A study found that 4% of the population are sociopaths, 60% go along with the current thing to avoid conflict, and 36% are disagreeable skeptics like us. Cheers to the 36% - it is our duty to teach the 60% to just say no to the 4% in the government and corporations: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-say-no
The MSM is much more powerful than the government. Biden’s mandates were imposed because the MSM supported the hysterical claim that they were necessary to deal with a pandemic.
In an indirect way, the media (including social media) can do asset seizure and lock you in jail.
All they have to do is say X person is guilty of Y, and blast the same message for months on end. Eventually, enough people will turn against you that popular opinion will demand the justice system move against you. And they will.
Also they might not have locked you in jail, but they convinced many to lock themselves in the house.
Agreed. Governments wouldn't do asset seizures and wouldn't be locking up ideological opponents/dissidents if the mass media held them to account.
Hard to imagine Turdeau behaving the way he did if the media didn't vilify and demonise the truckers. But imagine if all the MSM were actually objectively reporting or god forbid were supportive of the truckers. Just no way the little tyrants would have dared show their true colours.
Never forget that "they" were extremely surprised by the level of population compliance to the NPIs - lockdowns, etc (evidence for this is particularly strong among Euro political leaders). I ignored them and had the roads almost to myself for 2,3 weeks - the interesting exception being the relatively large number of tradesman's vans still at work.
Exactly, have no doubt, we will be tested by a "pandemic" or otherwise. We are in the fight of our lives - and frankly on the cusp of no return - as it relates to our liberties.
Only up to a point., then it's torches & pitchforks time, bitchez. We can be coercive too, if we want to be, or if we have to be.... Although at 60, I don't really have the physical stamina to chase down a 40 yr old asshole covid-power-drunk town councilman, cop, hospital administrator, or local pharmaceutical rep and drive the freshly sharpened tines of my pitchfork through his heart.. OTH,, a lot of older folks are still decent marksman. Stealth and ambush could be a lot more desirable way to deal with these "problems" instead of open conflict - at least for the older and/or physically weaker portion of the 36%. If we're reeeaaallly lucky, most of them will stroke out and die of their vaxx damage before it has to come to that...
We don't need to be coercive, I like the term "proactive." We need to illustrate the trick, we need to draw charts and diagrams, we need to clap and laugh as the bluster and endeavor to muscle us. Feign puzzlement as they endeavor to intimidate.
Most people follow the path of least resistance and are easy to manipulate. The lack of a Red Tsunami despite hyperinflation caused by the Climate Alarmist War on fossil fuels is but the latest example of people accepting nonsense from the Democratic Party supporting MSM rather than thinking for themselves.
I've said this elsewhere, but is perception reality? Do you believe the election results? I am on the fence about it. I did see the amount of people that fell for the Covid BS, so I know that people can be manipulated. Heck, here in Georgia where there were no mask mandates, outside for early voting in 2020, 90% of people were masked. OUTSIDE. It can't mean a good thing. On the other hand, how much election integrity is there?
What a burden to bear. All they want to do is turn the F up and enjoy life as if it is normal, throw up their hands and say what can I do or my vote doesn’t count, or the powers that be are going to do what they want anyway. The typical, I just want to enjoy life. How can you enjoy life when Pinky and the Brain are on the loose!? And why did I have to fall in the 36%? I always get the hard jobs. 😆
And how do we "teach"? I have lost all interest in gathering and setting up on and delivering on a silver platter irrefutable and verifiable facts/info ("pearls") only to have it tossed back in my face by "the people" (swine).
"The mob" under the fat part of the Bell curve represents a danger to all that is good and decent. This has been revealed for all with eyes to see.
The key is actually getting the 96% (60% go along + 36% "skeptics") to see that the 4% are the ones that dictate what they are forced to do - and to ignore them - resolutely - and be willing to pay the PRICE for doing so.
What % of the sociopaths are in government? I suspect it is far larger than the 4% of the population. What percent in gov. are farther along the spectrum to full blown psychopaths? Why are either groups so represented in government? I think it is because that is where the power is.
I've said for decades that "government" attracts the worst (the sociopaths and psychopaths) and brings out the worst in them. Power attracts this crowd, which means we must assume the worst about all of them. An individual here and there may disprove the rule, but the rule remains.
Don't forget the majority of doctors they in that percentage, too. .....lawyers, management in corporations, many police officers..... I think they're off on the only 4%.
Sorry Yuri there was no 36% during covid. More like 1% that resisted in any meaningful way. That's a fact.
Being a skeptic and doing nothing is the same as being a go along to get along. The problem is that a vanishingly small percentage of people were willing to pay any price whatsoever to do what was right.
All of us who protested were seen as crack pots a year ago and are still pariahs today.
The biggest problem we have is hardly any leader stood up, they let us twist in the wind. My US Representative, Doris Matsui, said nothing about the Feds, State and City/County stealing our rights, even though she was born in a Japanese Internment Camp. Talk about irony, hypocrisy and lunacy all wrapped up in one bundle.
36% my arse. I agree with you totally. Unquakcinated people around me are less than 10%. These people travel regularly so willingly not being quakcinated made their lives extremely difficult in '21.
The ones who are willing to do anything to stay on the real side is <10% and out of these people most were/are not actively fighting back.
Like gato says, simply connect the bad outcomes and ask, "and I should trust them now... why?"
Start with facts that everyone knows and agrees with... FDA said cigarettes smoke was harmless. Pfizer paid $# billion in *criminal* penalties for killing people last year. And I should trust them now... why?
Too many of the 36% 'disagreeable skeptics' still wore a mask when the sign said so. How do we get the disagreeable skeptics across the finish line the next time to still not conform?
But I suppose what would be good is the 60% saying we were wrong, or I didn’t know how bad masks were for our health, or I’m sorry I got the jab, they don’t even know what mRNA does to the body. Something that tells us they won’t be so stupid next time. Does everyone get the flyers in the mail about the facts of wearing masks? Did they get the flyer on percentage of people sick and unable to work since the Jab? No! They are not getting the data. So. It will happen again.
I too am not happy with the decisions of most. And there are people I used to like that I don’t want to see again, they are baaaaad decision makers. I don’t want my grandkids anywhere near them.
This is a good topic, I just realized......I am angry.
Everyone I know who has had Covid was vaccinated beforehand. Every single one, even those who politely asked the unvaccinated not to come to their house or function. I don’t mind. I love irony. I am careful to avoid people wearing masks in case stupidity is infectious.
Thanks. It has started to return. I can smell dangerous strong smells like stove gas again, albeit slightly. As to Zinc, I'll get thatFriday when I have my oysters.
I'll pass along the link to someone more strongly affected.
- Get their buy in; "will you back me when I resist mandates, etc.?"
- Get them involved in "easy" resistance
- Band together at the local level
- Encourage
- Follow-up (CRITICAL)
- Protest Vehemently
- Accountability
- Be willing to pay the price
Here's something my wife and I did very early on:
We do not allow masked people in our home (and my business). My wife and I told everyone we know that our family does not accept this nonsense in our lives.
The meaning is clear. It "burns the ships" and holds you accountable.
Interesting. We did the same. Any person, friend or service provider, who came to our door at ANY TIME during this mess was politely asked to take off their face nappy. Funny ... no-one ever turned around and left.
Now we are getting somewhere! Do NOT accept this behavior. Tell people wearing a mask that they are a hypochondriac and neurotic. Tell them that there is no evidence, whatsoever, that their woobie keeps them from getting sick. Challenge them to produce said evidence, or to admit that they simply follow what they are told to do by someone else. Finally, tell them that wearing that mask infringes on your liberty by establishing the very conditions that enable the infringement.
P.S. I am getting that t-shirt made with, "I'm A People Person" on the front and, "I've already told you once" on the back.
I applaud you for holding to this standard of no masks, especially in your business where you may have (or did) face financial repercussions.
Only mentioning the following as food for thought as part of the 36%. In the Spring / Summer of 2020, I made the conscious decision to go out to local establishments every week as I knew there would be economic repercussions if everyone stayed home. I wore the damn masks - not because I wanted to, nor because I thought they would protect me. I wore the masks because I was afraid these places would shutter if no one frequented them. Did I make the right choice? I'm no longer sure.
I think you did. And BTW likewise. But on my own turf, it was a case of my house, my rules. Not that convinced about the 60/36 though. I had the distinct impression when I was out and about in 2020 that it was neck and neck?
I think the 36% represents the uninjected population.. which rings true to me. While most people I know got the boosters, I'm less clear on the uptake on the bivalent injections.
Also agree with your comments about rules in your own house. On the RARE times anyone came over (embarrassingly most of my family and friends acted like shut ins), I would just say "You don't need to wear that".
What you say is true. But let us not forget that there is a portion of people's non-compliance that we do not see--the part that is not public. By this I mean the boycotting of businesses that insist on such behaviors; the conscious effort to choose options that don't require conformity to these standards; the active acceptance and encouragement of those we find around us who are also refusing.
They weren't very effective and didn't do enough. Those people need to step up if there is a next time.
For the most part they were only willing to pay a price without much significance. Their resistance needs to be more vocal and visible. Working behind the scenes did very little to end the madness.
You have to be willing to put your name behind it and be willing to do it in full view.
I'm one of the very few who never wore a snot pouch and never will. And lucky me -- I'm married to a man who never wore a snot pouch and never will.
I was denied service once in the "No Longer Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire, but other than that, was left alone. On one, maybe two, occasion when approached, I turned to the obedient one and stated simply, "I am unable to wear a mask safely."
I didn't. I live in Seattle area where my behavior didn't go over very well. I had decided early on that i would be willing to walk away from a store or restaurant if they were threatening. Took a lot of effort but i was pissed and still am that they were SO IGNORANT. People here are so blue koolaid drunk, they just don't care to see the actual facts before then. Global passports need to be fought against. If we the people can't stop our Govts then i guess i better travel out of Country soon before they pull that bullshit. I haven't complied yet and don't intend to.
Nooooo! Gato, Yuri, no. It is not our duty to teach “them” anything. Those who want to see, have plenty of material out there, by now, without our help. And those who don’t... you cannot teach someone who does not want to learn.
Stop giving away our energy and attention to “them”! Let us focus on us. There WILL be another time when they try to do yet another bout of mass hysteria. But if we are more of a community, we can help one another. And we can speak louder. And we can be counted.
Let us focus on us, give energy and attention to us. And when we do, we will be neither alienated, nor pretending. We will be working on us, so that we can be better prepared, so that we can be stronger in the face of the next mass psychosis, so that we can be a fabulous community not about to get snowed under by bullshit. And hey... some of them will look at that and think... maybe I should join them, they have a cool game going. :-)
There are many people who are on the vaxx train that are unreachable. There are some that can be reached; I know some who lost his CFO to "died suddenly." He put things together and listened to what I told him and has stopped vaxxing. Others... will not.
That being said.... because they will not listen to one message does not mean that will not listen to a different yet equally important message. I have spoken to a lot of the vaxxed about CBDCs; almost all are against them, except the young and/or intellectually lazy that just think it's "convenient." So I think it's worthwhile to talk to the vaxxed about that.
It's not our duty, it's something we want to do. Do you think I liked seeing close family members come visit me masked? Do you think I found it entertaining when they used arbitrary and capricious restrictions at restaurants? And these people are sacrificing themselves. They are taking an experimental injection. They are forgoing joy in life like large gatherings, vacation cruises, and they are isolating themselves.
It's not a question of learning. If you see the material on mass formation, it's not about being uneducated. Education only makes us more vulnerable. I think part of it is unquestioning belief in institutions. They assume that the engine of western education and learning has not broken down. The Capitol is not a Cathedral, and the CDC is not a temple, and yet many of them worship at the column of government.
Perhaps the 10% are the smarter ones who get out of the way of that which they can not effectively confront. "I have a suspicion about ammunition, I never forget to duck" -J Buffett
I agree, people are forgetting because they want to forget that shit-show. I was the non-masker non-believer, who had Covidiot friends/family. I drove them nuts with refusing to mask and preaching how we’re being lied to about the flu. They’ve forgotten their pain and suffering and all the inconveniences the powers in charge caused them. They want to get back to “normal”, but they don’t realize the powers in charge won’t let things be “normal”. I’m letting them know I’m STILL pissed. I don’t forgive and I won’t forget.
@carolanne - I had a similar situation. Many of these family members/friends I will see again during Christmas. I wasn't allowed to their Christmas parties during COVID because of my vaccination status. I will never forget how I was targeted with no scientific reasoning. This people are mental. I'm searching for what to say to them. Similar to el gato malos essay - they will ignore but it's time to maybe bring it up to them.
With apology for biting Mark Oshinskie, "I am you, Upstate New York Edition." I have close friends, who have a small dinner party EVERY Christmas Eve. My wife and I are (were) on the short list of that small group. Except for last year, due to our vaccination status. I have been wrestling with both if I will go, if invited this year, and how I will act once I get there. My wife will have no problem forgiving. I am not quite as evolved.
My husband and I refuse to attend gatherings now with people who openly shunned us and ridiculed us for our COVID stance. We were the “stupid, ignorant, selfish, uncaring, disease spreading” outcasts. But, you know what happened during that time? We found and nurtured new friendships and relationships with like minded people and now have a saner and healthier group of friends. We choose to spend our time with them. When we’re invited by Covidians to their events we simply say, “no thank you”. If they ask why we aren’t attending things with them anymore I have no problem letting them know exactly why. It was they and their actions that destroyed the relationship.
Good for you. These toxic people have learned nothing. They are not sorry about their vile behaviors or the harm they have caused. The childhoods they helped destroy. The neighbors they helped bankrupt.
Unless they say they are sorry and admit to what they have done wrong, they are going to pull the same thing again when it's expedient.
I can’t move on without some kind of apology or admission of wrongdoing. Treating me like a mental case and then making pretend that didn’t happen is not an option for me.
you know that you're demanding from mental people (either crazed and/or stupid) to even recognize their mental case.... nothing else will come from there but more of same..... don't forgive, don't forget, but neither waste energy on that snipe hunt.... ;)
There's forgiving (do I want my extended family to be miserable forever? for me, the answer is No) and forgetting. I think it's OK to say, "Man, they sure turned out to be wrong about that stuff, huh?" and "Looks like Fauci was the con man I always thought he was" and stuff like that. I wouldn't make it the theme of the day, but I wouldn't studiously avoid it, unless specific individuals had actually made it clear they knew they'd been wrong and would think twice next time before following insanity. Just my two cents.
I would probably not go, unless I had the ability to fully forgive these people. Christmas Eve is not the time for a back and forth about this madness. I’d rather spend the night with good food and music, exchanging gifts if that’s your thing with people that truly care about you. These people do not truly care about nor cherish your company. It’s basically a 1 way street, you have to find it in your heart to fully forgive people that probably refuse to acknowledge, or apologize for how they treated you.
I have made it a point to not partake in "back and forth about this madness," except on Twitter. Even there, I shut it off after a post or two! Life is too short to argue with someone you don't even know, on the Internet. That said, I have no concern that anyone will challenge me or bring it up at any of these types of gatherings. Most of the "believers" want to move on. That is what this "call for amnesty" is really about, forgetting and moving on. For sure, forgetting is off my table. Still pretty sure forgiveness will nurture my soul, and so...
This year it seems mostly a pandemic of the vaccinated. So maybe you should tell them you can't go because of their vaccination status. And end with, maybe next year...
I'm still angry. I bite tongue, I'm going to explode on someone.
THIS seems like the best strategy forward, unless as someone else said - they can come to a place of full forgiveness. I've managed to turn down my full blown rage to just disappointment, but that's still not the same as forgiveness.
