She is right on. She was living in the leftist bubble and she got off the narrative and she was attacked and destroyed for it. It’s how they rule. She was fortunate enough to have the finances to say fuck you. The vast majority of us don’t have that. But we need folks like her to keep speaking out. In the last week we have leaned that the German leaders and the British leaders were both told in March 2020 that COVID was man made and leaked from the Wuhan lab. Yet they lied and hide this information from the world. The evilness can not be overstated this was not because of incompetence this was done on purpose by evil people and they have yet to pay any price. And until they pay the ultimate price nothing will change.
Those in charge will do it again in a heartbeat if they get the chance because there were no consequences or even acknowledgements that they were wrong/lying.
This 'no acknowledgement, no remorse' you describe here is a major characteristic of the psychopath. Indeed, covid was sanctioned mass psychopathic horizontal hostility. Unnerving to see what fearmongering can bring out in people.
I went into a bookstore the other day. There were 6 people with masks on. Didn't they get the memo? I just read that AOC and Bernie are telling people to wear masks to their "rallies".
Well on the positive side, the masked ones are telegraphing how ignorant they are & stay away from them. Plus please please please don't vote, you are just to freakin' lazy and ignorant to vote. We have been subjected to your brutality so we now say no more.
Unfortunately there are many sheeple. There are still people getting boosters even though they got covid after the shot. Many repeat the same mantra, "If I didn't have the shot, it would have been so much worse."
Very well said as usual, Ryan. I’m so sorry that you went through all of that utter nonsense during the COVID debacle.
With, or maybe because of, all the loss and pain we endured, I completely agree that it was a major driver and contributing factor that led our country to basically flush its former leadership and get back to some basic, common sense principles and leaders who promote those principles.
Yes, it is difficult to stand by and watch while many seem to continue on with their lives, never admitting, out loud at least, to others that they were on the wrong side of things. I make peace as best I can, by telling myself that what’s most important is that I was true to myself and my family. I have no control over what others do or say, and I choose to believe that many of them know, and if not, will soon know, that the handling of this time was in many respects the exact opposite of what actually needed to happen. Eventually they will have to deal with their errors of judgment, I believe.
There are fractured relations in my family and former circles as well. I’ve moved beyond these folds. I look back on them with a little anger and sadness. Mostly, however, I look back with incredulity because those people still don’t get it and never will. As I wrote in another reply yesterday, they continue to lie because they’re invested in the lie.
Not to make this about me, but this was my experience. I point this out because many people experienced way worse.
-I was spit on twice,
- disinvited from two family holidays
- still have thousands of dollars in mask fines levied on my business
- disowned by an Aunt and Uncle for trying to take my 96 year old grandmother on a walk OUTSIDE
-I lost two dear friends
- my wife was ostracized by friends at "clubs/activities/volunteer work" she was in
- my children were banned from their playmates houses.
- my twins were kicked out of school for refusing to wear masks
- I was shouted down in public by mobs of 10-20 people many times. Total hysteria; they were so angry the didn't even realize they were shouting at me after pulling their masks diwn
- I was escorted from the airport for not having a mask over my nose
- I walked off two planes because of flight attendants harassing families simply because their 2 year old was having a bad day. One of the incidents involved the passengers throwing candy to the flight attendants, as an applause, for their abhorrent behavior.
- accosted by police twice
-Iost a shit ton of money because I couldn't operate my business at full speed.
I’m retired and so did not have to deal with work or travel insanity, and we don’t have children so avoided those issues as well. But even so, I had at least 10 people scream at me for not wearing a mask, including threats to call 911 (Once I asked if they knew the number). Plus I was prevented from going on vacations because I wasn’t vaccinated, and no longer have contact with several people who demanded I do so.
So my experiences track with yours, although much less severe. Many people wore a mask simply out of what they believed was courtesy, but I believed that perpetuated a lie and increased fear. I had no duty to normalize someone else’s irrationality, and any anger they felt was entirely their problem.
I am so sorry for what they did to you. They were never your friends, never your family. So sorry. They are lost. But you kept the one that matters, your integrity.
Gosh Ryan you are certainly a beacon to the rest of us who had nothing like what you experienced. I just got yelled at or mean looks (boo hoo). Glad to read you weathered the storm, stood your ground. On a positive note, you know what to expect if/when this mass hysteria happens again & who is "normal" & who isn't. Hang in there, you have friends here.
