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Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Beautiful piece, as usual. I don't want to be like Peter. I believe that is why I have shared my status (and the reason for my termination) with anyone who expresses interest. I am not "leaving the company;" instead, the company chose to terminate me because I did not take the vaccine. I am not ashamed. Over time, less people judge me for my status; more people privately applaud me for not giving in, more people, in private, talk about the absurdity and contradictions of the policy. But, as it stands, my company has not relented (frankly - they cannot relent for me; my course is set and I cannot stay), my company fires me for cause, and morale of those left behind is negative. I wonder if these colleagues who were formerly friends will ever apologize for their behavior, for turning their back, for avoiding me in these last days. But I stand til the end, confident that God has a plan. 2 Timothy 1:7.

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Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

That's a great comparison. The problem would have been much better contained if the federal government had not come in and told hospitals how to treat patients. As is typical in most of these situations - the initial impulses are all wrong. Politicians like to be large and in charge. Patience is not a virtue.

I liked comparing the financial crisis to the scamdemic. It has many similarities really - including contagion. But what really made us especially vulnerable to corona mania was 😂the ACA. Or Obamacare. The massive federalization of payment and the ACA delivering much more power to the executive branch are the real culprits here. Unchecked, unelected power. Politicians will always power grab, seek credit for things they didn't do etc.

But the most shocking of all was jabbing young, healthy children with an experimental genetic therapy. Children who are at 0 risk from the coronavirus. As a result, many children died as a direct result and many thousands more likely have permanent cardiac damage. Biden calls Putin a war criminal and yes perhaps he is. But jabbing innocent children as a political stunt. That's evil.

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Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022

You said - "Eventually, a consensus will emerge that the Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, intergenerationally unjust, deeply destructive overreaction that caused far more harm than they prevented." The consensus has already been reached except on the left and among the political class. The majority of the country has believed this is a scam from day one. Trump voters turned on him over this from the beginning. My biggest concern is there is no appetite to overturn the despots in DC and they are still allowed to abuse us at every turn.

I have not and will not allow the government to coerce me into taking the poisonous jab, wear a mask, or even pretend that an emergency exists over this "virus". I lived through the similar swine flu scam perpetrated by our government and was told I had to get that vaccine to go to college. I declined and was allowed to enroll anyway. I know people affected by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study from my childhood in Alabama. When my company enacted a poionous jab mandate, I said no. They were too afraid to fire me and thuosands of others like me who said no.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell in 1984.

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Using C19 fear and manipulation also allowed the leftist Marxist Democrats to steal the 2020 election so the continued destruction of the US could be completed. This Marxist coup d'etat and the accelerated further destruction (killing oil, printing money/inflation, open borders, death of US cities through crime) is nearing completion. Knowing that the Marxist NWO/WEF Democrats are going to lose in November how will they again steal or cancel this upcoming election. Martial law---a Shanghai type C19 lockdown?

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Great piece. Personally, I've continually drawn parallels between COVID and the response to 9/11, including the justifications for and execution of the Global War on Terror (GWOT) (Iraq, Afghanistan, East Africa, West Africa, Syria, Libya, Yemen). 9/11 was the "event". All that ensued included the U.S. government's response to the event, the role of both political parties, the role that media played as chief propagandists (including entertainment and internet/social media which was just emerging as a propaganda tool) and the way the American public were manipulated and responded to 9/11 and the GWOT.

Like COVID, the GWOT also was and remains "a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, intergenerationally unjust, deeply destructive overreaction that caused far more harm than they prevented." Moreover, the GWOT laid the foundation for the surveillance state, the erosion of constitutional protections, and all that has ensued in the global response to COVID. Although China has been blamed for the Wuhan leak, the genesis for the global response to COVID was in Washington, D.C.

That said, the Vietnam analogy is apt and leads to the next question: When, in recent memory, has the American government response to a crisis not been "a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, intergenerationally unjust, deeply destructive overreaction that caused far more harm than they prevented"?

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But Peter wept after the cock crowed and he realized what he had done. From that point forward until the end of his life he repented for his cowardly and betraying actions. Will that ever happen with the covid tyrants? Never.

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Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Just imagine how things would have went if the SARS_COV2 was just ignored. It would have blown over in a couple of weeks, maybe a month, and most people would not even have noticed anything more than "some bug going around."

Instead, all this destruction. Indeed, like the carpet bombings of Vietnam except this time, it was governments doing it against their own populations. And they just won't stop.

