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el gato, you and others kept me sane through the onset of this absurdity. I was simply disgusted with the complicity and stupidity of Americans. Who would want to live in a society like this? Thank God there are brave intelligent souls to carry on. Thank you! We will fight for our children!

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"they will drum up endless emergencies and use them to abridge and invalidate rights.

health, climate, education, social policy, gender, race; it’s all an emergency now. all a war."

This is not new by any means. As H. L. Mencken wrote:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

The picture of the infant wearing a mask is heartbreaking and gives me the heaviest of hearts.

I have walked off two planes because of flight attendants harassing families simply because their 2 year old was having a bad day.

One of the incidents involved the passengers throwing candy to the flight attendants, as an applause, for their abhorrent behavior.

I'll say it again:

The mask are the LINCHPIN.

THEY MUST BE REJECTED IN FULL! It is meant to humiliate and strike fear, exploiting the most baser of human emotions/instincts.

Again: There would be no vaxx mandates or 2nd class citizens without the mask mandates.

Fight back and do not comply. I'm positive they will be back in the fall.

This is no laughing matter and no jokes should be made about this today.

Be prepared!

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When one's entire leadership class are dickless wonders, one ends up here. When actual dickless wonders are celebrated, one stays here...

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There are still a dozen school districts with mask mandates. All deep blue cities where Karen administrators enslave and groom minority kids. Democrats partying like it’s 1860.

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Long Covid. That is the new/old boogeyman. Now that people aren’t scared of dying from Covid and the vaccinations and NPI’s have failed, the narrative will shift to how to fear and protect you from Long Covid. Bonus, you don’t even have to take a rapid test to know that you got Long Covid, you don’t have to define what it is, and there is no way to prove that your interventions don’t help.

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Thank you again for a succinct and informative post.

I was asked to explain on another post regarding the carnage that I expected to see, if we pull through this nightmare besides death and severe illness; mental health is at the top of my list. Other statistics that will be telling: divorce rate, domestic violence, and child abuse (other than what that perpetrated by the government). Carnage is not just a bunch of dead bodies laying around, I see lifeless, vacant human shell forms constantly. Carnage? I thinks so.

I would also like to give kudos to each and everyone of us. When the brave are counted, we are included.

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Everything you wrote is true. And the silence of the doctors was most profound. They knew kids should be in school; they knew masks don't work; they knew healthy people should not be isolating at home; they knew outdoor activities shouldn't be illegal; they knew hospitalized patients should not be alone without family day after day after day; they knew that mandating vaccines was wrong---but they kept quiet. I have so much anger at the medical community for completely doing the opposite of their oath. They harmed us over and over--their harm led to suicides, depression, bankruptcy. Out of all the awful groups in this pandemic (teachers, politicians, media) their betrayal may hurt the most. My trust is gone--too many continue to do the wrong thing. I am thankful for the brave few--but the rest cannot be forgiven.

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I do understand that, but I really thought they’d do better. When the government dumped on children, I thought the pediatricians would unite and say something….but they didn’t. When people died alone in hospitals, I thought they’d unite and denounce this barbaric treatment of THEIR patients…but they didn’t. The list goes on which is why I’m angry. I’m a lawyer, and I’m disgusted by my own profession being ok with people’s rights being trampled by an “emergency”. As to the vets, I totally agree. I lost my dog during the pandemic, and I often wonder if I would have been in the room talking face to face with the vet, if maybe we would have done more early on instead of losing crucial months. Nonetheless, that pain is nothing compared to all those isolated in hospitals, and those who lost their businesses, and those children who continue to suffer.

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Medical freedom is the ultimate freedom over my own body. If the borders of our bodies are not free, there no number of troops at the border of our country can save us from tyranny.

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After 2+ years, people are STILL drinking the koolaid… I suspect the damage from vaccines will unfortunately need to keep building until it’s too big to ignore😞. At which point the masses will wake up, “choose wisely”, and the finger-pointing/jersey-switching will begin in earnest… Thank you for your insightful writings and your wonderfully snarky delivery! You’re a gem!

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To me, the cognitive dissonance is absolutely mind blowing to watch.

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Lord Sumption was one of the first people I really *heard* on this in 2020. An "emergency" situation is the real test for a system of checks and balances. That system becomes not *less* critical in an emergency, but rather is at its highest possible level of importance. If your system cannot stand up to pretexts used to deconstruct it, it's failed the test.

If safeguards against tyranny only hold while no one is challenging them, they don't really hold at all.

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At this point, I have to wonder about any medical professionals who are still going along with the COVID masking theater -- requiring patients to wear masks covering nose, mouth and chin the entire time.

They all have to know the truth by now and are pretending (lying), or they are brainwashed/ignorant.

Either answer is problematic; I have lost all trust in them.

If they would pretend (lie) about mask protocols, and pretend (lie) that the vaccine could not possibly be connected to sudden symptoms a patient is experiencing (bonus points for if they still push the vaccine) -- WHAT ELSE might they be lying about? How can I trust a word of advice from them?

If they are brainwashed/ignorant, then they are mentally ill, and how can I trust them to provide wise, critically-thought medical advice to me?

If they require proof of vaccination in order to be a patient of theirs -- just wow. And no.

This makes me want to continue to avoid all doctors, hospitals, etc.

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This was not a difficult test!

The novel pharmaceutical had only been tested for two months at best, but was said to be safe anyway. Did you take it?

In other words, did you bet your life that 2+2=5?

Some of the world’s greatest mathematicians did just that.

Ditto with the masks. It took one day of nearly passing out on my own stale air to observe that this insanity carried steep cognitive costs.

If everybody flunks these basic tests, whatever will they do in a genuine dilemma?

I believe Gato has identified the solution with his important analogy with MMA.

The strong crave to be tested in front of gods and men.

The weak dodge every test and hide every result.

Lately I wonder if it is simply down to something like family size.

The single child can remain unchallenged and unobserved and so he does.

Whereas the child of a larger family is always being tested and observed.

We don’t get to choose our family but we can still make a habit of always being tested in plain view. If not by life, then by athletics and scholarship. If not by people, then by gods.

Our lives depend on it.

I for one am eagerly looking forward to the impending intermediate and difficult tests.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

And where have the MEN been? I have seen a shocking lack of real MEN these days.

Your job is first and foremost to protect your family and children!

Stand the fuck up and be a MAN!

If I've hurt your feelings. I don't give a fuck. Look in the mirror. Are you a MAN or a mouse?

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