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Tareq I. Albaho, PhD's avatar

Too bad he is not South African so he could benefit from the 100% protection!

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eugyppius's avatar

lol

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uselesseater's avatar

At least Elon will be protected.

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Robert's avatar

You also need to physically be IN South Africa.

#fineprint

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Tareq I. Albaho, PhD's avatar

Ah ... you are evidently privy to trial data I know nothing of ...

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Con Sider's avatar

😂

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Stephanie S's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Aaron Ferguson's avatar

“The corona prayer”. Exactly perfect.

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Martha's avatar

Or, the Vax Mantra...

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z28.310's avatar

To me it seems more like the clown world pledge of allegiance.

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Kelly's avatar

🤡🌎 is currently my most used set of emojis….

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Ben Kurtz's avatar

The Faucian Creed.

Cf. The Nicene Creed.

"Creed (n): a brief authoritative formula of religious belief."

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Aaron Ferguson's avatar

Yes...prayers and creeds and pledges for the new religion!

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Richard Seager's avatar

Napoleon (supposedly) failed in implementing his new religion. I guess the bastards will keep trying after the successful implementation (eventually) of the Abraham varieties by the Greeks, Romans and Persians.

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

It is perfect.

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Aion's avatar

"The holy potion is safe and effective"

"Regular infusion of holy potion prevents infection and asymptomatic spread"

"Healthy children kill elderly people with their sinful uncovered snotty dirty vermin face."

"Life is better in the metaverse."

"This is fine"

"Humans will kill god and ursurp his throne. Heil Fauci!"

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Kelly's avatar

Check out the Atlantic where rosary beads a were referred to as a weapon on par with an AR…

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baboon's avatar

What if the final redpill is that these people aren't evil, they are just massively incompetent lunatics driving the Clown Car towards the cliff at top speed?

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YYR's avatar

No difference. Evil is the outcome either way.

I gave up on incompetence a few years ago. Too coordinated, all errors swing against us, they all made the same deadly errors. Evil.

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Doug Young's avatar

Yes, Tom Woods came to that conclusion a while ago. If these "leaders" were merely incompetent, the law of averages say that they would accidentally get something right or helpful occasionally.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Because even a blind squirrel finds a nut now & then.

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Goldhoarder's avatar

https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/justice-is-blinking

Starting at 59s... How many of these types of strung together media messaging clips can you make now. Yes! It is most definitely coordinated.

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toolate's avatar

Oh but there you are wrong: they get things right billions and billions of $s

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Clark's avatar

The road to hell is paved with gold intentions.

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Goldhoarder's avatar

Well... i think that is the whole point. Right for oligarchs and wrong for the suckers who still believe in democracy

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Candis's avatar

That's the thing. All of the "errors" and "incompetence" are targeted against us, I agree.

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furrigate sathers's avatar

right , the same thing with all of the media lies about trump. you would think if they were just "errors" that a least a small percentage of them would be positive coverage of the president. but no, its 100% negative. therefore it cant cant be an accident....

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z28.310's avatar

Bret Weinstein brings this up for Fauci and the CDC. If these people were incompetent, some of the public health advice would be good out of pure chance. Instead, their advice is consistently the inverse of good advice. Corrupt and fully captured.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Exactly. If they were simply incompetent, the errors would go in both directions. They only make 'errors' that benefit the vaxxers.

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Robert's avatar

They're competent- masterful, even- at propaganda.

Developing actual CURES?

Not so much. Also, bad for business.

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Kelly's avatar

Yes, it is results that matter. And the results are evil.

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Keven Mosley-Koehler's avatar

I think maybe they are instruments of evil?

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Candis's avatar

Not if they want to keep that level of material security. They don't want to bite the hand (system) that feeds them.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

same as why so many doctors walked the line instead of refusing to go against their oath and keep on killing people. I despise all these doctors.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

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Aimee's avatar

If they weren’t ignoring the deaths and injuries while raking in huge profits with no liability, I might agree with you.

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Mark's avatar

That’s why they are ignoring the deaths.....

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Rosemary B's avatar

this might be their ultimate virtue signalling.

"I am stupid, look at me"

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Hahaha!

