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Masks are to keep you thinking about COVID. If people aren't wearing masks then everything looks essentially normal, and people won't think much about COVID, and that's not acceptable to the people who want a never ending COVID pandemic they can use.

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Ding ding ding! Remember all the way back to spring 2020, when cases were falling and nobody at all was wearing masks? And that was with FAR FAR FAR fewer people with acquired immunity.

Then they brought out the masks so we were reminded to BE SCARED - SOMETHING IS WRONG! (And it's Trump's fault!)

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Sorry. He’s part of this disaster. Big time.

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Really, what big-time politician ISN'T a part of this disaster? Only one that comes to my mind is DeSantis.

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Ron Johnson?

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Rand Paul is calling out Fauci a lot.

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This has always seemed to me theater. Sure we got to see some entertaining sparring matches between the 2, but to me it was all show. After all, what actually happened? Nothing.

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USA 2-party system IS theater.

All "politicians" are puppets. Putting on a show for the ignorant masses.

World is a stage.

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True, nothing actually came of it.

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Some places had mandated masks back then. It was a prefect opportunity to do a study "proving" that they worked. Wait for the natural fall from the peak. Put in a mask mandate. "Look folks, mask mandates are correlated with cases falling!"

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Precisely. They're an essential piece of the COVID theatre. You see everyone masked up, and decades of movie imagery kicks in and tells your back brain that there must be a dangerous pathogen about. The only remarkable thing about the nonentity this piece focused on was that she was stupid enough to admit this.

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Actually, the 'lady' appears to be one of the myriad sufferers from the true pandemic of our age - stupidity. These unfortunates utter false, mindless, obscene, stupid, ignorant, and deliberately harmful statements - but very little they say or do is remarkable.

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They are mentally/ emotionally ill and compromised.

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How about the mentally/emotionally ill and compromised “protestors” thrown into full-out episodes of delirium in reaction to the SCOTUS leak story?

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Nailed it Jaunie.

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Yeah, but the Covid theater was about preparing to steal an election. See 2000 mules, here https://www.bitchute.com/video/NDtBoPTjfw4X/ or buy the DVD here https://2000mules.com/

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thank you for this link Martha

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May 9, 2022·edited May 9, 2022

spot on. the way I see it, mask-clinging is symptom of the terminally comfortable and tragically bored. in the absence of actual hardship, a mask is basically a shitty participation trophy. I was accused of being flippant for saying when I see my neighbors stacked like cord wood I might get concerned. but really… who benefits from fear and panic in any real disaster? it certainly doesn’t increase your chances for survival in any case.

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I remember the Covidians asking how many people would have to die before skeptics like me would accept mask mandates, lockdowns, and vax mandates. My answer was always "𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺."

Flippant? Certainly, and deliberately so. Simply put, there is 𝗻𝗼 number of people dying that would get me to accept ineffective, tyrannical diktats from our supposed public servants.

What these people really seem to be asking is how many people would have to die to terrify me sufficiently that I would abandon logic and reason and start desperately begging for any thing that some politician promises will help, despite all the evidence to the contrary... just as they have done.

Again, I am afraid that the answer is "𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺."

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question:

what's the trick to typing boldface in a comment?

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Sites like this one: https://lingojam.com/BoldTextGenerator (I hope that goes through)

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I completely agree with your point, Silva. People don't get it. It is terrible if people die; no one wants people to die. What they do not understand is that lockdowns, masks, compulsory "vaccination", and "testing-testing-testing" are not the way to keep people from dying.

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I agree too, Silva. And what about all the people dying everyday of everything else all this time? None of those deaths seem to matter to our betters or the covidian true believers.

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I think they absolutely understand what such destructive “mandates” would do in terms of snagging both health & morale

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*damaging both health & morale 🙄

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We can always dream. (said flippantly of course)

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It’s also a talisman for some, a virtue signal for many

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🎯

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Exactly, it creates the illusion of a pandemic, which was over by my 2020 here in Spain. We still have the ridiculous things in public transport (if you obey the rules)

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I've been saying this since the day they started recommending them.

