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Why did the UK feel compelled to go to war w/ Germany in WW1? Why did everyone feel compelled to use trench warfare...even after an armistice had been signed? Sometimes, the elites decide that us ordinaries need killing & they always find some excuse for the killing. If it hadn't been COVID, it have been climate change or something else.

Understand that the power that be are the powers that be because they'd rather rule in hell than serve in Heaven. If they have to destroy the village to govern it, they're fine w/ it - they even manage to persuade themselves that they're the good guys. (Self deception is powerful.)

Friends, you & your loved ones had to die to keep them in power; it's that simple. Why they landed on this excuse & this method is an interesting set of questions, but ultimately immaterial. Just as racism became the excuse to justify slavery that would have been justified regardless, COVID was the excuse for killing that had to be done anyway.

Look at the national debt. Explain how they're going to pay that. Then realize that the US is really really rich if all you boomers are dead. Suddenly, Soc Security & Medicare are assets, not liabilities. I could go on, but the point is that killing you is a better way of ending the subsidy than ending the subsidy because you might not vote for them if they end the subsidy, but - once your dead - they don't need your vote. The system goes on, largely. unchanged, but without you. That's why they're doing this: to hold power. And they'll just invent excuses to justify the killing because the killing is the goal.

If, as I suspect, the vaccines kill millions, the people in charge will be in a better position than ever before because they'll have so much $ to spend buying off whomever is left. I'm looking forward to the new & enhanced benefits I'll receive from your demise - thanks for giving your life for me!

But, folks, if you think they care about you, you haven't been paying attention. Govt. cares for you like a cattle farmer cares for his herd because both are in the same business - tending herds. If the farmer feeds you more/better, it's not because he expects you to live longer/better - he's just fattening you up.

Govt isn't your friend & literally cannot be because it wants more of what you got - your interests are inherently in conflict.

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Some would say they still get your vote after you die. A total WIN/WIN.

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You're right - my bad!

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I also feel it´s mostly about the retirement funds. They don´t even consider to pay the dept anymore or to pay the pensions to anyone. It´s easier to loot state funds which can be directed to private hands and leave the burden of dept and inflation to the voters. I am honestly surprised, how easily they getting away with that.

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As a boomer, I agree with your synopsis 100%. I hope you enjoy those extra bene’s when you own nothing and will be happy about it. 🤬😳🤔🤫

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"If the farmer feeds you more/better, it's not because he expects you to live longer/better - he's just fattening you up." - I tend to think that's what the whole post WWII rise of the middle class was about. We can long for the good old days, but those days were short, and they served a very specific purpose.

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Except that the so-called "national debt" is a fiction.

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“why? what was the impetus?”

I answer your whys as well as a few hundred others I posed in the notes I dashed off for my Corona Investigative Committee presentation last year:

• “A Mostly Peaceful Depopulation” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-mostly-peaceful-depopulation)

The only answers that make any sense are:

1) Profit

2) Power

3) Democide

Regarding the unprecedented, illogical, and orchestrated maligning of ivermectin, here is the short answer:

• “Letter to Alex Berenson on World Ivermectin Day” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-alex-berenson-on-world)

And here is a longer one:

• “Letter to a Scientifically-Minded Friend” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded)

And here is the mechanism of academic fraud via BMGF's Unitaid pawn Andrew Hill:

• “Profiles in Courage: Dr. Tess Lawrie” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-dr-tess-lawrie)

• “A Letter to Dr Andrew Hill” (https://rumble.com/vwfia3-a-letter-to-andrew-hill-dr-tess-lawrie-oracle-films.html)

And this is what would have happened if conventional medical protocols had been followed without intervention:

• “A Very Boring Story About What Could Have Been in Under 200 Words” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/i/43933309/a-very-boring-story-about-what-could-have-been-in-under-words)

All of this culminates in this inevitable conclusion:

• “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem)

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MAA....agree. You are spot on, for those of us (many warriors from the education sector) we’re watching from the beginning.

These guys have a playbook. The consistencies in how they do what they do for their benefit are easy to spot once you have had exposure to the gamesmanship and false narratives designed to forces the masses to partake of something that normally common sense and industry standards would cause them to reject, or at the very least challenge with thoughtful questions based on years of experience and existing research.

They always counter with innovate, innovate, innovate.....”progress” defined from a theoretical vantage point.

In the case of education “reform” brought by the likes of Fates and other fin/tech elite, it was largely theory....overlaying principles that make technology all about efficiency and economy into education with the idea that kids would engage as if they were playing a video game or obsessively tackling challenges on a screen to have the highest score among their peers.

