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JG's avatar

They’ve forgotten— I haven’t

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

thankfully due to this scamdemic I found out that several of the people I thought friends are not. I found a small group of REAL friends (one helped me to get a tootache fixed just 2 days ago) and I will be at their house tonight. The once friends are now email acquiantances and one drives along sometimes, occasionally. In hard times we get to know ones friends, or like the Italians say, lots of umbrellas but when it rains you can't find them

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Yukon Dave's avatar

It will be sport for many years to come.

"Oh you seem to forgot your mask, here I have a spare one for you"

"What you dont want a mask, did the science change?"

"So when did you decide it was safe to go outside without a mask?"

"Like your mask I have a lucky talisman that a shaman gave me to keep away the COVID, would you like one?"

I have been wining bets so far that they already had COVID and that is what is protecting them. I have had family and friends take the Labcorp 164068 assay added to their annual blood test and guess what, they already had it!

Physicians can order SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies, Nucleocapsid 164068

This assay will not detect antibodies elicited by currently available SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

https://www.labcorp.com/coronavirus-disease-covid-19/providers/antibody-test

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

I really like your one-liners. I plan on using them going forward. Sadly, there are still a few that will take the lines seriously.

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Dr Linda's avatar

Same

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Courageous Lion's avatar

"Oh you seem to forgot your mask, here I have a spare one for you"

I didn't forget it, I just have an affinity to suffocating myself. It appears you've been deprived oxygen if you still have an outlook that is positive for masks.

"What you dont want a mask, did the science change?"

Yes, the science changed. The new science says that wearing a mask to stop a "virus" would be like putting up a chain link fence to stop a mosquito.

"So when did you decide it was safe to go outside without a mask?"

Since day one, which is why I haven't EVER worn one. I believe in a creator and he designed me to expel a certain amount of Co2 and utilize just so much oxygen. He /she/it also made me so that the excess bacteria that I am exhaling will not get clogged on a MASK and make me breathe it back in thus causing respiratory issues.

If you had a Ferrari and it was having engine issues and you took it your mechanic and he told you that you just need to stuff a potato up the exhaust, would you follow his advice? Well, I'm better designed than any Ferrari and any idiot that wants to stuff an oxygen depriving mask on my face and claims it is science does not get my attention to easily.

"Like your mask I have a lucky talisman that a shaman gave me to keep away the COVID, would you like one?" Makes as much sense!!!! LOL!

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Dr Linda's avatar

Well done! I might steal your material

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Courageous Lion's avatar

I have a lot to "steal" on my substack page. Have at it. Truth needs to win out.

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Dennis Norn's avatar

Very good, if you don't mind, I will use some of these. I know it's a shame they would not trust what friends or family tried to tell them and trusted thieving, murdering, greedy, insane government instead. Nearly impossible to un brain wash the brain washed.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Use all you want. Truth needs to prevail.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

What is the $ charge for this test?

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The Great Resist's avatar

Last year, I had a C19 antibody test done at “Any Lab Test Now”, a walk-in lab that has locations across the country. This was not in conjunction with my annual bloodwork and wasn’t ordered by my physician, I just wanted to have proof of previous infection. They don’t accept insurance, so the cost is out of pocket, but may be eligible for flex-spending or health savings accounts. It cost me about $140 last year, but their website shows the current cost to be $119-$129 at my location.

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SaHiB's avatar

They pretend they don't remember it, but it's become ignore each other as much as possible. They continue to worship the DNC and Big Pharma, but blame any and all inconveniences on PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers - a DNC extortion scheme).

BTW, that's a really clever photo montage.

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Cary Carl's avatar

N95s are bravely making their appearance again at the Whole Foods. Their wearers are nearly always pale, flabby and lacking in vitality. Asians of all stripes are also hanging on to their masks with a doggedness which makes one doubt stories of high IQs.

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The Beach Is My Bliss's avatar

Often, high IQ does not equal common sense.

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Pamela Laine's avatar

Or wisdom.

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John Bowman's avatar

I think there is an inverse relationship - the higher the IQ, the dumber; the smarter people think they are, the bigger idiots they turn out to be. It’s not what you’ve got, it’s what you do with it.

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Stephanie's avatar

So true. I’ve noticed that the people I know with the college degrees are the ones who fell the hardest for this stupidity. I just don’t get it. I had one friend’s husband ask me if I knew more than the experts. Kind of hurt my feelings. I thought I’m either really stupid or they are?

