This Monday, November 14, the gardens I manage had their first killing frost. Most autumns, this happens more than two weeks earlier, in late October. Consequently, this year, I saw plants survive longer than is normal. The longer-living plants delivered no extra yield. Plant vitality, via photosynthesis, is driven by light. In the spring, the Northern Hemisphere tilts toward the sun. Days lengthen, at first imperceptibly, then noticeably. Simultaneously, the soil warms and soil biota that enable the transfer of nutrients to plants (and weeds) are enlivened. Plants secrete growth hormones. They also produce glucose, protein and fat as they grow and thrive for months, up to and past the June 22 solstice.
Very nice piece. This resonates well with me as I'm certainly in my Autumn years, here at 57. Part of my hatred for this weaponized hypochondria is that I don't have time for this. Literally, my days are running out. I don't want to live them masked. I can't take a chance on experimental gene therapy. Being forced apart from family and friends is cruel and unusual. Especially those that are older than I am. Their time is even shorter. That time is precious and cannot be replaced by anything.
If I could have done anything differently during my younger years, it would have been to not treat my body as though it was indestructible. I know it was my choice to do so but I can't deny that such behavior is very much encouraged and common place. Very dumb.
And, for the fools that think they're protecting me, why? If you knew how I treated myself so foolishly, why on earth would you spend one second on worrying about my health? To be blunt, my life is not anyone else's to worry about.
But what we've really come to learn is that things like "my mask protects YOU" is a guilt trip that means "YOU MUST wear a mask" (to do likewise). The considerations of my life be damned. And all for nothing of benefit.
I had an elderly neighbor who always said she was ‘30 damn 9’. It’s a good philosophy especially if you say it in her sweet southern accent, well sometimes sweet! 🤣
That video will destroy an especially pernicious false Narrative, with fact, that everyone's been programmed with - if you can get past your cognitive dissonance shield. Test it for yourself, and you'll become "like" 16 in a week. No lie.
Love your capturing the phrase & concept "weaponized hypochondria". Could not have said it better. And thanks for the reminder that time is indeed fleeting. I feel good about having made the best of it for the most part, over a generous span of time, but it is bittersweet to come to terms with no negotiating the inevitable shelf life expiration date, that we each have been given, as one friend put it recently.
I’m 73 and know my shelf life gets shorter by the year, if not month. However, I still ‘think’ I’m younger and won’t go without a fight. No one knows their end, where or when. Just be right with The Lord and live in peace.
They're still doing it. The 'Ho (queen of NY) is still dancing among masked children and telling people to face diaper them because "kids like it and don't know any better." Evil is front and center among hypocrites. When will parents even care?
As is being proven in other countries who are more transparent than ours, many young people are developing myocarditis, pericarditis & auto immune diseases after receiving the experimental injections. Excess mortality & Sudden Adult Death Syndrome seem to be increasing globally. I agree with you totally it is pure Evil what the Government & Pharma did to our country & the rest of the world.
Having just turned 70, I claim the right to agree! I find it hard to think of myself as "vulnerable" or "elderly" - but I stand in fierce anger at those who used us, we who have lived the greatest part of our lives, to abuse children and young people who were never at much risk from this virus. I'm going to do my best to enjoy & make the best of what time I have left - but knowing that the world now belongs to those younger than I, the generations of my son and grandkids and those still being born. And I have stirred myself to join in protests about lockdowns & the rest - because these young children and teens and young adults deserve a chance to grow up, to socially engage (without distancing!) and to blossom.
The purpose of life is not to stay safe - because one way or the other, life will end. And that is how it goes. We are privileged to participate in the dance of life, but who wants to join the wealthy "elites" who are so terrified of death that they will sell their souls?
Yes, so true. Life is very, very short. We never know which day will be our last. I'd like to go back to living life fully again. I wish I could get the people around me (I'm in NY State) to see how they're being manipulated and how much precious time they're wasting by living in fear.
Yes, very true. It's hard 'cause I live in NY State. Most people around me believe this stuff. I just found a job that doesn't require anything from me (no jab, at least for now), but my coworkers are all brainwashed. They think I'm crazy... Fortunately, I'm good at my job, but I don't feel like I can do the things I love anymore.
I'm just trying to get money saved up to leave NY State or at least get away from the cities.
I did find a couple people I correspond with out here but it was hard to find and there don't seem to be many dissenters other than very conservative Republicans, and I'm not that. And many people cannot put aside their differences. They want to talk partisan politics...
Meri - By all means, honor your instincts & intuition. It's so much easier and life affirming, to be around people with shared values. There's a book I love and peruse frequently, as I never really took the time to learn about the states. (I was always more oriented to the world.) Anyway, it's called "Strategic Relocation" by Joel M Skousen. N. American Guide to Safe Places. Fascinating and detailed.
I up and moved the summer of '20 from urban W. Coast to rural heartland. Always risky and a pain to move but absolutely no regrets. Time is of the essence, sooner than later, is better. My move was a sanity saver for sure.
Thank you for the helpful comment. I will check out the book. For some reason, it appears to be high-priced right now, so it must be popular. You are correct. Where I live now, I feel like I'm wasting away really. I'm working on saving up money to move. It's hard 'cause it does cost money, but I am working on it. I have a job now (thankfully) but am "walking on eggshells" as the old saying goes 'cause most of my coworkers are brainwashed and think I'm insane... even though some of them were hurt by the jab but are in denial about it. Fortunately, I'm good at what I do, so I just need to save up and maybe soon... I'll just run for the hills, or wherever.
It can be fun to make a plan, and so much less stressful. I took a road trip, before deciding on where I would likely be happy, at least for awhile. Re: the book, I have the 4th Edition (latest version) which is the best, if you are going to spend the money. The third edition was 2011.
I ordered direct from the author, for $35. for the hard copy. He offers a PDF for 1/2 price but it really is the kind of book that you will want to have in hand. I look at it once a week at least, just because news items come up, or I'm trying to get a better handle on my U.S. geography, once and for all :)...It's loaded with all sorts of interesting information.
