I live in a 55 and older community and was one of the extremely few who didn’t buy into ALL of it, initially I expressed this position in multiple ways and venues. As a result of my thoughts, I was excommunicated and blacklisted from the community at large. Neighbors, who I had considered friends, not only stopped speaking to me, they stopped “seeing” me. It was if I never existed, and this has continued to this day. I recently moved to a new neighborhood, because the cloud I was living under became too dark. Thank the good Lord, the light is slowly coming back into my life.
Mark, when I go to your substack directly I only see two posts. I wonder if it's only me who sees only these two posts? If you put your substack URL into an incognito window you will see what others see. I'll delete this msg when you respond.
"... they stopped “seeing” me. " You helped me realize what happened! I didn't have to face any violence but certainly was made to feel invisible. I was considered to be an essential human being at the time because I was working in a bank. I wouldn't wear a mask but did wear a lightweight Walmart gaiter loosely over my face. Even that was too much, as far as I was concerned. I told everyone that this was ridiculous everyday until they'd see me coming and groan: 'we know'! I switched to the call center so I could ditch the face cover but had to quit when they changed those rules later. I lost all respect for that bank. Remember when we had to carry letters saying we were 'essential' in case cops stopped us? I will never forget nor will I forgive.
My mother was in the same position. She took the jabs because of pressure and the fear of losing all her friends. She has had every adverse reaction to them, TIA's, MI's, Palsy - not Palsy, but worsening neuro deficits, something like Ramsey Hunt syndrome, and now a tremor. All because of fear of ostracism and isolation
So very sorry for you losing your mother to the quagmire. I imagine it's hard understanding her mind-capture in this Coronamania and dealing with the medical failings it's causing.
Thank you. She knows now. She reads some substack. She recognizes that the jabs were not good. I try not to talk about it. I am sure she feels plenty of regret. She does now push back against her friends.
So sorry that happened to you, Kathy. Sometimes I feel I should have spoken up more than I did ... but then the massive antipathy towards it seems to justify not having done so.
did not help a bit. they were all brainwashed. luckily our small towns did not lock down like the big ones did. We had barely 2 or 3 weeks, and my hairdresser had to re-open after a month, having to pay off a mortgage and not getting any replacement income! At first he wore a mask and after a few weeks gave up on it too, realizing he did not know who had injected and who did not. He knew I didn't and he knows I have not been sick. All those in contact with me know. But the former friends are still distant acquaintances now.
Relieve yourself of this burden, Petra, if you are, in fact, carrying it. There is no reaching or teaching...the unteachable. I learned that good and hard after Sep 11th.
"COVID" was the same. While maybe someone here or there may have benefited from your efforts, Petra, you would have paid a greater price. The vast, vast majority are simply unteachable. Worse, they lack even a scintilla of fidelity to courage or liberty -- theirs or anyone else's. And they proved that -- in spades.
Yes, the repercussions are ongoing. I don’t know any whose understanding of things has changed. In fact, people I know are still getting boosters along with flu shots.
yes I know a few too. thankfully dad stopped, but a friend got a fifth shot a few months ago. she realized all the side affects, but 'they would not hurt her'. Until she gets a bad lot... or like poison ivy, after years of no allergy, all of a sudden blisters!
Glad you found a new and hopefully better place Kathy.
Living kinda lonely in the woods became even lonelier when my former best friends did not even call. They must have thought the virus went over the phone LOL. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was just wondering, had I gone mad? Thankfully my animals kept me going, and I soon found first Alex Berenson, who like me had not believed the scam, and then lots of others. Still had some bad episodes, but hey, clouds open and the sun comes through each and every time again. I hope you found the sunshine xxx
My husband and I owned a martial arts school in Los Angeles at the start of the "pandemic" (at the time, my husband had been teaching from that same location for over 30 years). We were harassed and threatened by city "authorities" for trying to conduct zoom "classes" from an empty school...
Later, when we tried to keep our business going by teaching at a local park, the park "authorities" called the police on our class of kids...they sent 4 SUVs, with 2 sheriffs in each, for a total of 8 sheriffs to the park to stop our class of 12 kids from exercising...
There were others in the park that day who were picnicking together, or walking dogs, or playing frisbee together...there was also a personal trainer who was working with clients...
When we asked why we were being singled out, the sheriffs told us it was because we were "organized" (karate uniforms and the kids in line). The sheriffs and park "authorities" did not appreciate my husband's offer for us to take off the uniforms and scatter the kids around the park to conduct our "class"...
We lost our business/livelihood, and the community lost a martial arts school that focused on fitness and self defense. We taught karate, jiu-jitsu, self defense (including women's self defense), bully defense, discipline/self control, fitness and philosophy to toddlers as young as 3 years old, kids, and adults...
We escaped the utter lunacy of Los Angeles, and moved across the country to be closer to my family...who then ostracized us when they realized that we were NEVER going to take the modified mRNA-LNP transfection injections (and because I repeatedly pleaded with them to look at the info that I was sending to them about the predictable immune system attack response to injecting something into their bodies that induced their own cells to produce non-self proteins).
To this day, members of my family (many of whom are now struggling with new health issues including new cancers, weird neurological symptoms, repeated infections, new/worsening autoimmune diseases, and more...) still believe that it was/is ok that we (the "COVID unvaxxed") were threatened, dehumanized, demonized, and abused by governmental "authorities", "public health" agencies, and the Big pHARMa captured "mainstream" media...
I am no longer in contact with most of my family members...
sad to read how you lost your livelyhood - I hope you found a place where you could build up again, but of course, nothing replaces what you lost. We are now like islands in the ocean broken off from the mainland!
terrific testament, Kelly Reardon. The saving grace of , "I lost more faith in humanity each day" is that there is always going to be a certain percentage who see things for what they are. That is worth a lot, at least for now. Because I am not so sure that percentage won't continue to decline.
Mark is so spot-on with his article, including where he writes, "elections manipulated by bogus mail-in ballots cast during a phony emergency, and the consequences thereof, including unlimited, destabilizing immigration."
My husband, Christian, and his family legally immigrated to the USA from an authoritarian country in 1970 when my (now) husband was 10 years old. (He was born & grew up in Egypt until 10 years old, but had an Italian mother and a Lebanese father). My husband spoke French, Italian, Arabic, and was learning Greek.
When they immigrated, my husband and his sister didn't speak a word of English and their parents' English was very sparse...But their whole family immediately started learning to read, write, and speak English. His family assimilated.
If you were to meet my husband today, you would never know that English wasn't his first (or second or third...) language. (He is still fluent in French and Italian but has lost Arabic and Greek).
They became naturalized American citizens and they were so grateful to be able to live in America and have the God-given freedoms that are guaranteed to all Americans...or so we all thought...enter the scamdemic...
Besides the damage & destruction caused by the lockdowns and the horror of recognizing the inherent dangers of the gene "therapy" transfection bioweapons, I cannot tell you how pissed we are at what the Globalist/Communist America-hating Leftist autopen Administration did to this country via their facilitation of illegal aliens invading our country.
I'm sad for you & for all of us to one degree or another. Division is a big goal for those who dream of nothing but conquering the whole world, & the far reaching effects of the "safe & effective" scam are far from over, IMO. God will have the last word. Keep keepin' on.
After going to work every day in 2020-2021 (I ran a community college health center at the time) while all but a few of my colleagues were paid to stay home and play with their cats, walk the dog, drink alcohol during Zoom meetings, and take trips out of state, I lost my job because of mandates.
All of the sheep who abandoned our students and took advantage of the nearly two year paid vacation will still get their pensions.
I am now losing my current job (this time at a “holistic” nursing company) because they, too, have discovered over the last five years just how lucrative pharma collaboration is.
It will never end until the People stop using the services of mainstream medicine. Poisoning the public is very profitable.
I am hoping the local book store is hiring for the Christmas rush.
My older daughter is a teacher in California. The state took a computer to the home of every student and provided internet. My daughter sat in an empty classroom and taught from her computer screen. She hated it. She wanted her students where she could see whether they understood, where she could read the body language and know if they were okay. Her own children were stuck at home on a computer while she pretended that “her students” were getting the “education” she tried to provide.
She was not afraid to get sick. Why would she be? She’s been teaching for almost 30 years. The ones who said they were afraid were lazy and lying, or mentally ill. No excuse
Agreed - in the main. my daughter (NZ) underwent the daily mouth swab nonsense as she was so concerned about her young pupils and their anxieties and fears and wanted to be there for them ....she knew that after the Christmas holidays the edict from Jabcinda Arden the 'leader' of NZ, biggest hypocrite and tyrant ever.....she would have to accept the covid "vaccination" or lose her hard-won position at school....this she ended up doing as she simply could not face insisting that the children wear face masks or encourage 'vaccination'...her conscience could not go that far but as long as it was she alone who was sacrificing she was prepared to. (nor was she thrilled to be told she could use the staffroom only when others were not there and to keep her lunch separate from theirs....). On the bright side, after her resignation, the school board declined to allow her to clear out her office or return her computer as they insisted she be given a year's 'leave' and not resign .....
Wow.....the utter insanity of all that, just boggles the mind Miss Lynda.
