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I’ve been saying that this is one big IQ test, or test of both IQ and character (which most are failing). Calling it a Milgram Experiment captures that well!

While the hapless fool in the Oval Office has indeed broken his promises and acted in ways so much more reproachable that I could ever had imagined, it is the people pulling his strings I fear the most. It scares me that so many insightful writers, like eugyppius, for instance, see nothing more organized and sinister behind this than incompetence. I fear a WEF-lead or inspired China-style system with complete control and exploitation of citizens may the the ultimate goal here. What do you think, Mark?

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I'm with you. It's bad faith, not incompetence. They've obviously lied throughout, and continue to do so. It's astounding to me that more people don't see how dishonest this Scamdemic has been from Day 1.

I'm writing something about that right now.

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This was all intentional. One is a fool to believe otherwise. Throughout all of modern medicine, we knew natural immunity was better than any vaccine. But during the 'pandemic' that knowledge was dismissed. Why? This was a planned destruction of the US to usher in globalism.

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Like many of us, I have gone out of my way to apply Hanlon’s Razor (Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.) to this man made disaster. Even Dr Scott Atlas cited govt incompetence frequently in his book. (Too many names come to mind but Birx, Redfield, and Walensky seemed to be among the dimmest in the parade of dim bulbs.)

But incompetence fails to account for all of what we’ve seen. Indeed Mark, this is bad faith on steroids…a worldwide cast of bad actors who’s goals align is no accident. We have every claim to our righteous anger at all officials who were willing to accept mass casualties for a larger agenda.

I look forward to your next post.

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Exactly. The lies are disqualifying of trust. I kept reading about the skeptics claiming that the virus was never isolated. Well I dont actually give 2 Dino-the-dog shits about isolation since the tests clearly are based on a CONTRIVED assay "since no isolates were available". Thats in black and white text in the FDA RT-PCR EUA. Case closed. PCR tests are absolute fraud. Virtually nothing else means anything.

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Can’t wait to read it!

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Trauma bonding I believe it’s called. A bad marriage one simply can’t leave.

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We must never discount the efficacy of feedback loops, Mark. When pondering the dishonesty from a comfortably remote intellectual distance, it does seem astounding. Get out into the everyday world of human interaction, however, and our pattern recognition begins to detect similarities within the way those we interact with conceptualize what they sincerely believe are facts (emphasis on belief, that cornerstone of secular faith.)

Visit any doctor that ignores the research source material, and we encounter reassuring authoritarianism, which in the milieu of salesmanship is referred to as the "assumptive close." These encounters are what closes the feedback loop. The reassured patient goes out into the community, conveys their articles of faith to others and is reinforced by the ubiquitous media narrative. Rinse and repeat.

The theme rides along on a wave of banal incuriosity. The anxious citizen seeks reassurance more than information, most of the time. We must quell our own astonishment and deal with the consequences of incuriosity. It's an uphill climb, one step, one mind at a time.

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I have never forgotten the earliest days with Prof John Ioannidis giving them the facts and figures. Shortly thereafter given more weight from the evidence from the Diamond Princess, pure test case. They simply would not listen. Nowhere. No one. Not MSM, not pollies, not 'MSS' ( 'main stream science' to coin a dubious term), no-one nowhere.

Because, I think, there's a colossal built in tendency to opt for panic, terror, calamity - worst case scenario.

It might be atavistic from stone age days when it might be a sabre toothed tiger coming, or they neighbouring tribe on an exterminate raid.

And it works well in the modern day because it plays into the dollars - MSM get more dollars - pollies get more 'dollars' (i.e. influence) - Big business gets more dollars (we see that clearly)... all sorts of ways.

So it's an overwhelming tendency.

And it overwhelms.

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Mistakes are made, incompetence plays a part - but serial, overt incompetence covered by continual lies is not credible, which leaves malign and malevolent.

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If it were merely incompetence, some, perhaps 50% of the the errors would have redounded to the health benefit of citizens.

I don’t see much evidence that anything was helpful, from which malevolence may be inferred.

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Well synthesized!

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I agree especially in light of continual vac mandates that affect healthcare and now even truck drivers which we desperately need. Why do the Powerful refuse to pull back from nonsensical vac mandates? What is the point of pushing a "vaccine" which doesn't prevent spread (indeed, it may even enhance spread) and doesn't prevent getting the virus? This is not incompetence; it is something more sinister and evil.

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Why do so many people still believe the lies? I saw my cardiologist yesterday, and he insisted I should put on a mask. Surely he if anyone knows they do no good.

