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Principle of Pandemia: "Misinformation" doesn't mean the information itself is wrong. It just means the wrong person said it.

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All the cool kids are talking about mis-, dis-, and malinformation. The third one is new and was invented to cover your definition.

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Actually it was invented to criminalize speech, any speech deemed to be against the government official stance. Note the concentration on Domestic Terrorism past 2 years. Jan 6 'insurrection', Trucker convoy, now malinformation, all have been tied to Domestic Terrorism.

https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe8ae84bc-2b21-463f-8129-7b66fba70771_328x687.jpeg

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Sorry meant to paste actual source.

Create or enable the problem, make the public angry about it, make new laws to 'protect' people from it, then you are ready to use it against anyone.

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-february-07-2022

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That DHS policy needs to be protested by all of us. Directly with our senators and congressmen. It cannot stand. I have BTW. They did not respond to my specific concerns. I may repeat.

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The time for that is past. The existence of a "department of homeland security" should have been a giant red flag, kids.

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Department of Homeland Security…

even the name is cringeworthy

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Good job at sarc! 👏

My Sarc: I’m going to report you to.... to... to.... well, someone....

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Mathew is on point. Thanks for the link.

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Great work! I am growing more and more frightened of the masses who can't see this. What was the frequency of narrative changes in '1984' again? Was it each week the war shifted from Eastasia being the enemy to Eurasia, then back again?

Ah who cares that was just a stupid work of fiction.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_geography_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Four

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Yes, DS, that is why I decided to start doing a Substack, and reach out to the masses that are still willing to read. Plus, I lost my job due to vaccine mandate and now I'm not going to stop until they acknowledge their crime against me and everyone else that has suffered. They will never do this, of course; so it looks like I will be writing my Substack for a while yet!

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“All the cool kids…”.

That’s my line…😉 😉

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🤪🤪🤪

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Or that it was inconvenient to the wrong people, but, yes, you're still right. The important thing to remember is that mis, dis, and mal information does not equal lie. In fact, more often than not, it's factually correct, just highly inconvenient in timing or content.

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🎯🎯🎯

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Misinformation is just the new name for Orwell's "wrongthink". They know it isn't a lie, or they would say that.

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Ordered my "Make Orwell Fiction Again" hat. Should be in today ;-).

Reading 1984 is like reading a handbook for politics today.

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That's if Eurasia does not strike the cargo ships. One never knows.

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You got THAT right !!!

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Boom ! 💥💥 💥

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Exactly.

Late November and December 2019: Trump took note of the crisis in China. He was over-reacting.

Jan-Feb 2020: WHO declares a crisis, recommend governments impose travel restrictions. Trump's advisors, including Anthony Fauci, concur. Trump proposes to restrict entry into the US for persons traveling from China and some other parts of Asia (per the WHO recommendation); the very next day, WHO revises their recommendations stating that "travel restrictions are not warranted nor justified". As if the primary source for "truth" is whatever is opposed to what Trump said.

Not to defend Trump, but I can cite multiple examples of where Trump said or acted in direct alignment with what had been the politically correct course and it became instantly unacceptable because Trump said it. It is almost as if he were controlling their minds...

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Yup. I thought of it as one if those "not" cults, where the effort to separate oneself from or to fight what one hates becomes a cultish obsession no different from the original hated thing that inspired it. The cult of Not-Trump. Or the cult of Not-Antivaxx, where the only moral position is to do what the doctor tells you to without question and informed consent is dangerous heresy.

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Or like asking "if CO2 and other gases can trap energy in the atmosphere is settled science, why is it we can only demonstrate this property in computer simulations?"

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🎯🎯🎯

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I believe they attribute those inconvenient truths as coding errors now. For our convenience and in order to assume the bobble-head-nod of "Of course,,, the coding!... all is well".

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By 'not cult' are you referring to behaviors most children used to grow out of by their teens?

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👏👏👏

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😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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It sure is a shame that those who were saying this from the beginning were deplatformed, censored, othered, sued, persecuted—by the people who are now saying it simply because it can’t be hidden any longer.

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and lost long time friends over it.

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Family 😢

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Tragic. A goal in all this is to demoralize. It’s working.

Courage.

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We had life long friends say 'we can't be seen with you' once they got their VX and said 'we are doing our part' I.e. 'you aren't'

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Better off w/out. If WuFlu did anything, it put true colors in sharp relief

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🎶 let it go…let it go 🎶

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By the same people who are now blathering about Ukraine as a distraction from all of these inconvenient & criminal truths

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Yes. And what ever happened to the freedom trucker convoy? There’s a blackout…

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I KNOW! I was just remarking to someone this morning that Fox had been all over the Canadian convoy story for days (until about the time the Canadian “government” started freezing bank accts of participators & supporters) but barely a peep about the one in our own country. What’s up w/ that??

