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When I heard that Fauci had been in his position, or one like it, for 40 years, I told people, "Don't trust him. You don't survive that many administrations as a bureaucrat if you have anything remotely resembling integrity." It's one of my sadder and more tragic "I-told-you-sos."

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I did the same. Having been a bureaucrat myself, I saw many Fauci’s in government. Most people think its the elected officials that are the corrupt ones. And many do become corrupted but at least they can be unelected. Its the unelected bureaucrats that are able to do the most damage.

They will turn on their own mother & do unbelievable things to keep their power. Its their drug.

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That's also why they never retire and our world is being run off a bridge by jerk people in their 70s & 80s

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Its not age, but Bureaucrats in powerful positions should be rotated out of powerful positions in all Depts.

And closely monitored by the internal auditors appointed by the administration. Im 75. So is Trump. The difference is we did not compromise our ethics for money or power.

And I was married to a State Legislator while he served for 26 years. We could have taken advantage of that like the Bidens & other corrupt politicians but we did not. Anyone who gets rich after they are elected to office is corrupt. Because its more than a full time job if you do it right. We actually lost wealth as did Trump.

I believe a lot of the corruption at the Federal level could be stopped if we went back to the original intent of the Founders, which was to let the State Legislators elect the DC Senators. It should be the DC Senators who protect States rights.

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Sorry contd. example:

Biden's A G announced today, he is suing TX for their redistricting process. TX gained 2congressional seats as a result of people fleeing CA & other Dem run cities. Now the Fed govt wants to tell States how to divide up their districts. That is totally unconstitutional. We are fighting every day for the survival of this Republic.

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I appreciate what you're saying and I don't disagree that age ain't nuthin' but a number. However, at the risk of sounding ageist, it's not acceptable, IMO for someone to be both that old and having "served" for many years passing retirement. I am not a fan of Trump. I appreciate his trolling skills & some other things, but he sold out RFK Jr. & the rest of us when he never appointed a Vaccine Safety Commission as he promised but took 1M from Pfizer fir his campaign & became Daddy Warp Speed. He also sold out the people of Yemen. These are unforgivable to me.

Must be rotated. Must not be a dinosaur desperately clinging to power either

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Dont waste my time with your ignorance please

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I agree except with the age thing. Im 75. So is Trump, Larry Cudlow & a hell of a lot of other people that are still competent but not crooked jerks like demented FBJ & drunk Pelosi.

I was a Dem all my life. My husband served 26 years as a Blue Dog Democrat State Rep (conservative) in TN General Assembly. We watched with disgust as the Progressives (kkk/ commies) took over the Dem party. Toward the end of his service, my husband was voting with Republicans. He was the Joe Manchin of TN.

The Dems despised him & did everything possible to get him defeated. He sponsored & got passed the Conceal Carry Permit in TN & voted NO on a Dem bill to put in a State Income Tax. He was the deciding vote. So as “punishment” the Leadership packed up his office & moved him out of the Legislative Plaza to another building where the Republicans were housed.

It was disgusting. They (most Dems) are EVIL. They used to hide it but not anymore.

Ever since my husband retired, we voted Republican. But I am so disgusted with our two current Federal Senators Marsha Blackburn & Bill Hagerty (both Rep) for voting on Jan 6 to certify Biden as POTUS, they will not get my vote in their next election. Because

of their betrayal, they have blood on their hands. And now Mitch McConnell is giving the Dems everything they want. Beware of the corrupted RINOs too.

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Exactly. When I first those facts about Pfauci, and that he had entered this career track immediately out of school, I began to have serious doubts. (My default position to not trust a government bureaucrat tends to shape my point of view!) At no point during this dumpster fire have I heard him speak and not thought, "This guys pulls stuff out of his butt. Why is *anyone* listening to him?" And yet, here we are.

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...except that "we" aren't "listening" to him. In other words, we aren't running and hunting him up to hang on the next word dripping out of his poison mouth, rather we are being FORCE-FED his never-ending CRAP! Why can't we get rid of him? How can we STOP THIS MADNESS??

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He is part of the Communist agendae

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He also matches quite well with Biden, who really hasn't done anything at all for 50 years, he has only been in government. No real world experience anywhere in his resumé.

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Forget if I already made this point elsewhere, but it fits here. I have a buddy who was in law school with Sleepy Joe. Even way back then, Joe knew he could not cut it in the "real world," but he also knew he could get people to vote for him. And so, here we are with 50+ years of an almost ambition-free loser, who is now "Leader of the Free World." USA! USA!

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Pretty amazing and your comment doesn't surprise me in the least. It's discouraging that people of his caliber are in positions to make decisions that affect us all. Well, one thing Joe seems to excel at is making himself and his family rich using governmental connections. He's a good criminal, apparently.

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He seems to have had mafia help to get into that Senate seat in Delaware.

And the death of his first wife and daughter is highly suspicious.

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excellent point

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He stopped being a doctor and became a jaded, money grubbing bureaucrat about 35 years ago.

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I surprised to learn he had only ONE year of residency. So he is not even a legit quack!

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I missed that he actually had ONE year of residency. Either way, the guy has been a bottom-feeder from way back. And yet, I have friends who "stand with Fauci" or have voluntarily gone to receive "the Fauci Ouchie" which is slang for the vaccine. And these people are not old nor comorbid. WTAF?

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Re your friends: volenti non fit injuria.

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Fantastic nuance. Thank you for offering that!

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This is why I've only made a suggestion to the organizers of the Masters Tennis Tournament next year but have sent a notice of liability to the tennis club because of minors at the latter.

