Published on Facebook, Monday 11th September 2021
by: Kevin Chef Williams
Facebook is asking what’s on my mind. Hahaha. Today is Monday 11th October 2021. What do you think is on my mind FB? Lol. Ahhhhh yes…. today my beautiful twin-island Republic has officially launched “TT Safe Zones”. Yes, we have officially drawn the line in the sand. We have officially built the fence of us, and them. We have officially begun a physical separation of our people. A gated community of sorts if you will. With only the qualified being allowed to enter.
Whilst murders have been spiking (5 reported over the weekend), the “death count” on the front of our dailies no longer reflects this. This has long been swapped out for the more regular and ‘exciting’ “Covid-related” deaths. What is our obsession with pasting death figures on the front of our dailies? Are we that morbid of a people? First murders, now covid-related deaths? Smh. Dave Chapelle voice In yo face ninja!
Anyways…. this status may be long because I have no specific goal in mind. I may ramble. I will. But thankfully I am still allowed to do that on this space to which my name and image is affixed ….. but don’t speed read eh. Read it like ah novel! Especially those who take offence when I write, and jump in the comments going totally of topic. Take yuh time. READ! We are all busy…. so read this when you have time! Or don’t read it at all. Doesn’t matter now anyways. Lol…. If you do, try to COMPREHEND. Don’t read to respond.
How did we get here T&T? How did we as a people, as a nation, get to the point where we are so desperate to experience some semblance of a “return to normalcy”, that we are willing to leave half of us (and our children under 12) “outside”? I’ve seen us argue over race, politics, not-so-much religion; but never, EVER, have we gotten to the point where we are building fences to separate the sheep from the goat. We failed at keeping our national watchwords many times, but we still strived to achieve Discipline, TOLERANCE, TOLERANCE? TOLERANCE!!! and Production. But with the combination of fear all around us, coupled with a hope, of deliverance (from the darkness that surrooouunnddssss uusss. Lol.) presented by the jab, we have let go of our ideals and have gone to absolutes!
Since early 2020 we were told by the world’s chief medical scientist, Dr. B. Gates M.D. (what’s that? He isn’t? ok, if you say so. Lol….) that “For the world at large, NORMALCY ONLY RETURNS when we’ve largely vaccinated the ENTIRE global population”. He’s also on record as saying “This won’t be the last pandemic that we face… so we, you know, will have to prepare for the next one…smirk”. So even before a jab was manufactured, we were told that the ENTIRE GLOBAL POPULATION has to be jabbed for us to ‘return to normalcy’. I see we have taken this to heart, so much so that we don’t even speak of Herd Immunity anymore. Y’all noticed that? We don’t want to achieve that anymore. What we want now is a “needle in EVERY arm”. That’s the new mandate. And how will we get that? By any means necessary! That’s how.
It’s clear to all who have eyes, that some of the decisions being made under the guise of Public Health do not make logical sense. Take for instance, our “safe zones”. What makes them safe? Or safer? It’s because we are allowing ONLY vaccinated people to enter. From patrons to employees, to the police that will be patrolling (that’s a whole other topic, I assure you). Should an unvaccinated person (read undesirable person) wish to enter, he/she must show proof of being covid free by PCR, antigen or other MOH-approved test, which must not be older than 48 hours. So we basically know for certain, that the unvaccinated who enters is SAFE and covid-free. Our vaccinated friends however, in possession of their papers (vax card/health passport/green pass or whatever you wanna call it), are free to enter the ‘safe zones’ with a flash of their cards and ID’s and maybe a temperature check and hand sanitization (S.O.P. now).
Now the science tells us that the jab does NOT prevent one from contracting the virus (it wasn’t designed to do so), and it doesn’t prevent one from spreading the virus (we found this out with the Delta in the U.S.). So logically thinking…. Who is the SAFE or should I say SAFER person in the ‘safe zone’? Is it the person who came back from Miami carnival in the Delta-ridden U.S. and breezed through our immigration procedure and “went straight home” (or maybe as Bunji sang they go “straight of de jumbo jet, straight from de airport straight into fete” …read restaurant) OOORRRRR… the healthy local-based unvaccinated patron who may or even may not have proof of being covid free no older than 2 days old? But y’all ain’t tryna hear that. Let’s just keep using data from pre-vaccine roll out and keep repeating that “99% of the hospitalized are unvaccinated”. As more and more people get jabbed, let’s see how long we’ll keep that up for. Bout unvaxxed overwhelming de health care system. Could the same be said in Israel? How about Singapore? Or we ain’t bothering to follow what’s happening internationally? Making poor people pay tuh stay 2 weeks in hotel quarantining to “keep the nation safe”, but J’ouvert with no mask in a Delta zone waltzing een normal normal. Dat makes sense ent?
