Very simplistically, here is a scenario - a "way out" - that will not surprise me: I suspect this scenario, if it happens, will fit nicely into the worldview Professor e has laid out. In general, the USA will lead the world out. First, the process would start with several unequivocal victories for liberty in the US courts, now underway. The first domino to fall will be the vaccine mandates, followed by a declining appetite for lockdowns and then diminished enforcement of masking mandates as these shift from "mandatory" to "recommended" to "optional." The victory in the courts will be followed, a year from now, by substantial changes in the federal and state legislatures of the USA. This political shift may be accompanied by the physical demise of Biden, who is non compos mentis, and his hopelessly incompetent vice president. These and other failed leaders will be blamed for economic and public health failures, further demoralizing the left and encouraging a backlash from the right. Finally, the 2024 presidential election will usher in a new skeptical attitude toward public health officials and legal limits on their ability to control society. This scenario is the best I currently hope for. It will not be a perfect restoration of individual rights, only a start.
Good but you missed a big one. As big as any of the court cases against mandates and coerced vaccination is the "early treatment" elephant in the room.
The courts have mostly been ruling in favour of allowing Ivermectin & HCQ based treatments. Once it becomes common knowledge that the government and medical "authorities" have been lying for over a year there will be hell to pay. Bye bye to the EUA for the vaccines and payback time.
While I've been out of the country since October 1, I normally live in Boston, MA. There, when I was back in September, I basically decided to stop wearing my mask in stores and other locations. I carried one with me, and if anyone asked, I'd put it on. I don't really want to make a stink, (especially since store employees aren't the ones making policy), but I wanted to make a visible statement of resistance. Two interesting things happened. First, I was typically the ONLY ONE in a store without a mask. Second, no one ever asked me to put one on. This surprised me the most.
I personally think we could achieve a lot if everyone did this. It's a small step, but I think, writ large, it would have a positive effect. "Enough!" it would say.
Meanwhile, here in Mexico City, most folks are wearing masks <i>outdoors!</i> I've discussed this with various Mexican friends who all say it's a sign of social solidarity. But when I ask them if they'd smear the blood of a freshly-killed rooster on their foreheads for the same purpose, none would go along with that.
Anyway, as Gandhi taught us, passive resistance is a good way forward.
I basically did the same thing. There would usually be one or two others not complying. No one ever said anything to me and it surprised me too. I started to think that all of the media coverage of people getting confronted in public was amplified to make people think they would get attached if they didn’t comply.
I think you are 100% correct about news reports of people being confronted in public being overstated. We see those news reports, but not the times when nobody is confronted.
flccc.net has protocols for all phases of Covid-19. I live in Central Ohio, USA. My GP doctor "follows CDC guidelines" which means she won't prescribe IVM. I just realized that if I went into a hospital in this area, none would follow the flccc.net protocols and even to get just one of the molecules, IVM, I would have to go to court. So the further need is to get a home based kit, and in the mean time to take the supplements like Vitamin C, D, Zinc along with Quceretin to push the zinc into the center of the cell. And of course, IVM and HCQ. I have not obtained those but will call a physician on the list at flccc.net and go ahead and do it. The distributors of drugs are making hard to get these except at compounding pharmacies which charge $7 a pill.
One would think that when people realized that the government, hospitals, doctors and the alphabet agencies (NIH, FDA, WHO, etc.) are going to possibly kill me that they will get pissed and demand change? I can't even convince my wife.
I'm right there with you my friend. I have been taking C, D, Zinc, and Quceretin for over a year now. No vax, but no Covid either. My wife took the first jab, but I convinced her to not get the second. She will not be boosting either. I have a cache of IVM which I bought online from India. Price with shipping was ~$1/pill. I am 74 years old with NO comorbidity issues, same for wife.
We are enjoying living in the Free State of Florida.
Well, I haven't taken ANYTHING and travelled across USA with airplane (packed 100%), train, and car TWICE over the last almost two years with my daughter (and during the spikes when CA was locked down so one can't even rent a car) and haven't had anything (and I am not the strictest wearer of a useless mask either)
My husband has been the same. Incidentally he has type O blood (would like to know if this is a "thing"). He slept with me before I knew I had C, and took care of me and our daughter while sick. He's traveled by air, been to concerts and sporting events... still no antibodies.
I said to my wife back in February that they were going to start coming after us. She almost left me as a result. Now she just wants to know how to defeat the bastards. Denial is a defense mechanism.
Yes, please do get your "kit" ready. I took HCQ back in 2020 for mine, but now have IVM stocked for every member of my family, including adult children who live on their own. It's good stuff. You do want to start it immediately as viral loads can be high at the onset. Wishing you good health and FREEDOM!
I cleave to this optimistic analysis, if only because the inevitable march toward endless boosters is waking a lot of people up who thought vaccines would equal freedom, and that the vaccines would be effective. Both narratives are now obviously false.
But fully propagandized people are often beyond persuasion, and I'm horrified at how far beyond the pale even people who I once thought reasonable and thoughtful have become.
I also expect the democrats to latch onto the abortion debate, and use that to galvanize their base for the next several elections. The "my body my choice" debate has become suddenly awkward for both sides, but the left has a greater flexibility to resolve cognitive dissonance.
That said, I'm seeing a lot of internet small-heads suddenly becoming blackpilled by bad vaccine side effects, breakthrough cases, or the all-too-late realization that they have forfeited their freedoms and will never get anything in exchange.
Rhetorical and Socratic to normies: How often are you willing to take a booster? Every 6 months? Every month? Every week? What is your limit? At what point will you stop doing what they tell you to do?
There are people who proudly proclaim 'as many as needed'. I would think this is a minority of people - some possibly suffering from mental illness or other psychological or psychiatric challenges. No well-adjusted person answers this way.
But listen carefully to what they're NOT saying. They are deliberately not focusing on any specific response or situation. Get them to focus on an exact response, shake them out of their generic fog. This tendency to overgeneralize, to be vague or hyperbolic, may be a symptom of insanity. I don't really know. But if not, ask them a specific question and do your best to get them to deliver a specific answer, including shame them for any refusal. Jerk them out of their collective mindset and back to the here and now, to person-to-person interaction between just them and you, and do whatever you can to shame them or guilt them accordingly.
It absolutely IS a cult complete with false idols (masks) and fake prophets (Fauci) and now (in past 8/9months) people who profess their faith have now placed their “real” faith in man made products (vax) because they’re totally irrational and have lost or maybe never had the ability to truly think critically. How many of us have friends, family who before this past 2 years, we believed were grounded and sane? And now? They’re completely 🦇 💩 crazy - I’ve stopped being sad and have come to the realization that those of us awake have to stick together and save ourselves. If we’re lucky maybe some of them will follow - I pray for that every day. Thankful to have found this amazing community of rational people
Exactly, no sense in stressing out about what you have no power to change. Do your best to protect yourself and those that want/need your help. Accept the sacrifices, and hardships as they come, and be grateful for your blessings.
Agreed. It's something I struggle with as well. All we can do is share what we know to be facts with people and hopefully the scales fall from their eyes. I will never fail to confront, with facts and hopefully love, anyone who defends the evil going on around us.
Someone told me a friend told them that their "limit" was daily jabs, but not on the weekend. Nice to be optimistic and all that but we also have to realistic. If this narrative ever detonates there is going to be blood.
Yes discussed that today with a friend. We have seemed to be on opposite sides of this argument and then suddenly he suggested that we were heading for war.
I could be wrong, but I felt like I scored a point the other day by texting about Trevor Noah going off-narrative to someone I know who absolutely adores him and Stephen Colbert. Him going even somewhat off-narrative for a single night has more power than facts. These people exhibit flocking behavior – they are huge flocks of birds changing directions in tandem. In fact, one day I watched videos of flocks of birds for a bit to marvel at how similar it seems to what I am seeing. These people can change the language and the meanings of words almost overnight. You go to sleep one night, and you wake up and they are all suddenly talking about “misinformation” or how “the science has changed,” etc. With birds it’s a beautiful sight; with humans, not so much.
Love the last sentence. That's because they have no principles or values. They're empty vassals waiting for their instructions. Imagine how superficial you have to be (no comment on Noah and Colbert - blech) to wait and get your cues from celebrities.
Jimmy Dore had a bad reaction to Moderna and has had lingering effects for months until he found a doctor who put him on Ivermectin and other real treatments to deal with the spike protein. He's been very critical of the anti-freedom of speech lobby.
One by one they come to their senses. It's a shame that it takes a personal tragedy for them to learn but better than those that rationalise and justify a family member dying "It would have been worse".
The abortion reasoning in Roe (pervasive right to privacy) is actually supportive
of the position of bodily inviolability vis a vis vaccines, except for the small fact that it is another’s body under consideration in the one case. Awkward indeed.
People don't seem to understand that Roe is not explicitly about abortion, but merely a protection of privacy of treatment decisions to stay between patient and doctor. This is one line of attack of forced jabs and passports. We could be using it to keep our health decisions like vax and early treatment private.
The left is full of contradictions, but it doesn't seem to perturb them in the least bit. The means don't matter to them, only the ends, and we know how it ends.
I don't know if it's necessarily that people are convinced by the propaganda, or simply not paying attention, and unable to fathom that the very institutions founded to protect them from disease are actively trying to kill them for money. When I voiced my concerns about a rushed vaccine in the early days I was mocked, the mockery eventually turned to anger, now they just seem worried. I believe that mandating the vaccine in kids, made many sit up and pay attention. These leftists are some sort of species of satanist, and all their plans eventually lead to child sacrifice. That's what's going to separate their true believers from the sleep walkers.
The pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine mandates democrats are literally sinking in polls as well. What happened recently in NJ and Virginia gave me hope that the US is mostly done with covid. However their senile and incompetent government is still threatening the country. Waiting for the devastating midterms next year for the pro-lockdown crowd ...
there are no fair elections, since election integrity has been compromised for a long time. this is an issue we need to continue to fight for. volunteer at the local polling station could be a start?
I know Virginia did well, but didn't Murphy hang on for the win? I know it was impossibly tight, but he's still in power. Though I imagine he can't go full Branch Covidian like he did before.
The left's radical stances on the pandemic are a very small part of the problems presented by the left. If their pandemic insanity is the hill they want to die on, let them.
Be nice if all the unvaccinated could create a state, buy a plot in the forest and just use their prepper skills, DIY etc. We need unity without hate, principled love. This must never happen again if we recover, I just hope the other rescue operation comes sooner than later because it will become unviable for the average Joanna to survive.
How does the incompetent, monstrous megalomaniacal and unethical buffoon Fauci fit in all this? And yes, by May of 2020 me and the boys were saying, 'Well, it will be left to the Americans to get us out of this.' Given the role of 'gain of function' by NIH and its partners, the U.S. got us, in part, into this and will have to lead us out. I'm in Canada and it sure as hell won't be the utter stupid morons who run this colonial outpost. Health Canada coordinates closely with CDC for obvious reasons.
I'm in Australia and you know whats going on down here. I feel the Americans have got us into this (as in following the strategies of vaccines, lockdowns, mandates, etc), but we can't wait for them to get us out of it (especially this current administration), we have to extract ourselves somehow. Getting into Kennedy's book on Fauci gives me hope that such an exposé will find it's way into court, Fauci and the rest get exposed for the fraud that this all is, and our bureaucrats will back down from their insane plan to destroy the country.
Yes it is pretty depressing north of the 49th. I'm looking at moving to Montana. I walk around in stores without a mask and almost nobody says a thing anymore. To the odd one that does I say a polite "No thank you" and keep walking. They never ask second time. But the maskiots up here are legion. I don't mind being the "weird one" (I've had lots of practice).
The vast majority, and I mean 90%, put them on even though most think it's stupid. Even when they don't have to. They are so scared to even try going without it. It's like an infantile security blanket. Linus (Peanuts not Linux) would be so proud.
My husband and I were visiting family in Central OR, we went to a very popular grocery chain without masks. No one said anything to us. In the produce dept a young woman came up to us and said, "OK, you're not going to be the only ones in this store not wearing a mask" and she proceeded to rip her mask off. It made my day!
I can attest to that. I was in the same area last weekend and when I checked into the hotel the clerk was maskless, I was thrilled. I’ve also been to a few small towns in the reddest county of WA and not a mask in sight. Ahhhh, and the sheriff has publicity written the governor stating he won’t enforce the mandates. CA and WA are the strictest in the US, so there’s hope!
I'm also Canadian. Where I live you can't go into an indoor public place without a mask. In the last year, I think I've seen 2 people without. The most absurd case I saw was someone sitting alone on their front porch around 7:30 AM, in a quiet neighbourhood with a mask on. In church one Sunday I did not follow the proper protocol (didn't know there was one) for removing my mask when receiving communion. The priest looked absolutely horrified. If I had had the plague, I don't think he would have looked more terrified. I'll never forget it.
RFK, Jr.s new book "The Real Anthony Fauci - Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health talks about Fauci in depth & the regulatory capture of the health agencies by Big Pharma under Fauci. The book is dense, detailed & highly footnoted - so lots of research opportunities off the footnotes alone.
Chapter 8 explains how the whole pandemic has been in the works for 20 years. RFK, Jr. say if you only read one chapter read Chapter 8 to better understand what has happened and how we find ourselves in this rising global totalitarianism. To get a feel for what RFK, Jr. is talking about there are 2 recent interviews that are really good: an interview on the Corbett Report 11/21/21 you can find on website or here is link: https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/rfkjr-fauci720p:e and a really good hour long discussion with Tucker Carlson on his show on Fox Nation. The Carlson interview is behind a paywall on his show but it was posted to bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/aHmjNaMEkpG6/
China got us into this at least as much as the US. This is China's virus, China's PsyOp of "smuggled video" showing people "dropping dead" in their streets, and China's containment strategies. China bought off the world's politicians, including America's. Don't look to America to get anybody out of anything. Every country got themselves in and will get themselves out.
Indeed but this ordeal doesn't operate in a bubble or vacuum. Many countries are "copying" each other and we shouldn't underestimate a shift in tone from America wouldn't influence. As for who is at fault, I would submit indeed China is the main culprit. America for sure due to the 'gain of function' shenanigans with NIH/EcoAlliance/Wuhan. But there are other players including Canada (where the nanoparticle technology comes from), Germany and the UK. It's one gigantic mess of a moral panic.
