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I know we disagree on the topic of abortion. However, consider that once a political party not only endorses, but celebrates (shout your abortion) the murder of the most vulnerable in our society, it is clear that they will sacrifice children of any age for power and control.

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I wish I could like this 1000 times. You are absolutely correct. We are in this mess because the belief in the sanctity of life no longer exists even within the Catholic Church. This belief is the only thing I remember from all those religion classes in Catholic school, but apparently it's not a doctrine the Church even teaches or speaks about anymore.

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I could make a religious case against abortion, but I could just as easily make a secular case against abortion and a secular case would be necessary to persuade all Americans that abortion is morally wrong. But I agree, how is it that churches don't address this issue regularly, daily? It is no different than Germans looking the other way as Jews were loaded onto trains. No different than Americans tolerating slavery. The only reason this horror show continues is because we can't hear their screams and they can't fight back.

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I would amend your statement to say "human beings tolerating slavery".

Slavery has been with humanity since the beginning. All groups have been at one time the enslaver or the enslaved. The Atlantic Slave Traded was a cooperative endeavor of Africans and Europeans. The last country to outlaw slavery as a legal institution was Mauritania, in West Africa, in 1981. And slavery is still practiced openly in many countries all over the world.

The movement to end slavery as an accepted, legal institution was led by a white, Christian Englishman named William Wilberforce. After slavery was abolished in Great Britain, the British Navy ran blockades to prevent the slave ships from accessing North America.

The truth about slavery...like the truth about abortion...has been suppressed by the woke narrative.

All of us, especially children, could benefit from the truth.

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Agreed.

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The truth is rarely ever welcome. Even to question certain aspects of the official history of certain events in mid-20th century Europe can get you prison time in several nations.

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This is going to get a whole lot worse......as boosters roll out......CDC says 32% of 65 plus boosted! This is the Truth!

https://khn.org/news/article/hospital-emergency-rooms-swamped-seriously-ill-non-covid-patients/

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But Britain’s thirst for cotton to run their mills prolonged slavery several decades.

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Great Britain has much to atone for, but they did abolish slavery long before most countries...and the British Navy tried to block the Atlantic slave ships.

Slavery was not unique to the Americas or to "white people". Africans had slaves. Native Americans had slaves. Millions of Europeans were enslaved by the Ottomans. The Barbary pirates used to raid communities all along the Mediterranean coast and the Atlantic coast all the way up to Scandinavia.

People need to understand the true history of slavery...just as they need to understand the reality of abortion.

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You can make a secular case against abortion only if you believe in science and are a moral person. Science: life begins at conception. Moral: murder is wrong. If you don't subscribe to those two simple positions, abortion is just fine and dandy.

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That is one case to be made, but there are other cases that can be made from a secular position as well. Too long to go into here. For me, as a human being I am pro-life. I have been pro-life since I was a child and could understand right from wrong. My Christian perspective affirms my pro-life position, i.e. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..." How beautiful to be known so intimately by God.

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Will never return to Catholicism…..walked right out the door after I made my confirmation b/c my parents desired it. Contemplating a nondenominational down the street from me that has rallied around local families, built a wing on the church to support homeschooling families….which I might become in the near future if Gov Hochul mandates the jab.

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The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ provided us with direct access for a one-on-one relationship with God. No need for a priest, pastor, etc. to come between us and God.

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18 And I say to thee: That thou art Peter [petros, "rock"]; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

19 And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.

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God bless you, but you're wrong; Jesus established a church and gave it the authority to bind and loose sin. (Mt. 16:18-19).

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Of course the church has a role and we are the church. My point was simply that we do not need to communicate to God through a high priest. Upon Christ's death the temple veil was torn in two, so that all Christians can enter directly into God's presence.

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See the book of Hebrews in the New Testament. It makes the case for Jesus as our High Priest, therefore, the old priesthood (of OT times) is no longer necessary; nor are the OT sacrifices (which were continuous), as Jesus made the final perfect sacrifice.

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As Abp. Carlo Maria Vigano has been saying since 2018, Vatican II setup a parallel church within the actual Catholic Church. The real Catholic Church has taught the sanctity of life for 2000 years; the Vatican 2 church doesn't. The real Catholic Church has taught the impossibility of salvation except through Jesus Christ for 2000 years; the Vatican II religion teaches that is only one way.

In fact, the Catholic Church has also taught that there is no salvation outside the church; the Vatican II sect teaches that it really doesn't matter, that Hell may be empty anyway.

Unsurprisingly, anti-pope Francis is now attacking the remnant Catholic Church by attacking the Mass of the ages.

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Archbishop Vigano should be the leader of the true Catholic Church. Bergolio is just like Brandon. Their only purpose is to destroy from within and the demise of the United States and the Roman Catholic Church will bring an end to Western Civilization.

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Although (in spite of your argument about Vatican II), I know plenty of faithful Catholics today who are ABSOLUTELY Pro-Life, and actively involved in protecting and saving the lives of the unborn. (I'm not Catholic, nor is anyone in my family, but my daughter - an RN, does work at a woman's clinic that helps expecting mothers make the choice for life.)

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You wont be alone........... we pulled dour kids from a Catholic school for a very academically challenging (non-Catholic) Christian school. The waitlist is long and may parents are turning to homeschooling and the churches, teachers, parents, community are stepping up!!! Its good to see.

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Please reconsider. There is no question that many of the church leadership is misguided and even corrupt. The heart of the church, though, remains as given to us by Jesus Christ. We need people of faith to remain.

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i tried. Covid broke my faith in the catholic church and specifically my archdiocese of miami. I had to sit thru masses where in the middle of the homily our priest mask shamed a parishoner. I havent been back since, It goes against every teaching of christianity. What happened to "come as you are:" It turned into come vaccinated in a mask. Not sure if other archdiocese are this bought into covid hysteria, but its a total turnoff.

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I understand what you are saying and I, too, I've been absolutely infuriated by the behavior of many in church leadership. Please, though, recall that the priests and higher leadership are all sinners, like ourselves. They are human beings who span the spectrum from wonderful to terrible. I would encourage you to please pray and find your way to the true church of Jesus.

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Gavin Newsome went to Santa Clara. So did my lib sister. The Jesuits are evil. I went to a Jesuit college too. But CRT hadn't reached math majors in the 80's. I did learn corporations were evil. I guess the corporations joined the lib side to gain favor or something. Too many people are blind.

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I reject the Pope. I am super confused though. I feel sad.

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Whatever you think of the pope, please keep praying and stay close to Jesus. There are still many holy priests and communities. I hope you find one for support.