Yep. My youngest had her SR year of HS blown to smithereens and I was laid off in July of 2020. Took 18 months to finally land full time work. Fought with the state of NC for unemployment for months and at one point they wanted to claw back unemployment funds because they said my several should last for several months past a date. I asked for months to show me the metric on how they came to that conclusion and he HAD to pre date my job loss. Crickets and incompetence every step of the way. I am convinced it was either all by design or behind closed doors all world leaders freaked out since it was from China and then co opted to an insane diabolical political plot. Hence no firings or jail time.
*severance. I had maybe or 1 or 2 just distance themselves from me, maybe more but at no point did I want harm done to them or pull myself away. I don't know what happened to those who say they were liberal because they became like the fundamentalists they said they hated in the 70s and 80s. Progressive sure as hell isn't who they are.
Definitely "invested in the lie" for sure. It is a cold reality that when you hold someone to account for their wrongdoing, you become the baddie (in their view). This accounts for a lot of the fractured relationships that are still fractured. The lockdowners got sideways with us; they now fully realize they were wrong, but refuse to say they're sorry, not only because of being invested in the lie, but because they really want to blame us as the baddies for being right, for holding them to account, from the very beginning. We're the mean ones in their eyes, and we always will be. If only we could have gone along with the lie, like they did, all would be well in our relationships with them. It's always our fault. Always.
'People have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded."
The Covid disaster was particularly upsetting because it revealed just how many of our fellow Americans were like deranged sheep, willing to follow authority figures blindly. The whole thing was like a gigantic Milgram experiment, with millions of Americans going along with the torture and abuse of their fellow citizens. Unlike the original experiment, this torture and abuse was all too real.
Yes, no one said the vaccine passport was wrong, and they all knew I couldn't go anywhere. I had to actually ask them the pointed question, "Do you think this is right?", for them to stop, hesitate, and say "No, it's wrong." And one friend with a smile in her voice said, "Well, you won't get any sympathy from me. You need to just submit." And now she denies she said it. Of course.
That last part about never seeing people the same, being forever mistrustful, that's how my wife and I have become. Her work did the same thing to her. She refused the jab for health reasons and they tried to fire her. We had to fight like hell, but we won. Thirty years of service meant nothing to them. Long time friends, colleagues turned their backs on her, afraid of repercussions from fraternizing with the enemy. Like the county song says " you find out who your friends are". The experience changed her forever. She has a genuine rage and mistrust of people. Before Covid, that was never a part of her. So, I completely symphasize with her experience, I saw and felt it first hand.
His mother, highly educated and the head of a giant hospital system, believed every drop of nonsense.
My husband and children thought bc of my MIL’s medical background, that she knew best.
That time in my life broke me. Wear the mask, don’t embarrass us, “Just get the vaccine”!
My MIL seriously just got the last Covid booster that was offered.
Thankfully, my father appreciates all of the research, different opinions gathered, and sheer common sense I took to put it all together. (I followed Alex from the beginning).
My dad was a firm believer in trust the government about our safety, and health.
After the government wanted to give you boosters, he said, HELL NO.
I think I have posted this a 1000 or more times here and in other forums. The single greatest existential crisis we face is that of ACTUAL accountability on every level of society in America, but especially within the SWAMP and agencies tied to that swamp. Those who planned and implemented the entire 2020 PLANdemic were "allowed" to do what they wanted too without ANY accountability. All of it was just allowed. We witnessed endless probes and investigations (taxpayer funded) by the swamp creatures we pay and STILL here we are in Mid March 2025 and the very same swamp agencies are doing it all over with the bird flu with the exact same PLAN to get all livestock injected this time rather than HUMANS. ALL of this is just ALLOWED to continue. IF Pharma had it their way they would have it mandated every living creature and human on the planet having yearly injections until that life form dies of injections side effects or just die. Where is the ACCOUNTABILITY? Look what this past 5 years did to the fabric of society, and families and STILL not ONE person remotely held accountable!
We actually have laws that would provide for accountability, but somewhere along the way, probably in the patriot act, they realized they could just declare “emergencies“ which allowed them to ignore the law and got them a “get out of jail free” card. Those loopholes need to be closed.
Nice post Jennifer. Unfortunately you will never get the apology nor the unseating of those responsible. The virtue seeking don't acknowledge mistakes nor think they ever made any. I hope you can eventually get over your anger, frustration, etc. so it does not consume you.
You're probably right, but I'm not willing to accept the malefactors will go with no consequences. If they did it and got away with it, they'll do it again.