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🎯🎯🎯

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👋 hello Fox 👋

Anybody home???

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They are getting pummeled on Twitr for barely questioning Ukraine policy.

Something fishy ! Certain aspects do seem more and more contrived on the part of USA policy.

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Just remember....there is always a bigger (and smellier?) fish...:-)

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🛻 🛻 🛻

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Oh, and are now saying it because the POLITICAL science has changed. They need to be out of Covid, and fast (enter Ukraine).

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Is it a shame??? Or a badge of honor?

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I'll never get over people rushing out to get tested for something they don't have symptoms for just so they could go home and be terrified in front of their CNN/Fox feeds for 14 days. And I'll never get over the colluders who voluntarily get tested so they could go on a cruise or travel for vacation. And I'll definitely never get over people I know who purposely got tested over and over again hoping for a "positive" so they could have 14 days off of work.

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2 years in and I’ve never taken any of these stupid tests. People act like it’s this accepted cultural activity that we’ve all experienced. Nope! Sorry!

Oh, and still proudly un jabbed and unsick. 😂

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I have never taken a useless pcr test for covid. I do not wear a mask. I am unjabbed and I haven't had a cold since 2018 (knock on wood). There are more of us healthy free thinkers than the media wants us to believe.

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“HFT”. Healthy Free Thinkers !!!

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I never got tested, never hid away, mixed with plenty of people, and had one cold in two years. I refuse to travel by any method that won’t welcome me aboard without a mask.

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👏 👏 👏

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The only reason I would get tested would be so I could claim natural immunity after my quick and non- consequential recovery. 💥

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Same but too bad the 'science changed' and nat immunity no longer exists. How else could the vx passport logic be upheld?

When you tell some people you aren't VXd but have had C19 and so natural immunity, they hesitate and their brain short circuits a bit.

Forget that in many pandemics, those with prior infection and immunity would be sought after because it was known they were safe.

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“Brain short circuits”…

Lot of that going around these days

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Since the main target of this conditioning of society is the young/youth, I wonder what % of them watched their paranoid middle class parents and completely followed.

All these managerial laptop class types who talk down to the uneducated workers who deliver their food and fix their plumbing - 'follow the rules'. Since all the rules were self-contradictory and or arbitrary (on purpose), what chance do young people have to think for themselves, apply first principles, and say this is BS?

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What happened to adolescence anyway? In our day, because our parents thought it was the best reason to think the opposite. Genetic modification?

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👍👍👍

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About to break a 2+ year unlawful confinement and get back out into the world. Tracking the requirements for travel between the US and Canada, and back. Right now "instant" (not PCR) testing is required. Concerned about the reliability of the instant tests. But too long under my comfortable rocks - time to roll the dice and see real faces again!

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World wide gaslighting has commenced. Fauci said we 'misinterpreted' that the Vaccines work & walensky said science is not black & white.

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But get the shot or be fired, that's very black and white.

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And now we find that the way back machine and screen shots and saves are important....

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Pots of gold 🌈 🍯🍯🍯

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I had to compile my list starting in Nov 2020 after this started looking either like "leaders are incompetent, or this is on purpose"

Either way I compiled notes starting with 'before and after' what science been vs what they say to follow.

https://technocracyfordummies.substack.com/p/changes-for-pandemics-before-2020?s=w

Once knew this was on purpose I kept recording other societal aspects. In my head I am writing to my 14yo daughter to hopefully encourage her to think for herself, but more likely it's for my own sanity.

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Thanks for sharing! I wish I had done something similar from the beginning.

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Far too little, far too freaking late.

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Now on to the next crisis. And the next. And the next

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As we fight in a barroom brawl started by “them;” man vs woman, gay vs straight, black vs white, vaxed vs non-vaxed, mask vs no mask, etc., they are upstairs cleaning out the vault!

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Like I wrote in my first essay, “A Primer for the Propagandized: Fear Is the Mind-Killer” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-primer-for-the-propagandized):

“Isolate us from one another, supplant real-world interactions with virtual feuds, label nonconformists as a threat to the group, and pump the public with a disinformation campaign designed to confuse and atomize. In essence, foster a cultlike mentality that shuts down thought to guarantee assent.…

”This is not a partisan issue. Those who wish to control us have made it such because disunited lemmings are easier to steer than independent, critical thinkers.”

