It is perplexing to me that so many highly-educated academic physicians and political physician groups (AMA, etc) strongly promote the leftest agenda surrounding C19, including masking, social distancing, and vaccines. I am an NP at an academic-affiliated tertiary care facility. I cannot name one physician (nor many NPs), who does not believe the leftist mantra. Most are educated in the sciences and conduct their own research related to their field of specialty. But, the blinders are on when it comes to C19.
I had a dr tell me supplements were a waste of money and just made expensive urine. But several years later she did say I should take vitamin D. They are like a giant ship - very slow to turn around.
I’m only a high school graduate but since this pandemic started I’ve read everything related to it voraciously. It’s astounding to me the lack of curiosity by so many to just accept what we’re being fed about CoVid. I just don’t get it.
I posted a simple graph of vaccine hesitancy that indicates mid levels of education are least hesitant and high school and PhDs are highest. My aunt said it's because they're dumb. That doesn't explain the small but significant group of PhDs. I see it as people with common sense that hasn't been highjacked by "higher learning." Mad respect for your intellectual curiosity. Guess they don't hand that out in college and it would be nice if we could get away from the arrogant elitist BS that these people are somehow better.
No disrespect intended to your aunt; but: "because they're dumb" seems all too often to pass for factual; logically argued evidence. She has lots of company. RIP science. Sir Isaac Newton et al must be turning in their graves. The scientific method was born in the West. In the West it has died.
I'm a specialist physician who practices in the community setting and feel exactly the same way. I have no one to speak to about these matters and feel that I live in an open air insane asylum. When my 11 year old had COVID a couple months ago (mild 2 day URI) everyone told me how desperately we needed to get these vaccines approved for her age group. I am relieved that she had it so hopefully everyone will shut up about her getting vaccinated with her natural immunity.
Dr. HK--"I have no one to speak to about these matters." Especially tough for a doctor to be alone in this sticky area. I'm far from being a professional; but floating alone in the same boat. All of my friends/family/neighbors--Injected. I periodically get the same tiresome question: "Have you had your 'C-19++' injection? I'm on my third!" Congratulations; quit asking. I remain mute; no point in arguing. I have a physician friend; who recently got into an injection argument w/ his layman father. My MD friend is injected; his father--Not. Ironically; when he related this episode to me; he said: "Everyone should have a choice." (Except his father.) I held my tongue. Thankfully; he has had the courtesy not to ask about my injection "status." But....Apart from these comment boards; I have no one with which to commiserate/discuss.
yes they are convinced natural immunity is very short lived. And that the vax "boosts" the natural immunity. From what I've read, the opposite may be true
And natural immunity is not short-lived; it can last a lifetime. I know someone who got COVID in March of 2020 who gets tested for her job month and still has antibodies. But that's against the narrative, so shut up and get injected.
Im a physician . Most of us are very status conscious . Most of us are now employees of larger companies like not for profit health systems and totally dependent on government sanction (licenses) and money (medicare) to work and earn a living.
Our incomes are higher than average and our reputations can be undermined by negative perceptions
So most MDs just tow the line. Most MDs ive known are also decent people who went into medicine to do good. And the mafia …. Eh i mean state … exploits this to keep the MDs working. Even though we are some of the most heavily regulated and taxed ( i easily pay 50%) of my income in total taxes.
Doctors are patsies… useful idiots most of them
My life has been made very difficult by my polite and rational deferral to receive the vax.
MiFly -- have you read Ashely Fernandes' article "Why did so many doctors become Nazis?" She's a medical ethicist. It's an enlightening read from Dec 2020.
JuJu -- I'm an old retired NP who trained in the late 70's. From my experience, the "research" done by the vast majority of physicians and APnurses amounts to reading an abstract and maybe the conclusion from the entire study. I could count on one hand the number of doctors and NP's who actually start with the study methodology--if that's no good, you don't need to read the rest. Too much COVID research would never make it into the pile if you examined their procedures, rather than just trusting their conclusions. Medicine is in a very sad state.
Young doctors learn nothing at all about healthy food. They are only trained at prescribing (preferably very expensive) meds and procedures. Most of them mock herbal and homeopathic treatments and some have never even heard perfectly safe methods of healing. They do not want patients to heal but to become regulars, chronic. Money !
Surgeons that I have known for > 20 years and truly respect discount the impact of nutrition, herbal, and naturopathic supplements. Yet, Covid is an infection that takes advantage of metabolic derangements.