Bigtime kudos to your daughter for standing tall against the onslaught!
Among my friends, we've discussed at length why some of us saw this for what it was, & others, just didn't, nor will they ever. We ourselves are a diverse lot, & for most of us, there are some members of our own, immediate families who do not see this as we all do, so we have yet to have discovered a golden paradigm, that we can lay this upon, except for one thing...... we all have an almost insatiable curiosity about all around us, have had this ever since we can remember, & also have retained a sense of humor, in the face of this tyranny. Is this the common denominator? I really don't know, because we are such a small group, but my gut tells me, that is is a large part of why we "saw, what we saw, & acted, as we acted".
If there are any of you out there who wish to opine upon this, please do!
Oh yes....my few like-minded friends and I have often discussed this and the united answer is that we always had curiosity as children and questioned -and observed. As for retaining a sense of humour- not so much, sadly in my case although this reminder of 'that time' which could be construed as humorous was when our leader - now well rewarded and worth millions of $ along with being ensconced at your Harvard University ......instructed us via her daily TV appearance that although restrictions were easing and we were now permitted to visit friends, a few at a time only though, we were not permitted to use their bathroom facilities.....we were told we needed to either return home or find a close by bush outside. I kid you not. Announced on nationwide TV ! To add to the nonsense-ness of this edict I later discovered that this scenario played out when a friend visited it a mutual friend of ours and was denied toilet relief....they are no longer friends, needless to say. (nope, try though I might I still can't find humor in it !)
To echo Candy......Wow! What you described? The inmates were truly running the asylum. YJCMTSU, & I am speechless regarding what you suffered thru. I understand that you may not be able to see the humor in what you described, but don't let them win, don't let what they did, take away your ability to recognize when you do run across humor today, for it is still out there, & it is darn good for the soul.
Many thanks for the reminder and encouragement; it is appreciated. I see no humour in what happened during convid when govt told us, via now Labour leader Hipkins...."We will hunt you down" if not complying -amongst other alarming statements and acts. But it was funny to see so many walk around with far longer hair than usual....courtesy of banning non compliers from hair dressers....and to have fellow pedestrians, wearing masks, actually prefer to walk out onto the road to avoid me walking toward them. maskless. I figured they deserved what they might get should a car hit them. Oh and it was funny when aforementioned would be leader Hipkins told us, at a time when outside movement was Ok, to "go and spread the legs". Post convid, however, I find much to rejoice in and smile and laugh at and make a point of it as, yes, for sure, you are correct and my being and soul belongs to my Creator, Jesus, and not to be ruled by any other entity.
Holistic means nowadays 'has holes'. Our holistic doctor is just as needle pushing as most of the others. A holistic center a friend went to in Atlanta, wanted her to mask up and take the shots (this was in 2024). She refused but took the appointment nevertheless. I would have left then and there. I found an allopathic doc who asked me if I had taken the shots, but immediately added, WE are not pushing them. Which made me like her immediately.
--- A guy in my local park who suffered serious leg problems after the jab
--- My friend who was a nurse who died of cancer and whose death may well have been precipitated by the jab she took to keep her job - she had the cancer prior to the jab but her condition seemed stable prior to it,
--- The horrendous repatriation of my mother from Italy - my mother, 82, who was living in Italy and suffering from Alzheimer's and her angel of a chaperone, Susie, were both detained at Rome airport for two nights, the first night because it seems incorrect information was provided about the covid test required and the second night because the Dept of Immigration didn't accept Susie's "compassion grounds" for escort despite the fact that the airline said they would not take my mother on the plane unaccompanied. Susie, my mother's American neighbour in Italy, had known my mother less than a year but agreed to chaperone her because we agreed to pay all expenses and because, as a keen tennis player, it afforded her the opportunity to go to the Australian Open, something she'd always wanted to do. I really don't know if she thought it was worth it in the end because those two nights in the airport and the subsequent 24 hour plane journey were a complete nightmare from start to finish. My mother's Alzheimer's went out of control and we will be eternally grateful to Susie that she did it all with such good grace. To top it off, Susie was forced to stay an extra week in Sydney prior to returning because she tested positive despite not being sick.
However, whatever individual bad things happened that affected me personally or others weren't what bothered me the most even though obviously deaths of people is about as bad as it gets - it was the horrible, horrible feeling of the ever-constant thought from Day One - this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it, this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it, this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it.
It was the surreality, it was the cravenness, the rabid hostility to dissent, the utter moronicness of it, that bothered me the most ... and still does.
Watch this video about Melbourne, Australia during covid. It's horrifying....unless you are a globalist or want to live in a Hunger Games dystopian world.
Watching this now, & thank you for posting it Miss Alice.
So far, a very well put together documentary, that deserves an audience as large as that of the yearly Football StuporBowl (oops, American Football, not soccer 😂).
I knew of some of this, but not that it went to this level of super nova.
Nice work Mark! This is like a healthy splash of cold water in the face. You know, you actually evoked a good coronamania memory for me: October 2020. My youngest son and I are visiting a small mountain town in NC. We go out to find a beer and a meal. Walk into a Tony little hippie-looking pizza joint and are blasted by a dark, steamy air packed with masked patrons. First time in my life I felt the panic of claustrophobia. We turned tail. Went down the street to a local Tavern. It was bright inside. It was a mix of mountain folk and visitors-- standing room only at the bar and the tables were packed. NOT ONE CUSTOMER WAS WEARING A MASK. We stayed until closing time. Wife and I ended up buying a little house up there. And even now the memory and impact of that beautiful evening, the Tavern-- the incredible people and scene-- gets me teared up.
At the end of the mask mandate period....not that I adhered to it anyway....in the supermarket one day checking out my groceries an elderly lady kept well away from me and refused to add hers to the countertop...when motioned to by staff she scowled even more deeply and jabbed at me angrily with her finger.....I said nothing until leaving when I smiled and assured her that I was not dangerous to her health. On transferring my bags to my car a young mother with a small child came over to me and I thought "Oh no, here we go again....I am endangering her child and how selfish of me...." only to be thanked by her for showing my face as her child had not seen an unmasked face in her almost-two years of life other than those of her parents.....absolute child abuse .The horror of it brought tears to my eyes.
My teary moment came at dinner one evening at a restaurant. Our server was a lovely young woman who I could tell went to a lot of trouble with her hair and eye makeup to look beautiful despite the mask. I complimented her on her beautiful eyes and offhandedly said I wished I could see her smile. When we got up to leave she approached me, looked around to make sure no one was watching her, pulled down her mask and smiled. She was stunning.
Good one Mark ! The compliance tactic was a slow insidious process that started years before. We must never forget and continue the fight . I saw the horrors as an unjabbed hospitalist/ laborist inside a hospital….. downright satanic. I still have my medical license but had to fight for it for speaking out .
I read these stories with such sadness! We live in a small town (750 or so inhabitants) on the eastern edge of South Dakota. Our lives were not nearly as affected. When the city council and mayor of Sioux Falls caved to a hysterical minority and instituted a 3 month mask mandate, Amazon became my go-to. We had restaurants that ignored the mask requirement so that’s where we went if we wanted to eat out. We were stunned and sickened by the number of friends and relatives who bought into the scam. Some are now dead thanks to rare turbo cancers. Others are treating oddball health issues they can’t figure out. I’m so sorry for all of you who lost so much!
Living in rural GA & working for myself on a house, I was able to just ignore most of the mass psychosis that had taken much of the World by storm. When the lunatics decided that the Sheeple needed "2 weeks detention to flatten the curve", we (wife, youngest son - #2, & myself) just ignored it, & went ahead with a planned move of 190 miles, to be closer to our G-daughter, & soon to be born, G-son. #2 son & I used my truck & trailer to load up in the morning, drive for 3 hrs, unload all, & that evening, we'd drive back, often past the portable, flashing DOT signs at the entrances & exits to the small towns we drove thru, that let us know we were out after the "curfew" (What, the KungFlu slept during the day, just like it didn't live at table level in some restaurants?). I looked forward to a LEO pulling me over, & the discussion that would engender, but despite driving past many a LEO in their idling Cruisers, that never happened.
I saw the signage at the stores, & just refused to wear the face diaper, but would leave those establishments if requested I do so, & walk my $$ elsewhere. Maybe because we didn't live in such leftist confines (like NJ 😉), & I always had a big smile on my face as I passed the face diapered, I was never hassled.
Growing up Jewish in WA State, I was often the only Jew in school, & in the neighborhood, but this didn't bother me, cause by Kindergarten, I had figured out that by telling my friends that during Hanukkah, I received presents for 8 nights, & they only had one day on Christmas, they were asking me if they could be Jewish, too! I will admit that after a few kid toys on the 1st night, the rest of the presents were needed articles of clothing like a nice shirt, sweaters, a new winter coat, or a new pair of Red Ball Keds, so I could run faster & jump higher, but I sure didn't tell them that, & only had them over on the 1st night.
As a Jew, I read the books that told the stories of those that survived the Holocaust, starting at age 11, because some of those books populated the bookshelves of my parents, & grandparents, & I was an addicted reader.
