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Mass Non Compliance. That’s it. I never participated, never wore a mask, never got tested and remain jab free. Pray the next time around people will have the courage to not just go with the crowd.

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I kept waiting for mass noncompliance and we never got it, not just with masks but lockdowns, business closures etc. My faith in humanity has been completely destroyed by people's refusal to act in a rational manner.

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Agreed - I'll never be the same knowing how people behaved. But I also realize that no one had been through that type of very personal and extreme psyop before. Now people have the experience. How well that fortifies them for the next go-round though, I have no idea.

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I feel like those who behaved badly, especially those who called in authorities on businesses or individuals, should be viewed with suspicion from now on. They have shown us their empty hearts. They are the type who push little old ladies aside to get to the lifeboats faster

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While preaching at everyone else to stay and drown...

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yes. unbelievable but yes they did

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I have close contact with someone like it. They’ve been utterly brainwashed by the legacy media that everyone is out there to get them. I do think responsibility does lie with the individual, but the dark forces have set up this brainwash to use people for a while now. I’ve seen it as early as 2004 at Uni. I have a big heart. I can forgive people who were truly used.

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I can understand the urge to forgive but if she was willing to hurt someone (loss of business, loss of ability to see family member, forced masking, or the like, that person cannot be trusted, imho. Believe them when they show you who they are.

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Yes, but also believe them when they show you who they can be. It only takes acknowledgment to change a perspective. All of us could easily succumb to similar fears by mistake. Try to simulate a similar experience in which you didn’t have the electricity to stand your ground. Compassion for those who are lost is the only way to reach the level of mutual respect to maintain dialogue.

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Sadly I fear too many are permanently altered. Otherwise rational people totally ignoring their own sense and suspending logic to accept the absurd. Now in the face of building evidence it was all a lie, still clinging to "yes but because I was vaccinated I didn't die!" and even "no one promised it would STOP covid just make it less lethal" and other absurd denials of reality.

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Yep. I hear this from people all the time. They get COVID after getting boosted, then insist it would have been worse (despite the fact that the unvaxxed get no sicker than them).

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They won't sucker in as many people as they did the first time. On the other hand, there is now a hard core of utterly broken, thoroughly programmed NPCs that can be relied upon to support whatever Current Thing the regime comes up with next.

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Then that is all the MORE reason for those of us to start preparing and set up "underground" networks where we can help one another. Some of us who complied really didn't see that we had much of a choice.

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There's been a certain degree of non-compliance, but yeah, for the most part the livestock embraced slavery and demanded daddy lock them down harder. Whatever residual respect I had for people is long gone.

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I am afraid it is the indifference coupled with comfort and the unwillingness and/or inability to think and act independently. Unfortunately, most people are obedient followers of orders.

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A lot of counties in New York tried mass non-compliance with Kathy Hochul (disgusting robot). She sent brown shirts in to small businesses, slapping them with fines and plastering mask commands on their front doors. Disgusting

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We had some instances of that in CA when a business person made the governor aware of defiance. Mostly though low key defiance. The business owner who had the "masks required" sign and wore his mask on the top of his head, for example.

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My BIL owns a restaurant in Mass. He gave people a drink of their choice to sip on outside while they waited for pickup orders. Some nag called the police on him saying he was violating lockdown orders. One of the few still restos still open, employing and feeding and that woman wanted his business shut down. The police came, talked to him, took a look around and left.

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Name the "nag". I understand that "Doxxing" is deemed "antisocial" but if you don't identify the snitches you end up with the Stasi, and 1 in 9 or worse as "informants."

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thank goodness for the police. That person who called in, the type to be wary of.

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People like that I have my worst wishes for. The sheer stupid nastiness.

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Mass non-compliance also means businesses simply refusing to pay the fines.

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I can't imagine how they'd do that

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Apr 25, 2022·edited Apr 25, 2022

Same. Apparently most people are happy to turn on each other in an instant and are easily manipulated. The more ‘educated’, the worse they fell prey. I say that as someone with a MA in the social sciences 😂

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Well an MA in Social Science doesn't really indicate someone with superior intellect.

