My husband, (a physician) continues to tell me that there are innumerable Corona viruses, (like the common cold) and the PCR test will pop positive for all of them. I was just wondering if I was missing something when people keep telling me they have Covid again. It's almost like the "trans" issue...mass formation psychosis.
My husband, (a physician) continues to tell me that there are innumerable Corona viruses, (like the common cold) and the PCR test will pop positive for all of them. I was just wondering if I was missing something when people keep telling me they have Covid again. It's almost like the "trans" issue...mass formation psychosis.
People, even smart people, seem not to discriminate carefully enough. Instead they will go with the a word or words given to them, repeated endlessly ... and drilled endlessly into their heads. Such a word is Covid. The result of this and even from people who appear to be on our side is this. Ask anyone who got sick during the PsyOp what they got and they all will invariably say covid. I don't argue with such people. Instead, I will tell you two things which I know.
First, all cause mortality did not rise in 2020/2021 and thereafter until the injections began to be administered. Near the very beginning of this madness I ran the local figures for my area in Virginia and in the county of one of my sister-in-laws living in Maryland. This was mid-year 2020. And I found that mortality was in the same range as in any other pre-plandemic year. And second was this. I noticed that in the media reports every one dying was ostensibly dying from 'covid' and nothing else ... and furthermore that normal flu season had mysterious disappeared from the face of the earth. These two pragmatic observations are two tells which ought to give people serious pause ... and yet people still talk 'covid' as though it were a real thing ... and the only thing people can catch.
PCR tests? I only know what people say. As for me, I think the PCR test is unreliable and a tool for propaganda manipulation. But no matter what the PCR test is, I still know all cause deaths did not rise until the toxic injections began to be administered and that normal flu season inexplicable disappeared with the advent of 'covid 19' and as of yet has never returned. What can be know with certainty is what is determinate, and it trumps all other speculation no matter how interesting. From all of this what I have learned is this, that people, even supposedly smart 'learned' people, can be willingly led to their own self-destruction by the power of Word Magic. And that Word Magic is the Devil's Tool par excellence.
How lucky you are ... and congratulations. You married a smart prudent man! This must be of great comfort and solace. And indeed, there are innumerable corona viruses, and has always been so.
"...and furthermore that normal flu season had mysterious disappeared from the face of the earth." --
Mid March 2020 relatively early days when the fear was being whipped up, visiting my elderly mom wanting to calm her fears I went to CDC website to look at numbers, covid-19 compared to P&I (pneumonia and influenza). Found historical data and current weekly data. At that moment in time morbidity and mortality for covid-19 was unremarkable, less than P&I. --
Within four or five days I revisited the CDC website aiming for the same data/page and spent nearly half an hour trying to relocate where I had been, which hadn't been hard to find. I couldn't find any current P&I data. It was gone. This made no sense to me and something about it was... strange, and suspicious. The next day lockdowns arrived. And the dots kept cropping up, in relatively quick succession, ever so suspiciously connecting. --
So yep, flu disappeared from the face of the earth. Didn't exist anymore. I was the only one that asked out loud, Why do you need a shot to prevent against something that doesn't exist? Vilified I was. I don't know what I'm talking about. My extended family of origin is a bunch of dunderheads. Strict MSM diet. So frustrating and sad. Everybody jumped to get v'd. Yadda.
Right with you on your observations, particularly mind manipulation via language. What a trip this has been, resorting to the 100 miles up view of the planet. Thank God for The Resistance. Blessings. 🙏
Thanks ... and most astonishing, and I am still flabbergasted, why did everybody and everything go so stock raving insane. What made sense and what did not was in plain sight the whole time, simple stuff. And one does not have to be a highly trained scientist to figure this stuff out. Covid and 911, and now the Ukraine debacle.
And the allege vaccine fraud. Pure, plain and simple, mRNA nano lipid particulate, this cannot possible be a vaccine. This, of course, is the worst Evil I have seen in a lifetime, and really the last murderous twenty-two some years in particular.
Yes, what a trip. Simply unbelievable. My heart feels for anyone's mom who had to have this rank evil inflicted upon them.
Oh I spent a ton of time in 2020 trying to make sense of the CDC site. They kept changing the narrative, so I started screen shotting. For instance, they took down a page that said ""we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks." Poof! Gone later on. Or they moved it somewhere I couldn't find it.
And yes, they basically cancelled flu surveillance in 2020, and lumped everything to CLI - Covid-like illness. "Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this system will suspend data collection for the 2020-21 influenza season. Data from previous seasons are available on FluView Interactive. "
The weekly hospitalization (remember 'hospitals are overflowing!!' ?) report showed that the highest number of ED visits for the entire year of 2020 were in JANUARY, before covid theoretically even started. And that s when my husband and I likely had it. Only time we were sick in 2020 and tested positive for antibodies in Dec 2020. If you believe the test.
BUT the weekly ED visits data is GONE. Got curious and just looked. The new chart does not include raw numbers, and it is blank (N/A) for Jan -Aug 8 2020 time period?? I used the link I included on the spreadsheet I had saved with the downloads, and the page is completely different. It's still on archive.org though, so they haven't scrubbed that yet.
I could go on, but I would send people links from CDC and then when they went to them they were either different or gone. One of the main reasons I smelled a rat on this whole issue from the beginning.
I remember Fauci saying very early on, Feb, March 2020, that masks were useless. I could get behind that since I knew it to be the case from a healthcare career. When he flipped April, May-ish, at first I was dumbstruck: why would he say that? That lasted about a minute. Another "dot" from the government.
I was a total tin foil hat nut job for a couple of weeks in the beginning. Then I just shut up. Already had issues with the narcissist-bully sibling that I hadn't engaged with for years and that was the loudest voice against me. Not worth it. Good on you pursuing the cover up. I had a small circle that saved my sanity over the last few years. Started as 3, now up to 6! Riding it out. Have the occasional, positive brief exchange in public when I make a sane comment and the other person is open-minded enough to respond intelligently. Mostly, I feel for the duped who have regret. I need to be a source of support vs. denigrating them for their stupidity. They were manipulated. I try to drop that into the exchange with a warning to be careful and watchful in the future. Yadda. Venting.🤪😅
YES! Jeff has been one of the lights in the darkness ever since he started on Medium, and then got cancelled and had to go to Substack. He, Dr. Frank, and el gato malo were voices of sanity early on.
I do research for business planning (self employed) for a living and when project after project cancelled or put on hold I threw all my energy into this covid mess. Origin of the virus, treatment protocols, sketchy data, those ridiculous 'models' with NO methodology anywhere to be found. My covid file on my computer has over 1300 files in 31 folders. I shared prolifically with anyone and everyone who would listen. I can take on anyone who wants to argue with links, data, studies, timelines, and the rest. But guess what, almost no one had anything of substance to argue back, they instead resorted to name calling and insults. It was a lonely time save a few sane friends who did listen.
The silver lining is that I have a whole new circle. Found groups who were meeting in person, got more involved politically, and that has become a new lifeline. Knocked over 2000 doors last year for candidates from school board to US Senate. Good conversations at some of the doors, and of course some who just want to cuss me out. Oh well, next. And frankly, I can hardly even stand going to just plain social things where people just want to talk about Taylor Swift and Netflix and other mindless blather. Oh it's a nice escape for an hour or so and then I am looking for a way out. My hubby gets annoyed at me if he is having a good time so I smile and nod and look at my watch, lol. He's awake, but the political bug didn't bite him as hard as it did me, so I get even by dragging him to some of those political dinners and events where he gets to smile and nod.
