I'm Canadian too, but lived in US for the past 13 years. Please tell us more about what is going on in your province in Canada and what kinds of restrictions did they impose on Canadians again? Also please tell us what people you communicate with think of all that? Canada has a minority of people that resist, but it seems that an absolute majority there are reluctantly or even willingly support these measures as "harsh but necessary". Being ethnic Russian I worry about St. Pete's and about the whole of Russia, but Canada concerns me even more.
It is concerning. The whole fing world concerns me because what happens “there” will happen “here” it’s inevitable unless we can convince the 40% wake up. It’s exactly these percentages, as Mattias Desmet has observed, that are evident here.
I look at my workplace as a microcosm of our situation as I work in a swanky (love the word swanky) hotel so we have dishwashers/cooks/executive chefs/porters/managers/owner/guests…
Anyway, I just received an email from management that only those with 3 jabs may enter their building during lockdown. What followed was some emails questioning if this was forever….as in “are we fired if we don’t get jabbed?” The answer was no. So this aside the vaccination of the staff is: 10% 3 shots voluntarily, 30% 3 shots coerced, 30% 2 shots but will not get 3rd, 30% unvaccinated and never will. So if those on the fence don’t get the booster there IS hope. If they sway….
Now as far as the general public is concerned in my town of Stratford I’d say 90% of the people follow the rules strictly in public and of those most don’t follow any rules in private. They go along to get along ONLY in public.
I am very good at getting people to tell me their secrets and stuff and not one person I have spoken to agrees with this and all of them think there is something nefarious going on. You know Canadians, nice people….complacent people.
BTW my mother (German) and father (Chinese) immigrated here in 1968 [i was a baby). I also lived in Germany/Libya for 1/2 my life. Been in Canada last 20 yrs so I’m not your typical Canadian
Thanks for taking time to write this answer, Sirka! I really appreciate it! Gives me a good sense of what is going on in my country and province. I'm from Ontario too, btw. And yes, I agree, there is a minority of us that will never take the jab, but now it is up to formally compliant and complacent people, will they comply more? Some are beginning to wake up. Our neighbors and close friends here in US, in New York state, they went for 3 jabs, but now the wife there tells us I'm not going for the 4th, since she now understands it is only a matter of time before the government will start demanding the fourth and the consequetive injections.
It’s just crazy. Every person I know who got the first two jabs had TERRIBLE reactions. Vomiting, headache, body aches for DAYS. I really laid into these women and asked why they took the jabs? Do they have more rights besides being able to go to a concert…for NOW? Yesterday I texted them…”no more lockdowns eh????” Of course they all replied with YOU WERE RIGHT. So tomorrow I’m going to ask them if they think I’m right about mass psychosis and gulags. I don’t care. They can think I’m crazy but everything I’ve said to them in the last 18 months has come true..thank you Whitney Webb. What do your neighbours think of your unvaccinated status. (You have no idea how thankful I am that I was blessed with stubbornness)
Neighbors are fine with our unvaccinated status, our friendship turned out to be stronger than 24/7 brainwashing. Beside, their relative from Poland (man in the family is second generation American of Polish descent) acts in the same way - no masks, no jabbing, so they have learned to accept that.
That’s key. Reminding people we are human (both sides) and really connecting with each other. Fuck the lockdowns, everyone is still getting together…just like the politicians
I came to this site from RT.com - what a breath of fresh air to read most of the comments here. At RT, as of two weeks, they have implemented new censorship rules, so my battle with paid trolls in this Putin Lovers Club (PLC), as I suggested to RT to rename itself, is becoming more difficult every day. Edward, you should share with us one day the details of how RT's troll factory works, you must have some good insights. But, heck with them...