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I've always said that the people who scare me most are not those who believe in masks, but the ones who suspect or even know the masks don't work, but who think it's important to "signal awareness that there's still a pandemic." What a cursed mindset.

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And then there's the Go Along to Get Along gang - a group of people that would lead their own family members into the gas chamber if someone told them they 'had to'.

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Yes, wearing masks out of courtesy or politeness, or because "they are expecting me to wear one."

I am totally not understanding the chin mask wearers at this point. Either put it on or take it off entirely -- what message is wearing it on the chin now supposed to be sending?

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The under-the-chin mask is to prevent the drooling caused by the subject's mouth hanging open, as it would otherwise.

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So agree…with the “Go Along to Get Along” metaphor! I know of a few of those types…their arguments for the wearing of masks and their efficacy is pathetic!

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Hundreds of thousands of people will see that video, when the thing we need is for hundreds of millions of people to see it.

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Hopefully, each person who sees it will be mad enough to do something, and will at minimum share the video with others - and some states are cleaning up their election laws. If there was enough outrage, there could be criminal prosecutions. Not sure how much will really be done, but first thing is to get people to see it. Some think the wrong that was done needs to be righted - hard to believe that will happen.

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Gotta give her credit. When she's right she's right.

Which is why I refused to wear a mask once I realized that it was nothing more than a political message with which I did not agree. Compelled speech and a violation of my conscience rights.

This thing about Covid is that it wasn't all that bad for most of society. There wasn't a material enough effect on society for people to notice it. Groceries still got delivered. The electricity stayed on. So the masks where brought in to keep it in people's minds. This was clear to anyone paying attention.

Same thing for the airplane mandate. They were desperate to force people to keep playing along.

EVERYBODY REMEMBER TO BE SCARED!

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‘The median age of death from Covidis about 80 and it spreads indoors in poorly ventilated areas, so clearly we need to close primary schools and force children to wear masks even outdoors.’

How demented must someone be to accept this as sound reasoning?

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I think you are right on with this. Sadly our benevolent overlords who tried to stage a coup without blowing up the infrastructure are running out of ploys and they are not going to bait us nicely anymore. The sticks will come out and collateral damage will be necessary. Grocery shopping is already somewhat like gambling for us. Months without sunflower oil and flour. Those are back in stock, but now there’s no rice and toilet paper again. You never know before you go if you’re going to get lucky or come home empty handed. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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love that..."compelled speech"--I'm stealing it!

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OMG, this is great. Just two days ago, I had a heated discussion with my mask-loving sister who said that the only reason my triple-vaxxed elderly parents didn’t get Covid on Easter Sunday was because they were masked 😂😂😂

By the way, these are the same parents who have refused to see their grandchildren and great grandchildren for the past two years because we’re not vaxxed.

The fact that my parents, at 88 & 89, have sacrificed time with us because of assholes like Laurie, is just beyond my comprehension.

AAAGGGHHH

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Damn…at nearly 90 you’d think they would want every bit of joy they can get their hands on! Why live in fear? Fear is not freedom. Sad…

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If I make it that long I'm going to finally try heroin.

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Such a weird but common attitude. They seem to think they will live forever but all any of us have is this moment, now, and we should use it. My mother is 88 and it was more important for her to see her family and carry on with normal life than anything else. She is very level- headed.

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You’re very lucky. My parents have missed my son’s wedding and the births of two great grandchildren over these two years. They consider us selfish for not complying for them. It’s beyond maddening.

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I'm so sorry to hear that. You're right, I am lucky. My mother has great commonsense , not many people do.

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Be grateful for all those who DID celebrate with you and your family.

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Sorry to be so blunt, BUT…We never know which day will be our last…at any age…but at 88 & 89…you gotta believe the thought of “the end” has crossed their minds. People on their death beds don’t usually say, “I’m glad I stayed away from my loved ones for the last two years of my life”

So sad.