I long for the days that we could just interact with people without feeling like we're all on different sides. The damn globalists are doing a great job of fracturing our societies.
Just remember, the media and partisans have framed “very conservative Republicans” as derogative caricatures and stereotypes. Maybe you should try to realize how the media and partisans have deceived you in the past. Get to know some, you might be surprised to find out that they aren’t the devils the left and the media have framed them as.
This has nothing to do with the media. I'm speaking about my own personal experience. I've gone to protests and meetings and interacted with these people. I've gotten to know them. Yes, some of them are nice people in many ways, but we disagree on many things, as THEY have been quick to point out.
I've actually been the one to initiate getting together with people in my community because I believe we should put our differences aside, but many people I've met are not able to do that. They keep promoting these exceedingly corrupt republican politicians in their meetings, and they promote an even more dangerous idea--the idea that someone is going to rescue us. No politician is going to do that. Certainly no millionaire will do that. I can't figure out why so many people believe that millionaires are going to rescue them. It's bizarre. The rich don't care about the poor. Never have--from biblical days to the present time. The Trump supporters are just as bad as the Biden supporters from my point of view. Neither of them care about the average person, but the average person doesn't get that.
We need to put aside our differences and come together to find ways to start independent communities, yes, but I'm not interested in communities that exclude certain groups of people. I'm not interested in communities that hold women back or that exclude Jewish, Muslim or atheists or that deny that racism, sexism, classism, etc. exist. Social injustice does exist. Some people maybe haven't experienced much of it in their lives, and that is lucky for them.
it's reminiscent of the guilt trip poured out over us by the church for aeons: Jesus died a horrible death on the cross and that's your fault!! riiiight....
Amen, my brother, Amen! Thank you so much for writing what I cannot find the words to write and for giving us a place to come and be nourished by your words. This is my refuge and source of strength in these times.
If you ever make it to my side of the pond, you have a place to stay and I owe you a few beers as well ;)
yes and influenza like illness is still out there - respiratory diseases flare up every year and will continue to do so. Amazing no one seems to care if your grandma dies from some other corona virus or an Adeno virus or one of the many other viruses that naturally invade our bodies. Yes and heart disease and strokes etc etc.
I have always been proud of our country. Thought we were brave people. Even when we clearly made the wrong decisions - weapons of mass destruction, Viet Nam etc. But we acted like such cowards when Covid hit. Its despicable.
Yes. I think about this so often. Some days, I wonder if maybe I’ve been living in a bubble about who we are as Americans and how could I have been so wrong. I’ve had a lot of time to think this week as I finally got the Rona (very mild). Having to quarantine and now waiting on a neg. Test has brought back all the feelings of isolation during the lockdowns. How is it, there’s never been a test for a regular (whatever that is) cold coronavirus yet we have for this? I am totally fine now but life can’t move forward till I’m in the clear and I’m shamed into a mask cause I might get someone sick. It’s crazy, it’s hard to believe just a few short years ago, we accepted cold/flu season and just worked through it as we have for centuries!
Why are you doing this to yourself?? Who says you need to mask or have a negative test to move forward?? Why did you test in the first place?? I assume it’s work related.
At the height of covid hysteria in 2020, the UK's covid doom modeler Neil Fergusson got caught breaking UK lockdown while covid positive to see his girlfriend. Around the same time, Chris Cuomo was also seen walking around town while covid positive.
I don't bring these up to say either of them should have been home waiting for their negative test before reemerging, but to show that the main sources of the covid hysteria knew this was all nonsense from the beginning. No behaviors should have ever changed for the healthy population.
it mostly comes down to some people becoming hysteric (especially the media) and of course, will we ever know for sure, if this was all planned to see how much of the populace would follow orders. It is hard to imagine that this was NOT plotted beforehand.
I know right?! Yes, mostly work-related, but I’m flying to CO to spend time with my daughters boyfriends family for first time for thanksgiving and she feels better if I do. She thinks if you test positive it means you’re contagious. I said Dr says you can test positive for months, so that’s not true - only 10-14 days. I tested for first time also because of two vulnerable friends who were not feeling well and sure enough my one friend has it and not fairing as well as I did. I’ve been covering for sick co-workers, so I guess it finally caught up to me!
Stop testing! The test is bullshit! They were supposed to do away with PCR TESTING because they were inaccurate! Over a year ago I believe. But for some crazy reason they're still using it. The inventor of PCR said it should never be used to diagnose. He's dead now!
even if we did not fall for the narrative, some things are hammered in so hard, that it is difficult to drop it. I have invited friends myself but was quite hesitant to go to theirs! As if you get it there easier than at your own home or at the stores LOL At least I can laugh about my own stupidity now !
If you are no longer feverish, you are in the clear. It can take months to get a negative test. If you are no longer sick, feel free to move on with your life.🙂
Yes, I’m totally fine and back to work albeit the mask till I’m neg because that’s what work prefers but Oh my god having to wear that thing, I felt sick all over again! Thank god I only work part-time and have had 3 days between work days till the weekend. I hope to ditch the mask because my job is physical and it’s like trying to work out with one and let’s face it, I’m almost 60 and don’t breathe the same as when I was young. I need oxygen! Lol
Nope, not vaccinated! My 2 co-workers and my best friend are not either. All three have had Covid 2x but mild the second time. Supposedly, the vaccinated shed so I figured it was gonna be just a matter of time before I got it. Except for this week, haven’t worn a mask in over a year except when made to at a drs office.
U might consider following the Zelenko Protocols which includes HCQ, quercetin, zinc, D3 & magnesium . Been taking it for the last two years. Thank God barely a sniffle.
Also have Ivermectin in reserve. Read JFK’s book on Fauci, Gates, etc. Former USMC Intelligence Officer, verifiable. Been researching this whole psyop since Wuhan Lab.
and this country was not even the worst. I have pen friends in Europe and read how awful it was and is there. My family in Belgium still believes the narrative and are still going for boosters, even while everyone had the covid once or more since injected. 2 family members I have never known sick are now hospitalized. Yes they are older, but they were healthy before the injections... we will never know if that had to do with it but until further notice I blame the jabs !