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I think essentially because the 'real ' powerful: us, the people, the voters, simply are not en masse demanding they do so. Such as we in these columns represent a tiny percentage of the populace.

Here in Aus I know they've been testing the water continually. Even when our prime egomaniacal dictator was issuing his most brutal, ridiculous, unscientific, damaging edicts he could still point to polls where the majority of the population claimed to be in favour of him and his antics.

Yep. It's us. We.

We are not who we thought we were.

We most certainly are not a collection of thoughtful, responsible, deliberately intelligent involved voters.

No. We're not.

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I agree. The plandemic helps usher in the Chinese-style total surveillance and total control system to the rapidly failing Western nations. Here's John Titus's explanation of the reason for the plandemic in the below-linked video:

"The pandemic presented forensically for what it is, namely, a massive theatrical edifice intended to distract popular attention away from the fact that criminal bankers running the monetary system are making a concerted push toward full-on totalitarianism through monetary and financial control."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VYOEvurCVuk

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This will probably be my one and only comment. Mark - since I found you, I read everything you write because it's well-written, puts a smile on my face, and confirms that I am not the only lawyer around who has rejected the covidiocy since it began and who uses logic, hard-earned research skills, and personal experience to make sense of the craziness. Since we shut down for 2 weeks to flatten the curve, I have tried to continue to live my life with the fewest number of changes possible. No masks other than to avoid unnecessary trouble or to be polite, social distancing as normal which is nothing new for me, no mRNA vaccine or other experimental vaccines for a virus that almost all healthy people easily survive, of course no vaccine for my teenage boys, continue to encourage my boys to participate in athletics as much as possible here in Northern NE, no hydroxychloroquine, no ivermectin, no snorting iodine, and no tests. Despite no tests, I'm reasonably certain that my family of four had wild covid in late January 2020 and recently went through omicron after a trip to a free state down South over the holidays - kids and wife were generally fine, but I had a scratchy throat, followed by one-day of headache and low-grade fever and chills, then followed by a week or so of fatigue, light cough and light congestion. The fatigue didn't stop me from working, or my workouts (strength training and running). My retired but active and unvaccinated father was infected with Delta this summer and basically had night sweats for a night and lost his appetite for a while and dropped 15 pounds, and all in all is probably better off now. My elderly inactive but vaccinated mother-in-law who has at least nine lives was infected and survived. No relatives or friends have succumbed to covid, but I do have a niece who experienced lung and breathing issues within days of her second jab as required by her job and which all her doctors of course concluded could not be vaccine-related, and I do know a few vaccinated, very unhealthy acquaintances who were infected when they passed. Anyway, although you may have thought you would be done by now, thanks again for continuing to write.

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Thanks, Earl. I sure wish I never had to write any of these. So much damage has been done.

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Keep writing and keep reminding us of the anger we all should be experiencing, like pulling feathers out of the face of a rooster, just before a cock fight commences. We need to stay agitated to continue the fight and resist. Tyranny loves it when the enemy just lays down their swords.

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Respectfully, I saw this for what it was from day one. I had cancer prior to this crap going down as it turned out and was finally diagnose October 2020. Prior to that, through it to present I never complied with this insanity except to get the cancer treated. 7 times I've put the talisman on, all to go to the hospital. So my calculation was mask/die from cancer. Trouble, being polite? Again, my only critique respectfully I submit that people need to get their heads straight. Just as I wouldn't participate in the delusions of my mental health clients, I politely decline to politely participate in the delusions of the psychotic masses! People need to get comfortable being uncomfortable right quick or you will be uncomfortable at the hands of others. Btw I'm located in insanity central maskachusetts. I've lost 5 friends to the jab and one to lack of treatment. I've been on a mission against this shit from day one and I'm not going to stop. I've been called "an unvaccinated asshole" by a surgeon, Kelton Burbank. We are at war sir.

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Yes, indeed. We've been at war for a while, although most of us haven't noticed it prior to Covid-19. Ringmaster Fauci has been causing suffering for decades, as he was one of the instigators of the AIDS fraud, killing tens of thousands and scamming millions. See Dr Peter Duesberg's book _Inventing the AIDS Virus_ here —

https://archive.org/details/peter-h.-duesberg-inventing-the-aids-virus/page/n2/mode/2up

Also, this SARS-CoV-2 bioweapon is the culmination of many years of GoF research. One earlier bioweapon beta test was the 2009 swine flu debacle.

