Everyone is entitled to MY own opinion
Beware, the new normal
This video explains what is really going on with the “pandemic” and the changes to our lives through government control.
The reason for the riots is explained.
It’s really spelled out clearly.
This is a must watch!
“Yes, you see, Grandma didn’t like vaccines. I didn’t want to vaccinate my children, but a few years after covid-19 we lost the right to choose things like that.
“Grandma, did people really not wear masks when you were a kid?”
“No, they didn’t. People didn’t start wearing masks until I was 33, in 2020. Reuben, your daddy, was 4 when it all started.”
Bobby wrinkles his nose at me and picks up his mask by the door.
“You mean you didn’t wear a mask at ALL?!” He says, swinging his around on his finger.
“No, not ever.” I say.
“But how did you stay safe?” Bobby says, setting his mask down.
“Oh, we got sick a lot. Your daddy had the flu when he was 3. It was scary, but he pulled through. He’s had his share of colds as a child.”
“That’s scary. It’s bad to get sick.”
I stop, and think. Is it time? Yes, it must be time. Bobby will be eight soon, and there are things he needs to know. Things it might not be safe for his father or his mother to talk about, things that are safer shared from an older mouth.
I snuggle him up on the couch and try to think of where to begin.
“Now Bobby. I’m going to tell you some things. I want to you to hold these things inside of you and don’t talk about them to anyone else, you hear? Some of these ideas can be misunderstood if the wrong person hears them.”
I think he understands. I hope he understands.
“Back in 2020 there was a virus. You probably learned about it in school.”
“Covid 19.” Bobby says. He isn’t smiling. “I did.”
“Yes, Covid 19. That was when everything changed.”
“Is that why you had to go to jail, Grandma?”
Now my heart sinks. He’s getting ahead of me.
“No, not really.” I say.
“Daddy says you had to go to jail when he was little and he missed you a lot.”
I feel tears prick the edges of my vision, but I blink them away.
“Yes, you see, Grandma didn’t like vaccines. I didn’t want to vaccinate my children, but a few years after covid-19 we lost the right to choose things like that. But Grandma didn’t give up. I fought for the right to keep Reuben and Rebekah free from vaccines, so I went to jail for awhile. It was hard for your daddy, he missed me a lot.”
Bobby holds my hand, and I remember another little boy, so many years ago who also sat on this couch and held my hand. And I remember his tears as the police took me away from him. I don’t want to remember this.
“But vaccines are good for you, Grandma. They keep you safe. We learned about them in school.”
I sigh.
“That’s what they say.” I say. “Yet, back when I was a kid, sometime people died after they were vaccinated. Sometimes people were damaged by the vaccines. And we still don’t know what is in them. No one will tell us.”
I turn to look into Bobby’s eyes. “People still are damaged by vaccines now. Just no one talks about it.”
Bobby scrunches his eyes up. He’s trying so hard to wrap his mind around my words.
“The world was a very different place when I grew up.” I say. “We had coins, like the ones in my collection. We spent those coins as money, instead of using the chips we have today. No one wore masks and you didn’t have to get vaccinated if you didn’t want too. Parents could teach their kids at home if they wanted, and school wasn’t year round. You could think what you wanted, no one was arrested for speaking their mind. People met in churches to sing to God.”
Bobby still looks confused. I wonder if he can even picture a world like I am describing. I wonder if he can even understand.
“Kids played together in the streets. We had birthday parties where people would come to your house and hang out. I could hug my friends whenever I wanted.” Now I am getting a bit choked up. It must be my age. I’ll be 76 this January.
I swallow.
“Now, Bobby dear, don’t go repeating anything I’ve told you. Keep it hidden in your heart, like the verses we learn over breakfast.”
“Like the bible under the planks in the shed?” He asks. I nod, yes, like the bible hidden in the shed.
Bobby slips from my side. I let him go, hearing the legos tinkle from the other room. The legos his dad collected as a kid.
I sit for awhile, thinking back. Times sure have changed. I don’t think they have changed for the better, no matter what the government says. I wonder what other things will change, before my bones go into the Earth. Soon the memories of that other world, that world of freedom and breath… will be buried in my tomb with me. And only the young will remember.
