On the third anniversary of the worst exercise of public policy in American history, and while most people would now like to forget the Scamdemic so they can act as if they weren’t accomplices to it, I present the following, concise retrospective:
I hear you, Kathleen, but my point is that "duping" is impossible to a people -- to individuals -- raised with the courage to defend their own and others' freedom. Come what may. The vast majority went along, Kathleen -- as I knew they would because I saw the true character of the majority in this country a long time ago...There is no getting away from this. All the reasons in the world fall flat when fundamentals like basic human rights are at stake.
You (the generic "you") want to crap your pants, hide in the basement, and wrap your head in plastic? Have at it, but to support the destruction of others and 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 freedom to make other choices? Despicable. Craven. 𝑼𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. Even 𝒊𝒇 the lies of the Covid® operation were true...
The coddling of america was part of that psyop, and very effectively made unpatriotic ( or falsely patriotic) folk out of most. North Americans were ripe for the picking, because outside and inner forces made it so. Among humans, very few are resistant to the lies when they creep into culture and politics so surreptitiously.
But true patriots are as such because they are always aware of the fact that governments, by their nature, are tyrannical. They could be called paranoid, holding to A1 and A2, but who’s laughing now? Their loyalty to a God other than government keeps these few going.
Loyalty to something other than government, anyway, whether to God, race, principles, or something else. It's that naive assumption that government is a universal parent who steadfastly cares for us all, that is the killer.
They would've never fallen for the PSYOP had they understood the 2 most important warnings our founders gave us:
1. NEVER trade freedom for safety. It is the road to bondage. History bats a thousand on this.
2. 1A is unconditional.
This the nub of "forgetting", what was heretofore, common understandings at the societal level, what was wrong/right (on issues that aren't even close calls)...and even people who were skeptical or did not forget these principles did nothing.
Namely:
To protect the young at all cost and the children should never carry the burden for those short for this world. It is disgusting to me and with a heavy heart I say; woe to those who allowed their children to be surrounded in a spirit of fear and to have them believe that they could be responsible for death and disease. This is the definition of COWARDNESS
NO EXCUSES.
If I offend anyone by my comment, before you reply, please take a moment and reach deep inside and ask yourself WHY you are offended.
For parents who shipped their children to off to school to have their FACES covered all day (even at recess and lunch) with tyrannical enforcement by cowardly adults, while you stayed home and worked mask free, then start with that thought excercise. YOU should have stood up.YOU disavowed your main responsibility in life; to protect your CHILDREN.
The "funny" thing is, Ryan, we have no children -- and still my head exploded at the absurdity and the cruelty represented by "virtual classrooms," isolation, and your exact point -- the idea that young people would be responsible for the deaths of older people. The "adults" -- nothing but craven, cruel fools. And then the masking...The masking. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆.
Yeah. My wife and I spent about a year protesting and so forth around the country for children. The apathy even by parents that didn't want their kids masked, etc. was astonishing to me. The most powerful thing I think I've ever seen is someone like you without children who was in her 80's and would show up to school board meetings and just read them the riot act for what they were doing.
Those who ask 4 simple questions stop the tyrants in their tracks; Who, What, Where, and Why.
The government is still running the psyops today. Running ads that lie about the jab emergency is still in effect. They aren’t done and won’t give up the power. Any politician who supports any of these lies and genocide act needs to be removed in the primary election.
Unelected who made up these communist rules must be fired and brought to trial under the Nuremberg code. There are thousands that fall into this criminal organization.
It's taken me three decades to realize that "lack of curiosity" is endemic during the best of times, Roland. I reckon I'm rather slow-witted that way.
Someone such as yourself will have read an "experts say" broadsheet with no references to source material, sought out that material and drawn a reasonable conclusion that the chattering class was deliberately fueling hysteria and spreading misinformation. This is no surprise to you or I, because we know that fear sells. We are now discovering precisely who was paying for it, and why.
During times of mass panic, incuriosity prevails as even those we had considered calm and rational, are reduced to the level of simple limbic reactivity.
Over the last half-century, it's been my experience that the cure for anxiety begins with information, always and ever. The biggest crime committed with the induction of mass hysteria has been that it cynically and deliberately placed its cure out of reach.
It's been quite a revelation to observe so many people abandon their better nature, a testament to the destructive power of propaganda.
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.
