The toughest pill to swallow is that despite our best efforts and good intentions, we simply cannot change another human being. Any influence we may have is solely dependent on another's ability and readiness to hear. I think your focus should be on the many people who are grateful for your work and not those you couldn't reach. You absolutely saved my sanity through those dark days. I will be forever grateful.
So true about changing others. I knew this in a general sense, but thought that this should have been an exception because it could--at least in theory--be logically considered.
I was wrong about that. TV is powerful. So is fear of death. And belief in "experts."
I will always be grateful for you and your early messages. You showed me that some people were still sane.
Yes, some people are still sane when it comes to all things covid. Some people have come to their senses, and a few seem to be coming to their senses, albeit very belatedly. But a lot of people, including many of my family and some of my oldest friends, have been swept away in the tsunami of madness. It seems there was no saving them. For many there was a life raft, but they couldn't see it, or worse, they didn't want it.
I never know what to do when I meet the few people here that are still wearing masks. I remember that meme where a man says to a masked woman, I am putting this wire up to keep the wasps out of my yard. But there seems to be no Tshirt with that pic on it.
I always know exactly what to do when I meet people like that....well, what I want to do anyway......but that could well result in assault charges being laid against me. Not sure if I am proud of my 'civilised' restraint here or not really as it can be gratifying to at least try to bring someone back to sanity and living.
If you feel compelled to act you could make a shocked face, start swatting at the air in front of you, spray it with some random chemical, yelling incoherently the while.
Ah no wait, that's what the maskers do... in that case sorry, I got nuthin'.
Ditto here. It was a cool drink of water in the scorching wasteland when I somehow stumbled onto your articles. I don’t even recall how I originally found them. But other than my husband and a couple of friends, we were very isolated in our frank opinions about the phony scam.
After reading/hearing about couples where the divide actually ran right down the middle, a sane person married to a totally scammed one, having a spouse and a couple of friends on your side sounds like a feast of reason!
That is partly true, but I think it depends on the person. Some people were fully in the grip of mass hysteria (some still are!) which was impossible to penetrate but there were others who were afraid but not completely irrational. Fear is contagious, but so is courage, and the brave people who stood up and pointed out that the emperor had no clothes did make a difference.
The worst part for me is not that I couldn’t change people’s minds, which is bad enough, but that I now know I am surrounded by unbelievably cowardly, cruel and unthinking people. You can’t vote yourself out of that. The people are the problem.
I agree. There is a permanent loss of trust in people to have a basic sense of decency and respect for others. I see now that most are driven by fear and ignorance and not by rational thought processes. My relationships with family and friends are forever changed and I still grieve that loss.
the only way we could restore these relationships is if we can have honest, atoning conversations. Early on, I had hope this could happen. Now, the opposite is the case: I would be shocked if my loved ones would approach me with contrition and wanting to repair the brokenness.....
There is only one person in my circle who came to me a few months ago to let me know that he had finally done his own research and stumbled onto the evidence that convinced him how mistaken he had been, and how right I was..... and how regretful he was THAT HE HADN'T LISTENED TO ME when I'd warned him not to get the shots. He was not regretful so much that he had been (politely) dismissive of me, and the effect this collective dismissiveness (and outright derisive rejection -- and shunning) had on me.
I'm glad he came to me to say "you were right all along, though I believed I knew better than you at the time" but this longstanding relationship still is in need of some acknowledgement of the harms to those of us who tried so hard to save our loved ones.
Absolutely, my trust in most people to come together in non-compliance against tyranny the NEXT time (there will be a next time) -- is completely shot. Maybe more people have become aware..... but is it enough?
Mark, please discharge yourself from any feelings you have for not doing enough. You are one of the few people I know of who even tried. Social media and the news blocked anyone who tried to warn people not to be paranoid. Remember the group of doctors who tried; they even shut them up. I couldn't even talk to some family members about how I felt, and there are still bad feelings between some of us just because I tried. Your hands were tied, you did your best, that's all that counts. And count your blessings that you didn't post what you believed on Facebook. I don't have an account but from what I understand, you would have been torn apart for your beliefs. I feel blessed to have someone with common sense like you that I can relate to, so thank you!
💯 right about Facebook. People called me the worst names. People even called the barn I keep my horses at and my daughter competes out of, trying to get us kicked out, because I complained about the junior Olympics for her sport being shut down. My daughter dreamed for years of competing in that event. It never restarted.
Facebook heavily censored. I actually had a private message censored when trying to share information with others. I quit facebook immediately and have never gone back. There were a lot of anticovid conversations on twitter despite a lot of censorship. That is mainly were Bereson thrived and created a name for himself. It is also where DRASTIC thrived and I learned about Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak, and DARPA's Preempt programs. I was kicked off probably 6 times as a lot of people. Bereson was kicked off near the end. He settled a lawsuit with twitter over it and still has a case against the feds pending.
Mark, you were/are successful, even if you cannot see it. I share the appreciation of many for your insight and commitment to spread the truths you knew early on. Thank you!
Thanks, Barbara. I like to think I don't need much affirmation in life. But I def needed to have some people tell me they agreed with me. I wasn't questioning my own sanity. I just needed to know there were other sane people with whom I could interact.
Yes, that's exactly it! I still don't have any friends who understand that it was all a massive scam and I lost two who couldn't cope with my scepticism and dropped me. I thank god for online communities like this + my daughters and their partners who are on the same page as us. My son simply ignores it all and won't engage. The UK media and medical establishment is still gaslighting us. I need to feel solidarity with others and it has been fantastic to realise that we are all over the world, thinking the same things and coming to the same conclusions.
For me, the worst part is the menticide; it was my dawning realization that my loved ones, neighbors, coworkers, community, have all had their minds destroyed. I would even say their souls destroyed; now that they have been injected with something that has probably permanently altered their God-given immune systems (and who knows what else is encoded in our DNA blueprint)..... it surely does feel that the people I used to think they were (or maybe they actually were) have been altered -- sometimes in subtle ways, but it doesn't have the same "feel." Their vibrations are off. They are not the same. I would even say that some of them seem to be possessed.
