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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I don't think human society has ever witnessed such horrific abuse and evil as we have seen over the past 3 years.

It is so astonishing that so few have seen it though.

My condolences to you. I hope you remained close to her over her final years. I'm in a position, because of my covid views (amongst many other things) where I may never see my Mother (and other family members) again. Playing the role of family black sheep is a bummer at times.

The world can be very wicked.

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Jan 13, 2023·edited Jan 14, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Dear Mark, I lost my mother at age 81 in October of 2013.

At first I busied myself with all the religious and legal aspects of her death, and I thought I was handling it all pretty well until a prospective client met me a week later in my office and told me I looked like Hell. (She was right but I still thought it was alright and I was fine.)

After that, I proceeded to do a slow-motion collapse for about two years, and on October 30, 2015, I physically collapsed and spent the next 6 weeks in a place I'd never been before: a hospital.

Almost 10 years post my mother's passing, I find myself thinking about her more and more. Random memories of the way she spoke, and the happy incidents of growing up as her first son just appear out of nowhere. Although we're of Northern European stock, and therefore very stoic and reserved as a rule, I'm often deeply moved by her memory.

My unsolicited advice is take it slow and let yourself grieve. Honor your mom's memory and all the good times in your lives. I'm praying the rosary for the repose of her soul today.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Sorry about your Mom, Mark. At least she was accompanied in her passing with memories of a far simpler, more honest, innocent and intentional life than today’s dystopia.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

It sounds as though she was a lovely lady deserving of respect from our medical community and our government regardless her age. You are 100% right and I will never stop talking about what a travesty the whole Covid debacle was and still is. Heads need to roll!!

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I love the next to last paragraph- she had a "fair chance" at life , she created good memories, and her life had meaning. When my Mom passed away 5 years ago, a good friend who had just lost her Mom said "pretty soon, your memories will be all the good ones, the bad will fade away". She was right! Thanks for sharing what happened with your Mom in these last few years and what she meant to you thru all your life. I'm quite sure many of your readers are like me- reflecting on the good memories of our Moms and being thankful for however many years we had them. Your story is the catalyst for those reflections- thanks!!

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I am sorry for your loss. Although your mom lived a full life, it is never easy to lose your mom. My dad passed at 93 11/12 in October, 2020. He endured some of the horrible lockdown policies when he needed to be hospitalized for colitis. Being in the hospital alone annihilated his will to live and he would have died alone and abandoned had we not gotten him out of the hospital. It is a sin what they did. So many others in my family hid away for two years and after being jabbed died. Who would have chosen to spend the last years of one’s life in isolation if you knew it would be your last?

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My out-of-state mom was a week shy of her 93rd birthday last year. Vaccination was required in the assisted living center she resided at. I didn't let her know what I suspected with the jab, because there was no place for her to go to be looked after. Vertigo, blood clots, falls, etc. These poor folks in rest homes deserved better after a lifetime of service. Shame on everyone involved in the sham.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Dearest Mark - I’m so very sorry to hear of your mother’s passing. While not tragic, it’s a great loss to you, your siblings and most profoundly, your father. I know you find comfort in knowing what a blessed life she lived and you were blessed to have her as your mother. Keeping you in thought and prayer.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Sincere condolences. Both my parents are gone and I'm so grateful it was before all this nonsense. A (former) (thanks to covid) friend's father-in-law died at age 94 during covid time. She expressed her sadness that he died of covid...I wondered what would have been a better way to die at age 94? Do people think their parents will never die??? I'm I callous because my parents are gone? My father died from glioblastoma multiforme at age 65; my mother from a lung biopsy gone bad at age 83. Geez.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

You truly know how to articulate the many emotions, and convey the accurate description of events in such a gifted personal way for all us critical thinkers the past 3 years.

I read this with such compassion for you, because I know how exhausting it has been to see and reflect on our loved ones and their health.

Thank you for sharing your gift of writing and my condolences to you and your family.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My condolences as well. I lost my mom in 2019 and my dad in 2020. Thankfully I was able to see them before all the shutdown nonsense. Like your parents, both lived long and full lives, being healthy and active well into their 80's and 90's. Perhaps the greatest gift they gave to their children was teaching them to stand on their own two feet. I am in my mid-60's and I see so many of my peers being taken advantage of by their grown children who are content to live at home and sponge off mom (it's usually mom). People who aren't in the best of health themselves, who must keep working at stressful or physically demanding jobs, and who are slowly but surely being worn down. When I ask, what will your son or daughter do if you suddenly drop dead, they look at me in surprise. I always said that no matter what else there is one thing I know I will never have to say when my parents go, and that is "Oh shit, what the fuck do I do now? Where am I going to go? How am I going to live?" No, my parents died knowing that their children were perfectly capable of flying on their own. The message they consistently taught us growing up was that yes, misfortunes do happen to everyone and everyone needs a helping hand at some point, but--and this was a big thing--if you went ahead and chose a destructive lifestyle, you were on your own. There were certain things that you simply didn't even think about bringing home to mom and dad because they made it clear that they were not going to go through spending their golden years cleaning up their grown children's messes.

And as far as exploiting people, my suspicions that this was a sham pandemic were solidified early on when the governor of my state, Gretchen Whitmer, sent Covid patients to nursing homes with quite predictable results. So much for "killing grandma." It's ok when the state does it I guess. I asked at the time, who in their right mind deliberately sends people infected with a highly contagious disease into a population that is already vulnerable. To me it smacks of giving smallpox-infected blankets to native people who have no natural immunity to the disease. At least those folks didn't lie about their intent!

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Mark, my condolences on the loss of your beloved mother. May her memory be a blessing to you and your family. She sounds like a great lady and created a wonderful son and I'm sure your siblings are likely the same.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Very sorry for your loss. Pretty much the same thing happened to my mom at 88. Coincidences, don’t believe in them. Our prayers are with you

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I am sorry for your loss but so glad you have what sounds like great memories of your mom to relive!

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I love your prescription for the brain dead public officials, federal, state and local, who brought us covidmania. They took the "panic" bait from the cynical globalists and ran with it. They should be "permanently discredited, and disqualified from holding public office, teaching or voting." Amen.

I have some other ideas too, but I shall restrain myself.

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Jan 13, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My condolences, Mark - but also congratulations to your mom and your/her family for a life well lived and well loved. She blessed others with her attitudes and actions.

My mom died (at 89) Jan. 19, 2021. She also lived a good, long life and raised four kids. We joked that she died just in time - two days before she would have had to live under the current, disastrous administration! Smart lady!

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