As for for St. Petersburg - I'm in shock. However, we'll need to see how in reality people and business owners there are going to behave in the face of new restrictions. Similar rules introduced earlier in November in Tatarstan's capital, the city of Kazan', caused a huge uproar. There were even fights with controllers in public transit, that started to demand QR codes as proof of vaccination before allowing people to continue their trip. While officially restrictions were not removed by Kazan's mayor, it looks like there authorities became much less zealous in demanding the "real" QR code. Many Russians had to become very proficient in their use of Photoshop software! However, cheating, ignoring and avoiding is not a long term strategy, population of Russia will need to think long and hard how to get current rulers that are leaching on country's immense natural resources while following orders from globalist cabal from abroad out of power.
Here is a short video how a retired woman in Kazan' without a QR code, but with with her vaccination certificate is storming the entrance of a mall to be able to get to the banking machine to get cash.
Riley, it is my understanding that Russians are largely unarmed. Is this true? I could accept not being able to socialize, etc., but preventing a man from working to feed his family IS violence.
I read recently - can’t recall where - that an attempted Marxist revolution in the USA would result in civil war.
Understood. But it will look like Marxism on the ground here. This is how I view the universal basic income. We are on the same page. I do believe most decent people prefer to work at something worthwhile and remain their own man than depend on the gov't for handouts.
Here, in Melbourne Australia, government already passed a new law which is worse than Russia! it's titled "Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Act 2021"
In which a person like me (unjabbed, never masked) without covid pass, will be fined fined up to $90,500, and/or 2 years jail, while businesses that fail to check people like me, face fines of up to $452,500 for breaching the rules
As the young man that escaped from USSR I more than understand your position. F..k - there is literally nowhere to run now! The formula that I'm beginning to like more and more is that in situation like we have the weaker the state (state's capability to oppress) the better off are the people there. Suddenly when someone says "this country is a failed state" I think to myself, hmm, interesting, let me look into that place )))
Yes, I live in US now. Stanley Sheppard is my pen name that I used for about 10 years or so that is a very close approximation in English of my Russian name by which I go in real life
“The Supreme Court held that naturally occurring gene sequences, and their natural derivative products, are not patent eligible. Under §101 of the Patent Act, the discovery of natural products does not warrant a patent. However, the Court also held that the creation of a new product in a lab exempts that product from being a product of nature. Therefore, gene sequences refined by synthetic processes to create molecules that do not occur naturally are patent eligible.”
… refined by synthetic processes … as in mRNA vaccines?
In other words, if you synthesize natural DNA or RNA sequence than it becomes patentable. Go prove in court that what you have is naturally derived, big pharma or big government will always find the way to be on top.
I find it hard to believe that the city that endured the horrendous siege of 1941-1944 would embrace QR code fascism. Then again, everything that happened during the last two years is hard to believe... I hope most St. Petersburgers are sensible enough to boycott places that demand QR codes to enter.
"Sputnik V has no clear neutralizing effect, does not stop transmission and is probably dangerous—so what will these QR codes do, exactly?" There's nothing to transmit. Or have you chosen to believe otherwise?
They locked us down again today in Canada. I am trying very hard to focus on Power. VERY hard.:
https://off-guardian.org/2021/12/26/when-force-meets-power-the-inevitable-collapse-of-the-new-world-order/
I'm Canadian too, but lived in US for the past 13 years. Please tell us more about what is going on in your province in Canada and what kinds of restrictions did they impose on Canadians again? Also please tell us what people you communicate with think of all that? Canada has a minority of people that resist, but it seems that an absolute majority there are reluctantly or even willingly support these measures as "harsh but necessary". Being ethnic Russian I worry about St. Pete's and about the whole of Russia, but Canada concerns me even more.
It is concerning. The whole fing world concerns me because what happens “there” will happen “here” it’s inevitable unless we can convince the 40% wake up. It’s exactly these percentages, as Mattias Desmet has observed, that are evident here.
I look at my workplace as a microcosm of our situation as I work in a swanky (love the word swanky) hotel so we have dishwashers/cooks/executive chefs/porters/managers/owner/guests…
Anyway, I just received an email from management that only those with 3 jabs may enter their building during lockdown. What followed was some emails questioning if this was forever….as in “are we fired if we don’t get jabbed?” The answer was no. So this aside the vaccination of the staff is: 10% 3 shots voluntarily, 30% 3 shots coerced, 30% 2 shots but will not get 3rd, 30% unvaccinated and never will. So if those on the fence don’t get the booster there IS hope. If they sway….
