I remember asking my mom in the seventies if we were democrats or republicans. She thought for a minute and said we were democrats. I asked why? She said we were democrats because the democrats were for the working man.
I’ve never voted for a democrat in my life. I have lasting memories of Jimmy Carter that I could never forget. We didn’t have money money money everywhere. No one had credit cards to rack up. So life was a grind for everyone.
I knew right off the bat that Covid was fake as I lived through the swine flu pandemic of 1976 where they tried to vax us all. They set up vaccination cubicles in the schools. Thank goodness my mom said no. She said, “No, we don’t do that”
Then we watch people get Bells Palsy, and other neurological issues.
This is why they gave big pharma a pass with the liabilities.
The big fat elephant in the room is Depopulation. People just can’t believe it’s happening. It’s happening right before our very eyes.
Since collaborating with the lockdowns and mandates was so lucrative, few on either side will ever admit the Covid response and its absurdities were a mistake.
Many will continue to mask and jab, and eat, drink, smoke, and medicate themselves into oblivion.
It is far easier to forget than acknowledge their complicity in great evil.
"Covid response and its absurdities were a mistake"
I would say instead that the ACCEPTANCE of those absurdities by humanity at large was a mistake. The purported 'response' to the idea of the imaginary virus was no mistake, IMO. I regard it as a deliberate scheme which I can only see as an assault on humanity. The inventors and promoters of that scheme are guilty of a crime against humanity and no credit for being mistaken can be given to them.
it was beyond belief how many people complied! Almost everyone I was in contact with did. Only after a couple of years I met a few people I knew, who had not jabbed. Normally the students and the farmers are among the first to protest, and now, nothing! Thankfully our little Substack community confirmed that I was not insane, as many suggested.
I was surprised at some of the people of my acquaintance who complied. I live in a rural farming county and never once wore a mask or complied in any way with the nonsense other than simply staying out of the businesses where compliance was insisted upon.
Since the scamdemic revealed the pod people around me, I only have one remaining farmer who is a friend. He and I would be the only unmasked shoppers at the local grocery store and we always stopped and shook hands when we crossed paths.
Good riddance to all the fake friends who revealed themselves. I don't miss a single one of them.
My experience with grocery store workers was the exact opposite here in the Pacific Northwest. Basically brown shirts with name tags. Give some people a little bit of authority and they will relish it to the fullest. I would always try to acknowledge the other unmasked, if there were any. We resorted to fake masks when it became untenable to be bare faced.
Oh the “young workers” at Target and at my local Sprouts Farmers Market were the worst, as far as the “mask police” business. They tried to offer me a mask or tell me I had to put one on. I said, no thank you, or I just looked them in the eye and kept moving by! I live out on Coastal Southern Commifornia.
Glad you have been able to keep one good friend. The people I thought were best friends, dropped contact when they heard I would not vaxx'. I kept sending Emails, but we used to see each other frequently, and I missed, and miss, that. Thankfully I have a dog and 2 cats, so I need not talk to myself!
Yes that was a shock and I still have not recovered. 5 years and they are still barely awake to this vaxx', and not at all to the rest.
That is what I kept telling them, if you get the jab, if you were a mask, why do I have to do the same? If you believe that mask and that jab protect YOU why press it on me? Then they started about herd immunity and the first few times I told them what that meant, and after that I told them they had to find the original meaning of that herd immunity - if enough people have had the illness and only a handful did not, they won't get it because there is not enough of the germs around anymore. So the few are protected by the many. No vaccine can give herd immunity, only the natural occurrence of an illness can.
I know 3 people who died in the hospital with the virus but were already there for something else. I know one 96 year old who died from the jab. I must confess though that I know few people, as I am kind of a hermit in my little corner of the woods. Until the scamdemic started I was out 4 or 5 days a week helping out here and there, but lost contact with all these, being considered 'the spreader of germs' by most.
Hola Ingrid…I would venture to say that these likely vaxxed “good friends” of yours that “you miss”, if you were to get together with them for a coffee or a tea, or go for a walk or some type of ‘social interaction’ with them, about 5-10 minutes in, you would have to excuse yourself and say Adios. Because what they want to talk about and where “their heads are at” now is not where you are. You have seriously moved on. They have not.
We get together once every month or so, but indeed, we seem to have lived on different planets for a few years! We have birthday parties and thankfully we all love animals, which is mostly what we talk about. For the short time we talk, most avoid the cactus! Apart from that, I send memes around. Mostly animals LOL. We used to talk on the phone 2 or 3 times a month. One did not call me for over 3 years, and the other only to tell me a mutual friend had fallen and broke a leg. Like the virus neither had, would catch on over the phone!
I don't watch national news regularly, but I did have to recently. I was vacationing at my parents house a couple of weeks ago and some form of news (when the Blue Jays weren't playing) was always on the TV. I had to bite my tongue a few times when I didn't agree with what was being said. My father, step-mother, and brother are all on the pro-vax, liberal leaning side of things and would have challenged my statements. I'm no orator or debater, nor do I have the patience, so I usually keep my mouth shut.