In two days, I will be spending Thanksgiving with my family who has shunned me for the past 2 years, all at the behest of my 20-something nephew who was "afraid".
I plan on going as I've missed 2 years of holidays with my 89-year old mother. Time is short and I don't know how many more holidays I will have. Your point my be the way forward that day. Thank you.
Skip two years (the length of the pandemic) and tell them why. The why should be that we NEVER want to see this happen again - and that if there is a next time we are going to make people very uncomfortable.
You do not have to forgive. If you go, just move along. You know they know they have been conned. They won't admit it anyway, but if they have half a brain, they know this was a huge horrible scam
My FIL in Long Island still refuses to see me and his grandkids due to our vax status. We will likely never see him alive again. He sees my hubby, who idiotically got two shots, because FIL's booster will protect him. WTF? It's selective. My brother's inlaws banished him and his kids, so now they come see us at Thanksgiving. We were banished and verbally abused by cousins and other cats and dogs. All these weak nutjobs burned the bridges, I'm not spending effort to rebuild them only to see them burned again at the next suggestion of strife. Screw them.
Well perhaps verbal abuse isn’t the way and.....turn the other cheek comes to mind.....I’m sorry but we just have to be more mature and uplifting than they are. Be happy with yourself and the things that you do. People follow successful people.
Not a question of being evolved......forgiveness is key if only for your own peace of mind, but how comfortable are you being with people that can lie to themselves and think it’s ok? Lying to yourself because of ignorance is ok for the interim, but when you hurt others I think you need to explain yourself.
@wiltster - I'm with you. I want to have a snarky reply ready but know it's probably better to think of words that have a more lasting. We have to remember that those who did not want us unless vaccinated are also small brained and/or cannot use brain cells to think logically.
What about the other way around. Last year I was in a waiting room and this woman got a call. She was talking to her sister about the other side of the family not wanting them to go to funeral because that side didn’t want their sluff from the vaccinated. They wanted them to have their own funeral.
What about it? That's a proven true and valid concern, not borne of ignorance or manipulation. But people have to very studiously avoid the general population to avoid vax shedding.
Don't ever go! Absolutely not a place to be and nothing to discuss about. What? You should have a nice laugh with them about general small talk? Ridiculous. F them!
Yeah I’ll be cordial and wish them well. But anyone who completely shuts their minds down and won’t engage with someone who has clearly done tons of research, that’s just ridiculous. I even told them that I probably have a lot wrong and I would like to learn. But libtards only understand seething condescension. Not nuanced discourse where everyone learns something. Absurd.
That is your right. They remind me of the people that used to go out and cheer and watch the hangings.....the media was working it’s spell even then. I’m sure there were multitudes of people that wouldn’t go or let their kids watch the horror,...but we don’t hear about them do we..
I was invited for Thanksgiving. I drew a line in the sand and said that we have a conversation or no dice. I was immediately told to f off by my mom and my sister, who both accused me of being a science denier. I can’t casually banter and giggle with these people ever again, knowing that they would literally cheer if me and mine are actually thrown in a concentration camp next time. And there will be a next time.
@chiadrum - wow. Sorry you mom and sister are being so close minded. It's cancel culture. Perhaps they know they don't have an argument and therefore do not want to engage. The would lose. It's hard to understand because many of these people are what we called "intelligent." They are dumb smart people.
This is the problem I am having.....can they really not see? Or their brain is wired differently. Anyhow I’m quite content right now to talk to critical thinkers, and smart researchers.....it’s either that or go crazy.
I think many cannot see. Or if they start to see the glimmer of the horror of the last 2 years, they just stick their head back in the sand as they can't deal with the reality of it.
Just last night had dinner with several of my liberal friends. I won't say they shunned me specifically over the past 2 years, as they mostly just became shut-ins over that period of time. So I can't say what they did was directed specifically at me.
But in a rare instance of honesty, one said - Let's hope 2023 is better because 2022 was worse than 2021 was worse than 2020 .. so on some level, I feel they know, even if they can't articulate it.
I believe that’s exactly correct. I sent a very detailed email. I guarantee they have virtually zero answers other than “trust the experts”. And “you shouldn’t do your own research”. Imagine injecting that poison into your body and knowing that you were played. These folks can NEVER face that reality.
nope. they don't even know. brainwashed. brother tried to convince me to vaxx my kids. he vaxxed hers. (all in the 9-12yr range) one argument, oh-my-gawd-they-could-end-in-icu... another argument, they will be shunned at school.... WTF.... it's wrong in so many ways, there's not even a way to start.
talking is a waste of time. arguments require a rational mind at the other end. just hope my niece doesn't end up with fukked up, but i take care of mine......
I hear you. Coincidentally, I posted a quote from Isabel Paterson's "Good of the Machine," in response to a Tweet from Jennifer Sey yesterday. Cannot figure out how to post it here, but the bottom line is this. All occasions of societal shit-shows occur with the cheering and support of "good people."
Yeah that’s my mom and sis. So far above redneck scum like me. My sister will protest any and everything and condones violence. Covid, not a word to say. Except that I’m an idiot science denier. She had no problem saying that. Go f yourself sis. Hopefully she doesn’t literally jab herself or her children to death is all I can hope for at this point.
Do you think writing them a letter that is very empathetic, from your perspective how you felt being ostracized would help? To at least get your thoughts out, even if you never see them again. The frustrating thing about all of this is that you can’t have a discussion at all.
writing it out is good though, I have written several letters to my family members that have abused and criticized me. I have not sent those letters though. They remain on my laptop
The kids, I can sort of deal with now. We were young once, so i can pity them.
The oldsters, for example my brother and his wife are very crude and ugly.
It makes no sense to write a letter. Besides. some people even family, are incredibly stupid. If they were not family, you probably would never associated with them to begin with
Either that or just be really quiet about the whole thing.
My younger daughter and her hubbs have totttally banned us (me and hubbs) for life bc I shared information that was not mentally agreeable with their beliefs
The have three adorable babies that I have not seen in SIX months. We probably will not see them for any holidays this year. Weird and odd, but I have a lot of sewing to do, and 5 quilts to bind.
Haha yeah what “beliefs” exactly. My sister gave me the same story. “Our beliefs are important to us too”. Yeah but I didn’t mock and ridicule you. What beliefs are so important? Idolizing convicted felons? Being maimed and killed by con men and women? It’s not that at all. I think it’s more that deep down they know how outrageously dumb they have been and will NEVER admit it. My sister has “no time” to have a discussion about this because her best friend and brother in law are battling cancer. Exactly what I was trying to warn her about. I mean, who doesn’t have bone cancer these days?
Good point - you allow her to have her beliefs but you are not allowed to have yours. They don't mirror Big Pharma/Big Gov/Big Tech. There is no critical thinking anymore. What happened to the classic liberal? Yes, many cancers, heart problems, etc., but nothing to see here! My folks say it's because we are all aging. Get real.
@RosemaryB - I'm sorry this is your situation. It is devastating! Maybe your younger daughter and husband will come around so you can maintain contact with the grandkids. I have a soft spot for keeping family relations in tact but Covid has created such a huge divide. Praying your daughter and husband can open their hearts.
Awwww last year I had an instagram page and frolicked along with others (many I severely disagreed with politically) sharing quilting stuff photos etc. It was really fun. Some how, Bookface decided they did not like my bookface page so they "suspended" me for no reason. Funny, I was never on Bookface so I don't really get that, but with that suspension my instagram account was also shut down. Drat. I was bummed for a while. that was over a year ago, and oh well. no worries, I do not really like having to keep up a page.
However, I met some sewists/quilters on YOUTUBE watching the Brooks Falls Brown Bears at Katmai in Alaska. (long story) One asked me to start a Flikr account so I did that. It is NOT full of all of my quilts. Maybe about 1/4 of them. I have been too lazy/busy to put them all on there. I am taking care of my 99 year old daddy and he is easy fun or "difficult" with various ailments but he is spry.
I will try to add more photos to the Flickr but I am just not on fire to put explanations on each photo. haha
I will not put a link here but this is my flickr name: Razzleberryrose B
I made some typos up there and fixed them. It has been 7 months now.
It is a very interesting type of abuse.
I go from deep sadness, to feeling like "I do not even want to be a gramma anyway 😤" I am grateful every day for my husband, I have another daughter that does not want any part of it. I believe she wants her sister to own this. So Christina and I have a good relationship
I couldn’t even be around those people anymore, sadly. Once you’re awake, you cannot go back to sleep. I lost my career of 23 years and my bf lost his career of 17 years. After he lost his job, his brother went and got a jab. And his parents/aunt got their second/third jab. None of them were forced to!
At my age of 59, I have no desire to be around these people. We have nothing in common (I like TRUTH).
The cherry on the top was my bf telling me that saying Grace before the Thanksgiving meal embarrasses his family. Yet, him and I say it before EVERY meal.
I'd tell them, "Guess what? I never want you near me again. Stay away this Christmas. Stay away from me forever. And don't bother telling me if you get cancer or heart disease. I really don't care if you die. You are already dead to me, you toxic monster. I promise not to come to your vaxx only funeral either."
Yeah that’s how I feel but I won’t actually say that. My sister is already surrounded by cancer which is why she has “no time” to discuss with me. I sent her the Atlantic article of the woketard doc whose cancer exploded after his “booster”. Zero chance that she reads it. And I’m the ignorant one……We bought acreage in the mountains. I wanna scream “so we can he FAR away from mental patients like you!”
It was the ultimate litmus test on who your "friends" truly are. Like you, I was disinvited from gatherings and people stopped talking to me for being "anti-vaxx." Like Pfizer suddenly became the hero of this story... pu-lease.
Now, I also see the first steps of them trying to memory hole their behaviour.
There must be repentance for forgiveness, so until you are ready to issue a heart-felt apology and admit you were wrong then, don't bother wasting your time or my time.
Yup. That burned me up. One side of her mouth "didn't know," but the other side still pushes for mandated covid vax for children to attend school even today. It's worse than trying to memory hole the scamdemic. F-off Emily.
And just like that, I am getting pushback from some MD, on Twitter, ostensibly in support of masking. You cannot make this stuff up! THIS is why they will never apologize. Many, if not most of them, STILL believe.
Understandable really, he has to tow the allopath line, does he know anything about, homeopathy, naturopathy, Orthomolecular ? Probably not. Would he even know what a detox was? He’s living in a whole other reality.
Great essay. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm grappling with which words to use to show my anger without being a total a-hole (my true self...originally from Philly).
Thank you Gato. You covered the bases, reflecting what many purbloods (and wannabe purbloods) are experiencing. In the main I see exhaustion - there are so many fronts like little bonfires that repeatedly need stamping out. And the shoe soles are wearing thin.
Thank you CarolAnne; yes, for many it is about getting back to “normal.” And, yes, they don’t know that there is no genuine normal to return to. As some comedic pundits once declared, “It got blowed up real good.”
It was been a master class in Reality. The veneer has been stripped off to reveal the real wood beneath. With that exposure, this whole hot mess has been a gift to many who now understand more clearly the world around us. It has been a master class in real-time sociology, anthropology and the essences of rubber-meets-the-road faith. Rather than just schlepping along through life, we now may hover like drones and see a bigger picture. Daily, the most essential and important questions and reflections flood the brain. Personally, I have never felt more alive.
This is true, I think, because we are more aware......reality doesn’t suck this simulation and are overlords suck, we’ll have to make our own. Apparently we can do that.
Yes we are angry. We need to bring this topic to the fore.....we can’t just say to people, “So why do you think you were so stupid back then?” You have get them the data and place it around so they can see. Masks are unhealthy, the jab is making people sick. I suppose this will all come down to them believing in our “overlords”.
Remember those who advocated us getting dragged off to a FEMA camps. Or having our kids taken away. Make a list of these abusive, dangerous people and never trust or let them near you again.
They've shown their true colors. This totalitarianism is here to stay.
Certain people should never, ever be trusted again. Those who never apologized or admitted to wrong doing. They will pull this crap again for the next Big Scare. Just like a domestic abuser.
Also remember those who love you and will stand by you. Seek out their company.
Let the toxic statists call upon their beloved, tyrannical Government to save them as things get worse. They love Josef Mengele soooo much.
At the same time don't we know this nonsense is not new? The book "Dissolving Illusions" offers a history of the vxckz,, and with the advent of the smallpox vaccination, big pharma/guv totalitarianism commenced. By mid 19th c big guv was threatening families and individuals who would not get vxcksd with job loss, fines and jail. Evil does not have a large playbook.
One thing that may stop the amnesia is the ongoing gigantic excess death and disability from the jabs. You can't forget that stuff out of your system. Hopefully it tails off with time and most will be OK - but I fear the opposite - escalation in carnage may be a distinct possibility. Early days still ...
When I see people in a mask now at grocery checkout, gym, etc. and have even a few seconds of contact with them, I ask:
“Oh, are you sick?”
I want to draw attention to the fact that wearing a mask is not normal!!!
They almost always answer something stupid like: no, I just heard the new strain of Covid is really bad. Or, well, I know the flu is really bad this year.”
I asked the employee at the YMCA desk a couple of weeks ago, and she responded with the above standard stupid answer. I just smiled sadly and said: “Well, I guess some of us will just keep living our lives afraid then.”
That's good. I will use it, or maybe 'I hope you get to feeling better', they almost have to respond to that. I have confronted several maskers, my wife hates it and says, 'the receptionist doesn't set policy you are ruining her day for no reason.' which I have to admit hits home, but one thing this has all taught me is that it really isn't the CEO or President or whoever that does things. They might put out a memo or read a speech saying 'do this' but if no one complies they just look like ineffectual fools. Let them put out masking rules and every time they walk through their office see that no one will enforce it. Every time someone in authority asks you to do something like that just say, 'Sure thing, Chief' and keep doing what you are doing. If they want to have a confrontation, make them invest something in confronting you before you invest anything in confronting them, that way you aren't scattering your pearls before swine. What percentage of people need to be noncompliant to make a policy ridiculous and turn totalitarianism into a joke? My guess is about 3-4%.
I've noticed exactly the same thing. We delivered a baby in September, by C Section, were in the hospital for two days. Nobody bothered us about a mask, except in the OR, which I gave them that one. But you go to an eye doctor or a chiropractor(both scams btw), and they are masknazis through and through. It is funny how the least trained 'medical' people are most attached to it. It is their badge of status.
I have been using that story on them though. If they mention a mask I am like 'Really? Wow! You know the hospital isn't requiring them anymore. I was in the NICU, just the Transition part baby boy was and is fine, and I didn't have to wear a mask in there and you want me to wear one at the eye doctor? Wowwww'
Doctor, chiro, Dentist I think is as bad as doctors. My husband had gum disease. So I got him some peri-gum. Told him to stop using fluoride toothpaste. He did,.....swished the peri-gum for 2weeks twice a day, ......no more gum disease. He can now , a year later, get implants.
I loved that at my physical a few weeks ago my PCP walked into the room and saw me wearing my "required mask" and said "you can take that off if you want" 8-) Every single doctors office/dentist in my area still requests that you wear masks though. I'm in Metro Detroit. Drives me nuts. Thankfully, it's still not that way in any other industry I interact with.
My internist's office still requires masks. They handed me a 4 ply surgical mask which I wore and could barely breathe. I can't imagine wearing one of those daily. I was offered the COVID booster and I declined. Luckily I was not pressured to get it. Dr is in Northern VA and affiliated with a large hospital group. The orthopedic practice and my physical therapist do not require masks, although will mask on request.
You’ll have to get rid of that. Wim Hof has some really good breathing techniques that actually work. Ashwaghanda, Rosiola, work too but you have to watch what meds you are on.