Maybe wishful thinking, but I'm still hopeful some of them will be punished, even if not directly. Example- it appears the whole teachers' union/education complex is going to lose a lot of their $. Randi Weingarten, you did that. And you deserve it.
I believe in forgiveness, but not without contrition. Haven't seen much.
I'm rambling at this point, but I'll close w/ this. The political party that did the worst harm (they both did harm) seems incapable of doing any sober reflection on where they went wrong. They are hung up on "messaging". Doing things the voters hate is, to them, irrelevant if they get the messaging right. If there's a God, they'll continue to focus on that, and be banished to the wilderness.
I've learned the hard lesson of why forgiveness is important, even forgiveness of the unrepentent. It starts with the dictionary definition of the word: letting go of resentment. That enables me to forgive folks who won't ever apologize; I learned that refusing to let go of my resentment continues to hurt me, but doesn't affect them in the slightest. So when I do the math, refusing to forgive means that I lose twice. So I forgive now, quite readily, but I am not compelled to communicate that forgiveness to them. Most folks confuse forgiving with condoning, but I'm not doing that. There's nothing wrong with forgiving, dusting my feet and moving on.
Excellent advice! Thank you so much for posting this, Jack. I try to live this, especially the part about remembering that refusing to let go of your own resentment continuing to hurt you, and the fact that it does not affect the other person at all. So powerful!
I am with Jennifer - I am still angry. We need accountability, not just a feeble, “mistakes were made. We didn’t know what we were dealing with”. When I spoke out against what was going on, my family treated me very poorly.
Thanks for sharing this, Alex. I identify with a lot of it, but I wasn't unfortunate enough to lose public and professional reputation due to my choices, so I feel for her. I stood against the tides even as it strained my family and singled me out at work. Thankfully most of my relationships have recovered, although I still haven't received an apology from the people that really matter, like my father. I've commented here many times about how covid changed my life. My eyes were opened to so much, and I can never go back.
Our immediate family and very few friends resisted all the nonsense. However, three of my highly educated siblings ; who faced no mandate, fell hook line and sinker. I'm still shocked. Silence is the response, with the exception of one brother who is trying to detox from the poison. Our government is a criminal enterprise and looks to still be trying to kill us.
What is stunning is that the same people don't trust the govt on an array of issues, gave us the sovereignty over their bodies and believed the govt unquestioningly moreso the "highly educated" than the less educated (so it appeared).
Perhaps the real test was whether the educated would prove indoctrination was effective. I lost 11 friends, some pied piper followers and others just drifting along to be happy to death.
I’m curious how your brother decided to detox. Every holiday, I’ve wanted to gift our 3 kids, their spouses & our 4 grandkids with a detox package…but I’m scared of their reaction. The past 5 years were not terribly pleasant due to our being “conspiracy realists!”
Here's where she is missing the boat: "But no one has said: you were right, and we are sorry to have put you through hell." Those people who put you through hell still believe they were and are right. Sure there have been a few tepid acknowledgments in their media of choice, but for the most part, they still believe the vaccines are the reason we no longer worry about Covid, that masks worked and will work again, that the lockdowns/school closures were absolutely necessary, and most, if asked, will tell you mandates and vaccine passports were justified. Hell, bunches of them still are on the fence as to whether it was a natural spillover or came from a lab. Those people do not read Alex's substack or similar, do not get news from any source other than the NYT, Wash Post, NPR, etc.
Has been the case in ALL past injection agendas too. The narrative coming out of those was the INJECTIONS saved the day, and ended alleged plandemic, but when you look closely it was not the case. A GREAT historical backdrop on the past 80 years of injections can be seen at remedy.film WATCH all 8 episodes! What has been done in 2020 was more overt and obvious, but you will find it eerily similar to the past with explaining side effects away or normalizing etc!
I felt overwhelming anger on 3/15/2020 when my kids said that businesses had closed down at the direction of the government. I was yelling that the government can’t do that. But it happened. What followed was disappointment in my fellow citizens and it was a pretty lonely time for me
When the churches closed, I was too tired to be angry but my disappointment was soul wearying. So much for religion holding their ground.
What causes me facial twitches to this day is the “safety” thing. I don’t need my government or my religious institution to keep me safe or decide what is safe for me. I can do that myself, thanks!
I hope all of us find some kind of peace in the future. Apologies are NOT forthcoming unfortunately.
