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I don't care what they want -- we're going to get to the bottom of it sooner or later. If that takes an entire new generation of politicians who have incentive to attack the current 'leadership', then that's what it takes.

We're not going to just forget the fact that many of our friends would have turned in Anne Frank.

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Agreed and the truth will come out. I always said we need to cycle through this horrid generation first.

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Once the incentives shift from ass-covering to ass-kicking, the reversal will be swift.

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But what about scenario 3? Those of that listened to you from the beginning and saw red flag after red flag and didn't get the jab? As soon as I heard pharma was EXEMPTED from all retribution even if they were negligent, added to the fact no long term testing was done convinced me it was a scam.

The masking sealed the deal for me. If I could still smell a fart with a mask on then I knew it was useless.

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As someone else wrote, expecting a mask to stop a virus is like expecting a barbed wire fence to keep out mosquitoes.

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And the thing is, if people were paying the slightest bit of attention rather than cowering under their desks, there were Many red flags and Many people - physicians in particular - saying lockdowns weren’t the answer, to go slowly, ask questions, try other things. I am still astounded at the lack of rational thinking by the general public and also of many friends who are otherwise very intelligent people. It makes me crazy.

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I agree wholeheartedly. I have some fairly educated friends, or acquaintances who still get mildly hysterical about any discussions around the vaccination, and they consider me an antivaxer. Rational thinking is not easy!

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What about scenario 4, people who had looked very carefully at vaccines since the 1970s, and had read enough about all the previous scandals (which most people don't even know happened), to see history repeating itself.

There were lots of those around, long before substacks became a thing. But all of us in scenario 4, were called dinosaur fruitcakes, with dementia.

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Very true. I wish I had seen/understood things sooner. God bless you!

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I started researching in 1981, and eventually studied the medical literature right back to 1800, and wish my parents had known what there was to know.... as passed that on....

We all have regrets, - everyone with a brain will always have regrets, but we just have to move forward. God bless you too.

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"If I could still smell a fart with a mask on then I knew it was useless." Exactly what my 12-year-old daughter said in the summer of 2020.

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She's a very bright girl.

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Genius

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Hope you are now also aware that they needed to call this a “vaccine” and get the CDC to put it on their list of recommended childhood vaccinations, to enjoy permanent liability protections. There is no controlled, doubled blinded placebo safety testing done on any injections & since 1986, they can never be held accountable & this crap is being injected into babies! Daily!!! Where’s the uproar?!?!

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It's not just vaccines since 1986; I don't think that ANY vaccine has ever been tested against placebo.

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You are 100% correct about no real safety studies, but the National Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, is when liability protections were granted. Thanks Reagan! But he was given strong assurances of monitoring & follow-ups, by the HHS, which they never did.... www.nvic.org

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I'm Scenario 3 and I don't care about all the poor sheep who scolded me for resisting the jab, then got vaxxed and boosted and are now worried or actually dealing with side effects. Maybe they won't be so trusting next time around. As for bringing the perps to justice? The next few years might get interesting.

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yep

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But HOW will those incentives shift??? There's no money in holding pharma accountable!! No money means no one getting elected, means no one in congress w that incentive. On the contrary, there's big incentive to protect pharma.

I wish elected officials had actual *integrity* to do what's right for the American people, but they don't. And I don't see that changing. I realize there *are* some ways to help make that shift, such as reversing Citizens United, but I don't see them happening.

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For now, there is, there's no doubt.

But it wasn't all that long ago that everybody hated Big Pharma.

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https://news.gallup.com/poll/266060/big-pharma-sinks-bottom-industry-rankings.aspx

The pharmaceutical industry is now the most poorly regarded industry in Americans' eyes, ranking last on a list of 25 industries that Gallup tests annually. Americans are more than twice as likely to rate the pharmaceutical industry negatively (58%) as positively (27%), giving it a net-positive score of -31.

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And once all that free Big Pharma money dries up (and it has to based on current uptake), the cracks in the dam will appear. All it takes is one firebrand to get in there and publicize all the stuff we know is sitting on a file server somewhere........

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Oct 6, 2023·edited Oct 7, 2023

Let's HOPE you are right on Pharma actually falling apart because I have have been saying the same thing since the late 80's. Nothing is NEW here and look just how much PHARMA grew in that period of time to current era. It is the PEOPLE who continue to "buy in" to the DRUG ads on TV etc, and unless PEOPLE take personal responsibility for their life nothing changes. Americans have been so coddled and beat down in media ad driven influence and they continue buying into IT. Just when will America WAKE the F up!