Well said sj ,the powers that be are playing us like a fiddle! Covid cowards and elections . Now we must accept any election results no matter how much BS goes on. AZ and NV repeat their 2020 steal and nobody says a word. I fear we'll never have an honest election again (if we ever really had one)
Excellent as always, Mark. Would that there be light - from your mouth to God’s ear.
But I’m afraid of ongoing darkness & evil, as the Davos set & their useful idiots in governments globally - most recently in Egypt - keep trying to stoke fear of a “tripledemic” or deadly “new variant” & continue to flog masks, vax, digital currency, digital “passports”, ad nauseum. Not to mention ongoing, demoralizing evidence of voter fraud a week ago here @ home.
Thank you Mark, for such a beautiful and elegantly simple description of the human condition as reflected in the natural world all around us. Sadly for us, those who designed and executed this now nearly three year propaganda campaign understand more about human nature than most of us, and they turned it against us for their own purposes. My hope is that we can learn enough about our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities to never be victimized again.
Among the dumbest science denying aspects of this was the foregoing, no the prevention of, what would have a been a huge community wide reservoir of post infection natural immunity of young people. Its almost as if that was the plan. Almost. Perhaps dumb is misapplied, nefarious is more apropos.
Thank you, Mark, for your steady pen. You somehow untangle my own scrambled thoughts and make them straight. You have no idea how glad I am to see you waiting in ‘Inbox.’
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If flowers
would offer themselves people,
just as people offer themselves flowers,
where would people be cut from? ....said one of our poets.
Murders. Those old, sick people they said they died of covid, they didn't die naturally or because it came their time. They died because of the winter and darkness in the hearts around them, they have been offered as numbers to be used by the monsters.
Right? They died of loneliness and grief. I know a woman who waved bye bye to her aged father as he checked out in a crappy hospital covid ward here in my town, because, well, she has a grandson who'd had a medical procedure six months earlier and, if she were exposed to her father and his germs and all, well... Just better to wave to Dad as he dies all alone.
Very, very sad...A lot of people failed this life test. All they have been lonely in the hospitals as no family was allowed in, but this is not the main thing that killed them. In my country was horrible too, people talking at the phone with the family, saying they are well and after few hours they were dead, others they have been dispossessed of cell phones, people tide of beds, sedated, intubated, burnt alive because the ventilators/electric instalations took fire, over 14 pills few times a day, not giving their usual treatment for their chronic deseases, forbbiden autopsies, naked bodies in sealed black bags and coffins, people died of other problems waiting for a covid test etc....no human being was treated with dignity and respect for life, for their life. We should never forget what it looks like it has been already forgotten.
Agree. It was a life test and multitudes of people failed miserably. Charity and honor thy father and mother was tossed out like useless garbage. A society cannot survive that, nor should it. Doctors and nurses who helped perpetuate this evil will have to face what they have done - if not in this life, then certainly in the next.
That's what gets me. How can you stand and wave to your dying father? Because Fauci says? This has divided mankind into two camps and I can't unsee what I've seen in some people.
Always remember the "COVID criminals" were never protecting the public from a virus, but were stuffing their pockets while laying the groundwork for a worldwide "biosecurity surveillance state" that'll make the Patriot Act look like mere child's play. Accountability is imperative to impede this nefarious agenda.
It's been a late summer/growing season here in Maryland too. I grow wildflowers in our yard and have been watching the black eyed susans continue to flower up into mid November here. They don't quite have the same brilliance as in summer but I'll take it. But the seaside goldenrod! Damn, it's still like fireworks of gold in the sun. The plants I think of as sissies, the petunias stuck here and there, crapped out a while ago despite the cushy conditions.
I agree with you about the insane crushing of life for younger healthier people in the mistaken notion that it made life longer for those who were on their way out soon. I contend that the lockdowns probably killed old sick people faster than leaving society open. Being trundled into a hospital and vented also didn't do anyone any favors.
Fauci and Birx and their crew of flunkies orchestrated this, but the presidents, governors, mayors who did their bidding are responsible, along with the masked morons who were the cheering section, and who are now jabbed five or six times. My mother died of COPD ten years ago at 79 after a fight of close to 20 years. She would have hated what was done "to protect" her.
There is no doubt the measures themselves killed most of the elderly people sooner than later. As someone that witnessed the horrors and basically abuse that went on inside assisted living facilities, and rehab facilities, far before Covid, I can’t imagine how bad it was during the lockdowns. I had to break my grandmother out of a few of those places when they’d put her there after a hospital visit. If she was in there during Covid, they would’ve had to put me in a straight jacket and arrest me to keep me from breaking her out of there. Those people died of neglect, no doubt.
Jim, I love you. One of my brothers died in a shitty assisted living facility in January '21, of ALS and dementia. He was 2500 miles from me; I'd assumed his worthless wife and kids, ten minutes down the road from him, were visiting him. Nope. Another relative out there tipped me off in October '20 that he was finally visited and not doing well. When I got in to see him in November he had bedsores, cradle cap, absolutely shocking filthy teeth. And he was one of only two residents!
I will never ever forget what his family did to him. In the name of covid precautions. What a lovely convenient excuse to throw a person in the trash. I can't even leave my dog in a kennel for more than a few days without feeling like I've damned her to a hell. How they could do this! He was less trouble than a baby.
this is heartbreaking, but not surprising. The nurses aids in those places in my experience could care less about the patients. If you arent up there asses and actively involved in your loved ones care they will leave you to die in your own mess.
To my knowledge, not a single mainstream "medical authority" ever discussed ways to boost the immune system or make the body more vital. Even something as simple and painless as taking a walk after dinner or popping a vitamin D supplement would have made a huge difference. Trust them at your peril.