When my wife received an official letter just before the planned "2 weeks", that declared her an "essential worker" cause she's an Anesthesiologist, I knew the fix was in. It was maddening to see the same verbiage the nazis used on that "official" paper from our Guv'mint, but more so for me, it was hugely disappointing that this could ever happen in the Land of the Free, & the Home of the Brave.....the Country that liberated most of those left alive in the Concentration Camps.
I was hurt further when our College indoctrinated oldest son (PhD in Bio-Medical Engineering) & his equally indoctrinated wife, barred me from seeing my G-kids for 18 months, because I refused the experimental biologic Jab(s), didn't wear the face diaper, & refused to be subjected to a useless PCR test. The rift between my son & his wife is still there, tho I can now see our G-kids, under freedom killing limitations.
My wife & I celebrated 39 yrs together on the 6th (my good friends tell me she's a saint 😂), & while I had (happily for me) previously been barred from her family's (10 siblings) every other year Thanksgiving gatherings in 2019 because I am a permitted follower of our 2nd Amendment, & they all labor under the delusion that it is the gun alone that murders, & not the one behind it, her family banned her from attending in 2021 (2020 was an off year) because she was not Jabbed, which deeply hurt her, & has strained all of their relationships. My own family was similarly afflicted, but our relationship(s) had always been rather strained, as they are all on the far left, & I am the lone, Black Sheep Conservative.
However, my wife & I were lucky to have agreement amongst ourselves, our younger son, & many good, long time friends (& many new ones now!) on the insanity of the Scamdemic/Coronamania, & none of us will ever give up remembering, & raging against the utter tyranny our Country went thru.
Ok, done ranting..... for now! 😉
Keep writing Mark, for what you are doing is now, & forever will be, a much needed, well written, & overwhelmingly honest window into which generations can look in to, to try & understand what really transpired.
This period was so surreal. I went to lunch with 4 of my friends toward the end of the craziness, so restaurants were open but were spacing diners and insisting on masks. My group included a physician, a nurse, an accountant and me, an engineer. I was astonished when they all walked in to the restaurant masked then sat down and removed their masks. They told me it was okay to unmask while seated. Said this with straight faces. I couldn’t believe that all my smart friends were so dumbed down by this scam.
So many horror stories. Here's just one: A scientist from California whose work on climate issues I really respected at the time (fall 2020), posted on Tweeter that "anyone who doesn't wear a mask is an asshole."
My wife suffers from trigeminal neuralgia and cannot tolerate any touch or pressure on her face.
An asthmatic elderly friend of mine struggled to breathe through her mask when grocery shopping. She feared passing out. Nobody cared about people like her.
During lockdowns, my 2 children had Zoom classes. My oldest son has autism so the Zoom classes were worthless. His autism got worse during the lockdowns and developed very bad OCDs. He wasn't able to get any speech therapy or OT. Honestly, the lockdowns made his autism worse and he hasn't made much improvement since 2020. My younger son was able to handle Zoom classes. However, it was sad to see him doing push-ups and jumping jacks in the kitchen for "gym class". It was difficult to learn to play a musical instrument in Zoom classes so many students dropped out of the band. I could go on and on how the lockdowns ruined children's lives. Meanwhile, my company mandated the bioweapon shots or get fired. I ended up finding another job that didn't mandate the jabs and I resigned from my company after 27 years of service. Everyone's lives were turned upside down. I haven't gotten over it yet. I want acknowledgement and accountability for what happened. I'm deeply disturbed by the people, including my own family members, who still haven't woken up.
Wow, JG, that is horrible. If you want to write a longer account of what you experienced, I would post it here. You can change names, etc., to protect identity. Up to you.
If you want to meet and be among like-minded people, there's a small group of us in/near New Brunswick.
Outstanding post, Mark. While my group of friends largely fell for the scam, they were not the type to run and hide inside; instead, we found outdoor spots to meet and have a beer and food, as our usual spots were closed. My deepest negative personal experiences include:
1-Not being able to visit my elderly mother (87) and father (88) while they were hospitalized "with Covid". One survived, one did not. Daily phone conversations (and a subsequent rehab drive-up window) were poor substitutes for personal, face-to-face contact. I will never forget being denied this little bit of decency.
2- Having my daughter being forced into a drive-up high school graduation, where she was unable to enjoy this right of passage the way it should have happened. She was then robbed of her freshman year of college by being remote for the entire academic year. I laugh at the continued pandering for money from this institution after their senseless behavior.
Numerous other smaller experiences shall not soon fade from memory, including the ridiculous one-way shopping aisles, the equally moronic 6-foot distancing, the closure of favorite watering holes, and the idiocy of contact tracing.
I was at an outdoor farm stand (Hamptons, L.I. NY) in the summer of 2020. Customers were dutifully lined up most wearing masks waiting to pay for their produce--6 feet apart. I knew the girl behind the table, had exact change and decided to jump the line and just hold up my purchase and lay the money down. This guy from NYC started screaming to the girl behind the table to not serve me as I was not wearing a mask. I told him to go fuck himself but he continued screaming "don't serve him --don't serve him". I could not control my self and approached him quickly with the intention of grabbing him by his shirt and probably throw him to the ground. I stopped with my hands two inches from his face...he flinched and backed up. I stopped. I was thinking that this was insane. I walked away got into my car to go and watched him get behind my car with his phone to take a picture of my license plate. Learning I was surrounded by mindless sheep was the worst part of the scamdemic. My neighbors still get their C19 booster shots to this day. Sad--very sad.
Although I think of myself as the most boringly respectable person I know, I found myself “barred” from our local Aldi supermarket. An instruction had been issued that people could only shop singly in supermarkets, never mind whether you were old/infirm/too short in stature to reach the upper shelves etc. A furious young manager stopped me and demanded to know why I was shopping with my husband. My response that it was none of her business resulted in her yelling at the top of her voice that I was now barred from “her” shop. I’m sure the other shoppers were vastly entertained, but I was mortified and the experience rankles with me still (as you can see).
It is sad to read of your experience in Aldi's, but I must let you know that every time I see you comment using your handle of ZuZu's Petals, it just brings a big smile to my face, because It's a Wonderful Life has always been one of my very favorite movies, & we watch it, along with Miracle on 34th Street, every year during the holidays.... & we're Jewish! 😂
Dear Molon, what a lovely response to my comment. Thank you so much. We have a recording of It’s a Wonderful Life (it doesn’t seem to be shown on TV these days) and we, too, make a tradition of watching it each Christmas. It never ages, does it?
There are three memories from Coronamaina that stand out for me. And I preface this by saying that unless one lived in a deep blue Democrat controlled city in 2020-22, it's can be difficult to understand what it was really like. This was Seattle, but it could have been any left coast blue city in Oregon or California.
February, 2021
Mask mandate mania was nearing its peak. I decided to go to my local Safeway grocery store without a mask. I had a fake N-95 mask ready in case I was asked to leave, but I wore it on my chin. I was the only one in the store maskless. But other than being occasionally stared at, nothing happened.
That is, until I got to the self-checkout lane. In 2021 I was 56 years old, and I have little experience with violence. In any kind of altercation with someone experienced in violence, I would lose.
As I was scanning my items, a very large, tall man who looked to be in his early 30’s, wearing a football jersey (it was Sunday) started screaming at me from behind his mask. He wasn’t store staff, but a store customer. From at least three isles away: “SIR!! PUT. YOUR. MASK. ON!!!”. I ignored him and continued scanning my items. He screams again from 3 lanes away: “SIR!!! PUT! YOUR! MASK! ON!!!”.
I looked around. Everyone, including store staff, had their head down and wanted no part of this. Given this guy’s size and height, I began to fear that this could escalate into a physical confrontation which I would likely lose. I quickly finished scanning and left the store, doing my best to ignore him and not make eye contact as I walked out. When I got home, I considered carrying a tactical flashlight for self defense if I wanted to try going into a store maskless again.
In retrospect, I wish I had taken out my phone and started recording this guy's rant. Not only would it have been an important historical document, but I would have made sure the recording had eternal life on YouTube. I sometimes wonder what this guy thinks of his behavior today.
September, 2021
I did not get the shot, and I never would. Even before 2020 I never even got flu shots. I have a family history of auto-immune diseases. I don’t take pharmaceuticals that interfere with my immune system. Sorry, just no. Hard stop.
Rumors had been circulating that Biden was going to announce a vax mandate for Federal workers. I was not a federal worker, but my employer sometimes contracts with the Federal Government. I’m a software developer with a 30-year career in the industry at the same employer.
At the end of September it happens. Biden went on TV and announced that he was personally ordering a Vax mandate for all Federal workers AND any company that contracts with the Federal government.
A few days later my employer called me in to a meeting. They said they received a call from one of their federal contractors (on the other side of the country) demanding proof of vax from all of the employees at my company. I explain to my manager that I can’t make this kind of medical decision based on a threat to lose my job. I just can’t. I manage to hold it together as I’m saying this. My wife is disabled and both of us depend on my job.