If they can.
It’s only a mask child, it’s only a mask.
It’s only for a month child, it’s only for a month.
It’s only six feet distancing child, it’s only 6 feet.
It’s only a vaccine child, it’s only a vaccine.
It’s for your safety child, it’s for your safety.
It’s for your own good child, it’s for your own good.
Get into the boxcar to go to a safe place child, get into the boxcar.
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
When life is draining and there seems to be no time or place to rest, these words are reassuring, comforting, and encouraging. When things appear to be their worst, I tend to get a bit negative, and most of us are like that. Our natural tendency is to get down and miss out on what God may be doing in our situation.
When I find myself in these negative places, my goal becomes reprogramming my mind to fend off the negative and say of the Lord that He is my God in whom I trust, just as the writer of this Psalm did.
“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.” – KJV Translation of Psalm 91:1-2
Speaking your mind on any issue cannot be labeled “hate speech” as it is your opinion or view that you are entitled to. Acting on some words is a different issue all together.
It is the SJW way of eliminating “Free Speech” by labeling speech as “Hate Speech”. To me, there is no such thing as “Hate Speech”. There are speech/words some people want to hear and agree with. And there are speech/words that some people do not want to hear and do not agree with.
Agree or disagree, folks are free to say whatever they like. There may be consequences of saying some word in the wrong place at the wrong time, but that does not make it “hate speech”. Yelling “FIRE” in a crowded theater comes to mind. Anyone is free to yell that out but sure enough, there will be a price to pay for doing so. Granted, there is a fine line there on what would be considered in that general. Telling someone you are going to open a can of Whoopass on them may have consequences also.
Speaking your mind on any issue cannot be labeled “hate speech” as it is your opinion or view that you are entitled to. Acting on some words is a different issue all together.
Take all the folks that are paying the price for putting words in the public domain. Those were their opinion that they were entitled to at that time. They were free to say them. They are now paying the consequence for saying them. Should their employer fire them for having said them? No. In a right and just America of the past it would be illegal to fire anyone for saying something in the past.
This SJW technique is only effective if the majority let it be effective and right. If someone ever tells me what I have said is “Hate Speech” I would just laugh at them. I would most likely throw it right back at them and call their not liking my speech “Hate Speech” towards me!
Think back not that long ago when the SJW/gender confused folks wanted everyone to use their “preferred gender pronoun.” How did that work out for them? Society dictates what words are acceptable and adopted, not someone’s opinion of them. Those gender pronouns died out pretty fast because society did not adopt them. You cannot force a society/people to use a certain speech, they have to willingly accept it. This whole “Hate speech” thing is exactly the same. SJW’s are trying to FORCE society to adopt certain words as unacceptable. It is only going to work if the majority let it.
In consequence of the widespread disinformation campaign, the millions of Americans have been persuaded that their lives, labors, liberties, and freedoms were privileges granted and withheld by government, instead of rights secured and protected by government.
The American Creed
We, the people of the United States of America, recognize that we are endowed by our Creator [1] with the birthright to absolutely own ourselves, the fruits of our labor, and exercise liberty, upon our private property and upon public ways [2]. And that we have given passive consent to those who instituted or submitted to government, on their solemn promise to help secure our rights to life, security, privacy, and freedom [3] and not trespass upon them.
We, the people of the United States of America, have never knowingly, willingly or intentionally surrendered our inalienable rights [4] to life, liberty, and property ownership, except under the impetus of fraud, constructive fraud, misrepresentation, and withholding of material facts.
We, the people of the United States of America, demand specific performance to the compact; the constitutions of these united States. And that said constitutions, in harmony with the Declaration of Independence, delegate limited power to help secure inalienable rights of the people and forbid trespass [5] upon those rights.
In consequence of the widespread disinformation campaign, the millions of Americans have been persuaded that their lives, labors, liberties, and freedoms were privileges granted and withheld by government, instead of rights secured and protected by government.
And that Americans were deliberately misled to submit to false authority, contract with abominations, surrender their sovereignty, commit acts against the common good, and violate their conscience, their spiritual beliefs, and / or their common sense.
