Lewis Mumford said, “Men counted numbers. And then, only numbers counted.” From its beginning, the Scamdemic has been a numbers game. The early, politically-driven strategy was to repeatedly cite a panic-building model predicting 2.2 million American Coronavirus deaths. Soon afterward, mass administration of 40 cycle PCR tests and CARES Act incentives enabled hospitals to jack up the number of ostensible cases and deaths in order to create support for initiating and sustaining lockdowns, school closures, and mask, test and vaxx mandates. The deaths of many old, unhealthy people were attributed to the virus. The thumb was always on the scale.
Aug 31, 2022·edited Aug 31, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie
Absolutely yes to all you wrote except for the not really accurate “gerontocentric” label. Locking old people in their terrible nursing homes and not letting them see/ hug family or even have lunch with others on their halls wasn’t gerontocentric. Neither was injecting them first with the toxic jabs that had never been tested on their age group. Many died right after being jabbed, and we labeled their deaths as being “due to old age” and not at all because they’d just been euthanized. All that seems pretty cruel to old people and not gerontocentric.
Mark, my kids are younger than yours. When I see how socially messed up these younger kids are from the past couple years and how devices (in general) have destroyed their interaction skills, a paired up future for them looks bleak, too.
I would add that the COVID mania also exposed profound moral and ethical shortcomings in a sizable portion of the population to the extent that, certainly in Blue States and Cities, many people quickly slid down the slippery slope of medical segregation and extreme coercion directed at their fellow citizens. As an unvaccinated, single, middle-aged male who was calling for caution as a Team Reality member since the very beginning, my stomach turns at the thought of being in a relationship with a person who could be so susceptible to all the insanity and BS of what is approaching three years. Virtually all positive, strong, and successful relationships require a baseline level of trust, human decency, and dignity. Many, many, many people ranging from friends and family to politicians and potential partners casually discarded those things leaving Team Reality members even further isolated and likely permanently so because we saw (and continue to see) behind the veil and know how bad people can be. As always, those who took a stand for human dignity and the rights of the individual from the very beginning were few and far between and we’re left always questioning the true character of those we meet.
So true, so very true. And we still do not know the true impact of coerced jabs on fertility and health. But the human impact on our youth. I feared for them already, with their overdependence on technology, but then we put that into overdrive by removing human connection. We worked hard to give our children as much normalcy as we could (in our household of quirky intellectuals), but I have observed kids who had no normalcy, I have seen the nonsensical hysteria of parents who have harmed their children under the auspices of being virtuous by the standard set by COVID. It is painful to observe, to be awake, to have an awareness of cost-benefit analysis during this experiment. And to know we all have much pain to experience before society regains its footing after this disastrous experiment with so many harmful layers. Those of us awake will have to figure out how to put aside anger, to forgive, to support our fellow humans, many of whom still seem to be unaware of the harms caused. I woke up only because of the grace of God. Let's hope and pray more wake up soon, so we can begin to heal these fractures in our society.
Husband & I own a restaurant franchise location and the majority of employees' ages are high-schoolers, the rest mostly under 30. Next month, two in their 20's are getting married.
We don't pay unless you work but our wedding gift to them is full pay during their honeymoon week. They are our most productive & responsible people and so are paid the highest. Actually, we can't afford it but I plan to loan $$ to the company from our personal account to cover it.
Aug 31, 2022·edited Aug 31, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie
My 88.75 year old mom with COPD, emphysema, malnutrition due to unwillingness to eat anything healthy(a function of declining cognition), died with Covid in a nursing home. She told the director that she was not going to eat or try to get better because she was tired of being a prisoner. She wanted to eat with her friends, to touch and be touched, to participate in all the activities, to go shopping and get her hair done.
The lockdown to save her life took the life out of her. It was meaningless to be safe but not be allowed to live the days she had left on earth. She was not afraid to die and certainly hated the not living life aspect of safety over reason, that didn’t work because despite turning the nursing home into a prison, the staff brought the disease into it and killed off many who literally gave up because they were depressed.
My uncle lived through the Covid crud at the same nursing home only to be jabbed repeatedly afterwards, getting Covid AGAIN within days of a booster and dying almost immediately.
It’s sheer lunacy to think any of the measures taken were supposed to save lives. It was all meant to kill off people on both ends of the age brackets while foisting blame on those who would not participate in the stupidity and fleecing them to pay for the whole process.
My daughter has has a difficult time finding like minded individuals to hang with. A couple guys she dated demanded she wore a mask while hiking (!) and wondered if she was "ever going to change her mind about getting the vax". All so mind blowing ad controlling- maybe she was lucky to find out about these guys before she dated them further. The virus brought out the "real" in many people- I guess we can thank the powers that be for THAT. (pretty skewed way of thinking I know, but I HAVE to find some good in the last couple of years with all the "expert's" gobbledy-gook!)
In this as in so many other ways, the vector of force of our ruling class's behavior points in the same direction: they hate life and worship death. Sacrificing the young to achieve tiny benefits to the old - even if those benefits were real - is a perfect inversion of the natural order.
I kept my then six year old granddaughter for the summer of 2020. The park across from the house they lived in was strewn with police tape like it was a crime scene, so my daughter brought her to us in Wyoming where she knew I was not going to comply. I took her to the park, to swimming lessons, and to ride the horse every day.
It was very exhausting because the poor thing was afraid of something she couldn’t see and although she accepted my reassurance that it was not going to get her, the tension remained and one minute of inactivity and her brain was overwhelmed with the need to go in the house.
Ordinarily, she’d have rode her scooter, caught butterflies, drew with chalk on the driveway while I went about cooking and cleaning. She reminded me of some of the kids at my school in Germany in the early 70s after one too many bomb threats.
"The relational road not taken may be the road that many young people never knew existed. Ships passed in the night, or masked. Or didn’t pass at all." heartbreaking. have often wondered how i would have reacted if i'd been in college or even younger when the plandemic was rolled out.
i think that people of your generation, and also mine, underestimated the atomizing effect of social media and dating apps. i fear that millennials and younger will never learn how to play the mating game, emotionally perilous as it may be. a whole generation has grown up without knowing how to flirt or seduce. and now the plandemic has raised the fear factor exponentially.
i'll never forget how in the summer of 2020 an acquaintance of mine had a first date with a woman at his place. both wore muzzles. he tried to hook up with her. "we can keep our masks on," he assured her. now that's cold.
Very interesting take. It’s always dangerous to talk about what could have been, but there surely must have been some lost “mating opportunity cost”.
Masks have always been offensive to me on a spiritual level because they erase individuality. Unfortunately, it seems like younger people are actually *more* likely to buy into the mask wearing hype, especially now. It’s almost like they don’t *want* to be individuals.
I think what governments did w/ all of the “policies” was exactly as planned (depopulation to “save” the planet) by the WEF, WHO, Davis, etc. The global lockstep of world “leaders” makes it so obvious. I guess what is most stunning to me (still) is that there were/are virtually none to stand against the psychotic insanity of it all.
The last two years has been a global genocide using a fake vaccine, pushing fear porn daily, ridiculing the unvaccinated, bribing the vaccinated, all done for power/control/greed for the Great Reset.
Absolutely yes to all you wrote except for the not really accurate “gerontocentric” label. Locking old people in their terrible nursing homes and not letting them see/ hug family or even have lunch with others on their halls wasn’t gerontocentric. Neither was injecting them first with the toxic jabs that had never been tested on their age group. Many died right after being jabbed, and we labeled their deaths as being “due to old age” and not at all because they’d just been euthanized. All that seems pretty cruel to old people and not gerontocentric.
Mark, my kids are younger than yours. When I see how socially messed up these younger kids are from the past couple years and how devices (in general) have destroyed their interaction skills, a paired up future for them looks bleak, too.
I would add that the COVID mania also exposed profound moral and ethical shortcomings in a sizable portion of the population to the extent that, certainly in Blue States and Cities, many people quickly slid down the slippery slope of medical segregation and extreme coercion directed at their fellow citizens. As an unvaccinated, single, middle-aged male who was calling for caution as a Team Reality member since the very beginning, my stomach turns at the thought of being in a relationship with a person who could be so susceptible to all the insanity and BS of what is approaching three years. Virtually all positive, strong, and successful relationships require a baseline level of trust, human decency, and dignity. Many, many, many people ranging from friends and family to politicians and potential partners casually discarded those things leaving Team Reality members even further isolated and likely permanently so because we saw (and continue to see) behind the veil and know how bad people can be. As always, those who took a stand for human dignity and the rights of the individual from the very beginning were few and far between and we’re left always questioning the true character of those we meet.
So true, so very true. And we still do not know the true impact of coerced jabs on fertility and health. But the human impact on our youth. I feared for them already, with their overdependence on technology, but then we put that into overdrive by removing human connection. We worked hard to give our children as much normalcy as we could (in our household of quirky intellectuals), but I have observed kids who had no normalcy, I have seen the nonsensical hysteria of parents who have harmed their children under the auspices of being virtuous by the standard set by COVID. It is painful to observe, to be awake, to have an awareness of cost-benefit analysis during this experiment. And to know we all have much pain to experience before society regains its footing after this disastrous experiment with so many harmful layers. Those of us awake will have to figure out how to put aside anger, to forgive, to support our fellow humans, many of whom still seem to be unaware of the harms caused. I woke up only because of the grace of God. Let's hope and pray more wake up soon, so we can begin to heal these fractures in our society.
