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Ken Braun's avatar

Yeah, the historical stereotype of Germans has always stressed their resistance to government authority. 😷🙄

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HagarTHorrible's avatar

"Show me your papers!"

Standing firm as a formerly FREE, totally unmasked or vaxed rural American...May LIBERTY rise again!

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air dog's avatar

Sure thing, Mr. BRAUN. You'll forgive me if I am skeptical of your opinion, given your likely lack of education and social cohesion.

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Ken Braun's avatar

Dad was half German, half Swedish; mom more than half French.

If DNA means anything, then it well explains my aversion to rules. 🤣

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Kerry Davie's avatar

Did you miss the irony?

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air dog's avatar

No. Did you? I don't think I could have laid it on any thicker.

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Jack McCord's avatar

I'm still really, really angry about the 'pandemic response' (including the Clot Shot). The memory of all the transparent brazen lies, the fascist restrictions and mandates remains quite fresh. I had to cut ties with a lot of people, some rather close to me, who went mad and joined the cult, or just turned out to be sociopaths.

There was a century-old scientific consensus - an actual consensus, not a fake one like The Science (TM) our rulers pulled out of their asses - that mass containment would do much more harm than good. It withstood four influenza pandemics, three of which were as deadly or deadlier than Covid. All it took to overturn it was China's preposterous and soon-discredited claim that they had achieved 'zero Covid' with their brutal Wuhan lockdown. China's role and our rulers' often outspoken and obsequious admiration for CCP authoritarianism were just a couple of many clues that the 'pandemic response' had nothing whatsoever to do with the virus.

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Ivan M. Paton's avatar

Yes Jack, anger is not far beneath the surface. By 2022 I was so angry that I became a volcano ready to burst at the slightest provocation, for the same reasons you outlined. And as I had spent my life as a calm, rational man, I finally realized this anger was not only unhealthy, but in the end the psychopaths would win because i would blow a gasket. As it is I am sure it's shaved years off my potential life, because the state of anger is really unhealthy. I decided to maintain a core of righteous anger but find my way back to calm, and be able to stare genocide in the face and while speaking up against it, to stay calm. It wasn't easy - it took me a long time to get to where I am today. I see the Evil, I smell the Evil, I hear the Evil, but I stay calm, and speak out against it as often as I can. It also makes my ability to talk to those that are living in the Mind Control Matrix infinitely more effective. Nobody wants to listen to angry people. Even the psychopaths don't get visibly wound up. I found these words by Anthony Hopkins, which also helped:

Anthony Hopkins: ‘self control is strength and calmness is mastery’ – you have to get to the point where your mood doesn’t shift based on the actions of others; don’t allow others to control the direction of your life; and don’t allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence."

So, for every one of us that is fighting back against the Evil that wants to rule humanity, we have to take Anthony Hopkins words to heart - because to be our most effective this is the state of mind we need. Anger is only good for the moment that it tells us what is important to us, and when it serves to keep our resolve strong. Quiet anger or righteous anger serves us. But any attachment to anger that disturbs our emotional balance serves our enemies.

Ivan M. Paton

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Kathleen Nathan's avatar

Yes...in order to get the right sort of attention, you need to be calm, reasonable and stick to factual realities. I took several books...including Ed Dowd's CAUSE UNKNOWN....and Sucharit Bhakdi's CORONA FALSE ALARME....Dr. Peter McCullough's COURAGEOUS DISCOURSE ....and some other stuff to the director of our retirement center. 9OO people live here in various states of senility and health. Some are totally gone mentally ....others are very fit and play poker, scrabble and paddle-board and lawn bowling...plus pursue exercise regimes, including long hikes. She was respectful and said she would look at the material. The corona "jabs" are cancelled here now at the health center. You can't get them here and need to go to a nearby hospital to get these "vaccines"

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Ivan M. Paton's avatar

Well done Kathleen - those books are gold in the fight back. Your efforts are saving lives. Keep at it.

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Jack McCord's avatar

Thanks very much Ivan. Your advice (and Hopkins') is obviously very sound, and I'll do my best to keep it uppermost in my mind.

