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I read and liked your article earlier today.

"During Coronamania, many people have validated and internalized others’ Covid fear level, because doing so is seen as "empathetic" and "nice." Some have told me they’re deliberately accommodating others’ fear. Others may be doing so reflexively. I‘m reminded of the Woody Allen movie, Zelig, in which the title character pathologically takes on the personalities of those around him in order to fit in and gain acceptance."

This sounds an awful lot like sociopathy to me.

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The thing I'm wondering about right now is why a certain large group of people bought right into the covid fear narrative hook, line and sinker right from the beginning, and why the rest of us did not and had a healthy degree of skepticism early on. What differentiates us from them? Very curious thing about humans.

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The thing is, as I have posted elsewhere on here, I *was* really sceptical. The problem is the well-poisoners did such a fantastic job, for a long time, I was like "pandemics happen".

Example of well poisoners at the start of the "pandemic" (it's really a pseudo-pandemic):

- It's just the flu, bro

- Covid doesn't exist, it's a hoax

- OMFG it's the 5G!

It was only until I heard someone credible talk about this - Dr. Mike Yeadon - that I finally understood a credible explanation. For me personally, I knew it was all BS when I accidentally watched BBC News before the football and their Covid stats said "deaths after 28 days of receiving a positive test for any reason". WTF?

Yep, that sounds like fucking bullshit to me. I don't pay any attention to the MSM but the alternative media was really crap at detecting what was actually going on, they got 100% distracted by the lab-leak theory.

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I'm generally a skeptic, and was especially skeptical of any funny business during the election year. We'd just seen the BS Russia hoax drag on for a gobsmacking four years! They (everyone who didn't vote for Trump, and absolutely China) were so desperate to get rid of Bad Orange Man, this perfectly timed panic-inducing virus instantly smelled like an all-too-convenient BS, and as Rahm Emanuel said, "Never let a crisis go to waste." They didn't.

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The minute the Dems turned Covid into “Trump’s fault” and “Trump is racist for closing borders” I knew this was bs. We either have a serious cause for concern and if so we would do whatever it takes or we play politics. Them playing politics was very revealing to me

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Integrity. The tolerance is different for everybody but usually it requires a shock to the system to break free from the cradle to the grave brainwashing.

Me it was 9/11. For others JFK, Waco, Swine Flu etc.

Perhaps with a big enough shock everybody would be able to break free, or at least most people. It's wise to remember that we too were brainwashed at some point.

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When JFK was assassinated in 1963, I was 14 and remember it very well. When Lee Harvey Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby two days later, that's when I began to wonder about things with the government. That was followed by the murders of RFK and MLK. It all seemed extremely strange and suspicious, even to a 14 year old who didn't yet know very much. I've basically had a good level of skepticism since then, although more so in recent years.

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