China is paying off the world's government leaders, WEF trains government and corporate leaders in their young global leadership program running 20 years now. Trudeau, Ardern, Newsom, Merkel iirc, many fascist heroes of the plandemic come from under Charles Schwab's wing. Renewed committment to fascist shutdown happened right out of the global "climate" summit last month. Covid gets them to the same goals much faster, so the pivoted to virus.
Faux chi is sweating bullets these days. He must be. Can you imagine juggling all these crimes ? He can’t sleep at night. His eyes are sinking into his skull ; he has dark circles around them.
Watch Episode Four of “Covid Revealed” free for now. Dr Bryan Ardis will give Fauci up and you will see the horrible truth of NIH Fauci and the perps behind this atrocity. Sleep well!
A side note: Biden is a perfect front for the ruling class that is behind him. They can just ditch him and blame everything on him. He won't even notice.
He's not the first president to play stupid, but he is the first president to not have any power whatsoever. He's not as dumb as he looks right now, his antics have a logic about them.
Yeah, he has no power whatsoever. He is probably not even a very important player in the power coalition he belongs to. Thus he'll let himself be sacrificed without a peep. Ah, and they can always blackmail him with Hunter stuff to boot.
If this goes down, and it looks like it will, I'd look back to Biden for evidence that some of our elected leaders had no confidence in those running the show to carry it off.
Being not in control due to mental incompetency (or whatever wording that it might be) seems the best defense he could come up with.
If any other form of medical treatment had the same amount of injuries or death as these “vaccines” it would be banned . As more and more people become exposed to their side effects this issue will become the tipping point that will change everything. The writing is on the wall , they’re just doing everything that can to stop people from reading it .
There will hopefully come a point when the failure of Florida to fail (and Sweden, a few other places) will become undeniable.
The trouble is that is not guaranteed given the expertise of the statistical manipulators still trying to sell us this "deadly pandemic". There will be some metric, cherry picked out of the ass, that shows Florida or Sweden failed. There will be many of them, on the "throw enough shit and hope some sticks" basis - one piece of shit sticking is enough to sate the average European's cognitive biases at this point. And be it an artefact of a base rate fallacy, Simpsons' paradox, abuse of relative risk over absolute risk, neglected categories, at this point the nature of the dishonesty doesn't matter. We only have excess mortality in Germany on the basis of very detailed arguments over what baseline mortality should be. That, to anyone interested in a functional society shows there is little to worry about. To those terrified of becoming the next victims it is proof of their impending death if you don't get your second booster.
It's stunning how they manage to ignore Florida and Sweden. And just to point out the blatant hypocrisy on display, let me explain an interesting psychological phenomena. I live in the province of Quebec where the most popular destinations are Maine/New England (in the summer) and Florida in the winter. For the past almost two years, people and media criticized and bashed De Santis and Florida (as was the case with all of North American media) for having the temerity to challenge the Fauci criminal narrative. De Santis, recall, brought in The Great Barrington Declaration team and Noble scientist Dr. Levitt on his team. Combine that with his military background and natural intelligence, Florida was primed to lead not just America but the Western world. To think they came within whiskers of voting in a sexual deviant meth head Democrat! Fate is one strange cookie.
Anyway, people here are suffering with Stockholm Syndrome and consent to and accept any idiotic measure the tin pot dictators here pimp out. They still wear masks, consent to passports and it's looking like they may even be fine with vaccinating kids and going with boosters. Just a terribly gullible, naive and dimwitted populace it would appear. They're letting themselves be extorted into taking low quality medical products. That goes double for cowardly and cruel Canada overall.
BUT. They're all booking their flights out to Florida. The one state, as noted, they loved to bash and that is wide open. Gee, seems like they're scared of Covid at home but not when they need to selfishly go to Florida, eh? And this is what infuriates me while principled unvaccinated people have to look on helplessly for the time being watching this nauseating display of hypocrisy, false virtue and arrogance.
Yes, and they also ignore that the most jabbed countries have the biggest case/sick load—which is now in the jabbed as much as the unjabbed. De Santis will run for President—assuming his wife is ok by then. She is fighting breast cancer. They have three small children. I believe both Trump and the Democrats are afraid of De Santis—which is part of the attempted demonization of him and Florida.
we're not 'helpless'. we still find ways of being ourselves and expressing ourselves, even though we're also the necessary (but un-acknowledged) control group in this global bioweapon experiment.
Bit of a weird comparison, but here in Sweden we have very strict alcohol laws and you can't buy anything above 3.5% in regular grocery stores. For the rest you have to go to the state-owned liquor store. At the same time, we have no problem going abroad to enjoy more liberal alcohol rules, and we can clearly see that not everyone is a raging alcoholic there. Yet, at home, we think we are somehow culturally and perhaps genetically unable to live with the possibility of buying wine in a grocery store.
Ontario has changed the rules. You can buy Canadian wine in a section which is attached to the grocery store, or sometimes even inside it. This is new-ish.
I disagree: Florida will be invaded by mask wearing crazy Canadian people. Watch out!
I live in Europe and can pick out the German tourists in any country I travel to by their FFP2 masks and stupid behavior. My favorite example was the German on top of a light house in Denmark in a gale clutching his mask...
Quebecers are the third solitude in Florida. Been so for decades. It's not a new phenomena. They own many condos and land there. And you can pick out the Quebecer in Florida just like you can spot a German in Italy, Spain or Greece - I know I have plenty of friends and family in France, Spain and Italy.
Oh the Germans...yesterday I read a soul-searching parapgraph by a virologist whether it is dangerous to take cookies from a cookie plate at Christmas. Answer: IF everybody present had been jabbed AND has a negative COVID test AND has no symptoms, then it might not be lethal to pick a cookie from the plate and eat it. I ask you. The Germans - I can't fathom their behavior any more. On the one extreme of their national mood they attack Russia, on the other extreme they are afraid of cookies.
One thing that is unpredictable is the course the virus will take, and the "vaccine" side effects. This could speed up getting to the "way out", or delay it. If people more and more experience that the vaccines are harmful, that could really change the course of the covid policies. If the virus becomes more or less dangerous, that would also affect getting out of the current situation. Only time will tell, and these are things I'm not sure we can really do anything about...
If they successfully blame the vaccine damage on some new Moronic variant, the hoax will launch into the stratosphere, and we may be totally screwed in a mass global psychosis of genocide.
ps 'Delta Omicron' is an anagram for 'Media Control'
Exactly. If the new "variants" are mild, that would hasten the end of The Narrative. If the "variants" are bad, then people will freak out all the more...
The next variant will be as bad as the vaccine damage it is intended to obfuscate and be blamed for.
These things are a kind of 'time release' bomb that will go off slowly over the next few years, with people's health rapidly collapsing at the trigger of any health burden that comes along ie flu season, healing from serious physical injury etc
Next few years, and even next few decades? Jabbing the kids now, all the adverse effects may take a long time to show up. 70-year old in 2086: "I got jabbed at kindergarten when I was 5, and I've had problem X since I was 55, just like my other classmates."
* Refusing to comply with totalitarian dictates. Just today I read two major hospital systems are dropping their vax mandates due to staff losses.
* Creating a parallel society/community where life is lived outside the totalitarian dictates
* Abandoning those who support the totalitarianism: businesses, churches, organizations, even people (tell all of them why)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was collapsing because of the people. Reagan took advantage of the situation, but the crumbling USSR foundation is why his push succeeded.
Not easy, but I see it working bit by bit already.
I have as well become convinced that the "way out" will come from the brave States of the Union that will push back on the mandates and the masks. This is after Switzerland fell last week, one of the saddest day for humankind in centuries.
There is another aspect to consider though, which is international travel: how could EU make the vax mandatory, but still allow the unvaxed Texan to visit EU ? This would not be politically sustainable (or ... maybe it would ?) same for African countries for example.
In addition, I believe that unexpectedly, the WHO could be one way out. They have been reluctant to support the boosters these days, even ticking on UK fingers in one occasion, so maybe there are signs. If this vax would result in 100000's deads or injure, as it looks like we are on they way, this will be the end of WHO, full stop.
And as any good bureaucrats, they will try to preserve their job.
Them tacking the lead also provides governments the much needed excuse they will desperately need (the usual "The WHO recommends blah blah so it is not us").
I would not be surprise would Austria cancel their mandate at the last minute, and same with Germany.
The level of duplicity these Satanists practice is such that the Supreme Court could announce one morning all mandates are illegal, and then that afternoon the troops will start going door to door.
I'm not saying that is the plan - just trying to illustrate the thinking I witnessed growing up in this cult.
Don’t count on the courts; they have failed us time and again. Don't count on elections; the art of voter and election fraud perfected, offices bought and sold. Don’t discount the notion of an IC cabal; we have seen vast amounts corruption, blackmail, extortion, otherwise inexplicable moves and policies.
In East Germany, the people began to refuse to acknowledge the credibility of the state in every personal interaction, and whenever possible. Eventually, the rank and file security forces felt so stupid, humiliated and embarrassed, the credibility could not be maintained, and this had a significant contribution to the collapse of that tyranny.
Yes, but you forget that the right is now pushing hard to make abortion illegal, which will kick off another hysteria on the left, and the mid terms will be a blue wave.
Most people accept limitations to abortion. That is a fact. If the radical left riots, it will worsen the mid-terms for Democrats. Expect riots, that is all they can do.
I agree on the limits, but they are going for an overturn and will lie and turn it into something that will suck in the moderates too. At least that is my fear. I hope you are correct.
Team Reality must prevail. There are defeats and days that feel hopeless, but I've learned to appreciate every win, no matter how small. Eugyppius is correct, each move they are forced to make and heading toward their end because of the ridiculousness. Each booster, each variant, each lockdown, each contradictory policy awakens more believers. They are running out of hands to play. I fear that many people will only learn by watching someone die because they did not receive early treatment from a believer medical professional and/or relied on the 'protection' from the vaccine, or from going bankrupt over paying medical bills when their loved one succumbs to a serious vaccine injury at booster #2 or the Omicron specific injection.
I'm proud to be part of Team Reality. I'm thankful that I saw that something was very wrong from the onset and that I had the inclination to seek data and others' voices on my own. I'm proud to be amongst you all, across the world, with our eyes open.
My best friend of 15 years is vaccinated and I think because she worked in the NHS for 30 years, she feels some kind of affiliation trust. I do have some breakthrough reality from her but mostly in the forms of 'I don't get it when her dumbed down family members insist on PCR tests so they can all meet up.
Yes. It's been an up and down ride. Right now it's down as Quebec said new restrictions are coming and it's likely going to be targeted to the unvaxxed. Shows their humanity they may be willing to cut people from grocery stores during the HOLIDAYS. It's repugnant. But we must carry on and fight. I've lost two years of my life over this.
Thank-you. I love this quote: "You should never do their work for them by despairing of an end."
I also appreciate you bringing up the 'cover for resignation' aspect of the global-cabal fixation. I still don't rule it out, but I also decline to engage with what I've called "staring into the abyss"--people who might be able to connect the dots really well, as to how this is all mass-planned an orchestrated, however offer absolutely NO solution, not even a course of constructive refusal, and no hope. I also agree, that the facts of the virus damn the bureaucracy and overreach itself.
I'm currently preparing my remarks for a County Supervisors meeting, where I will encourage them not to enact a mask mandate. My small effort. Thanks again.
Good luck to you. It is through these “small” actions (speaking out in a County Supervisors meeting sounds very brave to me) that we turn this back and better. These small actions build with other small actions until change is made. It is inspiring to others who perhaps can’t talk this out with anyone or truly think they are alone or their actions don’t matter. So thank you, too, for making the effort!
There absolutely is a solution. The solution that formed formed the bedrock of Western Civilization for nearly 20 centuries. It's a solution the postmodern bien pensants dismiss as silly, content their own vaguely defined reductionist Weltanshauung. The solution is to return to the beginning of wisdom, for wisdom -- not "IQ" -- is what we desperately lack.
Well, now that I’m thinking about it, these 2 years gave us s lot of red pills to hand out (regarding governments, bureaucracies, big Pharma, greed and media) and it gave us substack. For which I’m personally very grateful for.
Regarding the point about looking to who is censored and perceived threat - Alex Berenson is probably a good example. He sticks doggedly to data and the uselessness of the 'vaccines'. He refused and still refuses to embrace theories about the Reset and while that can be frustrating, I also understand his strict policy too. He was formerly a NYT Science Correspondent. Twitter permanently banned him earlier this year.
I must say this blog is some of the best writing on this nightmarish interlude (we hope and believe) that I've read in nearly two years of it.
Donald, my view is that Berenson is astute about choosing his fights. Which may mean he is of "limited value" to any person who feels strongly about a fight that Berenson has chosen not to fight.
Eugyppius has been similarly critiqued for a lack of focus on the question of "central planning" (his term, meaning collusion/conspiracy) by global elites. In this respect, eugyppius would be of "limited value" to those who believe "central planning" is a paramount issue.
It may also be noted that a some percentage of eugyppius' current followers/subscribers learned of him through Berenson who prominently spotlit one of eugyppius' posts and sent readers to this site. I, for one, remain thankful to Berenson for that.
Excellent summary of resistance theory put into practical terms. We must continue to push back in reasonable, data driven ways. Not hysterical, crazy conspiracy based ideals. Vax data showing failed efficacy is real and becoming more and more mainstream. Vax side effects are buried quickly and effectively by government, MSM and so called health professionals. This is most disturbing to myself and others yet the numbers are out there and as I have said many times, too big to ignore. As more people know someone directly impacted negatively by the vax, they will spread the word and it will grow. All that said, I still think the vax is a dark trick on humanity and is a tool for economic reset. Beyond stupidity and greed, there are truly evil groups behind all of this. Covid is lab made and purposely released. No accidents here. Why is "Build Back Better" on every major western leaders podium in unison? We are being played big time. Pray. Plan. Prepare. Resist.
This is the first really sensible comment I've come across on here. PEOPLE - this is not about making browny points. This is about survival - of ourselves and our societies. What happens if it's really true that a couple of billion die as the result of these death jabs? No one here seems to consider this possibility. I can take a guess at what will happen here in Toronto. The garbage won't be picked up, the lights might not stay on and the water supply could become contaminated. Never mind what happens to the nuclear plants. Even if you are unvaxxed, you will have a hard time surviving this. This is what we need to be discussing - not how we will vote in the next election. If a lot of people die from this, I can guarantee there won't be elections - and no one will care. More focus, please!