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Ivan M. Paton's avatar

Great, glad to hear that it hit a spot Jack. Keep in touch. Sign up for my Substack if you're not following too many. I've got an idea for starting a new foundation 'Stop Net Zero' - been thinking about it for a while, but just bumped into an American oil driller working in Saudi Arabia an hour ago, here in rural Thailand, and we were exchanging views on the insanity of it, and I realized there's a lot of guys like him in the industry, well paid, that would fund an activism foundation to fight the lunatics. Where are you located?

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🤡

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Jack McCord's avatar

By the way, if anybody wants to read my detailed accounts of how I concluded the 'response' was a hoax, and what I did next, here's part 1:

https://jackmccord.substack.com/p/my-covid-story

... and part 2:

https://jackmccord.substack.com/p/my-covid-story-part-2

Pat 3 is on the way, but it'll likely be a few weeks.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

lolol

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DD's avatar

😁

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

My brother who works in Government in DC who is conservative as my sister is liberal both showed up wearing masks to visit me during the pandemic. So those that think this is a partisan issue would be incorrect. I do think people who are into "less government" tend to be more awake to the propaganda because they have already been going against the grain for decades. And now anyone with one thought against the government is basically a domestic terrorist.

I'm sorry about your dad, makes me think of my own. A lot of my thoughts on government, and accommodation for the vulnerable were fashioned because of his example. My dad had rheumatoid arthritis, and instead of demanding accommodation, he did as much as he could. I don't recall him ever turning away one of us kids when we got sick.

Still I wonder, the pandemic propaganda played on people's best intentions. "You do it for not yourself but everyone around you." They bought into the carrot of the vaccine to avoid the stick of government restrictions.

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KarlM Alias's avatar

The only reason for the government restrictions was to ensure as many as possible took the bioweapon.

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pyrrhus's avatar

Or were killed by the deadly "treatment", with ventilators and remdesvir, among others....

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Ivan M. Paton's avatar

It's basically murder. No matter which way they try to spin it.

Filling people's veins with known poisons - remdesivir was used in the Ebola trials by Fauci in 2015-2016 (?) and discontinued as more than 50% were dying from kidney failure. So this sick, psychopathic mass killer sat in the oval office and promoted it in early 2020, and that's why it went worldwide - what they do in America they do everywhere. Mass murder by medical. malpractice mandates.

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California Girl's avatar

I am deeply sorry for your loss. Surprisingly (?) I read a similar story in the last few days. The advice is to read the entire medical record, as it may show treatments you were not told about - treatments that might very well have been fatal.

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pyrrhus's avatar

OMG, I'm very sorrry to hear that...and destroying the kidneys is the forte of remdesivir...

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Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Also to help Trump lose the 2020 election.

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Through the looking glass's avatar

My husband and I got the jab twice because I thought that would be the only way I'd be allowed to fly to the U.K before my father died. In the end, I still had to jump through hoops to get there (several tests, quarantine period..) so in the end, I had to say goodbye to my dying father on messenger. Managed to get to his funeral, but that, too, was a nightmare. Then a year or so later my husband woke up with one side of his face frozen. It got worse, and he was admitted to hospital (it was thought to possibly be a stroke, or even Lyme's disease, as he'd recently had tick bites) Turned out it was something called Bell's Palsy, which I had never heard of till then. My husband was healthy, in his late forties and had never experienced health problems before then. He eventually recovered, but it was scary. It was only later that I heard about a connection between the vaccinations and Bell's palsy. Yet not one doctor mentioned this. Incidently, my father died of Alzheimer's but had actually caught covid in the care home, months before he died. He didn't show any symptoms, and if he hadn't been tested for it (there had been an outbreak in his care home) they never would have known.

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Andreas Stullkowski's avatar

Actually, adhering to the govenrment's rules would be very expected from a conservative person.

More surprisingly are those lefty people who have become to trust the government implicitly.

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Andreas Stullkowski's avatar

The played a real number on the old people, and threw them in total panic.

Most old people are very scared anyway already, and they amplified that to 11.

