When I was growing up in the 1960s-70s, we often played late summer and fall football games in various locations: on streets, vacant lots, school fields, suburban yards, a grocery store parking lot (under the lights) or in parks. In the games on grass surfaces, we played tackle. Often, ten-plus boys participated. It was a different world then, with bigger families, rougher boys, no cell phones, video games or computers and fewer, liability-based restrictions. We spent more time face-to-face. And with our faces in the grass. It smelled good.
Mark, Great article. I could not agree more. Keep pointing out the obvious and not so obvious failures of the last 3 years. Like you I cannot forgive and forget the devastation brought upon the citizens of the world. I had a 44 year career in network broadcasting that ended for not taking the jab. I don’t regret my decision for a moment nor can I forgive those that made this occur. Like Danny I will never stop punching these bullies because that’s all that they are. Keep writing please. Never stop. I personally will never grow tired of your articles. All the other news is a distraction to me. I believe you have your finger on the pulse of what many of us feel.
Ty for fighting for so many. A remarkable story of surviving under what commie psychopaths unleashed: "My small family spent two years of our lives essentially stateless, stranded at sea, 18,000km from home, floating on 40ft of fiberglass. ‘Freedom to transact’ literally became a matter of life or death. This is our story. Australia locked its citizens out from returning during the pandemic. My family (wife and three kids 3, 5 and 6 months old) were sailing on a catamaran in the eastern Caribbean at the time. We ended up there for two years waiting out the pandemic...." read in full ~ https://www.captainsjournal.com/2023/10/29/an-epic-story-of-stateless-existence/
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Thank you for continuing to “take it into their house”.
Even today I seethe with rage below the surface at what was done.
I work in retail and the year or more of most people wearing masks was a psychological horror like nothing else I have ever experienced. Seeing nothing but people without faces was like staring into the abyss of hell.
I can’t and won’t pretend it didn’t happen or that it is now OK.
I work in a hospital as a nurse and for 3 years, the masks were required. It was awful. You accurately describe it when you say it was “like staring into the abyss of Hell.” It really was Hell. I will never do it again. I would rather lose my job and do something else than ever endure any of the Covid stuff ever again.
Great, passionate piece, Mark. I am fortunate to have lost few friends and family over the entire scamdemic nonsense, although I remain amazed at how easily they were duped by the so-called "experts". I continue to be astounded by how many people willingly gave up two years of their normal lives over this bs, and were certain they were doing the right thing. Critical thinking is clearly not a strength of our present society.
So true. As I was coming of age in the late 60s and early 70s it was clear a small minority has a clue. The figure we often settled on in those days was 3%. I've never seen any reason to change that estimate. Still I was as surprised as you are the best of the other 97% were so damn stupid.
THE MYOCARDITIS BLUES. A man sings the blues after coming down with side effects from the mRNA vaccine followed by a deadly heart inflammation. Listen to the hit song. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-myocarditis-blues
During the Sixties there was a great deal of musical resistance to the Vietnam War, exemplified by Country Joe and the Fish if you remember their hit. Woodstock had a lot of resistance, and I have Pete Seeger and The Weavers from my parents' collection with resistance extending back to the previous McCarthy in the Fifties.
I am very happy to see these little bits of popular musical protest cropping up. Unfortunately the mainstream music purveyors seem to have a tighter grip on the counter-narrative than they did in my youth.
Bring it on. I won’t be satisfied until the crazies are held accountable. I don’t know anyone who died of Covid but I know lots of people who’ve been killed or harmed by the jab!
There’s a trial going on in Tallahasse Florida that involves the murder for hire of a man by his brother-in-law. I won’t t go into detail about this wide-ranging, more than ten years long prosecution, but after listening to a podcast on the case it was clear to me that culturally we worship false gods. When discussing prospective mates for their children, the families involved never mentioned traits like kindness, patience, devotion, unselfishness, compassion, interest in others, a sense of humor. Instead they were obsessed with having the right religion, going to the right universities, excelling academically and achieving professional success in the right professions (law and medicine). This worship of the “credentialed class” is a major reason for the events of the last three years. Just trust the experts, they know better. Martin Luther King longed for the day when his children would be judged by their character, and not the color of their skin. After the past three years I long for the day when we no longer judge others by the letters that follow their name.
“ I don’t expect the Covophobic to like my message or me. I don’t care if they don’t. The truth and good judgment matter more to me than anything else one has to offer.”
Amen Mark.
I will never forget why my best friend no longer has her mother. The shots took her life.