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Stevanovitch's avatar

True! Despite my 2degrees i know they are to my detriment when facing lies. I was raised to think for myself. So no professor was given my mind to mess with. Look out for the evil, i learned from Mom. It lurks all around and traps you like candy.

If i smell a fish, i know there’s a fish. I am so very thankful for her humble and powerful presence years after her death at 85.

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Indeed!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

My experience with high IQ people is that most have NO common sense.

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Hissing Sid's avatar

I don't think it's IQ exactly, although that's a factor. Without modesty, I know I have a high IQ. But I've also got breadth of varied experiences alongside enough belligerence to trust my first instincts, with (hopefully) enough discernment to drop the false stuff that's out there.

I had to be resilient to get to this current mindset. I was set to crumble but I'm too bloody-minded to actually fold.

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Far from it! IQ seems to correlate with stubborn close mindedness, the last thing we need at a time like this. Alas, i have given up trying to awaken those asleep in the bliss of ignorance. It would be like doing CPR on a cold corpse.

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Renee Marie's avatar

I notice the same thing Cary! They truly are walking zombies.

The Asians are the most compliant culture, so that’s par for the course. The rest are scared of their own shadow.

And I bet none believe in God.

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Martyn's avatar

Oh, they believe in a God. It’s just that theirs wears a white labcoat.

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Renee Marie's avatar

BOOM!💥

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Debra Robinson's avatar

Having travelled in Asia for 30+ yrs, Asians always wore masks during cold and flu season as a courtesy and precaution if they were sick. There was nothing neurotic about it. When you have such dense populations it only makes sense. They didn't mask otherwise. They were never part of our sick obsession with it.

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John Bowman's avatar

It doesn’t make any sense at all, it’s not a courtesy, it’s superstition bred in ignorance. First: if you are sick you are sneezing and gobbing into the mask filling it with infectious mucous which becomes a source of cross-infection. That’s the equivalent if someone with dysentery wearing a nappy/diaper and walking around all day. If you are not sick you are an idiot.

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Debra Robinson's avatar

When you consider neighboring cultures hacking and spitting everywhere, I prefer their etiquette. Not always necessary to attack differing viewpoints. When they're not sick, they don't mask. They also don't wear a lot of perfume so as not to offend. There is a context here....

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Renee Marie's avatar

Asians had the mask obsession before anyone did. What they did IS neurotic.

We were not meant to have our mouths and noses covered.

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Hermynee's avatar

Masks won't stop viruses or water vapor, as can be plainly observed during cold weather. They stop people from spitting inadvertantly when talking, or from getting blood or spit ON you. People have this weird idea that viruses only ride around on water droplets that won't pass a mask.

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Debra Robinson's avatar

they were taught that weird idea incessantly...

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Debra Robinson's avatar

Neurotic to you perhaps.... Tell that to a surgeon, a fireman, or people in various trades. There is a time and place. We have gotten entirely too jumpy and cranky. As a favorite Tom Robbins character would say "People of ze wurl, relax." A good mantra...

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Renee Marie's avatar

I just retired as deputy sheriff of 23 years (I got relieved of my duty because of refusing testing/the jab). I never wore a mask. And I dealt with every biohazard you can possibly imagine.

It’s neurotic.

And doctors wear them in surgery to prevent droplets. It’s already been proven that it doesn’t matter if they wear a mask or not.

Masks do absolutely nothing for a virus like CONvid. It’s a very small aerosol virus.

The trades is a different story, and you know that. Cranky? You have NO idea.

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Rhonda's avatar

from watching years of "This Old House" I've seen tradespeople wearing masks to protect their lungs from DUST. They are referred to as DUST masks. These make sense... wearing one when woodworking on a lathe for instance. But to wear these to try and stop a VIRUS is just nuts.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yep. Surgical staff wear masks to protect themselves from stuff (blood fecal matter, etc.) squirting out of the patients body into their nose & mouth...not to protect the patient from infection from the surgical staff. Their have been studies proving that masking doesn’t reduce infection in the patient.