Add to that the deep trust in governmental and especially scientific authority, and you can't help to empathize with them taking the jab gladly.

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Poisoned Kiwi's avatar

"Should I review"

For me life's too short. Your analysis of this individual is spot on.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

agreed. Your time is too precious to waste it on this garbage. By now most know what kind he is, and those that don't can gladly read his book if they want to do so !

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Eidein's avatar

> If you show him a place that didn’t lock down as hard and still had better outcomes, he’ll seize upon whatever post hoc rationalisations he can find.

This is infuriating to me because it doesn't matter. I will use my favourite concrete example.

I live in Texas. We basically didn't do anything. We had formal lockdowns for about a month, that lots of people ignored anyway. We reopened in May 2020 with bars closed and other venues at 25% capacity. Then 50% capacity. Then bars reopened in September and everything went back to normal.

I am from Canada. The part of Canada I am from had the strictest lockdowns in the country. My mom told me at one point that the cops started patrolling neighbourhoods, breaking into any house with more than 2 cars in front of it, and checking (without a warrant) if more than 5 people were in there, because that would be illegal.

The city I'm from and the city I live in have approximately the same populations. (The city I live in now is about 15% bigger). The death rate in my city in Texas (that is, #dead / #infected * 100) was about 0.8%. The death rate in my hometown in Canada was about 2.9%. The US average death rate was about 1.4%. (source: what I remember from primary source government data; I'm not looking these up again)

I will repeat again: The city with incredibly strict lockdowns had 3.6x as many deaths as the city where everyone ignored the rules the entire time.

I tell this to covidiots and they all respond the same: "Yeah, well, it would've been worse if we didn't lock down". And I am tentatively willing to grant that. The city I live in now had an anomalously low death rate, and it's my personal belief that this is because there's a larger percentage of young and relatively fit people here. That's pretty orthogonal to the lockdowns, +/- nobody's fit if you make gyms and outside illegal.

But here's the thing: The difference in raw number of deaths between these two cities is greater than the total number of deaths in my current city. Even if lockdowns brought the death rate in Austin to _zero_, there would still be a massive disparity in deaths between Austin and Winnipeg.

Do you know what that means? It means that, whatever the post-hoc rationalization you use to explain this difference, _whatever it is_, it was more important than lockdowns. And as far as I'm concerned, that alone means that lockdowns were a waste of time and energy.

If the government only has limited political capital to enforce things, and we want to save the maximum amount of lives, by _their own arguments and their own numbers_, you know what would have worked better than lockdowns? Make working out 3x a week _mandatory_.

I have suggested this to some covidiots, all of whom are lazy and fat because they're bad people, and they all freak out. YOU CAN'T DO THAT, THAT WOULD BE EVIL AND OPPRESSIVE. Well, ma'am, we've already established what kind of person you are, now we're just haggling over price. It is very instructive to consider why people might think that "firing everyone from their jobs and forcing them into house arrest for a year" is acceptable but "lose 15 pounds you fat fuck" is not.

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Eidein's avatar

Incidentally this is your regular reminder that _based on the existing research we had when the vaccines first rolled out_, getting your BMI below 30 was more protective towards covid than getting the vaccine was claimed to be.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine if this means "even when they lied about vaccine effectiveness, they still sucked" or if that means "there is blood on the hands of everyone who _didn't_ mandate required gym attendance"

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Certiorari's avatar

If one is obese, losing excess fat is one of the single best things one can do to increase survivability of all health issues. So tired of the recent gross body positive movement.

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Eidein's avatar

The three biggest covid risk factors, in descending order:

0) Age

1) pre-existing Autoimmune diseases

2) pre-existing obesity

3) pre-existing diabetes

Note that "going outside" or "being exposed to other people" or even "not being covid vaccinated" are not on that list

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Certiorari's avatar

Not being “vaxxed” is likely an indicator of better health not worse. I have yet to meet someone who regrets not getting the shot. Everyone who did but are capable of self-honesty regret taking it. The rest are still blind, and most of those I used to know no longer speak to me anymore. I used to be sad about that but not anymore. Toxic people and toxic “healthcare” have no place in my life. I will never regret saying no to that madness.