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And now they are making the rhetoric to be about the Russia-Ukraine conflict and vilifying those of us who barely barely question the trifecta of motives, action and foreign policy being devised by BOTH sides of the aisle. Since we on this side are often the questioners, be prepared for that propaganda too. It will distress you but check twitter feeds. We are apparently traitors and baby killers just to question only to question whether our nations course of action is or is not correct.

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Off topic but, on topic; the favoirite pejorative from the left, "conspiracy theorists!"

The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop -- Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -- is Authentic

The media outlets which spread this lie from ex-CIA officials never retracted their pre-election falsehoods, ones used by Big Tech to censor reporting on the front-runner.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-nyt-now-admits-the-biden-laptop?utm_source=subscriptions_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=real_time&s=r

NY Post Full Metal Jackets NYT After It Admits Hunter Laptop Is Legit https://www.independentsentinel.com/ny-post-full-metal-jackets-nyt-after-it-admits-hunter-laptop-is-legit/

Drew Holden

🧵THREAD🧵

I don’t know if folks remember how bad the smear campaign was about NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop reporting was, so quick trip back down memory lane.

Beyond the full-court press from Twitter & Facebook, the media & Dems worked overtime to shut down the story. Look ⤵️

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1440459477531062277.html

New Proof Emerges About the Hunter Biden Laptop: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media Fraud

New evidence on Monday proved what has long been clear: that documents about Joe Biden from the Hunter Biden laptop were authentic.

Big Tech censorship in the weeks before the 2020 election of these genuine documents is one of the most severe assaults on free speech and a free election in years.

That the corporate media was their key ally by endorsing and spreading a CIA lie -- that these documents were "Russian disinformation" -- makes this episode even more grave.

https://rumble.com/vmteq5-new-proof-emerges-about-the-hunter-biden-laptop-a-definitive-account-of-the.html

Tom Elliott

Thread: Media Squashing Hunter Laptop Story Before Election

Flashback: Before the 2nd presidential debate, NBC’s @HallieJackson tried to prep viewers that Trump might bring up Hunter’s laptop, which she claimed “has the hallmarks of a foreign interference campaign”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1337146492977606656.html

“It is particularly egregious from @nytimes because one of their stories is about how the “November surprise” of Bobulinski never gained traction.”

They must be so proud of achieving the neo-journalistic goal of keeping people ignorant while pushing the, “Orange Man Bad,” narratives.

Hell, as usual, they brag about it!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336823897971453954.html

See, they have to let us know how powerful and cool they all are; they have to brag about it!

Katy Tur Gloats Journalists Purposefully 'Shot Down' Uranium One Stories During Campaign (2016)

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/11/16/katy-tur-gloats-journalists-purposefully-shot-down-uranium-one#utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_campaign=tur-uranium

How the corrupt media coalesced to protect Biden, keep the electorate ignorant!

When Facebook announced that it would algorithmically suppress this reporting, it did so through a life-long Dem operative, Andy Stone, who claimed it was being done only until they did a "fact-check" on the docs.

(Me; how many times did the media do that regarding President Trump? ZERO times, that’s how many!)

It never came. Why? Because the docs were real.

@KanekoaTheGreat

CNN's Christiane Amanpour -- the week before the election -- explicitly refusing to discuss the reporting on the Biden family by claiming that it's not the media's job to determine if the documents are or are not authentic.

@KanekoaTheGreat

Please watch this video (can’t find it) from CNN's Wolf Blitzer show shortly before the election. The Biden laptop was always genuine, just watch how these people lie.

If this doesn't make you furious, and you don't despise this part of the media, you're wrong.

That state TV propagandist from CNN explicitly said they *know* that the Hunter Biden docs are "Russian disinformation." He said he *knows.*

How did he know? Because FBI officials told him. You can't get lower or more toxic than these corporate media people.

How Trump Manufactured the Hunter Biden-Ukraine Scandal | Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksKzGwqfVZI

He/they, remind me of: Bogart, Cain Mutiny, Ballbearings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlV3oQ3pLA0&t=13s

Joe Biden outright lied about Hunter Biden's laptop and blamed it on Russia. Trump was 100% right.

8/13/2021 Hunter Biden’s Russian Prostitute Videos Indict Both His Father And U.S. Intelligence Agencies

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/13/hunter-bidens-russian-prostitute-videos-indict-both-his-father-and-u-s-intelligence-agencies/

"Rosenberg called his coworkers at The New York Times "bullies," "neurotic" and "…not the clearest thinkers…”

"Rosenberg also discussed coworker Adam Goldman, saying, "He's a terrible writer… He's just not good at conceptualizing things. He's not good with words. It’s a skill. It's a hard one."