Thanks for forging the path for those that followed! You are right! I think that there is so much information out, that people do not have time, energy, etc to truly evaluate methodology. Especially if/when it is not within your usual scope of practice. Everything I once believed and thought I knew....I have started to question the validity of most of it.
Comprehensive takedown Mark. The “bad orange man” exposed the authoritarian streak and alignment with the globalist agenda in the Dems along with our bloated institutions.
We should have fired Fauci, assembled a truly diverse group of real scientific advisors, allowed any and all businesses to stay open and been more like Sweden but el Hombre Naranja was boxed in. Media would have been in overdrive with death counters and live images of suffering vented patients. The fix was in to maximize fear and panic with practically no way for the much maligned POTUS to rise above it.
Agreed that Trump was in a box. But the media ran the inflated death counter anyway. I wouldn't have locked down. Nor granted hospitals subsidies to overstate deaths, or for people to stay home. He should have made Americans confront the true costs of the lockdown.
And kids should have stayed in school.
Trump knows very little science. He was as out of his depth w/CV as I would be in a real estate deal.
Great point Mark, one that I missed. So much more could have been done by questioning the incentives, challenging the data and confronting those true costs. For a Wharton Finance guy he seemed to lack a sense of the math of the situation in addition to the science.
Kids in school absolutely! Mine are very fortunate to have missed only a few months of in person attendance and have been unmasked in school since May. Play dates and activities have continued without a hitch. Sad to hear about those still isolated and tied to a laptop for “education.”
Astute observation. For all trumps personality issues and perceived flaws, he correctly understood that the state was hopelessly intrusive, corrupt and destructive and he called these people out. But the bureacracy , the entrenched interests struck back… the next story hopefully will be more like return of the jedi
If Trump had been able to get rid of Fauci this would not have happened. That man must have huge coverage from multiple sides to be able to withstand the gulf of dirt that has come up lately. I think if Paul had been able to take over, nothing of this disaster would have happened. And as you state, when the Dems took the white House, nothing changed, they just continued with the Trump way of doing. I am sure, even though I detest the man, that he would not have consented in what is going on now, with mandatory vaxxing of innocent children and crucial people like nurses and truckers
Agree with this; Trump was in over his head on this one, and got terrible advice from - who else? another government 3-letter agency (run by A. Fauci for forty years!).
But to his credit, Trump recently said he didn't think the vaxx should be given to children.
Mark, all of your writings on this madness have been excellent, but this piece really says it all powerfully in one column.
I have a liberal teacher friend with whom I was discussing the many dangers and concerns about giving the jab to children; he's convinced it's a gift from God that we have a moral responsibility to take. You're so right; these liberals are dumbed down by their total immersion in their mainstream media bubble... it's almost hopeless, but I'm still going to give your column to him...
A "gift from God." "[We have] a moral responsibility to take [the injections.]" Oh-My-Word. Bad enough from the run of mill Liberal. If the teacher is a Christian--There is no excuse for this tripe; unless he is hopelessly; biblically illiterate. A "gift from God" indeed. As Mr. Oshinskie wrote; That piffle is borderline "blasphemy." Seriously; I'm not being rhetorical. I'll rewrite the teacher's "God" statement: "A gift from the god of this world." (Can you smell the hellish sulfur?) We have a "moral responsibility to inject ourselves" w/ a toxic mRNA brew? Right. "If it saves one life!!!" Puke. I'll leave it at that. 'Nuff said. (I canceled my original comment. Had to delete a misplaced quotation mark. A minor issue; but I'm a bit "obsessive" about grammar.)
Not really when you think about it. We live in a society that has largely done away with traditional religion, but the need to believe does not go away. They just exchanged God for Science and Government.
Another former democrat agrees with most of what you write. A friend of mine, hard core democrat, did study microbiology, told me a million times how germs are everywhere, but now that I am not vaxxed and they are, I am the germ spreader. I have several republican former friends like that too, though. Luckily there are plenty more people on earth.
excellent points, thank you. suicide rates also skyrocketed during lockdowns. Democrats/liberal hypocrisy which you point out with various examples is sick. I once pointed out to an aunt who has now passed while she was ranting about pollution that she was smoking and blowing smoke in my face. ahem. also some famous Democrats/liberals are STILL telling people to mask up. And it seems that Gov. Gavin Newsom may be suffering vaxxx injury due to his last booster shot, two weeks ago. He and White House Press Secy Psaki. have not been seen since then (she announced she had COVID despite being fully vaxxxed). I had hoped these 2 events might wake some Democrats up but crickets so far. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-out-of-sight-likely
Karma is a bitch. I wish nothing bad on anyone, but these two liars getting sick from COVID and the booster, that could change some minds. Doubtful, as they are too vested in the lie. If either died, it would be dubbed something other than what it is.
