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There you have it: the rules for dealing with conflict in Dr. Cohen’s world: if someone says anything that challenges your belief system (which is set by the FDA and CDC who can do no wrong and must not be questioned), you simply politely tell them that they are wrong and to never talk to you again.

Dr. Cohen’s behavior is exemplary. He did exactly as he was told. His critical thinking skills have been wiped out, likely decades ago. He doesn’t question the narrative.

THE GLORIOUS DEAD - What a telling screen shot. The glorious living dead protecting the glorious living.

I like this screenshot: the enforcers are clearly having a really good time. Be quiet. Do not move. Hide. Be afraid. Be very afraid. My message to the enforcers is this: if you are also sick of this shit, let me take your hand and guide you to the dancefloor-street. You won’t need a mask. And you won’t need a weapon.

The take home message of this post is this: ignore their non-science-based militant rules and live your life as a fully functioning, robust living entity. Their rules are not laws. They do not trump unwritten law. They do not trump statutory laws. They cannot decide for you what happens to your body. I am all for infrastructure and law - of course I am - but I am not into totalitarianism. We have to learn and retain the differences between these methods of organizing groups.

By the way, if you’re reading this and you disagree with me, then that’s fine too. You and I can co-exist. For the more persistent and hardcore disagree-ers, know that there are places in the world where you can go live under totalitarian rule. I personally don’t want that. Not one bit of me wants that. And I don’t think anyone who fled places like that, want that. I think a good solution does indeed revolve around the freedom (illusion) to choose. For those who want the rules and the shots and the dictates and the digital tracking, please, choose to go to where those things exist and will continue to reign. But for those of us/you who want to live in a free nation, where democracy, intelligence and balance can hypothetically exist, then choose that. Choose to re-create that. Choose by acting. In order for re-creation to ‘happen’, the current systems need to be dismantled. In order for that to ‘happen’, we have to start somewhere. That’s all I know for now.

So cunning creators, benevolent balancers of equations, lovers of logistics and innovators of infrastructure, punch into your power and do everything you can to unite the others. This is going to be fun.

https://jessicar.substack.com/p/whoever-makes-the-music-controls?source=patrick.net

THE GLORIOUS DEAD - What a telling screen shot. The glorious living dead protecting the glorious living.

I like this screenshot: the enforcers are clearly having a really good time. Be quiet. Do not move. Hide. Be afraid. Be very afraid. My message to the enforcers is this: if you are also sick of this shit, let me take your hand and guide you to the dancefloor-street. You won’t need a mask. And you won’t need a weapon.

The take home message of this post is this: ignore their non-science-based militant rules and live your life as a fully functioning, robust living entity. Their rules are n...

If the Georgia Guidestones are an accurate declaration(?), Covid is not going to be the only thing we will have to contend with before this decade closes out.

HOW TO EXPLAIN THE LEFT?

A favorite pastime amongst conservatives is to point at the many incosistencies of the leftist agenda:

“Where is #MeToo when Biden is accused of harrassment?”

“Why does nobody care about mass shootings committed by blacks?”

“Why is nobody talking about anti-Asian crimes anymore, now that it’s obvious they are all committed by blacks?”

“Why is it safe to demonstrate for BLM during the pandemic but not to go to church?”

“How is Antifa just ‘an idea’ but the burnt down houses are real?”

While I find these inconsistencies to be amusing, it is very silly to think that pointing them out will impress, or persuade, anybody on the Left. Why? Because these inconsistencies are not a bug, they are a feature. Meaning, having one set of rules for BLM demonstrators and another set of rules for good ol’ American church-goers is how the leftist agenda is designed.

This leads me to the Romo Razor. Given the smashing success of the Romo Rule of Assimilation, here is Romo’s Razor – When you can’t find an explanation for the Left’s behavior, try the simplest one: They are after destroying America. Once you apply the Romo Razor, things become very clear: BLM riots can be used against America, therefore they shall be sanctified. Going to church is a feature of traditional America, therefore it should be banned.