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The crack in the dam will start mainstream media. They are ones screaming at full volume in support of pharma and the political elite.

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We have a problem with a lot of legacy media. They are leftists, almost. But they are broke. So Pharma Ada buy a lot of suddenly positive reports.

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I wish... But just look at the annual sales market for childhood vaccines, since 1990... INSANITY!! It’s their biggest money marker & our kids are getting sicker & sicker. Evil as hell!

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I don't share your optimism.

Simply put - there's not enough money in the pursuit of justice to buy politicians.

And *already* much has been released that should infuriate Americans- such as Fauci & Collins working to cover up the lab leak, the censorship of vax criticism, etc. I don't think the release of yet more will change much.

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The "momentum" is much different now than two years ago. In two years, the momentum will be different than it is today. If we're right and the jabs keep killing people, more and more will wake up every day......

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Scenario C: I never trusted any of the propaganda on COVID and was pissed off as hell watching small businesses fail because of unconstitutional lockdowns based on lies and bad policy. I never wore a mask, socially distanced, or took any experimental injections because I knew it was all bullshit. Now that it's over I don't really give a shit about all the people who gave me hell about my resistance because they believed the government and ran with the herd. But I'd still like to see the truth revealed and the perpetrators brought to account. These are not people who should be allowed to remain in power.

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Scenario D: Knowing MRNA was experimental, not subject to long term testing and didn't think messing with body building blocks was a good idea, but took two shots anyway.

Worked for a company that pressed hard for everyone to get vaccinated. Offered every employee $100 for proof of vax; HR followed up when I did not provide. Went to CEO and said its really not right of us to infringe in employees medical privacy and was summarily dismissed. Now I would not trust the medical establishment two inches and worried when the next vax will be required. Wondering where in the world there will be freedom. Certainly not US, Canada, NZ, Australia or Western Europe. That really only leaves East Europe and South Pacific.

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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Malcolm X

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How’s your Hungarian these days?

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That last paragraph about Anne Frank hit me like a ton of bricks. I realized there are a few people I know that might've been that way if the provocation was just a little stronger and a little more intense.

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Something like half of Democrats would have been ok with taking children from the unvaxxed.....

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That scares me.

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And SHOULD scare you.

It certainly scares me.

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Do you truly believe this is going to happen?

Nobody was held accountable for the 2008 financial crisis.

Nobody was held accountable for the second Iraq war.

The list goes on and on.

I absolutely want everyone involved to be held accountable, like Nuremberg accountable.

But it just isn't going to happen.

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Even if we're destined to lose, we shouldn't roll over.

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I'm not arguing we should roll over.

But the idea that these folks are definitely going to be held to task is, quite honestly, delusional.

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Agreed. I will NEVER forget or move on until the people responsible have been brought to justice.

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Shorter Berenson: It's easier to dupe people than convince them they've been duped.

Fact check: true

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Exactly! They are being duped all the way to communism. Covid is just the horse it rode in on.

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Well said! Covid is just the horse it rode in on...wow!

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Yup, it's a psychological self-defense; people want to avoid guilty feeling caused by their stupidity, thus they were duped. Also they want to suppress thoughts about consequences. From what I learned, the deadly spike proteins are active for quite a few years attacking an organ after organ...

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Yes, true, but this goes deeper. Of those who got duped... many also took an aggressive stance on their decision. Not hard to imagine why they would avoid revisiting such a tragic and potentially catastrophic mistake.

Like Michael Douglass in Falling Down...."I'm the bad guy?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHT3bdczPaM

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Its borderline mental health issue if not one

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It’s confirmation bias. We need to believe we did the best we could in this best of all possible worlds.

Voltaire knew the type.

It’s not exactly fun to look back and say: Geez, I let them sucker me again.

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Yes...great post!

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I made a t-shirt. It says:

I SURVIVED CORONAMANIA

UNMASKED

UNINJECTED

UNAFRAID

People sneer at me when I wear it.

Good. You should be bothered, know-it-all vaxxed Chumps.

But no one says anything.

Except those who say, "I love your shirt. Where can I get one?"

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Where did you get the shirt?

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Amazon

Any custom print t 18 bucks delivered.

Vistaprint.com 27 bucks

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🎯

Now do one for Project Blue Beam!

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Amazon

Any custom print t 18 bucks delivered.

Vistaprint.com 27 bucks

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Yes, where can I get one?