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Well we kind of did, actually. I'd see people wearing masks no their chins everywhere. We had masks required to enter a restaurants from the door to the table with most people removing it as soon as they walked past the doorway. I say a guy in full on toxic hazmat head gear in Costco and more than a few with costume masks (a lot of gorillas, zombies, and the occasional Wookie). One of my favorites was a gal wearing a mask with "This is totally useless" printed on it. It was non-compliance through ridicule compliance.

Sadly I can't say the same for lockdowns and business closures. We had a few in defiance and a a few more finding work-arounds, but many just folded up.

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Apr 25, 2022·edited Apr 25, 2022

My husband went to the store in a mask and snorkel. Mostly to amuse me.

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give him a kiss for me. He does things to make you happy and just knowing he did that with a snorkel makes me happy

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I just did. So funny that he appreciated it so much, ; )

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Yes , but did you give tongue from Boots?

Inquiring minds want to know... which is the real power of Substack.

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My favorite was the guy in some Spanish city who, during one of the serious lockdowns, was renting out his dog to neighbors so they could get some fresh air. One of the few reasons to step out was to walk a dog. I think he got arrested, but I admire the man for his chutzpah.

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we have to hold the ground already taken. Those who live in blue areas 99.99% masked, which are now 50% masked..... everyone who has taken off their mask needs to throw it away and never wear one again. Those who have been living in areas with lower masking rates -- lucky you! Same thing applies.

The other thing I do (without realizing until later) is smile and talk to strangers who are unmasked, in the vicinity of the masked people, and we are having fun, laughing conversations and leaving out the masked people who sadly can't join in on the fun because they can't communicate nonverbally with their face more than half covered. Sad!

But maybe some of them will realize they would rather join in on the fun and take that thing off!

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Added bonus tip: for businesses that insanely require their employees to be muzzled, i insist that i cannot understand what they're saying through their mask and until they remove it i will keep asking them to repeat themselves. They almost always remove it and the point is made that it's absurd muzzling like that. I also don't pass up an opportunity to complain to business management if their employees are muzzled.

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even worse is when they are muzzled and on the other side of a plexiglas shield. A double whammy: you can neither hear them, nor can you read their lips. We can only stare at each other questioningly.

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nicest way to put it. and it's usually some young person

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I congratulate management when they unmuzzle their employees

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Me too. The most ridiculous masking IMO was my pharmacist serving the drive thru window all masked up. When I got to see her beautiful smile again I was sure to tell her how happy it made me to see it and know she was breathing healthy air again.

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nice way to do it. I had a moment like that before masks lifted. It gave me hope--us two women talking and laughing as everyone edged away on line in the PO

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Yes. The only PCR test I got cost me $280, and I was forced to get it to get on a plane to the United States to escape Deep Karentopia (formerly known as New Zealand). 🙄🤪

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Probably the best money you ever spent!

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Haha!! I guess that’s one way to look at it.

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troll toll

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must feed the beast to escape!

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Where people wouldn't go along with that -- I live in the heart of Faucistan, alas -- a useful individual strategy was to follow the rules, but do it wrong. "Forget" to put the mask, let it "accidentally" slip down, play dumb when confronted, etc. This annoyed the hell out of the Mask Scolds. The amusement value of taunting them is one of the few marginally good things about this whole brouhaha.

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thank you for doing that.

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I've been saying this since the beginning and I'm right there with you. Never tested, didn't wear masks unless forced to, and proudly pureblooded.

This ends when we say it ends, not when they give us permission.

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There will definitely be a next time around, and I think we have learned that 30-70% will go with the crowd. I don't think that's changing, sadly. Unless we get our propaganda game in gear earlier and can swing that middle 40% away.

I mean, if you listen to NPR, read MSM, they are all still fixated on any little detail that could induce fear..."slight uptick in cases" "IS it ever going to be safe to travel?" etc. We are in a strong position because we are strong of character, I believe, but we have a lot of work to do yet.

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I'd like to report that even the Fauci Loving Idiots (FLI) that zomfyingly roamed my neighboorhood sport courts the past two years hissing at me for not wearing a diaper on my face are apparently over being afraid for at least one night. My husband went to an indoor meeting with at least a couple hundred people packed into a ballroom. Not one mask. I think they think all the attendees are jabbed. Minus my husband. Maybe they put up an invisible cone around his head. I mean - why not? They live in a fantasy/horror world.