"Joseph Moshe (MOSSAD) Microbiologist: 'Swine flu vaccine is bioweapon'" --

https://archive.is/uqPmw

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We have proven therapeutics which Fauci made sure were UNAVAILABLE. Massive fraudulent studies to back it up.

All respitory viruses respond well to EARLY treatment...flu, RCV, etc...Covid is not different. We take Tamiflu for flu, but you can also take just about any anti virual...of which HcQ and Ivermectin are the safest - safer than Tylenol.

I want to see Fauci hanged. It was deliberate and calculated.

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me too

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I’ve had images of Benito Mussolini‘s final moments in my head when I think of Fauci and his cohorts that are responsible for millions of deaths and suffering worldwide from their actions involving all things Covid.

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Someone’s obviously already using him as a puppet, the hanging should be simple enough. I think more importantly, he needs to feel the pain that he wrought upon the world.

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Locked with his friends in a cave full of bats. (unless we can come up with a slower more painful death) and humiliation!

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Great post Mark. I believe most if not all the therapeutics you mentioned have merit. The latest research on melatonin is fascinating. And xlear, a nasal spray seems to have positive results according to studies done by them. In the past I have used coloidial silver and oil of oregano with excellent results for other issues. The contents of my medicine cabinet probably looks a lot different from many others and has for years. What really troubles me is the "expert" advice for a person having tested positive for covid is no advice except to stay home and if it gets worse go to the hospital. Not one bit of proactive and practical advice. A wait and see attitude. It certainly won't be my reaction should I ever test positive.

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I'm not sure it's true (anymore; maybe it was early on) that you can get Ivermectin at Wal-Mart.

Ditto that IVM is cheap; I paid around $170 for my stash last month. Probably would've cost me around $20 pre-WuFlu.

"Meanwhile, the vaxxmanic say, or know, nothing of simple therapeutics or self-care."

Now do masks! They know less than nothing about the uselessness of masks. Even as government puppets now are saying (what we've been saying for two years) that cloth masks are useless, in NoVa parents are coming out of the woodwork in condemning Gov. Youngkin for rescinding school mask mandates.

The Covidiots and vaxx/mask fanatics are truly some of the stupidest, most ignorant, most tyrannical authoritarian-loving jackasses on the planet.

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I saw it there three weeks ago.

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Was it the veterinary version?

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Yep. Pet and veterinary supplies, if they have that section at your Walmart.

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Thought so. Tractor Supply also has it - if you are nearby a store. Dosing is critical - we are not 1,500 lb cows. Also, some animal ivermectin contains other additives. Be careful if contemplating use.

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I like Anne's take on Ivermectin. Very practical and useful.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/ivermectin/

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I used to buy it when I had horses. It has a wheel on the plunger of the paste tube and you wheel it to the pounds of the animal, and it locks in place so you cannot overdose. I ordered tablets from India, but would take the veterinary version if need be. It is a very safe drug.

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Which state are you in?

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I didn’t know Ivermectin was available from Walmart. I have 100 tablets ordered from India...”IF” our corrupt government overlords don’t follow through with having the post office confiscate and destroy it as they have threatened. What a sorry world they have created for supposedly “free” people. Even if Covid is over by the time I receive them, I don’t put it past them to unleash another virus, so having anti-viral drugs on hand is a must.

There are mass demonstrations in several European countries (and in Australia) against the mandates and passports that the MSM won’t show. Will we win our freedoms back or will the New World Order win out and crush us all? I think their end date to reduce us all as their serfs is 2030.

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and you need not forget the power grab and control grab - it's not just a money grab..watch closely as the truth comes out and what lengths they will go to to hold onto vax mandates and vaxx passports etc. Do not be fooled...this is about power and control...and what control they have gotten and how they have gotten it has been a lesson learned and one "they" will not turn back from...it's not simply been a money game...

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You are so right. Gates et al have money...what they want is Power...power to control everyone's lives forever.

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Hey, Mark, don't forget the hot whiskey, Irish of course, at bedtime! A measure of whiskey, half a dozen cloves, a teaspoon of honey, topped up with boiling water in a tea-mug, that'll sweat it out of you!

I caught the virus right at the start, March 2020. Thankfully not too badly affected but took to the bed exhausted for 4 days. For reasons which would take too long to relate here, I thought it was a bad dose of winter chills and treated myself to the whiskey every night!