Healthy living is bad for business. They’ve bamboozled these past few generations into thinking a pill will cure every affliction. It’s never a natural remedy, or a lifestyle change. They just keep piling on the meds. Most elderly people don’t even know what they’re taking or why, they just stay on the pharma train. It’s a money making scheme for insurance companies, pharma companies, drug peddlers, doctors and politicians.
That is a fantastic analogy. Best I've seem. Where I come from (Canada), the over 80 population is about 4.4 % of the total. That group had about 60% of the COVID deaths. Ages 70-79 is 7.9% of population but had about 21% of COVID deaths. COVID death rate drops rapidly into the lower age groups. People die of many things at younger ages and it's unfortunate. But our fanatical obsession with trying to "protect" everyone probably made little difference and caused much collateral damage.
This is similar in New Zealand where we have had roughly 2000 deaths in total. They have wheeled out the public health beurecrats and self appointed experts last week to warn of new waves of Covid and deaths and encouraging 4th doses again…bizarrrely their own data shows this does not prevent hospitalisation and hospitalisation is rarely just Covid in the stats too! The stats clearly show the vast majority of deaths are over 80.I don’t understand why my life was halted to protect those over 80 - I can protect older people, and they can protect themselves too, without being imprisoned in my home and country.
The very same people who tell us that we (and the billions of complex life forms) are the random end product of some chemicals that accidentally floated together in a warm puddle, are the same people who are frantic and desperate not to die. Chemical machines whose sole meaning in living is now fear of death - even though they know it is going to happen. Scratching out as many years of life as they can, years that will be spent creaking and groaning in decline and pain. Rare is the person who makes 90 in spry and good health, but everyone seems to think that they are ones who are going to do that. Not even thinking that their children and friends might be gone before them, and hardly a week will go by without seeing another one off this mortal coil. Until they are surrounded by strangers who make minimum wage in an old age cattle farm.
Even more ironic, is that in the mad desire to avoid dying from a mostly innocuous virus that would have been a few days of discomfort, of which most fossil aged people got past quite easily, they injected themselves repeatedly with a potion that the data shows is highly toxic and dangerous. For many, their "golden years" are going to be dealing with the after effects of the corrosion caused by doing this. LOL.
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Solzhenitsyn and others from the hard labour death camps of the Russians and the Germans et al, noted that those who retained their humanity, and refused to compromise and even increased their ethical standards often survived 10 to 15 years and made it out. They seemed to gain strength through this. Those who descended into self serving beast mode often didn't last more than a few months.
I am stronger now than before this nonsense started and I'm sure most resistors are.
Here is another observation of mine, but I don't have any data to back it up.
Many of the people who survived the death camps of WW2 and scratching out survival in the war torn ghettos, who came out at the end emaciated, beaten, and sickly - seemed to have gone on to live remarkably long lives and retained their mental faculties. I have seen a host of interviews or articles on them, and I marvelled at this. They lost mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, everything they had of their normal life before the evil came.
What I think I see about these long term survivors is that they have an incredible ability to be realistic about life, still have high ethics, and actually forgave along with it. What could they possibly fear after being through that?
So to your point Mark - being realistic about the glaringly obvious cycle of life and facing it squarely could be quite protective. The senseless and excessive fear of the mask and injection cult is actually devastating to their own well being.
Bob, Desmet Mathias (i think I have his name right) goes into this. He says that people who were in the camps reported that it was the happiest time of their lives because of the community it created.
the feeling of 'community' sprang up as a necessary support to be able to withstand the camps' violence, the hardships, the deaths (not the other way around, as suggested in your comment). the camp traumas were real, often irreparable and in many cases led to emotional/psycological damage for a 2nd generation. there were no yearly social gatherings of camp survivors to commemorate their 'community'.
I didn't say it wasn't horrible. Good grief, I was only quoting what Desmet said, that it was a time of community. I did not imply the other way around. What I didn't say is that it possibly kept them alive. I should have said that. Of course we can't ask those who didn't survive, we can only go by the survivors.
Desmet blames lack of community, and among other things that have contributed to this current or recent cognitive dissonance. You should listen to the video.
Very nice piece. This resonates well with me as I'm certainly in my Autumn years, here at 57. Part of my hatred for this weaponized hypochondria is that I don't have time for this. Literally, my days are running out. I don't want to live them masked. I can't take a chance on experimental gene therapy. Being forced apart from family and friends is cruel and unusual. Especially those that are older than I am. Their time is even shorter. That time is precious and cannot be replaced by anything.
If I could have done anything differently during my younger years, it would have been to not treat my body as though it was indestructible. I know it was my choice to do so but I can't deny that such behavior is very much encouraged and common place. Very dumb.
And, for the fools that think they're protecting me, why? If you knew how I treated myself so foolishly, why on earth would you spend one second on worrying about my health? To be blunt, my life is not anyone else's to worry about.
But what we've really come to learn is that things like "my mask protects YOU" is a guilt trip that means "YOU MUST wear a mask" (to do likewise). The considerations of my life be damned. And all for nothing of benefit.
Well said Frank.
This was all psychological abuse with undeniably ill intent.
(*) Footnote in small print under my hearty heart under your otherwise impeccable write-up:
57 ≅ Autumn?! 😤 Shirley ya jest 🤸
OK, late summer! 😄 But still!
I had an elderly neighbor who always said she was ‘30 damn 9’. It’s a good philosophy especially if you say it in her sweet southern accent, well sometimes sweet! 🤣
Been sayin' 16 for many decades. Seems to work, too.
Now, that’s a stretch! 🤣
No brag, just fact. Anyone can do it. Want the secret? Here it is:
https://tinyurl.com/nkjk83t3
That video will destroy an especially pernicious false Narrative, with fact, that everyone's been programmed with - if you can get past your cognitive dissonance shield. Test it for yourself, and you'll become "like" 16 in a week. No lie.
Here too: https://tinyurl.com/3hdda7x5
Jack Benny!
🤣
He’ll say, don’t call me Shirley. Actually it was really well written, except that 67 part, I agree. 😜
💬 except that 67 part
See? See?! 67 instead of original 57 😂 QED.
