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The California legislature is showing the nation what not to do

Five bills are on the table. All of them terrible. If you want an example of what not to do, California is your model. What are these people thinking?

Steve Kirsch

Five bad California State Legislature bills

Here are five bills on the table in the current session of the California legislature. Wow. If you had to make a list of the worst possible 5 bills to pass, I don’t think you could do any better than this list:

COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates for K - 12 without Personal Belief Exemptions
Vaccine Mandates for Private and Public Employees, and Proof of Vaccination for Patrons to Enter Certain Establishments
Protections for Employers Who Require Vaccination of Employees
HPV Vaccine Mandate for High School Students
Age of Consent Lowered for Children to Receive Vaccines

Senator Feinstein’s really bad idea

However, not to be outdone, California Senator Diane Feinstein just proposed a new bill called the U.S. Travel Public Safety Act that will require individuals to show proof of full COVID vaccination to fly in the United States (or comply with whatever rules that the CDC comes up with for non-fully-vaccinated people). You can totally trust the CDC on this. Everyone knows that.

Why is this bill needed? There is no science behind this. There never is. It’s all about belief.

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Silicon escapees

With no state income tax and abundant sunshine, Florida has become a destination for many people and businesses. Scott Thuman reports a lot of talent and investment is relocating from California’s Silicon Valley to the emerging tech hub of Miami.

Sharyl Attkisson

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My Personal Experience of Medical Treatment in California USA

I have felt lucky and grateful to have a group of visiting nurses come to my home. And also they have provided various unexpected services that I’ve appreciated. Living in a wealthy area where low income seniors are particularly shunned, made to feel unwanted and worse had been the norm for me before I was able to move into this apartment two years ago.

But I just had a really scary experience not feeling well the last couple of days.. wheezing, worsening felt like I was choking, shortness of breath to the point of having to stay on oxygen since my oxygen levels kept dipping into the 80’s… I had found out that the pollen levels in my neighborhood are high, so perhaps hay fever, ragweed allergies were causing some of my itchiness, sneezing but what about wheezing and difficulty breathing (more than usual).

I had hoped that my weekly visit from my nurse and social worker would help me. I am on hospice because I have two serious heart conditions.

Instead 4 women showed up in my home, instead of helping me, they proceeded to berate me. I am sitting there wheezing, struggling to breath while they went on and on about the terrible crime of joking with their “professionals” and calling one a goof ball. She sat there, refused to look at me, while I struggled to comprehend what they were doing (basically threatening to not come to my home anymore because I was not being professional? I was in shock, scared that I was dying and they went on and on and on. Who was not being professional?

I am struggling to breathe and they are sitting around acting like I committed a horrific sin stressing me out and making me feel worse… I said I was sorry for being a bit cranky and did not ever call people names. Facing one’s mortality on hospice, you are not allowed to be scared and wonky?

I also let them know that on numerous occasions their ‘professional’ staff thought it was fine to just show up at my door, without asking me beforehand if it was ok for them to come. This has been an issue time and time again. This went on for 20 minutes or more. I am sitting there wheezing and crying and remembering another terrible time at the hospital a few years ago when a group of nurses were screaming at me for the godawful crime of being sick and needing to stay in the hospital.

I should have told them all to leave at once but I was in a state of shock, paralyzed with disbelief.

Just recalled an incident when I was made fun of when I was a teenager, at recess, in the school yard, surrounded by mean girls poking at me, taunting me, publicly humiliating me.

The next day, I tried to talk to my nurse on the phone and explained what I was going through. She kept interrupting me and telling me about the oxygen machine. On Monday, am going to speak to her superior. And I found out that there is another hospice agency in town if and when I choose to change agencies.

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I wrote this in 2019:

Food is one basic necessity for survival.

Survival includes all of our physical needs for food, water, air, safety, shelter, warmth, health. Plus, we also have other needs (to belong, be valued and loved).

California, there are other basic needs that human beings have to have fulfilled in order to survive.

So, yeah, what we need in California is more free donated food, not affordable housing for seniors (shelter, warmth, safety) nor health care?)

I am not saying that poor people should starve to death or go hungry, but people cannot sleep on a turkey sandwich or receive warmth, shelter, and safety from stuffing, yams and mashed potatoes.

Hunger for seniors (and others) does need to be addressed adequately. However, it is not the only basic necessity for human beings and one of the most vulnerable population: seniors.

Food Insecurity

Money, Managing Care For Seniors And More

The US average median income in the U.S. is $28,555 a year.