This is extremely helpful. My hubby was going on about Ukraine--msm twaddle. He sneered at my questioning that narrative. I sent him a image from a substack (maybe this one) all the lies about every war after WW2 that we found out WERE lies and understand now that they were lies. Massive killing lies. The image posits that if you know the government lied about those --what makes you think they aren’t lying now about Ukraine and Russia. He had to agree. So perhaps a tiny seed has been planted.
And here's a good source to point out the lies of Big Pharma:
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and one of its subsidiaries agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges regarding its marketing of the drug Bextra. As part of the settlement, Pfizer pled guilty to a felony violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for marketing the drug with the intent to deceive and mislead the public.
Pfizer marketed Bextra for a variety of uses and dosage sizes, including post-operative pain for joint replacement patients, that the FDA had already refused to approve due to safety concerns.
The criminal portion of the fine is the largest fine ever levied by the United States government...The criminal fine against Pfizer is $1.195 billion, with another $105 million to be paid by its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc.
In addition to the honor of largest criminal fine of any type from the feds ever (according to the DOJ), Pfizer will also pay the largest civil fraud settlement, $1 billion, ever forced on a pharmaceutical company in the U.S.
I have saved info and graphics on these issues. Time to employ them. Thanks for the reminders. Now I just have to find them🤔. Just these 2 issues could make a difference.
Omg big Pharma has manipulated this since the beginning, Took over all the herbalists jobs to make medicine for profit. They are the Ultimate thieves of rational herbalism for curing human ills. All plants have a use. Aristotle was right, “your food IS thy medicine!”
Every single hire I make since the start of Covidmania, doctors, nurses and staff, are people who were either fired for refusing a mask or vaccine mandate, or quit for the same reason. I advertise open jobs with that line first.
Now my small business is filled with principled, intelligent critical thinkers who were likely best and brightest at their former employers.
Now we naturopaths are and may always be small potatoes. So I urge other small and medium business owners on this post to do the same. Favor the brave; reward them with employment, contracts, other business. My experience says you will not be disappointed at all, and will end up with an outstanding staff.
And win-win all around, from a business perspective! An appreciative, loyal, motivated staff is a pleasure to work with and makes for a more successful business.
Let's all advertise that we will *never* force a mask or vaccine mandate. Grateful applicants flock to such a statement.
I think the biggest problem is that most people still dont even believe that they were on the wrong side pushing for the wrong thing people reading things on substack like the great stuff you put out are a pretty small part of the population.
All cause mortality is up huge in every higly vaccinated country in the world, embalmers are pulling giant rubber clots out of just about every dead vaccinated body, cancers are through the roof--i could go on and on with all of the proof--but the average person has zero idea that any of this is going on. I think a good portion of people know the shots werent very effective but most have no clue about the actual damage that has been done, and i know that when i tell people about what ive read and watched--they dont really believe me because the whole story is just so hard to fathom, and whats even harder to fathom is--if all of that is happening how come its not on the news?
I mean the guy who probably funded the lab that actually killed millions with this virus is still employed by the government and is making policy decisions. Its just all so implausible most people just cant comprehend it even when its explained to them.
I am reading Dissolving Illusions, a deeply researched/footnoted examination of the history of vaccines, commencing with Smallpox. It is jaw dropping in that in some countries during the 19th century doctors were paid for vaccinating, and the vaccine was mandatory. It was even suggested that being vaccinated meant a milder case if you contracted Smallpox. Those who refused (even those with vaccine-injured family members) were fined/jailed/fired. Nothing new under the sun.
I have a buddy who simultaneously considers the US Government to be a terrorist organization while enthusiastically applauding all Covid “guidance”. Some people are lost forever. And of course he prattles on about science, while understanding none of it.
I am torn. Truly. On the one hand, I share the point of view portrayed in the Ving Rhames meme (or maybe from Randy Jackson back in his American Idol days) when it comes to all this amnesty stuff. "That's gonna be a 'NO' from me, Dawg." At the same time, the Stoic wisdom drives me, "The best revenge is not to be like that." I think forgiveness has real benefit, and I say that while being a rather aggressive atheist! I want, desperately in some cases, to forgive my friends who meant well. I want, desperately in most cases, to kick the dog shit out of people like Eric Ding-Bat, Dr. Fauci, or Topol, or that lying sack-of-crap from Pfizer, among many others. It pains me to see people on the buses I routinely ride, STILL masked up. Often these are young, Black, teens! What the absolute hell do they think they are getting from a mask? Lots of apologists, like the previous Surgeon General of the U.S., promoted increased fear among Black folk. This included "masking up." (I have a bunch of friends who are MD's. Same crap!) So, I need to forgive, for my own sanity. Damned if I will forget, though. And damned if I will stop being disgusted to see people still wearing masks. Hell, I got some lip from some asshole on Twitter just the other day, about masks. How can people still believe? (Sigh.) Anyway, the Great Covid Dumpster Fire™ taught some of us, and it identified the lunacy in the rest of us. I reckon that is the purpose of a Virtual Sorting Hat™.
Let's not mistake forgiveness for reconciliation. Those are two different steps. Forgiveness can happen with you alone --while you are still correcting the violators--like a parent who exerts discipline without anger as an act of love, to prevent their kids from screwing up worse in the future. Discipline can keep you from ruining your life!
If forgiveness enables a repeat cycle, or worse, it is not forgiveness. It is denial and co-dependent entanglement.
We need to stop waiting until we are angry to get out of our own comfort zones. That is what makes us humans crave going a little too far and overdoing punishment, creating the seeds of the next problem.
For whomever survives their shot long-term, facing the gravity of what they've done is their only hope, and yours. Our executioners have not stopped. They are reloading.
Interesting that you point that out as when I go out here in Central Texas, I’ve noticed that many times I still see people wearing masks somewhere like Walmart or at the symphony, it’s often Asians (whom I just sort of expect to always be masking as it was a practice in that part of the world before COVID, though only for ill people) and, curiously, black people.
I’ve often wondered what memo seems to have gone out amongst that part of the population that keeps them masking. I haven’t seen them for a while, but earlier this year, I’d often see a black couple in my neighborhood out walking and wearing masks, and I just wondered why they were still holding out after basically everyone else had abandoned them.
The masking phenomenon is truly curious since they were hawked as signals of virtuous charity on the part of the wearer, but now, the diehards still wearing them *must* be doing so out of the initial motivator that inspired the run on masks at the beginning: sheer terror for their own “safety.”
As I alluded in my note, losers like Jerome Adams made a point of promoting masking. At one point, he was Tweeting a picture of himself "masked up" on an airplane almost every day. He had a full beard at the time. Tellingly, he didn't even realize that a beard precluded getting a "good seal" on his mask, even if masks actually worked otherwise. As Bugs Bunny might say, "What a maroon!" Earlier in the covid shit-show, there was a concerted push to convince Black people that they were particularly at risk from covid, and so, had to take special steps to "protect themselves." This type of "we are looking out for you" positioning is part-and-parcel of the Democrat playbook. And so, here we are. Actions one can take, that have perceived risk asymmetry--of which masking is but one example--tend to be behaviorally sticky, long after people should have realized they are ineffective. If the action is also tied to other hot button talking points, like race, the stickiness is greater.
I told my husband I cannot do Thanksgiving or Christmas with his parents this year. I was on the receiving end of being treated like “a problem” by them for not vaccinating myself or my two teen daughters. My reasons were well informed and well researched due to our family autoimmune history. But that did not matter—-they never asked. They judged and labeled. Then they lived their lives in illogical ways. Can’t be around me—-but can travel to CA and take granddaughter who was 5 (not yet vaccinated because it had not been approved) to Disney land. You can’t make this shit up. And you can’t discuss it with these people. My MIL was recently boosted (4th shot) then contracted COVID. She admits to my husband that she quarantined but “snuck out to take advantage of a sale at Kohl’s”. WTF?
But here is the real kicker. My mom died last year. She became ill @Thanksgiving with multiple hospitalizations following her flu shot/COVID booster combo. Docs got her diagnosis wrong. I got it right based on my knowledge acquired from experts like McCullough, Malone and from reviewing VAERS. In short, she did not suffer from a stroke (never any evidence of one) as they thought due to her speech and swallowing difficulties that came on suddenly. Rather, at 82 she had sudden onset Myasethenia gravis from the COVID vaccine. So her last holiday season was largely spent in the hospital (where in her final week we were blocked out due to a COVID outbreak—she never got COVID) hungry, thirsty, declining while the doctors said they would have to wait until after the holiday to do a swallow test. I was the last one to see her while conscious on 1/1/2021. After I observed her, I told them to get a neurologist in there and said it was MG brought on by the vaccine. Turns out I was spot on. But she died on 1/6 from cardiac arrest due to dehydration before they could treat her.
My MIL did not even bother to mention my mother to me this past Mother’s Day. She knew my mom. I hosted both families for years for the holidays. They have asked next to nothing about what happened to my mother. Pretty clear they do not want to encourage my conspiracy minded tendencies! They do know that because of a glitch in FB messenger/internet at the hospital….after my mom died my siblings and I got messages from her that she had sent asking for help, saying she was hungry, thirsty and for somebody to call the doctor. The neurologist who finally saw her agreed with my diagnosis and she begged him to not leave her because she said she would die in the hospital. Did I mention he appears to have forgotten to write the orders for the meds he said should be started immediately. A fact we learned after her death when we tried to piece together why meds were not started. We were allowed in to watch her die. They put her on a vent so we could get there. That was my holiday season last year.
And my in-laws still think I’m the one with the problem. At least my daughter’s pediatrician gave exemptions for my daughters….I provided what was the equivalent of an extensive legal brief with records, etc.
I just can’t move on….not without some recognition that these people value virtue signaling over even hearing what I might have to say. I’m not a raving lunatic. I’m well educated (have my legal degree) and have raised to smart, bright young ladies with strong work ethics. But I’m disposable and the enemy because I will not take a jab that would not be good for me.
And these folks also know that I am an outlier medically. Have rejected doc advice twice and saved my own life relative to my breast cancer. At least both those doctors admitted they were wrong and said they were glad I had made a choice other than their recommendations. And yes, both had rolled their eyes at me when I had insisted. One even admitted my case had changed his practice going forward.
Yet my “loved ones” aka the in-laws have not mentioned my mom to me since her memorial in February—-and we live in the same town. I sure feel loved during these difficult times.
Thanks for listening—-all this talk of amnesty and moving on comes at the absolute worst time for me because this is when my hell started in earnest last year.
Happy Thanksgiving….I do have things to be thankful for. Siblings who no longer think of me as a conspiracy theorist and actually are now interested in learning beyond msm. I suspect they are scared having had the shots. But they all say they are done now. My daughters are thankful for my advocacy and I recently have heard them express views and arguments that demonstrate they are listening and understand what is happening. I have become closer with friends who have suffered similar losses and trauma—and we try hard to celebrate moments of beauty in our lives going forward. I know myself better than I ever have and am thankful for the strength the past three years has afforded me….and to know it was worth it to stand my ground despite losing friends, family and being told Ivshould be treated like a prisoner of war. But as for peace….I have yet to find that. It is elusive and I have no confidence that those like my in-laws would not do the same thing again. After all, they keep getting boosted and clearly think I’m the delusional one.
Thank you. And I also live with the guilt of having failed my mom. After all, I knew that something did not add up. I had warned her about the shots, and she chose to get them. I do not feel guilty about that.
What bothers me is that I was so exhausted when she first went in the hospital. I had just been defending a charge that I should be fired as a girls high school soccer coach because I was unvaccinated. It was exhausting....the nonsense. When my mom first went in, early morning hours of Dec. 26...they were only allowing one visitor a day. My sisters are both nurses so I deferred to them. I should not have. I had already flagged for them that things did not add up, but they kept finding explanations and really did not entertain the idea of the vaccine. After I left my mom on Jan. 1, and challenged my sister a huge fight ensued. It was awful. She saw me as coming in and trying to take over. That was not it. We have found our peace in the aftermath. But I still hate that I bowed down to the family dynamic of being the younger sister that is outspoken. I kept silent too long. Had I pushed earlier and harder about things not adding up, we might have got a diagnosis far earlier. My heart just hurts. And I do recognize that my momentary hesitation was due in large part to the shit people were dishing out to anyone who asked questions or challenged the narrative. I at least have the knowledge that my mom did say, once I told them it was likely MG and to get a neurologist in there, "somebody has to get to the bottom of this" and she knew I was trying like hell at that point. And yes, my diagnosis is on the death certificate and was confirmed with tests.
And while some say that the pandemic is over and people are moving on. In my state, they still demand vaccination for the state university, as well as other secondary institutions. Of course, Bill Gates owns our state. And I fear that with the recent recommendation that the vaccine be added to the childhood schedule, our governor who is in bed with the whole lot of them will add it for the school year next year. I'm angry that the nonsense continues even as the lies have been proven to be just that....lies.
I know I can't change it. But I really really have a hard time accepting that we move on, when THEY REALLY HAVE NOT! I know students who did not want to get the jab, but did so to further their schooling. And mothers who are beside themselves because they cannot do anything to stop it. 18 year olds think they are immortal. My husband almost caved by accepting (almost promoting) that we could not control what our kids do at 18.
The thing is....I have had to fight sooooo very hard in the past three years to just have my rights and the rights of my children respected. I had to fight for them to be in sports. I had to fight for my oldest to attend school. I had to fight to keep my job. It is unacceptable, and based on my expereince with the tech/fin elite and their meddling in education....THIS IS NOT STOPPING. They have simply retreated and are taking another tack.
Consider that the G20, including Biden, is embracing the whole concept of health passports yet again. Seriously, and the msm says nothing. And CBDC is going forward.
The pandemic was never about health. It was very much about breaking us. And if we forgive and forget that it is part of a much bigger picture....they have succeeded. At least that is my view.
Have you seen this (because it is where we are headed next in my estimation):
"The pandemic was never about health. It was very much about breaking us. And if we forgive and forget that it is part of a much bigger picture....they have succeeded. At least that is my view."
I could not agree more. They want us broken, sad, confused, fearful. But mostly they want us to question our own eyes and ears, to rely on them to define what is reality and what is not. When they have that they have total control.
George Orwell laid it all out in 1984. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
SO sorry for your loss. It is heartbreaking. I hope you have any kind of support in standing strong and nurturing you for this loss.
You mention that "they still believe..." Keep in mind: People can say things and not believe them. The more vigilantly they repeat something, the more they are crowding out what some part of them knows, because otherwise their reference points for reality crumble, and all they hold dear crumbles.
Think of it as breaking people out of a cult.
Consider that the depth of this apparent belief is really the depth of fear that has them clinging to the wrong information and their own abusers. We have all been carefully taught to be afraid of the wrong things. It is not an accident. Social survival has been linked to physical survival in the human brain for a long time. This is why people will gamble their lives, their children and grandchildren on questionable, unproven, illogical gobbelty-goop and then turn around and say, "No, that's what YOU are doing." Crazy-making.
I had a colleague who lost her husband, father-in law, best friend, and another close family member to the clot-shot, not to Covid. Four funerals in two months. I don't know how she put one foot in front of the other. One of her two daughters wanted to take to the streets with a sign damning the Covid bullies, but my colleague was afraid--because now she had two daughters to feed, alone.
We can only keep moving and living life, watching for our opportunities to insist that the truth comes out, however exhausting and depressing. Our executioners are not done. They know we are tired. We don't all need to do any one particular grand thing. Just plant tiny seeds where you can. My best 2 cents: Be nonchalant with the truth--but try not to martyr yourself in anger. State a 1-sentence fact and move on in conversation, so you don't accidentally create valid excuses [in their minds] to avoid you. Your existence is unpleasantly stretching their self-perception already. Believe it.