I was raised Catholic back in the '60's when the Church was going through the Vatican II turmoil (and there are plenty of things I could say about that, too!). I still remember the gruesome stories the nuns used to tell us little ones in Catechism class about all the tortures the martyrs suffered for their faith and how Christians had to hide in the catacombs and say Mass in secret because it was such a dangerous time to be a Christian; how we too might be called upon for the same kind of bravery as they even though right now there was little danger of that. How, at Confirmation, the Bishop gave each confirmand a symbolic slap on the cheek for the same reason--to show our willingness to suffer and die for Christ.
That was the Church I was raised in. It no longer exists. Nero said, Bow down before me and offer incense and the Church said, Oh HELL no! We will die before we do that. And they did. The government says, shut down the churches, don't administer the sacraments, and the Church meekly rolls over and shows its belly. I have no doubt someone somewhere is taking notes and marveling that it was so easy. What the Romans couldn't do, our government did. So sad.
Yes, and that is why I reluctantly left the Church about 30 years ago. It was not an easy decision. A long story, too long to go into here but to put it in a nutshell, I felt that my needs were not getting met. Instead I was caught up between factions and feeling pressured to take sides. Worse I did not feel that anyone in the Church had my back or really cared about me; only about their agendas. I had people outside the Church trying to change me as well; I was told that I was brainwashed for wanting to follow the teachings of the Church, that those teachings were no longer acceptable and I needed to adopt the values of the society around me. Other Christians really weren't any better. My being Catholic wasn't acceptable to them either because "false doctrine." Not really Christian, you see. It's like being told that you are not a US citizen even though you were born in the USA of parents who were also born in the USA and that is the only identity you have ever known, but now you cannot claim that because you support the wrong political party! Come to think of it, we're not too far from that now. So I took a sabbatical and walked away to clear my head and while I was away the priest abuse scandal broke and I said, that's it, I'm done.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience with the Catholic church and "other Christians". I also came from a Catholic family. In my early thirties I asked Jesus into my heart and I guess you can call me one of those "born again" Christians. (That phrase is in the bible though.) The Christology of the Roman Catholic Church is correct, but there are other issues with the rest. I've attended an Assembly Of God church since 1979. One of them since June of 1990. All I can ask is that you get yourself a bible and read the first four gospels in the new testament to start. I'm sure there is no perfect church or none of us are perfect either. But Jesus is and He paid for our sins and when we accept Him, He forgives us.
I read the Bible in 1996, and was astonished to find that the Catholic Church was the church Jesus gave his authority to bind and loose sins. (Mt. 16:18-19)
He expressly gives (Simon, now "Peter" or "the rock") and the apostles His authority to withhold salvation, or to grant absolution right here.
Oh it's still the Church alright. Just the way this is still the USA. Ugly, maybe, confused, at times hard to see where the true form is, but the Church has been through worse stages in history and it's still here.
"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.
...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.
It might have been the frightened rabbit-eyes over the face diapers that infuriated me the most. I've never liked cowards or cry-babies. And did they ever come out from under their flat rocks during the past 3 years.
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.
I actually had a HR stooge get sent from an hour and a half away to talk to me about similar issues, when I was questioning why injected employees were being given a discount on health insurance, despite there being no long term (or even short term) data showing benefits or differences in amount of health care claims.
I rattled the guy with polite and civil questions about that, and about whether I would have a job for much longer if the jab mandates were implemented, and what the company expected to do without the 40% of their workforce who was telling them “hell, no”.
He had no answers for any of it, and shortly thereafter I heard that he had resigned his position.
Sorry, but no. Something like that would be pretty hard to hide. You can't just switch over from making one kind of thing to a completely unrelated kind of thing. It would have required an complete overhaul of the machines and the molds. That did not happen. We kept making the same kinds of parts that we did before Covid.
But they had to retool first. But, that's ok. I love it when people who have never set foot in my workplace tell me that they know everything that there is to know about what my company does or does not do. That we employees who actually run the machines are so stupid we don't know what we are producing or for whom. My coworkers would be laughing themselves silly at this idea that we were secretly making ventilators. But, again, that's all right. You know better than the rest of us.