"The garbage won't be picked up, the lights might not stay on and the water supply could become contaminated"
This is how more than half the world lives already. A true catastrophe would be far worse, alas. Countries like Canada have enough food in the supply chain at any given time to last about two weeks.
And go where??? In the US, they have their Red states they can flee to. Here in Canada, the provinces are all following in lockstep. And the unvaxxed cannot even board a plane or a train courtesy of our federal Liberal government. Most countries have vaccine mandates - Costa Rica just introduced them. Some Canadians fled to Mexico but Mexico has enough problems and doesn't recognize refugees so what happens when their money runs out? It's not so easy as you apparently think. This has all been well-gamed out.
The Freedom Travel Alliance has one-way tickets out of Canada and Australia available. To me, this is just as much a creative time as it is a dystopia.
My wife, though, was saying no one in our circle has been impacted by the vaccines and no one in their circles either. Until that happens, they won't entertain a single opinion from the other side.
Great comments and thinking BG. It is a dark trick and yes we need to draw close to our spiritual sides, going in the prayer closet, understanding if belief in God is corrupt or futile, why is that so, there is an answer for everything, I don't think we just evolved or will live in planet blog when we pass. I would be interested in hearing more about the meditative sharers here how to manage this madness, whilst waking up the walking creepers.
I have come to the same conclusion ,it can't be a coincedence that all the western leaders force the same restrictions and mandates, with exactly the same motto. This conclusion isn't in contradiction with the analyses of eugyppius for the emerge of the ideology of corona.Because the Western Democracies was ready all these "pandemic"hysteria can be applied by the goverments.
The most demoralizing aspect - for me at least - is the readiness with which our fellow citizens, and even close family and friend, are accepting every lie they are given and eagerly stay in line for the boosters.
By now I am the last unvaccinated in my circle. (This of course says something about me getting out of that circle, getting out of Berlin)
But your article is hopeful. Eventually the lies of the bureaucrats and mass media will crash down; and when public opinion shifts, the opinion of my friends will shift to. This will be a relieve, maybe. But what I have seen cannot be unseen: the dogmatic, ignorant opportunism of my friends. I know how they would have been at other times in similar situations. My only hope is that they would have stopped at outright violence; but I suspect they would just have worked harder at ignoring it.
I very much agree with your last point: the ineptness of our bureaucracies is reason for hope.
I think it may be very specific to Germany, and maybe most of Western Europe. It is because in the last four decades we systematically have promoted mediocrity, and in the last 10 years outright stupidity. Often in the name of feminism. You only have to look at people like von Leyen or Baerbock to understand that having those people in power of extended periods of times will make any bureaucracy inept and inefficient.
this absolutely right. people i used to joke with, about the absurdities of nutritional advice, or whatever, now lecturing me like zombies about ‘mainstream medical science.’ where have all my sceptical intelligent friends gone.
Once this house of cards falls down, as it must, they will still hate you forever. Now they hate you for not being double jabbed and compliant, in future they will hate you as they will feel humiliated by their own idiocy.
A Substack commenter said to the effect that ' Give up your body to government and Bigtech and you have already given up your mind'. Sorry, cannot give credit where credit is due.
"where have all my sceptical intelligent friends gone"
What does this tell you about the depth and quality of their intelligence to begin with? Of what use is "intelligence" so easily corrupted?
I'm happy to say the majority of my circle have remained steadfast. But then I don't consider 2020 to be an anomaly, but rather an inflection point. The True Believers in Eric Hoffer's sense have been latent all along. Some for me were a surprise, but most were not.
And what about these (internet) communities such as Skeptics, Brights, New Atheists, etc? To the extent that any of these ever had impressive representatives (they didn't imo), these are now some of the most insane cult members imaginable. All these people are going to come out of this looking embarrassingly stupid.
Ditto "Reason" magazine. Most atheists are good people, but they are easily led astray. When a man ceases to believe in God it's not that he believes in nothing, it's that he'll believe in anything.
(Pace Kurt Godel, reason is necessarily rooted in the divine. For those capable of following Godel's logic, this is ineluctable)
Skeptics are often just a front for industry in my experience. And interesting the Skeptics group that I used to belong to has thrown up some of NZ's main advocates of vaccines.
Ryan Long had a good joke. "I don't trust pharma. Just Pfizer'. It's been surreal watching cognitive dissonance and mass psychosis play out in real time.
I think what's happening here is that there isn't really inconsistency on the left here, even though it looks that way. Rather, their trust in public sector officials is simply so much greater than trust in private sector workers that they default to "private sector=liars/bad" unless public sector workers tell them otherwise in this specific case, in which case that advice overrides their prior intuition completely. To them it doesn't feel inconsistent though, because they have an incomplete mental model in which the only factor that can bias or corrupt people is profit and thus fauci or whomever is simply higher in the moral hierarchy
Yep this is it. Because the leftists never really care to learn about the economy they still think the public sector is acting in a altruistic way, when in fact the private and public sector is colluding in a massive way to profit from every penny of the taxpayers hard earned money.
You have to remember that a lot of them *are* the public sector, and some of them are aware that they could be earning more by going private. So there's a big incentive to buy into worldviews justifying why they don't do that.
I really struggle with this also. It is the single hardest part of the whole mess. The loss of community and trust. I am so grateful for the stacks, filled with intelligent prose and equally thoughtful and intelligent comments. Thank you E for another outstanding article.
When you said stacks, I at first thought you meant the physical library stacks that I haunted in my college days. With the corruption of the library "science" profession (my sister and a daughter are ex-librarians), those stacks may soon be purged of intelligent prose.
You are more likely to find unvaxxed friends among working class people, trades, etc. I have found several such people. Good people. I used to be the lone unvaxxed person in my circle, but I found others in this way. Helps a lot psychologically to have such people as friends.
We've all made new friends. And where you didn't cut some out of your life, it certainly isn't the same anymore. I have a friend of 45 years. He consented - and continues to consent to - the Covid measures and cult. I can't see past this anymore because it's having a direct impact on my life. It's unreal. Over a stupid respiratory illness and the dogma of vaccines.
Same here. Fifty years and BFFs, I always thought…until I was asked to get a test to enter their house. I would have been the first one there to help if they’d caught ‘it’ and now I’m leery of being near for fear I’d end up on a list of ‘known contacts’ if they happen to catch it and I’ve been in contact. All of us here understand how we would never do that.
I wonder if the official "vaccinated" numbers are a lie like everything else. Here in NZ the MSM today reported that a bar last night turned away 50 people who were trying to get in using fake passports. Apparently one can buy them for $10.
But 50 uninjected people is a lot. So maybe there are more uninjected than the official narrative claims.
800k who have been invited to apply for passports have not done so. A guy I know who has been vaccine injured (heart) cannot get his because he, for obvious reasons, does not want the second jab. Add that to at least 800k who have not had the jab and you have close to 1/3 of the population 'uncarded'
Yes, those who have not been mis-educated higher education. The most gullible are the middle IQ people with an university education. Now we know why the last decades so much money went into universities.
Maybe I'm just not getting it Andreas, but doesn't higher ed encourage critical thinking? Am I missing something? Maybe it is individuals who are invested in government leadership that are more gullible/lack of being open types?
Now it is just learning the current ideology. It is of course most obvious in pseudo sciences such as gender sciences. But in general critical thinking or logic are not being taught at all. And even the natural sciences are very dogmatic and slow to change with new knowledge.
This is why people from the MINT courses are more critical though: not because it is explicitly taught, but if you study natural sciences or IT you cannot get away without learning logic and critical examination of data in science. This may then be a starting point to apply this also to other areas of your life.
This is also why medical doctors are so dogmatic and willing to go with the establishment: the medical education does not teach scientific thinking at all. It is learning by rote. Medical doctors often think they are applying scientific knowledge, when in reality they often do not know what that is.
It used to, but now at least in the US, higher education is mostly leftist indoctrination. Critical thinking is outright discouraged if it goes against the woke narrative. Even in high school and middle school some teachers are pushing woke compliance rather than actual critical thinking and learning. My son was ridiculed in his 8th grade English class because he dared speak up during a class "discussion" of the Brett Kavanaugh supreme court hearings. Everyone was attacking Kavanaugh as a criminal, and he dared say that Kavanaugh should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He was immediately shut down by his teacher, the discussion was ended and she called him all sorts of names like bigot, raciest, anti woman, all the usual name calling the left uses when they can't win an argument rationally.
You really have to be involved in your children's education here in the states. I have always pushed my kids to be truth seekers. They would come home and make some statement about how something is good or bad. I would always look at them and ask them, Why is it good or bad? Defend your statement. Most of the time they couldn't come up with a reason other than "because my teacher said so". So I would tell them to go find out about the topic, research it and come back and defend your position or change your mind based on the research you have done. I never judged them on their opinion when they came back to me as long as it was what they actually thought. I would do this from the moment they entered the public school system in Kindergarten.
By the way, I never let on what my opinion was of the subject and purposely kept that out of our conversations to not unduly influence their opinions. I truly want them to come to their own conclusions.
You're not alone. The vast majority of my circle of friends and family are vaccinated but there are a few of us who are not. It is demoralizing to see those who either swallow the propaganda whole or just go along with it to avoid trouble. You wish they'd be principled but this simply isn't how things go. You have to be principled or stand for something or else you will believe anything. People have no principles and their values are fleeting and so they blindly listened to Fauci, pharma and other TV dinner experts. It was fine in the beginning but if they can't see the complete scamming of it all, then I'm at peace with it. Stay strong. Hold the line. This can't possibly keep going because it's built on LIES and FEAR.
I suspect a lot of people on these forums don't have young children. My observation is that people who do don't have the time/energy to seek out new information sources or do their own research, so default to just watching TV news every so often. And those outlets work hard to create a somewhat consistent narrative that strongly discourages people from trying to leave their informational garden.
I suspect if you only watched TV news, or only read BBC News online, then you'd end up the same way. And but for different life circumstances it could have easily gone that way.
Yes, and you have to be willing to go against the grain of society, which can also be called "being a bit anti-social".
On average I would expect that it will be more men than women, as women are often more social and see the coherence of the group as more important.
I expect that will even out though, if the negative effects of the vacc are becoming more apparent, and especially if they now go after the children.
I expect - or at least I hope - that vaccinating young children will be the red line in many countries. Those countries where the health of the children is not the paramount I would consider as lost.
I have 3 children, many of my friends have more than I do. I don't think children are a determining factor for low vaxx information, at least here in Texas. I have found the people who have children are more interested in finding out everything they can about the vaxx before they would ever think of injecting their children with the clot shot. There tends to be a general distrust of government in Texas, less government intrusion into your life is preferable. So generally the more I see the federal government pushing vaccines and threatening, them more people research and resist.
I think the internet has been excellent for those wanting to research. I was in a religious cult and left in 2002. Before that to be honest, my research was mainly counter religion bookshops and very little material. With the net, we have the benefit of our ponderings and subjectivity and the ability to then research and acquire information. I read stories of those who left the cult and remained believers. So I think the concept is to get them out of babylon as we are trying to do and then let them see that covid is curable.
Most importantly I think somehow we have to keep our hearts pliable to their change, the biggest changers can be the staunchest of supporters. The apostle Paul hated followers of the Way but had a heart change and pursued good.
You mentioned two ideas of note: 1) Mediocrity (see General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord's assessment of the four types of military officers and which ones are the most dangerous) and 2) Stagnation (people in power too long - look at Fauci - no one should hold a position like that for 10 years let alone 40).
It’s the same in the US too. Mediocrity is the norm. You don’t want to make someone feel bad pushing for excellence or being better than them. Especially in schools. It’s sad.
In the USA, our doctors have been captured by Pharma. All of my doctors have recommended the Jab, except one who didn’t comment on my decision. It is an art to discern when a Doctor is recommending something because he strongly believes it, or if he is just mouthing the party line because of his license. (When a doctor can’t look at you because you are presenting sound reasons, you know where he really stands.) I say this because many friends and family have been told by their doctors to get the Jab. That is another reason many line up for it.
By the way, you are quite right about the BLM protests being "helpful" in the US, for two reasons:
1. Beforehand, there had been some "they're putting us all in danger!" objections to anti-lockdown protests. The political endorsement of the BLM protests forced basically all of those voices into silence. Here in Michigan, Governor Whitmer literally violated her own COVID orders to take part in a BLM march... which ain't great for your credibility as a leader either. But it made it very difficult for people to continue objecting to any "First Amendment" activities.
2. For a day or so there, I really wondered if BLM would be the "end" of COVID. Because we very much have a culture now, and especially a media culture, that just flits from one hysteria to another. (Another way to see this is secularists looking for a god, and just flitting from one popular deity to another popular deity.) I have long thought that COVID will end when some new hysteria takes it over, and not because of any actual change in what is happening with COVID. I feel less that way now just because an increasing number of people are sick of it period regardless of what comes next... but for a day or two there I did wonder if racism hysteria was going to kill COVID hysteria.
absolutely, i even planned a section of this post, on how the increasing secularisation of western society coincides with the growing frequency of these parareligious hysterias, but i had to break it off into a draft for a future piece.
it is obvious that a deeply traditional, religious society would react to SARS-2 in a vastly more sensible way, and that secular societies are very spiritually and psychologically unstable.
Have you come across Mattias Desmet's work on mass formation? It's explaining the mass hysteria from a place of people having meaningless lives and an excess of free floating anxiety latching onto these ritualistic behaviours to feel both important and engaged in some sort of collective struggle against danger.
In super highly secular Canada those fighting restrictions the more are actually religious. Hassidic jews in my neighborhood, eastern Europeans catholics in the west. I still shop in hassidic jews grocery stores and bakeries for the joy of not wearing a freaking mask.
Re: Islamic societies. Although not in an Islamic country I live amongst a large community of East Africans. Pre COVID they were militantly anti vax. Andrew Wakefield would visit frequently and was a hero in the community. Downs Syndrome occurs with a high frequency and they were sympathetic to his views. With COVID there has been a 180 degree turn. They are extremely compliant and it is common to see them wearing masks while driving alone.