The religious institutions (most all of them, with very few exceptions) were ironically built on the principle of "subsidiarity" (i.e., the concept that problems should be resolved at the most local level and only bounced up to higher levels of authority when necessary). My local church made precisely zero effort to resolve any of the Covid issues at the local level; they immediately looked to the Bishop (who was frightened/coerced by lawyers, of course) and followed his edicts to close and lock the church doors. They banned any priest who wanted to still try to give some sacraments, such as "annointing of the sick" in the hospitals. My wife, who worked at a local hospital at the time, asked our church to consider a work-around, to allow her to give the sacraments of annointing of the sick, and of holy communion, in the hospital, since she was all geared-up in protective clothing. Our diocese didn't just say "no," they also said "don't ask again." The pastor of our church caved in to the bishop and his other masters at the diocese. So much for a priest acting in the role of "in persona Christi." That was the first thing that was dispensed with during Covid.
My 22 year old son died in October of 2020 (from a freak accident; not Covid). The church grudgingly allowed us to have a funeral in a chapel. The chapel seats 300 comfortably; we were limited to 75, so some close friends were not allowed to pay their last respects. Masking was required. My eulogy was limited to seven minutes.
It is not possible to quantify my level of disappointment with how my Church handled all of this. But the notion of "what would Jesus do?" was the first casualty of Covid, and that message came from the highest levels of the Church, with no brave souls at the local level making any effort at rebelling against it. In first century A.D., Christ embraced lepers; our priests walked away from those with a cold virus. No good Samaritan was available to substitute.
My local church was full of excuses, one of which was that they pointed to our state government's edicts. So much for fighting for our first Amendment right that says government "shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise." They didn't even make an effort to challenge the government on first Amendment grounds.
Instead our priests insisted they were closing the doors and closing off our path to the sacraments for our own good. After our church reopened, no local priest apologized publicly for what they did, or what they failed to do. I only ever heard one such apology from the pulpit, and it was from a visiting priest.
I learned a valuable lesson, one which I probably should have suspected was true prior to Covid: when the chips are down, our priests are all too human, in terms of weakness and error; they talk a good game, claiming to act "in persona Christi," until they don't, at the first sign of trouble.
I have forgiven them, however unforgivably they behaved, because it is my duty to do so. But I have learned not to trust them in any future crisis of any magnitude. I am amazed how most everyone seems to have come back to church on Sundays. That they have appeared to resume giving money at offertory is also surprising to me. Our priests certainly don't deserve that level of forgiveness.
Thank you for your courage to stand strong and speak out. I was a dissenter from the beginning and unfortunately my children paid the price missing so many days for “social distancing “ because I refused to get the vax or adhere to their make believe rules. As an avid reader, I was sending out Newsweek articles in May 2020 citing examples of Fauci’s evil.. I too was cancelled by many and labeled a conspiracy theorist. My only saving grace is I am a stay at home mom and my husband is self employed. We did not need to comply… my heart hurt for everyone that was forced to get anything against their will and the many babies used as lab mice. Karma is a bitch and all those who were righteous, inhumane and evil will get what they deserve. Stay strong and for your own mind, body and soul forgive the ignorant. You will be happier in the long run. ❤️🤍💙
She is right on. She was living in the leftist bubble and she got off the narrative and she was attacked and destroyed for it. It’s how they rule. She was fortunate enough to have the finances to say fuck you. The vast majority of us don’t have that. But we need folks like her to keep speaking out. In the last week we have leaned that the German leaders and the British leaders were both told in March 2020 that COVID was man made and leaked from the Wuhan lab. Yet they lied and hide this information from the world. The evilness can not be overstated this was not because of incompetence this was done on purpose by evil people and they have yet to pay any price. And until they pay the ultimate price nothing will change.
Those in charge will do it again in a heartbeat if they get the chance because there were no consequences or even acknowledgements that they were wrong/lying.
This is the scariest part. If there is no acknowledgement there is no remorse and it will, without a doubt, in some form, happen again.
This 'no acknowledgement, no remorse' you describe here is a major characteristic of the psychopath. Indeed, covid was sanctioned mass psychopathic horizontal hostility. Unnerving to see what fearmongering can bring out in people.
The left truly would totally do it again. More of us may resist, but most will fall in line I'm afraid.
I went into a bookstore the other day. There were 6 people with masks on. Didn't they get the memo? I just read that AOC and Bernie are telling people to wear masks to their "rallies".
