Yesterday I came down to earth with a bump. I was called to a job in a care home. On arrival I was stopped at the door and asked to wear a mask. I was asked to do a RAT test. I wasn’t allowed in without both. The entrance was festooned with covid signage and there was sanitiser and a signing in book. It was like going back to 2020 when we saw Checkpoint Charlie in every entrance way and the most overzealous goody-goody restaurant owners tripping on power.
They didn’t like it when I mentioned my mask exemption, which I still keep in my car. The RAT test was an absolute though: no test, no entry. Well, I have never taken a covid test and, in 2024 with covidiocy supposedly far behind, I wasn’t about to start. For crying out loud, I am qualified to diagnose a cold. I felt my anxiety rising and started having flashbacks to the years when the expert opinion of teenagers on checkout could trump my years of clinical training and there was no arguing or you got thrown out by security for “abusing” the staff.
Do I need to point out the abuse that coercing a person into a medical test represents? Or forcing them to wear a medical device? Or depriving an elderly person of company based on certain meaningless, scientifically invalid, conditions – or on any condition at all? Or managers practicing medicine without a licence? Or how unhealthy masks are and how dangerous unnecessary medical testing can be? At this stage, is there anybody out there who still needs me to spell it out?
They had justification, oh yes, in their minds they did. They had found two cases of covid in the home. Well, woopdy effing doo. They found them because they looked for them. A 95% reliable test will find 5 false positives in every 100 perfectly healthy people you test – just because you test them and for no other reason. The imagined danger is in their space, so how does it protect anybody inside if I take a test on the way in anyway? A test that has been dumped in even covid-nuts Canada, because it isn’t reliable for anything. Are people still not getting it?
It hurts me to add my stance to the client’s stress: but this stuff should never have been dumped onto managers, or from them onto front line staff, then onto clients and contractors at all. Saying no to trouble doesn’t make me the troublemaker. At some point somebody should be pushing back up the line because THAT is how a balance is found. I was alone in my attempt to push back, and I didn’t want to make a scene in front of a client, who was himself in an extremely vulnerable position, with his elderly father’s welfare at stake. The RAT test takes 17 minutes, and he needed to be away in 30. So in the end lack of time gave me a reasonable excuse to retreat. We agreed to reschedule while we figure out what to do.
Even after all this time, even as inquiries are starting into Public Health’s shocking recent performance all over the world, there are those who will never change, never grow, and who, once an idea has been firmly planted in their minds will never let it go. They are the people who think doing a good job means keeping the IBM punch cards neatly organised. They take pride in arranging the signing-in table all nice and tidy and smile to themselves as they laminate the government signs. Even if nearly everybody in the organisation thinks this is all a load of nonsense, most would not say boo to a goose. And they shouldn’t have to. The rebels have all quit or been fired and they aren’t coming back.
But what really hit home is that, despite society’s increasing awareness of the inexcusable horror that care homes everywhere inflicted upon society’s most vulnerable for almost three years, even after the manifest carnage that has been caused, they would do it again tomorrow if they were asked. They wouldn’t even question it. I am not sure who “they” are exactly, but “they” have names, that much is true. And even if people are waking up in droves and refusing to be a part of it, our institutions and organisations will eek out the very last person within their ranks who is willing to herd Jews onto trains and put them in charge.
It isn’t over until we have the trials.