This is a horror movie, unfolding in real time. I am deeply grateful to connect with this remnant of people on substack, or as we may find ourselves eventually in person -- to preserve what we all know to be genuine, human connection in all of its fullness. Not this pretense that is clearly not how God made us.
So true, Dani. I wrote a post based on the TV sitcom Green Acres, in which the protagonist is surrounded by crazy people. It has felt very much like that. People parroting the same nonsensical jargon was creepy. None of these phrases would have occurred to people on their own. They were spellbound by what they saw on screens and ignored the realm thye could have seen with their own eyes.
Dani, unvaxxed but locked down business owner in a now very liberal town in Oregon (formerly conservative town), I am changed. I now am aware and awake, and am looking at history from a different point of view, looking at the corruption that is going on, becoming politically awake. But, I am also skeptical of people, afraid to get to know new people, don’t trust other people and get a spidey sense about brainwashed libs and I don’t like that side effect of waking up.
I recently joined an awesome new senior center and have been taking some really fun exercise classes because let’s face it, I’m generally a couch potato and it’s so good for me to get out and move, and it has been fun to be around other people and laugh and learn new names, but I don’t trust a damn one of them!
I hate this side effect of the plandemic. Thank goodness for Mark, C&C, and other substacks… and the comments sections!!
Dani - please do not despair about those that got the shots. Not all of us have had those affects (I got two Moderna 3 1/2 years ago).
I am a changed person, but not in the ways you may think. I'm still healthy and my immune system has not been affected.
Realizing that almost everything I once believed was a lie has changed me in a profound way. And I am eternally grateful for that. It made me lean into my Christian faith. Because of that, I don't live in fear. And God gave me a way to channel my anger about being duped. If you read my Substack, you'll see what I was led to do to try and make a difference. And I truly believe I have.
This is my first publication (there are more that you can find in the "archive" section:
Oh yes ! The lie also made me lean more into my Christian faith too...actually, more like run deeply into it. Still find it mind boggling although I really should not to see that everything that happens throughout the centuries was already warned of by God......from propaganda to wanting rulers instead of working together with judges, to dangers of deception, world wide disasters, wars, rumours of wars, the respectable merchants of the world and of course Big Pharma itself......exciting times we are living in !
Dani - we all experienced. I was able to protect my wife and kids, but I couldn't influence a single member our immediate family. Everyone got the shot, and everyone thought we were nuts. It's no longer talked about. I know in my heart that when round 2 comes around, they will likely fall in line and demonstrate the same behaviors. It's pathetic. My 27-year-old niece just had her first baby. She asked us to quit sending her information about the childhood vaccine schedule and the potential harms. I don't get it.
it's heartbreaking, especially for the kids whose parents are making these decisions on their behalf, believing themselves to be doing the best for their children, being good and loving parents.
On a non-human note, I do not vaccinate my cat. My adult children, fully indoctrinated (and fully vaccinated because I did not wise up in time....), each have their own cat.... my cat is well into adulthood, super healthy, never an issue -- while their cats have sadly deteriorated in health, mere shadows of their former, vibrant energy. On special diets, medication, more shots, diagnostic tests.... My kids have so bought into the pet vaccination scam, that they badger me to jab my cat and accuse me of being a bad cat mom because I refuse.
So I am now getting a preview of what it might be like for my future grandchildren (assuming my kids are still able to have children, after their jabbings). I don't want to think about it.
I'm the same Dani - I no longer get my dear dog vaccinated and try to alert parents to the dangers in vaccines - usually politely ignored. Thankfully my daughter who has a toddler is mostly aware of the problem - but still takes her child to a special clinic for the odd one that doesn't have the problematic adjuvants, she says. Hmmm, I don't know myself....
I beg to differ with you....."on a non-human note" is incorrect. You are behaving very much human - and thoughtful and plain sensible here - and my observations of pets with vaccinations are the same as yours. None of my dogs or cats have ever been vaccinated and all have lived to between 15 and 20 years of age with my current gorgeous Blue Heeler cross nudging the twenty mark and still 100% active 'dog' other than the occasional forgetfulness and now deafness.
I guess my post was nebulous.... by "non-human" I meant that our pets (and also this pertains to farm and zoo animals.....) are not human. But all are God's creatures, and vaccination is an abomination.
That was just me being pedantic, your meaning was clear enough....sorry. I I fully agree with you and all of God's creatures are included in my nightly and daily prayers...ALL. So pleased there are so many like minded folk out there ! Thank you !
Ah, it’s like the drunk’s spouse, or the naive newlywed who thinks they can change the behavior of their partner.
Change is hard, even from within.
Having taught in the 90s, aughts, teens and 20s I can say that 80% of people refuse to exercise their minds. They’re too pleasured and entertained to even care.
Yes Mark. Some of us tried. Sometimes you can only plant seeds.
To all of my patients, I sent an email with a link to David Katz, MD, et. al's letter for appeal to reason. I asked questions and shared his summary/analysis. I don't remember getting push back or agreement. Still sold the clinic the day before the jabs were mandatory for health care workers in Oregon. I was afraid our board would force it and remove licenses.
I also never took free money, PPE or PPP. I don't trust "free." Felt it would be a Faustian bargain, from which I would never recover.
I don't wish to mislead. Even if I were an MD, I would not have given a single soul that poison.
Even though, or perhaps because, I am just a lowly chiropractor, I knew all of the counter measures were a really bad idea. I knew that mRNA could be reverse transcribed into DNA. I didn't know about the contamination, the modifications, the planned morbidity, mortality, and probably transfectivity from jabbed to the unjabbed. I don't know if that has been proven. I don't want to research it, because I touch people all day.
I couldn't even keep my parents from taking it. Neither took boosters though.
I enjoy talking to folks who are aware and willing to share their own stories of perceiving the ruse.