I will never forget why my sister’s and my once adoring brothers are no longer a part of our lives.
We must NEVER, EVER FORGET. I know I never will.
Thank you Mark. Keep your meaningful, heartfelt and NECESSARY prose coming.
"The truth and good judgement matter more to me than anything else one has to offer." I am thinking that your sense of justice brought you to practice law and made you a good attorney.
I appreciate your unwavering voice. Yes, "They should be made to wear their mitigation mania like a dunce cap. Permanently."
That's a tee shirt waiting to be produced. Mark? What a conversation starter that is! (Love that story, love your passion, love your writing, love your relentlessness. With you 100%.)
It's NOT over. People are starting to mask up again in my area. YOUNG people. The Michigan Department of Health is still pushing the jab, although NOW they are saying "it may not be for everyone, ask your doctor."
Excellent point. They are still pushing the shots all over sports broadcasting, now in combination for your convenience! One stop jabbing for covid, flu and RSV!
I don't watch much TV, but occasionally tune in to NFL football. I saw that Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce, is now working for Pfizer. "I'll take the two things at once."
Pro tip for anyone who will listen: Please don't listen to Travis.
Old cliches have staying power for good reason. A leopard can't change his spots. Those who bought into this haven't suddenly found their critical thinking skills. Those who see things more clearly now were easily fooled by an obvious scam. They'll be easily fooled again. It's who they are. We can never count on them.
I am a Family Physician and agree completely with everything you have written here. The damage is far too widespread and has such disastrous long-term consequences that it should never be forgotten.As a member of the Medical community I am embarrassed by the lack of contrition on the part of the doctors, hospitals and other officials who knowingly participated in this deception . The harm that they have caused to the integrity of the Medical establishment is incalculable, and when trust has been lost on such a big scale I do not see how it can be reclaimed. This is a tragedy for both doctors and patients.
Same here...I am a doctor too and was ridiculed by my colleagues for refusing the jab that I threatened to resign when the mandates fell. Thankfully, I was allowed the weekly, yes, weekly saliva non-contact test as I also refused the invasive PCR (more likely false positive!) nasal swab (which indeed turned out to be a scam and got scrapped out.) That went on for almost 9 months. In my office I have articles on how useless the mask is pinned on my board that anyone who enters my office can see! I am surrounded by 'sheeple' who have swallowed the narrative hook, line and sinker!!!!! I have a friend who told me she will never trust doctors again and I replied: I am a doctor and I don't trust them myself anymore!!!!!!
Mark, keep on writing...and reminding the world we don't and will not forget! Thank you so much for speaking for all of us.
I appreciate your article, but the nonsense continues here in BC ( it's not over), with masking mandates in "Public health care facilities" and Bill 36 giving political control over and mandatory injecting of all "health care providers." I think this is an analogue of a similar California law.
The good thing is that Bonnie Henry is in court this month responding to a suit from the disemployed health professionals. The bad thing is that the judges and courts are as captured and corrupt as any third world jurisdiction.
This article is so timely for me. Just last night a friend was telling me about the ‘horrors of current events’ and how we have to be ‘aware of our surroundings’ and when I yelled back, what about the last 3 + years, he screamed, ‘COVID’S OVER GET OVER IT and I just went back at him hard. Over for WHOM? There will be no forgiveness or grace from me to those who stole my life from me, nor for the ones who abetted. In the meantime I’m doing whatever I can to build new roads ahead. Thank you as always for your posts.
Mark, Great article. I could not agree more. Keep pointing out the obvious and not so obvious failures of the last 3 years. Like you I cannot forgive and forget the devastation brought upon the citizens of the world. I had a 44 year career in network broadcasting that ended for not taking the jab. I don’t regret my decision for a moment nor can I forgive those that made this occur. Like Danny I will never stop punching these bullies because that’s all that they are. Keep writing please. Never stop. I personally will never grow tired of your articles. All the other news is a distraction to me. I believe you have your finger on the pulse of what many of us feel.
Thanks, Pags.
Fight on.
Everyday my brother!
Ty for fighting for so many. A remarkable story of surviving under what commie psychopaths unleashed: "My small family spent two years of our lives essentially stateless, stranded at sea, 18,000km from home, floating on 40ft of fiberglass. ‘Freedom to transact’ literally became a matter of life or death. This is our story. Australia locked its citizens out from returning during the pandemic. My family (wife and three kids 3, 5 and 6 months old) were sailing on a catamaran in the eastern Caribbean at the time. We ended up there for two years waiting out the pandemic...." read in full ~ https://www.captainsjournal.com/2023/10/29/an-epic-story-of-stateless-existence/
Thank you for continuing to “take it into their house”.