Mass shootings committed by whites are a good assault on the Second Amendment and America’s traditional liberties; mass shootings committed by blacks are uncomfortable, so no need to bring those up. The #MeToo movement is useful for attacking conservative judges, upholding America’s Constitution, but it has no use if applied against a leftist presidential candidate.

“Science” is a great thing to invoke when attempting an administrative takeover of America’s free exchange system in the name of environmentalism; however, no need to bother with “science” when making up 72 additional genders in an attempt to dismantle the traditional American family.

The Romo Razor is the Left’s modus operandi. Each and every “policy” suggestion made by the Left is aimed at one thing: The dismantlement of traditional America. Packing the Supreme Court, mass immigration, environmentalism, “reproductive rights,” inter-sectionality (that contradiction-riddled alliance of the aggrieved against the common enemy of traditional Americans), defacing statues, sanctifying new holidays, all of it.

In the words of Roger Scruton, more measured than my own rhetoric, the Left has embraced a culture of repudiation. It is animated by the desire to repudiate the past, our shared legacy, and our shared institutions. To justify this desire, a hodgepodge of “-isms” and “studies” are invoked, and a nebulous cloud of pseudo-terms is created: Intersectionalism, white privilege, equity, diversity, social justice, etc. All of these things are aimed at one thing which is the repudiation and dismantlement of traditional society.

Like the French Jacobins and their philosophes, attacking the Church only to replace it with a new blasphemous religion, our new revolutionaries are consistent in only one thing: Their desire to destroy what is ours.

More examples of deference to authority figures:

Parents in California trust Governor Newsom for medical advice as to what to inject into their kids. If Gavin mandates it for schools, parents comply. Gavin knows best (even though Gavin is vaccine injured from his booster (he got GBS) and will not vaccinate his kids).

Employees in the US trust their companies to tell them what to inject into their body. And others trust their doctors for medical advice. ...

Other medical professionals will dismiss it as “fake news.” That is how they deal with the cognitive dissonance. Other events like this are dismissed similarly. ...

My daughters’ universities (Harvard Business School and University of Rochester) are both requiring them to have a booster to return to school. I can show them study after study showing this is unnecessary and it harms my child. Will this make a bit of difference? Absolutely not! Trying to convince these people is a complete waste of my time and theirs. Their thinking is effectively, “If the CDC says it is good, it is good. Nobody can question the CDC. They are the world’s experts and they are always right and they always have our health as their top priority.” Nobody is going to listen to de-platformed conspiracy theorists who say the vaccines are unsafe. Come on. These organizations are way too smart to waste any time on that.

Mass testing will not control the spread of omicron, because asymptomatic people will not test — and if we quarantine millions of asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic people, we will shut down the economy and our school system. And vaccination mandates will simply result in supply chain shortages, including within our health care system, as well as ugly social divisions.

So, why pursue useless — no, counterproductive — COVID-19 restrictions?

Because the big-government lie must be maintained. It is an article of faith. And faith requires reason-free sacrifice — it requires skin in the game, demonstration of devotion. To pursue rational policy would evidence no fealty to the notion of government-as-protective-god. To pursue irrational policy and then demand obeisance — this is the mark of the faithful. And if you are not faithful, you are a heretic.

And so regulatory genuflection becomes a test of virtue. Effectuating strict regulations is a sign of moral strength, of belief in the myth of government as catholicon. Pushing back against those restrictions is a sign of heresy.

because asymptomatic people will not test

I have continually wondered why so many people have reacted so irrationally and fearfully to the Coronavirus(es). I perceive several reasons. Sadly, many Americans have high baseline anxiety. Others were driven by political rooting interests; they knew that disrupting society over Covid would enable Trump’s ouster and facilitate continuing, encompassing social and electoral control. And many consume, and actually believe, alarmist mainstream media. ...

In addition to the foregoing reasons, I’m convinced that many people have wanted to ... live through an exciting, society-wide, anything-could-happen crisis...