You were smart to sell, even Central Oregon was buying into the scam. Still looking for an awake MD. (My naturopath bought into the CDC bs, so I quit her). It’s sad because she was bright, probably afraid of loosing her license.
It all SUCKED Mark. Virtually the same experience as you Mark.
The only difference is, instead of writing my wife and me traveled for nearly a year protesting the masks, lockdowns, etc.
Even though we planned and organized we could hardly get anyone to show up...even people who said they disagreed with the nonsense.
The most heartbreaking was trying to get parents to protest outside of the schools. We never had more than a few parents show up. Many times it was just my wife and children.
Initially I was shocked, but by the end of March I knew (based on the few protests at that time) that we were in for the long haul.
All I can say is it was especially lonely for the VERY FEW biz owners that saw through the bullshit. I was just utterly shocked that other business owners (free thinkers, risk takers, problem solvers and staunchly independent folks) so willingly complied.
Ryan, that is GREAT that you tried to organize protests. I hoped to do the same by building a set of protesters through my friends and a pyramid scheme. When my friends were against me, I knew protests wouldn't get traction.
I learned of two protests in May and June, and went. These were lightly attended.
Ryan, my husband and I went out every Sunday in the middle of a freezing winter looking for the supposed “Stand in the Park” groups in our area. Either they didn’t exist or we were very unlucky in locating them. In our town nobody was interested in resistance. Compliance was all.
"I was just utterly shocked that other business owners (free thinkers, risk takers, problem solvers and staunchly independent folks) so willingly complied."
You have to count on people complying. They are hard wired to obey authority. People will kill to keep their chains. None of this is easy and more than once I have seen the same tendency in myself. For example I didn't wear the muzzle but very early I did to go to walmart with my wife. Why? because everyone else was muzzled and it was just easier to go with the flow. Of course I despise walmart but I went anyway is sort of the same thing writ small. I want to add, when I did that, wear the muzzle, I felt diminished, lessened like a mindless heard member, I didn't do that again.
The systematic silencing of any dissenting voice has been escalating, and recently is being enshrined in various pieces of legislation. Here in Australia we have the Misinformation Bill, not yet passed, but being smoothly tweaked to get it to the point where it will be acceptable enough to get rolled out into law.
More than anything else, we all need to recognise these efforts to shut us down, and find ways to push back and/or to sidestep them.
Right now, Substack is still a staunch platform for differing views, with no (apparent) censorship. But before long there will be the next global "disaster", and the censorship will step up.
I know this sounds paranoid, but it does seem that the covid campaign was just a trial run, and the powers-that-be are working diligently to plug the holes for next time.
Suppression of differing views is the absolute scariest and most insidious and most dangerous aspect of covidmania... and we need to recognise this so we can take action.
In the after covid simulation run "catastrophic contagion" Bill Gates's greatest disappointment during covid was the loss of narative control despite making this a top priority. He emphasized the need to get a handle on the alternative media.
I think the full court press in the EU is in response to Gates's concerns. Arresting Durov and the pressure on Musk to conform is all so ham fisted it is ridiculous but they don't seem to care.
It was a waste of time trying to communicate with a lot of people anyhow. Get together with the circle of those you can trust and figure out alternatives to the net for communication.
Here in Canada we have Bill C 63 otherwise referred to as the “ online harms act” - and you can see what’s happening in the UK! We also have the On-line news act (previously Bill C-18 but passed in June ‘23)…. You don’t sound paranoid to me you sound like my twin! We can only keep speaking up and speaking out and trying to bring reason to the conversations. My concern is the generations under us and those being born now will not ever know what free speech is unless we can ensure we keep it. It’s kind of marvellous in the true meaning of the word, how governments across the world are managing the same things and changing legislation and trying to control what we are allowed to see, hear and therefore know. Thanks Mark for a reflective start to the day. I understand your angst and feel it too - but we are all doing what we can and know that it collectively makes a difference. A girlfriend once told me during one of my lower points in life, “never doubt the impact you have on people”. Just because we can’t see it or it’s not tangible doesn’t mean it’s not meaningful and having a ripple effect. 💗 🇨🇦
You have done and are doing much more than most of us have these last five years and I know I am grateful for the message you have spread. There are a few people that saved my sanity early on and you are one of those. Dr. Simone Gold, Berenson , Malone and El Gato were others I found that helped reinforce my gut feelings of how wrong and orchestrated this whole mess was. I yelled back and laughed at strangers who wanted to push the whole mask, distancing, stand on the dots and stay inside thing saying "I am not sick!" and "I am not afraid of a stupid virus" and "This is NOT MY "new normal". In 2022 I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and when sharing my symptoms with acquaintances before I was diagnosed they were convinced I had "long covid"- I put it right back in their faces with "no, I don't have long covid"- I just talked to a lady at my gym who had to bring up the fact that she was getting her covid and flu shots last week. I told her to be prepared to get covid (or worse) in the next few months...so done with being nice to stupid people. Don't need them...
Well, Mark, you sure have helped me get through the plandemic and the aftermath. I can't tell you how much but I hope you know. I am surrounded by woke - but not awake -people so I have desperately needed your voice of sanity. I love your substack and book. You've made a big difference to me. Please never stop. Love from NH.
It's hard to say why some managed to avoid the hysteria. I had a thought a while back. It was really a question which I feel that the whole Covid experience has answered. I wondered if what was happening in the USA was a 'slow motion coup de etat' ? In a regular overthrow of a government, stuff happens very quickly. But I figured that the same results could be effectively accomplished if the 'coup d etat' rollout was so slow as to be imperceptible. A little erosion of liberties 'here' and a little bit 'there'. Covid illustrated that this had happened. Almost invisibly. Quietly... gently... over time, the USA populace had been conditioned, making them ready to be mass manipulated. And it worked well. To this day, most people believe that the 'vaccines' are 'safe and effective' and that they 'saved millions of lives'. Mass media, Pharma & Government has kept the truth suppressed very well. So where are we ? Is there a recovery from this status of mass formation psychosis ? I don't believe so. And as such, I see us as living in the REAL 'Zombie Apocolypse'. The vast majority who are 'conditioned' are the 'Zombies'.. and they pose a danger to all free thinkers. It's like 'the Borg' in 'Star Trek' episodes. They want you to join with 'the body'. And if you don't... you're an enemy. It's a dangerous time. We are surrounded by dangerously conditioned citizens. What's next ? Sorry about your friend who jumped. Sad that he couldn't hang in. May we all stay lucky in Life so we do not ever get to that bad a state... Live Free, be Healthy, be Happy...
