The Great Santini is a compelling cinematic character sketch of Bull Meechum, a fictional American fighter jet pilot during peacetime: a warrior without a war and therefore a misfit in polite society.
A tremendous retrospective look at the Covid phenomenon Mark, superbly written.
It’s tempting to think and hope that we have come out the other side, at last. I really don’t feel like we have. We, by which I mean those outside of the Substack community whom I regard as having critical thinking skills, are ready to embrace the next scam. Lessons have not been learned by what seems like the majority. As you have set out, refusal to acknowledge that they were misled by government and the media means that we have simply proved to those who seek to dominate that we are endlessly gullible. We will willingly submit to the next and the one after.
I don’t think Covid should be viewed as distinct from a lot of seemingly unconnected dots. If we were able to join the together we would see that Covid was simply one part of a systemic strategy to effect global change. Climate, race, illegal migration, digital IDs, ‘freedom’ passports, CBDCs, social credits, trans and other anti-family based ideology, Islamism, debt, inflation, energy costs, food, fertiliser, Ukraine, China, wokism, . These phenomena are not happening in isolation. If we can accept that things don’t just happen, they are made to happen then we have a chance to at least begin to understand that we are being encouraged, coerced, forced towards something that we would not voluntarily accept. And that is a scary thought that we need everyone to be awake to.
You're right to observe that I wrote this sort of as a retrospective. Though I don't really think it is that, yet. I think that throughout the past 27 months, I've cut through the endless media/government lies and nonsense; they've been easy targets.
I've done much less well predicting the Covid (caminodel) futuro. There are two main reasons for that. First, I've been driven throughout by misplaced hopefulness. Second, and relatedly, I've applied reason in a context where reason doesn't matter. I thought more people would see the Scamdemic as the scam that it is. I've been wrong about that.
You're astute to see CV in a larger context of a continuing series of fearmongering. I've focused on CV more than other developing/ongoing scams because the lockdowns and vaxxes have more directly, observably, immediately affected my life--and other lives--than some of the other scams do.
Life goes on, albeit in compromised form. We put one foot in front of the other and try to bear witness to the Scam, day by day, interaction by interaction. It's the best we can do. And if we can't beat back this one, other ones--such as those you mention-- will be harder.
"Things don't just happen, they are made to happen".
The monkey pox nonsense has stirred a few people, while the hepatitis in children previously stirred a few more.
Not enough to awaken them from sleepwalking to their end though.
The majority of the jabbed will have no desire to hear how they were lied to, so billions of people will choose to remain ignorant and readily accept whatever their duplicitous overlords order them to do next..
Soelcaminodelfuturo, Whats so frightening is that the litany of all you listed is SO much & coming SO fast. It’s a way to keep us completely off balance because we can’t keep up w/ it all
You are correct. There is, purposely, SO much coming SO fast that the mind has difficulty absorbing and sorting through it all. However, we must continue to try and warn others.
I must say that "others" who are not yet awake, are unlikely to be persuaded by us tinfoil hat wearing crazies.
Don't worry about them, but just focus on making sure that you and yours are as healthy, protected and secure as may be necessary to weather the coming storm.
My wife isn't fully awake and isn't interested in the global situation, so I'm quietly trying to stock up with essentials, grow medicinal plants and stock up with vegetable seeds.
Maybe it all comes to nothing, but if it really is something, then we should try and be at least a little bit prepared.
The UK is just as bad, though thankfully, we don't have Biden.
I have previously noted that I now have (almost) no faith in the medical profession, though there undoubtedly many amazing people still actually saving lives.
The last two years have been a real eye opener for me and I am still seeing people waking up to some realisation of what has gone on.
I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all.
Not even the supposedly highly educated and intelligent people, who blindly went along with and even defended all of the tyranny, so sadly, I've stopped caring.
The mainstream media needs to be forcibly destroyed and never allowed to publish their lies again.
All politicians who openly supported this evil, should be sacked and maybe jailed for their wilful destruction of the countries they were supposed to serve.
The puppet masters should all be publicly hanged.
I realise that none of these things will happen, so my only response going forward is an absolute refusal to do anything that the government or media tells me to do.
We don't have Biden but we do have the Albino Blancmange !
I wanted to take my cat to my long standing vets last week (June 2022). I was told I had to wait in the car park and phone reception to inform them I had arrived for my appointment - and I had to wear a facemask when called to enter the premises for the consultation.
omg the albino blancmange ! I love that. And I also love your decision to find another vet. I hope you found one who did not follow the narrative, like ours, who throughout the whole circus did not else but move a table next to the counter (which probably made the distance 4 feet) and is not a jab happy !
"I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all." This!
I was completely gobsmacked by how easily everybody I knew simply believed, unquestioningly, unconditionally, and totally. I sent my friends links to NIH studies on coronavirus vaccines and mRNA research before they were scrubbed from the internet. NONE of them tried to grasp the implications. None of them saw that the lockdowns were bull---. None of them have a friggin' clue, to this day. It is very disheartening. My missus still won't talk about it, after so many of her friends had "sudden unexpected" deaths. However, I think part of her believes me now, she hasn't taken the booster. -knock wood-
I am in Florida and despite what some people think, it's not as "free" as you would think - at least in my area- most of my friends and family are totally brainwashed by ALL of it. It's so disheartening. I keep reading how we must hold compassion for these folks and let them "wake up" in their own time, but the more time that goes by- I think they will never wake up, and I'm starting to get really angry. If things are ever going to change, we need everyone on board, and they are holding us back.
Yes. I am wondering when people will wake up, if ever. I am beginning to suspect that most won't, until one or more people dear to them perish. So sad! ... The timeline and the end-game still elude me. I hope the architects of this mass poisoning are smart enough that the societal collapse (mass deaths?) is slow and manageable. Perhaps I am just paranoid - part of me keeps hoping so in spite of the data that keeps mounting. So far: - "I hate always being right! Dammit!" c'est la vie. Still fighting the good fight and surviving.
I’m wondering the same thing, i.e. “How do we *do* this?”
One thing we must do is not be afraid to discuss what’s happening with others. We were swimming at our HOA’s pool and started discussing the COVID hysteria with another couple. Was shocked to find out *they* were aware of the depopulation angle.
Another is the residual mask wearers in public. I’m very close to *calmly* asking them “Excuse me, but can I ask you: why are you still wearing that mask?”
If you don’t feel comfortable speaking to strangers, maybe just stare.
One of my former CCD students bleats at them like a sheep, trying to communicate in their language. That’s probably too far, I don’t know. (But I’m kinda proud of that young man anyway. Lol)
At first I thought brexit was a mistake, but you might have escaped the EU before it became nazi ursula von der leyen playground. Boris is from the WEF but I don't think he is a very good follower
I think that is what is happening with all those that don't work along. Remember the 3 african presidents that did not comply? Two of them died from a mysterious heart disease they did not have before and the third was just plain shot. These people have no compassion, they just want their will done. I am not sure what to think of Boris. I also don't know what to think of Trump. He first seemed to disagree with the narrative, proclaiming that chloroquine helped and he was taking it, trying to dismiss Fauci, introducing Paul, what a difference that would have made, then bending to the jabs. Something really powerful is behind all this. And evil.
I was following the lead of Magafuli from Tanzania, when all of a sudden, he seemed to have disappeared, then was reported to have had heart problems and died. He was trying to keep western influence out of the country and especially the jabs. A few days after his death,, they arrived. I wonder how many Tanzanians have taken them, but I think lots of them refused. I think they knew what really happened to their president.
Yes, excellent analysis. But "Americans" is mere a short hand for "almost the entire F-ing world"!! - The global dimension of the operation's success is what frightens me most. Where, who are the exceptions? Oddly, perhaps only the down-trodden and total pariahs of the world. I heard, for the latter, that Syrians - where they had some modicum of physical safety - pretty much have sat out Covid. And for the latter, I recall a 2020 conversation on Indian social media - probably upper middle class -"oh! we're all so terrified .... [money quote:] - only the poorest who can't or don't watch TV are not in a panic". And a July 4th shout out to all those BelaRusians out there! - I recall being inspired by a video - Jan 2021 - of a debutante ball there: no masking, no distancing, people dancing close (imagine that?!) - BelaRus has got to be the oddest outlier of the entire operation! - I'm not the only one who thinks so: CIA/WEF/??? tried to assassinate the President! -
Bolsonaro and Orban also appear to be outliers who stick two fingers up to the elites.
Uttar Pradesh clearly has some independent thinkers as well, as they told the WHO to f off and then used Ivermectin to effectively rid their country of covid.
I cannot believe that ALL Western leaders are inept, so they must either be compromised or corrupt.
They are all befitting a quick use of Occams razor.
You are looking at a game with a stacked deck. It has become very obvious in Canada that our entire political establishment has been co-opted and corrupted.
As I look back twenty years and note the ascendence of the WEF Young Global Leaders (Schwab Youth) it becomes increasingly obvious that they are promoted to positions of power mostly exceeding their merit. In Canada this could easily be done without too much money (by US standards), and if one candidate doesn't achieve the pinnacle there are reserves (in hockey we call this "Bench Strength"). Captains of industry are also involved ( Michael Sabia who is a political-financial hybrid, or TD Bank CEO Bharat Masrani).
I don't think we will recover until they are all identified and purged. Rich in NZ had a good list at PlebeianResistance.substack.com .
I am supremely grateful for you, putting your thoughts out on this substack, and for the many others similarly writing.... including the comments sections. If it weren't for all of you doing this, my mental health would be much worse. This platform came along at the nick of time for me.
Everything you say checks all of the boxes of what I have been thinking and feeling..... but it is the vast number of subscriber-commenters that truly help. I want to say thank you to all of you for letting all of us know we are not alone.
Survival instinct: I became aware of this in myself, while trying to navigate this maze of the scamdemic. I wanted to survive and survive with my sanity and hope intact. I also want my social and family circle to be intact, my employment to be intact, my world to be intact. But as each of these things were impacted severely, it's been a constant assault.... without a single other person I know in real life feeling as I do, there has been no one to turn to, aside from the internet commenters. By dipping into these substacks daily, I've been able to encourage myself to continue. A sanity lifeline.
You might think from this that I've always been a person of fragile mental health. Not so! This is a result of this scamdemic hitting from all sides, relentlessly. I am fighting to survive., and determined to do so. Intact -- not crushed by this ultimately. Maybe even to come out stronger on the other side of it -- "living well" as the best revenge sort of thing. But honestly, preferably, to transcend this evil, destructive madness and maybe hit a more enlightened, compassionate spiritual/mental point with many valuable lessons learned from this "test"..... not there yet!
One thing I noticed in myself was the deterioration of some of the tools in my mental/spiritual health toolbox. One you mention is susceptibility to peer pressure. I've always been an independent thinker but NOT a loner. So, relationships are important to me, but throughout my life, my loved ones have generally accepted and loved me for myself, and I love and enjoy all of them for who they are, and have felt that we enrich each other's lives. The scamdemic interfered with that: I naturally tried to tell them not to take these experimental injections, by saying at first "don't -- might be dangerous" -- then next, "maybe you should WAIT and see.... don't be first in line...." then "I'm waiting.... I haven't taken mine YET" and as this all rolled out from about April until September, then heated up in October and November of 2021, the pressure from my loved ones, my employer, my community ratcheted up to eleven. They became hostile to ME, accusing me of all kinds of far-right wrongthink, and being brainwashed by the Russians. They distanced themselves from me. When I realized I was faced with everyone and the societal structure around me being the insane asylum, I -- for survival reasons -- shut up and became silent, for the most part. I stopped going places where proof of vaccine was required. I told people that "I can't get the vaccine -- it's contraindicated for me" which is truthful, but it is not a complete truth. (It's contraindicated for EVERYONE.)
So this peer pressure thing.... it's a continuum, and I learned where my line is, and I could not be (and still can't be) the crusader hero I would love to be, because I am still to some degree afraid of losing every single relationship in my life.... and it feels like a survival pressure. That I need to pretend a bit, to go along to get along, in order to survive.
This is a sort of confession. I wish I could be the better person that would make America wonderful, but I do not feel like I am capable of doing that all by myself. I know I would feel more capable if I had even one person in my life to do it with. And I hope that I can find some of these people in real life, and begin to regain the "tough, independent" person I once was and would still like to be.... not operating in survival mode.
This is the mostastounding thing about the Scamdemic: that so many people haven't seen what a Scam it has been. I don't even think the Scam was that clever; pretty easy to see through in many ways. But somehow it got a big following. Peer pressure, media, propaganda, work avoidance....
Thankfully, my wife sees how much of an overreaction it's been. And I've made some new friends who see the truth. I know they're out there. You just have to look a little.
If you ever want to talk on the phone, Dani, or anyone else you can e-mail me to set this up. forecheck32 at g mail. I've met some readers in person. Uplifting. Good people.
I am finally getting around to reading RFK Jr's book, The Real Anthony Fauci. While I already know or have suspected many of the things, due to my background in alternative health, what is blowing me away is his meticulous timeline of events that I can tie directly to the bizarre, brainwashed behaviors of the people in my life.