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It still exists in the Church. But our hierarchy has failed us with these putrid shots. Calling getting the shots "an act of love". ('Scuse me while I vomit.)

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I encourage my immunocompromised patients to get vaccinated. The risk of covid far outweighs the risk of the vax. But for most kids?? It makes little sense to me.

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Can you explain the rationale for advising your patients to take the anti COVID so-called “vaccines”? Have you evaluated each patient’s individual risk for contracting COVID versus the risk of the “vaccines”? To me, the biggest argument first is that they really are not effective. Also, what about early therapy?

I am retired from medicine, but I’m so sad about what has happened to it. It started before this obviously, but boy, has it ever put a microscope on things.

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I pray that your patients ignore you. To me, an MD who believes that the covid19 virus even exists is so far from being capable of separating pharma's lies from reality that I wouldn't want them treating anyone in my family. No offense intended, of course.

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Being that it is still in the trial phases, it is actually unethical for doctors to recommend it!

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I think so, too. MDs today aren't usually paragons of ethic principle. Prescribing meds in general without knowing about side effects can be a violation of an article of the Hyppocratic Oath:" First do no harm."

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I just worry that immunocompromised patients are the first to get bumped off by the shots. I think I'm seeing that pattern.

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I know someone that died from their shot. They were in very poor health before they got it, which is why the doctor pushed him hard to take it. And then when things went south within 24 hours - the doctor refused to admit it was the shot that did the damage. Since his health was already so poor. Writing off adverse events for the most vulnerable has been the default industry response. With kids we should get a more honest assessment of injuries. Tougher to say it’s normal for healthy kids getting strokes and heart attacks. Though I’m sure they will try.

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There’s an easy and growing case to be made that the shots aren’t good for anyone. How about we get the majority to agree on that, and then we can start debating the virus existence if you want to go there? In the meantime it’s pied piper diversions.

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The case is more easily made that there is no such virus. To each his own view.

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Hi Gwen, my daughter is immunocompromised and will probably be advised to take four doses. When you say the risk of covid outweighs the risk of these injections, can you supply data on deaths from (not with) covid for each age group? (My daughter is in her late twenties.)

Specifically, where do you get your data for benefit of these injections in the immunocompromised? Pfizer didn't include those in their trial and was 'surprised' to find low antibody titers in solid transplant patients. The injections don't work that well in people who are immune suppressed and, combined with a drop in efficacy against Delta, my daughter could be taking a risk with zero benefit.

As for the benefit of the vax. Put moderna and pfizer data together. Out of approx 74 000 participants, please explain where the evidence is of reduced risk of severe disease leading to a severe outcome such as hospitalisation? Out of approx 44 000 participants in pifzer's trial, there were 15 deaths in the vaccine cohort and 14 in the placebo.

As for the risks of these injections, are you aware of civil rights lawyer Aaron Siri's work (also on substack) and the sworn statements of physicians who are speaking out, saying they're seeing an alarming rate of damage from these injections? Are you aware of Dr Jessica Rose's analysis of VAERS data who found a 1000% increase in reports of adverse events not due to increase in injections and not allowing for under reporting? This is Dr Rose's paper on pharmacovigilance:

https://i-do-not-consent.netlify.app/media/Pharmacovigilance%20VAERS%20paper%20FINAL_OCT_1_2021.pdf

The BMJ has an article on a whistleblower who's come forward alleging poor practices in the pifzer trial including unblinding and data falsification. Steve Kirsch said in the FDA ADCOM that voted 16:2 against boosters that it was statistically impossible to have a rate of protocol violations 5x higher in the treatment group.

Peter Doshi has been pushing for transparency of data which are inaccessible until 2022. He agrees with Dr Healy in that what's 'under the hood' of pfizer's clinical trials is not science but business and marketing.

I'm surprised that any physician would want to be associated with such obviously dodgy science, let alone recommend it.

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My immunocompromised neighbor was fired by her doctor because he no longer had the expertise to handle her illnesses post-vaccine. She was doing fine, golfing weekly, gardening daily, and now she has debilliating arthritis and has to be on the nastiest medicine. It wiped her out for 4 days every week. She was on HCQ for lupus for years and her life was fine before initial jabs.

I doubt your patients ignore your advice. Disappointing that you encourage something that may not help them at all (they are the very ones who don't make antibodies).

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Churches are, first and foremost, a business ess. They cater to their customers. Apparently their customers like abortions.

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No doubt the "sanctity of life" will inform Amy Conan Barret's vote should abortion ever again require a decision by SCOTUS. Let us hope she sees that consistency on that point is just as important as consistency on "my body, my choice." (Ie, if the state can tell a woman she must carry a child to term, surely it can require vaccination.)

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The CEO said that he has a passion for animal experimentation. People who have no empathy for animals and use them with disregard have a poorly developed conscience or are controlled by their selfish desires. Reverence for life is rare and not just because of abortion being used as birth control.

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Agree completely. And our lyin' cheatin' CA Gov Newsom recently mandated that minors do not have to tell their parents if they want an abortion or sex change operation. Planned Parenthood owns him.

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I know. Their goal is to replace the parents with the state. And the name Planned Parenthood is meant to obfuscate the organization's objectives. The original name was the American Birth Control League. So not about planning families, but about preventing the creation of families.

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Takes a Village, Not Parents ....per the Demonic Party Chief.

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I can’t “LIKE” your comment,

but I agree with it.

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Amen and amen. The sort of "mind" that can graft a fetal scalp to a humanized rat is capable of sacrificing children utterly without remorse. Since children almost cannot get sick with Covid, the ONLY reason to vaccinate them is to boost synthetic herd immunity, so that selfish, neurotic adults will feel a tad safer. It's a bit like an involuntary military draft except the inductees can't expect any help if they are injured. It's so patently disgusting and evil, we simply must conclude that the people who know what they are doing on this front are sons of the devil, listening to the father of lies. (John 6-8)

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And I will add that I am not convinced that the GOP wants Roe v. Wade overturned. The GOP may want abortion as an issue to turn out the base. I mean, there is a reason that for decades there has been so much talk, but so little action regarding abortion, immigration, etc. Both parties benefit from the issues not being resolved.

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I agree - the GOP is one and the same as the Democratic party. If the GOP actually DID something that fits with what they spew out, then I might believe I could ever vote for a GOP candidate again. I am convinced that all politicians sell their souls at some point.

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They're not one and the same. That's taking it too far. There are plenty of chicken hearted Republicans but the Democrats are 100% committed to murder in the womb. That's their credo. No baby is safe at any age now if they have their way. Plenty of prolife Republicans.