Good thing our dear Frank conceded w/o much torture.
Ha, you’re right, he did say 57, I twisted it to my ‘almost’ age. Just a Freudian typo! 🤣
As a huge fan of Airplane... I was thinking it! 😂
And don't call him Shirley!
Love your capturing the phrase & concept "weaponized hypochondria". Could not have said it better. And thanks for the reminder that time is indeed fleeting. I feel good about having made the best of it for the most part, over a generous span of time, but it is bittersweet to come to terms with no negotiating the inevitable shelf life expiration date, that we each have been given, as one friend put it recently.
I’m 73 and know my shelf life gets shorter by the year, if not month. However, I still ‘think’ I’m younger and won’t go without a fight. No one knows their end, where or when. Just be right with The Lord and live in peace.
I'm happy to hear of people living happily in old age.
But I thought it was evil to pretend that young people were at risk from this strategically hyped virus.
They're still doing it. The 'Ho (queen of NY) is still dancing among masked children and telling people to face diaper them because "kids like it and don't know any better." Evil is front and center among hypocrites. When will parents even care?
https://narrowpath.substack.com/p/because-the-ho-said-so-cbf
As is being proven in other countries who are more transparent than ours, many young people are developing myocarditis, pericarditis & auto immune diseases after receiving the experimental injections. Excess mortality & Sudden Adult Death Syndrome seem to be increasing globally. I agree with you totally it is pure Evil what the Government & Pharma did to our country & the rest of the world.
Since when do we quarantine the healthy?
It truly was evil and evil to make them think this fake vaccine is needed. Also, I don’t think of myself as ‘old age’ 😊
Having just turned 70, I claim the right to agree! I find it hard to think of myself as "vulnerable" or "elderly" - but I stand in fierce anger at those who used us, we who have lived the greatest part of our lives, to abuse children and young people who were never at much risk from this virus. I'm going to do my best to enjoy & make the best of what time I have left - but knowing that the world now belongs to those younger than I, the generations of my son and grandkids and those still being born. And I have stirred myself to join in protests about lockdowns & the rest - because these young children and teens and young adults deserve a chance to grow up, to socially engage (without distancing!) and to blossom.
The purpose of life is not to stay safe - because one way or the other, life will end. And that is how it goes. We are privileged to participate in the dance of life, but who wants to join the wealthy "elites" who are so terrified of death that they will sell their souls?
and pretend they'll live for ever. illusions of grandeur.
Yes, so true. Life is very, very short. We never know which day will be our last. I'd like to go back to living life fully again. I wish I could get the people around me (I'm in NY State) to see how they're being manipulated and how much precious time they're wasting by living in fear.
Find and be with people who have your same outlook. You'll never be able to convince those who have succumbed to this fear.
Yes, very true. It's hard 'cause I live in NY State. Most people around me believe this stuff. I just found a job that doesn't require anything from me (no jab, at least for now), but my coworkers are all brainwashed. They think I'm crazy... Fortunately, I'm good at my job, but I don't feel like I can do the things I love anymore.
I'm just trying to get money saved up to leave NY State or at least get away from the cities.
I did find a couple people I correspond with out here but it was hard to find and there don't seem to be many dissenters other than very conservative Republicans, and I'm not that. And many people cannot put aside their differences. They want to talk partisan politics...
Meri - By all means, honor your instincts & intuition. It's so much easier and life affirming, to be around people with shared values. There's a book I love and peruse frequently, as I never really took the time to learn about the states. (I was always more oriented to the world.) Anyway, it's called "Strategic Relocation" by Joel M Skousen. N. American Guide to Safe Places. Fascinating and detailed.
I up and moved the summer of '20 from urban W. Coast to rural heartland. Always risky and a pain to move but absolutely no regrets. Time is of the essence, sooner than later, is better. My move was a sanity saver for sure.
Thank you for the helpful comment. I will check out the book. For some reason, it appears to be high-priced right now, so it must be popular. You are correct. Where I live now, I feel like I'm wasting away really. I'm working on saving up money to move. It's hard 'cause it does cost money, but I am working on it. I have a job now (thankfully) but am "walking on eggshells" as the old saying goes 'cause most of my coworkers are brainwashed and think I'm insane... even though some of them were hurt by the jab but are in denial about it. Fortunately, I'm good at what I do, so I just need to save up and maybe soon... I'll just run for the hills, or wherever.
It can be fun to make a plan, and so much less stressful. I took a road trip, before deciding on where I would likely be happy, at least for awhile. Re: the book, I have the 4th Edition (latest version) which is the best, if you are going to spend the money. The third edition was 2011.
I ordered direct from the author, for $35. for the hard copy. He offers a PDF for 1/2 price but it really is the kind of book that you will want to have in hand. I look at it once a week at least, just because news items come up, or I'm trying to get a better handle on my U.S. geography, once and for all :)...It's loaded with all sorts of interesting information.
https://joelskousen.com/strategic-relocation
I long for the days that we could just interact with people without feeling like we're all on different sides. The damn globalists are doing a great job of fracturing our societies.
one can only be (true to) one's self.
Just remember, the media and partisans have framed “very conservative Republicans” as derogative caricatures and stereotypes. Maybe you should try to realize how the media and partisans have deceived you in the past. Get to know some, you might be surprised to find out that they aren’t the devils the left and the media have framed them as.
This has nothing to do with the media. I'm speaking about my own personal experience. I've gone to protests and meetings and interacted with these people. I've gotten to know them. Yes, some of them are nice people in many ways, but we disagree on many things, as THEY have been quick to point out.
I've actually been the one to initiate getting together with people in my community because I believe we should put our differences aside, but many people I've met are not able to do that. They keep promoting these exceedingly corrupt republican politicians in their meetings, and they promote an even more dangerous idea--the idea that someone is going to rescue us. No politician is going to do that. Certainly no millionaire will do that. I can't figure out why so many people believe that millionaires are going to rescue them. It's bizarre. The rich don't care about the poor. Never have--from biblical days to the present time. The Trump supporters are just as bad as the Biden supporters from my point of view. Neither of them care about the average person, but the average person doesn't get that.