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I'm not quite that pessimistic. There's definitely a hard core of thoroughly programmed NPCs. But the first time around, there were very very few of us who saw through it, and even we more or less went along because we were outnumbered to such a shocking degree, and frankly, no one really believed it would continue for such an absurd amount of time.

The last time we had a mask mandate around here, compliance was still high but no one got in my face for not complying - enough people know how absurd it is, now. Each time they try it, it gets less effective: more people see through it and fewer of those who do are willing to humour any of it.

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There is such an attitude of ignorant privilege in this line about how not adamantly refusing to wear a mask and get vaccinated is weakness or lack of courage. A lot of us - especially here in LA - were forced to go along, quite aside from which, very few people want to be the one guy making a big scene because someone told them to wear a mask.

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Apr 25, 2022·edited Apr 25, 2022

It's a question of understanding how important it is to fight back against things that you may not even think are that big of a deal because if you don't you're telling these authoritarians (and yes, that's really what they are) that you're going to let them get away with whatever it is they're doing, and you're telling the other people who want to fight back that they're on their own.

Imagine if millions of restaurants and other businesses said after the initial two week lock down "we gave you your two week shut down, the hospitals aren't overrun with patients, we're opening back up." All of this would have been over two years ago.

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your statement, and the comments that follow, is a very important discussion to be having NOW. Because this is not over yet. The tyrants are still tyranting. So. Did those of us who were under extreme pressure (because of living in a very blue/brainwashed area, very tyrannical social pressure, workplace pressure, and not knowing any other living soul who saw through this charade -- only our online friends -- looking back, do we regret not speaking up or not complying, even if it meant making a scene? Do we regret wearing that mask to enter the restaurant because we didn't want to be "that guy?"

I ask this not to invite others to judge (but go for it) -- but to examine for ourselves how all of this affected us, and how/whether we might do it differently in the future, if/when the tyrants try to clamp down again. Are there ways to resist, to get the message across to others, that we did not previously employ?

I mean this: will we decide to strongly resist if needed? And how? For example, what if the media starts telling everyone that all of this (adverse events from the vaxx portrayed as COVID perhaps) is the fault of the unvaccinated, after all? So back we go to the vaxx digital ID push.

I believe it will take all of us, even if we feel that we are alone.

Can we stand up to our lifelong best friend who has drunken the koolaid and believes we are toxic? Rather than allowing the shunning to go without mention from us. To just allow it to happen and nurse our hurt feelings or say "good riddance." Can we get a point across?

Can we reach out to the entertainment venue that still bans unvaccinated people? Even if we are the only one that complains, while they are all assured they are "safe" because none of us filthy anti-vaxxers are in the room with them. Even if we lose ALL of our remaining friends.

On the other hand.... it absolutely IS easier if you have even ONE person in your life who will do it with you. But I think we need to think about this now, what lessons have we learned from this that we can take forward and do better next time. The stakes are high.

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Yes . . . it is very easy to make such bold statements WHEN YOU HAVE NO ONE ELSE DEPENDING ON YOU. But when you have a family, when you have children, that changes things. As a lot of families with very small children found out.

I have been saying, and I will continue to say it, that unless we actively start developing a strategy of resistance THAT WORKS, all our words are useless. That Canadian truckers protest? What lasting good did that do? It's all but forgotten now and business as usual once more. The trouble is, we really don't have anything to bargain with. We don't have the "or else" card. They do. And they can and do enforce it.

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I complied if the store required masks. Their store, their rules. Fortunately here in Georgia our governor was more rational and relaxed the rules early on. We just got back from the grocery store and not a mask in sight. Not on the personnel and not on any customer. When I went a couple of weeks ago, maybe five people were still masked. People around here have had it.

I got the two Modernas at the onset of the pandemic panic at the insistence of my kids and wish I hadn't now. I refused the booster. My wife took the booster and came down with the virus two weeks later. One of our docs told her that the booster kept her from dying or being put in ICU. What BS. Apparently, all the doctors have been told to push that lie to their patients.

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I don't see why a store has the authority to impose a medical intervention and would tell them so. If they refuse to take my money that is their business, but they never do.

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It’s those people who are afraid to “make a scene” by standing up for their rights and the rights of others that made the world accept the idea that forcibly masking children was saving lives. No one was forced to wear masks. There were always alternatives. They were just less comfortable or more convenient.