Mattias Desmet does amazing podcasts and books on Mass Formation Psychosis or Mass Formation Hypnosis. Find them. They will help you feel more empowered and less disgusted. It will help us all see how censorship, twisted educational values or withheld education, and fighting with each other make our own extermination possible. One tiny voice is enough to cast doubt--but it has to be done carefully--and the illusion starts to crack.
Those same people will be crumbling before your eyes and it will test everything you have not to vent your rage and grief on them. All the people who parrot, "Never again," will have to eventually admit, "Well yes, again. On my watch. And THEN some, globally this time. With my vigorous help. Ooops."
Wow. Just wow. Every time I think I have shared "too much" on one of these boards I read a story like yours and my heart breaks anew. I have no words, but I salute you for being here and sharing with us. And I wish you strength to continue to fight.
Well it would be no problem for me to just the in- laws drift away in the wind. My mom died long before covid but I feel bad I couldn’t be with her when she died. I always helped her with her vitamins and cherry juice. Saved her from “congestive heart failure”. Went back a year later after getting her on vitamins and good food.....it wasn’t mentioned....just “I don’t see any congestive heart failure her looks fine”. We just looked at each and said nothing. Ran out of there and didn’t go back. A whole new learning curve was there. But when she went into a nursing home, she stopped taking her vitamins, then bed ridden, then she died. I couldn’t be there. But I’ve finally come to the realization that the doctors and nurses were stupid and people go there to die. Now this covid stuff in the nursing homes......I am so thankful she didn’t have to go through that. Although with your mom it was almost the same thing....death due to neglect. No water? She really is in a much better place now.
Thank you. That is the very thing that haunts me....how many elderly died scared and anxious from a "stroke" without family because of these damn vaccines. How many had heart attacks and were left alone in the hospital dying, again without family? And how many who died from COVID due to failure to treat in a reasonable manner? Shoving vents down their throats and giving Remdesivir did more harm than good. And I do believe they knew it or willfully and purposefully ignored the evidence of other options for their pharma pursuits. It is gross and shows just how rotten mankind has become. Transhumanism is what awaits us if we just say "bygones."
The memory hole is a problem, but worse than that is the cementation of lies. The lie that masks work or that staying home saved lives. As long as those lies persist, it is easy for this to happen again. While people are less afraid and more calm, they need to hear repeatedly "Masks don't work. They never did." "Keeping people apart is what killed them" "Iatrogenic harm is what we need to be wary of" Billboards, TV, internet, and radio ads are what we need to get these messages to people. There is a greater chance that people will actually listen to these messages now that they are sober minded. If we could do anything, I think creating our own PSAs while the censors are off guard would be useful.
I was thinking that too. I was involved *long ago* with the Scientology Critics and one of them had the most inspired tag line, 'Sunlight Disinfects', it's always stuck with me and is honestly the first thing that made me suspicious of the lockdowners. Before anything else, I said, the best way to fight a virus is to be outdoors. Let the open air decrease the concentration, let the UV nuke the rascal, why would we want to close ourselves up inside?
What about simple bumperstickers? 'Sunlight is the best thing to kill viruses', 'Fresh Air is Good for your Health', 'You are your own person, not a cog in a machine', 'It takes ~10 years to know the affects of a medicine', 'Skepticism is pro-survival', 'Don't Trust a Proven Liar'
But as far as your idea of PSAs why do we only see lies advertised? You guys prolly already know about Steve Kirsch's billboards outside the CDC, can we make that common?
but how can you ever trust them again. how can you share a society with them and feel safe? how can these people be partners in sustaining liberty or a republic?
how do you not see a masked person on a sunny sidewalk and not think: “willingly or no, even if you have no plans right now, you a danger to freedom?”
Short answer: You can't. Be friendly, be cordial, but always remember that now you have knowledge of who they are and what they are capable of doing. They have played their hand.
I cannot tell you how many times I have broken bread with people who would have cheerfully, willingly, turned on me if they knew that they were dining with the enemy, so to speak. But they did not know and so assumed I was one of them. All you have to do is to keep your mouth shut and listen. Sooner or later people will reveal their true colors. It's how they talk about those that they do not agree with or approve of. And when they reveal themselves, then I know that they are not truly my friends no matter what else they say. Because they have made an idol of their beliefs/viewpoints, and idols demand sacrifices. There can be no true friendship with an idol-worshiper.
Yes, we have noticed which of our friends, family, and colleagues would gladly load us onto the trains--for our own good.
I like to think of integrity as an architectural term. To have the structural strength to withstand various forces. and fulfill your purpose. Lots of people don't have much integrity. People who think they do will not take kindly to the evidence that they don't.
We have every reason to keep revealing, keep supporting the hundreds of lawsuits and their discovery phases, keep insisting that the truth comes out from under the rug.
At the same time:
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
One must guard oneself against attaining victory at the cost of the original reasons why one sought the victory. ... We must gain the strength to stare past the edges of life, including its origin, its constraints, and its development, to gain self-knowledge and greater control over ourselves, without the abyss eroding away our humanity, our all-too human particularities that distinguish us from the abyss."-Nietzsche
We have proven we can stare into the abyss. We can also BE the abyss that stares back.
I had a different experience, though: a friend of mine from church offered to come with me to the vax clinic to get the shot because he thought I was afraid (I was afraid - not of the vax - but of bowing down under coercive pressure against my conscience) - he was actually very kind and genuine if misguided. Sadly his wife has long Covid now.
I think the vaccinated in general are to be pitied - so many that I know now are sick, catching flus and colds and suffering from immune disorders and cancer and in general very unwell.
Ever since I was young and read about the communists and the nazis I feared it would happen here, because people have gradually grown more insensitive to the way they project their own Jungian shadow onto others.
I always prayed that if that happened I’d be on the right side of history. That prayer has been answered at least.
Amen! Unfortunately, you also state the greatest human challenge to preventing this.
How do we get other humans to coalesce around the immediate “no”; to instinctively doubt that with which we should all collectively agree the government is lying about and attempting to control us? Humans, as a whole, are lazy and don’t like having to think for themselves. They’re happy being told what they can and cannot do and then simply work their personal lives around the rules to minimize the adverse affect on themselves. Most do not care about others. It’s survival of the clever and cunning. It’s all about “me”.
I do see awareness peeking through with some of us, but the masses are not thinkers; they are reactionists; too concerned with their new shiny thing that entertains and distracts them from having their head hurt with big-world thinking. We need our own place away from these bots, I think. Where do we go?
“MEN, IT HAS BEEN WELL SAID, THINK IN HERDS; IT WILL BE SEEN THAT THEY GO MAD IN HERDS, WHILE THEY ONLY RECOVER THEIR SENSES SLOWLY, ONE BY ONE.” ― CHARLES MACKAY, Excerpt from book, “EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS” -- 160 years ago in 1841
“The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.” Cicero
>> are we to simply live out the rest of our lives in deep distrust of large numbers of other humans and abandon the joy of walking around meeting and liking people because of the deep wariness now engendered?
Thank you. This issue has been haunting me: how to thrive going forward, knowing that those that believed in it all and sneered at me for not believing, will do it all again. Poor folks. You’re right: consistently pointing out the truth, “remember when?”ing is a good offense. And yes. Governments lie. Best thing I’ve read on this for some time.
Question: It's been three years. Is there a point when the masks will come off? Like are people planning to stop wearing them in two more years, or three...? Will people still be wearing them 20 years from now?
If there is one thing that came out of this shit-show, it is that people will continue to wear masks for the foreseeable future. Yes, I am just as baffled as you. Now, one might, if he were reasonably intelligent, i.e., could find his ass with both hands, point to the Spanish Flu epidemic, where masking was also mandated. In the intervening 100+ years, SOMEBODY should have been able to definitively show that masks "work" if they did. No such luck. (ETA: As I note elsewhere in this thread, what I refer to as the Pascal's Wager effect makes masking behaviorally sticky, and that is unlikely to change.)
Here in Britain I have made the following sociological observations:
Around 5% of the young people ( teens and early 20s) I see out and about are still masking, but given the other clues they seem to voluntary broadcast I’d say these are part of the increasing cohort of young people who identify as having mental health issues. In other words these are the young folk who love masks because they can hide behind them, and wear these because covid is an excuse that sounds more acceptable than admitting social anxiety disorder or some such like.
Around another 5% of the elderly still wear masks. These are the ‘innocents’ to my mind, who have been well and truly scared into submission by relentless MSM propaganda, and who are really suffering from what I would call elder abuse at the hands of public health diktats.
Then, in most university towns, we have the Chinese students who are practically 99% masked. Again a kind of ‘innocent’, who have been indoctrinated from birth to do as told.
That leaves my pet hate, the small but significant number of youngish people (generally in their late 20s to 40ish), if male often identifiable as being of the hipster persuasion, often in public sector work, education or similar, who still sport masks in the most demonstrable fashion. These are the die-hard shock troops of covidianism, the ones who more than likely had a good lockdown, because work from home, laptop lugging latte sipping sycophants
I’ve been asking that too. What’s the off ramp? Do they need sleepy Joe to say it’s ok? It’s been seven months since my blue state lifted the mandate. About half of us haven’t worn one since and we are fine. Can’t the maskers see that?
I need to let this all go and get back to work, but masking is "justified" by Pascal's Wager. Something that is perceived as, "can't hurt, but might work" will remain behaviorally sticky, almost forever. Unfortunate, but true. (I say all that, while simultaneously wondering "Why?" aloud, myself!)
Dementia Joe said it was ok, the pandemic is over back in September on 60 minutes. But DJ's voters got mad about that. For half a moment they actually considered that he might be out of his mind. How dare he proclaim the pandemic to be over ?!? That's ..... just not following the science!
And that was also before Pfizer got the shots on the childhood vax schedule. You can't just end a pandemic without first giving Pfizer blanket immunity for their worthless and dangerous product. I mean, duh. The science!
Too soon. Dementia Joe jumped the gun on that one. But that has been rectified and now the pandemic state of emergency is extended till at least April 2023.
A study found that 4% of the population are sociopaths, 60% go along with the current thing to avoid conflict, and 36% are disagreeable skeptics like us. Cheers to the 36% - it is our duty to teach the 60% to just say no to the 4% in the government and corporations: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-say-no
The 4% manipulate the 60% quite effectively, unfortunately. We’re outnumbered by sociopathic control!
They hold a monopoly on the use of coercive force in society - aka government...
Government .. and Big Media .. and Big Tech .. so they have quite the multiplier to their 4%.
THIS
The MSM is much more powerful than the government. Biden’s mandates were imposed because the MSM supported the hysterical claim that they were necessary to deal with a pandemic.
Im having a hard time agreeing, the media can't do asset seizure or lock me in jail.
In an indirect way, the media (including social media) can do asset seizure and lock you in jail.
All they have to do is say X person is guilty of Y, and blast the same message for months on end. Eventually, enough people will turn against you that popular opinion will demand the justice system move against you. And they will.
Also they might not have locked you in jail, but they convinced many to lock themselves in the house.
Agreed. Governments wouldn't do asset seizures and wouldn't be locking up ideological opponents/dissidents if the mass media held them to account.
Hard to imagine Turdeau behaving the way he did if the media didn't vilify and demonise the truckers. But imagine if all the MSM were actually objectively reporting or god forbid were supportive of the truckers. Just no way the little tyrants would have dared show their true colours.
Those measures weren't necessary due to media.
it's behind the curtain coordination, the same with censorship; they're in the same team
The same people who own government own our media.
So ignore them next time
Never forget that "they" were extremely surprised by the level of population compliance to the NPIs - lockdowns, etc (evidence for this is particularly strong among Euro political leaders). I ignored them and had the roads almost to myself for 2,3 weeks - the interesting exception being the relatively large number of tradesman's vans still at work.
I think we may be tested again soon.
Exactly, have no doubt, we will be tested by a "pandemic" or otherwise. We are in the fight of our lives - and frankly on the cusp of no return - as it relates to our liberties.
We should expend efforts accordingly.
yeah, it was bicycling heaven for a while there . . .
LOL.
Watch this. https://rumble.com/v1wac7i-world-premier-died-suddenly.html
Only up to a point., then it's torches & pitchforks time, bitchez. We can be coercive too, if we want to be, or if we have to be.... Although at 60, I don't really have the physical stamina to chase down a 40 yr old asshole covid-power-drunk town councilman, cop, hospital administrator, or local pharmaceutical rep and drive the freshly sharpened tines of my pitchfork through his heart.. OTH,, a lot of older folks are still decent marksman. Stealth and ambush could be a lot more desirable way to deal with these "problems" instead of open conflict - at least for the older and/or physically weaker portion of the 36%. If we're reeeaaallly lucky, most of them will stroke out and die of their vaxx damage before it has to come to that...
We don't need to be coercive, I like the term "proactive." We need to illustrate the trick, we need to draw charts and diagrams, we need to clap and laugh as the bluster and endeavor to muscle us. Feign puzzlement as they endeavor to intimidate.
https://i.postimg.cc/bNR57yb4/Louder-With-Crowder-Change-My-Mind.jpg
"My name is Michael Collins and I approve this message" :)
Don't forget to vote for which "Celebrity Virtue Signalling War Criminal" you think will kick the bucket next.
https://cvswcdeadpool.substack.com/p/dead-pool-2
Most people follow the path of least resistance and are easy to manipulate. The lack of a Red Tsunami despite hyperinflation caused by the Climate Alarmist War on fossil fuels is but the latest example of people accepting nonsense from the Democratic Party supporting MSM rather than thinking for themselves.
No. It's the latest example of election fraud. Stop listening to MSM.
It's both. Fraud AND too many sheeple.
The fraud was needed because there weren't enough sheeple.
Your comment is incoherent. The MSM isn’t claiming there was widespread election fraud.
I've said this elsewhere, but is perception reality? Do you believe the election results? I am on the fence about it. I did see the amount of people that fell for the Covid BS, so I know that people can be manipulated. Heck, here in Georgia where there were no mask mandates, outside for early voting in 2020, 90% of people were masked. OUTSIDE. It can't mean a good thing. On the other hand, how much election integrity is there?
none.
Obama's Army works en masse
They are a mob.
Why do i feel like the 4% are al politicians....l
What a burden to bear. All they want to do is turn the F up and enjoy life as if it is normal, throw up their hands and say what can I do or my vote doesn’t count, or the powers that be are going to do what they want anyway. The typical, I just want to enjoy life. How can you enjoy life when Pinky and the Brain are on the loose!? And why did I have to fall in the 36%? I always get the hard jobs. 😆
Just glad to know I’m not alone. 🙏🏼
https://i.postimg.cc/52cSG4sC/Joker-Waiting-For-The-Shooting.png
Hey in my country I'm part of the 14% so you got double the company I got.
And how do we "teach"? I have lost all interest in gathering and setting up on and delivering on a silver platter irrefutable and verifiable facts/info ("pearls") only to have it tossed back in my face by "the people" (swine).
"The mob" under the fat part of the Bell curve represents a danger to all that is good and decent. This has been revealed for all with eyes to see.
The key is actually getting the 96% (60% go along + 36% "skeptics") to see that the 4% are the ones that dictate what they are forced to do - and to ignore them - resolutely - and be willing to pay the PRICE for doing so.
The problem is the 60% don’t want to pay the price. That’s why they go along, it’s easier than paying the price.
Perhaps the unpleasant solution is simply to personally shun the people who are compliant or to shame them over their behavior.