The first big event of the 21st was the attacks of Sep 11. Bought hook, line, and sinker by the vast majority of Americans. They willingly ceded liberty and its protections then over an utterly absurd story -- one that detailed complete malfeasance, misfeasance, criminal negligence, and incompetence. To one big national shrug. Let's bomb countries that had nothing to do with it and compliment ourselves on how patriotic we are.
So, to use your language, the coup began early on, leading to the piece de resistance -- the COVID op. In between, quiet destruction, slow erosion so that ordering people to stay home, strap on a piece of blue plastic, stand six feet apart, and get injected was in the bag. Americans, in particular, had already proved themselves -- and revealed themselves.
Yeah... 9/11 was a very 'managed' event. And that gave us the 900 page 'Patriot Act' only 2 weeks later. But, I don't see the whole Covid scenario as an end game. I think there's more, sadly, much more yet to come. Stay safe... stay 'un-Zombified'...
Yes, all true. Much was going on behind the scenes to set up the horrific structure we have today. This was especially true in the "arena" of "public health." A legal (but wholly unlawful) infrastructure was being constructed to enable the wholesale restriction of life by the "public health" sector.
Preceding the grotesque U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act came the crafting of the Model State Health Emergency Act. Creeps and lunatics were working on this garbage (Ask me how I really feel, Richie) in 1998-99. It got its final fine-tuning in Dec 2021 following the "anthrax attacks" and got passed in '02, I think. This Act obliterated basic human rights. Because? "Emergency." (They excused this destruction because why, well, a biological attack...Uh, huh.)
All to say that the usual suspects work non-stop for power and control. The following is my opinion -- and only my opinion: Had Americans become outraged at the buffoonery, utter incompetence, and criminal negligence to which their own government admitted in its official story of Sep 11, held them to account, and refused to cave to the destruction of their 4th Amendment protections, that "more" you talk about would have likely been impossible. IMO, that would have made the COVID op impossible.
Water under the bridge, unfortunately. As unfortunately, "the 'American' people" confirmed that those who live to make life miserable were right: They can deliver utter bullshit to the "exceptionals." As long as it's wrapped up in their "safety," they'll bite...
I still see the ads for boosters.... now get a combo flu & covid shot. It's hard to believe how brain washed people are:
The data is now clear albeit hidden by legacy media. Not only do the shots not work to prevent or protect, but they may kill you with an adverse impact. It is still with us.
Yes, so many are acting as if the shots didn't fail: just keep doing more of what has already didn't work, did much harm and was never needed in the first place.
Your concern and frustration are palpable here and brought tears to my eyes in memories of feeling the exact same way- except that you were far more pro-active than I and I salute you. Truly, I do not believe those of us who were awake, and remain so, will ever be able to rid ourselves of the trauma and disbelief as to what was being allowed not only to occur but also to encourage as well as eagerly submit to. Thank you for retaining your sanity and reaching out to others.
Having an MD after your name didn't help much--in fact, those of us with MD after our names were punished even more severely for speaking up. My hubby (the other half of the pairodocs) was a regular guest on a local radio show. He used that opportunity (in early 2021) to publicly proclaim that lockdowns and vaccine mandates were destructive and that public health officials had too much power. He was summarily fired from his job as director of emergency medicine for our region. In response we started freespeechinmedicine.com and a very successful Substack.
You are right to call it a collective madness. And we will be dealing with the negative fallout of that madness for the rest of our lives. But we must keep writing and talking about it (and examining the underlying causes) so that it doesn't happen again. Thanks for your courage--and your eloquent words. Your stories have helped more people than you know.
Sincere thanks, Pairodocs, for being the smart, principled type of doctors.
I'm speak against this as long as my mouth works, I'll write against it for as long as I have something new to say and I'll wear my t-shirt until it is filled with holes. And then I'll wear my spare one.
The toughest pill to swallow is that despite our best efforts and good intentions, we simply cannot change another human being. Any influence we may have is solely dependent on another's ability and readiness to hear. I think your focus should be on the many people who are grateful for your work and not those you couldn't reach. You absolutely saved my sanity through those dark days. I will be forever grateful.
So true about changing others. I knew this in a general sense, but thought that this should have been an exception because it could--at least in theory--be logically considered.
I was wrong about that. TV is powerful. So is fear of death. And belief in "experts."
I will always be grateful for you and your early messages. You showed me that some people were still sane.
Yes, some people are still sane when it comes to all things covid. Some people have come to their senses, and a few seem to be coming to their senses, albeit very belatedly. But a lot of people, including many of my family and some of my oldest friends, have been swept away in the tsunami of madness. It seems there was no saving them. For many there was a life raft, but they couldn't see it, or worse, they didn't want it.
Yes! They thought they already had a life raft, and you were trying to take it away. So, so sad.
I never know what to do when I meet the few people here that are still wearing masks. I remember that meme where a man says to a masked woman, I am putting this wire up to keep the wasps out of my yard. But there seems to be no Tshirt with that pic on it.
I always know exactly what to do when I meet people like that....well, what I want to do anyway......but that could well result in assault charges being laid against me. Not sure if I am proud of my 'civilised' restraint here or not really as it can be gratifying to at least try to bring someone back to sanity and living.
Wire to keep out wasps-- that is hilarious.
If you feel compelled to act you could make a shocked face, start swatting at the air in front of you, spray it with some random chemical, yelling incoherently the while.