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Sorry the Masters is many sports, not just Tennis.

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Here is my source re Fauci https://t.me/DrLynnFynn/591

I read that a female lib proudly tweeted that she would only stop wearing her mask on Frauci say so.

the "Fauci Ouchie" EXCELLENT!!! I will borrow it.

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So does he work for the Empire or its Church? Or are they the same thing. Does the non-absence of one mean that we must also have the other? Rome and Romans seem popular on Twitter all of a sudden.

Who runs it?

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Same, same; but different.

"Rome and Romans seem popular on Twitter all of a sudden." ?

Who runs it? Not me!

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Saw photos and video of women dressing up to the nines to go get their jabs. One decorated a car like newly weds and it said "Just Vaxxed."

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???

volenti non fit injuria

I am sure they won't survive or take NINE doses.

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He's been getting a million a year for AIDS research as well, every single year of those 40 years.

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SUCH A GREEDY EVIL LITTLE MONSTER. I call him Dr Frankenstein.

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Unfortunately and the truth, is that most people are dumb. It was that way from the beginning and it will be that way to the end. Those with the ability to reason and apply logic saw through this from the beginning. The blind masses are still banning their children from coming for Chistmas, even though they are double vaxxed with the booster, because their kids put them at "risk". Did I say dumb? Let me also add selfish and evil to that.

This ends badly for a large chunk of people who will develop autoimmune issues, a lot leading to death. It is happening now and it seems to be progressive. Even with that the lie will continue. I've always thought we are going through a Darwinian selection event. Perhaps it is right that those who jab themselves and their children are not fit with the necessary skepticism to live in a potentially totalitarian world that technology is pushing towards. Their non-resistance will doom the rest of us. Perhaps Fauci and the jabs were inevitable in one form or the other and it's time that the dumb, who are have genetics that make them immediately trusting of centralized authority, need to leave the island. That's a bad adaptation to have in the coming world. Just thinking out loud here.

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Both dark and apt. I would like to encourage you to be more optimistic but irrational fear and gullibility have led us down very dark roads before and we are pretty far down this one already. I am amazed every day by the number of people who just can’t admit that they were bamboozled and move on with their lives. It is clear that as a species we tend not to learn from either experience or observation.

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"I do have a test today, that wasn't bullshit. It's on European Socialism. I'm not European, nor do I plan on being European, so who gives a crap if they're socialists? It still wouldn't change the fact that I don't own a car!" ~FB

It was a mistake, we should have given a crap.

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You don’t own a car because of Socialism. Curious have you ever taken a test on Capitalism?

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She's quoting from Ferris Bueller. My point, and maybe oblique, is that our (American) education system did a poor job teaching about the big difference between socialism and capitalism. We made it boring, and irrelevant. We should have focused on teaching people, if you want to OWN the car, you better understand the difference between capitalism and socialism.

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Thanks EJ! I don't watch movies and don't have facebook so one FB is the same as another! LOL! Your quote reminded me of a comment I saw about ten years ago made by a young man (probably late 20s or early 30s). He said "communism" was defeated and didn't exist anymore. 🙄

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Socialism and Communism are irrelevant, because they have never actually properly existed. They were a ruse of the banking/ruling class to head off actual republican revolutions. The whole topic sticks in my craw because this oddly timed wave of "anti-socialism" is promoted by the selfsame people. It's all theoretical, because in the absence of a free market, what we currently have can't properly be described as capitalism. There's no dilemma, all current forms of government are hopelessly dysfunctional, having been corrupted by the same families. Remember how every single US president in history was shown to be related to each other? They're also all related to European royalty.

Marx- http://mileswmathis.com/marx.pdf

Debs- http://mileswmathis.com/debs.pdf

Hitler- http://mileswmathis.com/hiller.pdf

Lenin (AND the Romonovs...) http://mileswmathis.com/lenin.pdf

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Fauci represents *those* families, nothing else.

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I think she's posting a quote from someone on Facebook. 🤷‍♀️

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Haha. Great movie. Don't worry. We will own nothing (including cars). And we *will* be happy. By God we are going to do what we are told and we are going to take what they tell us to take and we are going to eat the food they tell us we are allowed to eat and we damn well better be happy or else!

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I will never own "nothing" because I own guns. Many guns, with much deadly ammunition.

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not dumb, more like obedient. Both my very smaht kids buy all this nonsense hook, line and sinker. I tell them to not trust what they've been fed but they won't have it. I don't know where they learned it (I do, college), but there isn't an anti-establishment bone in their bodies.

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I raised my kids to always question authority, even mine. Conservative friends thought I was crazy, but my kids are the ones resisting woke and vax pressure. I was right. Respect for authority has to be earned.

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Nice! My Mom did the same thing with us kids, but we were raised in the early 60's to early 70's. We often hear how bad the 60s were, but in a lot of ways, there was a huge movement that said, "oh hell no" to the man. Now, Mom did teach us to respect our elders and find value in those who were older and wiser than we are (especially if they are family), but for the public, government and institutions in general (no matter what age the "official" was) we were encouraged to distrust and question. Period.

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My youngest son is active-duty Marine Corps. He brought his roommate home for Thanksgiving. The roommate was trying to tell me that climate change was real and pointed to the fact that he'd researched it himself regarding the ozone layer.

He was flabbergasted when I asked him, "Why do you believe everything you found on the internet?"

His incredulous response: "You mean you don't trust Google?"