References:
NATURAL RIGHTS – … are the rights of life, liberty, privacy, and good reputation.
GOVERNMENT (Republican Form of Government)- One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people … directly…”
“. . . at the Revolution, the sovereignty devolved on the [American] people, and they are truly the sovereigns of the country, but they are sovereigns without subjects, and have none to govern but themselves. . .”
“The people of the state, as the successors of its former sovereign, are entitled to all the rights which formerly belonged to the king by his own prerogative.”
Lansing v. Smith, (1829) 4 Wendell 9, (NY)
“It will be admitted on all hands that with the exception of the powers granted to the states and the federal government, through the Constitutions, the people of the several states are unconditionally sovereign within their respective states.”
Ohio L. Ins. & T. Co. v. Debolt 16 How. 416, 14 L.Ed. 997
(OF COURSE, those who consented to be governed, surrendered their endowment, and should sit down, shut up, pay and obey.)
I believe my best offense is a good defense. My body has a functioning immune system and I think it knows how to use it.
I do not wear a “Mask”. Public or private I have yet to don one. If a business requires me to wear one, I just do not give that business my business, I go elsewhere. I do respect a business’s right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason. I have stated I cannot wear one and many have accepted that without question. The ones who yell to GET OUT!! I simply turn and walk away, never to return.
For my reasons. First, I do not believe this virus is anywhere near the threat it is made out to be, not at all. It has over a 90-some percent survival and I believe, 99%+ survival rate in non-… what is the word they use… susceptible or something… groups, like being aged with other health issues that ANY flu would complicate. From all I can read it has a better survival rate that many “seasonal flu” pandemics. Yeah, I used their word, pandemic, because the seasonal flu is a pandemic. They just have never called it that before. It sounds much scarier.
What give me the most reason for this is using my eyes to observe. Think about this. Our politicians must have known about this from day 3 or 4, at the latest. You can’t convince me that no one in the US Government did not know something was up in China. Did any of the Congress-critters run to their little hidey holes and disappear? No? What would be the first thing you would do if you were “in the know” and found out a deadly, killer virus was just released in China? You knew within a few days or weeks it was going to be rolling across the world. Me? I would be stocked up and holed up in my little safe space not letting anyone or anything near me under threat of death. Yet Nancy Pelosi, whom I would consider as in the know as anyone, went to Chinatown 2 months into it and was interacting with the general public, no safeguards at all, no mask, no distancing, nothing. Look at what all the other “in the know” politicians were doing also. None went into hiding from it, none.
I do not know how it is transmitted but from what I can discern it is the same as any seasonal flu. Being around a lot of folks who have it, gives you a better chance to catch it. Avoid crowds as much as possible. Basic sanitation will help avoid it also. No, not sanitizing everything you touch or after you touch everything. That is ridiculous.
I believe my best offense is a good defense. My body has a functioning immune system and I think it knows how to use it. I eat dirt on a regular basis to help boost it. Yes, I go out in the garden and simply rinse the soil off stuff and eat them raw. I get lots of little bugs and bacteria that way. I also interact with the general public, mostly neighbors. This gives me exposure to small amounts of whatever “bugs” are floating around and give my body a taste of them so it can build antibodies. Do this regularly and it can adapt much better to the new, seasonal varieties as they are all similar to the last one. Covid is no different. Sars-Covid it is called. Remember the Sars death virus that was going to kill us all off? Sanitize everything in your environment, and your body has no chance to build a functioning immune system.
For the mask. No public official has given any warnings about proper use of “The Mask”. That raises the flag for me. It is just “Mandating” everyone wear one. Doesn’t it seem odd that no “instructions” or specifications went with this mandate? We just need to wear a face covering, is all I have heard. If they were all that concerned wouldn’t precautions be sent out also? What kind of “mask” is most effective? How to properly wear one. Proper sanitizing of one. Nothing.
For folks using “The Mask” what about after they touch it? Their hands are now contaminated and everything they touch is also. If they pull it down, then back up, any disease that was on the outside, is now on the inside! Folks use the same mask for days, no one warned them not to. Just NEED to use one. How about how long to have one on? Isn’t wearing one harmful to ones health? Build up of carbon dioxide, lack of oxygen in the system, re-breathing your exhaled breath… There is a long list of cons against wearing a piece of cloth over your nose and mouth all day. What about the eye membranes? They would be just as susceptible to virus entry and breathing them in. No mention of covering your eyes with anything.