Now to my pet peeve. Employers who REFUSE to put their policies in writing and are only VERBALLY threatening employees with dismissal and “not being called out to work” etc. My God. My God! We literally found a way to work up to late last year. Whether we worked from home, rotated staff, whatever…. We found a way because there was no way you were letting your profits fall. Our economy was opening beautifully by observing the protocols. No vaccine was available to any of us. We almost had a ‘normal Christmas’.
ran some errands outdoors, may have forgotten my trend of thought Lol. But y’all remember when we identified as Essential and Non-essential? Dey real know how tuh build fence inno. Remember de essentials putting up the “I’m an essential worker” frame on their FB profiles? Lol. We LOVE exclusivity in dis place!!!
Heck we started speaking about having Carnival 2021! Until the PM basically told us ‘Doh play de arse nah. Wah Carnival allyuh talking bout? We are in a PANDEMIIIIC’. Imagine that. We had to be reminded that we were in a pandemic. Hahahahahaha. Remember that? Remember Sekon Sunday? But now, now that vaccines are available…. Suddenly, some workers became a threat! Overnight. Look at the NY medical staff that was dismissed last Monday. How many? 70 thousand? To be replaced by new staff, inclusive of the National Guard! (read military) When our arses were locked TF up, we went to our windows and cheered these very same workers who put their lives on the line to save others!!! Now they are the scum of the medical system. What changed? Vaccines became available. So now they are a threat. Not a help anymore… a threat! The have to pay out of pocket for PCR tests whilst the vaxxed just chill. Smh. How dat fair? Unvaxxed does not automatically mean covid positive. Vaxxed does not automatically mean covid negative. Did you repeat it 100 times? Do so until you get it. Workers…. DO YOUR BEST TO GET YOUR DISMISSAL OR ‘ALTERNATE WORK ARRANGEMENT’ IN WRITING. LET THEM SEND YOU AN EMAIL. DOCUMENT EVERYTHING! Names, times, dates, what was said, what was done.
Last year when no vaccines were available, when you were liming, you shared some legal smokes puff puff pass around the table. Now…. You can’t smoke with those friends again huh? What changed? You got vaccinated and they didn’t. So now… they’re a threat to your health?
Last year when no vaccines were available, you worked at the office, in the field on the road, observing your 3W’s and all was well at work. Now… You can’t work with those co-workers again. What changed? You got vaccinated and they didn’t. So now… they’re a threat to your health?
Last year when no vaccines were available, when you were dining and cinema-ing and theatre-ing… you sat with your team, removed your masks in some instances, but generally observed your protocols and you recreated safely enough…. For months! Now…. Some can’t go to those places again without spending $1000+ for a PCR or $350 for an antigen test. What changed? Some got vaccinated and some didn’t. So now… some are a threat to your health. Lol. We not even talking natural immunity in this country. We just talking Papers and (digital) passes.
Show your papers to gain entry. No papers? GTFOH! Get accustomed to it. It’s the NEW NORMAL that y’all ain’t seeming to understand yet. NO PASS, NO ENTRY! Vaxxed or unvaxxed… doesn’t really matter in the wider scheme. Both have to show their “Papers please!!!”. That’s why there are protests all over the world … except here.
I didn’t want to say this, but I have to borrow it after seeing that California retired nurse recite it so passionately…. “Why on earth do the protected, need protection from the unprotected…. By forcing the unprotected to use the same protection that didn’t protect the protected in the first place?!” I’m seeing people saying NOT to treat covid patients who aren’t vaccinated. In other words, if they die they die. That’s simply the consequences of their CHOICE. God I’m beginning to hate that freaking word. But let a vaccinated person contract the virus and get gravely ill…. oh no! Musa’s been a good boy. We have to do our best to save him! Humans are CHOOSING who lives and who dies based on vax status and we are OKAY with &%$#@ this???!! Unvaxxed Lives Matter too! Grenada set up some ETHICS Committee or something…. Now I see our own Dr. Trotman come on TV and talk about in times of crisis or was it war? You sometimes have to do Triage? Triage in Trinidad? Seriously? Is that a necessary conversation to share with the public right now? Are we hearing ourselves? When is someone going say WDF wrong wit allyuh?! Yuh know…. I remember clear as day, the first time we saw Dr. Trotman on TV she was pellucidly clear that it’s novel yes, but it’s a coronavirus. She was almost relieved to say that it’s a mild virus and it will mainly affect the elderly and the immunocompromised. This has been proven to be almost 100% true! Now… we’re talking triage. Smh.
