I've noticed that immigrants, like I am, tend to not trust the medical system as much.
I grew up working class poor and we didn't have the money to go to the doctor for every sniffle or cough.
I'm glad we didn't, because those who did tend to have more issues.
We were multilingual and I later learned Spanish in school which I too found to be very helpful to know.
They say that languages set the way your brain sees reality.
That explains why judges are so clueless, legalese is one of the most idiotic and illogical double speak languages.
Medical talk is a close second. 😂
The irony is that my sibling was always jealous of the kids that had medical care and all that jazz only to later in life end up ensnared by the system with an "auto immune" condition (likely caused by shots and Tylenol with damages the liver).
It makes perfect sense that languages set the way your brain sees reality. I keep trying to understand why I saw through the scamdemic while others didn't. Perhaps the reason is language based. The dominant language in my brain, possibly even surpassing my native English, is mathematics/engineering. I spent a lot of time studying and working in that field. Mathematics/engineering gave me a need to understand the true fundamental principles of the world. That's definitely a quest that will never be completely fulfilled but perhaps that language allowed me to see the contrived illusion of a global pandemic.
I know a lot of engineers that fell for the bullshit.
I think because a lot of them are book smart but can't apply the math beyond their field.
Example: an electrical engineer contractor that was trying to figure out why controls weren't working... We told him over and over that it's a timing issue as the valve is slow to open and close, which they didn't put in the coding of the controller.
He still didn't understand it and still the equipment has to be run manually, because the programming is done by an idiot that cannot visualize how mechanical things work.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
That is so interesting. I have been trying to figure out what made me a covid non believer. I never thought to attribute it to my physics degree!! Curiosity wins!! Unless you’re a cat, so they say.
I think if\t was much more than a physics degree. I had two (2!) Stanford biochemistry PhDs require proof of vaccine in the summer of 2022 before they could attend a community bbq in open air in July.
So many sheep were OIPs (otherwise intelligent people, srsly).
I grew up before it was common to have regular doctor visits. We only went when we were sick or injured.
That has served me well.
Also, my father (who served in the US Army Medical Corps in WW2) went to medical school when he returned from the European Theater -.though never practiced medicine, and deeply distrusted MDs his entire life.
Mark - there is an awakening happening. In a period of just a few weeks, three people that I know that received 4 or more shots now know they were the cause of their health issues. One is thinking about filing a lawsuit. I sent him this link:
So much of people's reaction to "Covid" is intrinsic to how much their self-esteem depends on their 'status' and their desire to be accepted by the educated 'elite'. This inevitably smothers independent, critical thinking. It becomes groupthink. It is no surprise that critical thinking isn't even taught anymore. When I was in high school students were placed in one of two tracks: College Prep, or Business. The college prep students were considered the elite. They had to take either French or Latin. Business students took Spanish. They also took typing. If you were in college prep and wanted to learn how to type, you had to pay extra for an after school course. Very few did. Funny how the business students ended up with two of the most valuable skills of this century- Spanish and typing.
Taking typing probably was the most useful class I ever took. I was steered into college prep by my parents who did not want to hear about me doing anything else with my life. However, it turned out that there was no money for college--I would have to work my way through because they made a tad bit too much for what little financial aid existed back then. They also encouraged me to take the ACT rather than the SAT, because the SAT cost money to take and the ACT was free. Well, free turned out to be rather expensive because guess what, although I scored extremely high on the ACT, somehow I didn't qualify for any of the few scholarships they offered. I started out washing dishes, moved on to another food service position, then when I was laid off, found that I could not collect the unemployment that was taken out of my paycheck because I was a student and was not available 24/7. That is still Michigan's unemployment policy, by the way. So I dropped out of college. I finally lucked out and got a job at a preclinical research lab who was so desperate for people that it didn't matter that I didn't have a degree and only a half-semester of high school typing. Now here's the punch line to this little joke of a story: after 37 years the lab let me go and I ended up working nights in a factory. All my life I'd been told, go to college so you won't have to work in a factory. I called my parents and asked them what I did wrong. I said, I went to school, I did what society told me, and guess where I wound up--right where you told me I would not have to be!
Lovely and concise as always, Mark. This is an off-topic question, but y’all are my peeps: A person cancelled an appointment with me this week because she “had tested positive for Covid.” I genuinely don’t know what’s being tested in 2024, or by what method? Is this virtue-signaling or is there a genuine medical code for this? Can anyone help me understand so I can speak clearly and not scream, “You are an idiot!”