After all that I make my way to the “shutdown”. The big elephant in the room. It was simply a blanket “shut it down”. Everything. Doesn’t that strike you as odd? Then, certain “essential” businesses were given exception to open. Remember the lists of “essential businesses”? Remember the lists of things folks were not allowed to buy? Paint. We can’t buy paint but we can buy anything else in that same store? Now about the lists of non-acceptable activities? There is a real winner there. You can’t go out to a park, or go fishing, In a whole state like Washington you cannot go fishing, anywhere!! You can go to the beach, but you can’t go swimming. Some places you can’t even go to the beach, others you can, but can’t have a chair. No rhyme or reason to any of it, none. That tells me they do not have a clue.
And this blanket “shut it all down” was for everyone, small and big. A place like NYC had the same restrictions as small-town flyover country. No tailoring it to anything. No partial, not hotspot shutdown, everywhere. Another no clue situation here.
Overall, no one has given me any reason to suspect I have to do any of the things they are “mandating”” besides the fact they say so under penalty of being thrown in jail. But wait! They can’t throw me in jail because they are letting prisoners OUT of jail.
How about the “mostly peaceful protests”. Just think back to the restrictions put on the general public and how they are different for the BLM “mostly peaceful protestors”. If that doesn’t tell you they do not have a clue about any of this, nothing will.
I will leave this long, too long… part with what about my rights here in what still is the United States of America. It is not the Governments place to be dictating what I can and cannot do as long as it is still legal. As far as I have heard, no one has created any laws that I have to abide by in this Coivd thing, none. A “mandate” is not a law passed by a house in the legislature by our elected officials.
TRUE OR FALSE QUIZ
A. “Socialism is good because social means living together.”
B. “Governance is important to restrain and control bad humans who need punishment. Self government is anarchy.”
C. “Only governments should have weapons so that bad people will fear government.”
D. “There’s nothing wrong with a government requiring our obedience and wealth in order for it to survive and grow.”
E. “The rich should support the poor, because the rich got rich by oppressing the poor.”
F. “Whatever is not mandatory, regulated, taxed, or permitted, should be forbidden.”
G. “Only governments should have the power to create new money. Everyone else is not trustworthy.”
H. “Rules and regulations are the only way to insure that people are held accountable for the harm they may do to others, even when there’s no injured party.”
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If American governments are instituted to secure endowed rights to life (natural rights), liberty (natural and personal liberty), absolute ownership of private property, inherent powers, and nothing more without consent of the governed, then all of the above are false.
Americans who have not consented, retain their natural rights to life, and to do all harmless activities in support of that life, as well as defend that life with whatever they deem necessary for the task, including firearms.
American nationals / Free inhabitants domiciled upon private property, have dominion over said property (natural liberty), and the right to travel upon all public roads and waterways (personal liberty). Outside of those liberties, one may need permission lest they commit a trespass upon the private property of another.
NATURAL RIGHTS – … are the rights of life, liberty, privacy, and good reputation.
– – – Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p. 1324
NATURAL LIBERTY – The power of acting as one thinks fit, without any restraint or control, unless by the law of nature. The right which nature gives to all mankind of disposing of their persons and property after the manner in which they judge most consistent with their happiness, on condition of their acting within the limits of the law of nature, and so as not to interfere in the equal exercise of the same rights by other men. 1 Blackstone’s Commentaries, 123,
– – – Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth edition, p. 919.
PERSONAL LIBERTY – The right or power of locomotion; of changing situation, or moving one’s person to whatsoever place one’s own inclination may direct, without imprisonment or restraint, unless by due course of law. 1 Bl. Comm. 125.
– – – Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p. 919
TRAVEL – Within the meaning of a constitutional right to travel, means migration with intent to settle and abide.
