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It’s been weird to see half of my friends and colleagues with physics degrees be on team reality from the beginning and the other half be on team lockdown. Never quite understood what caused the initial split. It was not necessary to have had the requisite background in vaccines, viruses, and epidemiology to have been able to synthesize the data as it came in. One just needed to go in with a distrust in the authorities own skills and motives.

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It probably depends on whether they get their view of the world through mainstream media outlets. Even smart well-educated people can be naïve and are subject to groupthink.

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I believe you're 100% correct about this. Turn off the TV and you'd never know a "deadly virus" was stalking the land.

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You gotta dig under the Astroturf...and it's all astroturf. Without Sub I would be lost, this and TheCovidWorld...now if Sub would just dump E T o p o l ....

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I think fear is a big factor, at risk of ringing the Obvious bell. Fear pulls the blinders on.

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Fear leads to hysteria. Hysterical people are easily led.

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As a “critical” cultural medical anthropologist, I have been intrigued at this divide. Yes, I believe Gato is correct about the arcaneness of biological understanding beyond the reach of many, abd that lead untrained folks to accept the narrative. But it goes beyond that as well to a level of trust in authorities and degree of sensitization (or rather far too often, desensitization to pressured efforts to pushing specific ic narratives, castigating earnest clinicians developing early treatments, cancellations of alternative thinkers, and apparently consolidated efforts to promote a singular vax view globally along with demonization of challengers. To me, the question is how much of these will it take to open up minds, both of those trained in the esoteric sciences and those untrained. Given the experts that continue to promote the vax narrative, there is clearly much more going on. I would love to unpack that complexity.

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it starts at birth with trauma training using a neurotoxic injection, continues through critical five years with 72 doses. All while held in your parent's loving embrace, mostly during preverbal years.

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Pretty grim and depressing, with little protection beyond a discerning rebellious parent!

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Dr. Robert Malone's presentation on "Mass Formation Psychosis" is a powerful explanation. There is a three hour interview with Joe Rogan, but the transcript from his presentation in Tampa is compelling.

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Yes. I heard part if it, but need to go back to the text. Thanks!

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