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I'm long time subscriber to the New York Times (and progressive voter). I posted a comment on a Covid article that just said the vaccines don't stop transmission or stop people from contracting the coronavirus. I went back to the article later and the comment was deleted.

Popular US media outlets have been 100 percent silent on deaths caused by vaccines. Even New Zealand has covered a recent death from the Pfizer vaccine in their news, for Pete's sake. But our media has a code of silence.

It's crystal clear that American media outlets are working in tandem with the government and the drug manufacturers to disseminate their misinformation.

1984, indeed.

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All the way back to the summer when it was becoming clear that vaccines didn't stop transmission, I was coming to the conclusion that mandates - public and private - were vindictive performance art and I'm certain of it at this point.

Earlier this fall, I strained some relationships with some long term friends - all of whom are in blue locales - who clung to the mandate concept and could not explain the logic beyond, "It's a real vaccine" and "It's just the right thing to do." Their reasoning was entirely vindictive once it was clear that vaccines did nothing to protect other people. It was all, "Well we did it so now these bad people also should have to do it."

This woman's twitter thread is very similar to my friends. She is clinging as tightly as she can to there being SOME benefit from the clot shots, so her twitter thread is an attempt to be reassured that she's still a good person. The last guy who responded to her has no idea what he's talking about, but they've all been reduced to bullshit rationalizations at this point, so it's all he has. But America is slowly being red pilled for sure.

Rather than argue with my friends perpetually and ruin our friendship completely, I decided a few months ago to show them a little grace and just dropped the subject and quit talking about it. They will eventually see the truth, if they haven't already.

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My wife’s friend vaxxed her nine year old daughter a few weeks ago, despite kids having no real risk from omicron. Yesterday the daughter tested positive.

The mom has been running around for weeks with “a cold” that isn’t seeming to get better.

The vaccines make you susceptible to the virus by wiping out your T-cell immunity for weeks. Small exposures should be taken care of by the T-cells, but when you vax and boost, ANY exposure to virus will result in infection.

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My neighbor is a big sports fan, and he noticed that the NFL, NBA and the NHL are messed up with the Wuhan even though they are 99% jabbed. It was the first time he considered anything I have been telling him for the past year.

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I love how these newly "enlightened" people circle around to their same comforting conclusion: They are the "good" (the "chosen") because they have done something ridiculously minimal and want to force that ridiculously minimal thing on others (although the personal, and societal, effects of it over the long term are unknown) even though anyone with critical thinking skills would understand the useless nature of it due to the way the goalpost has been steadily pushed further and further away. But they don't have critical thinking skills. They understand "civic duty," and you, the unvaccinated, don't. That's it. That's all they need.

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It is amazing how the vaxxed people lost all sense of logic and how difficult it is to even make someone compute 2+2 to see that it is not 5.

Apparently, asking to add 2+2 is conspiracy theory and extremism.

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I don't only trust my own eyes and ears but also my mind, my instincs and my common sense that all have survived two years of hard core propganda!

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Dec 22, 2021·edited Dec 22, 2021

Her last comment, her favorite response, indicates she's still biased toward an an answer she wants to hear than the unwelcome truth. It's also one of the key disconnects that raised my skepticism antenna early one when it came to the solutions to the problem from the "experts." The idea that a highly mutable, airborne respiratory virus mutates because of the unvaccinated is such blatant, Salem Witch Trial level superstition that any so called "expert" or politician who promotes it cannot be believed on any level. Everything else they tell you must be questioned.

Viruses mutate to escape immunity, whether that immunity be conferred via vaccine or infection (natural immunity). This may be the very first thing somebody studying virology learns on the first day of class because it's a proven fundamental truth, Virology 101 if you will. Blaming the unvaccinated for it is the equivalent of blaming and burning the witch for random events that happen in nature. And the fact that our politicians and public health "experts" actually have sold this lie so easily is a sad revelation that humanity is still in the same dumb place it was in the days of Copernicus, only with better technology.

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Unfortunately, it seems there are die-hards that will continue ignore the facts. Spent a few days with my pro-vax brother and his wife (he is a surgeon so he thinks he knows everything despite only working in hospital administration for the past decade or more). They will continue to justify the vaccines because "it would have been worse" if they weren't vaxxed when talking about all his friends that got covid. When the conversation about what vaccine everyone got came up, I left the room so I didn't have to discuss.

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At least some on the left are starting to ask questions. Though, since they still find it hard to not believe what their overlords are telling them, they aren't quite getting to the right answers... Maybe they'll get there.

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I wonder if the 500 million home tests are an attempt by the Biden Administration to bury the case numbers. Don't get me wrong- I think the testing regime needs to be shit-canned completely, but it is a step the Covidians can't take, so maybe they get the testing in-home and the numbers never get reported publicly.

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Look at this evilness.

Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot @chicagosmayor 18h

To put it simply, if you have been living vaccine-free, your time is up. If you wish to live life as w/the ease to do the things you love, you must be vax'd.

This health order may pose an inconvenience to the unvaccinated, and in fact it is inconvenient by design.

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we had the repeated "surges" in afganistan: failed. we have the repeated rounds of quantitative easing: failed. We have the incessant efforts to fight a "war" on drug: failed ( Overdoses keep going up). WE have this effort to reduce health care costs: failed.

Why would ANYONE believe for a second that gov efforts to defeat a virus would be successful? Its disappointing to me ( an understatement) that so many Americans are so gullible

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the vaccination campaign keeps the virus alive .. without it, the virus sweeps through the population, does its damage, and becomes endemic. anyone that doesn't understand by now will never understand.

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I'm from the left and quickly jumped off that death cult as soon as covid started and they were ok with locking healthy people down

Oh and even the fraudsquad voted for the largest upward transfer of wealth in history while not doing m4a or the 15 minimum wage.

Now that I look into the history of the left, I see that they have been captured by corporations just like the right has.

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Her "favorite response so far" is absolutely ass-backwards. Anybody who has been paying even the SLIGHTEST amount of attention knows that it is precisely the vaxxed who are driving mutations by favoring the proliferation of variants against which the narrowly-focused vax antibodies are not effective. The notion that "you won't play host to the virus for too long" is a pathetic misunderstanding of high school genetics--as if the virus sets up a factory in your body to create mutations when it runs into the vax(!)--instead of the already-mutated virus finding a vaxxed host receptive because the vax is not effective against the new strain. Sheesh. Small wonder we're destroying our society. We're living in an Idiocracy.

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