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The only way to call the mRNA shot a vaccine is to change the definition of a vaccine—shouldn’t that tell you something 🤷‍♂️

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I attended a Fauci protest rally here in the Bay Area on Wednesday (he was speaking at different venues here this week) which was well-attended by our people. I mentioned it to a jabbed-but-no-more-boosters friend yesterday who said "aren't we over that yet?" I said I wasn't, and neither are the other 100+ people who I was with last night, at least until Fauci is prosecuted. He said he had to go pick up his daughter from pre-school.

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They want you to be over it b/c they were chumps and want you to forget that they hated on the non-vaxxers.

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That's pretty much what my friends are like....

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Doug, you made me laugh. 🤦🏼‍♀️. (Thanks for attending the rally)

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Thank you for this. As someone who received so much slack for remaining unvaxxed, I still struggle with the lack of understanding shown by those who took the vax. It seems that they would have come around by now. I'm in a family of "Alices" who still consider themselves heroes. It remains "the subject not to be mentioned," so we have not made any progress toward reconciling on this issue. Seeing your speculation on their thoughts in print was cathartic for me.

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Erin, great comment, very true. Small note, I think you meant "flack"? I too got flack for remaining unvaxxed. I argued against the shots with one of my best friends, and argued again when he ran to get the booster. This time he got pissed at me, "Fred, I'm tired of hearing it, you're not a doctor so how would you know?" I blew my top and went ad hominem, which didn't help anyone's case, yelling "Run out and get that amazing new booster that they suddenly tell you is needed cuz the first two shots royally sucked ass", and I promise I didn't compose this comment just to have this button out: this friend had sudden on-set heart problems and was diagnosed a few months ago with a fairly uncommon cancer... correlation doesn't prove causation, but he was previously very healthy, so I don't bring it up anymore cuz I (truly) don't trust myself to not be a total jackass cuz I'm pretty flawed, and "flawed" is cutting myself slack.

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A friend was on the Pickel ball court this morning. While he was playing, his partner, a perfectly nice woman and friend, saw another friend come in, and she shouted, did you get the new vaccine yet. No not yet, on Monday. Great, but watch out, I was sick for three days right after, but it's the right thing to do. And Biden is great and has all is faculties about him. He is doing a great job. My friend bit his tongue! 🤦‍♂️.

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One of the most frustrating parts of this whole thing is that even the most pro-vaxxers seem to have stories about how the jab knocked them on their butt for a few days, but they can't seem to imagine anybody having a worse reaction than they did.......

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Can he find no one else to play pickle ball with???

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Scenario B is an even more uncomfortable and unlikely path for parents who decided to follow the advice of our public health experts and expose their children to these novel therapies. Imagine putting what you love and value most in the world at risk for what ultimately was zero gain.

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Exactly. My kids were at low risk, but we were told my over 65 husband was not, so we all got the vaccine (they got mRNA, I got J&J) to protect him. We were lied to. What will this mRNA do long term to my 20 something kids? A Republican Congress might investigate. Might. Democrat Congress no way. A DeSantis presidency will clean out FDA, CDC, or at least try. Trump, Haley, and any Dem, no way. Trump still takes credit for the shots. If you want any hope of facts and research about long term effects of the mRNA, you know how to vote.

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Trump did push the development of the shots and should get credit for marshaling resources to do so. Blame the scientists for the bad product. Did you forget that Pfizer delayed their trial results for a few days until after the election? Not a political move. Remember Karmela and Cuomo warning about Trump’s vaccine before the election and then pushing / forcing it just a few months later?

I won’t forget.

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Oct 6, 2023·edited Oct 8, 2023

What you've described makes me furious. The unvarnished truth is most Americans have gotten addicted to pretending in almost every aspect our lives. Being uncomfortable dealing with the truth is too hard for us. So we pretend that men can be women, that there isn't an invasion of military aged males at our southern border, that green energy really will work, that we aren’t 33 trillion dollars in debt, that the CIA/DOJ/DHS/FBI aren’t monitoring everything we do, that Pedo Joe doesn’t have dementia, that it’s NOT really Hunter’s laptop, and that the deathvaxx is safe and effective.

We’ve lost our courage muscle. We don’t have what it takes any longer to overthrow tyranny. It’s easier and more comfortable to comply and pretend.

When the next scamdemic hits - and make no mistake the tyrants will run the play book again - and people are forced into buses at gunpoint for transport to FEMA quarantine camps, we’ll wish with all our heart we learned to fight back now.

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Agreed! What is very scary to me is the fact that so many just stepped up and took it, reported their neighbors in some areas for small parties, going to the park, being outside, etc.

