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Jan 8, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I see an email announcing a post from you. I am at my desk. I close my email - bring out my coffee, my portable device and lay back on the couch to read

Your posts are like fine wine. They need to be enjoyed in the right context.

Thank you!

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Jan 8, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I'm sure you are correct about the progression of the disease. However, based on interactions with family and friends I think your statement "everyone will have personal experience with Corona infection, whether or not they are vaccinated. This will destroy popular faith measures, it will erode their confidence in the vaccines, and it will do away with their fear of the virus." is too optimistic. Most people I know who are vaccinated and then got infected (I know many people like that) firmly believe that the vaccine is what allowed them to weather the infection. They are convinced that if they hadn't been vaccinated they would have been hospitalized and likely died. I don't know what, if anything, will convince them that they've been fooled.

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Watching the Idiocracy dowse themselves in gasoline and set themselves on fire has been a joy. Sane people need to assure that these lunatics are put in straitjackets and never allowed to work in public office ever again.

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I have come to the conclusion that roughly 25% of Western populations are forever damaged from this travesty. They are going to hyperventilate when they read about any virus in the future...no matter how mild it is. I spoke to a neighbor yesterday who I hadn't seen for 2 weeks. He said the family had covid. Both parents are teachers. He said it was lucky they got the booster shots otherwise it would have been worse. I just smiled and gave him the Thomas Sowell line: "As compared to what?" ....he had no answer and the mental gymnastics going on in his head were Olympic level from the look on his face. These are broken people. I doubt very much we will ever bring them back to reality. I just think if they want to hide in the basement, they should be able to do so. But leave the rest of us alone to do our thing.

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I certainly hope you're right. I'm in the prison state of Canada and a health minister has just floated the idea that vaccines will soon be made compulsory. They're not giving up easily.

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I tried to be skeptical of the idea of mass formation, but actually coming down with a very mild case of covid myself (as an unvaccinated person) killed my skepticism. And it's what makes me decidedly less optimistic about omicron's potential to break through the brick wall (which I describe below).

When confronted with the mild case of covid I suffered, I have received the question, "Now do you regret not getting the vaccine?" as well as condolences on the suffering I endured. "But," I say flabbergasted, "I did not suffer. I had a runny nose. I had milder symptoms than in many 'breakthrough cases.'" But it is like there is a brick wall between my explanations and the reasoning mind of the person to whom I speak, and I am groping for the door without being sure that one exists.

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You can take the nationalsozialists out of Germany, but you can't take the nationalsozialist out of Germans.

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“leading German Corona astrologer, Christian Drosten” 🤣🤣🤣

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Omicron is doing what reason could not.

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Jan 8, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I hope my university comes to this point before I get fired.

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The 5 stages of grief - how apropos!

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Jennifer didn’t understand why she’s thrice poisoned and “still can’t do anything”. Here’s a little hint, Jen. You were had. Taken in. Suckered. Defrauded of your future health. Poisoned for nothing.

Pro tip: gullibility isn’t a winning strategy.

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Here in Scotland our maniacal public health authorities and authoritarian government love lockdowns and restrictions. But to quote a local saying “their gas has been put on a peep” by the non arrival of their predicted “Tsunami” of hospitalisations and deaths. Shroud waving about cases is no longer cutting through. There is ONE verified case of Omicron in ICU. However they always regroup and with the support of the MSM and a Parliament of seat warming cretins who will never get into the real data they will try. My guess is they’ll seek to use the Cameroon/Marseille variant. However we have the best policy lesson/ slap in the face we could wish for. The natural experiment with a much more restricted Scotland V a less restrictive England. Already this is showing that our outcomes in devolved nations are no better.

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OK, now I am starting to agree with Eugyppius that the off ramp is a possibility. The UK MSM is running with a story about an "anti vax" doctor having critical words with the health secretary re. the looming NHS mandates. Much like Soviet propaganda, this kind of thing doesn't get out by accident. Likewise the Guardian ran with a story headlined "NHS Urged to Drop Vaccine Mandate Due to Staff Retention Crisis." Pravda doesn't describe a thing as "urged" unless they want to frame that thing as thinkable, if not actually push it.

But I don't trust these bastards just because they're hesitating in front of the social dynamite detonator at the last minute. Something else is probably coming, or at least, it would be prudent to expect this.

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„This is the first time since the Floyd riots in America, that major political leaders and public health authorities have said that preventing Corona can no longer be the highest goal of western society”. Why now? Because those major political leaders saw some secret polls among voters and know they're in for an awfully sobering fall from grace? Not that I'm under the spell of the movie Don't Look Up!, even though it does portray how mediocre leaders really make their decisions. I'm simply old enough to have seen it many times, at home and abroad.

In Romania we started today a 30-day extension of the 'state of alert', accompanied by the same pathetic restrictions, plus a blatantly infuriating new one: we are no longer permitted to wear textile or plastic masks, only surgical-type or FFP2, even though for two years now we've been repeatedly told that any type of mask was in order if it covers nose and mouth. So, our magnificent leaders kneeled down again in front of their bribery sources. (We use a much more obscene expression instead of simply 'kneel down', but I'll spare you that, we're among adults here, not teenagers.) An we must wear it AT ALL TIMES, both indoors and outdoors, even if we are alone in the street.

This morning I saw that most people complied, as I was the only maskless one in the underground trains, but in the street we were about half unmasked, half masked. My bet is that people will only start to make real noise and protest loudly in February, after the full shock of gas & electricity price raises will make itself felt on our pockets. Our leaders seem to be aware of that too, because my mother got a raise in her pension today.

But, since the Romanian government is usually taking its cue from Germany and the US, it also depends on how quickly the situation develops there.

For the time being, social media in Romania is still debating the Djokovic situation.

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After spending the afternoon scouring the outskirts of town, looking for empty cans and bottles with a deposit on them to eke out what has become an almost non-existent income, ...(we found just over 3 Euros worth - there really is money on the streets - some people still have money to burn) reading this was so encouraging. Thank you.

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