Ah no wait, that's what the maskers do... in that case sorry, I got nuthin'.
Ditto here. It was a cool drink of water in the scorching wasteland when I somehow stumbled onto your articles. I don’t even recall how I originally found them. But other than my husband and a couple of friends, we were very isolated in our frank opinions about the phony scam.
After reading/hearing about couples where the divide actually ran right down the middle, a sane person married to a totally scammed one, having a spouse and a couple of friends on your side sounds like a feast of reason!
I say the same. Finding your essays, Mark, was like a drink of water in the desert.
Thanks, TB. And thanks for your important work.
I'm still looking forward to talking with you.
That is partly true, but I think it depends on the person. Some people were fully in the grip of mass hysteria (some still are!) which was impossible to penetrate but there were others who were afraid but not completely irrational. Fear is contagious, but so is courage, and the brave people who stood up and pointed out that the emperor had no clothes did make a difference.
Most certainly. Where would we be without those who were willing to stick their necks out and speak their truth?
You're right; though I have to say I was briefly discouraged by how many people chose to stay afraid and to stop up their ears.
Agree 👍
The worst part for me is not that I couldn’t change people’s minds, which is bad enough, but that I now know I am surrounded by unbelievably cowardly, cruel and unthinking people. You can’t vote yourself out of that. The people are the problem.
I agree. There is a permanent loss of trust in people to have a basic sense of decency and respect for others. I see now that most are driven by fear and ignorance and not by rational thought processes. My relationships with family and friends are forever changed and I still grieve that loss.
It is really hard to unsee, Betsy.
Especially since most still won't admit they were wrong and should have known at the outset that this was a Scam.
the only way we could restore these relationships is if we can have honest, atoning conversations. Early on, I had hope this could happen. Now, the opposite is the case: I would be shocked if my loved ones would approach me with contrition and wanting to repair the brokenness.....
There is only one person in my circle who came to me a few months ago to let me know that he had finally done his own research and stumbled onto the evidence that convinced him how mistaken he had been, and how right I was..... and how regretful he was THAT HE HADN'T LISTENED TO ME when I'd warned him not to get the shots. He was not regretful so much that he had been (politely) dismissive of me, and the effect this collective dismissiveness (and outright derisive rejection -- and shunning) had on me.
I'm glad he came to me to say "you were right all along, though I believed I knew better than you at the time" but this longstanding relationship still is in need of some acknowledgement of the harms to those of us who tried so hard to save our loved ones.
Absolutely, my trust in most people to come together in non-compliance against tyranny the NEXT time (there will be a next time) -- is completely shot. Maybe more people have become aware..... but is it enough?
Same here
Yes, you cannot look at people in the same way ever again.
Narcissistic tendencies too. Vanity played a big role.
Your name and your comment go together like white on rice!
Mark, please discharge yourself from any feelings you have for not doing enough. You are one of the few people I know of who even tried. Social media and the news blocked anyone who tried to warn people not to be paranoid. Remember the group of doctors who tried; they even shut them up. I couldn't even talk to some family members about how I felt, and there are still bad feelings between some of us just because I tried. Your hands were tied, you did your best, that's all that counts. And count your blessings that you didn't post what you believed on Facebook. I don't have an account but from what I understand, you would have been torn apart for your beliefs. I feel blessed to have someone with common sense like you that I can relate to, so thank you!
Thanks, Bunny. I knew that, even if most people I knew bought the Scam, some others--somewhere--saw through it.
Without readers telling me they agreed with my messages in bottles, I'm not sure what I would have done.
💯 right about Facebook. People called me the worst names. People even called the barn I keep my horses at and my daughter competes out of, trying to get us kicked out, because I complained about the junior Olympics for her sport being shut down. My daughter dreamed for years of competing in that event. It never restarted.
I hated most of all the Scamdemicians stealing irreplaceable experiences from kids. I'm sorry this landed on your daughter.
That is awful, Spartacus. So many children were impacted by the crazy rules and regulations. I hope your daughter has found a way to cope.
Find new friends and cut the bad people off.
Facebook heavily censored. I actually had a private message censored when trying to share information with others. I quit facebook immediately and have never gone back. There were a lot of anticovid conversations on twitter despite a lot of censorship. That is mainly were Bereson thrived and created a name for himself. It is also where DRASTIC thrived and I learned about Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak, and DARPA's Preempt programs. I was kicked off probably 6 times as a lot of people. Bereson was kicked off near the end. He settled a lawsuit with twitter over it and still has a case against the feds pending.
Mark, you were/are successful, even if you cannot see it. I share the appreciation of many for your insight and commitment to spread the truths you knew early on. Thank you!
Thanks, Barbara. I like to think I don't need much affirmation in life. But I def needed to have some people tell me they agreed with me. I wasn't questioning my own sanity. I just needed to know there were other sane people with whom I could interact.
Yes, that's exactly it! I still don't have any friends who understand that it was all a massive scam and I lost two who couldn't cope with my scepticism and dropped me. I thank god for online communities like this + my daughters and their partners who are on the same page as us. My son simply ignores it all and won't engage. The UK media and medical establishment is still gaslighting us. I need to feel solidarity with others and it has been fantastic to realise that we are all over the world, thinking the same things and coming to the same conclusions.
Yep, know the feelings. Regardless, thanks, Mark!
For me, the worst part is the menticide; it was my dawning realization that my loved ones, neighbors, coworkers, community, have all had their minds destroyed. I would even say their souls destroyed; now that they have been injected with something that has probably permanently altered their God-given immune systems (and who knows what else is encoded in our DNA blueprint)..... it surely does feel that the people I used to think they were (or maybe they actually were) have been altered -- sometimes in subtle ways, but it doesn't have the same "feel." Their vibrations are off. They are not the same. I would even say that some of them seem to be possessed.
This is a horror movie, unfolding in real time. I am deeply grateful to connect with this remnant of people on substack, or as we may find ourselves eventually in person -- to preserve what we all know to be genuine, human connection in all of its fullness. Not this pretense that is clearly not how God made us.
