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Let me just say this, as an ex full time journo, including years with The Boston Globe in Boston and in Brazil with Larry Rohter, the last big foreign corrie star for the NYT...the NYT is a garbage paper full of garbage people at the top. Be glad you are gone from that toxic cesspool and the propaganda it pumps out on both foreign policy and domestic in service to what some have referred to as "the blob" or "The Cathedral" or "The Regime." They deserve our scorn. Our world will be better when the NYT building is no longer full of useless journalist sycophants, but full of migrants living on NYC tax payers instead. Cant think of a more fair, deserving outcome for that news organization.

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Perhaps the NYT said it, but Alex didn't: how about Fauci and his cronies stating that masks did not work for months in early 2020, then saying they did work and they'd been lying to conserve them, and then him saying to wear 2, and then seeing him out at a baseball game talking to people without a mask. These so-called "professionals" blew any credibility they had and this is just one easily proven example. They are a bunch of toddies to the authoritarian surveillance state.

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Anyone who noticed this double-dealing got silenced by social media, too.

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The NYT didn't have credibility when Alex was there. I'm old enough to remember reading and hearing from my grandparents about the New York Times in the 1930s winning a Pulitzer prize for defending Stalin, his policies and his regime that killed tens of millions. The fact is that the NYT hasn't had credibility except for statist authoritarians in more than a century. I'm sure there have been some honest reporters there for this time, but many are boot lickers.

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NYT also downplayed the Holocaust until after WW2.

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Marc Levin talks about that historical reality often in his radio and TV gigs

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Also, they were big cheerleaders for the Iraq war and the "weapons of mass destruction" narrative.

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Thomas Friedman the Michael Jordan of Wrong, still writes his racist warmongering...

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for all the bad reporting see also: The Grey Lady Winked

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For a while now, I’ve had a recurring nightmare that emanates from my knowledge that 100 percent of society’s important “truth-seeking” organizations are completely captured. In my recent essay, I quantify the capture rate in American colleges, where 4,200 of them got ALL the important take-aways regarding Covid response spectacularly wrong.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/my-recurring-nightmare?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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Amazing that people believe the experimental "vaccine" to work yet are scared of getting infected. They are wearing masks alone in cars, fearful of any human contact.

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the masks were nothing but a ritualistic act in which a lot of people partook off, like you said, even in their cars all alone: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-wear-a-mask

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Also a symbol of Democrat party allegence.

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Yes. I call the mask the Democratic voter's version of the MAGA hat.

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When what they should really be afraid of are the long term adverse reactions to the mRNA shots: heart attacks, blood clots, autoimmune diseases, turbo cancers, prion disease and neurological disorders.

I wonder when the media will finally start discussing that little tidbit.

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I bought a magazine at a bookstore today, and the clerk at the register was wearing a mask that made it hard to understand what she was saying. And it was a CLOTH mask, at that! 🙄

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I saw a silly bastard walking outside my doctor's office today wearing a mask.

Every single time I make eye contact and then shake my head while laughing.

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I just assume they have acne or chronic bad breath at this point

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Today our local paper had a USA Today article titled, "Disrust in vaccines may be the horrific legacy of COVID-19" which went on to blame "anti-vaxxers" for the fact that no one wants to get covid boosters and a lot of people are now mistrustful of childhood vaccine advice. The article failed to mention the fact that public health and the pharma industry flat-out lied about the safety and efficacy of the covid "vaccines" and the government tried incredibly hard to force them on everyone through employment mandates and other means of coercion. That's why people are vaccine hesitant, not because of RFK Jr.

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Good grief. It's maddening, isn't it?! We remain skeptical and question everything and in the end were right to do so, but WE'RE to blame for the hysteria? No winning when the judges are literal lunatics.

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Agreed. I’ve listened to RFK jr in long form interviews. He is not against the elegant science of vaccines but rather the pharma industry’s manufacturing processes as well as the explosion of “ mandated childhood vaccines” at the same time they were given absolute immunity from liability.RFK jr asks important questions that we need answers to

There is no reason babies should be mandated to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B which is passed with sexual activity and exchange of body fluids.Babies are not at risk foe Hep B yet it’s mandated.

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He's got to have a role in a future Trump administration. Just to scare the bejesus out of Big Pharma.

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He would also clean up the swamp if the FDA and CDC and stop direct to consumer marketing of drugs which is how pharma controls the media

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And do you think Trump would actually have him questioning his "big, beautiful vaccine?" Hardly.

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He better get his head on straight otherwise he will not only loose property in NY but also in Florida. People will support him up to a point. He hasn't been too supportive of the J6 prisoners in any of his speeches.