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Eidein's avatar

When you find yourself in a position of that much authority (official or otherwise) within society, you have a moral duty not to abuse that responsibility. Whether you abuse it through malice or incompetence doesn't change things. If you're that massively incompetent, you have a moral duty to step down from such a position

Therefore, incompetence in this situation is definitionally evil

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Also because a huge percentage of these people didn’t find themselves in these positions but rather clawed their way up.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Don't care.

I shoot rabid raccoons and foxes because they're dangerous and can't be reasoned with.

Fuck these clowns.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I'm in favour of giving the raccoons and foxes guns.

Soz but you should learn how to live alongside your neighbours.

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adrian's avatar

Avarice, power and hubris. That's what drives many such people

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God Bless America's avatar

Nope… Just evil! 🔥🔥🔥

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Aimee's avatar

Fully-vax’d Jill Biden now has Covid and is taking Paxlovid.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Does anybody else think it’s a little sus that all these high profile people are “getting & admitting” in the same timeframe? I can’t imagine the end goal, but it seems everyone has a script right now. “I’ve got it. I’m so glad I’m vaxxed. I’m taking Paxlovid. You need the jab like a good citizen.”

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Lisa Brown's avatar

And why do they think the whole world needs to know they got it? Who cares? It can only be to promote their propaganda.

I am curious though how they all do have the same script....how do they all get that memo?

After the raid on Mar-a-Lago, all the MSM and liberal left were saying, "No one is above the law" a million times. Aside from how ironic it is for them to be saying that, it really is amazing how they all are in lockstep.

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shibumi's avatar

It seems weird to me too; however, it could be as simple as "keep the terror alive."

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OldSysEng's avatar

Good thought. Perhaps the short end game is "well we all get some variant or another and if you're jabbed, like us, you'll only have mild symptoms" and the next jab will be even better! Just getting us ready for the combined Cov/Influenza mRNA coming our way soon.

But if they are intent on crashing the financial system, which is already bankrupt, then they will have to work in some sort of lockdown. "A pox to you!"

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Sure is. They’re just covering for the Pharmaceutical companies to get paid.

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FLR's avatar

You would think that a half-intelligent halfwit would realize that the husband's experience with Paxlovid was not the best and you should not take the stuff?

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KB's avatar

nope, they get paid to SAY that they're taking paxlovid,,,,it's a friggin pfarma commercial.

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Lysander Spoonbread's avatar

because she's not even close to half...not even a quarter wit..

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shibumi's avatar

They're ALL taking Paxlovid because they've never been vaxxed. At one point, didn't Bourla say he wasn't vaxxed because he didn't fit the demographic?

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OldSysEng's avatar

Logical thought, but I don't think we'll ever know if/when/what they actually "took", since it is theater anyway.

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God Bless America's avatar

I wish they would give that poor, SICK little woman some remdesivir and a breathing treatment on a ventilator…

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Rafael Kubelik's avatar

She's quite the genius.

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John Davison's avatar

Wish, rinse, repeat .

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Danno's avatar

Has she tweeted the Prayer yet?

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God Bless America's avatar

Ugh…🙄

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Danno's avatar

"The Corona Prayer" . . . thank you for putting all those tweets together! If that's not evidence of mass collusion, mass insanity, or mass formation psychosis, what is?

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eugyppius's avatar

it’s not my graphic alas, I just borrowed from the linked account on twitter

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Tardigrade's avatar

#unvaccinated has been trending periodically today on Twitter and that graphic shows up a lot.

The interesting thing to me is how similar the language is in all of them. It's like they've been given a template.

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Danno's avatar

Exactly. Now I'm curious . . . Who writes the templates? I always figured celebs and politicians farmed out their social media, but I thought they delegated it to employees or agents. It seems there's a more monolithic source. Talk about psyops . . . but woefully transparent.

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TW's avatar

‘Corona Prayer’ - brilliant ….

April ( Harris)

May ( Gates - Pax?)

June (Fauci)

July (Biden)

August (Bourla)

I’m not on twitter but Norman Fenton has a classic pinned tweet….

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Boudicca's avatar

They're all chanting from the same script. You see it time and time again among the plague-ridden jabbed.

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God Bless America's avatar

Lockstep…

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Adrian Ryan's avatar

And amazingly they all feel the need to Paxlovid up despite being 4 times vaxed! How is that not the news headlines

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Aimee's avatar

Because just taking a preventive like Ivermectin to begin with makes them no money. The networks would be bankrupt without Pfizer ad buys.