Even today I seethe with rage below the surface at what was done.
I work in retail and the year or more of most people wearing masks was a psychological horror like nothing else I have ever experienced. Seeing nothing but people without faces was like staring into the abyss of hell.
I can’t and won’t pretend it didn’t happen or that it is now OK.
I work in a hospital as a nurse and for 3 years, the masks were required. It was awful. You accurately describe it when you say it was “like staring into the abyss of Hell.” It really was Hell. I will never do it again. I would rather lose my job and do something else than ever endure any of the Covid stuff ever again.
Watch O Holy Roman, a song about a child who asserts his independence from other children who wear the mask. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/o-holy-roman
Watch POD PEOPLE BARBECUE. Origin of mask-wearing zombies revealed in song!
https://turfseer.substack.com/p/pod-people-barbecue
Great, passionate piece, Mark. I am fortunate to have lost few friends and family over the entire scamdemic nonsense, although I remain amazed at how easily they were duped by the so-called "experts". I continue to be astounded by how many people willingly gave up two years of their normal lives over this bs, and were certain they were doing the right thing. Critical thinking is clearly not a strength of our present society.
So true. As I was coming of age in the late 60s and early 70s it was clear a small minority has a clue. The figure we often settled on in those days was 3%. I've never seen any reason to change that estimate. Still I was as surprised as you are the best of the other 97% were so damn stupid.
THE MYOCARDITIS BLUES. A man sings the blues after coming down with side effects from the mRNA vaccine followed by a deadly heart inflammation. Listen to the hit song. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/the-myocarditis-blues
During the Sixties there was a great deal of musical resistance to the Vietnam War, exemplified by Country Joe and the Fish if you remember their hit. Woodstock had a lot of resistance, and I have Pete Seeger and The Weavers from my parents' collection with resistance extending back to the previous McCarthy in the Fifties.
I am very happy to see these little bits of popular musical protest cropping up. Unfortunately the mainstream music purveyors seem to have a tighter grip on the counter-narrative than they did in my youth.
Bring it on. I won’t be satisfied until the crazies are held accountable. I don’t know anyone who died of Covid but I know lots of people who’ve been killed or harmed by the jab!
There’s a trial going on in Tallahasse Florida that involves the murder for hire of a man by his brother-in-law. I won’t t go into detail about this wide-ranging, more than ten years long prosecution, but after listening to a podcast on the case it was clear to me that culturally we worship false gods. When discussing prospective mates for their children, the families involved never mentioned traits like kindness, patience, devotion, unselfishness, compassion, interest in others, a sense of humor. Instead they were obsessed with having the right religion, going to the right universities, excelling academically and achieving professional success in the right professions (law and medicine). This worship of the “credentialed class” is a major reason for the events of the last three years. Just trust the experts, they know better. Martin Luther King longed for the day when his children would be judged by their character, and not the color of their skin. After the past three years I long for the day when we no longer judge others by the letters that follow their name.
Momo, Amén to that!
Excellent, spot-on comment.
“ I don’t expect the Covophobic to like my message or me. I don’t care if they don’t. The truth and good judgment matter more to me than anything else one has to offer.”
Amen Mark.
I will never forget why my best friend no longer has her mother. The shots took her life.
I will never forget why my sister’s and my once adoring brothers are no longer a part of our lives.
We must NEVER, EVER FORGET. I know I never will.
Thank you Mark. Keep your meaningful, heartfelt and NECESSARY prose coming.
Thanks, Laura.
Shakespeare meets Vaccine Injury Denial. Listen to PERCHANCE TO DREAM. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/perchance-to-dream
Bravo, Mark!
The damage and destruction caused by the Coronamaniacs will last for generations. 4 years or so of pointing this out is not overkilll. IMHO!
Thank you.
As I like to say often - how about you shut up and listen to me. I've been right about everything from the beginning.
Thank you Mark.
You helped keep me sane when barely anyone I knew could see through the damage and the scam.
I love the Thomas Sowell quote “People will forgive you for being wrong, but never for being right”
Isn’t that the truth!
I support you in not dropping the topic.
It still bothers me too.
I believe there must be an historic accounting outside the propaganda.
Thanks, Jennifer. I wish that Substack had existed sooner.
But more than that, I wish this whole thing had never happened.