From: https://thepostmillennial.com/project-veritas-new-york-times-reporter-reveals-that-trump-pee-tape-doesnt-exist

And, lastly;

https://t.me/drawandstrikechannel/33865

What would make the New York Times write an article admitting Hunter’s laptop is real?

Only the need to position some damage control IMO. That story was already faded out of the headlines.

Did they get a tip it’s coming back?

As he, Brian Cates calls it, an attempted controlled explosion!

How many were banned from Facebook, Twitter for trying to post this when it was happening? Many, me included.

That’s your “big brother” media-government complex feeding the public, bullshi* and sadly, many ask for seconds!

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It all boils down to…an Assault on OUR freedom of speech.

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Oh, I'm not the least bit surprised and am prepared for that. I'm already used to being a grandma-killer ;-)

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It doesn’t surprise me, sortof, but it seems disingenuous that the millions of liberals who never before supported war, support it now. Huh? Really? And then they call you and me “baby killers” for questioning Biden’s decision to support Ukraine. Based on Russia’s pummeling of cities with children and I think I heard a hospital either yesterday or today. I’m NOT “for” Russia. No. But I question the motive of Biden and Harris. And other NATO leaders. I’m even seeing justifications for nuclear war amongst the libs. Mostly kids I think. I really doubt the older ones are but not sure. The tweets seemed to be coming from kids mostly.

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Bam 💥

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"Divide and conquer" Caesar's famous maxim has been a fundamental tool of totalitarians throughout history.

Your 'Primer for the Propagandized" was one of your best; and certainly the scariest thing you have written.

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Haha, thanks, Andy, and glad you found it suitably frightening! ;-)

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So true.

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Nailed it.

Division for the sake of distraction for the sake of robbery and murder. Actually a devilish tactic.

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And so old it’s amazing more don’t recognize it. Guess they’re too busy figuring out their genders which as we’ve learned, can change, spontaneously.

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Super Bam 💥!!!

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I don’t what consenting gay adults do in the privacy of their own home…but STOP with the gender/queer theory “education”in the schools.

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Yes, indeed, forever and ever ad infinitum.

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Ad nauseum….

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Ad mortem

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...for two years I would start my day by taking a test to check if I was sick. Straight thereafter I would go to the cemetery to check if I was dead...

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Others thought this was funny. I think it’s profound.

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Both of the above: both profound and funny.

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But I still want to understand how going to a cemetery can help you determine if your dead? I know I'm stuck in a very literal place!

Maybe I'm wondering if I'm dead too? Although I wouldn't want to be in a box in the ground if I was. Of course I wouldn't be there at all anyway.

I like to think if I was dead I wouldn't have human consciousness to be pondering these inanities. Or wandering with my index finger across a small flat box like thingie.

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My mind is awash with many things. One is the poem Thanatopsis.

But I’m mostly thinking of multiple scriptures: Ephesians 2:1, Colossians 3:3-5. Due to the death of Christ, our faith in what he did as a substitute for our sins, we have “died” with Him. In a good way. We can put to death that which is sin and shame and rise to new life because of His life in us. A real thing, not a New Age random kindness or Twilight Zone idea but a real substitution done by the perfect hand of God himself both “for” us and “in” us. The contemplation of this death is profound. The contemplation of death in general is profound. No one need fear death when they know the Savior. Walking through a cemetery invokes a kind of thoughtfulness of these things.

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Interesting.

Although I don't believe I personally fear death. The idea of contemplating death by walking in a cemetery is sweet. Yet my favorite cemeteries were beautiful arboretums as well. Places of nature and wildlife, quiet contemplative places full of life.

I also feel the shame I hold is mine to understand, do the work of. And sin is something that maybe in this time is perpetrated by many who exhibit great hubris. Although not something, from my perspective, we are born into. That feels like a heavy weight of shame which I don't believe to be healthy and maybe puts a great weight onto our sexuality. Which is a beautiful healing energy and much misunderstood and warped culturally.

But I am only inferring all this from a few simple words of yours and might completely mistake you.

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🤪🤪🤪

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Annie, great job w the emojis. 🤣 at your 🤪

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When you went to the cemetery did you look for your gravestone?

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😂😂😂😂😂

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Can't be too careful .....apparently!

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Too funny! I love it!