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Like most Americans, Trump listened to Fauci and the other "experts" that said the vaccines developed in Operation Warp Speed worked. He wanted to believe and still wants to. But Biden must have believed even more strongly as he mandated mRNA vaccinations and discharged service members who refused the jab. Even today, a foreigner must receive an mRNA COVID shot to legally immigrate to the U.S. Meanwhile we're letting millions enter through our open borders with no vaccinations or health checks. Trump was and still is wrong about the vaccines, but Biden's policies on the jab have been far worse.

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I have no argument with you over Biden - Biden is atrocious. Appalling. I would never vote for Biden. But as a conservative, I must ask the hard questions of Trump, and I'm afraid he comes up very short. Presumably, this election will be won by either Trump or Biden. We will NEVER have a reckoning of the horrors of 2020 with either of these two in office. The power grab of state and federal governments in 2020 was unprecedented. I haven't heard the first word from Trump about working to roll back that power taken by governmental bodies in the US. Well, to be honest, I haven't heard as much as I would have liked from Trump during the nomination process given that he declined debate invitations. Will we actually have national debates this summer before the national election? A lot has changed since 2020, and both candidates have a lot to answer for. I, for one, think the American people deserve answers to some hard questions.

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Trump is flawed, as are we all. My preference was Vivek Ramaswammy but his campaign, like that of my second choice, Ron DeSantis, went nowhere. I like RFK, Jr.'s positions on a few issues but he's a Democrat and, if Bobby has a Democrat Cabinet and Congress, Biden's policies won't change. America can't take four more years of Joe "finishing the job" with open borders, high crime, unlimited aid to Ukraine, DEI (neo-racism), a woke military that can recruit enough soldiers to fill its quotas, a soft-on-China policy, uncontrolled federal spending, 3% to 9% inflation, gender transition for minors, retreat from support for Israel, pushing unlimited abortion on demand, etc. We know that from 2017 to 2021 Trump's policies worked pretty well. Trump has offered to debate but Biden will continue keeping a low profile, won't debate, hold press conferences or answer questions from anyone who isn't a media supporter. He's not ideal, but I'm casting my vote for Trump.

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Sure he would. It's called delegating. Sic Kennedy on 'em so Trump doesn't have to question it himself.

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They dont want to admit it either because they are too stupid (which I suspect) or because they are being deceitful on purpose but the average Covid "anti-vaxxer" is NOT anti vaccine. They have the MMR, Polio, might even be getting flu or Shingles shots if older. If construction workers, might even get tetnus shots. Work for a zoo or with wild animals? Maybe got your rabees update. Those people, too, did not get their Covid vaccine. Many were military, who are loaded with vaccines. Some were doctors and nurses. None of them afraid of needles. They were anti experimental Covid shot. That's it. That is what the media does not want to say. Better to label thtem anti vaxxers. "Well, we wouldnt have all these diseases if the anti vaxxers were getting vaccinated...!" D students one and all. The media deserves our scorn.

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D? More like F and then getting a circle D to bring them to the next level. Diversity what a scam for the incompetent.

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But RFK, Jr. was also proven to be .... right. And they are incessantly attacking a brave man who was ... right all along.

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Lot of people became antiVax. In Vanda childhood vax rate went from 98% - > 82%.and Canada vax Sched is 1/4 the USA! Why does the USA 4x their kids?

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I agree with everything in this article except for the key piece that the Times is missing. No, it won't solve the problem for the CDC to admit that the vaccines didn't work. CDC refusal to admit reality is just a symptom, not the actual problem. The problem is that government felt that it had the right to control the populace by force and intimidation.

And that's what "institutions" are actually all about at this point. Yes, the left only resorts to bans, restrictions and controls. There is zero respect for individual liberty and self determination. But on the right, the McConnell wing of the Republican party is just as invested in bureaucratic control over the populace.

The problem is that the covid experience has woken the public to the fact that the regulatory industry and regulatory impulses of elected bodies and bureaucracies have been allowed their power to expand far beyond what is healthy for any society. And we reject it.

Here's what everybody is now coming to grips with - everybody has had the misfortune of working with a boss who is well educated, maybe even graduated from the best schools in the nation. Despite this, he's nothing but an empty suit - completely incompetent. There is zero reason to believe that the same situation does not manifest itself just as often among the "expert class" who will drive so many restrictions, bans and control of the American people.

The problem will not stop when the CDC admits their incompetence. It will stop when the public demands that all of government - in particular "the experts" - understand that their role is to research and advise, nothing else. The public gets to make their own decisions after weighing this advice. At that point we can start to move forward in a healthy manner.

