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I 100% agree. I fought the whole lockdown bullshit almost from day 1. When it hit I was 9 months into a grief journey as I had lost my SO suddenly from an aortic dissection at the age of 49. I knew how fleeting life is and tomorrow is never guaranteed. The idea that we were sacrificing today from a tomorrow that might never happen cut me to the core. The next hour isn’t guaranteed. My hubby was fine and then two hours later died in the emergency room and like so many during the highest idiocy of the lockdowns, I couldn’t be with him.

There are times when I do some serious questioning as to why I didn’t fall for the propaganda like all those around me but I saw thru it early on and went online to seek out others who might be with me and confirm that I wasn’t insane.

The whole thing has been beyond ridiculous.

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I’m sorry for your loss. It’s so difficult. Year 13 for me, and I still miss him. Prayers for peace.

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Thank you. I’m sorry for your loss as well. 7/15 marks the beginning of year 4 for me. I will never stop missing him. Being here for my kids has kept me waking up every morning but I’ll admit on more than one day I was pissed I woke up.

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I'm so sorry for your loss, keeping loved ones away at a time like that is truly unconscionable. I have become so disgusted by the past two years, I think many people have simply lost their minds.

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Im so sorry for your tragic & untimely loss, Bergen, & esp for not being allowed to be with him.

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your story is tragic. I am so sorry.

I understand your shock and horrible sadness, even your anger and dark thoughts. I have had them too.

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I am so sorry. That is horrific and not human.To not allow loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes show how low we became.

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In another post I mention that our establishment leaders repeatedly held “war games/germ games” - to prepare the country for the inevitable “responses” that would be necessary when the Big One finally happened.

In his book, RFK, Jr. mentions that these “trial run” simulations never mention things like using existing drugs to treat the infected or preventative health care measures or creating a system where doctors could quickly learn optimal treatment protocols. Instead, the end game was of course … mandatory vaccination of every person on the planet.

But he also points out how important censorship and propaganda/brain-washing measures would be to overcome the “vaccine-hesitant.” Really, the main objective of these training exercises was to get everyone to accept experimental vaccines and to silence and cancel anyone who disagreed with their agenda.

Or, more precisely, the goal was not get “everyone” to get on board; the goal was to get all the “top decision makers” on board. If these leaders and all the key organizations were on board, the narrative they pounded home incessantly would “take” with the masses. Read the book; these people were “certain” these indoctrination measures WOULD work. That is, they knew “dissent” could and would be easily neutralized.

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Agree. I read the book and even got my mother to read it because it wasn't written by a righty.

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The more people who read this book - even if they just skim its 12 chapters - the better for our side. There's a reason no mainstream media have even published book reviews of this book, a book that has still sold well over 1 million copies. Running a book review, even a negative one, might get more people to read it. Plus, any fair review would at least have to mention some of Mr. Kennedy's conclusions. They don't want people to know those conclusions.

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I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine what it must felt like.My father died 3 weeks after they locked the doors to the nursing home...from dehydration!!!!!!! NOT from the Wuhan red death. Crimes against humanity. I pray you find some comfort in your grief.

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I'm so sorry for your loss, Bergen. When I was a young girl, my father shared some words of wisdom with me that have stayed with me to this today: "Tomorrow is guaranteed to no one, Kathleen."

I, like you, knew this crime was an operation out of the gate. Having had enough from all the "smart", "freedom-loving" people around from years of working on the truth of the Sep 11 attacks, I knew 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 what to expect from the majority of people. So, no surprises here. Just disgust. As for the slave rags, never wore one, never will. And get injected with mRNA junk??? Never happen.

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Sorry for your loss and while I'm lucky I haven't lost anyone significant recently the same idea what made me angry towards my family that they locked down so hard and refused to meet anyone. People think you have time and you can make up for it but you can't.

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"why I didn’t fall for the propaganda" ?

How much TV do you watch?

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I sadly watch a lot of TV, but not network shows. Stopped watching them years ago as they stopped being funny or entertaining. I watching cooking and home improvement stuff, history, "how its made", and ashamedly trash TLC programs :)

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Thank you so much. I do, in a weird way, take some comfort in that he was spared the insanity and unforgivable government overreach that we’ve lived through.

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Bergen, that is an awesome message.

If you haven't left NJ, I'm still down to meet .

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Thank you Mark. My closing is next Thursday and I move on 7/6. Between work and packing I could squeeze in a lunch if you’d like to come up to this neck of the woods.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

From the very beginning, I couldn't make sense of the logic. Because there was none. And I was amazed that people I really respected, intellectually, seemed to loose their critical thinking and discernment skills. I kept telling my friends and co-workers, let's have a covid party (likening it to a chickenpox party), we'll all get, and get past it, and get on with our lives. It was amazing to me how many were genuinely fearful, of what, I couldn't understand. My 30 y/o daughter, my only child, being among them. Even today, I see and work with people who are double masked, wearing face shields, avoiding others, and quadruple vaxxed. They'll feel like such failures when they finally get Covid. Was it Franklin who said it's easier to fool someone than convince them they've been fooled? How true!

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Totally agree. Even now I still see people masked up alone in their cars or walking their dog on a quiet suburban street with no one around. The scamdemic scare mongering broke a lot of people.

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when coming home from the store a few months back, I noticed a man walking alone in the woods with a mask on. I could not help laughing out loud. He could not hear me LOL

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I used to laugh when I saw these things. Now, I am seriously tempted to ask why the heck they have it on! I could understand for an allergy but it’s just too common now to assume that. I’m afraid, I might actually do this. Who knows - maybe it would make someone actually stop and think for a change! Lol

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it has come this far, that when I see a film on youtube with masked people, I get so disgusted I turn it off. Be careful if you meet a real karen, they might slap you ! Good luck !

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Ditto. I can't watch stuff with people wearing masks without getting pissed off.

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Lol and thanks - I’ll be sure to be socially distanced lol if I do!

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In Northern NJ in my sons high school there are still kids who wear masks. The mental illness seems concentrated mainly among asian people. Japnese and koreans in particular have a stiflingly hierarchical and paternalistic formal culture.

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It’s interesting how different every place is. I see mostly non-Asian kids here wearing masks so I can’t comment on the mental illness part.

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LOL, i've been known to laugh as well. Its better than crying for the havoc that's been wrecked upon us. I had a chuckle as I worked on my front porch (long porch) at one end as the mailman delivered my mail at the other end, wearing a blue surgical mask. I live in suburbia, houses are decently far apart and NO ONE was on the street.

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Love my mailman. Never was masked from day one and as I'm retired and home most days he hand delivers my packages to me. Was so normal I thank him for that. Unjabbed and was never sick until about 4 weeks ago with just cold symptoms for just 4 days.

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they retreated into a (malicious) form of virtue signaling, denying healthy others their right to be themselves and to go about their life as best they can. the tyranny of the mediocre: don't you dare to think for yourself! it's maddening. TQ for your touching post. in 2020 I've lost three close friends (non-C19 related) and their funerals were restricted to the tiny circle of direct relatives only. so silly, so sad, and utterly frustrating!

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A friend told me he saw a woman alone in her house wearing a face diaper. I guess people will be buried wearing them now.

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This was my friend's mother. She wouldn't let anyone in the door yet sat in her empty house wearing a mask.

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It’s so sad. A woman I recently met also reported she has only left her house for doctors appointments for the last 2 years. It’s so awful.

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I have a friend whose doc told her not to take the mRNA shots, but now she's been living in fear for two plus years. She goes to work double masked still, and when her son and his girl visit, she goes to hide in the bedroom. She used to go to Mass; haven't seen her in two years. Used to sing in our (admittedly pretty bad) choir; no more. Oh but her doc did tell her he'd give her Paxlovid if she got sick. Better than dying you know. Except I feel like she already did die.

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That is exactly right. So many people have already died. They have been so terrified of dying that they have quit living. And it is devastating to them and their families. What is the point of living if you see your loved ones as disease carrying threats that will potentially kill you? It’s just horrible.

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I am so sorry for your loss. I know how hard that must have been. I agree with you and Deb. Seeing this and witnessing the madness is what truly makes me sad and some days it’s a struggle to make sense of it all.

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many many people are still wearing masks.

Most people think if they got the shot, they are some how safe.

The democrat party, and the collusion with the media is responsible for all of this

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Its sad and terrifying how many people were totally brainwashed by this nonsense.

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The mailman that delivered my mail yesterday in the traditional open sided postal truck was wearing a mask yesterday. You know, I think they are wearing masks to cover up insecurities; no one could possibly think they're avoiding covid with them.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I was in Boston last week and masks were everywhere, including at a preschool playtime class. There was a “masks required” sign at the door of an independent bookstore near the Harvard campus. This is causing social pressure.. my otherwise lovely DIL wants to be first in line to get my sweet 20 month old granddaughter vaccinated. Sad and scary!!!

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Saying a prayer 🙏 for You and your Granddaughter! Most places haven’t bothered to take their masks required sign down. I’ve worn into some doctors offices recently and put mine on, then saw someone without so took mine off to see if anything would be said - Nada. I eventually asked and was told it was optional for patients but mandatory for staff.

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Sadly teenagers are. Many parents are having issues with getting their kids to take them off.

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I’ve seen this too and not just teens. The other day I was at a post office. The Mom was without a mask but her child probably around 5 had a mask on her face. So sad!

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I see this a lot! Unmasked parents with masked kids. It really makes me wonder what the * is going on there. If these kids are all afraid to take them off, we've got some serious problems ahead.

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I fear for the developmental and psychological damage the children have been forced to endure. The most loathsome part for me, is hearing: "It's okay, children are resilient". They KNOW it is detrimental and harming the children, and yet they force it upon them! A close second: "You have to or you will kill Grandma." GRRRR!

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We seriously will and for many it will be more than just breaking a security habit like a blankey or sucking a thumb!

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022

guess which one was vaxx'd.....

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I know. I’m SMH!

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Indeed. Some are the children of the covid Karens, others like the anonymity that the masks afforded them. Here in my corner of NJ, my kids were mostly happy when they could finally unmask at school this year when Murphy finally let the mandate lapse. My daughter said she didn't mind the mask because she could make faces at people and they wouldn't see it. I was at their graduation on Wednesday and in a class of about 370, there were a handful still wearing their masks, but then again there was a smattering of masks in the bleachers watching the ceremony.

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With teens and young adults, I really think the mask is just their way of "virtue signaling" more than a real fear of Covid. I often see parents with their teen or young adult children and it's the teens and young adults wearing the masks but not the parents. I think the schools and social media is really responsible for that.

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I live in NNJ too. The masking seems concentrated particularly among asians esp koreans. Their culture is historically very rigid and hierarchical.

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I don't disagree with that, but there's still a sizable contingent of lefties who only get their news from MSM who are still masked up including my mother and several of my neighbors. Not asian, but white/jewish (whole block, me included, are jewish). The orthodox jewish russians across the street where the first to remove their masks and give the proverbial middle finger to the scamdemic. Had a huge birthday party for an 80 yo in their backyard in May 2020 and ignored the whole mask/social distancing crap. We can't forget that Lakeland was always on the news for their violations of the mandates :). Good for them!

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I cant decide who is more culpable the pols or the media? I think the media. We expect the pols to be liars but for all the main media outlets to act like lapdogs and state propaganda organs ! So disgraceful

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My mother does.

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022

I think that’s part of it for sure or hiding something they are uncomfy about such as acne or poor teeth. I get it, but it’s still not healthy one way or another in the long term.

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it's neither good for acne or poor teeth, on the contrary.

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022

Nope not at all, they probably feel that they can finally hide behind a mask for validation.

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I remember joking about having a Covid party too. People looked at me like I was a holocaust denier or something.

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I went on this “nextdoor” social site in early 2021 and offered to pay someone with covid to intentionally infect me

I explained thay covid was not dangerpus to me i was not afriad, masks do nothing and the vax will not stop infection.

The soonee more healthy not at risk people get infexted and recoverd the sooner we would reach herd immunity and this would all end

I was pilloried. I was insulted. I was reported and blocked

But i /we were right all along

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I lived with someone who had covid in March 2020 and no matter what I did I couldn't catch it!

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You'd probably already been exposed before March 2020 ... and so you had natural immunity. IMO - based on research and my own investigations - there were millions of people who had already developed natural immunity when the lockdowns were ordered. Certainly, the lockdowns were not going to "slow" or "stop" the spread of a disease that had already spread across the globe.

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In March 2020 nobody was vxxed. But you can get a nasty flu from somebody vxxed and boosted (I don't believe all of it is "covid" but living next to people who killed their immune system isn't great).

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Yep. Me too.

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I completely agree. For whatever reason I never fell for any of this right from the start it just didn't feel right to me. There are still so many folks in my area wearing masks, including some in their cars! It's really so disturbing, and I live in Florida of all places.

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I think most states, even the awesome free state of Florida, still have their pockets of brainwashed as well as those on Team Reality.

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Northwest Florida here. Hardly a mask anywhere. When one shows up, I've seen others looking at the slave like they're an idiot.

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Wow! That's wonderful! I think my area has been infiltrated by liberals from the Eastern states, for some reason. If I didn't have family and friends here, I'd consider moving to a better part of Florida.

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Very conservative here, lots of current and former military. There's one die-hard at the Post Office. Clerk has been wearing a rag since the beginning -- over his beard. Honest to God, you really have to wonder. A couple months back, he had a bad cough -- very phlegmy. Coughing that gunk right into the mask. Thought I was going to gag. Other than that, the "ragged ones" are so very few and far between around here -- thank God!

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A covid party wouldn't work before the vx. I partied and socialized heavily through 2020-2021 with a good number of people in the entire area. I've never seen anything "spreading" among unxvved people, such as a number of people simultaneously getting sick. 1-2 people occasionally getting flu is a normal year. Alpha was supposed to be as twice as contagious as flu, omicron 10 times, omicron's cousin 20 times, nothing like this has been observed. Funny, that I've heard of a few vxxed New Years parties that got 10+ people sick (while we had 4 big parties in a row and all were fine). The vxxed and boosted also infected the unvxxed. Science!

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Agree 100%.

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Nathaniel hawthorne

House of the seven gables about the Salem witch trials

Nathaniel hawthorne

“Old Matthew Maule, in a word, was executed for the crime of witchcraft. . He was one of the martyrs to that terrible delusion, which should teach us, among its other morals, that the influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob. Clergymen, judges, statesmen,—the wisest, calmest, holiest persons of their day stood in the inner circle round about the gallows, loudest to applaud the work of blood, latest to confess themselves miserably deceived. If any one part of their proceedings can be said to deserve less blame than another, it was the singular indiscrimination with which they persecuted, not merely the poor and aged, as in former judicial massacres, but people of all ranks; their own equals, brethren, and wives.”

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Great commentary and I could not agree more. As I've written previously, locking down all of society for a virus that, even in April 2020, was known to affect the young and/or healthy as nothing more than a mild cold, if that, never made any sense. I was puzzled by it and tried in vain to talk sense to friends and co-workers (family members, except for one or two in-laws, were always in agreement with me). I said to my pro-lockdown, pro-mask, pro-one-way store aisles, and eventually pro-vax friends in March 2020, "I fear the financial, social, and political consequences of shutting down the entire country" and "We should quarantine the vulnerable and let everyone else keep working" and, in a last-ditch attempt to talk sense to them, "You can't have a healthcare system if you don't have an economy!"

Because my company's line of business was deemed "essential," I was free to continue working in our office during the lockdown as I have for 20+ years...and I made a point of doing so (one of only three who did). When our company said we could come back to work but that masks were required, in August 2020, I elected to work from home and haven't been back since. I was able to outlast a vax mandate (even to work from home, because of government contracts) that was an ongoing threat but never materialized and that, suddenly, isn't being mentioned anymore by our HR staff.

When I retire from this company, where I've worked for 20+ years, I am not wanting a retirement party or a gold watch. I will ask for the only thing I want from them: an apology!

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

TTSSYF, Good for you!!! My office was also deemed “essential” & even though we “closed” we had the option to work from home or come in. For several weeks I was the only one of ~20 people up there. Slowly a few more filtered in. No vax or mask mandates in 2020 but then - after all that time - in 2021 when idiot governor reinstituted indoor masking, our bosses tried to make it a thing but the staff wasn’t buying. One of them told us “it’s the law” (he’s a LAWYER & we’re a law office!) to which I retorted it damn well wasn’t, it was an illegal & thus unenforcible mandate. Another piped up that there’s more bacteria on his mask than the crack of his ass 😂

Needless to say, the office mask mandate went down in flames, altho most of the lawyers kept wearing theirs for awhile until they started feeling stupid, I guess

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Lol, That was great! Glad most of you stood up to this nonsense!

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We’re a pretty “spirited” bunch - only 1 of the 8 staff is vax & most of the attorneys are (+ boosted 🙄). 6 of us got wu-flu, as did some of the attorneys. We know our immunity is superior 🤣

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That’s awesome! Love it!

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good luck with that !

I really have to laugh again with the work from home and obliged to get the shots. It is like the Japanese gentleman who wrote a while ago that students on zoom had complained because he was not wearing a mask!

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yap...100%agree...I call these lockdowns house arrests. They are a punishment, not a health measure, they are not for waiting for a trial or a sentence, they are a real trial, an experiment and the sentence is that we are banned to go back to our normal life and forced to accept the stupid absurd idiotic rules and ethics and the holy upside down new world order.

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I remember listening to a podcast which said "Never before in human history have ordinary people been detained en masse. The only historical precedent for this has been the treatment of prisoners and slaves."

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Who said it was very right. I would add we all are already in an extermination camp.

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Totally!

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Your essay expresses everything I’ve known from Day 5 of this evil charade. I wish we could have lunched together in 2020! Next time you’re near Hilton Head…

I, too, have lost most of my ‘friends’ but something odd is happening recently: some of those folks are sheepishly, timidly reconnecting to me. Nothing so courageous as an APOLOGY, just a quiet sidling back into my orbit and no more talk of The Shot. Interesting. I’m a bit aloof: trust issues, you know.

I also agree with the comment regarding churches. I left my beloved church, disgusted by their closure demonstrating that they serve Caesar, not God. Much to my surprise, reading the Bible alone or with a tiny circle of the like-minded, I have grown so much closer to God. That is my silver lining!

Love your essays, Mark! Thank you.

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Thanks, Teresa. Yes, it was maddening to see people buy the Apocalyptic scenario.

27 months too late, but if you're in NJ, please LMK.

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I wish we could all meet up for a coffee or whatever! I’m in Phoenix.

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I’m in Scottsdale -let’s have an out west anti Covid get together!

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Jun 25, 2022·edited Jun 25, 2022

That would be fun! I’m in awahtukee

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If you are coming that far down, I am in middle Georgia LOL. Come on over.

Same here Teresa. Stopped going to church which forgot about god and serves the government. Prefer to walk in the woods with my animals ! Only one former friend approached me, since having a seizure prevents them from driving, but that is as far as it will evolve.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

it was about ousting trump.

it was about ruining the us economy

too many of the elderly dead were faulty treatment, still a problem, and politics.

every death a headline.

my partner is still a covidiot!

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

And transferring wealth from small business to big business. It amazed me that people believed the virus could be mitigated in the big box stores, but your neighbor's store was too much of a risk to stay open. What???

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yes, and many regular folks panicked and sold off stocks early in 2020 in their investment and retirement accounts, thinking this was a black swan event, thus further lowering stock prices for the rich, who have “risk capital” to buy and then make huge profits when the market normalized later in 2020.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I will never get over or forgive what has been done to us, & why. In addition to the overall physical/emotional/economic/societal damage, all of the joy of graduations, weddings, parties robbed; the people who had no comfort or love as they convalesced or died alone in hospitals or nursing homes; babies, toddlers, children & teens stunted in their physical, social, emotional & educational development.

Im not really religious, but one of the most stunning capitulations was the religious institutions of all faiths. If any entities should have rebelled against the tyranny of the State, it should have been those; if ever there was a need for faith, hope, fellowship, community & a belief in God’s good, it was then. I was pretty stunned @ how completely most of them (other than the really evangelical ones where I live) went along - if one is a true believer, why would one be afraid? God knows the number of each of our days & what will be, will be. By defying the State, a church & congregation would demonstrate complete faith in God & commend their lives to His hands (esp w/ a 99.7% survivability for the vast majority). Instead, churches closed completely & when some reopened, demanded masking &/or no singing, & in some places, denied entry to the unvax’d. It was remarkable to me & highlighted some hypocracy where I would not necessarily have expected it

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Amen to that Cindi !

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I’ll second that! Amen Cindi!

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I should’ve known better, but because we lived in Seattle I too fell for the bullshit - at least for about a month.

There’s a photo of me masked up on Seattle transit that Alexa keeps showing. I don’t delete it because I need the reminder not to be such a dipshit.

We left Seattle in May 2020 to go back home to flyover country. That’s when the spell started dissolving.

The lingering damage is the knowledge of the power of propaganda over so many people. There’s something deeply sinister about the digital lives we are immersed in.

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Something deeply sinister about the indulgence in cowardice by the vast majority in this "land of the free, home of the 'brave'".

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100%. I have come to the conclusion that many people fear reality. They fear death. They fear hardship and suffering. And I am not sure anything was learned by most of them over the past two years. We may find out as the next plandemic is unleashed.

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If another "pandemic" is unleashed, I hope I'm one of the first to go because I don't think I can handle any more of this insanity. The tyrannical torture they've imposed is designed to break the spirits of whoever remains after the culling, so the only lesson to be learned is that we're powerless. There doesn't seem to be an civilized outlet for the rage that's been growing in me over the last couple years.

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courage Lisa. We made it through one craze, we will survive whatever comes now. More and more people are waking up, and realize they have been done in, and from the many memes about the government, I can see that even the papers that used to support the government, now are starting to wake up as well. Easier for me as I live out in the woods amidst other non - crazes, but if need be, move ! There are still sane places in the world !

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I feel like Lisa does at times but it’s like you’re saying. The other part of me says, No way! That’s what they want and I’m not giving it to them!

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Exactly, only it’s bringing on more of what they’ve feared!

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Yes. Your article is right on point, Mark. I’ve mentioned this in other comments, but I lost my job because of the virus, or so the prevailing theory went. Much later, we learned that it had nothing whatsoever to do with it and was used as a ruse to close our division.

I spent the rest of 2020 trying to get over my anger, and the whole lockdown thing just angered me even more. So I didn’t stay home. I shopped. I went on walks. I went on drives, all unmasked. My hubby was freaked out about the whole thing and was irritated with me because I didn’t listen to the hysterical exhortations. I didn’t care. I eventually got a stop-gap part-time job and got through the worst of the virus. Interestingly enough, it wasn’t until a couple weeks ago that I contracted Omicron and was sick for about a week. At least I gained some immunity out of it, as I am unvaxed and am staying that way.

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TQ for sharing. stay strong, I guess many of us on 'this side' of the petty tyrants' narrative go through periods of desperation and anger. however we're a resilient and creative tribe and cherishing what's good, beautiful and valuable gives us an enormous spiritual power.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

the odd thing about the lockdown was there seemed to be little enforcement outside of the already police state like cities , i know of folks who never stayed home , and had no problems , aside from dirty looks from the brainwashed

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well, the police were bashing people here in Spain and in many many other places.

In the end the whole thing was declared unconstitutional by the highest court and all fines have to be repaid, but it is still as if nothing happened. And it will happen again.

And only a few, very few are even willing to voice disapproval

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Jul 19, 2022·edited Jul 19, 2022

In the US there was very little enforcement even in very brainwashed areas (where I live). Police themselves didn't buy scamdemic.

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I think it depends where you live. I experienced as you did here in AZ but I knew in other States (and Canada)there was enforcing of these stupid rules

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the scam was especially successful on the "tell us what to think" set

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Who knew there could be so many?!

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The acceptance of the absurd official story of the Sep 11 attacks by the vast majority was a precursor to this. That acceptance was proof positive that you could tell the vast majority in this country absolutely 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 and they'd buy it. So, the fact that a new absurd story got delivered to us and the majority believed and acted on it came as absolutely no surprise to me at all. What did happen in contrast to the aftereffects of Sep 11 is that now I am without an ounce of respect for the "average American". No overt disrespect and impoliteness, but an assumption based on evidence that the vast majority of people in this country are 𝒏𝒐𝒕 my countrymen.

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I lost a good friend (I thought!) over this. My whole family (I have 11 children and 20 grandchildren.) came over for Easter, lockdowns be damned. A friend happened to drive past and saw all the cars in my driveway and called to lecture me about breaking the law and how I was going to kill his mom, who is elderly and not in the best health. My kids and grandkids were virus factories in his mind, spreading a deadly disease that experts were warning we would all die of. We haven't spoken since.

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Anyone who thinks like that is not worth having as a friend.

