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Would add that the fight should include not just political but also "health care." If this wasn't a wakeup call that many (most?) providers dole out treatments that result in higher financial benefit for the beast, not better health outcomes for the patient, than we as a species are toast.

For all of you who still "trust" your doctor to make the right decision, remember how many of them refused to offer early treatment for a virus and were first in line for an experimental drug.

Just as politicians are willing to throw their constituents in the gulag, until the possibility their future may include a noose, the same weak human character flaws are found in medical professionals.

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I won't be satisfied with normality or some new normal unless the new normal includes regular trials for the people that did this.

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Sorry, but this is a rare instance where I'm going to have to disagree with you. The click-feedback-loop was part of the problem, but it went beyond that. The censorship is evidence that powerful and wealthy people were actively trying to set up a narrative, one that would lead to the implementation of a social credit system and total control over the population. This was done by people convinced of their own ability to centrally plan and who believe that transhumanism really is the best future for our species.

Still, how do we roll this back? I think Jesse Kelly is right on this one. Balkanize. Retreat to a defensible position and fortify it. Run for office and get into a position of power in your community. Do not let communist and globalist schemes into your community. Have children and raise them to have your beliefs on freedom and personal responsibility. Be a gun owner. Get yourself into peak physical shape. Be more self-sufficient. It's not enough to be the change you want to see in the world. You're going to have to make the change, too.

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I can not tell you how many friends I lost when they were fine with, let's shut down for 2 weeks and I wasn't. I argued logic with them, but fear won the day. That's the problem with this entire thing, fear motivates like nothing else.

Fortunately for me, my entire family of 5 was on the same page (2 college kids and 1 high school plus hubby). We managed to convince extended family that we shouldn't do this and so we have been living for 2 years about as normally as possible within the confines of the current situation...

My kiddos tried to rally their peers, in my red state, to no avail. I found that so sad. I wonder if that generation NOW sees the problem with the taking of liberties without a fight, but I fear not. And THAT gives me great pause because these young people are tomorrow's leaders.

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The bulk of people want to be told what to do and what to think so they can absolve themselves of responsibility for their lives. This is why we have so many victims in society.

These folks were happy to buy into a global excuse and the feedback loop with them, the media and the political leadership just took off over this. Probably because many of the political and media class are just as bereft of independent thought. Pols wanted someone to pass the buck too and hide from all the real issues they face. Media feeds the beast that sells more soap.

Our education systems no longer teach critical thinking and 90% of society no longer want responsibility (and thus accountability) for their lives.

We were ripe for this. And remain so. And while I agree with the bulk of this post, I feel you’re preaching to the 10% that care and tried to stop this and I have no idea how to convey your message to the 90% who don’t want to think or be accountable.

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Gato, I fought since the start - since before the start. I sent email after email after email to the CEO of my 70,000 employee strong global company, and copied in every regional head and chairman of the whole place, demanded to know their rationale for shuttering their offices, encouraging their employees to "get vaccinated", and the rest. I demanded phone calls, asked awkward questions in "Town Hall" meetings, made a bloody nuisance of myself to my manager, my manager's manager, my manager's manager's manager, and the rest. I like to think I made a difference. Perhaps I did. I held my line. In my way. I continue to hold the line, in my way. My way has changed and adapted to be more loving, less confrontational. We learn. We adapt. We live. Feline love and warmth. Vorlic

PS I was made redundant. God knows why.

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Who ARE you?? Can I vote for you?? So much of what you write is exactly right. This was a stampede; I felt it from the start. I refused so much, but was nearly alone. “The People” were a bitter disappointment. I am trying to forgive them as they wake up to what has happened. The Libertarians were an even more bitter disappointment. The first Facebook friend to “unfriend” me claimed to be libertarian. I said I would not wear a mask, and doubly so if it were required. He called me evil. I wish I could find that secret gulch to hide from the world with the likeminded, but truth is that we have to claw back our freedoms here in the real and imperfect society we are in. I am grateful for these spaces, and for true leader like you. We’ll keep fighting.

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hmm... a little harsh on those of us who never went along with any of this bs, my friend, but i get your point. one big takeaway for me is that the old normal was even more in need of serious repair than perhaps I realized.

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I've been thinking about this myself.

It's not the government, and it's not really the media, Gato points out.

It's the people who give power to both.

We have fetishized "dEmoCRaCy!" where 50%+1 justifies anything, so now all of our public policy debates revolve around getting to that point where the slimmest majority can justify ANYTHING. No checks on the scope of the decision, no checks on the will of the majority, and no rights for the minority.

People have been taught and led themselves to believe that the only real thing that matters is the will of the majority. 50%+1 means absolute power with absolute moral authority, so that's all politicians care about.

The bad news is that it's a recipe for tyranny, the good news is that it's very easy to turn the tables.

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I agree with Linda.

As a Canadian I got to see 90% of the population goosestep (with denial) in lockstep with this insanity. Despite losing my job over the shot without sympathy, much less praise. I saw Canadians bury their heads in netflix and amazon while local businesses got destroyed and regular people were robbed.