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But then how is the progressive who through their feelings knows better than you able to make you conform to their feelings of how you should behave to make them feel better? Fascism is what I call the left or progressives. They demand change while people who don't are labeled conservatives or far right. Whatever that is supposed to mean.

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Every important organization is completely captured. They are far too gone to ever be reformed. These agencies need to be abolished ... to save numerous lives.

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"the covid experience has woken the public…" If only. It has woken those of us reading Unreported Truths. Look at the people who are still wearing masks. Have they awoken to anything? Likewise, per Gallup, 40% of the populace approve of Biden. Are they awake?

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Again, you need to focus on the companies that are STILL mandating these shots, like CVS, for their employees. Or the colleges that STILL mandate them for the students. THAT is the real story (crime) here.

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In February of 2021 I found a PDF of the card on, I believe it was the University of Wisconsin website and saved it. I sent it to dozens of people I met in Facebook groups. It printed perfectly two-sided on card stock. I never had to use it but was ready in case it became a barrier to something I wanted to do.

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Good to know, but should we really have to resort to that? The point Mr Berenson has been making means nothing and this fact seems lost on him. He keeps telling his readers about how the mRNA shots are dead and how they don't work, YET they are STILL being mandated. THAT IS THE REAL STORY. Nothing else. People are still losing their jobs and students are being denied an education. He need to be reporting on that and holding those companies like CVS accountable.

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Right. People SHOULD stand their ground and it would end much quicker. I lost a lot of friends because of my stance about the stupid masks and then the shots. Only as a last resort would I put my name on that card. Not everyone likes confrontation, I probably have a screw loose.

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Jason, you don’t have a screw loose. If you’re like most of us who didn’t take the jabs, you’re a rational and calm decision maker. None of it made sense - and now we know we were right.

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Yes! Say it loud & clear: We Were Right!

And we still have our health. It was all a monsterous lie. And they knew it!

I can't imagine what it must be like to have the worry of having had the shots and be waiting for something dreadful to happen. Every ache, pain and snuffle would be like Chinese torture (which is kinda appropriate as that's where it came from...). And I fear it is only going to get much worse. Horrific!

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Same here. No screws loose at all! I just wish Mr. Bereson would call out these institutions or try to get someone from them to defend their position so people could see they are essentially just a cult now.

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Hey Charles, It's even worse than that! Murderna are building a site in UK to produce up to 250 Million shots a year of something - they only have one product so far - in a 10 year £1,000 Million deal with the UK government. And they are building sites in Australia + Canada too. Apparently everything is going mRNA - Dontcha know? it's the future!

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I wrote what I thought was a very balanced reader comment in NYT, saying Japan and Sweden rejected lockdowns yet somehow succeeded. The US approach harmed both society and economy, badly. Comment not printed (and I have a near-100 percent publication rate.) Go figure.

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I added that the NYTIMES vocabulary does not help understand the issue;

they say « the pandemic » closed factories/schools/offices … NO, lockdowns did that!

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CORRECT. AND TRUST ME, they KNOW how they are using the language because anyone who has ever attended a news media editorial meeting as I have or 20 years and Alex B surely has at the NYT (it must have been totally insufferable) they definitely talk about "how we say" this or that "this is how we are going to couch this issue..." etc. etc. This is not some random reporter who put it that way. They were told to by their editors long before they/them took their 21 gendered fingertips to their beloved Macbook.

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Deborah Brix did that!

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Why won't the CDC do a public autopsy of the COVID response? Identify what worked and what did not work. Florida has done it but the dinosaur media ignores it.

The politicians and social media saw what power they have and want to keep that power. It is not about health.

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I'm over 70 and I have never had a flu shot or a Covid "vaccine. Came down with Covid in July 2021 and again in July 2022 but I came out fine.

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My wife (65) and I (80) both got covid (rather serious) in January of 2022. We had some ivermectin from Mexico and were cured in 2 days.

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I'm 77 and had the first two Pfizer jabs - before I started reading Alex. I've had COVID at least twice and both times were fairly mild. My former next door neighbor was fully vaxxed, got COVID and died. She wasn't overweight and had no known preexisting conditions. From what I've read here, I don't plan on getting any boosters or flu shots.

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The NYT shills for big Pharma because it’s getting paid to do so. I suspect all big MSM platforms, no matter the medium, are kept afloat by Pharma money (and in the NYT case, Deep State/IC government money). Thus, they’ll never be truthful about the genetic therapy injections. They’ll talk around it, and blame everything else, but never the DeathVax. No one, with any common sense or critical thinking skills, trusts anything they write. Their only usefulness is as a barometer for when the tyrant class is trying to change the “narrative” or prepare the battle space for some awful edict or abuse coming our way.