I think having covid has become a badge of honor for them. They love the attention and all the well-wishes. Or maybe they just love to be a victim (of nasty old covid). 🤷♀️
Ahhh- supposedly we have rapid tests to affirm the presence of The Virus in its ever-evolving form. Never mind that we used to recognize- more prevalent = less deadly. There seems to be a few things going on, not the least of which is that social pressures to not be "a spreader" still linger, now deeply woven in culture. I believe it's a result of linking morality to an abstract public health interpretation of hygiene, i.e. - "clean test". This goes back to HIV process. Also- few have been able to remember what a cold is. Also - too many more have been trained to think of their health as an abstract state of being permitted to them by outside authority (again HIV concepts of asymptomatic "infections".) One might blame the disembodying effect of the pocket internet for so much - including the scamdemic. Think of these testers as hypnotized people trying to be "good"
A friend wrote in a group email encouraging us to get the shot or we’d join the ranks of those dirty, disgusting, deplorable people, the great unwashed who won’t take the shot. It was early on, I don’t think anti-vaxer was a popular term yet.
Yes surprisingly a few people I know still think the ‘tests for C*V*D” aka PCR tests, mean something. Because now all the ‘sickness’ that people experience these days, that used to be referred to as “a cold or the flu”, is now the Bogus C*V*D!
So what do people think if they have ‘symptoms’ of upper respiratory issues, body aches, or head and sinus congestion and they test ‘negative’. Now what do they have? 🙊🙉🙈🧐
When we moved to Sweden over 14 years ago, I decided that I needed to learn the language even though most of the Swedes that I would be interacting with could and would speak English. My reasoning was, I was insistent on anyone moving to the States needing to learn to speak English so I had to hold myself to that same standard.
We put our 4 kids directly into Swedish schools and 2 of the 4 picked it up almost immediately and were fluent w/in 6 months. The other 2 struggled but did learn, the oldest learned enough to get along till he left for college in Wales, the youngest learned it well enough to test higher than any of her classmates in her freshman year of high school national test. I have learned it enough to understand, be understood, and hold conversations in it that can be fairly complicated. I willingly admit that I am not native speaker quality but I get by very well. My husband never bothered to learn b/c he never needed to with his job. He took the easy way out b/c the kids and I were always there to translate/speak for him and his job used English.
This is how the whole covid thing has played out for us as well. I firmly refused to take any of the shots and told my kids and husband to not take them as well. As far as I know, all of my kids did not take the shots but I worry/wonder about my one daughter who can't seem to stay healthy despite doing all the right things and taking the right vitamins. My husband, w/o my approval and behind my back took 3. He again took the easy way out. He didn't want to do any research beyond what he heard from his big pharma friends and co-workers. He went from saying you needed to wait 5-10 years b4 taking any new drug to see what the fallout was to jumping on his chance to take these new shots after he had already had Covid. If my daughter has taken any shots, it will be b/c he told her it would be okay even though she never needed them as well...
Thank you again, Mark, for providing this space for those of us who believed as you did. You gave me strength and conviction to stay strong in the face of stupidity and blindness. LIfe goes on but it is not as sweet as it was before b/c I've lost trust in my husband and in his love for me. He took those shots knowing how dead set I was against them and never did anything to protect me from the consequences of his actions even though he knew that there could be...
Thanks for being there for us and for continuing to affirm our thoughts and feelings...
It does actually, makes me feel not so alone in my grief and disbelief and worry, lots of worry. I've been saying a new prayer that I found in a small chapel in England when we were visiting my son. It held more than 100 relics of saints including first class relics of all of the apostles, Mary, and most of the major saints of England.
One of the lines in the prayer is "I promise to do everything that you ask of me and to accept all that you permit happen to me". This has been one of the hardest prayers of my life b/c it means giving up control over what happens in my life to God and His plans for me. This prayer though has brought me so much peace, finally, after these past 4 years.
I hope to be back living in the States again at some point in the not too distant future and I will be looking you up to pay you a visit and take you out for a meal and a drink. The least I can do for what you provided for me during this insane time of our lives...
Hi ceecee, My experience with the shots is similar to yours. I am the only unjabbed among my husband and adult children. It has been very difficult. I will never feel the same. On a positive note, please do meet Mark! You will have a wonderful time.
As a gardener I loved your descriptive post of a morning among the giant marigolds. I can smell their sweet pungency and feel their lacy leaves on my skin. With the mist on your face and the sweet earth below it sounds like a bit of heaven on earth.
You are a true Renaissance man, Mark. Thank you for caring for your readership so.
My father always sussed out the lie by relying upon, what he rather impolitely referred to as, his "twitchy anus". Fortunately, my inheritance of this gift lies somewhat higher in my anatomy.
Curious how many of your readers who saw through the scam took foreign languages seriously in and out of school. Dreadfully few in my sphere saw through the baloney, and even many who did see through it bent the knee and took the shot, the masks, the social distancing.
