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They will never say that they were wrong all along. They will say the opposite - that they were right all along, that the lockdowns worked, and that those policies were so successful that now we can start lifting all the restrictions.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

Don't let these vermin have a tactical retreat. They need to be defeated. As Daniel Horowitz is preaching, there needs to be severe consequences for anyone, private or public, mandating any masking or vaxxing.

This goes double for school districts. Anyone in leadership or on a school board mandating the masking of children should be prosecuted for what they are, child abusers.

Furthermore, all funds for promoting the vax should be re-directed to early treatment and recompense for anyone forced to take the jab.

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I'm guess the Democratic polling is below zero. People will not forget though.

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And not ONE of them will go to jail or be held accountable for what they have done to humanity. They will also be the 1st ones to return to crushing human lives when the narrative FITS and next variant and or scamdemic returns..

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This morning I had an appointment with a new primary care doctor to get established with him. The doctor is part of a large practice owned by a large hospital system in my community. The first thing he said to me when he entered the room is, "You can take off your mask. If these things worked why are more people dead this year than last year? People need to start realizing this." Ok, good start...

We chit chat a bit about my feelings about Covid policy and agree that we agree on that. We did not discuss the vaccine at that point. Then he volunteers information that he got "in trouble" with the health system when the vaccine first came out because he was advising patients to hold off as it was experimental. He said "the head of the system called me and told me I would lose my license and my job if I did not get in line. So now I can't talk people out of it".

My husband saw the same doctor about two months ago as a new patient. At that time, this doctor did not share his thoughts on the vaccine, he just didn't exert any pressure on my husband to take it.

I think it is interesting and telling that this doctor was so candid with me today. I hope it is a sign that even the doctors who have gone along to get along are starting to feel more empowered to speak up.

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Guarantee, they're not giving up. Like when a boa constrictor relaxes and the victim moves a bit, struggling to break free. Then it clamps down again, 2x as hard. TBTB will not willingly give back power, it must be taken.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

The only thing which has changed is terrible polling for the Dims. Watch them lie and attempt to rewrite history by saying the science has changed. Never once will they admit they were wrong, and if the vaccines become an admitted failure the issue will be 100% dumped at the foot of Trump and his Warp Speed initiative. These people are beneath contempt, and it’s the duty of all to ensure we let them know we know who is responsible for the evil of the past two years. We’re neither forgetting nor forgiving.

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However inconvenient this is going to be, there’s a scandal brewing in U.K.

The prime minister held at least one party right in the middle of the winter surge. Many people of all ages attended. No one wore masks or socially distanced.

Most people only notice the hypocrisy.

But that’s the least of the deductions that these events support.

By far, the more important deduction is this: NONE OF THEM HAD ANY FEAR ABOUT A VIRUS.

By the way, at least one national newspaper in London also held a staff party under similar conditions.

I wonder what you make of that observation?

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The big problem now is they can’t stretch the lockdowns and mask mandates to help the November 22’ election.. no more mail ins !

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Virus gonna Virus. Bluecheck gonna bluecheck.

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They flipped so much that they change should change the name to The Pacific🥴

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HAHAHAHA, virus gonna virus. The blue checks are gonna try to memory hole so many bad takes. I hope someone has receipts.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

But what about all the shit they put us through.

Vegas just lifted all mask mandates (including schools). Super Bowl weekend of course. Follow the money.

Now Fauci is conveniently including natural immunity in his remarks. Yesterday he said “with so many people now vaccinated or having natural immunity” WHAT??!! That sly and sleazy mother f*ker. Really Tony?

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The reality they're acknowledging is not biological, just political. They suddenly realized they're going to lose everything in 9 months (US elections) and vainly hope they can get a pardon for their impending execution. Too little, too late. Their base has been reduced to mindless sycophants and a few hopeful mini tyrants.

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Serious question: has anyone in power during covid EVER stated, anywhere, that they were explicitly "wrong" or even "incorrect" about anything they ever did, said, or reported?

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This is the invisible hand of the Freedom Truckers. I believe the word went out from the Dem strategists that they need to back off masking and other Covid restrictions. The Dems don’t want a repeat of the Freedom Truckers here because it will crash the economy in the US. We owe a debt to our cousins to the north.

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It's exactly as you alluded to before, Alex. This is being done in part for political reasons. The Democrat machine, which of course includes some of the most influential media outlets in the country, MUST be engaged now to prevent a bloodbath mid-term loss in November. With the Biden administration falling deeper into chaos and impotence, we will notice a concerted effort across the board to suggest that things are getting better and better. Stated otherwise, the past will be forgotten and the rediscovered civil liberties will be ironically credited to leftists and Democrats, who will continue the spin. It is pathetically predictable.

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Polling stats are The Science that matters here.