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Debra Robinson's avatar

Point taken... A hard unfair hit. Unfair dismissal lawsuits are trending. I never masked or jabbed, but my eyes started bleeding and I went blind for 8 wks after working on a patient jabbed that afternoon....so end of a 22 yr career till more is known, so I understand . As I recall, this was about insulting Asians w/o knowing the cultural context.. I would also prefer my surgeon and staff to mask, but hey, that's just me.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Asians as a whole are very peer pressure oriented. That's why their social credit system works so well with them. They want to be "accepted" by their peers. Me? I could give a flying rats ass what my "peers" think of me. EVER!

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Debra Robinson's avatar

Asian cultures differ actually. Ours is the grand individualist experiment. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. An African proverb... 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.'

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MM's avatar

Show me a RCT that demonstrates the efficacy of masking in the OR. I'm not aware of any.

Here's one that's negative for masking (the mask group had a higher rate of infections):

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20575920/

RCTs are the only way to separate causation from mere correlation.

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Stephanie's avatar

The reason a surgeon wears a mask is only to keep blood spatter from getting on themselves. I’ve been told.

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Gail Finke's avatar

Surgeons wear them to protect themselves from splatter getting in their mouths. There's very good evidence that they do nothing at all to protect the people being operated on. The kind of masks firemen wear are to protect htem from smoke inhalation -- NOT from a virus. Of course some kinds of masks really work in some situations. But loose-fitting cloth or paper masks against a respiratory virus????

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Hermynee's avatar

Didn't mask wearing in China, etc. start because of pollution particulates?

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Debra Robinson's avatar

Good question! It very possibly did... Factor in the impact on overall health, the extreme stress of living under that system and you have a population ripe for illness. My experience and remarks had more to do with Japan...

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Justin's avatar

Many are compliant with family pressure. And may have superstition or family members who have succumbed.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Well then it’s time to step up to the plate like big girls and boys, isn’t it?

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yes, Renee Marie! You’re right. If someone asks me to mask, I say something like ‘no can do’, or ‘nope, I need to breathe’, or whatever. I remain polite but firm. I want to stick up for my rights, but I don’t want to be abusive to a front-line employee who, after all, isn’t in control of this mess. I’m trying to maintain kindness, while remaining steadfast to my rights. Sometimes awkward, but...so what? I’ve decided an awkward moment is nothing compared to letting them take away our free will.

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Renee Marie's avatar

Exactly Cathleen! I do the same. But, if you’re going to get in my face, I push back.

Some people either haven’t heard the word “NO!”, or do not know how to say. “NO!”.

Get used to it! NO!!!!

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I’ve been surprised, in recent years, to observe that almost everyone I know does not know how to say ‘no’. And not just Covid stuff, but anything. It’s as if they don’t know how to stick up for themselves. It’s disturbing, actually.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Do ya think? Too many people fall for that family or societal peer pressure. I love your responses!

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Charlotte's avatar

Omg was at a Wegmans for the first time and I told my best friend visiting from Europe- watch out, we are at ground zero for mask fetishism, super-spreaders, and if shedding exists, this is a hot zone lol...

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Renee Marie's avatar

Well, I sure hope you had your biohazard suit (very sexy), your box of (plastic poisoned) masks, your face shield, shoe covers, and latex gloves-whew!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

They are like drone bees.

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Not all, thankfully! My Filipina knew the scam from the start. Lateral thinking, christian/Buddhist thought, based in that new thing we call reality. A unicorn? Perhaps, but not alone...

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Debra Robinson's avatar

3 hearts!!!

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

I know bishops and priests who have 'faith' in the masks and shots. They believe in God but I think they've forgotten that they're supposed to have faith in Him too.

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

Would Jesus be preaching with a mask on ?

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Renee Marie's avatar

COMMENT OF THE DAY!!!!

BOOM!💥

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Gail Finke's avatar

Well, as God He probably wouldn't ever catch any disease so... not exactly a good analogy.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

No, he would be ROTGLHAO!

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air dog's avatar

Mostly it is superstition.

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Rhonda's avatar

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here’s a quote from the essay “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yep. Do not comply! Everyone, not just a few outliers. I wish people would wake up.

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Toobguy47's avatar

😂😂😂 Yeah, and some walking outside in fresh air or driving by themselves in a car have never disappeared! My wife goes ballistic when she sees this, I just laugh and figure they are free to do as they wish - as long as they don’t try to tell me what the hell to do, wear, lock me down, inject me, etc.

