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proposition 1: if politicians are bought and sold, the sort of people attracted to politics will be grifters.

this seems a natural outcome. politics becomes a goody room and the kinds of people that excel at conning others and compromising morals will chase the gold rush.

proposition 2: grifters gonna grift

sure, this is basically tautological, but it contains a meaningful implication that ought be drawn out: grifters are con and confidence people. they need a song and dance, a schtick, a story, something to not only pack the rubes into the tent but to separate them from their wallets. they need a reason to take big actions, take your stuff, and to give it to someone else (or at least to make you do it for them). they need a malady for which to sell you their magical elixir.

proposition 3: grifting turns politics into “story time”

the story does not have to be true. in many ways it’s better if it’s not as you get a lot more optionality. but the story needs a villain and the story needs a plan. but most of all, the story needs a sucker and that sucker is the demos. the confidence conclave needs to convince the audience to go along with the grift, and they either manage to do so or, if they cannot, are rapidly replaced by more compelling carnival barkers who can. those who buy politicians pay for performance.

proposition 4: story time makes the people into rubes.

as they fall for these stories, the people become rubes. they genuinely believe the grift and clamor to pay for the shiny products on display even and especially when this is just lining the pockets of con men that they have mistaken for leaders. they become true believers. and here is where it takes a bit of a turn:

proposition 5: true believers are more believable than grifters.

people are, at subconscious levels, good at spotting lies. this makes grifts hard to keep going for long periods. it’s also why the hegemonic huckster class is wont to surround itself with zealots and activists. these people add a patina of credibility to the whole affair because their sincerity shines through. and this is how it gets out of control.

proposition 6: the demos starts to prefer true believers to grifters and elect them to office

once the “story” is sufficiently set in the public consciousness, the public starts to seek out its most devout and vivid tellers and these are nearly always of the “true believer” class. they simply have more energy, honesty, and intensity than the carnival barkers ever could. they are singing the gospel and meaning it and they come to power as a sort of trickle then a torrent that changes the crooked circus midway into something more like an old timey revival tent. and so the intensification cycle begins.

proposition 7: the more fervent new leaders tell more intense stories.

the true believer tells a more strident and demanding story. they are no longer grifting, they are evangelizing. this brings new levels of vehemence, less tolerance for any other ideas, and proselytizing zeal.

proposition 8: more intense stories make the public more committed to the story.

and this in turn further arouses the public to greater belief and commitment which in turn increases demand for stridency in leaders and round and round it goes until some sort of intensity maximization is reached, usually when the wheels start coming off. and this is a huge problem because, as we flash back to old axioms, one must realize:

proposition 9: the true believers do not know that the grift is a grift.

what began as crony corporatism and scam has become a secular religion/activism cult. its false and facile tenets designed to separate fools from their money and enrich special interests have become sincerely held ideological dogma and those who will preach it to you have been strained and selected until only the most gullible and zealous remain.

and so we arrive at gato’s postulate:

a democratic government powerful enough to dictate that which is bought and sold will inevitably devolve into rule by rube.

and this is how you wind up with government where the people running the scam not only have no conception that they are running a scam but have subsumed their entire identities into it.

and they have no idea how anything works.

they were flat out selected for not knowing how anything works.

This is just a little summary of what went down over the last few years. The insanity of it all gets to me sometimes. Everything about it was like living in a dystopian nightmare. Starting with the utter insanity that a vaccinated person has anything to fear from an unvaccinated person if they believe their vaccines work.

If vaccines work, there is absolutely ZERO reason to fear an unvaccinated person if you yourself are vaccinated! None! No reason. You’re protected, right?

So there is no reason at all for vaccine mandates. None. That was just governments practicing medical tyranny.




... And since the jabs have so many “side” effects, some of us just don’t want to risk injury for no efficacy! They were not safe or effective at all. Except…







And why if they were required of us citizens, why weren’t they required of the illegal immigrants ivading our border? And if Covid is so deadly why was the border left open anyway?




Meanwhile, this is how governments are excusing themselves from responsibility for all the bad jab effects. The legal definition of the word mandate at the time of the rollout of the mRNA bioweapon Covid vax was "a request to voluntarily comply" (they have since updated it) which means they didn't make you do it. They asked you to voluntarily do it and you did. Oh and they didn't make you get vaxxed, your employer did even though governments told employers to do this. Verbal escape artists, they are.

