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Amen! My first time commenting ever (on anything) but I’ve followed you since my wife lost her job as a nurse and I had to walk away from my graduate program a year ago because we refused to take the vaccine a couple months after we just had and recovered from Covid. A similar story to that of thousands. Thank you for your strength and perseverance. When asked “what can we do about it all?” I tell people who don’t have a platform, aren’t in the public sphere full time because of work, family, etc. I say to subscribe, donate, and support people like yourself. Who are getting the message out there that echoes what we believe. Hopefully it seems the tide is starting to turn. What you’re doing has been a catalyst for that. So you have my gratitude.

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Alex, I pre-ordered Pandemia, have read it, and am now judging for myself. Bottom line, Nathan Robinson and his cronies can go fuck themselves. Excuse my language. Thank you.

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True: "Every control measure the public health authorities promised would control the spread of the coronavirus - from masks to lockdowns to school closures - failed."

But that wasn't the point.

The point was to control citizens. That was fantastically successful. We will see more of that in the future.

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Here is the undeniable truth. The decision was made years ago by the billionaires and their yes men to use a vaccine in the event of a perceived viral threat. In order to get Emergency use for vaccines there could NO other protocols that showed effectiveness. So the billionaires set out using media, governments to kill any use of drugs that were competition. They even railed against vitamin supplements. The decision was made vaccines or nothing. People were told to stay at home if they were sick unless they were so sick to need hospitalization. Sadly by then too late. Media successfully conned people into thinking if you virus you will die. At least a 1/4 of our population absolutely believes this. They are lost to us forever.

Big pharma knew a leaky vaccine could never stop a mutable virus. They knew vaccinating during pandemic would result in virus mutating to evade any vaccine. Pharma knew people would accept any vaccine believing they are all the same. They were advertised as sterilizing vaccines that would end pandemic. We were fed lies that the experts knew to be false.

When big pharma was allowed to advertise on tv that was the beginning of their control of all things. The money was just too good. Regulatory agencies got controlled by pharma. Our government, big tech, pharma are one in the same. It is all incestuous. There can be no independent thinking. Most of our government agencies are headed by some individuals. The goal I believe is to make us into a competing China. One voice. Zero fun. Police state. No independent thinking. See how many young people believe unvaccinated need to be put in concentration camps, and removing their children. Young people had decades of CCP propaganda. We did not change China. China changed us. Wake up.

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Character assassination is where they go when they can’t win the argument on the merits. Keep on keeping on, Alex!

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I was a liberal Democrat now turned Independent. I will probably vote Republican like I did in the last election because I thought Trump was the lesser evil (Can you even imagine that Trump would have been the lesser evil???? Insane!!).

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Alex, you said you were going to explain your position against Ivermectin soon. Did I miss that post? I'm eager to read it.

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Twitter is nothing but a cesspool of negativity. I live very well without it.

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Given that the mob is growing and attacks to follow, at least 10-20% of them are going to have to buy the book to criticize so if the mob is let's say 1.5 million then you are looking at potential sales uptick of 150,000 to 300,000 copies. I'll take that as a win. Any criticism personal or not, should be answered with "have you read the book"? Or "how can you critique if you haven't read the book"? From sales standpoint the more they talk about it, the more you make. The more you make, the louder you can become. The louder you become the more the truth gets out there. The end of this complete farce is well within sight and is coming a hell of a lot faster than they imagine.

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Nathan Robinson is a douchebag. Don’t worry about him. The thought never occurs to people like him that nobody owes anyone else shit on this rock. You don’t owe anyone else a forced inoculation. Not your acquaintances, not your friends, not your family. The whole “I’m doing this to protect you” line is clearly bunk because the jabbed keep catching cases. Perspective is everything. For everyone irritated with me for not getting jabbed I could turn it around and say I’m irritated with them for not caring about freedom. Be you and don’t apologize to trolls who have proven they aren’t intellectually capable of arguing the merits of the policies they support.

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"Every control measure the public health authorities promised would control the spread of the coronavirus - from masks to lockdowns to school closures - failed."

And not *only* failed, but were *destined* to fail AND no one has ANY credible reason NOT to have known they were destined to fail.

1. Curtail air travel - once the virus was in the wild, curtailing air travel is equivalent to closing the barn door after the horses got out. No science behind curtailing air travel.

2. Closing borders - ditto. No science behind closing borders.

3. Masking - it has been known for many years - perhaps ever since the Spanish Flu - that cloth masks do literally nothing to reduce the spread of an airborne aerosolized respiratory pathogen. No science behind masking.

4. Stay-at-home orders - never been proven or shown to have an effect on the spread of a virus. No science behind SAH orders.

5. Lockdown communities and shut down businesses - absent literal absolute enforcement of these measures, they do nothing to stop the spread of a virus. No science behind lockdown/shutdown orders.

6. 6-feet social distancing (CDC) - literally no science behind 6' social distancing

7. 3-feet social distancing (WHO) - ditto.

8. 20-seconds of hand-washing - no science behind *twenty* seconds of handwashing, vs. 15 or 25, etc.

9. Putting infected folks in nursing homes - are you f*cking kidding me??

10. Masking on airplanes - air on planes is fully exchanged every 2-3 minutes. No science behind requiring masks on planes.

11. The vaxxes are dead-ends for the virus. No science behind that.

12. The vaxxes are safe. No science behind that.

13. The vaxxes are vaccines. No science behind that.

14. Natural immunity is not a factor in achieving "herd immunity". No science behind that.

Is there anything, anything at all, that governments DID that was actually based on known and proven science AND that had any effect on slowing, reducing, or limiting the spread of the Chinese virus?

(I'm sure the list goes on, but I have to get back to work.)

No science behind ANYTHING and EVERYTHING governments around the world have shoved up our asses.

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Twitters censorship and propaganda is a bigger problem than the virus ever was

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I just finished Pandemia on Audibles. It is spot on! The utter failure, cowardice, and impotence of the American bureaucracy has come very close to the Soviet style propaganda I grew up with. I just never imagined it could happen here in America.

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It’s been just the weirdest feeling - to have been a progressive all my life, to have worked for social justice as a career all my life - to see the cognitive dissonance, the mass formation psychosis completely robotize almost the entire cohort of people I used to call allies — it has caused a sense of disassociation. I’m floating by myself, protecting myself and my family as best as I can. Wow. To be alone, in a civic sense, at this stage of my life is unreal. I have never voted for a Republican but I will never EVER vote for another democrat unless they loudly and publicly disavow mandates in all forms and pledge to vote against them and ADVOCATE against them. That’s it. That’s all I got. I’m spent y’all. Truly spent.

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They’ll never admit they were wrong, so, how do they land this plane?

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The old saying “If you aren’t a Democrat when you’re young, you have no heart and if you’re not a Republican when you’re old, you have no brain” comes to mind. As a life-long (heartless, I guess) Republican, getting pretty tired of waiting for the younger folks to grow a brain.

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