right....The word is Quality. My Mother-in-Law was a MD who came from
Communist Hungary to US and became a Citizen years ago. She wouldn't
believe what is happening in the medical world today.
Hopefully these "health experts" will one day be required to treat Messrs Gates, Scwab, Castreau, etc.
That would indeed be poetic justice. But you know they have their own, untainted MDs to look after them.
Yeah, and Gates's children's pediatrician spilled the beans years ago at a medical convention that Gates would not allow his kids to get the recommended children's vaccinations.
Interesting. Did not know that. Not surprised and it explains a lot.
Already seeing that. One thing to really keep in mind, at least here in the states, not sure what it is like in Japan, but doctors and nurses are employees. They have an employer they have to answer to. They are not allowed to use critical thinking and interact with their patient..and put the patient first.
True. There are hardly any sole practitioners left in the US. It's too expensive to even keep malpractice insurance for a single doctor or very small, private group of docs.
During a trip home 20 years ago I saw a headline in the local paper decrying the huge increase in malpractice insurance for the state. From 50 grand a year to over 150,000 for heart surgeons is the one I recall. The result was unexpected to all but the state insurance board and perhaps the insurance company; retirements and others left the state, leaving far too few to meet the needs of the state’s residents. The situation has not improved.
I did click on but didn’t get to an email address; I’m not sure how that works either!
Cindi, forgive me. I met with my friends from Substack but completely forgot to ask. I emailed the next day and just got a reply tonight. They are busy having fun in Kyoto at the moment.
As far as the remember, they just posted one of their several email addresses and after we connected that way, we moved over to a different platform.
If that is acceptable to you, either I can post an email address that I can not reply from but can read and you can send an email address to it. Then I will use my preferred email address to contact you via email; or, you can post an email address here and I can than contact you with my preferred address.
At this very moment, I am on the train into Tokyo to meet one of my Substack readers. We met just as you and I have but I do not recall how we did. I’ll ask them as they are much more experienced with Substack than I am.
https://dennisprager.com/column/if-youre-thinking-of-marrying-part-i
We were together for 3 1/2 years before we married. I was in my 30s and had been through a break up with a previous fiancé and had many friends who went through worse to know not to rush. People change.
Then we have the fact that I being unemployable was never supposed to be a factor. Nor that my government would put such horribly restrictive requirements upon me an my family from afar.
I think the same guidance would apply after the marriage as well. It helped me to more easily accept that the person I thought was my life mate was not and was never going to be.
Of course you now have the children so naturally there is a compelling reason to maintain at least the facade of compatibility until such time as they are self sufficient - then again, if their mother's diktats in tandem with the government's continue to be observed, that day may never come. Nevertheless, what a dreadful position to be in....not sure if you saw there was a part II to that article, I recommend it as well. This wisdom is priceless in my mind in helping to determine the future you want to have and with who. As #7 says - "It is imperative that you be ruthlessly honest with yourself." #10 is valuable as well. Heck I found each to be very compelling in giving me clarity. While it wasn't what I wanted to find out, it was necessary.....while I am to this day unmarried and regretful that I never had kids, I am thankful that I am not made miserable by others....https://dennisprager.com/column/if-youre-thinking-of-marrying-part-ii
Disclaimer: I am not posting these articles as part of any effort to say that you made a mistake, or that you need to move on without. They simply helped me to understand more clearly relationship dynamics and ultimately I think they can help people who may be in a less desirable position to manage that situation more effectively.
Boy, unwittingly, you have opened up a whole new universe. I would trade the shame I have over the limitations my nationality (US) places upon my children with being a confirmed bachelor in a heartbeat. Had I known that my own, distant government would make me choose which country’s law to violate; the US’s or that of the country I reside in, Japan, by either not spying on my wife’s finances for the US in violation of the laws of the land of my birth or doing so and violating Japan’s law, and that I have passed this curse on to my kids through my “US blood”, I would never have married. I and they are required to spy on our employers too, if we are ever entrusted with any business accounts. In the end, this means that marriage and employment opportunities are extremely limited for my kids as by the time they are in the workforce, these responsibilities will be common knowledge. Marrying an American means marrying the whole of the US governments regulatory system regardless of where they reside. Hiring an American means you have a Trojan horse through which the US will engage in regulatory and lawfare. We are not irreplaceable. They just will not marry or hire us. And to have done that to my own kids.
I am looking at Costa Rica or Panama for next phase in life. The WEF and Gates types are coming for all of us - once digital currency is implemented, it's game over. Just trying to find a place where it will take longer for the infrastructure to toggle over by which time I may be pushing up daisies anyway
They really do appear as a juggernaut. Would be easy to stop IF everyone just said “No”. I need to run this down, but I recently ran across a study, not recent, that found that 80% of people simply do not have the moral or character strength to even contemplate saying “no” to authority. If true, a lot is explained by this.
Yeadon has been right on this from the beginning. I remember in fall of 2020 he was one of the very first to come out and say he didn't think it was incompetence but rather nefariousness that drove the whole thing....this is from later in 2021: https://odysee.com/@KlaTV-English:c/ex-president-pfizer-gates-hell:0
Someone uploaded it to YouTube about a month ago. It was taken down within a week
Even worse down here in Miyazaki! But continue the fight we must.
What is the news down there?
I heard from a teacher who visited Tokyo during the summer holidays that most people are ditching masks in public, like on trains and in shops. Here it's still 95% face nappies.
Wow, that high still. In Tokyo it depends greatly upon where you are. On the trains it usually hovers around 50% but sometimes trends down in percentage masked and sometimes back up.
At med school and at the nursing school, almost 100%. At some outdoor events, almost every one is masked and at others almost none. At a class observation a week or so ago, over half the kids and teachers I saw were still masked and most, but not all of the parents were still wearing masks. Still seeing more entire families masked. Only more recently have I seen so many young kids masked with their parents through I have long seen school kids in uniform masked on their way to and from school. Still have a lot who are masking between bites and sips.
It would be an excellent job offer if it were unmasked,
But it is not, so it is bullshit.
I can't believe what the whole damn country has come to. And in a medical teaching center!
Yes, a medical school. They say, they all do, that since they are medical facilities they must adhere to “the science”. Wonder if they are going to return to blood letting soon.
Maybe you can get in on the leeches.
Lol! Thanks, I needed that. At this point, I would.
I view snake oil salesmen and other scammers quite differently now. After years of trying to prevent calamity only to be shouted down by those I tied to help and losing my career, livelihood and at risk of losing my family too, how is it wrong to better my situation at the expenses of fools?
It's not, the government is full of them, it's what they do.
Maybe you have gone about this the wrong way, you should become a mask advocate, do you sleep with one on, do you have sex with one on, do you shower with one on? And f not, why not?
It is not for the protection, it is for the control!
True, governments are chock full of such.
Tempting, except for the actual wearing of the things.
That's the real trick, you don't actually wear it. You just tell everybody else they have to.