We need to put aside our differences and come together to find ways to start independent communities, yes, but I'm not interested in communities that exclude certain groups of people. I'm not interested in communities that hold women back or that exclude Jewish, Muslim or atheists or that deny that racism, sexism, classism, etc. exist. Social injustice does exist. Some people maybe haven't experienced much of it in their lives, and that is lucky for them.
it's reminiscent of the guilt trip poured out over us by the church for aeons: Jesus died a horrible death on the cross and that's your fault!! riiiight....
Well said and I agree with HowardJ
Autumn at 57? Surely sire, thou doth jest.
But I agree strongly with your eloquently expressed sentiments.
"Youth is wasted on the young."
Ecclesiastes 3
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Always one of my favorites. And not just because The Mamas and the Papas said it's so. :-)
I think it was The Byrds but The Mamas and Papas may have done it too.
https://youtu.be/W4ga_M5Zdn4
You're right. Old brain here. All of the 60s groups have become a big smash up in my memory!
Amen, my brother, Amen! Thank you so much for writing what I cannot find the words to write and for giving us a place to come and be nourished by your words. This is my refuge and source of strength in these times.
If you ever make it to my side of the pond, you have a place to stay and I owe you a few beers as well ;)
yes and influenza like illness is still out there - respiratory diseases flare up every year and will continue to do so. Amazing no one seems to care if your grandma dies from some other corona virus or an Adeno virus or one of the many other viruses that naturally invade our bodies. Yes and heart disease and strokes etc etc.
I have always been proud of our country. Thought we were brave people. Even when we clearly made the wrong decisions - weapons of mass destruction, Viet Nam etc. But we acted like such cowards when Covid hit. Its despicable.
The more trust anyone had in institutions, the more they were a deer in headlights.
Yes. I think about this so often. Some days, I wonder if maybe I’ve been living in a bubble about who we are as Americans and how could I have been so wrong. I’ve had a lot of time to think this week as I finally got the Rona (very mild). Having to quarantine and now waiting on a neg. Test has brought back all the feelings of isolation during the lockdowns. How is it, there’s never been a test for a regular (whatever that is) cold coronavirus yet we have for this? I am totally fine now but life can’t move forward till I’m in the clear and I’m shamed into a mask cause I might get someone sick. It’s crazy, it’s hard to believe just a few short years ago, we accepted cold/flu season and just worked through it as we have for centuries!
Why are you doing this to yourself?? Who says you need to mask or have a negative test to move forward?? Why did you test in the first place?? I assume it’s work related.
At the height of covid hysteria in 2020, the UK's covid doom modeler Neil Fergusson got caught breaking UK lockdown while covid positive to see his girlfriend. Around the same time, Chris Cuomo was also seen walking around town while covid positive.
I don't bring these up to say either of them should have been home waiting for their negative test before reemerging, but to show that the main sources of the covid hysteria knew this was all nonsense from the beginning. No behaviors should have ever changed for the healthy population.
it mostly comes down to some people becoming hysteric (especially the media) and of course, will we ever know for sure, if this was all planned to see how much of the populace would follow orders. It is hard to imagine that this was NOT plotted beforehand.
It WAS plotted! EVENT 201!!!
Totally planned! They even had the vaccine ready months prior to first cases.
I know right?! Yes, mostly work-related, but I’m flying to CO to spend time with my daughters boyfriends family for first time for thanksgiving and she feels better if I do. She thinks if you test positive it means you’re contagious. I said Dr says you can test positive for months, so that’s not true - only 10-14 days. I tested for first time also because of two vulnerable friends who were not feeling well and sure enough my one friend has it and not fairing as well as I did. I’ve been covering for sick co-workers, so I guess it finally caught up to me!
Stop testing! The test is bullshit! They were supposed to do away with PCR TESTING because they were inaccurate! Over a year ago I believe. But for some crazy reason they're still using it. The inventor of PCR said it should never be used to diagnose. He's dead now!
I won’t be testing after this that’s for sure. I know what it feels like now, so that’s good enough for me.
Good on you!😘
Agree. Stop it all. Just stop. Do not comply with madness. Ever.
even if we did not fall for the narrative, some things are hammered in so hard, that it is difficult to drop it. I have invited friends myself but was quite hesitant to go to theirs! As if you get it there easier than at your own home or at the stores LOL At least I can laugh about my own stupidity now !
If you are no longer feverish, you are in the clear. It can take months to get a negative test. If you are no longer sick, feel free to move on with your life.🙂
Yes, I’m totally fine and back to work albeit the mask till I’m neg because that’s what work prefers but Oh my god having to wear that thing, I felt sick all over again! Thank god I only work part-time and have had 3 days between work days till the weekend. I hope to ditch the mask because my job is physical and it’s like trying to work out with one and let’s face it, I’m almost 60 and don’t breathe the same as when I was young. I need oxygen! Lol
Cheryl; Obviously u don’t have to answer this but did u get the COVID shots?
Most people I know who got COVID were “fully vaccinated “.
I am not vaccinated & won’t be. No COVID yet or flu. I see a correlation.
Thank you.
Nope, not vaccinated! My 2 co-workers and my best friend are not either. All three have had Covid 2x but mild the second time. Supposedly, the vaccinated shed so I figured it was gonna be just a matter of time before I got it. Except for this week, haven’t worn a mask in over a year except when made to at a drs office.
U might consider following the Zelenko Protocols which includes HCQ, quercetin, zinc, D3 & magnesium . Been taking it for the last two years. Thank God barely a sniffle.
Also have Ivermectin in reserve. Read JFK’s book on Fauci, Gates, etc. Former USMC Intelligence Officer, verifiable. Been researching this whole psyop since Wuhan Lab.
Thank u for ur reply .
and this country was not even the worst. I have pen friends in Europe and read how awful it was and is there. My family in Belgium still believes the narrative and are still going for boosters, even while everyone had the covid once or more since injected. 2 family members I have never known sick are now hospitalized. Yes they are older, but they were healthy before the injections... we will never know if that had to do with it but until further notice I blame the jabs !