One example: the media push to portray ivermectin as horse dewormer -- so that happened exactly at the time several of my important relationships ended -- in what felt bizarrely, all at once. I didn't realize that Rachel Maddow made a big thing about this, because I never watched her, although many of my friends and family are in thrall to her. But apparently it was a coordinated effort, and it destroyed relationships. This was September 2021. In order to get EUA for molnupiravir and paxlovid, there couldn't be any other treatments. The same thing happened with HCQ much earlier. So why not just rend the social fabric? Our lives are more than just our bodies being healthy. Our lives are also our interactions with other people, transactions, conversations, making memories, plans, caring for each other, laughing, creating meaning and purpose.
This "bioweapon" is dangerous to more than simply our physical bodies. It is dangerous to our minds and spirits, as well.
Just saying.... it's validating to write a timeline of events for my personal life and relationships, and tie it to what was going on in the background at the time, that I did not fully realize. It only makes me more angry at the perpetrators doing these things knowingly, not caring about individual lives affected. (you can't make a sociopath care -- they simply don't)
Dani, RFK’s book should be required reading for all. And not just because of what it says about Fauci. It’s a very eye opening look at what a seemingly bit player in the federal bureaucracy can get away with. Fauci controls about $6 billion in federal funds, a drop in the bucket of the national budget, but more than enough to exert tyrannical control over those who depend on those grants to make their living. How many other Faucis are out there hiding among the vast myriad of little known govt agencies? The bureaucracy is so humongous that it’s long since outgrown the ability of Congress or anyone else to oversee them. Fauci’s been murdering Americans for 35 years and yet he continues unchecked. The thousands of merely corrupt (but not murderous) bureaucrats will continue to roll on fat, dumb and happy until America’s creditors finally decide to stop underwriting the Ponzi scheme known as the federal government.
I couldn't agree more. I've had this book since it was published, and I am only now getting around to reading it.... every page is mind blowing. And I already knew that a lot of this type of stuff goes on, but he names names and lays it out in such perfect detail, everything is backed up by sources.... yes -- everyone needs to read this and chew on it.
The only downside is that I already am better informed than my loved ones -- I can see that after reading this book, there may be a totally unbridgeable gulf between the people who dig into this and the people who choose to reject RFK Jr. and others, because Rachel Maddow told them to.
I really would love for them to read it, and then we can discuss.
The biggest tell of all IMHO is the recent FDA "approval" of MRNA shots for babies. Clearly much more dangerous than the disease itself. Yet they did it anyway. Some one should do an expose on just where the cash flows from the Gov't to Pfizer/Moderna and then back into whose pockets? It would make an interesting flow chart.
I wonder if this would have been possible before social media existed. I think I read somewhere that it most likely would not have worked in earlier generations- that people were different back then and would not have fallen for it as easily.
Dani. I feel as though I could have written exactly the same! The people writing and commenting here on Substack have helped me to navigate through this on some of my darkest days. It is painful to have outright lost friends and been treated the way we have been and even more to hang on to some but to have had forever changed the easygoing openness that once existed with these people. There are days I feel I walk on eggshells to hang on.
It has been a lifesaver for me also. Thankfully I didn’t lose any relationships over all of it, but some important ones were strained. Looking back at all of the crazy makes me feel ill. I will never understand how so many of my smart family members and coworkers were so afraid and fell for the obvious scam. In 2 weeks my employer is going to require all the employees who got an exemption from the “vaccines” to test every week. It is ridiculous and there is absolutely no reason for it. I hope this doesn’t mean the vax craziness is going to start again.
I wonder if any of these companies have considered the lawsuits they will be receiving when sanity (hopefully) returns, or the bloodshed if it doesn't.
Use a Povidone Iodine nasal spray (see Dr. Peter McCullough’s site for info) an hour or so before any test. No viruses will be detected at all (as we all know random viruses are picked up on these faulty pcr tests and result in false +). Hoping your employer won’t go down this ridiculous path but just in case, use it! I am unjabbed 58 yo, have been surrounded by sick jabbed ppl from the start and have not gotten sick with the Vid or anything else for that matter! I've used this spray for almost a year anytime I return home from a party or large indoor gathering 🤷🏻♀️🙏🏼 Good luck💕
I have been making my own, but recently purchased a commercial product called CofixRx. I bought sterile water online, 10% Povidone Iodine and an atomizer bottle along with eye droppers. I’m very careful to keep everything as sterile as possible when preparing the solution. I place 1 ml of the 10% Povidone Iodine to 20 mls of the sterile water into the bottle and then prime the bottle. Using sterile water allows it to last until you run out . Best wishes! Eric Levi a Melbourne ENT specialist is also a source for this preventative treatment, for some reason 🙄I am unable to forward his link.
and some days the eggs break ! I am now so used to be open and frank on Substack, that I have to bite my tongue in company of former friends and family who are still full in to the narrative. Last week at a jab happy home I accidentally broke the eggs LOL. The nice thing is, she held her breath, and then I saw her thinking.... may be the eggs woke her up!
Ditto. I am meeting some old university friends next week (we are all in our 50's now), and I dread the inevitable inquisition on why I am unvaccinated . . .
I proudly say I'm unvaxxed because I couldnt' make myself stupid enough to think there is a vaccine for a cold virus - especially a new tech one trialed for a whole 5 minutes.
Dani, I understand much of what you've written. I had already lost a close friend (who I'd known for 40 years) before all this because it appeared that she could no longer be around someone who didn't think like her politically. (I'm just guessing why she had pulled away, and that made the most sense as she was very much leftist in some of her thought.)
Then this whole Covid thing happened and my husband and I have only had each other for dealing with the day-to-day lockdown/masking/mass groupthink horror of blue-state living. We have fought actively against overreach and whatnot in the past, but we are now older and retired and don't have the energy or resources to do this now. I'm at my wit's end regarding all this, waiting for the blue-state shoe to drop again this fall when the Democrats need to steal another election, and we're at a point of giving up by moving to a red state. So we've basically given up when our younger selves would have fought this. This is a hard position for us to take, but our mental and physical health are more important right now. Without our Substack writers and all the people who comment on their articles, it would feel pretty lonely, so having all that is a lifeline right now.
the nicest thing is that I go to the hair dresser with a jab happy. He used to be full in, scolding me for not jabbing, and masking only for me. But about 3 months ago he woke up. Nothing is nicer than to be with a hidden compagnon and fool around the jab happy person in full narrative. We have both changed political camps over this too, and that one person has no clue ! Such a masquerade ! LOL
Cat, same situation - older, living in a red enclave of a 1-party blue state & waiting for all the worst of everything to come roaring back in the Fall & w/ another stolen election
Looks to be exposé. Immediate implementable solutions? Doubt it but haven’t seen film.
Not a solution to anything anyway but could be a common ground place to start conversations? Issue is not red or blue.
Personally hoping to cajole an adult child as a first step to red pilling. We’ll see.
Same energy and resources boat @cat. Lots of prayer (thank you thank you thank you type vs supplication please please please) and “positive” visualization. Helps mental-emotional stability + diet of hope for brilliant outcomes. Eyes open, but since I need to sit out on the ground involvement I get to put thought energy into either despair or hope. My choice is made. My circle of 5 like mindeds, none local, a sanity saver. God bless text technology.
Dearest Dani. Please look for a “freedom fighter” group near you. I live in Ohio and there are many. Being in a room each week, full of kindred spirits has been a Godsend. I am praying for you.
You might want to check out the podcast “no agenda” and look for a no agenda meetup. One of my friends is really into it and had met lots of people that way.
I meant to say, also, Ohio is a wonderful place -- I've visited often. If I could move there, I would, but family obligations are keeping me here, for now.
You’ve got a lot to be proud of for sure. Not every person needs to be confrontational. Sometimes a more gentle approach is best. By your passive resistance you might have changed a few minds, but more importantly you’ve retained your bodily autonomy.
I had a similar experience. At first I was very honest about not getting vaccinated, until the extreme reaction made me start avoiding the subject. A few times people assumed I’d been vaccinated and I didn’t correct them, instead using the opportunity to defend everyone’s right to choose. That actually worked! I was able to talk three different acquainted out of ostracizing an unvaxxed loved one.
There are lots of ways to go about resisting the insanity. We’re all
you make a very good point, Vernon. During the most intense period of shunning (last September to December), I was able to speak out against the injustice of discriminating against people who choose not to get vaccinated -- how this reminded me very much of what happened in Nazi Germany, and ALSO I was able to tell a few of my fully-jabbed friends (the ones who hate anti-vaxxers but knew I was "contraindicated") how awful it felt to be on the receiving end of this discrimination and shunning, and that everyone should care -- even people who are fully jabbed and it "doesn't affect them." I said, this is not a world I want to live in. (and I'm not suicidal!). I made it personal for them, so they at least knew someone they value who was being treated this way. I definitely told them, look, we already know that people who are vaccinated can still spread COVID, so how on earth does this policy make any decent sense?
They all knew it didn't make sense -- but it DID make them "feel safer" to know that only similarly-jabbed people would be at the concert with them.
Yes, I WANTED to make them uncomfortable enough to question this policy -- so that they knew it was not all deplorable, wrong-think far-right selfish assholes who were gullible to Russian propaganda (and thus, expendable, get to the end of the line when we ration medical care because you should all die). No -- I wanted them to visualize their good friend Dani being excluded from normal social events even though I'm perfectly healthy and not going to kill them with my toxic germs.
I'm touched by what you wrote, and I'm glad you were able to maintain some of your relationships. Human beings don't survive without human contact, so doing what you needed to is nothing to be ashamed of. 😍
So many of us had the same or similar experience. It was incredible pressure; everyone I knew took the injection, I had to leave my healthcare career, and when two of my closest relationships were affected, I went into a trauma state, frozen and not functioning well. I knew one person I could talk with on the phone and that's it. I sought out an unvaccinated community and luckily found a big one here in liberal Bay area California. And fortunately five of them have become some of my closest friends, we just jive together. Blessed. And I feel the substackers and commenters my friends, which I never thought could happen with an online community. I have a lot of love for you all. 💕💕💕💕
Perfectly expressed! I went through the same experience. In fact, I actually started to question my own sanity. Logically, if everyone lived in a different world than I did, I must be the insane person! Thank goodness for these substack communities. You all have literally kept me sane and grounded. Else, I don't know what I may have done in my despair and desperation. Hugs for everyone here.
Dani you describe exactly the situation I was and am in. My former best friends are jab happy and left me aside for the longest time, but at least, I found among my acquiantances a few that think like me, including 2 couples with children who don't vaxx and one homeschools her children. The other has a 1 year old and refuses to jab. I am proud they came to this conclusion, it proves that not all is lost in America. I am in a very low jab county, but notice to my surprise this morning, that from about 15 people in the store, at least 10 wore a mask! I thought that would be out by now!
I think we need to always look for a silver lining, it showed us the true nature of people around us. Perhaps you need to try to surround yourself with more like-minded people who have similar values and try to find common ground with others who disagree. I have one friend to whom I sent so much information to wake her up but to no avail, we still talk and on good terms and I still try here and there. Thankfully in my circle most of my friends, and I don’t have many, are critical thinkers. The interesting part is some of those people who looked at things critically experienced what gvnmt can do to the people. One friend is half Native American from Canada who’s relatives lived in Canada and her grandmother went to a residential school where many children were abused, were forbidden to speak their language, were forced to be “ re-educated”. I think many people had it too good and it’s hard for them to imagine that actions of those in power could be not in their best interests. I was born in the Soviet Union, in one of the republics but immigrated to the US a long time ago and appreciate the Constitution very much and how the founding fathers intended this country to function. I’m sure many are aware of the Soviet Union gvnmt and I remember my grandma was afraid to discuss political things at home thinking that someone is listening. I was laughing at that time and I don’t think there was technology at that time but for example what we now know about s-n-o-w.den reveal of N-S.-A ( have to write this way 🤷🏼♀️ maybe my grandma wasn’t that wrong. It just shows the mindset of those who had to live through rough times. I think the US still has the best system but for it to work we need to participate in a democratic process, be involved in local politics if possible, not being a politician but to contact our representatives for example to voice our opinion. I live in FL now, I can also recommend another sub stack, Coffee&Covid by Jeff Childers ( maybe you are a reader as well) who is an attorney and also helped many people. Check it out! Actually, one of the commenters had a link to this amazing article. So I have hope as I know there was/is a silent majority and recent polls show that most of the people are sane.
Thank you for testifying. Indeed, when times our good, we don't follow politics as we should. All this time, laws have been voted on, that should not have been. Like the one that dismissed the liability of bigharma in case of injury or death by inoculation. How can a government oblige you to give this to your children, knowing that it could cause harm or death? How can doctors inject it into children? Yes the government does check on us. Sometimes my emails have notices on them, and today I got a government warning to get jabbed. I put it in my spam folder.