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Eidein's avatar

Not being vaxxed is an obvious indicator of better health. Better mental health. It means you're not retarded

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Eidein - knock it off with the ad hominem attacks/name-calling. Your anger is misplaced. This level of coercion and trickery was a first for the world. No one who was jabbed with that poison had informed consent. Believe me, I am also angry and frustrated that so many people succumbed to the lies, but my anger is toward the evils who perpetrated this, rather than the folks who were fearmongered into being jabbed…most of these people are SANE and INTELLIGENT. And, no, I didn’t get the shots, as I fortunately saw through the lies. Your comment essentially describes all who were injected as crazy and stupid. About 70% of the globe’s population. Shame on you.

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Tardigrade's avatar

I think age should be on that list, although the older you are in our culture, the more likely you are to have those other factors.

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Eidein's avatar

Oh shit I forgot that one. Editing

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Danielle's avatar

I find the autoimmunity risk interesting from a personal perspective. I have had RA for 30 years now and during Covid had been immune suppressed for around 20 years. Can’t wear a mask, didn’t change anything I did e.g. I did all of the family shopping and looked after one adult child with Covid, am unvaccinated and have never had symptomatic Covid. (Tested positive once with a rapid antigen test but no symptoms whatsoever).

Husband also immune suppressed with severe Crohns, spent the entire time traveling around building sites in the state for work, also never had Covid. Both of us were slightly overweight at the time but nowhere near obese.

Both adult daughters vaccinated (one only because she is a paramedic) and both have had Covid (paramedic more than once).

All very strange….

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Rosemary B's avatar

yes, entire family (siblings and extended) have been vaxxed to the max.

chronically sick, several positive covid "tests"

and a lot of destructive bodily breakdown corneal infections, skin infections, joint destruction etc

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KarlM Alias's avatar

Mitochondrial dysfunction, followed by cardiovascular damage.

They have been poisoning us for decades, in order to get enough sick to have problems with convid. Even then it was only the very elderly/sick who actually got bad enough to go to the hospital and be killed. 82/83 (UK/Ger) average age at death.

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Jana Crawford's avatar

Scene set:

Very southern Southern California. July 2020. The beaches are (still) taped off and sand has been dumped in public skate parks. Oh, and MJ was delivered to your home and strip clubs open, but not houses of worship or AA meetings...Affluent "zoom" neighborhood, 630 am.

Cast:

Me, walking my dog.

Cate, the dog.

Lady, driving by in SUV

Lady stops her car, lowers window and say to me "put on your mask. stop the spread".

Me , Infuriated (note the date above), "I'd be happy to do so once you lose 50 pound!"

I know, juvenile of me. But seriously, look at the date! Look in the mirror!

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KarlM Alias's avatar

As was smoking. Geez, you can't make it up.

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Eidein's avatar

Yep. That one was weird but consistently replicated. Although I have to be pedantic: it wasn't _smoking_, it was _nicotine_. You can take nicotine in forms other than smoking. The smoking itself made covid marginally worse, in the obvious ways of "you have done mechanical damage to your lungs". But the nicotine was consistently shown to have an approximately 10% protective effect.

Keep in mind that right now the official numbers (last I checked anyway) said the vaccine had a 35% effect

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green_dog's avatar

It's plausible that the difference in death rates is due to vitamin D level differences between the citizens of Winnipeg and Austin.

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Eidein's avatar

I have also considered that.

But "Actually, a 5 cent pill you can buy over the counter at any grocery store worked better than all the lockdowns" really just proves my point even harder

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Eidein's avatar

It's also worth mentioning that the last time I deep dove into this, the existing researched seemed to suggest (with _low_ confidence) that this was a correlation-not-causation issue, and that it's less that "low vitamin D => get more sick" and more "be sick => measure lower D levels". That could be that the lower D levels caused it. It could be that getting sick caused the lower D levels. It could be some unknown third cause causing both. It could be a coincidence. The science is not definitive on this, I think

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LSWCHP's avatar

The science is pretty definitive IMHO. Vitamin D is well known to be a critical component of immune system support. It also affects cardiovascular capacity, mental health, bone and muscle health.