Something like "yeah, you weren't hurt by the vaxx. You're fine.... NOW."
Or even a "whatever" and a big dramatic eye roll.
Might work. Might not. IDK.
I've been told I do the best eye roll ever, so I'm gonna stick with that. 😉😊😋
Path of least resistance.
They always have been a danger. Some of you are just finally seeing it.
You're just talking to the wrong people is all.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2
yes, indeed
Tell it!
What % of the sociopaths are in government? I suspect it is far larger than the 4% of the population. What percent in gov. are farther along the spectrum to full blown psychopaths? Why are either groups so represented in government? I think it is because that is where the power is.
I've said for decades that "government" attracts the worst (the sociopaths and psychopaths) and brings out the worst in them. Power attracts this crowd, which means we must assume the worst about all of them. An individual here and there may disprove the rule, but the rule remains.
You've left out "incompetent people who can't keep a job in the real world" from your equation.
I think they were hired,.....the bad ones all seem to come from the same school....
ALL OF THEM.. no doubt.
Estimated numbers of course vary quite a bit, but it's something along the lines of 4% in the general population, but 25% in positions of power.
So, are the ones past the 25% just acting like the 25% to get in good with them?
Don't forget the majority of doctors they in that percentage, too. .....lawyers, management in corporations, many police officers..... I think they're off on the only 4%.
The duty of the Watchman is clearly outlined for us.
Sorry Yuri there was no 36% during covid. More like 1% that resisted in any meaningful way. That's a fact.
Being a skeptic and doing nothing is the same as being a go along to get along. The problem is that a vanishingly small percentage of people were willing to pay any price whatsoever to do what was right.
"Being a skeptic and doing nothing...."
Jesus, my wife is Ryan Gardner?? Who knew???
All of us who protested were seen as crack pots a year ago and are still pariahs today.
The biggest problem we have is hardly any leader stood up, they let us twist in the wind. My US Representative, Doris Matsui, said nothing about the Feds, State and City/County stealing our rights, even though she was born in a Japanese Internment Camp. Talk about irony, hypocrisy and lunacy all wrapped up in one bundle.
36% my arse. I agree with you totally. Unquakcinated people around me are less than 10%. These people travel regularly so willingly not being quakcinated made their lives extremely difficult in '21.
The ones who are willing to do anything to stay on the real side is <10% and out of these people most were/are not actively fighting back.
So your 1% meaningful resistance must be correct.
Like gato says, simply connect the bad outcomes and ask, "and I should trust them now... why?"
Start with facts that everyone knows and agrees with... FDA said cigarettes smoke was harmless. Pfizer paid $# billion in *criminal* penalties for killing people last year. And I should trust them now... why?
60% eschew the 36% rational, following the 4% psychopaths instead, in a desperate attempt to be liked or accepted. By psychopaths.🤔
Brilliant summary.
Too many of the 36% 'disagreeable skeptics' still wore a mask when the sign said so. How do we get the disagreeable skeptics across the finish line the next time to still not conform?
You are correct.
But I suppose what would be good is the 60% saying we were wrong, or I didn’t know how bad masks were for our health, or I’m sorry I got the jab, they don’t even know what mRNA does to the body. Something that tells us they won’t be so stupid next time. Does everyone get the flyers in the mail about the facts of wearing masks? Did they get the flyer on percentage of people sick and unable to work since the Jab? No! They are not getting the data. So. It will happen again.
I too am not happy with the decisions of most. And there are people I used to like that I don’t want to see again, they are baaaaad decision makers. I don’t want my grandkids anywhere near them.
This is a good topic, I just realized......I am angry.
Everyone I know who has had Covid was vaccinated beforehand. Every single one, even those who politely asked the unvaccinated not to come to their house or function. I don’t mind. I love irony. I am careful to avoid people wearing masks in case stupidity is infectious.
Hi. Never vaccinated. Just got Covid. Sick for two days and now cannot smell. Other than that, a nothingburger.
Take zinc, with Vit. C. Practice olfactory retraining (see article). It'll return. https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2022/09/change-in-smell-after-covid19.php
Thanks. It has started to return. I can smell dangerous strong smells like stove gas again, albeit slightly. As to Zinc, I'll get thatFriday when I have my oysters.
I'll pass along the link to someone more strongly affected.
Really how many times did they say, that the shot will not keep you from carrying the virus.....I think even Fauci said it.
The initial propaanda was that it would prevent a person from contracting and spreading the illness.
After aseveral months that lie could not be sustained because so many happt vaxxers were becoming ill with the dreaded coof.
People are clearly waking up because there's such little acceptance of the boosters (though it's still too high for my taste).
Gotta get the facts out there.
BINGO.
- Leadership by us
- Get their buy in; "will you back me when I resist mandates, etc.?"
- Get them involved in "easy" resistance
- Band together at the local level
- Encourage
- Follow-up (CRITICAL)
- Protest Vehemently
- Accountability
- Be willing to pay the price
Here's something my wife and I did very early on:
We do not allow masked people in our home (and my business). My wife and I told everyone we know that our family does not accept this nonsense in our lives.
The meaning is clear. It "burns the ships" and holds you accountable.
Interesting. We did the same. Any person, friend or service provider, who came to our door at ANY TIME during this mess was politely asked to take off their face nappy. Funny ... no-one ever turned around and left.
Exactly. These are the "small" things that must be done.
Now we are getting somewhere! Do NOT accept this behavior. Tell people wearing a mask that they are a hypochondriac and neurotic. Tell them that there is no evidence, whatsoever, that their woobie keeps them from getting sick. Challenge them to produce said evidence, or to admit that they simply follow what they are told to do by someone else. Finally, tell them that wearing that mask infringes on your liberty by establishing the very conditions that enable the infringement.
P.S. I am getting that t-shirt made with, "I'm A People Person" on the front and, "I've already told you once" on the back.
Love it.
My wife and I had t-shirts made, during the height of the madness, that said "Be Pro-HUMAN (on top) Be Pro-FACE (underneath).
It was an awesome conversation starter.
I applaud you for holding to this standard of no masks, especially in your business where you may have (or did) face financial repercussions.
Only mentioning the following as food for thought as part of the 36%. In the Spring / Summer of 2020, I made the conscious decision to go out to local establishments every week as I knew there would be economic repercussions if everyone stayed home. I wore the damn masks - not because I wanted to, nor because I thought they would protect me. I wore the masks because I was afraid these places would shutter if no one frequented them. Did I make the right choice? I'm no longer sure.
I think you did. And BTW likewise. But on my own turf, it was a case of my house, my rules. Not that convinced about the 60/36 though. I had the distinct impression when I was out and about in 2020 that it was neck and neck?
I think the 36% represents the uninjected population.. which rings true to me. While most people I know got the boosters, I'm less clear on the uptake on the bivalent injections.
Also agree with your comments about rules in your own house. On the RARE times anyone came over (embarrassingly most of my family and friends acted like shut ins), I would just say "You don't need to wear that".
What you say is true. But let us not forget that there is a portion of people's non-compliance that we do not see--the part that is not public. By this I mean the boycotting of businesses that insist on such behaviors; the conscious effort to choose options that don't require conformity to these standards; the active acceptance and encouragement of those we find around us who are also refusing.
They weren't very effective and didn't do enough. Those people need to step up if there is a next time.
For the most part they were only willing to pay a price without much significance. Their resistance needs to be more vocal and visible. Working behind the scenes did very little to end the madness.
You have to be willing to put your name behind it and be willing to do it in full view.
I'm one of the very few who never wore a snot pouch and never will. And lucky me -- I'm married to a man who never wore a snot pouch and never will.
I was denied service once in the "No Longer Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire, but other than that, was left alone. On one, maybe two, occasion when approached, I turned to the obedient one and stated simply, "I am unable to wear a mask safely."
And I went on my way...Same with the hubs.
I didn't. I live in Seattle area where my behavior didn't go over very well. I had decided early on that i would be willing to walk away from a store or restaurant if they were threatening. Took a lot of effort but i was pissed and still am that they were SO IGNORANT. People here are so blue koolaid drunk, they just don't care to see the actual facts before then. Global passports need to be fought against. If we the people can't stop our Govts then i guess i better travel out of Country soon before they pull that bullshit. I haven't complied yet and don't intend to.
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Aren't 80% of all statistics made up on the spot?
No, It is 78.32 %
I was rounding, and if you saw me you would understand, I have a tendency towards roundness.
My stat was exact. I made it up on the spot.
My roundness occurs in perpetual motion.
I'm 50-50 on that statement.
That's some funny stuff, Jimmy. 😂
Studies often find what those conducting the study are looking for. When I see a comment that begins “a study found” I studiously stop reading.
We saw this result for ourselves over the past three years, so we didn't need the study, but it was apparently done and consistent with others.
Nooooo! Gato, Yuri, no. It is not our duty to teach “them” anything. Those who want to see, have plenty of material out there, by now, without our help. And those who don’t... you cannot teach someone who does not want to learn.
Stop giving away our energy and attention to “them”! Let us focus on us. There WILL be another time when they try to do yet another bout of mass hysteria. But if we are more of a community, we can help one another. And we can speak louder. And we can be counted.
Let us focus on us, give energy and attention to us. And when we do, we will be neither alienated, nor pretending. We will be working on us, so that we can be better prepared, so that we can be stronger in the face of the next mass psychosis, so that we can be a fabulous community not about to get snowed under by bullshit. And hey... some of them will look at that and think... maybe I should join them, they have a cool game going. :-)
Rah!
I'm going to respectfully... sort of disagree.
There are many people who are on the vaxx train that are unreachable. There are some that can be reached; I know some who lost his CFO to "died suddenly." He put things together and listened to what I told him and has stopped vaxxing. Others... will not.
That being said.... because they will not listen to one message does not mean that will not listen to a different yet equally important message. I have spoken to a lot of the vaxxed about CBDCs; almost all are against them, except the young and/or intellectually lazy that just think it's "convenient." So I think it's worthwhile to talk to the vaxxed about that.
My 2 cents.
It's not our duty, it's something we want to do. Do you think I liked seeing close family members come visit me masked? Do you think I found it entertaining when they used arbitrary and capricious restrictions at restaurants? And these people are sacrificing themselves. They are taking an experimental injection. They are forgoing joy in life like large gatherings, vacation cruises, and they are isolating themselves.
It's not a question of learning. If you see the material on mass formation, it's not about being uneducated. Education only makes us more vulnerable. I think part of it is unquestioning belief in institutions. They assume that the engine of western education and learning has not broken down. The Capitol is not a Cathedral, and the CDC is not a temple, and yet many of them worship at the column of government.
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 100%
The 36 Club- is there a badge, T-shirt, certificate of membership? 😊 I think that 4% might be an under-estimation.
Well they say it is about 100 people running the world. But the 20% that follow them are the batshitcrazy ones we have to deal with.
The 60% is generally unteachable. They will follow whatever seems most popular, always.
I read a similar breakdown that went something like this:
30% are conformists
30% are compliant, go along to get along types
30% resistant
Not really sure what the other 10% are doing....
Perhaps the 10% are the smarter ones who get out of the way of that which they can not effectively confront. "I have a suspicion about ammunition, I never forget to duck" -J Buffett
Weird how that talented 4 % all ended up in healthcare or government.
I agree, people are forgetting because they want to forget that shit-show. I was the non-masker non-believer, who had Covidiot friends/family. I drove them nuts with refusing to mask and preaching how we’re being lied to about the flu. They’ve forgotten their pain and suffering and all the inconveniences the powers in charge caused them. They want to get back to “normal”, but they don’t realize the powers in charge won’t let things be “normal”. I’m letting them know I’m STILL pissed. I don’t forgive and I won’t forget.
@carolanne - I had a similar situation. Many of these family members/friends I will see again during Christmas. I wasn't allowed to their Christmas parties during COVID because of my vaccination status. I will never forget how I was targeted with no scientific reasoning. This people are mental. I'm searching for what to say to them. Similar to el gato malos essay - they will ignore but it's time to maybe bring it up to them.
With apology for biting Mark Oshinskie, "I am you, Upstate New York Edition." I have close friends, who have a small dinner party EVERY Christmas Eve. My wife and I are (were) on the short list of that small group. Except for last year, due to our vaccination status. I have been wrestling with both if I will go, if invited this year, and how I will act once I get there. My wife will have no problem forgiving. I am not quite as evolved.
My husband and I refuse to attend gatherings now with people who openly shunned us and ridiculed us for our COVID stance. We were the “stupid, ignorant, selfish, uncaring, disease spreading” outcasts. But, you know what happened during that time? We found and nurtured new friendships and relationships with like minded people and now have a saner and healthier group of friends. We choose to spend our time with them. When we’re invited by Covidians to their events we simply say, “no thank you”. If they ask why we aren’t attending things with them anymore I have no problem letting them know exactly why. It was they and their actions that destroyed the relationship.
Good for you. These toxic people have learned nothing. They are not sorry about their vile behaviors or the harm they have caused. The childhoods they helped destroy. The neighbors they helped bankrupt.
Unless they say they are sorry and admit to what they have done wrong, they are going to pull the same thing again when it's expedient.
You don't need "friends" like them.
Beautiful!
Good for you bro. Eff those effing people.
I can’t move on without some kind of apology or admission of wrongdoing. Treating me like a mental case and then making pretend that didn’t happen is not an option for me.
you know that you're demanding from mental people (either crazed and/or stupid) to even recognize their mental case.... nothing else will come from there but more of same..... don't forgive, don't forget, but neither waste energy on that snipe hunt.... ;)
Good points
Agreed; sadly I am used to it. My family has treated me like that for decades. I just keep on keeping on.
That is up to you but you're not going to get it. It's your decision about how to live YOUR life. Being angry only impacts you, not them.
Print out this, realnotrare.com. Pass it around.
There's forgiving (do I want my extended family to be miserable forever? for me, the answer is No) and forgetting. I think it's OK to say, "Man, they sure turned out to be wrong about that stuff, huh?" and "Looks like Fauci was the con man I always thought he was" and stuff like that. I wouldn't make it the theme of the day, but I wouldn't studiously avoid it, unless specific individuals had actually made it clear they knew they'd been wrong and would think twice next time before following insanity. Just my two cents.
I would probably not go, unless I had the ability to fully forgive these people. Christmas Eve is not the time for a back and forth about this madness. I’d rather spend the night with good food and music, exchanging gifts if that’s your thing with people that truly care about you. These people do not truly care about nor cherish your company. It’s basically a 1 way street, you have to find it in your heart to fully forgive people that probably refuse to acknowledge, or apologize for how they treated you.
I have made it a point to not partake in "back and forth about this madness," except on Twitter. Even there, I shut it off after a post or two! Life is too short to argue with someone you don't even know, on the Internet. That said, I have no concern that anyone will challenge me or bring it up at any of these types of gatherings. Most of the "believers" want to move on. That is what this "call for amnesty" is really about, forgetting and moving on. For sure, forgetting is off my table. Still pretty sure forgiveness will nurture my soul, and so...
Yes forgiveness is key. Give them this, Realnotrare.com
Starkly and realistically said
Come to my house. You are welcome here.
Can I bring libations?
Can I just say? This is a beautiful offer.
This year it seems mostly a pandemic of the vaccinated. So maybe you should tell them you can't go because of their vaccination status. And end with, maybe next year...
I'm still angry. I bite tongue, I'm going to explode on someone.
don't care anymore. anyone asks, i go: i don't take that crap, my kids don't take that crap. hope it's going well for you.....
and it stops there. no point wasting more time.
THIS seems like the best strategy forward, unless as someone else said - they can come to a place of full forgiveness. I've managed to turn down my full blown rage to just disappointment, but that's still not the same as forgiveness.