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh !!!! Bam 💥

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Same thing would happen if you tested for the flu like they did for Covid. Media convinced everyone to test even if you weren't sick. THAT is the sad part!

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I am a little slow on the uptake sometimes, so it takes me a while to ponder things. Just this morning it dawned on me that we have, in fact, been testing primarily for a version of the common cold these last two years. My reasoning?

The infamous PCR test looks for particles or ‘strings’ of viral matter. If it finds a string that matches what is assumed to be sars-cov2, then it shouts bingo. Problem is, not only is the test picking up old virus, dead virus or very non-infective virus, it is also picking up non-sars-cov2 if the string matches. And since we have two closely related human coronaviruses that are known to cause the common cold, my guess is that in mild or so called ‘asymptomatic’ cases that is exactly what the tests have been doing in the majority of cases.

As someone else explained by analogy: looking for evidence of sars-cov2 by PCR test is like looking for evidence of a brand of car by parts in a scrap yard. Finding an isolated car part does not tell you the whole car was ever there, nor even which whole car it came from. The same 2.0 diesel engine is used in a Ford galaxy, a Vauxhall Safira and a VW - finding just this isolated engine in the scrap yard does not conclusively prove which of these three types of car it was used in.

Hence my guess that since the common cold coronaviruses share common strings of dna with sars-cov2 (after all, humans share 90-something percent of dna with cats), it’s likely this is what was being picked up all along.

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Now add in this little diddy: The strands of RNA that the PCR detected to indicate a "positive" were all patented. It is illegal to patent something that is natural. These strands were created "in silico." They were never part of any virus in the first place. I will let you make the inferences from here. In the words of Johnny Storm, "Flame On!"

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📣 📣 📣

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🛎 🛎 🛎

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Extra points for 2.0 diesel reference.

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You're partially correct... If the cycle count is high enough, you can detect just about anything in any sample by PCR. However, the overall principle of the test is sound, and is more than capable of distinguishing between types of coronaviruses when used correctly.

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And wasn’t that just the case in a lot of countries (UK and US most cited) with cycles >30?

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Proven also by many observational analyses including a friend who was very symptomatic from just before Christmas 2021 to about 10 days later. Several days after returning to work she tested positive again and again at 1 month. She was not contagious.

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Better late than never!

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Funny how he died just before Convid was rolled out.

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Yep. Lots of questionable coincidences.

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Sure, but you can infer from a PCR test what may be causing certain symptoms. COVID is a disease caused by a virus, not the virus itself. The presence of of SARS-CoV-2 detected by PCR does not necessarily mean someone has COVID. That's not really the same thing that's being implied here, though, which seems to insinuate it's pointless to test by PCR (something I agree with for most people, though not because a PCR test is somehow inaccurate).

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Thanks Sarah k.—-I don’t think anyone would disagree with you bu I am not sure what your point is; everything you said doesn’t change the story that the test, based on how it was performed and used to drive policy, is, in consequence, mostly a fake test. And this likely is not an accident. It’s a feature. Not a bug.

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No argument here... I think it behooves us to be succinct in our criticism of the PCR test, as running around with such blatantly incorrect criticisms of the test (like the goofy "it can't discern between flu and COVID!") only make valid criticisms that much harder to mount.

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Thanks for sharing...great interview

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Will we finally be permitted to know the truth in the new normal?

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Not a chance! "Truth" is now forbidden.

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Liars will be exposed, but hopefully they will be punished.

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Why are they publishing two years old news? :)

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It’s a limited hangout to protect the fundamental fraud, namely that COVID even exists.

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That's how they do it.

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I’m guessing the propagandists are now saying things like this as a calculated move to salvage credibility? So that they will be able to keep foisting their nefarious programs on the public?

Outside looking in, it’s like watching the decomposition of a dead dog.

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Tragically, a substantial number of people will rationalize and accept Covid revisionism with open arms along with the next round of restrictions and booster shots. These are the ones who insist on wearing a mask while alone in their car.

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also the ones who keep getting jabbed.

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I saw one today. Disturbed.

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Gee... ya think? I knew the PCR tests were garbage at the start. Imagine the frustration of those of us who got that 'cases' was a bullshit term used to foment mass fear and create the illusion of a pandemic where none existed? It's been exhausting.

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It certainly has been exhausting. Just holding in the screaming I wanted to do to so many covidiots has been so hard. Seeing idiocy and danger combined in real time has been stressful. Watching loved ones ignore me and walk into a bioweapon program hurts. Really hurts.

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Yes, it hurts like nothing I've ever experienced. That is for sure.