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w0utert's avatar

In a sense, this does inspire a tiny bit of confidence that all they are doing now is to try to change their snake oil from vaccines to Paxlovid, just because they now realize there is much more money in it. Remember 1 course of Paxlovid costs ~50x as much as an additional booster shot, and it's starting to look like they will not be able to sell many more of those anyway.

Just yesterday on the Dutch news there was an item about hospitals complaining they cannot prescribe Paxlovid yet for some obscure reason (as one of the only countries in Europe, EMA already approved it). The chorus of doctors on-call to sing the praises of Paxlovid as a wonder drug was impressive, it was like watching a Pfizer commercial. This is all a little too suspicous to me, it really appears like we now all need to start line Pfizer's pockets by buying more Paxlovid as opposed to buying there worthless 'vaccines'.

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God Bless America's avatar

🧐🧐🧐🤨🤨🤨🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

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Mark's avatar

Isn’t Paxlovid proven NOT to work for those who have taken the clot shot? I believe that I have seen actual studies that concluded that it only works on those who are unvaxed.....

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dg's avatar

They never even tested it on the vaxxed

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Mark's avatar

That’s right, I forgot about that....

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I’ve seen those studies, just can’t remember where. I need a whole flow chart of where to find my really good stuff, now that there is so much of it.

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Aimee's avatar

I don’t think it worked for Joe Biden. In fact, he had a rebound and tested positive for quite a long time.

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Mark's avatar

I believe that happened to several high profile people who had been vaxxed...

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TCap's avatar

Pax lov vid masks and prolongs Covid. They never got rid of it, only dampened the symptoms and claiming “rebound.” Paxlovid makers makers know but they frame it as rebound and keep raking in the money. I don’t remember my source, but it is not good for the body. It should be able to be found tho.

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Pearl's avatar

And having mild symptoms! Why do they need a drug? It would sound like they think they might get worse without it.

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God Bless America's avatar

They have to be a shill for paxlovid…

Brought to you by Pfizer… 🔥🔥🔥

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Big Grey's avatar

The lies, obfuscation and criminal coercion around this campaign to kill is nothing short of amazing. Tell the big lie and tell it loud and long for they will believe. And guess what? They do. Most people still cling to the thread that it would have been worse without the "safe and effective" shots. The marketing jingo is insulting to anyone with half a brain but this is what modern society has become ... a jingo. From "Build Back Better" to "All in This Together" to "Putin's Price Hike" it just goes on and on. I'm sick and fucking tired of being marketed to by my government. Pray, plan, prepare and RESIST.

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Aimee's avatar

A fully-masked repairman came to my house yesterday and insisted his mask has kept him from getting Covid. The idiocy in this country cannot be understated.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I do not allow masked people in my house.

My wife and I have told everyone we know that our family does not accept this nonsense in our lives.

The meaning is clear.

I think we have to do the little things like that.

Just a thought.

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Lysander Spoonbread's avatar

I do not wear mask going into ANY facility requiring, esp doctors/med facilities.

"Do you have a mask?"

"No"

"Would you like for me to provide one"

"No, but I will wear what you provide even though it is uneeded and ineffective as it was here for every year of our existence when no one here was masked until 2020" <wry smile>

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Aimee's avatar

I had an eye appt recently. They sent me a survey afterward. I let them have it over the masking nonsense. Take an old mask with you, because they make money on every piece of PPE they hand out. Starve the beast.

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Lysander Spoonbread's avatar

Gosh I had no clue re: the $. Really?

It does mean more fun for me as I retrieve my"this mask is useless" mask that I retired...

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Aimee's avatar

Oh yes. One of the very first new Covid millionaires was a foreign PPE manufacturer. The U.S. government subsidizes it, naturally. 🙄

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baker charlie's avatar

I gotta remember to keep the grubbiest mask of all time in my pocketses and whip it out when fools offer me masks. "Thanks, I got my own, " she says, wiping it with dirty fingers...

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God Bless America's avatar

Very good! “Our family does not accept this nonsense into our lives!“. I like that phrase… may I use it?

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😁

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Please use it. I have for two years. It works and has started some good dialogues...but it's also pissed people off.

Oh well...