I was diagnosed with very low vitamin D in 2019, and supplements changed my life, restoring me to good heth.

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Warburton Expat's avatar

Vitamin D helps the immune system immensely.

But it'll also be because the virus spreads best with sustained close contact indoors, as we knew since Februrary 2020.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article

So if you're a person who spends a lot of time indoors (willingly or not), you're likely to be lower in vitamin D - and you're also more likely to have sustained close contact with whoever you're spending that time with.

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Warburton Expat's avatar

Outdoor time. The first first study of an infection cluster was of a restaurant in Guangzhou, China in January 2020.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0764_article

It spread with the airflow of the airconditioning. So what we learned then was that SARS-Cov-2 is a virus which spreads best with sustained close contact indoors.

People probably spend more time indoors in a cold city than a warm one.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

Do not grant anyone the "well it would have been worse if we didn't lock down" line. It's bullshit, there is zero data to substantiate that position. First of all, there is no way that 1.4 percent of the entire U.S. population died from COVID, that is complete nonsense. 1.4 percent way have died and tested positive on the (unreliable) PCB test, but that does not mean that the cause of death was due to COVID.

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Clay's avatar

If there hadn't been lockdowns the deaths from covid <i>may</i> have been <i>slightly</i> higher, but the deaths from despair, suicide, overdose, alcohol poisoning, and missed cancer screenings that were directly caused by the lockdowns would not have happened at all.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

This idea of "all things to serve to accommodate and prevent needless death" only leads to policies that are oppressive and evil.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

In any case, dying from a "naturally occurring" virus can never be a "needless death", because it's like saying dying from your house falling on you during a hurricane or drowning when hit by a tsunami is needless. These are (supposedly) acts of NATURE. It's just part of life, why is everyone so hysterical? PEOPLE DIE. The only truly needless aspect to it if it's a man-made virus created by gain-of-function research (i.e. weaponisation of naturally -occurring virusto make them infectious to humans and inxreas their leathality, that is, for making bioweapons). That would be needless and something worth getting globally angry about it. Funny how the media are so good and stimulating and directing public attention and energy away from the truly culpable...

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California Girl's avatar

The media continue to prove in real-time who they really work for, and it's not us.

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Eidein's avatar

Yeah, that's the other thing. We didn't save lives during covid. We just displaced when they were lost from 2020 to 2023 or so. The people who died were gonna die soon anyway. That's how disease works, it takes out the weakest people. Who are usually the old people.

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green_dog's avatar

Is a warrantless entry by police legal in Canada?

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Vdvupur's avatar

Nobody respects "legal" anymore. Remove it from consideration. Governments and their henchman have.

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Thunder Road's avatar

Exactly. This is an important lesson of covid and other events of the last few years. Thinking in terms of legal/illegal is not going to get you anywhere in questions such as this. Regardless of whatever the law might say, they may decide to kick in your door and stuff you in a cell for however long while facing no consequences themselves and with you having no recourse. That's just the reality.

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Vdvupur's avatar

Thank you. I try to get that point through to people but it seems completely foreign to them. They have been brainwashed and indoctrinated their entire life so badly they simply cannot conceive of just being a human first. It's Mass Psychosis. Glad to see there are a few who are self-aware.

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green_dog's avatar

I'm asking as a practical issue; if they attempt it in future, am I legally permitted to refuse? That may not stop them at the time, but it will legally fuck them up permanently, afterwards.

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Vdvupur's avatar

I'm not a lawyer and I know nothing of Canadian Law. I do know Government and what has been made acceptable. I know Tyranny and Surrender.

Having said that, ask yourself what good it would do you if you did have a Legal recourse AFTER the fact? None. Nothing. It would take you years and a mountain of money to challenge the Establishment. And say you did win. What do you win? What do you get? Money? You know it's not THEIR money. It's your money and your neighbors money. It's your tax dollars. You either fight in the moment or die (if not physically, then financially and your freedom). THEY have learned THEY can do anything THEY want. Just have to declare an EMERGENCY. When they do, your LEGAL position is eliminated FOREVER.