It would be nice for society to become devout and deep having the faith of the church fathers, many who knew the apostles, that sort of faith is lacking in this world. I think a kind and good person is an asset, but infused with the holy spirit that asset can become rich in fuel to move hearts and invest in another kingdom.
While I don't think that religious people are more sceptical on average compared to atheists, I think their advantage is that they have subscribed to a set of values which are truely non-negotiable for them and so the panic orchestra politicians and "experts" would have a harder time to win them over if they tried to negate said values. Problem is: you have to have the right values. If you subscribe to the wrong ones, the outcome will not be any better, in fact it might be even worse.
Interesting concept; how have Islamic societies (possibly the best example of 'traditional religious') reacted to this current supposed global pandemic situation? Is it only Western nations that have behaved so appallingly badly? (Genuine question)
besides defining precisely what we mean by a deeply traditional, religious society, on an individual level people will strongly adhere to their leaders' standpoints. notwithstanding their strong religious and traditional outlook, even rural communities across SE Asia are mostly compliant w/their governments' anti-cov measures. due to gross manipulation of data it's also fairly impossible to assess how many cases, adverse effects and/or deaths have occurred. some of my relatives live there and it's horrifyng what people have to endure (compulsory vaxx for all students).
There is very strong correlation in the US between Christian beliefs and covid skepticism. Most bible belt states are far less hysterical in general. In Alabama a university professor might exclaim "my wife is pregnant!" in the morning without fearing that and angry mob will gather by noon.
What you need is a way out for the average joe, that *isnt humilating*. He has already been humiliated, and he is emotionally attached to the current narrative, because it contextualises and excuses his humiliation. That is, if he accepts that the media narrative is wrong, that means accepting that he has been humiliated, that he has given up his bodily autonomy, that he made a mistake. Many aspects. Emotionally invested, sunk cost in preferring to live in covid world – because it is preferable than admitting you’ve been had.
What you need to offer them is a way out that lets him keep his dignity. I think a correct marketing angle on something like the omikron situation could be exactly that.
you just need to change the narrative a bit so it becomes something like "everyone being a big and brave boy and getting the vacoain, is what lead to the om-var/spanish flu style "pleasant normal safe" version of the disease", you have to flatter and pat them on the back. you can sell this to the average joe.
"yes everything was rough there for a while but you were all such good boys and so brave and honest, that now we forced the disease to evolve into a version that infects a lot, but is completely harmless. This new version is perfectly mild and safe and no one will ever die"
something like that, just with less snark.
How did george jr win in iraq? He just said he did. Mission accomplished. We won. Good job everyone.
Came to post something similar Randy. We need to "kill them with kindness", to offer them a way to save face and quietly let them come back to reason. No need to ridicule them, that won't help us return to normalcy and end the mania.
Love is stronger than hate, Jesus had a psychology behind loving your enemies, for If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
I think the reward is a supernaturally calm and wiser thinking process.
It is always good to do good but to be good, we have to invest in the spiritual concept of what helps us to be good. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us.
As a young person I could never see the benefit of these scriptures as much as I can see them now. No matter what I think on a human level about the fairness of being left on the planet until the age of 3 score and 10 I know with quiet and humble resignation that an unregenerated soul is as good as trying to fight your way out of a wet paper bag.
I like this take and it's probably accurate, but I have too many in my circle already lining up for the booster. We call them 'normies' and they're perfectly healthy. But man this propaganda and conditioning. They seem to think it's just a 'vaccine. Like it was 'just a mask' and 'just a passport'. Many are still asleep.
The key to keeping their dignity is to allow the "out" of betrayal. They trusted the skills nad knowledge of experts, but the experts betrayed their trust.
Fantastic comments Randy, protecting the dignity, dismantling the illusion gently whilst blowing sweet smoke their way. It is about dismantling the mind control, hopefully people can see that 2+2 isn't 5, but yes it is how we receive the humiliated which is paramount.
Hopefully like me, others will discover substack and the brilliant writing and think oh that is a good point and just get greedy for more great writing!
Hi Ya'll. I just want everyone to know that life is pretty much back to normal here in Texas. I haven't worn an obedience mask in over a year. I just got back from a Christmas party with about 50 people in a home and kids running all over the place. No one wore a mask, I didn't know anyone's vaccine status, and as far as I could tell, no one really cared if you were vaxxed or not vaxxed or if you had the booster. Didn't come up once. We are pretty much over it. Biden is a joke, Fauci is a joke. The mainstream media is a joke. The democrats overall are a joke and their agenda is finished. Stay strong and keep the faith, sanity will prevail in the end.
Yeah,it does feel a little like the twilight zone hearing all this crazy talk in the MSM about the virus, lock downs, quarantine(concentration) camps in Australia. I actually feel sorry for the people that are so dogmatic they can't have an open mind to new data as it becomes available, and don't want to see what this is doing to humanity as a whole. We were afraid at first also, but as new information came out, we became more afraid of the propaganda that was being pushed by the MSM. My wife and I are on the older side and remember being taught in school to always ask questions. We have advanced degrees and don't just believe something at face value. This pandemic didn't smell right from the second week on, and we went out and sought our own information about Covid from many sources which is how I ended up here. Before the pandemic, my wife was a life long democrat (she grew up in Oakland and Berkley, CA and that is what was expected) we have always had spirited debates about the Constitution and politics in general. I laugh at her now as she is more conservative than I am. We spend more time agreeing on things than debating things. Twilight Zone indeed, I kind of miss our debates sometimes. :)
I understand they twilight zone analogy well. Live Orange County Ca specifically Downtown HB. Which is a huge tourist destination. Hardly any mask wearing anywhere. Large crowds. We recently had a huge airshow in HB. The bean counters said we had over a million people attend. No masks anywhere. While in the county right next door, LA county, has mask mandates, vax mandates, and LA city has vax passports. It is insane. Just don't comply when and where you can. Their are many pockets of sanity even in one of the bluest states in the US
Same for almost all of Alabama, and I suspect most rural areas of the country. It's the messaging and the power of the elites and bureaucratic big blue cities that still believe and comply. Most towns have moved on.
I live near Huntsville, so there is a lot of NASA and defense contract work so each company is different as to what they are doing. Most hospital systems, including UAB, do not have worker mandates. Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the national one. I moved here 2.5 years ago. The nicest, kindest, people I've ever met live here.
"However dark things look right now, we will get out of this."
Thanks. I needed this today. Irishman and fighting vlogger Dave Cullen gives such encouragement, too, and like you, he is in a much tougher situation than am I.
To quote the sage advice of the wallstreetbets autists during the GME meltdown: "HOLD YOU FSCKING RETARDS. HOLD".
All we have to do is keep stalling. Every day is closer to "epic fail" on their part.
Like Mr Corbett was saying, make them tell you to put on a mask, make them tell you to stand further away, make your employer give you written notices, don't quit but threaten whatever you think works. Lawsuits, notice of liability or channel your inner "Bobcat Goldthwaite" and make them think you are about to lose it. Proudly display National Rifle Ass or Gun Owners of A in your place of work. Follow them home and post pictures of their house around work.
In a system where literal war crimes are being done to oneself, I feel fully entitled to mess with them any and every way I feel like. Use your best judgement and HAVE FUN. Hey it's not like I'm going anywhere or can do anything so I'll have to amuse ourselves. Idle hands and the devil's workshop kind of stuff.
After the 2016 election, the fake news media published a list of "fake news" websites. ZH was on there. I was instantly in love.
The hilarious things about that list (apart from the fact that it was a treasure trove of REAL news websites) were:
They included Private Eye, which is probably the only print media publication in the UK that does real investigative journalism anymore. 90% of it is serious, very high quality journalism looking into corruption, the remaining ten percent is satire. These idiots mistook the satire as "fake news". I have no words.
They also included Drudge Report. This one made me laugh as 90% of Drudge's links as a news aggregator link to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Huffington Post, Yahoo, NPR, etc. Of all the "fake news" sites they listed, this one was the most accurate.
Imparting slivers of visceral fear into other human beings has always been a sound evolutionary tactic to make them back off from ones self, ones loved ones and ones tribe.
Yes, a mask on a face sends a message. I own a face mask that says "THIS MASK IS USELESS". I rarely wear it however, because I wear masks on the chin, and this way the text is not readable.
I think talking science leads you too a losing argument. I think the best place to push is living with courage un-afraid of the virus. Regardless of the data or the science nobody feels good about being a coward. It shames people when you live your life as normally as you can. When they are ready to ask questions then show them alternative studies and data.
Agreed, The Science (TM), is a sucker's bet. The terms of that discourse are pre-determined for us to lose. That kind of engagement ties us up in knots with interminable debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's better for Team Reality to work hard at seizing the day with joie de vivre. Team Apocalypse is a death cult, moribund and joyless. Those distinctions need to be identified and delineated and AMPLIFIED.
Hi Lorn, I agree, my best friend is pro vaccine and it is about them being ready and hopefully many will become more disillusioned to the narrative, like the postie, not gonna be mugged off, I had 2 jabs already types.
Start by refusing to wear a mask. I walk through SFO without a mask on, and I’m starting to see others remove their mask after seeing me with mine off. Besides the plane, I never wear a mask in San Francisco or any place for that matter, and am often told to put one on. When this happens, I take my business elsewhere. If London Breed can go clubbing maskless, I can walk into a coffee shop without a mask on for a cup of coffee.
Very simplistically, here is a scenario - a "way out" - that will not surprise me: I suspect this scenario, if it happens, will fit nicely into the worldview Professor e has laid out. In general, the USA will lead the world out. First, the process would start with several unequivocal victories for liberty in the US courts, now underway. The first domino to fall will be the vaccine mandates, followed by a declining appetite for lockdowns and then diminished enforcement of masking mandates as these shift from "mandatory" to "recommended" to "optional." The victory in the courts will be followed, a year from now, by substantial changes in the federal and state legislatures of the USA. This political shift may be accompanied by the physical demise of Biden, who is non compos mentis, and his hopelessly incompetent vice president. These and other failed leaders will be blamed for economic and public health failures, further demoralizing the left and encouraging a backlash from the right. Finally, the 2024 presidential election will usher in a new skeptical attitude toward public health officials and legal limits on their ability to control society. This scenario is the best I currently hope for. It will not be a perfect restoration of individual rights, only a start.
Good but you missed a big one. As big as any of the court cases against mandates and coerced vaccination is the "early treatment" elephant in the room.
The courts have mostly been ruling in favour of allowing Ivermectin & HCQ based treatments. Once it becomes common knowledge that the government and medical "authorities" have been lying for over a year there will be hell to pay. Bye bye to the EUA for the vaccines and payback time.
Keep at it on all fronts and keep fighting.
While I've been out of the country since October 1, I normally live in Boston, MA. There, when I was back in September, I basically decided to stop wearing my mask in stores and other locations. I carried one with me, and if anyone asked, I'd put it on. I don't really want to make a stink, (especially since store employees aren't the ones making policy), but I wanted to make a visible statement of resistance. Two interesting things happened. First, I was typically the ONLY ONE in a store without a mask. Second, no one ever asked me to put one on. This surprised me the most.
I personally think we could achieve a lot if everyone did this. It's a small step, but I think, writ large, it would have a positive effect. "Enough!" it would say.
Meanwhile, here in Mexico City, most folks are wearing masks <i>outdoors!</i> I've discussed this with various Mexican friends who all say it's a sign of social solidarity. But when I ask them if they'd smear the blood of a freshly-killed rooster on their foreheads for the same purpose, none would go along with that.
Anyway, as Gandhi taught us, passive resistance is a good way forward.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
I basically did the same thing. There would usually be one or two others not complying. No one ever said anything to me and it surprised me too. I started to think that all of the media coverage of people getting confronted in public was amplified to make people think they would get attached if they didn’t comply.
I think you are 100% correct about news reports of people being confronted in public being overstated. We see those news reports, but not the times when nobody is confronted.
Good point!
flccc.net has protocols for all phases of Covid-19. I live in Central Ohio, USA. My GP doctor "follows CDC guidelines" which means she won't prescribe IVM. I just realized that if I went into a hospital in this area, none would follow the flccc.net protocols and even to get just one of the molecules, IVM, I would have to go to court. So the further need is to get a home based kit, and in the mean time to take the supplements like Vitamin C, D, Zinc along with Quceretin to push the zinc into the center of the cell. And of course, IVM and HCQ. I have not obtained those but will call a physician on the list at flccc.net and go ahead and do it. The distributors of drugs are making hard to get these except at compounding pharmacies which charge $7 a pill.
One would think that when people realized that the government, hospitals, doctors and the alphabet agencies (NIH, FDA, WHO, etc.) are going to possibly kill me that they will get pissed and demand change? I can't even convince my wife.
I'm right there with you my friend. I have been taking C, D, Zinc, and Quceretin for over a year now. No vax, but no Covid either. My wife took the first jab, but I convinced her to not get the second. She will not be boosting either. I have a cache of IVM which I bought online from India. Price with shipping was ~$1/pill. I am 74 years old with NO comorbidity issues, same for wife.
We are enjoying living in the Free State of Florida.
Well, I haven't taken ANYTHING and travelled across USA with airplane (packed 100%), train, and car TWICE over the last almost two years with my daughter (and during the spikes when CA was locked down so one can't even rent a car) and haven't had anything (and I am not the strictest wearer of a useless mask either)
My husband has been the same. Incidentally he has type O blood (would like to know if this is a "thing"). He slept with me before I knew I had C, and took care of me and our daughter while sick. He's traveled by air, been to concerts and sporting events... still no antibodies.
I said to my wife back in February that they were going to start coming after us. She almost left me as a result. Now she just wants to know how to defeat the bastards. Denial is a defense mechanism.
Yes, please do get your "kit" ready. I took HCQ back in 2020 for mine, but now have IVM stocked for every member of my family, including adult children who live on their own. It's good stuff. You do want to start it immediately as viral loads can be high at the onset. Wishing you good health and FREEDOM!
I cleave to this optimistic analysis, if only because the inevitable march toward endless boosters is waking a lot of people up who thought vaccines would equal freedom, and that the vaccines would be effective. Both narratives are now obviously false.
But fully propagandized people are often beyond persuasion, and I'm horrified at how far beyond the pale even people who I once thought reasonable and thoughtful have become.