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Trish C's avatar

It's nearly summer here in NZ, usually windy as f..k, and the air is often "moist" with rain/drizzle (it's not known as the "Land of the Long White Cloud" for no reason) - and we STILL see masked individuals outside, walking, biking, alone, in groups. And we are not spared the solitary car drivers either. Yesterday I was at a local airport and despite there being no "requirement" to mask I would say 40% who got off the flight I was meeting were masked up. One woman, horrendously obese, with a walking stick, was masked up to the eyeballs - literally. I wanted to tell her that it would probably be better for her health to breathe freely, but I abstained.

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

It seems the masking is like a competition ,who is more of a loony who is less so .In the news I saw the inside of the airport terminal in Vancouver and 100% is masked ,like frogs .Now the retards don't need mandates ,they are begging for being made yruss proof from the masters above .The venom squirting and masking is not enough in bedrooms plexi glass walls are installed down the middle of the bed . Safety comes before HANKI-PANKI

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Trish C's avatar

Speaking of loonies and plexi glass shields - in a restaurant I frequent occasionally there is a cardboard framed plastic screen - sponsored by Coca Cola - on the counter where one places an order. To keep us safe. It takes up about 10% of the counter space in width, and above it is about 2 metres of air space. I have suggested that it's pretty useless so they may as well remove it. They just laughed and ignored me. It's still there weeks after I suggested this.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I have been asking banks, post office, etc. when are they going to remove the plexiglas barriers? I mention that we lived our entire lives without them before all this nonsense. They, and the masks, further divide people.

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Renee Marie's avatar

The jab has affected people’s brains. I’m being serious. People are acting like zombies. It’s some I’ve noticed for awhile. Has anyone experienced this?

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Stevanovitch's avatar

My wife was certain of it months ago; i said lets wait n see about an official diagnosis. It never came, but u dont need a degree in psych to trust your good judgment on this. You’re correct. Social and somatic neuropathy on display on this otherwise fine planet Zombieland.

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Damn i was going to head out there for a break from Wokeville ontario, home of the megaboobs.

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Zefram's avatar

Or lose a few kgs

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Courageous Lion's avatar

I wonder how many of those solitary car drivers have passed out and cause a wreck due to oxygen deprivation? That might be a study in itself. https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/neurologist-covid-19-masks-are-a-crime-against-humanity-and-child-abuse/

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Seems a fixed percentage of humans will b like this everywhere. Here in Chinada, the evil cabal has indeed won over the brains of a persistent few. But the glass is over half full... you and i may be paid big bucks for real blood, and be asked to repopulate the planet after the wokefools get their darwin award.

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Renee Marie's avatar

I have the exact attitude that you do! Although I do make it a point to shake my head when I walk by them, and mumble something. I can’t help myself!😂

I think the men wearing masks is absolutely pathetic. Ummm…are you trying to be sexy with that nasty, gross mask on? There should be dating sights for masked, jabbed people.

I stay as far away from these psychos as I can. I don’t even want them touching my groceries after touching the face diaper. Really nasty!

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air dog's avatar

I had not thought about it, but you are right. The masking is cowardly and unmanly.

Masks are not attractive on women either, but definitely worse on men.

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

If I had the money I would open a factory making masks .All the masks would be unique .Some would be devils masks others would be likenesses of our Masters .Fauzzi would be everywhere and so would Schwab .Mengele would sell well .Maybe I would sell more masks than Pfizer sells venom .In the world we live in it would make sense to wear masks of that kind year round .I may even become interested .

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Now That would entice me to mask up, temporarily! Train ride across Chinada... print up masks for all occasions. Fun! Oh, zee slogansss zey ar hittink me like so manee bugzz!

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

When I go shopping I always ask the girl on what side of the plexi glass wall is the Whyruss ,om my side or yours ? I,'m still waiting for an answer ,so I say it's in your head little lady .

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Stevanovitch's avatar

I just give them the quizzical moving stare like, hey, yer fly is down but i dont want to interrupt anyone so wise...

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Dating sites. Wonderfully presumptuous, but i love the thought!

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Renee Marie's avatar

Oh…it’s coming…for the UN-JABBED!

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

In Vancouver the masking is the new normal ,by about 80% of the sheep .soon it will be more than just normal ,as babies will be born already with a mask on to masker couples . The shots have altered the D N A so much that the mask is now part of their body ,it's in grown like hair .

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Rhonda's avatar

I too go ballistic when I see this. I admire your more measured attitude. I have to fight myself to leave these frightened mask wearers alone. Just so they leave ME alone.