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It's unreal. I have a friend who has a new grandbaby and the Daughter in Law is so terrified of this crap that she won't let the grandmother (my friend) hold the baby at all. If the grandparents come to see the grandbaby, they are not allowed to touch it but have to sit 6 feet away and just look at it. This is madness. One can only imagine what this world is going to be like in another 20 years if this continues. I don't have a death wish, but I'm actually grateful to be "old". I don't want to live in the world that so many people are accepting.

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You and me both - the old part!

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That kind of craziness scared me much more than any virus.

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that's awful. That child is going to grow up warped and full of chemicals

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“ I've always thought we are going through a Darwinian selection event.” Food for thought, that.

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But will they overrun the critical thinkers?

I'm scared sometimes.

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I have to relate a story from my own (related by marriage) family and Thanksgiving 2020. One of my wife's cousins posted all over Facebook how she had setup a picnic table outside their dining room for out of town relatives (grandma, etc.) Because COVID and Birx.

Within less than a week afterward, the same Covidian relative posted a pic of her and 8 or so of her jowly besties, jammed together in a local restaurant.

No discussion whatsoever of the Thanksgiving meal in which grandma literally had to eat outside at a picnic table, less than a week before.

My ultimate personal and completely true tale of Branch Covidianists.

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It would be difficult to ever have to see that relative again.

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Well perhaps she still has the outdoor picnic table.

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And the sad reality is, she would have no idea why you wouldn’t want to see her. They’re all hypnotized. And like the people who get hypnotized at shows, they never remember what happened when they were under.

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"jowly besties" snicker.

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It is self-evident that we are overdue for a Darwinian selection event. The world is so "safe" these days that nobody is culled from the herd even when they're as dumb as rocks.

Free food, free housing, free education, free medical care. Nobody is weeded out of the gene pool anymore for lack of resources. And everything is made so safe - I mean, we even put warning labels on hair dryers telling people not to use them in the bathtub. How dumb do you have to be not to have gotten that memo at some point in your life? Yeah, young children I guess but still. At this point, I'm frankly surprised more dumb people don't just wander onto the highway and get run over.

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Bwahahahah! That burst a laugh out of me.

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I think that of so many things like your blow dryer example. Thanks for the endorphin therapy!

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I'm not at all sure its the masses or even a major portion anymore. It may depend on location. But even then, how much of our impression is formed by the media?

In my part of middle America, at least, the pandemic game is over. I really saw how much at a large Christmas event. People were totally normal. They hugged and shook hands. The few perpetually terrified stay home. I think it's unfortunate, but its up to them. The coastal self-proclaimed elites may not know it, but we're done playing. A pretty solid majority don't think other's medical decisions are their business, and I haven't heard of any twitterati style vax shaming. Once the mandates are kicked out, one way or the other, we're done with it.

Biden and Fauchi and their buddies are in a bubble of their own making.

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Things are winding down where I am in west coast state far away from big city. A lot of people with no masks and fewer all the time.

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It's good to hear and I think largely and increasingly the case. Maybe it will take some of the more egregious examples of hyper-safety culture with it. I can't say I don't still have concerns. We're not completely through this yet, and there are some pretty big problems we'll have to get through. But there's light, at least.

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The elites don't really follow the rules the govt is mandating. Probably no jabs either

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Agree. Id like to see Don Lemon, Jussie Smolletts vax passports.

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"Darwinian selection event". Brilliant! May I use your description?

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SAD but TRUE

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With all due respect, that's the kind of reasoning that legitimizes the genocide of Native Americans in terms of the inexorable march of evolutionary progress. You and I are skeptics in this situation mainly due to circumstance and chance, not with regard to some innate intellectual superiority.

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Great piece with one exception. “one day, 20 years from now, people will look back on these rushed and slipshod vaccine approvals and mandates for products that are not at all suited to task and claims about masks and lockdowns and feel sick to their stomachs.” I have gotten sick to my stomach several times in recent weeks and months and have had a queasy stomach pretty much constantly since Spring this year if not earlier. Fighting with an employer demanding I wear a mask in my own home for online classes knowing and in fact expecting it leading to my termination. I wasn’t but I can not imagine that they will be offering me an extension next school year. Losing another position that at least on the surface may not be due to my refusal to follow the nursing school’s mask policy in the classroom this episode probably played a part. Word spreads and some of those who have enthusiastically helped me land positions are silent. Others have recommended me but I have had to stop asking as everyone requires masking and the rest and I will not allow myself top used to push their fear. The sick to the stomach is not 20 years in the future, for many it is NOW. My anger is NOT with you nor your message.

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Mask for a zoom class? excuse me I have to laugh. How can they be so stupid? It is just as bad as a few needle worshiping friends who refuse to call me on the phone and instead went to text messaging, as if a phone or computer could transmit the disease ! I can now laugh about it, since I found this Substack community I lost my anxiety. Before that I left on the top of nerves. I hope you find a job that appreciates you and your decisions. You deserve better than this ! Hold out, the stone is rolling down the hill and soon the avalanche of lies will fall down on all those that went along. Prayers go out for your wellbeing.

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Thank you. I live in Japan and while a Japanese friend tells me that he believes that there are many who agree with me, he points out what I already know. The Japanese fear above all else, yes more than even death, being in the minority. Nope, no employment for the noncompliant. The school that demanded I wear a mask in my home is a medical technician vocational school. They first stormed my classroom from which I was running the online class to demand that I wear a mask after a year and a half of not wearing one. After the class I said that I would run the class from home. The immediately consented but said that I must wear a mask at home too for their online class. I said “no” and left. later that night special permission was emailed to me. Apparently, all the other teachers are wear masks at as instructed. Medical students wear masks for online classes too. Hard to trust institutions that allow or worse promote this insanity.