The plandemic was an exercise in worldwide eugenics - and it worked and continues to work.
Husband & I own a restaurant franchise location and the majority of employees' ages are high-schoolers, the rest mostly under 30. Next month, two in their 20's are getting married.
We don't pay unless you work but our wedding gift to them is full pay during their honeymoon week. They are our most productive & responsible people and so are paid the highest. Actually, we can't afford it but I plan to loan $$ to the company from our personal account to cover it.
My 88.75 year old mom with COPD, emphysema, malnutrition due to unwillingness to eat anything healthy(a function of declining cognition), died with Covid in a nursing home. She told the director that she was not going to eat or try to get better because she was tired of being a prisoner. She wanted to eat with her friends, to touch and be touched, to participate in all the activities, to go shopping and get her hair done.
The lockdown to save her life took the life out of her. It was meaningless to be safe but not be allowed to live the days she had left on earth. She was not afraid to die and certainly hated the not living life aspect of safety over reason, that didn’t work because despite turning the nursing home into a prison, the staff brought the disease into it and killed off many who literally gave up because they were depressed.
My uncle lived through the Covid crud at the same nursing home only to be jabbed repeatedly afterwards, getting Covid AGAIN within days of a booster and dying almost immediately.
It’s sheer lunacy to think any of the measures taken were supposed to save lives. It was all meant to kill off people on both ends of the age brackets while foisting blame on those who would not participate in the stupidity and fleecing them to pay for the whole process.
My daughter has has a difficult time finding like minded individuals to hang with. A couple guys she dated demanded she wore a mask while hiking (!) and wondered if she was "ever going to change her mind about getting the vax". All so mind blowing ad controlling- maybe she was lucky to find out about these guys before she dated them further. The virus brought out the "real" in many people- I guess we can thank the powers that be for THAT. (pretty skewed way of thinking I know, but I HAVE to find some good in the last couple of years with all the "expert's" gobbledy-gook!)
In this as in so many other ways, the vector of force of our ruling class's behavior points in the same direction: they hate life and worship death. Sacrificing the young to achieve tiny benefits to the old - even if those benefits were real - is a perfect inversion of the natural order.
with millions crossing in from southern boarder to obscure the census damage.
I kept my then six year old granddaughter for the summer of 2020. The park across from the house they lived in was strewn with police tape like it was a crime scene, so my daughter brought her to us in Wyoming where she knew I was not going to comply. I took her to the park, to swimming lessons, and to ride the horse every day.
It was very exhausting because the poor thing was afraid of something she couldn’t see and although she accepted my reassurance that it was not going to get her, the tension remained and one minute of inactivity and her brain was overwhelmed with the need to go in the house.
Ordinarily, she’d have rode her scooter, caught butterflies, drew with chalk on the driveway while I went about cooking and cleaning. She reminded me of some of the kids at my school in Germany in the early 70s after one too many bomb threats.
"The relational road not taken may be the road that many young people never knew existed. Ships passed in the night, or masked. Or didn’t pass at all." heartbreaking. have often wondered how i would have reacted if i'd been in college or even younger when the plandemic was rolled out.
i think that people of your generation, and also mine, underestimated the atomizing effect of social media and dating apps. i fear that millennials and younger will never learn how to play the mating game, emotionally perilous as it may be. a whole generation has grown up without knowing how to flirt or seduce. and now the plandemic has raised the fear factor exponentially.
i'll never forget how in the summer of 2020 an acquaintance of mine had a first date with a woman at his place. both wore muzzles. he tried to hook up with her. "we can keep our masks on," he assured her. now that's cold.
A very thought-provoking essay. And somewhat ominous...
Very interesting take. It’s always dangerous to talk about what could have been, but there surely must have been some lost “mating opportunity cost”.
Masks have always been offensive to me on a spiritual level because they erase individuality. Unfortunately, it seems like younger people are actually *more* likely to buy into the mask wearing hype, especially now. It’s almost like they don’t *want* to be individuals.
I think what governments did w/ all of the “policies” was exactly as planned (depopulation to “save” the planet) by the WEF, WHO, Davis, etc. The global lockstep of world “leaders” makes it so obvious. I guess what is most stunning to me (still) is that there were/are virtually none to stand against the psychotic insanity of it all.
The last two years has been a global genocide using a fake vaccine, pushing fear porn daily, ridiculing the unvaccinated, bribing the vaccinated, all done for power/control/greed for the Great Reset.