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Jimychanga's avatar

Lol. True. But if the shedding tales prove true, we may well look the idiots yet..

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

I had a dentist appt yesterday where I was glad to see masks were finally not mandatory. The hygienist (young woman, I'd guess <30) who cleaned my teeth wore what looked like a tightly fitting N95 mask the entire time I was on the premises. When she was ready to start cleaning my teeth, she donned a face shield as well. She was very nice so I didn't have the heart to point out to her that with me in a reclined position and her leaning over my face, I was breathing directly into her mask and of course her breath was directed by the mask directly into my face and open mouth. Yes, IQ.

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Renee Marie's avatar

I want your dentist!!!!

We use Fake Masks. It’s either that or no medical/dental care in Commifornia. I resent having to wear it at all. I pray to God for grace to not get angry. These people who supposedly are the “experts” are complete morons.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Our dentist stopped requiring masks over a year ago. We are in Wisconsin. But practically all of the hospitals & doctor offices still require them. So, I avoid going to those places. I just cancelled my eye dr. Appt. and changed to a different provider in town who doesn’t require masking.

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Stephanie's avatar

I live in California and my dentist office doesn’t require masks. The hygienist have always worn face shields, I think that’s just to protect them from all the water spray, they’re messy. 😁

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

Denture wearers are the lucky ones ,this time ,they can send the jaws to the dentist for cleaning by bike express . While waiting you just have to eat ice creme and marsh mellows if you get hungry .

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Robert's avatar

You have seen that studies that demonstrate high IQ people are more gullible, right?

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

Does I Q. mean infinite quarantine .?

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Rhonda's avatar

Adorable!

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

It could also mean infinite Qakkery

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Rhonda's avatar

:-) :-(

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Stevanovitch's avatar

Yes, if closeminded. A risk of the burden of knowledge. Only countered by having a based, faithful parent or 2. Or your own mind on everything, the true measure of intelligence. Screw IQ. Its useless.

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Rhonda's avatar

No, I have not seen these. But interested. Where can I find them?

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Quality BS Detector's avatar

Yes, I call these over educated people, the OIPs.

Otherwise Intelligent People.

Except for their primitive religion of Mask Covidianism, perfectly smart.

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Renee Marie's avatar

The over educated that have NO common sense. If you have your head up your ass, what good is a 200,000. dollar piece of paper?

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Rhonda's avatar

Disembodied ghosts.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

That's because IQ doesn't really measure intelligence. Like most standardized testing, it's a measure of conformity, ultimately.

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air dog's avatar

No, it's not. A conformist moron can't score well on any standard IQ test.

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

standardized tests test the ability to take standardized testing because intelligence is ill-defined. IQ testing measures certain kinds of pattern recognition. sure, if you're stupid, you won't do well. however, conformity is a huge part of how any test like this works in the first place.

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air dog's avatar

No. IQ testing produces the most reliable and valid metrics in all of the social sciences. By far.

You can wish that intelligence were ill-defined and poorly measured. But the facts are otherwise.

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Rhonda's avatar

Question: Why are we "testing" at all? Are these things of any use?

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air dog's avatar

Certainly. IQ testing has proven to be useful in education, business, social science, and health care applications, among others.

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lhtness's avatar

I think of IQ as a measure of your ability to memorize stuff. It is not a measure of critical thinking skills.

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Jimychanga's avatar

Try a sample IQ test and you'll see it absolutely involves critical thinking and random problem solving skills. The problem is that our university and professional career system filters for and heavily rewards COMPLIANT people.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

High IQ's doesn't always translate into having reason, logic and common sense. And I can make an IQ test that anyone I give it to would either fail or pass according to how I put it together.

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Jimychanga's avatar

They've already planned the next scamdemic. We are no where near winning yet. It's all coming back, harder. Listen

https://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/rense/special/rense_112122_hr2.mp3

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I’m not playing this time. Last time, I did for a few months until I figured it out. This time...nope.

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Sandie Swanson's avatar

i'm in coastal central California and this entire state has consumed the cool aid. i was recently "shamed" when attending a home book club gathering for very first time, when i naively admitted to not being vaxed. one person angrily went off for a good 5 minutes on the betrayal, the threat of causing death to those vulnerable, etc. horrifying. and many people are still wearing masks while riding bikes, jogging, or walking in the brilliant breezy fresh air. insane.

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Jim Foye's avatar

My response to people like that is "You are in a cult".