Instead of engaged students they soon found that students used the technology for things other than schooling. They found that no deadlines meant unmotivated students not “kids learning at their own and appropriate pace.” They thought their system would inspire kids to use their natural attributes to excel but soon learned it meant they lacked an interest in anything that pushed them beyond their comfort zone. The bottom line....all the theory they employed was not appropriate developmentally for kids whose brains are not even fully developed. The idea that kids, with a laptop, would be competent to manage their own education was ludicrous from the get go---any seasoned parent would know kids need structure and guidance.

But the playbook the fin/tech elite use to lobby politicians and use $$$$ as the carrot to turn our institutions into their playgrounds and labs for beta testing is a well worn path over the past decade in education.

When the pandemic hit....it was easy to spot the same dynamic at play. You float the theoretical solution and you convince people it is progress and the innovative answer for the future....improving on the way things once were done. They often leave out the fact that their ideas are untested, unproven and largely hype that they hope will convince you to invest in their ideas/plans.....invest NOT with $$$$ (they are flush with cash) but with your future, your security, and as we saw with COVID....your life and well being.

They had an idea....mRNA, gene editing, Crisper, genomic medicine....all of it, moving fast and now data collection and culling more

sophisticated, artificial intelligence and computing tools they are anxious to put to use on “real Robles solving” and to playing God.

These guys are arrogant and feel entitled to use the public, that comes begging for their “hard earned” cash, as lab rats.

I was horrified in the education space when Gates decided his plans around shifting the education system in New England had not succeeded like he hoped. He moved onto a different “solution” to effect the change he desires. Meanwhile an entire generation of students and the profession of teaching paid the price for his supposed desire to improve things for the little guy. He made matters worse and then left the sector grappling with the effects of years of disruption.

I believe the playbook they use....Delphi method, ensuring that their proposals will be attested to as “good” and the next best thing in whatever area they look to overtake by others. They trot out experts who have clear conflicts of interest often hidden from view so that the public buys what is being sold. And when the results are not what they hoped for they wash their hands off the whole affair and pretend that they were only trying to help and are not responsible for the mess made.

With COVID, we did damage to more than our kids learning, physical, mental and emotional well being....we simultaneously decimated and destroyed the family and community resources that would have been safety nets or stabilizing forces. We weaponized the average person against family, friend and neighbor. We created an environment where the individual could not rely on anything or anybody that historically would have given them some security, comfort or grounding in the supposed crisis.

It is hard not to see social trauma, death, destruction as the goal.

But why? Was there a reason beyond depopulation or advancing the technology that the fin:tech elite refer to as “the software of life” and maintain that it will revolutionize medicine and allow man to “engineer his own evolution?”

A researcher friend at the outset said....this is about the demolition of the West....it is about ushering in the social impact markets.

After all, if you want the public to buy into the coming shift and overhaul on the financial system then you have to be able to show the power of technocracy....that is, the ones with money and who own the machines want us tiered, hungry, scared, weak, poor, devastated health and education wise.....SO they can sell us the solutions.

The solutions they will offer will be dictated by their previous technology and data as they look to fix us! And make money doing it!

People need to understand first and foremost, they intend to be the heroes if and when the collapse occurs. They are busy driving a wedge in the public....some want meritocracy and believe in accountability/responsibility with rights....and they are also, busy convincing the disadvantage and down trodden to hate those who have not suffered as having a superiority complex that is not warranted. Neither is wrong, both are right in varying degrees and much depends on circumstance and the devil is often in the details of the individual or personal experience. But they want us glossing over all the diversity and colorful tapestry of life even as they chant “diversity, equity and inclusive.” They do not encourage dialogue and conversation. They set us up for failure and division with their mandated platforms of talking points that are about as hollow as it gets when it comes to actually arbitrating discussion and advancing a cause. We know this...,we already went down this road in the past.

Alas, they figure that this time they can fix it. Why and how...,the end game is to own us by owning everything and is having to ask permission and meet their standards to participate in life.

No thank you. I saw how it worked out in education. I have seen the damage done during the pandemic. I want these guys out of my life and my government to ensure they do not get to decide what is a good, decent or worthy life for me or my children in the future. If it means less $$$$ in our public space then so be it. Maybe we will be a more resilient, more connected, more empathetic community if we are made to rely and trust one another rather than rely on millionaires that can’t even relate to the lives of most Americans. And if they want to help....go ahead and donate their millions with NO strings attached. But they will not do that....it is not about philanthropy or benevolence for so many of them, it has become a business model that is designed to place them beyond reproach.

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Oh....and the ones they get to push their “theory” as proven “science” or vetted and tried ideas backed by studies are often the ones who will profit if the public engages in the proposed changes.