In two days, I will be spending Thanksgiving with my family who has shunned me for the past 2 years, all at the behest of my 20-something nephew who was "afraid".
I plan on going as I've missed 2 years of holidays with my 89-year old mother. Time is short and I don't know how many more holidays I will have. Your point my be the way forward that day. Thank you.
Skip two years (the length of the pandemic) and tell them why. The why should be that we NEVER want to see this happen again - and that if there is a next time we are going to make people very uncomfortable.
Yes, all the facts coming out about even the polio vacs. Flu shots, measles, all of them. Now they are after our kids.
I understand.
You do not have to forgive. If you go, just move along. You know they know they have been conned. They won't admit it anyway, but if they have half a brain, they know this was a huge horrible scam
I don't know if they do have half a brain.
My FIL in Long Island still refuses to see me and his grandkids due to our vax status. We will likely never see him alive again. He sees my hubby, who idiotically got two shots, because FIL's booster will protect him. WTF? It's selective. My brother's inlaws banished him and his kids, so now they come see us at Thanksgiving. We were banished and verbally abused by cousins and other cats and dogs. All these weak nutjobs burned the bridges, I'm not spending effort to rebuild them only to see them burned again at the next suggestion of strife. Screw them.
Unbelievable, yet believable at the same time.
Good choice. When the next lockdown comes you'll know who you can rely on.
Well perhaps verbal abuse isn’t the way and.....turn the other cheek comes to mind.....I’m sorry but we just have to be more mature and uplifting than they are. Be happy with yourself and the things that you do. People follow successful people.
Not a question of being evolved......forgiveness is key if only for your own peace of mind, but how comfortable are you being with people that can lie to themselves and think it’s ok? Lying to yourself because of ignorance is ok for the interim, but when you hurt others I think you need to explain yourself.
I think your last sentence is key to helping them understand how you feel - and maybe garner some empathy.
Yes. I remember a friend who kept returning to her abusive boyfriend. He kept beating her but she said, "It's good to forgive."
Ewww! That’s a sickness of a different Color
@wiltster - I'm with you. I want to have a snarky reply ready but know it's probably better to think of words that have a more lasting. We have to remember that those who did not want us unless vaccinated are also small brained and/or cannot use brain cells to think logically.
What about the other way around. Last year I was in a waiting room and this woman got a call. She was talking to her sister about the other side of the family not wanting them to go to funeral because that side didn’t want their sluff from the vaccinated. They wanted them to have their own funeral.
What about it? That's a proven true and valid concern, not borne of ignorance or manipulation. But people have to very studiously avoid the general population to avoid vax shedding.
Yes. I refused to split the family over it. I did move to another bedroom.....😳I had to, I couldn’t sleep!
Don't ever go! Absolutely not a place to be and nothing to discuss about. What? You should have a nice laugh with them about general small talk? Ridiculous. F them!
Yeah I’ll be cordial and wish them well. But anyone who completely shuts their minds down and won’t engage with someone who has clearly done tons of research, that’s just ridiculous. I even told them that I probably have a lot wrong and I would like to learn. But libtards only understand seething condescension. Not nuanced discourse where everyone learns something. Absurd.
Keep us posted. Maybe I’ll learn to be more diplomatic; if you succeed: )
You do know you don't actually have a "vaccination status," yes?
That is your right. They remind me of the people that used to go out and cheer and watch the hangings.....the media was working it’s spell even then. I’m sure there were multitudes of people that wouldn’t go or let their kids watch the horror,...but we don’t hear about them do we..
I was invited for Thanksgiving. I drew a line in the sand and said that we have a conversation or no dice. I was immediately told to f off by my mom and my sister, who both accused me of being a science denier. I can’t casually banter and giggle with these people ever again, knowing that they would literally cheer if me and mine are actually thrown in a concentration camp next time. And there will be a next time.
I like this very much.
Conversation or no dice*
It works; I've used it.
@chiadrum - wow. Sorry you mom and sister are being so close minded. It's cancel culture. Perhaps they know they don't have an argument and therefore do not want to engage. The would lose. It's hard to understand because many of these people are what we called "intelligent." They are dumb smart people.
This is the problem I am having.....can they really not see? Or their brain is wired differently. Anyhow I’m quite content right now to talk to critical thinkers, and smart researchers.....it’s either that or go crazy.
I think many cannot see. Or if they start to see the glimmer of the horror of the last 2 years, they just stick their head back in the sand as they can't deal with the reality of it.
Just last night had dinner with several of my liberal friends. I won't say they shunned me specifically over the past 2 years, as they mostly just became shut-ins over that period of time. So I can't say what they did was directed specifically at me.
But in a rare instance of honesty, one said - Let's hope 2023 is better because 2022 was worse than 2021 was worse than 2020 .. so on some level, I feel they know, even if they can't articulate it.
Might have a good time to say, “ well it won’t happen again if we don’t let it next time”. Not sure if that would spark a few evil glares or not.
I believe that’s exactly correct. I sent a very detailed email. I guarantee they have virtually zero answers other than “trust the experts”. And “you shouldn’t do your own research”. Imagine injecting that poison into your body and knowing that you were played. These folks can NEVER face that reality.
nope. they don't even know. brainwashed. brother tried to convince me to vaxx my kids. he vaxxed hers. (all in the 9-12yr range) one argument, oh-my-gawd-they-could-end-in-icu... another argument, they will be shunned at school.... WTF.... it's wrong in so many ways, there's not even a way to start.
talking is a waste of time. arguments require a rational mind at the other end. just hope my niece doesn't end up with fukked up, but i take care of mine......
I hear you. Coincidentally, I posted a quote from Isabel Paterson's "Good of the Machine," in response to a Tweet from Jennifer Sey yesterday. Cannot figure out how to post it here, but the bottom line is this. All occasions of societal shit-shows occur with the cheering and support of "good people."
Yeah that’s my mom and sis. So far above redneck scum like me. My sister will protest any and everything and condones violence. Covid, not a word to say. Except that I’m an idiot science denier. She had no problem saying that. Go f yourself sis. Hopefully she doesn’t literally jab herself or her children to death is all I can hope for at this point.
I worry about the children in these equations. So many little ones in our extended fam have been multi-jabbed by their neurotic leftist parents.🥺
Not sorry the jabs cause sterility since the Covidians treat children so cruelly.
Lockdowns are not over. Stick with those who will have your back.
Exactly why I could care less about these loons. My immediate family is totally aligned. We will take care of each other. F everyone else.
Do you think writing them a letter that is very empathetic, from your perspective how you felt being ostracized would help? To at least get your thoughts out, even if you never see them again. The frustrating thing about all of this is that you can’t have a discussion at all.
don't bother writing a letter.
They might not be on the same "level"
writing it out is good though, I have written several letters to my family members that have abused and criticized me. I have not sent those letters though. They remain on my laptop
The kids, I can sort of deal with now. We were young once, so i can pity them.
The oldsters, for example my brother and his wife are very crude and ugly.
It makes no sense to write a letter. Besides. some people even family, are incredibly stupid. If they were not family, you probably would never associated with them to begin with
just my sentiment
Damn, I'm so sorry. I can't imagine doing this to my own kids. Shame.
I dunno
Either that or just be really quiet about the whole thing.
My younger daughter and her hubbs have totttally banned us (me and hubbs) for life bc I shared information that was not mentally agreeable with their beliefs
The have three adorable babies that I have not seen in SIX months. We probably will not see them for any holidays this year. Weird and odd, but I have a lot of sewing to do, and 5 quilts to bind.
Haha yeah what “beliefs” exactly. My sister gave me the same story. “Our beliefs are important to us too”. Yeah but I didn’t mock and ridicule you. What beliefs are so important? Idolizing convicted felons? Being maimed and killed by con men and women? It’s not that at all. I think it’s more that deep down they know how outrageously dumb they have been and will NEVER admit it. My sister has “no time” to have a discussion about this because her best friend and brother in law are battling cancer. Exactly what I was trying to warn her about. I mean, who doesn’t have bone cancer these days?
Good point - you allow her to have her beliefs but you are not allowed to have yours. They don't mirror Big Pharma/Big Gov/Big Tech. There is no critical thinking anymore. What happened to the classic liberal? Yes, many cancers, heart problems, etc., but nothing to see here! My folks say it's because we are all aging. Get real.
Pride.
@RosemaryB - I'm sorry this is your situation. It is devastating! Maybe your younger daughter and husband will come around so you can maintain contact with the grandkids. I have a soft spot for keeping family relations in tact but Covid has created such a huge divide. Praying your daughter and husband can open their hearts.
thank you so very much for the prayers.
Take care of yourself. Eat right , feel good about the things you accomplish,...people are drawn to people that are successful and can do stuff.
I am completely agreeable to your uplifting words, Thank you
I would love to see your quilts also.......
Awwww last year I had an instagram page and frolicked along with others (many I severely disagreed with politically) sharing quilting stuff photos etc. It was really fun. Some how, Bookface decided they did not like my bookface page so they "suspended" me for no reason. Funny, I was never on Bookface so I don't really get that, but with that suspension my instagram account was also shut down. Drat. I was bummed for a while. that was over a year ago, and oh well. no worries, I do not really like having to keep up a page.
However, I met some sewists/quilters on YOUTUBE watching the Brooks Falls Brown Bears at Katmai in Alaska. (long story) One asked me to start a Flikr account so I did that. It is NOT full of all of my quilts. Maybe about 1/4 of them. I have been too lazy/busy to put them all on there. I am taking care of my 99 year old daddy and he is easy fun or "difficult" with various ailments but he is spry.
I will try to add more photos to the Flickr but I am just not on fire to put explanations on each photo. haha
I will not put a link here but this is my flickr name: Razzleberryrose B
Thank you for asking ❤️
searching is difficult, I see
okay well, here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/195523105@N06/with/52339529575/
Rosemary, I remember you saying this early on. It broke my heart then, as it does not. I am sorry. I hope it changes.
Thank you Linda.
I made some typos up there and fixed them. It has been 7 months now.
It is a very interesting type of abuse.
I go from deep sadness, to feeling like "I do not even want to be a gramma anyway 😤" I am grateful every day for my husband, I have another daughter that does not want any part of it. I believe she wants her sister to own this. So Christina and I have a good relationship
My sympathy for your loss, especially the "three adorable babies".
Good that you have important chores to do which will be accomplishments.
I like cats too.
So do I. You sound as though you have a cat or cats?
they are 3, 4 and 5 now. They probably do not remember me anyway.
sewing and finishing massively amazing family heirlooms is quite enjoyable
I'm not withholding any criticism.
Me either
I couldn’t even be around those people anymore, sadly. Once you’re awake, you cannot go back to sleep. I lost my career of 23 years and my bf lost his career of 17 years. After he lost his job, his brother went and got a jab. And his parents/aunt got their second/third jab. None of them were forced to!
At my age of 59, I have no desire to be around these people. We have nothing in common (I like TRUTH).
The cherry on the top was my bf telling me that saying Grace before the Thanksgiving meal embarrasses his family. Yet, him and I say it before EVERY meal.
I’m done with the bs.
You should go wearing a t-shirt that says "Still Dangerous (for my ideas)" or something biting like that.
Time write your own, and read it to them before thanksgiving dinner.. something to be thankful for.
I'd tell them, "Guess what? I never want you near me again. Stay away this Christmas. Stay away from me forever. And don't bother telling me if you get cancer or heart disease. I really don't care if you die. You are already dead to me, you toxic monster. I promise not to come to your vaxx only funeral either."
Yeah that’s how I feel but I won’t actually say that. My sister is already surrounded by cancer which is why she has “no time” to discuss with me. I sent her the Atlantic article of the woketard doc whose cancer exploded after his “booster”. Zero chance that she reads it. And I’m the ignorant one……We bought acreage in the mountains. I wanna scream “so we can he FAR away from mental patients like you!”
It was the ultimate litmus test on who your "friends" truly are. Like you, I was disinvited from gatherings and people stopped talking to me for being "anti-vaxx." Like Pfizer suddenly became the hero of this story... pu-lease.
Now, I also see the first steps of them trying to memory hole their behaviour.
There must be repentance for forgiveness, so until you are ready to issue a heart-felt apology and admit you were wrong then, don't bother wasting your time or my time.
Agreed but not holding my breath. I think that was part of the problem with Emily Oster. No repentance just lame excuses
Yup. That burned me up. One side of her mouth "didn't know," but the other side still pushes for mandated covid vax for children to attend school even today. It's worse than trying to memory hole the scamdemic. F-off Emily.
Yeah I'm not losing any sleep over losing friends who would have turned in Anne Frank.
My 2 covidiot sibs are pretending this never happened. I love them but don’t trust them to ever think for themselves.
I am you, New Jersey Edition.
https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/ill-never-forgive-the-coronamaniacs
And just like that, I am getting pushback from some MD, on Twitter, ostensibly in support of masking. You cannot make this stuff up! THIS is why they will never apologize. Many, if not most of them, STILL believe.
Can't wait till these moronic doctors find out the inhaled fibers in their beloved masks are killing them.
Understandable really, he has to tow the allopath line, does he know anything about, homeopathy, naturopathy, Orthomolecular ? Probably not. Would he even know what a detox was? He’s living in a whole other reality.
Great essay. I agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm grappling with which words to use to show my anger without being a total a-hole (my true self...originally from Philly).
Forgive their stupidity, but keep the receipts.
Thank you Gato. You covered the bases, reflecting what many purbloods (and wannabe purbloods) are experiencing. In the main I see exhaustion - there are so many fronts like little bonfires that repeatedly need stamping out. And the shoe soles are wearing thin.
Thank you CarolAnne; yes, for many it is about getting back to “normal.” And, yes, they don’t know that there is no genuine normal to return to. As some comedic pundits once declared, “It got blowed up real good.”
It was been a master class in Reality. The veneer has been stripped off to reveal the real wood beneath. With that exposure, this whole hot mess has been a gift to many who now understand more clearly the world around us. It has been a master class in real-time sociology, anthropology and the essences of rubber-meets-the-road faith. Rather than just schlepping along through life, we now may hover like drones and see a bigger picture. Daily, the most essential and important questions and reflections flood the brain. Personally, I have never felt more alive.
I appreciate your realistic perspective on all of this and your positive take on it. Thank you!
This is true, I think, because we are more aware......reality doesn’t suck this simulation and are overlords suck, we’ll have to make our own. Apparently we can do that.
Yes we are angry. We need to bring this topic to the fore.....we can’t just say to people, “So why do you think you were so stupid back then?” You have get them the data and place it around so they can see. Masks are unhealthy, the jab is making people sick. I suppose this will all come down to them believing in our “overlords”.
Remember those who advocated us getting dragged off to a FEMA camps. Or having our kids taken away. Make a list of these abusive, dangerous people and never trust or let them near you again.
They've shown their true colors. This totalitarianism is here to stay.
Certain people should never, ever be trusted again. Those who never apologized or admitted to wrong doing. They will pull this crap again for the next Big Scare. Just like a domestic abuser.
Also remember those who love you and will stand by you. Seek out their company.
Let the toxic statists call upon their beloved, tyrannical Government to save them as things get worse. They love Josef Mengele soooo much.
At the same time don't we know this nonsense is not new? The book "Dissolving Illusions" offers a history of the vxckz,, and with the advent of the smallpox vaccination, big pharma/guv totalitarianism commenced. By mid 19th c big guv was threatening families and individuals who would not get vxcksd with job loss, fines and jail. Evil does not have a large playbook.