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Hey the Atlantic, go FAUCI yourselves

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That tricky science. Changing with poll numbers and election proximity. Following it really sounds like a wild goose chase when the tyrannical bureaucratic narrative leads the science.

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These people in the MSM - Intellectual dishonesty so severe the only word that can summarize it is ‘evil’

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I was pissed when the Democrats made “Trump-Is-Killing-People-With-His-Covid-Response” #1 on their platform during the 2020 presidential campaign. I hope they do t think I’ll be any less pissed when they make “we-freed-you-from-mandates” their #1 issue in the 2022 midterms.

BTW: I’m not the most astute person in the world, but when Trump held his 1st presser on Covid and not one Dem was with him, I knew one side or the other had already politicized Covid. When Pelosi said Trump was killing people as early as March 2020, I knew which side had politicized it.

Please do not take this as a pro-Trump comment. It’s not. It’s an anti-politicalization of diseases comment.

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It's not really over until they legalize ivermectin.

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This is the emergence of my greatest fear - that the financial and political elites and the media mouthpieces that they use to manipulate and control people will never have to surrender an iota of the power they wield or acquired during the last two years. Nor will they ever have to face any real justice for their lies and deceptions. Reformation has never felt more futile or hopeless and revolution just plays into the hands of these ruthless people who love to fight over power. Worse still, the digital tools that should allow us to communicate and unite have proven to be in the hands of the worse kind of authoritarian corporate censors. I want to be hopeful, so at this point I feel like the few sane and compassionate of us that are left would be better off seceding from this perverse and inhumane society they have led us into and begin to form our own small and self-sustaining communities. To me this seems like the better choice than wasting our energy trying to change a system that is clearly moving closer and closer to its own explosive finality.

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From New Zealand politician Winston Peters:

We were told to get vaccinated once, then twice, and now three times – and we have done that. So why still is Labour persisting with these crushing, inconsistent, and thoughtless mandates that only serve to attack kiwi’s freedoms, businesses, and livelihoods?

It is clear that Omicron is much more virulent but much less dangerous – this is a fact. The so-called expert modelling has been so far off – to a factor of tens – that we have had enough. Huge swaths of ordinary kiwis have already made their minds up - they will no longer scan, they will no longer test.

The removal of freedoms and the forced compliance of a great number of kiwis, has served only to create a huge divide in our country. It’s now them and us. Whether Labour knew it would happen and took the risk anyway or whether they still just don’t accept it, the reality is that the often contradictory, inconsistent, and nonsensical nature of the mandates they have imposed are the sole cause of the protests we are now seeing.

Let’s be clear, the vast majority of those protesters are not violent anti-vaxers – they are pro-freedom. They are ordinary fed-up kiwis like me and you. New Zealand was built upon the sacrifices of our forebears who fought and died for the very freedoms these protesters are trying to hold on to. It is any wonder there is a large number, a silent majority, of kiwis who have grown frustrated.

There are many countries around the world that are starting to say that mandates are no longer justified – the reality is they are right. The Prime Minister has been forced to say that it is only a matter of time before these mandates go. It now seems that time will be when it suits the Labour party, not the people. The problem is for too many it will then be too late.

The unavoidable fact is that if Labour was properly prepared, didn’t delay, exhibited a little less hubris, and didn’t show extreme inexcusable incompetence, we wouldn’t be in this position in the first place.

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The Atlantic? What's the Atlantic?

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One wonders what he would be writing if we weren't facing an election in November.

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Midterms.

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When you REALLY study the Vaccine Schedule for kids (20 years as an #AutismDad, I have) you will see that most, not all, vaccines were "effective" against diseases that had already passed. The 1986 Vaxx Act removed all financial liabilities, and here we are.

This is NOT easy for me to say. My Dad was an Infectious Disease Doctor, US Navy Doctor (served in WWII and Korea), and brought the Polio Vaccine to Philly in the 1960's. They made their decisions BEFORE the big money was around, so they simply made mistakes. They thought they were doing the right thing, but THEY WERE OFTEN WRONG.

I actually hope this current wave of Vaxx mistakes is simple greed. The alternative is really evil. I have a Son with Autism, I will die, and I hope to leave this world in a better place for him.

I am not afraid of ANYTHING that comes my way.

Thanks Alex for what you are doing. Sure, you get a little over the top at times, but man o man you are taking a lot on the chin for all of us.

#GenuineThanks

Mike Sweeney

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Ever since the long running Russia HOAX, I have learned not to listen to these people.

Partisan infantile morons.

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"The Atlantic" is openly challenging the guidance of the federal public health officials, and consequently undermining trust in government institutions. Does that make "The Atlantic" a terrorist organization?

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Now they are saying 60% of people who had covid have heart problems.. from covid not the vaccine.. very interesting that omicron only attacked the vaccinated.. they needed the vaccinated to get covid so the vaccine wasn’t the contributing factor of heart ailments.. covid is to blame…very interesting

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They are paying attention to the Political Science.