What we are seeing today is very similar to the late Roman Empire with Liberalism or Marxism as the new Christianity. As to where we are in that timeline, I'm pretty sure we are in the reign of Honorius and Arcadius. Theodosius, their father, was the Emperor who signed the new religion into law and we are now entering the age of barbarian invasions with the sack of Rome to come.
Christianity drew its early adherents from the lower classes. They went around zealously promoting the new religion and were willing to use violence and terrorism to achieve their goals. Our equivalents would be Antifa and Rote Arme Fraktion etc.
In the 80s we saw major changes in the West, just like Orwell warned us about. A lot of things were being prepped for things to come. Reagan in America, Thatcher in the UK and Gorbachev in the USSR. These were all radicals compared to what had been before. The 80s saw the death of old school liberalism, anything old school really and the start of this reborn Roman Empire which could only be realized with the fall of the USSR.
Liberalism is no longer a political idea. It is the new religion. And like the Emperors used to kill people if they did not convert, so too will your professional life be killed today if you do not adhere to the religious dogma. They are already tearing down statues just like the Christians in the Late Roman Empire. Books are being burned and scientists are purged. This is the exact same societal phenomenon and if you don't know the history I can tell you it will only get worse from here on. Our Julian the Apostate is already long dead. There will be no resistance at the level that matters. It has already been conquered. We are just going to have to live it down, like the pagans of old.
I don't believe intelligent persons are duped by this as much as they are dominated and conquered by it. Of course they don't want to admit this, so they put up unconscious barriers. What Orwell calls double think is in my opinion only double think to an outside observer. To a liberal the internal logic is perfect. He is only aided by psychological fear to stay away from confronting the weakness of this logic. This is why they get so mad at you when you challenge them. You are literally jeopardizing their mental sanity when you force them to confront certain ideas.
I have been a conservative (economically) for my entire. I'm one of "The government is NOT the problem it IS the problem guys" Socially I have disagreed wanted "my body, my choice" and to keep the government out of anyone's bedroom! Our dysfunctional uniparty system seems intent on destroying the US in any way it can. Very sad.
As an estate planning attorney, I have tracked the client's deaths for 2020 & 2021 that we are involved with. Consistently, we have had about 50 deaths a year, mostly the elderly and sick. More recently I reviewed that list and we have had 5 times more death from depression and suicide than covid. It's anecdotal but quite interesting to consider.
By the way, you should know your links in this article to your prior writings on Medium do not work. In fact, worse, it says you are "suspended and under investigation" for violating their rules! I guess "Medium", whatever that is, does not like your messages Sad, the loss of Freedom of Speech and an exchange od diverse thought and ideas may be the real destruction ahead for us.
Anecdotal data, such as yours, matter a lot here b/c the data being cited by MSM are gamed. Those books are cooked in ways I know about and probably in ways that I don't. Did you see the video of the UK undertaker talk about his anecdotal experience? It made the rounds a month ago. The bottom line is this has been a huge scam.
I have no doubt that all of the social disruption has caused plenty of depression and deaths.
Heck with Medium. I've moved on.
But MSM still has a big audience, which is brainwashed big-time, to the extent that, even after 20 months, people are still CV-panicked even though they know no one who is healthy under 75 who has died with--not from--CV. It's not good to have a biased media, and worse that many people don't perceive the bias.
Maybe you should just consider yourself a whistleblower, though on a smaller scale than someone who outs shenanigans at an agency, institution, or corporation.
I find anecdotal evidence very helpful in seeing what's going on in other neighborhoods than mine, as well as validating.
As you are aware already from seeing so many suicides, It's far too easy, right now, to feel isolated.
A near perfect description of the modern liberal. Of course the modern liberal would deny all this because the only thing you left out was that liberals live in complete denial, it is part of their tribalism and inability to think critically.
'liberals' are deeply fearful of dying, more fearful than being seen as not as smart as people who follow npr. they are a herd animal, and their herd is cliquy, with disdain for any erson capable of thinking and responding to data.
The liberals that fear death the most are gays; I know this from the gay men I know. They want to live forever. Not sure about lesbians, since I don't know any.
While I believe there is a huge disconnect between the Democrats and Republicans in the United States, it's somewhat the same in Canada. A word of caution for both countries.