For example, in my state....the same ones that supported the “reform” efforts of Gates in education then turned around and bilked the tax payer for millions in consulting fees as they “implemented” and sold their services to schools. It is a grift of gargantuan proportions at our expense and also reduces, in many instances, our public service employees into employees of Gates et al trained to do the heavy lifting that Gates and them would have to pay people to do in truly doing experiments in controlled environments over time to create a sound record of success or failure.

Look at COVID...Moderna and Pfizer just saved millions on clinical testing. So what if Americans and others have died? All in the name of progress is their chant....after all, we had a deadly pandemic!!!! That’s the BS....that is the marketing. Just as in education the fin/tech sector have been beating the drum about failing schools based on their standardized tests. So the politicians believe them when they say they have the answers.

In COVID the world was reduced to their laboratory....no cost, no liability, they even make a profit for having us serve as their lab rats. It’s ingenuous....but it is also criminal and smacks of depravity that is best described as “evil.” Make no mistake they see us as disposable. Their works view is “survival of the fittest”....just ask them, they think their success and wealth is a credit to their brilliance, talent and discipline. But how much is also due to abusing and taking advantage of those who are trusting, respectful, measured in their lives, etc.?

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I am an educator, and everything you have articulated so well makes me nod my head in agreement. What has happened to the world these last three years has left me baffled, frustrated, and very angry. The damage done to children was something that disturbs me greatly. Truth be told, you are right about the damage happening even pre-Covid. If you have some ideas on how we can turn this around, I am all ears. We need solutions, and I for one feel the same as you: this current paradigm will NOT be the future for my adult children, nor my future grandchildren; we know what they have done, and it is time to show these evil elites the back door. They are not part of our future.

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I do not have answers. I have some thoughts but I worry that we may be too far down the road that they have had us on. I was talking with another parent recently and we were bemoaning the fact that it only takes one generation brainwashed to disconnect future generations from the history, sacrifices, hardships that have served as a foundation for a community. And then you run the risk of them finding out the hard way that they are not invincible or guaranteed anything. At the end of the day, actions speak louder than words.

My feeling in education is that we have made things harder than they have to be on several fronts. We have also asked educators to fill the gaps left due to a failure on the part of adults to parent or fill a void left by fewer community connections happening organically. We have also denied the value of boredom and a slower pace for our children. Somebody explained the learning process and imagination as functioning like a heart beat. One needs time away from the hectic pace and bombardment to process and reflect. On the whole, I think adults and kids alike could benefit from slowing down and savoring what we do have instead of constantly seeking the next best thing. Many would disregard this advice as unrealistic and naive....but one thing the pandemic did teach me is to stop....to be present....to hike the ridge out back and really soak up the details of nature. It taught me what I had forgotten from my childhood....spending time with my kids playing board games, cooking, taking drives, cooking and enjoying outdoor activities have value that is immeasurable. The human connection is the most valuable engine for motoring through life....fueling it with curiosity, patience, engagement, willingness to regard others with the same respect you desire, and a willingness to accept that sometimes there are no answers or that life is tough goes a long way towards maintains hope and sanity. Fundamentally, we need to remind ourselves routinely that rights are accompanied with responsibility. And be discerning about those who do not have the capacity or ability to participate fully in that equation, but help them fulfill their potential lending a hand while allowing integrity and self respect to remain intact. Personally, in my experience you can make a good teacher great, but you cannot make a bad teacher better. I tend to think teaching is a natural talent because it requires an investment in relationships. Some people are better at navigating that space than others. It is a passion. And we should as a society be willing to support teachers that excel....and not just measure success with test scores. And we need to have standards about what traits we value in helping kids succeed. There is so much emphasis of focusing on data to inform teaching, but data does not always address realities that are only discernible through interaction and taking time....listening and being innovative in the moment from instinct, intuition and experience. Instead, they are trying to approach education as programming that can be reduced to formulas and algorithms based on data. They call it personalized learning, but that is a crock. Sometimes the third grader struggling in the classroom just needs a confidante that sees them because their parents are fighting or absent. Others have challenges based on biology or things beyond control....but good teachers will naturally do trial and error on search of what sparks the interest of the child so they can meet with success. I think of education as being more about teaching an individual confidence in their ability to make their way in the works and find answers as needed. It should not be prescriptive, but standards of basics should apply and spontaneity and creativity should be encouraged with an innate understanding that one size fits all. Invest in people. It will pay dividends on several fronts...in families, schools, and community.

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One of my pet peeves throughout the years is those that would announce that "they were bored." To me this appeared to me that they were looking to me to provide entertainment, when the onus should be on them to find ways to entertain themselves. My response was usually "Be interesting."