I did my trust / will yesterday Mark … the poor soul took 4 jabs and now has hypertension, myocarditis and borderline diabetes. His poor wife also had myocarditis which lead to a cardiomyopathy and full blown scleroderma. His neighbor is a German allergist, who warned them both but thought he was a conspiracy theorist. I spent an additional hour explaining the mechanism, side effects and long term consequences…. More of his colleagues came in to listen… they all connected the dots . So many stories of family and friends who have died , miscarried and are living with horrific side effects. All languages, all walks of life know now . Why are they allowed to jab people still legally, boggles my mind .
All the info that details the negative impacts the jabs is suppressed. So people don't have the contrasting information. It's all one sided and all lies. Why ? With AI, the number of humans necessary is severely curtailed. We are mostly not necessary... so having a secret program to mostly extinguish humanity seems to be well under way ?
It is certainly very true that the info about the negative impact of the jabs is suppressed. Knowing this, I have dedicated the past 3 years to transcribing suppressed video, much of it about the jab injuries. That said, from what I can tell in my own world, which is heavily vaxxed, most people who still follow the mainstream media like an oracle of truth are well aware of sudden adult death syndrome, the unusual turbo cancers, and the kids and atheletes getting strokes and heart attacks, which didn't happen anywhere near to this degree before the jabs roll out. Chances are they've also witnessed an unusual increase in their own families and social circles in sudden onset dementia, cardiac issues, clots, neurological issues (especially neuropathy), vision issues, and new allergies of all kinds. And, yep, this all started with the jabs roll out. They can put 2 and 2 together. You know, like if droplets of water are falling from the sky, you might conclude that it's raining. But they don't. They just don't. Yet.
Same in England - NHS ads on the radio pushing flu and covid jabs. Since when did the NHS pimp drugs for Big Pharma at taxpayers' expense! Then taxpayers have to foot the bill for the vaccine damage compensation claims! It's such a racket.
I accompanied my RN wife to her hospital on Thursday morning to make cappuccinos for her unit. No one except one young RN wore a mask.
This young lady wore a massive N95, but apparently never asks herself why her 2 dozen medical colleagues (doctors, nurses, techs and therapists) do not.
I would love to know what these people are thinking. Surely they notice. Are their professional colleagues crazy? How do they avoid getting COVID?
I have noted for a long time that while the country has a lot of people in it, it actually has very few Americans.
A majority of "free and brave" people would have rejected the very idea that some doofus governor or his/her "public health" weenie had any lawful authority whatsoever to shut down economic activity due to an "emergency." Emergencies do happen -- like here in Florida -- and economic activity gets "shut down" on its own. Thirty inches of rain and 100+ mph winds over two or three days will do that to an economy. Then the rain and wind stop. So does the emergency. Activity resumes. Albeit slowly and under some difficult circumstances.
Instead, what did the majority do? Over an allegedly bad respiratory infection? Americans who thump their chests over all their freedom? Who scream "USA!" at football games? They believed the words of fools. They rejected -- or do not even know -- the words of those who fomented and ran a revolution against one who would put a "lien" on their basic...human...rights...and the Natural Law. They founded a confederacy of nations based on those ideals and those "un-a-leen-able" rights.
Instead of being like those people, today's Americans caved. They did so because they thought they might die -- not on the battlefield doing the actual work of defending freedom -- but because a "virus" might get them. And they wanted to do their part...
Not the country's finest hour -- not by a long shot. That must be admitted, accounted for...but how is that done when the vast majority of the country's inhabitants speak a language other than freedom? Other than "inalienable" rights? A language that prevents them from understanding what I just said?
The reaction of so many democrats to the outcome of the Presidential election, that of shock and disbelief, was (forgive me) very humorous! Their reaction was born of their same refusal to EXPLORE a little, listen to and read from different sources, just to see what "the other side" was saying. They bought the lies they were told from talking heads, musicians, the Hollywood elite. They were swayed by results of polls "the other side" does not participate in (where on earth do those results come from?) When the election was called for President Trump, a double sense of relief washed over me. Not only was it a sense of freedom from the underlying anxiety of the possibility of life becoming increasingly expensive and oppressive, but a final relief from a true end to the Scamdemic. I ALWAYS knew there was something nefarious going on. I knew NOT to succumb to a jab of the sort they were pushing unlike anything I'd experienced in my 69 yrs.. When you hear something that sounds fishy, walk away and dig into researching it. I guess Democrats tend not to be curious. Or maybe they are just sheeple after all. There is so much truth yet to come out. I hope it happens!