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STew's avatar

I have a friend that I also have a business relationship with. I haven’t seen her since the start of the pandemic. She requires anyone in her orbit to be vaccinated/boosted/masked. She assumes that I’m in the same place she is. We used to frequently converse with each other. Now she just talks at me about covid, her fears, her risk factors, her health and money problems, etc. She’s often railing against the unvaccinated, not knowing that I’m one of them. I’ve spent countless hours listening to her rantings over the last couple of years.

I finally decided to end the business relationship. Ending the business relationship will also likely end the friendship for all intents and purposes. I was honest (mostly) about my reasons for leaving, and I thought I was handling it gracefully without any drama. I left all the covid nonsense out of it. I could tell she was really hurt. She took it very personally even though the nature of the relationship was that it eventually would be ended. It’s now awkward, but I’m so relieved. I didn’t realize what a mental drain this was to listen to her week after week. I like how you put it, not accepting this nonsense in our lives. I’m coming to that place too, maybe not as directly as you are, but I’m getting there.

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southern kiwi's avatar

From what you say, you appear to have been in a (psychologically) abusive relationship (and not just on Covid). Well done ending the relationship. Do not put up with this sort of behaviour from others (tell them straight that you don't want to hear about their problems - do so each time they try it).

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STew's avatar

Thanks. I live in a very covid-crazy area. It seems like the majority of people I know went all in on it, so I’m used to hearing the constant rantings. I’m a very steady person. I don’t suffer from mental health issues or depression, and rarely does something “get to” me. I just hadn’t realized until I made the decision to end the relationship how much I was disliking it. I’ve got one more meeting with her and then it’s done. I’m sure it’ll be awkward and uncomfortable, but at least it’ll be over. The relationship I have with her is mostly business and I’ve already started reaching out to others to replace the position she held.

What’s doubly weird about all this is that I’m sure if the covid crazy people knew where I stood on things, they’d think the same things about me that I’m thinking of them. I’m amazed at how much covid has divided us all.

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Shelle's avatar

What would it hurt to mention to her that you had been uncomfortable with her political and unscientific stance on Covid taking center stage?

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Aimee's avatar

I told him he could remove it, but he said his wife is “high risk”. If this meaningless gesture means something to her, well fine. Go ahead and restrict your own oxygen and breathe in bacteria all day to gain her approval. You can’t fix stupid.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Stupid has a price and it always gets paid...;]

I love how the remaining maskers always have an "excuse" as to why they still wear one.

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Thomas's avatar

Your thought was exactly right.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

EXACTLY...or worse.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Loads of moms and teachers on twitter saying how many upper respiratory infections are happening & lamenting how stupid it is that they dropped mask mandates.

Um… EVERY fall we pile all the kids into buildings, thereby creating a giant germ-stew. Early fall colds happen. I am a mom and I was a teacher, I know. We lived for centuries maskless & we will live on for more— at least the unvaxxed among us will.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Right?!

There's a reason kids come home from school with snotty noses.

It's an arms race between your immune system and pathogens. Evolution 101.

I fear that all these children will be "bubble boys" in the future.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

And the ironic thing is that since we know Corona was around long before we were able to test for it, it's extremely likely the bug swept through the schools first -- but since they're regularly germ factories, nobody even noticed.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Wow. that's a very good point. I didn't think of that. I was too busy packing up my shit for Florida to get away from the mask police in KC.

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z28.310's avatar

In 2020 some guy in new york city made the news for going on Tinder dates in an actual blow up plastic bubble. I would enjoy watching that grow into a trend in the cities.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

perfect!

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Unless their worried to death mamas drop their insistence on mask wearing, they surely will.

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Shelle's avatar

Things ARE worse this year though, likely because if you have more people with damaged immune systems, then illnesses are caught and spread faster and that effects us all. So the vaccinated, by damaging their immune systems in mass, have unleashed more sickness on us all. Lovkdowms also had a part in weakening Immunity because usually immunity would get topped off without serious sickness occurring for many people due to regular exposures.

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KB's avatar

my crazed democrat carpenter is the exact same! wears that mask on hot day outside and curses 'those trump ppl' who won't follow the rules.

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Aimee's avatar

I told the idiot that he really needed a K100 if he wants a mask that kinda remotely works. I look forward to seeing him show up in one of those next time lol

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

Find the research stating plainly that masks don’t work. It’s out there.