I knew lockdowns were a terrible idea from Day 1. The “History” that has happened has not been a viral wave, but the unprecedented, extreme, destructive overreaction to it. Since when do we lock down an entire society for a respiratory virus, especially when only unhealthy, old or obese people are at risk? BTW, well over 95% of the old, unhealthy, infected survived without treatment. ...

Related to feeling like they’re part of some grand historical event, the Corona fearful people suffer deficits of meaning in their lives. Coronamania enabled them to fill this void. The “Pandemic(!) has given them something to which to devote themselves. ...

The “We’re all in this together” and the demonstrably false “my mask—and then my vaxx—protect you” propaganda was targeted very effectively at the meaning seekers.

Taking steps to “stop the spread” felt heroic to them. They could claim—and often did on the Net—that they cared more about their fellow Americans than did those who opposed lockdowns, masks and “vaxxes.” They saw— and incredibly, still see— themselves as occupying higher moral ground; though people who purport to care so deeply about the elderly dying with the virus did not, in my awareness, frequently visit nursing homes before the Scamdemic.

Being heroic has never been as easy as during Coronamania. Covid heroism has entailed staying home and watching Netflix or YouTube, ordering takeout meals and groceries, wearing political theater masks, taking a few injections and sending mean tweets about those who questioned the worth of any of that nonsense. The Corona “social distancing” measures weren’t hard for the misanthropic or introverted, or for those who got paid not to work, or received other “free” government money and could skip their commutes. ...

Overall, the Corona fearful want to show that, by relying on their smarts and sacrifice, they will slay a formidable foe. This is ludicrous. The data show what has been obvious from Day 1: nearly everyone survives infection, and humans can’t crush respiratory viruses. Various politicians are hoping that many Americans will remain as gullible as they have been for the past 22 months, and that many voters will mistakenly credit government interventions for improving statistics. But many tens of millions have developed natural immunity and the virus is weakening naturally. Additionally, many people have found and used inexpensive, effective preventive measures and therapeutics, despite the government’s active, sinister efforts to suppress knowledge about self-care. ...

Ultimately, it’s been painful to see that normal life is so unsatisfying for many people that they’ve been willing to drop a nuclear bomb on society in order to live out a crisis fantasy.

William Swan

I must confess Mark that I am baffled/bewildered by this Covid hoax thing. I will be 95 next birthday. I grew up during the depression. I am a WWll and Korean War veteran. I have out lived two wonderful wives and one of my eight children. Life has been, at times, an extremely eventful experience. I have many friends, relatives,and colleagues that have had similar life experiences. My point is that none of the catastrophic events, global, national, local or personal have caused the kind of situation that we are seeing today.

What are people of today made of, that they will so easily be herded into cowering in their homes like mindless animals.

look at her fawning, rapturous face as he suggests that we do not tolerate these unclean people.

she is outright salivating to do this.

she quivers in anticipation.

she cannot wait to indulge her delicious fantasies of being beastly to people while feeling righteous about it because she’s been granted an indulgence as a holy warrior.

that is a face of religious ecstasy.

this is her dream.

this is her happy place.

and there are many more like her.

demagogues do not make people evil, they reveal the evil that was there all along.

they give those in which it is resident license to not only express but to revel in their basest desires.

mell says

I'm so done with with this bullshit I started directly confronting jabbers and paranoid leftoid pansies, friend, foe, family zero fucks given.

Yes, and any dip that says: "I follow the science" should get asked "What does polymerase mean?" "What is a B and a T cell, and how do they relate to long term immunity?" "You have no idea? Then you are just blindly following the propaganda, as these items are very basic science."

i hope that guy in the back makes it through OK….

vaccinated vast numbers of their citizens with mRNA and DNA vaccines that appeared hugely effective in clinical trials.

Patrick says

vaccinated vast numbers of their citizens with mRNA and DNA vaccines that appeared hugely effective in clinical trials.