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BigE's avatar

Mine is somewhat more abbreviated.

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air dog's avatar

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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Paula's avatar

I think I'll go with "Go Fauci yourself."

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Sarmange's avatar

Isn't that a bit too indecent?

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Paula's avatar

Good point. Make any young'ns within range cover their ears.

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Sarmange's avatar

'Fuck off - you old bugger', he said with a shy smile.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

I never use foul language but lately...

I'll remember that.

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BigE's avatar

Nice... That does take the edge off. LOL

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Datagal's avatar

I want to say something to mean vaxxed people like “when did you become suicidal?”

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John Bowman's avatar

But... if vaccines are effective, if A is vaccinated it doesn’t matter whether B is or not... ditto with masks. There truly are a lot of ignorant mindless blobs out there.

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Justin's avatar

Send along a copy of the WAPO article that says most hospitalized or dead are vaccinated.

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Natalia L.'s avatar

Silicon Valley here. Depressing sights detected here as well. 😷

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23 SKIDOO!'s avatar

tell them their 'death to the vulnerable' schtick is sooo last year and that all the cool kids with single origin pour overs are totally into how evil 'populism' is right now and that's really what we should all be trying to virtue-compete over.

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Lisa Brown's avatar

I know the coast is beautiful, but come to the mountains 170 miles to your east and you'll find sanity. There are a few mask crazies here but only a few.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yeah, it’s awful. From now on, for me, my response to the jab question is ‘that is personal health information’, or ‘none of your business’, adding, ‘during our entire lives, we haven’t gone around asking folks which shots they have gotten, because that’s private, so why should we do so now?’

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Sandie Swanson's avatar

right on...

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Natalia L.'s avatar

I just became a member of two groups: Expats in Belgrade, Serbia and Expats in Naples, Italy. We are eyeing these two locations to take our kids to for the next year. When our daughter was first hospitalised last spring I told my husband: “you want to save our daughter? We move out of here. There is no way around it.” He is in the process of accepting this..

Where did you move if I may ask. 🙏🏻 And how old is your kid?

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I know about Arizona, we have a classmate who spent the entire lockdown there. I used to think they were afraid of covid because they kept their child online in between lockdowns.

Turned out they opted out for Arizona while keeping local California school online and lived their lives fully there.

Great news you found a good environment for your son. All the best to him and to you!

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Now that Cali is offering free gibs to those who claim to have certain mental illenesses, I bet its just gonna get worse.

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Nevada was actually chartering buses, filling them with people from the psych institutes, and shipping them out to California.

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They do that in the midwest too.

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We basically have a crisis in caring for all the groups of people who for one reason or another are not able to fend for themselves in the tough modern world.

There are also scandals in the child protection services -- privatized outsourced places chugging funds while leaving children in danger.

Think also of our seniors: how are normal folks supposed to get by with groceries tripling in price in one year, medicare meds doubling all of a sudden a couple months ago, energy bills doubling last January, property values 10 times higher thus tax, basic prices for help they may need like trimming a tree branch -- that's going to cost minimum $500 to have someone come out. Senior residences are often predatory and abusive.

People with psychiatric conditions who need medication and stability, chronic illness, chronic pain leading often to substance dependence ... wildlife who no longer have the habitat to sustain themselves ... people whose livelihoods got sent overseas...

Our society has ample need for finding creative ways to care for those who have a difficult time on their own. We have a nurturing crisis.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Still excommunicated. Still not spoken to, or of. Vaccines still safe and effective, and only refused by fools and monsters. They'll go to their graves knowing this, white-knuckled on the narrative.

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Guttermouth's avatar

High compliance is also a factor in excellent standardized test scores.

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SaHiB's avatar

Disagreed. I'm the missing middle of your Venn diagram. Care to reword it as excellent GPA?

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Guttermouth's avatar

Sure.

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BigE's avatar

Like

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Bird's avatar

Happy Thanksgiving Chris, I'm glad you're staying healthy. What do you have planned for the menu today?

(Feel free to send your family occasional season's greetings with attached PDFs of medical publications describing the vaccine damage - PubMed is the source for that.)

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

Sorry to hear that. Hang in there, Chris.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Thanks for this, but it doesn't bother me at all. Have close friends and family, and am happy to let the lunatics go. We have to choose who we pull in close, and I've chosen.

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John Henry Holliday, DDS's avatar

"...let the lunatics go." Exactly.