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Aimee's avatar

Oh, I know. Even the ones they point to have been debunked now. There are at least 80 very solid studies showing masks don’t do much if anything. It’s literally insane to wear one.

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KB's avatar

breathing your own carbondioxide! For the few months I wore masks in stores just to stop the glares, I NEVER WASHED THEM! And I doubt anyone else does, so they're stinking full of bacteria. I'm not a germ phobe, as a matter of fact I do some things intentionally to get my daily innoculation. I follow the 3 second rule LOL. Never an adult vaxx except 3x tetanus(my doc kept forgetting I already had one! dumbass) , never antibiotics, never a statin(same doc tried over and over to get me on them), NO meds and I'm 60. Yes I'm 15lbs overweight, I exercise everyday and eat 80 percent healthy, only vice...esp during this 3 year nightmare, I've drank a bottle o wine regularly. Had to find a church that wasn't WOKe, b/c I cannot live without the Church. God has delivered and still is in control. BELIEVE.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Why allow him to work on your house?

I mean a mask of that sort, outside is nonsense.

It'd be different if they were working with adhesives, or in a dusty environment, etc.

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KB's avatar

he's the most genuine deceived person I know! He really believes the BS drither that he watches on MSM. He really wants to be a good person and help others. Great heart, exceptional carpenter! He did Stanley Marcus' staircase in Dallas 40 years ago...think, Neiman Marcus. Some ppl you just gotta give grace and keep praying they'll wake up to truth....that is a God's job. Now, I can't get away fast enough from the WOKE liberal demo with a holier than thou self-righteous attitude. I'll tell them to go to hell.

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z28.310's avatar

Agreed. You could trust someone like that with simple jobs like raking leaves, but working on the house structure is a gamble.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Ha! I wouldn't even let them clean my toilets...they'd fuck that up too.

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Big Grey's avatar

Yep. I still see the proud mask wearers in the grocery store or driving alone and just shake my head. These clowns are lost members of the Branch Covidian cult. The only upside is maybe most of them will die off with SAD. Good riddance.

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Thomas's avatar

Most of them will die from the jabs.

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Snoman27's avatar

The non-stop repeating of mantras as a way of virtue signaling is the most infuriating thing I have witnessed these last couple of years.

"I'm for the Current Thing !" and to show my solidarity with the Current Thing, I will update my social media profile or put a nonsensical lawn sign in my yard.

The Covidian Creed above is just another example. Pathetic. Critical thinking has left the building.

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Big Grey's avatar

Yep. Once the world traded books, face to face dialogue and restive thought for the onslaught of social media and their phone, all was lost. What you see is the result.

Pray, plan, prepare and RESIST.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I keep asking where that hollering Greta Thornberg is when you need her. I would like to hear her hollering about the poor sea turtles we are killing with all these annoying, needless yard signs, gloves and masks.

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Rikard's avatar

Her handlers are desperately trying to extend her 15 minutes of fame, jumping from hot topic to the next like cats on a hot tin roof.

Last was trying to link mining in northern Sweden to fascism and racism - despite state and regime media trying to make it the next hot topic, it was met with a shrug and "Meh!" even from the Green party. Unsurprising really, as they sort of have monopoly on her brand of mental retardation, ignorance and moral outrage over things they don't understand (such as having to run an oil powered emergency reserve power plant due to the Greens shutting down a nuclear reactor, so instead of abundant nuclear electricity, we now burn 70 000 liters of oil per hour, every hour, as long as the strategic reserve lasts).

She's washed up. Heck, the local greasers give her more attention putting stickers with "F*ck Greta!" on their cars, most regular people don't remember her unless prompted and the migrants have never even heard of her.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I never liked the whole scenario of using her to l accomplish whatever they think they accomplished but I wouldn’t mind if she at least questioned all the plastic PRC tests and all the masks & stupid signs. It’s ridiculous how much WASTE this generated, literally and figuratively.

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w0utert's avatar

Don't forget the 'Inflation Reduction Act'. They are just attaching the message they want you to believe in to random stuff now, and literally no-one is calling them out on it. It's really mind-boggling what's going on right now.

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Big Grey's avatar

Exactly. I remember when giving the IRS $80b would ignite the entire country. Now, most don't care because most don't pay any taxes anyway. They just vote for the politicians that give them free stuff. No problem. WTF is wrong with this country? I'm increasingly lost here in the real world of work, bills, kids and planning for my future. Lost ...

