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
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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 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™.
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.
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.
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.
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?
>> 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?
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
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.
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!!
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.
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.
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 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™.
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.
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.
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.
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?
>> 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?