Sounds like a lot of dead wood was cleared.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

I’m thankful for Eugyppius and this stack.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

And for all the people who comment!

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Rosemary B's avatar

🥰🍻

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

American celebrations are gay. We have Trafalgar Night (killing Frenchmen) and Bonfire Night (Catholic trying to blow up Parliament before being caught and tortured before a horrific execution). Sitting down and having a nice meal, drinking green milkshakes and narrowly winning an English-English civil war are 100% the reason America is in decline and why we're going to win the football tomorrow.

Death to America!

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eugyppius's avatar

lol

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Guttermouth's avatar

>> Death to America

You already tried that, twice, to no avail.

Looks like we'll have to do it ourselves, as usual.

BTW the rest of the Commonwealth called, apparently you're due for another round of apologies.

P.S. I'd mention 4th of July as an example of a non-gay holiday but I don't want you to feel too badly that your government doesn't let you play with explosives or sharp things.

P.P.S. It's called "soccer."

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

At least when we attack the capitol we do the job properly.

Yes, the Commonwealth. An ever-present reminder to Americans that our Empire was the largest in human history and remade the world, with America as a franchise that has got out of hand. We had Rhodes, the Industrial Revolution and the Raj, you had a tin can on the moon, the rainbow flag and obesity.

We do have fireworks and other things that go 'bang', we just tend not to discharge them in little childrens' schools.

It's called football, we invented it when America didn't exist, and we're going to win tomorrow. Not that I care, football is even gayer than your days off.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Everyone knows soccer was invented in the Dominican Republic by chickens.

Learn some history.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

It was the Mayans using severed heads. Keep up. Enjoy your meal, Yankee swine.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Are you sure it was Mayans? I thought it was London grooming gangs using pieces of unarmed Metro police.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

No the Pakistani paedos are mostly in the North, in the old mill-towns.

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I'm pretty sure he's just taking the piss in style and maybe trying to get a rise out of hot-blooded Yanks.

If not, he's making himself look like a fool. And nobody does that better than me, because I'm a goddamn American.

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It'sUglyOutThere's avatar

I must say, I love this whole thread. A bit of good-natured yo'-mama one liners with our silly-talking cousins across the pond is just fine.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

Yeah I know. I can't decide whether to punch you or kiss you most of the time. Looking at the state of your women probably the former. Enjoy the day, I hope your family aren't coronatards.

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Guttermouth's avatar

Jealousy. Like it usually is.

Fortunately I can't hear him over the sound of me firing off a semiautomatic shotgun without a government CCTV camera anywhere in sight, from within the heart of a fully- intact empire.

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Lone Star's avatar

I love all of you!9

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John Bowman's avatar

‘... you had a tin can on the moon, the rainbow flag and obesity.’

Priceless.

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Guttermouth's avatar

There was a whole bunch of other stuff in the middle, but never mind, I'm sure it had no impact on the world.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

The Depression, turning up late to not one but TWO World Wars, stealing the credit for round two despite the Soviets doing the heavy lifting, fuming at the Union Jack flying across the Caribbean, giving us material in WW1 for which we didn't pay... I think that's it? You did build some nice buildings in the 20s which you promptly pulled down again shortly afterwards.

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John Bowman's avatar

The rest of the Commonwealth has moved to England. Having got rid of us they realised they couldn’t live without us.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

Yes, the white man's burden from now until Wiltshire resembles Zimbabwe.

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Turi Hong's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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Metta Zetty's avatar

Thank you, James, for getting this outrageous ball rolling. I haven't laughed so hard since this madness began 3 years ago. Best Thanksgiving gift ever. Cheers from across the pond.

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air dog's avatar

Yes, Airstrip One used to be pretty good at killing. Sadly those days are long since gone.

But you still have soccer.

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

Your pharmaceutical industry has killed more whites than WW1 and 2 combined: for inadvertent lethality, I salute you.

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air dog's avatar

You think it's inadvertent?

You are just adorable, James!

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shasta's avatar

Astra Zeneca is your shit! LOL!

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Rikard's avatar

Hey! Astra was originally swedish and was founded by Adolf Rising in 1913!

(Yes, Adolf Rising was his real name, it only sounds like movie title in english...)

Among their triumphs are scientific research on ski wax (yes, really) and Lidocain, also called Xylocain, Metoprolol and Losec (Omeprazole).