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Apr 12, 2022·edited Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

These pieces get better and better Mark. I echo others in the comments calling for the collection to be bound in a “Dispatches from a Scamdemic” book.

Fauci has been compared to Joseph Mengele and Trofim Lysenko (by a particularly astute observer…), but I like the McNamara comparison best. Both are/were a technocrat’s technocrat. Their very names were cited by functionaries and apparatchiks the final “truth” of the matter.

Only a profoundly corrupt govt can create these monsters. Both of them deserve their own wing in history’s “Hall of Shame.”

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Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

You are a fantastic writer. Thank you for chronicling the madness.

Please put all your writings together into a book format someday when (if!) the insanity subsides.

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Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

“ American involvement quickly evolved into a quest to prevent Vietnam from falling, like a domino, into a multinational Communist empire that might conquer the United States.” … your comparison is spot on and at this point of the Covid continued insanity it’s obvious at least to me that the US is not governed by our so called elected but by NGO heads in bed with Klaus Schwab WEF and dyed in the wool communist traitors within our governing organizations like Pelosi, Biden and their ilk. How calculated, we as a country claimed we were fighting countless wars to stop the spread of communism while our own country was systematically strategically infiltrated with communist within the highest levels of government since WW2 through operation paperclip. All the State Governors are signed and sealed to carry out the communist WEF agenda which is absolutely unconscionable, example Gov Abbott’s personal webpage https://www.weforum.org/people/greg-abbott This isn’t over… I fear it’s just the beginning in the words of Klaus Schwab, Covid presented a perfect opportunity to engage all countries with their Great Reset aka NWO aka Agenda 21/30 aka New Green Deal…. Was Greta Thurmberg COVID’s Gulf of Tonkin?

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Interesting, solid comparison. I was born smack dab in the middle of that war but the similarities are striking. I am continually amazed at the absolute trust and faith otherwise reasonable people put in government. With a few notable exceptions, the overwhelming amount of elected officials do not care one iota about any American citizen, ever! Unless there’s something in it for them,

namely two things; money and power.

I know this is obvious to state but this has been nothing short of a money and power grab. From day 1. How can so many be so blind? Fear, to be sure. National defense notwithstanding, the government screws everything up it touches. Corona is the latest in a never ending string of catastrophic missteps.

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Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Hey Mark- another eloquent essay into the insanity of the last two years! Just as the horror of Vietnam war left both physical and emotional scars- so has the insane politics of battling an invisible enemy in the virus left us now disabled and disillusioned. It's taken me years to get it, but the powers that be do not care. They have a laser focus on their agenda and only because of short term infighting do they get sidetracked. Most men and their governments turn to the evil side in the end- just like Brando said in Apocalypse Now-- "the horror, the horror". Another event is already in the works- we'll have to make a decision about where we stand and ultimately what our actions will be. You have an exquisite talent to tell a story that helps many of us to better "see" what's really going on. Thanks!

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Apr 12, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Incredible comparison. I'm 58, and admit I don't/didn't understand a lot about the Vietnam War, beyond how it resulted in so much PTSD (from movies I've seen). But living through the Canadian Media hysteria, and choosing to not take the spike shot, reading your comparison essay gives me further insight into how uninformed and lacking in risk-benefit our political choices to sacrifice many for the few have been in the past - and continue to be!

I attended Leslyn Lewis's meeting in the Okanagan Valley today. She is running for Conservative leadership in Canada. She is genuine - the total opposite of PM Justin Trudeau, elitist-non-sensical-destructive-globalist. It's looking like - literally - only a miracle will turn Canada around at this point.

So glad people and politicians are speaking out, but it's so daunting to bring truth with a fully controlled Canadian media - not sharing any alternative views and truth about the virus or the vaccine dangers.

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This is so good. This article shows how experts and trusted authorities can be spectacularly WRONG, as well as the massive real-world casualties and trauma preposterous policies ultimately produce.

In thinking about the “unintended consequences” produced by the policies of our “leaders,” the tragedy that was the Vietnam War must be near the top of this depressing list. (World War I, which didn’t really need to be fought and made possible World War II, no doubt tops this list).

Mark could have also used the “War on Terror” - and the extreme over-reactions to 9-11 - as another example. No one will ever really know how many innocent people have been killed, severely injured and/or displaced because America invaded and then occupied Iraq and Afghanistan - nations that posed NO real national security threat to America.

Mark also show readers how these costs and impacts continue for generations - via inflation, PTSD, subsequent suicides and addiction, the costs of caring for veterans’ care, etc.