On the topic of cell phones, I like them because I can call my wife for instructions! Also, when she and I are shopping, I will stop to look at something and she'll turn the corner........and disappear. I don't know if she runs away or has a teleportation device (Star Trek), but she's just gone. Without the cell phone to call her, I'm left with wandering the aisles, getting madder and more frustrated by the minute. I have thought of going to Customer Service and have them page her over the PA system. That would be funny. But I'd only get to do that once.....
I quit my landline recently. It was 50 bucks a month, and I usually get 2 or 3 real ones. I already had a cell phone to call my family overseas. That is mostly what I use it for. Just a regular phone but a little different. It also replaced my old photo cameras, last time I had a roll developed they took the money but lost the photos. End of that.
I hope you got a refund on the pictures! We have a "land line" as well (Google phone). We too get one or two calls a month on it. Need to drop it. Our cell plan covers calls to Canada, so we can talk to the TDS inflicted family.
no refund and not even an apology. This was at CVS and I have completely stopped going there after this farce. My cell phone costs me less than half of what the landline costed, and I could not call overseas with it, that would have been an additional 35 $ a month! when I quit they offered me a cellphone at 75 $ a month LOL. The one I use now is 10 $ plus the 10 $ for international calls!
I'm still stunned to see people wearing masks; very few, but still.... Mostly younger folks.
I can't say I saw the scam from day one but my initial thinking was that we would experience something like a bad flu season and I was never personally worried about my own health. After the "2 weeks to flatten the curve", I could see that the official story wasn't adding up. I had no issue at the time with the government pursuing a "vaccine" for the most vulnerable but couldn't believe that became the only and often mandated solution. In hindsight, I believe it was simply flu season rebranded (for what reasons/purpose I can only speculate but I think some of the "conspiracy theories" are on the right track).
With regard to Polyface, I took a drive there a couple of years ago to buy some meat. It's not that close but I was aware of Joel Salatin's work and I wanted to support local (somewhat) regenerative farming. Sounds like it was a great event you attended.
My granddaughter finally stopped wearing the mask. She was attached to it. I think it was more of away to hide her face.
Family resorted to making fun of her. Essentially shaming her. I kept quiet. Eventually she stopped wearing it.
What kind of phycological damage has been done to these kids. My granddaughter was ten years old at the start of 2020. She wore that mask for four years. Her mom didn’t wear one, and dad didn’t wear one either. So, all her fears come from the outside. I really think she used the mask to erase herself. She hid behind that mask.
L!nkedIn's official rules said one could not question the safety of masks. I posted links to studies, without offering any opinion, and got banned for my troubles. RFK jr needs to come out, along with the head of OSHA, and show why long-term masking is dangerous and damaging. The video of that masked high school girl at the track meet passing out and faceplanting just short of the finish line could be run on a loop.
I think that is what most are doing, that are still wearing one, although recently I have not noticed any hereabouts. Even the few Walmart girls that still had one on 2 months ago stopped it.
That is so sad…it’s so hard to say something even when you are the grandparents. And it’s so sad that that your granddaughter has internalized fear and that she needs to be afraid of “life” and “hide herself” behind a mask. I don’t have grand children but I have 5 year old two grand nieces and I talk to them all the time about loving others and ouselves as well. That it all starts within ourselves to love ourselves first then spread that love around.
Like you I can say I didn't see through the whole scam on day 1 although I was questioning it all as it made no sense. Had it stopped at Easter I would not have got to the bottom of it all but by June 2020 the whole ghastly scam of virology and vaccines came crashing down. I managed a COVID 19 Summary by October and later on did a further review.
And yes, they rebranded the 'flu as has been done many times before to boost sales as much as anything.
I could see that the Democrats were using covid as a means to beat Trump. I naively thought (hoped?) that they would slowly drop the pretense after Biden won the election. Instead, they ramped up the pressure for everyone to get injected. I was already skeptical of mainstream medical advice due to their dietary recommendations but now I don't trust them for anything (aside from maybe setting broken bones or stitching up cuts). Thanks for the link - I'll check it out.
We need converts since there aren't enough who saw through the obvious scam from the beginning. But anyone so easily fooled once won't be reliable going forward. They showed that already. When I find that someone on our side took the jab without being coerced, I don't take anything they say seriously. Glad they switched sides though.
I very much agree. That said, people can learn, they can change, sometimes quite surprisingly so. (Whew I'm glad there was no social media when I was a teenager, let me put it that way.)
The AD is another example of a "new bureaucrat" wanting to make their mark by making changes (locking the gate, not allowing people on the field) where a changes wasn't necessary. As you stated, pulling rank was paramount to him.
I never wore one unless to the few doctor appointments (foot surgery), but fortunately no ‘Karen’ gave me any problem. I knew early on not to take that stupid covid vax. There was too much info available to question it and understand the spike protein was not in any way safe. The idea that freebies and gift cards were needed to promote the vax made it obvious it wasn’t a good idea.
the thing that made me trust our vet - no masks, no questions. the only thing they did was put a table in front of the receptionist, so you could not stand right in her face. Could go in with the animal and all. still wondering if I should ask him to take a large white ape as a patient.