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"So it (NYT) will continue to look around, puzzled, as its credibility erodes alongside the institutions it supposedly covers as a watchdog." Beautiful!

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Question for Alex's readers and for NY Times staffers: How many people have ever gotten the flu after dutifully getting their flu "vaccine?"

Also: How many people ever said this to themselves: "You know, maybe that flu shot does't really work. Maybe it's not effective after all."

Since the NY Times never questioned the efficacy or necessity of the flu shot scam, they of course weren't going to question the efficacy and safety of the Covid vaccine either.

One non-event (with zero skepticism) led to the other tragic event (and zero skepticism).

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-flu-vaccine-scam?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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There are two sides to this coin.

The first, as you indicate, the vaccines didn't really work as promised and everyone knows this, even if they won't admit it.

But the second, and I believe more relevant fact is, Covid is not and never was nearly as dangerous as it was broadcast to be by the media and governments, and EVERYONE KNOWS THIS TOO. Especially after Omicron (it has recently been revealed that even before Omicron German authorities felt the annual flu was far more deadly, though of course they never said this out loud).

So the relaxed attitude about Covid and rejection of the vaccines is really down to this: we all know it is of little danger, and certainly not worth intrusive or complicated countermeasures. But this, too, is a universal recognition the media will not admit to.

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EUA gene therapy medication. They were NEVER a V. Probably the greatest CON of the entire CON

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Did you see that Elon is funding the approximately 100k shortfall of Dr Kaur's, Canadian doctor, fine and committed to funding her appeal! You may want to advertise your fundraising on your X. Dr Jay B interviewed her and raised almost 200K in 10 days. 🥳🥳

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And in a weird turn of events I just got an enthusiastic text message from my pharmacy that basically said "lucky you, the CDC is recommending an(other?) mRNA booster for anyone over 65! Come on in!"

All I could think is you've got to be kidding.....seriously! Are you stupid? (If it wasn't useful to get a text when a script was ready, I would have disconnected immediately.) I've been pissed off for 4 years now.

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Dr Christian’s vaccinated parents came out of isolation to celebrate their 62 nd wedding anniversary, caught Covid, and died quickly almost at the same time( my paraphrase). This couple must have been well into to their 80s to be able to celebrate a 62 anniversary. The jabs( I refuse to call them vaccines, they were brand new gene technologies) were NEVER safe or effective but there needs to be a discussion about death. How beautiful that an in love couple was able to celebrate their 62 anniversary and die practically together at a ripe old age. If the virus had been naturally occurring and not a product of Gain of Function( diabolical research) this would not have even been remarked on.

People die , preferably when old and have lived a good life. This anecdote is not a tragedy.

Never mind all the fuss about the deaths in nursing homes during covid. Most of these facilities are horrible places where old people , many with dementia, go to die if they have no family or their family won’t care for them. What difference does it make if a person in a home dies of pneumococcal pneumonia after aspiration, urinary sepsis ( when the Foley catheter bag isn’t emptied ) or covid pneumonia? Death is death.

Let’s talk about the nursing home industry and the neglect and often abuse that takes place in them , on a daily basis. The nursing homes were more concerned about the epidemic of empty beds that occurs when many inmates die at the same time. Empty beds are not billable.

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My 95 yr. old retired aerospace engineer neighbor walked with me daily up and down our alley until his RN nurse daughter, we’ll call her, Nurse Ratchet, forced him to stop walking with his unvaccinated neighbor, have the Moderna vaccination (over 3X stronger than Pfizzle) and 10 days later he was dead. Very efficient. Nurse Ratchet now has a home to sell.

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Nurse Ratchet was awful.

If he had died peacefully in his sleep at 95 after a walk with you that would have been ideal.

The point I was trying to make was old people die.Preferably after a good life. Preferably quickly with the least amount of suffering.

The Covid pandemic has given us an opportunity to confront some hard truths about mortality and the way our societies handle an aging population. Nursing homes are an abomination for the majority of people in them .

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If we thought the Covid stuff was bad just wait until the US becomes part of the WHO Pandemic Treaty. The US needs to remove itself completely from the WHO.

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Hey Alex you should look into this.

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OK - I will send money when you take back what you have said about Ivermectin and write your support Trump 100%. Deal?

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He’s too stubborn to admit he is wrong about Ivermectin.

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Wife and I unvaccinated have been on IVM for three years and had no Covid even though we go out often without masks to shop and eat. Alex, isn't it time to throw in the towel on IVM?

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Often without? Step it up! Not needed! They do not work!!

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Often and without. Have already stepped up. Only time we have is when we had to at the Doctor's office when we went for our annual checkup. Both of us get the same response after blood tests. "Keep doing what you are doing".

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Please let go of the inaccurate fear.

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