I too feel bad for the duped, I still see people in masks, although not like a year or so ago.
Although I didn’t dive into the data quite as much, I did so much reading about Covid and masks and then the vaccines. I don’t have a background in the natural sciences or medicine so no one would listen to me 🙄 It felt pretty lonely sometimes. Substack and Gab were lifelines to me. I could find people who were asking questions and not just blindly following the protocols and the narrative.
Because of all the time I spend reading and informing myself, I am also more politically engaged than my husband is. He works very hard and I think he just doesn’t have the mental energy for it. But sometimes he seems to think I’m a little extreme. I don’t care though. I know what I’ve learned and I am glad my eyes are more open than ever. I can help my family make good decisions based on what I know.
Isn’t it telling how people immediately start with the name calling and mockery when they have no actual facts to counter your information or your questions? (Reminds me of the two trolls here also)
Hubby and I are a case study in opposites attract. I am the Type A always in motion and have to have projects and he is the most laid back chill person I know. I think I have seen him legit angry maybe half a dozen times in 33 years of marriage. But he keeps me off the ledge from time to time, lol.
And yes, my background is business and finance. I almost forgot the 'Oh since when are you a medical professional?' comment. That was a big one, especially early on. True, but have done research for clients in the space, so the learning curve was a little less steep. And it doesn't take a medical professional to see that this stuff never passed the smell test. I am just used to finding, vetting and organizing data in a way that I can use it to help my clients understand things. The process doesn't change by industry. Although I did learn a lot about scientific and medical topics as I had the time to go deeper into it since everything else was cancelled. Wish I never HAD to learn about gain of function though.
You have a leg up on 98% of the world as a researcher. You have the tools, the expertise and people don't get it. The sector of investigation doesn't matter. Learn enough, in a hurry, and, well, let's just say you *should* be a go-to person. People have proven disappointing in this boat we're all supposed to be adrift in, trying to get our bearings. I've tossed most of them into the brig. I'm making it with a small crew. ....
Good for you getting motivated politically. I hope you have some responsive office holders. It's dirty business at most levels, worse the higher up they get. I'm slogging through Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail. The level of detail is important but a challenge to process, mind boggling. The big picture is ugly and unsurprising that moral degeneracy is par for the course. Our "leaders" are in large part the least fit to lead. Along with a most significant part of the machinery. Since forever. They get off on exerting power and control and money buys them all of that plus fulfillment of their depraved desires. Their ilk stops at nothing; they have no conscience. The psychopath/sociopath thing. I have a sibling who is a mere narcissist and that's bad enough. I also understand that the only way to change things is through the political process. Good for you diving in. As an HSP -highly sensitive person, yep, it's a thing- I have to pick my movements with exquisite care. Live politics is off the table. We need people like you. Do it, sister. With your new circle, a new brighter phase of life. Yup, gotta shed the newly discovered dead weight. What a trip this is. 🌎
Mixed results. Got 3 out of 5 conservatives onto an all liberal school board in spring of 22 and 23, and 2 conservatives out of 4 onto city council, but not good results at the county, which is solid blue on the KC side with a lot more population than the redder part to the east. Eric Schmitt, the rock star AG who, along with the Louisiana AG filed the Missouri v Biden case, won his primary and got elected to the US Senate. Win some, ya lose some. I know several state reps personally, and they are genuine honest guys who are fighting the good fight, although the lobbyists really run the statehouse despite a R super-majority. It's frustrating as h*ll at times, but just consider, what are the alternatives but to keep fighting? This infiltration by the left did not happen overnight, so it's like turning a battleship.
And "our leaders are least fit to lead". True. The skills to get elected are different than the skills to be a good leader many times. I ran for city council and lost in 2018, got 40% against a long time incumbent, but it wore me out. I am much better as the data geek behind the scenes vs being the attention whore. I do love knocking doors and talking to people one on one, but raising money and promoting myself were not strengths. Stuff I could learn, but for now am content to stay behind the scenes. I am self employed and made zero dollars the 3 months before the election as I was too busy running. People don't realize how tough being an elected person really is. You are 'on' 24/7, way more issues than you really have time or knowledge to address, and the pay is pitiful. $11K for city council which is almost a full time job if you do it right. State rep is ~$35K and some per diem when legislature is in session. Most people who can afford to run are either retired, business owners with businesses that they don't run or have employers, like law firms, who are OK with them being gone a lot. The pool of people who both WANT to run, and CAN afford to run is actually pretty small. That is also part of the problem.
You did better locally than my blue pocket in a supposedly red state. I fear that legislature RINOs are a bloc that belies the redness. Locally, zero shift in school board, city council and county commissioners. All 100% blue. --
Correct the infiltration-takeover took time. At least two generations locally if not more. Nationally, it started in earnest with Paper Clip, so three generations ago. I listened to a relatively riveting podcast on the strategy and slow, calculated, methodical, patient infiltration by the Communists into societal institutions that began earlier, which march was reinforced and strengthened with Paper Clip. Turning a battleship is a good analogy/metaphor. It was a while ago when I heard the podcast. If I can find it (4-episode series if I remember correctly) I'll post a link. --
Indeed, the founders were gentlemen farmers or successful merchants, a class that could afford to be away from home for weeks at a time. Government pay sucks, except for bureaucratic sinecures, so yeah electeds in general belong to a special class. Good that you identified your strengths and weaknesses, right? I'm a total introvert (Heterodox Introvert :) so have at it whoever wants that job of running for and holding office. Though as you point out running unsuccessfully can be deflating, I'm sure even for those who have different strengths/fortitude. It takes all kinds, which covers a lot of territory, but it's true. The world would be awfully boring if we were all like me. Aside from which we'd drive each other crazy speaking of multiple personality disorder. 🤪
Funny your description of your state sounds a lot like MO, sadly. Super-majority is a disadvantage as it lulls too many back to sleep, thinking 'we got this'. No, we don't. D's demand lockstep compliance, the R's are all over the place. The State R Party Platform is little more than a paperweight, although I will temper that to say that there are areas of the state where a 'far right' (I hate that term as it's turned into a slur but shorthand for those who are small government, Pro life, Pro 2A and have balls to stand up to the woke) candidate is going to struggle to win so a squishy R still is better than a D. But then they all get to the capitol and fight all session long.
And yes, I saw the introvert in your name and figured you weren't going to be door knocking any time soon, lol. It's too bad the political process lends itself to the extroverts, as we need the introverts, who tend to be the ones who are informed, thoughtful and can work behind the scenes to get stuff done. I am a weird mix. Perfectly happy to be home with a book or going out to events and such and meeting new people, Just too much of one or the other and I start to get antsy. Hated the 3-4 months when everything was cancelled, including my income so hubby and I did mostly stay home as we didn't have much $ to do anything anyway although he did get back to working faster than me. It was great to get a lot of home projects done but I still missed being out there. So I don't know what I am. My daughter is very introverted and loved working from home and going nowhere. Her car battery even went dead from sitting too long! So yeah, we all need each other!!
"...they all get to the capitol and fight all session long." *eye roll. Ain't it the truth.
Yup, I agree the introverts are a force unto themselves and can have great impact toward where their energy is directed. You're also not likely to hear from us about our accomplishments. We're fine with staying in the background.