Well on the positive side, the masked ones are telegraphing how ignorant they are & stay away from them. Plus please please please don't vote, you are just to freakin' lazy and ignorant to vote. We have been subjected to your brutality so we now say no more.
The control is coming...the spineless sheeple will fall in line.
Unfortunately there are many sheeple. There are still people getting boosters even though they got covid after the shot. Many repeat the same mantra, "If I didn't have the shot, it would have been so much worse."
Bird flu. Watch closely. We're not out of the plandemic...
You nailed it.
They wanted us to feel hopeless...otherwise there wouldn't have been a need for the propaganda, censorship and the moral trickboxes.
I think we have to assume, at some point, we WILL be tested again...scamdemic, or otherwise.
We'll be prepared to head that off if there is a "next time".
I absolutely can't stand what was foisted upon us during the plandemic...but in hindsight it actually may have saved America
Very well said as usual, Ryan. I’m so sorry that you went through all of that utter nonsense during the COVID debacle.
With, or maybe because of, all the loss and pain we endured, I completely agree that it was a major driver and contributing factor that led our country to basically flush its former leadership and get back to some basic, common sense principles and leaders who promote those principles.
Yes, it is difficult to stand by and watch while many seem to continue on with their lives, never admitting, out loud at least, to others that they were on the wrong side of things. I make peace as best I can, by telling myself that what’s most important is that I was true to myself and my family. I have no control over what others do or say, and I choose to believe that many of them know, and if not, will soon know, that the handling of this time was in many respects the exact opposite of what actually needed to happen. Eventually they will have to deal with their errors of judgment, I believe.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It would be appropriate to have a COVID Nuremberg.
They keep telling us they are afraid of MAGA, but the truth is they have always been afraid of each other, for good reason.
There are fractured relations in my family and former circles as well. I’ve moved beyond these folds. I look back on them with a little anger and sadness. Mostly, however, I look back with incredulity because those people still don’t get it and never will. As I wrote in another reply yesterday, they continue to lie because they’re invested in the lie.
Not to make this about me, but this was my experience. I point this out because many people experienced way worse.
-I was spit on twice,
- disinvited from two family holidays
- still have thousands of dollars in mask fines levied on my business
- disowned by an Aunt and Uncle for trying to take my 96 year old grandmother on a walk OUTSIDE
-I lost two dear friends
- my wife was ostracized by friends at "clubs/activities/volunteer work" she was in
- my children were banned from their playmates houses.
- my twins were kicked out of school for refusing to wear masks
- I was shouted down in public by mobs of 10-20 people many times. Total hysteria; they were so angry the didn't even realize they were shouting at me after pulling their masks diwn
- I was escorted from the airport for not having a mask over my nose
- I walked off two planes because of flight attendants harassing families simply because their 2 year old was having a bad day. One of the incidents involved the passengers throwing candy to the flight attendants, as an applause, for their abhorrent behavior.
- accosted by police twice
-Iost a shit ton of money because I couldn't operate my business at full speed.
- much more
NEVER FORGET AND NEVER AGAIN
I’m retired and so did not have to deal with work or travel insanity, and we don’t have children so avoided those issues as well. But even so, I had at least 10 people scream at me for not wearing a mask, including threats to call 911 (Once I asked if they knew the number). Plus I was prevented from going on vacations because I wasn’t vaccinated, and no longer have contact with several people who demanded I do so.
So my experiences track with yours, although much less severe. Many people wore a mask simply out of what they believed was courtesy, but I believed that perpetuated a lie and increased fear. I had no duty to normalize someone else’s irrationality, and any anger they felt was entirely their problem.
Yes. Exactly. I refuse to live a lie.
I just couldn't
Amen brother. When someone said he/she wore a mask out of courtesy, I 'd say why? What about my rights? Oooooh selfish girl, yeah right.
That’s rough stuff, Ryan. Far rougher than anything I experienced.
Some of it i brought on myself by resisting in public.
Which was my point.
Your acts were heroic!
I am so sorry for what they did to you. They were never your friends, never your family. So sorry. They are lost. But you kept the one that matters, your integrity.
Thank you.
Gosh Ryan you are certainly a beacon to the rest of us who had nothing like what you experienced. I just got yelled at or mean looks (boo hoo). Glad to read you weathered the storm, stood your ground. On a positive note, you know what to expect if/when this mass hysteria happens again & who is "normal" & who isn't. Hang in there, you have friends here.
