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Lee Muller's avatar

Upon recent travel, I spoke candidly and kindly with strangers who were not aware of the things I am. I saw extreme discomfort to hear the things I had to say. I think it's important to keep talking and let people process things. You need not convince them during a particular conversation, but only provide information and a different perspective. If we do this collectively and respectively through our close and casual communications with others, I think we can turn this around. People will not continue to do whatever once they are able to piece it all together. Even if they do, well, they will live with the consequences. Our effort is to undo the censoring. It is worth wrecking whatever relationships we may have though because without life or quality of life there really can't be a good relationship; it is merely a facade.

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Jason Thomas's avatar

It begins by planting seeds of doubt in their minds. Let them come to a conclusion on their own and that conclusiont will be sometime down the road. We just have to raise the ideas into their consciousness. It is similar to when you buy a new car and then you notice everybody else is driving the same type of car. Before you bought the car you wouldn't have noticed how many of that type of car there were on the streets

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AM Schimberg's avatar

I've begun, anytime someone tells me of a strange or sudden illness or death, I ask, did they get the covid shot (with a look of terrible and honest concern, no snark.) This shocks a lot of people and might even make them mad, but I want people to start to connect these dots and see what's right before their eyes.

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Lee Muller's avatar

And if they answer "I don't know" I ask whether the person was being asked to or were mandated by work or school. I also ask which one(s) was/were taken, how long ago, and frequency. Even though the answer might still be I don't know, I explain why I ask the questions. These unanswered questions will sit with a person until they start asking more questions of their own. Like you said, even just asking the question without any explanation at all should set gears turning. Other questions like, are they investigating the death is another one which is a very reasonable question to ask if the death is either unexpected or unexplained. This is what a normal.person would ask under normal circumstances. Even a child would ask this question. If this question is not being asked, question why. By not following up with normal questions, we are saying justice no longer matters and are teaching our kids wrong, even hurting them psychologically.

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