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The science changed. The political science that is.

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We cannot let them just "move on" as if they haven't destroyed millions of jobs, lives, and children's education. Hundreds of thousands of families affected by their lockdowns, grandparents, parents, dying alone in nursing homes, without their families by their side. Children committing suicide from depression and drug overdose. We cannot let them get away with it, or surely they will try it again. We need them to be held accountable, and demand their removal from office. Fauci, CDC, and the WHO and everyone who was involved in this lie and scamdemic.

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Never forget which politicians supported all the draconian Covid restrictions because they'll do it to you again in a heartbeat. Vote them out.

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Whahaha. And the fools look more foolish. They will never openly admit they were wrong. a year ago when people were calling me stupid and said I was a conspiracy theorist and I'm listening to disreputable quacks (oh wait they did that last month too), what I said, while trying to tame my ire, was well I've decided to listen to the people who have predicted correctly, who are transparent and discuss data and who aren't "pivoting." I still stand by the belief that It's okay to admit you're wrong and correct your course. So welcome to sanity Atlantic-it took you awhile. Interesting thing is I am STILL listening to the SAME people 18mo later (even though some new ones have entered the mix) and I follow the advice of those who use actual data, have correctly predicted since the beginning of the pandemic, AND don't lie or widely pivot every month or so. Guess other people might finally be doing the same...better late than never, I guess, but all the hundreds of thousands of lives it cost in the meantime may not think the same thing.

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The Biden Administration are already stretching their hamstrings for their victory lap. "See, the mandates, masks and restrictions worked! Thanks to all of you who complied! Yes we did!"

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The Atlantic is Laurene Powell Jobs’ menstural rag

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On a lighter, but I think important note, to concert and theatergoers: Like many of you, I get frequent updates from venues regarding upcoming shows. In the past week, I have gotten several, and they continue to state that for admittance, proof of vaccine (or sometimes, neg test), and mask are required. I have sent brief, polite e-mail replies to the box offices of these companies, letting them know that until these restrictions are dropped, I will no longer be attending performances nor supporting them. I suggest you may want to do the same. I am vaccinated but have not attended any shows from the time they have reopened. We should not have to "show papers." We need not be more fearful of the unvaxed, at this point, if we are, we should stay home. And, no one can truly enjoy a performance when masked. The insanity must stop.

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“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.” -George Orwell, 1946. This quotation will become increasingly relevant as the midterm elections get closer.

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Someone needs to tell Brian Kingston CEO of Canadian vehicle manufacturing association that FREEDOM matters a whole lot more than his job as dictator of Ambassador Bridge.

Stay in your lane Kingston, would you even know the difference between a screw and a nail?

Hey Truckers, keep the bridge and roads shut down, you are having tremendous effect!

We the people, gave these Overpaid underworked boobs a job, without the little folks they are nothing … I guess it sucks when you realize it.

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Note how every Blue state politician, TV doctor & Left-wing journalist, woke up the other day & changed the narrative because “science changed.”

Science didn't change. Poll numbers changed.

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May they choke on their words. Not enough to bite the dust, but just enough to know how wrong they were. How they are STILL affecting children's lives.

Pathetic the lot of them.

Always Remember.

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Totally unvaccinated. 4th stage kidney failure. Got covid Jan 1....still not dead, didn't need to go to hospital. How am I alive?

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I’m so jaded. I can’t take anything at face value. I see that and I’m like hmmm okay so what’s their angle?

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David Frum The Atlantic all have blood on their hands. They have a large group of the population in the age group from 18 to 64 an uptick by >40% life insurance numbers of paid outs. And they have large groups of strokes and heart attacks. They are blaming these cases on covid most of >95% never had covid nor was hospitalized. The real reason as Berenson has been saying since April 2020 that you are only increasing cases in heart attacks and strokes from wearing these face mask. The Heart cannot take physical exertion with 1 never mind 2 masks. David Frum and many others like him created this mess not Berenson. He was the one out front and knew from day one you were all wrong. CNN MSNBC many others good luck at trying to unwind this clock. And you David Frum have created many overdoses as well all caused by you and your lies.

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I have lost all trust in all institutions! I fear “they” will come up with another disease soon (eg Beijing Olympics super spreader) and try this again. Hoping the people have awoken enough to call out their bullshit.

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I love the way people who are “just sick of this” are now willing to ignore the science. Honestly, it’s not like they don’t see the same #s (science) we do, they are just fed up and want back to normal. Those are the people who should be held to the insane lockdowns/mandates they were such proponents of for more than a year.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

Gaslight much? This is a clown show. And the clown show needs to END. The twisting and turning, the flipping and flopping-- It's boring. It's insulting. It's absurd. Cue the music. Get the hook. The hypocrisy de soleil is OVER.

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