I also expect the democrats to latch onto the abortion debate, and use that to galvanize their base for the next several elections. The "my body my choice" debate has become suddenly awkward for both sides, but the left has a greater flexibility to resolve cognitive dissonance.
That said, I'm seeing a lot of internet small-heads suddenly becoming blackpilled by bad vaccine side effects, breakthrough cases, or the all-too-late realization that they have forfeited their freedoms and will never get anything in exchange.
Rhetorical and Socratic to normies: How often are you willing to take a booster? Every 6 months? Every month? Every week? What is your limit? At what point will you stop doing what they tell you to do?
There are people who proudly proclaim 'as many as needed'. I would think this is a minority of people - some possibly suffering from mental illness or other psychological or psychiatric challenges. No well-adjusted person answers this way.
But listen carefully to what they're NOT saying. They are deliberately not focusing on any specific response or situation. Get them to focus on an exact response, shake them out of their generic fog. This tendency to overgeneralize, to be vague or hyperbolic, may be a symptom of insanity. I don't really know. But if not, ask them a specific question and do your best to get them to deliver a specific answer, including shame them for any refusal. Jerk them out of their collective mindset and back to the here and now, to person-to-person interaction between just them and you, and do whatever you can to shame them or guilt them accordingly.
It's cult like behavior. The same kind that caused almost a thousand people to murder and commit suicide in Jonestown.
It absolutely IS a cult complete with false idols (masks) and fake prophets (Fauci) and now (in past 8/9months) people who profess their faith have now placed their “real” faith in man made products (vax) because they’re totally irrational and have lost or maybe never had the ability to truly think critically. How many of us have friends, family who before this past 2 years, we believed were grounded and sane? And now? They’re completely 🦇 💩 crazy - I’ve stopped being sad and have come to the realization that those of us awake have to stick together and save ourselves. If we’re lucky maybe some of them will follow - I pray for that every day. Thankful to have found this amazing community of rational people
Exactly, no sense in stressing out about what you have no power to change. Do your best to protect yourself and those that want/need your help. Accept the sacrifices, and hardships as they come, and be grateful for your blessings.
The vax seems to function like a "baptism" into their religion.
Agreed. It's something I struggle with as well. All we can do is share what we know to be facts with people and hopefully the scales fall from their eyes. I will never fail to confront, with facts and hopefully love, anyone who defends the evil going on around us.
Someone told me a friend told them that their "limit" was daily jabs, but not on the weekend. Nice to be optimistic and all that but we also have to realistic. If this narrative ever detonates there is going to be blood.
Yes discussed that today with a friend. We have seemed to be on opposite sides of this argument and then suddenly he suggested that we were heading for war.
Well our kids were was how he put it. I guess with a 14yo boy it's more to the fore in his mind than mine (no sons)
Daughters are now warriors in most countries.
Know how bad it is? TREVOR NOAH is questioning this now. Lol.
I could be wrong, but I felt like I scored a point the other day by texting about Trevor Noah going off-narrative to someone I know who absolutely adores him and Stephen Colbert. Him going even somewhat off-narrative for a single night has more power than facts. These people exhibit flocking behavior – they are huge flocks of birds changing directions in tandem. In fact, one day I watched videos of flocks of birds for a bit to marvel at how similar it seems to what I am seeing. These people can change the language and the meanings of words almost overnight. You go to sleep one night, and you wake up and they are all suddenly talking about “misinformation” or how “the science has changed,” etc. With birds it’s a beautiful sight; with humans, not so much.
Love the last sentence. That's because they have no principles or values. They're empty vassals waiting for their instructions. Imagine how superficial you have to be (no comment on Noah and Colbert - blech) to wait and get your cues from celebrities.
Great analogy.
Jimmy Dore had a bad reaction to Moderna and has had lingering effects for months until he found a doctor who put him on Ivermectin and other real treatments to deal with the spike protein. He's been very critical of the anti-freedom of speech lobby.
One by one they come to their senses. It's a shame that it takes a personal tragedy for them to learn but better than those that rationalise and justify a family member dying "It would have been worse".
All it takes is one…
Ok that’s funny even though I can’t stand him and he’s just plain stupid!
WHAT
It's easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled.
-- Someone Wiser Than Me
Mark Twain : )
I also like his quote in which he says, "there are three types of lies, . . . lies, damn lies, and statistics"
Recently I saw this Schopenhauer quote: "There are two types of people. Avoid both of them."
The "my body my choice" is easily proven a strawman concerning abortion. The child killed is not the body of the mother. It is a separate human being.
The abortion reasoning in Roe (pervasive right to privacy) is actually supportive
of the position of bodily inviolability vis a vis vaccines, except for the small fact that it is another’s body under consideration in the one case. Awkward indeed.
People don't seem to understand that Roe is not explicitly about abortion, but merely a protection of privacy of treatment decisions to stay between patient and doctor. This is one line of attack of forced jabs and passports. We could be using it to keep our health decisions like vax and early treatment private.
Row v Wade is doomed. It will soon be overturned. It is a poor precedent.
Exactly.
The left is full of contradictions, but it doesn't seem to perturb them in the least bit. The means don't matter to them, only the ends, and we know how it ends.
One could argue it is other bodies at stake in both cases. Awkward indeed.
Exactly my thinking as to where that argument goes. Although it might be irrelevant since the vaccines have done little or nothing to stop spread.
Yes but no specific body. Just somebody, maybe.
I don't know if it's necessarily that people are convinced by the propaganda, or simply not paying attention, and unable to fathom that the very institutions founded to protect them from disease are actively trying to kill them for money. When I voiced my concerns about a rushed vaccine in the early days I was mocked, the mockery eventually turned to anger, now they just seem worried. I believe that mandating the vaccine in kids, made many sit up and pay attention. These leftists are some sort of species of satanist, and all their plans eventually lead to child sacrifice. That's what's going to separate their true believers from the sleep walkers.
The pro-lockdown, pro-vaccine mandates democrats are literally sinking in polls as well. What happened recently in NJ and Virginia gave me hope that the US is mostly done with covid. However their senile and incompetent government is still threatening the country. Waiting for the devastating midterms next year for the pro-lockdown crowd ...
there are no fair elections, since election integrity has been compromised for a long time. this is an issue we need to continue to fight for. volunteer at the local polling station could be a start?
https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/collusion-biden-doj-elections/
Covid mania is being used to cheat.
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I know Virginia did well, but didn't Murphy hang on for the win? I know it was impossibly tight, but he's still in power. Though I imagine he can't go full Branch Covidian like he did before.
As a New Jerseyan, we hope. And yes he won by half of 1%.
I think Murphy won by a mere 2%. In 2020 he was clearly leading. The democrats lost more in NJ than in Virginia.
The left's radical stances on the pandemic are a very small part of the problems presented by the left. If their pandemic insanity is the hill they want to die on, let them.
Yep can’t wait!
Be nice if all the unvaccinated could create a state, buy a plot in the forest and just use their prepper skills, DIY etc. We need unity without hate, principled love. This must never happen again if we recover, I just hope the other rescue operation comes sooner than later because it will become unviable for the average Joanna to survive.
Here's a start https://www.vaxcontrolgroup.com/
That’s what we are, the Control Group. Maybe this card could fool some vaxx pass checker.
We ARE the rescue operation.
This has existed for many years. The Amish are one example.
How does the incompetent, monstrous megalomaniacal and unethical buffoon Fauci fit in all this? And yes, by May of 2020 me and the boys were saying, 'Well, it will be left to the Americans to get us out of this.' Given the role of 'gain of function' by NIH and its partners, the U.S. got us, in part, into this and will have to lead us out. I'm in Canada and it sure as hell won't be the utter stupid morons who run this colonial outpost. Health Canada coordinates closely with CDC for obvious reasons.
I'm in Australia and you know whats going on down here. I feel the Americans have got us into this (as in following the strategies of vaccines, lockdowns, mandates, etc), but we can't wait for them to get us out of it (especially this current administration), we have to extract ourselves somehow. Getting into Kennedy's book on Fauci gives me hope that such an exposé will find it's way into court, Fauci and the rest get exposed for the fraud that this all is, and our bureaucrats will back down from their insane plan to destroy the country.
5-11s announced today. I noticed the same in New Hampshire. The idea that this is not being coordinated globally is a non goer in the age of internet.
What's 5-11?
I assume he means children, 5 to 11. 😥
You should be more careful what you tell AI Martha. 😥
the innocent.
Yes it is pretty depressing north of the 49th. I'm looking at moving to Montana. I walk around in stores without a mask and almost nobody says a thing anymore. To the odd one that does I say a polite "No thank you" and keep walking. They never ask second time. But the maskiots up here are legion. I don't mind being the "weird one" (I've had lots of practice).
The vast majority, and I mean 90%, put them on even though most think it's stupid. Even when they don't have to. They are so scared to even try going without it. It's like an infantile security blanket. Linus (Peanuts not Linux) would be so proud.
My husband and I were visiting family in Central OR, we went to a very popular grocery chain without masks. No one said anything to us. In the produce dept a young woman came up to us and said, "OK, you're not going to be the only ones in this store not wearing a mask" and she proceeded to rip her mask off. It made my day!
There is hope!
Fantastic! Same happened to me at Target right when vax came out. I wked in mask less, people saw me and quietly removed theirs. : )
I live in a small town in central California and hardly anyone wears a mask and no one ever asks. There’s still a few good towns here 😂
I can attest to that. I was in the same area last weekend and when I checked into the hotel the clerk was maskless, I was thrilled. I’ve also been to a few small towns in the reddest county of WA and not a mask in sight. Ahhhh, and the sheriff has publicity written the governor stating he won’t enforce the mandates. CA and WA are the strictest in the US, so there’s hope!
I suspect mandates not enforced by police here (NZ) either but for some strange reason the upper middle class jerks of my tennis club are doing so.
The sheriff here said he is NOT enforcing any mask mandate. They have to much to do to bother with that too.
Is there a law or regulation requiring people to wear a mask? Few people believe that masks are beneficial.
I'm also Canadian. Where I live you can't go into an indoor public place without a mask. In the last year, I think I've seen 2 people without. The most absurd case I saw was someone sitting alone on their front porch around 7:30 AM, in a quiet neighbourhood with a mask on. In church one Sunday I did not follow the proper protocol (didn't know there was one) for removing my mask when receiving communion. The priest looked absolutely horrified. If I had had the plague, I don't think he would have looked more terrified. I'll never forget it.
I suspect that the churches are familiar with how these things play out but naive on the complete clusterfuckery of this particular version.
Perhaps we can wear masks but write 'Masks don't work' on them?
I prefer writing "THEATER" on mine!
I was thinking of altering one by attaching the external portion of a baby's pacifier to it.
Fauci: "Small man with compensating ego"
Have you seen the cartoon meme of a young Fauci pulling the “push” door? Excellent.
It's all there for those brave enough...
https://skyhorse-us.imgix.net/covers/9781510766808.jpg?auto=format&w=298
On order. Waiting for my copy...
Good to have it on record like this.
And people will hear about it because it is a top seller.
Very affordable too.
Reading it now. Wow. Eye-opening!
RFK, Jr.s new book "The Real Anthony Fauci - Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health talks about Fauci in depth & the regulatory capture of the health agencies by Big Pharma under Fauci. The book is dense, detailed & highly footnoted - so lots of research opportunities off the footnotes alone.
Chapter 8 explains how the whole pandemic has been in the works for 20 years. RFK, Jr. say if you only read one chapter read Chapter 8 to better understand what has happened and how we find ourselves in this rising global totalitarianism. To get a feel for what RFK, Jr. is talking about there are 2 recent interviews that are really good: an interview on the Corbett Report 11/21/21 you can find on website or here is link: https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/rfkjr-fauci720p:e and a really good hour long discussion with Tucker Carlson on his show on Fox Nation. The Carlson interview is behind a paywall on his show but it was posted to bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/aHmjNaMEkpG6/
I meant to say RFK, Jr. suggested if you only read one chapter read the last chapter "Germ Games" which is Chapter 12 (not Chapter 8 I stated above.)
China got us into this at least as much as the US. This is China's virus, China's PsyOp of "smuggled video" showing people "dropping dead" in their streets, and China's containment strategies. China bought off the world's politicians, including America's. Don't look to America to get anybody out of anything. Every country got themselves in and will get themselves out.
Indeed but this ordeal doesn't operate in a bubble or vacuum. Many countries are "copying" each other and we shouldn't underestimate a shift in tone from America wouldn't influence. As for who is at fault, I would submit indeed China is the main culprit. America for sure due to the 'gain of function' shenanigans with NIH/EcoAlliance/Wuhan. But there are other players including Canada (where the nanoparticle technology comes from), Germany and the UK. It's one gigantic mess of a moral panic.
China is paying off the world's government leaders, WEF trains government and corporate leaders in their young global leadership program running 20 years now. Trudeau, Ardern, Newsom, Merkel iirc, many fascist heroes of the plandemic come from under Charles Schwab's wing. Renewed committment to fascist shutdown happened right out of the global "climate" summit last month. Covid gets them to the same goals much faster, so the pivoted to virus.
China is a bit player. And a stupid one.
WHO's China copying?
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No.
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Faux chi is sweating bullets these days. He must be. Can you imagine juggling all these crimes ? He can’t sleep at night. His eyes are sinking into his skull ; he has dark circles around them.
Fauci should be turned over to the Hague and tried for crimes against humanity along with Peter Dazik? at eco health alliance.
Watch Episode Four of “Covid Revealed” free for now. Dr Bryan Ardis will give Fauci up and you will see the horrible truth of NIH Fauci and the perps behind this atrocity. Sleep well!
you have a link for it?
“Covid Revealed” with Patrick Contempo
A side note: Biden is a perfect front for the ruling class that is behind him. They can just ditch him and blame everything on him. He won't even notice.
He's not the first president to play stupid, but he is the first president to not have any power whatsoever. He's not as dumb as he looks right now, his antics have a logic about them.
I was saying that in jest, of course. Partially.
Yeah, he has no power whatsoever. He is probably not even a very important player in the power coalition he belongs to. Thus he'll let himself be sacrificed without a peep. Ah, and they can always blackmail him with Hunter stuff to boot.
> He's not the first president to play stupid
You mean, like, Bush 43?
Yes definitely not Bush 41.
