@TimeOutForMe I think that it would be an interesting to live off the grid for a short while if only for the experience.

@ASTRALMAX I don't mind living of the grid permanently away from the city near a fresh water stream.

@TimeOutForMe

We get free spring water, filled ups in my area. I build tiny houses that are affordable for a minimum wage person. With solar and a gas generator back up or it's for high energy tools. Grey water system and a rocket stove/over/mass heater. All for $22,000 complete. Some are earning by labor for their house. Other urban farming for me for their tiny house building .

@Castlepaloma wow that's awesome.. You need to do a deal with the govt here in South Africa to build environment-friendly homes for low income earners. ...and to educate the previously disadvantaged on farming. South Africa has to introduce those tiny homes projects around the country. Housing projects here are going too slow.

@TimeOutForMe

Most of our success was building tiny houses in Latin America, mainly for easy legistic reasons of building codes. In Canada tiny houses has been more illegal than weed. Yet times are changing rapidly become most people can not afford a house and government systems, suck overall.

@TimeOutForMe There seems to be no clear answer as to how long the Sars-Cov-2 will be with us. Apparently, the Spanish Flu lasted 1918 - 1922. Some experts think that until at least 70% of the global population has been infected we won't see a decline in cases.

I recall reading an article about six months ago in which one expert said that sooner or later everyone will contract the virus. Perhaps in the course of time the effects of the virus will become much milder and be regarded in much the same light as the common flu.

@ASTRALMAX yes I'm thinking on similar lines.

Looked it up . The CDC has a program they call VARES , which is designed to track and report on any vaccine problems . It continues to say the Covid 19 vaccines are safe to use , that the covid disease can not be passed along by being vaccinated , and that they do indeed provide immunity that will in the majority of cases prevent the disease and in cases where those vaccinated do catch it , it is most often much less severe than for those who were not vaccinated .

For sure not Trump, Trump loves his 3 jabs of vaccines , plus his whole family. He now encourage all American to get the vaccines even Fauci praises Trump for it. Just another political traitor.

@Cast1es

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Even Bill Gates says natural immunity is safer than vaccines for omicron. Sad times for Billionaire with far too much over stock investment. Gates vaccines was the best investment he has ever made. More than his GMO farming or his Software.

Once did go down the rabbit holds too many times. Then found out it was not worth going further. What ever the private Feds and corporatism can create, I can create in my own private world, with a like minded people, in a green community.

Alcohol is Russians drug of choice, US FDA - Fear and Dead Association or food and drugs. FDA claim they own the rights to marijuana and made it illegal worldwide. Same with Petro dallors, that where once US had a reach of 90% of the world,. Same with Centro banking the Source of all wars. US is ground zero of the recent worldwide collapse. Except Building back better billionaire won't work, because the mass population gets tired of the great abuse. Than they make the positive changes needed, not religious or political. As they always have throughout human history.

@Castlepaloma Point of order: the FDA is not the controlling authority behind marijuana laws in the USA. That's the Congress, on the federal level, and the 50 state legislatures. Nor did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ever have anything to do with the drug laws of other nations.

I would correct some other misconceptions, but it's late here & I'm tired.

@Paul4747

US Government has a patent on marijuana and the FDA schedule it One, that worst the schedule 2 alcohol, meth and cocaine.
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@Castlepaloma This is a patent by the Department of Health and Human Services, not the FDA. It's specifically relating to the use of "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants", not by any stretch a "patent on marijuana".

Schedule 1 is "drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse". Marijuana is currently listed in that category. BUT, many states have legalized medical and recreational marijuana. The federal law is mostly unenforced for casual users. People who go driving bales of the stuff around, though, should probably still be wary.

@Paul4747

How ever one spins it , the government is always screwing with nature and most importantly a plant that serves humankind better than any diverse and useful plant on earth and that is cannabis.

@Castlepaloma "Government" is just people. It is our nature to screw with nature.

Since you're against screwing with nature, I'm going to assume you live in an unheated cave and eat your food raw. The way nature intended.

@Paul4747

I'm produce healthy organic foods, Freedom and affordable housing and more comfortable than the majority. And not worried about financial problems weekly or everyday.. No need for corrupted Government stealing and murder of nature and sheep people. All produced by the ugly overlords of unbalanced.

Most of the Latinos I know don't like Pharmaceutical drugs. Where legal drugs kill us far more than illegal drugs. One third of North America economy is based on drugs. The true drug Cartels are our Governments. The drugs cartel in Latin America world, work as the military and help out the citizens during crisis. Not like the old day of drug cartel or many bikers have changed their image also.

@Castlepaloma Big pharma is a part of that also after all they have the deep pockets.

@CuddyCruiser

Yes, they are more profitable than oil and gas. The most dangerous and take less responsibility

@Castlepaloma Big Pharma IS the most profitable for sure.

Big pharmas products hurt people most, where Big oils products fuck up the environment.