I second all that you have written, Jennifer. That quote is brilliant.
The quote was used from Mark’s article. I agree it’s brilliant and hits the nail on the head so to speak. I always enjoy his writing.
I am glad to have you on team reality!!
Cheers
Excellent essay Mark!
"The truth and good judgement matter more to me than anything else one has to offer." I am thinking that your sense of justice brought you to practice law and made you a good attorney.
I appreciate your unwavering voice. Yes, "They should be made to wear their mitigation mania like a dunce cap. Permanently."
Thanks, AnnMarie.
It's been crazy.
Time will reveal Covid as the greatest scam and crime against humanity of all time by a Covid country mile.
Amen!
Let’s all be like Danny.
That's a tee shirt waiting to be produced. Mark? What a conversation starter that is! (Love that story, love your passion, love your writing, love your relentlessness. With you 100%.)
It's NOT over. People are starting to mask up again in my area. YOUNG people. The Michigan Department of Health is still pushing the jab, although NOW they are saying "it may not be for everyone, ask your doctor."
Excellent point. They are still pushing the shots all over sports broadcasting, now in combination for your convenience! One stop jabbing for covid, flu and RSV!
I don't watch much TV, but occasionally tune in to NFL football. I saw that Chiefs tight end, Travis Kelce, is now working for Pfizer. "I'll take the two things at once."
Pro tip for anyone who will listen: Please don't listen to Travis.
Old cliches have staying power for good reason. A leopard can't change his spots. Those who bought into this haven't suddenly found their critical thinking skills. Those who see things more clearly now were easily fooled by an obvious scam. They'll be easily fooled again. It's who they are. We can never count on them.
The people graduate “with honors” from this institution of “higher learning.” Watch SHEEPLE UNIVERSITY. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/sheeple-university
You need to write a book, Mark. A bestseller will put the cross hairs on these SOBs, as they deserve!
Absolutely!
Mark,
I am a Family Physician and agree completely with everything you have written here. The damage is far too widespread and has such disastrous long-term consequences that it should never be forgotten.As a member of the Medical community I am embarrassed by the lack of contrition on the part of the doctors, hospitals and other officials who knowingly participated in this deception . The harm that they have caused to the integrity of the Medical establishment is incalculable, and when trust has been lost on such a big scale I do not see how it can be reclaimed. This is a tragedy for both doctors and patients.
Same here...I am a doctor too and was ridiculed by my colleagues for refusing the jab that I threatened to resign when the mandates fell. Thankfully, I was allowed the weekly, yes, weekly saliva non-contact test as I also refused the invasive PCR (more likely false positive!) nasal swab (which indeed turned out to be a scam and got scrapped out.) That went on for almost 9 months. In my office I have articles on how useless the mask is pinned on my board that anyone who enters my office can see! I am surrounded by 'sheeple' who have swallowed the narrative hook, line and sinker!!!!! I have a friend who told me she will never trust doctors again and I replied: I am a doctor and I don't trust them myself anymore!!!!!!
Mark, keep on writing...and reminding the world we don't and will not forget! Thank you so much for speaking for all of us.
Thanks, Gia. I want you to be my doctor.
DR. GASLIGHT. A doctor causes his patient to question her own sanity. Listen to Turfseer’s new song. https://turfseer.substack.com/p/dr-gaslight
Thanks, Neil. I hope you're well and need to get back to you. Work's been busy lately but should slow down now.
I appreciate your article, but the nonsense continues here in BC ( it's not over), with masking mandates in "Public health care facilities" and Bill 36 giving political control over and mandatory injecting of all "health care providers." I think this is an analogue of a similar California law.
The good thing is that Bonnie Henry is in court this month responding to a suit from the disemployed health professionals. The bad thing is that the judges and courts are as captured and corrupt as any third world jurisdiction.
This article is so timely for me. Just last night a friend was telling me about the ‘horrors of current events’ and how we have to be ‘aware of our surroundings’ and when I yelled back, what about the last 3 + years, he screamed, ‘COVID’S OVER GET OVER IT and I just went back at him hard. Over for WHOM? There will be no forgiveness or grace from me to those who stole my life from me, nor for the ones who abetted. In the meantime I’m doing whatever I can to build new roads ahead. Thank you as always for your posts.
He screamed stupidly. The damage is permanent.
Follow-up: Today I got an apology along with recognition about the discrimination I experienced in NY. It’s a start.
Your "friend" is so effing stupid. I hope you have some much better people in your life. You sure deserve it.