Love the anecdotal report about your daughter whose car battery went dead! 😂
Interestingly, though of course I can't speak for everyone, many introverts are fine with walking into a room where they know no one. They can navigate but it's completely different from an extrovert and can be extremely draining. Especially the small talk bs. If you have a few minutes, I found this car talk by Matt Walsh to be solidly up my alley. When he paused for 3 seconds at one point in the middle of a sentence, I finished the sentence -out loud!😂- and then he finished his sentence with the exact same words. Entertainment with a lifeways instructional twist. Your daughter might appreciate it?
So glad you had others around you for support...my husband and I stood alone, trying to educate and as most people on this blog, were vilified. I'm exhausted and I'm getting to the point where I just don't care. Had a conversation with an friend who actually said she wasn't sure she'd get the booster this fall...really!
Oh I am willing to be that 'exhausted' is something nearly everyone on this substack has experienced for at least part or all of these last 3 or so years. I have to take breaks (although I do still read C&C) for a few weeks at a time from all the negativity and news and just focus on my flower beds or cleaning out a closet if it's winter. And we've all lost friends or family or both to the Narrative. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!
It is exhausting! for sure. Don't know if you're informed about HSPs -highly sensitive persons- (Elaine Aron, PhD wrote the book) but if you are one, which I am (finally figured out 7 or 8 years ago what's been "wrong" with me my whole life) it's doubly, triply, quadruply exhausting. I had to forsake the live fray. Pull inward and keep the 3 people close, though all are distant so text and calls were it though savior of my sanity. Let me support you and vote it's ok not to care so much for a spell. My spell has lasted since 2020. Quite a spell. I don't look forward to reconnecting with old friends by phone since I can tell by text they might anxiously be off to the next booster. A friend's husband died recently. Turbo cancer. 4 months from Dx to death. I can't say a word. I keep talking to the husband in my head (apologies if I conflict with beliefs) asking him to guide my friend to wake up. Yadda. Hang in there. Just a little bite of support for you on a Tuesday.
I just got into it with a friend (who is now probably a former friend) who told me that my constant talking about all of the scams around covid were hurtful to people like her whose dad died 'from covid' and that I was lacking in compassion. How do you argue with people who want to make this all about emotion? I reminded her that I lost a good friend to the hospital protocol, remdesivir and the vent, and that if she wanted to be angry, be angry at the hospitals and doctors who put liability protection ahead of patient care.
The answer, as you know, is that one cannot argue with people who are incapable of thinking things out for themselves. And this is so sad as is the smashing up of families. But really! That is what 'they' the Woke Marxist elites want ... to destroy the family. And apparently Western Civilization along with it.
Having to live through this is, and is going to be, a hard row to hoe ... and heartbreaking. And this is understatement. But I see no alternative but to resist Evil and to build up Good. To do otherwise is to lose all healthy self-conception, to becomes a kind of walking suicide. Not really any kind of good option.
Such as you describe, this is happening all over the place. And I for one am not going to just forget what 'they' have done to us and reconcile ... and forgive and forget. We have been too badly assaulted in all essentials which count.
Yes, you are right. I got cancelled by a lot of people early on in this thing. This particular friend was an anomaly in that she took my advice and used the zelenko protocol I gave her when she got covid. But then ignored me and got the shot a couple of months later 'as that protected her from variants'. She is a D but not really political and so had managed to stay friends. It's sad but I try to talk sense to people. I am not really a confrontational person, but everyone has their breaking point. I am done. It's been over 3 years and if none of this has gotten through to you I don't think I can help.
I’m sorry, I had someone who I thought was a good friend send me texts in the beginning of 2021 telling me that she didn’t really want to be around me anymore because I was “uncaring” about the people affected by Covid 🙄 Since I wasn’t on board with the lockdowns and masks and mandates. It was very hurtful and upsetting to me at the time. I reminded her that my brother was killed through effects of the lockdowns and my family’s business was affected. But apparently those aren’t important 🙄 I actually don’t have any regrets about losing what I thought was a friendship, if just showed me how shallow and easily manipulated she was and also that she didn’t even value our relationship at all. For your sake I hope your friend reconsiders and sees your pov at least. It’s hard when people you think are your friends are more influenced by the media and “experts” than they are by their actual experiences and relationships with their friends.
Yes, covid killed friendships, sadly. l lost who I thought was my best friend since college, actually over my support for Trump and the Jan 6 incident, when I said this was a psy-op and a lot of these folks were goaded into it. She actually listened to me about a lot of the covid stuff, and I knew she didn't like Trump but we used to still be able to get together and have meaningful conversations. But she went over the edge - moved to the Lake of the Ozarks area around that time to be closer to her dad and hit the leftist and covid kool-aid hard. Kept picking fights with me on social media, and started that uncaring, selfish for not getting the shot stuff. Saying if anyone who supported Trump was a bigot and racist. Her nephew died of a fentanyl OD and I went to his funeral to see her, and she, in person, admitted that her niece who she had said died of covid actually died of liver failure due to alcoholism. Never really apologized though, just said, a lot of things are not as they seem. Her hubby invited us down for a long weekend, and said she would get in touch about calendars, but she never did. Came to both of my kids weddings (my hubby said to un-invite her but I am an idiot that couldn't seem to get the message) that summer and fall, but spent more time talking to my sisters than me. I guess I thought she was going to come to her senses, but after a couple of more social media barbs I just unfriended her and let it go. She lives 3 hours away now, so the odds of running into each other are slim. This latest dust-up was really the last in the line of my pre-covid D friends, we'd been friends since HS, although we only got together a few times a year and didn't really have much in common any more. It's so weird that most of my long time friends were all D's when I have not been a D since the mid-80's and I have been involved with R politics all this time. (well I did campaign for Ross Perot) But we always managed to work that out and have plenty to talk about. Now, everything is political, and I just find myself having little tolerance for those who prefer being woke over being awake. During Tucker's TPUSA speech near the end, he made the point that a lot of this culture war stuff is really just a 'distraction to keep us from noticing they are destroying the country'. That really resonated with me. If I get on FB, my feed is every other post people talking about Jason Aldean. Yeah he is being cancelled over BS, but there is a LOT more important news to talk about. FB is nearly as vapid as the MSM any more. Thank God for Substack.
It’s definitely been both eye opening and disheartening to see the friends who choose their political tribe over their longtime friendships. You can really tell who is afraid of not going along with the crowd and of standing up for themselves. Or those who don’t want to think, but to rely on others to think in their stead.
“Now, everything is political, and I just find myself having little tolerance for those who prefer being woke over being awake.”
Yes. This.
I have had a very similar experience, I used to have lots of friends with very different political perspectives and appreciated our exchanges and discussions but now it’s just “bigot, racist, conspiracy theorist” type of responses and not meaningful and thoughtful conversation. Very sad. Even when they don’t say it to me directly, if I see them make a post on Facebook insulting people who like Trump, didn’t get the shots, etc., I know that’s what they think of me and it’s hard to get past that.