If this goes down, and it looks like it will, I'd look back to Biden for evidence that some of our elected leaders had no confidence in those running the show to carry it off.
Being not in control due to mental incompetency (or whatever wording that it might be) seems the best defense he could come up with.
If any other form of medical treatment had the same amount of injuries or death as these “vaccines” it would be banned . As more and more people become exposed to their side effects this issue will become the tipping point that will change everything. The writing is on the wall , they’re just doing everything that can to stop people from reading it .
Yeah the media coverage is shifting, they're trying to plead ignorance a well thought out defense that plays back to Nuremberg.
There will hopefully come a point when the failure of Florida to fail (and Sweden, a few other places) will become undeniable.
The trouble is that is not guaranteed given the expertise of the statistical manipulators still trying to sell us this "deadly pandemic". There will be some metric, cherry picked out of the ass, that shows Florida or Sweden failed. There will be many of them, on the "throw enough shit and hope some sticks" basis - one piece of shit sticking is enough to sate the average European's cognitive biases at this point. And be it an artefact of a base rate fallacy, Simpsons' paradox, abuse of relative risk over absolute risk, neglected categories, at this point the nature of the dishonesty doesn't matter. We only have excess mortality in Germany on the basis of very detailed arguments over what baseline mortality should be. That, to anyone interested in a functional society shows there is little to worry about. To those terrified of becoming the next victims it is proof of their impending death if you don't get your second booster.
It's stunning how they manage to ignore Florida and Sweden. And just to point out the blatant hypocrisy on display, let me explain an interesting psychological phenomena. I live in the province of Quebec where the most popular destinations are Maine/New England (in the summer) and Florida in the winter. For the past almost two years, people and media criticized and bashed De Santis and Florida (as was the case with all of North American media) for having the temerity to challenge the Fauci criminal narrative. De Santis, recall, brought in The Great Barrington Declaration team and Noble scientist Dr. Levitt on his team. Combine that with his military background and natural intelligence, Florida was primed to lead not just America but the Western world. To think they came within whiskers of voting in a sexual deviant meth head Democrat! Fate is one strange cookie.
Anyway, people here are suffering with Stockholm Syndrome and consent to and accept any idiotic measure the tin pot dictators here pimp out. They still wear masks, consent to passports and it's looking like they may even be fine with vaccinating kids and going with boosters. Just a terribly gullible, naive and dimwitted populace it would appear. They're letting themselves be extorted into taking low quality medical products. That goes double for cowardly and cruel Canada overall.
BUT. They're all booking their flights out to Florida. The one state, as noted, they loved to bash and that is wide open. Gee, seems like they're scared of Covid at home but not when they need to selfishly go to Florida, eh? And this is what infuriates me while principled unvaccinated people have to look on helplessly for the time being watching this nauseating display of hypocrisy, false virtue and arrogance.
Yes, and they also ignore that the most jabbed countries have the biggest case/sick load—which is now in the jabbed as much as the unjabbed. De Santis will run for President—assuming his wife is ok by then. She is fighting breast cancer. They have three small children. I believe both Trump and the Democrats are afraid of De Santis—which is part of the attempted demonization of him and Florida.
They should be. If he runs he will win.
Yes he's definitely better than Trump. And being democrat leaning, even left leaning still, if I was American he'd get my vote.
I am from the left. Or was. I’d vote for him. The Democrats are truly dangerous right now.
The mindset in which leftism thrives, is not just rife with hypocrisy, it is absolutely dependent on it.
we're not 'helpless'. we still find ways of being ourselves and expressing ourselves, even though we're also the necessary (but un-acknowledged) control group in this global bioweapon experiment.
Let us pray the Floridians love bomb them to life.
Bit of a weird comparison, but here in Sweden we have very strict alcohol laws and you can't buy anything above 3.5% in regular grocery stores. For the rest you have to go to the state-owned liquor store. At the same time, we have no problem going abroad to enjoy more liberal alcohol rules, and we can clearly see that not everyone is a raging alcoholic there. Yet, at home, we think we are somehow culturally and perhaps genetically unable to live with the possibility of buying wine in a grocery store.
In most of Canada you cannot buy any alcohol at all in grocery stores.
Ontario has changed the rules. You can buy Canadian wine in a section which is attached to the grocery store, or sometimes even inside it. This is new-ish.
I disagree: Florida will be invaded by mask wearing crazy Canadian people. Watch out!
I live in Europe and can pick out the German tourists in any country I travel to by their FFP2 masks and stupid behavior. My favorite example was the German on top of a light house in Denmark in a gale clutching his mask...
Quebecers are the third solitude in Florida. Been so for decades. It's not a new phenomena. They own many condos and land there. And you can pick out the Quebecer in Florida just like you can spot a German in Italy, Spain or Greece - I know I have plenty of friends and family in France, Spain and Italy.
Oh yeah, the Germans are easily identified here in the south of Sweden as well.
Oh the Germans...yesterday I read a soul-searching parapgraph by a virologist whether it is dangerous to take cookies from a cookie plate at Christmas. Answer: IF everybody present had been jabbed AND has a negative COVID test AND has no symptoms, then it might not be lethal to pick a cookie from the plate and eat it. I ask you. The Germans - I can't fathom their behavior any more. On the one extreme of their national mood they attack Russia, on the other extreme they are afraid of cookies.
I heard very recently that Bosnia-Herzegovina dropped all vaxx mandates; no vaxx passes. Croatia is having a referendum. There is hope.
Switzerland has a referendum too. 65% voted for vax passports. We aren't "voting" our way out of this.
There is a German independent journalist who TV Screen shotted that vote 5 minutes apart. The first was 70% against and the second 70% for.
this is why Election Integrity lies at the heart of our woes. we need to be able to check the voting machines. volunteer at polling stations!
The nature of the offices is also a big part of the problem - choosing your pervert tyrant by 'popular vote' is a Satanic absurdity.
We shouldn't choose WHO gets this much power, we should choose who PROTECTS us from this kind of abuse !!
I have done that before here in NZ. They no longer do it though.
That 5 minutes was when the mail-in ballots were counted, lol.
Can you provide a link?
Not sure where the original link was but here is the screen shot;
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Great to here. There’s actually a direct flight from here to Sarajevo (in Bosnia) should I need to plot n escape route
One thing that is unpredictable is the course the virus will take, and the "vaccine" side effects. This could speed up getting to the "way out", or delay it. If people more and more experience that the vaccines are harmful, that could really change the course of the covid policies. If the virus becomes more or less dangerous, that would also affect getting out of the current situation. Only time will tell, and these are things I'm not sure we can really do anything about...
If they successfully blame the vaccine damage on some new Moronic variant, the hoax will launch into the stratosphere, and we may be totally screwed in a mass global psychosis of genocide.
ps 'Delta Omicron' is an anagram for 'Media Control'
What. The. Fudge.
Exactly. If the new "variants" are mild, that would hasten the end of The Narrative. If the "variants" are bad, then people will freak out all the more...
The next variant will be as bad as the vaccine damage it is intended to obfuscate and be blamed for.
These things are a kind of 'time release' bomb that will go off slowly over the next few years, with people's health rapidly collapsing at the trigger of any health burden that comes along ie flu season, healing from serious physical injury etc
Next few years, and even next few decades? Jabbing the kids now, all the adverse effects may take a long time to show up. 70-year old in 2086: "I got jabbed at kindergarten when I was 5, and I've had problem X since I was 55, just like my other classmates."
* Lawsuits
* Refusing to comply with totalitarian dictates. Just today I read two major hospital systems are dropping their vax mandates due to staff losses.
* Creating a parallel society/community where life is lived outside the totalitarian dictates
* Abandoning those who support the totalitarianism: businesses, churches, organizations, even people (tell all of them why)
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was collapsing because of the people. Reagan took advantage of the situation, but the crumbling USSR foundation is why his push succeeded.
Not easy, but I see it working bit by bit already.
I have as well become convinced that the "way out" will come from the brave States of the Union that will push back on the mandates and the masks. This is after Switzerland fell last week, one of the saddest day for humankind in centuries.
There is another aspect to consider though, which is international travel: how could EU make the vax mandatory, but still allow the unvaxed Texan to visit EU ? This would not be politically sustainable (or ... maybe it would ?) same for African countries for example.
In addition, I believe that unexpectedly, the WHO could be one way out. They have been reluctant to support the boosters these days, even ticking on UK fingers in one occasion, so maybe there are signs. If this vax would result in 100000's deads or injure, as it looks like we are on they way, this will be the end of WHO, full stop.
And as any good bureaucrats, they will try to preserve their job.
Them tacking the lead also provides governments the much needed excuse they will desperately need (the usual "The WHO recommends blah blah so it is not us").
I would not be surprise would Austria cancel their mandate at the last minute, and same with Germany.
Not that I disagree with you, but note that US government has that unfortunate tendency to export things that do not work there to other contries.
The level of duplicity these Satanists practice is such that the Supreme Court could announce one morning all mandates are illegal, and then that afternoon the troops will start going door to door.
I'm not saying that is the plan - just trying to illustrate the thinking I witnessed growing up in this cult.
TowerOfBabel.ca
Don’t count on the courts; they have failed us time and again. Don't count on elections; the art of voter and election fraud perfected, offices bought and sold. Don’t discount the notion of an IC cabal; we have seen vast amounts corruption, blackmail, extortion, otherwise inexplicable moves and policies.
Revolution? Civil disobedience?
In East Germany, the people began to refuse to acknowledge the credibility of the state in every personal interaction, and whenever possible. Eventually, the rank and file security forces felt so stupid, humiliated and embarrassed, the credibility could not be maintained, and this had a significant contribution to the collapse of that tyranny.
As I understand it !
Yes, but you forget that the right is now pushing hard to make abortion illegal, which will kick off another hysteria on the left, and the mid terms will be a blue wave.
Most people accept limitations to abortion. That is a fact. If the radical left riots, it will worsen the mid-terms for Democrats. Expect riots, that is all they can do.
I agree on the limits, but they are going for an overturn and will lie and turn it into something that will suck in the moderates too. At least that is my fear. I hope you are correct.
An overturn simply puts the authority back to the states. That will not be the end of abortions in the US.
This is correct. Blue states will still participate in infanticide. But they will tire of defending it as settled law. Because it won't be.
I understand that, but Democrats don't. They will hype up sob stories from the states that ban it and scream facism and it will likely work.
Solid strategic thinking !!!!!
Love it!!👍
I hope you’re right. Wouldn’t that just work great. I see it as a real possibility.
Team Reality must prevail. There are defeats and days that feel hopeless, but I've learned to appreciate every win, no matter how small. Eugyppius is correct, each move they are forced to make and heading toward their end because of the ridiculousness. Each booster, each variant, each lockdown, each contradictory policy awakens more believers. They are running out of hands to play. I fear that many people will only learn by watching someone die because they did not receive early treatment from a believer medical professional and/or relied on the 'protection' from the vaccine, or from going bankrupt over paying medical bills when their loved one succumbs to a serious vaccine injury at booster #2 or the Omicron specific injection.
I'm proud to be part of Team Reality. I'm thankful that I saw that something was very wrong from the onset and that I had the inclination to seek data and others' voices on my own. I'm proud to be amongst you all, across the world, with our eyes open.
I am honoured too to be part of Team Reality, we are such a rarity offline that if I hear someone is on my team I just feel my spirit soar.
My best friend of 15 years is vaccinated and I think because she worked in the NHS for 30 years, she feels some kind of affiliation trust. I do have some breakthrough reality from her but mostly in the forms of 'I don't get it when her dumbed down family members insist on PCR tests so they can all meet up.
inspiration for Team Reality 'I Will Not Comply (H E double LL No)' by ukelele singer Roaman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHCQ1I_TgPE
Yes. It's been an up and down ride. Right now it's down as Quebec said new restrictions are coming and it's likely going to be targeted to the unvaxxed. Shows their humanity they may be willing to cut people from grocery stores during the HOLIDAYS. It's repugnant. But we must carry on and fight. I've lost two years of my life over this.
Thank-you. I love this quote: "You should never do their work for them by despairing of an end."
I also appreciate you bringing up the 'cover for resignation' aspect of the global-cabal fixation. I still don't rule it out, but I also decline to engage with what I've called "staring into the abyss"--people who might be able to connect the dots really well, as to how this is all mass-planned an orchestrated, however offer absolutely NO solution, not even a course of constructive refusal, and no hope. I also agree, that the facts of the virus damn the bureaucracy and overreach itself.
I'm currently preparing my remarks for a County Supervisors meeting, where I will encourage them not to enact a mask mandate. My small effort. Thanks again.
Good luck to you. It is through these “small” actions (speaking out in a County Supervisors meeting sounds very brave to me) that we turn this back and better. These small actions build with other small actions until change is made. It is inspiring to others who perhaps can’t talk this out with anyone or truly think they are alone or their actions don’t matter. So thank you, too, for making the effort!
“Constructive Refusal” Absolutely on the mark! Thank you !
There absolutely is a solution. The solution that formed formed the bedrock of Western Civilization for nearly 20 centuries. It's a solution the postmodern bien pensants dismiss as silly, content their own vaguely defined reductionist Weltanshauung. The solution is to return to the beginning of wisdom, for wisdom -- not "IQ" -- is what we desperately lack.
Well, now that I’m thinking about it, these 2 years gave us s lot of red pills to hand out (regarding governments, bureaucracies, big Pharma, greed and media) and it gave us substack. For which I’m personally very grateful for.
Regarding the point about looking to who is censored and perceived threat - Alex Berenson is probably a good example. He sticks doggedly to data and the uselessness of the 'vaccines'. He refused and still refuses to embrace theories about the Reset and while that can be frustrating, I also understand his strict policy too. He was formerly a NYT Science Correspondent. Twitter permanently banned him earlier this year.
I must say this blog is some of the best writing on this nightmarish interlude (we hope and believe) that I've read in nearly two years of it.
Donald, my view is that Berenson is astute about choosing his fights. Which may mean he is of "limited value" to any person who feels strongly about a fight that Berenson has chosen not to fight.
Eugyppius has been similarly critiqued for a lack of focus on the question of "central planning" (his term, meaning collusion/conspiracy) by global elites. In this respect, eugyppius would be of "limited value" to those who believe "central planning" is a paramount issue.