My impression is that the majority of people prefer to remain blissfully unaware of and uninterested in the scam that was put over on them. It must have been nice to spend that time among a largely sane and sensible group of people. Thanks again for sharing a pleasant experience with us. Also glad to hear that you are a brother in the "phone free" fraternity. While convenient at times, the cell phone mania has been a significant contributor to cultural decline. I would have found it useful during my years of medical practice when we had to wear beepers and find a pay phone when on call. But I told my wife when I retired that I would relish being unreachable (and undisturbed) on a momentary basis. Like you, I seem to get along quite well without one.
I like that term, phone free fraternity. I've long been wondering if there wouldn't be some apt term— I think that's it. Assuming y'all let women in, lol.
I'm not a totally smart-phone free person, but I never take the thing with me when I go out walking, and I use it with various other self-imposed limits (which make me quite unpopular). It's complicated. It's a struggle. But I count it a victory that I at least understand the struggle's importance. I'll put it this way: Anyone who refuses to get a smart phone, you have my respect.
Women are welcome but I fear we wouldn't get many of them. I can't claim to be a purist. We attend a tennis tournament every year in Indian Wells, California and this year they decided to go paperless rather than issue tickets for parking and entry. So my wife insisted that I have my own cell phone there in order to get in through the gate and so that she could find me if I wandered off. I decided it might be useful to keep it in my car in case of a flat tire or an accident. But there it remains and I often forget to recharge it.
I hear you. One of the challenges is that it's now nigh impossible to find a payphone or even a paper map (AAA still offers them to members, though). That said, there are still work arounds.
I also hear you about the women. My personal experience is that most women feel a stronger need to stay connected with their kids. It's extremely rare therefore to find one who will not interrupt a conversation once or even several times to text with their kids, or about something related to their kids. I'm sure I don't need to expound on my opinions about this. I offer my opinions against the gale force wind, as it were. LOL.
thankfully my kids are on 4 legs LOL. I cannot imagine what it would have been had there been cellphones when I was a kid. My mother being over protective of her one child, I would have had no rest.
To this day i (silly me ) still engage with folks who “believe” the science, claim masks work and mRNA transfection is safe and effective. In fact, when I pointed out that the shots could never have prevented infection ( mucosal vs humoral response to injection), the trials never demonstrated they did nor did the real world deliver and thus there wasn’t ever a glimmer of scientific justification ( ethics aside) of coercion, the response was” depends what you mean by prevent”.
I’m sure some segment of the population has become more skeptical of officialdom after living thru the Scamdemic, and that’s a good thing. However, Massie was correct. Unless they’re skeptical enough to engage in regular civil disobedience, nothing is going to change. As Thomas Jefferson said, “ When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” As long as people have respect for governments and their bought and paid for “experts”, expect more injustice.
"How do we find our way home? I suggest it starts by changing our governmental obligations from care to responsibility. How do you develop responsible people? You do it by making them bear the consequences of their decisions. You don’t exercise discernment muscles by making decisions for them or promising to pick up the pieces for bad-decision collateral damage.
"My heart breaks for dysfunction, but as terrible as it is, we can’t find our way home if we keep wandering without a plan. So here’s a plan.
1. Eliminate all government funding for education, from kindergarten to college; no college grants; that drops 80 percent of first-time drug use. Colleges have to fund themselves.
2. Eliminate all government health advice; let folks find their own path. Yes, eliminate the Dept. of Health and Human Services; let us find our own way, thank you very much.
Eliminate all government involvement in health care; folks can decide what they want and shop, learn, and share their own findings. Wouldn’t it be neat if TikTok shared various positives and negatives about competing therapies? Think how informed we’d become.
3. Legalize all drugs; if you mess up your life with drugs, you can suffer the consequences. No government agency will help you pick up the pieces. No Medicare; no Medicaid; no doctor licensing; it’s all privatized on the free market; no government manipulation, corruption, fraud, and extortion, no prescription licenses.
4. Eliminate the IRS and go to a 10 percent flat tax. If 10 percent is good enough for God’s tithe, it should be good enough for society...
"Right wing Hippie"..... hahaha! Never heard that one before, but myself & many of my friends also resemble that remark!
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"Question Authority!"
I heard the words, & saw them on signs held by people protesting a variety of Guv'mint policies back in the 60s & early 70s, & that sentiment never left me. It was one of the things that seems to have disappeared during the Plandemic, & continues to this day. I often ponder upon why, but really don't have a cogent, one size fits all answer, unless it boils down to complacency - easier to swim downstream, than up, or what one of my friends says we have too much of in our population mix today, self-inflicted: "FDH - Fat, Dumb, & Happy" people, encouraged by our World's Governments, our Educational system, & all their friends in the "Big" industries.
Be that as it may, you know I love quotes, so I will end with two. The first is a spot on observation, & the second is all about one's attitude!
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid."
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
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"The Devil whispered "I'm coming to get you!" I whispered back, "Bring beer!""
Also in line with your philosophy a quote on the key to happiness; I can't remember where I read or heard it: "Take some time each day to feel thankful for what you have and never let envy enter your heart or mind."