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You do have a point. However, especially in the case of the experimental "vaccines," coercion or not, there is a very real chance that it will take some years of life off the average jab recipient. At some point, perhaps the sheep should say "no" to those who would force such things upon them. But hey, we wanted to keep our jobs, or to go to classes, to travel or to get able to see that show at the big arena, and we had no choice, right? Well, you had a choice, and sadly, millions (billions?) chose temporary comfort for (perhaps) long-term health and safety.

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I suspect that will be the case. At the least, more people have become aware of the top-to-bottom mendacity in so many once-trusted institutions. On the downside, a large cohort hasn't... Other bummer thoughts: The experimental mRNA treatments may reduce the size of the remaining crowd, but how much remains to be seen. Finally, in the worst case, the next time we not have a choice, if the posited "Great Reset" has brought us a real-world version of Orwell's "1984."

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But we will own nothing including our bodies and be happier for it. Oh the dream. They are living it in Shanghai and now Beijing! Glory.

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In fact Facebook posts nightly the rapturous singing from the high rises. Long live the NWO. Weee.

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100%. But people will still comply at the voting booth. That’s going to be a tough one to give up for many.

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Lockdowns, mandates, masks got normalized during those two years. Many people will accept them without even asking. The good side is that some 'undecided' have firmly flipped to team reality. Next time it will be very divisive from the get go.

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What state do you live in Ki? I think non-compliance was relatively easy in some states like mine (UT). Other states (like the ones to the West of me) it wasn't so easy to not wear a mask indoors. I think every person no matter the state could have easily not worn one outside.

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Easily being relative. Walking on the street. I had to endure an occasional shriek or demand I mask, but after a while I didn't even bother lifting my middle finger.

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Not once did anyone demand I wear a mask on the street. Partly that was that there was never an outdoor mask mandate here. Partly it's the demeanor of sullen menace I've cultivated over the years.

In stores, my usual tactic was to just ignore the sign and walk in maskless. Sometimes I'd be asked to wear one; others, not. At the beginning at least. By the time of the latest mask mandate, I refused to mask up once and was never once confronted about it. I was in the gym working out for like an hour. Not a word.

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kudos. good to know that spending years in the cultivation of a demeanor of sullen menace DOES pay off.

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Gym? Don't discount the menacing muscles.

I masked in Costco. That was it. Anywhere else if someone balked to my face, I would say, I don't have Covid, I am not afraid of getting Covid, masks are for the mentally challenged. Or some such. Depending on their attitude. Plus I am tall and can pull a mean face now that I am older. So they let me be.

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Discount the menacing muscles? Hell man that's why every dissident should be hitting the gym.

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Amen! Hence my second essay:

• “COVID IS OVER! … If You Want It” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it)

And this one showing the principle in action:

• “Profiles in Courage: The Canadian Truckers” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/profiles-in-courage-the-canadian)

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🎯🎯🎯

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Ditto Gumby! 👍

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CTV News here in Canada 🇨🇦 is running a story this morning stating vaxed people that come in contact with unvaxed are at HIGHER RISK OF INFECTION. So it seems they are once again ramping up the narrative and the pressure that these shots are YOUR DUTY TO SOCIETY. At the end of the article the author of the study states something along the linee of these being mathematical models and have no basis in actual real world activity. OUR DEAR LEADER does not want to relinquish control, and doles out funding to CTV NEWS. He who pays the piper calls the tune!

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this is part of the cruelty! I am so fed up with the shunning and abandonment/lost relationships. I know that at some point they will figure out that they were lied to and ran away from unvaxxed people with no basis whatsoever, and were manipulated into being cruel, shunning people. They will never know what it felt like to be shunned by loved ones, though. It has to be experienced in order to fully understand.

I have learned a lot during the past year in particular, about the importance of human kindness, and how devastatingly, crushingly inhumane social isolation can be. Particularly when it involves social shunning.

This is one of the worst things done to us. Apart from the actual poisoning with the shots, also cruel.

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So true! I was taken aback last summer when a friend - who did not know I did not take the shot - stated that she HOPED THAT ALL THE UNVAXED DIED.

You are correct in saying you will only understand the impact this has on your life when you have been on the receiving end of this treatment. It has been a very very difficult time. Hang in there, you (we) are not alone!!!!