I was incredibly fortunate that my employer liked me and found a way to keep me that didn’t require me to get the shot. Any other Seattle employer would have gleefully thrown me under the bus. Because of this my employer has my ride-or-die loyalty. But I’m also happy to be retiring next year and out of the workforce completely. The situation will never happen again where I have to choose between my job and taking an experimenal medical treatment that I don’t want.
March, 2022
My disabled wife was in a large Seattle hospital for shoulder surgery. She depends on me to help her with physical tasks. After the surgery, I went to the hospital thinking they would offer me a rapid test in leu of proof of vax. Yeah, right.
I was denied entry to the hospital. I pleaded with them. I told them my wife is disabled and depends on me for help. The front door guards not only didn’t care, but seemed (lowkey a little bit?) to be enjoying this new power they had. The worst part was that a long line of people who flashed an image on their phones were welcomed in.
I was distraught when I got home. But I immediately fired up Photoshop and got creative. I’m an effing software engineer. I vowed that never again would I be denied entry to a hospital to see my wife because my phone lacked a particular kind of image. But it turned out not to be necessary. A few months later the hospital dropped its vax mandate and pretended like none of it ever happened.
There are other stories, of being prohibited from sitting inside restaurants and missing work events because of this.
What I learned, living in Seattle during Coronamania, was that most people are just fine with a two-tiered apartheid society as long as they are the ones on the top tier. That is not something I believed before 2020.
I had a friend dying in hospital whose death may well have been hastened by the jab she agreed to have against her better judgement to keep her job as a nurse. Being unjabbed, I wasn't allowed to visit, however, I was able to doctor the pdf vax certificate - amazingly easily - that my mother had received in Italy before her return to Australia. Being foreign, the certificate wasn't subject to digital identification.
I really don't know what I would have done if that circumstance hadn't hadn't allowed me to visit.
From a young age, maybe fifth grade, I always wondered how the holocaust happened. Why did so many common people just let it happen or worse yet, participate in it. Your stories and similar ones from the past few years have answered my question. This is very sad and is a sad commentary on the nature of humans.
Reminder that hundreds of thousands of Americans were slaughtered in hospitals and nursing homes via deadly Covid protocols, but nobody wants to talk about the Covid hospital/nursing protocols or the euthanization of tens of thousands of the elderly.
There were hot spots of deaths immediately after the pandemic was announced...this happened synchronously everywhere where the hospitals and nursing homes followed the treatment protocols and basically killed people.
While the death and destruction caused by the COVID bioweapon injections has, rightfully, earned lots of attention, it's important to note that just as many people—if not more—were killed by what's been deemed by some as covid "murder protocols" in the hospitals and nursing homes which were turned into "killing fields."
The roaring silence on this matter from those in the "health freedom movement" is profound and deeply disturbing.
No one died from phony "Covid" outside of hospitals or nursing homes. Everyone who died of "Covid" died in the hospital or nursing home. Many people still think that their loved ones died of "Covid"—they didn't- and quite a few also know. They died from medical murder.
Why are the more prominent voices in the health freedom movement so silent on this matter? Why are they allowing this to be swept under the rug?
There were some who died of C; we will never have good data. Remember the “stay home until you can’t breathe?” The inflammatory cascade was indeed deadly for some. The ban on early treatment remains, for me, one of the most horrific parts, because of the blatantly purposeful goal to inflict harm.
99% of people falsely certified as having ‘died from covid’ actually died from their preexisting conditions being exacerbated by mass medical malpractice and ‘public health’ despotism, the other 1% simply died of old age.
From the CDC itself 7/16/21:
“Of the 540,667 hospitalized coronavirus patients included in the study, 80,174 died during the observation period (March 2020 to March 2021).
A whopping 99.1% of the patients who died had at least one pre-existing condition, with just 740 having no prior condition on record. Most patients who "died from COVID" had multiple pre-existing conditions, with just 2.6% suffering from only one condition, compared to 32.3% who had two to five preexisting conditions, 39.1% who had six to ten, and 25.1% who have more than ten pre-existing conditions.”
Translation: No one has ‘died from covid’ as “Covid” is nothing more than a fraudulent PCR result plus a nebulous clinical re-branding of cold, “flu” and many other disease conditions.
There was no new novel pathogen of any sort and nothing unusual happening in Spring 2020.
Not disputing the effect of comorbid conditions, but the GoF coronavirus had a unique skill set, unlike common coronaviruses. Many iatrogenic deaths, but other patients died before ever reaching medical attention.
There was no pandemic of a novel deadly virus as evidenced by no excess deaths in municipalities adjacent to those that had excess deaths. That’s not how viruses work. Also Covid couldn’t infect, sicken or much less kill a ship full of old people (Diamond Princess).
There was no pandemic; all fake propaganda. Many people killed by protocols. However, the sequenced gof single stranded rna virus, complete with segments that don’t occur in nature, is real, seen on electron microscopy, and did have a unique clinical skill set. This was seen both inside and outside the hospital setting. Not dismissing the “host theory,” but viral contagion is real in some form. Look at measles…
What clinical set distinguishes a person infected with Covid from someone infected with another coronavirus? Published literature shows no difference. Santa Clara seroprevalence study in Spring 2020, showed that the Covid signal was widespread in the community without commensurate clinical complaints.
And of course, the whole thing was a giant global psyop. Sadly, the “cold virus” was real and had some untoward effects on some. Chouaki Benmansour N, Carvelli J, Vivier E. Complement cascade in severe forms of COVID-19: Recent advances in therapy. Eur J Immunol. 2021 Jul;51(7):1652-1659. doi: 10.1002/eji.202048959. Epub 2021 Apr 10. PMID: 33738806; PMCID: PMC8250085.
Strategically, it was a replay of Catholic Indulgences. Social control by selling a gullible public a non-solution to an imaginary problem through massive, internationally coordinated propaganda and the power of suggestion. I suspect something akin to the construction of a western version of a CCP social credit system was a primary goal, with the vaccine passport serving as the pre-textual architecture. Big Pharma earned their 30 pieces of silver helping the national security state apparatchiks continue in the same mission exposed by Snowden.
My comment: They are not silent so much as censored, and because they are censored many others in the medical freedom movement (it's a big tent after all) simply do not know. There are plenty of doctors and nurses and bereaved and survivors who spoke out and early on about the murderous covid hospital protocols, but all got thrown off of Big tech social media sites, or worse.
The newly hired & installed in the MAHA movement have been doing much already, considering it is less than 10 months since they've been climbing the years long built, steep hills of corruption & ignorance, tossing off as much as they can along the way.
I think they will get to what you discuss, as the obstacles are cleared, but well written letters like yours, sent to them, sure might help give them courage!
I wrote to my MP at the time of the nursing home deaths with statistical evidence that the death rates were due to either the vax campaign or the "care" in the homes as the deaths spiked whenever the vax was introduced and not before. I found she was not interested to take this further.
I live in a 55 and older community and was one of the extremely few who didn’t buy into ALL of it, initially I expressed this position in multiple ways and venues. As a result of my thoughts, I was excommunicated and blacklisted from the community at large. Neighbors, who I had considered friends, not only stopped speaking to me, they stopped “seeing” me. It was if I never existed, and this has continued to this day. I recently moved to a new neighborhood, because the cloud I was living under became too dark. Thank the good Lord, the light is slowly coming back into my life.
It was lonely being sane.
Yes
Mark, when I go to your substack directly I only see two posts. I wonder if it's only me who sees only these two posts? If you put your substack URL into an incognito window you will see what others see. I'll delete this msg when you respond.
Link to image of what I see:
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/e4b9f447-e0e7-4d90-beb0-f1a25d318b90?postPreview=paid&updated=2025-10-10T02%3A42%3A56.208Z&audience=everyone&free_preview=false&freemail=true
Fearful sickos.
What a place to live. Good on you for your move.
"... they stopped “seeing” me. " You helped me realize what happened! I didn't have to face any violence but certainly was made to feel invisible. I was considered to be an essential human being at the time because I was working in a bank. I wouldn't wear a mask but did wear a lightweight Walmart gaiter loosely over my face. Even that was too much, as far as I was concerned. I told everyone that this was ridiculous everyday until they'd see me coming and groan: 'we know'! I switched to the call center so I could ditch the face cover but had to quit when they changed those rules later. I lost all respect for that bank. Remember when we had to carry letters saying we were 'essential' in case cops stopped us? I will never forget nor will I forgive.
I am so sorry this happened to you.
My mother was in the same position. She took the jabs because of pressure and the fear of losing all her friends. She has had every adverse reaction to them, TIA's, MI's, Palsy - not Palsy, but worsening neuro deficits, something like Ramsey Hunt syndrome, and now a tremor. All because of fear of ostracism and isolation
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So very sorry for you losing your mother to the quagmire. I imagine it's hard understanding her mind-capture in this Coronamania and dealing with the medical failings it's causing.
Thank you. She knows now. She reads some substack. She recognizes that the jabs were not good. I try not to talk about it. I am sure she feels plenty of regret. She does now push back against her friends.