I stopped following her when in an interview she said that metformin was harmless and a great med. I had just been sick for 2 weeks after taking only 4 tablets.
I had the luxury of already being retired from a DOD civilian job when they demanded the jabs. I often wonder what I would have done had I been near the end of a long career and would risk losing everything for denying the shots. I am fortunate that I didn’t have to make that decision, and truly sympathize with the many who had to make that choice. This was pure unadulterated evil.
I love how you wove so many threads together, family life, barefoot walks, the fence-jumping story, the retreat itself without it feeling scattered. “Right-wing hippie” really does fit, and I understand why it makes people laugh in recognition.
What stands out most is the calm refusal to be herded. You didn’t just say you questioned authority; you actually lived it long before 2020. The Brownstone weekend seems like proof that many people sensed the same thing you did, that the mandates and theatrics were always about control, not health.
I share your doubt that a critical mass has woken up, though. People have short memories, and comfort is a powerful sedative. But every person who quietly refuses to play along, every small act of non-compliance, makes a greater difference than it appears on the surface.
Thanks for writing this. It’s a reminder that sanity and good humour can outlast the noise and that a bit of barefoot fence-jumping might be exactly what keeps someone free.
I highly recommend both of Mark Oshinskie's books: *Dispatches from a Scamdemic: Why the Lockdowns, Masks, Tests and Shots Were Wrong from the Beginning*; and *Coronamania Chronicles: True Stories Revealing the Covid Lies.* A few of Mark's gems to sample and keep your learning growing:
"First, as they did during the vietnam war and for a while after, people need to re awaken to the government's propensity to lie. During the past four years government officials lied repeatedly and contumaciously." [Dispatches, p. 216]
"Second, the administrative state's expanding reach is a very dark trend. Most of the covid response was decreed via Emergency Declarations and Executive Orders, not legislated. Many of these strictures were also substantively unconstitutional. The relationship between government and the governed has become asymmetrical. Instead of implementing the people's will, politicians and administrative agencies seek to control people. When they're shown to be wrong, they don't admit error. Instead they misrepresent what happened, attempt to distract the public and tell it to move on." [Dispatches, pp. 216-7]
"Given vaccines' historically exalted status in American popular culture, there's a ready audience for the myth that the shots 'crushed' Covid. But crediting the shots rings very hollow. Despite the oft-repeated, unequivocal assertion that the shots would stop the spread, every jabber I know got sick, typically multiple times. ... the immune system altering shots seem to have promoted illness, not stopped it." [Coronamania Chronicles, p. 226]
"As 1940s-70s media theorist Marshall McLuhan said, 'Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.' So it's been with Coronamania. Averting their gaze from the train wreck they supported, it's easier for the masses to pretend ... that all of the dislocation was worth it. ... Believing these myths is far more comfortable than admitting to others, or to themselves, that their government, news sources and peers duped them throughout."
[Coronamania Chronicles, p. 229]
Now the real work continues: protecting and restoring health, while educating, advocating, and legislating, locally and in state systems, so that this never happens again.
I’m a 62 years old right wing hippy.
I remember asking my mom in the seventies if we were democrats or republicans. She thought for a minute and said we were democrats. I asked why? She said we were democrats because the democrats were for the working man.
I’ve never voted for a democrat in my life. I have lasting memories of Jimmy Carter that I could never forget. We didn’t have money money money everywhere. No one had credit cards to rack up. So life was a grind for everyone.
I knew right off the bat that Covid was fake as I lived through the swine flu pandemic of 1976 where they tried to vax us all. They set up vaccination cubicles in the schools. Thank goodness my mom said no. She said, “No, we don’t do that”
Then we watch people get Bells Palsy, and other neurological issues.
This is why they gave big pharma a pass with the liabilities.
The big fat elephant in the room is Depopulation. People just can’t believe it’s happening. It’s happening right before our very eyes.
Since collaborating with the lockdowns and mandates was so lucrative, few on either side will ever admit the Covid response and its absurdities were a mistake.
Many will continue to mask and jab, and eat, drink, smoke, and medicate themselves into oblivion.
It is far easier to forget than acknowledge their complicity in great evil.
"Covid response and its absurdities were a mistake"
I would say instead that the ACCEPTANCE of those absurdities by humanity at large was a mistake. The purported 'response' to the idea of the imaginary virus was no mistake, IMO. I regard it as a deliberate scheme which I can only see as an assault on humanity. The inventors and promoters of that scheme are guilty of a crime against humanity and no credit for being mistaken can be given to them.
it was beyond belief how many people complied! Almost everyone I was in contact with did. Only after a couple of years I met a few people I knew, who had not jabbed. Normally the students and the farmers are among the first to protest, and now, nothing! Thankfully our little Substack community confirmed that I was not insane, as many suggested.
I was surprised at some of the people of my acquaintance who complied. I live in a rural farming county and never once wore a mask or complied in any way with the nonsense other than simply staying out of the businesses where compliance was insisted upon.