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This is another warning sign of politics. The tactic of demonizing those that disagree is as old as politics. Divide and conquer. The deeper the division the deeper the hate. Hate is the key to suspending logic and decency.

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I think your friend is clearly not filled with the milk of human kindness. She wished you dead. She wished me dead.

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Oh, it’s making the rounds. Not surprised! Global has it too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8783380/unvaccinated-vaccinated-covid-risk-canadian-study/amp/

What a way to start a week. These people are evil.

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20 some years ago I visited Poland and parts of what had been East Germany. More than a decade after the collapse of the USSR. There were still people who were frightened at the prospect of freedom. Despite having a decade of finding that in the more free Europe their basic needs were still being met by government, they feared that without the "guidance" of having every aspect of life controlled they would surely perish. It's a strange sort of comfort for some knowing they have not choices.

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No choice also means no responsibility. Being responsible is hard and scary.

Eastern Europe (where I come from) as well as most socialist/communist/authoritarian were/are like that.

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Exactly. A successful means to dominate people is to convince them domination is what they want. Demonize independence and responsibility. Create fear and division and uncertainty. Provide a scapegoat to blame - which of course is anyone who opposes whatever power is seeking to rule over you. Play along and it's OK.

Of course those that don't fit in either by choice or nature must be eliminated. It's for the greater good and to prevent the spread of dissent and the disease it spreads.

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I thought all unvaccinated will die suffering of covid? So now they don't die but actually infect the protected vaccinated? I mean. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand this makes absolutely no sense.

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If you pitched that for a sifi script, it'd be rejected as bad writing. You'd hear "com on man, it has to be believable!".

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👍🏼👏🤣

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Following, is the actual study. We know it's bogus, but I would love for gato, or some of our other Substack gurus, to rip it to shreds!

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/16/E573

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Interesting logic. If you are vaccinated you are at higher risk of infection than if you had not been vaccinated. So we must make sure everyone is vaccinated. Is this some sort of equality argument - we should all be at equal risk?

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I read about this on Live to Fight Another Day (Andreas Oehler). The only way to fight their lies with with truth and data. Ask people who believe this horse manure, if they really believe the virus and jabs behaved differently the UK and the United States?

pp 41-45

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1066759/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-13.pdf

Slide 5

https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp?fbclid=IwAR3zhTgCQZLgGyIOOXKVXxDPxSpMEE1M_luGJtgYI38Jim-cZyBB1N50r4g

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The day after that jab Nazi Macaroon “wins” in France. Hmmm.

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and they are rioting in the streets

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"They" being antifa. So I wouldn't be using the example of left wing extremists rioting as part of an argument against Macron.

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“this is not remotely true. it’s a full blown fabrication. and you should really, really hope it is, because if it isn’t, these people are outright psychopaths.”

News flash: these people are outright psychopaths. Those jobs *draw* psychopaths like sugar draws ants. Where else is an incompetent mediocrity going to gain that much unearned power - the power of life and death - over their neighbors? If you want to know what kind of people these really are - the kind of people you put over you, the kind of people you’ve handed the guns to and asked to “save” you, just go to a homeowners’ board meeting, or a school board meeting, or a town or city council meeting. Go several times, and watch and listen, and figure out what percentage of people sitting behind those desks with gavels and power really belong there. Figure out which ones have integrity. You’ll be utterly shocked.

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founding

"Political tags, such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth, are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."

~ Robert Heinlein

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To me the above is basically the essence of it. And that goes world over.

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Bingo. The two parties are “Liberty” and “Tyranny”. If someone says there are shades of grey, they’re on the “Tyranny” side.

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The sad thing is that all the time there have been a few people who are REAL experts and have been telling the truth (Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, Bhakdi, Alexander...) but they have been slandered as "misinformers"...

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Yes... there is another one. They are not so many, but my list, of course, did not include everyone...