Right versus Left does not matter. Because the politicians are not running the show, the Corporate Globalist are, and they are happy when the public is divided by partisan politics. I can't take credit for the last statement. It is from an article in Health Impact News. I think the author Brian Shilhavy makes a good point.
Yours is the last comment I read and it's my favorite! I considered myself a leftist liberal for years and so it has been very puzzling and disorienting to watch this all unfold. I no longer identify with any of my peers and have felt quite homeless really. I love reading about what could possibly explain it all. But really, the simplest explanation is that division benefits the ruling class and it doesn't matter what brings it about, just that it happens. In this case I think media brainwashing is squarely to blame, but hardly anybody can see it for what it is.
Yes. I know it is unpopular with my conservidents to do this, but we have to accept the objective fact that Trump is politically dead now and to the extent that any embers remain, the Left will never let go of him. Like the Terror Rojo in the Spanish Civil War, they will dig him up to desecrate his corpse if they could. Rank and file suburban white moms who vote D hate Trump. Hate. It is a top-shelf hatred, and right next to hating racists, this is the most reliable persuasive hook Dems think they have. They used it unsparingly to mixed results in CA and VA. So use this too. Use this against them: This is Trump's vaccine. His Warpspeed. His untested. His Indemnification of Pharma contract. His deployment. His lockdown. His NIH, his GoF research. His racist travel ban. His booster booster unending booster regime. Reiterate that to them whenever you can. Make yourself look like an anti-Trumper as much as you can stand it, use it as camouflage and you can break the vaxx spell with these very, very slow women. Aikido calls this reversal technique "Kotegaeshi." Remember: The slow blade penetrates the shield. Talking science immunology just leads to MEGO (my eyes glaze over) and retrenchments. Talking feels, like what Trump personally did to their kids and their "social development" by closing schools, that gets them to at least the levels of Fear and Uncertainty. One more tick, sooner or later, maybe more hospital overloads by vaxxed at Christmas, will get them to Doubt and Disbelief. That's when the fun starts.
I believe Trump did a great job as President for the most part, however Mr. Markov, I fear you are correct. Backing policies consistent with the Trump administration and backing Trump are two completely different things (see Pa election). I feel like we are giving up and letting the libs get their way, but Trump did not do himself any favors. I will definitely take your advice about the vaccines, Trumps vaccines ... see what the Trump haters have to say then.
Trump is old, and I think it's OK that he's politically dead. His own party was against him, and even if he was younger and got re-elected, nothing would change. They would still be against him, still promote bad cabinet picks and we'd be in a quagmire. Trump also signed on to a lot of really bad things: lockdowns, masks, paying hospitals for COVID deaths, paying hospitals for COVID vent patients and so on. Those things have never gone away, and if you go to a large hospital, they are incentivized by the government to make sure you don't come out alive.
It is perplexing to me that so many highly-educated academic physicians and political physician groups (AMA, etc) strongly promote the leftest agenda surrounding C19, including masking, social distancing, and vaccines. I am an NP at an academic-affiliated tertiary care facility. I cannot name one physician (nor many NPs), who does not believe the leftist mantra. Most are educated in the sciences and conduct their own research related to their field of specialty. But, the blinders are on when it comes to C19.
Most MDs know very little about self care.
My colleagues exercise regularly and eat well, but completely discount and supplemental agents that may be beneficial-D3, zinc, quercetin, etc. 🙄
I had a dr tell me supplements were a waste of money and just made expensive urine. But several years later she did say I should take vitamin D. They are like a giant ship - very slow to turn around.
MDs all parrot the same robotic NPC lines. They act like a religious cult.
I’m only a high school graduate but since this pandemic started I’ve read everything related to it voraciously. It’s astounding to me the lack of curiosity by so many to just accept what we’re being fed about CoVid. I just don’t get it.
The pandemic was certainly helped along by the lack of critical thinkers in society! Higher education doesn’t teach that much these days anyway.
It is pitiful how many people just believe everything BigMedia tell them. Keep reading Stephanie!
I posted a simple graph of vaccine hesitancy that indicates mid levels of education are least hesitant and high school and PhDs are highest. My aunt said it's because they're dumb. That doesn't explain the small but significant group of PhDs. I see it as people with common sense that hasn't been highjacked by "higher learning." Mad respect for your intellectual curiosity. Guess they don't hand that out in college and it would be nice if we could get away from the arrogant elitist BS that these people are somehow better.