So true, Dani. I wrote a post based on the TV sitcom Green Acres, in which the protagonist is surrounded by crazy people. It has felt very much like that. People parroting the same nonsensical jargon was creepy. None of these phrases would have occurred to people on their own. They were spellbound by what they saw on screens and ignored the realm thye could have seen with their own eyes.
Dani, unvaxxed but locked down business owner in a now very liberal town in Oregon (formerly conservative town), I am changed. I now am aware and awake, and am looking at history from a different point of view, looking at the corruption that is going on, becoming politically awake. But, I am also skeptical of people, afraid to get to know new people, don’t trust other people and get a spidey sense about brainwashed libs and I don’t like that side effect of waking up.
I recently joined an awesome new senior center and have been taking some really fun exercise classes because let’s face it, I’m generally a couch potato and it’s so good for me to get out and move, and it has been fun to be around other people and laugh and learn new names, but I don’t trust a damn one of them!
I hate this side effect of the plandemic. Thank goodness for Mark, C&C, and other substacks… and the comments sections!!
Dani - please do not despair about those that got the shots. Not all of us have had those affects (I got two Moderna 3 1/2 years ago).
I am a changed person, but not in the ways you may think. I'm still healthy and my immune system has not been affected.
Realizing that almost everything I once believed was a lie has changed me in a profound way. And I am eternally grateful for that. It made me lean into my Christian faith. Because of that, I don't live in fear. And God gave me a way to channel my anger about being duped. If you read my Substack, you'll see what I was led to do to try and make a difference. And I truly believe I have.
This is my first publication (there are more that you can find in the "archive" section:
https://laurakasner.substack.com/p/embalmer-blood-clots
Oh yes ! The lie also made me lean more into my Christian faith too...actually, more like run deeply into it. Still find it mind boggling although I really should not to see that everything that happens throughout the centuries was already warned of by God......from propaganda to wanting rulers instead of working together with judges, to dangers of deception, world wide disasters, wars, rumours of wars, the respectable merchants of the world and of course Big Pharma itself......exciting times we are living in !
Dani - we all experienced. I was able to protect my wife and kids, but I couldn't influence a single member our immediate family. Everyone got the shot, and everyone thought we were nuts. It's no longer talked about. I know in my heart that when round 2 comes around, they will likely fall in line and demonstrate the same behaviors. It's pathetic. My 27-year-old niece just had her first baby. She asked us to quit sending her information about the childhood vaccine schedule and the potential harms. I don't get it.
it's heartbreaking, especially for the kids whose parents are making these decisions on their behalf, believing themselves to be doing the best for their children, being good and loving parents.
On a non-human note, I do not vaccinate my cat. My adult children, fully indoctrinated (and fully vaccinated because I did not wise up in time....), each have their own cat.... my cat is well into adulthood, super healthy, never an issue -- while their cats have sadly deteriorated in health, mere shadows of their former, vibrant energy. On special diets, medication, more shots, diagnostic tests.... My kids have so bought into the pet vaccination scam, that they badger me to jab my cat and accuse me of being a bad cat mom because I refuse.
So I am now getting a preview of what it might be like for my future grandchildren (assuming my kids are still able to have children, after their jabbings). I don't want to think about it.
I'm the same Dani - I no longer get my dear dog vaccinated and try to alert parents to the dangers in vaccines - usually politely ignored. Thankfully my daughter who has a toddler is mostly aware of the problem - but still takes her child to a special clinic for the odd one that doesn't have the problematic adjuvants, she says. Hmmm, I don't know myself....
I beg to differ with you....."on a non-human note" is incorrect. You are behaving very much human - and thoughtful and plain sensible here - and my observations of pets with vaccinations are the same as yours. None of my dogs or cats have ever been vaccinated and all have lived to between 15 and 20 years of age with my current gorgeous Blue Heeler cross nudging the twenty mark and still 100% active 'dog' other than the occasional forgetfulness and now deafness.
I guess my post was nebulous.... by "non-human" I meant that our pets (and also this pertains to farm and zoo animals.....) are not human. But all are God's creatures, and vaccination is an abomination.
There, I said it.
That was just me being pedantic, your meaning was clear enough....sorry. I I fully agree with you and all of God's creatures are included in my nightly and daily prayers...ALL. So pleased there are so many like minded folk out there ! Thank you !
Sorry...that should be "differ from you", not 'with you'. Ouch.
Ah, it’s like the drunk’s spouse, or the naive newlywed who thinks they can change the behavior of their partner.
Change is hard, even from within.
Having taught in the 90s, aughts, teens and 20s I can say that 80% of people refuse to exercise their minds. They’re too pleasured and entertained to even care.
I trust your experience-based perception, NJ. So many people seem in a state of permanent phone distraction/numbness.
Yes Mark. Some of us tried. Sometimes you can only plant seeds.
To all of my patients, I sent an email with a link to David Katz, MD, et. al's letter for appeal to reason. I asked questions and shared his summary/analysis. I don't remember getting push back or agreement. Still sold the clinic the day before the jabs were mandatory for health care workers in Oregon. I was afraid our board would force it and remove licenses.
I also never took free money, PPE or PPP. I don't trust "free." Felt it would be a Faustian bargain, from which I would never recover.
AnnMarie, thank you for your sanity and your principled stance
Character.
Our internist and pediatrician retired early rather than push this poison.
Kudos to you
I don't wish to mislead. Even if I were an MD, I would not have given a single soul that poison.
Even though, or perhaps because, I am just a lowly chiropractor, I knew all of the counter measures were a really bad idea. I knew that mRNA could be reverse transcribed into DNA. I didn't know about the contamination, the modifications, the planned morbidity, mortality, and probably transfectivity from jabbed to the unjabbed. I don't know if that has been proven. I don't want to research it, because I touch people all day.
I couldn't even keep my parents from taking it. Neither took boosters though.
I enjoy talking to folks who are aware and willing to share their own stories of perceiving the ruse.