Actuaries have tables and formulas they use to place a value on human life and activity. For loss of life, loss of limb, loss of consortium, etc. They calculate the value of the dead and injured missing graduations, weddings, travel, the entirety of the human experience. Tables and formulas used to make settlements or pay judgements for wrongful death and injury lawsuits that are based in part on age, lower for an 81yo than a 18yo. It's possible using these actuarial tables and formulas to calculate the value of the harms inflicted. Three years times 330 million (in the US alone) times the standard values assessed in courtrooms and claims paid that aren't even dependent on loss of life, just deprivation of the basics of a lived life is a calculation that can legitimately be made. And it's still growing.
This is the way I think about it: Yes the last three years were stolen from me in that I couldn't live a normal societal life. But the next 10 or so years ahead of me (however long I live) can never be stolen by "them" again. I have changed my life so much that I really wouldn't want the pre 2020 normal societal life back. My life no longer is at the whim of governments.
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.
Your mother sounds like she was a very courageous woman, as do you. I've no hope in humanity - and due to deep loss and hell on earth experiences over the past three years, I also keep my circle incredibly small; spouse, children, fur kids, a solid friend or two. Extended family has been THE WORST during all of this- from our child loss in Mar '20- to present day. I realistically cannot see myself forgiving, or forgetting, ever. The trauma cuts too deep, and I honestly feel that it's just a matter of time before the next "Scamdemic" comes down the pike, and the SAME abandoning friends & family behave exactly as they did the first go-round. I'm a quick study!
no reason to make amends with such a soulless, selfish human. She is not worthy of your love or respect. It's unimaginable to me to behave this way. I have a very close relationship with my sister, and wouldnt dare think to abandon her in a time of need because of some sniffle that was going around. Its just disgusting that people acted this way.
That’s exactly how I feel. They abandoned my mother in her time of need, and no matter how needy or desperate or scared or annoying she was, they should have been there for her, especially her own sister.
One thing I've researched quite a bit of since my daughter passed is NDE, or near death experiences, because I want to know what heaven is like. One thing they pretty much all have in common is a life review, where you get to see your actions and how it rippled (both good and bad). Apparently people do not feel judged while this is going on, but at least someday, most of them will hopefully get to "see" how bad their mistaken beliefs and actions based on those beliefs were. We all have them, however, we just see our own with rose-colored glasses.
There are also some near-death visions of hell. I try to imagine standing in front of Jesus and looking at my life with Him there and I can't bullshit or fudge because there it is. I want to be running TOWARDS Him when I die and not AWAY from Him.
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...
That's the other thing I don't understand. He says himself his son was injured by a vaccine and yet he doesn't have a problem with these??? It just doesn't make sense...
I know some Trump devotees who take every booster and still mask in public. But they are the minority. One major difference between Repubs and Dems is the Repubs are less lockstep with their elected buffoons. Repubs seem more likely to step out of formation; Dems I know are hopeless followers.
Trump got played by these democrat plants and it cost him an easy re-election. He believed all the lies and believes his wonderful vaccine was the greatest marvel of science in history, saving millions of life. The guy is an egomaniac and a blowhard, and in the end it cost him.
There’s an irony though: although some Trump supporters did take the jab on his say-so, I’ll wager that the vast majority of us who didn’t were Trump supporters or at least leaned conservative / red. So all of the Trump haters who would never have taken it had he remained in office, could not WAIT to roll up their sleeves when it magically became the magical elixir to lead us out of darkness on LGB-FJB’s say-so. And all of us who had refused initially had even more confirmation we were right. And so probably almost the entire DemoncRAT party, communists & fascists (I’m repeating myself), out of hatred & lack of common sense, have done this to themselves. Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch. One way to cull the herd, I guess.
I’ll never forgive Trump for his role in all of it & agree he needs to go away but he’s not. He needs to be soundly defeated in the primaries.
I also, can’t let go of the fact he can’t admit he was played and operation Warp Speed is not a legacy. It’s a rock around his neck for all the harm it’s done.
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.
We were told at my work that we would not be having our traditional Christmas breakfast/dinner because of the pandemic. It was "too risky" for people who had been working together for 8 hours in the same plant to walk several hundred yards down a corridor to the plant where the breakfast/dinner was to be held. I said at the time to my coworkers that this was indeed the strangest virus I had ever heard of, that it wasn't a problem during shift but all of a sudden it was now a problem? WTF is going on here? Gee I am so glad that management was looking out for our safety; I'd hate to think of what would have happened if we'd all sat down together.