No disrespect intended to your aunt; but: "because they're dumb" seems all too often to pass for factual; logically argued evidence. She has lots of company. RIP science. Sir Isaac Newton et al must be turning in their graves. The scientific method was born in the West. In the West it has died.
your aunt doesn't know that uneducated does not equal dumb
You sound VERY intelligent ... never underrate yourself... you’ve got commonsense 💕
I'm a specialist physician who practices in the community setting and feel exactly the same way. I have no one to speak to about these matters and feel that I live in an open air insane asylum. When my 11 year old had COVID a couple months ago (mild 2 day URI) everyone told me how desperately we needed to get these vaccines approved for her age group. I am relieved that she had it so hopefully everyone will shut up about her getting vaccinated with her natural immunity.
Thank you. It is good to know that lots of physicians think the same as us. I hope your child is safe from all future jabs.
Dr. HK--"I have no one to speak to about these matters." Especially tough for a doctor to be alone in this sticky area. I'm far from being a professional; but floating alone in the same boat. All of my friends/family/neighbors--Injected. I periodically get the same tiresome question: "Have you had your 'C-19++' injection? I'm on my third!" Congratulations; quit asking. I remain mute; no point in arguing. I have a physician friend; who recently got into an injection argument w/ his layman father. My MD friend is injected; his father--Not. Ironically; when he related this episode to me; he said: "Everyone should have a choice." (Except his father.) I held my tongue. Thankfully; he has had the courtesy not to ask about my injection "status." But....Apart from these comment boards; I have no one with which to commiserate/discuss.
I've become active in medical freedom activism.
Jump in!
You'll find yourself surrounded by likeminded people, many of whom you'll like very, very much.
Trouble is, how do you prove that she has immunity? The fools/tools think that only injection receipts are proof.
yes they are convinced natural immunity is very short lived. And that the vax "boosts" the natural immunity. From what I've read, the opposite may be true
And natural immunity is not short-lived; it can last a lifetime. I know someone who got COVID in March of 2020 who gets tested for her job month and still has antibodies. But that's against the narrative, so shut up and get injected.
It truly is mind boggling!
Im a physician . Most of us are very status conscious . Most of us are now employees of larger companies like not for profit health systems and totally dependent on government sanction (licenses) and money (medicare) to work and earn a living.
Our incomes are higher than average and our reputations can be undermined by negative perceptions
So most MDs just tow the line. Most MDs ive known are also decent people who went into medicine to do good. And the mafia …. Eh i mean state … exploits this to keep the MDs working. Even though we are some of the most heavily regulated and taxed ( i easily pay 50%) of my income in total taxes.
Doctors are patsies… useful idiots most of them
My life has been made very difficult by my polite and rational deferral to receive the vax.
Thank you for speaking up. Thankfully there are a lot of honest and true doctors like you.
... nurse inquired about my status ... printed at top of my chart in caps “NOT VACCINATED”... like I have the coodies or something...
MiFly -- have you read Ashely Fernandes' article "Why did so many doctors become Nazis?" She's a medical ethicist. It's an enlightening read from Dec 2020.
I would highly rec Vaclav Havel's essay called "the power of the powerless"
I dont think I ever read this but I will now... tks
Getting cancelled after spending years in education and then residency and now in practice is not an option for many of these MDs.
True. Especially considering that many also have hefty student loan debt still to pay.
...they prey on your weak spot... keep tightening the screws... some people are drawing the line when when they target their kids...
As they should be. So sad, to sacrifice the children at the alter of the World elites and Pharma Gods.
I know some like that, and I heard a friend who went to the doctor and that office was all non vaxx. So there too we see people from both sides
How did it becomes obvious that everyone was not injected?
We need some way of recognising smart people.
JuJu -- I'm an old retired NP who trained in the late 70's. From my experience, the "research" done by the vast majority of physicians and APnurses amounts to reading an abstract and maybe the conclusion from the entire study. I could count on one hand the number of doctors and NP's who actually start with the study methodology--if that's no good, you don't need to read the rest. Too much COVID research would never make it into the pile if you examined their procedures, rather than just trusting their conclusions. Medicine is in a very sad state.
Young doctors learn nothing at all about healthy food. They are only trained at prescribing (preferably very expensive) meds and procedures. Most of them mock herbal and homeopathic treatments and some have never even heard perfectly safe methods of healing. They do not want patients to heal but to become regulars, chronic. Money !
Surgeons that I have known for > 20 years and truly respect discount the impact of nutrition, herbal, and naturopathic supplements. Yet, Covid is an infection that takes advantage of metabolic derangements.