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The vaccinated can't afford to acknowledge that the shots are harmful because you can't untake the shots. The unvaccinated can't affort to ignore that the shots are harmful because you can't untake the shots.

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However, if severe undeniable harm arises from the shots, the authorities will blame that on climate change. And people will believe it.

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Too funny! I was recently visiting the Buffalo area and happened to read their newspapers. Every single day the paper had negative articles about “whatever”, and every single “whatever” negative event was blamed on climate change. Every. Single. One.

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Climate change is the universal cover story for grifters. You can attribute anything to climate change, as long as it's bad.

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Vaccinated can definitely acknowledge that the shots could and did cause harm, even if our families were not severely harmed. Integrity is a choice. I wish my kids could untake the shots. They can't. I can't unsee the corruption in our health care system. I'm surrounded by Alices, but I gently cite the truth to those considering their next booster (even as they are getting over COVID and have natural immunity.)

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Natural immunity is ruined, if a human has a spike protein manufacturing plant in their bodies... Completely ruined.

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I for one will never forget the lying and authoritarian bullying that went on. I resisted it. But feel like a fool when I believed the 95% effective. It was all lies and I do feel like a fool. To get close to my family I gave in and do I regret it. Mistake. Never again will I trust the “experts”. I had respect for medical practitioners because my dad was such a great doctor and my trust in doctors was high. Never again.

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Don't feel like a fool. I'm in my late 60s and had a 94-year old living with us in 2020. I was skeptical I needed the vaccine because I haven't had the flu in over 50 years and never had a flu shot all that time. But I knew I would be blamed if I didn't get the jab and the 94-year old caught Covid and died. So we were all vaxxed. Truthfully, I don't believe the jabs did us any good and am pretty sure that if we got Covid, it would have been mild. When I finally got Omicron about one year later, I had a stuffy nose for about 3 hours and then was fine. My doctor is telling me not to get any boosters, and good for him. You just have to pity these people who believe the BS and are getting two, three or more boosters. Just wait until the reports start coming out three or four years from now (or earlier!) that people who have been boosted multiple times have seriously damaged their health.

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Yep. Great point. Interestingly, I took a "Chilean Literature after the Coup" course in college. And the societal reaction after the fall of Pinochet was very similar. Most people did not want to look back at the atrocities of that era. Some did, but they were in the minority.

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Funny maybe that’s why we didn’t fall for it! I took propaganda in film in college! Lol

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Alex!! I wish this was true I'm in a particularly persnickety blue state and it is all coming back~! The masks the fear pushing masking in schools I feel like i'm about to loose my grip on it all! I sent a note to the school to stop "recommending" masking. It's only purpose seems to be scaring the kids at this point. What is wrong with the collective? At least only 3 out of the 9 kids in school wore them. I know if I sent studies and flipped out on them I would be slammed by the powers that be. They are standing by their strict religious beliefs after all. I decided to just say that we are the outliers. We are being extremely conservative and that there are many gold standard studies that say masks add no benefit especially for kids...... in a school setting!!!!!!! I was very well behaved because I had another email with about 10 studies with links all ready to go! I am just hoping the insanity will stop on the other end here and some of these fools will admit their mistakes instead of doubling down on them 3.5 years out~~~~ Thanks for all you do!

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Requiring children to get the mRNA vaccine or to wear masks is child abuse, plain and simple.

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Requiring the elderly to wear masks in nursing and rehab facilities is elder abuse.

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We must be neighbors. :) Lots more shots and masks here, too.

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Four masked shoppers at the supermarket today.

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That's OK. I prefer it when the mentally disturbed self-identify...

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Lots of all ages wearing them in the stores, coffee shop, outside - and it’s been hot! Unbelievable. We must all be neighbors. Could you start a support group please? Driving me crazy.

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This comment made me realize they run all the support groups and always have. We don't have any, WHICH IS WHY the closest Meet-Up in 2022 (not 2020 or 2021 but 2022!) to where I live (I was desperate, no one was around) was in New York City, 200 miles away. And even in NY in 2022 it was all on Zoom. What's up with that??? Meet up means meet up in person.

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This happened to me recently! Was trying to find a support group for a situation not COVID but probably exasperated by COVID restrictions and it’s by Zoom! No mention of in person any time soon! Not going to work for me. Are the facilitators scared, lazy?

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Still scared because they were too lazy to confront their fear. They told me they didn't want to be afraid (I asked them all, way back), and that they'd be really happy when they didn't need to be afraid any more. They didn't realize that's not the way to deal with fear.