You were smart to sell, even Central Oregon was buying into the scam. Still looking for an awake MD. (My naturopath bought into the CDC bs, so I quit her). It’s sad because she was bright, probably afraid of loosing her license.
Sorry to be spelling police but it's baffling to me how often I see people write "loose" when they mean "lose" and "loosing" when they mean "losing."
THANK YOU
That will be a tough one to relearn!
Thank you Amking.
It all SUCKED Mark. Virtually the same experience as you Mark.
The only difference is, instead of writing my wife and me traveled for nearly a year protesting the masks, lockdowns, etc.
Even though we planned and organized we could hardly get anyone to show up...even people who said they disagreed with the nonsense.
The most heartbreaking was trying to get parents to protest outside of the schools. We never had more than a few parents show up. Many times it was just my wife and children.
Initially I was shocked, but by the end of March I knew (based on the few protests at that time) that we were in for the long haul.
All I can say is it was especially lonely for the VERY FEW biz owners that saw through the bullshit. I was just utterly shocked that other business owners (free thinkers, risk takers, problem solvers and staunchly independent folks) so willingly complied.
Just shocked.
It was demoralizing
Ryan, that is GREAT that you tried to organize protests. I hoped to do the same by building a set of protesters through my friends and a pyramid scheme. When my friends were against me, I knew protests wouldn't get traction.
I learned of two protests in May and June, and went. These were lightly attended.
Ryan, my husband and I went out every Sunday in the middle of a freezing winter looking for the supposed “Stand in the Park” groups in our area. Either they didn’t exist or we were very unlucky in locating them. In our town nobody was interested in resistance. Compliance was all.
Good on you for trying.
"I was just utterly shocked that other business owners (free thinkers, risk takers, problem solvers and staunchly independent folks) so willingly complied."
You have to count on people complying. They are hard wired to obey authority. People will kill to keep their chains. None of this is easy and more than once I have seen the same tendency in myself. For example I didn't wear the muzzle but very early I did to go to walmart with my wife. Why? because everyone else was muzzled and it was just easier to go with the flow. Of course I despise walmart but I went anyway is sort of the same thing writ small. I want to add, when I did that, wear the muzzle, I felt diminished, lessened like a mindless heard member, I didn't do that again.
Unfortunately, I think it is going to get worse.
The systematic silencing of any dissenting voice has been escalating, and recently is being enshrined in various pieces of legislation. Here in Australia we have the Misinformation Bill, not yet passed, but being smoothly tweaked to get it to the point where it will be acceptable enough to get rolled out into law.
More than anything else, we all need to recognise these efforts to shut us down, and find ways to push back and/or to sidestep them.
Right now, Substack is still a staunch platform for differing views, with no (apparent) censorship. But before long there will be the next global "disaster", and the censorship will step up.
I know this sounds paranoid, but it does seem that the covid campaign was just a trial run, and the powers-that-be are working diligently to plug the holes for next time.
Suppression of differing views is the absolute scariest and most insidious and most dangerous aspect of covidmania... and we need to recognise this so we can take action.
This recent talk about criminalizing misinformation is 1984/Hellish.
Especially as it comes from those who have sold major lies since March 2020.
In the after covid simulation run "catastrophic contagion" Bill Gates's greatest disappointment during covid was the loss of narative control despite making this a top priority. He emphasized the need to get a handle on the alternative media.
Yes. And in the Event 201 exercise, controlling the narrative was the biggest point of concern.
Scary thing is, how well they were able to do this. Not completely, but scarily enough.
I think the full court press in the EU is in response to Gates's concerns. Arresting Durov and the pressure on Musk to conform is all so ham fisted it is ridiculous but they don't seem to care.
That evil manling descends from a rotten tree that pushed the eugenics movement out of Cold Spring Harbor Labs AND planned parenthood of ameriKa
May he repent for his evil
It was a waste of time trying to communicate with a lot of people anyhow. Get together with the circle of those you can trust and figure out alternatives to the net for communication.
Here in Canada we have Bill C 63 otherwise referred to as the “ online harms act” - and you can see what’s happening in the UK! We also have the On-line news act (previously Bill C-18 but passed in June ‘23)…. You don’t sound paranoid to me you sound like my twin! We can only keep speaking up and speaking out and trying to bring reason to the conversations. My concern is the generations under us and those being born now will not ever know what free speech is unless we can ensure we keep it. It’s kind of marvellous in the true meaning of the word, how governments across the world are managing the same things and changing legislation and trying to control what we are allowed to see, hear and therefore know. Thanks Mark for a reflective start to the day. I understand your angst and feel it too - but we are all doing what we can and know that it collectively makes a difference. A girlfriend once told me during one of my lower points in life, “never doubt the impact you have on people”. Just because we can’t see it or it’s not tangible doesn’t mean it’s not meaningful and having a ripple effect. 💗 🇨🇦
That's a great message and reminder, Sam.
Press on, regardless. Never surrender.
Ugh. Gallows for the misinformation crowd. A bunch of feckless loosers if ever there were any.
*losers
It's not paranoia; it's parsimony.
You were one of a very few writers with whom I agreed and followed so I didn’t feel alone on the planet. Thank you for that!
Thanks, Janice.
It was/is important to me to know there are still sane people who don't mindlessly follow the herd.
You have done and are doing much more than most of us have these last five years and I know I am grateful for the message you have spread. There are a few people that saved my sanity early on and you are one of those. Dr. Simone Gold, Berenson , Malone and El Gato were others I found that helped reinforce my gut feelings of how wrong and orchestrated this whole mess was. I yelled back and laughed at strangers who wanted to push the whole mask, distancing, stand on the dots and stay inside thing saying "I am not sick!" and "I am not afraid of a stupid virus" and "This is NOT MY "new normal". In 2022 I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and when sharing my symptoms with acquaintances before I was diagnosed they were convinced I had "long covid"- I put it right back in their faces with "no, I don't have long covid"- I just talked to a lady at my gym who had to bring up the fact that she was getting her covid and flu shots last week. I told her to be prepared to get covid (or worse) in the next few months...so done with being nice to stupid people. Don't need them...