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Maybe. But we are backsliding. I came back from my farm chores this morning to discover that the news, on several channels, was pushing some new study suggesting that the unvaccinated were more likely to spread Covid to the vaccinated and that we should be figuring out more public health rules to protect the vaccinated from these people. I live in Canada, and you cannot travel on planes, trains and interprovincial buses without a vaccine still. Ontario has extended the mask mandate. Now we are looking at protecting the vaccinated from the unvaccinated, even though the vast majority of unvaccinated have by now been infected and have better protection than the vaccinated. (Not me...I am either immune or have been living a very clean life, because I have not yet been ill...but then I don't test to see if I have been asymptomatically infected ever..but pretty much all the vaccinated and unvaccinated people in my family, with whom I interact regularly have all been sick) https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/fiction-disguised-as-science-to-promote?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1NDkwNDU3NiwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTI4MzY0MTAsIl8iOiJLcmpFZiIsImlhdCI6MTY1MTA1NDkzOSwiZXhwIjoxNjUxMDU4NTM5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNTkyMjE0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.FFYaMhiL0WzHNh8vcZ_38zqCRQx2k3mp7j7nBXliI2I&s=r

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‘… suggesting that the unvaccinated were more likely to spread Covid to the vaccinated…’

And being in a minority and dispersed throughout a mostly vaccinated population, from whom did the unvaccinated catch it? Is there a venue where unvaccinated people go to infect one another?

And you need to have had an irony bypass to claim the vaccinated were at risk of the disease against which they were vaccinated, by coercion and emotional blackmail, to stop them getting it.

I think these folk should be under psychiatric supervision… and locked up.

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ha! nicely put

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I read about this on Live to Fight Another Day (Andreas Oehler). The only way to fight their lies with with truth and data. Ask people who believe this horse manure, if they really believe the virus and jabs behaved differently the UK and the United States?

pp 41-45

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1066759/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-13.pdf

Slide 5

https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.jsp?fbclid=IwAR3zhTgCQZLgGyIOOXKVXxDPxSpMEE1M_luGJtgYI38Jim-cZyBB1N50r4g

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The article is so horrible. It’s al bull shit. But if one only reads the headline, or doesn’t know what to look for...well I fear in BC we will be reinstating the vax pass and most people will be happy about it.

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Yes, that begs the question how much more moronic can it get?!

And, how can such absurd, illogical and plain stupid notion is allowed to be voiced and accepted by so many?!!!

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I feel like I read (or write) this article every single day, but it's THAT IMPORTANT to kick people in the ass and make them see what the 'experts' have done over the last two+ years. We need to kick all these experts to the curb, then bulldoze the curb.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/everything-is-an-attack-on-democracy

Though the vaccine mandates were the most egregious example, nearly all covid rules were made via executive fiat and use of emergency powers. Governors and mayors found a lackey in a lab coat to stand behind so they could pass the buck and be held blameless for the chaos that followed. “Just following guidelines” became the borg-like ‘get out of jail free’ chant of government officials. But nobody voted for Anthony Fauci or anybody working under him. We have no mechanism to hold these bureaucrats responsible - and holding officials responsible is the foundation of the Republic.

And it’s no surprise these unelected bureaucrats declare that unelected bureaucrats should have unlimited power. These bureaucrats also say people who disagree are really attacking science, and should be banned from public discourse due to their ‘dangerous misinformation’.

But there’s never been any evidence that airplanes and other public transportation systems were a major transmission vector. Nearly the entire country is totally done with covid restrictions, and the idea that a super small minority of travelers could somehow kickstart another wave by removing their masks is insane. Yet Fauci just casually asserts it, knowing CNN’s Washington Generals-level reporter will let the claim skip right on by.

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I challenge the claim of incompetence. Judging form the result - billions of people submitting to irrational domination - we can conclude that this lot is extremely competent in what they are doing - leveraging fear to gain power. I think what you've uncovered shows that this was the ultimate objective.

The reaction to judge Mizelle's decision is truly interesting. Someone here posted a link and I read through it. It is clearly NOT a judgement on masks, nor even a decision that the CDC did not have the power to issue such a mandate. In fact she found that the CDC did not properly issue the mandate. The CDC did not follow the lawfully required process for promulgating a rule. She then ripped apart the arguments of the government lawyer's claims that they did not have to follow the legal process to make a rule. She DID say they can't just "make it so" without complying with the rule making process (legally the Administrative Procedures Act, the law which authorizes agencies to make rules with the force of law and the process).