Yes, it's hard to figure out just 'what happened to her'. She and I bonded in college over both of us being involved in Student Government. Both grew up lower middle class, both first in our families to graduate college, both worked our way through, neither of us were follow the crowd types. Over the years she drifted into the intellectual class, moved up the ladder in a foundation that started shifting leftward, never got her PhD but started hanging with that crowd, where I landed in the business world and kept going to the right. But we could still debate, disagree and stay friends. Trumps election in 2016 added a new layer of tension, the writing was on the wall, but don't think either of us wanted to see it. We were going through the motions. I am not sure what prompted her to come out of the blue and attack me but it was inevitable that the friendship was going to end. Guess it's kind of like people who stay in an unhappy marriage due to inertia and then the inevitable blow up happens and everyone goes "What happened?!" I care less that the friendship ended and more that she is not the same friend she was back when we were close. But suppose I am not the same either. I just have less tolerance for bullsh*t than I used to. Maybe a microcosm of conservatives as a whole. We were too nice, too non confrontational, too assured that common sense would prevail. Then Trump came along. I couldn't stand him at first, I was a Carson supporter and then I went to Cruz. But he's grown on me over the years, and while I still think his mouth runs faster than his brain at times, he is right that we need to punch back.
But yeah, most of my ex-friends were more just bandwagon people, don't pay enough attention to realize they are living in a fantasy world. Mark Twain "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
It is like a grieving process when you lose a friendship like that 😞
I have very similar feelings about Trump, I definitely can identify with what you wrote.
You know, your description of your friend reminded me of a post Naomi Wolf wrote a while back, about fitting in with the leftist intellectual class. If you haven’t read it yet, you might find it an interesting read.
Thanks for sharing that. Yeah, 39 years, we had been through all kinds of ups and downs together. I am not sure it applies as much to her as she never really assimilated the lifestyle. Just the politics, and the religious fervor/'virtue'. This idea that the 'little people' need government cheese and guidance. And Wolf may have something there with the idea that it's about power. Wokism is her new religion. We were both Catholic although neither of us went to church much in our early 20's but I went back to it, and she wandered in and out until she pretty much quit going a decade or so ago. Got laid off from her job in 2020 and she and her hubby moved 3 hours away to be closer to her aging dad in early 2021 and it's a deep red area. Started complaining about how the people there were uncaring and 'ignoring covid' and being selfish for not getting jabbed. That her Hispanic husband 'faced discrimination and micro aggressions'. Never mind she ignored covid when she lived close, at least around me!? Too many Trump flags put her over the edge? Anyway, she used to have flashes of her old sanity so thought perhaps she would come around, but guess not. Her latest rant yelling at me that I had no compassion and was a bigot like Trump was the end of it. We'd argued before, but she never got personal.
I think a lot of it stems from an inferiority/superiority complex. People, especially those originally from modest backgrounds, feel out of place and like imposters and feel the need to prove they belong, so they mock and reject the populations they came from. They want to feel superior to others and belonging to this political tribe helps them do that. They all sneer at the ignorant bigot Trump voters and pay themselves on the back for being smarter 🙄
“Covid” is a word people use to explain an illness that they have never experienced before . With symptoms like loss of taste, or parosmia…stuff that is beyond the “normal “ flu symptoms/experiences we have all been used to.
You know *strange* baffling or particularly nasty symptoms they can’t categorize . …
It seems the word *covid* apparently triggers some people …
So , as an unvaxxed person trying to describe this *new* type of sick experience ….
It would be nice to know an alternative word ???
I caught the *Fauci *? Or I had *GOF* (gain of function) three times ??
One-ism is a dangerous philosophical attitude. Especially in a world wherein a huge multiplicity of agendas were being initiated and facilitated under a single cover of mass panic. As to the mass fixation on 'covid', all other agenda objectives were achieved beyond all dreams. To this day, for example, most people still don't know that the world's financial/economic problems were not initiated by the planetary covid lock-downs and mandates beginning March/April 2020. But instead, the world financial melt down was already well in progress by late August 2019. But to say the least, what a stroke of luck for the central bankers! With covid, nobody points a finger at them. Nope! Something else caused all the mess. Convenience is never to be belittled.
It is too much to go into here with arguing the word covid this way and that, and how Word Magic has led the entire world into doing that which they would otherwise not do on their own accord. So instead, here is a video which closely mirrors my own views, but in a much more professionally detailed way. When you are finished, you might go back an re-read what I have written and see if you can see it in another light. We all are, me including, prisoners of our own minds. If it were not so, we would not be living under total tyranny in West as we do so sadly now. The video is one of the best out there.
Wow I thought I was pretty well educated on all the BS but that was the first time I had heard antibiotic RX were cut in half. But this is why I don't like videos - where is the link to his source!? What time period? I have 2 friends who say their dads died of 'covid pneumonia' in early 2021, some kind of respiratory illness. Neither were poor though. But the were in their 80's and poor health. If they were not given antibiotics, I would say they died of malpractice!
Agreed ... but nonetheless everything fits a pattern already established as to 'official' sector Health Terrorism malfeasance. And so, antibiotics being withheld is not out of the question. It fits the narrative. And yet all cause mortality did not rise outside of normal parameters until after the jabs were administered.
Also, 'they' the ones behind this little operation run on us were smart enough not to do everything the same across the board. Not even the jab batches, as we now know, were not all the same. Some even seem to have been saline. Why? Maybe to scramble, play with our brains when looking at 'the data'?
I do know that if the public were knowledgeable on Health Terrorism (as well as everything else) that there would already be giant Nuremberg type trials all over the place. There is plenty of stuff out there enabling of criminal prosecutions. What do we get instead? A low grade clown show pretense of scrutiny. Unless we get some serious high level prosecutions and convictions with serious jail time, I am afraid that 'they' will do it again ... because that is what repeat offenders always do unless stopped dead in their tracks.
I agree. And when I reflect back on the Obama years and Obama's use of the words 'radical transformation', I remember saying to myself ... "What the heck does that mean?" Now I know that Obama literally meant EVERYTHING. And now even 'hacking the wetware' meaning us, this too is I am afraid, a reality present and existential.
And actually, I just want to be human and back to normal. And let this demonic, insane world find an early grave.
Also, you might like this. It is a very coherent statement of things. All cause mortality is the difference between truth and fiction. The statement and conclusions are wider than the title would suggest.
Covid feels different from other innocuous Corona viruses. I’d trust the people who tell you this. Remember the virus mutates rapidly ( more so than naturally due to the leaky vaccines) and there is the possibility it changes enough to reinfect.
I had covid early in 2020 (hate antibodies) and again in 2021 and 2022. I am not vaccinated I do NOT get flu shots; have never had flu. I tested negative for flu and positive on covid on rapid and PCR. You feel really different with covid than a cold. It’s real. It’s a bio-weapon and you need to treat it early if you get it. The FLCCC saw many sad cases. But yes, did most survived it. It does mutate. I have never had long covid because I do take it seriously.
My NYS relatives get it over and over, and I think they buy those tests by the gross. And no matter what we tell them, they think we are just those crazy Floridians. I have Togo north to see my mom, just turned 94. She's starting to lose it, but I refuse to fly now, and don't want to force my bride, suffering herself, to go on that trip. So I think I'll be driving myself up there.
My husband, (a physician) continues to tell me that there are innumerable Corona viruses, (like the common cold) and the PCR test will pop positive for all of them. I was just wondering if I was missing something when people keep telling me they have Covid again. It's almost like the "trans" issue...mass formation psychosis.
People, even smart people, seem not to discriminate carefully enough. Instead they will go with the a word or words given to them, repeated endlessly ... and drilled endlessly into their heads. Such a word is Covid. The result of this and even from people who appear to be on our side is this. Ask anyone who got sick during the PsyOp what they got and they all will invariably say covid. I don't argue with such people. Instead, I will tell you two things which I know.