Thanks for forging the path for those that followed! You are right! I think that there is so much information out, that people do not have time, energy, etc to truly evaluate methodology. Especially if/when it is not within your usual scope of practice. Everything I once believed and thought I knew....I have started to question the validity of most of it.
Comprehensive takedown Mark. The “bad orange man” exposed the authoritarian streak and alignment with the globalist agenda in the Dems along with our bloated institutions.
We should have fired Fauci, assembled a truly diverse group of real scientific advisors, allowed any and all businesses to stay open and been more like Sweden but el Hombre Naranja was boxed in. Media would have been in overdrive with death counters and live images of suffering vented patients. The fix was in to maximize fear and panic with practically no way for the much maligned POTUS to rise above it.
Thanks, Howard.
Agreed that Trump was in a box. But the media ran the inflated death counter anyway. I wouldn't have locked down. Nor granted hospitals subsidies to overstate deaths, or for people to stay home. He should have made Americans confront the true costs of the lockdown.
And kids should have stayed in school.
Trump knows very little science. He was as out of his depth w/CV as I would be in a real estate deal.
Great point Mark, one that I missed. So much more could have been done by questioning the incentives, challenging the data and confronting those true costs. For a Wharton Finance guy he seemed to lack a sense of the math of the situation in addition to the science.
Kids in school absolutely! Mine are very fortunate to have missed only a few months of in person attendance and have been unmasked in school since May. Play dates and activities have continued without a hitch. Sad to hear about those still isolated and tied to a laptop for “education.”
Thanks for writing these excellent posts.
Astute observation. For all trumps personality issues and perceived flaws, he correctly understood that the state was hopelessly intrusive, corrupt and destructive and he called these people out. But the bureacracy , the entrenched interests struck back… the next story hopefully will be more like return of the jedi
Excellent summary. As a former democrat voter I couldn’t agree more. The way people have taken leave of rational thought is so embarrassing.
If Trump had been able to get rid of Fauci this would not have happened. That man must have huge coverage from multiple sides to be able to withstand the gulf of dirt that has come up lately. I think if Paul had been able to take over, nothing of this disaster would have happened. And as you state, when the Dems took the white House, nothing changed, they just continued with the Trump way of doing. I am sure, even though I detest the man, that he would not have consented in what is going on now, with mandatory vaxxing of innocent children and crucial people like nurses and truckers
Agreed. Trump should have never given him an audience.
Agree with this; Trump was in over his head on this one, and got terrible advice from - who else? another government 3-letter agency (run by A. Fauci for forty years!).
But to his credit, Trump recently said he didn't think the vaxx should be given to children.
And once they are injected they turn the brain off even more.
Questing over.
Yes, as a former Democrat surrounded 90% by liberals, you have them pegged exactly on this. The great shame is that Trump fell for it.
Mark, all of your writings on this madness have been excellent, but this piece really says it all powerfully in one column.
I have a liberal teacher friend with whom I was discussing the many dangers and concerns about giving the jab to children; he's convinced it's a gift from God that we have a moral responsibility to take. You're so right; these liberals are dumbed down by their total immersion in their mainstream media bubble... it's almost hopeless, but I'm still going to give your column to him...
Gift from God?! That's blasphemy.
But thanks for the message, Rev. May God bless you and protect you.
A "gift from God." "[We have] a moral responsibility to take [the injections.]" Oh-My-Word. Bad enough from the run of mill Liberal. If the teacher is a Christian--There is no excuse for this tripe; unless he is hopelessly; biblically illiterate. A "gift from God" indeed. As Mr. Oshinskie wrote; That piffle is borderline "blasphemy." Seriously; I'm not being rhetorical. I'll rewrite the teacher's "God" statement: "A gift from the god of this world." (Can you smell the hellish sulfur?) We have a "moral responsibility to inject ourselves" w/ a toxic mRNA brew? Right. "If it saves one life!!!" Puke. I'll leave it at that. 'Nuff said. (I canceled my original comment. Had to delete a misplaced quotation mark. A minor issue; but I'm a bit "obsessive" about grammar.)
It must be a gift from the Almighty…the Governor of NY said so!
It really is mind boggling the way many have made this their religion.
Not really when you think about it. We live in a society that has largely done away with traditional religion, but the need to believe does not go away. They just exchanged God for Science and Government.
The religion of this $cience.