RESIST OR DIE.

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

You seem to be answering your own question. Warrantless entry connotes entry without the consent of the owner of the property. So by definition, if you consent to entry by inviting law enforcement in, there's nothing to fight about in court later. If you want to fight in court later, presumably, the owner of the property would not invite law enforcement in. The separate issue is whether force may be used to oppose unlawful entry, warrant or not. I'm not a lawyer in Canada, but suspect the answer is similar in many jurisdictions. Courts do not condone use of force against law enforcement even if entry is unlawful. Presumably the remedy for unlawful entry would be to resort to a lawsuit in court.

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green_dog's avatar

I'm imagining a future scenario in which they're forcing their way into my house in order to enforce some "public health" mandate. I will not comply. Just curious to know what the legal implications are.

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

But you know in the back of our minds is the Solzhenitsyn quote about standing up to the arrests.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34738-and-how-we-burned-in-the-camps-later-thinking-what

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Eidein's avatar

I don't know. I don't even know if it actually happened, only that my mom said it happened. Presumably, there was some sort of law or edict granting them insta-warrants on the observation of 3 cars. Or it's something like the US thing where cops can enter your house without a warrant if they're witnessing a violent crime happening on the spot and have to intervene to stop it. Like, if cops happen to be walking down your street when they hear a gunshot and then a woman screaming that she's going to die, they're allowed to go into that house without a warrant to stop the murder

But I am less concerned about it happening, and more concerned about the fact that my mom thought it was totally fine that it was happening. If it happens, it happens once. If people think it's fine, it happens infinity times in the future.

But also, very little of what people did during covid was legal, in any country. They all did it anyway, and nobody pushed back or stopped them

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green_dog's avatar

There was resistance, but it got no exposure (or only negative) on the fecal media. I would say that the trucker protest was push-back; also the lawsuit I and 600 other former federal employees filed against the vaxx mandate.

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Eidein's avatar

The trucker protest did not meaningfully accomplish anything except giving the government more fascistic power, and if the pushback took 2 years to start, it doesn't count.

Maybe it feels like it counts. Maybe it is legitimately the best you could do in those circumstances. But what I'm looking for is hundreds of thousands of people stating very openly "fuck this shit". I saw none of that. I still see none of it. I can count on one hand the number of Canadians I know who will criticize the covid measures _even now_

I'm not looking for pushback on social media. I'm looking for pushback in person. I am looking for average regular everyday canadians who I have personally known for my entire life saying "wow that was fucked, let's not that again".

They talked a lot about saving lives but those measured ruined mine, permanently, and nobody cared. Certainly not in Canada. Canada is full of petty tyrants in waiting, champing at the bit for another excuse to ruin my life.

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Warburton Expat's avatar

I can't speak to those cities in particular, but this study of the various approaches and their results concluded that - just looking at covid, not excess mortality in the years after - nothing did anything either way.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn0671

I think the issue is that there were just too many confounding variables. For example here in Melbourne we saw greater infection and death rates in the western suburbs than in the southeastern. But it was different demographics.

The western suburbs had the "essential" workers whose work required them to leave their homes (delivery driver, electrician, healthcare worker, etc), so they were more likely to be exposed to other people who could infect them. Being working class and also often recent migrants, they were also more likely to have more children and be in a multigenerational household - so the driver came home from work infectious but not yet symptomatic, passed it on to his wife the aged care worker who then infected aged care residents, and also infected her own mother who was staying with them.

Whereas the southeastern suburbs had more white collar professionals who could work from a home office, and thus rarely be exposed to other people. Lots of singles and dual income no-kids, or if they did have children, only one or two. And their elderly relatives lived somewhere far away, probably off in sunny Queensland.

So you zoom in on the parts of Melbourne and you can see that lockdowns created more infections and deaths in one part, but reduced them in another part. Overall? No difference.