First, all cause mortality did not rise in 2020/2021 and thereafter until the injections began to be administered. Near the very beginning of this madness I ran the local figures for my area in Virginia and in the county of one of my sister-in-laws living in Maryland. This was mid-year 2020. And I found that mortality was in the same range as in any other pre-plandemic year. And second was this. I noticed that in the media reports every one dying was ostensibly dying from 'covid' and nothing else ... and furthermore that normal flu season had mysterious disappeared from the face of the earth. These two pragmatic observations are two tells which ought to give people serious pause ... and yet people still talk 'covid' as though it were a real thing ... and the only thing people can catch.
PCR tests? I only know what people say. As for me, I think the PCR test is unreliable and a tool for propaganda manipulation. But no matter what the PCR test is, I still know all cause deaths did not rise until the toxic injections began to be administered and that normal flu season inexplicable disappeared with the advent of 'covid 19' and as of yet has never returned. What can be know with certainty is what is determinate, and it trumps all other speculation no matter how interesting. From all of this what I have learned is this, that people, even supposedly smart 'learned' people, can be willingly led to their own self-destruction by the power of Word Magic. And that Word Magic is the Devil's Tool par excellence.
How lucky you are ... and congratulations. You married a smart prudent man! This must be of great comfort and solace. And indeed, there are innumerable corona viruses, and has always been so.
"...and furthermore that normal flu season had mysterious disappeared from the face of the earth." --
Mid March 2020 relatively early days when the fear was being whipped up, visiting my elderly mom wanting to calm her fears I went to CDC website to look at numbers, covid-19 compared to P&I (pneumonia and influenza). Found historical data and current weekly data. At that moment in time morbidity and mortality for covid-19 was unremarkable, less than P&I. --
Within four or five days I revisited the CDC website aiming for the same data/page and spent nearly half an hour trying to relocate where I had been, which hadn't been hard to find. I couldn't find any current P&I data. It was gone. This made no sense to me and something about it was... strange, and suspicious. The next day lockdowns arrived. And the dots kept cropping up, in relatively quick succession, ever so suspiciously connecting. --
So yep, flu disappeared from the face of the earth. Didn't exist anymore. I was the only one that asked out loud, Why do you need a shot to prevent against something that doesn't exist? Vilified I was. I don't know what I'm talking about. My extended family of origin is a bunch of dunderheads. Strict MSM diet. So frustrating and sad. Everybody jumped to get v'd. Yadda.
Right with you on your observations, particularly mind manipulation via language. What a trip this has been, resorting to the 100 miles up view of the planet. Thank God for The Resistance. Blessings. 🙏
Thanks ... and most astonishing, and I am still flabbergasted, why did everybody and everything go so stock raving insane. What made sense and what did not was in plain sight the whole time, simple stuff. And one does not have to be a highly trained scientist to figure this stuff out. Covid and 911, and now the Ukraine debacle.
And the allege vaccine fraud. Pure, plain and simple, mRNA nano lipid particulate, this cannot possible be a vaccine. This, of course, is the worst Evil I have seen in a lifetime, and really the last murderous twenty-two some years in particular.
Yes, what a trip. Simply unbelievable. My heart feels for anyone's mom who had to have this rank evil inflicted upon them.
Oh I spent a ton of time in 2020 trying to make sense of the CDC site. They kept changing the narrative, so I started screen shotting. For instance, they took down a page that said ""we identified 10 RCTs that reported estimates of the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946–July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza transmission with the use of face masks." Poof! Gone later on. Or they moved it somewhere I couldn't find it.
And yes, they basically cancelled flu surveillance in 2020, and lumped everything to CLI - Covid-like illness. "Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this system will suspend data collection for the 2020-21 influenza season. Data from previous seasons are available on FluView Interactive. "
The weekly hospitalization (remember 'hospitals are overflowing!!' ?) report showed that the highest number of ED visits for the entire year of 2020 were in JANUARY, before covid theoretically even started. And that s when my husband and I likely had it. Only time we were sick in 2020 and tested positive for antibodies in Dec 2020. If you believe the test.
BUT the weekly ED visits data is GONE. Got curious and just looked. The new chart does not include raw numbers, and it is blank (N/A) for Jan -Aug 8 2020 time period?? I used the link I included on the spreadsheet I had saved with the downloads, and the page is completely different. It's still on archive.org though, so they haven't scrubbed that yet.
I could go on, but I would send people links from CDC and then when they went to them they were either different or gone. One of the main reasons I smelled a rat on this whole issue from the beginning.
No surprise to me.
I remember Fauci saying very early on, Feb, March 2020, that masks were useless. I could get behind that since I knew it to be the case from a healthcare career. When he flipped April, May-ish, at first I was dumbstruck: why would he say that? That lasted about a minute. Another "dot" from the government.
I was a total tin foil hat nut job for a couple of weeks in the beginning. Then I just shut up. Already had issues with the narcissist-bully sibling that I hadn't engaged with for years and that was the loudest voice against me. Not worth it. Good on you pursuing the cover up. I had a small circle that saved my sanity over the last few years. Started as 3, now up to 6! Riding it out. Have the occasional, positive brief exchange in public when I make a sane comment and the other person is open-minded enough to respond intelligently. Mostly, I feel for the duped who have regret. I need to be a source of support vs. denigrating them for their stupidity. They were manipulated. I try to drop that into the exchange with a warning to be careful and watchful in the future. Yadda. Venting.🤪😅
God's brightest blessings on Jeff Childers.
YES! Jeff has been one of the lights in the darkness ever since he started on Medium, and then got cancelled and had to go to Substack. He, Dr. Frank, and el gato malo were voices of sanity early on.
I do research for business planning (self employed) for a living and when project after project cancelled or put on hold I threw all my energy into this covid mess. Origin of the virus, treatment protocols, sketchy data, those ridiculous 'models' with NO methodology anywhere to be found. My covid file on my computer has over 1300 files in 31 folders. I shared prolifically with anyone and everyone who would listen. I can take on anyone who wants to argue with links, data, studies, timelines, and the rest. But guess what, almost no one had anything of substance to argue back, they instead resorted to name calling and insults. It was a lonely time save a few sane friends who did listen.
The silver lining is that I have a whole new circle. Found groups who were meeting in person, got more involved politically, and that has become a new lifeline. Knocked over 2000 doors last year for candidates from school board to US Senate. Good conversations at some of the doors, and of course some who just want to cuss me out. Oh well, next. And frankly, I can hardly even stand going to just plain social things where people just want to talk about Taylor Swift and Netflix and other mindless blather. Oh it's a nice escape for an hour or so and then I am looking for a way out. My hubby gets annoyed at me if he is having a good time so I smile and nod and look at my watch, lol. He's awake, but the political bug didn't bite him as hard as it did me, so I get even by dragging him to some of those political dinners and events where he gets to smile and nod.
I too feel bad for the duped, I still see people in masks, although not like a year or so ago.
Although I didn’t dive into the data quite as much, I did so much reading about Covid and masks and then the vaccines. I don’t have a background in the natural sciences or medicine so no one would listen to me 🙄 It felt pretty lonely sometimes. Substack and Gab were lifelines to me. I could find people who were asking questions and not just blindly following the protocols and the narrative.
Because of all the time I spend reading and informing myself, I am also more politically engaged than my husband is. He works very hard and I think he just doesn’t have the mental energy for it. But sometimes he seems to think I’m a little extreme. I don’t care though. I know what I’ve learned and I am glad my eyes are more open than ever. I can help my family make good decisions based on what I know.