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Arrest Fauci.

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I have been arguing this since day 1. The PCR has many problems with false positives, due to its ability to detect insignificant fragments of supposedly viral RNA. But even if these problems with the PCR did not exist, the fact that they did tests on everyone, regardless of being sick or not, was a recipe for grossly overcounting "cases". This is something that had never been done in medicine. Diagnostic tests for acute diseases are supposed to be done only on people who have symptoms of the disease. Any test done to people who are not sick will give you a high percentage of false positives. It is a disgrace that the "experts" who have led the "pandemic response" - who certainly know this - have chosen to ignore this so fundamental principle of public health.

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I, too, have been saying this since the beginning. You don't even have to be a biologist to figure out, just an ordinary adult with a functional memory. But people's memories were among the first casualties of the scam.

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Was not ignored; as w/ Ivermectin & other cheap/effective treatments & that herd immunity is superior, such things were known & suppressed to subjugate the population

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Agree, Cindi. When I say "ignore" I don't mean they didn't know. Of course they know... they CHOSE to "ignore".

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The historians will have a field day with this era...

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the question is whether that field day will lie in making it seem like global collectivist action saved us all.

consider how many history books have claimed that the new deal ended the depression rather than deepened and elongated it.

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“History is always written by the winners…the loser is obliterated. The winner writes the history books, which glorify their own cause & disparage the conquered foe.” (The Davinci Code)

If the global conspirators to the madness of the last 2+ years are not exposed, held to account & punished, they will be the “winners”

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Yeah, we know how history gets taught ("...and then the glory of the state shown round them and they were saved!")...

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Historians?? “How many fingers, Winston?”

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Sometimes I feel society today is a living Orwell quote. Mr. Blair did not know he was writing a handbook.

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“History is a set of lies agreed upon” - Napoleon

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Yeah, after civilization recovers from total collapse.

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In which case there will be few (or no) records left to report on, and maybe few people who can read any that have survived.

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There's an implied assumption in this comment that historians are highly moral people pursuing the truth. I've not seen any compelling evidence of it.

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Got banned three times for asking this question on my local newspaper forums...couldn't get answers of course, but kicked out for suggesting that there "may be some problem with false positives". sheesh....smh

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And yet, my physician friends still don’t believe it. “No evidence in that article….”

They discontinued PCR tests!! What more do you need?

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More and more skidmarks from wild U-turns.

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Calculated u-turns.

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skidmarks from the media and government sharting themselves as it gets harder to hide the issues with the inoculations and testing...

(you know, shart, where you think it's a fart, and then OH NO THAT WASN'T JUST AN AIR BUBBLE)

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Mixed-phase.

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Meanwhile, while the 'narrative' is changing, I still work for a company that is demanding that I take the clot shot. When is the "mother of all bombs" dropped that destroys all of this?

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Misinformation: misleading information, created and/or disseminated without manipulative or malicious intent.

Disinformation: deliberate often coordinated attempts to confuse or manipulate people by giving them dishonest information.

Misinformation then is what ordinary people might spread on blogs, videos, Tweets, etc because they are mistaken, or uninformed.

Disinformation is what Governments and their acolytes do, with malevolent intent.

The correct approach to misinformation is not to censor it, but to challenge it and explain where the error arises. This gives everyone an opportunity to understand better.

Of course, if you cannot explain the error because, well, er, um… there is no error and it is ‘misinformation’ because the ‘error’ is to dare challenge disinformation, then it must be censored.

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So, should I report the author of this “provocative series” (see byline in pic), to Dr Vivek Murthy for spreading misinformation?

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Nick Hudson said that the difference between conspiracy and fact was six months, it’s been more like two years!

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I thought it wasn’t news when it happened two years ago. “Newspuppets” indeed.

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The PCR tests are not "flawed". They were made for an entirely different purpose.

But now the branch covidians want to claim innocence, blame the PCR, sing in choir "We only wanted to do good, we are SO sorry" and expect us to believe it- of course, why not - so they can do it again.

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This is what I have been saying since March 2020 when I did some quick math on the back of an envelope and wondered why my infection fatality rate IFR projection was vastly lower than official projections like the immensely stupid Neil Ferguson of Imperial College. Why is he still employed and I’m not! Lol

Also why “cases” which previously required symptoms was conflated/fused/merged with positive pcr tests of mostly asymptomatic persons.

My statistics and experimental design professors would be aghast.

Also what about flat wrong data, mis dys and malinformation itself? Garbage in, garbage out … and garbage induced hysteria and panic.