Since the scamdemic revealed the pod people around me, I only have one remaining farmer who is a friend. He and I would be the only unmasked shoppers at the local grocery store and we always stopped and shook hands when we crossed paths.
Good riddance to all the fake friends who revealed themselves. I don't miss a single one of them.
I work in a grocery store — I would go up to people who were not wearing masks and thank them for letting us see their faces.
My experience with grocery store workers was the exact opposite here in the Pacific Northwest. Basically brown shirts with name tags. Give some people a little bit of authority and they will relish it to the fullest. I would always try to acknowledge the other unmasked, if there were any. We resorted to fake masks when it became untenable to be bare faced.
Oh the “young workers” at Target and at my local Sprouts Farmers Market were the worst, as far as the “mask police” business. They tried to offer me a mask or tell me I had to put one on. I said, no thank you, or I just looked them in the eye and kept moving by! I live out on Coastal Southern Commifornia.
Glad you have been able to keep one good friend. The people I thought were best friends, dropped contact when they heard I would not vaxx'. I kept sending Emails, but we used to see each other frequently, and I missed, and miss, that. Thankfully I have a dog and 2 cats, so I need not talk to myself!
Yes that was a shock and I still have not recovered. 5 years and they are still barely awake to this vaxx', and not at all to the rest.
I still don't get how/why people think non-vaxxers endangered those who took the shots. If the shots work, you're bulletproof, right?
Vaxxers should've been happy stupid, selfish people like me would die from The Virus.
Oddly, I'm still here. So is every non-vaxxer I know. Many jabbers I know are no longer with us.
That is what I kept telling them, if you get the jab, if you were a mask, why do I have to do the same? If you believe that mask and that jab protect YOU why press it on me? Then they started about herd immunity and the first few times I told them what that meant, and after that I told them they had to find the original meaning of that herd immunity - if enough people have had the illness and only a handful did not, they won't get it because there is not enough of the germs around anymore. So the few are protected by the many. No vaccine can give herd immunity, only the natural occurrence of an illness can.
I know 3 people who died in the hospital with the virus but were already there for something else. I know one 96 year old who died from the jab. I must confess though that I know few people, as I am kind of a hermit in my little corner of the woods. Until the scamdemic started I was out 4 or 5 days a week helping out here and there, but lost contact with all these, being considered 'the spreader of germs' by most.
Hola Ingrid…I would venture to say that these likely vaxxed “good friends” of yours that “you miss”, if you were to get together with them for a coffee or a tea, or go for a walk or some type of ‘social interaction’ with them, about 5-10 minutes in, you would have to excuse yourself and say Adios. Because what they want to talk about and where “their heads are at” now is not where you are. You have seriously moved on. They have not.
We get together once every month or so, but indeed, we seem to have lived on different planets for a few years! We have birthday parties and thankfully we all love animals, which is mostly what we talk about. For the short time we talk, most avoid the cactus! Apart from that, I send memes around. Mostly animals LOL. We used to talk on the phone 2 or 3 times a month. One did not call me for over 3 years, and the other only to tell me a mutual friend had fallen and broke a leg. Like the virus neither had, would catch on over the phone!
Indeed, although not so much a mistake as deliberately planned. It fully woke me up to all the evils going on.
Alas
I don't watch national news regularly, but I did have to recently. I was vacationing at my parents house a couple of weeks ago and some form of news (when the Blue Jays weren't playing) was always on the TV. I had to bite my tongue a few times when I didn't agree with what was being said. My father, step-mother, and brother are all on the pro-vax, liberal leaning side of things and would have challenged my statements. I'm no orator or debater, nor do I have the patience, so I usually keep my mouth shut.
On the topic of cell phones, I like them because I can call my wife for instructions! Also, when she and I are shopping, I will stop to look at something and she'll turn the corner........and disappear. I don't know if she runs away or has a teleportation device (Star Trek), but she's just gone. Without the cell phone to call her, I'm left with wandering the aisles, getting madder and more frustrated by the minute. I have thought of going to Customer Service and have them page her over the PA system. That would be funny. But I'd only get to do that once.....
I quit my landline recently. It was 50 bucks a month, and I usually get 2 or 3 real ones. I already had a cell phone to call my family overseas. That is mostly what I use it for. Just a regular phone but a little different. It also replaced my old photo cameras, last time I had a roll developed they took the money but lost the photos. End of that.
I hope you got a refund on the pictures! We have a "land line" as well (Google phone). We too get one or two calls a month on it. Need to drop it. Our cell plan covers calls to Canada, so we can talk to the TDS inflicted family.
no refund and not even an apology. This was at CVS and I have completely stopped going there after this farce. My cell phone costs me less than half of what the landline costed, and I could not call overseas with it, that would have been an additional 35 $ a month! when I quit they offered me a cellphone at 75 $ a month LOL. The one I use now is 10 $ plus the 10 $ for international calls!
I'm still stunned to see people wearing masks; very few, but still.... Mostly younger folks.