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Fear of being in a minority is not just a Japanese cultural norm. It has spread across the world. It takes a lot of bravery to be in a minority of thought... Or even to entertain the perception that you might be. These are strange days

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That is one of the more frightening aspects of the worldwide response. I have been observing group think grow in strength in politics in the US and Europe for many years but did not expect it to be as strong and widespread as it has been shown to be.

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don't just say no. ask why. let their brains process their stupidity in an attempt to explain.

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Would that the entrenched covidians would let their brains process their stupidity--or much of anything at this point! It just gets them mad or scared or both. Here in NYC, when confronted with dissenters, the response is the middle finger, since it's all they have, and which I have decided is the Nazi salute de nos jours. The good news, for what it's worth, is the Nazi saluters are becoming the minority and thumbs up and raised fists are predominating. I'm not letting myself get overly optimistic, but there does seem to be a shift going on.

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I hope so and it might be there. I was getting less pessimistic once the emergency declaration was relaxed then lifted. I was after Mach of this being lifted that my schools first demanded I wear a mask. Hadn’t worn one for 1 and 1/2 school years without comment, restrictions relaxed and BOOM, they demand I wear a mask for in person instruction at one school and online another.

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That does not work here in Japan. The answer is known as it has been used for millennia. “It’s the RULE.” To be shouted down by two nurses at the nursing school in front of my class as I asked “Why?”, and tried to explain that I am certified in respirators and face masks was not one of the highlights of my career. Seeing similar across the world, especially in the West, does not inspire confidence that we will prevail.

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Medical institutions that don't know how a virus works?

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They know. One of the employees at the vocational school is an infectious disease expert. When I asked him why he of all people was wear in a mask his eyes got as wide as saucers. As I began to explain that I was certified in the use of respirators he put his hand up and said in English, “It’s political”. Reverting to his native Japanese he explained that everyone in his filed knows that what the authorities are having us do is useless at best. They know. Yet, There he was every time he worked when I did, spraying and wiping down every surface of the school in his mask, gloves and face shield. They know.

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Thank you for answering. What hope is there for us, I wonder, with that type of obedience?

I'm sending best wishes to you and you finding an institution that appreciates you.

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Below is the list or measures another employer requires of its employees and students. In addition, our local festival was cancelled despite the Emergency Declaration being lifted before Oita was too be held. Too many, like almost all, of the members employers have as a part of their risk management prohibitions against participating in any group events.

I post these to show that much of what we read in respect to Japan and the restrictions or lack there of we face here does not reflect the reality of the situation and to show what can happen in the uS despite national mandates being shot down in court.

Keep in mind, this is a HOSPITAL and Med, school putting this out.

“Head of Hospital,

Chairman of The Committee on Measures against Infection Prevention

Ver. 20210526

New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff,

Xxxxxxxxx Hospital, xxxxxxxx University School of Medicine

(At-work)

1. Wearing a mask (nonwoven fabric) (prevention of droplet infection)

( A ) Faculty and staff are required to wear masks in indoor common places such as on-site classrooms, corridors, toilets, and hospitals. Always wear a mask other than when eating, drinking, blowing your nose, brushing your teeth, or smoking. Cover both the mouth and nose.

Grounds: Medical school students are required to wear masks when they enter the main building (at the student's own expense). Patients are asked to wear masks in the hospital (patients are preparing themselves).  

( B ) Do not touch the surface of the mask. If it is to be touched, hand hygiene must be performed before and after.  

( C )  Use a different mask for commuting and another for work.

2. Prevention of contact infection

( A ) Avoid contact with others other than medical care and medical examinations.

( B ) Do not touch your eyes or mouth with your hands. When touching cannot be avoided, carry out proper hand hygiene is made.

3. About hand hygiene

( A ) Hand hygiene is carried out with alcohol, such as quick-drying hand sanitizers in principle (wash hands with soap when there are reactions to alcohol or when dirt is visible). When treating patients in the hospital, carry hand sanitizer with you at all times.

( B ) WHO guidelines for hand hygiene timing (1) before touching the patient (2) before clean / sterile work (3) when there is a possibility of exposure to body fluids (4) after touching the patient (5) after touching any items around the patient.

Hand hygiene should also be carried out before breaks, before and after meals, before and after using the toilet, when entering the hospital from the medical office and when entering the hospital, before and after touching common objects (keyboard, mouse, touch panel, etc.).

4. About meals

( A ) Meals are to be consumed alone.  Do not eat or drink in groups of two or more people (defined here as 会食).  

( B ) Do not have conversations during meals.

( C ) Ensure at least 1 m of distance between people and try to avoid sitting face to face as much as possible.    

( D ) Do not get or give people meals.

( E ) Don't use tableware.

( F ) Hydration is carried out in the staff room, etc., and not in the patient areas such as the corridors.

5. About meetings

( A ) Encourage web conferencing.

( B ) When holding a meeting, keep the distance between people.    

( C ) Improve ventilation and provide sufficient ventilation.

( D ) The meeting should be held in a short time.

6. About the break

( A ) During breaks, the room should be ventilated (about once every 30 minutes).   ( B ) Conversations should not be carried out without being masked.

( C ) Do not have long conversations.

( D ) Perform hand hygiene before taking a break.

( E ) Select an individual responsible for implementing staff room rules to ensure they are carried out before and after use.