Managing downtime is one thing our current culture is missing and probably the reason why we may not necessarily progress in some areas of our society. There are simply too many distractions out there. So there is no "need" to create. Many of us consume instead of create, and I have to say, I consume quite a bit in the realm of entertainment.

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Bored is a "4 letter word" in my house. My daughter is not allowed to say it. And I say if you are bored, you are boring! I tell her don't tell the world your boring. Same as "Be interesting"

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Our brains need time to rest, chill and process. We seem to think that more is better in every front. I think of marathon training….if your approach is that you should run as far as you can every day to build up your ability for the 26.2 Mike race, you will burn out and injure yourself. You have to be smart about how and when you train. The same, IMO, applies to our brain and interfacing with the works and others. But technology has us convinced that we should be available to everybody and everything all the time. It is not healthy and in many respects unproductive.

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Beautifully articulated. If you don’t have a substack, you should! With this as your first essay!

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Thanks. I’m thinking about it. Just feel like many do not see the bigger picture and the “experts” even those on our side talk over the heads of many that know something is not right, but can’t quite put their finger on it. I am fortunate to have had the time and ability (for research) to dig deeper due to my background and the role I have played in raising my daughter’s. Also, raised in a family of five kids by parents who essentially belonged to the WWII generation...,I learned the value of healthy debate and laying devil’s advocate as a way of trying to get to truth. My husband would probably prefer I not spend as much time (unpaid) trying to get a better handle on what we are up against, but my daughters’ future is on the line.

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Thinking the same

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I did some real investigative reporting into an Alabama school system that adopted all of these "progressive" education reforms (pushed by the new superintendent). The reforms included no tests, no grades, no books, no honor societies, no library, all "learning" was "project based" done in groups and the teachers ("adult learners") had to come up with cool projects to engage the "learners." I would have never thought the community would swallow such "California" style BS ... but many did. It became like a cult - those who supported the "innovative" way of learning and those who were mortified. Many withdrew their children and the faculty that didn't buy in was fired and bullied. My wife was one of the fired teachers. From researching this "Schloetzky" model, I quickly concluded this stuff was being pushed around the nation and had been for years. All learning was done on computer devices and, sure enough, some of those students quickly learned how to access porn on their devices ... during school.

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I think there are many, many decent good teachers out there who want students to learn.

However, I think that there are numerous bad teachers that not only don't want students to learn, but are OK with simply not really working.

The not really working teachers seem to rule now, and appear to be totally OK with "no deadlines, learn at your own pace, no grades, no failing and let's talk about your sexuality in class."

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There is truth in what you say. And some good teachers have left because their hands are tied. And sadly, some teachers have thrown in the towel....still teaching but basically just mailing it in because their sense is nothing they do ultimately makes a difference. Smaller class sizes, more quality passionate teachers, and stop asking teachers to do what parents or community support systems should be doing. It drags everyone down and is a disservice even to the ones that need extra support.

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Bad employers make bad employees. I've seen it myself. A bad workplace demotivates you. I'm sure that happens with teachers.

When your school/union decides "you will do it this way" that's what you do to keep your job. Even though it's not best for the students and not what you want to do.

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Excellent, excellent post!! 👏👏👏

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Why?

Simple. They could not have declared emergency policies for all sorts of crap like Rundeathisnear, and untested vaccines -- if there were plenty of simpler treatments like aspirin (advocated in Italy early on) and the rest of the OTC and off-label old drugs they could have used.

It all seems to hang -- legally -- on banning already available treatments, and later on pushing the vax to kids.

The why I am asking is, who exactly coordinated this. This was not just a random push to monetize covid. It was at least to some extent directed. How and who, exactly?

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That's the Billion Dollar Question- who wrote the whole Covid Playbook, & how the Hell did they manage to force it down the throats of the entire Formerly Free World, + South Africa & a host of other nations too??

No Treatment For You!

Lockdown and kill your economy & your kids' futures!

Lethal Hospital Protocols.

Demonization, Withdrawal, & Illegality of the Effective Treatments & Preventive Strategies like Vitamin D, etc.

Then the killer quackzine, paid for by Government, Endemnified by Government & Mandated By Government!

Hell. That's some wicked and long term planning. Add in the Universal Censorship of anyone with a functioning mind & enough courage to call all the killing & terrorism out, you have 2020-2024 in perspective.

Somebody/something did this to most of humanity.

It's bad enough to make you believe Jesus was literally correct when he said Satan is the ruler of this world.....

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And here is another creepy question. We know that the result has been a vast amount of wealth -- much vaster than anything they have had access to before -- to Big Pharma. What are they planning to do with it?