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I agree about the DESPICABLE and horrific policies of the left.

Look deeper. They’re playing for the same powers that be. Sad to say. There may be a few who have not caved.

There may be some who say they’re pro life, but many (most?) in Congress do not have the guts/moral fortitude to actually DO something.

Trust me that I want to be wrong about this. 😔

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Two Wings of The Same Bird.

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The Democratic Party, aka, the Demonic Party.

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It's a death cult.

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Bingo. We slaughter close to 1 million unborn here in the US every year. The pro abortion supporters never admit what abortion is. They only say it is a woman’s choice. It is her body. I know many women that are pro choice. They are good people that just refuse to admit abortion means death for a living being. For years it was killing just a bunch of cells says the pro abortion supporters. Then technology showed us what a fetus looks like just weeks old. A great documentary that I saw a couple years ago that is well worth viewing is “the nine months that made us”. So if we are willing to embrace abortion as an every day occurrence, we should not be surprised we now offer up our kids to a possible life of health misery.

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Of course. And murder of old sick people (aka euthanasia) has already been a consequence.

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The left are sociopaths, and one inherent trait is they despise appropriate dependency, because, they can’t be compassionate, empathetic, nor attentive to others needs. Because such pathetic inexcusable lack of support sympathy and stability stands out real quick to those who expect one to help children, elderly, and disordered people due to illnesses or developmental problems.

Covid easily brought out the scum among us, who were quick to kill the elderly first, then ignore the medically ill, and then terrorize the kids in schools, and now, whack-n-hate them with insidious compounds that intend to accelerate illness and death.

And the pervasive deafening silence of Amerrika empowers sociopaths to now tell us they rule, we submit, and dissent will be crushed relentlessly.

The Black Hate Matters garbage threats to the new NY mayor need repelled so voraciously, I want to see lifeless BLM scum littering the NY streets when they think they can terrorize on demand!!!

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When you use the cell lines from slaughtered babies to brew the shots you squirt into people, isn't that a lot like cannibalism?

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Any age up to and including 125 years old. This is now the (Soylent) Green Party with a twist.

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Yet those who celebrate abortion are vehemently opposed to the death penalty. Just more hypocrisy.

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Oh, you are missing a crucial point: they want Republicans/ Conservatives/ white religious heterosexual men dead even without cause…

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Just proves the hypocrisy. Would also deprive the world of moral and mental giants like Biden, Kerry, and Milley.

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Yes. Absolute hypocrisy when one is against the death penalty for the guilty, but in favor of abortion, the death penalty for the innocent.

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Vaxxing kids is just getting those little nuggets who slipped past Planned Parenthood.

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*buggers, not nuggets. Curse you, autocorrect!

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Autocorrect is a mischievous AI that is related to Mr Murphy of the famous Murphy’s Law branch (more laws passed than any other government in history) 😏

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Pardon me but, what relevance is the topic of abortion have to do with vaccines? Appears to be a bit off topic for me.

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It is 100% relevant. Once a political party not only endorses, but celebrates (shout your abortion) the murder of the most vulnerable in our society, it is clear that they will sacrifice children of any age for power and control. In this case, they will sacrifice children on the vaccine altar.

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A society that says a woman has the right to decide whether her unborn child has the right to live, is a society that will have no qualms sacrificing the health and safety of a child with dangerous, experimental injections just so the adults can virtue signal on Facebook.

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I concur with your position regarding a mother's right to choose, however to connect the two as it relates to Alex's Taiwan report regarding the vaccine seemed a bit dismissive of me but, that's me. I always read Alex's reports within the context that they are written which is one of the reasons that I subscribe to his writings and associated research.

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Fetal cell lines used in production of these and other new vaccines. JJ vax brews in big vats of fetal cells derived from an aborted baby about 18 weeks old. They want cells from healthy fetuses... Better outcomes for their experiments. Then JJ sieves out the dead baby cells and packages what's left. Pfizer and Moderna use in development and testing, Astra Zeneca heavy use of fetal cells. Leaves "stray human proteins" in the goop that gets shot into your body.

It's a modern form of throwing babies to Moloch, intended to bring prosperity. Cannibalism.

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Vaccines don't exist without abortion.

https://reformedhealth.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Plotkin_Deposition_Transcript_-_Matheson_Case_-_2018-01-11.pdf

Dr. Stanely Plotkin deposed where he acknowledges it's more than 70 babies who were aborted in a single study related to vaccines.

"Dr. Plotkin's bibliography includes nearly 800 articles, and he has edited several books, including the standard textbook on vaccines, now in its 7th edition. He is a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, biotechnology companies, and non-profit research organizations as principal of Vaxconsult, LLC."

https://stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2021/08/19/vaxart-announces-creation-of-new-scientific-and-clinical-advisory-board

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That was a stunning deposition. Discussion of abortion, AIDS and VAERS. Confirmation that vaccines have been tested on foster children, and I am sure that many states will vaccinate foster children against Covid-19.

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I can't argue with that logic. I've always considered abortion a necessary evil, but evil unchecked permeates thruout society.

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Those in power want us to see abortion as necessary, but not evil. But it is not necessary and it is evil. Abortion is a choice. We can reject it as individuals and we can reject it as a society. And yes, the lack of regard for human life and dignity is permeating our society.

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It's not necessary. It is evil.

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“Necessary”…why?

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Inconvenient children. Mustn't have those! Give me convenience or give me death...

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Thank you for this, Alex. I spend some portion of every day wondering if I am possibly crazy - thinking there is something for sure that I've missed, that I'm not understanding - when I watch my friends post pictures of their kids getting this jab. I know they love their kids. I try to explain and justify why they're making this decision, even as people challenge my attempt to understand them -- sometimes harshly. And you know what? I'm reconciling myself with the fact that they may need to be judged harshly. For not opening their eyes to this information. For not seeing that other nations are doing the EXACT opposite of what they're doing. That maybe there is a sickness much more serious than Covid that would motivate them not only to give this to their 5 year olds unnecessarily but then to broadcast across their social media feeds to show their virtue. Thanks for what sometimes feels like my only toehold in reality!

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OMG I am with you. My brain and heart are tortured daily….how can this be? Just saw an old college roommate post a pic of her two young sons holding up their vax cards and stating, they did their part and it was easy. Did their part? You have no issues with possibly sacrificing your children for “the greater good”? Gates Greater Good?!

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It’s all about us unvaxxed not doing our part, ignoring the call from humanity to get that vaxx and save millions! They don’t read what we read; they don’t educate themselves like we do. They frankly don’t want to because they think they know better. There will be a cost for this, I’m certain. I remain humble that I am not all knowing, but everything I read says to vaxx a child has potential for harm.

