In late February, 2020, shortly before the Scamdemic began, my wife and I were traveling through the Deep South. Late in the afternoon on our way from New Orleans to Tuscaloosa, where one of our adult kids was living, we were 50 miles from Laurel, Mississippi. We’d read in some magazine that, despite Steve Forbert having sung 40 years ago that it was “a dirty, stinking town,” Laurel—especially its downtown—had historically charming architecture and was being tastefully revitalized.
Nice story. But you are right. I never obeyed the lock down and went to work in a center the whole time. For one week during 2021 I felt off.. headache, just lousy so guess what.. I stayed HOME FROM WORK! Never wore a mask even though my county had a mask mandate. If a store wouldn't let me in without one I shopped elsewhere. Do exactly the opposite of whatever the government says is my motto!!
I'm 66 years old and got the corona last year. It was like a mild flu. I've had the flu many times before. No big deal... I still don't personally know anyone that died of corona. Almost everyone that I know that was "vaccinated" still got corona and seemed sicker than I was. I read about excess death reports that are higher than usual, embalmers reporting blood clots in over 50% of the people they embalm and young people and athletes suddenly dying of heart attacks. "Unknown causes" is now the number one cause of death in some areas of Canada. Yet, big pharma and government are still pushing their vaccines and their mandates. The information that we get from the government is distilled to "take the vaccine". I gave up on taking orders from authority without questioning them when I was a very young boy. The government does not offer a quantitative analysis of the cost/benefit tradeoff. Big Pharma wanted 75 years to release their test results? It is clear that big pharma and government are actively hiding the relevant information and it is absolutely dystopian to me that this continues. The Scamdemic destroyed my faith in the medical establishment and the government. But I can still watch the happy face spin that the main stream media puts on it all. So strange!!!
I still can’t believe the sheer number of sheep in this country. I was foolish enough to think it would only be two weeks until day 15 and than I was beyond pissed off. I still don’t understand how more people aren’t pissed off by the great Scamdemic.
Great story. Your instincts in Laurel were correct. It's not the Bronx. Culture matters. I lived and worked in New Orleans for almost 30 years. I spent a lot of that time traveling in Mississippi and was happy to have my east coast liberal bias thoroughly debunked most of the time. Of course there are economic problems and crime problems, but most towns have their antebellum charm and predominantly friendly residents. Of all races. As a matter of fact, I saw much more racial harmony in the deep south than I see in the enlightened east coast. In the Bronx, and Washington D.C., you should definitely not open the door. Especially if it's a bureaucrat knocking.
Another wonderful piece of writing Mark. I always find something unexpected and resonating in your essays. I love this. In this one? It was your Air BnB review and that of your host: I think most of us would respond similarly. Both parties “behaved”acceptably and thus gave and received good reviews. Unlike Big Government, both parties knew that bad reviews have consequences........
I love the analogy! Same, never bought the '15 days to slow the spread'. But I am self employed, and all of my projects, and therefore, my income was cancelled or postponed in April and May. So I did stay home a lot, just because I was not sure when I would have an income again. Hubby is commission sales, calls on retailers, so his income was cancelled too, although his company did pay a draw on commission, about half his normal income that they later decided did not have to be 'paid back'. Spent the time 2 ways: 1.finally moved my office from the basement to a former kid room, finished a backyard landscape project and did a lot of 'cleaning out'. 2. Digging into all of this - origin of the virus, the tests, those fear mongering 'models' saying a million deaths, and so on....Tried my damndest to wake up my friends and family to all of the holes in this data and sketchy narrative. A few listened. A lot cancelled me. Oh well. Got involved in a lot of conservative groups, and made new, and better friends. But trust in pharma, medicine, and any of the 3 letter bureaucrat agencies is a permanent casualty.
What a wonderful story, reminiscent of vignettes in Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley".
As for the pox, what's left to be said. With all the evidence presented, to still believe in the jab or indeed, in anything the government tells us, is to be a child, or an imbecile.
Today's el gato malo fits well your recurring theme.
You are one with the superpower. "it turns out that the ability to keep one’s head when all others around you are losing theirs is basically a superpower."
Whew@ Another great one Mark. There's something about your writing that just makes me relate! I pictured my hubby and me in that situation and I don't think we would have gotten out of the car and figured out something else, but you never know.
Hubby has not been a die-hard covidiot or anything, but intelligence is such a high value to him (even though he is extremely street smart), he cannot allow himself to believe that Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, etc could have people dispensing lies about masking, shots, etc. Thankfully, he's a wait and see type guy so that worked in his favor, so he never got the jab. I suspected foul play right from the beginning and I'm getting more and more vindicated. However, he still can't believe I'm never flying again until the truth comes out. Not taking my chance that a pilot won't have a stroke mid-flight. (Okay big enough airplane there is a co-pilot, so both at once would be unlikely). Good thing I like driving!
I am always happy when I see an essay from you waiting in my Inbox. I am genuinely refreshed when I’ve read such clear thinking and good writing. The scam infuriated me from the beginning and I felt I had no place to put my righteous anger. The Elected Ones were useless/evil/power-drunk. My church closed its doors. My friends drank the kool-aid and shunned me. Well, we who could THINK all experienced it: No need to rehash it here.
I did recently have an experience that I can’t get over. I went to FL to help a newly widowed friend. I had to get her late husband’s death certificate and, thus, saw what was recorded. He died at age 67 in May 2022 (J&J, no booster, for the curious) from a massive stroke. This was correctly noted as #1 under Cause of Death. Number Two was ‘Covid-19.’ A complete lie and I hope hell awaits ALL who were complicit in this satanic fraud. As for me, I remain a mostly-friendless, unmasked, unstabbed, carry-permitted, proud Southern semi-fascist!
Sep 8, 2022·edited Sep 8, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie
Consider that certain powerful people did this to us to provide a smokescreen for the fact that the illegal gain of function research in Wuhan caused the whole thing in the first place.
I thought this essay was going to be an allegory for what you thought was a SETUP; that you would posit that the whole covid episode was a setup for some other nefarious goal. But I just cant accept that so far. Maybe that is true. But this whole things smacks of panic and incompetence.
The WHO has a document called
"non-pharmaceutical measures for the mitigation of pandemic flu"
In this doc is a summary of the knowledge from the last 100 years.
Masks dont work
Lockdowns cause more harm
It is ONLY appropriate to quarantine sick people and close contacts of sick people.
Diagnostic testing is appropriate only if there is a clinical disease...
Its all there:
And yet the agencies threw this all out.
Maybe because the virus was engineered as a research project in secret? It might have been research aimed at doing good but there was an accident and then the projections estimated that millions would die and the people responsible went into panic cover up mode
No more (so-called) ‘emergency declarations’. It’s used as a tool to get folks fearful (and thus submissive), and as an excuse for all these atrocities. I’ll decide for myself if there is an ‘emergency’. I certainly can’t trust TPTB to do so honestly. We must ALL refuse to comply with all this ridiculous crap.
You’re right — we have opened the door, and it can’t be shut again. Lockdowns, masks, faulty medical treatments, and government handouts now have a precedent. This means that we will keep seeing them crop up as “effective policy responses” to “emergencies”.
It’s perverse, but sometimes I wish for a doomsday scenario. Individuals can refuse to comply, but the bureaucracy marches on. It needs to be burned away, and I don’t see how that happens without some kind of massive disaster.
Nice story. But you are right. I never obeyed the lock down and went to work in a center the whole time. For one week during 2021 I felt off.. headache, just lousy so guess what.. I stayed HOME FROM WORK! Never wore a mask even though my county had a mask mandate. If a store wouldn't let me in without one I shopped elsewhere. Do exactly the opposite of whatever the government says is my motto!!
One of the few stacks that doesn't beg for subscribers to pay
And one of the few actually worth reading. Delightful, as usual.
I'm 66 years old and got the corona last year. It was like a mild flu. I've had the flu many times before. No big deal... I still don't personally know anyone that died of corona. Almost everyone that I know that was "vaccinated" still got corona and seemed sicker than I was. I read about excess death reports that are higher than usual, embalmers reporting blood clots in over 50% of the people they embalm and young people and athletes suddenly dying of heart attacks. "Unknown causes" is now the number one cause of death in some areas of Canada. Yet, big pharma and government are still pushing their vaccines and their mandates. The information that we get from the government is distilled to "take the vaccine". I gave up on taking orders from authority without questioning them when I was a very young boy. The government does not offer a quantitative analysis of the cost/benefit tradeoff. Big Pharma wanted 75 years to release their test results? It is clear that big pharma and government are actively hiding the relevant information and it is absolutely dystopian to me that this continues. The Scamdemic destroyed my faith in the medical establishment and the government. But I can still watch the happy face spin that the main stream media puts on it all. So strange!!!
I still can’t believe the sheer number of sheep in this country. I was foolish enough to think it would only be two weeks until day 15 and than I was beyond pissed off. I still don’t understand how more people aren’t pissed off by the great Scamdemic.
Great story. Your instincts in Laurel were correct. It's not the Bronx. Culture matters. I lived and worked in New Orleans for almost 30 years. I spent a lot of that time traveling in Mississippi and was happy to have my east coast liberal bias thoroughly debunked most of the time. Of course there are economic problems and crime problems, but most towns have their antebellum charm and predominantly friendly residents. Of all races. As a matter of fact, I saw much more racial harmony in the deep south than I see in the enlightened east coast. In the Bronx, and Washington D.C., you should definitely not open the door. Especially if it's a bureaucrat knocking.
Another wonderful piece of writing Mark. I always find something unexpected and resonating in your essays. I love this. In this one? It was your Air BnB review and that of your host: I think most of us would respond similarly. Both parties “behaved”acceptably and thus gave and received good reviews. Unlike Big Government, both parties knew that bad reviews have consequences........