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Great essay. Thanks.

Instead of being a calming voice in times of crisis, governments amplified shrieks of fear, then did everything possible to withhold effective treatments. In other words, they did everything they could to drive people into injecting mRNA into their bloodstream when these "miracle" solutions were created. Why, exactly, did governments, everywhere, lead their citizens to the vaccination chamber?

That is the only question worth pursuing now. Stupidity of public health officials/politicians and greed by Big Pharma are what Occam's Razor would posit. But Occam's Razor is useless when dealing with pure evil. And that's what we're facing, imo.

Get ready for a very, very interesting decade.

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Exactly. You would expect that even with stupidity of public health officials/politicians and greed by Big Pharma a few decisions, and hence outcomes, would go the lifesaving, beneficial direction if just by chance. The fact that seemingly EVERY turn made matters worse and most of these went contrary to established practices and policies is suspect to say the least.

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Why? Well, for one depop will decrease the chance of hyperinflation when your monetary system is collapsing.

Also... war is a good method of depop as well. Keep that in mind for the near future.

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I lost 2 immediate family members during COVID mania. The first was lost a few weeks after his first shot to a series of strokes and cascading infections. The second was lost after contracting COVID, winding up in hospital on a ventilator and given Remdesivir and being denied monoclonals and/or ivermectin despite the family's requests. I strongly feel that both would be with us today if we had a functioning medical system.

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I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s really criminal and evil what has been done through all of this Covid madness. My close family member was killed during the lockdowns, in a long term care facility where he was receiving rehab services after breaking his leg (he had had a stroke a few years early and wasn’t very mobile so needed extra help). When he had what turned out to be a bowel obstruction, he called family and tried to get them to help get someone in the facility to attend to him. No one did and he got more and more desperate as his symptoms worsened. Family went to the faculty but were barred from entering because of the lockdowns. Finally my family member was transported to a hospital for treatment but it was too late. He died there shortly after arriving. None of that would have happened if not for the lockdowns.

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That's a heartbreaking story, and such an unnecessary suffering and loss!

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Too many of these stories 😞

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So sorry. I suspect there are many more like you with similar tales. I lost my mother after her third shot which was given at the same time as a flu shot. She was not advised to stop the meds she was taking for and autoimmune disease. Basically she ended up with elevated triponins, sky high blood pressure then erratic blood pressure. Next came weakness, dizziness, fatigue, shortness of breadth. By her 3rd and 4th hospitalization she had speech and swallowing difficulties. And even had a fainting episode which she explained it coming on and then passed out for over a minute. She was treated as if she had a heart attack and stroke....even though testing showed no evidence of heart damage or evidence of a stroke. So they stopped hydrating her sufficiently (because they worried about congestive heart failure) and she could not eat adequately. In essence she was starved and dehydrated. Visitors were limited and then kept out all together. After I saw her, I told them she was suffering from myasthenia gravis and they needed to get a neurologist in to see her. I was right, but it was too late. She died from a cardiac arrest due to dehydration when they tried to vent her. She never tested positive for COVID. My diagnosis was right and is on her death certificate. She was hospitalized 4 times and she was in for a week when I saw her and nobody had on radar that she was suffering from an adverse reaction to the vaccine---except me. I had been reviewing information on VAERS for months. After she died we got messages she had sent through FB saying how hungry, and thirsty she was and how she had no meds, etc. she asked for help. I was on the outside at that point trying to gain access but was denied. It horrifies and haunts me to think of her alone, scared and anxious before she slipped into unconsciousness. I think the doctors were so busy wringing their hands and thinking everybody was gonna be a COVID case that they were beyond negligent in their care of the elderly and our most vulnerable.

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Your story really and truly breaks my heart. No one should have to suffer like that. 💔

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Just heartbreaking 😞

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that is awful, I am sorry!

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Sorry to hear that. I’m not a lawyer, but would the discovery process in a class action suit against hospitals help to get the data needed to prove causation?

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The "healthcare" system functions very well, it's just not how we're told it's supposed to work.

Apologies for your losses. Sincerely.

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Sickening. Sorry for your losses.

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welcome to Obama's Cuban barefoot medicine he promised us.

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Check out RFK Jr, The Defender podcast; episode 1/21/23 “All Cause Mortality w/Denis Rancort”. He tracks the same phenomenon where death went up in areas with excessive lockdowns & horrible public health policies vs where no interventions occurred.

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Thank you for tremendous work. Of importance is the demonstration that "something" happened on a regional basis, which tracked with excess deaths. There are some efforts to say that the entire covid 2020 episode was a mirage, that germ/terrain theory solves this, and this is leading to confusion.

