YES!! I agree. "We" are the failure. I knew, as soon as the masks became "mandatory" every where, that it was a sign. It showed them how eager and stupid people were, freely giving up this small yet vital freedom to breathe without masked fear. Killing our immune systems with hand sanitizer everywhere. I left businesses when they asked me to mask. They don't care. The ones that did care were the mom and pop stores that were forced to shutter their hard work...they cared about our business and getting our money. Wal-Mart and Home Depot don't give two effs because they are giant corporations. So, all our power as a consumer to NOT patronize such establishments who required masks and vaccine passports went out the window with the freedom. We lost more freedom in April of 2020 than any other time in history. The time to stand up is long gone. So, let them stand there in their houses or drive in their cars in a mask, wondering why everyone is dropping dead around them. We see "them" and we know we probably shouldn't be breathing the same air as they are because God knows what kind of concoction their air output is spewing. Masks are the clear outward signal that they have been crapping their pants for 3 years and fear is the motivator. So, I find myself undeniably altered in my approach to humans now. Tentative questioning. I just can't, in all good conscience, MY good conscience, be amiable friends with those who have NOT stood up and said NO. When I find someone who is like me, it is like finding a treasure. Because "we" are few and far between. Now, I am not talking about Substack world...here it is wonderful. But, in real life, people are stupid and they suck.
SadieJay- I agree 100% -I can really relate when you say "finding someone like me is like finding a treasure". There are way too few of us out here, and when I find one I immediately bond with them.
Hopefully you are referring to those people who have little to no experience with evil. There are those who are blind to evil because they are young and/or inexperienced.
I agree. It is sad. I have beloved family that have bought this all, hook line and sinker. Such good people. But, they are also the least tolerant of other's right to bodily autonomy. The division is real and I cannot afford to give my friendship lightly, as I am too busy running around taking care of my tribe. I see the hate and division and it makes me mad too. It is super hard to NOT be judgmental on the outside toward others. So, they do not know that I have lost respect for them...because they might need me one day and I don't want to already be hated. So, I just keep my mouth shut in real life, because this is the divider. And it makes Satan happy that we are all warring against each other about something that shouldn't even have happened in the first place. Bah!!
So you wait for the right moment and share information? Avoiding conflict isn’t loving when righteous judgement and correction is needed. Plan carefully, but don’t stop sharing truth my friend, or you miss opportunities. Help them to know questions are good.
I have to live for part of the year in the same neighborhood as my husband's family. He wants to spend time with them and make memories because his siblings are older than he is. I promised to keep my mouth shut in Florida. God does give me opportunities and I know, because I have shared with new friends and am finding hidden gems. It is out of respect and love for my husband that I muzzle myself around his family. I appreciate your words. His family is liberal and trusting of the government (what??) but, I am out of the closet when it comes to my own family. But, they are like me. The complicated ties that bind. I can't wait to get home to Idaho. Florida might be Free America, but there are too many new people here in my new world who don't share my independent thinking. I am a blessed woman and this is a time when God opens doors to let me share and I am willing to let him lead me.
Well said and excellent honing in on essential point. I relate so much - as a New Englander - who also found herself often as the only maskless person. When someone would say "Put a mask on!" I would smile and say, "No." When someone called me an asshole or selfish, I would say, "Your welcome." After the manager at my most-often shopped grocery store pulled me aside to say I could no longer come in without a mask, I said, "Great. I'll let my lawyer know." He instantly relented.
You are so right - if we said no to the masking, "they" would have known the jabs wouldn't have worked. We are paying a dear price for cowardice and the desire to simply, go along.
Yes, lots of propaganda, lots of gaslighting, lots of threats - but all of that doesn't change the simple fact that we each had a choice. The fact that so many people I knew, didn't want me to exercise mine, is something I'm still not over.