Isn’t it telling how people immediately start with the name calling and mockery when they have no actual facts to counter your information or your questions? (Reminds me of the two trolls here also)
Hubby and I are a case study in opposites attract. I am the Type A always in motion and have to have projects and he is the most laid back chill person I know. I think I have seen him legit angry maybe half a dozen times in 33 years of marriage. But he keeps me off the ledge from time to time, lol.
And yes, my background is business and finance. I almost forgot the 'Oh since when are you a medical professional?' comment. That was a big one, especially early on. True, but have done research for clients in the space, so the learning curve was a little less steep. And it doesn't take a medical professional to see that this stuff never passed the smell test. I am just used to finding, vetting and organizing data in a way that I can use it to help my clients understand things. The process doesn't change by industry. Although I did learn a lot about scientific and medical topics as I had the time to go deeper into it since everything else was cancelled. Wish I never HAD to learn about gain of function though.
You have a leg up on 98% of the world as a researcher. You have the tools, the expertise and people don't get it. The sector of investigation doesn't matter. Learn enough, in a hurry, and, well, let's just say you *should* be a go-to person. People have proven disappointing in this boat we're all supposed to be adrift in, trying to get our bearings. I've tossed most of them into the brig. I'm making it with a small crew. ....
Good for you getting motivated politically. I hope you have some responsive office holders. It's dirty business at most levels, worse the higher up they get. I'm slogging through Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail. The level of detail is important but a challenge to process, mind boggling. The big picture is ugly and unsurprising that moral degeneracy is par for the course. Our "leaders" are in large part the least fit to lead. Along with a most significant part of the machinery. Since forever. They get off on exerting power and control and money buys them all of that plus fulfillment of their depraved desires. Their ilk stops at nothing; they have no conscience. The psychopath/sociopath thing. I have a sibling who is a mere narcissist and that's bad enough. I also understand that the only way to change things is through the political process. Good for you diving in. As an HSP -highly sensitive person, yep, it's a thing- I have to pick my movements with exquisite care. Live politics is off the table. We need people like you. Do it, sister. With your new circle, a new brighter phase of life. Yup, gotta shed the newly discovered dead weight. What a trip this is. 🌎
Mixed results. Got 3 out of 5 conservatives onto an all liberal school board in spring of 22 and 23, and 2 conservatives out of 4 onto city council, but not good results at the county, which is solid blue on the KC side with a lot more population than the redder part to the east. Eric Schmitt, the rock star AG who, along with the Louisiana AG filed the Missouri v Biden case, won his primary and got elected to the US Senate. Win some, ya lose some. I know several state reps personally, and they are genuine honest guys who are fighting the good fight, although the lobbyists really run the statehouse despite a R super-majority. It's frustrating as h*ll at times, but just consider, what are the alternatives but to keep fighting? This infiltration by the left did not happen overnight, so it's like turning a battleship.
And "our leaders are least fit to lead". True. The skills to get elected are different than the skills to be a good leader many times. I ran for city council and lost in 2018, got 40% against a long time incumbent, but it wore me out. I am much better as the data geek behind the scenes vs being the attention whore. I do love knocking doors and talking to people one on one, but raising money and promoting myself were not strengths. Stuff I could learn, but for now am content to stay behind the scenes. I am self employed and made zero dollars the 3 months before the election as I was too busy running. People don't realize how tough being an elected person really is. You are 'on' 24/7, way more issues than you really have time or knowledge to address, and the pay is pitiful. $11K for city council which is almost a full time job if you do it right. State rep is ~$35K and some per diem when legislature is in session. Most people who can afford to run are either retired, business owners with businesses that they don't run or have employers, like law firms, who are OK with them being gone a lot. The pool of people who both WANT to run, and CAN afford to run is actually pretty small. That is also part of the problem.
You did better locally than my blue pocket in a supposedly red state. I fear that legislature RINOs are a bloc that belies the redness. Locally, zero shift in school board, city council and county commissioners. All 100% blue. --
Correct the infiltration-takeover took time. At least two generations locally if not more. Nationally, it started in earnest with Paper Clip, so three generations ago. I listened to a relatively riveting podcast on the strategy and slow, calculated, methodical, patient infiltration by the Communists into societal institutions that began earlier, which march was reinforced and strengthened with Paper Clip. Turning a battleship is a good analogy/metaphor. It was a while ago when I heard the podcast. If I can find it (4-episode series if I remember correctly) I'll post a link. --
Indeed, the founders were gentlemen farmers or successful merchants, a class that could afford to be away from home for weeks at a time. Government pay sucks, except for bureaucratic sinecures, so yeah electeds in general belong to a special class. Good that you identified your strengths and weaknesses, right? I'm a total introvert (Heterodox Introvert :) so have at it whoever wants that job of running for and holding office. Though as you point out running unsuccessfully can be deflating, I'm sure even for those who have different strengths/fortitude. It takes all kinds, which covers a lot of territory, but it's true. The world would be awfully boring if we were all like me. Aside from which we'd drive each other crazy speaking of multiple personality disorder. 🤪
Funny your description of your state sounds a lot like MO, sadly. Super-majority is a disadvantage as it lulls too many back to sleep, thinking 'we got this'. No, we don't. D's demand lockstep compliance, the R's are all over the place. The State R Party Platform is little more than a paperweight, although I will temper that to say that there are areas of the state where a 'far right' (I hate that term as it's turned into a slur but shorthand for those who are small government, Pro life, Pro 2A and have balls to stand up to the woke) candidate is going to struggle to win so a squishy R still is better than a D. But then they all get to the capitol and fight all session long.
And yes, I saw the introvert in your name and figured you weren't going to be door knocking any time soon, lol. It's too bad the political process lends itself to the extroverts, as we need the introverts, who tend to be the ones who are informed, thoughtful and can work behind the scenes to get stuff done. I am a weird mix. Perfectly happy to be home with a book or going out to events and such and meeting new people, Just too much of one or the other and I start to get antsy. Hated the 3-4 months when everything was cancelled, including my income so hubby and I did mostly stay home as we didn't have much $ to do anything anyway although he did get back to working faster than me. It was great to get a lot of home projects done but I still missed being out there. So I don't know what I am. My daughter is very introverted and loved working from home and going nowhere. Her car battery even went dead from sitting too long! So yeah, we all need each other!!
"...they all get to the capitol and fight all session long." *eye roll. Ain't it the truth.
Yup, I agree the introverts are a force unto themselves and can have great impact toward where their energy is directed. You're also not likely to hear from us about our accomplishments. We're fine with staying in the background.
Love the anecdotal report about your daughter whose car battery went dead! 😂
Interestingly, though of course I can't speak for everyone, many introverts are fine with walking into a room where they know no one. They can navigate but it's completely different from an extrovert and can be extremely draining. Especially the small talk bs. If you have a few minutes, I found this car talk by Matt Walsh to be solidly up my alley. When he paused for 3 seconds at one point in the middle of a sentence, I finished the sentence -out loud!😂- and then he finished his sentence with the exact same words. Entertainment with a lifeways instructional twist. Your daughter might appreciate it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh87OVCYY_g
So glad you had others around you for support...my husband and I stood alone, trying to educate and as most people on this blog, were vilified. I'm exhausted and I'm getting to the point where I just don't care. Had a conversation with an friend who actually said she wasn't sure she'd get the booster this fall...really!