Exactly
Another former democrat agrees with most of what you write. A friend of mine, hard core democrat, did study microbiology, told me a million times how germs are everywhere, but now that I am not vaxxed and they are, I am the germ spreader. I have several republican former friends like that too, though. Luckily there are plenty more people on earth.
... I like you... hugs to you🐱
excellent points, thank you. suicide rates also skyrocketed during lockdowns. Democrats/liberal hypocrisy which you point out with various examples is sick. I once pointed out to an aunt who has now passed while she was ranting about pollution that she was smoking and blowing smoke in my face. ahem. also some famous Democrats/liberals are STILL telling people to mask up. And it seems that Gov. Gavin Newsom may be suffering vaxxx injury due to his last booster shot, two weeks ago. He and White House Press Secy Psaki. have not been seen since then (she announced she had COVID despite being fully vaxxxed). I had hoped these 2 events might wake some Democrats up but crickets so far. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/gavin-newsom-is-out-of-sight-likely
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Karma is a bitch. I wish nothing bad on anyone, but these two liars getting sick from COVID and the booster, that could change some minds. Doubtful, as they are too vested in the lie. If either died, it would be dubbed something other than what it is.
What we are seeing today is very similar to the late Roman Empire with Liberalism or Marxism as the new Christianity. As to where we are in that timeline, I'm pretty sure we are in the reign of Honorius and Arcadius. Theodosius, their father, was the Emperor who signed the new religion into law and we are now entering the age of barbarian invasions with the sack of Rome to come.
Christianity drew its early adherents from the lower classes. They went around zealously promoting the new religion and were willing to use violence and terrorism to achieve their goals. Our equivalents would be Antifa and Rote Arme Fraktion etc.
In the 80s we saw major changes in the West, just like Orwell warned us about. A lot of things were being prepped for things to come. Reagan in America, Thatcher in the UK and Gorbachev in the USSR. These were all radicals compared to what had been before. The 80s saw the death of old school liberalism, anything old school really and the start of this reborn Roman Empire which could only be realized with the fall of the USSR.
Liberalism is no longer a political idea. It is the new religion. And like the Emperors used to kill people if they did not convert, so too will your professional life be killed today if you do not adhere to the religious dogma. They are already tearing down statues just like the Christians in the Late Roman Empire. Books are being burned and scientists are purged. This is the exact same societal phenomenon and if you don't know the history I can tell you it will only get worse from here on. Our Julian the Apostate is already long dead. There will be no resistance at the level that matters. It has already been conquered. We are just going to have to live it down, like the pagans of old.
I don't believe intelligent persons are duped by this as much as they are dominated and conquered by it. Of course they don't want to admit this, so they put up unconscious barriers. What Orwell calls double think is in my opinion only double think to an outside observer. To a liberal the internal logic is perfect. He is only aided by psychological fear to stay away from confronting the weakness of this logic. This is why they get so mad at you when you challenge them. You are literally jeopardizing their mental sanity when you force them to confront certain ideas.
Mark,
I have been a conservative (economically) for my entire. I'm one of "The government is NOT the problem it IS the problem guys" Socially I have disagreed wanted "my body, my choice" and to keep the government out of anyone's bedroom! Our dysfunctional uniparty system seems intent on destroying the US in any way it can. Very sad.
As an estate planning attorney, I have tracked the client's deaths for 2020 & 2021 that we are involved with. Consistently, we have had about 50 deaths a year, mostly the elderly and sick. More recently I reviewed that list and we have had 5 times more death from depression and suicide than covid. It's anecdotal but quite interesting to consider.
By the way, you should know your links in this article to your prior writings on Medium do not work. In fact, worse, it says you are "suspended and under investigation" for violating their rules! I guess "Medium", whatever that is, does not like your messages Sad, the loss of Freedom of Speech and an exchange od diverse thought and ideas may be the real destruction ahead for us.
Dennis,
Anecdotal data, such as yours, matter a lot here b/c the data being cited by MSM are gamed. Those books are cooked in ways I know about and probably in ways that I don't. Did you see the video of the UK undertaker talk about his anecdotal experience? It made the rounds a month ago. The bottom line is this has been a huge scam.
I have no doubt that all of the social disruption has caused plenty of depression and deaths.
Heck with Medium. I've moved on.
But MSM still has a big audience, which is brainwashed big-time, to the extent that, even after 20 months, people are still CV-panicked even though they know no one who is healthy under 75 who has died with--not from--CV. It's not good to have a biased media, and worse that many people don't perceive the bias.