I flew to visit a dying brother, to Phoenix from the east coast of the US, in November '21. Plenty of mask drama in the airports and on the plane. What I really enjoyed was finding I was seated next to another inquisitive mind, a middle aged businessman, and when the drinks came it was party time. Maybe that was a bright spot in this tragedy: to find kindred souls and be able to laugh with them at all the stupidheads.
"At what cost?" is a question that is very seldom asked today. Most of the money spent, in almost every field of human endeavor, is SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONEY. Governments, NGO's, bureaucrats of all stripes, the entire managerial class, ALWAYS spend somebody else's money.
And, of course, we have spent generations building a society in which those in our elite ruling classes are seldom, very, very seldom, held accountable. For anything!
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.
Nursing homes are killing fields on a good day. Everyone involved in isolating nursing home patients during the last 3 years should be tried and thrown into solitary confinement until their deaths.
90% plus of nursing homes are miserable places. The residents are neglected and forgotten by the staff during regular times. In Covid times when they could lock out any caring family members it was a living hell for the residents. I imagine most of them died in there own filth of despair, and loneliness. They wouldve had to arrest me if my mom or grandma was in one of those places during covid and they wouldnt let me see them.
My mother-in-law died Dec 2019, in a cushy nursing home near family. We went in every day to feed her and keep her company. She hated being in there nonetheless and I don't blame her. What would we have done if she'd lived into the covid era? I'd like to think we'd have brought her home. But what I think fooled people was the "only fifteen days", then "only thirty more".
I have a friend who waved bye-bye to her dying father in the hospital as he lay in a covid ward. She said it was necessary for her to stay on the other side of the window, because, well, she had a grandson and granddaughter she wanted to spend time with and didn't want to expose them to covid. Never mind that she could have "quarantined" or tested. She just didn't think of it. So he died alone.
I think we're seeing how Hitler's euthanasia program for useless eaters got rolling.
She was Ill informed like most people. Afraid to give children a cold, a cold that is a non factor as far as a threat to kids. It’s a shame how she got played like so many others about how lethal Covid was. She could’ve seen her dying dad and still been around her grandkids who were zero risk. Instead the lying media and health system had her scared shitless, so that she wouldn’t even hold her dying dads hand for a few minutes. Something I can tell you from personal experience, matters. I did it with my grand parents and my dying mother, and it has stayed with me all these years later. My mother shed a tear as I held her hand and my grandpa just smiled at me when I told him it was ok to let go. Waving thru a window is sub human behavior and I couldn’t imagine doing something like that.
I agree, but the Christian home my mom was in wasn’t the usual one. It was expensive and she got great care. It was pristine, filled with people she knew and other family members. It was staffed by the kids and grandchildren of her own friends. It was vibrant and busy. She could schedule an outing and go shopping or get her hair done.
They enjoyed having no family oversight. My dad’s care went to hell in the memory center he was in. Thank God my saint of a sister brought him to her house for the last few weeks of his life. I blame pharma for the sickening increase in debilitating dementia touching so very many lives these days.
there collapsing the banking system as we speak. Digital currency is next, theyll just turn your money off for whatever they fancy, climate, a virus, writing a substack they dont like. A new dark age is coming.
The vast majority of Americans displayed a nauseating lack of courage and an 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 infidelity to liberty.
It was the most effective military and government psyops ever.
"It was the most effective military and government psyops ever..." because of the moral failings pointed out by STL.
I think the answer is more complex.
Because it was the most effective psyops ever...and it was planned and studied on how to be the most effective...many people were duped.
It is beyond most people's comprehension to understand that their government wants them dead.
After all, this is America...land of the free and brave! Not Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia.
People need to realize, and admit, that there are very evil people and forces at work in the US.
I hear you, Kathleen, but my point is that "duping" is impossible to a people -- to individuals -- raised with the courage to defend their own and others' freedom. Come what may. The vast majority went along, Kathleen -- as I knew they would because I saw the true character of the majority in this country a long time ago...There is no getting away from this. All the reasons in the world fall flat when fundamentals like basic human rights are at stake.
You (the generic "you") want to crap your pants, hide in the basement, and wrap your head in plastic? Have at it, but to support the destruction of others and 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 freedom to make other choices? Despicable. Craven. 𝑼𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆. Even 𝒊𝒇 the lies of the Covid® operation were true...