One thing that may stop the amnesia is the ongoing gigantic excess death and disability from the jabs. You can't forget that stuff out of your system. Hopefully it tails off with time and most will be OK - but I fear the opposite - escalation in carnage may be a distinct possibility. Early days still ...
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Great comment, you are definitely a strong person, and I for one admire that !
When I see people in a mask now at grocery checkout, gym, etc. and have even a few seconds of contact with them, I ask:
“Oh, are you sick?”
I want to draw attention to the fact that wearing a mask is not normal!!!
They almost always answer something stupid like: no, I just heard the new strain of Covid is really bad. Or, well, I know the flu is really bad this year.”
I asked the employee at the YMCA desk a couple of weeks ago, and she responded with the above standard stupid answer. I just smiled sadly and said: “Well, I guess some of us will just keep living our lives afraid then.”
It INFURIATES me!!
That's good. I will use it, or maybe 'I hope you get to feeling better', they almost have to respond to that. I have confronted several maskers, my wife hates it and says, 'the receptionist doesn't set policy you are ruining her day for no reason.' which I have to admit hits home, but one thing this has all taught me is that it really isn't the CEO or President or whoever that does things. They might put out a memo or read a speech saying 'do this' but if no one complies they just look like ineffectual fools. Let them put out masking rules and every time they walk through their office see that no one will enforce it. Every time someone in authority asks you to do something like that just say, 'Sure thing, Chief' and keep doing what you are doing. If they want to have a confrontation, make them invest something in confronting you before you invest anything in confronting them, that way you aren't scattering your pearls before swine. What percentage of people need to be noncompliant to make a policy ridiculous and turn totalitarianism into a joke? My guess is about 3-4%.
you cheeky monkey.
I have not had the courage to confront people, however here in Northern Virginia we have plennnnty of maskers around.
one or two doctor offices still require masks to enter.
My spouse has an appointment with an EYE DOCTOR today, and was informed that masks are required! Smh
I've noticed exactly the same thing. We delivered a baby in September, by C Section, were in the hospital for two days. Nobody bothered us about a mask, except in the OR, which I gave them that one. But you go to an eye doctor or a chiropractor(both scams btw), and they are masknazis through and through. It is funny how the least trained 'medical' people are most attached to it. It is their badge of status.
I have been using that story on them though. If they mention a mask I am like 'Really? Wow! You know the hospital isn't requiring them anymore. I was in the NICU, just the Transition part baby boy was and is fine, and I didn't have to wear a mask in there and you want me to wear one at the eye doctor? Wowwww'
Doctor, chiro, Dentist I think is as bad as doctors. My husband had gum disease. So I got him some peri-gum. Told him to stop using fluoride toothpaste. He did,.....swished the peri-gum for 2weeks twice a day, ......no more gum disease. He can now , a year later, get implants.
I loved that at my physical a few weeks ago my PCP walked into the room and saw me wearing my "required mask" and said "you can take that off if you want" 8-) Every single doctors office/dentist in my area still requests that you wear masks though. I'm in Metro Detroit. Drives me nuts. Thankfully, it's still not that way in any other industry I interact with.
Same down here in southwestern VA!
I had to wear one for a blood test. 🙄 I pulled it down under my nose.
I went to the northern Virginia Christmas crafts show at Dulles Expo.
NO ONE was wearing a mask. It was fantastical
My internist's office still requires masks. They handed me a 4 ply surgical mask which I wore and could barely breathe. I can't imagine wearing one of those daily. I was offered the COVID booster and I declined. Luckily I was not pressured to get it. Dr is in Northern VA and affiliated with a large hospital group. The orthopedic practice and my physical therapist do not require masks, although will mask on request.
Great idea. I need to start doing that
I am going to employ that strategy. I have asked people if they are OK. Maybe that question is not as pointed.
You’ll have to get rid of that. Wim Hof has some really good breathing techniques that actually work. Ashwaghanda, Rosiola, work too but you have to watch what meds you are on.
This is extremely helpful. My hubby was going on about Ukraine--msm twaddle. He sneered at my questioning that narrative. I sent him a image from a substack (maybe this one) all the lies about every war after WW2 that we found out WERE lies and understand now that they were lies. Massive killing lies. The image posits that if you know the government lied about those --what makes you think they aren’t lying now about Ukraine and Russia. He had to agree. So perhaps a tiny seed has been planted.
And here's a good source to point out the lies of Big Pharma:
Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. and one of its subsidiaries agreed to pay $2.3 billion to settle civil and criminal charges regarding its marketing of the drug Bextra. As part of the settlement, Pfizer pled guilty to a felony violation of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for marketing the drug with the intent to deceive and mislead the public.
Pfizer marketed Bextra for a variety of uses and dosage sizes, including post-operative pain for joint replacement patients, that the FDA had already refused to approve due to safety concerns.
The criminal portion of the fine is the largest fine ever levied by the United States government...The criminal fine against Pfizer is $1.195 billion, with another $105 million to be paid by its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc.
In addition to the honor of largest criminal fine of any type from the feds ever (according to the DOJ), Pfizer will also pay the largest civil fraud settlement, $1 billion, ever forced on a pharmaceutical company in the U.S.
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/criminal-defense/pfizer-hit-with-largest-criminal-fine-in-us-history/
I have saved info and graphics on these issues. Time to employ them. Thanks for the reminders. Now I just have to find them🤔. Just these 2 issues could make a difference.
Omg big Pharma has manipulated this since the beginning, Took over all the herbalists jobs to make medicine for profit. They are the Ultimate thieves of rational herbalism for curing human ills. All plants have a use. Aristotle was right, “your food IS thy medicine!”
Hubs was directly involved as a marine in a horrific government lie program. Vietnam. He was drafted into the marines.
Brava!
Here is a small way of finding that 3rd way.
Every single hire I make since the start of Covidmania, doctors, nurses and staff, are people who were either fired for refusing a mask or vaccine mandate, or quit for the same reason. I advertise open jobs with that line first.
Now my small business is filled with principled, intelligent critical thinkers who were likely best and brightest at their former employers.
Now we naturopaths are and may always be small potatoes. So I urge other small and medium business owners on this post to do the same. Favor the brave; reward them with employment, contracts, other business. My experience says you will not be disappointed at all, and will end up with an outstanding staff.
God bless you.
Thank you.
And win-win all around, from a business perspective! An appreciative, loyal, motivated staff is a pleasure to work with and makes for a more successful business.
Let's all advertise that we will *never* force a mask or vaccine mandate. Grateful applicants flock to such a statement.
Love and great respect to you Colleen. Maybe some of the people on realnotrare.com would heal if they knew of this.
Wow. Wonderful.
I think the biggest problem is that most people still dont even believe that they were on the wrong side pushing for the wrong thing people reading things on substack like the great stuff you put out are a pretty small part of the population.
All cause mortality is up huge in every higly vaccinated country in the world, embalmers are pulling giant rubber clots out of just about every dead vaccinated body, cancers are through the roof--i could go on and on with all of the proof--but the average person has zero idea that any of this is going on. I think a good portion of people know the shots werent very effective but most have no clue about the actual damage that has been done, and i know that when i tell people about what ive read and watched--they dont really believe me because the whole story is just so hard to fathom, and whats even harder to fathom is--if all of that is happening how come its not on the news?
I mean the guy who probably funded the lab that actually killed millions with this virus is still employed by the government and is making policy decisions. Its just all so implausible most people just cant comprehend it even when its explained to them.
I am reading Dissolving Illusions, a deeply researched/footnoted examination of the history of vaccines, commencing with Smallpox. It is jaw dropping in that in some countries during the 19th century doctors were paid for vaccinating, and the vaccine was mandatory. It was even suggested that being vaccinated meant a milder case if you contracted Smallpox. Those who refused (even those with vaccine-injured family members) were fined/jailed/fired. Nothing new under the sun.
Also, an interesting book: Murder by Injection, by Eustice Mullins.
The bodies are dropping, in every country, in every age group. That is why censorship had to be firmly in place first.
Even as the lawsuits pile up and misdeeds come to light, most people don't hear about it.
I have a buddy who simultaneously considers the US Government to be a terrorist organization while enthusiastically applauding all Covid “guidance”. Some people are lost forever. And of course he prattles on about science, while understanding none of it.
Yep. We've all be carefully taught to be afraid of the wrong things.
I am torn. Truly. On the one hand, I share the point of view portrayed in the Ving Rhames meme (or maybe from Randy Jackson back in his American Idol days) when it comes to all this amnesty stuff. "That's gonna be a 'NO' from me, Dawg." At the same time, the Stoic wisdom drives me, "The best revenge is not to be like that." I think forgiveness has real benefit, and I say that while being a rather aggressive atheist! I want, desperately in some cases, to forgive my friends who meant well. I want, desperately in most cases, to kick the dog shit out of people like Eric Ding-Bat, Dr. Fauci, or Topol, or that lying sack-of-crap from Pfizer, among many others. It pains me to see people on the buses I routinely ride, STILL masked up. Often these are young, Black, teens! What the absolute hell do they think they are getting from a mask? Lots of apologists, like the previous Surgeon General of the U.S., promoted increased fear among Black folk. This included "masking up." (I have a bunch of friends who are MD's. Same crap!) So, I need to forgive, for my own sanity. Damned if I will forget, though. And damned if I will stop being disgusted to see people still wearing masks. Hell, I got some lip from some asshole on Twitter just the other day, about masks. How can people still believe? (Sigh.) Anyway, the Great Covid Dumpster Fire™ taught some of us, and it identified the lunacy in the rest of us. I reckon that is the purpose of a Virtual Sorting Hat™.
Forgiveness frees your own energy.
Let's not mistake forgiveness for reconciliation. Those are two different steps. Forgiveness can happen with you alone --while you are still correcting the violators--like a parent who exerts discipline without anger as an act of love, to prevent their kids from screwing up worse in the future. Discipline can keep you from ruining your life!
If forgiveness enables a repeat cycle, or worse, it is not forgiveness. It is denial and co-dependent entanglement.
We need to stop waiting until we are angry to get out of our own comfort zones. That is what makes us humans crave going a little too far and overdoing punishment, creating the seeds of the next problem.
For whomever survives their shot long-term, facing the gravity of what they've done is their only hope, and yours. Our executioners have not stopped. They are reloading.
That is excellent advice. We need to correct BEFORE we get angry and have to do it hatefully.
Thank you Rae,...just because you forgive the ignorant, doesn’t mean you have to hang with them. Family or not.
Interesting that you point that out as when I go out here in Central Texas, I’ve noticed that many times I still see people wearing masks somewhere like Walmart or at the symphony, it’s often Asians (whom I just sort of expect to always be masking as it was a practice in that part of the world before COVID, though only for ill people) and, curiously, black people.
I’ve often wondered what memo seems to have gone out amongst that part of the population that keeps them masking. I haven’t seen them for a while, but earlier this year, I’d often see a black couple in my neighborhood out walking and wearing masks, and I just wondered why they were still holding out after basically everyone else had abandoned them.
The masking phenomenon is truly curious since they were hawked as signals of virtuous charity on the part of the wearer, but now, the diehards still wearing them *must* be doing so out of the initial motivator that inspired the run on masks at the beginning: sheer terror for their own “safety.”
How the tables have turned...
They are not getting the data on how unhealthy it is.
As I alluded in my note, losers like Jerome Adams made a point of promoting masking. At one point, he was Tweeting a picture of himself "masked up" on an airplane almost every day. He had a full beard at the time. Tellingly, he didn't even realize that a beard precluded getting a "good seal" on his mask, even if masks actually worked otherwise. As Bugs Bunny might say, "What a maroon!" Earlier in the covid shit-show, there was a concerted push to convince Black people that they were particularly at risk from covid, and so, had to take special steps to "protect themselves." This type of "we are looking out for you" positioning is part-and-parcel of the Democrat playbook. And so, here we are. Actions one can take, that have perceived risk asymmetry--of which masking is but one example--tend to be behaviorally sticky, long after people should have realized they are ineffective. If the action is also tied to other hot button talking points, like race, the stickiness is greater.
I told my husband I cannot do Thanksgiving or Christmas with his parents this year. I was on the receiving end of being treated like “a problem” by them for not vaccinating myself or my two teen daughters. My reasons were well informed and well researched due to our family autoimmune history. But that did not matter—-they never asked. They judged and labeled. Then they lived their lives in illogical ways. Can’t be around me—-but can travel to CA and take granddaughter who was 5 (not yet vaccinated because it had not been approved) to Disney land. You can’t make this shit up. And you can’t discuss it with these people. My MIL was recently boosted (4th shot) then contracted COVID. She admits to my husband that she quarantined but “snuck out to take advantage of a sale at Kohl’s”. WTF?
But here is the real kicker. My mom died last year. She became ill @Thanksgiving with multiple hospitalizations following her flu shot/COVID booster combo. Docs got her diagnosis wrong. I got it right based on my knowledge acquired from experts like McCullough, Malone and from reviewing VAERS. In short, she did not suffer from a stroke (never any evidence of one) as they thought due to her speech and swallowing difficulties that came on suddenly. Rather, at 82 she had sudden onset Myasethenia gravis from the COVID vaccine. So her last holiday season was largely spent in the hospital (where in her final week we were blocked out due to a COVID outbreak—she never got COVID) hungry, thirsty, declining while the doctors said they would have to wait until after the holiday to do a swallow test. I was the last one to see her while conscious on 1/1/2021. After I observed her, I told them to get a neurologist in there and said it was MG brought on by the vaccine. Turns out I was spot on. But she died on 1/6 from cardiac arrest due to dehydration before they could treat her.
My MIL did not even bother to mention my mother to me this past Mother’s Day. She knew my mom. I hosted both families for years for the holidays. They have asked next to nothing about what happened to my mother. Pretty clear they do not want to encourage my conspiracy minded tendencies! They do know that because of a glitch in FB messenger/internet at the hospital….after my mom died my siblings and I got messages from her that she had sent asking for help, saying she was hungry, thirsty and for somebody to call the doctor. The neurologist who finally saw her agreed with my diagnosis and she begged him to not leave her because she said she would die in the hospital. Did I mention he appears to have forgotten to write the orders for the meds he said should be started immediately. A fact we learned after her death when we tried to piece together why meds were not started. We were allowed in to watch her die. They put her on a vent so we could get there. That was my holiday season last year.
And my in-laws still think I’m the one with the problem. At least my daughter’s pediatrician gave exemptions for my daughters….I provided what was the equivalent of an extensive legal brief with records, etc.
I just can’t move on….not without some recognition that these people value virtue signaling over even hearing what I might have to say. I’m not a raving lunatic. I’m well educated (have my legal degree) and have raised to smart, bright young ladies with strong work ethics. But I’m disposable and the enemy because I will not take a jab that would not be good for me.
And these folks also know that I am an outlier medically. Have rejected doc advice twice and saved my own life relative to my breast cancer. At least both those doctors admitted they were wrong and said they were glad I had made a choice other than their recommendations. And yes, both had rolled their eyes at me when I had insisted. One even admitted my case had changed his practice going forward.
Yet my “loved ones” aka the in-laws have not mentioned my mom to me since her memorial in February—-and we live in the same town. I sure feel loved during these difficult times.
Thanks for listening—-all this talk of amnesty and moving on comes at the absolute worst time for me because this is when my hell started in earnest last year.
