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Being born, raised, and spending my whole life in a small rural town in North Maine, I cannot, for the life of me, understand why anyone could voluntarily live in that area. As a former truck driver, I've experienced Jersey City, Newark, Passaic, and Harlem on the north side of the GW.

You probably can't imagine spending a week out in the wilds of North Maine during hunting season.

BUT.....Each to their own.

It's what you're born into and learn to live with.

As for C-19, you and I are in lockstep as to exactly what happened. Early on, a wrenched knee put me home for a week with nothing to do but surf the interwebs. I began to sense that something wasn't quite right about this "killer virus". What wasn't right was how it was being portrayed and how the MSM was reporting on it. Every report was the same. as if the letter networks visited a website before each broadcast to copy and paste the day's stories of doom. The lightbulb went on over my head when I had a conversation with an undertaker friend of mine.

He belongs to a group that had helped with gathering and identifying the remains of those killed in the Twin Towers, and volunteered in NYC to help with the backlog of bodies stacking up in the reefer trailers that were breathlessly reported on for weeks. On day one, he had nothing to do, and he just chalked it up to not having everything up to speed. The next day,....nothing.... which peaked his curiosity. Upon looking around, he found that the cemeteries were closed......due to Coronavirus.

The crematoriums were closed.......due to Coronavirus.

The funeral homes were closed.....due to Coronavirus.

The morgues were open to accept the dead, but had no where to go with them.

On average, about 150 people die in the city every day. Without mortuary services, there was nowhere to go but into the reefer trailers.

Coronavirus 19 is the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the world, putting the worlds small businesses out, and giving those profits to the Walmart, Lowes, and Home Depot international mega corporations as well as gifting billions and billions to big pharma for mRNA injections that not only didn't work, but, like any medical procedure, carried associated risks. We still have no idea of the long-term effects of these shots, yet our government STILL is encouraging parents to jab their children.

DANG!!! I can tell you one thing about this whole fiasco: I am severely disappointed in my fellow Americans reactions or lack thereof to what probably will be the end of this country as we know it.

I could go on for days, but will end by saying thanks for a different, well written perspective on the world today

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Thank you for this, HPP. I see it all and feel about it all much the same. I would say, though, that I think more people did speak out against it than we oftentimes realize, so heavy has been the censorship and shadow-banning. I look every day and I am still finding important testimonies and rally speeches and etc. from 2021 and 2021.

My personal experience is that the great majority glugged the Kool-Aid, and those few who didn't, who recognized that the mainstream media and governents were retailing a load of shale, oftentimes had no idea what to do. The covidian nonsense came on so all-of-a-sudden, so much of it was so shocking, previously totally unthinkable, and it was so difficult to meet with other people to just talk. Then, when I did meet with other people, they almost always turned out to be Kool-Aid gluggers.

I too will never, ever forget the sheeplike compliance and cruel, even criminal shaming of those who did not comply.

But all that said, so many doctors, nurses, scientists and citziens did speak out and then were censored and otherwise just crushed. I've been trying to collect some of these testimonies, many made to county boards, state legislatures, and so on, putting a spotlight on those of 2021 and early 2022. I find that encouraging; perhaps others will as well.

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Transcriber B , as a physician, I spoke up and let me tell you , the hospital crushed me . But it’s ok , I’m still here . I’d do it all over again to help others .

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Thank you. You, and every one of the doctors who stood up and spoke up for freedom, THANK YOU. You and your actions are what keep alive a flame of hope and respect for the profession, and, no exaggeration, for humanity itself.

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Transcriber B . This whole thing has tested my faith . God help us all. I mean that sincerely.

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Thanks, HPP.

The Metro Area has some good and some bad. But once you've been here long enough, you stay b/c you know too many people here. Plus, you can swim/surf in the ocean here.

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Mark

Not only can I swim in the waters here, in most places, I can drink them.

Top that! Ha!

You are right though.

