Axe

Hears hoping you get well soon .... see what I did there?  hahahaha.

Little Rogans piss me off ... noisy and hard to hit.  I vote no.  

Yo.  Welcome back!

Looks like you might need a few more posts.  Also it is customary to introduce yourself.  I can't see where you've done that.  After that its up to Admins to invite you.  

One towns wastewater is the next towns drinking water.  Be afraid ... be verrrry verrrrry afraid!

More BS about Covid?  F.  OK ... another month hiatus from the forums.  So tired of all this ... someday I want to come here and have fun, laugh, throw up a couple of middle fingers to @Sourtap and enjoy the friendships I've made here.

Eventually all you idiots will shut up about who is right ... and claiming all this bull shit about 'respect' ... hopefully.

This was Nov 3 here in Manitoba.

On Sept 18, @Sitting-Duc felt free to lock down my post ... not about the vax or covid, but about what was happening in my life as a result of Covid.  I thought it was total BS for him to do that ... so I closed my XI tab and left for a month.  

I come back tonight and the top post is 'Mandated' which is WAY worse than my thread.  But @Sitting-Duc lets it go.  Makes me wonder why?

I see people I really like in game saying the most stupid shit on the forum and I find myself thinking of them differently.  I don't want that.

So until there is some sort of even moderation happening on the forums, or until Covid is over, I'm not going to visit the forums.  

It's too bad ... the forums are where we can develop friendships and relationships by showing a bit of our lives and having some fun banter.  (Even you @Sourtap)  Oh well. Back to in-game convo's only.

The 'Brown Envelope' days!  Well done!

36 minutes ago, PimpedOutPete said:

Yoshi, please don’t listen to this. I work in healthcare and you are a fellow Canadian, look and see what is happening in my province of Alberta.

Tonight my phone went off with an Amber Alert.  The province announced a provincial state of emergency. Now as you know I live in a very conservative province and a government resistant to covid precautions. We now have 1600 cases daily and a province emergency of no ICU beds and a medical staff shortage. I work in healthcare and all our vacation time has been revoked and we are now in 24 hour call.

Like yourself I don’t wish to debate this for I only wish to give you honest information, it’s not news articles or media data that could be twisted to fit some narrative. This is first hand information I live with.  Your area does not want to go through what we are.

I am so sorry you had to lose your positions and I commend your strength to your convictions, but as a healthcare provider, it’s about saving lives and trying to keep people safe. Regretfully you are a casualty to what is happening.

Please stay safe my friend. 

I hear you and I can love you as a brother fighting the same fight as I.  My experience is VERY different than yours.  Here in MB, the Vaxxed are the hospitalized (this might not show in the 'official' stats, but the docs and nurses will tell you a different story.) I am in 8-12 different homes per day in the course of my work. I hear it all.  Today, I was in the home of a nurse who quit Boundary Trails Hospital on Friday because she was required to be vaxxed or tested 3x per week at the cost of $175 per test.  She quit her job because she does not believe the vax is the best option for her and she cannot afford the testing ...  and in tears told me she does not know how she will pay the rent for her two children next month. 

We all want to stay safe ... but what we are doing is NOT working.  We can blame each other, but in the end we all have to live with each other.  We cannot demonize each other as that is no solution ... even as Trudeau goes on about 'those people.'

To relate to your situation ... I live in what is the most 'conservative' part of Manitoba.  Over that past year, we have had 1/4 of the Covid deaths compared to the rest of MB and we are only about 40% vaxxed.  So I live in an area that is both resistant to Covid and who is relatively unvaxxed.  I could speak about ICU beds (or lack thereof,) but that would not help our discussion as the 'covid' part of Boundry Trails Hospital is full while the rest of the hospital is empty.  They closed 10 ICU beds last week due to a nursing shortage brought on by enforcing vaxxes on all nurses at our hospital. How does that make sense to anyone??

We are a mess.  But we need to work together.  Your solution might not work here and mine might not work there.   

This will be my last post here on this situation ... it's all just too political and WAY too divisive.  I regret making my opening post.

I really did not want this to degenerate into a discussion about vax vs unvaxxed.  That was NOT the purpose of my OP.  We are fighting fighting the battle that 'they' want us to have.  What I wanted to show is that there are two groups, two societies being created ... and the replies to this post is the perfect example of what is happening in real life.  