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I thought that perhaps their actions are because they don't read what I read and they are fooled by the mainstream narrative and propaganda, but they can't be completely unaware of at least aware of the myocarditis risks? They have to know that's not a 'conspiracy theory'. Also, they are aware that people are losing their jobs and may be unable to take care of their families because they refuse to be forced to take an injection. How is anyone okay with someone losing their livelihood? How is anyone okay with forced injections? Even if they're not okay with it, they don't care because they've already taken the shot and it doesn't affect them. That's why I've lost all respect for them- they are basically saying it's okay if my family and I are homeless unless I comply with getting the shot. Insane

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Precisely why I've never done and will never do social media like Fakebook and why I haven't watched TV in years - the amount of information I have about jabbing children is bad enough and causes me great distress. Seeing people I know virtue-signaling about it would put me over the edge!

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I was listening to the Dark Horse podcast from a week or two ago and they were likening it to a child sacrifice in a cult. And I think it is. The science hashtag and talking about how brave their children were is just so sad.

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We can't explain or justify. Why would Germans rush to sign up children in the Hitler Youth? Why would Islamists encourage child suicide bombers. Even parental love is not as strong as social and cultural acceptance (read self love) in many cases.

These are true believers. True believers that they are superior, they are righteous, they are good. All it takes is the little heart or thumbs up button to motivate a cultural indoctrination and child sacrifice campaign.

One day, when it all goes badly, they'll just shrug and say "I was only following orders." We'll need to fight our emotions really really hard to not hate them.

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I agree that we need to start judging them harshly. There is no excuse for a parent to do this. If they were only hurting themselves, I would say live and let live. But, these are innocent children who cannot defend themselves. Should we keep quiet because we don't want to rock the boat and upset them? I struggle with this all the time. I have kept mum except for my close family. Because I deleted my Facebook account, I don't see those awful virtue signaling posts anymore

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And the kids are going to tell each other it's the cool thing to get vaxxed

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Yep...super sick. I have gotten to the point where I just do crossword puzzles all day.

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I'm in the same boat. I've lost all respect for most of my "circle" of friends/family because they blatantly ignore the dangers of this vaccine. They believe that the only people against the vaccine are Republican. I'm a FORMER Black Democrat and it makes me wonder has no one who is Democrat been harmed by the vaccine? Are all of the kids and adults I've read about that have died or have severe side effects only Republican or what the middle Democrats have labeled 'conspiracy theorists'? Even if that was the case- do they not care about the lives of other humans??? This is like being in the Twilight Zone.

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The fact that they are posting pictures on social media is further proof that they are insane. This is done for brownie points in their social credit rating.

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I also think that the very public virtue signalling indicates that they truly lack confidence in their actions and thus seek public approval from their peers as reinforcement for their actions. These types lack a solid center and have no inner Self apart from the "herd". This is what mass media and defective education has wrought and it will not end well.

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This is a good point. Very plausible.

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It's willful ignorance, and, as a result, deserves our harsh condemnation.

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In my view, all ignorance is willful. The root word of ignorance is 'ignore'. Ignorance is a condition caused by ignoring the possibility that there is more information available than what a person used to form an opinion that they hold dear. A lack of knowledge can be remedied, but ignorance refuses to be remedied.

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there is a mental sickness that has crept into society. Social media feeds this mental illness. There are many levels to this psychosis. Imagine the sick need for attention one posseses to use there young children to virtue signal on some social media feed. Imagine being so gripped with fear over something that poses virtually zero risk to the vast majority of the population. Imagine how egomaniacal one is to believe that somehow taking a shot of medicine makes them morally superior to someone that doesnt. Imagine being so blinded as to believe you are part of some "greater good" by going along with every insane protocol thats been put in place by incompetent beauracrats. This is a sickness that has no cure, because those infected have no idea they are infected. As a side note id suggest getting off of social media entirely. I did it like a year ago, you wont miss it.

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Well said, Jim. I think you've nailed it. The sickness has made them so sure they're right about the evilness of those who question these vaccines, that they themselves have resorted to something that is actually evil: Running to give their kids this shot without doing any research. (Who among these parents would have ever given their kid any medical shot outside of a doctor's visit / conversation / basic research before Covid?) And instead of having a still moment of reflection where they might recognize this, they just mirror back all of the affirmation they get from social media. Yeah, I think you're right about just getting off of it entirely. It is feeding this beast for sure!

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I always thought it was odd that people lined up in cars at state parks or football stadiums and allowed some person to just jam a needle in there arm. Or go to CVS and let some 18 year old making $9 an hour stick you with a shot. Even if i were to take the vaccine, I feel like Id at least want my actual doctor or at least an RN or physicians assistant to inject me. This is a psychosis.

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On Facebook, a former co worker's wife rushed out and got her 3 teen boys vaxed as soon as it was possible. Today, I saw that she changed her profile pic to Big Bird. They are ALL IN. No reason to reason with any of them. Daily I question why I live in western WA. *sigh*

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OMG. Big Bird. Well now I'm torn. On the one hand I want to boycott FB, on the other hand maybe I want to know who identifies as Big Bird so I know never to leave my children in their care? These are hard decisions!

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I stay on FB because I want to know just how far left some of my friends have gone. So, your Big Bird theory is a good one!

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I really wonder if she'd have bothered if she couldn't have bragged about it on Facebook....

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I agree with you completely that these benighted parents are doing nothing but signalling their (nonexistent) virtue by posting photos of their children being poisoned. Their decision to sacrifice the health of their children in order to please some morally retarded people like politicians and grifters like Fauci shows them to be lacking in the basic virtue needed to rear children.

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You know what? I've observed the parents willing to vaccinate their kids are constantly on social media bragging about it. It's less about the kids and more about THEMSELVES and how they look in their "tribe". Hence, my conclusion is that they are bad parents.

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Just this morning.

Neighbor (really smart and kind): I wish you would get a vaccine so we could have you over for lunch every week the way we used to. We really miss you!

Me: Ah, well. Maybe in due time.

N: Grandson 1 is getting his first dose tomorrow, but grandson 2 is only three.

M: Oh.

M [inside]: Oh, Noooooooo!

Another 40,000 of them every day.

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I would question your characterization of "really smart". No matter what their education level, these vaccine fanatics are the very definition of stupid. Stupid is injecting yourself with a product that has no warranty and no liability and has been shown to be both unsafe and ineffective.