7. Conversations on the university and in the hospital

( A ) Do not talk in narrow passages or corridors.  

( B ) Do not have loud conversations.

( C ) Don't talk while walking.

8. About conferences

( A ) Do not keep the station dense.    

( B ) Improve colds and provide sufficient ventilation.

( C ) The implementation time is short.

New Lifestyle Standards for Faculty and Staff, xxxxxxxxx Hospital, xxxxxxxxxxx University School of Medicine

(Daily Life)

1. About physical condition management

( A ) When there is poor physical condition such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc., do not commute, and confirm the correspondence to the affiliation. If the cause of fever is unknown, you will be staying at home until 4 days after fever according to the rules of University Headquarters.

( B ) The temperature is performed before going to work, and it records it.

( C ) If there are symptoms such as fever, cold symptom, taste disorder, etc. in the family, and PCR test needs to be carried out and the member must wait for the result and the correspondence is confirmed before the faculty/staff member can return to work.

2. Commuting and transportation use

( A ) When using public transportation, wear a mask and ensure proper social distancing protocols.  

( B ) Refrain from conversations on public transportation such as buses and trains as much as possible.

( C ) Overseas travel must comply with University regulations.

3. About meals

( A ) Do not eat or drink (defined  here as a 会食) in groups of two or more people other than with your family members.  

( B ) Do not have conversations while eating out.

( C ) Do not talk as much as possible when eating at home.

4. Lifestyle

( A ) Avoid snuggling. Maintain social distance.

( B ) Don't have long conversations with others.  (wear a mask)  

( C ) Hand hygiene should be performed before and after meals, before work, and after returning home after touching items touched by others.

( D ) Wear a mask in the family depending on the situation.  

( E ) Avoid situations where more than one person exercises indoors.

5. Ceremonial occasions

( A ) Check the prevalent situation in your area of residence or place of attendance, and consider participating remotely if moving or staying is a risk.

6. Participation in travel and events

( A ) When traveling, check the trendy situation of the residential area and the planned travel destination, and stop traveling if travel or stay is a risk. Don't have meals with others at the destination.

( B ) Participation in large-scale events such as sports watching confirms the epidemic situation in the residential area and the place of scheduled attendance, and if movement or participation becomes a risk, participation is postponed. Avoid having meals in the presence of others when participating.

7. Returning home

( A ) The minimum necessary for returning home is to be made.  

( B ) Do not have meals with others when returning home.”

Conversation in conversation classes is hamstrung by students being afraid to share what they have done outside their residence with their classmates and teacher. I can not share what little my family has been able to do, camping, hiking, dinning out, family over for birthdays and the holidays, etc. with colleagues for fear of reprisals from employers.

Don’t think the battle is won if the federal mandates in the US are shot down. If employers latch on to this in the States as they have in Japan, life will not be fun.

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Just received an email from the same institution giving the times and dates for the medical students to get their Covid “booster” shots.

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It's not stupidity - it's control. Schools and universities are being paid billions to keep the hoax going.

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Terribly sorry you're dealing with such ignorance, TS. I also know of many people who just could NOT afford to lose their income - my sisters (one at VA hospital, the other at Quest diagnostics) in Puerto Rico, for instance- and felt obligated to take the jabs. Not everyone has the resources (i.e. savings, low debt, etc) to walk away from their only source of income.

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Actually, I’m losing my jobs over masks. The shot came via a different route. I was prepared to not get it. Turned it down each time three different employers offered it. If I did not get it, then my wife and son would have to quarantine home from work and school respectively if I had covid like symptoms UNLESS I got the shot. I have allergies, apart from fever, I ALWAYS have covid like symptoms. So I got the damned thing and hope that it causes whatever damage it will to before my wife tries to get it for our son.

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😢

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You comply because you want it to end but it will not end because you comply.

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THANK YOU.

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You'll lose your job anyway. When people comply, they just ratchet it up again. So it's lose/lose for us. So, we may as well refuse to comply. To any of it.

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Not sure I would actually lose this job but would loss my soul if I complied. Apart from going against my training and being forced to make my students comply with a policy that endangers their health, masks are incubators for bacteria and fungus, how do you teach a foreign language when students can’t observe your facial movements and hear the sounds unobstructed by masks and or plastic barriers? How can one judge proper pronunciation when students speak through the same? Just pretending to teach at that point.

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It's 100% about control and 0% about our health.

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Exactly. And most of those who know still go along. Scary.

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Every time I think I have heard it all...then along comes something else so asinine, it defies any sense of logic. I thought that Japan was slaying this virus with Ivermectin? By the way, I taught a lovely group of girls from Japan on an exchange program to Canada a few years back.

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As far as I know, ivermectin is NOT approved in Japan. Unbridled recently, the only treatment afforded to Covid patients was symptom relief. Recently they have stated that they will allow some treatments of the disease but this drip was not among those. It is possible it has been more recently, but if so it has escaped my notice. One of my students, a 27 year old woman had it. She was prescribed symptom relief only, had a high fever and headache and enjoyed the remaining week in at home isolation watching movies. That was at the end of this summer. Japan’s success is mostly due to the fact that they are attributing cause of death much closer to how such has traditionally been done. If sick with lung cancer and you die, you are not counted as a Covid death but as a lung cancer death. Testing of asymptomatic people is low low low and many who are tested do so at private expense at private land and the results are generally not reported to employer not the government. We all know that the PCR is not a test rather a technique to amplify genetic material so that it can be studied. The WHO AKA The Chinese Health Organization according to Health Minister Aso, and even the CDC have warned of it rendering false positives. You want to increase the number of cases, you grab as many people as possibly, sick and not and do tha PCR procedure. You want to have as few cases as possible in hopes that the world will come to the Olympics your country is hosting, you hold to the traditional standard for testing and test only those who are sick after you have ruled out all other possibilities for the chief complaint. All it is is a numbers game. That is all it ever has been. Though in Japan self righteousness was added. they pride themselves in being cleanlier than all others on the planet and used this as the reason we were not seeing cases and deaths here. No, at that time they were not testing at all. I am afraid I am going to anger many here with my next statement but it comes from study and experience. Most every study comparing any two cultures by any metric is most likely bunk. That is not to say that those engaging in the studies are bad actors, that they are intentionally misleading. It’s that most can not begin to realize the cultural differences behind the data being compared and thus assume that they are comparing the same things when they are not.