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I grew up in east-LA and had the exact same experiences, 1/2 my high-school bud's died before 18; Life was worthless, and still is

I remember in the 1990's doing fire-arm training in Arizona with RAMPART ( LAPD death squads ), they would drive around at night in WATTS and just shoot dead free-running blacks

I remember one occasion over nightly beers the cmdr of RAMPART said "WHen the USA is dead the gravestone will say, the USA failed for it inability to absorb the black population into USA culture post civil-war", that coming from a guy that was given the license to kill by LA polticians to solve the black problem.

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It's not that complicated as a kid we would say if it was young it was a gang when organized, if it wore a uniform it was MILorLEO, and it wore a suit it was a businessman, but all are/were gangs;

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I agree with the other guy here posting from Maine saying? why did you stay? Well I can say from personal experience, until about 18 years of age, I never considered the entire earth was not like Watts-LA, I just grew up assuming that was life; It wasn't until I started traveling and seeing the earth that I realized that I grew up in a human sewer, I quickly moved out, and never returned.

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LA cops driving around Watts looking for blacks to shoot like they were deer for hunting? Sorry, I don't believe that for a second. This is the kind of crap that BLM rioters believe.

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Not really like hunting dear, more like hunting UKROS in UKRAINE by Russian's;

While RAMPART was better armed and driving armored vehichles, the joggers did in fact shoot back, more like Crocodile Dundee and his kangaroos with machine guns;

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Perhaps you're not familiar with the lapd CRASH UNIT and the Rampart scandal. Pretty much a gang within the lapd.

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Seriously? Why should I even bother?? I have given enough information;

I used to drink beers with these guys every night and they would go into detail about their 'kills'; Essentially they were killing just like in Dirty-Harry, same exact operation, but this was all above board directed straight from Mayors Office and Chief of Police LAPD & Sheriff;

My favorite part is they drove these all beat up impala's just like the gangbangers drove, but inside they had bullet proof metal walls so that while they could shoot out, nobody outside could shoot in;

Serious mad-max stuff;

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How to study, I have given you the info to research, but like all things of that time in LA, its cleaned. I remember at that time CASEY CIA director came to LA and said "CIA doesn't bring Crack Cocaine into LA", sure that was a true statement, they brought pure cocaine into LA and let the gangbangers cook it with baking-soda, and they made the 'crack'.

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WOW, a media rip from PBS ( petroleum broadcasting service ), I'm sure its a real deal, dump on what went down in those times :( Not, PBS is 100% Corporate owned DOD-MIL, the very people running RAMPART within LAPD at the time, besides what the fuck would a 'Urnalist' working out of DC know about RAMPART, other than what she was told?

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Yes, but there are two or ten different points of view, like the INDIAN blindmen with the elephants;

I'm just talking about the guys that did the shooting, as I have already said, like all soldiers they KNEW who the real enemy is/was their own GOV;

Sort of feed&breed like now, CIA brought in the crack which destroyed black family and turned kids to gang-banging crime, which led to street violence, to which RAMPART was created to CULL the black street vermin; To which the CIA brought in more raw cocaine, where more crack expanded the kill-zones, ...

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The philosophical question of the RAMPART CMDR was always "How did it come to this?", whey did it come to this? The CMDR a white guy, and true MIL leader of men said that it was evident post-civil war and the refusal the system to integrate the black man into USA society, is what led to the need of the USA society to genocide the black-man;

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For those that bring up BLM a "SOROS" concoction, that is largely just a ZOG real-estate scam like always get the niggers to burn down their homes, and then the elite ZOG come in buy the land penny on US-Dollar and billionaires become trillionaires, SOROS is just playing by the classic Rothschild book, and SOROS came to be rich as a Rothschild London banker agent, so he knows the 'great game'

Like Ferguson, now an elite ZOG Condo development and all blacks displaced to the suburbs, where they are out of sight;

[ ZOG - Zionist Occupied Gov, Satanic ashkeNAZI pedophiles ruling UK since 1600's ]

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That is the impression I was left with: disapointment with my fellow Americans. A women I went to school with, whom I respected, told me we needed get over our "individual rights". I lost a lot of respect from people I considered smart and educated.