Now they’re back tracking and trying to convince us they never said anyone would not get Covid if he/she took the vax. But they are lying again!




Ultimately employers did make people vax themselves by forcing them to choose between their job or the death shot. Most people could not afford to give up their only source of income so they were in reality coerced into complying.

Of course the companies were told by government representatives (Governors and Mayors) to do this. But sure, let’s put all the blame on the companies and sue them! That way the governments escape all blame and financial consequences too.

And the distraction/circus continues while the Monsters plot more devious deeds.

Not saying the companies weren’t complicit. Obviously not enough of them stood up to the Monster and they should have! But some businesses refused to shut down and government thugs arrested owners and shut the businesses down anyway. They too were under threat.

Meanwhile many of our fellow citizens decided to become complete Nazi jerks to those of us who resisted the bioweapon vaccine tyranny, thus helping the government dictators who trampled our rights. These people should be ashamed, but they probably aren’t.

It’s kind of spirit breaking to find out people actually have this much vitriol in their souls for people who pose no threat to them at all but just want to live in unvaccinated peace. We weren’t the ones forcing people to do anything! Go get them if you want them! Just leave us alone!

And how about this little gem: A lawyer and Presidential candidate hedging his bet with legalese doublespeak. Trying to sound benevolent while keeping that back door open to government medical tyranny. Really just a softer version of the above opinions. It’s “My body, my choice” UNLESS …










The Emergency Use Authorization states:

“For the FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition.”

This is why they had to demonize Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine….There had to be no alternative products that would help. But of course, they would have helped and did help when they were used.




...By the way they are now going to try this again with Bird Flu and Bird Flu vaccines. Could it be because they want to scare everyone out of voting in person again?

Patrick et al,

Do you change your mind if a much deadlier virus is released?

Do you change your mind if a much deadlier virus is released?

GNL says

Patrick et al,

Do you change your mind if a much deadlier virus is released?

And you think the vaxx will be any less deadly?

I’ve always believed that if they really wanted to TPTB can win any way they want to play it. Either kill by released gain of function virus or by a deadly “vaccine”. Either way, they win.

GNL says

I’ve always believed that if they really wanted to TPTB can win any way they want to play it. Either kill by released gain of function virus or by a deadly “vaccine”. Either way, they win.

Had they won we would be eating bugs in our 15 minute cities while taking our quarterly vaxx update.

There are more of us than them.

Not after we hang them all.

I don’t think you’ll be able to exact justice because you won’t be able to get near them.

Oh, we're near them all the time. Everyone is.

They have much larger footprints than you or I. They have servants, they have bureaucracies, many many people know who they are and where they live.

True. Notice that no employer or college president who mandated the vaxx has been shot by a parent/spouse who had a loved one die from that mandated vaxx.

True, the Federal Reserve can just credit the bank accounts of anyone they need to bribe. It was Vivek Ramaswamy who pointed this out. I was impressed when I heard him say it.

And the Fed has never been audited, so there is no way to know what they are doing with the money they create from nothing.

The Federal Reserve is the enemy of transparency and of the freedom to keep the money you earn.

The natural routes of entry into the human body, be they for food, air, or reproduction, do not include penetrating the skin. This mode of introduction of foreign material is inherently unnatural, abnormal, and potentially dangerous. When truly necessary and properly performed it should be used, but when unnecessary it should be avoided.

When you recoil at the thought of a needle penetrating your skin and injecting you with something, this is a normal, sensible, and self-preservatory reaction. You may note that this aversion to needles is similar to how you would feel about a mosquito, a leech, a snake bite, or even a knife in your back. This is not a coincidence.

Parasites, poisoners, and predators come in many sizes, shapes, and species. Become as knowledgeable as possible about anything you allow to be done to you. Listen to your own God-given body. Trust your own instincts. Learn to say no. Protect your bodily integrity. Protect yourself.

To say the awful reality of Biden’s diminished capacity shattered Democrat world views too-narrowly skates over the even more profound implications. For just one example, everyone just found out, beyond any legitimate argument, that the White House and the entire media have been covering for Biden, lying in other words, about the single most important fact about the single most important decision facing the entire world: can Biden put on his pants one leg at a time like everyone else?

Beyond the confirmed disclosure of coordinated media dishonesty, there are a thousand thousand more implications, all exploding from the debate in slow motion like shards of shattered glass.