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Unfortunately they ARE smart. They are lawyers, microbiologists, etc. and they have taken the shots without consideration. I only have a high school diploma, but worked as lab secretary for a while and immediately recognized a poisonous ingredient. And when they presented the vaxx and said it did not stop the spread or the illness, why would I accept something from which no one know a detail?

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Unfortunately, it is the physicians and scientists that are the dumbest people right now. I'm going with the Forrest Gump definition of stupid, stupid is as stupid does :)

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Those are sentiments as well. MDs are, as a group, some of the most incurious people I know. The attorneys that I consider capable professionals are all curious and ready to consider possibilities outside their current knowledge, but the MDs that I know seem not to want to learn anything new unless it comes from a pharmaceutical sales rep.

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Your standard of smart differs from mine. Having a lot of information received during an indoctrination by college professors doesn't make a person smart, it just makes them indoctrinated. Being willing to swallow false information uncritically is proof of stupidity. One columnist (sorry, but I can't recall the name) uses the term "educated but idiotic" for the professionals you are using as an example of smart people. My education level is very similar to yours, BTW. I have no exposure to university education, but I do exercise as much critical examination of what is presented to me as "scientific fact" as I am capable of exercising. To me, you seem smart, but the ones you are saying are smart seem to me to be imbecilic. Peace, Ingrid. I do like your comments here.

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Thank you. I totally agree. They are like parrots, you can teach them things but they have no understanding and no critical insight. In fact, the biologist told me many times germs are everywhere, then held on to say there are not behind her mask LOL.. And when I showed her articles about the vaccines, she said she had to take it, since these were her colleagues who made it. When you side with the money wolves without thinking, that is indeed NOT smart. I should have used Booksmart, then the misunderstanding would not have occured!

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It's a completely self-contained self-sustaining belief system, unmoored from reality. And they need you to be inside of it, or the cognitive dissonance would be intolerable

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As I told a friend from the very start in February 2020, every single response to this will come down to values and emotional priming. The values divide is growing clearer and people have to pick a side--free or safe, life or bare life--and too many are prepared to choose a simulation of life over the real thing while denying others even the simulation much less reality.

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I love shopping without a mask, the isles always clear out when I enter.

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Another story from this week:

- 65+ Neighboor: "A friend of mine was vaxxed, she got covid and died. You should get vaxxed asap".

- My 65+ uncle: "You are not giving me much hope..."

Brainwashed with bleach and ammonia. Super super clean!

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Stories in the corporate media have trained them to ignore their own misgivings and tiptoe over the thin ice of cognitive dissonance.

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Antibody-dependent enhancement. The papers will start flowing in, but the people who die of this will not benefit from the "science". The science is always months-years later. Your neighbor is a test subject. Guess we should just thank them for being a research subject.

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After a year of this gene therapy, it is becoming clearer who benefits from this and who does not. The gene therapy is not a superlative for all human beings.

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So they are basically admitting to you their vaccine doesn’t protect them. ✅

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Yes. I think they have admitted that to themselves, and are aware that v'd can transmit. Yet the prevailing logic seems to be "If everyone gets v'd, then covid will disappear and we can get back to normal." Stupid, yes. Desperate, yes.

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The way they act, indeed. I told them, too. If they are so afraid of the unvaccinated, it must be because they DO NOT trust the vaccine. In their heart of hearts they know they have been betrayed. And remember that little outbreak of measles some time ago, I think in New York? The first page newspaper panic? It is because these vaccine INDEED do not work. I just read an article that most don't.

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CNN says vaccines are safe and effective®️

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yes, but CNN also said that the 2020 election was the most honest and transparent election in American history. They ain't always right, eh? ;-)

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If they miss you I bet they're really going to miss grandson 2...

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I pray no harm comes to him; he is a good boy and much loved.

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Former friend - oh no ! you did not get the vaccine ! Now you can not come to church anymore. No we don't wear masks anymore. But we will when we have to meet you (because I do some work for them). I might NOT do the work for them anymore.

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the christian church, and especially the catholic church has failed miserably during this madness. Instead of embracing the true teachings and spirit of jesus christ, they sided with the money changers. Cowering in fear to hold there services. Following every edict from the lying government beauracracy. I had to stop going to mass after the priest mask shamed a parishoner in the middle of his homily. It was a real turn off. Im sure many churches went against the grain, but it seems the majority towed the government line. I suspect many churches will never reopen.

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Totally agree. Just as we needed them most, they let us down. Only a few brave pastors kept their churches open, and they were mocked by the media. Non in our little town stayed open. Our pastor got sick early on. A parishioner took it upon them to try and keep us together. Only a part of the congregation stayed. Once reopened, there were masks, no singing, distancing, and a 25 person limit. I live 40 miles off and did not take the risk of being number 26. And then I started thinking and decided that God is out here in the woods, too. And reading Tao Te Ching now, given up on christianity altogether

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That is so true. They believe in God the Needle. If you truly believe there is little reason to do any of these stupid things. Your body has Nature's healing power, and if that is not enough, Nature's remedy box. May be once in 10 years, I need to see a doc because I can't remedy myself, and usually I get sicker or don't heal from their remedy either.

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Most of the Christians I know were so eager to get tagged and cataloged by the jab...it didn't make any sense , the irrational fear of death was so intense! I'm thinking, isn't that the goal anyhow after a good life? Rebirth.

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exactly, no true believer fears death this much...

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I'm losing patience with those of you who remain silent. The blood of these children is on YOU too - not just their parents. The parents have been propagandized by Big Pharma and Big Media.

But you know the truth and don't speak! Shame on you.

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I have tried to get through to them, short of throwing an emotional fit, to no avail. They just blank it out. Nothing computes.

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Their eyes go on gaze, brainwashed. They say, but we do this for the good of our kids! They have not even looked at the known ingredients, less considered the unknown ingredients. They have conscienciously followed the vaccine lists... there is NO talking to them. They think the more the better I suppose

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Your neighbor’s statement is so ignorant! Ugh I am screaming to myself over here.

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That last line recalls the spooky 70s song "Don't Fear the Reaper". Was it intentional? The song was used to dramatic effect in the opening scenes for the (made for TV) version of Stephen King's "The Stand." Today, about 156,000 people die daily. It's likely their 40,000 figure is low.

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blueoystercult/dontfearthereaper.html

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Yes, alluding to that song.

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Crazy ! Grandson 2 will have chance by years end in Pfizer gets it way, like there's any chance that not happening!

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This is nearly every "friend" I've had.

I am an academic and so my adult friends have been liberals. Until COVID, things were mostly truceable.

Now, I barely have any friends. I have reconnected with some of my more conservative Christian friends from long ago, thankfully, but in general I feel very much alone.