Jeff Childers is great. I am glad you are already in Florida. I might to move there too LOL
Dani- thank you for your honesty. The whole time I was reading it, I was nodding my head thinking - this is me! I am surrounded by either Covididiots or the "middle of the road" types- who will go along just because it's easier for them. I also have a strong desire to find a group where I can do something to make a difference, volunteer someplace maybe. I am so thankful for these substacks, this is where I have found my tribe!
You ever want to talk? Let me know. I will send you my email. Then maybe ph#. I know your pain. You are not alone and I am sure we all feel this way if we are totally honest.
all those people you cared about and tried to help weren't smart enough to take advantage of your wisdom and insight. but don't underestimate the positive impact you may have had on others who might be too afraid to acknowledge that. it's hardly out of the question to think that your refusal to comply encouraged others not to line up for the kill shot, or inspired them to take off the muzzle. you literally took one for team humanity, over and over. you were strong and smart before this nightmare and you're even stronger and smarter now. i realize that's no solace for all the hell you've suffered, but there will come a time when your unswerving everyday heroism will be appreciated for what it is!
I’ve been amazed at how inhumane, unsympathetic, selfish, and truly barbaric many of my fellow human beings are. I live in a neighborhood that, because of my speaking out about the atrocity of the scandemic response, considers me someone to avoid. I’ve been very hurt by this, but I’ve recently begun to feel better for having taken a stance against what’s been done. Thank you for affirming that thought.
Kathy: Truth often separates even from those we love most. But, be encouraged. I am an old man now, and I have tried to live truthfully all my life -- especially trying to be truthful with myself. I have also tried to speak truthfully with love and compassion to those I care about. It doesn’t always yield the results we hope for, but it is the only path. We can sleep at night and we are free.
TQ for these words. it's the capacity to feel free, to see truth and to make well-balanced choices that's so very valuable. otherwise we'd be imprisoned by our own making (which would be very stupid).
Yes, yes and YES! Everything, and I mean everything you said is true. However, I would extend this to all of humanity and not just Americans. Still, Americans have a history of freedom, self-sufficiency and a belief in God, to have known better. Yet, here we are.
I believe this whole she-bang is the result of the secularization of society. Everything we are seeing stems from no belief in a higher being or life after death. We all go poof when we die, so I don't want to die! That's it in a nutshell. I shall write a post about it sometime.
You're right. And covid for the first time gave a lot of people meaning and challenge. The CDCs pushing and shoving made them feel valuable, maybe for the first time in their lives.
The same is true for many policemen. This overreach adds gravitas and purpose where it is generally lacking in a normally dull job. I often wondered why/how state agents in Nazi Germany could be so ruthless. We are seeing it played out again today.
tru dat. the violence directed at peaceful protesters is horrifying, most recently yesterday at the celebration of ordinary folk for James Topp's arrival in Ottawa (after his 5 month walk that'd started in Vancouver) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFYKtInaI4
They have to. It's been prophesized. It can't go any other way. There will be a second and final coming of Jesus and the mark of the beast is the preliminary round.
What we see is the fruit of 100 years of progressive action. We have become a nation of selfish, ignorant, gullible people. Without eliminating a majority of the federal government, improving education for our young people and transparency and honesty in the medical/pharmaceutical complex, our future as a united country seems bleak. Even the military and faith organizations are abandoning the fundamental reasons for them to exist. At some point we have to tell the woke crowd to pound sand and try to restore sanity to our culture. Right now we are adjusting the world to focus on climate and the damage from those actions will make Covid look like chump change. The foundation for the green actions was laid decades ago without any questions asked. I hope there will be serious, thoughtful discussions about climate and that Substack readers don’t just blindly accept as truth what they have been told. Utopia doesn’t exist and cannot be created. Our best hope is to hold together as a law abiding people with no rulers or special interest group dictating to the majority. It remains to be seen if America can survive the current pandemic of madness.
I don’t think anyone on these substacks believes in the climate scam anymore that any of us believe in this plandemic. But I’m also not sure we are the majority
The problem is that we cannot know what proportion of the people are awake to reality. The mainstream misleadia uses every possible opportunity to propagate the globalist narrative in a way that suggests it has popular support. Climate is a good example, almost all MSM output references so called (and untrue) consensus. This is an overt attempt to cast dissent as minority. If the climate narrative genuinely was supported as well as the media tries hard to convince us it is then they wouldn’t need to try to convince us.
Trans ideology is another example. It’s difficult to believe that this has suddenly become a broadly accepted phenomenon amongst supposedly intelligent people. Could it be that we are all in a big majority but siloed by the media so that we are conditioned to believe we are not the mainstream?
Soy, There is certainly an agenda to marginalize those of us who are awake to all of the scams.
And the scamdemic has had very “clever” rules - masks, fanning fear porn, distancing, lockdowns, severely limiting or curtailing all together any gatherings.
How brilliant, to make people deathly afraid of their family, friends, co-workers, fellow citizens? How inspired the masks, to dehumanize & depersonalize us? How grand, to keep us from communing w/ one another in gatherings where we might share the truth or ask pointed questions? How diabolical, to isolate the hospitalized & dying w/ no comfort or care?
Every bit of it, efforts that worked to traumatize us & wreck our spirits. Scarred forever but deeply angry too
Check out this site: https://wattsupwiththat(dot)com/ - a good community of quite intelligent people debating and debunking all things claiming carbon dioxide is a toxic climate changing influence. There are some very good scientists and analysts commenting; often too technically deep for me, unless I do a lot of my own research to catch up.
These are the facts laid bare…and it’s not a pretty picture. I’m often reluctant to “go there” about such a large swath of our fellow citizens but at some point we have to face the magnitude of the mental illness and character deficits that surround us.
BTW, just started Mattias Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Affirms your central thesis.
yeah, I have viewed this whole thing as a push for global totalitarianism and it is interesting that the people that love and support that - the left - are the ones continuing to pump themselves full of the poison. So, these "leaders" are killing their own. I have come to think we should cheer and support that. After all, these same people have cheered and wished for us skeptics to die. I won't mind seeing millions of democrats suffer from their new religion.
‘It was obviously scientifically unsound to begin…’
Never mind scientifically, but observationally. Where were all the sick people? I don’t mean hospital cases or the moribund, but the sort of people we observe each Winter particularly if there is a ‘nasty’ Cold or ‘flu bug ‘going around’. We see people in our own homes, among friends and neighbours, absentees from work too sick to leave home or their beds.
With such a fast spreading, serious virus affecting the whole population, there should have been millions at home, in bed, away from work during January to April 2020 and that would have been abundantly obvious, particularly with the economic disruption it would have caused.
Instead there was a noticeable absence of sick people. So why did hardly anyone notice?
It was obvious and I repeatedly pointed that out to people. Most would admit they knew no one. Rarely, one would say "My sister-in-law's uncle's neighbor's great aunt died from from Covid.."
My daughter works in an Arizona hospital (surgical circulator RN). She never witnessed anything as described in the ‘news’.. They did one time set up tents for overflow in the parking lot, but...they were never used and were soon dismantled.
Same happened in Seattle where a temporary field hospital was setup at Seahawks stadium. (And another on the north edge of Seattle as well.)
Neither one ever saw a single patient and were eventually dismantled.
When we returned to Tulsa in 2020, the local news media made a huge deal out of one of the hospitals setting up refrigerated trailers as temporary morgues.
When I questioned this, noting the Seattle field hospitals, I was banned and blocked by the media who breathlessly reported it.
Last year a freedom of information request to the UK Office of National Statistics asked for CoVid deaths where only CoVid was mentioned on the death certificate, thus no underlying causes.
The data given in response was for January 2020 to September 2021, which was what was available at time of FOI request.
The published national figure at the time was ~140 000 deaths.
The ONS figure was just over 17 000. 9 000 in 2020, 8 000 to date 2021.
All deaths in care homes were assumed CoVid irrespective of symptoms and without any test or attendance by a doctor. Doctors would not visit care homes so diagnoses and cause of death were decided over the phone.
there might be a 'virus' (although even the existence of viruses is being debated by serious reseachers), but there never was a 'pandemic'. as you mention, no overflowing hospitals and definitely no higher mortality numbers, neither on national levels nor globally. office work got done, because white collar workers and government employees zoomed & worked from home, but inter-personal contacts (stores, markets, schools, restaurants etc) were severely disrupted. the foolish have now had their shot(s) and aren't any longer afraid of us, the non-compliants. it's a very strange world we live in!
And where has the flu gone? Didn't we hear some excuse masquerading as a reason that it was because we were taking those so important precautions like masks and handwashing?
Viruses are competitive and the new kid on the block displaces the others. Omicron displaced the other variants, for example.
The point being, all those in other years who would have suffered from other respiratory viruses, particularly ‘flu, got CoVid instead.
But there is another consideration.
In the first Pfizer Human trial, about the same number in both trial groups got symptoms associated with Colds and ‘flu. Only by testing with PCR were Pfizer able to say which were CoVid and not Colds or ‘flu.
It is very likely many cases of ‘flu or Cold were misdiagnosed as CoVid became the only disease on the Planet.
But if you check the average number who suffered/died from all respiratory tract disease, 2020, 2021 are about average. CoV 2 just displaced other viruses and it is highly likely many cases were misdiagnosed.
Yes, I considered that to be a possibility. The cynic in me leans a bit towards the idea that many flu cases were deliberately misdiagnised to boost the Covid numbers. However, I must be honest and say that's just me...
There is no doubt it was policy to inflate the CoVid data and mislead to make it look more serious. I say no doubt, because certainly in the UK new instructions went to medical staff and coroners changing the way cause of death was reported to bias reporting towards CoVid.
One such was ANY death with a positive PCR test within the prior 28 days be recorded as CoVid death. It has emerged that there were 14 different ways used to record a CoVid death across the hospital system in the UK.
Any patient with Cold-like or ‘flu-like symptoms were considered CoVid without any test to confirm diagnosis. Just about all deaths in care homes were assumed to be and recorded as CoVid deaths without any actual diagnosis having been made or individual having been seen by a doctor.
Then the definition of ‘cases’ (normally symptomatic infection requiring hospitalisation) was changed to refer to any positive PCR Test.
All In-patients admitted for any reason were PCR tested on admission and during stay, and if positive they were recorded as hospitalisation due to CoVid.
So there is no doubt many ‘flu cases were misdiagnosed added to displacement by the CoV 2 virus. It would be expected to see a reduction in ‘flu cases in favour of CoVid, but fir nearly all ‘fu cases to disappear stretches credulity.
There is not a single official datum that is trustworthy.
Clear concise summary of the global psychosis, now embedded in the minds of the many as truth where it will reside forever as a foundational unexamined assumption priming them for follow-on aberrations and forever separating them from the rest of us who were not hoax infected.
Since the uninfected tribe will likely not interbreed with those infected by the Narrative, we are witnessing the dawn of a new species.
I have my own unfortunate Petri dish to observe - 2 unvaxxed awakened sons and 2 double vaxxed and boosted woke daughters. Three of the four are single and unattached. The daughter who has a partner thinks the world is too awful to bring a child into. I can’t imagine the others will choose mates with vastly different viewpoints from their own. I worry about their futures, that my husband and I will die with no legacy and that society as we’ve known it is about to disappear.
A bit of a luddite here, but I think society as we know it began to disappear when smart phones were widely adopted. Screen addiction looks very real from my perspective. People don't seem to think any more - having knowledge a button push away seems to have castrated peoples' ability to deduce things on their own.
That’s precisely why I dumped my Apple Watch & iPhone for a Timex and a noon-internet phone.
I’m also about to go on a quest to achieve a No-Password, non-digital life. For example, I’m switching back to paper only billing statements and I’m going to write paper checks for my utilities so that I no longer have to maintain logins/passwords.
It will be a very happy day when the internet is but a bad dream.
Interesting to note that the countries most severely affected by corona mass psychosis were the liberal rich Western societies on one side, and the totalitarian-leaning South Americas on the other. (China, of course, is a psycho world in itself). People who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives.
It is my belief that this corona mass psychosis is a stark manifestation of the ongoing decline of the West. Any civilisation that grows rich enough and liberal enough for people to lose touch with physical reality (exhibit no.2: 'gender-fluidity') and to lose their individual and group survival skills will develop all sorts of psychosis/mental issues and will eventually rot and collapse. The decline of Rome started long before the Goths came along.
Yes, I wonder what happened to peoples' bull---t - o - meters. Mine has pegged the red zone ever since the lockdown started. Who actually thought an aerosol virus would disappear in two weeks. I told my coworkers that was bull----, "it would 6-8 weeks, minimum. Or never-ending because it was scam." Nobody listened, or even did any research into aerosol viruses. I felt very alone until I found these substack forums.
independent journalist George Webb has researched the possibility of aerosol(ised) viruses. absolutely fascinating! he's on twitter (which I don't have so i don't know where to find him there, perhaps at GeorgeWebb1) and substack - https://georgewebb.substack.com/
'people who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives' < no, not quite! there was a lot of government coercion and in some places (Indonesia a.o.) the military were deployed in getting the vaxx's out to the (rural) population. perhaps check the % of people on a global scale who got vaxx'd - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
"Sheep with a mean streak"! I'm laughing. Wouldn't that make a pack of wolves? Well, I guess at least with wolves you see the threat from afar.