So sorry that happened to you, Kathy. Sometimes I feel I should have spoken up more than I did ... but then the massive antipathy towards it seems to justify not having done so.
did not help a bit. they were all brainwashed. luckily our small towns did not lock down like the big ones did. We had barely 2 or 3 weeks, and my hairdresser had to re-open after a month, having to pay off a mortgage and not getting any replacement income! At first he wore a mask and after a few weeks gave up on it too, realizing he did not know who had injected and who did not. He knew I didn't and he knows I have not been sick. All those in contact with me know. But the former friends are still distant acquaintances now.
Relieve yourself of this burden, Petra, if you are, in fact, carrying it. There is no reaching or teaching...the unteachable. I learned that good and hard after Sep 11th.
"COVID" was the same. While maybe someone here or there may have benefited from your efforts, Petra, you would have paid a greater price. The vast, vast majority are simply unteachable. Worse, they lack even a scintilla of fidelity to courage or liberty -- theirs or anyone else's. And they proved that -- in spades.
Yes, the repercussions are ongoing. I don’t know any whose understanding of things has changed. In fact, people I know are still getting boosters along with flu shots.
yes I know a few too. thankfully dad stopped, but a friend got a fifth shot a few months ago. she realized all the side affects, but 'they would not hurt her'. Until she gets a bad lot... or like poison ivy, after years of no allergy, all of a sudden blisters!
Glad you found a new and hopefully better place Kathy.
Living kinda lonely in the woods became even lonelier when my former best friends did not even call. They must have thought the virus went over the phone LOL. I can laugh about it now, but at the time I was just wondering, had I gone mad? Thankfully my animals kept me going, and I soon found first Alex Berenson, who like me had not believed the scam, and then lots of others. Still had some bad episodes, but hey, clouds open and the sun comes through each and every time again. I hope you found the sunshine xxx
So insightful and so spot-on...
THANK YOU, Mark!
My husband and I owned a martial arts school in Los Angeles at the start of the "pandemic" (at the time, my husband had been teaching from that same location for over 30 years). We were harassed and threatened by city "authorities" for trying to conduct zoom "classes" from an empty school...
Later, when we tried to keep our business going by teaching at a local park, the park "authorities" called the police on our class of kids...they sent 4 SUVs, with 2 sheriffs in each, for a total of 8 sheriffs to the park to stop our class of 12 kids from exercising...
There were others in the park that day who were picnicking together, or walking dogs, or playing frisbee together...there was also a personal trainer who was working with clients...
When we asked why we were being singled out, the sheriffs told us it was because we were "organized" (karate uniforms and the kids in line). The sheriffs and park "authorities" did not appreciate my husband's offer for us to take off the uniforms and scatter the kids around the park to conduct our "class"...
We lost our business/livelihood, and the community lost a martial arts school that focused on fitness and self defense. We taught karate, jiu-jitsu, self defense (including women's self defense), bully defense, discipline/self control, fitness and philosophy to toddlers as young as 3 years old, kids, and adults...
We escaped the utter lunacy of Los Angeles, and moved across the country to be closer to my family...who then ostracized us when they realized that we were NEVER going to take the modified mRNA-LNP transfection injections (and because I repeatedly pleaded with them to look at the info that I was sending to them about the predictable immune system attack response to injecting something into their bodies that induced their own cells to produce non-self proteins).
To this day, members of my family (many of whom are now struggling with new health issues including new cancers, weird neurological symptoms, repeated infections, new/worsening autoimmune diseases, and more...) still believe that it was/is ok that we (the "COVID unvaxxed") were threatened, dehumanized, demonized, and abused by governmental "authorities", "public health" agencies, and the Big pHARMa captured "mainstream" media...
I am no longer in contact with most of my family members...
Hey, but it was all OPTIONAL!
Sad for them - their loss.
You have one another, and that’s a treasure
For sure!
Thank you!
:)
Oh my goodness. So sorry, Kelly, that both you and your community lost your business and it cost you so much family-wise.
Thank you, Petra.
sad to read how you lost your livelyhood - I hope you found a place where you could build up again, but of course, nothing replaces what you lost. We are now like islands in the ocean broken off from the mainland!
Thank you, Ingrid.
Rebuilding has been slow-going and a work in progress...
"We are now like islands in the ocean broken off from the mainland!"
That's a great analogy!
terrific testament, Kelly Reardon. The saving grace of , "I lost more faith in humanity each day" is that there is always going to be a certain percentage who see things for what they are. That is worth a lot, at least for now. Because I am not so sure that percentage won't continue to decline.
Thank you, wilson.
100%
Wow Kelly , I never knew you went through this . 😪
It's been a journey I never wanted to take...
:(
Mark is so spot-on with his article, including where he writes, "elections manipulated by bogus mail-in ballots cast during a phony emergency, and the consequences thereof, including unlimited, destabilizing immigration."
My husband, Christian, and his family legally immigrated to the USA from an authoritarian country in 1970 when my (now) husband was 10 years old. (He was born & grew up in Egypt until 10 years old, but had an Italian mother and a Lebanese father). My husband spoke French, Italian, Arabic, and was learning Greek.
When they immigrated, my husband and his sister didn't speak a word of English and their parents' English was very sparse...But their whole family immediately started learning to read, write, and speak English. His family assimilated.
If you were to meet my husband today, you would never know that English wasn't his first (or second or third...) language. (He is still fluent in French and Italian but has lost Arabic and Greek).
They became naturalized American citizens and they were so grateful to be able to live in America and have the God-given freedoms that are guaranteed to all Americans...or so we all thought...enter the scamdemic...
Besides the damage & destruction caused by the lockdowns and the horror of recognizing the inherent dangers of the gene "therapy" transfection bioweapons, I cannot tell you how pissed we are at what the Globalist/Communist America-hating Leftist autopen Administration did to this country via their facilitation of illegal aliens invading our country.
I'm sad for you & for all of us to one degree or another. Division is a big goal for those who dream of nothing but conquering the whole world, & the far reaching effects of the "safe & effective" scam are far from over, IMO. God will have the last word. Keep keepin' on.
Thank you, Anna Marie.
Absolutely 100%
After going to work every day in 2020-2021 (I ran a community college health center at the time) while all but a few of my colleagues were paid to stay home and play with their cats, walk the dog, drink alcohol during Zoom meetings, and take trips out of state, I lost my job because of mandates.
All of the sheep who abandoned our students and took advantage of the nearly two year paid vacation will still get their pensions.
I am now losing my current job (this time at a “holistic” nursing company) because they, too, have discovered over the last five years just how lucrative pharma collaboration is.
It will never end until the People stop using the services of mainstream medicine. Poisoning the public is very profitable.
I am hoping the local book store is hiring for the Christmas rush.
The teachers were terrible: they say they care about the kids. This was shown to be a lie.
My older daughter is a teacher in California. The state took a computer to the home of every student and provided internet. My daughter sat in an empty classroom and taught from her computer screen. She hated it. She wanted her students where she could see whether they understood, where she could read the body language and know if they were okay. Her own children were stuck at home on a computer while she pretended that “her students” were getting the “education” she tried to provide.
She was not afraid to get sick. Why would she be? She’s been teaching for almost 30 years. The ones who said they were afraid were lazy and lying, or mentally ill. No excuse
Agreed - in the main. my daughter (NZ) underwent the daily mouth swab nonsense as she was so concerned about her young pupils and their anxieties and fears and wanted to be there for them ....she knew that after the Christmas holidays the edict from Jabcinda Arden the 'leader' of NZ, biggest hypocrite and tyrant ever.....she would have to accept the covid "vaccination" or lose her hard-won position at school....this she ended up doing as she simply could not face insisting that the children wear face masks or encourage 'vaccination'...her conscience could not go that far but as long as it was she alone who was sacrificing she was prepared to. (nor was she thrilled to be told she could use the staffroom only when others were not there and to keep her lunch separate from theirs....). On the bright side, after her resignation, the school board declined to allow her to clear out her office or return her computer as they insisted she be given a year's 'leave' and not resign .....
Wow.....the utter insanity of all that, just boggles the mind Miss Lynda.
Bigtime kudos to your daughter for standing tall against the onslaught!
Among my friends, we've discussed at length why some of us saw this for what it was, & others, just didn't, nor will they ever. We ourselves are a diverse lot, & for most of us, there are some members of our own, immediate families who do not see this as we all do, so we have yet to have discovered a golden paradigm, that we can lay this upon, except for one thing...... we all have an almost insatiable curiosity about all around us, have had this ever since we can remember, & also have retained a sense of humor, in the face of this tyranny. Is this the common denominator? I really don't know, because we are such a small group, but my gut tells me, that is is a large part of why we "saw, what we saw, & acted, as we acted".
If there are any of you out there who wish to opine upon this, please do!
Oh yes....my few like-minded friends and I have often discussed this and the united answer is that we always had curiosity as children and questioned -and observed. As for retaining a sense of humour- not so much, sadly in my case although this reminder of 'that time' which could be construed as humorous was when our leader - now well rewarded and worth millions of $ along with being ensconced at your Harvard University ......instructed us via her daily TV appearance that although restrictions were easing and we were now permitted to visit friends, a few at a time only though, we were not permitted to use their bathroom facilities.....we were told we needed to either return home or find a close by bush outside. I kid you not. Announced on nationwide TV ! To add to the nonsense-ness of this edict I later discovered that this scenario played out when a friend visited it a mutual friend of ours and was denied toilet relief....they are no longer friends, needless to say. (nope, try though I might I still can't find humor in it !)