Yep. My youngest had her SR year of HS blown to smithereens and I was laid off in July of 2020. Took 18 months to finally land full time work. Fought with the state of NC for unemployment for months and at one point they wanted to claw back unemployment funds because they said my several should last for several months past a date. I asked for months to show me the metric on how they came to that conclusion and he HAD to pre date my job loss. Crickets and incompetence every step of the way. I am convinced it was either all by design or behind closed doors all world leaders freaked out since it was from China and then co opted to an insane diabolical political plot. Hence no firings or jail time.
You can always judge who is your friend in times of adversity. I too lost some "friends" but then were they ever really stalwart friends?
*severance. I had maybe or 1 or 2 just distance themselves from me, maybe more but at no point did I want harm done to them or pull myself away. I don't know what happened to those who say they were liberal because they became like the fundamentalists they said they hated in the 70s and 80s. Progressive sure as hell isn't who they are.
Definitely "invested in the lie" for sure. It is a cold reality that when you hold someone to account for their wrongdoing, you become the baddie (in their view). This accounts for a lot of the fractured relationships that are still fractured. The lockdowners got sideways with us; they now fully realize they were wrong, but refuse to say they're sorry, not only because of being invested in the lie, but because they really want to blame us as the baddies for being right, for holding them to account, from the very beginning. We're the mean ones in their eyes, and we always will be. If only we could have gone along with the lie, like they did, all would be well in our relationships with them. It's always our fault. Always.
As they have their 18th bout of COVID.
'People have been found to resist the most powerful monarchs and to refuse to bow down before them, but few indeed have been found to resist the crowd, to stand up alone before misguided masses, to face their implacable frenzy without weapons and with folded arms to dare a no when a yes is demanded."
Hannah Arendt
Such a person was Jennifer!
The Covid disaster was particularly upsetting because it revealed just how many of our fellow Americans were like deranged sheep, willing to follow authority figures blindly. The whole thing was like a gigantic Milgram experiment, with millions of Americans going along with the torture and abuse of their fellow citizens. Unlike the original experiment, this torture and abuse was all too real.
Yes, no one said the vaccine passport was wrong, and they all knew I couldn't go anywhere. I had to actually ask them the pointed question, "Do you think this is right?", for them to stop, hesitate, and say "No, it's wrong." And one friend with a smile in her voice said, "Well, you won't get any sympathy from me. You need to just submit." And now she denies she said it. Of course.
They went along with the program.
Is she still a friend?
I stepped away for almost a year. Today we're friends again, but of course it's not the same.
That last part about never seeing people the same, being forever mistrustful, that's how my wife and I have become. Her work did the same thing to her. She refused the jab for health reasons and they tried to fire her. We had to fight like hell, but we won. Thirty years of service meant nothing to them. Long time friends, colleagues turned their backs on her, afraid of repercussions from fraternizing with the enemy. Like the county song says " you find out who your friends are". The experience changed her forever. She has a genuine rage and mistrust of people. Before Covid, that was never a part of her. So, I completely symphasize with her experience, I saw and felt it first hand.
I takes a good man to stand by his woman.
Mine did not.
His mother, highly educated and the head of a giant hospital system, believed every drop of nonsense.
My husband and children thought bc of my MIL’s medical background, that she knew best.
That time in my life broke me. Wear the mask, don’t embarrass us, “Just get the vaccine”!
My MIL seriously just got the last Covid booster that was offered.
Thankfully, my father appreciates all of the research, different opinions gathered, and sheer common sense I took to put it all together. (I followed Alex from the beginning).
My dad was a firm believer in trust the government about our safety, and health.
After the government wanted to give you boosters, he said, HELL NO.
I think I have posted this a 1000 or more times here and in other forums. The single greatest existential crisis we face is that of ACTUAL accountability on every level of society in America, but especially within the SWAMP and agencies tied to that swamp. Those who planned and implemented the entire 2020 PLANdemic were "allowed" to do what they wanted too without ANY accountability. All of it was just allowed. We witnessed endless probes and investigations (taxpayer funded) by the swamp creatures we pay and STILL here we are in Mid March 2025 and the very same swamp agencies are doing it all over with the bird flu with the exact same PLAN to get all livestock injected this time rather than HUMANS. ALL of this is just ALLOWED to continue. IF Pharma had it their way they would have it mandated every living creature and human on the planet having yearly injections until that life form dies of injections side effects or just die. Where is the ACCOUNTABILITY? Look what this past 5 years did to the fabric of society, and families and STILL not ONE person remotely held accountable!