Of course, all that was before merging with british Zeneca...

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Delcina Skrubbs's avatar

Perhaps your 'football' team is as impotent as your Kingdom. If America is in decline, what can be said of an Empire that embodies Spengler's Der Untergang des Abendlandes?

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Michael Dansbury's avatar

Dunno, what can be said of a reply that embodies pretentiousness with both incoherence and humourlessness?

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Delcina Skrubbs's avatar

Humbled by your chiding and perspicacity.

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Guttermouth's avatar

You should just say "haters are welcome." It's practically our national motto.

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Henry Barth's avatar

Five siblings all in their 80s never stopped gathering for turkey just because a little Sicilian descent govt official said to do so. We remain unvaxxed too, of course.

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Bill Vinyard's avatar

your survey question list is missing: "Behaving in a sane and rational way as usual."

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Bill Vinyard's avatar

On this day, this American hopes people all over the world have a wonderfully sane and rational day filled with renewed hope for the future.

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Renaud Beauchard's avatar

Happy Thanksgiving! There is a missing answer: " I don't know. I live a life completely separated from them. "

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Bird's avatar

Wishing you a peaceful and cozy Thanksgiving evening.

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la chevalerie vit's avatar

They hold firm to the propaganda and quickly shut down any suggestion or discussion of an alt view. They’ve moved on and don’t want to hear it.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

I try to remember that at least for the ones who have somewhat come to their senses, they have realized they've had themselves injected with a toxic substance. Must be painful to be reminded. Last week, I was on a little vacation in northern Ontario with 11 random guests. 2 of the women got the shots only to be with dying loved ones...they were coerced. Thankfully, no one seemed covid crazy. One young woman had a cold so wore a mask while sick. A few of us told her she didn't have to.

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Rosemary B's avatar

Vanda, I understand the two women that were coerced.

I was as well, and obediently got the first two pfizer jabs because my daddy is 99 and still peppy. He lives in a community of independent apartments/living. I could not enter the community until I got the jab.

Now I am disgusted. I have developed auto immune problems. namely, RA!!

Oh, and to add:

My dad has had all of the jabs (5) and has never had covid

I have never had covid either

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Rosemary B's avatar

yessss

they do not want to discuss it.

they do not want to talk about truth

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UM Ross's avatar

I am American (born German, but naturalized many decades ago). I had to vote "Not American / show results) because none of the other choices were applicable. I have no hyper-vaccinated friends or relatives who excommunicated us. Friends and relatives who got vax'd? Sure, but all of them had realistic attitudes about it: Either the vax they took would protect them or it wouldn't, and whether I, my wife, or my (grown, 20-something) children were vaxed made no difference to them. Yes, there are some reasonable people in this world.

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AKG's avatar

Same for me, and this is certainly something to be thankful for!

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Sandie Swanson's avatar

i forgot to thank you for all you write. i really enjoy your articles and info and its refreshing to have such encouraging info. happy harvest season and a big hurrah to all my fellow unjabbed humans. resist and persist. much love.

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mpUSA's avatar

My large, extended family did not succumb to the madness. We had a “super-spreader” family Thanksgiving in 2020. A few people got the ‘vid and survived! We have a couple outliers. They keep quiet or don’t attend. We’ll gather this afternoon, my unjabbed almost 86-year old mother being the oldest in attendance. Several people in their 70s. We are grateful

and fight on!

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Joshua's avatar

As an American, I would answer the poll, except I have no hypervaccinating relatives/friends. Even my relatives who did get the jab were never vax or mask nazis.

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AKG's avatar

Same here and I am grateful because I've heard the stories!

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Joshua's avatar

And thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes!

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Crawldaddyo's avatar

Here in New England there seems to be a general relaxing of the utter fear but as a matter of faith most still insist their now obviously erroneous beliefs regarding Covid social protocols were somehow proven true. Mask wearing outside is still widespread here in Massachusetts.

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Margaret Anna Alice's avatar

It was encouraging to see the poll is favoring “forgotten their prior insanity” now. I won’t know for sure until I talk with my father, who inspired this piece after my Thanksgiving phone call with him last year:

• “Letter to an Agree-to-Disagree Relative” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative)

Anyone who is dreading banal conversation with Covidians may wish to draw a few questions from the following to spark healing, awakening dialogue:

• “30 Questions for a Narrative Believer” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/30-questions-for-a-narrative-believer)

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