Season's greetings from St. Petersburg, city of logical mask decrees & temperature checks
Enjoy the rest of 2023
Sorry for the recent blog-silence. Your correspondent and Edward Junior are visiting family in Hamburgerland. Hope you are doing well! — Riley
Russia’s Venice of the North is ending the year in style.
TASS has the hot scoops:
The mask regime during mass New Year’s, sports, and cultural events will be introduced in St. Petersburg from December 20. The corresponding resolution was signed by the chief state sanitary doctor for the city of St. Petersburg, Natalia Bashketova.
“Heads of all organizations and institutions, regardless of their form of ownership, when organizing and holding mass New Year’s, sports, and cultural events, must ensure: the use of personal respiratory protection equipment (masks) by employees of organizations and institutions,” the document says.
So in a city of 5.5 million people where people are walking around doing city-stuff and are breathing on each other while waiting in line to buy city-things and are packing themselves into sardine can-sized elevators that take them to their 2-room city-pods, the Curve will be Flattened (again) by requiring government workers to don face diapers during “public events”? Yes. Of course.
As an added public health bonus, educational institutions have been instructed to carry out “morning filters” (утренних фильтров) using mandatory no-contact temperature checks. Employees and students will be subjected to this very necessary filtration process each and every morning. (Don’t worry, this measure is set to expire on…oh actually, it’s “permanent”.)
Thank goodness Sberbank had the foresight to develop no-contact thermometer machine-things that also scan your retinas for terrorism.
Let’s ignore the mountain of scientific literature that shows mass-masking has no measurable benefit and is likely hazardous to your health, especially if you are a youngster.
Instead, let’s briefly wander into a virtual reality Avatar happy land where masks—especially the cloth ones with the Boston Red Sox logo that you touch nonstop and store in your dirty AIDS-filled jeans pocket—are magic air condoms that save your life ten times a day.
How does masking a handful of people in a bustling city of 5.5 million people change anything? Anything at all? Please explain.
I mean, even if you take Public Health at face value—big mistake, but it takes all kinds to make a world!—where is the logic here? Stop and think about that.
What could this possibly mean?
Here is what Mr. Edward Slavsquat typed 1.5 years ago, at a time when the Brightest Intellects of Our Time were telling you that Vladimir Putin had karate-chopped the Virus Scam as part of his master plan to withdraw from the WHO and introduce a gold-backed ruble:
Russia has not defeated the Virus Scam. On the contrary, the scam has become more wanton, shameless and arbitrary. It is being turned on and off like a light switch without even the pretense of trying to safeguard public health. This is a feature, not a bug, of Permanent Biosecurity.
In St. Petersburg you will get arrested immediately for standing on the street alone with a carboard sign because you are spreading the Virus. So, you know…
Is there an internet blog with a better track record? Does the Oracle of Delphi have a Substack?
COVID Russia: Triumph of the Virus Scam
Happy International Workers’ Day to the lucky handful of laborers who haven’t been “made redundant” by robots (yet). In the United States, May Day is celebrated in September and is commemorated with a hotdog eating contest and explosive deals at the local discount mattress warehouse. Or is that a different holida…
Actually, the scariest part of all this is the normalization of treating all young people as suspected biohazards. This is truly devastating.
It is sometimes argued, “I will never agree to the New Normal and therefore the New Normal isn’t possible!”
Cool story bro but generations of youngsters are being groomed to accept and violently defend everything that you find distasteful and soul-crushing. Meanwhile, you will die.
Biosecurity grooming
At the end of March, Russia’s Federal COVID Nanny, Anna Popova, was forced to capitulate on many of her ingenious health-preserving rituals for schools, including “minimizing physical contact between different classes” and arranging desks to create “zigzag seating for exams.”
Sorry for being so blunt but that’s how it works. If you don’t believe me, just examine the history of cattle-tagging.
I would like to end this internet article by pointing out that the governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, is President Skroob’s (the democratically elected leader of Spaceballs) doppelganger.
I am the first Important Internet Person in the world to point this out (not being facetious, this is true) and honestly I consider the Beglov-Skroob connection to be my greatest journalistic accomplishment. By the way, there’s also this:
St. Petersburg “will not return to its former way of life,” Beglov decreed on January 3, 2022, a day after he expanded the city’s [now defunct] QR code regime. “COVID is with us for a long time. Our task is to return the city to its usual business in the conditions of the new normality, to accelerate the transition to a new norm. New restrictions, empowering employers to exclude the unvaccinated from work, new vaccination incentives and ubiquitous QR codes are an important and very timely step in this direction.”
This freak is a United Russia (Uniparty) hardliner, by the way.
The globalists flee in terror! Bill Gates and Dr. Tedros on suicide watch!
More soon. Kisses and hugs.
It is sometimes argued, “I will never agree to the New Normal and therefore the New Normal isn’t possible!” Cool story bro but generations of youngsters are being groomed to accept and violently defend everything that you find distasteful and soul-crushing...
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I can confirm this with truly soul-crushing experience:
New to my neighborhood, last winter I volunteered to shovel snow - to help out, to get to know people etc. What started as just an odd observation, turned into a pattern over 3 months winter season:
- almost EVERY person over 60y greeted me, smiled at me, thanked me, a few started a conversation, you could feel that human warmth, something very natural coming from people who lived all their lives naturally
- age group 35-60, general politeness and thankfulness, zero smiles or attempts to talk
- age below 35 - zero greetings, zero smiles, no thanks, no conversation, ZERO over 3 months. Note it is not just shy little girls or riotous teenage boys, young people up to 35 are now infected..
On the brighter side, movie Spaceballs is up there with Airplane, Galaxy Quest, Police Squad, if you are into that sort of thing. The scene about instant cassettes is a classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWmVlgIR2HA
You are awesome, Riley. You can be sure I went for the song as it is from you that I learn about Russian pop (ironically). And you know what, the lyrics of this song as as illogical as the rest of the reality around us. I noticed the same thing as I was listening to the American pop at the laundromat, which is where I learn about American pop. You and the laundromat are the sources of my interaction with the pop culture. Seriously though, this woman makes no sense with her lyrics. She says, "If I got a penny for every time I think about you, I would be the poorest person on this Earth, I would be a bum." And then she goes about how she thinks about the dude all the time. Makes. No. Sense. O tempora, o mores.