Was there any clinical value? Absolutely NO idea, but it certainly gave me a nice warm feeling going off to sleep each night! 😉😁

PS - I remain unvaccinated. After the initial high Ab count in September 2020 dropped off to a residual but negative value in February 2021, I have been Ab positive again month on month since August 21 without ever showing a single symptom along the way...

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Nazdrowie, Richard!

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Sláinte!

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In 1946 the British Medical Research Council set up the Common Cold Research Unit to find prevention and cures for the Common Cold. It involved studying the effects of Common Cold viruses on volunteers and response of vaccines and cures. It produced 1006 published papers and in 1965 they isolated coronaviruses from volunteers and discovered they caused about 10% of Colds.

In 1990 the unit was closed as it was found it was not possible to produce vaccines or cures for the viruses that cause Colds.

‘… what substances people can ingest to protect themselves against the effects of Coronavirus infection.’

None.

Are there any effective vaccines?

No. (As we are now seeing).

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Remember Prez Ford had his political scientists have a go (to win a second term in office) at a swine flu vaccine in ‘76 and we all know how well that went.

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they admitted that most decedents had multiple co-morbidities. it was observed from wuhan on the ~99% of the decedents had one or more co morbidity.

that observation has been scrupulously omitted up to this date!

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Scamdemic from Day 1. So completely obvious.

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So obvious! From the beginning I knew it was all lies. It was like, hey the sky is blue, but everyone around me was calling it orange. I could not understand, weren’t they seeing what I was seeing and hearing?

I still don’t understand.

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I feel your pain. I am appalled by the depth of ignorance exhibited by the world at large. It didn't help when the relevant studies and data disappeared as fast as I could spread the info to my friends and family. Both, the ignorance of the masses, and the crime of misinformation and lying by omission, by all of the sources people trust. A scam of such magnitude that P.T. Barnum would be jealous.

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It's all so strange. When I really think about it ... well, it keeps me up at night. I just cannot understand how people don't see what's happening around them. If this thing were so deadly they would know lots of people who had died. They don't. If the vaccine worked, nobody would be getting sick, and this would be over by now. It's not.

*It's not that deadly.

*The vaccines don't work. (not that we need them to work, see above)

The evidence is right there before their eyes! Remember that Orwell quote?

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

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many of those mentions have been used for flu and colds as well.....

the med industry complex has dissed your immune system since they became a government sustained sole seller! aka monopsony.

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Another big part of this SCAM is that co-morbidities are not ever well-described. People all seem to think they have the co-morbidities that put them at serious risk. My very fit husband thinks his age (73), high BP (controlled with medicine) and slight overweight put him at serious risk. There is no persuading him otherwise.

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Walensky admitted two weeks ago on good morning America (I think that’s where she said it) that with the CDC’s evaluation of the Sara (only took two years) that OVER 75% of all Covid deaths occurred in patients with OVER 4 (yes that’s like 5 or more) comorbidities. How long do people with 5 or more comorbidities without Covid live anyway? Thx Rochelle for the wonderful pivoting to Narrative 2.0. Berenson reported during his RFK Jr. interview that the average life expectancy of nursing home residents is only 6 months. No wonder Covid threw a few more logs on the death spiral fire. I feel horrible for all those horrible lost lives right out of the Covid gate, but our wonderful healthcare system failed one more time with that group, to the stage of finality.

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They seem to be allowed to state this truth when the decedent was double jabbed and boosted...

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Nicely stated: "My beliefs re: the relative merits of shots versus natural immunity or therapeutics are shaped by: 1) a Biology framework I’ve developed through formal and informal study, 2) basic, undisputed Covid statistics, 3) observation of the Covid experiences of those whom I know and 4) having personally had better outcomes with self-care".

This is what I've been struggling to put into my own words for my friends and family and this sums it up nicely and succinctly.

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Mark, your post is spot on. I healed chronic daily asthma and eczema by simply switching to a whole, unprofessed foods diet and giving up all sugar. I no longer needed daily inhalers, pills and ER visits. Now I haven't had the need to see a doctor for anything at all in years and years. I've never had the flu - maybe back in high school, but I don't remember. After an NDE as a child from an asthma attack, I developed a super sensitive nervous system and now I can't tolerate any pharmaceuticals. So I wouldn't be able to tolerate Ivermectin, and I don't even like the way I feel after taking vitamins. If I took the clot shot, I know I'd feel deathly ill just by the garbage in it alone. I think most people don't mind injecting toxins into their system because they eat so many chemicals in their daily food. They're used to poisoning themselves, and never question the ingredients.