I can't say I saw the scam from day one but my initial thinking was that we would experience something like a bad flu season and I was never personally worried about my own health. After the "2 weeks to flatten the curve", I could see that the official story wasn't adding up. I had no issue at the time with the government pursuing a "vaccine" for the most vulnerable but couldn't believe that became the only and often mandated solution. In hindsight, I believe it was simply flu season rebranded (for what reasons/purpose I can only speculate but I think some of the "conspiracy theories" are on the right track).
With regard to Polyface, I took a drive there a couple of years ago to buy some meat. It's not that close but I was aware of Joel Salatin's work and I wanted to support local (somewhat) regenerative farming. Sounds like it was a great event you attended.
My granddaughter finally stopped wearing the mask. She was attached to it. I think it was more of away to hide her face.
Family resorted to making fun of her. Essentially shaming her. I kept quiet. Eventually she stopped wearing it.
What kind of phycological damage has been done to these kids. My granddaughter was ten years old at the start of 2020. She wore that mask for four years. Her mom didn’t wear one, and dad didn’t wear one either. So, all her fears come from the outside. I really think she used the mask to erase herself. She hid behind that mask.
That's very sad.
L!nkedIn's official rules said one could not question the safety of masks. I posted links to studies, without offering any opinion, and got banned for my troubles. RFK jr needs to come out, along with the head of OSHA, and show why long-term masking is dangerous and damaging. The video of that masked high school girl at the track meet passing out and faceplanting just short of the finish line could be run on a loop.
My first glance at your opening sentence saw it as, "...could not question the sanctity of masks".
That would have worked too.
I think that is what most are doing, that are still wearing one, although recently I have not noticed any hereabouts. Even the few Walmart girls that still had one on 2 months ago stopped it.
I see them, usually older black ladies.
Out here in the PNW it is mostly the young <30 and elderly >75 who still wear them. Often in the car...by themselves.
Same down in Commifornia.
That is so sad…it’s so hard to say something even when you are the grandparents. And it’s so sad that that your granddaughter has internalized fear and that she needs to be afraid of “life” and “hide herself” behind a mask. I don’t have grand children but I have 5 year old two grand nieces and I talk to them all the time about loving others and ouselves as well. That it all starts within ourselves to love ourselves first then spread that love around.
Like you I can say I didn't see through the whole scam on day 1 although I was questioning it all as it made no sense. Had it stopped at Easter I would not have got to the bottom of it all but by June 2020 the whole ghastly scam of virology and vaccines came crashing down. I managed a COVID 19 Summary by October and later on did a further review.
And yes, they rebranded the 'flu as has been done many times before to boost sales as much as anything.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/what-is-the-flu-aka-covid-19-and
I could see that the Democrats were using covid as a means to beat Trump. I naively thought (hoped?) that they would slowly drop the pretense after Biden won the election. Instead, they ramped up the pressure for everyone to get injected. I was already skeptical of mainstream medical advice due to their dietary recommendations but now I don't trust them for anything (aside from maybe setting broken bones or stitching up cuts). Thanks for the link - I'll check it out.
We need converts since there aren't enough who saw through the obvious scam from the beginning. But anyone so easily fooled once won't be reliable going forward. They showed that already. When I find that someone on our side took the jab without being coerced, I don't take anything they say seriously. Glad they switched sides though.
That is a good litmus test for someone's ability to observe and reason well.
I very much agree. That said, people can learn, they can change, sometimes quite surprisingly so. (Whew I'm glad there was no social media when I was a teenager, let me put it that way.)
The AD is another example of a "new bureaucrat" wanting to make their mark by making changes (locking the gate, not allowing people on the field) where a changes wasn't necessary. As you stated, pulling rank was paramount to him.
That's exactly what it was.
Every single Karen that chided everyone within sight for not wearing masks, walking the wrong way around the supermarket etc etc etc
was on a sanctimonious power trip and needed to get a life.
I never wore one unless to the few doctor appointments (foot surgery), but fortunately no ‘Karen’ gave me any problem. I knew early on not to take that stupid covid vax. There was too much info available to question it and understand the spike protein was not in any way safe. The idea that freebies and gift cards were needed to promote the vax made it obvious it wasn’t a good idea.
the thing that made me trust our vet - no masks, no questions. the only thing they did was put a table in front of the receptionist, so you could not stand right in her face. Could go in with the animal and all. still wondering if I should ask him to take a large white ape as a patient.
White ape....funny. If he does accept you, ask if he has time for a Big Galoot. 😂
An ape? 😂😂
My impression is that the majority of people prefer to remain blissfully unaware of and uninterested in the scam that was put over on them. It must have been nice to spend that time among a largely sane and sensible group of people. Thanks again for sharing a pleasant experience with us. Also glad to hear that you are a brother in the "phone free" fraternity. While convenient at times, the cell phone mania has been a significant contributor to cultural decline. I would have found it useful during my years of medical practice when we had to wear beepers and find a pay phone when on call. But I told my wife when I retired that I would relish being unreachable (and undisturbed) on a momentary basis. Like you, I seem to get along quite well without one.
I like that term, phone free fraternity. I've long been wondering if there wouldn't be some apt term— I think that's it. Assuming y'all let women in, lol.
I'm not a totally smart-phone free person, but I never take the thing with me when I go out walking, and I use it with various other self-imposed limits (which make me quite unpopular). It's complicated. It's a struggle. But I count it a victory that I at least understand the struggle's importance. I'll put it this way: Anyone who refuses to get a smart phone, you have my respect.
Women are welcome but I fear we wouldn't get many of them. I can't claim to be a purist. We attend a tennis tournament every year in Indian Wells, California and this year they decided to go paperless rather than issue tickets for parking and entry. So my wife insisted that I have my own cell phone there in order to get in through the gate and so that she could find me if I wandered off. I decided it might be useful to keep it in my car in case of a flat tire or an accident. But there it remains and I often forget to recharge it.
I hear you. One of the challenges is that it's now nigh impossible to find a payphone or even a paper map (AAA still offers them to members, though). That said, there are still work arounds.
I also hear you about the women. My personal experience is that most women feel a stronger need to stay connected with their kids. It's extremely rare therefore to find one who will not interrupt a conversation once or even several times to text with their kids, or about something related to their kids. I'm sure I don't need to expound on my opinions about this. I offer my opinions against the gale force wind, as it were. LOL.
thankfully my kids are on 4 legs LOL. I cannot imagine what it would have been had there been cellphones when I was a kid. My mother being over protective of her one child, I would have had no rest.
I had a flip phone, not a fancy smart phone, until 10 months ago. I only answered if my wife was calling. I would use it to call my bookie.
🤣yeah, I don't buy that BR!!
Funny man.
To this day i (silly me ) still engage with folks who “believe” the science, claim masks work and mRNA transfection is safe and effective. In fact, when I pointed out that the shots could never have prevented infection ( mucosal vs humoral response to injection), the trials never demonstrated they did nor did the real world deliver and thus there wasn’t ever a glimmer of scientific justification ( ethics aside) of coercion, the response was” depends what you mean by prevent”.
"Depends on what you mean by prevent."
That's pathetically funny. Or maybe just pathetic.
Downstream of Bubba Clinton:
It depends on what the definition of "is" is.
Chaos
Reminds me of Clinton's response the meaning of 'is'.
I’m sure some segment of the population has become more skeptical of officialdom after living thru the Scamdemic, and that’s a good thing. However, Massie was correct. Unless they’re skeptical enough to engage in regular civil disobedience, nothing is going to change. As Thomas Jefferson said, “ When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” As long as people have respect for governments and their bought and paid for “experts”, expect more injustice.
Joel Salatin, farmer and owner of Polyface Farm, just published "The Way Home at Brownstone.org, making the case to get rid of federal government agencies. https://brownstone.org/articles/the-way-home/
"How do we find our way home? I suggest it starts by changing our governmental obligations from care to responsibility. How do you develop responsible people? You do it by making them bear the consequences of their decisions. You don’t exercise discernment muscles by making decisions for them or promising to pick up the pieces for bad-decision collateral damage.
"My heart breaks for dysfunction, but as terrible as it is, we can’t find our way home if we keep wandering without a plan. So here’s a plan.
1. Eliminate all government funding for education, from kindergarten to college; no college grants; that drops 80 percent of first-time drug use. Colleges have to fund themselves.
2. Eliminate all government health advice; let folks find their own path. Yes, eliminate the Dept. of Health and Human Services; let us find our own way, thank you very much.
Eliminate all government involvement in health care; folks can decide what they want and shop, learn, and share their own findings. Wouldn’t it be neat if TikTok shared various positives and negatives about competing therapies? Think how informed we’d become.
3. Legalize all drugs; if you mess up your life with drugs, you can suffer the consequences. No government agency will help you pick up the pieces. No Medicare; no Medicaid; no doctor licensing; it’s all privatized on the free market; no government manipulation, corruption, fraud, and extortion, no prescription licenses.
4. Eliminate the IRS and go to a 10 percent flat tax. If 10 percent is good enough for God’s tithe, it should be good enough for society...
Mark,
"Right wing Hippie"..... hahaha! Never heard that one before, but myself & many of my friends also resemble that remark!
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"Question Authority!"
I heard the words, & saw them on signs held by people protesting a variety of Guv'mint policies back in the 60s & early 70s, & that sentiment never left me. It was one of the things that seems to have disappeared during the Plandemic, & continues to this day. I often ponder upon why, but really don't have a cogent, one size fits all answer, unless it boils down to complacency - easier to swim downstream, than up, or what one of my friends says we have too much of in our population mix today, self-inflicted: "FDH - Fat, Dumb, & Happy" people, encouraged by our World's Governments, our Educational system, & all their friends in the "Big" industries.
Be that as it may, you know I love quotes, so I will end with two. The first is a spot on observation, & the second is all about one's attitude!
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid."
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
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"The Devil whispered "I'm coming to get you!" I whispered back, "Bring beer!""
Rocky on the GL Forum - 2022
Another memorable quote:
"We are all ignorant; just on different subjects."
Thomas Sowell
Yes indeed! Another truism from the great T. Sowell!