To echo Candy......Wow! What you described? The inmates were truly running the asylum. YJCMTSU, & I am speechless regarding what you suffered thru. I understand that you may not be able to see the humor in what you described, but don't let them win, don't let what they did, take away your ability to recognize when you do run across humor today, for it is still out there, & it is darn good for the soul.
Many thanks for the reminder and encouragement; it is appreciated. I see no humour in what happened during convid when govt told us, via now Labour leader Hipkins...."We will hunt you down" if not complying -amongst other alarming statements and acts. But it was funny to see so many walk around with far longer hair than usual....courtesy of banning non compliers from hair dressers....and to have fellow pedestrians, wearing masks, actually prefer to walk out onto the road to avoid me walking toward them. maskless. I figured they deserved what they might get should a car hit them. Oh and it was funny when aforementioned would be leader Hipkins told us, at a time when outside movement was Ok, to "go and spread the legs". Post convid, however, I find much to rejoice in and smile and laugh at and make a point of it as, yes, for sure, you are correct and my being and soul belongs to my Creator, Jesus, and not to be ruled by any other entity.
Wow
The behavior of our education "professionals" was especially horrifying, willingly sacrificing our youth to avoid possibly being ill for a few days
Holistic means nowadays 'has holes'. Our holistic doctor is just as needle pushing as most of the others. A holistic center a friend went to in Atlanta, wanted her to mask up and take the shots (this was in 2024). She refused but took the appointment nevertheless. I would have left then and there. I found an allopathic doc who asked me if I had taken the shots, but immediately added, WE are not pushing them. Which made me like her immediately.
To me it wasn't so much about all the bad things that happened although I won't forget:
--- The guy in my local cafe who told me about his sister who'd just died after the jab - ironically, she'd researched the AZ jab which her research told her was safe - her father has now written a book about her (https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/the-anger-is-always-there-dads-struggle-after-death-of-astrazeneca-victim-katie-lees/news-story/2f071022e17ad69f526f12a331a5ccee)
--- A guy in my local park who suffered serious leg problems after the jab
--- My friend who was a nurse who died of cancer and whose death may well have been precipitated by the jab she took to keep her job - she had the cancer prior to the jab but her condition seemed stable prior to it,
--- The horrendous repatriation of my mother from Italy - my mother, 82, who was living in Italy and suffering from Alzheimer's and her angel of a chaperone, Susie, were both detained at Rome airport for two nights, the first night because it seems incorrect information was provided about the covid test required and the second night because the Dept of Immigration didn't accept Susie's "compassion grounds" for escort despite the fact that the airline said they would not take my mother on the plane unaccompanied. Susie, my mother's American neighbour in Italy, had known my mother less than a year but agreed to chaperone her because we agreed to pay all expenses and because, as a keen tennis player, it afforded her the opportunity to go to the Australian Open, something she'd always wanted to do. I really don't know if she thought it was worth it in the end because those two nights in the airport and the subsequent 24 hour plane journey were a complete nightmare from start to finish. My mother's Alzheimer's went out of control and we will be eternally grateful to Susie that she did it all with such good grace. To top it off, Susie was forced to stay an extra week in Sydney prior to returning because she tested positive despite not being sick.
However, whatever individual bad things happened that affected me personally or others weren't what bothered me the most even though obviously deaths of people is about as bad as it gets - it was the horrible, horrible feeling of the ever-constant thought from Day One - this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it, this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it, this is a big lie - there is no novel virus - and everyone's going along with it.
It was the surreality, it was the cravenness, the rabid hostility to dissent, the utter moronicness of it, that bothered me the most ... and still does.
Australia went full fascist.
My friend spent nearly a year living in a van Down Under, rather than bend the knee.
Tough people are few. God bless Susie and your mom.
Watch this video about Melbourne, Australia during covid. It's horrifying....unless you are a globalist or want to live in a Hunger Games dystopian world.
Battleground Melbourne
https://youtu.be/xzfJGC1_yPo?si=Sxjc2u6uj1iPR1M5
My liberal friend in Melbourne... never to be heard of again. Never thought I'd have seen once powerful Aussies becoming so weak.
Lots of surprises in 2020-2022
Watching this now, & thank you for posting it Miss Alice.
So far, a very well put together documentary, that deserves an audience as large as that of the yearly Football StuporBowl (oops, American Football, not soccer 😂).
I knew of some of this, but not that it went to this level of super nova.
Nice work Mark! This is like a healthy splash of cold water in the face. You know, you actually evoked a good coronamania memory for me: October 2020. My youngest son and I are visiting a small mountain town in NC. We go out to find a beer and a meal. Walk into a Tony little hippie-looking pizza joint and are blasted by a dark, steamy air packed with masked patrons. First time in my life I felt the panic of claustrophobia. We turned tail. Went down the street to a local Tavern. It was bright inside. It was a mix of mountain folk and visitors-- standing room only at the bar and the tables were packed. NOT ONE CUSTOMER WAS WEARING A MASK. We stayed until closing time. Wife and I ended up buying a little house up there. And even now the memory and impact of that beautiful evening, the Tavern-- the incredible people and scene-- gets me teared up.
We were reduced to getting teary about normality, I also did,
In itself, that's sad.
At the end of the mask mandate period....not that I adhered to it anyway....in the supermarket one day checking out my groceries an elderly lady kept well away from me and refused to add hers to the countertop...when motioned to by staff she scowled even more deeply and jabbed at me angrily with her finger.....I said nothing until leaving when I smiled and assured her that I was not dangerous to her health. On transferring my bags to my car a young mother with a small child came over to me and I thought "Oh no, here we go again....I am endangering her child and how selfish of me...." only to be thanked by her for showing my face as her child had not seen an unmasked face in her almost-two years of life other than those of her parents.....absolute child abuse .The horror of it brought tears to my eyes.
Exactly! We were swimming in misery and didn't even realize it until we got out of it.
My teary moment came at dinner one evening at a restaurant. Our server was a lovely young woman who I could tell went to a lot of trouble with her hair and eye makeup to look beautiful despite the mask. I complimented her on her beautiful eyes and offhandedly said I wished I could see her smile. When we got up to leave she approached me, looked around to make sure no one was watching her, pulled down her mask and smiled. She was stunning.
Good one Mark ! The compliance tactic was a slow insidious process that started years before. We must never forget and continue the fight . I saw the horrors as an unjabbed hospitalist/ laborist inside a hospital….. downright satanic. I still have my medical license but had to fight for it for speaking out .
I read these stories with such sadness! We live in a small town (750 or so inhabitants) on the eastern edge of South Dakota. Our lives were not nearly as affected. When the city council and mayor of Sioux Falls caved to a hysterical minority and instituted a 3 month mask mandate, Amazon became my go-to. We had restaurants that ignored the mask requirement so that’s where we went if we wanted to eat out. We were stunned and sickened by the number of friends and relatives who bought into the scam. Some are now dead thanks to rare turbo cancers. Others are treating oddball health issues they can’t figure out. I’m so sorry for all of you who lost so much!
Great article, Mark!
You did ask for us to comment, so
WARNING! LONG SCREED AHEAD!
Living in rural GA & working for myself on a house, I was able to just ignore most of the mass psychosis that had taken much of the World by storm. When the lunatics decided that the Sheeple needed "2 weeks detention to flatten the curve", we (wife, youngest son - #2, & myself) just ignored it, & went ahead with a planned move of 190 miles, to be closer to our G-daughter, & soon to be born, G-son. #2 son & I used my truck & trailer to load up in the morning, drive for 3 hrs, unload all, & that evening, we'd drive back, often past the portable, flashing DOT signs at the entrances & exits to the small towns we drove thru, that let us know we were out after the "curfew" (What, the KungFlu slept during the day, just like it didn't live at table level in some restaurants?). I looked forward to a LEO pulling me over, & the discussion that would engender, but despite driving past many a LEO in their idling Cruisers, that never happened.
I saw the signage at the stores, & just refused to wear the face diaper, but would leave those establishments if requested I do so, & walk my $$ elsewhere. Maybe because we didn't live in such leftist confines (like NJ 😉), & I always had a big smile on my face as I passed the face diapered, I was never hassled.
Growing up Jewish in WA State, I was often the only Jew in school, & in the neighborhood, but this didn't bother me, cause by Kindergarten, I had figured out that by telling my friends that during Hanukkah, I received presents for 8 nights, & they only had one day on Christmas, they were asking me if they could be Jewish, too! I will admit that after a few kid toys on the 1st night, the rest of the presents were needed articles of clothing like a nice shirt, sweaters, a new winter coat, or a new pair of Red Ball Keds, so I could run faster & jump higher, but I sure didn't tell them that, & only had them over on the 1st night.
As a Jew, I read the books that told the stories of those that survived the Holocaust, starting at age 11, because some of those books populated the bookshelves of my parents, & grandparents, & I was an addicted reader.