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Don't worry about " what slipped through"- we get you, and comprehend. I very much appreciate your expounding upon the cultural differences, as it makes our world a bit less confusing. " Oh, that's why..." . We really need our logical think tanks and education sources to reach out and promote positions for minds that are ,as yet,uncorrected by the insanity.

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ARRG. I too wish there was an edit function. Oh well. In the very first line, Until some how became unbridled. Wonder else slipped through.

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As a fellow-teacher-creature, I can relate to your angst over the missing editing option. :)

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I'm a scientist, and I'm not mad at all. What you're saying checks out in my experience. How experiments are done or data is collected will differ across the world because of culture, politics, and how govt policies can steer interpretations to get desired results.

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Thanks. That means more than you know. I remain surprised how much controversy I have initiated with this statement. To me it is so obvious that different culture would have different ways of thinking and doing things. I guess many like to be able to point to something that “proves” they are better than others.

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If you know the answer you want, you will find it, whether it is accurate or not.

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I have found that to be true on any topic.

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good point and eye-opening info.

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Check out "Dilbert" Oct. 8, 2020. At least someone gets it, and sneaked it past the censors.

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https://dilbert.com/strip/2020-10-08 Hahaha ! thanks for the tip ! Laughing is the best medicine.

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Have that one. Sent it to a former boss when I told him of the mask over zoom demand.

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Glad to read it is a FORMER boss. I hope you found a much better job ! a little prayer is being said for you.

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Ah, I was wondering how that would be received. Actually, the former boss I sent it to is one with whom I am hoping to work with again. I sent it to him for the comic value. I am still working for the vocational school that wants me to wear a mask from online classes. Which brings me to the point I returned to this part of the thread for. How does one take such an employer seriously? How can one take their job for such an employer seriously?

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I can not help you there. I would just laugh to their face. That is what I did with some former friends too, when they talked nonsense. Like how I unvaxxed person would infect them who were 'protected'. It did not even dawn on them how ridiculous their statements were. Maybe one day they will wake up and see the funny part of it all. I hope sooner than later ! Good luck with the job !

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That is where I am, or at least think I am. Hard to know until I am actually face to mask with them. That last time I was I was struck dumb by the demand that I wear a mask at home for online classes. After the initial shock wore off and I realized it he was not joking, I just said “No.”.

Actually, I may NOT be able to laugh it off. My students are mainly med. students, nursing students and med. technician students. They will one day be doctors, nurses and the hospital techies who will be the ones my kids will have to go to for health issues. Hard to laugh at such a serious situation.

However, doctors HATE being laughed at. That just may be the most potent weapon in my arsenal.

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Wow! thank you

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Look into being a private, independent tutor. Can be extremely lucrative. I know an area in California that wealthy people far outbid the public school system for teachers, turning them into private tutors for their kids.

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Oh I know. Did that for years. Used to meet in coffee houses mainly. Would have to be masked, sit at different tables with at least one pane of plexiglass between us. If at their home or my home, which I have also done, same. People here are scared shitless. What exactly they are scared of, the virus, being the one at the office or school to get it or being in the minority or whatever, masks are essential for all commerce. We subscribe to a home shopping service. The delivery man wears a mask as they all do. I do not. The service keeps putting in notes requesting that households wear masks to collect their deliveries. In short, I have two choices. Ignore my training training and qualification for respirator use and don a mask early in the morning and wear it all day long every day and continue with the few remaining jobs I have or except the fact that I am unemployable. I am left hoping that classrooms will open up next school year and return to prepanic….prepanic what? Operations? Circumstances? Ah! Return to prepanic normalcy. That does not help in the job search though. Absolute madness.

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But the masking is not healthy? Right? I refuse to wear it in stores and such.

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Masking is not healthy. Masks, respirators any safety equipment really are used only when it is less safe to do something without them. Masks should not be worn all day, everyday. Even those whose jobs require masks, such a surgeons change theirs frequently. There may different lengths of time but the one I have repeatedly found is 4 hours. Change the mask or respirator filter/s every 4 hours. If you touch the filter or mask, change it immediately. They are health risks and should not be used except when the task requires them. Being made to force my students to wear masks in class while I know they are unhealthy is unethical. So to unemployment I go.

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bless you tho. Need more like you.

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Good for you for not going along with such a idiotic rule, wearing a mask on zoom! You may be more important than you know. Because at some point the tide may turn even in Japan, and just knowing there was another person who didn't agree will help everyone drop their compliance, turning that tide into a tidal wave.