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I have a friend that I hadn’t seen since the beginning of all this. When we finally met up the first thing out of her mouth before we hugged was “are you Vaxxed“. So I did what our current president does… Lie, and said yes.

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Under the new definition, I'm pretty sure self-administer Vitamin D via sunlight counts, as it 'boosts the immune system'. I get a booster every day!

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Nope. Aaron Rogers.

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I am coming out of this whole mess very impressed by the born-again Christians out there. When you sign up for that faith you are accepting the possibility of being shunned, ridiculed, even martyred for your beliefs and I think that has made them strong in the face of this wind of disinformation and destruction. I am reading a lot of the Gnostic texts and wondering if that might not be a better fit for my spiritual self right now than my Buddhism of the last couple of decades.

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The closing of the churches made me put the Tao Te Ching back on my night stand. Right now I am too far from christianity to go back. Tao is not a religion and I like that. For me Nature is God.

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There are many who take this promise seriously: Jesus said we will be hated on account of him - they have refused to close the churches they pastor and have paid dearly for it. I am very thankful for their example because what I see too much in the Church is people asleep and oblivious, which is not much different than the mass formation/mass delusional psychosis we are seeing in the culture at large. Keep reading - the Bible - there is hope there.

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Absolutely, Birdingmom ... and I am exceedingly thankful for their example.

John 15:18-21 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the One who sent me." [NIV 1984 publication]

For any who are new in Christ and haven't found the following, it is my "go-to" scripture for much of what is happening now. (In this case, I very much like The Living Bible's paraphrase because it is so clear and understoodable - as you read it, emphasize and ponder each phrase):

Philippians 4:6-7 "Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything; tell God your needs, and don’t forget to thank him for his answers. If you do this, you will experience God’s peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will keep your thoughts and your hearts quiet and at rest as you trust in Christ Jesus." [The Living Bible]

Again, this is not a promise that everything will be trouble free, but that *"if you do this"* He will be with you and give you an incredible peace as you deal with it. I LOVE those verses!

May God bless you (and all His believers) with strength, courage, wisdom and discernment ... and always: Glory to God alone!

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Oops! v. 23 in Romans. v. 32 is my soul anchor verse and the one John Piper says is the greatest verse in the NT.

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Amen, Randy! I've had the Philippians verses memorized for decades, and TLB paraphrase is good. Am finishing memorizing 4:4-13. One psalm I recite a lot these days is Psalm 73 whose many verses seem even more apropos now. I am a Romans 8 girl, groaning with the creation and longing for my adoption and the redemption of my body v. 32. May it be soon, Maranatha!

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Same I listen to the Bible on Dwell every day

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Eric, Renegade and TexBat - these are all good, *very good*, things. Please keep reading and, if at all possible, seek the fellowship of other believers.

Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. No other faith offers a personal relationship with our Savior ... or His salvation. He is our strength in times of difficulty and the source of wisdom and discernment when we need them most. Trusting and earnestly praising Him really does bring peace even when faced with great tribulation.

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Better to be alone than in bad company... I know it doesn't feel like that sometimes, though.

But trust me, you may feel alone. You are not alone.

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It took me a while to define what the issue is. I now realize that I find their cowardice *revolting*. I simply can no longer stomach people who stayed inside their home for a year, would talk to me from across the street, put masks on their children to play outside. And those who won’t admit that some people physically can not get a vaccine, or that healthcare decisions are private, (not to mention that our laws and customs are against forced medical treatment). They are cowards. And cowards are dangerous.

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(giving renegade a warm embrace) Friend !

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I have reconnected with a few acquaintances recently. I did not know any of them would be unvaxxed until I carefully 'fished'. Now I have a loose group of about 20 people that are my new friends. We don't get together often, but I have someone to rely on. A good feeling.

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I hear and feel you ! Ive lost all my friends and co - workers . Once you

Step into your truth, it is freeing and hard.

But as my momma used to say : freedom isn’t free!

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Freedom comes at a hard price. Recently I saw a film on shepherds in Nepal. They were truly free, but what a hard life. Finally they decided to go live in the valley, as builders. The woman cried, she had to give up the herd of goats, the cheese and yoghurt making - little did they know they gave up their freedom as well. We don't have to go that far, luckily. I hope you will find new friends soon. In the meantime, we love and embrace you! Friend !

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Susanna, thank you for fighting the good fight! I know it's not easy. I don't know you from Adam, but I can promise you, you are not alone. I wish you peace, love, and most of all, hope!

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See that is yet another thing. If they believe a lie once, and tell it on, how can you trust them again? They would denounce you if there were a regime to do so. These people can never be friends like before again. Just like I discussed with them once, and they disagreed, that if you defend a criminal, you are one yourself. (Unless you are their lawyer ofcourse. A lawyer defends everyone)

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We can't keep our mouths shut. I know we will have to face the danger, but to not speak out means they win forever. After Gulag, he also wrote "Live Not By Lies" https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/live-not-by-lies That applies much more to our situation right now--don't let the lies go unchallenged.

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Renegade - that book is so horrifying.

I still haven't finished it. It's a rough go

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What makes you think data aren't fudged? Politics accounts for much fudging: in USA, we inflate case numbers because the government fairy showers hospitals with more money; in China there possibly are ideological reasons to claim that only about 5000 total fatalities since start of pandemic or perhaps their containment was really that effective. 🤣 The technical flaws are legion; PCR cycle rate is a favorite: need a negative or positive reading? Choose the proper arbitrary cycle rate and get the result you need!

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im pretty sure they have fudged the data.

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Exactly. The heart injury from the COVID vaccines is not rare. It is to be expected to some degree or another in everyone who gets the COVID vaccines, and would be unlikely to avoid. Here's why: https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/is-it-possible-to-avoid-heart-damage

The people you know who complain of more fatigue post-vaccination likely have some degree of this damage. The athletes who are now collapsing during games, of course.

Somebody please prove me wrong before children are injected.

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Check their D-Dimers. I bet a large percentage of the vaxxed have elevated D-Dimers. It was true for my Dad, but he ignored my pleas and got the booster anyway. I have a triple vaxxed Aunt who not only rapidly developed Stage 3 cancer despite being in remission for 10 years now has clots all over her lungs.

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What is her response to her now terrible turn of her life? Does she see any correlation to her current health post injection? Seriously asking.

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No, she does not. She and all her kids drank the kool-aid. It's not like I can tell her, scientists have discovered an exponential rise in aggressive cancers due to the jab and they have an explanation of it's mechanism of action. It's too late now. Had no idea she ran off to get the booster.

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So very Sad.

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How long after vaccination can one see elevated D-Dimer levels?