American medical system, compared to other nations, is outstanding on a couple of items: it is most financially entangled with pharmaceutical industry; it has widest spread on vital statistics between rich and poor. Both of these factors likely result in a system that is vulnerable to medical fraud.

Surgisphere is an as-yet unplumbed operation as it had to be financed by someone to encourage three researchers to be willing to torpedo their reputations by publishing fraudulent studies in NEJM and Lancet.

Decline in antibiotic use, negation of HCG, IVM would all have strongly affected vaccine clinical trials. One reason why is that placebo groups would have been receiving best available treatment, which would have had to include these meds. This is also a Surgisphere donwstream issue.

I wonder if you look at data for physician-assisted suicide at a state level, whether it would correlate with size of excess mortality wave in that state. Washington, Oregon, Vermont are among leaders in this regard. Clinical medicine is vulnerable to blurring of concepts.

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it really does seem like we were playing an extended game of self-fulfilling prophesy.

"raisins are deadly!"

"no they aren't"

<stuffs raisins in your mouth until you choke>

"see! raisins are deadly!"

surgisphere is, indeed, interesting. they sort of disappeared from view after than massive multi-journal fraud.

any idea what became of them?

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Desai lost university post. Mehta from Brigham Young and highest profile of three blamed Desai and kept on trucking. I don’t recall name/position of trio but will take a look. The coordinated response to surgi by journals and the. WHO, FDA etc felt very coordinated. Sure there was antiTrumpness mixed in but my sense was that HCQ was an unexpected twist that the Covid defense coordinators hadn’t anticipated. Not saying that the whole game was about selling vaccines BUT it feels like one-tracked thinking took hold and anything that moved attention away from vaccines was a negative. BARDA lead said as much and touted (bragged?) about 80:20 ratio of funding for vaccines:therapeutics.

The question of how foolish vent strategies got is hidden in case series from 2020, as well as two (probably more?) RN whistleblowers. Remdesivir is likely in the mix. As much as covid vaccines were rolled out prematurely and studied after the fact, so was a lot of therapeutic strategy. Having watched clinical guidelines getting made, overapplied, and ratcheted back over a 10-20 year cycle, I'm not surprised that this would happen with covid in early going.

Hierarchical structure of clinical medicine means the Faucis of the world get huge sway into what everyone else does. There is likely a committee report (WHO? Someone else?) that said " covid lung is ARDS! Intubate early! Give lots of pressure, and if that fails, give more!" Kyle Cameron Siddell's video telling people to stop doing that made a huge impact on a splinter group of ICU docs who were already questioning the guidance. I suspect some of them (they've gone awfully quiet on Twitter, ICU covid docs have) could tell the story of.glitchy protocols in much more detail

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pulmonary comments exactly right. intubated COVID patients in ICU had about 80% mortality. Two of my close friends died that way within 5 days. One was a superb pathologist.. another an engineer.. my age.. Cytokine storm, SPIKE protein destruction of alveolar cells, higher pressures, remdesiver junk.. death. But with a positive covid test somewhere on the chart the hospitals walked away with 29,000 extra dollars from medicare... Yep, that magic federal money straight out of our pockets. Oh.. through all that, I did not take the jab. Nor get COVID.

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how many suffer and die(d) to get rid of trump?

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It worked didn’t it?

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that with laser printers, and mail drops.

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I love the way you methodically lay out your arguments, remaining scrupulously fair in refusing to go any further than that which can be stated as fact, but just remorselessly piling up those facts in such a way that it is impossible to fail to reach the obvious conclusion.

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Easy to follow and easy to share with others

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Anecdotal, but I do know people who had a respiratory issue in 2020, went to the doctor/urgent care, and was basically told "don't do anything, go home, and if/when it gets so bad that you can't breathe go to the ER". No attempt to give _any_ sort of medicine that might have helped. And then she did that and got pneumonia - completely preventable had the doctors prescribed the (up to then) normal meds typical for that sort of situation.

So yeah - bad medical practices had a LOT to do with the increased sufferings/deaths. I'm still convinced of that. The recent articles here just show that even more - had we just gone on with life/treatments as normal we'd have come out of this and never really known anything happened. :(

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It's almost as if they were looking for ways to inflate the death rate.

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Fear,then control equals power. It's a great playbook.

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It's also an old and moldy playbook for those already skeptical. When you are told by all major players about a reality that doesn't exist, it's hard to become afraid about other things they assert.

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Lol,yeah Jimmy, we know better but there's quite a few gullible folks that believe everything a used car salesman tells them.