– – – Black’s Law Dictionary, Sixth Ed., p.1500
” PERSONAL LIBERTY, or the Right to enjoyment of life and liberty, is one of the fundamental or natural Rights, which has been protected by its inclusion as a guarantee in the various constitutions, which is not derived from, or dependent on, the U.S. Constitution, which may not be submitted to a vote and may not depend on the outcome of an election. It is one of the most sacred and valuable Rights, as sacred as the Right to private property…and is regarded as inalienable.”
– – – 16 Corpus Juris Secundum, Constitutional Law, Sect.202, p.987.
PRIVATE PROPERTY – “As protected from being taken for public uses, is such property as belongs absolutely to an individual, and of which he has the exclusive right of disposition. Property of a specific, fixed and tangible nature, capable of being in possession and transmitted to another, such as houses, lands, and chattels.”
– – – Black’s Law dictionary, sixth ed., p.1217
” PERSONAL LIBERTY largely consists of the Right of locomotion to go where and when one pleases only so far restrained as the Rights of others may make it necessary for the welfare of all other citizens. The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, by horsedrawn carriage, wagon, or AUTOMOBILE, is not a mere privilege which may be permitted or prohibited at will, but the common Right which he has under his Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Under this Constitutional guarantee one may, therefore, under normal conditions, travel at his inclination along the public highways or in public places, and while conducting himself in an orderly and decent manner, neither interfering with nor disturbing another’s Rights, he will be protected, not only in his person, but in his safe conduct.”
– – – II Am.Jur. (1st) Constitutional Law, Sect.329, p.1135.
Of course, once you consent to be governed, shut up, sit down, pay and obey. . .
(In addition, thanks to the State of emergency declared in 1933, many constitutional prohibitions and requirements were bypassed.)
When you stop and look back at the beginning of the plandemic, it’s very easy to see how we were fooled by the media and pushed into actions that were not smart, and not in our best interest, but at the time the manipulation was invisible to us.
The media does not deal in information, it deals in propaganda and behavior modification.
Since late 2019, we have been manipulated by segments of the shadow government facilitated by their allies in the media. We have been bombarded with fear and hate.
I belong to a generation that once to believed, “if it wasn’t in the newspaper or on TV it did not happen.” Today, with the Internet, there are many more choices, but in essence, it comes down to the fact that if it’s nicely packaged and reported enough for a number of times, most folks are going to believe it. Unfortunately, we are very easy to manipulate through the media.
The way people get manipulated through the media/information hasn’t changed since the beginning of the USA, it just got more sophisticated, and we have gotten more plugged in and dependent on it.
When you stop and look back at the beginning of the plandemic, it’s very easy to see how we were fooled by the media and pushed into actions that were not smart, and not in our best interest, but at the time the manipulation was invisible to us.
We were fed misinformation from the beginning about the origin of the virus, the rate of infection, the mode of transmission, the rate of mortality, the prophylactic steps necessary to address the virus, and the length of time that our lives would be disrupted.
We were constantly bombarded with an overload of information and misinformation about changes that we must accept “for the greater good”. The shadow government spokesman and the media never talked about the overreach of the political system. It was always about the importance of our opinions and after a short time of this, folks started to believe that our opinions and the mandated changes in our normal life would lead to the defeat of this “invisible enemy” in short order.
Once a reasonable percentage accepted and echoed these talking points, once enough of us truly believed that these actions were for the “greater good”, the next phase of selling the plandemic was begun.
We were bombarded by the media that there were great differences between us, and that the differences were actually so big that they might be a problem for our future life in America. Hour after hour, day after day, we were inundated with the numbers of new cases, the outlandish numbers of hospitalizations, and the projections of millions of deaths.
In reality, you can point out huge differences between any groups of people, or political opinions anywhere in the world, and yet, that does not mean it needs to end up in blood letting. But with the continuing coverage of “black lives matter” and “AntiFa” we have been led to believe that spilling blood was the only solution for solving these differences.
The next stage-so intimidatingly logical-was fear. Fear of others, fear of differences, fear of those who had different ideas from us.
Media has instilled great amounts of fear in us, by careful and subtle hints. You did not even realize that you have been intimidated into a state of fear. Fear of contracting the virus, fear of infecting your loved ones, fear of dying, fear of “black lives matter”, fear of “AntiFa”. It seemed like a natural process until one day “fear” became the new normal.
