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Mark, I enjoy pretty much everything you write. Your themes and descriptions are very accessible, well-written, and timely. But this piece right here? It Fcking RESONATES. Outstanding work!

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All this time, I kept thinking, "surely my loved ones will figure this out soon and wake up, and stop condemning anyone who objects or doesn't comply." And it has not happened yet! The hardest thing to take has been the wide division between rational people and brainwashed but otherwise previously rational people. It's shocking and painful, like a death, when it happens to people close to you.

What has happened, though, is that since mask mandates have lifted and Omicron happened, they are no longer fearful of being in an enclosed space with unvaccinated people. So my social life is improving. I'm receiving invitations to carpool to various things, whereas before I was not invited, or I had to drive separately because of the dangers of riding in a car together, even masked. Unvaccinated people = literally toxic

Unfortunately, many concert venues here are doubling down and requiring proof of the 3rd shot, and my loved ones see nothing morally wrong with that, as these are "private businesses who can do what they want." And we have such a large population of brainwashed sheep, that the musicians/venues do not notice the handful of people like me who are still shut out of that type of uplifting, normal social activity.

As one of my loved ones said to me, "you can always choose to get the vaccine, you know...."

SMH

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

none of the bureaucrats, media, politicians, and "medical professionals" that foisted this disaster should be allowed to get away with it. They need to be in prison or worse. We cannot forget.

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Outstanding presentation Mark, beautifully spoken for so many of us. Thank you!

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

This is FABULOUS! I knew the experts were wrong from the start, not because I'm a questioner necessarily, but because I am an OCD hypochondriac. As such, I knew way more than a normal person about viruses. From February 2020 on nothing made sense, based on what I knew to be true about coronaviruses. It never once added up. And doctors KNOW about vents. They had to know. They insisted upon their use to "shelve" infected patients and protect themselves. The MDs were scared. Sad.

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Remember how ...

Oh ya. I remember... and I won't forget... and sure as shit, I will NEVER forgive.

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This portion of the piece sums it up.

‘Anyone who knows even a little Microbiology knows that viruses are unimaginably small and ubiquitous, and that neither lockdowns, masks nor testing could have ended viral transmission.’

Nothing could be more pragmatic. Viruses, germs, etc. are everywhere. That’s why we have an immune system!

Take care of your body, and it takes care of you, government be damned!

And Fauci too!

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Another thing I remember from the very beginning was that all of a sudden no other death or illness mattered but WuFlu to those in power & those enthralled. When everyone obsessed solely about that, I kept thinking about & asking, “what about everyone dying from everything else?!” There was only one type of death that mattered, & sadly - because of the way the books were cooked from the beginning - we may never know the true numbers of those who died OF rather than WITH. I suspect the number is MUCH lower than the “1 million” Americans (or whatever the figure is today) dead OF WuFlu by an order of magnitude. And that the # of adverse outcomes (including death) are MUCH higher for the poison jab

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I will never forget how I was treated for not going along with the LMTVs. Even now that the liberal college town where I get groceries finally lifted their mask mandate on March 4, I look at the 50% who finally unmasked and I think, "One month ago, you were all still wearing masks."

Two years of bullying, harassment, intimidation, denied service, and having the cops called on me by these vicious people. Nope, I will never forget. In fact, I expect it to return in some form under some excuse. They got away with it once for two years. It'll be back.

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I’ve decided going forward if anyone asks me why one earth I didn’t take the experimental vaccine my answer will be, “because it was Trump’s vaccine.” Let me explain, I live in Seattle…do I need to say more about the demographics around here? Every person around here who seriously questions why someone hasn’t gotten the vaccine, clearly has a hard time with logic. So instead of saying, my immune system works, I’m healthy, 99.98% survival rate etc. (the logical things to say which they can’t grasp), I say it was “Tumps vaccine” and it shouldn’t be trusted. It will stump them every time because around here, they were all yelling form the rooftops that they would never take Trumps vaccine! It’s my reminder to them of what they once said and didn’t follow through. It really is amazing how people didn’t see through the bullshit we were fed. Very sad and beyond frustrating!

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“Americans pay the high salaries of poorly-spoken individuals with zero integrity who directly and deeply damage our lives.”

If this was on a tshirt, I’d wear it.

This whole piece is solid. I, like you, also look at all the folks who are still masking and take a mental note. They can’t let it go because they would have to experience an ego death the likes of which they most likely have not experienced before.

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Mark enjoy your writings very much. You have the uncanny ability to walk one through a story as if we were there. Very insightful as always😊thank you.

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

You know, I read your work in Substack Mark and some others too and it all makes so much sense and I feel validated in my own thoughts and then I come to the world as it is and see we are just not there yet. The vast majority of people, in my world anyways, are still devoted to this big lie, the deception. Even on the very eve of the end of the mandates the people cling to the bullshit. It’s very dispiriting.

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Hey, Mick Jagger is still here too. Rush had a discussion on this when Mick had to have heart surgery. He went on and on about how, despite far more drug use/abuse, Keith was moving right along, while poor ol' Mick had to go under the knife.

These "elites," or what ever you want to call them, we all have our words for them, well they had better be running scared. And "staying on the porch" ain't an option for them.

"We'll be seeing you, you MFers, yes we will."

A storm is coming, "Our Storm."

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Correct, you see the masked all over the place. Even in their car. I watched a masked couple walking yesterday on a trail. Nobody near them, obviously outdoors, not a cloud in the sky and a brisk 15 mph wind. Yet there they were wearing their masks. They were doing nothing less than making a political statement. However for the now majority of us who understand just how wrong these people were, they should have just wore a sign that said, "We are a couple of real dumbasses"!

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Apr 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Spot on Mark! Thank you for your honesty and common sense!

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