Well said sj ,the powers that be are playing us like a fiddle! Covid cowards and elections . Now we must accept any election results no matter how much BS goes on. AZ and NV repeat their 2020 steal and nobody says a word. I fear we'll never have an honest election again (if we ever really had one)
Excellent as always, Mark. Would that there be light - from your mouth to God’s ear.
But I’m afraid of ongoing darkness & evil, as the Davos set & their useful idiots in governments globally - most recently in Egypt - keep trying to stoke fear of a “tripledemic” or deadly “new variant” & continue to flog masks, vax, digital currency, digital “passports”, ad nauseum. Not to mention ongoing, demoralizing evidence of voter fraud a week ago here @ home.
Thank you, Cindi, for including election fraud in with our other challenges. It’s all part of the same scam/ plan.
Every bit of it since 2020 is coming into sharp relief, isn’t it Datagal 🤯
I left out “climate change” MY BAD!!!!!
It seems the powers that be will stop at nothing to gain full control of every aspect of humanity.
Thank you Mark, for such a beautiful and elegantly simple description of the human condition as reflected in the natural world all around us. Sadly for us, those who designed and executed this now nearly three year propaganda campaign understand more about human nature than most of us, and they turned it against us for their own purposes. My hope is that we can learn enough about our own weaknesses and vulnerabilities to never be victimized again.
Thanks, Momo.
Please catch me up on gmail.
Beautifully put.
Among the dumbest science denying aspects of this was the foregoing, no the prevention of, what would have a been a huge community wide reservoir of post infection natural immunity of young people. Its almost as if that was the plan. Almost. Perhaps dumb is misapplied, nefarious is more apropos.
Thank you, Mark, for your steady pen. You somehow untangle my own scrambled thoughts and make them straight. You have no idea how glad I am to see you waiting in ‘Inbox.’
Thanks, Teresa. It's good to know that I'm not wasting my time.
Mark so beautiful... never ever a waste, your have a wonderful voice in this movement, you are admired and loved ... thank you .
Thanks, Brandon. I want people to know they're not alone and hope that they will resist in many ways, as I do.
Still looking forward to your HP visit.
Thanks for your light !! You shine bright , thank you. I will get to HP , hopefully soon
Def not a waste of time. These essays are wonderful to read, you have a talent for words.
Never wasting your time Mark! I also look forward to see what you’ll write next 😊
Like “steady pen”!
If flowers
would offer themselves people,
just as people offer themselves flowers,
where would people be cut from? ....said one of our poets.
Murders. Those old, sick people they said they died of covid, they didn't die naturally or because it came their time. They died because of the winter and darkness in the hearts around them, they have been offered as numbers to be used by the monsters.
Right? They died of loneliness and grief. I know a woman who waved bye bye to her aged father as he checked out in a crappy hospital covid ward here in my town, because, well, she has a grandson who'd had a medical procedure six months earlier and, if she were exposed to her father and his germs and all, well... Just better to wave to Dad as he dies all alone.
Makes me feel physically ill.
Very, very sad...A lot of people failed this life test. All they have been lonely in the hospitals as no family was allowed in, but this is not the main thing that killed them. In my country was horrible too, people talking at the phone with the family, saying they are well and after few hours they were dead, others they have been dispossessed of cell phones, people tide of beds, sedated, intubated, burnt alive because the ventilators/electric instalations took fire, over 14 pills few times a day, not giving their usual treatment for their chronic deseases, forbbiden autopsies, naked bodies in sealed black bags and coffins, people died of other problems waiting for a covid test etc....no human being was treated with dignity and respect for life, for their life. We should never forget what it looks like it has been already forgotten.
That is truly barbaric. I’m so sorry!
Agree. It was a life test and multitudes of people failed miserably. Charity and honor thy father and mother was tossed out like useless garbage. A society cannot survive that, nor should it. Doctors and nurses who helped perpetuate this evil will have to face what they have done - if not in this life, then certainly in the next.
I’d prefer it happen in this lifetime or the madness will continue.
That's what gets me. How can you stand and wave to your dying father? Because Fauci says? This has divided mankind into two camps and I can't unsee what I've seen in some people.
It's horrific. You're right about the destruction of human dignity. I'm sorry.
Papillon this is exactly what happened
a very good description of the evils done to people in the name of the greater good.
Always remember the "COVID criminals" were never protecting the public from a virus, but were stuffing their pockets while laying the groundwork for a worldwide "biosecurity surveillance state" that'll make the Patriot Act look like mere child's play. Accountability is imperative to impede this nefarious agenda.
It's been a late summer/growing season here in Maryland too. I grow wildflowers in our yard and have been watching the black eyed susans continue to flower up into mid November here. They don't quite have the same brilliance as in summer but I'll take it. But the seaside goldenrod! Damn, it's still like fireworks of gold in the sun. The plants I think of as sissies, the petunias stuck here and there, crapped out a while ago despite the cushy conditions.
I agree with you about the insane crushing of life for younger healthier people in the mistaken notion that it made life longer for those who were on their way out soon. I contend that the lockdowns probably killed old sick people faster than leaving society open. Being trundled into a hospital and vented also didn't do anyone any favors.
Fauci and Birx and their crew of flunkies orchestrated this, but the presidents, governors, mayors who did their bidding are responsible, along with the masked morons who were the cheering section, and who are now jabbed five or six times. My mother died of COPD ten years ago at 79 after a fight of close to 20 years. She would have hated what was done "to protect" her.
There is no doubt the measures themselves killed most of the elderly people sooner than later. As someone that witnessed the horrors and basically abuse that went on inside assisted living facilities, and rehab facilities, far before Covid, I can’t imagine how bad it was during the lockdowns. I had to break my grandmother out of a few of those places when they’d put her there after a hospital visit. If she was in there during Covid, they would’ve had to put me in a straight jacket and arrest me to keep me from breaking her out of there. Those people died of neglect, no doubt.