Are the public to blame? Absolutely. Are they solely to blame? Absolutely not.

This was a pre-planned agenda that includes state-sponsored mass murder. The public still has no clue about treatments that were suppressed. Nobody clamored for them to suppress life saving medicine.

It's also worth mentioning that this mass psychosis was the desired outcome of the Canadian military using psychological warfare tactics against the public. The disasterous COVID-19 response wasn't a cute accident of polling, but was a deliberate anti-human agenda.

Downplaying this only helps those trying to carry out genocide-by-lottery.

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For the first time, I'm going to disagree with you about something. The public did not panic and force the government to be draconian. The government/5 eyes deliberately stoked panic through health agencies and the media with the full knowledge of what that does to a population. THEN they became draconian as a result of what they had pushed on people. That is behavior modification 101, and we already know they deliberately used those propaganda tactics "for our own good." This is made manifestly clear in Laura Dodsworth's book A State of Fear. So no, it's not the public's fault, unless you think they should somehow have overcome their genetic programming. Those of us temperamentally inclined to be suspicious and rebellious HAVE been fighting back, from the moment of our awakening.

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Says the anonymous person with a cat avatar. "We" are waging whatever small fights we can in our families, jobs, friend groups, etc. WTF else are we supposed to do - show up to a protest and get set up by the FBI? Wait for the next rigged election? Did protest end the Iraq war or get to the bottom of 9/11? This was not an organic response to clickbait pressure - it's a depopulation conspiracy waged by the same crew who start world wars. I wouldn't say the situation is hopeless, but the bad guys built the infrastructure, and 90% of people on earth are pathetic. We're doing what we can and hoping for the best.

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I fought it from the beginning, but there's not much a then-78yo retired woman (now 80yo) can do except harangue people -- as I kept doing, mostly by reminding them of how we'd all come through bad epidemic seasons in the past without destroying our economy and entire culture. I especially harangued our pastor when our bishop closed down all our churches, reminding him that Christians shouldn't be terrified of germs or of each other, and that Christians are supposed to run toward each other in a crisis, not away from each other. I reminded a (former, now) friend who was afraid to be around people and wouldn't even leave his house that he'd helped me during the terrible 2018 flu season by bringing me food when I had the 3-week flu -- but all that happened was that he stopped speaking to me. And how could I "refuse to comply" and go to the restaurants when the restaurants were shut down?

In my city, the mayor has decreed another mask mandate. On the whole, I do not comply, except in the case of my hair salon, where my stylist will be evicted if her customers aren't masked. I hold the mask an inch in front of my face. I have been refused service at my favorite locally owned grocery for not wearing the mask, and I've told them I won't be back. (This is extremely inconvenient for me, since the next nearest food store is 4 miles away and my driving is becoming more difficult as my vision worsens.) Everywhere else, I just walk in without the mask and no one says anything to me. Exception: at the Post Office the other day, the clerk asked me whether I had a mask, and I just said, "I can't wear them." He got nervous, but he sold me my stamps. I've become accustomed to the idea that I have no access to medical treatment unless I agree to wear the mask and take the jab, and even then my quack "doctor" isn't interested in anything except covid and trying to pressure me into taking the jab, as I discovered when I tried to talk to her about my newly erratic blood pressure.

I've tried. I've done what I can. All I can do is more of the same, and keep repeating to myself that wonderful passage from e.e. cummings' "i sing of olav": "there is some sh*t I will not eat."

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The cynic might say that the sudden media shift is in response to President Brandon’s dismal poll numbers. $5 gets you $20 if Brandon doesn’t declare “the Covid crisis is over” at the SOTU.

The reason it was delayed to March is to give some time for the new messaging to work.

The Fauci leaks are probably designed to take out Tony Baloney who is starting to look like a liability.

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The new normal needs to start with accountability & liability. The players who orchestrated this must be stripped of all their assets. Ill-gained + everything. Including their freedom. This was mass murder on an unknown scale, given we don't know the long term effects of the jabs. And unforeseeable costs of care for the jab-damaged.

Until they are in prison, where they will own nothing, have zero privacy, zero control over their own lives & be miserable, they will continue to plan away.

Last evening was my 1st gun class. My 1st step into my new normal.

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We’re not even at the beginning of the end. At best, we’re approaching the end of the beginning, the first phase. If I were among the crooks, I’d long ago have anticipated a “moment” like this, and calibrated what % vaccination will permit me to push on with VaxPass, which has currency in more places than it doesn’t.

If the numbers were ok, I’d move ahead with VaxPass.

If the numbers are low to vulnerable, I’d hasten up Plan B.

If yet another new virus shows up, we all know what to do.

I’m not convinced society would react very differently.

Much of Europe is in the toilet, certainly for the unvaccinated. VaxPass is only just getting it’s legs in England, but much more developed in Scotland, Wales & NÍ.

There are no legislative methods for unwinding it.

I also remain anxious about the financial system instability. Anytime they want, they can trigger a mess.

So, stand firm AND very watchful.

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