Happy Thanksgiving….I do have things to be thankful for. Siblings who no longer think of me as a conspiracy theorist and actually are now interested in learning beyond msm. I suspect they are scared having had the shots. But they all say they are done now. My daughters are thankful for my advocacy and I recently have heard them express views and arguments that demonstrate they are listening and understand what is happening. I have become closer with friends who have suffered similar losses and trauma—and we try hard to celebrate moments of beauty in our lives going forward. I know myself better than I ever have and am thankful for the strength the past three years has afforded me….and to know it was worth it to stand my ground despite losing friends, family and being told Ivshould be treated like a prisoner of war. But as for peace….I have yet to find that. It is elusive and I have no confidence that those like my in-laws would not do the same thing again. After all, they keep getting boosted and clearly think I’m the delusional one.
God bless.
I’m so sorry for your loss. What a terrible thing to go through.
Thank you. And I also live with the guilt of having failed my mom. After all, I knew that something did not add up. I had warned her about the shots, and she chose to get them. I do not feel guilty about that.
What bothers me is that I was so exhausted when she first went in the hospital. I had just been defending a charge that I should be fired as a girls high school soccer coach because I was unvaccinated. It was exhausting....the nonsense. When my mom first went in, early morning hours of Dec. 26...they were only allowing one visitor a day. My sisters are both nurses so I deferred to them. I should not have. I had already flagged for them that things did not add up, but they kept finding explanations and really did not entertain the idea of the vaccine. After I left my mom on Jan. 1, and challenged my sister a huge fight ensued. It was awful. She saw me as coming in and trying to take over. That was not it. We have found our peace in the aftermath. But I still hate that I bowed down to the family dynamic of being the younger sister that is outspoken. I kept silent too long. Had I pushed earlier and harder about things not adding up, we might have got a diagnosis far earlier. My heart just hurts. And I do recognize that my momentary hesitation was due in large part to the shit people were dishing out to anyone who asked questions or challenged the narrative. I at least have the knowledge that my mom did say, once I told them it was likely MG and to get a neurologist in there, "somebody has to get to the bottom of this" and she knew I was trying like hell at that point. And yes, my diagnosis is on the death certificate and was confirmed with tests.
And while some say that the pandemic is over and people are moving on. In my state, they still demand vaccination for the state university, as well as other secondary institutions. Of course, Bill Gates owns our state. And I fear that with the recent recommendation that the vaccine be added to the childhood schedule, our governor who is in bed with the whole lot of them will add it for the school year next year. I'm angry that the nonsense continues even as the lies have been proven to be just that....lies.
I know I can't change it. But I really really have a hard time accepting that we move on, when THEY REALLY HAVE NOT! I know students who did not want to get the jab, but did so to further their schooling. And mothers who are beside themselves because they cannot do anything to stop it. 18 year olds think they are immortal. My husband almost caved by accepting (almost promoting) that we could not control what our kids do at 18.
The thing is....I have had to fight sooooo very hard in the past three years to just have my rights and the rights of my children respected. I had to fight for them to be in sports. I had to fight for my oldest to attend school. I had to fight to keep my job. It is unacceptable, and based on my expereince with the tech/fin elite and their meddling in education....THIS IS NOT STOPPING. They have simply retreated and are taking another tack.
Consider that the G20, including Biden, is embracing the whole concept of health passports yet again. Seriously, and the msm says nothing. And CBDC is going forward.
The pandemic was never about health. It was very much about breaking us. And if we forgive and forget that it is part of a much bigger picture....they have succeeded. At least that is my view.
Have you seen this (because it is where we are headed next in my estimation):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUHnC4DQS1M
"The pandemic was never about health. It was very much about breaking us. And if we forgive and forget that it is part of a much bigger picture....they have succeeded. At least that is my view."
I could not agree more. They want us broken, sad, confused, fearful. But mostly they want us to question our own eyes and ears, to rely on them to define what is reality and what is not. When they have that they have total control.
George Orwell laid it all out in 1984. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
SO sorry for your loss. It is heartbreaking. I hope you have any kind of support in standing strong and nurturing you for this loss.
You mention that "they still believe..." Keep in mind: People can say things and not believe them. The more vigilantly they repeat something, the more they are crowding out what some part of them knows, because otherwise their reference points for reality crumble, and all they hold dear crumbles.
Think of it as breaking people out of a cult.
Consider that the depth of this apparent belief is really the depth of fear that has them clinging to the wrong information and their own abusers. We have all been carefully taught to be afraid of the wrong things. It is not an accident. Social survival has been linked to physical survival in the human brain for a long time. This is why people will gamble their lives, their children and grandchildren on questionable, unproven, illogical gobbelty-goop and then turn around and say, "No, that's what YOU are doing." Crazy-making.
I had a colleague who lost her husband, father-in law, best friend, and another close family member to the clot-shot, not to Covid. Four funerals in two months. I don't know how she put one foot in front of the other. One of her two daughters wanted to take to the streets with a sign damning the Covid bullies, but my colleague was afraid--because now she had two daughters to feed, alone.
We can only keep moving and living life, watching for our opportunities to insist that the truth comes out, however exhausting and depressing. Our executioners are not done. They know we are tired. We don't all need to do any one particular grand thing. Just plant tiny seeds where you can. My best 2 cents: Be nonchalant with the truth--but try not to martyr yourself in anger. State a 1-sentence fact and move on in conversation, so you don't accidentally create valid excuses [in their minds] to avoid you. Your existence is unpleasantly stretching their self-perception already. Believe it.
Mattias Desmet does amazing podcasts and books on Mass Formation Psychosis or Mass Formation Hypnosis. Find them. They will help you feel more empowered and less disgusted. It will help us all see how censorship, twisted educational values or withheld education, and fighting with each other make our own extermination possible. One tiny voice is enough to cast doubt--but it has to be done carefully--and the illusion starts to crack.
Those same people will be crumbling before your eyes and it will test everything you have not to vent your rage and grief on them. All the people who parrot, "Never again," will have to eventually admit, "Well yes, again. On my watch. And THEN some, globally this time. With my vigorous help. Ooops."
"Be nonchalant with the truth--but try not to martyr yourself in anger." That is fantastic advice. Thank you!
Wow. Just wow. Every time I think I have shared "too much" on one of these boards I read a story like yours and my heart breaks anew. I have no words, but I salute you for being here and sharing with us. And I wish you strength to continue to fight.
Well it would be no problem for me to just the in- laws drift away in the wind. My mom died long before covid but I feel bad I couldn’t be with her when she died. I always helped her with her vitamins and cherry juice. Saved her from “congestive heart failure”. Went back a year later after getting her on vitamins and good food.....it wasn’t mentioned....just “I don’t see any congestive heart failure her looks fine”. We just looked at each and said nothing. Ran out of there and didn’t go back. A whole new learning curve was there. But when she went into a nursing home, she stopped taking her vitamins, then bed ridden, then she died. I couldn’t be there. But I’ve finally come to the realization that the doctors and nurses were stupid and people go there to die. Now this covid stuff in the nursing homes......I am so thankful she didn’t have to go through that. Although with your mom it was almost the same thing....death due to neglect. No water? She really is in a much better place now.
a terrible sad story repeated in so many families through all this. my heart goes out to you.
This story illustrates the reason for these newsletters, and why we search for solutions as well as justice.
Thank you. That is the very thing that haunts me....how many elderly died scared and anxious from a "stroke" without family because of these damn vaccines. How many had heart attacks and were left alone in the hospital dying, again without family? And how many who died from COVID due to failure to treat in a reasonable manner? Shoving vents down their throats and giving Remdesivir did more harm than good. And I do believe they knew it or willfully and purposefully ignored the evidence of other options for their pharma pursuits. It is gross and shows just how rotten mankind has become. Transhumanism is what awaits us if we just say "bygones."
The memory hole is a problem, but worse than that is the cementation of lies. The lie that masks work or that staying home saved lives. As long as those lies persist, it is easy for this to happen again. While people are less afraid and more calm, they need to hear repeatedly "Masks don't work. They never did." "Keeping people apart is what killed them" "Iatrogenic harm is what we need to be wary of" Billboards, TV, internet, and radio ads are what we need to get these messages to people. There is a greater chance that people will actually listen to these messages now that they are sober minded. If we could do anything, I think creating our own PSAs while the censors are off guard would be useful.
I was thinking that too. I was involved *long ago* with the Scientology Critics and one of them had the most inspired tag line, 'Sunlight Disinfects', it's always stuck with me and is honestly the first thing that made me suspicious of the lockdowners. Before anything else, I said, the best way to fight a virus is to be outdoors. Let the open air decrease the concentration, let the UV nuke the rascal, why would we want to close ourselves up inside?
What about simple bumperstickers? 'Sunlight is the best thing to kill viruses', 'Fresh Air is Good for your Health', 'You are your own person, not a cog in a machine', 'It takes ~10 years to know the affects of a medicine', 'Skepticism is pro-survival', 'Don't Trust a Proven Liar'
But as far as your idea of PSAs why do we only see lies advertised? You guys prolly already know about Steve Kirsch's billboards outside the CDC, can we make that common?
so many turned on us or quietly complied.
and now they sit drinking coffee next to you.
but how can you ever trust them again. how can you share a society with them and feel safe? how can these people be partners in sustaining liberty or a republic?
how do you not see a masked person on a sunny sidewalk and not think: “willingly or no, even if you have no plans right now, you a danger to freedom?”
Short answer: You can't. Be friendly, be cordial, but always remember that now you have knowledge of who they are and what they are capable of doing. They have played their hand.
I cannot tell you how many times I have broken bread with people who would have cheerfully, willingly, turned on me if they knew that they were dining with the enemy, so to speak. But they did not know and so assumed I was one of them. All you have to do is to keep your mouth shut and listen. Sooner or later people will reveal their true colors. It's how they talk about those that they do not agree with or approve of. And when they reveal themselves, then I know that they are not truly my friends no matter what else they say. Because they have made an idol of their beliefs/viewpoints, and idols demand sacrifices. There can be no true friendship with an idol-worshiper.
Yes, we have noticed which of our friends, family, and colleagues would gladly load us onto the trains--for our own good.
I like to think of integrity as an architectural term. To have the structural strength to withstand various forces. and fulfill your purpose. Lots of people don't have much integrity. People who think they do will not take kindly to the evidence that they don't.
We have every reason to keep revealing, keep supporting the hundreds of lawsuits and their discovery phases, keep insisting that the truth comes out from under the rug.
At the same time:
“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
One must guard oneself against attaining victory at the cost of the original reasons why one sought the victory. ... We must gain the strength to stare past the edges of life, including its origin, its constraints, and its development, to gain self-knowledge and greater control over ourselves, without the abyss eroding away our humanity, our all-too human particularities that distinguish us from the abyss."-Nietzsche
We have proven we can stare into the abyss. We can also BE the abyss that stares back.
Great post.
Wait and watch.
I had a different experience, though: a friend of mine from church offered to come with me to the vax clinic to get the shot because he thought I was afraid (I was afraid - not of the vax - but of bowing down under coercive pressure against my conscience) - he was actually very kind and genuine if misguided. Sadly his wife has long Covid now.
I think the vaccinated in general are to be pitied - so many that I know now are sick, catching flus and colds and suffering from immune disorders and cancer and in general very unwell.
Ever since I was young and read about the communists and the nazis I feared it would happen here, because people have gradually grown more insensitive to the way they project their own Jungian shadow onto others.
I always prayed that if that happened I’d be on the right side of history. That prayer has been answered at least.
Amen! Unfortunately, you also state the greatest human challenge to preventing this.
How do we get other humans to coalesce around the immediate “no”; to instinctively doubt that with which we should all collectively agree the government is lying about and attempting to control us? Humans, as a whole, are lazy and don’t like having to think for themselves. They’re happy being told what they can and cannot do and then simply work their personal lives around the rules to minimize the adverse affect on themselves. Most do not care about others. It’s survival of the clever and cunning. It’s all about “me”.
I do see awareness peeking through with some of us, but the masses are not thinkers; they are reactionists; too concerned with their new shiny thing that entertains and distracts them from having their head hurt with big-world thinking. We need our own place away from these bots, I think. Where do we go?
“MEN, IT HAS BEEN WELL SAID, THINK IN HERDS; IT WILL BE SEEN THAT THEY GO MAD IN HERDS, WHILE THEY ONLY RECOVER THEIR SENSES SLOWLY, ONE BY ONE.” ― CHARLES MACKAY, Excerpt from book, “EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS AND THE MADNESS OF CROWDS” -- 160 years ago in 1841
“The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.” Cicero
I guess I'm a brute then. I instinctively detested this covidiocy from the beginning. :)
>> are we to simply live out the rest of our lives in deep distrust of large numbers of other humans and abandon the joy of walking around meeting and liking people because of the deep wariness now engendered?
Eventually, yes.
Thank you. This issue has been haunting me: how to thrive going forward, knowing that those that believed in it all and sneered at me for not believing, will do it all again. Poor folks. You’re right: consistently pointing out the truth, “remember when?”ing is a good offense. And yes. Governments lie. Best thing I’ve read on this for some time.
Just say no to woke, trans and virus authoritarianism
Question: It's been three years. Is there a point when the masks will come off? Like are people planning to stop wearing them in two more years, or three...? Will people still be wearing them 20 years from now?
If there is one thing that came out of this shit-show, it is that people will continue to wear masks for the foreseeable future. Yes, I am just as baffled as you. Now, one might, if he were reasonably intelligent, i.e., could find his ass with both hands, point to the Spanish Flu epidemic, where masking was also mandated. In the intervening 100+ years, SOMEBODY should have been able to definitively show that masks "work" if they did. No such luck. (ETA: As I note elsewhere in this thread, what I refer to as the Pascal's Wager effect makes masking behaviorally sticky, and that is unlikely to change.)
Here in Britain I have made the following sociological observations:
Around 5% of the young people ( teens and early 20s) I see out and about are still masking, but given the other clues they seem to voluntary broadcast I’d say these are part of the increasing cohort of young people who identify as having mental health issues. In other words these are the young folk who love masks because they can hide behind them, and wear these because covid is an excuse that sounds more acceptable than admitting social anxiety disorder or some such like.
Around another 5% of the elderly still wear masks. These are the ‘innocents’ to my mind, who have been well and truly scared into submission by relentless MSM propaganda, and who are really suffering from what I would call elder abuse at the hands of public health diktats.
Then, in most university towns, we have the Chinese students who are practically 99% masked. Again a kind of ‘innocent’, who have been indoctrinated from birth to do as told.
That leaves my pet hate, the small but significant number of youngish people (generally in their late 20s to 40ish), if male often identifiable as being of the hipster persuasion, often in public sector work, education or similar, who still sport masks in the most demonstrable fashion. These are the die-hard shock troops of covidianism, the ones who more than likely had a good lockdown, because work from home, laptop lugging latte sipping sycophants
I dunno, if they have been wearing masks this long, they probably do have damage done.
I’ve been asking that too. What’s the off ramp? Do they need sleepy Joe to say it’s ok? It’s been seven months since my blue state lifted the mandate. About half of us haven’t worn one since and we are fine. Can’t the maskers see that?
It’s disturbing
I need to let this all go and get back to work, but masking is "justified" by Pascal's Wager. Something that is perceived as, "can't hurt, but might work" will remain behaviorally sticky, almost forever. Unfortunate, but true. (I say all that, while simultaneously wondering "Why?" aloud, myself!)
Dementia Joe said it was ok, the pandemic is over back in September on 60 minutes. But DJ's voters got mad about that. For half a moment they actually considered that he might be out of his mind. How dare he proclaim the pandemic to be over ?!? That's ..... just not following the science!
And that was also before Pfizer got the shots on the childhood vax schedule. You can't just end a pandemic without first giving Pfizer blanket immunity for their worthless and dangerous product. I mean, duh. The science!
Too soon. Dementia Joe jumped the gun on that one. But that has been rectified and now the pandemic state of emergency is extended till at least April 2023.