Also like the theory that masks are symptoms of dependence on SSRIs and tranquilizers.
If I've lost affection for anything it's for "scientists", the crowd following bozos who have to anoint every finding with "safe and effective".
Love of country, for me, is like love of family. It doesn't mean I think we're perfect or even all that good. But they're family/countrymen. I've traveled enough to realize there are evil stupid people everywhere. What's happened with covid is a real awakening to a govt -medical-pharma complex that's completely out of bounds. A lot of people in the US know that. The rural county I live in has a lot of independent thinkers. They aren't fancy people, they live under the MSM radar, they don't poke Big Brother with a stick. When I go visit Metro DC I see the contrast with the urban over-educated sheep. The backbone of the US is the bumpkins.
I have to admit that I’ve been a snob for most of my life. I looked down on the bumpkins, the lower middle class, the blue collar workers.
But lately I’ve started to realize how wrong headed this prejudice really was. In fact I have began to think of these people as my tribe - albeit from a distance. I don’t look like them - I don’t dress like them or consume the same entertainment (I’m pretty sure Purgatory will have a television that cannot be silenced, running endless loops of laughtracked sitcoms, and Pharma commercials.)
But at least they’re not the smug, over educated vainglorious assholes like me.
Shopping in Annapolis with a crowd of multiple-degreed white collar people isn't much fun either. They tend to stare at the unmasked, and back away if you are examining the same bananas at a distance of less than a car length. I choose the bumpkins because they're unpretentious. The Range Rover driving, 9000 sq foot house dwelling, thrice boosted give me hives.
Sadly, I believe you can take all those bullet points and expand upon them with respect to many other countries. My experience in Italy has not been entirely dissimilar and, while I have often said that 30 years of police service mean I am generally no longer surprised by what people do, the consistency with which they continue to do it can be really wearing.
Moreover, the entire affair has revealed some alarming aspects to the functioning of the state.
I hope that link leads you to the English language version of an interview given by prominent lawyer Alessandro Fusillo. It describes, much more eloquently than I can, the situation here from March 2020 to the present.
For my own part, the expected letter from the state asking me why I have not had the shots arrived two weeks ago. Following some legal guidance I replied, within the required timeframe, merely that, being recovered, there was no sound clinical reasonfor me to do so.
We shall see now where the process takes us.
In the meantime, keep up the good work. Your missives continue to provide light and encouragement.
Am I reading this right? Do you mean that in Italy the government sends you a letter asking you why you haven't been vaccinated? Are you required to reply? By law? What crazy fascism is this?
In January this year the government introduced two decrees targetting unjabbed over-50s.
The first made it necessary to have a Greenpass based upon shots or recent recovery for over 50s to go to work. Since October last year, I had been doing nasal swabs to get to work but that option was removed effective Feb 15th. It was changed back again April and effectively removed altogether by May.
The second made it an offence, effectively, for anybody over 50 to be unjabbed but only between Feb 1st and June 15th.
The entire affair stemmed from the discovery last autumn that Italy had (and still has 💪💪) a much higher percentage of unjabbed older folks than other countries. I have no idea what kind of mental gymnastics were involved in the minds of the lawmakers to overlook the fact that the holdouts, if not already jabbed by Feb 1st, would simply hold out a little longer until June 15th. But they did and, predictably, by April more than 80% of those targetted had remained steadfast and given a clear message to government (🖕) by not changing their minds. Don't mess with the old folks, eh?
The process, for what it's worth, involves the health authorities advising the tax authorities who hasn't been jabbed. The tax authorities then write to the individual asking why not and inviting a reply to be sent to the health authorities. They in turn will decide if that's good enough or not and will then advise the tax authorities to levy the penalty of €100 from the individual's tax returns.
Yes, I know, I know, ordinarily you couldn't have made it up but, as Mark pointed out in his original piece above, human behaviour has shown itself to be the damndest thing!
On a brighter note, the number of challenges to the fines and the entire process on a wide range of legal issues is said to be huge and there are those who believe it will collapse.
For my own part, I had C19 in March 2020 and have documented my antibody history to the present day, along with more than 60 negative tests (I can't even generate a false positive) and I look forward to getting a doctor from the health authorities to go on record and tell me why that's not good enough. However, as with all these things, the response is 99.9% wait and see.
I recommend following the link to the interview given by lawyer Alessandro Fusillo in my earlier reply. It's really quite informative.
I read your excellent and shocking article. Surely it is undeniable that the current regime is approaching the fascism of some 80 years ago? The fact that they are dishonoring their own constitution, and European law, by enforcing vaccination via financial blackmail makes a total mockery of democracy. But as the lawyer pointed out, various Italian leaders have forged their credentials at the helm of the EU that has no real democratic legitimacy - a fact many Americans, and even Europeans, do not realize.
My understanding from colleagues here is that, in Italy the President has the authority to invite a non-elected person to form a government where there is division or conflict among elected parties such that no consensus can be reached.
Giuseppe Conte became the PM in 2018 in this way when it was felt that neither Luigi Di Maio nor Matteo Salvini, whose parties were the two largest after the election, did not have enough parliamentary experience to be handed the Premiership. (The cynics suggested it was because Salvini was too far to the right and Di Maio's 5-Star party were too populist to satisfy Brussels).
By all accounts Conte, a law professor, developed into a publicly popular figure and introduced a number of changes about which Italians were generally happy. He had the helm when Covid hit and, while it seemed he was doing okay, there were declarations of alarm at the extent to which matters were being dealt with by decree, a process which exists to deal grave national emergencies.
For reasons that I personally have not yet grasped, Matteo Renzi, a former PM, withdrew his group's support for the Conte coalition and precipitated a collapse of the government early in 2021. Rather than go to the country, President Mattarella elected to propose Mario Draghi as an alternative and invited him to form a government.
This is where we are today. Draghi is hated by many. I have a Japanese friend, for example, born to a nation known for reserve, composure and politeness, who becomes extremely animated (Japanese, animated?) at the mere mention of his name.
Italian journalist Paolo Borgagnone (among others) refers to Draghi as "Nonno Banchiere" or Grandad Banker while others point out that bankers are generally "i primi ladri" or the greatest thieves.
His party piece has been the vote of confidence...
Go back briefly to the elections of 2018 when Di Maio and Salvini came to prominence. Their results were based upon the arrival of many new deputies or elected representatives into parliament. To qualify for the pension which follows a period in parliament, these deputies must serve a minimum period of time. That period will not be achieved until September this year.
So, Draghi, the doyen of the EU and bankers generally, has brought more than forty (I believe it's more but I don't know how many) votes to the parliament and announced each time that a vote against the measure will be considered a vote of no confidence and he will fold the government thus precipitating an election. For those who need the deputy's pension the choice is simple...vote yes (until September this year) and the pension remains secure, vote no and you're looking for employment next week.
Cynical doesn't begin to describe it!
It hasn't all been bad, though and the Presidential elections in January, which were supposed to usher Draghi into the presidency without obstacle, resulted in repeated hung votes to the point where Matarella, who didn't WANT to stand again, accepted a further nomination and was re-elected.
Draghi was so angry about it that he took the extremely unusual and, arguably, highly irregular step of publicly upbraiding the deputies in parliament for failing to deliver a proper result.
In the meantime, the jockeying for position has already started. Di Maio has decided to part company with the 5-Star movement, taking some of their deputies with him in order to continue to support Draghi . Some observers have said that, as a mediocre politician and thus without much of a political future, he has been tempted by the offer of postions outside of politics later on but, who knows...? Salvini has also started throwing some curve balls in there, especially as the results of recent local elections suggest he may still have credibility alongside a resurgent Giorgia Meloni whose party Fratelli D'Italia (Brothers of Italy, also the name of tbe Italian national anthem) also did well.
Happy independence weekend!! Trying to look on the bright side, this was a watershed experience for me and I feel liberated. While I absolutely agree with your harsh criticism listed here, if it hadn’t happened I might not be as free from delusions as I am now. So there’s that. Meanwhile, the virtue signaling, passivity and historical illiteracy are my personal pet peeves. But now I am free to cut ties with anyone who displays these inadequacies! ❤️🤍💙
OMG Mark, best post ever (so far)! Sadly, it captured my feelings exactly about the country & the “sheep w/ a mean streak” (loved that line - so true).
I still feel deeply traumatized & depressed by the whole thing, in very large part because of just what you pointed out - how weak & mentally ill a majority of this country is. And if you don’t think our enemies are seeing it & salivating too….
I have real concerns that all of it will be coming back, just in time for midterms which is conveniently about annual cold-flu season. There are already “hints” - Biden buying millions of doses of a “new” vaccine; the FDA approving the poison for infants & toddlers, the European Union green lighting vax “passports” for future use, etc.
I think “they” are so close to realizing the great reset wet dream that they are not going to give up on it so easily. Based on your words here, do you think we are already too far down the NWO rabbit hole?
non-compliance and civil disobedience is much stronger than 'they' would like us to believe, which is why they're peddling poisonous PR. looking at the numbers (as cooked as they might be) there's about 1/3 of the world population that did not get vaxx'd - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
A tremendous retrospective look at the Covid phenomenon Mark, superbly written.
It’s tempting to think and hope that we have come out the other side, at last. I really don’t feel like we have. We, by which I mean those outside of the Substack community whom I regard as having critical thinking skills, are ready to embrace the next scam. Lessons have not been learned by what seems like the majority. As you have set out, refusal to acknowledge that they were misled by government and the media means that we have simply proved to those who seek to dominate that we are endlessly gullible. We will willingly submit to the next and the one after.
I don’t think Covid should be viewed as distinct from a lot of seemingly unconnected dots. If we were able to join the together we would see that Covid was simply one part of a systemic strategy to effect global change. Climate, race, illegal migration, digital IDs, ‘freedom’ passports, CBDCs, social credits, trans and other anti-family based ideology, Islamism, debt, inflation, energy costs, food, fertiliser, Ukraine, China, wokism, . These phenomena are not happening in isolation. If we can accept that things don’t just happen, they are made to happen then we have a chance to at least begin to understand that we are being encouraged, coerced, forced towards something that we would not voluntarily accept. And that is a scary thought that we need everyone to be awake to.
Gracias, Soy.
You write some great Comments. Thanks.
You're right to observe that I wrote this sort of as a retrospective. Though I don't really think it is that, yet. I think that throughout the past 27 months, I've cut through the endless media/government lies and nonsense; they've been easy targets.
I've done much less well predicting the Covid (caminodel) futuro. There are two main reasons for that. First, I've been driven throughout by misplaced hopefulness. Second, and relatedly, I've applied reason in a context where reason doesn't matter. I thought more people would see the Scamdemic as the scam that it is. I've been wrong about that.
You're astute to see CV in a larger context of a continuing series of fearmongering. I've focused on CV more than other developing/ongoing scams because the lockdowns and vaxxes have more directly, observably, immediately affected my life--and other lives--than some of the other scams do.
Life goes on, albeit in compromised form. We put one foot in front of the other and try to bear witness to the Scam, day by day, interaction by interaction. It's the best we can do. And if we can't beat back this one, other ones--such as those you mention-- will be harder.
You speak darkly but accurately.
Very well said.
"Things don't just happen, they are made to happen".
The monkey pox nonsense has stirred a few people, while the hepatitis in children previously stirred a few more.
Not enough to awaken them from sleepwalking to their end though.
The majority of the jabbed will have no desire to hear how they were lied to, so billions of people will choose to remain ignorant and readily accept whatever their duplicitous overlords order them to do next..
Tedros what-its-name of the WHO is now proclaiming that children can get monkeypox and better get vaxx'd (or else....), while no safety trials have been done in children yet - https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/united-states-monkeypox-vaccine-cdc-kids/
well said. we should include PC as one of the rotten, evil seedlings.
Yes. And state dependency.
“things don’t just happen, they are made to happen”.
Imagine how much stronger we’d be as a country if everyone saw the truth in this statement.
Soelcaminodelfuturo, Whats so frightening is that the litany of all you listed is SO much & coming SO fast. It’s a way to keep us completely off balance because we can’t keep up w/ it all
You are correct. There is, purposely, SO much coming SO fast that the mind has difficulty absorbing and sorting through it all. However, we must continue to try and warn others.
I must say that "others" who are not yet awake, are unlikely to be persuaded by us tinfoil hat wearing crazies.
Don't worry about them, but just focus on making sure that you and yours are as healthy, protected and secure as may be necessary to weather the coming storm.
My wife isn't fully awake and isn't interested in the global situation, so I'm quietly trying to stock up with essentials, grow medicinal plants and stock up with vegetable seeds.
Maybe it all comes to nothing, but if it really is something, then we should try and be at least a little bit prepared.
Honestly Mary, there is some new assault on liberties & sensibilities every damn day. So damaging
I’m watching to see what “they” pull next. Something big between now and Nov 6…
It’s the 40,000 foot view that makes sense - especially as the trans humanism piece is laid on the landscape.