When my wife received an official letter just before the planned "2 weeks", that declared her an "essential worker" cause she's an Anesthesiologist, I knew the fix was in. It was maddening to see the same verbiage the nazis used on that "official" paper from our Guv'mint, but more so for me, it was hugely disappointing that this could ever happen in the Land of the Free, & the Home of the Brave.....the Country that liberated most of those left alive in the Concentration Camps.
I was hurt further when our College indoctrinated oldest son (PhD in Bio-Medical Engineering) & his equally indoctrinated wife, barred me from seeing my G-kids for 18 months, because I refused the experimental biologic Jab(s), didn't wear the face diaper, & refused to be subjected to a useless PCR test. The rift between my son & his wife is still there, tho I can now see our G-kids, under freedom killing limitations.
My wife & I celebrated 39 yrs together on the 6th (my good friends tell me she's a saint 😂), & while I had (happily for me) previously been barred from her family's (10 siblings) every other year Thanksgiving gatherings in 2019 because I am a permitted follower of our 2nd Amendment, & they all labor under the delusion that it is the gun alone that murders, & not the one behind it, her family banned her from attending in 2021 (2020 was an off year) because she was not Jabbed, which deeply hurt her, & has strained all of their relationships. My own family was similarly afflicted, but our relationship(s) had always been rather strained, as they are all on the far left, & I am the lone, Black Sheep Conservative.
However, my wife & I were lucky to have agreement amongst ourselves, our younger son, & many good, long time friends (& many new ones now!) on the insanity of the Scamdemic/Coronamania, & none of us will ever give up remembering, & raging against the utter tyranny our Country went thru.
Ok, done ranting..... for now! 😉
Keep writing Mark, for what you are doing is now, & forever will be, a much needed, well written, & overwhelmingly honest window into which generations can look in to, to try & understand what really transpired.
Thanks for all of that, brother.
Thanks, Elliott, for that great message even though it has sad aspects.
Thanks for being a friend I haven't met. But will.
This period was so surreal. I went to lunch with 4 of my friends toward the end of the craziness, so restaurants were open but were spacing diners and insisting on masks. My group included a physician, a nurse, an accountant and me, an engineer. I was astonished when they all walked in to the restaurant masked then sat down and removed their masks. They told me it was okay to unmask while seated. Said this with straight faces. I couldn’t believe that all my smart friends were so dumbed down by this scam.
So many horror stories. Here's just one: A scientist from California whose work on climate issues I really respected at the time (fall 2020), posted on Tweeter that "anyone who doesn't wear a mask is an asshole."
My wife suffers from trigeminal neuralgia and cannot tolerate any touch or pressure on her face.
https://arizonapain.com/trigeminal-neuralgia-suicide-disease/#:~:text=Often%20called%20the%20%E2%80%9Csuicide%20disease,even%20the%20slightest%20breath%20of
She had already been fighting the mask mandates and asserting what she believed to be her right to a medical exemption for months.
When I read the guy's posting I felt physically sick. The comment cemented our perception that we had entered a world of pain.
An asthmatic elderly friend of mine struggled to breathe through her mask when grocery shopping. She feared passing out. Nobody cared about people like her.
Nope...she didn't count.
She had to be sacrificed to save grandma...Oh wait, she WAS grandma!
During lockdowns, my 2 children had Zoom classes. My oldest son has autism so the Zoom classes were worthless. His autism got worse during the lockdowns and developed very bad OCDs. He wasn't able to get any speech therapy or OT. Honestly, the lockdowns made his autism worse and he hasn't made much improvement since 2020. My younger son was able to handle Zoom classes. However, it was sad to see him doing push-ups and jumping jacks in the kitchen for "gym class". It was difficult to learn to play a musical instrument in Zoom classes so many students dropped out of the band. I could go on and on how the lockdowns ruined children's lives. Meanwhile, my company mandated the bioweapon shots or get fired. I ended up finding another job that didn't mandate the jabs and I resigned from my company after 27 years of service. Everyone's lives were turned upside down. I haven't gotten over it yet. I want acknowledgement and accountability for what happened. I'm deeply disturbed by the people, including my own family members, who still haven't woken up.
Wow, JG, that is horrible. If you want to write a longer account of what you experienced, I would post it here. You can change names, etc., to protect identity. Up to you.
If you want to meet and be among like-minded people, there's a small group of us in/near New Brunswick.
forecheck32 at g mail.
Regardless, blessings to you.
So sorry you experienced this and your son's autism has deteriorated as a result of this criminal scam.
Outstanding post, Mark. While my group of friends largely fell for the scam, they were not the type to run and hide inside; instead, we found outdoor spots to meet and have a beer and food, as our usual spots were closed. My deepest negative personal experiences include:
1-Not being able to visit my elderly mother (87) and father (88) while they were hospitalized "with Covid". One survived, one did not. Daily phone conversations (and a subsequent rehab drive-up window) were poor substitutes for personal, face-to-face contact. I will never forget being denied this little bit of decency.
2- Having my daughter being forced into a drive-up high school graduation, where she was unable to enjoy this right of passage the way it should have happened. She was then robbed of her freshman year of college by being remote for the entire academic year. I laugh at the continued pandering for money from this institution after their senseless behavior.
Numerous other smaller experiences shall not soon fade from memory, including the ridiculous one-way shopping aisles, the equally moronic 6-foot distancing, the closure of favorite watering holes, and the idiocy of contact tracing.
I was at an outdoor farm stand (Hamptons, L.I. NY) in the summer of 2020. Customers were dutifully lined up most wearing masks waiting to pay for their produce--6 feet apart. I knew the girl behind the table, had exact change and decided to jump the line and just hold up my purchase and lay the money down. This guy from NYC started screaming to the girl behind the table to not serve me as I was not wearing a mask. I told him to go fuck himself but he continued screaming "don't serve him --don't serve him". I could not control my self and approached him quickly with the intention of grabbing him by his shirt and probably throw him to the ground. I stopped with my hands two inches from his face...he flinched and backed up. I stopped. I was thinking that this was insane. I walked away got into my car to go and watched him get behind my car with his phone to take a picture of my license plate. Learning I was surrounded by mindless sheep was the worst part of the scamdemic. My neighbors still get their C19 booster shots to this day. Sad--very sad.
It was very depressing/anger-provoking to see how self-righteous people became over such a stupid cause.
Thanks for speaking out at the time.
Thanks for standing against the mask. I well remember how intense it was, so many people were barking bonkers.
Although I think of myself as the most boringly respectable person I know, I found myself “barred” from our local Aldi supermarket. An instruction had been issued that people could only shop singly in supermarkets, never mind whether you were old/infirm/too short in stature to reach the upper shelves etc. A furious young manager stopped me and demanded to know why I was shopping with my husband. My response that it was none of her business resulted in her yelling at the top of her voice that I was now barred from “her” shop. I’m sure the other shoppers were vastly entertained, but I was mortified and the experience rankles with me still (as you can see).
Dear ZuZu's Petals,
It is sad to read of your experience in Aldi's, but I must let you know that every time I see you comment using your handle of ZuZu's Petals, it just brings a big smile to my face, because It's a Wonderful Life has always been one of my very favorite movies, & we watch it, along with Miracle on 34th Street, every year during the holidays.... & we're Jewish! 😂
Dear Molon, what a lovely response to my comment. Thank you so much. We have a recording of It’s a Wonderful Life (it doesn’t seem to be shown on TV these days) and we, too, make a tradition of watching it each Christmas. It never ages, does it?
There are three memories from Coronamaina that stand out for me. And I preface this by saying that unless one lived in a deep blue Democrat controlled city in 2020-22, it's can be difficult to understand what it was really like. This was Seattle, but it could have been any left coast blue city in Oregon or California.
February, 2021
Mask mandate mania was nearing its peak. I decided to go to my local Safeway grocery store without a mask. I had a fake N-95 mask ready in case I was asked to leave, but I wore it on my chin. I was the only one in the store maskless. But other than being occasionally stared at, nothing happened.
That is, until I got to the self-checkout lane. In 2021 I was 56 years old, and I have little experience with violence. In any kind of altercation with someone experienced in violence, I would lose.
As I was scanning my items, a very large, tall man who looked to be in his early 30’s, wearing a football jersey (it was Sunday) started screaming at me from behind his mask. He wasn’t store staff, but a store customer. From at least three isles away: “SIR!! PUT. YOUR. MASK. ON!!!”. I ignored him and continued scanning my items. He screams again from 3 lanes away: “SIR!!! PUT! YOUR! MASK! ON!!!”.
I looked around. Everyone, including store staff, had their head down and wanted no part of this. Given this guy’s size and height, I began to fear that this could escalate into a physical confrontation which I would likely lose. I quickly finished scanning and left the store, doing my best to ignore him and not make eye contact as I walked out. When I got home, I considered carrying a tactical flashlight for self defense if I wanted to try going into a store maskless again.
In retrospect, I wish I had taken out my phone and started recording this guy's rant. Not only would it have been an important historical document, but I would have made sure the recording had eternal life on YouTube. I sometimes wonder what this guy thinks of his behavior today.
September, 2021
I did not get the shot, and I never would. Even before 2020 I never even got flu shots. I have a family history of auto-immune diseases. I don’t take pharmaceuticals that interfere with my immune system. Sorry, just no. Hard stop.