So it doesn’t prevent contracting, doesn’t prevent spreading, it may reduce, but doesn’t prevent hospitalizations or death, so what’s the new script? “99%”. Since it MAY reduce hospitalizations, that’s being used as the weapon now. Never mind that > 99% of those who contract the virus will make a full recovery (here’s where they counter with talk about long covid, and damaged organs), let’s use the now false “99% of unvaccinated in the hospitals” narrative. Aka overwhelming the healthcare system. Aka, you should hate the unvaxxed and blame them because your appointment for surgery is getting pushed back… In Trinidad? Where we boast of a parallel health care system? And Dr. Richards is always sure to remind us of bed capacity. We can argue the hows and whys…. but let’s just say parallel lines NEVER meet or intersect. Let’s just leave that there. Figure it out. Smh.
Ah should stop here. Ah like Bob Marley… ah got “so much things to say right now, ah got so much things to saaay!”. But MS Word says it’s over 1750 words and 3 pages, not sure if FB has a word limit. Remember when statuses had a word limit and you had to use “Notes” to do long posts? Lol. So many things to say. But I’d just say, I am happy that my friends in business and my friends in arts and my friends in the gaming industry can earn a dollar. I am NOT against vaccination and whoever gets it. I am angry that the unvaxxed are held to ransom by dangling the jab carrot in their faces with the whip of starvation at their backs. I despise that the arrangements punish the owners and patrons. I cringe that Trinidad police will be used to enforce and patrol these establishments. I can’t help but see the plantation where massa has the house ninja doing the bull work. I can’t help that that’s what I see. I didn’t want to use that reference because I’ve learnt from previous statuses that we sometimes can’t see past our own noses. I say Nuremberg and Holocaust, they say that’s triggering. I say Jim Crow and Apartheid, they read race. I say Rwanda Hutu vs Tutsi, they say too extreme. So basically, don’t compare this segregation to any other historical atrocity. I guess because there is no bloodshed? Time alone… oh time will tell. When your mindset is LET THEM DIE…. CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES! See how much empathy you feel for a fellow human going forward.
We have segregated our children in our school system with nary a peep. Now we’re segregating our entertainment industry. We are denying access to some under “Public Health”. Why not deny access at government buildings like Guyana? Why not deny access to public health like some hospitals in the U.S.? Why not groceries and supermarkets? What’s to stop us from denying access to pharmacies? Wait, was that video about a particular local pharmacy verified? The one that didn’t allow entry without proof of vaccination. Where does it stop? Where will it end?
I could go on an on, the full has never been told! Look at Ivermectin (de drug developed for HUMANS eh). Ivermectin has been used in conjunction with other over-the-counter drugs to virtually ELIMINATE covid in Uttar Pradesh in India. A state with 240 Million people and approximately 5% vaccinated. Saving MILLIONS of lives…. Yes… de same Delta India that was ravaging them a couple months ago. Remember the video with people in the streets begging for oxygen? Yeah…. Dey going real good! But we in Trinidad here talking bout it not WHO approved for covid treatment, so we not even gonna try. We doh want tuh get sue. We will just do the WHO approved late stage treatment and use drugs like Remdesivir. We love to talk about who’s researching and who isn’t. Anybody ever thought to check out the side effects of Remdesivir? Did you even know tabout that drug and it’s approval for covid treatment? Google the side effects. Google that ish when you’re done reading and tell me why on earth is that an approved treatment for a patient having difficulty breathing, but we won’t touch Ivermectin and other WHO approved, safe drugs that people have successfully used in early treatment that have little to no reported side effects. People dying and desperate to live, and we joking about horse de-wormer and effin dog medicine. Are we really about saving lives here? Are we serious about public health? I not so sure anymore inno. I really having doubts. Go google…
GOOD NIGHT FB! Chat in de mawnin Jah willing.
Ah done… or else ah will type all night. #floodgates #reliefvalve #neededtovent #notheretoargue #tired #somuchtosay #18monthsofvirtualsilence #segregationhasbegun #trinisarecelebrating