Great article and response!...we are in a soft war against the “west” (an inadequate catch-all I know) and most are not awake to this fact still.
Thank you for an excellent article Mark.
The UK is just as bad, though thankfully, we don't have Biden.
I have previously noted that I now have (almost) no faith in the medical profession, though there undoubtedly many amazing people still actually saving lives.
The last two years have been a real eye opener for me and I am still seeing people waking up to some realisation of what has gone on.
I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all.
Not even the supposedly highly educated and intelligent people, who blindly went along with and even defended all of the tyranny, so sadly, I've stopped caring.
The mainstream media needs to be forcibly destroyed and never allowed to publish their lies again.
All politicians who openly supported this evil, should be sacked and maybe jailed for their wilful destruction of the countries they were supposed to serve.
The puppet masters should all be publicly hanged.
I realise that none of these things will happen, so my only response going forward is an absolute refusal to do anything that the government or media tells me to do.
We don't have Biden but we do have the Albino Blancmange !
I wanted to take my cat to my long standing vets last week (June 2022). I was told I had to wait in the car park and phone reception to inform them I had arrived for my appointment - and I had to wear a facemask when called to enter the premises for the consultation.
I decided to find a new vet instead . . .
omg the albino blancmange ! I love that. And I also love your decision to find another vet. I hope you found one who did not follow the narrative, like ours, who throughout the whole circus did not else but move a table next to the counter (which probably made the distance 4 feet) and is not a jab happy !
"I have little to no faith in most peoples ability to think critically, or even think at all." This!
I was completely gobsmacked by how easily everybody I knew simply believed, unquestioningly, unconditionally, and totally. I sent my friends links to NIH studies on coronavirus vaccines and mRNA research before they were scrubbed from the internet. NONE of them tried to grasp the implications. None of them saw that the lockdowns were bull---. None of them have a friggin' clue, to this day. It is very disheartening. My missus still won't talk about it, after so many of her friends had "sudden unexpected" deaths. However, I think part of her believes me now, she hasn't taken the booster. -knock wood-
I am in Florida and despite what some people think, it's not as "free" as you would think - at least in my area- most of my friends and family are totally brainwashed by ALL of it. It's so disheartening. I keep reading how we must hold compassion for these folks and let them "wake up" in their own time, but the more time that goes by- I think they will never wake up, and I'm starting to get really angry. If things are ever going to change, we need everyone on board, and they are holding us back.
Yes. I am wondering when people will wake up, if ever. I am beginning to suspect that most won't, until one or more people dear to them perish. So sad! ... The timeline and the end-game still elude me. I hope the architects of this mass poisoning are smart enough that the societal collapse (mass deaths?) is slow and manageable. Perhaps I am just paranoid - part of me keeps hoping so in spite of the data that keeps mounting. So far: - "I hate always being right! Dammit!" c'est la vie. Still fighting the good fight and surviving.
I’m wondering the same thing, i.e. “How do we *do* this?”
One thing we must do is not be afraid to discuss what’s happening with others. We were swimming at our HOA’s pool and started discussing the COVID hysteria with another couple. Was shocked to find out *they* were aware of the depopulation angle.
Another is the residual mask wearers in public. I’m very close to *calmly* asking them “Excuse me, but can I ask you: why are you still wearing that mask?”
If you don’t feel comfortable speaking to strangers, maybe just stare.
One of my former CCD students bleats at them like a sheep, trying to communicate in their language. That’s probably too far, I don’t know. (But I’m kinda proud of that young man anyway. Lol)
I was just thinking about this. My motherand I have "had words" about the virus situation more than once over 2.5 years.
I am seeing that SO many of the things she taught me as I grew up, apparently required an aseptic environment to be truly valuable.
It makes me so sad to "see" her fear over all this. She wouldn't actually see me last summer, even though both of us were double-vaxxed...
The fear mongering that the media, governments and too many doctors have carried out, is completely unforgivable and they must be held to account.
How we do that is the current question.
At first I thought brexit was a mistake, but you might have escaped the EU before it became nazi ursula von der leyen playground. Boris is from the WEF but I don't think he is a very good follower
Boris seemed to change after he was "ill with covid".
He looked like he was being held hostage, or coerced.
His recent appearances, especially over Ukraine and the G7, have not endeared him to many.
I think that is what is happening with all those that don't work along. Remember the 3 african presidents that did not comply? Two of them died from a mysterious heart disease they did not have before and the third was just plain shot. These people have no compassion, they just want their will done. I am not sure what to think of Boris. I also don't know what to think of Trump. He first seemed to disagree with the narrative, proclaiming that chloroquine helped and he was taking it, trying to dismiss Fauci, introducing Paul, what a difference that would have made, then bending to the jabs. Something really powerful is behind all this. And evil.
Something really powerful is behind all this. And evil.
that line gave me chills - I think you hit it on the nose
would be nice if I could hit it hard enough to make it back off for good wouldn-t it? If it were like a cocroach size?
Those African presidents were willing to die for what they thought was right. Why have Western "leaders" been too cowardly to do so?
SH!T. Our PM wouldn't even have a meeting with peaceful truckers. Standing up to major corporations will NOT happen
I was following the lead of Magafuli from Tanzania, when all of a sudden, he seemed to have disappeared, then was reported to have had heart problems and died. He was trying to keep western influence out of the country and especially the jabs. A few days after his death,, they arrived. I wonder how many Tanzanians have taken them, but I think lots of them refused. I think they knew what really happened to their president.
same here. civil disobedience it is!
Evil Harry - that is exactly how I feel.
Yes, excellent analysis. But "Americans" is mere a short hand for "almost the entire F-ing world"!! - The global dimension of the operation's success is what frightens me most. Where, who are the exceptions? Oddly, perhaps only the down-trodden and total pariahs of the world. I heard, for the latter, that Syrians - where they had some modicum of physical safety - pretty much have sat out Covid. And for the latter, I recall a 2020 conversation on Indian social media - probably upper middle class -"oh! we're all so terrified .... [money quote:] - only the poorest who can't or don't watch TV are not in a panic". And a July 4th shout out to all those BelaRusians out there! - I recall being inspired by a video - Jan 2021 - of a debutante ball there: no masking, no distancing, people dancing close (imagine that?!) - BelaRus has got to be the oddest outlier of the entire operation! - I'm not the only one who thinks so: CIA/WEF/??? tried to assassinate the President! -
Bolsonaro and Orban also appear to be outliers who stick two fingers up to the elites.
Uttar Pradesh clearly has some independent thinkers as well, as they told the WHO to f off and then used Ivermectin to effectively rid their country of covid.
I cannot believe that ALL Western leaders are inept, so they must either be compromised or corrupt.
They are all befitting a quick use of Occams razor.
You are looking at a game with a stacked deck. It has become very obvious in Canada that our entire political establishment has been co-opted and corrupted.
As I look back twenty years and note the ascendence of the WEF Young Global Leaders (Schwab Youth) it becomes increasingly obvious that they are promoted to positions of power mostly exceeding their merit. In Canada this could easily be done without too much money (by US standards), and if one candidate doesn't achieve the pinnacle there are reserves (in hockey we call this "Bench Strength"). Captains of industry are also involved ( Michael Sabia who is a political-financial hybrid, or TD Bank CEO Bharat Masrani).
I don't think we will recover until they are all identified and purged. Rich in NZ had a good list at PlebeianResistance.substack.com .
Something has felt wrong for ten years or more, that we were headed for a global civil war, though if it's global, I'm not sure that term is accurate.
I keep hearing that all societies eventually fall, but in this instance, they seem to be carrying out the intentional destruction of ours.
If so, then they must also be prepared to shed blood for their beliefs.
If it comes to that, then lets make it theirs.
I am supremely grateful for you, putting your thoughts out on this substack, and for the many others similarly writing.... including the comments sections. If it weren't for all of you doing this, my mental health would be much worse. This platform came along at the nick of time for me.
Everything you say checks all of the boxes of what I have been thinking and feeling..... but it is the vast number of subscriber-commenters that truly help. I want to say thank you to all of you for letting all of us know we are not alone.
Survival instinct: I became aware of this in myself, while trying to navigate this maze of the scamdemic. I wanted to survive and survive with my sanity and hope intact. I also want my social and family circle to be intact, my employment to be intact, my world to be intact. But as each of these things were impacted severely, it's been a constant assault.... without a single other person I know in real life feeling as I do, there has been no one to turn to, aside from the internet commenters. By dipping into these substacks daily, I've been able to encourage myself to continue. A sanity lifeline.
You might think from this that I've always been a person of fragile mental health. Not so! This is a result of this scamdemic hitting from all sides, relentlessly. I am fighting to survive., and determined to do so. Intact -- not crushed by this ultimately. Maybe even to come out stronger on the other side of it -- "living well" as the best revenge sort of thing. But honestly, preferably, to transcend this evil, destructive madness and maybe hit a more enlightened, compassionate spiritual/mental point with many valuable lessons learned from this "test"..... not there yet!
One thing I noticed in myself was the deterioration of some of the tools in my mental/spiritual health toolbox. One you mention is susceptibility to peer pressure. I've always been an independent thinker but NOT a loner. So, relationships are important to me, but throughout my life, my loved ones have generally accepted and loved me for myself, and I love and enjoy all of them for who they are, and have felt that we enrich each other's lives. The scamdemic interfered with that: I naturally tried to tell them not to take these experimental injections, by saying at first "don't -- might be dangerous" -- then next, "maybe you should WAIT and see.... don't be first in line...." then "I'm waiting.... I haven't taken mine YET" and as this all rolled out from about April until September, then heated up in October and November of 2021, the pressure from my loved ones, my employer, my community ratcheted up to eleven. They became hostile to ME, accusing me of all kinds of far-right wrongthink, and being brainwashed by the Russians. They distanced themselves from me. When I realized I was faced with everyone and the societal structure around me being the insane asylum, I -- for survival reasons -- shut up and became silent, for the most part. I stopped going places where proof of vaccine was required. I told people that "I can't get the vaccine -- it's contraindicated for me" which is truthful, but it is not a complete truth. (It's contraindicated for EVERYONE.)
So this peer pressure thing.... it's a continuum, and I learned where my line is, and I could not be (and still can't be) the crusader hero I would love to be, because I am still to some degree afraid of losing every single relationship in my life.... and it feels like a survival pressure. That I need to pretend a bit, to go along to get along, in order to survive.
This is a sort of confession. I wish I could be the better person that would make America wonderful, but I do not feel like I am capable of doing that all by myself. I know I would feel more capable if I had even one person in my life to do it with. And I hope that I can find some of these people in real life, and begin to regain the "tough, independent" person I once was and would still like to be.... not operating in survival mode.
This is the mostastounding thing about the Scamdemic: that so many people haven't seen what a Scam it has been. I don't even think the Scam was that clever; pretty easy to see through in many ways. But somehow it got a big following. Peer pressure, media, propaganda, work avoidance....
Thankfully, my wife sees how much of an overreaction it's been. And I've made some new friends who see the truth. I know they're out there. You just have to look a little.
If you ever want to talk on the phone, Dani, or anyone else you can e-mail me to set this up. forecheck32 at g mail. I've met some readers in person. Uplifting. Good people.
maybe we need to start a support group
I am finally getting around to reading RFK Jr's book, The Real Anthony Fauci. While I already know or have suspected many of the things, due to my background in alternative health, what is blowing me away is his meticulous timeline of events that I can tie directly to the bizarre, brainwashed behaviors of the people in my life.
One example: the media push to portray ivermectin as horse dewormer -- so that happened exactly at the time several of my important relationships ended -- in what felt bizarrely, all at once. I didn't realize that Rachel Maddow made a big thing about this, because I never watched her, although many of my friends and family are in thrall to her. But apparently it was a coordinated effort, and it destroyed relationships. This was September 2021. In order to get EUA for molnupiravir and paxlovid, there couldn't be any other treatments. The same thing happened with HCQ much earlier. So why not just rend the social fabric? Our lives are more than just our bodies being healthy. Our lives are also our interactions with other people, transactions, conversations, making memories, plans, caring for each other, laughing, creating meaning and purpose.
This "bioweapon" is dangerous to more than simply our physical bodies. It is dangerous to our minds and spirits, as well.
Just saying.... it's validating to write a timeline of events for my personal life and relationships, and tie it to what was going on in the background at the time, that I did not fully realize. It only makes me more angry at the perpetrators doing these things knowingly, not caring about individual lives affected. (you can't make a sociopath care -- they simply don't)
I know it's easy to say, but don't dwell on it too much.
If you can, get out in nature and stand amongst the trees with grass beneath your feet.
Swim in rivers and maybe learn to forage for food.
It is also great for your mental and physical health.
There is a whole world out there where you are free and are not controlled by those evil bastards in government and the media.