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"Educated" and "smart" rarely go together these days.

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A wonderful read! Your unintended adventures/encounters have molded you into a wise man. Thank you!

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Thanks, Barbara.

I wish I had figured out some stuff earlier than I did. But you live and you learn. Hopefully.

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Sounds like you learned quickly !

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Great article, Mark. The people who should have stood up immediately were the medical community / medical scientists, & yet now we find (to exactly no surprise) that entities like ACOG, AMA, AAP, Nursing Board, hospitals, so-called “public health depts, etc were bought & paid for to flog the jab. And any who DID speak truth were derided, discredited, deplatformed.

Which means none of what happened & was forced on us was “foolish” (except on the part of the masses of asses that thoughtlessly bought in), it was malicious & malignant. I’ll never, ever get over what was done the past 3 years. And I fear more to come in multiple formats & aspects & all at once.

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I will never, ever get over it, either. But here's a fiery doctor, one of many more than one might suspect (these sorts of efforts have been so censored and shadow-banned and stuck like peas in aspic in hours-long videos of public meetings):

Public Comment by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon

Orange County, Florida Board of County Commissioners Meeting 9/14/21

"Dr Kevin Stillwagon Demands attention at - Board of County Commissioners Meeting"

Posted at Korrie-Jade October 11, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kb4JZPaY4Y

TRANSCRIPT

DR. KEVIN STILLWAGON: My name is Dr. Kevin Stillwagon. I am a property owner and a taxpayer in Orange County. You are making some really bad decisions based on fear of a virus that has about a 99% survival rate for most of us. That is unsubstantiated fear. So let me give you a couple of things to truly be fearful about.

That mask that you keep insisting that people wear decreases the amount of oxygen in your lung tissue. We now know that this virus uses furin cleavage site to merge with your lung tissue to infect you, and it works better with decreased oxygen. And peer-reviewed research clearly shows that wearing a mask increases your chances of developing an upper respiratory infection 13 times more than a person not wearing a mask. So I would stop wearing a mask immediately if I were you.

Secondly, this shot that you insist on people getting gives you absolutely no protection against infection. It is the innate immune system that protects you from infection by using dendritic cells, T-cells, and natural killer cells without antibodies ever becoming involved.

This shot has one goal and that goal is to make antibodies. These antibodies circulate inside of you and cannot prevent an infection. They can only react to something that has already gotten inside of you. They cannot keep something out. The shot decreases the ability of your innate immune system to keep viruses out by 60 percent. And a booster shot will reduce it even more. Even worse, the antibodies that are created by this shot can no longer neutralize variants and actually enhance the virus' ability to infect you.

It should be painfully obvious to you by now that fully vaccinated people are getting sick. And this will continue to get worse if you keep trying to jab people while a virus is trying to spread. The variants are emerging from the vaccinated population.

This so-called vaccine is still being administered on what's called an emergency use authorization.* It is not FDA approved. The FDA approved a biological licensing application for a product called Comirnaty. The application was approved, not the product. Comirnaty is not available in the United States. Therefore, by law, you cannot force people to take this drug without informed consent and without animal trials to prove that it is safe.

Mayor Demings,** please look at me. You, sir, are in violation of the United States Constitution and the Nuremberg Code. You will be held accountable. Good day.

MALE VOICE: Alright, ah, thank you for your comment.

3:35

[END]

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

* For more on Emergency Use Authorization.

See

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/what-operation-warp-speed

See also the US government webpage explaining Emergency Use Authorization:

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/mcm-legal-regulatory-and-policy-framework/emergency-use-authorization

(If you read it carefully you will find that by taking a covid "vaccine" you are in fact participating in a phase 3 trial, that is, an experiment.)

And see the US government webpage about the clinical trials (in other words, experiments), which are anticipated to conclude in March of 2023:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04848584

** Jerry L. Demings, Orange County Mayor

https://orangecountyfl.net/BoardofCommissioners/Mayor.aspx#.ZCg4mC8RojU

Dr. Kevin Stillwagon's blog is https://drkevinstillwagon.substack.com/

and Twitter is https://twitter.com/DrKStillwagon

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Dr. Stillwagon's Substack has taught me more about vaccines, in a few months, than I'd learned through continuing education and research since 1996.