Now as far as the general public is concerned in my town of Stratford I’d say 90% of the people follow the rules strictly in public and of those most don’t follow any rules in private. They go along to get along ONLY in public.
I am very good at getting people to tell me their secrets and stuff and not one person I have spoken to agrees with this and all of them think there is something nefarious going on. You know Canadians, nice people….complacent people.
BTW my mother (German) and father (Chinese) immigrated here in 1968 [i was a baby). I also lived in Germany/Libya for 1/2 my life. Been in Canada last 20 yrs so I’m not your typical Canadian
Thanks for taking time to write this answer, Sirka! I really appreciate it! Gives me a good sense of what is going on in my country and province. I'm from Ontario too, btw. And yes, I agree, there is a minority of us that will never take the jab, but now it is up to formally compliant and complacent people, will they comply more? Some are beginning to wake up. Our neighbors and close friends here in US, in New York state, they went for 3 jabs, but now the wife there tells us I'm not going for the 4th, since she now understands it is only a matter of time before the government will start demanding the fourth and the consequetive injections.
It’s just crazy. Every person I know who got the first two jabs had TERRIBLE reactions. Vomiting, headache, body aches for DAYS. I really laid into these women and asked why they took the jabs? Do they have more rights besides being able to go to a concert…for NOW? Yesterday I texted them…”no more lockdowns eh????” Of course they all replied with YOU WERE RIGHT. So tomorrow I’m going to ask them if they think I’m right about mass psychosis and gulags. I don’t care. They can think I’m crazy but everything I’ve said to them in the last 18 months has come true..thank you Whitney Webb. What do your neighbours think of your unvaccinated status. (You have no idea how thankful I am that I was blessed with stubbornness)
Neighbors are fine with our unvaccinated status, our friendship turned out to be stronger than 24/7 brainwashing. Beside, their relative from Poland (man in the family is second generation American of Polish descent) acts in the same way - no masks, no jabbing, so they have learned to accept that.
That’s key. Reminding people we are human (both sides) and really connecting with each other. Fuck the lockdowns, everyone is still getting together…just like the politicians
Do not patronize any business that demands a QR code. Let them go bankrupt and let the state deal with the consequences.
Also: only use cash (especially at the grocery store). Stop using credit / debit cards. Now is not the time to feed the electronic beast.
I came to this site from RT.com - what a breath of fresh air to read most of the comments here. At RT, as of two weeks, they have implemented new censorship rules, so my battle with paid trolls in this Putin Lovers Club (PLC), as I suggested to RT to rename itself, is becoming more difficult every day. Edward, you should share with us one day the details of how RT's troll factory works, you must have some good insights. But, heck with them...
As for for St. Petersburg - I'm in shock. However, we'll need to see how in reality people and business owners there are going to behave in the face of new restrictions. Similar rules introduced earlier in November in Tatarstan's capital, the city of Kazan', caused a huge uproar. There were even fights with controllers in public transit, that started to demand QR codes as proof of vaccination before allowing people to continue their trip. While officially restrictions were not removed by Kazan's mayor, it looks like there authorities became much less zealous in demanding the "real" QR code. Many Russians had to become very proficient in their use of Photoshop software! However, cheating, ignoring and avoiding is not a long term strategy, population of Russia will need to think long and hard how to get current rulers that are leaching on country's immense natural resources while following orders from globalist cabal from abroad out of power.
Here is a short video how a retired woman in Kazan' without a QR code, but with with her vaccination certificate is storming the entrance of a mall to be able to get to the banking machine to get cash.
https://yandex.ru/video/touch/preview/16105743040341614474
Riley - it's time for you to saunter on over to Minsk and let us know how things are going in Belarus. Is it the last sane place in Europe?
https://anti-empire.com/lukashenko-told-you-it-was-a-psychosis-two-years-ago/
Good suggestion, I think, but Riley would need some money to cover his travel expenses. Ready to contribute? I would...