FOI releases from Pfizer have shown "highly effective in clinical trials" to be bogus as well.

Calling these things "vaccines" is a really bad idea. Once people call them "vaccines" they are implicitly conceding that they are the same type of thing as conventional vaccines.

January 5, 2022
France suspends debates after Macron admitted he wants to “piss off” those without a vaccine passport

Corona persists, because in early 2020, a lot of people with outsized social, economic and political influence were converted into to a parareligious belief system about how best to manage a respiratory virus. This system has been reinforced by months of hysterical press coverage; by bad propaganda disease statistics; and by an imprudent, heavily policed scientific consensus. These all started life as a coordinated information campaign to promote and enforce Chinese-style authoritarian lockdowns in the West. Since then, the propaganda has become an autonomous, self-sustaining media and bureaucratic organism, driven by the personal fears and convictions of untold thousands of people, and nobody can shut it off.

if you hold a view with sufficient strength and commitment, especially if this is a view you have woven into your identify and proudly promulgated to others, hectoring and posing and portraying it as virtue, letting go is no mean feat.

the dogma has become you and you have become reliant upon it for support and structure. those who mutter in their madness the same phrases over and over as they rock back and forth upon the ground are not trying to convince you.

they are trying to convince themselves.

they will bend fact and ignore plain reality to protect the fictions upon which they have predicated their lives and legends.

they will distort and disavow anything they must to keep this piece of personal ego intact and safe from challenge it cannot, in fair contest, withstand. ...

all perspective was lost to hobgoblins and we surrendered to the neurocracy: rule by the most neurotic; and those who have been atop this newfound karentopia would like to stay there. ...




this is not helping.

this is not concern.

this is not empathy.

this is taking a paranoid schizophrenic and prescribing them a handgun and then telling them to shoot at the voices. (and then forcing us to live in the house with them while they do)

In a decision reached seemingly overnight, the New Zealand government suddenly announced that it would vaccinate the entire country with the Pfizer vaccine, after having previously announced the purchase of multiple other brands. Apparently, the public would not be offered a choice. I found this odd. And when I began to investigate the agreements between South American countries and Pfizer in which Pfizer had demanded embassies and military bases as collateral, I was alarmed.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/kitten-corner-trunk-show-and-tell/comments?source=patrick.net

How is this teacher not in prison?

With Coronamania having taken a sledge hammer to social life, one has to expend greater effort to have face to face contact with family and friends. If your past 22 months have resembled mine, some of your peeps have deeply internalized the madness. They no longer view you as someone who has shared important life experiences, or a thousand laughs, with them. Your new identity is as a viral vector: someone who will likely infect them and land them in the hospital, where they will die!

I call this group of people “ex-friends.” I wrote about them a while ago.

LOSING FRIENDS AND ALIENATING FAMILY DURING THE CORONAVIRUS SCAMDEMIC (substack.com)

I didn’t think it was possible, but Covid Era life has gotten even weirder since the 2021 Vaxx Crusade began. People who know me tend to know, or suspect, that I have not injected. And I won’t. Though I’m not like a vegan who is driven to tell everyone about his status.

Since you asked, here are my reasons, summarized: I’m at functionally zero risk of dying from a Coronavirus infection. So are you. I don’t know what’s in those shots, nor do I know their long term effects. Neither do you. And everyone I know who’s been infected in the past six months has been injected; the group of injected/infected grows each week. Yeah, yeah, I know: “It woulda been worse if they hadn’t ‘vaxxed.’”

Except that it wouldn’t have been.

Additionally, by way of comparison, no “unvaxxed” person I know has been infected.

I don’t want Pharma to get credit for saving humanity when the shots were not needed in the first place: 99.98% of those basically healthy and under 65 survive infection, even without treatment. And the shots have already injured and killed many thousands.

But facts haven’t mattered for two years. All that’s mattered are greatly exaggerated fear, politics and virtue signaling.

