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The vast majority of Americans displayed a nauseating lack of courage and an 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 infidelity to liberty.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

What a reminder, Mark! What comes back to me are all the lectures I got from friends about this being nothing to take lightly, the fear on neighbors' faces when I told them I was getting over covid (standing twenty feet away and ten days out), the frightened eyes over the face diapers out shopping, filthy grubby masks under people's noses but hey, they were doing their share, the barricaded public parks, the loss of sacraments at church for three months, then nothing but outdoor Mass in the parking lot with masks demanded as we stood (or sat in lawn chairs) on the yellow dots spray painted six feet apart on the blacktop....the list is endless and still makes my blood want to boil. What a bunch of chicken littles!

I take temperament tests with a grain of salt because people are too complex to represent with 4-letter labels but it seems the type of person who is a rule-follower, the normally good citizen, that "type" were the ones to swallow the fairy tales and follow the stupid rules. And they had no patience with those of us who clock in as "rule-breakers". But I contend that when the shit hits the fan, it's going to be rule-breakers who keep next Third Reich from succeeding.

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"Scientifically illiterate, germophobic Trump panicked while the Democrats and a complicit media used phony statistics and hospital videos to scare people."

It was a "me-too freakout" from the get-go. Chinese man falls to the ground --> Italy's mismanaged hospitals are crowded --> NY's killing hospitals are killing more people --> FREAKOUT! From that point forward it was who could be the most freakoutist over nothing. Society is run by middle school tweens sitting at the cool kids lunch table, who freak out at the loner kid sitting by himself and then throw tater tots at the loner and scheme at other ways to shove their "me-too freakoutism" in every one's faces.

Human nature is really quite simple.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

...absurd rules, such as one-way walking in stores... oh how I enjoyed walking maskless into the aisle, right over the arrow, the “wrong” way. It was so much fun watching the horror in the eyes, over their masks, of all the fearful people. Hahahaha! Lol! ..........yeah, I’m that mean.

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and stolen friend ships, stolen social interaction, stolen fresh air, stolen sanity, stolen mental and physical growth.

They are all criminals.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

And employers also participated in scaring people. I do not know what the motive was--perhaps government contracts or money at stake. But I was taken aside by management (not my immediate supervisor but the suits in the front office) and given a lecture about how I should be "scared of Covid". All because I posted a question in the online employee forum regarding absentee rates due to Covid versus all other causes. I was told that I was out of line for asking that question. (Not that they used those exact words but the meaning was quite clear). That the suits from the front office would actually take the time to come out on the factory floor and interrogate me, a lowly machine operator, was pretty interesting, to say the least. Someone was afraid of something all right! It does make me wonder. This was a small independent plastics company making automotive parts--why would management react so strongly to my question?

I have a feeling that there will be more revelations like this in years to come and that I am not the only one who was taken aside and warned about not following the party line.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

"many Americans displayed profound deficits of knowledge and logic."

Funny how logic seems to be important to create and maintain civilization.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Those bastards stole 3 years of my life.

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Mar 16, 2023·edited Mar 17, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I live in a senior housing complex and there are still people wearing masks 24/7. Daily, I see a lone resident taking a bag of trash to the dumpster at 10:00 in the evening, while many are already asleep and most are in for the night, and yet they have a mask covering their face. In the past several years, I can't recall a trip to the local Kroger supermarket without seeing at least a few masked shoppers, and that includes yesterday. God, give me patience!!!

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My liberal family refused to see my 81 yo mother because she didn’t take the jab. She was alone, had already recovered from COVID in the hospital in Jan. 2021, was partially handicapped and was not allowed to drive. So unless she had visitors to her house or her PT Aide was there, she was totally isolated. I made sure I drove the 45 minutes to her house every week to take her out into nature and to lunch. Her own sister told her “you know you could die if you don’t get the jab, and I won’t see you until you do”. Such lies. My mother unexpectedly died Aug 2021 after recovering from emergency surgery for a blockage in her intestines. Before that she fell and broke her neck in 2019 and Before that she was in a car accident and broke her back in 2000 and was in constant pain. She’s been through hell and back. Her own sister hadn’t seen her in 3 years, only showed up at the hospital the day she died. Made up an excuse why she couldn’t come to the funeral. Totally unforgivable. I haven’t seen or heard from her since even though we were close prior. I can’t stand most of humanity anymore, lost all faith and prefer my furry friends and my husband & kids of course.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Short, sweet, and to the point! And one of the saddest things about our scientifically illiterate, germophobic Trump was that so many people trusted him to know what was the right thing to do and took the shots b/c they couldn't believe he would lie to them...I have so many relatives who fell for that BS and still think the shots and masks have helped them somehow...

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I saw this quote the other day: Don’t ask me how I knew, ask yourself why you didn’t.

Some people can’t self-reflect, can’t question their own intelligence and sense. They should try harder. This won’t be the last time TPTB do this.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Here are a few items that strain credulity surrounding the "Covid" phenomenon:

How was it that this "virus" spread across thousands of kilometers within days and peaked synchronously in selected locations?

How was it that this "virus" was able to spread so fast across thousands of kilometers, peaking at the same time in those selected locations, yet wasn’t contagious enough to spread to nearby locations?

How was it this "deadly lab-leaked virus” caused no mass death in the original place of the “lab leak.”

How did this “gain of function” hypercharged “virii” migrate to N Italy from Wuhan skipping over Pakistan, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, etc?

How was it as has been demonstrated from all-cause-mortality figures analysis – that the "virus" obediently stopped killing people at jurisdictional boundaries?

Killing lots more where the ’emergency measures’ were fiercest, and killing far fewer in the next-door-contiguous jurisdiction where they were much milder?

How was it that this deadliest of virii impacted only the poor and disabled. How did this GOF virus stayed away from upper middle class and wealthy people?

How was it that this most transmissible of virii occurred exclusively in hospitals and nursing homes and not out in the general population?

How is such a virus so selective?

How is it that such a "virus" in fact did not spread widely?

How was it possible that all countries in the West and beyond adopted similar measures virtually "overnight” mirroring the Italian template with measures resembling a de facto police state rather than health initiatives?

To ascribe this convergent set of circumstances to a "viral event" beggars belief and defies all known epidemiological history and flies in the face of all established biological science.

What can do this is a coordinated campaign by powerful interests.

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Bullseye. Concise and to the point.

Prior to setting policy and determining a solution, the so called ‘experts’ failed to ask a simple question. ‘At what cost?’

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Great recap. I'm still traumatized by what we've gone through, so many losses. I'll never forget.

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Mar 16, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My mom was 88 years and 8 months exactly when she died the Sunday before Thanksgiving in 2020. She had COPD and emphysema but her death certificate says “COVID and malnutrition “ were the cause.

The nursing home she was in was filled with her friends she grew up with as well as her family but they didn’t get to see each other. Every one had to stay in their rooms, which did nothing to prevent the spread. We had to stand outside her window and talk on the phone whenever we visited that year. No touching.

When she inevitably got Covid, the director called me and said my mom wasn’t that sick but she wouldn’t eat. She was going to check out one way or the other because she was tired of being a prisoner and paying for the privilege.

It took a couple weeks. Since she was in a Covid room there wasn’t even a way to see her through a window.

She died alone which was her greatest fear, having grown up with dying family being kept at home surrounded by family.

I’m still not over her death of despair.

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