He's the BOMB.

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Thanks for suggesting Stillwagon's Substack. It's so good. His description of terrain theory makes more sense to me than any I've read before.

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My pleasure.

A treasure trove. ❤

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Thx Transcriber! Yes, there were brave medical souls that are FINALLY getting their due but until recently, they were the deplatformed, derided, etc. Their ongoing courage has led others (better late than never!) to stand up too

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Yes! I think a big question for many people is, how should I stand up? The answer may be different for different people, depending on their circumstances, their strengths, talents, inclinations, and opportunities, but I think it helps a lot to see other people speaking out for freedom.

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Thanks TB for your work. I always appreciate your comments and posts.

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Thanks, Cindi.

I agree it was a top down Scam.

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Also, we were fired. Speaking as an RN

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REPREHENSIBLE! For healthcare workers up front but everyone else fired for refusing. Government washed their filthy hands by forcing businesses to do the dirty work

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Unfortunately, healthcare corps got big $$$$. They are partially to blame😣

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Of course they are, just like the medical societies I mentioned initially. So deeply corrupt

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Kelliann...they found me . I feel your pain . Your right follow the 💰 .

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"The last three years have shown how far people and governments will go and wreck things for others if those they threaten don’t say “No” to their bullshit. If more people had stood their ground, the “leaders” would have caved and been deservedly humiliated."

Very timely article on this, Leper Emancipation Day. Never, ever, ever let ANYONE who actively went along with and propelled this fake covid emergency to forget. I remind everyone about it, every day and will until the day I die.

https://narrowpath.substack.com/p/happy-leper-emancipation-day/comments

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Thanks for bearing witness. I also continue to be in people's grills about this. There's no time limit.

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Another fabulous, very well written essay about life. Thank you.

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Thanks, Philip.

If you go outside and spend time with people, life finds you.

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As a psychiatrist, I often get asked about what might be causing the "mental health crisis" in our society, especially among young people. The answer is complicated, of course, but I have no doubt that cultural "safetyism" is at least a contributing factor. My husband, an ER physician (and the other half of the "pairodocs") agrees, so I bought him a T-shirt last Christmas that reads: "Safety Third." We laugh every time he wears it, but seriously it's become one of our mottos for life. Thanks for another wonderful essay, Mr. Oshinskie.

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Thanks, Pair.

My wife told me that she was almost hit by a car that ran a red light yesterday. The driver was masked. Because Safety!

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Life is a risk. Just leaving your house and returning alive is a gamble. One need not spend a weekend at Vegas, as just surviving is a crapshoot. And I might add, much more edgy than any casino. If you thought about every treacherous variable which you might encounter each day it might be enough to cause you to become agoraphobic. Perhaps, that's why 1.3% of the population suffer from that condition. I bet since the scamdemic, that statistic is a hell of a lot higher now. There's probably folks who've become so phobic they'll never leave their home again. Don't get me wrong, I'm no daredevil and some accidents were painful and even caused a halt in activities deemed too risky and unecessay, but that was "my choice." I got to decide the

cost/benefit ratio of those things I wanted to pursue. It "wasn't mandated." And most importantly, it wasn't coerced or extorted under the guise of health and saving grandma who would've been a lot happier not being terrified and permitted to pursue her daily social activities. But you see, what we witnessed over the last three years had nothing to do with experiencing "real life," it was a contrived reality manufactured by a cast of greedy power-hungry ghouls void of empathy and humanity. Lifeless parasitic creatures who thrive on extracting wealth from the powerless and relish manipulating and controlling billions who they actually despise and fear.

So in effect, humanity was held hostage for three years by techno/fascist billionaire bullies and international financiers who are horrified by the thought of not being able to control the rageful unscrubbed masses.