It may also be noted that a some percentage of eugyppius' current followers/subscribers learned of him through Berenson who prominently spotlit one of eugyppius' posts and sent readers to this site. I, for one, remain thankful to Berenson for that.
Excellent summary of resistance theory put into practical terms. We must continue to push back in reasonable, data driven ways. Not hysterical, crazy conspiracy based ideals. Vax data showing failed efficacy is real and becoming more and more mainstream. Vax side effects are buried quickly and effectively by government, MSM and so called health professionals. This is most disturbing to myself and others yet the numbers are out there and as I have said many times, too big to ignore. As more people know someone directly impacted negatively by the vax, they will spread the word and it will grow. All that said, I still think the vax is a dark trick on humanity and is a tool for economic reset. Beyond stupidity and greed, there are truly evil groups behind all of this. Covid is lab made and purposely released. No accidents here. Why is "Build Back Better" on every major western leaders podium in unison? We are being played big time. Pray. Plan. Prepare. Resist.
This is the first really sensible comment I've come across on here. PEOPLE - this is not about making browny points. This is about survival - of ourselves and our societies. What happens if it's really true that a couple of billion die as the result of these death jabs? No one here seems to consider this possibility. I can take a guess at what will happen here in Toronto. The garbage won't be picked up, the lights might not stay on and the water supply could become contaminated. Never mind what happens to the nuclear plants. Even if you are unvaxxed, you will have a hard time surviving this. This is what we need to be discussing - not how we will vote in the next election. If a lot of people die from this, I can guarantee there won't be elections - and no one will care. More focus, please!
"The garbage won't be picked up, the lights might not stay on and the water supply could become contaminated"
This is how more than half the world lives already. A true catastrophe would be far worse, alas. Countries like Canada have enough food in the supply chain at any given time to last about two weeks.
Exactly!
I agree that elections are irrelevant, here in NZ anyway. Just more of the same but maybe less zealous.
I would get out of Toronto while there is still time.
And go where??? In the US, they have their Red states they can flee to. Here in Canada, the provinces are all following in lockstep. And the unvaxxed cannot even board a plane or a train courtesy of our federal Liberal government. Most countries have vaccine mandates - Costa Rica just introduced them. Some Canadians fled to Mexico but Mexico has enough problems and doesn't recognize refugees so what happens when their money runs out? It's not so easy as you apparently think. This has all been well-gamed out.
The Freedom Travel Alliance has one-way tickets out of Canada and Australia available. To me, this is just as much a creative time as it is a dystopia.
My wife, though, was saying no one in our circle has been impacted by the vaccines and no one in their circles either. Until that happens, they won't entertain a single opinion from the other side.
Maybe they all got injected from a safe batch of vials.
Great comments and thinking BG. It is a dark trick and yes we need to draw close to our spiritual sides, going in the prayer closet, understanding if belief in God is corrupt or futile, why is that so, there is an answer for everything, I don't think we just evolved or will live in planet blog when we pass. I would be interested in hearing more about the meditative sharers here how to manage this madness, whilst waking up the walking creepers.
I have come to the same conclusion ,it can't be a coincedence that all the western leaders force the same restrictions and mandates, with exactly the same motto. This conclusion isn't in contradiction with the analyses of eugyppius for the emerge of the ideology of corona.Because the Western Democracies was ready all these "pandemic"hysteria can be applied by the goverments.
The most demoralizing aspect - for me at least - is the readiness with which our fellow citizens, and even close family and friend, are accepting every lie they are given and eagerly stay in line for the boosters.
By now I am the last unvaccinated in my circle. (This of course says something about me getting out of that circle, getting out of Berlin)
But your article is hopeful. Eventually the lies of the bureaucrats and mass media will crash down; and when public opinion shifts, the opinion of my friends will shift to. This will be a relieve, maybe. But what I have seen cannot be unseen: the dogmatic, ignorant opportunism of my friends. I know how they would have been at other times in similar situations. My only hope is that they would have stopped at outright violence; but I suspect they would just have worked harder at ignoring it.
I very much agree with your last point: the ineptness of our bureaucracies is reason for hope.
I think it may be very specific to Germany, and maybe most of Western Europe. It is because in the last four decades we systematically have promoted mediocrity, and in the last 10 years outright stupidity. Often in the name of feminism. You only have to look at people like von Leyen or Baerbock to understand that having those people in power of extended periods of times will make any bureaucracy inept and inefficient.
this absolutely right. people i used to joke with, about the absurdities of nutritional advice, or whatever, now lecturing me like zombies about ‘mainstream medical science.’ where have all my sceptical intelligent friends gone.
Once this house of cards falls down, as it must, they will still hate you forever. Now they hate you for not being double jabbed and compliant, in future they will hate you as they will feel humiliated by their own idiocy.
When the house that was built with sand falls, let the Rock of Christ's love reign in your heart to dust them off with dignity.
Love is stronger than hate.
But mischief is more fun ;)
Agreed, the mischief which causes others to be pleasantly puzzled.
Surely will need a clean out of "friends".
Sometimes I wonder if the vaccine-produced spike proteins specifically target the prefrontal cortex.
https://twitter.com/alan2102z/status/1463966462935244802
Alan, this makes what I have heard seem mild. I have just had people say that the uninjected should not be allowed in hospital.
If we could xray the hearts of our fellow citizens, a third would be tattooed "Final Solution".
I think so too
Only they have truth.the scientists..so the unvax are the unbelievers..we are the problem..reverse psychology.
A Substack commenter said to the effect that ' Give up your body to government and Bigtech and you have already given up your mind'. Sorry, cannot give credit where credit is due.
"where have all my sceptical intelligent friends gone"
What does this tell you about the depth and quality of their intelligence to begin with? Of what use is "intelligence" so easily corrupted?
I'm happy to say the majority of my circle have remained steadfast. But then I don't consider 2020 to be an anomaly, but rather an inflection point. The True Believers in Eric Hoffer's sense have been latent all along. Some for me were a surprise, but most were not.
Intelligence is overrated
And what about these (internet) communities such as Skeptics, Brights, New Atheists, etc? To the extent that any of these ever had impressive representatives (they didn't imo), these are now some of the most insane cult members imaginable. All these people are going to come out of this looking embarrassingly stupid.
Ditto "Reason" magazine. Most atheists are good people, but they are easily led astray. When a man ceases to believe in God it's not that he believes in nothing, it's that he'll believe in anything.
(Pace Kurt Godel, reason is necessarily rooted in the divine. For those capable of following Godel's logic, this is ineluctable)
Sorry you're wrong there. And the reason that he left has become a clusterf*&^ is that it's currently full of the religious.
Skeptics are often just a front for industry in my experience. And interesting the Skeptics group that I used to belong to has thrown up some of NZ's main advocates of vaccines.
Ryan Long had a good joke. "I don't trust pharma. Just Pfizer'. It's been surreal watching cognitive dissonance and mass psychosis play out in real time.
I think what's happening here is that there isn't really inconsistency on the left here, even though it looks that way. Rather, their trust in public sector officials is simply so much greater than trust in private sector workers that they default to "private sector=liars/bad" unless public sector workers tell them otherwise in this specific case, in which case that advice overrides their prior intuition completely. To them it doesn't feel inconsistent though, because they have an incomplete mental model in which the only factor that can bias or corrupt people is profit and thus fauci or whomever is simply higher in the moral hierarchy
Yep this is it. Because the leftists never really care to learn about the economy they still think the public sector is acting in a altruistic way, when in fact the private and public sector is colluding in a massive way to profit from every penny of the taxpayers hard earned money.
You have to remember that a lot of them *are* the public sector, and some of them are aware that they could be earning more by going private. So there's a big incentive to buy into worldviews justifying why they don't do that.
I really struggle with this also. It is the single hardest part of the whole mess. The loss of community and trust. I am so grateful for the stacks, filled with intelligent prose and equally thoughtful and intelligent comments. Thank you E for another outstanding article.
When you said stacks, I at first thought you meant the physical library stacks that I haunted in my college days. With the corruption of the library "science" profession (my sister and a daughter are ex-librarians), those stacks may soon be purged of intelligent prose.
Being uninjected I am not allowed to use the public library that my rates specifically pay for. So that's another censorship.
since almost 2 years now students were prevented to study in the public library. guess what that did to their grades.
All irrational and evil. As with the medical profession, the librarians are losing respect, and ultimately, even when this is over, business.
You are more likely to find unvaxxed friends among working class people, trades, etc. I have found several such people. Good people. I used to be the lone unvaxxed person in my circle, but I found others in this way. Helps a lot psychologically to have such people as friends.
Holistic health type of people too, educated, often those who have had chronic illnesses and were only helped by alternative or functional medicine.
Yeah non allopathic types definitely
We've all made new friends. And where you didn't cut some out of your life, it certainly isn't the same anymore. I have a friend of 45 years. He consented - and continues to consent to - the Covid measures and cult. I can't see past this anymore because it's having a direct impact on my life. It's unreal. Over a stupid respiratory illness and the dogma of vaccines.
Same here. Fifty years and BFFs, I always thought…until I was asked to get a test to enter their house. I would have been the first one there to help if they’d caught ‘it’ and now I’m leery of being near for fear I’d end up on a list of ‘known contacts’ if they happen to catch it and I’ve been in contact. All of us here understand how we would never do that.
It's shocking the dobbing in virtue signalling.
Corporate made.
Makes one question whether the friend has always been stupid.
I wonder if the official "vaccinated" numbers are a lie like everything else. Here in NZ the MSM today reported that a bar last night turned away 50 people who were trying to get in using fake passports. Apparently one can buy them for $10.
But 50 uninjected people is a lot. So maybe there are more uninjected than the official narrative claims.
800k who have been invited to apply for passports have not done so. A guy I know who has been vaccine injured (heart) cannot get his because he, for obvious reasons, does not want the second jab. Add that to at least 800k who have not had the jab and you have close to 1/3 of the population 'uncarded'
Hone Harawira has proved to be an arsehole in ways that I didn't figure of him. Ditto Kim Dotcon.
Thanks for the compliment PB, yes proudly working class here from London UK, with a common cockney accent.
Yes, those who have not been mis-educated higher education. The most gullible are the middle IQ people with an university education. Now we know why the last decades so much money went into universities.
Maybe I'm just not getting it Andreas, but doesn't higher ed encourage critical thinking? Am I missing something? Maybe it is individuals who are invested in government leadership that are more gullible/lack of being open types?
It used to, but not anymore.
Now it is just learning the current ideology. It is of course most obvious in pseudo sciences such as gender sciences. But in general critical thinking or logic are not being taught at all. And even the natural sciences are very dogmatic and slow to change with new knowledge.
This is why people from the MINT courses are more critical though: not because it is explicitly taught, but if you study natural sciences or IT you cannot get away without learning logic and critical examination of data in science. This may then be a starting point to apply this also to other areas of your life.
This is also why medical doctors are so dogmatic and willing to go with the establishment: the medical education does not teach scientific thinking at all. It is learning by rote. Medical doctors often think they are applying scientific knowledge, when in reality they often do not know what that is.
Brilliant explanation..thanks Andreas.
It used to, but now at least in the US, higher education is mostly leftist indoctrination. Critical thinking is outright discouraged if it goes against the woke narrative. Even in high school and middle school some teachers are pushing woke compliance rather than actual critical thinking and learning. My son was ridiculed in his 8th grade English class because he dared speak up during a class "discussion" of the Brett Kavanaugh supreme court hearings. Everyone was attacking Kavanaugh as a criminal, and he dared say that Kavanaugh should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. He was immediately shut down by his teacher, the discussion was ended and she called him all sorts of names like bigot, raciest, anti woman, all the usual name calling the left uses when they can't win an argument rationally.
You really have to be involved in your children's education here in the states. I have always pushed my kids to be truth seekers. They would come home and make some statement about how something is good or bad. I would always look at them and ask them, Why is it good or bad? Defend your statement. Most of the time they couldn't come up with a reason other than "because my teacher said so". So I would tell them to go find out about the topic, research it and come back and defend your position or change your mind based on the research you have done. I never judged them on their opinion when they came back to me as long as it was what they actually thought. I would do this from the moment they entered the public school system in Kindergarten.
By the way, I never let on what my opinion was of the subject and purposely kept that out of our conversations to not unduly influence their opinions. I truly want them to come to their own conclusions.
Very true.
You're not alone. The vast majority of my circle of friends and family are vaccinated but there are a few of us who are not. It is demoralizing to see those who either swallow the propaganda whole or just go along with it to avoid trouble. You wish they'd be principled but this simply isn't how things go. You have to be principled or stand for something or else you will believe anything. People have no principles and their values are fleeting and so they blindly listened to Fauci, pharma and other TV dinner experts. It was fine in the beginning but if they can't see the complete scamming of it all, then I'm at peace with it. Stay strong. Hold the line. This can't possibly keep going because it's built on LIES and FEAR.
Paul, do you think that there is a particular personality type that sees all the BS?
Personally I have never been a good committee type.
I suspect a lot of people on these forums don't have young children. My observation is that people who do don't have the time/energy to seek out new information sources or do their own research, so default to just watching TV news every so often. And those outlets work hard to create a somewhat consistent narrative that strongly discourages people from trying to leave their informational garden.
I suspect if you only watched TV news, or only read BBC News online, then you'd end up the same way. And but for different life circumstances it could have easily gone that way.
Yes, and you have to be willing to go against the grain of society, which can also be called "being a bit anti-social".
On average I would expect that it will be more men than women, as women are often more social and see the coherence of the group as more important.
I expect that will even out though, if the negative effects of the vacc are becoming more apparent, and especially if they now go after the children.
I expect - or at least I hope - that vaccinating young children will be the red line in many countries. Those countries where the health of the children is not the paramount I would consider as lost.
I have 3 children, many of my friends have more than I do. I don't think children are a determining factor for low vaxx information, at least here in Texas. I have found the people who have children are more interested in finding out everything they can about the vaxx before they would ever think of injecting their children with the clot shot. There tends to be a general distrust of government in Texas, less government intrusion into your life is preferable. So generally the more I see the federal government pushing vaccines and threatening, them more people research and resist.
I think the internet has been excellent for those wanting to research. I was in a religious cult and left in 2002. Before that to be honest, my research was mainly counter religion bookshops and very little material. With the net, we have the benefit of our ponderings and subjectivity and the ability to then research and acquire information. I read stories of those who left the cult and remained believers. So I think the concept is to get them out of babylon as we are trying to do and then let them see that covid is curable.