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What a shame that Kary Mullis, who won the Nobel Prize for his work in developing the test, died in August of 2019. Listen to him on YouTube talk about Fauci and company. His death proved quite convenient for them.

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Below I have listed 108 examples of what are listed in the CDC Provisional Mortality database as “Covid-19 Deaths”, coded as U07.1 (Covid-19)

Not one of these deaths listed below has anything to do with a viral event being the actual cause of death.

These are not exceptions they are representative of THE ENTIRE database.

I could literally do this all through the evening and scarcely begin to get through the listing of these 900,000+ deaths.

There were, for example, over 14,000 accidental deaths as of Feb. 2021 that were listed as “Covid Deaths.” Not the largest category of fraud just one of the more egregious.

30 years -X70 (Intentional self-harm by hanging, strangulation and suffocation)- there is 1 of these in the 30 year old age group.

31 years X44 (Accidental poisoning by and exposure to other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances)- there are 12 of these in the 31 year old age group.

33 years -X44 (Accidental poisoning by and exposure to other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances)- there are 9 of these in the 33 year old age group.

33 years -X42 (Accidental poisoning by and exposure to narcotics and psychodysleptics [hallucinogens], not elsewhere classified)- there are 5 of these in the 33 year old age group.

33 years O96.1 (Death from indirect obstetric cause occurring more than 42 days but less than one year after delivery)- there are 10 of these in the 33 year old age group.

34 years -F19.1 (Mental and behavioural disorders due to multiple drug use and use of other psychoactive substances, harmful use).- there are 3 of these in the 34 year old age group.

38 years O96.1 (Death from indirect obstetric cause occurring more than 42 days but less than one year after delivery)- there are 11 of these in the 38 year old age group.

47 years K70.3 (Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver)- there are 15 of these listed in the 47 year old age group.

48 years X44 (Accidental poisoning by and exposure to other and unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances)- there are 7 of these in the 48 year old age group.

54 years I21.9 (Acute myocardial infarction, unspecified)- 21 of these listed in the 54 year old age group.

54 years K70.3 (Alcoholic cirrhosis of liver)- 12 of these listed in the 54 year old age group.

75 years-F54 (Psychological and behavioural factors associated with disorders or diseases classified elsewhere). There is 1 of these in the 75 year old age group.

75 years-F10.1 (Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol, harmful use). There is 1 of these in the 75 year old age group.

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Yep. You're a racist!

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I was shocked that they let my dear departed husband off with just cirrohosis. Of course, we'd already had convid, so there's that, he might have been tested and not have been anywhere close to a pos. I think they didn't want to admit his liver failure was related to industrial exposure.

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I originally posted this on Medium in 2020 and they censored it.

https://markoshinskie8de.substack.com/p/the-covid-death-toll-is-phony?s=w

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People need to seriously look at Medium and who they've censored in the last 3 years or so. Patterns form...

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so the media had nothing to do with it, nor did corrupt health officials or governments shutting everything down - it was the PCR test all along. Got it!

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No worries in anticipation of the rollout of infant and toddler mRNA shots the media today screams about the dramatic uptick in hospitalizations of youngsters with omicron. Croup! The horrors. (My oldest had croup with hospitalization back In the day. It wasn’t scary. They just don’t send steroid treatments home). This media frenzy tells me they’re far from giving up. The baby shots must get out asap. And they will approve it in April no matter how shitty their data is.

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I think you've confused the headline for actual journalism.

Only approved topics are written. Questioning the PCR test is now part of the narrative. Sowing confusion is part of fomenting the mass formation effect.

How many people died from covid and not with covid? How many people that got sick or diagnosed with blood clots within 2 weeks of injection had these complications due to covid? Or due to the injection? How many people actually had covid? Or did they have flu? Common cold? Allergies? Asymptomatic and tested false positive for any of the above?

"I'm so confused."

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does anyone trust the msm from any country anymore? it's just hard to wade through the quagmire.

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Nope. Total distrust.

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PCR is a DIAGNOSTIC test not a screening test. diagnostic tests are used to confirm a clinical suspicion of a disease based on the presenting symptoms of a specific patient. If I have a sick patient in front of me and I think he has influenza , I order an influenza diagnostic test and if it is positive I have a case confirmed positive influenza test. If it is negative then it might be a false negative, I might repeat the test or look for something else that is wrong.

If one takes a diagnostic test that has a high sensitivity and not so high specificity and uses it as a screening test in a population with low disease prevalence ( not many people have the disease) you will get a high percentage of FALSE POSITIVES. ANd thats exactly what happened.

