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Sigh...seems I do a lot of that. I worked as an Surgical nurse, years ago. I knew the masks were just crazy and money-making. I felt for little children wearing them. I was even stalked by a crazy woman onside Costco, as though I had leprosy, for not wearing a mask. I knew she was very mental but felt for her poor embarrassed son. Which seems he even knew better. I just ignored her but felt for her son. I was attacked a lot by those types.

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Aug 26, 2022Liked by John Botica

I don’t wish ill on people, but deathvax karma will be a bitch.

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Aug 26, 2022Liked by John Botica

Unfortunately, one of the hard lessons we have to learn from this entire episode, is

that most people are Good Germans.

Never forget. Never forgive.

You cannot teach a pig to sing. It is a waste of your time, and it only annoys the pig.

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Amen, John, amen.

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Man, this is great. You speak for millions of us.

My vaccinated and boosted father-in-law in in the hospital right now .... again with odd and very scary symptoms. I haven't been to the hospital, but my wife reports it's over-flowing. The emergency room was packed and it took a day for administrators to find him an available hospital room. I can't help but wonder if this hospital was over-flowing with patients in previous Augusts. And I'm sure every doctor who has examined my relative advises all of his patients to get their boosters. Have they not simply looked around at the number of sick and suffering people in their own hospital?

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I keep hearing this as well--everyone has "moved on" yadayada and indeed they do NOT see the deep hurts and damage done (indeed by the needle too, though Neil went over to the dark side...). We grownups cope "better" (though it's no fun to be thrown in limbo Hell) but the kids--it's another story entirely, no matter the age. Anywho, I'm glad yer mate came around and started to recognize what was "unseen"--but that's among friends--making it happen on a large scale might not be possible... Keeping claws and teeth in check is hard--so I understand the savage response. It's about survival so we are still on guard... (en garde! literally)

Interesting how many of us have connections with the music world...MCM is a rocker, Tessa Fights Robots is a singer-composer-- many more out there as well-- Of course mainstream musicians and many alt ones here went whole hog on the banning... but musically inclined truth-tellers seem to be a "sub-stack" of the larger pile of writers out there... interesting...

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My sentiments exactly. And the apology we want--this is the thing--it needs to be sincere and not performative and phony. I'm no so sure it will ever come as people want to / need to equivocate or justify their foolish choices--"their" intent was pure, to help humanity, "our" intent was "selfish" (gawd forbid, to help ourselves? our kids? our families?). Yes, this mess has ripped our worlds and families apart and unlike velcro, some of this will not / cannot be mended by letting bygones be bygones (meanwhile the jabbed shed toxic spikes and graphene and exosomes and other shite that can harm US the uninjected--oh the irony!). Appreciate all the links too! One more set of similar thoughts from my recent take on why I for one am not ready to either Forgive or Forget ( https://tinyurl.com/bdepdtry )

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May 18, 2023Liked by John Botica

In case you're interested, John, I wrote a piece on this just a short while ago: https://analogymagazine.substack.com/p/this-is-just-to-say-the-post-covid

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Thanks! & thanks for watching--yup it's a little raw but worked I guess! Of course Neil being Canadian -- actually Joni too--they COULD HAVE joined the Truckers instead of turning against 'em-- I wonder if their record companies gave them their marching orders?--guess we'll never know about them and SO MANY others in the music industry who were silent when they didn't have to be or, worse, pro-jab. Ironic that so far those on the side of choice are from the UK -- Van Morrison and Eric Clapton.

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Yup, many bubbles burst -- Neil, Joni -- Mick too--all gone to the "dark side" shilling for Big Pharma, but we too love their music.

Our take is that it's a-ok to still listen to their old stuff for free (we still have albums and cd's and even their sheet music!)--but no more bucks their way in new purchases until/unless they change their tune. Joni has Morgellons so ya'd think she'd be the FIRST to worry about jabs vs pushing them unthinkingly, threatening to pull her music from Spotify just cuz Rogan interviewed Malone and McCullough. Crazy--this is not their wheelhouse anyway.

Re Neil -- back in Feb. after Neil denounced those not taking the jabs, my younger daughter (with a little help from me yawling harmony in the background!) made this pro-Trucker song "revisiting" Heart of Gold -- https://odysee.com/keep-on-truckin-against-tyranny:4

But yeah, the better-known music industry has failed us all (even those bands that are willing to play halls that ban the unjabbed lost my respect). Some good music has come out of this mess though-- Five Times August has made some excellent music videos.

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An article of mine was published today at The Daily Skeptic. The article summarizes three case histories that lead me to confidently conclude the novel coronavirus was spreading around the world months before public health officials have acknowledged. Even if one does not agree with my conclusion, I hope some people agree with me that public health officials should have at least investigated this evidence in good faith. The fact they have not done this certainly undermines my confidence in the validity of other claims these officials (and journalists) have made about Covid-19.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/29/the-compelling-evidence-covid-19-was-spreading-across-the-u-s-in-2019-that-officials-are-ignoring/

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