I also appreciate how Mark highlighted the fact that serious debate about America’s involvement in the Vietnam War did occur. Eventually massive protests did occur (compare to the large protests about COVID policies in America that have never occurred).

In the years of the Vietnam War, real journalism did show some of the human effects of America’s military activities. Indeed, this “watchdog” journalism probably shortened the war and ultimately saved lives. (Think of the picture of the Vietnam girl, her clothes burned off from the fire-bombing of her village, that Life magazine put on its cover. This one photo forced Americans to look at the results of its military activity).

In contrast to then, in recent years the public has rarely if ever seen photos or video clips that show the after-maths of America’s bombing and drone attacks in numerous countries in the Mideast. This, no doubt, is by design. The “watchdog” media should be held accountable for its failure to present the real picture (literally) of these “interventions.”

It’s hard to find one symbolic picture that would capture the death, injuries and economic harm caused by the COVID policies, but real journalism (if ever practiced) could and would give more Americans a better sense of the true scope of this “collateral damage.”

Apparently some things never change. The “leaders” who told the country that America HAD to fight the Vietnam War might not have fared well in history, but they were never really held accountable for the mass carnage and misery their policies produced. None were charged with war crimes, perjury or fraud.

Judging from the “first draft of history” (contemporary journalism), officials and authorities who turned the world upside down to fight a virus that couldn’t really be “fought” are receiving an even larger pass. They won’t be held accountable either. Indeed, most of the real “villains” are protected and celebrated by the writers of the first draft of history.

In one sense, the COVID history will be different than the Vietnam history. Future historians, one hopes, will have to acknowledge how complicit the “watchdog” press was in perpetrating a fraud that harmed millions of people not just in one or two countries, but BILLIONS of people in EVERY country in the world.

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In the spirit of open debate I am going to challenge you on this Mark:

"Coronavirus response was, like the Vietnam War, a colossal, politically-driven, panic-driven, intergenerationally unjust, deeply destructive overreaction that caused far more harm than they prevented."

and assert that you are flat out wring here or you need to crystallize your thesis. There is also in that statement an unwarranted assumption.

That unwarranted assumption implied in your statement is that there was ever an intent in preventing harm. Quite the opposite is the case.

To the larger point.

Covid-19 and all the "responses" were not "panic-driven" or "an overreaction."

Covid™ was not and is not an epidemiological event- it is a business model, a manufactured event meant to increase the portfolio’s of the super wealthy and normalize the bio-security state as the US (and Western) economies are in total free fall.

Manufactured pandemics create new investment products that increase the holdings of billionaires and further concentrate their wealth.

Covid-19 is the smokescreen used to cover up this planned total economic collapse and disguise the greatest of transfer of wealth in history. The lockdowns were timed to cover up the first $4 Trillion bailout mid-March 2020 which not a single “news” announcer noticed.

This economic collapse was inevitable and governments are putting the security infrastructure into place, trying to proactively control the collapse and the massive social disorder.

This collapse started in 2008 and attempts to salvage this Leviathan have been failures only delaying the inevitable. In 2019 the crisis began to unravel again.

There was a dramatic decrease in industrial production and then showed up in the banking crisis of August of 2019- the so-called Repo crisis when suddenly banks started to refuse US sovereign debt instruments as collateral of overnight loans forcing the Federal Reserve to step in and basically print money to cover this massive shortage.

So by the time the “Corona virus” conveniently appeared, the economy of the United States and many other Western countries were in full blown collapse.

The “Corona virus” has proven to be very useful by political leaders to mask what was going on. The economic destruction that it is being blamed for is absolutely extraordinary.

The ruling psychopaths know that they have run up massive un-payable debts and deficits. They know the promises of pensions and benefits cannot be paid. They know the system will collapse and the people will revolt. What we are seeing is their attempt to subvert the inevitable to protect their wealth and maintain control.

We are living through the biggest worldwide organised crime scheme since WW2, and most are still asleep. The scale of the deception is too large for even those who consider themselves “in the know” to accept or comprehend.

There is no “Covid-19” disease- it is lies- all of it.

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Apr 13, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Awesome writing once again Mark! I remember the days of the Vietnam war and had two brothers who served over there. Both had Agent Orange exposure. One died of cancer at age 57. The other has had lung cancer and numerous other health problems, likely resulting from Agent Orange. It was a terrible war and one that our politicians manipulated with no concern for the 50,000 young people who died there or died because they served in Nam. As you pointed out so well, there are many similarities to C Virus scam.

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