Omicron is a highly contagious variant with immune escape features. The vaccinators can vaccinate all they want, but their vaccines will not stop the waves of infection to come. A lot of the hyperbolic rhetoric about Corona was put about in the hopes that the most everyone wouldn’t be infected. They thought they could terrify people for a few years, vaccinate them, and harvest their gratitude for saving them from the worst respiratory virus since SARS. Now, though, it it is clear that everyone will have personal experience with Corona infection, whether or not they are vaccinated. This will destroy popular faith in measures, it will erode confidence in the vaccines, and it will do away with fear of the virus. Maybe a few people somewhere will still support containment, after two years of heavy restrictions, mandated vaccinations, and personal experience with infection, but I doubt there will be very many of them.

it’s already ending. masks are not going to work. they’re a talisman and a form of public health performance art cosplay. the evidence for this is literally overwhelming and was knowable, has been proven time and time again for covid, and has been known for 100 years.

the WHO knew it in 2019. masks cannot even stop flu, and flu is far less aerosol than covid. a 150nm virion takes weeks to fall to the floor in still air. tell me again how waiting to sit down to unmask makes one iota of difference…

US standing pandemic guidelines expressed it.

they are not source protection.

they do not work in schools.

even the feckless fauci knew it once upon a time.

and no, N95’s are no different.

so why do we keep doing it?

it’s because masks are the low energy panic reflex. lockdowns were too severe to sustain. the damage was too great and not even the fear raddled leaders could maintain them or had the inclination to try again.

but masks are a lesser ask. they are highly visible, performative, require personal action, and provide visible evidence of government governing and public health “doing something.”

but it’s all sugar pills. it will do nothing to stop covid. it is, quite literally, a wubbie in a thunderstorm.

BUT, and this is a massive “but”, because the timing of panic in a gompertz curve is so reliably the point right when things have already started getting better but before this is readily visible to people not looking at it properly, the people who put these policies into play and their societal victims are going to mistake it for efficacy.

they do it time and time again.

and because they have no control group, we wind up here:

LA Times Columnist: When Unvaxxed Die, We Need to Celebrate
Leftists are the caring and compassionate ones, and don't you forget it.

In this coordinated propaganda and censorship response, we can clearly see the hands of the BBC-led Trusted News Initiative, the Scientific Technological Elite, the transnational investment funds and their World Economic Forum allies which control Pfizer and most of Big Pharma, Legacy Media and Big Tech (and many national governments) acting in real time to suppress a growing awareness by the general public of having been actively manipulated using crowd psychology tools to generate clinically significant fear and anxiety of COVID-19 (otherwise known as “Coronaphobia”) to advance their agendas on a global scale. Multiple governments have now admitted to actively using fear and 'Mass Formation'-related theories as a tool for totalitarian population control during this outbreak. This is occurring at the same time that Omicron is destroying the legitimacy of government and WHO propaganda concerning the “Safe and Effective” mRNA vaccines and associated mandates.

Such a state of things went on and took effect up to a certain period; but, with the increase of deaths and desolation, and the terror of the survivors, these officers came to be, as it were, exempted from all supervision; they constituted themselves, the monatti… the arbiters of everything.

Coming Clean: Why I’m Taking a Stand Against COVID Vaccines
Cory Zue, an “MIT-educated, well-meaning, rational (hopefully), Massachusetts-born, Democrat who works in public health” explains why he didn’t get the COVID vaccine, and why it isn’t okay to live in a world in which medical procedures can be forced on people without an impenetrable foundation of evidence to support them.

For most people my vaccination status is surprising. For many, it’s incomprehensible.

How could an MIT-educated, well-meaning, rational (hopefully), Massachusetts-born, Democrat who works in public health still not have a COVID vaccine?

Facts don't work - they are aimed at the neocortex. And the pro-ganda is aimed at stirring up herd feeling through the mammalian brain, and a fear reflex in the reptilian brain. Ability to process facts is pretty much disabled.