Dani, RFK’s book should be required reading for all. And not just because of what it says about Fauci. It’s a very eye opening look at what a seemingly bit player in the federal bureaucracy can get away with. Fauci controls about $6 billion in federal funds, a drop in the bucket of the national budget, but more than enough to exert tyrannical control over those who depend on those grants to make their living. How many other Faucis are out there hiding among the vast myriad of little known govt agencies? The bureaucracy is so humongous that it’s long since outgrown the ability of Congress or anyone else to oversee them. Fauci’s been murdering Americans for 35 years and yet he continues unchecked. The thousands of merely corrupt (but not murderous) bureaucrats will continue to roll on fat, dumb and happy until America’s creditors finally decide to stop underwriting the Ponzi scheme known as the federal government.
I couldn't agree more. I've had this book since it was published, and I am only now getting around to reading it.... every page is mind blowing. And I already knew that a lot of this type of stuff goes on, but he names names and lays it out in such perfect detail, everything is backed up by sources.... yes -- everyone needs to read this and chew on it.
The only downside is that I already am better informed than my loved ones -- I can see that after reading this book, there may be a totally unbridgeable gulf between the people who dig into this and the people who choose to reject RFK Jr. and others, because Rachel Maddow told them to.
I really would love for them to read it, and then we can discuss.
Another great book I highly recommend is "Covid -19 and the Global Predators: We are the Prey" by Peter Breggin MD and Ginger Rosss Breggin.
The biggest tell of all IMHO is the recent FDA "approval" of MRNA shots for babies. Clearly much more dangerous than the disease itself. Yet they did it anyway. Some one should do an expose on just where the cash flows from the Gov't to Pfizer/Moderna and then back into whose pockets? It would make an interesting flow chart.
Thank you, Mark. I will send you an email. You attract good people to your substack, and that says a lot about you, too.
Time to get a protonmail account or something other than the data scraper, Mark!
I wonder if this would have been possible before social media existed. I think I read somewhere that it most likely would not have worked in earlier generations- that people were different back then and would not have fallen for it as easily.
Dani. I feel as though I could have written exactly the same! The people writing and commenting here on Substack have helped me to navigate through this on some of my darkest days. It is painful to have outright lost friends and been treated the way we have been and even more to hang on to some but to have had forever changed the easygoing openness that once existed with these people. There are days I feel I walk on eggshells to hang on.
If you ever want someone to talk to, e-mail me and we'll set it up. forecheck32 at g mail.
Mark, how wonderful of you to offer. You are truly a great person. 😊
Thank you Mark. I may just take you up on that offer one day! It has been a blessing to find similar souls through you and other substack writers.
I just said same to another who needs someone, anyone who understands.
Agree that the Substack platform and comments are a lifesaver………
It has been a lifesaver for me also. Thankfully I didn’t lose any relationships over all of it, but some important ones were strained. Looking back at all of the crazy makes me feel ill. I will never understand how so many of my smart family members and coworkers were so afraid and fell for the obvious scam. In 2 weeks my employer is going to require all the employees who got an exemption from the “vaccines” to test every week. It is ridiculous and there is absolutely no reason for it. I hope this doesn’t mean the vax craziness is going to start again.
I wonder if any of these companies have considered the lawsuits they will be receiving when sanity (hopefully) returns, or the bloodshed if it doesn't.
They don’t seem worried at the moment……….
Use a Povidone Iodine nasal spray (see Dr. Peter McCullough’s site for info) an hour or so before any test. No viruses will be detected at all (as we all know random viruses are picked up on these faulty pcr tests and result in false +). Hoping your employer won’t go down this ridiculous path but just in case, use it! I am unjabbed 58 yo, have been surrounded by sick jabbed ppl from the start and have not gotten sick with the Vid or anything else for that matter! I've used this spray for almost a year anytime I return home from a party or large indoor gathering 🤷🏻♀️🙏🏼 Good luck💕
Thank you. I will definitely get some today
Joanie- do you make your own or use a commercially prepared brand?
I purchased mine online. Immunemist. $20 per bottle. It was referenced during a FLCCC webinar.
I have been making my own, but recently purchased a commercial product called CofixRx. I bought sterile water online, 10% Povidone Iodine and an atomizer bottle along with eye droppers. I’m very careful to keep everything as sterile as possible when preparing the solution. I place 1 ml of the 10% Povidone Iodine to 20 mls of the sterile water into the bottle and then prime the bottle. Using sterile water allows it to last until you run out . Best wishes! Eric Levi a Melbourne ENT specialist is also a source for this preventative treatment, for some reason 🙄I am unable to forward his link.
and some days the eggs break ! I am now so used to be open and frank on Substack, that I have to bite my tongue in company of former friends and family who are still full in to the narrative. Last week at a jab happy home I accidentally broke the eggs LOL. The nice thing is, she held her breath, and then I saw her thinking.... may be the eggs woke her up!
Ditto. I am meeting some old university friends next week (we are all in our 50's now), and I dread the inevitable inquisition on why I am unvaccinated . . .
I proudly say I'm unvaxxed because I couldnt' make myself stupid enough to think there is a vaccine for a cold virus - especially a new tech one trialed for a whole 5 minutes.
Just say you have a great doctor who explained how dangerous they were, especially when compared to the minimal (0.03%) risk of death from covid.
Dani, you know you are not alone.
This past 2+ years reminds me of... Junior High.
Peer pressure, name calling, judging, and to some extent, virtue signalling evil
and we survived Junior High, right?
So we can do this!!!
Yes! Junior high mentality for sure!
Dani, I understand much of what you've written. I had already lost a close friend (who I'd known for 40 years) before all this because it appeared that she could no longer be around someone who didn't think like her politically. (I'm just guessing why she had pulled away, and that made the most sense as she was very much leftist in some of her thought.)
Then this whole Covid thing happened and my husband and I have only had each other for dealing with the day-to-day lockdown/masking/mass groupthink horror of blue-state living. We have fought actively against overreach and whatnot in the past, but we are now older and retired and don't have the energy or resources to do this now. I'm at my wit's end regarding all this, waiting for the blue-state shoe to drop again this fall when the Democrats need to steal another election, and we're at a point of giving up by moving to a red state. So we've basically given up when our younger selves would have fought this. This is a hard position for us to take, but our mental and physical health are more important right now. Without our Substack writers and all the people who comment on their articles, it would feel pretty lonely, so having all that is a lifeline right now.
the nicest thing is that I go to the hair dresser with a jab happy. He used to be full in, scolding me for not jabbing, and masking only for me. But about 3 months ago he woke up. Nothing is nicer than to be with a hidden compagnon and fool around the jab happy person in full narrative. We have both changed political camps over this too, and that one person has no clue ! Such a masquerade ! LOL
Cat, same situation - older, living in a red enclave of a 1-party blue state & waiting for all the worst of everything to come roaring back in the Fall & w/ another stolen election
On elections, scheduled for release 8/20/22 Lara Logan’s [s]election.code
https://selectioncode.com
Looks to be exposé. Immediate implementable solutions? Doubt it but haven’t seen film.
Not a solution to anything anyway but could be a common ground place to start conversations? Issue is not red or blue.
Personally hoping to cajole an adult child as a first step to red pilling. We’ll see.
Same energy and resources boat @cat. Lots of prayer (thank you thank you thank you type vs supplication please please please) and “positive” visualization. Helps mental-emotional stability + diet of hope for brilliant outcomes. Eyes open, but since I need to sit out on the ground involvement I get to put thought energy into either despair or hope. My choice is made. My circle of 5 like mindeds, none local, a sanity saver. God bless text technology.
Hang in there.
Dearest Dani. Please look for a “freedom fighter” group near you. I live in Ohio and there are many. Being in a room each week, full of kindred spirits has been a Godsend. I am praying for you.
know of any in the Maryland suburbs of DC? :)
Thank you for your kind words.
My son lives in Wheaton. I will visit him this summer. We can meet then, if you wish.
I would love that.
You might want to check out the podcast “no agenda” and look for a no agenda meetup. One of my friends is really into it and had met lots of people that way.
I don’t but I will do my best to find out. Stay tuned.
I meant to say, also, Ohio is a wonderful place -- I've visited often. If I could move there, I would, but family obligations are keeping me here, for now.
thank you!!! It's a wasteland here.... but I'm sure I can't be the only one.
I can GUARANTEE you are not the only one! My contact gave me the following sites (I have not looked into them):
https://omny.fm/shows/success-happens/success-happens-tim-walters-reopen-mayland-dr-ther
https://m.facebook.com/marylandfortrump/
https://www.mcgop.com/republican_club_first_thursday
https://www.mdshooters.com/pages/home/
https://marylandorganic.org/csa/
https://t.me/InformedChoiceMaryland
https://www.informedchoicemaryland.com/join-us/
Please keep me posted.
Laura, thank you! <3
This is a beautiful, honest post. Thank you.
You’ve got a lot to be proud of for sure. Not every person needs to be confrontational. Sometimes a more gentle approach is best. By your passive resistance you might have changed a few minds, but more importantly you’ve retained your bodily autonomy.
I had a similar experience. At first I was very honest about not getting vaccinated, until the extreme reaction made me start avoiding the subject. A few times people assumed I’d been vaccinated and I didn’t correct them, instead using the opportunity to defend everyone’s right to choose. That actually worked! I was able to talk three different acquainted out of ostracizing an unvaxxed loved one.
There are lots of ways to go about resisting the insanity. We’re all
Different for a reason.
you make a very good point, Vernon. During the most intense period of shunning (last September to December), I was able to speak out against the injustice of discriminating against people who choose not to get vaccinated -- how this reminded me very much of what happened in Nazi Germany, and ALSO I was able to tell a few of my fully-jabbed friends (the ones who hate anti-vaxxers but knew I was "contraindicated") how awful it felt to be on the receiving end of this discrimination and shunning, and that everyone should care -- even people who are fully jabbed and it "doesn't affect them." I said, this is not a world I want to live in. (and I'm not suicidal!). I made it personal for them, so they at least knew someone they value who was being treated this way. I definitely told them, look, we already know that people who are vaccinated can still spread COVID, so how on earth does this policy make any decent sense?
They all knew it didn't make sense -- but it DID make them "feel safer" to know that only similarly-jabbed people would be at the concert with them.
Yes, I WANTED to make them uncomfortable enough to question this policy -- so that they knew it was not all deplorable, wrong-think far-right selfish assholes who were gullible to Russian propaganda (and thus, expendable, get to the end of the line when we ration medical care because you should all die). No -- I wanted them to visualize their good friend Dani being excluded from normal social events even though I'm perfectly healthy and not going to kill them with my toxic germs.
The craziness of this is beyond belief....
I'm touched by what you wrote, and I'm glad you were able to maintain some of your relationships. Human beings don't survive without human contact, so doing what you needed to is nothing to be ashamed of. 😍
So many of us had the same or similar experience. It was incredible pressure; everyone I knew took the injection, I had to leave my healthcare career, and when two of my closest relationships were affected, I went into a trauma state, frozen and not functioning well. I knew one person I could talk with on the phone and that's it. I sought out an unvaccinated community and luckily found a big one here in liberal Bay area California. And fortunately five of them have become some of my closest friends, we just jive together. Blessed. And I feel the substackers and commenters my friends, which I never thought could happen with an online community. I have a lot of love for you all. 💕💕💕💕
Take good care. 🙏❤️🌷
Perfectly expressed! I went through the same experience. In fact, I actually started to question my own sanity. Logically, if everyone lived in a different world than I did, I must be the insane person! Thank goodness for these substack communities. You all have literally kept me sane and grounded. Else, I don't know what I may have done in my despair and desperation. Hugs for everyone here.
hugs right back at you. Same thing here. Thank god for Substack
Yes indeed! For so many of us- this is our lifeline to sanity.
You’re not alone, Dani; we’re all here
Dani you describe exactly the situation I was and am in. My former best friends are jab happy and left me aside for the longest time, but at least, I found among my acquiantances a few that think like me, including 2 couples with children who don't vaxx and one homeschools her children. The other has a 1 year old and refuses to jab. I am proud they came to this conclusion, it proves that not all is lost in America. I am in a very low jab county, but notice to my surprise this morning, that from about 15 people in the store, at least 10 wore a mask! I thought that would be out by now!
I think we need to always look for a silver lining, it showed us the true nature of people around us. Perhaps you need to try to surround yourself with more like-minded people who have similar values and try to find common ground with others who disagree. I have one friend to whom I sent so much information to wake her up but to no avail, we still talk and on good terms and I still try here and there. Thankfully in my circle most of my friends, and I don’t have many, are critical thinkers. The interesting part is some of those people who looked at things critically experienced what gvnmt can do to the people. One friend is half Native American from Canada who’s relatives lived in Canada and her grandmother went to a residential school where many children were abused, were forbidden to speak their language, were forced to be “ re-educated”. I think many people had it too good and it’s hard for them to imagine that actions of those in power could be not in their best interests. I was born in the Soviet Union, in one of the republics but immigrated to the US a long time ago and appreciate the Constitution very much and how the founding fathers intended this country to function. I’m sure many are aware of the Soviet Union gvnmt and I remember my grandma was afraid to discuss political things at home thinking that someone is listening. I was laughing at that time and I don’t think there was technology at that time but for example what we now know about s-n-o-w.den reveal of N-S.-A ( have to write this way 🤷🏼♀️ maybe my grandma wasn’t that wrong. It just shows the mindset of those who had to live through rough times. I think the US still has the best system but for it to work we need to participate in a democratic process, be involved in local politics if possible, not being a politician but to contact our representatives for example to voice our opinion. I live in FL now, I can also recommend another sub stack, Coffee&Covid by Jeff Childers ( maybe you are a reader as well) who is an attorney and also helped many people. Check it out! Actually, one of the commenters had a link to this amazing article. So I have hope as I know there was/is a silent majority and recent polls show that most of the people are sane.