The horror of right-wing thought crime is eternally lurking in the progressive imagination, waiting menacingly to destroy the prospects of their utopia.

https://fiddlersgreene.substack.com/p/the-dissident-right-and-its-discontents

The horror of right-wing thought crime is eternally lurking in the progressive imagination, waiting menacingly to destroy the prospects of their utopia.

These "ambassadors of Truth" remain remarkably unmoved when it later turns out that the story they defended uncritically was wrong. The corona crisis abundantly demonstrated this. Almost everything about the mainstream narrative turned out to be wrong: the virus was bred in a lab rather than arising from zoonosis; the mortality of the virus was at least ten times lower than stated; the vaccine did not prevent the spread of the virus and had many more side effects than suggested, and so on.

The reaction of the population when the lies are revealed is especially astonishing. Hannah Arendt put it this way: "The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness" (The Origins of Totalitarianism p. 382).

Kyle Warner, After Speaking Out About His Jab Injury: "I've never experienced such hate in my life"
C Talk, November 14, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7wuzX-YofE

-This was filmed and posted shortly after Kyle Warner gave his testimony on his jab injury at Senator Johnson's Roundtable in Washington DC on November 2, 2021. For a transcript of that testimony, and link to the source video, see https://transcriberb.dreamwidth.org/155986.html

KYLE WARNER [crying]: I need to be done. Just, like, social media, and done with all these things for a while and until I can get better. Because I've never, I've never experienced such hate in my life. And I don't know how, I don't know how people are supposed to deal with it.

Like, I think I finally just broke today. But I don't, I don't know what to do. Like, I, I hate my life so much right now.

And the the sad thing is that, like, like, I'm getting attacked from both sides so hard, and I'm just a du—, like I'm just a guy, I'm trying to just do the right thing I just want to share my story. I want to tell people what's going on. And then it's, like, you can't say anything now with the way things are. And, like, I just don't know what to do anymore. And I've been so suicidal the past couple weeks and, like, I've just been trying so hard to get through this whole thing and to try to get better and then, like, I don't know, going to DC and seeing the people that are injured and, like, I'm lucky that I'm, I'm probably gonna be OK physically, but I don't know emotionally anymore because and, you know, I have a lot of love and support and I appreciate that, but it's so hard to just be constantly berated by people all the time just for trying to share my story. And, like, all I've tried to do this whole time is to advocate for a conversation. I'm not trying to tell you what to do or tell you what not to do, I'm just saying, here's a data point that you can look at and factor into your decision. Because I will tell you right now that, like, my life has completely changed. And I've lost friends, I've lost family members, I've lost all of these things just by going through this situation.

And, like, I got, I got vaccinated to try to do my part, and, you know, I got injured, which sucks and it's a rare thing, right? But it doesn't feel rare when it happens to you. But if I would have got covid and if i would have all these same symptoms and dealt with this whole thing through covid I wouldn't be hated so much.

Like, I don't know how, I don't know how the toxicity of people has become worse than the disease that we're fighting. Like, we've done such a shitty job as people of trying to remain human.

I, just, it's so hard because people don't know, people don't know what this is like until it happens to you. And I empathize with people that have had issues with covid, I empathize with people that have had other issues throughout pandemic or other things, right? But to be injured by this thing that's so toxic in society where you can't even talk, and you can't get support, you can't tell people even. Like, I had a hard time finding a therapist because when you say vaccine injury they're, like, oh you're crazy.

And it's like, I don't know what we're supposed to do as people. And I'm just sad at where we are right now. And like I said, I'm gonna take a break for a while.

And so, yeah, I just wanted to kind of post this and like I said, I'm sorry that I can't continue to speak out for the people that do need it. But just please try to be, like, more kind and empathetic to people. Because it's hard. No one wants to go through this stuff. No one. I never wanted to be a part of this. I don't want to be a voice for this. And this is sad what they do to people that try to speak out and tell their story, you know?

So, yeah. Thank you guys for everything. I promise I'm not, I'm not gonna, like, commit suicide or anything but I, I've been thinking about it a lot lately and just how much easier it would be just to not have to deal with all this stuff. And then it scares me because I don't want to, I don't want to think that way, and I just want to get back to normal. I just want to be a positive influence, you know? I don't want to be, I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to be injured.