Median household income of a Monterey resident (or Los Angeles, Sonoma County) is $64,772 a year while San Francisco is $96,265 to $120,000).

Napa is $102,000. Silicon Valley is $118,400 and $150,000 in Marin County.

Clint Eastwood's net worth is $375 million. He is easily one of the richest celebrities in Carmel.

There are six million seniors living in California in 2019.

Nine million are projected in the next 10 years.

And caregivers are needed for seniors.

But who cares for the aged seniors without homes?

What the Monterey Bay Peninsula does 99.9999 percent of the time is feed poor people, not house seniors nor provide adequate health care.

There are two low-income housing units for thousands of seniors (Pacific Meadows and Rippling River) and one is being built in Marina. But every organization provides donated food—the Salvation Army, churches, Gathering for Women--while 1,000+ women, many 50+ seniors are without homes, prematurely aging and dying on the streets and in cars.

ER doctor Margot Kushel (San Francisco) says:

@MKushel

About 1/2 of homeless older adults first become homeless after 50.

Challenges Facing Working Veterans

Death, Shelters And Defiance Of Law

Three men without homes died in the last few weeks in Carmel and Monterey because of what numerous people are saying is discrimination and lack of adherence to a California law that requires hospitals to provide people without homes food, clothing, and a place to go to... (warmth, shelter, a roof) not a tent, not the street, and certainly not a car at midnight.

Homeless shelters are not places for sick seniors, either. They are expensive, wasteful places to store out of sight people that those in charge do not want around. They do not have enough beds, to begin with and they are not where people receive health care. Nursing homes are abundant with abuse and neglect.

Hypothermia kills people without homes even in 40-50 degree weather.

A few years ago people died in Monterey and a warming shelter was approved by the City Council but never got created.

One of the men who died recently in Carmel was having a stroke and another had cancer and both were sent off to a tent where they died.

No Euthanasia For Humans

A couple of hospitals nationwide and Kaiser Permanente provide housing for seniors with histories of a lot of Emergency Room visits.

ER visits and costs declined while health improved. Imagine that.

Meanwhile millions of dollars and resources are raised for pets who need homes. . . there are many dog rescues and cat shelters who cater to every need of the canines and felines. Adoption events. Who adopts seniors without homes and finds them homes or (horrors) creates/build homes for seniors?

There is an abundance of options and kindness for animals.

My Cici dog was put to sleep (9-12-19) to ease her suffering (while humans are left alone to suffer and commit suicide in horrific ways).

During euthanasia, pets receive a mild tranquilizer for their comfort. They will then receive an overdose of an anesthetic drug, so the pet feels no additional pain as he or she falls into a deep sleep and bodily function stops.

Before Cici left the planet, she was safe and warm in a kennel at Dawg Gone It, a Seaside dog boarding facility while her owner, with multiple serious health issues, had to sleep outside in the cold getting sicker.

The die-with-dignity law in California for people is complicated and requires lots of hoops and red tape for folks to jump through.

Pets are spoiled with dog food and places to be while humans are thrown away like trash.

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DENYING MEDICAL TREATMENT TO THE UNVAXXED

Mark Oshinskie

Some rabid Net commenters, some blowhard “bioethicists” and some grandstanding state legislators propose to deny medical insurance coverage to the “unvaxxed.” (Presumably, coverage would be denied for all conditions, including, e.g, broken bones). Those who support linking medical insurance coverage to taking an experimental shot are way out of touch with reality and manifest major deficits of logic. But that describes most Americans over the past 23 months.

First, if the mRNA shots were obviously needed, the government wouldn’t have to threaten people to take them. But the shots provide no measurable benefit to the vast majority of the population…

Unvaxxed? No Surgery for You!

Anyone out there know who's running the hospitals? Anyone?

Etana Hecht

Who is running Covid protocol at the hospitals?
Why are the opinions of top medical professionals who are on the floor treating patients being completely ignored?
Why are we at the point where someone’s personal medical choice is resulting in discriminatory treatment?
Did P, the head nurse, act of her own accord by declaring that the unvaccinated patient should not have been admitted, and then insisting on canceling the surgery?

Clown World - Honk

Unvaxxed? No Surgery for You!

Yudi and his wife Chavah checked into Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on Tuesday morning for pre-op. Surgery was scheduled for Wednesday, and they were told she would be admitted one day in advance of the surgery. At a pre-op doctor’s appointment, the surgeon asked if they were vaccinated, and upon hearing that they weren’t, reassured them that it was not a…

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LAUGHTER AND TEARS by CeliaSue Hecht

California Screaming