If a test is 98 percent sensitive and 92 percent specific and you do this test on millions of people with NO symptoms and very lose disease prevalence, you will get many false positives.

THere could have been 50 % false positives in the beginning. And this was used to justify lockdowns. It is an utter catastrophic failure of the public health establishment that they didnt recognize this.

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Example #5231 of the mainstream media catching up with what "right-wing conspiracy theorists" were saying two years ago.

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Of course the MSM did dip its toe in the water on 8/29/2020 yet somehow this did not gain any traction:

"Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

https://cnas.ucr.edu/media/2020/08/29/your-coronavirus-test-positive-maybe-it-shouldnt-be

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However their proposed solution was MOAR TESTING, albeit with some mythical "better" test:

[N]ew data underscore the need for more widespread use of rapid tests, even if they are less sensitive.

“In fact, we should be ramping up testing of all different people,” he said, “but we have to do it through whole different mechanisms.”

But for the outbreaks raging now, he said, what’s needed are coronavirus tests that are fast, cheap and abundant enough to frequently test everyone who needs it — even if the tests are less sensitive.

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John Goode,

I was about to post the NYT link from 8/2020 as well, but I looked through the comments first to see if someone had already done it. Thank you for being that someone, or at least the first someone I've found.

The NYT article got a lot of traction among COVID skeptics. The irony is it was from the NYT.

Apparently there's a lot of people who never looked beyond CNN, Fox, or MSNBC for their COVID information. They listened to the MSM and dutifully masked up and took the shots. So, they likely are not even aware there is a controversy over the PCR test for SARS-CoV-2

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CYA news reporting

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Kinda reminds me of the headline from the NYT about how PCR blew things wildly out of proportion: "Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn’t".

*From 2007*: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html?msclkid=b682526da5f511ecb5f7cda687f05028

Quotable quote:

"At Dartmouth the decision was to use a test, P.C.R., for polymerase chain reaction. It is a molecular test that, until recently, was confined to molecular biology laboratories. “That’s kind of what’s happening,” said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, an infectious disease specialist and professor of pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. “That’s the reality out there. We are trying to figure out how to use methods that have been the purview of bench scientists.”

The Dartmouth whooping cough story shows what can ensue. To say the episode was disruptive was an understatement, said Dr. Elizabeth Talbot, deputy state epidemiologist for the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.

“You cannot imagine,” Dr. Talbot said. “I had a feeling at the time that this gave us a shadow of a hint of what it might be like during a pandemic flu epidemic.”

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🙄🙄 they think we are stupid…..

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There’s a pretty good case to think that, when you realize how totally & quickly the sheeple acquiesced, not to mention plenty still masking & otherwise following the “rules” that are abandoned now in most places

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What's next? Rewriting history and sending the evidence down the memory hole?

Since we are all about 1984 today.

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I love the way they headline their admissions. Could it have been the PCR test? Could it have been coding? Could it have been the Russians?

Well then, we shall correct this immediately and sigh in relief that we, your saviors, caught it before it became an issue! Double good us!"

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One of my favourite albums fits perfectly right here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_and_After_Science

I knew it well as a teenager but only got reintroduced in late summer 2016. I’d been seriously, life-threateningly ill & then there was the “after” time. Day by day, I’d be struck by the thought that I wasn’t about to die (it’s not easy, living day by day, with a creeping sense that you’re not going to make it).

Then if you’re fortunate enough to have that lift, I recommend a long period of quiet reflection. Perhaps the most magical few weeks of my life. Everything looked benign. The light, the gentle breeze, the smell of oils & solvents & polishes & metals (I spent a lot of time in my workshop of old motorcycles).

And this music (plus a few others).

Especially the second side (if that concept is still around).

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Must! Laugh! to let out the...rage!!

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After I got kicked off Twitter, I followed Dr. Erickson and friends....

What they said often was very logical.

Why were they being silenced?

That is always my big question, and eventually complete break with msm , ms science. And Ms tech, which I could only read... never comment on as ENEMY of the State

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Timing is everything!

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Did you see on gatos link it says “section approved by doctors” 🤣

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Every time I say "Trump was right about almost everything" I have to add "voted-for-Obama-twice-yes-twice-voted-for-none-of-the-above-twice-yes-twice" and when I say "I am unvaxed and against vax mandates" I have to add the above plus "do-not-follow-any-dogma-and-demand-a-secular-civil-society-though-I-myself-believe-in-what-for-shorthand-I call-God." Gets tiring...

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