And I just hope people realize that the whole time all I've been trying to do and trying to advocate for is just, like, I just want the conversation to be had. And yesterday someone just told me that I need to stop asking for money because it look, it makes me look like a peasant, or it makes me look pitiful. I'm, like, I've never I've never asked for money. This isn't about money this is about liability. That's all it is, it's about liability, like, who has the liability here? And when someone's making money off of this whole thing, there needs to be liability. Period. Because my life is affected drastically drastically, and I'm lucky. Our of my react19 group[1] 6 people committed suicide in the past month or so. Like, this is a real thing. There's no one to talk to, there's no one to go to, and then everything's censored.

So I tried to be that voice, and I was just driving to a doctor's appointment this morning and I just kind of broke down and pulled over, and then I just, I don't want to have to go through emotion again like I said, so I'm just making this video. But thank you guys for watching it and I don't know if there is anything, like, I'm just so scared about losing our livelihood and losing our jobs and I don't know if there's, I don't know what to do.

So hopefully next time it'll be a better video but, yeah, thank you guys for everything, I really appreciate it. And just please, like, try to be nicer to people that you don't understand.

An entire layer of society promotes suicidal ideas and is intent upon implementing them despite considerable hostility from the public. Climate initiatives that threaten economic destruction, authoritarian policies reminiscent of fascism, and assaults on our culture and history where nothing is safe from cancellation, condemnation, or even destruction. None of it makes sense.

We are told this is how the world works now. The elites wish it to be, and they possess a destructive urge to reshape Western nations into something more useful to their plans.

We understand liberal democracies are managed through narratives. Elites mould public opinion via academia and corporate media to ensure their own goals are met. What then emerges is a series of unexamined values which the uncritical adopt as if they originated within their own minds. ...

The systems used in Western nations are designed to reward loyalty to the ruling regime. There are tangible benefits for the obedient, including jobs, sinecures and status. But this fails to explain the enthusiasm we witness for the destruction of the West.

Those who enjoy million-dollar salaries are easy to understand. This is also true for the prominent in celebrityland such as politicians and movie stars. They profit directly.

But what about the nobodies? What about the ladies in HR aggressively pursuing inclusion policies that would eliminate their own husbands and sons? Why do part-time workers in remote municipal libraries erect posters to remind us about climate emergencies, or book drag queens to read to children?

Their belief systems rarely bear scrutiny. It is doubtful the part-time librarian can articulate much about climate science or gay culture. When such low-ranking regime minions are challenged on these policies they often flounder. There is little behind their convictions except scripted platitudes, like nursery rhymes for adults. Inclusion, tolerance, and saving the rain forests. Believe all women; no human is illegal; my body, my choice. The slogans betray the borrowed nature of their worldview. ...

Multiculturalism is pursued in Western countries with a religious mania. It is difficult to imagine anything closer to a belief system for today’s upwardly mobile professional than advocating for diversity and inclusion.

Most of the world views ethnic and cultural mixing as a dangerous, civilization ending activity. A threat to be guarded against, not an opportunity to be embraced. This has been the conventional view throughout history in almost every society. ...

What the dullards in the corporate HR world miss is that this is not a celebration of diversity. Most of those elites are nearly identical. Many attended the same universities. All speak English, the international language. They have similar views, including contempt for their respective compatriots.

There is no diversity at the very top, just an elitist outlook most of them share, and contempt for the peasants who surround them. White, brown, or black, we all look the same from the cultural stratosphere. Cannon fodder for their Olympian ideas, but nothing more. The elite view of mass migration is indifference, not enthusiasm. ...

While elites and their public relations machine happily endorse this misplaced emphasis on tolerance, all evidence suggests the elites themselves are not tolerating anything, despite what their obedient minions may think. They really are indulging in the cocaine-fuelled all-star human sacrifice orgies for real because they are cosmically bored and rich.

They aren’t rising above intrinsic disgust responses, they have sexualized them. They seem to have fetishized everything we consider unacceptable. Trafficked kids, femboys, chicks with dicks, gangbangs, farmyard orgies, human sacrifice, the lot.

They may even experience a thrill in seeing just how far they can push public morality as many have suggested, and especially how far they can get otherwise normal middle-class people to champion deviancy and hedonism most cultures find distasteful enough to ban.

The excessive promotion of tolerance is a defence against unnatural practices bored elites are rumoured to engage in. The professional class, for all their faults, probably aren’t into human sacrifice or animal orgies. So their response is to elevate the importance of visible acceptance of alternative lifestyles, hence gay kids, castrated boys, invented genders and other absurdities they cannot possibly believe themselves, and all of it instantly conveyed to one’s peers with nothing more than a multicoloured flag. ...

Unlike the hedonistic globalist elites the professional types are fairly normal. Suburbia normal. Boring and unlikely to challenge the regime in any capacity. How much of their behaviour is because their own lives lack any real meaning? People with nice houses and good jobs and normal lives, with just enough leisure time to realize they have accomplished little. Enough to recognize they are no different from the working class they despise.

In that world all you’ve really got to distinguish yourself from people you disdain are those luxury beliefs the racists, the homophobes and the climate terrorists don’t understand.

The midwit professionals cannot help looking down at those unimpressive normals unable to escape the grubbiness of the real world, especially those who make their living from it like plumbers and electricians. The uneducated who can’t make the mental leap to support trannified kids or ending all personal transport to save the polar bears. They can’t see the bigger picture. So they won’t sacrifice for the planet, for the refugees, or the gender confused.

The grounding in reality most of us possess is misunderstood by the professional class and taken as evidence of their own superior insight into the real problems plaguing modern society. ...

This then is our professional class, those who run our society. Our journalists and media experts, our professors and schoolteachers, our scientists and doctors, our intelligence chiefs and senior policemen. This is the societal strata that is throwing us off a cliff to service their own inadequacies and their endless desire for social approval. These are the people who shouldn’t be running anything since they will burn it all down to avoid the discomfort of facing real life.

What's going on with people? This is my strategy
Sanity4Sweden, August 11, 2023

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Bernard Valter is an artist based in Sweden. He makes frequent short videos in which, as he sits on a sofa next to a wood stove, one of his paintings on the wall behind him, he addresses the camera with his thoughts on current events. To avoid censors, throughout his videos he uses to "tea" to refer to the covid jabs, "tea drinkers" to refer to those who took the jabs. His website is Sanity4Sweden art https://www.konst.se/bvalter

BERNARD VALTER: You know, if you're a pureblood and you have tried to talking to somebody who isn't, I'm sure many of you experienced this. So you're trying to reach them and give them information about the tea or something, right? And you get this very, very strong reaction. Right? And I have experienced this, of course.

And the thing is, it's like a room, you know? It's like an armored-plate room, and nobody's allowed to go in there and question anything in this, this room, you see. If you get close to the room, it's like a mental thing, you know? You have this room, a small room I suppose, and if you approach the room, you will get this reaction. You know? They become hostile.

And the thing is, if you tell this story to anyone who is a pureblood already, you are pureblood and you talk to a friend, let's say, who's a pureblood, and you tell them this story, you know, I was trying to talk to my sister about the tea, right, and she became so hostile, we became like enemies, and it was very quick and it was terrible, you know. I just tried to give her some information about the tea, you know, and she became so angry! And, you know. So you tell this story to another pureblood and the other pureblood, he will never, ever say this, wow, that, I never heard such a thing, that's so weird, never happened to me. You know?

I think it happened to all of us, you know?

So what is this thing? Well, it's like a mental thing. Yeah. And it's so strong, and they are protecting this room so hard. You can't get close to it. You know?

I had this experience very recently. I told you this story, I was talking to this couple before the concert, maybe you've heard this. And at the very end, I never told you this, at the very end of the talk, it was a long talk, and I was asking them questions about why they took the tea, if they ever questioned authority, you know, questions like this, and at the very, very end, the woman, she said, you are trying to set us up. No? She was shaking. It's hard to translate the Swedish words, set us up. You're trying to frame us, maybe. That's what she said. She was so upset.

And I've been looking at this afterwards, and I thought, wow. I was very close to this armored-plate room, wasn't I? I was actually touching it. And she was starting to look into it, maybe, you know. What's in this room?

It's an amazing thing that's going on.

This post has been inspired by the recent post by the Midwestern Doctor, “Catalyst Events and The Trump Assassination Attempt” (Jul. 18, 2024). In it, the Doctor says, inter alia:

…the one upside to propaganda (public relations) campaigns is that they are incredibly repetitive, so once you learn their techniques, they become very easy to spot. For example a pillar of modern public relations is using focus groups to sculpt emotionally manipulative language, and then blasting that language out through every part of the mass media.

…However, there is another critical aspect of these campaigns to understand. Typically, they are laid out in a sequence of steps that allow a propagandist’s previously inconceivable idea to emerge into the society, and then when the time is right, to mobilize a few pieces that have already been laid out so that the new paradigm can be rapidly enshrined as an unquestionable dogma.

Because of this, once you get an eye for it, it becomes very easy to spot an early step in these campaigns and then to predict what is likely coming down the pipeline. For example, once the greatly despised lockdowns started being pushed upon America, I knew that the rushed vaccine being produced for COVID-19 would be mandated upon country—something which in early 2020, was inconceivable to the majority of Americans.

Since I enjoy games which require being able to think multiple moves ahead or making the best choice off of uncertain information, since the end of 8th grade, one of my hobbies has been to study the news and see if I can guess what is going to happen (as from a young age, I began to grasp how the same things were done again and again by the media).

Thus, as the Covid-19 affair is so passé in the minds of the upright members of the society at large, I can hardly impress anyone anymore with anything Covid at this time. Yet, as the Midwestern Doctor recommended, we can look at the present for the early signs of what is likely coming down the pipeline, sent to us by our magnanimous overlords.

And it seems to be more of the same, this time in the form of a forthcoming H5N1 mass vaccination campaign, if the Democrats have their way in the next elections, or maybe even if they don’t (like the last time)? Be as it may, the things are gearing up for the 2025 WHO’s Pandemuck declaration once again, this time with more powder in the barrels. These have been the steps:

Years of the H5N1 gain-of-function research trying to make the virus infect mammals, and ultimately humans. e.g., “Scientists seek ethics review of H5N1 gain-of-function research” (March 13, 2013). Read also “Lab-created bird flu virus accident shows lax oversight of risky 'gain of function' research” (USA Toay, Apr. 11, 2023): “And yet in late 2011 the world learned that two scientific teams – one in Wisconsin, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, and another in the Netherlands, led by virologist Ron Fouchier – had potentially pushed the virus in that direction. Each of these labs had created H5N1 viruses that had gained the ability to spread through the air between ferrets, the animal model used to study how flu viruses might behave in humans. The ultimate goal of this work was to help protect the world from future pandemics, and the research was supported with words and funding by two of the most prominent scientists in the United States: Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.” Same actors, same script as in the SARS saga.

After they have the virus that jumps to humans, the next steps are undertaken to accustom the public to the imminent threat (a.k.a. “cooking the frog”) via the thousands of alarming “news”. We’ve had that for over a year now.

Next, they start claiming that the thing is here. They did that too: “What the 9 human cases of bird flu in the U.S. so far tell us about the disease” (NBC News, Jul. 18, 2024).

What’s left it to unleash the virulent lab-engineered H5N1 virus in multiple locations to scare the living lights out of the masses and offer the savior vaccine.

On that front, they decided to switch the steps and develop, approve and stockpile the mRNA jabs in sufficient quantities so that the masses don’t have the time to ponder the proposition. “US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine” (WIRED, Jul. 4, 2024): “As fears of a pandemic mount, the biotech company’s mRNA vaccine trial is set to release Phase 1/2 results later this year, with a larger Phase 3 trial expected to begin in 2025.”

So, to be an “anti-vaxxer,” per the dictionary, a person needs to only oppose receiving some vaccines. Meaning, a person that opposes receiving a COVID-19 vaccine or an influenza vaccine is an anti-vaxxer. And guess what? The majority of Americans now oppose receiving both of these vaccines. ...

Not only do a majority of Americans oppose receiving these vaccines, an even greater percentage of Americans no doubt (including some that receive these vaccines) oppose mandating one or more of these products.

The irony is that deciding against being injected with a product after reviewing its clinical trials, post-licensure safety record, lack of liability, etc., is an informed, thoughtful decision. Yet those that mindlessly get every vaccine are the ones painted as making informed, thoughtful decisions?! Hats off to Big Pharma/CDC for convincing so many that up is down and down is up.

The next time someone calls you an “anti-vaxxer” because you have made an informed decision to not receive a medical intervention, let them know that, yes, you did make an informed, independent medical decision. And wish them luck doing the opposite!

You can also let them know that since “anti-vaxxers” are now the majority, you understand their insecurity and hostility. But they shouldn’t worry: the anti-vax majority is not interested in taking away the rights of the pro-vax minority. They can feel free to get (or not get) as many vaccines as they want. We in the majority just ask that they respect our right to do the same.