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Gullible is probably a much better explanation for what happened. I still want to discover what it was that prevented me from going down the same path as everyone else. I think a lot can be said by just "everyone else either believed it, or acted like they believed it." I can tell you honestly, I didn't think lockdowns would work, but thought I would agree as it would be clear fairly quickly that flattening the curve was not a realistic goal. What I wish I knew at that point was that the intention of the lockdowns was never to stop the spread anyhow, but rather the foot in the door of compliance.

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Oh geez Jimmy, I think most of us were gullible in the beginning, hell I'll be 68 in a couple months and never in my lifetime did I ever think we would have to deal with anything like this. I think most of us (I know I did) fell for the garbage that was being sold to us. I even got the first Pfizer shot. I was scared, I have COPD and the TV is telling me I'm gonna die! But then I saw how political it all got. Remember it was election time coming. I think many of us started a little critical common sense thinking. Some how, I think I was my daughter turned me on to Dr mercola.com, and Del Bigtree,which somehow got me here. I refused to take another shot after that. The more they coerced (doctors and friends/family) the more obstinate I became. That's the good part of getting old and cranky....I'll say what I want and I don't give a f###! Lol ! 😆 I have read many stories on these stacks that have same experience. I read your comments too Jimmy! God bless buddy!

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There were videos from nurses who were telling us in 2020 that we weren't treating sick patients and instead letting them die. Turns out in addition to turning sick patients away with no support & telling them to return when their lips were blue & needed to be vented wasn't treatment. Neither was treating very sick ICU patients with fluids, 02, & Tylenol and oh, midazolam and calling it treatment. It wasn't treatment, it was murder.

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It's as if Bret Weinstein is right and doctors have been converted from scientists to human database query engines: look up symptoms in database, apply "official" treatments, next patient please.

Any doctor sued will point to hospital/HMO policy. Any hospital/HMO will point to government policy. The government can't be sued. Catch-22. Going outside policy opens you up to being fired or defunded and *then* sued, so nobody does it anymore.

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What if that policy=death?

Maybe doctors are so detached from their patients that they never see the consequences of their decisions , but I have to believe there is something more to it than that. I don't know if I'd be able to sleep at night knowing that the protocols given proved ineffective, and t hat I was doing what I was doing due to protocol and not any accurate assessment leading to a diagnosis and probable treatments.

And I would be even more suspicious if there were no alternative treatments being offered, or that the same treatement was given across the board. How often is that done in medicine, that "one size fits all?"

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"What if that policy=death?"

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair

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exactly the treatment I received

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Shouldn’t that be “gato non grata”?

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Great work gato! Interesting, I did not know about AZM having antiviral properties. That seems to make the drop in prescriptions during 2020 more consequential than I thought.

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I didn’t either. There several more. I feel stupid telling people back in the day that antibiotics are useless for viral infections.

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I guess the thing to do is say you’ve got a sinus infection so they’ll give you the AZT while they don’t treat the covidflu.

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And tell them you have scabies so you can get ivermectin!

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Haha Porge, i did. Doctor was fine with that and prescribed, but by that time dutch health inspection was banning prescription for covid and in good old 1940-1945 fashion lined up the pharmacists in brown shirts to do their bidding, i.e. to keep prescriptions back and to not deliver the meds to patients (so in fact overruling doctors!), but rather to snitch on these doctors to health inspection. Fines for doctors max 150,000 euro! so no deal for me there. I got vet ivm from china.

Every year on may 4, we commemorate those killed in ww2 and say ‘never again’. Yet these people blindly follow the same orders, as others did then. No discerning mind, no moral compass. Incomprehensible, a pharmacist with pharmacological knowledge, buying the state’s lie that hcq or ivm would be dangerous! This befehl ist befehl mentality (i actually told her so).

For in Holland we had a doctor who very early on did treat his patients, all elderly, with hcq and azm and cured them all! So he advised the health inspection of his find. And he was called a quack and the ban was the result. Clearly TPTB did not want a cheap effective drug with a long track record of safety to get in the way of their plans, and apparently they had every western country aligned and tasked to go this route. The uniformity of the news we were fed, dystopic. There is a most interesting video made by Tim Gielen, a fellow countryman, called “monopoly, who owns the world”. Goes a long way in explaining what we have seen.

https://www.timgielen.com/en/videos-en/

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Yes Antonetta, I had similar experience. I obtained prescription for IVM and Doxycycline from a tele- med doctor. My pharmacy refused to fill. I went to the pharmacy and talked with the head pharmacist to ask why they would not fill it. She stood there with her hand on her hip and told me it was not approved by the CDC. Then I replied by telling her the clot shot wasn't approved either but you're administrating those . This was soon after the CDC approved "Comirnaty" . She told me it was approved, and I asked her if she had "Comirnaty" and she didn't even know what that was! So I told her that it was the only licensed and approved vax ,WHICH WASN'T EVER AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. ! THIS IS HOW STUPID THESE PEOPLE ARE. So I told her if she's telling people it's licensed and approved and giving the shot that she is breaking the law and should be prosecuted. I then left and took my business elsewhere. I doubt I had any effect on her, but it made me feel better anyway. 😌

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Good for you Porge! Very few people really stop to think. It’s a relief I find to speak out. Just like you say, makes you feel a lot better!