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SimulationCommander's avatar

if you're in the US, you can thank Obama and his destruction of the Smith Mundt Act of 1948 that prohibits the US government from unleashing propaganda on its own citizens.

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Mark's avatar

The problem is that you need half a brain. Many seem lacking......

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TCap's avatar

These are the same as protest chants shouted through a bullhorn.

The DNC must pay marketing people overtime to blow up something in 3 words if possible:

“Don’t say Gay”

“I’m for Her” …

and so many others.

When do we learn to pre empt this?

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Big Grey's avatar

Good point. I'm still waiting for Republicans to come up with any kind of platform that coherently counters the DNC marketing plan. Same for Libertarians. The real problem is Americans have been dumbed down to the point where three word slogans work exceptionally well. Look at the Ukraine flags and BLM "In this house we believe" signs in your neighborhood. People are really fucking stupid and like Ron White said, "You Can't Fix Stupid". Maybe most of them will fall victim to SAD syndrome and we can move on.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Yep. Sadly what we have to say doesn't fit on a bumper sticker.

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Wiremu Harpuka's avatar

Well put, my feelings as well. The sheer condescension of people like Barry and Hillary is excruciating too.

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Big Grey's avatar

yeah ... like the "Squad" green new deal ads on Zerohedge ... pisses me off.

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z28.310's avatar

Paying $10 a month I had no idea they were doing that. If I was assaulted with those ads, I would probably not sign up purely on principle.

Hearing they are doing this, I suspect Pfizer's real objective is to strangle antivax podcasts. Send Spotify tens of millions in ad money, and then ask management for some assistance dealing with "objectionable content" the government would also like addressed.

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Daniel D's avatar

It's the classic script Thomas Sowell observed in "Vision of the Anointed:"

1. Claim something is a crisis that demands dramatic, expensive, and immediate intervention;

2. Handwave away objections by framing the problem and your proposed solution in purely moralistic terms and engage in ad hominem attacks against anyone who questions the efficacy of your proposed interventions;

3. When the original problem worsens, claim credit for acting when you did over the objections of your political opponents by saying, "Imagine how much worse things would be if we had listened to those bad, selfish people and done nothing;"

4. Claim that the dramatic post-intervention worsening of the problem shows that even more extreme measures are needed;

5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 until people forget that things used to be different and a new generation has grown up believing that your moral framing of the issue and your "solutions" are self-evidently true.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Spot on! Love Sowell.

Here's part of the problem too:

"...The belief that order must be intentionally generated and imposed upon society by institutional authorities continues to prevail. This centrally-directed model is premised upon what F.A. Hayek called “the fatal conceit,” namely, the proposition “that man is able to shape the world according to his wishes,” or what David Ehrenfeld labeled “the arrogance of humanism.” That such practices have usually failed to produce their anticipated results has generally led not to a questioning of the model itself, but to the conclusion that failed policies have suffered only from inadequate leadership, or a lack of sufficient information, or a failure to better articulate rules. Once such deficiencies have been remedied, it has been supposed, new programs can be implemented which, reflective of this mechanistic outlook, will permit government officials to “fine tune” or “jump start” the economy, or “grow” jobs, or produce a “quick fix” for the ailing government school system. Even as modern society manifests its collapse in the form of violent crime, economic dislocation, seemingly endless warfare, inter-group hostilities, the decay of cities, a growing disaffection with institutions, and a general sense that nothing “works right” anymore, faith in the traditional model continues to drive the pyramidal systems. Most people still cling to the belief that there is something that can be done by political institutions to change such conditions: a new piece of legislation can be enacted, a judicial ruling can be ordered, or a new agency regulation can be promulgated. When a government-run program ends in disaster, the mechanistic mantra is invariably invoked: “we will find out what went wrong and fix it so that this doesn’t happen again.” That the traditional model itself, which is grounded in the state’s power to control the lives and property of individuals to desired ends, may be the principal contributor to such social disorder goes largely unexplored..."

-Butler Shaffer

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Daniel D's avatar

100% correct!!!

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TCap's avatar

That’s a standard psyop/ mass formation tactic. (To Refresh ourunderstanding of mass formation)

Good that Sowell recognized it and made it public.

