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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.

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True, and I've written about that before.

It wasn't really gerontocentric. It was just sold to the public that way.

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This promotion of the "vaccine" has been (and is) the most supeme and evil global marketing campaigns we have ever seen.

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If more members of the public had wanted to visit Grandma because they really loved her they wouldn't have let Cuomo, Whitmer and others do what they did. They wouldn't have been so chill about leaving them to die alone. Grandma didn't have much time left. Why did they think it was best to force her to waste her few precious months of life in sterile isolation? Where's the family love and natural affection?

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When we lived in Seattle, my wife was a hospice nurse on weekends. She traveled all over visiting the dying in the homes, apts, and nursing homes.

She doggedly arranged for priests to come and give last rites many times - even tho the rector of the Cathedral and other high ranking Catholic clergy refused to come. (I’m sure that pathetic queer still remembers the scorching that he received from her. She takes patient advocacy to new levels, as many a surgeon and hospital administrator has also found out.)

At some point I started going along with her - just to get a little more time together. I couldn’t go inside of course but I was her driver, remaining in the parking lot while she provided care.

At one place, during Eastertide, she visited a patient in a nursing home in Redmond. The lady’s entire extended family had come to her nursing home window to share Easter tidings.

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Your wife is a good soul and shared her humanity and kindness with all she helped. I’m glad to hear someone was taking patient advocacy seriously. The Catholic clergy refusing to come is another example of the church failing their flock. They will be judged by God. Thank you for sharing this beautiful story about your wife.

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These nursing homes would not allow visitors. Your point tho rings true to many tho who never visit nursing homes or assisted living regardless of covid.

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It seems few really wanted to see them enough to put up a fight. I didn't hear about protests around nursing homes. There may have been a few but it seems nothing newsworthy.

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True. If I had a mother or father basically locked up in a home, I would have been there every chance possible insisting on seeing them. These seniors did not deserve this terribly sad and uncalled for treatment.

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Agree and I think it rose to the level of criminal acts and a clear dereliction of duty because the decisions were political and driven by the 2020 election. My lockdown Governor (Minnesota) will very likely and should be unelected thankfully.

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And Whitmer of Michigan I hope. You know, the one whose kidnapping and murder was plotted by the FBI as a dry run for J6.

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I think the corona clusterf*** was (mostly) cooked up by middle aged professionals, terrified of death, both their own and their parents'. "Of course it's reasonable to put the lives of children and young people on hold so that grandma wouldn't DIE!!!" (Left unsaid: "so that I wouldn't die." Never mind how likely - or rather, unlikely - that was.) Some grandmas' (and grandpas') deaths were slightly delayed, some were expedited (sucks to be isolated in a nursing home), and children and young people have been deprived of life-enhancing experiences and will end up dying younger than they would have otherwise as a consequence. But hey, that's decades into the future (well, unless they off themselves, intentionally or via an accidental overdose), whereas grandma was going to die NOW!!!

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It was cruel. Empty virtue signaling. Sick of the lies and hypocrisy!

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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.

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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.

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That's a fantastic comment. I find it difficult to look people in the eye now, either because I know them and know how they behaved, or because I don't know them and don't know how they behaved but I'm now tempted to make very cynical assumptions and generalizations about strangers. Your point about segregation and coercion is spot on. This narrative revealed how all of the lessons from history and popular entertainment have fallen on deaf ears. That's why I won't be surprised if a thalidomide-style surprise is waiting in the wings. What has been will be again. There is no new thing under the sun.

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With you, 100%. “Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself.” - Epictetus

Revealed to himself...and everyone else.

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You are so spot on. It’s hard to have a conversation with the brainwashed; they refuse to even consider and go directly to calling ‘us’ conspiracy nuts. My friendships are limited due to this.

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I'm making new friends to replace the chumps.

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I suspect they don't want to acknowledge how pointlessly cruel the measures they followed have been. That they bankrupted the owner of that local cafe or forced the local deli manager to fire his staff rendering families homeless. Caused suicide among many young people and caused the grandmas they claimed to care about to die of despair. Painful to admit this was all for nothing. And probably afraid others will treat them the way they treated them.

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Yes, so correct. We however can never forget how people died alone in hospitals and nursing homes. Never forget we couldn’t hold funerals but a thug was given a golden casket and 3 funerals. Never forget many had to cancel or restrict wedding plans. Never forget small businesses had to close but box stores were open at all times. We will never know how many suicides were brought on from isolation nor will we ever know the full damage done to children’s education or learning abilities for the young.

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I’m so sorry for the loss of your child. Suicide especially heartbreaking, but then to not have your family’s support and sympathy is beyond heartbreaking. For all those who loss a loved one in 2020 and couldn’t hold a proper funeral is one of the worst actions that happened. Then to watch politicians preen for the thug’s golden casket 3 funerals was too much. The examples of hypocrisy during covid was enough to awaken everyone, but it didn’t. Those who held on the covid mania were callous and unreasonable to the point that they are unforgivable.

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BRMC, totally agree. I’m in a blue, 1-party state, altho in a red enclave where people had common sense. I could never be in a relationship w/ a covidiot, either

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This is exactly the issue for me going forward.

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I am sad for those who are awake and single in this era. The net effect of all this, of course, is enhanced tribalism. I have lost most of my liberal friends in the last 2 years, but sought out groups who were meeting, in person, in 2020, and have made many more new friends. No patience or interest in mask wearing fearful covidians at this point, if they have not waken up yet, have found it a waste of time to try. But also seems the other side continues to harden their position. I remember several years ago Michael Savage used to be part of the talk radio lineup on the station I listen to in my car. He relentlessly pimped his book, the Coming Civil War, or some similar title, and doom and gloom was his schtick. I quit listening, as I thought he was too negative, and he was taken off the air in our market a year or so before the scandemic began. Suppose he is feeling vindicated these days.

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Well said, I feel the exact same!

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Oh, what a fantastic, precise, and succinct summary! Yes to every single word, sir.

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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.

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Every word you wrote could have been mine. Amen!

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You've stated it exactly right. Wow!

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You're a mind-reader too!

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The plandemic was an exercise in worldwide eugenics - and it worked and continues to work.

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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.

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What a great. Very thoughtful and generous.

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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.

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Scamdemic from Day 1.

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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!)

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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.

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with millions crossing in from southern boarder to obscure the census damage.

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Funny how the vaxx was mainly pushed in white and Asian countries, isn't it?

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It's pushed heavily in Africa too, but their citizens know better and their leaders are not corrupt enough to be bribed and cajoled into forcing the issue. Remember, some 17 African ministers and heads of state, including at least 3 "anti-vax" presidents, died before their terms ended. https://thecovidblog.com/2021/07/21/why-have-so-many-african-leaders-died-of-covid-19/

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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.

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This is so heartbreaking-the damage is profound and will reveal itself over years and it likely won't be good at all.

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"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.

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A very thought-provoking essay. And somewhat ominous...

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If there's an elephant in the room, I'm willing to say so.

But I can tell by the fewer than normal number of likes and comments that many people wish I hadn't said so.

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I don’t know what’s going on but I keep find my fave substacks have mysteriously been unsubscribed without my intention to do so.

If I haven’t heard from you in awhile, I go looking for you - which is exactly what happened here.

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Could be a difference of opinion on human resilience . . .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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