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In my Dad's case, it was elevated 5 months after the jab

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Spike Protein: The New Silent Killer

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Thank you so much for this! I have been living with a manageable heart murmur since I was a child. There is no way in hell I will take this shot. It's surreal to me that it could possibly be mandated, especially to children!

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Highly recommend the link in this post

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Today is one of those days where I have no hope for humanity. My child's school has a parent Facebook page. One post was celebrating the federal judge who overturned Governor Abbott's mask ban in schools. 43 parents so far have 'liked' this. Another post is from a common poster who seems to be really loving and actively involved in her children's lives. She suggested that other parents participate in the 6 months to 5 year old Moderna vaccine study and bragged about how her older two kids had participated in the 5-11 year old study. The fact that no one has called her out and rather 4 parents have 'liked' this post is... insane (which doesn't even seem an adequate description). Who are these parents who would ever offer their child(ren)'s body like that? How are they so uninformed? This is all so intellectually painful.

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Bill Gates must be ecstatic that you have parents from the richest countries willing to let pharma use their kids as guinea pigs. All those years the Gates Foundation spent injuring poor, third world kids (without informed consent) in Africa, India, and the Philippines is now completely unnecessary with all these willing American parents.

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I think it's all about the parent's ego. People have decided to so embrace this religion that they have to offer up the sacrifice of their child. I completely despise any parent that does this, and sadly I now believe my own niece and nephew were put in clinical trials. Both completely healthy prior to the last 2 months and now suddenly both are seeing Pulmonologist and Cardiologist for unexplained issues.

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All 'for the greater good of humanity', right? Will those parents wake up when their children are harmed? Did your sister/brother?

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No. They don't want to hear a thing about it. Want us all to stop interfering. Sister claims they haven't had jab yet but they will definitely do it. Brother in law told my Stepdad months ago that he was putting them in the trial.

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I hear this Brena! I'm logging off FB until further notice. It's too depressing.

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Please delete your FB account. Do not let these evil tech overlords make any money off of you.

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Been off Facebook and Twitter / Instagram for 3 years

don’t miss it at all ..

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truer words have never been spoken, been off for a year or a little more and tell everyone the same thing. you wont miss it, not even a little bit.

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Never been on it after friend's identity was stolen

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Have you considered deleting your Facebook? I don’t know that I’d be able to function anymore if I still had mine, reading these kinds of things…

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Of course. I've taken pauses from social media. During these times, I prefer to know my 'enemy' so I can do my best to prepare for what's next.

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Homeschool

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I've already told my boss that if the jabs were ever mandated that I would be homeschooling. Non-negotiable area.

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I would have to challenge this, I just would not be able to help myself. And then no doubt be banned from the page. I got into some right online battles with parents when a judge did the same thing here in Iowa -overturned the mask ban in schools in Iowa. Des Moines Public Schools could not even wait a day to put the mandate in place; other school districts, not so left wing, have worked with parents and come up with compromises, as it should be.

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On my Nextdoor any challenge would immediately be flagged by some as misinformation and removed

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Imagine that - a country that isn't as willing to sacrifice their children to the Covidian gods.

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We need some kind of revolution.

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By that I mean the kind suggested by the constitution of the United States.

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Something something, tree of liberty, something something, it needs water.

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Friend of a friend's 18 year old is in the hospital (not heart, but systemic inflammation, he can barely stay awake and high fever) after 2nd Pfizer shot. I wondered why he got it at this point and it was because in order to do an in person visit to a university he was looking at (UNC Chapel Hill ironically enough) he had to get the vaccine. I just don't even know what to say to the lunatics in my town anymore. Friend from college stopped by on Sunday and announced they were taking their three boys to get their first dose on Monday and I just nodded because what can you say. I was thinking about trying to slip into conversations "are you sure your child hasn't had Covid already" but I think most honestly believe vaccine immunity is superior.

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When the U.S. Surgeon General lies about the risk to children, medical science takes a back seat to political science.

He’s not a doctor. He’s a bureaucrat, who hopes you’re too lazy or dumb to find out the truth.

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Thalidomide seemed like a great thing, too.

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And yet over a million young children have already been vaccinated in our crazy country.

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At least 10% of those are probably already updating social media while trying to figure out which Pfizer tattoo to get (the parents and the children).

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Skull & Bones seems about right!

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I wonder if getting a tattoo would deter them ! If vaxxed, you need the lot number tattooed on you arm on a visible place. Like the 'workforce' in a concentration camp!

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How long will local news ignore kids dropping like flies after the double jab??

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Tim, I'd guess that they will ignore the deaths of children for as long as it takes.

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It's simple. The hearts of the Taiwanese children are obviously different than those of American kids (sarcasm).

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We are friends with a neighbor couple whose daughter goes to school with our son, both 7 years old. I overheard that their daughter is thrilled that she’s getting vaxxed on Monday. Part of me feels like if I don’t warn them that I bear some responsibility for the coming health problems she will suffer, but at the same time recognize saying anything to her patents would be rebuffed and probably damage our friendship. Damned if you do damned if you don’t.

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I doubt saying anything would do much - based on my own experiences of having these conversations. But you could try something non confrontational, like: "Hey, I heard your daughter saying how excited she is to get the vaccine, and I was curious what made you decide to sign her up for it; I know some parents are waiting as it's so new and kids are so low risk to Covid..." Start some sort of dialogue. Full disclaimer: the 2 closest friends I have here in SF who I attempted to do this with heard me out. They respect me, they know I am intelligent, that I love my children - that I'd throw my own body into danger to protect any of our kids. But they just sort of looked at me like they felt sad for me...The way you might feel pity on someone who fell prey to a cult?? (This group being the cult :) And they both have avoided me this past week as I suspect they're taking their 1st graders for the jab any day now and feel too sheepish to tell me. At least I tried?

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The sad part is that the 7 year old super excited about the covid shot says everything you need to know about the parents. It's going to be a tough conversation at best.

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That is the truth. Once the little ones are talking about their excitement for the shot, the train has left the station.

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That’s my feeling, is there some particular bullet proof article I could share, pretending I don’t know of their plans for their daughter, something along the lines of https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/why-cant-anyone-explain-how-these

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Hmn...There are a couple of solid doctors like Vinay Prasad and Jay Bhattacharya (liberal leaning) who are pro-vaccine for elderly at risk populations but speak against mandates and against vaccinating kids this young -- stating that the risks don't outweigh the harms for this cohort. I feel like they speak so rationally without citing anything that would flag suspicion in those who call conspiracy theories. They are rooted in the stats: the number of kids in the trial (too few to tell about myocarditis; natural immunity being absent from discussion; and basically that ANY vaccine needs to be PRISTINE to administer to a group this young. And this one is not pristine. I mean, who can argue with this??!! But I don't know anymore...