The coddling of america was part of that psyop, and very effectively made unpatriotic ( or falsely patriotic) folk out of most. North Americans were ripe for the picking, because outside and inner forces made it so. Among humans, very few are resistant to the lies when they creep into culture and politics so surreptitiously.
But true patriots are as such because they are always aware of the fact that governments, by their nature, are tyrannical. They could be called paranoid, holding to A1 and A2, but who’s laughing now? Their loyalty to a God other than government keeps these few going.
“𝑪𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏; 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇.” - 𝑬𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒔
Loyalty to something other than government, anyway, whether to God, race, principles, or something else. It's that naive assumption that government is a universal parent who steadfastly cares for us all, that is the killer.
They would've never fallen for the PSYOP had they understood the 2 most important warnings our founders gave us:
1. NEVER trade freedom for safety. It is the road to bondage. History bats a thousand on this.
2. 1A is unconditional.
This the nub of "forgetting", what was heretofore, common understandings at the societal level, what was wrong/right (on issues that aren't even close calls)...and even people who were skeptical or did not forget these principles did nothing.
Namely:
To protect the young at all cost and the children should never carry the burden for those short for this world. It is disgusting to me and with a heavy heart I say; woe to those who allowed their children to be surrounded in a spirit of fear and to have them believe that they could be responsible for death and disease. This is the definition of COWARDNESS
NO EXCUSES.
If I offend anyone by my comment, before you reply, please take a moment and reach deep inside and ask yourself WHY you are offended.
For parents who shipped their children to off to school to have their FACES covered all day (even at recess and lunch) with tyrannical enforcement by cowardly adults, while you stayed home and worked mask free, then start with that thought excercise. YOU should have stood up.YOU disavowed your main responsibility in life; to protect your CHILDREN.
Learn and NEVER AGAIN.
The "funny" thing is, Ryan, we have no children -- and still my head exploded at the absurdity and the cruelty represented by "virtual classrooms," isolation, and your exact point -- the idea that young people would be responsible for the deaths of older people. The "adults" -- nothing but craven, cruel fools. And then the masking...The masking. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆.
Yeah. My wife and I spent about a year protesting and so forth around the country for children. The apathy even by parents that didn't want their kids masked, etc. was astonishing to me. The most powerful thing I think I've ever seen is someone like you without children who was in her 80's and would show up to school board meetings and just read them the riot act for what they were doing.
There was so much cruelty...and it was intentional.
Evil is at work In the world.
Those who ask 4 simple questions stop the tyrants in their tracks; Who, What, Where, and Why.
The government is still running the psyops today. Running ads that lie about the jab emergency is still in effect. They aren’t done and won’t give up the power. Any politician who supports any of these lies and genocide act needs to be removed in the primary election.
Unelected who made up these communist rules must be fired and brought to trial under the Nuremberg code. There are thousands that fall into this criminal organization.
Stand down the Department of Defense (against the proles) and the Federal Reserve.
What was more baffling to me was the lack of curiosity.
It's taken me three decades to realize that "lack of curiosity" is endemic during the best of times, Roland. I reckon I'm rather slow-witted that way.
Someone such as yourself will have read an "experts say" broadsheet with no references to source material, sought out that material and drawn a reasonable conclusion that the chattering class was deliberately fueling hysteria and spreading misinformation. This is no surprise to you or I, because we know that fear sells. We are now discovering precisely who was paying for it, and why.
During times of mass panic, incuriosity prevails as even those we had considered calm and rational, are reduced to the level of simple limbic reactivity.
Over the last half-century, it's been my experience that the cure for anxiety begins with information, always and ever. The biggest crime committed with the induction of mass hysteria has been that it cynically and deliberately placed its cure out of reach.
It's been quite a revelation to observe so many people abandon their better nature, a testament to the destructive power of propaganda.
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.
I was raised Catholic back in the '60's when the Church was going through the Vatican II turmoil (and there are plenty of things I could say about that, too!). I still remember the gruesome stories the nuns used to tell us little ones in Catechism class about all the tortures the martyrs suffered for their faith and how Christians had to hide in the catacombs and say Mass in secret because it was such a dangerous time to be a Christian; how we too might be called upon for the same kind of bravery as they even though right now there was little danger of that. How, at Confirmation, the Bishop gave each confirmand a symbolic slap on the cheek for the same reason--to show our willingness to suffer and die for Christ.