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Sounds like that has been the “consensus” medical and scientific opinion for some time; at least you are willing to be incorrect about it and pivot accordingly. But about vitamin D deficiency and its association with myriad negative health conditions, this is beyond words: https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/canadian-health-minister-dismisses-peer-reviewed-vitamin-d-studies-calling-them-fake-news/

(The embedded video is very brief, I promise.)

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Ha! That's exactly what my doctor told me when I had covid pneumonia. Sorry pal ,nothing we can do for you. Now go home and wait til you can't breathe. FJB!

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That is medically criminal

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Both. I believe your discoveries are pieces of a whole of a well orchestrated worldwide crime scene with massive misdirection for everyone; the public and scientists trying to figure it out with the media skull-screwing EVERYONE. I’m convinced Both the Virus and the Vaccines were Military Grade Weapons, not a leak, and the media’s responses and reporting was also NOT a mistake, but Military Misinformation and Misdirection, especially when it comes to the cheeped treatments/protocols. Go back, way back and research the doctors and their findings saying the same things about HIV and Anthrax, then fast forward today as they’ve been repeating themselves trying to be vindicated after the media’s same bogus explanations and trashing of the current researchers (like yourself) and the doctors who were destroyed for aLmOsT figuring it all out, again.

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Joel Smalley’s substack today was a receipt from Braun, on the number of doses of midazolam they mustered up for Italy. 10,000 doses.

Sadly early treatments with repurposed drugs and antibiotics, were shunned, suppressed, banned. Many died because of this. Drugs such as midazolam , remdesivir and mechanical ventilation saw off most of the covid positive, frail elderly, and high risk physically handicapped younger people. How was it possible for medically trained doctors to not see what was in front of their eyes. Their treatments were killing people. Although in the USA, there was a financial reward from the government for any hospital to admit a covid pt and vent them and another bonus for writing cause of death “covid” on the death certificate.

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A lot of the initial Fear Blitz was based on the clusterf*** in Italy -- "if a First World country medical system could nearly collapse, OMG it's the end of the world!!!"

But honestly, how effective is the Italian medical system in the first place? I've never been to Italy, but certainly their reputation is that anything connected to the government is ramshackle at best.

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And lots of old people. The average age of covid deaths was 85 in Italy

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As a mother of children who are now in their late teens I can say that the saying that antibiotics don’t work against viruses is old, and I have been advised for as long as I remember not to ask for antibiotics for a viral infection.

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Yes Brahms, but the kicker is they don't test you, they just assume you have a virus. Right?🤔

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Me, too; my kid is your kids' age. There is, however, the idea of secondary bacterial infections, which everyone I know who has ever been hospitalized (for anything other tham childbirth) has gotten, so you'd think the number of scripts written for those would have been sky-high.

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It’s true one should be able to get antibiotics for bacterial infections (and yes, covid pneumonia should have been treated), but the premise here is that zpacks specifically are effective against viruses.

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We need to maintain some memory. IT was known (and published) from early 2020 that those in NY put on ventilators had a roughly 90% mortality. IIt has long been accepted that intubation is an action of last resort in a frail elderly person as they likely wont get off the respiratory support. . It was known for decades that old people die more from respiratory infections if they are not moved regularly, not encouraged to ambulate, do not receive chest physio, have low vit D. CPAP is long known to be the safest approach to care, along with maintaining mobility, in these circumstances. We are not discovering this now. We knew the way we treated Covid would increase the death rate. Some people clearly saw political advantage in the fear-mongering and war-rhetoric garbage that led to the mindsets that allowed this to happen. And too many hospital staff presumably were too weak to stand up to what they knew was right.

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Yep. When Cuomo was banging the table about needed 30,000 vents, he was really saying he expected at least 25,000 more deaths.

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Andrew Cuomo wrote a book about his heroic response to Covid. The media glamorized him at the time. To me, it was apparent that he wanted to be a hero and created a climate of fear and panic that he could take credit for responding to. However, the entire response to Covid appears to have had an unspoken motive - to upend Trump’s Re-election. A bad flu season would not have been sufficient.

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