Another exception, “one day, 20 years from now, people will look back on these rushed and slipshod vaccine approvals and mandates for products that are not at all suited to task and claims about masks and lockdowns and feel sick to their stomachs, but relieved that the hundreds of people who reigned terror over the world are still in prison, and will be for the rest of their lives." 👍🏼

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“Governments do like epidemics, just the same way as they like war, really. It’s a chance to impose their will on us and get us all scared so that we huddle together and do what we’re told.”

—Dr. Damien Downing, President, British Society of Ecological Medicine (2009)

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yup, I worked for a nonprofit AIDS organization in the early 90's in LA. did a lot of research, read AIDS Inc. by Jon rappoport, there is also a film out about who really discovered HIV (Dr. Luc Montagnier not Dr. Gallo)... and found out that HIV does NOT cause AIDS. have friends who overcame it. And have written about this, too. met a man who wrote a book about Survivors of AIDS after 3 years. He interviewed 100+ people who all did various protocols, macrobiotic diets, fasting etc. And the ONE thing they had in common was they either did NOT take AZT the prescribed by Fauci drug or took it for a very short time. sound familiar? Remedesivir, run for your life treatment protocol at hospitals before the jabs... and before I came back to LA, in Germany, they were already curing people using medical ozone but it was illegal here in the USA, except for 3 doctors. I later worked with one of them and he has trained others to use it but they do not take insurance, so the rich get the treatments, not the regular working / middle class / low income folks for the most part.

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Please, El Gato Malo - more of this! I lived through 80’s AIDS and lost friends due to the awful treatment by public health aka Fauci. I hope that video of him spreads far and wide - that the gay community wakes to the fact that their Great Satan Is once again lying to control a narrative that bangs the same drum as they heard during the trials and tribulations that was AIDS.

Of course - there aren’t many left from the initial wave of AIDS. And we can than Fauci for that.

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Agreed, so much about that era has been lost and should be revived. We are a family of Factor VIII hemophiliacs who saw half our males die from tainted blood transfusions and suffered the same prejudice seen against the gay community. As evil as Fauci is there is also the Clinton cabal who sold blood known to be infected from Arkansas prisoners. Don't forget the Red Cross who also wave banners of benevolence and while they participate in toxic profiteering.

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Unfortunately, so much of the gay community is now part of what a lesbian friend of mine calls "Gay, Inc." Completely captured by corporations, politicians that's now a closed loop of self-serving agendas and worldviews and Fauci's false sainthood is now part of that closed loop.

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I have been wondering about that. Not individually of course, but those groups seem to be all in with those who support all this madness. Learning what I now have about how AIDS was botched I have, well no. I am not surprised that Gay Inc supports this guy. If Teddy Kennedy could get the support of feminists, then why the hell would Fauci not be able to get Gay Inc’s support?

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When former friends of mine were touting the "excellence and expertise" of this idiot, I had a gut level feeling that he was bad news all around. Intuition is a wonderful, and cat-like sense to possess.

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I remember all this. I remember sitting with a friend who was a young man, who was dying, and shouldn't have been dying. He would cry, because we (a few of us would visit and hang with him) would "risk our lives" by sitting and talking with him. I was a kid, but I knew then that there wasn't any risk to me! And I knew then he shouldn't have died.

I remember just us normal high school kids, terrified of AIDS, which was dumb but fortunately it really didn't stop us lol. Nowadays a fear campaign like that would work - kids wouldn't touch each other. I mean, the already mostly don't, which is weird and sad.

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Social media and their addiction to it has clearly paved the way for unquestionable compliance. The number of teenagers that I see walking after school wearing masks outdoors is heartbreaking. Living in Oregon, under the totalitarian abuse of laughable Kate Brown is leaving a generation of sheeple that seems incapable of questioning authority or holding the line.

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I am 63 years old. I was in college when people started talking about this new disease "GRID" (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency.) Before I was 25, four close friends had died of what by then was called AIDS. (Or of taking AZT, who knows.) In my early 30's I went to work for a think tank in which one of the other research fellows was writing monographs seriously proposing that gay men should be housed in quarantine camps to protect the general population. Children who had acquired AIDS from blood transfusions were hounded out of public schools because of the baseless panic porn that was not only not countered, was being fed by public health bureaucrats like Fauci. The canonization of this incompetent, amoral fraud in the past two years is nauseating.

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I remember a person asking for my help at a University Dental Clinic. She needed help filling out her Medicaid form and I found out that no one would help her because she had HIV (Fauci had said it was airborne and you could get it from sitting in the same room) (evil little troll) and her vision was failing. I went over the form with her but couldn't believe this was happening in a medical setting. I have to admit I was scared. It was awful, the shunning.

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I seem to recall that back in the 80's they were also trying to come up with a vaccine for Aids. Can you imagine them trying to pull that bs back then had they been able to cobble something together like the junk jabs of today? Junk Jabs - I think I'll continue to use that one...

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Fauci tried to fabricate a vaccine but it was never anywhere near and got rebuked. This might be his revenge.

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he came up with - or Big Pharma did with his backing - a horrendous treatment in AZT. it killed many, but on the good hand it made mucho bucks for Big Pharma.

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Identical paradigm now, only scaled up.

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Liking "junk jabs" !!!!!!

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Sounds like a title for a song. Now we have to find a singer. Yes the junk jabs !

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Have you seen the video of the Aussies singing “you can stick your vaccine mandate up your ***”?

Sung to the tune “She’ll be coming around the mountain when she comes“.

Now: You can stick your junk jab mandates up your ***!

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Turns out they were trying to come up with a vaccine to make money.

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They still are trying. No doubt will want it on the childhood vax schedule.