That was the Church I was raised in. It no longer exists. Nero said, Bow down before me and offer incense and the Church said, Oh HELL no! We will die before we do that. And they did. The government says, shut down the churches, don't administer the sacraments, and the Church meekly rolls over and shows its belly. I have no doubt someone somewhere is taking notes and marveling that it was so easy. What the Romans couldn't do, our government did. So sad.
If people want to see where society is heading they only need to look at the civil war currently waging in the Catholic Church.
Yes, and that is why I reluctantly left the Church about 30 years ago. It was not an easy decision. A long story, too long to go into here but to put it in a nutshell, I felt that my needs were not getting met. Instead I was caught up between factions and feeling pressured to take sides. Worse I did not feel that anyone in the Church had my back or really cared about me; only about their agendas. I had people outside the Church trying to change me as well; I was told that I was brainwashed for wanting to follow the teachings of the Church, that those teachings were no longer acceptable and I needed to adopt the values of the society around me. Other Christians really weren't any better. My being Catholic wasn't acceptable to them either because "false doctrine." Not really Christian, you see. It's like being told that you are not a US citizen even though you were born in the USA of parents who were also born in the USA and that is the only identity you have ever known, but now you cannot claim that because you support the wrong political party! Come to think of it, we're not too far from that now. So I took a sabbatical and walked away to clear my head and while I was away the priest abuse scandal broke and I said, that's it, I'm done.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience with the Catholic church and "other Christians". I also came from a Catholic family. In my early thirties I asked Jesus into my heart and I guess you can call me one of those "born again" Christians. (That phrase is in the bible though.) The Christology of the Roman Catholic Church is correct, but there are other issues with the rest. I've attended an Assembly Of God church since 1979. One of them since June of 1990. All I can ask is that you get yourself a bible and read the first four gospels in the new testament to start. I'm sure there is no perfect church or none of us are perfect either. But Jesus is and He paid for our sins and when we accept Him, He forgives us.
I read the Bible in 1996, and was astonished to find that the Catholic Church was the church Jesus gave his authority to bind and loose sins. (Mt. 16:18-19)
He expressly gives (Simon, now "Peter" or "the rock") and the apostles His authority to withhold salvation, or to grant absolution right here.
Oh it's still the Church alright. Just the way this is still the USA. Ugly, maybe, confused, at times hard to see where the true form is, but the Church has been through worse stages in history and it's still here.
Almost analogous to family. But eternal.
True! You didn’t change. The world and its rules flipped over like a soggy pancake.
So now we know who were the nazis. The very everyday people and their tyrants. Of course the everyday people were just following orders...
To be fair, it doesn't make them Nazis, just simpletons who got used by Nazis. They got hurt too, and are still getting hurt.
"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.
...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.
It might have been the frightened rabbit-eyes over the face diapers that infuriated me the most. I've never liked cowards or cry-babies. And did they ever come out from under their flat rocks during the past 3 years.
and stolen friend ships, stolen social interaction, stolen fresh air, stolen sanity, stolen mental and physical growth.
They are all criminals.
They are murderers.
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.
I actually had a HR stooge get sent from an hour and a half away to talk to me about similar issues, when I was questioning why injected employees were being given a discount on health insurance, despite there being no long term (or even short term) data showing benefits or differences in amount of health care claims.
I rattled the guy with polite and civil questions about that, and about whether I would have a job for much longer if the jab mandates were implemented, and what the company expected to do without the 40% of their workforce who was telling them “hell, no”.
He had no answers for any of it, and shortly thereafter I heard that he had resigned his position.
Because you endangered their lucrative feral contract to make ventilators. (Falsely called "automotive parts")
Sorry, but no. Something like that would be pretty hard to hide. You can't just switch over from making one kind of thing to a completely unrelated kind of thing. It would have required an complete overhaul of the machines and the molds. That did not happen. We kept making the same kinds of parts that we did before Covid.
They made tanks and airplanes during WWII. First hit: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51956880 No "hiding" involved.
But they had to retool first. But, that's ok. I love it when people who have never set foot in my workplace tell me that they know everything that there is to know about what my company does or does not do. That we employees who actually run the machines are so stupid we don't know what we are producing or for whom. My coworkers would be laughing themselves silly at this idea that we were secretly making ventilators. But, again, that's all right. You know better than the rest of us.
"many Americans displayed profound deficits of knowledge and logic."
Funny how logic seems to be important to create and maintain civilization.
And basic mathematical skills.
Those bastards stole 3 years of my life.
Actuaries have tables and formulas they use to place a value on human life and activity. For loss of life, loss of limb, loss of consortium, etc. They calculate the value of the dead and injured missing graduations, weddings, travel, the entirety of the human experience. Tables and formulas used to make settlements or pay judgements for wrongful death and injury lawsuits that are based in part on age, lower for an 81yo than a 18yo. It's possible using these actuarial tables and formulas to calculate the value of the harms inflicted. Three years times 330 million (in the US alone) times the standard values assessed in courtrooms and claims paid that aren't even dependent on loss of life, just deprivation of the basics of a lived life is a calculation that can legitimately be made. And it's still growing.
100%. Nailed it.
This is the way I think about it: Yes the last three years were stolen from me in that I couldn't live a normal societal life. But the next 10 or so years ahead of me (however long I live) can never be stolen by "them" again. I have changed my life so much that I really wouldn't want the pre 2020 normal societal life back. My life no longer is at the whim of governments.
Good points.
Those bastards stole my adult daughter.
Prayers...
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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.
Absolutely unforgivable. I am sorry. 🫂
Your mother sounds like she was a very courageous woman, as do you. I've no hope in humanity - and due to deep loss and hell on earth experiences over the past three years, I also keep my circle incredibly small; spouse, children, fur kids, a solid friend or two. Extended family has been THE WORST during all of this- from our child loss in Mar '20- to present day. I realistically cannot see myself forgiving, or forgetting, ever. The trauma cuts too deep, and I honestly feel that it's just a matter of time before the next "Scamdemic" comes down the pike, and the SAME abandoning friends & family behave exactly as they did the first go-round. I'm a quick study!
no reason to make amends with such a soulless, selfish human. She is not worthy of your love or respect. It's unimaginable to me to behave this way. I have a very close relationship with my sister, and wouldnt dare think to abandon her in a time of need because of some sniffle that was going around. Its just disgusting that people acted this way.
That’s exactly how I feel. They abandoned my mother in her time of need, and no matter how needy or desperate or scared or annoying she was, they should have been there for her, especially her own sister.
One thing I've researched quite a bit of since my daughter passed is NDE, or near death experiences, because I want to know what heaven is like. One thing they pretty much all have in common is a life review, where you get to see your actions and how it rippled (both good and bad). Apparently people do not feel judged while this is going on, but at least someday, most of them will hopefully get to "see" how bad their mistaken beliefs and actions based on those beliefs were. We all have them, however, we just see our own with rose-colored glasses.
There are also some near-death visions of hell. I try to imagine standing in front of Jesus and looking at my life with Him there and I can't bullshit or fudge because there it is. I want to be running TOWARDS Him when I die and not AWAY from Him.
I've read about those as well. Those people come back completely changed for the better.
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...
He still insists the shots were great.
He needs to go away.
That's the other thing I don't understand. He says himself his son was injured by a vaccine and yet he doesn't have a problem with these??? It just doesn't make sense...
I know some Trump devotees who take every booster and still mask in public. But they are the minority. One major difference between Repubs and Dems is the Repubs are less lockstep with their elected buffoons. Repubs seem more likely to step out of formation; Dems I know are hopeless followers.
Trump: "They're a beautiful thing; a beautiful thing."
Trump got played by these democrat plants and it cost him an easy re-election. He believed all the lies and believes his wonderful vaccine was the greatest marvel of science in history, saving millions of life. The guy is an egomaniac and a blowhard, and in the end it cost him.
There’s an irony though: although some Trump supporters did take the jab on his say-so, I’ll wager that the vast majority of us who didn’t were Trump supporters or at least leaned conservative / red. So all of the Trump haters who would never have taken it had he remained in office, could not WAIT to roll up their sleeves when it magically became the magical elixir to lead us out of darkness on LGB-FJB’s say-so. And all of us who had refused initially had even more confirmation we were right. And so probably almost the entire DemoncRAT party, communists & fascists (I’m repeating myself), out of hatred & lack of common sense, have done this to themselves. Couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch. One way to cull the herd, I guess.
I’ll never forgive Trump for his role in all of it & agree he needs to go away but he’s not. He needs to be soundly defeated in the primaries.