Thank you for testifying. Indeed, when times our good, we don't follow politics as we should. All this time, laws have been voted on, that should not have been. Like the one that dismissed the liability of bigharma in case of injury or death by inoculation. How can a government oblige you to give this to your children, knowing that it could cause harm or death? How can doctors inject it into children? Yes the government does check on us. Sometimes my emails have notices on them, and today I got a government warning to get jabbed. I put it in my spam folder.
Jeff Childers is great. I am glad you are already in Florida. I might to move there too LOL
Dani- thank you for your honesty. The whole time I was reading it, I was nodding my head thinking - this is me! I am surrounded by either Covididiots or the "middle of the road" types- who will go along just because it's easier for them. I also have a strong desire to find a group where I can do something to make a difference, volunteer someplace maybe. I am so thankful for these substacks, this is where I have found my tribe!
You ever want to talk? Let me know. I will send you my email. Then maybe ph#. I know your pain. You are not alone and I am sure we all feel this way if we are totally honest.
all those people you cared about and tried to help weren't smart enough to take advantage of your wisdom and insight. but don't underestimate the positive impact you may have had on others who might be too afraid to acknowledge that. it's hardly out of the question to think that your refusal to comply encouraged others not to line up for the kill shot, or inspired them to take off the muzzle. you literally took one for team humanity, over and over. you were strong and smart before this nightmare and you're even stronger and smarter now. i realize that's no solace for all the hell you've suffered, but there will come a time when your unswerving everyday heroism will be appreciated for what it is!
no greater pleasure than to see a friend wake up
Reading this touched my heart. I wish you peace.
I’ve been amazed at how inhumane, unsympathetic, selfish, and truly barbaric many of my fellow human beings are. I live in a neighborhood that, because of my speaking out about the atrocity of the scandemic response, considers me someone to avoid. I’ve been very hurt by this, but I’ve recently begun to feel better for having taken a stance against what’s been done. Thank you for affirming that thought.
Kathy: Truth often separates even from those we love most. But, be encouraged. I am an old man now, and I have tried to live truthfully all my life -- especially trying to be truthful with myself. I have also tried to speak truthfully with love and compassion to those I care about. It doesn’t always yield the results we hope for, but it is the only path. We can sleep at night and we are free.
100%! Thanks, Be, for expressing a thought I have every day.
TQ for these words. it's the capacity to feel free, to see truth and to make well-balanced choices that's so very valuable. otherwise we'd be imprisoned by our own making (which would be very stupid).
🙏🏻🙌🏼♥️
You’re a hero.
Yes, yes and YES! Everything, and I mean everything you said is true. However, I would extend this to all of humanity and not just Americans. Still, Americans have a history of freedom, self-sufficiency and a belief in God, to have known better. Yet, here we are.
I believe this whole she-bang is the result of the secularization of society. Everything we are seeing stems from no belief in a higher being or life after death. We all go poof when we die, so I don't want to die! That's it in a nutshell. I shall write a post about it sometime.
The tank has been on E for awhile and we're running on the fumes of Christianity. We are going to wind up broken down in Paganville.
Don (& Napoleon) I agree; this is strongly linked to the apostacy of our modern times.
You're right. And covid for the first time gave a lot of people meaning and challenge. The CDCs pushing and shoving made them feel valuable, maybe for the first time in their lives.
The same is true for many policemen. This overreach adds gravitas and purpose where it is generally lacking in a normally dull job. I often wondered why/how state agents in Nazi Germany could be so ruthless. We are seeing it played out again today.
tru dat. the violence directed at peaceful protesters is horrifying, most recently yesterday at the celebration of ordinary folk for James Topp's arrival in Ottawa (after his 5 month walk that'd started in Vancouver) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFYKtInaI4
Agree. Insightful comment!
Very true.
27 months ago I believed people would resist the mark of the beast. Now I know they will stand in line to get it.
They have to. It's been prophesized. It can't go any other way. There will be a second and final coming of Jesus and the mark of the beast is the preliminary round.
yes, 27 months ago I said no way will Americans pull our kids out of school completely over a virus. we've learned a lot about our fellow citizens
What we see is the fruit of 100 years of progressive action. We have become a nation of selfish, ignorant, gullible people. Without eliminating a majority of the federal government, improving education for our young people and transparency and honesty in the medical/pharmaceutical complex, our future as a united country seems bleak. Even the military and faith organizations are abandoning the fundamental reasons for them to exist. At some point we have to tell the woke crowd to pound sand and try to restore sanity to our culture. Right now we are adjusting the world to focus on climate and the damage from those actions will make Covid look like chump change. The foundation for the green actions was laid decades ago without any questions asked. I hope there will be serious, thoughtful discussions about climate and that Substack readers don’t just blindly accept as truth what they have been told. Utopia doesn’t exist and cannot be created. Our best hope is to hold together as a law abiding people with no rulers or special interest group dictating to the majority. It remains to be seen if America can survive the current pandemic of madness.
I don’t think anyone on these substacks believes in the climate scam anymore that any of us believe in this plandemic. But I’m also not sure we are the majority
I think we are a small minority
No way!! TV says one thing, I believe the opposite. They want us to think everyone took these shots. Reverse psychology.
Me too, Minerva
The problem is that we cannot know what proportion of the people are awake to reality. The mainstream misleadia uses every possible opportunity to propagate the globalist narrative in a way that suggests it has popular support. Climate is a good example, almost all MSM output references so called (and untrue) consensus. This is an overt attempt to cast dissent as minority. If the climate narrative genuinely was supported as well as the media tries hard to convince us it is then they wouldn’t need to try to convince us.
Trans ideology is another example. It’s difficult to believe that this has suddenly become a broadly accepted phenomenon amongst supposedly intelligent people. Could it be that we are all in a big majority but siloed by the media so that we are conditioned to believe we are not the mainstream?
Soy, There is certainly an agenda to marginalize those of us who are awake to all of the scams.
And the scamdemic has had very “clever” rules - masks, fanning fear porn, distancing, lockdowns, severely limiting or curtailing all together any gatherings.
How brilliant, to make people deathly afraid of their family, friends, co-workers, fellow citizens? How inspired the masks, to dehumanize & depersonalize us? How grand, to keep us from communing w/ one another in gatherings where we might share the truth or ask pointed questions? How diabolical, to isolate the hospitalized & dying w/ no comfort or care?
Every bit of it, efforts that worked to traumatize us & wreck our spirits. Scarred forever but deeply angry too
Well put, Cindi!
Check out this site: https://wattsupwiththat(dot)com/ - a good community of quite intelligent people debating and debunking all things claiming carbon dioxide is a toxic climate changing influence. There are some very good scientists and analysts commenting; often too technically deep for me, unless I do a lot of my own research to catch up.
Website is gone now!!!
These are the facts laid bare…and it’s not a pretty picture. I’m often reluctant to “go there” about such a large swath of our fellow citizens but at some point we have to face the magnitude of the mental illness and character deficits that surround us.
BTW, just started Mattias Desmet’s “The Psychology of Totalitarianism.” Affirms your central thesis.
I saw a meme that stated:
harsh truth--the people worth saving are already awake.
That hit me pretty hard. 🤛
yeah, I have viewed this whole thing as a push for global totalitarianism and it is interesting that the people that love and support that - the left - are the ones continuing to pump themselves full of the poison. So, these "leaders" are killing their own. I have come to think we should cheer and support that. After all, these same people have cheered and wished for us skeptics to die. I won't mind seeing millions of democrats suffer from their new religion.
‘It was obviously scientifically unsound to begin…’
Never mind scientifically, but observationally. Where were all the sick people? I don’t mean hospital cases or the moribund, but the sort of people we observe each Winter particularly if there is a ‘nasty’ Cold or ‘flu bug ‘going around’. We see people in our own homes, among friends and neighbours, absentees from work too sick to leave home or their beds.
With such a fast spreading, serious virus affecting the whole population, there should have been millions at home, in bed, away from work during January to April 2020 and that would have been abundantly obvious, particularly with the economic disruption it would have caused.
Instead there was a noticeable absence of sick people. So why did hardly anyone notice?
TRUE!
It was obvious and I repeatedly pointed that out to people. Most would admit they knew no one. Rarely, one would say "My sister-in-law's uncle's neighbor's great aunt died from from Covid.."
"How old was she?"
"93, with Alzheimer's, in a nursing home."
My daughter works in an Arizona hospital (surgical circulator RN). She never witnessed anything as described in the ‘news’.. They did one time set up tents for overflow in the parking lot, but...they were never used and were soon dismantled.
Same happened in Seattle where a temporary field hospital was setup at Seahawks stadium. (And another on the north edge of Seattle as well.)
Neither one ever saw a single patient and were eventually dismantled.
When we returned to Tulsa in 2020, the local news media made a huge deal out of one of the hospitals setting up refrigerated trailers as temporary morgues.
When I questioned this, noting the Seattle field hospitals, I was banned and blocked by the media who breathlessly reported it.
Scam, scam, scam.
Last year a freedom of information request to the UK Office of National Statistics asked for CoVid deaths where only CoVid was mentioned on the death certificate, thus no underlying causes.
The data given in response was for January 2020 to September 2021, which was what was available at time of FOI request.
The published national figure at the time was ~140 000 deaths.
The ONS figure was just over 17 000. 9 000 in 2020, 8 000 to date 2021.
All deaths in care homes were assumed CoVid irrespective of symptoms and without any test or attendance by a doctor. Doctors would not visit care homes so diagnoses and cause of death were decided over the phone.
All the homeless population would be gone.
there might be a 'virus' (although even the existence of viruses is being debated by serious reseachers), but there never was a 'pandemic'. as you mention, no overflowing hospitals and definitely no higher mortality numbers, neither on national levels nor globally. office work got done, because white collar workers and government employees zoomed & worked from home, but inter-personal contacts (stores, markets, schools, restaurants etc) were severely disrupted. the foolish have now had their shot(s) and aren't any longer afraid of us, the non-compliants. it's a very strange world we live in!
And where has the flu gone? Didn't we hear some excuse masquerading as a reason that it was because we were taking those so important precautions like masks and handwashing?
Viruses are competitive and the new kid on the block displaces the others. Omicron displaced the other variants, for example.
The point being, all those in other years who would have suffered from other respiratory viruses, particularly ‘flu, got CoVid instead.
But there is another consideration.
In the first Pfizer Human trial, about the same number in both trial groups got symptoms associated with Colds and ‘flu. Only by testing with PCR were Pfizer able to say which were CoVid and not Colds or ‘flu.
It is very likely many cases of ‘flu or Cold were misdiagnosed as CoVid became the only disease on the Planet.
But if you check the average number who suffered/died from all respiratory tract disease, 2020, 2021 are about average. CoV 2 just displaced other viruses and it is highly likely many cases were misdiagnosed.
Yes, I considered that to be a possibility. The cynic in me leans a bit towards the idea that many flu cases were deliberately misdiagnised to boost the Covid numbers. However, I must be honest and say that's just me...
There is no doubt it was policy to inflate the CoVid data and mislead to make it look more serious. I say no doubt, because certainly in the UK new instructions went to medical staff and coroners changing the way cause of death was reported to bias reporting towards CoVid.
One such was ANY death with a positive PCR test within the prior 28 days be recorded as CoVid death. It has emerged that there were 14 different ways used to record a CoVid death across the hospital system in the UK.
Any patient with Cold-like or ‘flu-like symptoms were considered CoVid without any test to confirm diagnosis. Just about all deaths in care homes were assumed to be and recorded as CoVid deaths without any actual diagnosis having been made or individual having been seen by a doctor.
Then the definition of ‘cases’ (normally symptomatic infection requiring hospitalisation) was changed to refer to any positive PCR Test.
All In-patients admitted for any reason were PCR tested on admission and during stay, and if positive they were recorded as hospitalisation due to CoVid.
So there is no doubt many ‘flu cases were misdiagnosed added to displacement by the CoV 2 virus. It would be expected to see a reduction in ‘flu cases in favour of CoVid, but fir nearly all ‘fu cases to disappear stretches credulity.
There is not a single official datum that is trustworthy.
Clear concise summary of the global psychosis, now embedded in the minds of the many as truth where it will reside forever as a foundational unexamined assumption priming them for follow-on aberrations and forever separating them from the rest of us who were not hoax infected.