Oh I am willing to be that 'exhausted' is something nearly everyone on this substack has experienced for at least part or all of these last 3 or so years. I have to take breaks (although I do still read C&C) for a few weeks at a time from all the negativity and news and just focus on my flower beds or cleaning out a closet if it's winter. And we've all lost friends or family or both to the Narrative. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!
It is exhausting! for sure. Don't know if you're informed about HSPs -highly sensitive persons- (Elaine Aron, PhD wrote the book) but if you are one, which I am (finally figured out 7 or 8 years ago what's been "wrong" with me my whole life) it's doubly, triply, quadruply exhausting. I had to forsake the live fray. Pull inward and keep the 3 people close, though all are distant so text and calls were it though savior of my sanity. Let me support you and vote it's ok not to care so much for a spell. My spell has lasted since 2020. Quite a spell. I don't look forward to reconnecting with old friends by phone since I can tell by text they might anxiously be off to the next booster. A friend's husband died recently. Turbo cancer. 4 months from Dx to death. I can't say a word. I keep talking to the husband in my head (apologies if I conflict with beliefs) asking him to guide my friend to wake up. Yadda. Hang in there. Just a little bite of support for you on a Tuesday.
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I never did any research (on CDC site, etc). Just relied on my gut instinct. 🙂
I just got into it with a friend (who is now probably a former friend) who told me that my constant talking about all of the scams around covid were hurtful to people like her whose dad died 'from covid' and that I was lacking in compassion. How do you argue with people who want to make this all about emotion? I reminded her that I lost a good friend to the hospital protocol, remdesivir and the vent, and that if she wanted to be angry, be angry at the hospitals and doctors who put liability protection ahead of patient care.
The answer, as you know, is that one cannot argue with people who are incapable of thinking things out for themselves. And this is so sad as is the smashing up of families. But really! That is what 'they' the Woke Marxist elites want ... to destroy the family. And apparently Western Civilization along with it.
Having to live through this is, and is going to be, a hard row to hoe ... and heartbreaking. And this is understatement. But I see no alternative but to resist Evil and to build up Good. To do otherwise is to lose all healthy self-conception, to becomes a kind of walking suicide. Not really any kind of good option.
Such as you describe, this is happening all over the place. And I for one am not going to just forget what 'they' have done to us and reconcile ... and forgive and forget. We have been too badly assaulted in all essentials which count.
Yes, you are right. I got cancelled by a lot of people early on in this thing. This particular friend was an anomaly in that she took my advice and used the zelenko protocol I gave her when she got covid. But then ignored me and got the shot a couple of months later 'as that protected her from variants'. She is a D but not really political and so had managed to stay friends. It's sad but I try to talk sense to people. I am not really a confrontational person, but everyone has their breaking point. I am done. It's been over 3 years and if none of this has gotten through to you I don't think I can help.
I’m sorry, I had someone who I thought was a good friend send me texts in the beginning of 2021 telling me that she didn’t really want to be around me anymore because I was “uncaring” about the people affected by Covid 🙄 Since I wasn’t on board with the lockdowns and masks and mandates. It was very hurtful and upsetting to me at the time. I reminded her that my brother was killed through effects of the lockdowns and my family’s business was affected. But apparently those aren’t important 🙄 I actually don’t have any regrets about losing what I thought was a friendship, if just showed me how shallow and easily manipulated she was and also that she didn’t even value our relationship at all. For your sake I hope your friend reconsiders and sees your pov at least. It’s hard when people you think are your friends are more influenced by the media and “experts” than they are by their actual experiences and relationships with their friends.
Yes, covid killed friendships, sadly. l lost who I thought was my best friend since college, actually over my support for Trump and the Jan 6 incident, when I said this was a psy-op and a lot of these folks were goaded into it. She actually listened to me about a lot of the covid stuff, and I knew she didn't like Trump but we used to still be able to get together and have meaningful conversations. But she went over the edge - moved to the Lake of the Ozarks area around that time to be closer to her dad and hit the leftist and covid kool-aid hard. Kept picking fights with me on social media, and started that uncaring, selfish for not getting the shot stuff. Saying if anyone who supported Trump was a bigot and racist. Her nephew died of a fentanyl OD and I went to his funeral to see her, and she, in person, admitted that her niece who she had said died of covid actually died of liver failure due to alcoholism. Never really apologized though, just said, a lot of things are not as they seem. Her hubby invited us down for a long weekend, and said she would get in touch about calendars, but she never did. Came to both of my kids weddings (my hubby said to un-invite her but I am an idiot that couldn't seem to get the message) that summer and fall, but spent more time talking to my sisters than me. I guess I thought she was going to come to her senses, but after a couple of more social media barbs I just unfriended her and let it go. She lives 3 hours away now, so the odds of running into each other are slim. This latest dust-up was really the last in the line of my pre-covid D friends, we'd been friends since HS, although we only got together a few times a year and didn't really have much in common any more. It's so weird that most of my long time friends were all D's when I have not been a D since the mid-80's and I have been involved with R politics all this time. (well I did campaign for Ross Perot) But we always managed to work that out and have plenty to talk about. Now, everything is political, and I just find myself having little tolerance for those who prefer being woke over being awake. During Tucker's TPUSA speech near the end, he made the point that a lot of this culture war stuff is really just a 'distraction to keep us from noticing they are destroying the country'. That really resonated with me. If I get on FB, my feed is every other post people talking about Jason Aldean. Yeah he is being cancelled over BS, but there is a LOT more important news to talk about. FB is nearly as vapid as the MSM any more. Thank God for Substack.
It’s definitely been both eye opening and disheartening to see the friends who choose their political tribe over their longtime friendships. You can really tell who is afraid of not going along with the crowd and of standing up for themselves. Or those who don’t want to think, but to rely on others to think in their stead.
“Now, everything is political, and I just find myself having little tolerance for those who prefer being woke over being awake.”
Yes. This.
I have had a very similar experience, I used to have lots of friends with very different political perspectives and appreciated our exchanges and discussions but now it’s just “bigot, racist, conspiracy theorist” type of responses and not meaningful and thoughtful conversation. Very sad. Even when they don’t say it to me directly, if I see them make a post on Facebook insulting people who like Trump, didn’t get the shots, etc., I know that’s what they think of me and it’s hard to get past that.
Yes, it's hard to figure out just 'what happened to her'. She and I bonded in college over both of us being involved in Student Government. Both grew up lower middle class, both first in our families to graduate college, both worked our way through, neither of us were follow the crowd types. Over the years she drifted into the intellectual class, moved up the ladder in a foundation that started shifting leftward, never got her PhD but started hanging with that crowd, where I landed in the business world and kept going to the right. But we could still debate, disagree and stay friends. Trumps election in 2016 added a new layer of tension, the writing was on the wall, but don't think either of us wanted to see it. We were going through the motions. I am not sure what prompted her to come out of the blue and attack me but it was inevitable that the friendship was going to end. Guess it's kind of like people who stay in an unhappy marriage due to inertia and then the inevitable blow up happens and everyone goes "What happened?!" I care less that the friendship ended and more that she is not the same friend she was back when we were close. But suppose I am not the same either. I just have less tolerance for bullsh*t than I used to. Maybe a microcosm of conservatives as a whole. We were too nice, too non confrontational, too assured that common sense would prevail. Then Trump came along. I couldn't stand him at first, I was a Carson supporter and then I went to Cruz. But he's grown on me over the years, and while I still think his mouth runs faster than his brain at times, he is right that we need to punch back.
But yeah, most of my ex-friends were more just bandwagon people, don't pay enough attention to realize they are living in a fantasy world. Mark Twain "It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
It is like a grieving process when you lose a friendship like that 😞
I have very similar feelings about Trump, I definitely can identify with what you wrote.
You know, your description of your friend reminded me of a post Naomi Wolf wrote a while back, about fitting in with the leftist intellectual class. If you haven’t read it yet, you might find it an interesting read.
https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/how-not-to-become-a-sociopath-the
In case you’re interested 🙂
Thanks for sharing that. Yeah, 39 years, we had been through all kinds of ups and downs together. I am not sure it applies as much to her as she never really assimilated the lifestyle. Just the politics, and the religious fervor/'virtue'. This idea that the 'little people' need government cheese and guidance. And Wolf may have something there with the idea that it's about power. Wokism is her new religion. We were both Catholic although neither of us went to church much in our early 20's but I went back to it, and she wandered in and out until she pretty much quit going a decade or so ago. Got laid off from her job in 2020 and she and her hubby moved 3 hours away to be closer to her aging dad in early 2021 and it's a deep red area. Started complaining about how the people there were uncaring and 'ignoring covid' and being selfish for not getting jabbed. That her Hispanic husband 'faced discrimination and micro aggressions'. Never mind she ignored covid when she lived close, at least around me!? Too many Trump flags put her over the edge? Anyway, she used to have flashes of her old sanity so thought perhaps she would come around, but guess not. Her latest rant yelling at me that I had no compassion and was a bigot like Trump was the end of it. We'd argued before, but she never got personal.
I think a lot of it stems from an inferiority/superiority complex. People, especially those originally from modest backgrounds, feel out of place and like imposters and feel the need to prove they belong, so they mock and reject the populations they came from. They want to feel superior to others and belonging to this political tribe helps them do that. They all sneer at the ignorant bigot Trump voters and pay themselves on the back for being smarter 🙄
“Covid” is a word people use to explain an illness that they have never experienced before . With symptoms like loss of taste, or parosmia…stuff that is beyond the “normal “ flu symptoms/experiences we have all been used to.
You know *strange* baffling or particularly nasty symptoms they can’t categorize . …
It seems the word *covid* apparently triggers some people …
So , as an unvaxxed person trying to describe this *new* type of sick experience ….
It would be nice to know an alternative word ???
I caught the *Fauci *? Or I had *GOF* (gain of function) three times ??
One-ism is a dangerous philosophical attitude. Especially in a world wherein a huge multiplicity of agendas were being initiated and facilitated under a single cover of mass panic. As to the mass fixation on 'covid', all other agenda objectives were achieved beyond all dreams. To this day, for example, most people still don't know that the world's financial/economic problems were not initiated by the planetary covid lock-downs and mandates beginning March/April 2020. But instead, the world financial melt down was already well in progress by late August 2019. But to say the least, what a stroke of luck for the central bankers! With covid, nobody points a finger at them. Nope! Something else caused all the mess. Convenience is never to be belittled.
It is too much to go into here with arguing the word covid this way and that, and how Word Magic has led the entire world into doing that which they would otherwise not do on their own accord. So instead, here is a video which closely mirrors my own views, but in a much more professionally detailed way. When you are finished, you might go back an re-read what I have written and see if you can see it in another light. We all are, me including, prisoners of our own minds. If it were not so, we would not be living under total tyranny in West as we do so sadly now. The video is one of the best out there.
https://rumble.com/v2ohtte-physicist-dr-denis-rancourt-presents-his-findings-on-all-cause-mortality-ot.html
Wow I thought I was pretty well educated on all the BS but that was the first time I had heard antibiotic RX were cut in half. But this is why I don't like videos - where is the link to his source!? What time period? I have 2 friends who say their dads died of 'covid pneumonia' in early 2021, some kind of respiratory illness. Neither were poor though. But the were in their 80's and poor health. If they were not given antibiotics, I would say they died of malpractice!
Agreed ... but nonetheless everything fits a pattern already established as to 'official' sector Health Terrorism malfeasance. And so, antibiotics being withheld is not out of the question. It fits the narrative. And yet all cause mortality did not rise outside of normal parameters until after the jabs were administered.
Also, 'they' the ones behind this little operation run on us were smart enough not to do everything the same across the board. Not even the jab batches, as we now know, were not all the same. Some even seem to have been saline. Why? Maybe to scramble, play with our brains when looking at 'the data'?
I do know that if the public were knowledgeable on Health Terrorism (as well as everything else) that there would already be giant Nuremberg type trials all over the place. There is plenty of stuff out there enabling of criminal prosecutions. What do we get instead? A low grade clown show pretense of scrutiny. Unless we get some serious high level prosecutions and convictions with serious jail time, I am afraid that 'they' will do it again ... because that is what repeat offenders always do unless stopped dead in their tracks.
I agree …people do tend to get “fixated” on illness …as we are spiritual beings abiding in this often fragile physical body.
My goodness, we are known to talk about the aches and pains associated with something as mundane as aging .
I also agree, *Covid* certainly didn’t cause this mess and I am sincere when I say I’m happy to ditch the word Covid entirely.
I additionally agree with a single cover of mass panic …
Although…I’m probably still going to talk about my baffling *illness*
and Mr. Childers will probably continue to talk about the shot …
And I agree, we should all probably be focused on something else …
We are just so human.
I agree. And when I reflect back on the Obama years and Obama's use of the words 'radical transformation', I remember saying to myself ... "What the heck does that mean?" Now I know that Obama literally meant EVERYTHING. And now even 'hacking the wetware' meaning us, this too is I am afraid, a reality present and existential.
And actually, I just want to be human and back to normal. And let this demonic, insane world find an early grave.
Also, you might like this. It is a very coherent statement of things. All cause mortality is the difference between truth and fiction. The statement and conclusions are wider than the title would suggest.
https://rumble.com/v2ohtte-physicist-dr-denis-rancourt-presents-his-findings-on-all-cause-mortality-ot.html
Covid feels different from other innocuous Corona viruses. I’d trust the people who tell you this. Remember the virus mutates rapidly ( more so than naturally due to the leaky vaccines) and there is the possibility it changes enough to reinfect.
For anyone doing very deep research into what we're up against, the Substack below is amazing. Seems they really did create and release a Frankenstein, and they have no idea, not even conjecture, about why it is behaving the way it is. Don't miss for the deep research fans: https://harvard2thebighouse.substack.com/p/china-owns-nature-magazines-ass-6f8?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
This 💯
I had covid early in 2020 (hate antibodies) and again in 2021 and 2022. I am not vaccinated I do NOT get flu shots; have never had flu. I tested negative for flu and positive on covid on rapid and PCR. You feel really different with covid than a cold. It’s real. It’s a bio-weapon and you need to treat it early if you get it. The FLCCC saw many sad cases. But yes, did most survived it. It does mutate. I have never had long covid because I do take it seriously.
And treat early.
My NYS relatives get it over and over, and I think they buy those tests by the gross. And no matter what we tell them, they think we are just those crazy Floridians. I have Togo north to see my mom, just turned 94. She's starting to lose it, but I refuse to fly now, and don't want to force my bride, suffering herself, to go on that trip. So I think I'll be driving myself up there.
He's right