I also, can’t let go of the fact he can’t admit he was played and operation Warp Speed is not a legacy. It’s a rock around his neck for all the harm it’s done.
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.
very true. it's one of my favourite answers: 'if I can know, you can too, nothing special about it'. untill it is.
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.
We were told at my work that we would not be having our traditional Christmas breakfast/dinner because of the pandemic. It was "too risky" for people who had been working together for 8 hours in the same plant to walk several hundred yards down a corridor to the plant where the breakfast/dinner was to be held. I said at the time to my coworkers that this was indeed the strangest virus I had ever heard of, that it wasn't a problem during shift but all of a sudden it was now a problem? WTF is going on here? Gee I am so glad that management was looking out for our safety; I'd hate to think of what would have happened if we'd all sat down together.
I flew to visit a dying brother, to Phoenix from the east coast of the US, in November '21. Plenty of mask drama in the airports and on the plane. What I really enjoyed was finding I was seated next to another inquisitive mind, a middle aged businessman, and when the drinks came it was party time. Maybe that was a bright spot in this tragedy: to find kindred souls and be able to laugh with them at all the stupidheads.
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?’
"At what cost?" is a question that is very seldom asked today. Most of the money spent, in almost every field of human endeavor, is SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONEY. Governments, NGO's, bureaucrats of all stripes, the entire managerial class, ALWAYS spend somebody else's money.
And, of course, we have spent generations building a society in which those in our elite ruling classes are seldom, very, very seldom, held accountable. For anything!
very, very true. feeding at the trough.
financially, socielly, emotionally.
Great recap. I'm still traumatized by what we've gone through, so many losses. I'll never forget.
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.
Nursing homes are killing fields on a good day. Everyone involved in isolating nursing home patients during the last 3 years should be tried and thrown into solitary confinement until their deaths.
90% plus of nursing homes are miserable places. The residents are neglected and forgotten by the staff during regular times. In Covid times when they could lock out any caring family members it was a living hell for the residents. I imagine most of them died in there own filth of despair, and loneliness. They wouldve had to arrest me if my mom or grandma was in one of those places during covid and they wouldnt let me see them.
My mother-in-law died Dec 2019, in a cushy nursing home near family. We went in every day to feed her and keep her company. She hated being in there nonetheless and I don't blame her. What would we have done if she'd lived into the covid era? I'd like to think we'd have brought her home. But what I think fooled people was the "only fifteen days", then "only thirty more".
I have a friend who waved bye-bye to her dying father in the hospital as he lay in a covid ward. She said it was necessary for her to stay on the other side of the window, because, well, she had a grandson and granddaughter she wanted to spend time with and didn't want to expose them to covid. Never mind that she could have "quarantined" or tested. She just didn't think of it. So he died alone.
I think we're seeing how Hitler's euthanasia program for useless eaters got rolling.
She was Ill informed like most people. Afraid to give children a cold, a cold that is a non factor as far as a threat to kids. It’s a shame how she got played like so many others about how lethal Covid was. She could’ve seen her dying dad and still been around her grandkids who were zero risk. Instead the lying media and health system had her scared shitless, so that she wouldn’t even hold her dying dads hand for a few minutes. Something I can tell you from personal experience, matters. I did it with my grand parents and my dying mother, and it has stayed with me all these years later. My mother shed a tear as I held her hand and my grandpa just smiled at me when I told him it was ok to let go. Waving thru a window is sub human behavior and I couldn’t imagine doing something like that.
I couldn't have done that to my dog. Seriously.
I agree, but the Christian home my mom was in wasn’t the usual one. It was expensive and she got great care. It was pristine, filled with people she knew and other family members. It was staffed by the kids and grandchildren of her own friends. It was vibrant and busy. She could schedule an outing and go shopping or get her hair done.
But lockdown killed her will.
They enjoyed having no family oversight. My dad’s care went to hell in the memory center he was in. Thank God my saint of a sister brought him to her house for the last few weeks of his life. I blame pharma for the sickening increase in debilitating dementia touching so very many lives these days.
That is so awful. I'm so sorry.
Wait until the climate crazies demand we have to shut down Covid style to save the planet...
there collapsing the banking system as we speak. Digital currency is next, theyll just turn your money off for whatever they fancy, climate, a virus, writing a substack they dont like. A new dark age is coming.
Coming soon - to a universe near you. A logical progression from, "We had to destroy the Village to save it!"