Well Mark, that vote was just a “feel good” one, a throw away - and could have been a dangerous one at that - but I understand the frustration with DJT on that score. I gave one donation late in the campaign cycle. It asked a question: if you can tell DJT one thing, what is it? I said he would go a long way to creating good will with many people if he would admit to the errors that he made during the covid fiasco.
I am not holding my breath, but I was glad to get to say it. And I am very thankful that he won. Cheers!
I've never bought the idea many of our fellow freedom-lovers espouse that Trump knows the truth now, just isn't coming out with it for political reasons. However, I do think it's possible that's the case, and sure hope so The fact RFK Jr is on the team, and Trump says he'll be able to run wild against the machine does bode well. While past performance is the best predictor of future performance (referring to Trump's embrace of the jabs and the Birx/Fauci crowd), it's not an infallible predictor. There are quite a few signs we could be in for some great changes. We'll see, if he and RFK Jr can stay alive.
I voted for RFK b/c Trump approved Operation Warp Speed, handed the nation over to Fauci, Birx, and Collins, and then bragged incessantly about how this was his proudest achievement long after he was out of office.
Either he was complicit, or he is stupid. Pick one.
Hi Mark...lovely post..as usual...I initially just wanted to vote for RFK because I became a single-issue voter...anti-C19vax to the core and blame DJT for the roll-out of the vax....however, NY state removed him from the ballot because of the 'residency' issue so I voted for the next best thing...RFK in DJT's cabinet will annihilate these vax pushers! Thanks again.
" all of this information was well within reach of anyone with a mildly inquiring mind"
"It wouldn’t have taken much effort."
I find it strange so many who saw through the insanity excuse the blind followers who enabled the tyrants and thieves to ruin everything, saying they didn't have access to the truth. The heck they didn't.
Your essays are always a light. Funny, I just had a conversation about how valuable it is in the US to be able to speak Spanish. Rigid-mindedness and sloth, yep, they're a thing.
Beautifully written! I concur. But then I was one of those who was enriched by connecting with you. And that’s not all. I also took Spanish seriously - investing time in personal study and even immersion training in Central America… and during that time I was deeply gratified by my conversations with native Spanish speakers. Coincidence that we have this in common? Perhaps not. 😊
i was thinking about how, back in the early days of substack, how did we find Mark? Or the others who challenged the crazy narrative of covid? However it was, I am grateful beyond measure. And you other like minded rebels who just could not buy what “they” were selling.
I've been thinking the same thing lately and can only determine that God brought me here to give me some sanity and people who were like-minded to support and uplift me...
There was a very loud clue in the numbers. Australian state governments put out daily infographics regarding cases, new, up or down, etc, and deaths. Cases was always in LARGE TEXT AT THE TOP OF THE LIST TO SCARE THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF YOU BECAUSE THOSE NUMBERS WERE BIG. Deaths, on the other hand, were parked down at the bottom, and in the corner, where you might never see them unless you took time to look.
Some interesting points raised. I have always said that my university degree wasn’t about all the geology I took (although I did come to know rocks and minerals) but rather it taught me how to learn and do research, god forbid. From the first couple of weeks, I found the ‘silenced crowd’ and I read voraciously for all those years. I spent hundreds of hours searching and reading even to the point of contacting people like Kevin McKernan who generously answered all my questions about PCR. Yet for most, the media was more authoritative than I was as a lowly woodworker. I speak 2 1/2 languages but since 2020 am well on my way to polyglot status. As with a degree, speaking another language gives you so much more than just knowledge of word meanings and grammar.
I've noticed that immigrants, like I am, tend to not trust the medical system as much.
I grew up working class poor and we didn't have the money to go to the doctor for every sniffle or cough.
I'm glad we didn't, because those who did tend to have more issues.
We were multilingual and I later learned Spanish in school which I too found to be very helpful to know.
They say that languages set the way your brain sees reality.
That explains why judges are so clueless, legalese is one of the most idiotic and illogical double speak languages.
Medical talk is a close second. 😂
The irony is that my sibling was always jealous of the kids that had medical care and all that jazz only to later in life end up ensnared by the system with an "auto immune" condition (likely caused by shots and Tylenol with damages the liver).
It makes perfect sense that languages set the way your brain sees reality. I keep trying to understand why I saw through the scamdemic while others didn't. Perhaps the reason is language based. The dominant language in my brain, possibly even surpassing my native English, is mathematics/engineering. I spent a lot of time studying and working in that field. Mathematics/engineering gave me a need to understand the true fundamental principles of the world. That's definitely a quest that will never be completely fulfilled but perhaps that language allowed me to see the contrived illusion of a global pandemic.
I know a lot of engineers that fell for the bullshit.