I've also wondered if all the Covid interventions that people are touting really work or if they healed because their infections were mild. My experience is that eating whole, unprocessed foods, getting sunlight, exercise etc. work best for me. While I was initially healing from my chronic disease, I'd literally spend hours cooking everything from scratch for hours each day. And in between cooking, I'd go to the local health food store and then schlep bags of groceries back home. Rinse and repeat. But people are unwilling to do the work it takes to remain healthy. They prefer to turn to the government and physicians to "fix" their health for them so they can continue eating garbage and not taking care of themselves. As Bill Maher said, people have to realize they have some skin in the game. That means being an active participant in the healing process, and not always turning to others to do it for them, yet most are clueless about how to go about it. It's not about eating an Amy's burrito every now and then.

Many thanks.

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That’s what I’ve thought this virus can be killed by so many natural remedies it isn’t as scary as made out. It seems anything that aids in boosting your immune system will help.

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Sorry for being the cynic /conspiracy theorist but I believe they knew old people were going to die. All part of the grand covid human experiment designed by the depopulation tyrants. They DO NOT CARE The hardest part of all this for me has been my loss of faith in the medical profession I had always thought that most of them did care. And I thought that doctors were smart. Wrong & wrong!! The Hippocratic Oath & even the Nuremberg Code mean NOTHING to many of them. And do any doctors know how to think anymore?!! Where did empathy & compassion & integrity & honor & courage go ?!! No God & no testosterone Heartbreaking & horrific

But Mark thanks so much for what you do !! And BTW can you really get ivermectin at Walmart ?!!

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You're welcome, Nita. I wrote a story about IVM at Walmart. Scroll down the list of stories.

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Agree. Remember our government has been complaining about social security running dry. I believe that has happened long ago, mainly because corrupt congress shuffles our money around like play money. This plandemic was the easiest way to eliminate the burdens of society. Imagine the windfall we will never know about...

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Not just Social Security. Also Medicare.

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All that you write is correct. The tell for me on the "response" to the virus is that it is exactly backwards. With mandates, we are putting our very young children' futures at risk at the behest of the rich, greedy, powerful, old, and frightened. Not much hope in this.

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Peter McCullough is credited with saying “Practically anything kills the virus.” Expect the clot shots.

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So late in the day I find a lucid speaker. Excellent. Thank you, sir. I will follow happily. All our talk does little good - preaching to the converted - I know. But still I hunger for it. Company of your fellows, you know?

But what to say to the dupes ?

I've condensed it down to one thing which I think is reflected strongly in your post:

"There is not, nor ever was, any Emergency"

I mutter that into any dupes ear I can. I know it does no good at all. But what else to do.

Then I come looking for more 'preaching to the converted'. :)

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Yes, I enjoy hanging out online with those who didn't fall for the psyop, because no one around my partner and me is unvaxxed. Where we live, we cannot do much of anything without proof of being vaxxed, other than go to the supermarket (for now) wearing our slave masks. My partner has no family other than me, and my family all ignored my warnings and unquestioningly obeyed the diktats of their trusted overlords. We're even not welcome in our church anymore because we're viewed as "selfish" for not getting the vax to "protect others," and so our entire social life went south.

But it doesn't bother us too much, as both my partner and I are introverts, we have a huge library, and we love to read.

I have this theory. Approximately 25% of the general population are introverts. Also, approximately 25 to 30% of people cannot be hypnotized (I am one of those; even when I tried to be hypnotized, the "world's foremost hypnotist" of the time couldn't put me and two other persons down in a group of 20). My theory is that the approximately 25% of people in my home country who have not gotten vaxxed (despite the social pressure) are primarily introverts who cannot easily be hypnotized. The unjabbed "purebloods" are primarily introverts who don't follow crowds (don't care much what others think and don't get nervous when they are in the minority regarding any issue) and are not easily duped (hypnotized, don't easily give up their mental executive functions to anyone). I wonder how my theory plays out in Mark's substack readers ...

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Not an introvert, easy as anything to hypnotise, but saw through these jabs from day one. Don't actually know how. I just knew.

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Maybe b/c there's never been an effective vaxx for a respiratory virus. And that, since there was no need to vaxx the under 65, healthy, the vaxx purveyors had no credibility to begin with.

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You're my outlier! (har.)

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An informal enquiry. Good. Well it works with me. I'm certainly an introvert. My whole trip is to avoid crowds. Don't know about my hynobility. I'd like to know and given a chance I'll find out.

:)

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