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I had heart surgery in May 2020 and an old friend from another state texted to check on me. I told her my friends were here and had brought me dinner. She responded, “I hope they’re wearing masks.” I texted back, “Nope, not a mask in sight and I’m happy they’re here.” That earned me a speech by text about how careful I needed to be. I responded (after taking a deep breath or two and fighting off anger) with something like, “I appreciate your concern, but I’ve had brain surgery and heart surgery and I’m not worried about covid.” Covid has been the elephant in the room since then with her, but I’m just trying to maintain some sort of connection. When her father passed away this May (cancer not covid), I refrained from asking her if she wished she would have NOT distanced herself from him the last two years…

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Author

I took my 94 year old mom to the dentist yesterday.

The hygienist told her that her 101 year old grandmother just died "of Covid" last week.

Uh, right.

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Everything is covid and covid is everything with these people. Obsession much?

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What happened to colds and flu and just not feeling great for a few days?🙄😡

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True. Everything is COV!D, but nothing is the "vaccine".

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blinkers galore (aka tunnel vision).

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Jun 27, 2022·edited Jun 27, 2022

My friend (now ex friend) chastised me for travelling once a week to visit my partner during lockdown. She sent me some stupid diagram depicting the theory of exponential spread, implying that by leaving the house I was somehow becoming a virus spreader. It was so absurd and offensive. Meanwhile she lives with her husband and two dogs in a big house and had a ball during lockdown as her working hours were reduced and she got to stream Netflix day in, day out and that's literally her favourite activity.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Totally agree. The lockdowns made no sense. Ok to go to Walmart, but not a small local business. Wear a mask to enter restaurant, but remove when sitting. It was all absurd. Absolutely no common sense nor any scientific basis when you actually looked at what they were mandating. It was like watching a horror show, but people were going along as if it was all good.

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I specifically remember Friday March 13, 2020. I’m nursing a beer at the kitchen table with my mind racing. I’m thinking, where the hell are we going with this? My confusion didn’t last long. I became first frustrated and then quite angry. I refused to stay home, I drove or biked anytime, anywhere and never wore a mask other than a trip to the grocery store. Don’t get me started on the arrows in the aisles. Anyway, I missed a few weeks of work- my outside job commenced rather quickly - and I never deviated from my normal routine. I did lose a friend. After a 3 plus minute voicemail on how Trump is gonna kill 5-6 million Americans and a clever tutorial on how to game the NJ unemployment system, I cut ties. I had zero interest in sitting home collecting Covid checks, eating crappy food and watching YouTube videos. I knew then that there would be a cost to handing out free money, separating humans for a ubiquitous respiratory virus. The exact cost wasn’t evident yet but I knew damn well that whenever the bill was due, there’d be an extreme amount of interest added to the bottom line. Its clear now that we’re all paying for the sins of our dear leaders and their catastrophic actions. Tragic.

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Jun 24, 2022·edited Jun 24, 2022Author

Great message, Joe. I'm in New Brunswick if you want to hang out.

Warning: I'm UNVAXXXXXXED!

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

many more of us are. it seems that on a global scale 1/3 of the world population (and roughly 1/4 in the US) is not vaccinated - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

resistance is not futile!

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If David Martin, et.al. are right, this is going to be a nearly empty country in about five years.

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It was the very next Monday when I learned I needed heart surgery, and that same day is when I learned that my mom's memory care facility would be locked down. A month later she broke her hip because I couldn't go stay with her when her caregiver had to leave earlier. She died exactly two months later. Not WITH covid, but because of covid idiocy. BTW, my surgery was delayed two months, and then my husband had to drop me off at the door of the hospital! Complete insanity!

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Yes, the sins of our "leaders", but we expect them to sin, yes? What we're all really paying for are the sins of the aiders and abettors of this crime -- the "American" people.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

The worst thing about this whole scamdemic for me was the depressing realization of how gullible and compliant people are, and how eager the powerful and evil are to take full advantage. The world has changed for me, despite not knowing anyone who was even particularly ill from covid. I will not forget these important lessons though.

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They KNEW the sheep would comply. There were germ warfare simulcasts performed for years before Covid. If you read about these in RFK's book, you will see that the organizers were very confident that the indoctrination and propaganda measures they were going to roll out would work. They had crossed all their T's and dotted all their I's. And everyone was on board, including the CIA and the PR experts who helped created the population control measures.

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