Since the uninfected tribe will likely not interbreed with those infected by the Narrative, we are witnessing the dawn of a new species.
I have my own unfortunate Petri dish to observe - 2 unvaxxed awakened sons and 2 double vaxxed and boosted woke daughters. Three of the four are single and unattached. The daughter who has a partner thinks the world is too awful to bring a child into. I can’t imagine the others will choose mates with vastly different viewpoints from their own. I worry about their futures, that my husband and I will die with no legacy and that society as we’ve known it is about to disappear.
A bit of a luddite here, but I think society as we know it began to disappear when smart phones were widely adopted. Screen addiction looks very real from my perspective. People don't seem to think any more - having knowledge a button push away seems to have castrated peoples' ability to deduce things on their own.
That’s precisely why I dumped my Apple Watch & iPhone for a Timex and a noon-internet phone.
I’m also about to go on a quest to achieve a No-Password, non-digital life. For example, I’m switching back to paper only billing statements and I’m going to write paper checks for my utilities so that I no longer have to maintain logins/passwords.
It will be a very happy day when the internet is but a bad dream.
*non-internet phone
Yes, I agree! I think it all started with smart phones.
My current thinking is that only one of those species has a future.
The future likely belongs to the Believers as the Narrative has softened them up to embrace slavery.
Do any of us expect them to live long healthy lives after the pfizertoxin takes hold?
Good point. The ultra-wealthy may have overdone it. What a disaster if they lose their slaves. It would certainly teach them a lesson.
non-compliants
Interesting to note that the countries most severely affected by corona mass psychosis were the liberal rich Western societies on one side, and the totalitarian-leaning South Americas on the other. (China, of course, is a psycho world in itself). People who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives.
It is my belief that this corona mass psychosis is a stark manifestation of the ongoing decline of the West. Any civilisation that grows rich enough and liberal enough for people to lose touch with physical reality (exhibit no.2: 'gender-fluidity') and to lose their individual and group survival skills will develop all sorts of psychosis/mental issues and will eventually rot and collapse. The decline of Rome started long before the Goths came along.
Yes, I wonder what happened to peoples' bull---t - o - meters. Mine has pegged the red zone ever since the lockdown started. Who actually thought an aerosol virus would disappear in two weeks. I told my coworkers that was bull----, "it would 6-8 weeks, minimum. Or never-ending because it was scam." Nobody listened, or even did any research into aerosol viruses. I felt very alone until I found these substack forums.
independent journalist George Webb has researched the possibility of aerosol(ised) viruses. absolutely fascinating! he's on twitter (which I don't have so i don't know where to find him there, perhaps at GeorgeWebb1) and substack - https://georgewebb.substack.com/
'people who live 'undeveloped' poorer countries have more finely tuned survival sensors and are better able to discern 'b=*llsh** fiction from real threats to their lives' < no, not quite! there was a lot of government coercion and in some places (Indonesia a.o.) the military were deployed in getting the vaxx's out to the (rural) population. perhaps check the % of people on a global scale who got vaxx'd - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
"Sheep with a mean streak"! I'm laughing. Wouldn't that make a pack of wolves? Well, I guess at least with wolves you see the threat from afar.
Also like the theory that masks are symptoms of dependence on SSRIs and tranquilizers.
If I've lost affection for anything it's for "scientists", the crowd following bozos who have to anoint every finding with "safe and effective".
Love of country, for me, is like love of family. It doesn't mean I think we're perfect or even all that good. But they're family/countrymen. I've traveled enough to realize there are evil stupid people everywhere. What's happened with covid is a real awakening to a govt -medical-pharma complex that's completely out of bounds. A lot of people in the US know that. The rural county I live in has a lot of independent thinkers. They aren't fancy people, they live under the MSM radar, they don't poke Big Brother with a stick. When I go visit Metro DC I see the contrast with the urban over-educated sheep. The backbone of the US is the bumpkins.
I have to admit that I’ve been a snob for most of my life. I looked down on the bumpkins, the lower middle class, the blue collar workers.
But lately I’ve started to realize how wrong headed this prejudice really was. In fact I have began to think of these people as my tribe - albeit from a distance. I don’t look like them - I don’t dress like them or consume the same entertainment (I’m pretty sure Purgatory will have a television that cannot be silenced, running endless loops of laughtracked sitcoms, and Pharma commercials.)
But at least they’re not the smug, over educated vainglorious assholes like me.
On second thought - I just returned from last-minute grocery shopping: I hate these idiots. Lol
Shopping in Annapolis with a crowd of multiple-degreed white collar people isn't much fun either. They tend to stare at the unmasked, and back away if you are examining the same bananas at a distance of less than a car length. I choose the bumpkins because they're unpretentious. The Range Rover driving, 9000 sq foot house dwelling, thrice boosted give me hives.
middle class lefties are way worse
they make the best (traditional) music too :-))
All over...!!! 🎶👏👏👏
Excellent piece, Mark, as usual!
Sadly, I believe you can take all those bullet points and expand upon them with respect to many other countries. My experience in Italy has not been entirely dissimilar and, while I have often said that 30 years of police service mean I am generally no longer surprised by what people do, the consistency with which they continue to do it can be really wearing.
Moreover, the entire affair has revealed some alarming aspects to the functioning of the state.
https://english.pravda.ru/opinion/152598-italy_covid/
I hope that link leads you to the English language version of an interview given by prominent lawyer Alessandro Fusillo. It describes, much more eloquently than I can, the situation here from March 2020 to the present.
For my own part, the expected letter from the state asking me why I have not had the shots arrived two weeks ago. Following some legal guidance I replied, within the required timeframe, merely that, being recovered, there was no sound clinical reasonfor me to do so.
We shall see now where the process takes us.
In the meantime, keep up the good work. Your missives continue to provide light and encouragement.
Am I reading this right? Do you mean that in Italy the government sends you a letter asking you why you haven't been vaccinated? Are you required to reply? By law? What crazy fascism is this?
In January this year the government introduced two decrees targetting unjabbed over-50s.
The first made it necessary to have a Greenpass based upon shots or recent recovery for over 50s to go to work. Since October last year, I had been doing nasal swabs to get to work but that option was removed effective Feb 15th. It was changed back again April and effectively removed altogether by May.
The second made it an offence, effectively, for anybody over 50 to be unjabbed but only between Feb 1st and June 15th.
The entire affair stemmed from the discovery last autumn that Italy had (and still has 💪💪) a much higher percentage of unjabbed older folks than other countries. I have no idea what kind of mental gymnastics were involved in the minds of the lawmakers to overlook the fact that the holdouts, if not already jabbed by Feb 1st, would simply hold out a little longer until June 15th. But they did and, predictably, by April more than 80% of those targetted had remained steadfast and given a clear message to government (🖕) by not changing their minds. Don't mess with the old folks, eh?
The process, for what it's worth, involves the health authorities advising the tax authorities who hasn't been jabbed. The tax authorities then write to the individual asking why not and inviting a reply to be sent to the health authorities. They in turn will decide if that's good enough or not and will then advise the tax authorities to levy the penalty of €100 from the individual's tax returns.
Yes, I know, I know, ordinarily you couldn't have made it up but, as Mark pointed out in his original piece above, human behaviour has shown itself to be the damndest thing!
On a brighter note, the number of challenges to the fines and the entire process on a wide range of legal issues is said to be huge and there are those who believe it will collapse.
For my own part, I had C19 in March 2020 and have documented my antibody history to the present day, along with more than 60 negative tests (I can't even generate a false positive) and I look forward to getting a doctor from the health authorities to go on record and tell me why that's not good enough. However, as with all these things, the response is 99.9% wait and see.
I recommend following the link to the interview given by lawyer Alessandro Fusillo in my earlier reply. It's really quite informative.
I read your excellent and shocking article. Surely it is undeniable that the current regime is approaching the fascism of some 80 years ago? The fact that they are dishonoring their own constitution, and European law, by enforcing vaccination via financial blackmail makes a total mockery of democracy. But as the lawyer pointed out, various Italian leaders have forged their credentials at the helm of the EU that has no real democratic legitimacy - a fact many Americans, and even Europeans, do not realize.
My understanding from colleagues here is that, in Italy the President has the authority to invite a non-elected person to form a government where there is division or conflict among elected parties such that no consensus can be reached.
Giuseppe Conte became the PM in 2018 in this way when it was felt that neither Luigi Di Maio nor Matteo Salvini, whose parties were the two largest after the election, did not have enough parliamentary experience to be handed the Premiership. (The cynics suggested it was because Salvini was too far to the right and Di Maio's 5-Star party were too populist to satisfy Brussels).
By all accounts Conte, a law professor, developed into a publicly popular figure and introduced a number of changes about which Italians were generally happy. He had the helm when Covid hit and, while it seemed he was doing okay, there were declarations of alarm at the extent to which matters were being dealt with by decree, a process which exists to deal grave national emergencies.
For reasons that I personally have not yet grasped, Matteo Renzi, a former PM, withdrew his group's support for the Conte coalition and precipitated a collapse of the government early in 2021. Rather than go to the country, President Mattarella elected to propose Mario Draghi as an alternative and invited him to form a government.
This is where we are today. Draghi is hated by many. I have a Japanese friend, for example, born to a nation known for reserve, composure and politeness, who becomes extremely animated (Japanese, animated?) at the mere mention of his name.
Italian journalist Paolo Borgagnone (among others) refers to Draghi as "Nonno Banchiere" or Grandad Banker while others point out that bankers are generally "i primi ladri" or the greatest thieves.
His party piece has been the vote of confidence...
Go back briefly to the elections of 2018 when Di Maio and Salvini came to prominence. Their results were based upon the arrival of many new deputies or elected representatives into parliament. To qualify for the pension which follows a period in parliament, these deputies must serve a minimum period of time. That period will not be achieved until September this year.
So, Draghi, the doyen of the EU and bankers generally, has brought more than forty (I believe it's more but I don't know how many) votes to the parliament and announced each time that a vote against the measure will be considered a vote of no confidence and he will fold the government thus precipitating an election. For those who need the deputy's pension the choice is simple...vote yes (until September this year) and the pension remains secure, vote no and you're looking for employment next week.
Cynical doesn't begin to describe it!
It hasn't all been bad, though and the Presidential elections in January, which were supposed to usher Draghi into the presidency without obstacle, resulted in repeated hung votes to the point where Matarella, who didn't WANT to stand again, accepted a further nomination and was re-elected.
Draghi was so angry about it that he took the extremely unusual and, arguably, highly irregular step of publicly upbraiding the deputies in parliament for failing to deliver a proper result.
In the meantime, the jockeying for position has already started. Di Maio has decided to part company with the 5-Star movement, taking some of their deputies with him in order to continue to support Draghi . Some observers have said that, as a mediocre politician and thus without much of a political future, he has been tempted by the offer of postions outside of politics later on but, who knows...? Salvini has also started throwing some curve balls in there, especially as the results of recent local elections suggest he may still have credibility alongside a resurgent Giorgia Meloni whose party Fratelli D'Italia (Brothers of Italy, also the name of tbe Italian national anthem) also did well.
It remains a very fluid situation.
Happy independence weekend!! Trying to look on the bright side, this was a watershed experience for me and I feel liberated. While I absolutely agree with your harsh criticism listed here, if it hadn’t happened I might not be as free from delusions as I am now. So there’s that. Meanwhile, the virtue signaling, passivity and historical illiteracy are my personal pet peeves. But now I am free to cut ties with anyone who displays these inadequacies! ❤️🤍💙
I’d have to add people who communicate through emojis. Lol.
But you’re obviously bright, and I’d have to also cut off my sister so perhaps I need to rethink that one.
Different strokes for different folks 🏊♀️ 😆
Discernment is a gift. I wish you (and myself) this gift in abundance. 🎁
Niiiice!
Without a doubt that was The Absolute Best summary of the last 2 years that I have read.
Absolutely the best! I have been reading a lot too!
OMG Mark, best post ever (so far)! Sadly, it captured my feelings exactly about the country & the “sheep w/ a mean streak” (loved that line - so true).
I still feel deeply traumatized & depressed by the whole thing, in very large part because of just what you pointed out - how weak & mentally ill a majority of this country is. And if you don’t think our enemies are seeing it & salivating too….
I have real concerns that all of it will be coming back, just in time for midterms which is conveniently about annual cold-flu season. There are already “hints” - Biden buying millions of doses of a “new” vaccine; the FDA approving the poison for infants & toddlers, the European Union green lighting vax “passports” for future use, etc.
I think “they” are so close to realizing the great reset wet dream that they are not going to give up on it so easily. Based on your words here, do you think we are already too far down the NWO rabbit hole?
If lockdowns etc come back the dems will be crushed. Polls are already showing a red wave. Even here in Oregon most people are over it.
If dems win in nov, then we should start worrying
IMO
If they “win” it will be because they cheated again
non-compliance and civil disobedience is much stronger than 'they' would like us to believe, which is why they're peddling poisonous PR. looking at the numbers (as cooked as they might be) there's about 1/3 of the world population that did not get vaxx'd - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations