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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 20, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

The Plandemic experiment, here’s what they learned;

- Authoritarians could get most of the world to bow to their will over a well-played phantom menace.

- They could dispense with the Nuremberg Codes overnight.

- They could oust political leaders they didn’t like.

- They could eliminate Informed Consent.

- They could initiate a biological clinical trial onto a purported 5.5 billion people.

- They could get most everyone to disregard the long-standing VAERS (Vaccine Event Reporting System) safety data.

- They could potentially collect billions of DNA samples via PCR testing.

- They could convince young and healthy people to believe they were in mortal danger when they weren’t.

- They could redistribute wealth to their distinct advantage.

- They could show people who fancy themselves as sovereign who’s really sovereign.

- They could reinvent the medical landscape to fit a No-Rights agenda and make it sound virtuous or, at least, inescapable.

- They could use pandemic panic to accelerate the WEF’s Agenda 2030.

- They could sucker otherwise learned, intelligent people to walk in lockstep to lunacy and openly detest those who didn’t.

- They could exploit the political divide to their advantage.

- They could monetize hospitals into killing patients by incentivizing covid diagnosis, denying proper care then blaming undesirable outcomes on covid.

- They could make everyone believe there is actually such a thing as a non-essential worker. Newsflash: All workers are necessary, valuable, and essential.

- They could make contact tracing, passports, and vaccine compliance cards sound perfectly reasonable in supposedly “free” countries.

- They could lord over the medical and scientific community over an unsequenced, unconfirmed, unproven-to-exist virus.

- They could confuse and destabilize critics with a barrage of hypocrisy and lies that they had the audacity to claim…moved at the speed of science.

- They could fool most into believing masking and distancing worked so well it eradicated influenza.

- They could reshape the entire economic landscape by printing $3 trillion dollars in a single year and blame the inevitable repercussions on covid.

- They could shutter thousands of small businesses.

- They incentivized a new class of criminal activity with their Pandemic Protection Act. Unmonitored free money. What could possibly go wrong?

- They could eliminate large swaths of Medicare recipients by placing sick patients into nursing homes and barring loved ones from entrance.

- They could scare people entering medical and dental offices by zapping foreheads with infrared thermometers, masking and rinsing mouths out with peroxide.

- They could get people to wait in line outside stores and obey stickers on the floor.

- They could use a fake emergency to do anything they want, anytime they want, to anyone they want. Authorities hopped in a boat to arrest a lone paddle boarder. Fined people for watching the sunset alone in their car. Banned church assembly, etc.

- They could get people so frightened and confused they did crazy things like hoarding toilet paper.

- They could disrupt supply chains that led to empty shelves that contributed to sky high food prices among other economic hardships.

- They could make it so they didn’t have to follow their own draconian protocols at all but you’d lose your job, education, or military service if you didn’t.

- They could cull the herd via stress associated alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide.

- They could make people believe their deadly, killer virus could be rendered harmless by plexiglas, restaurant tables or, protesting (for the “right” cause).

- They could make elbow bumping great again.

- And, the greatest evidence that their brainwashing was 99% effective…..

…..Music masks. Masks with a hole through which one was allowed to blow into a musical instrument.

Seriously. In any other circumstance you couldn’t make this level of stupidity up and expect anyone to believe it.

Bravo to the gaslighters. Well played.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Great compilation GLK. Peak stupid for me was the video taken at a senior high school prom. The students had to dance back to back with their arms entwined behind them at the elbows.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yep, that’s bad. Masking kindergartners broke my heart too. Authoritarians training the next generation for blind obedience. Logic be damned.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Make children fearful was the ultimate.

Kids are supposed to be fearless.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

The anxiety they foisted on the children was 100x to infinity more harmful than any virus.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Correct, and they won't recover either.

They will always carry that trauma with them the rest of their lives. It might get buried for some, but for others it will be a constant companion that requires psychotropic drugs.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

One of our middle school teachers told me that school has not returned to normal. She said it never will; it’s all different (in a bad way) now.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Fear = obedience to protection.

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I remember these kids sitting outside in the cold eating their lunch on buckets. I also remember a video from a touristic place in France, all masked, taking mask off to eat, putting mask back on, and the English who could be without as long as there was beer in their glass. Soon as it was empty they had to mask up again. Talking about ridiculous

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A new drinking game!

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Oct 20, 2023·edited Oct 20, 2023

Gawd, I have so many dumb mask stories. October 2021, gorgeous albeit windy fall day walking thru a historic cemetery with 3 lady friends, all dutifully wearing our cloth masks (LOL!) One militant lady may have moved onto the KN95 at this point. We're gazing at an old beech tree in the deserted huge cemetery. This lady noticed my cute floral cloth mask from the Gap was rather loose. Again, it was rather windy out. She said sternly: "You need to tighten your mask". I replied: "I really don't think you get can IT outside on a windy day". She glared at me.

Have seen her recently in local music venue bars wearing a black KN95 that she takes on and off. This woman is an attorney. LOL!

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

oh god...SO much stupid...someone should write a book!

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Cheryl - Naomi Wolf wrote THE BODIES OF OTHERS. A great one for the history books.

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thank you...I like her. Will look for this!

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Looks like the cabal was incredibly successful in turning the world into a Prison Planet.

Never realized we had such a tenuous hold on freedom.

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You forgot that they cleared some of the SSI rolls of old people by putting them into nursing homes where the virus spread quickly and easily, killing them a little faster.

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The non-treatment, the abandonment, or the wrong treatment is what killed those in nursing/care homes, vs. "the 'virus.'" Arkmedic did an outstanding piece on this yesterday (?). The withholding of antibiotics to treat the bacterial pneumonia, which is what actually killed the most people, played a huge role in this deliberate killing.

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And the vast majority of "doctors" complied and just went along with it, putting their own livelihood above their patients' lives.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yep. My doctor shrugged it off saying, covid was new and we made mistakes because we didn’t know…

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Time to find a new doctor.

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I agree. However they don’t make it easy. I’ve had three Drs leave over the course of time, every time I’ve made inquiries and chose another doc I’ve gotten stonewalled by the gatekeepers saying, they’re not taking new patients. One time I asked a doctor I knew if he could intervene. He did, and miraculously I was “allowed” to become a patient for the doc I had been stonewalled from. It’s freaking ridiculous.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

When I was in the mood, 😊, I'd ask something along the lines of, "Well, OK...but are the symptoms new? What are the symptoms that our medical system says it's unable to treat?" Of course, the symptoms were the usual suspects, but reversion to "It's a 'novel' 'virus.'" was almost always immediate with either a refusal or inability to answer that simple question. I asked this same question once of a retired nurse who was scared crapless, and honest to God, her eyes just glazed over -- like it was the first time she'd ever even thought of that...

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Sadly, this is extremely common.

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I knew, and I'm no doctor.

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someone from New Zealand recently posted that their doctors and nurses, in an amount from probably 11000, got an exemption provided they kept silent and kept on jabbing.

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Thank you for the additional information. You are correct.

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✔️ ❤️

This is a long one, but very much worth the time and effort to read: https://arkmedic.substack.com/p/there-was-no-virus

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023

Yes, I'm weary of reading comments insisting that "there was no virus". I'm glad both Arkmedic/Jikkyleaks and Dr Meryl Nass have addressed that satisfactorily.

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This list is awesome! Amazingly I could only find 1 item that I disagree with. In a list of this size, that’s miraculous.

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Same here! Amazing so few to pick a bone with. One stuck out. While the toilet paper shortage may have been created by hysteria, hoarding it when you could was the smart thing to do. We knew the whole thing was a scam, purebloods here. But when we could get toilet paper, we stocked up. Why risk running out later when there's a good chance you won't be able to buy it? That's not falling for anything, it's reacting to reality.

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And to you, BRAVO! I believe that just about covers it all!

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Also, hello friend.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Good one, Mark. I recently saw friends whom I haven't seen for years (pre-scamdemic). Turns out they had been fighting it, too! I wept with relief and sadness, as wish I had known. In retrospect, i should have known and reached out. At any rate, it was like reaching an oasis after years without water. It rammed home to me how incredibly alone I have been.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I recently listened to an acquaintance tell me how awful the lockdown was for her. I told her that I wish I had known because I’d have tried to help her. And then she said: “oh, thanks, but I believe in lockdowns.” 🤦🏻

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Hello Ann, I have had a few similar experiences, having misjudged a few people in my life, then learning later we shared the same viewpoint. It turned out they were vax injured and had taken the shots under great duress.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Hi Momo. I was one who took under huge duress. It was a terrible time, and continues to be. They were fortunate, as their whole family were onboard, so were able to withstand it better. I just wish I had known, so that I could have drawn strength from them. It turns out they were fighting the same institution, but from different "cells". It is a great lesson to us all that we should never, ever, ever be afraid of speaking out when faced with wrongness - for there are more of like mind than we realise.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yes, so well put Ann. I was the lone wolf in my family, and personally knew only two people who shared my views at the time. I let that influence my perspective.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Here here and well said! Took me a longtime to find my people. This small town I live in is full of older people so naturally they were/are Covid fearful. I might as well have sworn a scarlet letter cause the unvaxxed were unwelcome everywhere. I ignored them mainly but I will never forget how I was treated. I have the last laugh as they say but it isn’t very satisfying as I watch so many die from turbo cancer, strokes, etc. I kept thinking these past few years that people would come to their senses and rise up once they knew. It slowly dawned on me that they will never rise up. People don’t like to be wrong. Even those vaxxed who see the light still won’t talk about it. I’m way past flabbergasted!

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Patti - I woke up after two shots two years ago. I spend most of my time trying (mostly in vain) to wake others, talking to state senators, my county commissioner, my local sheriff and even my state AG, my ultimate goal being to get the shots stopped in my state of Ohio.

Most of my old friends that now know the truth are uncomfortable with my efforts to the point of admonishing me and/or showing no support. It’s quite breathtaking as well as heartbreaking to witness.

I have been given the gift of no adverse event and I will not squander that gift. I believe that this is what God has called me to do.

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Total respect to you for your efforts! Heartbreaking likely doesn’t cover what you have experienced.

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Patti - thank you.

I believe God is separating the wheat from the chaff.

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You said a mouthful there, sister! People don't like to be wrong and really don't like to be faced with evidence of their wrong-think.

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Well stated Miss Gabriella. I, like so many others here, have never yet received an apology, nor do I expect one to happen.

Here is yet another, immutable truth from the great mind of Thomas Sowell:

"People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right — especially if events prove you right, and them wrong.”

Thomas Sowell

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I was yelled at SO many times for just saying "we will all be fine", or met with wide-eyes and avoidance when family "found out" my daughter and I weren't fully vaxxed and unmasked at a b'day party for my 95 year old mom (never ended up killing g'ma, but I sure suspect the shots and boosters exacerbated her quick demise into dementia soon after that date)- never a discussion. Yelled at, avoided, etc. but never willing to "talk". Today I am the one who will not engage with these friends and family members. Not until I get an apology....which will never happen...so,....

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I could never understand how the "good Germans" went along with Hitler.

Now I get it.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Oh I know who would turn people in now and who wouldn't...scary part is there are more I believe who would have had us in "camps" than not!

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This March, 2023, my mom asked my brother if he was coming over for dinner to celebrate my birthday. He told her no, that my wife belong in a camp for being unvaxxed. This is 2023!! Nothing quite like having your only sibling willing to outsource your death.

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Wow. He's stupid. No matter how many degrees o how much money he might have.

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He has two, and technically he's a scientist, but he has always been such a pontificating prick, I wasn't surprised when he used his political pull to line jump to when essential health personnel were getting the shots.

Shockingly, we don't talk anymore, except in large group family texts.

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horrible...but I blame media and others for getting him to this place. My mom spent so much time alone because of "covid"- my sister would stand out in the back yard and talk to her through a bull horn. No shit. Insanity.

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He has no courage or principles, which is why he is such a coward, the media didn't make him one, it revealed his personality for all to see.

Crazy about the bullhorn.

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Especially the governor of New York.

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Karma, though. I assuage my anger by thinking of such people rotting in hell in future. Sorry, not sorry.

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I never understood it either. But I always knew the German population was as smart, or smarter, than ours. And as civilized. So I always thought we needed to pay a LOT more attention to what happened there, how it could happen anywhere, and how to avoid it, if possible. Turns out, people being as they are, we can't avoid it.

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I always say that the covid plandemic was a military and government psyops.

It was studied and planned for years and extremely effective.

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Excellent thought!!

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023

I'm with you. Why care about those who isolated you when you were right, and will never acknowledge any wrongdoing? I don't get those on our side who say they are "so sad" for the suffering of those who hate them and intentionally hurt them. They seem to be missing the self-preservation instinct. Maybe I'm just mean, and they are nice? But I always try to be nice until wronged, unlike those who attacked us. So it's not that. I find it weird to wish these people well.

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Some are my own sisters. I saw them last summer for a celebration of life ceremony for my parents. I was nice, helpful, present for my deceased parents, but business-like and reserved with them.. And I refused to talk "covid" with either of them....one tried. Fun to just cut her off.

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I'm one of four siblings. The other three got at least 3 jabs each. It seems I'm luckier than you with family - none ever expressed animosity toward me or chastised me for declining. So I wish them well (one died this year from turbo-cancer). I only wish ill upon those who wished us ill.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Great stuff, Mark! i remember writing to my city health department back in 2021 asking why the death ratio went UP after the jab rollout whereas before that, the ratio had decreased to its lowest…the answer was predictably ridiculous: “because not enough people are getting the jab.”. That pretty much ended my hope for reasoned discussion.

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barbara ford - did your eyes roll back in your head and your brain explode when you heard their answer to why the death ratio went up after the jab rollout (“because not enough people are getting the jab.”.)??

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I work for a gigantic global company that profited ridiculously from “the crisis.” It is run by idiots who habitually make stupid decisions. The kind of people who get promoted there are the same kind of people who went along with all the Covid insanity and maybe even enjoyed it: the go-along types. I had dinner after a work event with a few people on my team who are all destined for greater things. They are all vaccinated. One of them has a friend in his 40s diagnosed with AML and who is trying to tie it to the Camp Lejeune lawsuit even though the timeframe is outside their lawsuit window. Hmmm wonder what else it could beeee? I mentioned I am not vaccinated and the mood changed at the table. Instead of judgment, to which I have grown accustomed, I sensed fear, shame, and regret. One person seemed desperate to explain why she got the vaccine: to travel. My how the turn tables. It used to be the vaccinated who had to explain themselves. Now I do not even care to and maybe don’t even need to explain my decision. I am confident I made the right decision, and now it scares people who see me as smart and levelheaded in other matters. I think some of the go-along normies are realizing on some level they made a mistake.

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Just identify the "current thing" and support it ... and you will go far in your organization or company. On the other side of the equation, if you speak out against or question the current thing or the authorized narrative, that's it for your career advancement plans.

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When I go to the VA for my doctor's appointments, I suspect they are wondering why I am not dead for being unjabbed.

At the very top of my electronic medical record that shows up on the computer screen, is a highlighted area that reads, "Tested for Covid. NO."

I suspect that is some sort of dog whistle for, "Danger. Danger. This person is unjabbed. Probably a Trump voter."

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DeSantis voter.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I don't get the Trump worship among so many of the unjabbed. And DeSantis hate. Totally incongruous. Trump did everything wrong regarding Covid, except mandating jabs, which he never got a chance to do, so who knows? DeSantis did everything right. Well, mostly everything, he at least did far better than Trump. Noem did best I think. Even Kemp was way better than Trump, who viciously attacked Kemp for opening Georgia "too soon, before it was safe". No more germaphobes for prez if we know what's good for us.

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So my husband also works for a very large company. Very woke as well. During the scam they closed all the offices and made everyone remote (ooh, we got $300 to set up our home office!).

They also demanded shots - my husband got the first exemption for his company in North America, but was banned from any in person meetings.

Going a step further, they reduced real estate during this time and closed every office in Colorado. Period.

Well, now his company (like many others) is beginning to realize that most of their employees are rather lazy and not so productive when working “remote” so they are starting to require a minimum of three days per week in person at the nearest office. HR asked them to fill in a form identifying their nearest office: for us, Salt Lake City or Scottsdale AZ (we’re near Denver). Hubby is being granted a waiver because they don’t want to pay weekly travel expenses and it isn’t his patch! (His fellow engineers are very jealous.)

It is beyond my ken how huge corporations, particularly since COVID and the George Floyd Summer of Love, have redirected their entire effort to appearances of social conformity at the expense of their primary purpose/product. Stockholders be damned!

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Corporate behavior does seem weird and counter to their own welfare much of the time. But remember they are run by people with foibles. And to be successful in the corporate world it helps to be a "team player" who buys in to whatever you're expected to buy in to. Also it helps to be amoral, maybe even immoral. Maybe not so weird.

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I’ve asked several Covidians many of those 20 questions the last couple years. I would usually get the same look with the same runaround word salad so I stopped.

It’s quite exhausting having a rational conversation with someone who is (still) completely on the Covid train.

This ‘expert’ thing always puzzled me. How does one become an ‘expert?’

Is there a tangible threshold you must pass through to become one? Is there a ceremony? A certificate? Who decides when a person achieves such an honor? When the change from he’s ‘sharp as a tack’ to ‘expert?’ Is the person designating the new expert an expert as well? Or is it self appointed? Is there an annual fee? Do these ‘experts’ carry a membership card with said title? One thing I do know-if you see the sentence “Experts say, or agree….

…ask a hell of a lot of questions.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Author

In litigation, a judge will deem anyone who has specialized knowledge an "expert."

Though at least in litigation-- unlike during the Scamdemic-- ostensible experts are subject to cross-examination.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

This ‘expert’ thing always puzzled me. How does one become an ‘expert?’

Appear on TV. If you're on TV, you must be important, and ergo, an expert.

Did I use ergo correctly?

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I would use ipso facto there, but ergo works.

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I'll keep that in mind! Thanks.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

One word answer: "Credentialism".

The "experts" get together and develop "credentials", which they award to other members of the club - for being members of the club. The collective effort, then, is directed, for years, or decades, toward establishing those "credentials" as in some way meaningful.

Don't laugh. It works.

The experts say so.

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“While the Covid elephant loomed in the room, I lost interest in small talk.”

Yeah. Me too Mark. This is why I’ve chosen to abandon some old friends. I can no longer bear listening to someone agonize over what to wear to their son’s wedding.

I can no longer self censor for fear of upsetting someone. Yeah - many have just ghosted me too.

But I am in awe of how many new friends the Lord has placed in my life to replace the old who refuse to discuss the most important issue of our time (a mass extermination and the success of the divide and conquer plan).

That horrifying subject is not something we talk about all the time, but just knowing we can is what makes these new relationships meaningful and fulfilling. I thank God every day for them.

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Agreed and amen.

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The intentions were never honorable, and they will never have the trust of the public again.

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I agree with Part A. I'm less sure of Part B.

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Well we can hope, but if (not me) not being able to visit my grandmother and then not even having a funeral for the decent soul, well there you have it.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yes, that is correct, although for me the more fundamental issue is that most people will never have my trust or respect again. On the other hand, my appreciation and gratitude for those who could say "let's discuss it" is boundless.

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Whom do you mean, Edwin, when you say "the public?" This entire article is about "the public" and their craven, despicable behavior.

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Well I guess I meant to include those that didn't have "craven, despicable behavior" as well, but not to included those that would have a little more insight, like myself for instance, a retired pharmacist, 38 years, retired 2017.

They will never have my trust again, but they lost that around 1983, rather than 2017.

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1983? I'm intrigued, Edwin.

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Basically, after graduating in 1980, I decided that it was all a scam then, but I never suspected the scam included killing people, except for 1 time in dialysis, until we got to the truth behind the AIDS "epidemic" and Dr. Fauci.

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Ah! Got it. Yes, in my other, long comment I omitted any reference to the AIDS scam in my comment about other absurd stories that the majority believes. "Dr." Fauci -- a murdering maniac for more than 40 years...

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Well, everybody believes everything they see on TV until about 3 1/2 years ago, now they don't believe it but still watch!

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I hope you're right, Edwin. Most of the public simply complied every step of the way. Would they do so again? Fear is a very powerful motivator.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 20, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

People's lives are generally simple; they commute to work, do what they do, return home, and eat dinner. Everyone they know has a Simple Life. When every single person they know, as well as the government authorities, believe in something, they will too.

The majority of people are defined by average intelligence. They support the community and want to do their part. Thinking deeper is not necessary - being right is less important than being supportive.

The wisdom of "ten heads are better than one" has always worked very well.

What the majority fails to realize is we're now living in Complexity where a single smart head is far better than 10,000 average heads. Given the odds, it's surprising anyone would go against the crowd. That requires: 1) thinking for oneself and having confidence in one's thinking, 2) asking discerning questions, and 3) doing your own research.

That's half of it. The other half is that those 10,000 heads are not independent thinkers - they've all been programmed with consistent messaging by the same media. We are surrounded by xenobots, a new form of semi-conscious life.

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Simplified to most folks are NPCs. I totally agree.

That 1 in 10,000 is an actual player character with a soul.

Proof is when you try to strike up a novel conversation and they somehow end up telling you a personal story that they have already told you 50 times already.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I recently lost a friend, but renewed an old friendship with another.

When we lived in Seattle, I'd made friends with a younger guy (20 yrs younger than myself) I met while helping a 3rd friend setup every Sunday morning for Catholic CCD. He turned out to be quite close - regularly at our Seattle apartment, split more than a few bottles of good whisky with him and my wife. Last October I even flew out there to celebrate his 40th bday.

It was always an easy friendship, centered on our shared Catholicism and our mutual love of the beauty of the natural world.

We moved back home to flyover country in May 2020, but have kept in touch regularly through FaceTime and phone calls. My wife and I even drove to Dallas once to meet him when he was visiting his parents.

But about 7 or 8 months ago, I texted him to check in and after several hours received a response that he'd been to dinner with another friend, but would get back to me. ("Perfect", I responded.) That call or text never occurred.

At first I thought, oh he just got busy and forgot. But as the days turned into weeks, then months, I began to see that it was intentional - he didn't just forget, the ghosting was intentional and he didn't want to remain friends anymore - even long distance friends.

Last Monday was his 41st birthday. I'd thought about sending a present, as we'd always done; he was a great gift-giver, but I'm more of a send-something-from-Amazon-giver, but then I realized it wasn't welcome and hey - I'm not going to force friendship on someone who clearly doesn't want to be my friend anymore.

As to the why?, I think the split was due to religious differences within Catholicism. I've been a Traditional Latin Mass guy for years, but he (and we) attended a conservative Novus Ordo Dominican parish in Seattle. I was careful never to make too big an issue about this divide and he even attended the TLM with me a few times when we lived there.

But whatever.

On the plus side, a couple of weeks ago my youngest son needed me to move his belongings and vehicle back to Oklahoma while he attends a USMC Embassy Guard school at Quantico. While we were there, I re-upped an old friendship with a guy who lives in DC but hadn't seen my son since he was a younger teen. It was great to stay with my old friend and introduce him to the adult-version of the kid he'd known years ago.

I guess the moral of the story is that friendships age and die just like people. Some people enter our lives, then are gone again a few years later almost like a natural lifecycle. As a soon to be 61 year old man, I am finding that loneliness is bigger issue than I imagined it would be.

I thank God for a good wife, and my good dogs.

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The power of remaining in the herd is great. As you write, people fear social ostracism more than anything else. Once the narrative is set in stone, it's almost impossible to change it. It would take one hell of a "truth bomb." .... And the requisite truth bombs are outlawed. It's like "they" have thought of everything.

You'd have to leave the safety of the herd you've been a part of your whole life ... and then go to another herd.

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It also helps that every important "truth-seeking" is now completely captured. The program wouldn't work if these organizations were only partially captured. They have to be 99 to 100 percent captured ... which they are.

If these key organizations were NOT completely captured, the Status Quo - and some of these narratives - would probably be very different. It would actually be very easy for these false narratives to be debunked.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/changing-the-rotten-status-quo-would?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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This little post inspired this long essay. It allowed me to vent on my favorite subject - the captured mainstream media.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/i-blame-the-captured-mainstream-media?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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I'm of the belief that the majority of those who refused the jab (or didn't want the jab but were forced to keep their jobs/feed their family) are introverts. We tend to be much more comfortable being alone and are much less likely to want to go along with the crowd just to be "social".

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

As you well know, even if you were given ample opportunity to discuss, in good faith, the Covid issues in their entirety, you would have experienced the following (which I’m sure you did with those who did engage) An immediate and widespread dismissal of any information from sources deemed contrary to the medical establishment, mainstream media, political pundits, etc. It’s not only about the unwillingness to discuss an issue, but the unyielding and unquestionable trust in these institutions and to authority figures, like Fauci. One of my major takeaways through the Covid era is that quite literally, Facts Don’t Matter.

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True, but I seldom even got that far.

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Oct 19, 2023·edited Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I, well meaningly but time-wastingly, tried to explain to a church friend, who received 3 Pfizer jabs, that her sudden POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) is a common enough side effect of her jabs, and because the world's most published cardiologist Dr Peter McCullough says that anyone who is jabbed should have both a d-dimer test and a troponin test, she should insist that her cardiologist perform those for her. I even begged her to watch a 17-minute talk by Dr McCullough before the EU Parliament a few months ago. I can't believe anyone deeply into the Covid propaganda who watches this would not have a "come to Jesus moment". https://rumble.com/v3hwcgm-dr.-mcculloughs-speech-at-the-european-parliament.html

But she told me she watched the video (the day before she saw a cardiologist), and she informed me later that she "fully trusts her doctor" and that her doctor listened to her heart and said she was "fine" and that her symptoms are probably simply the result of "long Covid". She has had Covid 3 times since she took her jabs that were supposed to prevent Covid. So, some people simply CANNOT be educated. I am prepared to hear in the future that she stroked out. I did all I could ...

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The white-coated priesthood.

Infallible.

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I had a friend who would not even listen to the reasons I had while trying to explain my hesitancy to the initial shot roll out. I had another friend who refused to leave the house unless absolutely necessary and if she had to go to the doctors, she would wear a N-95 and a face shield.

Both of those people are out of my life.

So much fear. So much paranoia.

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The cowardice in the face of one's fears -- that's what skeeves me. Gross.

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Even better point: there never was any pandemic, even the Spanish flu was bs.

https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/there-is-never-going-to-be-another

"The Science" is just another religion that they fell for.

That's why we still practice vaccinology despite no proof that they improve health. (See vax-unvax book on chd). Add to that dangerous drugs like statins and SSRIs and you see how everything is on dogma.

Two quotes that help explain why the truth gets ignored.

"And then there is the psychological effect of the Big Lie which is axiomatic in gaslighting. The paradox here is that the bigger the lie, the harder it is for the mind to bridge the gulf between perceived reality and the lie that authority figures are painting as truth. I believe that the prospect of being deceived evinces a primitive emotional response on a par with staring death in the face. We are hard-wired to fear deception because we have evolved to interpret it as an existential threat. That’s why deception can elicit the same emotional response as the miscalculation of a serious physical threat. Lies told to us don’t always bear the same cost as a misjudged red light, but the primitive part of the brain can’t make this distinction and we rely on cerebral mediation for a more appropriate but delayed response. And in the long run, the lie is often just as dangerous as the physical threat. Many government whoppers – ‘safe and effective’ – do cost lives.

To avoid the death-like experience of being deceived, a mental defence is erected to deny that the lie is happening."

(From https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/alleged-cia-involvement-in-jfk-assassination-goes-mainstream-so-now-what/ )

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"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "

-Sasha Latypova

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Oct 19, 2023Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Great one, Mark.

The one thing that still puzzles me is why the people who supported the damaging policies because the virus was such a risk to their survival didn't question the idea of sticking a chemical in their arm that had not been fully tested and for which there was no list of ingredients.

They complied (with lockdowns and mask mandates) BECAUSE of their survival instinct and then they complied (with taking the vaccine) DESPITE their survival instinct. Very strange.

Speaking of instincts, my instinct is to steer clear of people like this who are obviously not mentally right.

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