What you did here with the door was masterful. Thanks for this.
I love the analogy! Same, never bought the '15 days to slow the spread'. But I am self employed, and all of my projects, and therefore, my income was cancelled or postponed in April and May. So I did stay home a lot, just because I was not sure when I would have an income again. Hubby is commission sales, calls on retailers, so his income was cancelled too, although his company did pay a draw on commission, about half his normal income that they later decided did not have to be 'paid back'. Spent the time 2 ways: 1.finally moved my office from the basement to a former kid room, finished a backyard landscape project and did a lot of 'cleaning out'. 2. Digging into all of this - origin of the virus, the tests, those fear mongering 'models' saying a million deaths, and so on....Tried my damndest to wake up my friends and family to all of the holes in this data and sketchy narrative. A few listened. A lot cancelled me. Oh well. Got involved in a lot of conservative groups, and made new, and better friends. But trust in pharma, medicine, and any of the 3 letter bureaucrat agencies is a permanent casualty.
What a wonderful story, reminiscent of vignettes in Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley".
As for the pox, what's left to be said. With all the evidence presented, to still believe in the jab or indeed, in anything the government tells us, is to be a child, or an imbecile.
Today's el gato malo fits well your recurring theme.
You are one with the superpower. "it turns out that the ability to keep one’s head when all others around you are losing theirs is basically a superpower."
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/more-jersey-switching-original-antigenic?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Whew@ Another great one Mark. There's something about your writing that just makes me relate! I pictured my hubby and me in that situation and I don't think we would have gotten out of the car and figured out something else, but you never know.
Hubby has not been a die-hard covidiot or anything, but intelligence is such a high value to him (even though he is extremely street smart), he cannot allow himself to believe that Johns Hopkins, Mayo Clinic, etc could have people dispensing lies about masking, shots, etc. Thankfully, he's a wait and see type guy so that worked in his favor, so he never got the jab. I suspected foul play right from the beginning and I'm getting more and more vindicated. However, he still can't believe I'm never flying again until the truth comes out. Not taking my chance that a pilot won't have a stroke mid-flight. (Okay big enough airplane there is a co-pilot, so both at once would be unlikely). Good thing I like driving!
I am always happy when I see an essay from you waiting in my Inbox. I am genuinely refreshed when I’ve read such clear thinking and good writing. The scam infuriated me from the beginning and I felt I had no place to put my righteous anger. The Elected Ones were useless/evil/power-drunk. My church closed its doors. My friends drank the kool-aid and shunned me. Well, we who could THINK all experienced it: No need to rehash it here.
I did recently have an experience that I can’t get over. I went to FL to help a newly widowed friend. I had to get her late husband’s death certificate and, thus, saw what was recorded. He died at age 67 in May 2022 (J&J, no booster, for the curious) from a massive stroke. This was correctly noted as #1 under Cause of Death. Number Two was ‘Covid-19.’ A complete lie and I hope hell awaits ALL who were complicit in this satanic fraud. As for me, I remain a mostly-friendless, unmasked, unstabbed, carry-permitted, proud Southern semi-fascist!
Consider that certain powerful people did this to us to provide a smokescreen for the fact that the illegal gain of function research in Wuhan caused the whole thing in the first place.
I thought this essay was going to be an allegory for what you thought was a SETUP; that you would posit that the whole covid episode was a setup for some other nefarious goal. But I just cant accept that so far. Maybe that is true. But this whole things smacks of panic and incompetence.
The WHO has a document called
"non-pharmaceutical measures for the mitigation of pandemic flu"
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/329438/9789241516839-eng.pdf
In this doc is a summary of the knowledge from the last 100 years.
Masks dont work
Lockdowns cause more harm
It is ONLY appropriate to quarantine sick people and close contacts of sick people.
Diagnostic testing is appropriate only if there is a clinical disease...
Its all there:
And yet the agencies threw this all out.
Maybe because the virus was engineered as a research project in secret? It might have been research aimed at doing good but there was an accident and then the projections estimated that millions would die and the people responsible went into panic cover up mode
Deb Birx was the face of this malfeasance.
SHe needs to be questioned with truth serum
No more (so-called) ‘emergency declarations’. It’s used as a tool to get folks fearful (and thus submissive), and as an excuse for all these atrocities. I’ll decide for myself if there is an ‘emergency’. I certainly can’t trust TPTB to do so honestly. We must ALL refuse to comply with all this ridiculous crap.
You’re right — we have opened the door, and it can’t be shut again. Lockdowns, masks, faulty medical treatments, and government handouts now have a precedent. This means that we will keep seeing them crop up as “effective policy responses” to “emergencies”.
It’s perverse, but sometimes I wish for a doomsday scenario. Individuals can refuse to comply, but the bureaucracy marches on. It needs to be burned away, and I don’t see how that happens without some kind of massive disaster.
that was a nice piece.