Or maybe print out the article you posted and slip it into their mailbox / the kid's backpack anonymously??

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It’s easy to find articles and YouTubes about little ones having strokes, myocarditis etc.

That would do it for me.

Plus various physician groups who are recommending against the jab for 5-18.

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We can thank Big Bird!

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I feel like I'm watching a brainwashed herd run off a cliff. But I've also felt hopeless to discuss more, even with close family. They've bought in to the lie and I don't think anything will change until they personally see side effects in multiple people close to them that can't be explained away.

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Even then the brainwashing clings as their doctors refuse to admit the link.

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Very sadly, it will only be a matter of time before children die or become seriously injured from the jabs.

Funerals for children with extended family members tend to draw more attention than when an 80 year old dies after a jab with no family.

Shit’s about to hit the fan with the little ones and jabs.

I read today that there is a surge of newborns in NICU with heart problems whose mothers were jabbed.

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This is the struggle. The media has polarized people so much that it's tempting to let the chips fall as they may - allowing the media to get away with crimes against humanity. My approach has been to reach out to close friends and family to try to wake them up before taking boosters or vaxxing children - multiple times as more damning data comes out. For a few it helped, and for others just damaged relationships. But I care less and less about it causing discomfort, and prefer knowing I at least tried.

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Powerful stuff. What's so frustrating, as the father of a teen about to head to college, is that "they" make life so ****ing hard for anybody who isn't vaccinated, that it becomes easier for the young adult just to get the shot, rather than have to hope for accommodations, be shut out of much social/cultural activities (hoping for college in a pretty blue area -- great school, but very, very blue & scared part of the country), lose out on internships, and so much more. He's even had the real thing (like a mild cold) & has immunity. NO reason to get vaxxed, except that "it makes life so much easier." Which is real. And at 18, we're all invincible & willing to take a "1 in 3000" risk.

Worst of all, the J&J isn't actually available within hundreds of miles of us. So two shots of mRNA garbage or else fly somewhere far away to get the less dangerous garbage. Which we may have to do for him before long.

Healthy Skeptic has a great piece today on the rational way forward, reprinted at PowerLineBlog: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/kevin-roche-time-to-get-on.php

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In my opinion, no university education is worth that risk. College degrees are not worth the paper they are printed on and I say that as someone who has a very expensive bachelors and masters degree from one of the Ivy's. Your child's life is not worth the side effects of compliance. Anyway, I wish you and your children the best of luck.

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Paying hundreds of thousands with the more then obvious overwhelming odds that your child is going to be brainwashed into oblivion is not smart. Sorry.

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Bob - as a college science teacher, I (sadly) concur.

Although it is not yet easy for everyone to avoid college. You have to be more ambitious and self-directed without college.

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Do you have teens mai? Because they are insufferable sometimes with their headstrong nature. Or at least my 15 year old is.

My 12 year old still seems to accept instruction.

Anyway an 18 year old gets to make his own decisions whether we like it or not (and honestly that is how it should be, much as they might make horrible decisions).

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I don't have any kids, but I totally understand. All you can do is raise them to be smart, logical, critical thinkers and hope for the best.

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True, I saw a help wanted ad that read, in part, "Bachelor's degree required. Some heavy lifting involved"

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My son is a freshman at Lehigh university in PA. We filed for religious exemption and got approved. The school is being very reasonable in terms of Covid testing and everything else. My son had Covid in the 2nd week of the fall semester with no symptoms, isolated for 10 days, doesn’t have to test for 90 days at all bc they recognise he has antibodies. Stand your ground! It’s hard but it’s doable. The jab is too dangerous!

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WOW!!! Lehigh ought to advert.

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There are colleges that do not require the vaccine. Shop schools based on how they treat their students. Do they require vaccination? Are classes in person? Do they respect learning over indoctrination?

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The new University of Austin has entered the chat.

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Yep! I have my eye on that endeavor. Very exciting. Two of my sons are in college without vaxx and did not have to provide any information. They play d3 sports, but content to put up with pre-game testing. Much better this year than last year.

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Ah yes the "losing out on internships worry". Colleges are crazy right now. The kids congregate in the bathroom because it is the only place they are allowed to pull down their masks. And then they will have to take every booster imaginable. And parents are putting their kids through it because they can't imagine their kid not getting that McKinsey internship.

I think it's a better choice for a kid to just take a whack at starting a business. It will look good on a CV forever, and they can go to college somewhere safe and fun when everything settles down. So I plan to tell my own anyway, if this keeps up.

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I hear you about college. Has your teen considered Praxis? Earn while you learn at a place that doesn’t care about vax status. (I’ve no affiliation — just heard great things about them.)

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YES! Praxis!

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taking a jab just for to be able to attend some college is a poor decision. Find a college that doesnt require this madness and go there instead. My kids in a state college in florida, no jab requirement or ridiculous testing mandates or anythong like that to attend classes.

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J&J *is* the clot shot.

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Great piece. But the gentleman is tilting at windmills. The only possibilities of stopping the mandates and general craziness are (1) the courts, (2) an enlightenment, or (3) a revolution. Chances for any - slim to none. Very down today. Hope for a better tomorrow.

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The silver lining is that people are waking up — albeit slowly. This is inevitable when these policies affect so many. Family/friends of those vx injured see the carnage first-hand and start to question the narrative. Such people will never hold our rulers in the same high esteem.

The powers that be have shown their hand, even though the cards are still being dealt. Recent developments indicate they’re losing control of the narrative — albeit slowly — as evidenced by their hysterical shrieking and maniacal crack down on truth.

Truth always wins. And (peaceful) revolution always starts with a minority. Hold the line.

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Thank you for your thoughtful and positive words. I'll keep on keeping on.

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A colleague I spoke with recently appeared to be looking forward to her grandson turning five so he could be given the vaccine.

I said nothing. What's to be said?

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One of the, if not, worst outcomes of Covid mania has been the ruthless attack on childhood. I know it's difficult to imagine for those without kids but what the lockdowns have actually exposed is the true nature and vision for the future that the powers that be are attempting to install. Risking our children's mental and physical well being for the illusion of safety for grandma or ourselves(spoiler alert those shouting for you to be vaxxed to protect others are really scared for themselves, just masking it in virtue) will be something this younger generation never forgives us for. And they shouldn't. It is encouraging that some nations still value their youth, as they are the future.

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I fear for my grandchildren every single day. 😒

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