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I have a friend who has relatives in Australia. He is a caring individual. But he sees no problem with the Australian government's tyrannical measures to impose lockdowns in the holy grail quest for 0 Covid. When I told him the quarantine areas reminded me of concentration camps, he got very angry. "You have to understand this is in the service of preserving health!" A few days ago he informed me (with pride?) you would never be allowed to travel freely outside if you were here. He plans taking a booster soon. He also states (with pride?) that Australia is succeeding in imposing vaccine mandates, has gotten 80% vaccinated, and hopes to soon reach 90% --greater than our pathetic warp speed. He sees the vaccines as tremendously effective. HOW CAN HE BELIEVE THIS? I alternate between praying for his health, and hoping I see him repent with both Covid and adverse vaccine reactions.

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I think we are all bouncing back and forth between wanting to make the ones that won't see, SEE, and also proving to the ones that are being indignant, then taken down (ah ha, see?), but then hoping the same bad things won't happen to our beloved parents, children, siblings, friends...they believe they are doing the right thing. What are we to do?

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My family is the same (except my mother). My dad couldn't wait to get his booster and called vitamin D "quackery". My mother and brother came down with covid and my mum took Ivermectin and was better the next day. My brother refused the "horse medicine" and would "defeat it with his protection from the vaccine". He was sick for another week. All these people are lost. Mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and ultimately, physically. Most of them won't lift a finger when the oppression becomes full-blown persecution.

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I'm glad your family recovered. Some people even are happy to get disabled from vaccines (proves vaccination works), and also happy to get Covid (would have been worse without vaccination). I'm not sure they are lost. I bet if we took control of all the media and had a constant stream of propaganda such as Covid is weakening, new early treatment cures Covid, Ivermectin, fluvoxamine, etc. are safe and effective, vitamin D a great prophylactic, with catchy slogans such as "Back to normality!" "Freedom," etc. Oh, and we have to keep publishing low or declining rates of Covid and lower rates of hospitalization. (Not sure we can promise low rates of hospitalization, though, with high rates of vaccination.)

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I recommend the brother watches Life of Brain, that might heal him.

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Life of Brian too...lol - Monty Python.

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"We're all individuals."

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Just biding our time..(pitifully with Biden) and watching to see what craziness next. You are not alone Diana!

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I have friends and family there, they're not necessarily fully on board but seem reluctant to admit to the full maliciousness of the current situation. It's all happened since the lock-downs that came after May. Before that the vaccines were available but there was little uptake.

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