I think this sort of thing explains why you get a lot of counterintuitive results about this or that measure causing one effect in one place and the opposite in another.

Which is, I would say, an argument for just leaving it up to people's individual judgment. The state should certainly step in to protect those who are unable to protect themselves, for example there are good reasons for biosecurity measures in aged care - those people aren't in a position to assess and mitigate their own levels of risk. But independent elderly or younger people are.

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Tonetta's avatar

Winnipeg. Glad to no longer live there. My old Beausejour friends thar are fully awake are few and far between, alas.

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Neutron Flux's avatar

The ONLY benefit to lockdowns here in Australia was that it forced my wife and I to bite the bullet and invest in an awesome home-gym setup. I'm a personal trainer and was going to buy gym equipment eventually, but with the insane multi-month lockdowns we had in 2020 and 2021 (gyms closed of course) our decision was expedited.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

I would like to read it. But I dont want to buy one and support the cocksucker. By the way this is a great website for books. ABEbooks.com

I never pay more than $4-$8 dollars for used books. Good condition books are in excellent condition.

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CygneRouge's avatar

OH MY GOD, I HATE this despotic sociopathic little weasel, and the very sight of his name boils my blood. 🤬 I could not be more devastated for you, Eugy, that you’re obliged to count him among your fellow citizens. He should be stripped of his citizenship and thrown in a dark pit to rot in a prison.

And your time and brain are FAR too valuable to be squandered on anything he vomited up.

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Mark Alexander's avatar

I've said this before, but comparing Drosten (or Fauci) to a weasel is unfair and insulting to weasels.

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Clay's avatar

They are more like mosquitoes. Small, annoying, relatively insignificant, but are the cause of millions of deaths due to disease.

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Mark Alexander's avatar

Yes, that's a much better comparison.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

True. That's reserved for Leon Weiseltier.

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Danno's avatar

eugyppius reads the unreadable for the rest of us, and offers up humorous, well-written summaries. Perhaps not unlike his former calling.

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shadwick omegaanalysis.com's avatar

Is there a Covid enquiry in Germany? The UK one is very limited but at least the sworn testimony PROVED that the official modellers lied to us. That might help us find out why some things happened.

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eugyppius's avatar

no, there will never be an official inquiry. anonymous statements to the press indicate that those in charge believe it would provide material to the populist right-wing extremists.

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Danno's avatar

As indeed it would!

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OnTheJump's avatar

Falls under the " Don't ask any questions that you don't want the answers to " category.

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GerdaVS's avatar

Once all the turbo cancers become an embarrassment hopefully humane politicians will become curious.

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Carl Jón Denbow's avatar

Yes, when right-wing extremists are right about something, you never want to admit it if you are a left-wing extremist who believes “your truth” is more important than actual provable facts.

For instance, if biology says that sex, except for rare birth defects, is an immutable binary characteristic that is bestowed at conception, you invent the concept of “gender” and define it so that a biological male can change his gender just by wishing it so and then call himself female while he’s actually still a male. And, of course, the same for women who want to fantasize that they are men.

The asininity of this thinking and its grip on the extreme left robots is best illustrated by a recent article I read from the formerly esteemed Cleveland Clinic about prostate disease. Some mind-numbed leftoid had gone through the article, which has been on the web for awhile, probably using “search and replace” and substituted “people with penises” for every occurrence of the now archaic word “men.”

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Barekicks's avatar

The UK actually has two inquiries. The main one only pertains to the decisions taken by the national government, but there is a separate one in Scotland and the sworn testimony there is even more damning. The iatrogenesis in care homes as a result of lockdown policies has now also been proven.

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thomas buckley's avatar

Not to be too stereotypical, but ‘ Germans don’t take government orders very well’ does not seem to be a reasonable argument.

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Außengeländer's avatar

My impression and experience in Germany from 2020 to 2022 was totally different. Most Germans did what the TV said.

But now the things are changing, “covid” was a wake up call for lot of people.

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Carl Jón Denbow's avatar

Was this is a opportunistic typo, a Freudian slip, or just intended humor: “When people write books, it is customary for them to poop around all the major press outlets to talk them up.”