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Rick (from Texas)'s avatar

Another point in all of this...while they crow thanks to their Vax Gods that more severe cases were avoided, all of us unvaxxed people are getting very mild cases too (48 hours mild fever, body aches, etc). So their advantage over us is what? I prefer my way over theirs for sure. No mRNA vax risks for me and my family.

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TCap's avatar

They are keeping it going bc the new and improved omicron booster comes out this fall. “We” paid pharma billions to fast track it.

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z28.310's avatar

Moderna's new vax is bivalent, built for the old original strain and the original strain of omicron. Locked and loaded with an excuse for why infections and deaths are still a problem for the vaxxed. But you better get your booster!

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Rick (from Texas)'s avatar

Lol, fast tracking a treatment nobody wants and for a virus that is already many mutations beyond what product they’ll offer.

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maisyrusselswart's avatar

"...give us this day our daily paxlovid, and forgive us our infections as we have forgiven those who were infected before us. Lead us not into ventilators, but deliver us from this mild cough"

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AKG's avatar

Also Lead us not into Paxlovid rebound...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Paxlovid rebound is atonement for their sin of getting the coof.

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AKG's avatar

Indeed! The wrath of the Rona gods will be upon those who fail to avoid infection through masking, socially distancing, and vaccination as decreed in the canons of the covid religion...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

White privilege - 15 lashes

Male privilege - 15 lashes

Whatever privilege - 20 lashes

Vaxx Injury privilege - 50 lashes

I will be most privileged to see them lash-about.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Galactic!

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Riri's avatar

What gave me hope was all the witty and incredulous replies to Bourla's tweet. He seriously got roasted

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Charlotte's avatar

Bourla was a weird one. I remain pretty convinced that most of the front line covid bozos got the jabs (FauXi, Lauterbach, Biden) but I'm not sure about Bourla. He was denied admission into Israel for not being jabbed at one point. And if there is someone capable fo easily falsifying this vax passport, this man would be it.

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z28.310's avatar

Bourla is as oily as Fauci if not worse. Before becoming CEO, Bourla oversaw vaccines in European livestock that caused grotesque injuries in the second generation. But trust him, these warp speed shots are safe!

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PuPu Platter's avatar

Dear Lord, protect me from unprintable thoughts. You let me down with Fauci and Biden. Nothing less than months of agony, brain damage, and organs melting like tallow in the hot summer sun will do for this spawn of Beelzebub. If You are Who they claim You are, we can get this done. Libera nos a malo.

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KC & the Sunshine's avatar

So you’ve read the bestseller no mainstream misleadia is talking abt, THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI by RFK, Jr., I presume?

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Simon Conway-Smith's avatar

It's funny. The definition of a vaccine has always been preventative, yet suddenly all these 'oh so wise' people seem to think getting covid mildly to be a positive thing. Personally, I'd be fuming that I'd been sold a dud, a useless product. Thankfully, I won't have to 'thank the vaccine', but just thank my still intact immune system. I also note, that whilst I wouldn't wish the virus on anyone, I quietly smile in the knowledge that (so far), as the only unvaxed member of my family (& mask refusnik), I'm the only one who HASN'T had covid.

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KB's avatar

me too! I've had 3 colds since 2019 but never a positive test.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Cheers! I bet you probably had it. Those test are dodgy.

I don't feel the need to test; I know when I'm sick.

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FCinNH's avatar

My daughter was going to take a trip to France and three days before departure tested positive. PANIC!!!! She went out, bought a different kit, and tested negative. She felt fine the whole time. It's all so overblown.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

agree 100%

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Timothy Williams's avatar

A retired lifeguard friend of mine got the shots, then got Covid. It was the perfect opportunity to question his faith.

"Do you feel the vaccine was overrated? Or do you believe you would have been worse without it?" I asked.

"I definitely would have been worse without it," he explained, "because my symptoms were very mild."

"I know just how you feel," I confided. "I took my lucky rabbit's foot to Vegas and lost a thousand dollars. Just think how much more I would have lost without it!"

Just kidding. I only say stuff like that on the Internet.

In real life, I politely concurred with his impeccable logic.

I myself have never been injected, nor have I had more than a sniffle since 2019 despite flouting every public health directive. I have been exposed several times, as wave after wave ripples through my highly vaccinated workplace, yet I have never tested positive.

For all I know, this is all some kind of enormous practical joke.

Maybe it gets funny in the third year?

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