We actually have laws that would provide for accountability, but somewhere along the way, probably in the patriot act, they realized they could just declare “emergencies“ which allowed them to ignore the law and got them a “get out of jail free” card. Those loopholes need to be closed.
Well said
Nice post Jennifer. Unfortunately you will never get the apology nor the unseating of those responsible. The virtue seeking don't acknowledge mistakes nor think they ever made any. I hope you can eventually get over your anger, frustration, etc. so it does not consume you.
You're probably right, but I'm not willing to accept the malefactors will go with no consequences. If they did it and got away with it, they'll do it again.
Maybe wishful thinking, but I'm still hopeful some of them will be punished, even if not directly. Example- it appears the whole teachers' union/education complex is going to lose a lot of their $. Randi Weingarten, you did that. And you deserve it.
I believe in forgiveness, but not without contrition. Haven't seen much.
I'm rambling at this point, but I'll close w/ this. The political party that did the worst harm (they both did harm) seems incapable of doing any sober reflection on where they went wrong. They are hung up on "messaging". Doing things the voters hate is, to them, irrelevant if they get the messaging right. If there's a God, they'll continue to focus on that, and be banished to the wilderness.
I'll consider that a kind of rough justice.
Completely agree. It’s very challenging, and yet so important to try to let go of that anger, and those feelings of loss. Don’t let the haters win!
I've learned the hard lesson of why forgiveness is important, even forgiveness of the unrepentent. It starts with the dictionary definition of the word: letting go of resentment. That enables me to forgive folks who won't ever apologize; I learned that refusing to let go of my resentment continues to hurt me, but doesn't affect them in the slightest. So when I do the math, refusing to forgive means that I lose twice. So I forgive now, quite readily, but I am not compelled to communicate that forgiveness to them. Most folks confuse forgiving with condoning, but I'm not doing that. There's nothing wrong with forgiving, dusting my feet and moving on.
Excellent advice! Thank you so much for posting this, Jack. I try to live this, especially the part about remembering that refusing to let go of your own resentment continuing to hurt you, and the fact that it does not affect the other person at all. So powerful!
Thanks for sharing this Alex!
I am with Jennifer - I am still angry. We need accountability, not just a feeble, “mistakes were made. We didn’t know what we were dealing with”. When I spoke out against what was going on, my family treated me very poorly.
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Very powerful. Many of us have similar feelings, especially those with kids who were/are so negatively affected.
We study history so that we are not doomed to repeat it....thank you for keeping this alive, Alex.
Thanks for sharing this, Alex. I identify with a lot of it, but I wasn't unfortunate enough to lose public and professional reputation due to my choices, so I feel for her. I stood against the tides even as it strained my family and singled me out at work. Thankfully most of my relationships have recovered, although I still haven't received an apology from the people that really matter, like my father. I've commented here many times about how covid changed my life. My eyes were opened to so much, and I can never go back.
Our immediate family and very few friends resisted all the nonsense. However, three of my highly educated siblings ; who faced no mandate, fell hook line and sinker. I'm still shocked. Silence is the response, with the exception of one brother who is trying to detox from the poison. Our government is a criminal enterprise and looks to still be trying to kill us.
What is stunning is that the same people don't trust the govt on an array of issues, gave us the sovereignty over their bodies and believed the govt unquestioningly moreso the "highly educated" than the less educated (so it appeared).
Perhaps the real test was whether the educated would prove indoctrination was effective. I lost 11 friends, some pied piper followers and others just drifting along to be happy to death.
Eleven friends? From what?
I’m curious how your brother decided to detox. Every holiday, I’ve wanted to gift our 3 kids, their spouses & our 4 grandkids with a detox package…but I’m scared of their reaction. The past 5 years were not terribly pleasant due to our being “conspiracy realists!”
Here's where she is missing the boat: "But no one has said: you were right, and we are sorry to have put you through hell." Those people who put you through hell still believe they were and are right. Sure there have been a few tepid acknowledgments in their media of choice, but for the most part, they still believe the vaccines are the reason we no longer worry about Covid, that masks worked and will work again, that the lockdowns/school closures were absolutely necessary, and most, if asked, will tell you mandates and vaccine passports were justified. Hell, bunches of them still are on the fence as to whether it was a natural spillover or came from a lab. Those people do not read Alex's substack or similar, do not get news from any source other than the NYT, Wash Post, NPR, etc.