I think because a lot of them are book smart but can't apply the math beyond their field.
Example: an electrical engineer contractor that was trying to figure out why controls weren't working... We told him over and over that it's a timing issue as the valve is slow to open and close, which they didn't put in the coding of the controller.
He still didn't understand it and still the equipment has to be run manually, because the programming is done by an idiot that cannot visualize how mechanical things work.
"The evolutionary psychologist William von Hippel found that humans use large parts of thinking power to navigate social world rather than perform independent analysis and decision making. For most people it is the mechanism that, in case of doubt, will prevent one from thinking what is right if, in return, it endangers one’s social status. This phenomenon occurs more strongly the higher a person’s social status. Another factor is that the more educated and more theoretically intelligent a person is, the more their brain is adept at selling them the biggest nonsense as a reasonable idea, as long as it elevates their social status. The upper educated class tends to be more inclined than ordinary people to chase some intellectual boondoggle. "
-Sasha Latypova
That is so interesting. I have been trying to figure out what made me a covid non believer. I never thought to attribute it to my physics degree!! Curiosity wins!! Unless you’re a cat, so they say.
I think if\t was much more than a physics degree. I had two (2!) Stanford biochemistry PhDs require proof of vaccine in the summer of 2022 before they could attend a community bbq in open air in July.
So many sheep were OIPs (otherwise intelligent people, srsly).
Bien bien!
I grew up before it was common to have regular doctor visits. We only went when we were sick or injured.
That has served me well.
Also, my father (who served in the US Army Medical Corps in WW2) went to medical school when he returned from the European Theater -.though never practiced medicine, and deeply distrusted MDs his entire life.
Mark - there is an awakening happening. In a period of just a few weeks, three people that I know that received 4 or more shots now know they were the cause of their health issues. One is thinking about filing a lawsuit. I sent him this link:
https://humanitysuit.com/
Thanks for the link Laura Kasner 💥🙏💥
So much of people's reaction to "Covid" is intrinsic to how much their self-esteem depends on their 'status' and their desire to be accepted by the educated 'elite'. This inevitably smothers independent, critical thinking. It becomes groupthink. It is no surprise that critical thinking isn't even taught anymore. When I was in high school students were placed in one of two tracks: College Prep, or Business. The college prep students were considered the elite. They had to take either French or Latin. Business students took Spanish. They also took typing. If you were in college prep and wanted to learn how to type, you had to pay extra for an after school course. Very few did. Funny how the business students ended up with two of the most valuable skills of this century- Spanish and typing.
Taking typing probably was the most useful class I ever took. I was steered into college prep by my parents who did not want to hear about me doing anything else with my life. However, it turned out that there was no money for college--I would have to work my way through because they made a tad bit too much for what little financial aid existed back then. They also encouraged me to take the ACT rather than the SAT, because the SAT cost money to take and the ACT was free. Well, free turned out to be rather expensive because guess what, although I scored extremely high on the ACT, somehow I didn't qualify for any of the few scholarships they offered. I started out washing dishes, moved on to another food service position, then when I was laid off, found that I could not collect the unemployment that was taken out of my paycheck because I was a student and was not available 24/7. That is still Michigan's unemployment policy, by the way. So I dropped out of college. I finally lucked out and got a job at a preclinical research lab who was so desperate for people that it didn't matter that I didn't have a degree and only a half-semester of high school typing. Now here's the punch line to this little joke of a story: after 37 years the lab let me go and I ended up working nights in a factory. All my life I'd been told, go to college so you won't have to work in a factory. I called my parents and asked them what I did wrong. I said, I went to school, I did what society told me, and guess where I wound up--right where you told me I would not have to be!
Wow TAM, what a road you've been on. You should write more about your experiences.
I love that the gringo was fired for selling too cheap.
Lovely and concise as always, Mark. This is an off-topic question, but y’all are my peeps: A person cancelled an appointment with me this week because she “had tested positive for Covid.” I genuinely don’t know what’s being tested in 2024, or by what method? Is this virtue-signaling or is there a genuine medical code for this? Can anyone help me understand so I can speak clearly and not scream, “You are an idiot!”
Sounds like "Long Covid Derangement Syndrome."
Good one!