Jim, I love you. One of my brothers died in a shitty assisted living facility in January '21, of ALS and dementia. He was 2500 miles from me; I'd assumed his worthless wife and kids, ten minutes down the road from him, were visiting him. Nope. Another relative out there tipped me off in October '20 that he was finally visited and not doing well. When I got in to see him in November he had bedsores, cradle cap, absolutely shocking filthy teeth. And he was one of only two residents!
I will never ever forget what his family did to him. In the name of covid precautions. What a lovely convenient excuse to throw a person in the trash. I can't even leave my dog in a kennel for more than a few days without feeling like I've damned her to a hell. How they could do this! He was less trouble than a baby.
this is heartbreaking, but not surprising. The nurses aids in those places in my experience could care less about the patients. If you arent up there asses and actively involved in your loved ones care they will leave you to die in your own mess.
It's the management, too. They don't give a big rat's ass about the patients, only the $$$.
😢😭
Spot on as is the norm. For me the one phrase I pray I never hear a fool utter again is the classic
"If it saves one life" made famous by the criminal governor from NY. That kind of ignorance still makes my blood boil.
To my knowledge, not a single mainstream "medical authority" ever discussed ways to boost the immune system or make the body more vital. Even something as simple and painless as taking a walk after dinner or popping a vitamin D supplement would have made a huge difference. Trust them at your peril.
Ah, but a Chiropractor is being sued by the FDA for promoting D3 and Zinc. Article in Epoch newsletter yesterday.
And those 2 hunky Immediate care docs in Calif who were banned from social media for promoting natural immunity...
Healthy living is bad for business. They’ve bamboozled these past few generations into thinking a pill will cure every affliction. It’s never a natural remedy, or a lifestyle change. They just keep piling on the meds. Most elderly people don’t even know what they’re taking or why, they just stay on the pharma train. It’s a money making scheme for insurance companies, pharma companies, drug peddlers, doctors and politicians.
Yeah I know, but my optimistic side hopes that covid has shown some people what the mainstream medical system is all about.
https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/secede-sickcare
It's a very teachable moment.
That is a fantastic analogy. Best I've seem. Where I come from (Canada), the over 80 population is about 4.4 % of the total. That group had about 60% of the COVID deaths. Ages 70-79 is 7.9% of population but had about 21% of COVID deaths. COVID death rate drops rapidly into the lower age groups. People die of many things at younger ages and it's unfortunate. But our fanatical obsession with trying to "protect" everyone probably made little difference and caused much collateral damage.
This is similar in New Zealand where we have had roughly 2000 deaths in total. They have wheeled out the public health beurecrats and self appointed experts last week to warn of new waves of Covid and deaths and encouraging 4th doses again…bizarrrely their own data shows this does not prevent hospitalisation and hospitalisation is rarely just Covid in the stats too! The stats clearly show the vast majority of deaths are over 80.I don’t understand why my life was halted to protect those over 80 - I can protect older people, and they can protect themselves too, without being imprisoned in my home and country.
Wonderful piece Mark! Thanks
The very same people who tell us that we (and the billions of complex life forms) are the random end product of some chemicals that accidentally floated together in a warm puddle, are the same people who are frantic and desperate not to die. Chemical machines whose sole meaning in living is now fear of death - even though they know it is going to happen. Scratching out as many years of life as they can, years that will be spent creaking and groaning in decline and pain. Rare is the person who makes 90 in spry and good health, but everyone seems to think that they are ones who are going to do that. Not even thinking that their children and friends might be gone before them, and hardly a week will go by without seeing another one off this mortal coil. Until they are surrounded by strangers who make minimum wage in an old age cattle farm.
Even more ironic, is that in the mad desire to avoid dying from a mostly innocuous virus that would have been a few days of discomfort, of which most fossil aged people got past quite easily, they injected themselves repeatedly with a potion that the data shows is highly toxic and dangerous. For many, their "golden years" are going to be dealing with the after effects of the corrosion caused by doing this. LOL.
Yess, Bob, the irony is painfully obvious.
And the costs of this sham will ring for many decades.
Solzhenitsyn and others from the hard labour death camps of the Russians and the Germans et al, noted that those who retained their humanity, and refused to compromise and even increased their ethical standards often survived 10 to 15 years and made it out. They seemed to gain strength through this. Those who descended into self serving beast mode often didn't last more than a few months.
I am stronger now than before this nonsense started and I'm sure most resistors are.
Here is another observation of mine, but I don't have any data to back it up.
Many of the people who survived the death camps of WW2 and scratching out survival in the war torn ghettos, who came out at the end emaciated, beaten, and sickly - seemed to have gone on to live remarkably long lives and retained their mental faculties. I have seen a host of interviews or articles on them, and I marvelled at this. They lost mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, everything they had of their normal life before the evil came.
What I think I see about these long term survivors is that they have an incredible ability to be realistic about life, still have high ethics, and actually forgave along with it. What could they possibly fear after being through that?
So to your point Mark - being realistic about the glaringly obvious cycle of life and facing it squarely could be quite protective. The senseless and excessive fear of the mask and injection cult is actually devastating to their own well being.
Bob, Desmet Mathias (i think I have his name right) goes into this. He says that people who were in the camps reported that it was the happiest time of their lives because of the community it created.
the feeling of 'community' sprang up as a necessary support to be able to withstand the camps' violence, the hardships, the deaths (not the other way around, as suggested in your comment). the camp traumas were real, often irreparable and in many cases led to emotional/psycological damage for a 2nd generation. there were no yearly social gatherings of camp survivors to commemorate their 'community'.
I didn't say it wasn't horrible. Good grief, I was only quoting what Desmet said, that it was a time of community. I did not imply the other way around. What I didn't say is that it possibly kept them alive. I should have said that. Of course we can't ask those who didn't survive, we can only go by the survivors.
Desmet blames lack of community, and among other things that have contributed to this current or recent cognitive dissonance. You should listen to the video.