And this explains, why a cold virus was militarized giving the pretext for all the rest of the craziness. And it's not over yet, coming down the pike are: digital ID'S, and a central bank digital currency attaching personal medical records. It's all in the works. The ghouls haven't given up as they're determined to execute a slew of authoritarian UN initiatives under benevolent sounding names like public health, sustainability, and equity. In other words, this is just a brief respite, the quiet before the dystopian storm...

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I am afraid--of living beneath the boot of sadistic techno fascists.

Our only hope is to break out some life rafts (parallel systems) so we can escape the ocean liner which they've already begun to sink. But people don't want to get wet. They'd rather pretend nothing is amiss.

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We own a very lovely, upscale home in the most expensive school district of our state. Our home is stocked with beautiful furnishings and art objects, and our exterior is planted with exquisite landscaping and expensive flower beds. It is gorgeous, and until 5 minutes ago, my wife and I had planned on living out the rest of days in this home.

For the past two weeks, we've been actively looking for undeveloped land at least 50 miles from our city limits. We really don't want to sell our home, but I don't see how we can pull this off without doing so.

But we will if we have to.

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Red or blue state?

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A ship of fools?

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Anything we build will be inferior and primitive. Building it will take effort. Leaving the old will be inconvenient. (And it may fail or be destroyed of course.) But we would not be living under the sadistic technocrats. Death would be better.

People prefer to live in denial. Normalcy bias to extreme levels.

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True, death would be preferable to being neuralinked to a 15 minute biosecurity surveillance city.

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Oh my Mark, this is wonderfully profound. My oldest son is a Hot Shot for the Forest Service. He and his whole family are mRNA injected and I cannot square the dichotomy of this decision. I hope someday, for my own piece of mind, I will understand what happened to him.

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Thanks, Nancy.

Yes, many of those who caved and took the shots surprised and disappointed me. It was so clearly a poor decision.

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Mark, And you told me you had run out of ideas...pshaw... This is another marvelous piece -- poetic in delivery, profound in content, incisive in conclusion. My head is spinning. Thanks once again. Wish everyone had to read this.

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Thanks, Dr. K. That's a very encouraging reaction.

I don't make up stories and I'm not making up the idea that I think I'm almost done.

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Mark, I think you underestimate your considerable talent to take things that are complex and not only simplify them but to give them a personal-relatability level that is generally unparalleled in my fairly broad reading experience. If covid-specific stuff starts to run dry (I do not think it will as the wheels turn and increasing amounts of stuff come out, but it might) general "life stuff" viewed through your lens would, I believe, appeal just as much to your readers...and perhaps even more broadly. Just trying to urge you not to silence a compelling voice -- yours.

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You always bring thoughts full circle and I love it...I am still "educating" people and they keep coming up with the phrase "ounce of critical thinking" as if I have none...I don't think I can do this teaching the facts much longer! Thank you for doing so!

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Thanks, Cheryl. I keep speaking to people even though they don't like it.

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It's just that their 'thinking" is so twisted and not rational...nothing about the "rules" and mandates put in place were. And that's what I don't get...that most chose the irrational path. But I am the "conspiracy theorist" even though everything I said since the get go has come to fruition...I am sure you have experienced the same...glad you are "out there" for us!

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What really angered me about the Covidians was how they demanded everybody else cater to their hypochondria. Howard Hughes just isolated himself. If hiding home kept folks safe from the Big Bad Sniffles, why couldn't they just keep themselves in seclusion? Not as if they cared about others since they frequently wished death on "Covid deniers." Why not just wear Hazmat suits all the time and hide in their basements for the rest of their "lives"? None of us would have had any problems with that.

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And that’s what Howard Stern, the craziest Covidian of them all is doing! He has not left his home since March 2020 and still rabidly rants at non mask wearers.... how can an individual get their brain so hijacked?

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He's an idiot.

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Lol. I support his right to be miserable.

Maybe Coward Stern can't handle his own mortality? He's getting up there.