Riley, it is my understanding that Russians are largely unarmed. Is this true? I could accept not being able to socialize, etc., but preventing a man from working to feed his family IS violence.
I read recently - can’t recall where - that an attempted Marxist revolution in the USA would result in civil war.
It's not a Marxist revolution that they want, but a global technocratic corporate Monopoly on governance
Understood. But it will look like Marxism on the ground here. This is how I view the universal basic income. We are on the same page. I do believe most decent people prefer to work at something worthwhile and remain their own man than depend on the gov't for handouts.
As one guy in US said - "Wake up, people! We just had a civil war in this country and by the way, we, the conservatives, lost it!".
Riley, what is Russia REALLY like? Is it all true? You should pop over to Papua and see how it is there.
But Papua doesn't have Sputnik? Or does it. hmmm...
I said it before, I'll say it again. Small businesses are the kulaks of modern day.
Excellent comparison!
Here, in Melbourne Australia, government already passed a new law which is worse than Russia! it's titled "Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Act 2021"
In which a person like me (unjabbed, never masked) without covid pass, will be fined fined up to $90,500, and/or 2 years jail, while businesses that fail to check people like me, face fines of up to $452,500 for breaching the rules
https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/bills/public-health-and-wellbeing-amendment-pandemic-management-bill-2021
How Orwellian it is! Yeah, it's for people wellbeing!
After the Vietnam War I fled the bloody communists ... only end up the same shit in Australia!
To me, protest is a waste of time and energy! I attended protest whole my life. Been there done that! The only solution is pitchfork revolt!
"when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty"
As the young man that escaped from USSR I more than understand your position. F..k - there is literally nowhere to run now! The formula that I'm beginning to like more and more is that in situation like we have the weaker the state (state's capability to oppress) the better off are the people there. Suddenly when someone says "this country is a failed state" I think to myself, hmm, interesting, let me look into that place )))
see San Javier and Colonia Ofir
Sheppard isn't a very Russian-sounding name. Did you change it after arriving in the western hemisphere? Are you residing in the USA?
Yes, I live in US now. Stanley Sheppard is my pen name that I used for about 10 years or so that is a very close approximation in English of my Russian name by which I go in real life
File under: “Things that make you go, Hmmmm”
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2012/12-398
“The Supreme Court held that naturally occurring gene sequences, and their natural derivative products, are not patent eligible. Under §101 of the Patent Act, the discovery of natural products does not warrant a patent. However, the Court also held that the creation of a new product in a lab exempts that product from being a product of nature. Therefore, gene sequences refined by synthetic processes to create molecules that do not occur naturally are patent eligible.”
… refined by synthetic processes … as in mRNA vaccines?
In other words, if you synthesize natural DNA or RNA sequence than it becomes patentable. Go prove in court that what you have is naturally derived, big pharma or big government will always find the way to be on top.
Same in Oz and NZ. We're doing 30% of what we would have done previously. It's not viable.
Black market.
Speakeasies.
Cash only.
Just sayin'.
Can't quite figure out what click bait is supposed to be. Is it the unvaxxed Barista?
I keep forgetting about that because I don't use it (won't even carry a phone so that I can't use it).
I find it hard to believe that the city that endured the horrendous siege of 1941-1944 would embrace QR code fascism. Then again, everything that happened during the last two years is hard to believe... I hope most St. Petersburgers are sensible enough to boycott places that demand QR codes to enter.
"Sputnik V has no clear neutralizing effect, does not stop transmission and is probably dangerous—so what will these QR codes do, exactly?" There's nothing to transmit. Or have you chosen to believe otherwise?
Glaubt hier jemand dass Russland nicht die NWO bevolgt???
Ето подробно обсуждалось здесь, сэр. Каждый здесь может легко увидеть это.