Fear is a very powerful motivator, and under the influence of fear, you can be compelled to do a lot of things. Under the influence of fear, you will follow the directives of authority and relinquish your liberty.
Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, “the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself.” Today, it would be accurate to say, “we need to fear loss of liberty caused by governmental overreach”.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Josephus says, the word “jobel” or “jubilee” signifies “liberty”: unto all the inhabitants thereof;
We can learn much from the American pioneers. From the pioneer provision list, to seed saving and their cooking equipment and recipes, we are wise to take note of techniques and tools used by the pioneers who “bugged out” West from 1840-1890 along the Oregon Trail.
If the recent lockdown should have shown us anything, it is how fragile our “just-in-time” distribution system is. This time it was some minor inconvenience with toilet paper and household bleach. What will you and your family do the next time?
We can learn much from the American pioneers. From the pioneer provision list, to seed saving and their cooking equipment and recipes, we are wise to take note of techniques and tools used by the pioneers who “bugged out” West from 1840-1890 along the Oregon Trail.
Mormon pioneers were the emergency preparedness and food storage masters of their time! Author Caleb Warnock, in his book, The Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency Used by the Mormon Pioneers, shows you the first hand skills you’ll need. Learn to cultivate the pioneer’s independence to provide against lost wages, harsh weather, economic recession, commercial contamination and shortages, as you strengthen your family’s self-reliance.
Pioneer Lesson #1: Make a provision list.
Pioneers bring many survival lessons, starting with their provision list. Pioneers knew they could not depend on foraging for food or hunting alone along the trail, so before heading on the journey, pioneers relied on the knowledge of fur trappers to guide them on foods and supplies to bring.
Pioneer women didn’t write much about food along the trails, as they felt food was a rather mundane topic. Thankfully, however, men found food a worthwhile to write about, so we know pioneers packed plenty of dried goods, including dried meats, sugar, molasses, salt, and spices, as well as flour, cornmeal, oats, dried apples, coffee and tea. The following is an actual provision list modified to take into account modern provisions:
Enough highly portable, long term food storage, to last an entire winter. Long term explorers, miners, and trappers would pack in 600/lbs per man, and they would include dried fruits, veggies, and salt pork.
A modernized list would include freeze dried components, and run more to 450 lbs. This could be stretched an entire year if you add wild fish and game.
One year Grub Stake List (450 lbs),
60 lbs Flour,
40 lbs Bisquick mix,
50 lbs Oatmeal,
25 lbs Corn Meal,
100 lbs Rice,
25 lbs Pinto Beans,
50 lbs Pasta (Spaghetti Noodles, Elbow Mac),
25 lbs Coffee,
25 lbs Salt,
10 lbs Sugar,
1 gal Honey,
1 gal Maple Syrup,
12 lbs Jam (Strawberry/Grape/Berry),
1 Gal Crisco,
3 L Olive Oil,
1 lbs Baking soda,
1 lb Baking powder,
4 lb Yeast,
1 lb Corn starch,
Vanilla, 1 Bottle,
Ketchup 2 Bottles,
Spices-Garlic/Pepper/Chilli/Oregano,
Hot cocoa mix
Tea bags,
365 Multi/Vitamin C,
4 #10 Cans Entrees, 1 ea, Beef Stew, ChiliMac, Lasagna, Spaghetti.
4 #10 Cans Freeze Dried (Onions/G Peppers/Tomato paste/Potatoes),
4 #10 Cans Freeze Dried milk/Butter/Cheese/Eggs,
THIS IS PER PERSON
Lesson #2: Fire and cooking.
Cooking over an open fire was dangerous for pioneer women and the children who gathered around the fire. Pioneer women, and the girls who tended the cooking, wore their hair tightened in a bun. Additionally, pioneer women wore bonnets not only to keep their unkempt hair as orderly as possible, but also to cook over an open flame. They also wore heavy wool clothing to protect themselves from flying sparks.
With luck I will continue this topic next week.
You can discount this information if you choose, but consider what the consequences would be for you and your family if the local supermarket was barren like those in Venezuela.