Has been the case in ALL past injection agendas too. The narrative coming out of those was the INJECTIONS saved the day, and ended alleged plandemic, but when you look closely it was not the case. A GREAT historical backdrop on the past 80 years of injections can be seen at remedy.film WATCH all 8 episodes! What has been done in 2020 was more overt and obvious, but you will find it eerily similar to the past with explaining side effects away or normalizing etc!
This is exactly right. And because of it, they're going to try the same playbook again. I predict much less compliance next time.
I felt overwhelming anger on 3/15/2020 when my kids said that businesses had closed down at the direction of the government. I was yelling that the government can’t do that. But it happened. What followed was disappointment in my fellow citizens and it was a pretty lonely time for me
When the churches closed, I was too tired to be angry but my disappointment was soul wearying. So much for religion holding their ground.
What causes me facial twitches to this day is the “safety” thing. I don’t need my government or my religious institution to keep me safe or decide what is safe for me. I can do that myself, thanks!
I hope all of us find some kind of peace in the future. Apologies are NOT forthcoming unfortunately.
The religious institutions (most all of them, with very few exceptions) were ironically built on the principle of "subsidiarity" (i.e., the concept that problems should be resolved at the most local level and only bounced up to higher levels of authority when necessary). My local church made precisely zero effort to resolve any of the Covid issues at the local level; they immediately looked to the Bishop (who was frightened/coerced by lawyers, of course) and followed his edicts to close and lock the church doors. They banned any priest who wanted to still try to give some sacraments, such as "annointing of the sick" in the hospitals. My wife, who worked at a local hospital at the time, asked our church to consider a work-around, to allow her to give the sacraments of annointing of the sick, and of holy communion, in the hospital, since she was all geared-up in protective clothing. Our diocese didn't just say "no," they also said "don't ask again." The pastor of our church caved in to the bishop and his other masters at the diocese. So much for a priest acting in the role of "in persona Christi." That was the first thing that was dispensed with during Covid.
My 22 year old son died in October of 2020 (from a freak accident; not Covid). The church grudgingly allowed us to have a funeral in a chapel. The chapel seats 300 comfortably; we were limited to 75, so some close friends were not allowed to pay their last respects. Masking was required. My eulogy was limited to seven minutes.
It is not possible to quantify my level of disappointment with how my Church handled all of this. But the notion of "what would Jesus do?" was the first casualty of Covid, and that message came from the highest levels of the Church, with no brave souls at the local level making any effort at rebelling against it. In first century A.D., Christ embraced lepers; our priests walked away from those with a cold virus. No good Samaritan was available to substitute.
My local church was full of excuses, one of which was that they pointed to our state government's edicts. So much for fighting for our first Amendment right that says government "shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise." They didn't even make an effort to challenge the government on first Amendment grounds.
Instead our priests insisted they were closing the doors and closing off our path to the sacraments for our own good. After our church reopened, no local priest apologized publicly for what they did, or what they failed to do. I only ever heard one such apology from the pulpit, and it was from a visiting priest.
I learned a valuable lesson, one which I probably should have suspected was true prior to Covid: when the chips are down, our priests are all too human, in terms of weakness and error; they talk a good game, claiming to act "in persona Christi," until they don't, at the first sign of trouble.
I have forgiven them, however unforgivably they behaved, because it is my duty to do so. But I have learned not to trust them in any future crisis of any magnitude. I am amazed how most everyone seems to have come back to church on Sundays. That they have appeared to resume giving money at offertory is also surprising to me. Our priests certainly don't deserve that level of forgiveness.
Sorry, about your son. My priest doesn’t want to talk about abortion because it might upset people. Who cares about the dead babies and broken women.
Sorry to hear that Jack. I agree with your thoughts and especially the “forgive but don’t forget”.
Thank you for your courage to stand strong and speak out. I was a dissenter from the beginning and unfortunately my children paid the price missing so many days for “social distancing “ because I refused to get the vax or adhere to their make believe rules. As an avid reader, I was sending out Newsweek articles in May 2020 citing examples of Fauci’s evil.. I too was cancelled by many and labeled a conspiracy theorist. My only saving grace is I am a stay at home mom and my husband is self employed. We did not need to comply… my heart hurt for everyone that was forced to get anything against their will and the many babies used as lab mice. Karma is a bitch and all those who were righteous, inhumane and evil will get what they deserve. Stay strong and for your own mind, body and soul forgive the ignorant. You will be happier in the long run. ❤️🤍💙