Mark
Maybe you should just consider yourself a whistleblower, though on a smaller scale than someone who outs shenanigans at an agency, institution, or corporation.
I find anecdotal evidence very helpful in seeing what's going on in other neighborhoods than mine, as well as validating.
As you are aware already from seeing so many suicides, It's far too easy, right now, to feel isolated.
A near perfect description of the modern liberal. Of course the modern liberal would deny all this because the only thing you left out was that liberals live in complete denial, it is part of their tribalism and inability to think critically.
'liberals' are deeply fearful of dying, more fearful than being seen as not as smart as people who follow npr. they are a herd animal, and their herd is cliquy, with disdain for any erson capable of thinking and responding to data.
the lemming make excellent auschwitz guards.
This is a good point, Ed. I should have included it.
The liberals that fear death the most are gays; I know this from the gay men I know. They want to live forever. Not sure about lesbians, since I don't know any.
My late uncle used to say, "I didn't leave the democrat party, the democrat party left me."
Democrats virtue signal without being virtuous. Spot on.
While I believe there is a huge disconnect between the Democrats and Republicans in the United States, it's somewhat the same in Canada. A word of caution for both countries.
Right versus Left does not matter. Because the politicians are not running the show, the Corporate Globalist are, and they are happy when the public is divided by partisan politics. I can't take credit for the last statement. It is from an article in Health Impact News. I think the author Brian Shilhavy makes a good point.
Yours is the last comment I read and it's my favorite! I considered myself a leftist liberal for years and so it has been very puzzling and disorienting to watch this all unfold. I no longer identify with any of my peers and have felt quite homeless really. I love reading about what could possibly explain it all. But really, the simplest explanation is that division benefits the ruling class and it doesn't matter what brings it about, just that it happens. In this case I think media brainwashing is squarely to blame, but hardly anybody can see it for what it is.
https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/exposed-klaus-schwabs-school-for-covid-dictators-plan-for-great-reset/
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-master-plan-behind-the-covid-crisis/
Yes. I know it is unpopular with my conservidents to do this, but we have to accept the objective fact that Trump is politically dead now and to the extent that any embers remain, the Left will never let go of him. Like the Terror Rojo in the Spanish Civil War, they will dig him up to desecrate his corpse if they could. Rank and file suburban white moms who vote D hate Trump. Hate. It is a top-shelf hatred, and right next to hating racists, this is the most reliable persuasive hook Dems think they have. They used it unsparingly to mixed results in CA and VA. So use this too. Use this against them: This is Trump's vaccine. His Warpspeed. His untested. His Indemnification of Pharma contract. His deployment. His lockdown. His NIH, his GoF research. His racist travel ban. His booster booster unending booster regime. Reiterate that to them whenever you can. Make yourself look like an anti-Trumper as much as you can stand it, use it as camouflage and you can break the vaxx spell with these very, very slow women. Aikido calls this reversal technique "Kotegaeshi." Remember: The slow blade penetrates the shield. Talking science immunology just leads to MEGO (my eyes glaze over) and retrenchments. Talking feels, like what Trump personally did to their kids and their "social development" by closing schools, that gets them to at least the levels of Fear and Uncertainty. One more tick, sooner or later, maybe more hospital overloads by vaxxed at Christmas, will get them to Doubt and Disbelief. That's when the fun starts.
I believe Trump did a great job as President for the most part, however Mr. Markov, I fear you are correct. Backing policies consistent with the Trump administration and backing Trump are two completely different things (see Pa election). I feel like we are giving up and letting the libs get their way, but Trump did not do himself any favors. I will definitely take your advice about the vaccines, Trumps vaccines ... see what the Trump haters have to say then.
I'm a recovering Trump supporter. Yes, I voted for and contributed to his 2020 campaign. (We all had very little choice, really.)
But he's a buffoon whose administration accomplished little that wasn't immediately washed away by the incoming Biden admin.
Trump thought he could "Art of the Deal" with the swamp. He was rolled by the swamp gators instead.
Ha! I'm a recovering Biden supporter! We're all just screwed by the system.
Trump is old, and I think it's OK that he's politically dead. His own party was against him, and even if he was younger and got re-elected, nothing would change. They would still be against him, still promote bad cabinet picks and we'd be in a quagmire. Trump also signed on to a lot of really bad things: lockdowns, masks, paying hospitals for COVID deaths, paying hospitals for COVID vent patients and so on. Those things have never gone away, and if you go to a large hospital, they are incentivized by the government to make sure you don't come out alive.
Obama's America