The decision leaves the door open for a mask mandate promulgated through the proper process. That process requires public comment or 30 days, then some time for reply to comments. The entire process can be completed in 60 days. There are also means to make a rule effective immediately while the the comment process runs. Those big wigs and experts now decrying the decision are overlooking how simply the CDC and TSA could reinstate the mandate - and they know this - so it's clearly posturing for political purposes. Reich's comment is revealing: what we can expect is a "dire need" to cleanse the judicial branch of "unqualified" judges.

If Reich has read the decision, then his remark are clearly dishonest. The judge was clearly competent and qualified to apply the law: she gave 60+ pages of precedent and simply said federal agencies are required to follow the rules. If he's not read the decision then he is clearly unqualified to comment on the judge's qualifications. Either way, it was in deed either disingenuous and asinine.

Another thing: in slicing and dicing the "but it was an emergency" argument she noted that the CDC could have complied with the APA to issue a rule any time in the last 2 years, but hasn't. It was more than a year after the pandemic was declared before the mask mandate was issued, and a year since. The judge noted that this clearly showed no sense of urgency within the agencies involved.

And yet we're hearing that this unqualified, 35 year old Trump appointee is killing children and kicking puppies and all manner of other evils because she said "no, kids, you have to play by the rules too".

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The gnomish Reich is the textbook example of the regime "intellectual" and "expert".

His entire life has been spent in his ivory tower in Berkeley, sucking off the taxpayer teat and justifying the pillage of the population via taxes, currency debasement and regulatory regimes that enrich he and his political class at the expense of the rest of us.

He's never run so much as a taco stand or produced anything of economic value, quite the opposite.

And like all such creatures of the State, he has the gall to insist that the depredations he advocates are for *our* benefit.

The problem is that so many have been bamboozled into believing him.

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I am glad a judge went through the minutia to hold the agency's feet to fire on the rule promulgation procedures. Other courts have blown the overreaching off. I was stunned that the CDC imposed that rent moratorium edict on September 20, 2020, and the Trump admin didn't act. Sure, they would have imposed it again the second Biden was sworn in but WTH!? And then CDC had the gall to roll out a new rent moratorium right after it was struck down. The CDC caused countless bankruptcies and hardship to property owners. HHS has used the same don't-bother-with-the-promulgation-rules with its Transgendering Children Saves Lives! insanity. States that have taken the APRA $ (I realize they all have) the USG get to impose edicts retroactively, which means state health and welfare departments will have to implement those regulations despite them being detrimental to children and adults with gender dysphoria as is well known and well documented by medicine, science and psychiatriy/psychology literature and practice.

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It was not minutia. It was basic law. Nothing subtle or nuanced.

The CDC could roll out a new mask mandate tomorrow. That they have not but instead are attacking the judge and the judicial process tells volumes.

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As you noted, they could just "follow the rules" and we'd be right back where we started. 🤦‍♀️

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Love this!! Thank you!

Going to try to find the link to read it too!

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Please do and tell me if I got anything wrong.

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of course you haven't.

Just want to read it.

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Read it THEN tell me I'm not wrong :-). I can be wrong - I practice all the time!

BTW in pointing out the absurdity of the "outrage" and "disappointment" already I've had people who have NOT read the decision tell me I'm wrong.

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Noticed that you stuck to your lower case for jerome...you need to do the same for fauci!!! He doesn't deserve the capital letter! :-) So interesting how people's perceptions changed- have a crazy covid obsessed sister who wants to go on vacation so my other crazy covid sister was going to come watch mom, but supposedly now has covid (now? triple or quadruple shotted?) and sister who wants to get away says "oh well, the five day quarantine will be up before I leave"- so now in her head my 95 year old mom will be OK around an infected member of the family, but I was forbidden to stay at the house a year ago...because....yeah...SMH.

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phoney baloney tony only got caps in text i quoted.

i would not give him a capital F anywhere apart from his report card.

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I saw that...and I didn't think you would! Love you!

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I would give that demon a capital F and a capital U.

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Not the first time that sister has annoyed with self absorbed pseudo logic ?

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"Narcissim hobbit" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 can you come up with something equally pithy for UK equivalent Sajid Javed? Thanks in advance ☺

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how about:

cut rate "mini me" and failed disney grand vizier

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🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂 excellent, thank you 👍

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bwahahahahaha!