Also in line with your philosophy a quote on the key to happiness; I can't remember where I read or heard it: "Take some time each day to feel thankful for what you have and never let envy enter your heart or mind."
Good report. Sounds like it was a nice change-of pace weekend.
Wish you were there.
This is the common response I get:
It was a hard time. Not one apology.
That’s why we can never forget.
Honestly it’s us from team reality that got it right.
Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.
I get “Why are you still talking about it? Stop talking about it “.
Then I get the “ pity the nutcase” looks.
They are all so busy trying to forget how utterly stupid and nasty they were, they don’t even realize that it’s not over yet.
“May perpetual shame shine upon them” I laughed out loud!
Thanks, Mike.
How have you been?
Busy, but good! Hope you are happy and healthy!
I thought that line was a keeper.
Mark has penned many a keeper😁
Delightful and informative.
Thank you for sharing for those of us who couldn’t attend.
Did you hear Dr. Nass speak?
Play ball!
I didn't hear her. I only skipped one session to talk with some people. Was she there?
She may not have been there. She's super sharp and I'd love to hear her live.
https://x.com/brownstoneinst/status/1967390230073475321
I stopped following her when in an interview she said that metformin was harmless and a great med. I had just been sick for 2 weeks after taking only 4 tablets.
All meds are poison though some genuinely help
What is it supposed to be good for?
Possibly the smallest club in the world is the “Unvaxed and regretting it” club.
It was such an easy call.
If more people had refused to work, the mandates would have ended in a week.
I had the luxury of already being retired from a DOD civilian job when they demanded the jabs. I often wonder what I would have done had I been near the end of a long career and would risk losing everything for denying the shots. I am fortunate that I didn’t have to make that decision, and truly sympathize with the many who had to make that choice. This was pure unadulterated evil.
Should have said this was and still is evil.
I've practiced enough employment law to know about back pay.
I figured the truth about the shots would come out and that any disciplinary action would be undone and compensation would be given.
I love how you wove so many threads together, family life, barefoot walks, the fence-jumping story, the retreat itself without it feeling scattered. “Right-wing hippie” really does fit, and I understand why it makes people laugh in recognition.
What stands out most is the calm refusal to be herded. You didn’t just say you questioned authority; you actually lived it long before 2020. The Brownstone weekend seems like proof that many people sensed the same thing you did, that the mandates and theatrics were always about control, not health.
I share your doubt that a critical mass has woken up, though. People have short memories, and comfort is a powerful sedative. But every person who quietly refuses to play along, every small act of non-compliance, makes a greater difference than it appears on the surface.
Thanks for writing this. It’s a reminder that sanity and good humour can outlast the noise and that a bit of barefoot fence-jumping might be exactly what keeps someone free.
Thanks, Kim. What a thoughtful and well-stated message.
I try to do a little weaving without confusing readers.
For the record, I took my shoes off AFTER the fence. I needed the cushioning.
Ha, that makes perfect sense -barefoot after the fence is definitely the smarter order. 😄
And your weaving works; it keeps the whole piece moving while still letting the details breathe.
Thanks again for sharing it. I really enjoyed the read.
I work hard on these. Thanks, Kim, for LMK that you appreciated it.
Do you know I've printed two books compiling the posts that readers liked best?
I didn’t know that, how great! I’d love to check those out.
You really do put the work in, and it shows 😊
I highly recommend both of Mark Oshinskie's books: *Dispatches from a Scamdemic: Why the Lockdowns, Masks, Tests and Shots Were Wrong from the Beginning*; and *Coronamania Chronicles: True Stories Revealing the Covid Lies.* A few of Mark's gems to sample and keep your learning growing:
"First, as they did during the vietnam war and for a while after, people need to re awaken to the government's propensity to lie. During the past four years government officials lied repeatedly and contumaciously." [Dispatches, p. 216]
"Second, the administrative state's expanding reach is a very dark trend. Most of the covid response was decreed via Emergency Declarations and Executive Orders, not legislated. Many of these strictures were also substantively unconstitutional. The relationship between government and the governed has become asymmetrical. Instead of implementing the people's will, politicians and administrative agencies seek to control people. When they're shown to be wrong, they don't admit error. Instead they misrepresent what happened, attempt to distract the public and tell it to move on." [Dispatches, pp. 216-7]
"Given vaccines' historically exalted status in American popular culture, there's a ready audience for the myth that the shots 'crushed' Covid. But crediting the shots rings very hollow. Despite the oft-repeated, unequivocal assertion that the shots would stop the spread, every jabber I know got sick, typically multiple times. ... the immune system altering shots seem to have promoted illness, not stopped it." [Coronamania Chronicles, p. 226]
"As 1940s-70s media theorist Marshall McLuhan said, 'Only the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity.' So it's been with Coronamania. Averting their gaze from the train wreck they supported, it's easier for the masses to pretend ... that all of the dislocation was worth it. ... Believing these myths is far more comfortable than admitting to others, or to themselves, that their government, news sources and peers duped them throughout."
[Coronamania Chronicles, p. 229]
Now the real work continues: protecting and restoring health, while educating, advocating, and legislating, locally and in state systems, so that this never happens again.