I think having covid has become a badge of honor for them. They love the attention and all the well-wishes. Or maybe they just love to be a victim (of nasty old covid). 🤷♀️
Ahhh- supposedly we have rapid tests to affirm the presence of The Virus in its ever-evolving form. Never mind that we used to recognize- more prevalent = less deadly. There seems to be a few things going on, not the least of which is that social pressures to not be "a spreader" still linger, now deeply woven in culture. I believe it's a result of linking morality to an abstract public health interpretation of hygiene, i.e. - "clean test". This goes back to HIV process. Also- few have been able to remember what a cold is. Also - too many more have been trained to think of their health as an abstract state of being permitted to them by outside authority (again HIV concepts of asymptomatic "infections".) One might blame the disembodying effect of the pocket internet for so much - including the scamdemic. Think of these testers as hypnotized people trying to be "good"
A friend wrote in a group email encouraging us to get the shot or we’d join the ranks of those dirty, disgusting, deplorable people, the great unwashed who won’t take the shot. It was early on, I don’t think anti-vaxer was a popular term yet.
Yes surprisingly a few people I know still think the ‘tests for C*V*D” aka PCR tests, mean something. Because now all the ‘sickness’ that people experience these days, that used to be referred to as “a cold or the flu”, is now the Bogus C*V*D!
So what do people think if they have ‘symptoms’ of upper respiratory issues, body aches, or head and sinus congestion and they test ‘negative’. Now what do they have? 🙊🙉🙈🧐
Cognitive dissonance?
When we moved to Sweden over 14 years ago, I decided that I needed to learn the language even though most of the Swedes that I would be interacting with could and would speak English. My reasoning was, I was insistent on anyone moving to the States needing to learn to speak English so I had to hold myself to that same standard.
We put our 4 kids directly into Swedish schools and 2 of the 4 picked it up almost immediately and were fluent w/in 6 months. The other 2 struggled but did learn, the oldest learned enough to get along till he left for college in Wales, the youngest learned it well enough to test higher than any of her classmates in her freshman year of high school national test. I have learned it enough to understand, be understood, and hold conversations in it that can be fairly complicated. I willingly admit that I am not native speaker quality but I get by very well. My husband never bothered to learn b/c he never needed to with his job. He took the easy way out b/c the kids and I were always there to translate/speak for him and his job used English.
This is how the whole covid thing has played out for us as well. I firmly refused to take any of the shots and told my kids and husband to not take them as well. As far as I know, all of my kids did not take the shots but I worry/wonder about my one daughter who can't seem to stay healthy despite doing all the right things and taking the right vitamins. My husband, w/o my approval and behind my back took 3. He again took the easy way out. He didn't want to do any research beyond what he heard from his big pharma friends and co-workers. He went from saying you needed to wait 5-10 years b4 taking any new drug to see what the fallout was to jumping on his chance to take these new shots after he had already had Covid. If my daughter has taken any shots, it will be b/c he told her it would be okay even though she never needed them as well...
Thank you again, Mark, for providing this space for those of us who believed as you did. You gave me strength and conviction to stay strong in the face of stupidity and blindness. LIfe goes on but it is not as sweet as it was before b/c I've lost trust in my husband and in his love for me. He took those shots knowing how dead set I was against them and never did anything to protect me from the consequences of his actions even though he knew that there could be...
Thanks for being there for us and for continuing to affirm our thoughts and feelings...
Thanks for that great message, CeeCee.
If it helps you to feel better, my three adult kids all took the shots despite my repeated advice not to.
It does actually, makes me feel not so alone in my grief and disbelief and worry, lots of worry. I've been saying a new prayer that I found in a small chapel in England when we were visiting my son. It held more than 100 relics of saints including first class relics of all of the apostles, Mary, and most of the major saints of England.
One of the lines in the prayer is "I promise to do everything that you ask of me and to accept all that you permit happen to me". This has been one of the hardest prayers of my life b/c it means giving up control over what happens in my life to God and His plans for me. This prayer though has brought me so much peace, finally, after these past 4 years.
I hope to be back living in the States again at some point in the not too distant future and I will be looking you up to pay you a visit and take you out for a meal and a drink. The least I can do for what you provided for me during this insane time of our lives...
Hi ceecee, My experience with the shots is similar to yours. I am the only unjabbed among my husband and adult children. It has been very difficult. I will never feel the same. On a positive note, please do meet Mark! You will have a wonderful time.
As a gardener I loved your descriptive post of a morning among the giant marigolds. I can smell their sweet pungency and feel their lacy leaves on my skin. With the mist on your face and the sweet earth below it sounds like a bit of heaven on earth.
You are a true Renaissance man, Mark. Thank you for caring for your readership so.
My father always sussed out the lie by relying upon, what he rather impolitely referred to as, his "twitchy anus". Fortunately, my inheritance of this gift lies somewhat higher in my anatomy.
Hilarious! I know it's in your cranium!
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Curious how many of your readers who saw through the scam took foreign languages seriously in and out of school. Dreadfully few in my sphere saw through the baloney, and even many who did see through it bent the knee and took the shot, the masks, the social distancing.