Thanks, Cheryl, for being an early adopting teammate and a vocal opponent of the Scam.
Well, Mark, you sure have helped me get through the plandemic and the aftermath. I can't tell you how much but I hope you know. I am surrounded by woke - but not awake -people so I have desperately needed your voice of sanity. I love your substack and book. You've made a big difference to me. Please never stop. Love from NH.
Thanks for saying that, Susie.
But more than that, thanks for being Susie.
It's hard to say why some managed to avoid the hysteria. I had a thought a while back. It was really a question which I feel that the whole Covid experience has answered. I wondered if what was happening in the USA was a 'slow motion coup de etat' ? In a regular overthrow of a government, stuff happens very quickly. But I figured that the same results could be effectively accomplished if the 'coup d etat' rollout was so slow as to be imperceptible. A little erosion of liberties 'here' and a little bit 'there'. Covid illustrated that this had happened. Almost invisibly. Quietly... gently... over time, the USA populace had been conditioned, making them ready to be mass manipulated. And it worked well. To this day, most people believe that the 'vaccines' are 'safe and effective' and that they 'saved millions of lives'. Mass media, Pharma & Government has kept the truth suppressed very well. So where are we ? Is there a recovery from this status of mass formation psychosis ? I don't believe so. And as such, I see us as living in the REAL 'Zombie Apocolypse'. The vast majority who are 'conditioned' are the 'Zombies'.. and they pose a danger to all free thinkers. It's like 'the Borg' in 'Star Trek' episodes. They want you to join with 'the body'. And if you don't... you're an enemy. It's a dangerous time. We are surrounded by dangerously conditioned citizens. What's next ? Sorry about your friend who jumped. Sad that he couldn't hang in. May we all stay lucky in Life so we do not ever get to that bad a state... Live Free, be Healthy, be Happy...
The first big event of the 21st was the attacks of Sep 11. Bought hook, line, and sinker by the vast majority of Americans. They willingly ceded liberty and its protections then over an utterly absurd story -- one that detailed complete malfeasance, misfeasance, criminal negligence, and incompetence. To one big national shrug. Let's bomb countries that had nothing to do with it and compliment ourselves on how patriotic we are.
So, to use your language, the coup began early on, leading to the piece de resistance -- the COVID op. In between, quiet destruction, slow erosion so that ordering people to stay home, strap on a piece of blue plastic, stand six feet apart, and get injected was in the bag. Americans, in particular, had already proved themselves -- and revealed themselves.
Yeah... 9/11 was a very 'managed' event. And that gave us the 900 page 'Patriot Act' only 2 weeks later. But, I don't see the whole Covid scenario as an end game. I think there's more, sadly, much more yet to come. Stay safe... stay 'un-Zombified'...
You may know that the Patriot Act had been written up to two years PRIOR to 9/11.
Yes, all true. Much was going on behind the scenes to set up the horrific structure we have today. This was especially true in the "arena" of "public health." A legal (but wholly unlawful) infrastructure was being constructed to enable the wholesale restriction of life by the "public health" sector.
Preceding the grotesque U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act came the crafting of the Model State Health Emergency Act. Creeps and lunatics were working on this garbage (Ask me how I really feel, Richie) in 1998-99. It got its final fine-tuning in Dec 2021 following the "anthrax attacks" and got passed in '02, I think. This Act obliterated basic human rights. Because? "Emergency." (They excused this destruction because why, well, a biological attack...Uh, huh.)
All to say that the usual suspects work non-stop for power and control. The following is my opinion -- and only my opinion: Had Americans become outraged at the buffoonery, utter incompetence, and criminal negligence to which their own government admitted in its official story of Sep 11, held them to account, and refused to cave to the destruction of their 4th Amendment protections, that "more" you talk about would have likely been impossible. IMO, that would have made the COVID op impossible.
Water under the bridge, unfortunately. As unfortunately, "the 'American' people" confirmed that those who live to make life miserable were right: They can deliver utter bullshit to the "exceptionals." As long as it's wrapped up in their "safety," they'll bite...
Great article.
I still see the ads for boosters.... now get a combo flu & covid shot. It's hard to believe how brain washed people are:
The data is now clear albeit hidden by legacy media. Not only do the shots not work to prevent or protect, but they may kill you with an adverse impact. It is still with us.
Thanks, Dennis.
Yes, so many are acting as if the shots didn't fail: just keep doing more of what has already didn't work, did much harm and was never needed in the first place.
Your concern and frustration are palpable here and brought tears to my eyes in memories of feeling the exact same way- except that you were far more pro-active than I and I salute you. Truly, I do not believe those of us who were awake, and remain so, will ever be able to rid ourselves of the trauma and disbelief as to what was being allowed not only to occur but also to encourage as well as eagerly submit to. Thank you for retaining your sanity and reaching out to others.
Thanks, Lynda.
I tried hard. I failed to change minds but I accompany those who deserved accompaniment.
Having an MD after your name didn't help much--in fact, those of us with MD after our names were punished even more severely for speaking up. My hubby (the other half of the pairodocs) was a regular guest on a local radio show. He used that opportunity (in early 2021) to publicly proclaim that lockdowns and vaccine mandates were destructive and that public health officials had too much power. He was summarily fired from his job as director of emergency medicine for our region. In response we started freespeechinmedicine.com and a very successful Substack.
You are right to call it a collective madness. And we will be dealing with the negative fallout of that madness for the rest of our lives. But we must keep writing and talking about it (and examining the underlying causes) so that it doesn't happen again. Thanks for your courage--and your eloquent words. Your stories have helped more people than you know.
Sincere thanks, Pairodocs, for being the smart, principled type of doctors.
I'm speak against this as long as my mouth works, I'll write against it for as long as I have something new to say and I'll wear my t-shirt until it is filled with holes. And then I'll wear my spare one.