We all are the the same people we were before Covid.  Those that think we all should take the vax and those of us who have come to the conclusion that we should not take the vax ... we were all together and of one mind a mere year ago.  We were a clan and we were for the most part united.  We all (no matter on which side,) love our families and friends ... we all want a united clan and more so a united country/world. 

We are being played.  

Don't turn on each other.  Don't demonize our fellow members.  We can respect each other and recognize that others might have come to a different conclusion about Covid than we have ... we need to understand and respect each others position.

I gave up my coaching career ... not because I think that I'm right, but because the state has made it law that I am wrong.  We should all resist totalitarianism.  History is a wonderful teacher ... and no totalitarian state has ever produced good for the common people like you and I. That is history.  That is factual. 

We should fight the urge to demonize each other.  We can join as one, against the state that want's us at each others necks.  I don't hate any of you ... and I hope we can all respect and love each other as we work through Covid IRL.  Love and peace to all. - Yoshi.

Yes ... I still think I made the right choice as I'm sure you are with your choice.  There are pros and cons on both sides of the argument, and the time may come where the vax is right for me. Again, not the point of my post.

26 minutes ago, Deckard said:

Just what i thought...

 

Glad you agree.  Thanks brother.

1 minute ago, Deckard said:

Just for shits and giggles.....can you actually give a good reason NOT to get a life saving vax

 

Inquiring minds want to know....

 

Not interested in having that debate here.  I get to have it every single day in real life.  My post was not to build a case for remaining unvaxxed or to in some way belittle the vaxxed.  It was to point out the dual society we are building through segregation.  This will not end well .... for either side.

19 minutes ago, BlackRose said:

can you not keep the positions and get tested weekly like all others that are unvaxxed???

Not an option here in Manitoba.  Banned from all sporting facilities including schools.  Banned from Reffing Association as well.  Must be vaxxed to enter these buildings and to train youth which is considered a vulnerable sector here.  

In my local city, we are rapidly going down the path of building a parallel society.  Its a F'ing shame.  

I am unvaxxed.  I have chosen this position for me and my family for many reasons but mostly because I don't believe that the 'science' is as clear as the media and politicians want us to believe it is.

In Manitoba, people like me are banned from all restaurants and sporting facilities.  I had hoped this would change, but it looks like the marginalization and demonization is here to stay.

Tonight I had to resign from my Varsity Girls Basketball Head Coaching position at our local city High School after 8 years.  My last coaching season we finished 6th in the Provence and I had a well respected and successful program up and running.  That is over now.

I also resigned from my Level 2 FIBA Basketball Reffing position where I reffed many of the top HS and some University games in Winnipeg.  (About 60 games a year.)  I liked reffing and was good at it.  That is also over now.

I'm a little pissy about it all. 

Please excuse me if I play a little more angry than normal.  It's coming to grips with the 'new normal' which is complete BS that makes me so angry.  At some point, this all has to end ... right?

Thanks for this clan and the folks that put up with me in game.  Love ya all!

Sorry for your loss Thunder!  Takes a strong man to carry on the family when one passes ... you are that man!  Praying for you brother.

Welcome to the gang Hog!

Sorry all.  Phone died ... need to finish picking berries.  (Don't ask if you don't know ... lol.)  

There are two kinds of hoppers on our servers:

a. Those that hop around corners hoping to catch you off guard.  Lots of us use this tactic ...

b. Those that seem to hop/bounce across the maps and cannot be hit with streams or full clips of bullets.  They 'hop' differently too ... they seem to be straight up and down in the air when seen on screen and when they land there is no jumping motion, they just bounce right back into the air again.  These players ... there are quite a few of them now, I cannot explain, nor can I imitate their motion when I try to 'hop' across the maps.  Those are the hoppers that we need to record ... to see what they are doing that regular players cannot do.

Can practically smell the old man spice from here. Welcome.

1 hour ago, Shadow said:

here are my daily's 

 

Do I spy a Confederate flag on the staff?

1 hour ago, WeednFeed said:

@Yoshi do you have one of those vac sealers? I love mine they work great. What ever you are sealing it has to be DRY or it will not seal if moisture escapes. Just partially freeze things so liquid will not be vacuumed under the seal.

I don't maybe for next year.  I had one a couple years ago, but it was crap.  Which one do you have?

Im drooling a bit here. lol.