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“I found that the men most in repute were all but the most foolish; and that some ‘inferior’ men were really wiser and better.”-Socrates

The problem with “trust the experts” is that the purported experts often have terrible incentives, lack adequate information and do not really have the expertise they pretend to have.

Anyone with a basic understanding of statistics and logic could have seen through Fauci & co. It was manifest early on that they were lying, incompetent or both.

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I learned exactly 2 useful things from my basic statistics class: 1. It's really, really easy to design a study to say what you want it to say, and 2. By the time something is truly statistically significant it is painfully obvious to just visually see the pattern 🤷

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Hopefully you learned about confounding too. When RCTs fail to find any benefit from masking, but some observational studies seem to show some benefit, the right inference is not “masks work”. It is “the observational studies are likely confounded”…

Even some epidemiologists seem not to understand this, which any intro to stats student should understand.

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It probably was discussed, but my only on the job use was watching for shifts, drifts & trends in qc data for analyzers.

Observation wasn't confounded so much as, 2 qc fails & make up new qc. 2 more fails & calibrate, lol.

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Incidentally, one other problem with “experts” is that the narrowness of their expertise naturally conduces to a kind of tunnel vision. Fauci, for example, freely admitted that he didn’t understand economics. Thus he was incapable of evaluating the costs of lockdowns and should never have been making policy.

He, like many of the virologists, immunologists, etc… became a Covid monomaniac, obsessed with suppressing Covid at all costs and blithely unconcerned about the terrible collateral damage his obsession was causing.

Small businesses closing en masse, kids denied an education, suicides, depression, drug overdoses, untreated cancer, etc… None of that mattered to Tony.

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Excellent comment but I have to disagree with your description of Fauci as being "obsessed with suppressing covid at all costs." On the contrary, he seems to be obsessed with keeping it going at all costs. If it ever disappeared, he'd lose his public presence and most of his power.

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Exactly, but as Phoebe observes, the obsession wasn't about suppressing covid. It was about pushing the novel gene-therapy "vaccines". Everything else was about making people as miserable as possible so that they would be coerced into taking them.

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Kary Mullis said the problem was that the average person does not have the ability to see who is a good scientist and who isn’t.

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Yes, the simplest explanation for the behavior of the "experts" is the correct one: it's about power, not science. Once I realized that, all of their behavior made perfect sense. There's no position they won't take as long as it meets their desired narrative.

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it felt so good to read this. Exactly how many of us are feeling right now. A mix of contempt and determination -- we have had "enough" of this charade.

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"and a bunch of amateurs with actual biological, modeling, and statistics skills ran rings around them. from the very beginning “team reality” shredded the imperial college scare models and the idiocy of lockdowns. it took what, 2 months for many of us to have conclusively disproved all of this?"

The silver lining has been a whole universe of amateurs and critical thinkers emerging like a galaxy around key constellations. Even those of us who struggle with the math and science can follow the debates about theories and concepts and have a framework rooted in reality.

"these agencies are incompetent to make public health policy. they cannot collect or handle data, they ignore well established guidelines, make up policy out of superstition and performance art, kowtow to politics, and wreck the world. they have done untold harm and absolutely no good. even when they did know what to do, they chose not to out of political featly or personal panic."

Why matters far less than everyone seeing these groups for the threat and disgrace they are.

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Here is another "expert," now being given major traction by MSM on this "modelling" study. Note the conflicts stated. I hope one of you stats brainiacs takes this one on! (p.s. love the flying kitty).

https://www.cmaj.ca/content/194/16/E573

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Whoa! What a bunch of convenient "modelling!" Remember the "modelling" out of the UK by that fraud that said 2 million deaths from the "pandemic" that would shortly ensue in the U.S.? Jeeez talk about conflicts!

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Exactly! And, um, whyyyyyyyy are they still using modeling when they have real world human guinea pig data by the billions now? Data Showing Otherwise! Oh…THAT’S why they’re using modeling.

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Yep, keep up the narratives. Of course it begs the question - why do the vaccinated need to be protected from the unwashed unvaccinated if the "vaccines work?"

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I hope so too.

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These so called experts should never be trusted with anything related to health and wellness. They’re experts in sickcare. My body, my responsibility.

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Taking back the controls. Yes. I have many Memes about that this week. 😁👍

https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/meme-dump-monday?s=w

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Very good ones, too!

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Thank you. Some great ones in this offering!

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