Peoples' gullibility astounded me throughout.
Not only were they disengaged re: language, they knew no practical science. Why would the worst virus in history suddenly emerge?
I did my trust / will yesterday Mark … the poor soul took 4 jabs and now has hypertension, myocarditis and borderline diabetes. His poor wife also had myocarditis which lead to a cardiomyopathy and full blown scleroderma. His neighbor is a German allergist, who warned them both but thought he was a conspiracy theorist. I spent an additional hour explaining the mechanism, side effects and long term consequences…. More of his colleagues came in to listen… they all connected the dots . So many stories of family and friends who have died , miscarried and are living with horrific side effects. All languages, all walks of life know now . Why are they allowed to jab people still legally, boggles my mind .
Re: "Why are they allowed to jab people still legally, boggles my mind." I say the same.
Why are people still allowing themselves to be jabbed???
The delusion is powerful.
All the info that details the negative impacts the jabs is suppressed. So people don't have the contrasting information. It's all one sided and all lies. Why ? With AI, the number of humans necessary is severely curtailed. We are mostly not necessary... so having a secret program to mostly extinguish humanity seems to be well under way ?
It is certainly very true that the info about the negative impact of the jabs is suppressed. Knowing this, I have dedicated the past 3 years to transcribing suppressed video, much of it about the jab injuries. That said, from what I can tell in my own world, which is heavily vaxxed, most people who still follow the mainstream media like an oracle of truth are well aware of sudden adult death syndrome, the unusual turbo cancers, and the kids and atheletes getting strokes and heart attacks, which didn't happen anywhere near to this degree before the jabs roll out. Chances are they've also witnessed an unusual increase in their own families and social circles in sudden onset dementia, cardiac issues, clots, neurological issues (especially neuropathy), vision issues, and new allergies of all kinds. And, yep, this all started with the jabs roll out. They can put 2 and 2 together. You know, like if droplets of water are falling from the sky, you might conclude that it's raining. But they don't. They just don't. Yet.
The question is 'Will they ever tune in to the actual Truth about the vaxxes ?' The programming is Deep.
WOR in NYC runs the same ads.
Ugh.
I have no idea if he knew the ads were airing. My guess is, probably not. Just a guess.
I find it beyond appalling that our tax money has been used to push this shale.
Same in England - NHS ads on the radio pushing flu and covid jabs. Since when did the NHS pimp drugs for Big Pharma at taxpayers' expense! Then taxpayers have to foot the bill for the vaccine damage compensation claims! It's such a racket.
I accompanied my RN wife to her hospital on Thursday morning to make cappuccinos for her unit. No one except one young RN wore a mask.
This young lady wore a massive N95, but apparently never asks herself why her 2 dozen medical colleagues (doctors, nurses, techs and therapists) do not.
I would love to know what these people are thinking. Surely they notice. Are their professional colleagues crazy? How do they avoid getting COVID?
The mind reels.
Yeah... the programming is deep...
I have noted for a long time that while the country has a lot of people in it, it actually has very few Americans.
A majority of "free and brave" people would have rejected the very idea that some doofus governor or his/her "public health" weenie had any lawful authority whatsoever to shut down economic activity due to an "emergency." Emergencies do happen -- like here in Florida -- and economic activity gets "shut down" on its own. Thirty inches of rain and 100+ mph winds over two or three days will do that to an economy. Then the rain and wind stop. So does the emergency. Activity resumes. Albeit slowly and under some difficult circumstances.
Instead, what did the majority do? Over an allegedly bad respiratory infection? Americans who thump their chests over all their freedom? Who scream "USA!" at football games? They believed the words of fools. They rejected -- or do not even know -- the words of those who fomented and ran a revolution against one who would put a "lien" on their basic...human...rights...and the Natural Law. They founded a confederacy of nations based on those ideals and those "un-a-leen-able" rights.
Instead of being like those people, today's Americans caved. They did so because they thought they might die -- not on the battlefield doing the actual work of defending freedom -- but because a "virus" might get them. And they wanted to do their part...
Not the country's finest hour -- not by a long shot. That must be admitted, accounted for...but how is that done when the vast majority of the country's inhabitants speak a language other than freedom? Other than "inalienable" rights? A language that prevents them from understanding what I just said?