Rumors had been circulating that Biden was going to announce a vax mandate for Federal workers. I was not a federal worker, but my employer sometimes contracts with the Federal Government. I’m a software developer with a 30-year career in the industry at the same employer.
At the end of September it happens. Biden went on TV and announced that he was personally ordering a Vax mandate for all Federal workers AND any company that contracts with the Federal government.
A few days later my employer called me in to a meeting. They said they received a call from one of their federal contractors (on the other side of the country) demanding proof of vax from all of the employees at my company. I explain to my manager that I can’t make this kind of medical decision based on a threat to lose my job. I just can’t. I manage to hold it together as I’m saying this. My wife is disabled and both of us depend on my job.
I was incredibly fortunate that my employer liked me and found a way to keep me that didn’t require me to get the shot. Any other Seattle employer would have gleefully thrown me under the bus. Because of this my employer has my ride-or-die loyalty. But I’m also happy to be retiring next year and out of the workforce completely. The situation will never happen again where I have to choose between my job and taking an experimenal medical treatment that I don’t want.
March, 2022
My disabled wife was in a large Seattle hospital for shoulder surgery. She depends on me to help her with physical tasks. After the surgery, I went to the hospital thinking they would offer me a rapid test in leu of proof of vax. Yeah, right.
I was denied entry to the hospital. I pleaded with them. I told them my wife is disabled and depends on me for help. The front door guards not only didn’t care, but seemed (lowkey a little bit?) to be enjoying this new power they had. The worst part was that a long line of people who flashed an image on their phones were welcomed in.
I was distraught when I got home. But I immediately fired up Photoshop and got creative. I’m an effing software engineer. I vowed that never again would I be denied entry to a hospital to see my wife because my phone lacked a particular kind of image. But it turned out not to be necessary. A few months later the hospital dropped its vax mandate and pretended like none of it ever happened.
There are other stories, of being prohibited from sitting inside restaurants and missing work events because of this.
What I learned, living in Seattle during Coronamania, was that most people are just fine with a two-tiered apartheid society as long as they are the ones on the top tier. That is not something I believed before 2020.
Thanks for those stories from Seattle, David. It must have been horrible there.
I had a close friend in Seattle. Not anymore.
I had a friend dying in hospital whose death may well have been hastened by the jab she agreed to have against her better judgement to keep her job as a nurse. Being unjabbed, I wasn't allowed to visit, however, I was able to doctor the pdf vax certificate - amazingly easily - that my mother had received in Italy before her return to Australia. Being foreign, the certificate wasn't subject to digital identification.
I really don't know what I would have done if that circumstance hadn't hadn't allowed me to visit.
From a young age, maybe fifth grade, I always wondered how the holocaust happened. Why did so many common people just let it happen or worse yet, participate in it. Your stories and similar ones from the past few years have answered my question. This is very sad and is a sad commentary on the nature of humans.
Reminder that hundreds of thousands of Americans were slaughtered in hospitals and nursing homes via deadly Covid protocols, but nobody wants to talk about the Covid hospital/nursing protocols or the euthanization of tens of thousands of the elderly.
There were hot spots of deaths immediately after the pandemic was announced...this happened synchronously everywhere where the hospitals and nursing homes followed the treatment protocols and basically killed people.
While the death and destruction caused by the COVID bioweapon injections has, rightfully, earned lots of attention, it's important to note that just as many people—if not more—were killed by what's been deemed by some as covid "murder protocols" in the hospitals and nursing homes which were turned into "killing fields."
The roaring silence on this matter from those in the "health freedom movement" is profound and deeply disturbing.
No one died from phony "Covid" outside of hospitals or nursing homes. Everyone who died of "Covid" died in the hospital or nursing home. Many people still think that their loved ones died of "Covid"—they didn't- and quite a few also know. They died from medical murder.
Why are the more prominent voices in the health freedom movement so silent on this matter? Why are they allowing this to be swept under the rug?
"They died from medical murder."
100%
The myriad crimes against humanity have been horrific, heart-breaking, and simply evil.
There were some who died of C; we will never have good data. Remember the “stay home until you can’t breathe?” The inflammatory cascade was indeed deadly for some. The ban on early treatment remains, for me, one of the most horrific parts, because of the blatantly purposeful goal to inflict harm.
No there weren't.
99% of people falsely certified as having ‘died from covid’ actually died from their preexisting conditions being exacerbated by mass medical malpractice and ‘public health’ despotism, the other 1% simply died of old age.
From the CDC itself 7/16/21:
“Of the 540,667 hospitalized coronavirus patients included in the study, 80,174 died during the observation period (March 2020 to March 2021).
A whopping 99.1% of the patients who died had at least one pre-existing condition, with just 740 having no prior condition on record. Most patients who "died from COVID" had multiple pre-existing conditions, with just 2.6% suffering from only one condition, compared to 32.3% who had two to five preexisting conditions, 39.1% who had six to ten, and 25.1% who have more than ten pre-existing conditions.”
Translation: No one has ‘died from covid’ as “Covid” is nothing more than a fraudulent PCR result plus a nebulous clinical re-branding of cold, “flu” and many other disease conditions.
There was no new novel pathogen of any sort and nothing unusual happening in Spring 2020.
Not disputing the effect of comorbid conditions, but the GoF coronavirus had a unique skill set, unlike common coronaviruses. Many iatrogenic deaths, but other patients died before ever reaching medical attention.
Boy is that total nonsense devoid not only of evidence but of basic critical thinking skills and common understanding of biological reality.
Unbelievable some people still cling to the GoF lunacy.
GoF was secondary propaganda for those doubting the official narrative.
There was no pandemic of a novel deadly virus as evidenced by no excess deaths in municipalities adjacent to those that had excess deaths. That’s not how viruses work. Also Covid couldn’t infect, sicken or much less kill a ship full of old people (Diamond Princess).
There was no pandemic; all fake propaganda. Many people killed by protocols. However, the sequenced gof single stranded rna virus, complete with segments that don’t occur in nature, is real, seen on electron microscopy, and did have a unique clinical skill set. This was seen both inside and outside the hospital setting. Not dismissing the “host theory,” but viral contagion is real in some form. Look at measles…
What clinical set distinguishes a person infected with Covid from someone infected with another coronavirus? Published literature shows no difference. Santa Clara seroprevalence study in Spring 2020, showed that the Covid signal was widespread in the community without commensurate clinical complaints.
And of course, the whole thing was a giant global psyop. Sadly, the “cold virus” was real and had some untoward effects on some. Chouaki Benmansour N, Carvelli J, Vivier E. Complement cascade in severe forms of COVID-19: Recent advances in therapy. Eur J Immunol. 2021 Jul;51(7):1652-1659. doi: 10.1002/eji.202048959. Epub 2021 Apr 10. PMID: 33738806; PMCID: PMC8250085.
What covid? Covid is a made up illness as is the alleged novel virus. It was a meticulously planned psychological operation.
Everything they've told us fails the truth test.
https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/can-you-explain-how-the-people-of
Strategically, it was a replay of Catholic Indulgences. Social control by selling a gullible public a non-solution to an imaginary problem through massive, internationally coordinated propaganda and the power of suggestion. I suspect something akin to the construction of a western version of a CCP social credit system was a primary goal, with the vaccine passport serving as the pre-textual architecture. Big Pharma earned their 30 pieces of silver helping the national security state apparatchiks continue in the same mission exposed by Snowden.
Allen, Important comment, thank you.
My comment: They are not silent so much as censored, and because they are censored many others in the medical freedom movement (it's a big tent after all) simply do not know. There are plenty of doctors and nurses and bereaved and survivors who spoke out and early on about the murderous covid hospital protocols, but all got thrown off of Big tech social media sites, or worse.
See for example: on https://chbmp.org/cases/
This is the Covid 19 Humanity Betrayal Project.
It is now a very large archive of detailed testimonies of hospital murder by covid protocol.
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My own much more modest effort has been to transcribe selected videos of such stories. You can view those at this link:
https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/141756.html
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There needs to be a reckoning.
Censorship (and punishment; a crucial element of the psyop) at all levels.
https://www.vaccines.news/2025-08-07-hospital-hid-evidence-covid-jabs-stillbirth-surge.html#
https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/california-hospital-concealed-evidence-linking-catastrophic-surge-in-stillbirths-to-covid-vaccine-lawsuit-alleges/
Well stated, Allen.
The newly hired & installed in the MAHA movement have been doing much already, considering it is less than 10 months since they've been climbing the years long built, steep hills of corruption & ignorance, tossing off as much as they can along the way.
I think they will get to what you discuss, as the obstacles are cleared, but well written letters like yours, sent to them, sure might help give them courage!
biologyphenom discusses this problem and is equally frustrated that the organisations that purport to represent us do not report it.
Here is his latest post.
https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newdr-john-campbell-an-ally-for-truth
I wrote to my MP at the time of the nursing home deaths with statistical evidence that the death rates were due to either the vax campaign or the "care" in the homes as the deaths spiked whenever the vax was introduced and not before. I found she was not interested to take this further.