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YES!!!! You get it!!!! My family would have NEVER done this!!!! My family would have been…🖕!!!! Especially my mom 🤦‍♀️…gone 10 years now. ✝️✝️✝️

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My parents both died in 2018. I am glad they left before this scam started. Living in a senior warehouse community, they would have been isolated in their apartment, I wouldn't have been allowed in, and they would have been subjected to the shots. Both having made it to their 90s, my mother would not have understood and no phone conversation would have helped. My dad wouldn't have been able to hear me over the phone and would have gone along with whatever the staff of the Senior "Dying" Community social workers and medical staff told him. I would have been excluded from their last days - and the thought of one of them dying during such times makes me accept the loss two years earlier easier to accept. I am so sorry for those who have had to navigate caring for elderly parents with unwanted interference from the CDC.

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I think this every single day.

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AMEN!!!✝️✝️

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It is so sad to see families torn apart by these insane monsters who somehow were given charge of the rules.. I heard a story -likely one of thousands- of a person who was only able to look through a glass partition, speaking words of comfort through her phone, to her mother as she died, without the comfort of being held by loved ones, in a hospital. It's heartbreaking. Makes me want to sue somebody. Lives screwed up forever.

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This is one of the most egregious, disgusting, despicable aspects of the whole thing.

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Unspeakably sad. And criminal.

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Gotta just let them do what they want. They will regret it. If not in this life then in the next.

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😕

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The background of her profile picture looks like a vagina. Her face in front makes it appear to be the pussy portal to hell.

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Now, Yuri. "Harpy" will do...

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I wish I knew what your voice sounds like because how it sounds in my head when I read it made me laugh so hard.

I need to get out more.

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Think of me as someone who reads too much British fiction of the 18th through 20th centuries for her own good.

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I gave you a man's voice. Glad I mentioned it.

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A stain on San Antonio’s beautiful OUTDOOR botanical garden light scape.

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Would it surprise anyone to know that LG is a member of the "WEF Global Health Advisory Board" ?

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Imagine my shock. 🙄

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Of course she is! She’s a journalist. Can you get more qualified to advise people on health?

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Nearly everybody is completely done with covid restrictions and is living life normally. The experts told us when that happened the country would be overrun with covid. Yet the reality is that only 2.52% of our beds are being used for covid patients.

https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization

So during the winter everybody was stuck wearing masks, and the masks didn't prevent the winter wave from crashing over the country. Then we removed our masks for spring, and that didn't prevent numbers from cratering. Yet every 'official' keeps trying to steal a base with 'we know masks work', desperately trying to avoid admitting everything they did was worthless.

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Hospital beds mainly filled with jabbed Covid patients.

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Yep! That's why they disappear the statistics once they become inconvenient.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/et-tu-snohomish

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"cat lady" vibes, just sayin'. And I like cats!

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you kind of have to sympathize with cats, it's not their fault nasty hags collect them

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I got this right away. As I told my daughter masks do nothing but are used as a constant reminder to be afraid.

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The cynical manipulators are the best argument for hangings.

Literal hangings.

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I kind of like the firing squad. With the hanging, only one person pulls the lever on the gallows. With a firing squad, up to 10 men may think that they fired the shot that killed her. What a multiplicaiton of happiness, 10 instead of 1.

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Firing squad used to be an honorable death compared to hanging. We hung spies and shot enemy officers.

Honor is nowhere near this situation.

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Everyone who proclaimed 'it's just a mask!' or 'the kids are resilient' were dead wrong on both fronts. I found them highly assaulting from the get-go and knew they did nothing other than terrify and cause social conformity, thus I never caved and showed my face everywhere (it wasn't that hard). The entire point was to keep the hysteria high, wreck any chance for a soothing smile between strangers and train people to blindly follow authority. Now that the masks are off, it's going to be very hard to whoop up hysteria again.

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I only had 2 people the whole time tell me to put one on. I didn’t. The 3rd I walked out.

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50% or more still masking here voluntarily in the grocery stores. Yesterday, the unmasked checkout clerk and I kept smiling at each other. We'd look at the muzzled Karens and then look back at each other with mirth. Nothing to do with the Karens, but everything to do with being able to smile at each other. Such unbridled happiness!

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They are already making noises in the news today that new "surges" are coming. They will try with the masks and they will try with the election shenanigans. It worked once, they will try it again. Count on it.

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🎯🎯🎯

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May 12, 2022·edited May 12, 2022

One of the best ways to tell if someone is being deceptive is to see if they fool around with measurements of obvious things. Scientists and engineers use "dimensional analysis" to know if their calculations could even possibly be right. If you take a number of inputs and expect to get cm as output, and instead you get cm/sec, you don't even have to bother seeing what the number is; you have an error in how you set up your equations.

The liars telling everyone that "a mask is a minor inconvenience" were leaving out the time dimension. Maybe wearing a mask for a minute is a minor inconvenience; an hour is already more serious, and a day is a real imposition. A month of wearing a mask most of the time is close to unbearable, and when the time limit is open-ended, it is clearly a form of torture.

Bottom line: Only I will decide what constitutes a "minor inconvenience" for me.

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I have spent the pandemic preparing to survive it. Obese journalists spend all their time avoiding it - when they're not engaged in maximizing the political benefits, that is.

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Seriously, I noticed that too--don't you love how all these supposed "health" experts could always stand to lose a few ell-bees? Not that that would help with her taupe pallor, but, sheesh....

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It probably would help with her taupe pallor…as her kind tend to stay indoors on the couch

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Back in the very beginning of the big scare when The Eff Word was telling the public not to mask I thought he was lying and that they were needed, but that they were in short supply and the supply should go to the front line workers. So I looked it up mask studies. One of which was done in Japan and another in the US. The studies were easy to find and came up on the first page of the search. I think I used Google. They helped me get over being mad that I could not get a mask. Later when they the masks were being required and there was serious shaming going on I got online to find those studies and couldn't find them. Then it occurred to me - times being what they are - that they could be removed or hidden. They were hidden. I had to do a date range for only studies done before 2019. Then I had to do some wading around to find them.

They always knew. But they needed you to fall in line and lose any fealty for your fellow man so when they said "get em!" they would be willing attack dogs. Theeeyyy were not the attackers. The mandaters. Your fellow man is. Government just provides guidance.

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You might already know about this, but just in case, or for anyone else:

https://brownstone.org/articles/more-than-400-studies-on-the-failure-of-compulsory-covid-interventions/

Lots o' mask studies on ineffectiveness AND harm.

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That is a really good round-up. I read another substack I think his name is Mark McDonald? - he is a phychiatrist. He talked about how it is child abuse to continue to mask children and that people who do it are child abusers. It struck a chord with me. It lakes courage to talk to kids about the mask with their parent in tow. I think eventually someone might smack me. I am always polite as possible and calm. So far I have chatted with three kids. They kept their mask on all after looking up at their moms. Their moms were not very pleased with me. But would she keep silent if she saw a child being abused?

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Agree, it is terrifying to see and I think it is child abuse too, but good for you for pressing. I don't interact with that many kids but next time I do--and I'm in CA so you know there are still plenty of masked ones--I'll try to remember your inspiration. For a while I had an essential worker job outdoors and would get all goofy with them, like, why're you wearing a mask outside??? That's nutty! We have such great fresh air! Some kids agreed, some just hung onto the parent!

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That's a cute way of doing it. I usually ask them how I can see their cute smile when they are hiding it behind that yucky mask and ask them if they have lost a tooth or if they are growing a mustache". I am a grannie age so it goes down easier.

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The monsters responsible for ordering and implementing muzzle mandates must be brought to justice for their notorious crimes against humanity.

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Pigs like this woman need to be shunned from society.

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I’m shunning masked people or pretend not to hear their muffled oinks.

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In Costco my husband calls the people who are masked up and going down the center of an aisle against the traffic or bumping their carts into people "Low Oxygen shoppers". To their face. Which greatly aggravates his wife.

I do like it when he asks children why they are wearing the mask. I do it too. Adults who mask are lost causes.

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“Low oxygen shoppers”… 💥💥💥

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Fear the adults are lost.

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👍👍👍

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We should make them wear masks on their mouth and nose so we can easily identity them!!!!

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Eyes too and point them in another direction. I’ll let you decide which direction.

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😂😂😂

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