The reaction of so many democrats to the outcome of the Presidential election, that of shock and disbelief, was (forgive me) very humorous! Their reaction was born of their same refusal to EXPLORE a little, listen to and read from different sources, just to see what "the other side" was saying. They bought the lies they were told from talking heads, musicians, the Hollywood elite. They were swayed by results of polls "the other side" does not participate in (where on earth do those results come from?) When the election was called for President Trump, a double sense of relief washed over me. Not only was it a sense of freedom from the underlying anxiety of the possibility of life becoming increasingly expensive and oppressive, but a final relief from a true end to the Scamdemic. I ALWAYS knew there was something nefarious going on. I knew NOT to succumb to a jab of the sort they were pushing unlike anything I'd experienced in my 69 yrs.. When you hear something that sounds fishy, walk away and dig into researching it. I guess Democrats tend not to be curious. Or maybe they are just sheeple after all. There is so much truth yet to come out. I hope it happens!
I voted for RFK b/c Trump signed the CARES Act, deferred to the "experts" and boasted about the jabs.
But I hate the censoring, group-thinking Dems and their complicit media, I'm enjoying their meltdown.
Well Mark, that vote was just a “feel good” one, a throw away - and could have been a dangerous one at that - but I understand the frustration with DJT on that score. I gave one donation late in the campaign cycle. It asked a question: if you can tell DJT one thing, what is it? I said he would go a long way to creating good will with many people if he would admit to the errors that he made during the covid fiasco.
I am not holding my breath, but I was glad to get to say it. And I am very thankful that he won. Cheers!
I've never bought the idea many of our fellow freedom-lovers espouse that Trump knows the truth now, just isn't coming out with it for political reasons. However, I do think it's possible that's the case, and sure hope so The fact RFK Jr is on the team, and Trump says he'll be able to run wild against the machine does bode well. While past performance is the best predictor of future performance (referring to Trump's embrace of the jabs and the Birx/Fauci crowd), it's not an infallible predictor. There are quite a few signs we could be in for some great changes. We'll see, if he and RFK Jr can stay alive.
And Trump is surrounding himself with strong egos! He's open to others' expertise! A good sign.
He just named Pfizer lobbyist Susie Wiles as his Chief of Staff.
I won't be surprised if Trump eases RFK out the door very soon.
I voted for RFK b/c Trump approved Operation Warp Speed, handed the nation over to Fauci, Birx, and Collins, and then bragged incessantly about how this was his proudest achievement long after he was out of office.
Either he was complicit, or he is stupid. Pick one.
Hi Mark...lovely post..as usual...I initially just wanted to vote for RFK because I became a single-issue voter...anti-C19vax to the core and blame DJT for the roll-out of the vax....however, NY state removed him from the ballot because of the 'residency' issue so I voted for the next best thing...RFK in DJT's cabinet will annihilate these vax pushers! Thanks again.
"Those people" can't be shocked and dismayed enough to suit me. I love seeing it.
" all of this information was well within reach of anyone with a mildly inquiring mind"
"It wouldn’t have taken much effort."
I find it strange so many who saw through the insanity excuse the blind followers who enabled the tyrants and thieves to ruin everything, saying they didn't have access to the truth. The heck they didn't.
Your essays are always a light. Funny, I just had a conversation about how valuable it is in the US to be able to speak Spanish. Rigid-mindedness and sloth, yep, they're a thing.
Beautifully written! I concur. But then I was one of those who was enriched by connecting with you. And that’s not all. I also took Spanish seriously - investing time in personal study and even immersion training in Central America… and during that time I was deeply gratified by my conversations with native Spanish speakers. Coincidence that we have this in common? Perhaps not. 😊
Inquiring minds want to know.
i was thinking about how, back in the early days of substack, how did we find Mark? Or the others who challenged the crazy narrative of covid? However it was, I am grateful beyond measure. And you other like minded rebels who just could not buy what “they” were selling.
I've been thinking the same thing lately and can only determine that God brought me here to give me some sanity and people who were like-minded to support and uplift me...
There was a very loud clue in the numbers. Australian state governments put out daily infographics regarding cases, new, up or down, etc, and deaths. Cases was always in LARGE TEXT AT THE TOP OF THE LIST TO SCARE THE LIVING CRAP OUT OF YOU BECAUSE THOSE NUMBERS WERE BIG. Deaths, on the other hand, were parked down at the bottom, and in the corner, where you might never see them unless you took time to look.
Some interesting points raised. I have always said that my university degree wasn’t about all the geology I took (although I did come to know rocks and minerals) but rather it taught me how to learn and do research, god forbid. From the first couple of weeks, I found the ‘silenced crowd’ and I read voraciously for all those years. I spent hundreds of hours searching and reading even to the point of contacting people like Kevin McKernan who generously answered all my questions about PCR. Yet for most, the media was more authoritative than I was as a lowly woodworker. I speak 2 1/2 languages but since 2020 am well on my way to polyglot status. As with a degree, speaking another language gives you so much more than just knowledge of word meanings and grammar.
A moving, interesting, thoughtful column, Mark.