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Mark, wonderful writing! One of my favorite poems is “Risks” by Janet Rand. A teacher gave it to me when I was in high school, and I have shared it many times.

https://www.jwjonline.net/risks

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Thanks, Janet.

And thanks for the poem. Short and on point.

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Thanks for sharing, Janet.

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A great story with an approach to life much needed. Thanks for sharing. I grew up in a small town in WV. We played outside nonstop. Crime was unheard of. My life was pretty much insulated from crime or corruption, even tho it existed in the newspapers. But my father being much older than my mother was a firm believer in working and saving. He lived through the Great Depression and my mom did as well but as a child. I had 5 siblings so we knew all about hand me downs and eating what was cooked without complaining. When covid hit I was astonished at the over reactions. The bribes and coercions used told me something was wrong. I read and researched, but mainly common sense told me ghetto whole thing was a scam. It just got worse by the month. Then with Biden and the mandates, I truly was disgusted with the corruption and harm being done, especially on children. I refused the jab and now question every vaccine and medication.

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Amen, Ruth!

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how true and I liked the urban commentary. everywhere there is risk. I volunteered at a local emergency room as a high schooler before medical school. that was a good experience for every young person to come in and see auto accidents, beatings, gunshot wounds -- you learn about society.

the first thing you do in any new disease is you study the "natural history" of the disease process. Who is at risk? What's the mortality and morbidity from infection. We knew all this early on with the Diamond Princess cruise ship etc. yet our so called leaders inflated the risks based on China propaganda, hid their involvement in developing the virus, censored writers and people that questioned the narrative - well we could go on forever. Its hard to believe we have become this way in our country.

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Amen, sj.

What a soft culture we have now.

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What gets me is that NOW the same people who mandated the lockdowns, etc. are finding out (surprise, surprise) that the things we warned them about are happening. They talk about learning delays in kids, for example. But never once link them to their policies. When the lockdowns first began I told a friend "this is going to hurt a lot of people, especially the black community, which has spent decades trying to rebuild after the riots of the Sixties. You watch, THERE WILL BE VIOLENCE." Well, we all know what happened in Minneapolis not long afterwards. Some of these places, which had barely recovered from the Sixties, will probably never recover now. Walmart said it was pulling out of Chicago which triggered yet another "mostly peaceful protest", this time in the "tourist" section of Chicago. I used to enjoy visiting there but after seeing the images on the news of people like me being dragged from their vehicles and beaten with no one coming to the rescue, that is one city I am giving a WIDE berth. And I suspect I am not alone in that.

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I warned anyone who would listen. The downside was so obvious.

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When this scamdemic started, I immediately suspected something hinky (sp?). Though the fear mongering was constant and even malicious IMO, I was determined not to let it steal my common sense - a trait I highly value. I was horrified (and still am) that so many “physicians” followed the dictates pushed on them by their overlords; how can one advise a sick person to go home because there is nothing you can do and come back or go to the ED if you get worse? I “fear” the docs didn’t even advise these sick people to take a lot of vitamin C, drinks lots of fluids, exercise (preferably outdoors), eat real, healthful food, etc. You know, all the things you should do when you have a cold or flu, and even if you’re not sick. But these docs had come down with a severe case of fear complicated by the weakening and eventual destruction of critical thinking. So many people succumbed to that fear and in doing so lost hope as well. I knew we were in VERY big trouble when a woman walking toward me on the sidewalk stopped and scurried high on a yard to avoid being way more than six feet. Even my reassurance that I was healthy and no one would catch anything from anybody in a few brief seconds of passing by each other only made her smile and stay in the yard until, I feel sure, she was convinced that the air I had exhaled had adequately dispersed. She never said a word and eye contact was virtually non-existent. She had caught the real virus (a mind virus of fear) that had stolen not only her common sense but a bit of her humanity, that being making a connection, no matter how brief, with another person.

This makes me wonder… If your bike is stolen, you can always get another one. If fear steals a piece of your humanity, can you ever get that back?

Thanks again for another excellent story.

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Thanks, Maria.

People went plain crazy. I'm done with those who did.

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