Also, this is the first I’ve heard the German people described as not having social cohesion. Too much social cohesion seems to have been Germany’s original sin, and part of its stereotype in much of the rest of the world.

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eugyppius's avatar

i have been under the impression that 'poop around' is an (American) English idiom. perhaps it's not but I will make it one if I can. :)

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Gathering Goateggs's avatar

You might be thinking of "pop 'round" but I like the "poop" version as it highlights what a shitshow Drosten creates wherever he goes.

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Gail Finke's avatar

It is not an American idiom, but I like it.

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Certiorari's avatar

I have never heard it before and I lived there for many years. No reason not to start using it. The image it brings to mind is to me both funny and kind of disgusting. :)

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Gilgamech's avatar

It absolutely should be an idiom. English is linguistic America - you can do what you damn well want! Make it so.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

never heard that one before!

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OnTheJump's avatar

Poetic license granted.

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GerdaVS's avatar

It reminds of people who are A-lickers.

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Carl Jón Denbow's avatar

Not one before, but you just made it one!

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Candy's avatar

Sorry, but I voted yes because I don’t want to read it-and you offered Lol

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

You sadist

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Charlotte's avatar

Me too lol

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Quakeress's avatar

Don't bother reviewing, do something nice instead.

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Ume Arai's avatar

Hey Eugyppius you need to come up with a male version name of a "head girl". You could say that Drosten ticks all the boxes and then some :D

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Ann Glover's avatar

Dear, dear eugyppius. Please, please spare yourself (and us) the pain of reviewing this gollum's scribblings. You have been a good and valiant warrior and can rest from your labours for a while. Spare your strength for the climate cultists and other pending globalist insanities. Thank you for your selfless service, as always. 😊

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MEGA's avatar

It can’t be worse than the climate hippy chick book…can it?

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Eidein's avatar

> You’re not actually supposed to this stuff

You accidentally a word there

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eugyppius's avatar

thank you, fixed.

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John Lester's avatar

I was young and in school during the polio epidemic from 1948-55. It was talked about a lot, and I remember public swimming pools being closed but nothing else. I was in the Army for the Asian flu epidemic in 1957 I don't remember anyone getting sick until some kind of vaccine was forced on us. Some people got sick, and some died or with polio suffered bad side effects. But life went on in a normal fashion for most all of us.

I never really understood all the extreme measures that were taken for Covid. You'd think with "human caused: global warming and 8 billion people here we could afford to lose a few.

Perhaps the leaders were really worried that there might not be resources left for them if they got Covid. So, nothing more humanitarian than that.

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KarlM Alias's avatar

The bioweapons will ensure we lose far more than a few.

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carily myers's avatar

fact. The virus was made for the vax.

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Marc Debolt's avatar

The fact that they say Switzerland "acted liberally", and that what they engaged in was something called "policy advice" is far more heinous than the suggestion of anyone not having "social cohesion", whatever that ultimate barnum statement is even supposed to mean.

Misconstruing unforgiveable tyrannical totalitarian shenanigans as "advice" is beyond disgusting. Interestingly, no one seems to notice or mind those "minor details".

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Certiorari's avatar

I live in Switzerland. It was horrifying. At one point I was horrified when I caught myself saying: “It was worse in other countries”. No. Not ok. The Kanton where I live was one of the more liberal Kantons. Even then, I had to eat in a tent in the middle of winter because I didn’t have a green pass. Just because it was a little better here doesn’t make it ok. Don’t get me started on masks. That brought all the Karens out of the woodwork.

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Danielle's avatar

Unfortunately the visible virtue signaling of the ridiculous masks brought the Karens out in every Western country at least.

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Laughing Goat's avatar

Mirrors my experience. There was a dissident restauranteur nearby who refused to comply. I wanted to congratulate him, but most of my family and acquaintances turned up their noses at that and said he should get in line... After the whole thing fizzled out, the restaurant closed and everyone was sad about it. It was infuriating.

Insidiously, most of the oppressive atmosphere came not directly from the official measures but from what people decided to do with it.

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