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To paraphrase Gerald Celente, Fauci is somewhere between a snake and a weasel.

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I think that might be an offence to both animals. Snakes and weasels eat mice and rats and keep us from getting diseases carried by these two.

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First he over counts the number of deaths from the WuFlu to push fear and a vaccine mandate. Secondly, and worse, he then under counts the number of actual deaths from the mRNA injection he has mandated. Thirdly, and maybe even more damming, he down plays how the mRNA injections may permanently weaken the immune system and cause many more deaths……..Fauci is the definition of evil.

“In yet another effort to calculate excess deaths from vaccinations from a non-VAERS database, Ohio-based Attorney Thomas Renz used the Medicare database (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) to calculate that there have been 48,465 deaths among Medicare/ Medicaid beneficiaries within fourteen days of a first or second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. 72,73 There are about 59.4 million Americans covered by Medicare, representing only 18.1 percent of the population, so these staggering numbers are roughly comparable to Steve Kirsch’s population-wide estimate of 150,000.”

— The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://a.co/ePbhSkT

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And Number four….I forgot!

“Pharma’s and Fauci’s Warn on HCQ The prospect of an existing therapeutic drug (with an expired patent) that could outperform any vaccine in the war against COVID posed a momentous threat to the pharmaceutical cartel. Among the features pharma companies most detest is low cost, and HCQ is about $ 10 per course. Compare that to more than $ 3000 per course for Dr. Fauci’s beloved remdesivir. A dose of Fauci’s remdesivir and being put on a ventilator was a 99% guarantee you would die…..as many in NY retirement homes found out the hard way.

No surprise, pharmaceutical interests launched their multinational preemptive crusade to restrict and discredit HCQ starting way back in January 2020, months before the WHO declared a pandemic and even longer before President Trump’s controversial March 19 endorsement. “endorsement.

On January 13, when rumors of Wuhan flu COVID-19 began to circulate, the French government took the bizarre, inexplicable, unprecedented, and highly suspicious step of reassigning HCQ from an over-the-counter to a prescription medicine. Without citing any studies, French health officials quietly changed the status of HCQ to “List II poisonous substance” and banned its over-the-counter sales.

This absolutely remarkable coincidence repeated itself a few weeks later when Canadian health officials did the exact same thing, quietly removing the drug from pharmacy shelves. A physician from Zambia reported to Dr. Harvey Risch that in some villages and cities, organized groups of buyers emptied drugstores of HCQ and then burned the medication in bonfires outside the towns. South Africa destroyed two tons of life-saving hydroxychloroquine in late 2020, supposedly due to violation of an import regulation.

The US government in 2021 ordered the destruction of more than a thousand pounds of HCQ, because it was improperly imported. “The Feds are insisting that all of it be destroyed, and not be used to save a single life anywhere in the world,” said a lawyer seeking to resist the senseless order.”

— The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://a.co/9mEubAm

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Don’t forget they changed the definition of vaccines . I’d like to know who these “theys” are bc it’s happening globally and the fact that fraudci was never held accountable for his previous failures makes me think he is protected by them. It’s why he still hasn’t been indicted for lying to Congress about gain of function experiments . When I talk to people , so many people still don’t know this virus was engineered in a lab . Makes me sick

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AMA, WHO, Gates, Rockefeller, Schwab and his WEF. BigMoney. Pharmaceutical concerns. Criminals.

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Blackrock and Vanguard at the visible top. It would be enough to identify their owners to provide a superb list. David Martin has done a good job of naming the institutions involved in the murderous covid scam; others can take it from there.

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They probably won't ever get sued. Too much money. Too scared politicians, who are no more than their puppets. Same old. The small ones suffer. The big ones feast.

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Ralph Baric, too... Dr. David Martin said in the COVID Revealed episode just aired, Baric at UNC Chapel Hill, funded by Fauci, "built the bomb at Frankenstein's lab.." they took a virus from a bat cave in China, it had made people sick and they said, oh good, let's make it worse in 2015... and now they just cannot find the bat cave in 2021. Imagine that.

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Daszak found a few in Laos though . NO worry, I saw a documentary from Sir David Attenborough a while ago where he stood next to a cave with approximately a million bats. Plenty of them to make viruses from ! These people should be executed. Instead of finding healing they construct death and suffering!

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Don't forget...they failed to secure the blood supply while freaking the public out about casual interactions...and people contracted the virus through blood product transfusions.

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Correct; France and Romania spring to mind. Huge scandals.

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There was a young boy with hemophilia named Ryan White who became famous before he died of AIDS. He was befriended by Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson. His story changed the way the blood supply was handled in the US.

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I am grateful for this post. As the propaganda machine began to churn out the fear mongering in March of 2020, for several days I was nagged by the sense that I had heard all of it before. I woke up one morning and the answer just came to me. It was Anthony Fauci, up to his old tricks.

I remember it all from the '80s. I was a young pregnant woman at the time. When I tried to talk about it in 2020, no one listened.

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Has anyone else here seen the movie Spaceballs?

"So, Lone Star... you see that Evil will always triumph, because Good is Dumb."

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I love that move. And, yes, that line: "Good" is dumb. Fauci should have been thrown out years ago.

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I was around during the 80s AIDs scare. One of the things that stuck in my mind (and it is the same with COVID) is that they exaggerated the risk. They knew early on that it was gay men and intravenous drug users that were most at risk, yet they pretended that everyone had the same risk levels. The consequences of this was that scarce health resources were used for populations that basically had no risk, and those populations that were most at risk had to fight for those same resources.

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