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Yes, and still surprises me those I see out walking, in their cars or biking wearing masks.

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The next time you see Fauci in public, someone needs to punch him in the face....for all of us. Then we can move on....and never allow them to do this to us....again.

But, that will never happen.

Never ending wars. Never ending drugs. Never ending climate change disasters. Never ending Government spending. Never ending election fraud. Never ending bullshit.

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It will never happen--punching Fauci in the face--b/c the taxpayers are still paying for his security detail.

Seriously.

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How 'bout a pie in the face, at least. Maybe lemon meringue? Sweet humiliation for the untold numbers of dead piling up month after month in excess of what is normal.

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I am like Barbara. I fell for everything they told me initially. In spring of 2021, I eagerly took the first two shots. Eight weeks after the second one, I had a mild case of shingles, but I didn't connect it with the shots at the time. Then a friend's grandmother, who'd been vaccinated in December 2020, died of Covid in July 2021. And more breakthrough cases were happening.

The shots were not delivering what the government had promised, and I became skeptical. I bought Alex's Pandemia books as they came out. I started following the FLCCC. I put together a "COVID medical kit" to be prepared when the virus caught up with my family. When I tried to obtain Ivermectin before a two-month work assignment in Italy, my doctor wouldn't prescribe it. When I finally found a Teledoc to prescribe it, my regular pharmacist wouldn't fill it. My suspicions rose even further. The condescending "you are not a horse" campaign was in full force at the time. As a southerner, I felt insulted by the use of "Stop it, y'all."

When I returned from Italy in November 2021, I got COVID after a trip to Disneyworld. I've had worse flus. But after that, I had better immunity than the shots ever gave me, and the CDC was still telling me I needed to get a booster. This did not make any sense.

I stopped believing the government, and started believing my own common sense and the good science I was hearing from sources the government was censoring. And I began doing my best to talk sense into other people, too. Asking common-sense questions. Dropping little nuggets of information that they never hear from the main stream media.

If I had known in January 2021 what I know now, I would never have gotten those COVID shots. My faith in both the pharmaceutical companies and our government regulatory agencies has disappeared. I will never take another vaccination of any kind.

Now I know that God designed our amazing bodies to be able to deal with infectious agents of all kinds. There are many things I can do to optimize my immune system--like getting my Vitamin D levels up above 50ng/ml. I am healthy and enjoying life, free of the fear my government programmed into me. I am determined not to be manipulated by my government again.

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I’m so sorry... I know what I know now, also back in 2020. Lots of experts were screaming at the top of their lungs that a “vaccine” would never work & the real dangers of ADE, & that a mod. RNA gene therapy injection is a ridiculous & horrible idea. I’m so glad & proud of my Hubby & I for reading, listening & avoiding at all costs. Our 30 year old live event business was shuttered! We were afraid of losing our home & all we had sacrificed for, but it was worth fighting for..

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I don't know you, but I am very moved by your story.

Thank you for your sacrifice.

I am as proud of your family as I am of mine for resisting.

You can stand tall the rest of your days under the sun.

You are among the very, VERY few who PAID the price, while virtually everyone else was pretending that nobody was pretending that their inaction/indifference had a price that was paid by others.

You don't have to pretend because you faced down social tyranny while virtually everyone else shrunk from it.

You have character...they will have to pretend they do for their remaining days.

And I betcha you knew, in the beginning, that your sacrifice would be a joyless victory over cowards who couldn't be bothered to understand or appreciate the price you paid.

They are STILL pretending. They know.

That's the best we're ever going to get. It takes a person of mighty courage to know that and still stay true to character.

Well done.

Cheers!

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Dear Ryan (same name as my first born) your reply means the world to my hubby & I. Thank you... I’ve posted, warned, complained & carried on, as best as possible. My 3 sons & their wife’s & our dear grandchildren’s lives have us deep in concern, frustration & yes, at times anger.. So blatantly clear to me, so blinded by so many. I just don’t get it. All our FB friends know the price we paid, yet nobody, who supposedly cares, gave us the sweet grace you did here. Many wishes of peace & joy, to you & yours. Yes, we are not alone & wisdom, honor & truth still reign. 🙏

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This is a really great post! You nailed it. Most people just want to MOVE ON.

Oh - you lost your job? Couldn't see your mother-in-law because of the COVID rules? Your brother died alone? Your kids are two years behind and will never catch up? Stop whining. Just move on.

Sorry...I won't move on. I will NEVER FORGET.

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