Most importantly I think somehow we have to keep our hearts pliable to their change, the biggest changers can be the staunchest of supporters. The apostle Paul hated followers of the Way but had a heart change and pursued good.
You mentioned two ideas of note: 1) Mediocrity (see General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord's assessment of the four types of military officers and which ones are the most dangerous) and 2) Stagnation (people in power too long - look at Fauci - no one should hold a position like that for 10 years let alone 40).
It’s the same in the US too. Mediocrity is the norm. You don’t want to make someone feel bad pushing for excellence or being better than them. Especially in schools. It’s sad.
In the USA, our doctors have been captured by Pharma. All of my doctors have recommended the Jab, except one who didn’t comment on my decision. It is an art to discern when a Doctor is recommending something because he strongly believes it, or if he is just mouthing the party line because of his license. (When a doctor can’t look at you because you are presenting sound reasons, you know where he really stands.) I say this because many friends and family have been told by their doctors to get the Jab. That is another reason many line up for it.
Funny that US citizens trust their doctor.
some MEPs are speaking out, like Christine Anderson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnVaSTyJkYI
I like your mediocrity explanation for some of the stupidity.
Great piece.
"David you could have just hit the 'like' button."
I'm saying "great piece"!
thanks so much prof. shane. your opinion means a lot to me, as i think you know. :-)
By the way, you are quite right about the BLM protests being "helpful" in the US, for two reasons:
1. Beforehand, there had been some "they're putting us all in danger!" objections to anti-lockdown protests. The political endorsement of the BLM protests forced basically all of those voices into silence. Here in Michigan, Governor Whitmer literally violated her own COVID orders to take part in a BLM march... which ain't great for your credibility as a leader either. But it made it very difficult for people to continue objecting to any "First Amendment" activities.
2. For a day or so there, I really wondered if BLM would be the "end" of COVID. Because we very much have a culture now, and especially a media culture, that just flits from one hysteria to another. (Another way to see this is secularists looking for a god, and just flitting from one popular deity to another popular deity.) I have long thought that COVID will end when some new hysteria takes it over, and not because of any actual change in what is happening with COVID. I feel less that way now just because an increasing number of people are sick of it period regardless of what comes next... but for a day or two there I did wonder if racism hysteria was going to kill COVID hysteria.
re: “secularists looking for a god”
absolutely, i even planned a section of this post, on how the increasing secularisation of western society coincides with the growing frequency of these parareligious hysterias, but i had to break it off into a draft for a future piece.
it is obvious that a deeply traditional, religious society would react to SARS-2 in a vastly more sensible way, and that secular societies are very spiritually and psychologically unstable.
Have you come across Mattias Desmet's work on mass formation? It's explaining the mass hysteria from a place of people having meaningless lives and an excess of free floating anxiety latching onto these ritualistic behaviours to feel both important and engaged in some sort of collective struggle against danger.
In super highly secular Canada those fighting restrictions the more are actually religious. Hassidic jews in my neighborhood, eastern Europeans catholics in the west. I still shop in hassidic jews grocery stores and bakeries for the joy of not wearing a freaking mask.
Re: Islamic societies. Although not in an Islamic country I live amongst a large community of East Africans. Pre COVID they were militantly anti vax. Andrew Wakefield would visit frequently and was a hero in the community. Downs Syndrome occurs with a high frequency and they were sympathetic to his views. With COVID there has been a 180 degree turn. They are extremely compliant and it is common to see them wearing masks while driving alone.
It would be nice for society to become devout and deep having the faith of the church fathers, many who knew the apostles, that sort of faith is lacking in this world. I think a kind and good person is an asset, but infused with the holy spirit that asset can become rich in fuel to move hearts and invest in another kingdom.
While I don't think that religious people are more sceptical on average compared to atheists, I think their advantage is that they have subscribed to a set of values which are truely non-negotiable for them and so the panic orchestra politicians and "experts" would have a harder time to win them over if they tried to negate said values. Problem is: you have to have the right values. If you subscribe to the wrong ones, the outcome will not be any better, in fact it might be even worse.
Looking forward to that piece.
Interesting concept; how have Islamic societies (possibly the best example of 'traditional religious') reacted to this current supposed global pandemic situation? Is it only Western nations that have behaved so appallingly badly? (Genuine question)
the strength of small, strict religious communities: the American Amish come to mind, who were non-compliant from the beginning
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/10/10/attkisson_how_amish_communities_became_the_first_to_acheive_herd_immunity_from_covid-19_in_may_2020.html
besides defining precisely what we mean by a deeply traditional, religious society, on an individual level people will strongly adhere to their leaders' standpoints. notwithstanding their strong religious and traditional outlook, even rural communities across SE Asia are mostly compliant w/their governments' anti-cov measures. due to gross manipulation of data it's also fairly impossible to assess how many cases, adverse effects and/or deaths have occurred. some of my relatives live there and it's horrifyng what people have to endure (compulsory vaxx for all students).
There is very strong correlation in the US between Christian beliefs and covid skepticism. Most bible belt states are far less hysterical in general. In Alabama a university professor might exclaim "my wife is pregnant!" in the morning without fearing that and angry mob will gather by noon.
well needed
What you need is a way out for the average joe, that *isnt humilating*. He has already been humiliated, and he is emotionally attached to the current narrative, because it contextualises and excuses his humiliation. That is, if he accepts that the media narrative is wrong, that means accepting that he has been humiliated, that he has given up his bodily autonomy, that he made a mistake. Many aspects. Emotionally invested, sunk cost in preferring to live in covid world – because it is preferable than admitting you’ve been had.
What you need to offer them is a way out that lets him keep his dignity. I think a correct marketing angle on something like the omikron situation could be exactly that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-03/omicron-up-close-south-africa-s-experts-tell-their-stories
you just need to change the narrative a bit so it becomes something like "everyone being a big and brave boy and getting the vacoain, is what lead to the om-var/spanish flu style "pleasant normal safe" version of the disease", you have to flatter and pat them on the back. you can sell this to the average joe.
"yes everything was rough there for a while but you were all such good boys and so brave and honest, that now we forced the disease to evolve into a version that infects a lot, but is completely harmless. This new version is perfectly mild and safe and no one will ever die"
something like that, just with less snark.
How did george jr win in iraq? He just said he did. Mission accomplished. We won. Good job everyone.
https://eggreport.substack.com/p/meta-history-and-culture-war-language
regards
Randy
Came to post something similar Randy. We need to "kill them with kindness", to offer them a way to save face and quietly let them come back to reason. No need to ridicule them, that won't help us return to normalcy and end the mania.
Love is stronger than hate, Jesus had a psychology behind loving your enemies, for If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink. For in so doing, you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
I think the reward is a supernaturally calm and wiser thinking process.
It is always good to do good but to be good, we have to invest in the spiritual concept of what helps us to be good. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us.
As a young person I could never see the benefit of these scriptures as much as I can see them now. No matter what I think on a human level about the fairness of being left on the planet until the age of 3 score and 10 I know with quiet and humble resignation that an unregenerated soul is as good as trying to fight your way out of a wet paper bag.
I like this take and it's probably accurate, but I have too many in my circle already lining up for the booster. We call them 'normies' and they're perfectly healthy. But man this propaganda and conditioning. They seem to think it's just a 'vaccine. Like it was 'just a mask' and 'just a passport'. Many are still asleep.
Lord Fauci said "2 weeks to stop the spread". Now the transformer Omnicron is coming to a city near all at Any moment.
The key to keeping their dignity is to allow the "out" of betrayal. They trusted the skills nad knowledge of experts, but the experts betrayed their trust.
Fantastic comments Randy, protecting the dignity, dismantling the illusion gently whilst blowing sweet smoke their way. It is about dismantling the mind control, hopefully people can see that 2+2 isn't 5, but yes it is how we receive the humiliated which is paramount.
Hopefully like me, others will discover substack and the brilliant writing and think oh that is a good point and just get greedy for more great writing!
Hi Ya'll. I just want everyone to know that life is pretty much back to normal here in Texas. I haven't worn an obedience mask in over a year. I just got back from a Christmas party with about 50 people in a home and kids running all over the place. No one wore a mask, I didn't know anyone's vaccine status, and as far as I could tell, no one really cared if you were vaxxed or not vaxxed or if you had the booster. Didn't come up once. We are pretty much over it. Biden is a joke, Fauci is a joke. The mainstream media is a joke. The democrats overall are a joke and their agenda is finished. Stay strong and keep the faith, sanity will prevail in the end.
It must seem really out of date to read all these comments, when you have moved on.
Well done Texans!
Yeah,it does feel a little like the twilight zone hearing all this crazy talk in the MSM about the virus, lock downs, quarantine(concentration) camps in Australia. I actually feel sorry for the people that are so dogmatic they can't have an open mind to new data as it becomes available, and don't want to see what this is doing to humanity as a whole. We were afraid at first also, but as new information came out, we became more afraid of the propaganda that was being pushed by the MSM. My wife and I are on the older side and remember being taught in school to always ask questions. We have advanced degrees and don't just believe something at face value. This pandemic didn't smell right from the second week on, and we went out and sought our own information about Covid from many sources which is how I ended up here. Before the pandemic, my wife was a life long democrat (she grew up in Oakland and Berkley, CA and that is what was expected) we have always had spirited debates about the Constitution and politics in general. I laugh at her now as she is more conservative than I am. We spend more time agreeing on things than debating things. Twilight Zone indeed, I kind of miss our debates sometimes. :)
I understand they twilight zone analogy well. Live Orange County Ca specifically Downtown HB. Which is a huge tourist destination. Hardly any mask wearing anywhere. Large crowds. We recently had a huge airshow in HB. The bean counters said we had over a million people attend. No masks anywhere. While in the county right next door, LA county, has mask mandates, vax mandates, and LA city has vax passports. It is insane. Just don't comply when and where you can. Their are many pockets of sanity even in one of the bluest states in the US
Same for almost all of Alabama, and I suspect most rural areas of the country. It's the messaging and the power of the elites and bureaucratic big blue cities that still believe and comply. Most towns have moved on.
I live near Huntsville, so there is a lot of NASA and defense contract work so each company is different as to what they are doing. Most hospital systems, including UAB, do not have worker mandates. Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the national one. I moved here 2.5 years ago. The nicest, kindest, people I've ever met live here.
Hey Donald, I'm in DFW metroplex, up in Collin county.
"However dark things look right now, we will get out of this."
Thanks. I needed this today. Irishman and fighting vlogger Dave Cullen gives such encouragement, too, and like you, he is in a much tougher situation than am I.
To quote the sage advice of the wallstreetbets autists during the GME meltdown: "HOLD YOU FSCKING RETARDS. HOLD".
All we have to do is keep stalling. Every day is closer to "epic fail" on their part.
Like Mr Corbett was saying, make them tell you to put on a mask, make them tell you to stand further away, make your employer give you written notices, don't quit but threaten whatever you think works. Lawsuits, notice of liability or channel your inner "Bobcat Goldthwaite" and make them think you are about to lose it. Proudly display National Rifle Ass or Gun Owners of A in your place of work. Follow them home and post pictures of their house around work.
In a system where literal war crimes are being done to oneself, I feel fully entitled to mess with them any and every way I feel like. Use your best judgement and HAVE FUN. Hey it's not like I'm going anywhere or can do anything so I'll have to amuse ourselves. Idle hands and the devil's workshop kind of stuff.
We can stay retarded longer than they can stay vaccinated
lol fantastic comment.
This is hilarious!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for pandemic tolerance drops to zero.
Love it. A "Zerohedgian". You gotta paste that on the hedge a LOT LOL.
After the 2016 election, the fake news media published a list of "fake news" websites. ZH was on there. I was instantly in love.
The hilarious things about that list (apart from the fact that it was a treasure trove of REAL news websites) were:
They included Private Eye, which is probably the only print media publication in the UK that does real investigative journalism anymore. 90% of it is serious, very high quality journalism looking into corruption, the remaining ten percent is satire. These idiots mistook the satire as "fake news". I have no words.
They also included Drudge Report. This one made me laugh as 90% of Drudge's links as a news aggregator link to CNN, MSNBC, NYT, Huffington Post, Yahoo, NPR, etc. Of all the "fake news" sites they listed, this one was the most accurate.
But as Keynes said "in the long run we are all dead".
Hey, I didn't use to see a baboon.
Love it!
So funny...
Lol.
"HOLD YOU FSCKING RETARDS. HOLD".
Diamond hands lad. ;)
Wise words indeed.
Imparting slivers of visceral fear into other human beings has always been a sound evolutionary tactic to make them back off from ones self, ones loved ones and ones tribe.
Funny
Yes, a mask on a face sends a message. I own a face mask that says "THIS MASK IS USELESS". I rarely wear it however, because I wear masks on the chin, and this way the text is not readable.
Finally a mask I would wear. I want one!
Here you go: Minimally Compliant Masks
https://www.minimallycompliantmasks.com/
This is a great tactical idea. Here is what I found:
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Love it.
Courage doesn't Always Roar, sometimes it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.
I think talking science leads you too a losing argument. I think the best place to push is living with courage un-afraid of the virus. Regardless of the data or the science nobody feels good about being a coward. It shames people when you live your life as normally as you can. When they are ready to ask questions then show them alternative studies and data.
Agreed, The Science (TM), is a sucker's bet. The terms of that discourse are pre-determined for us to lose. That kind of engagement ties us up in knots with interminable debates about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's better for Team Reality to work hard at seizing the day with joie de vivre. Team Apocalypse is a death cult, moribund and joyless. Those distinctions need to be identified and delineated and AMPLIFIED.
Hit the nail on the proverbial head my friend!
Hi Lorn, I agree, my best friend is pro vaccine and it is about them being ready and hopefully many will become more disillusioned to the narrative, like the postie, not gonna be mugged off, I had 2 jabs already types.
Start by refusing to wear a mask. I walk through SFO without a mask on, and I’m starting to see others remove their mask after seeing me with mine off. Besides the plane, I never wear a mask in San Francisco or any place for that matter, and am often told to put one on. When this happens, I take my business elsewhere. If London Breed can go clubbing maskless, I can walk into a coffee shop without a mask on for a cup of coffee.