YES! We as citizens failed ourselves! And by we, I mean those that blindly and willfully went in stride with this operation without questioning any of it or doing any research! It was doomed the minute they abided with the mask mandates and tried to shame others into doing the same! It's really sad but it shows how easily manipulated people can become and how duped our society is as a whole. The most unfortunately thing, to me is, their uninformed actions had consequences on everyone, especially those of us who did question everything and actually did do the research! :-(
Thank you for writing this - I nodded my head in agreement throughout the whole essay. If enough of us said NO at the very beginning we would not be where we are now. I still cannot believe this could have happened in America. I find myself very angry and disappointed at those who allowed this to take hold.
Wow. Excellent, perfectly written article. Every point you make is spot-on, 100% truth. Let's hope Dr. Wolf reads it and understands it.
I lived through the mindless stuff you describe. My wife and I moved from Hawaii to Florida to escape the communist response there. We knew it was fraud from day 1. ( I too, had many mask confrontations with the "useful idiots" )
The mass formation is strong and very hard to break. I watched the first episode of the CounterJab podcast last night with Dr. McCoulough and John Leake - they interviewed The Epoch Times investigative reporter and American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek. One take away from the interview was a story of a young man in a communist country that reported his own mother to the authorities and then HE shot her and killed her - only then did he snap out of his hypnosis! There are many, many people that are in deep; Matias Desmet says that the only way to snap them out of it is to show them something worse will happen to them or their loved ones. One thing I learned from 23+ years in business is that there are not a lot of people who will actually raise their hand and say "I was wrong".
We are living among a dumbed-down, brainwashed public. They are stupid enough to harm them selves and others. They definitely do not understand the cost of freedom.
My friends who live in the communist state of Connecticut went to a rally at Yale a couple of days ago - Dr. Naomi Wolf was there. They got to meet her and she made a speech. They called me about the rally and the positive progress that was taking place in their state. Then they told me how many people attended the rally - Fifty - 50!
As Pam Popper of Make Americans Free Again says, we have a long, long way to go. Society takes forever to understand and adjust, at the expense of innocent lives.
Thanks again. Your post is awesome. I will share with with everyone I know. I read it out loud to my wife and she loved it. Keep up the great work; it is so very refreshing to read. I will take a breather and read it again - it would be excellent if you could get The Epoch Times or The Brownstone Institute to publish it.
May God bless you and continue to guide you.
Peace
PS I always try to share links to positive stuff that can help others:
I am in awe of you and your wife moving from Hawaii to Florida. I thought northern NH to NW FL was a haul! :)
Hubs and I also knew on Day 1. If you can picture me, on more than one occasion, I paced our living room with arms waving, ranting that "This is a 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒!", "They're" actually going to do this! OMG! OMG!", etc., etc. Yet, as we know, "they" announced the crime, and the "cattle" stampeded. And kept right on stampeding. Impossible to rationalize with a stampede.
As for CT, well, what can we say? Fifty is more than zero, yes? :( I'm glad that your friends got to meet Dr. Wolf.
We made sure on our two drives down to NW FL that we drove right through CT nonstop. That corner office doofus had the most "strict" "You will strap on a snot pouch" edict that I'd seen. It was completely unlawful. It included language that said that anyone who had a medical reason for not wearing the pouch had to have a doctor's statement to that effect describing the condition! Completely against the law -- and decency, as I like to add.
I had the "snot pouch" mandate" of every State we traveled through printed out and in a plastic protector. Every one of them except CT (as described above) had an "out" -- circumstances whereby an individual could "opt out," along with the prohibition -- as required by law -- against asking about private medical circumstances or demanding private medical information as the reason for breathing naturally. You just can't make it up! I planned to haul out as necessary the "mandate" of whatever state we were in if anyone at any point gave us any crap. No one did.
Thank you for the links. That Brunson timeline is great! My husband will love to see that. He's all over this case, praying for the just outcome.
Thank you for blessings and kind words once again. May God bless you and your wife. ☮️
I had many similar mask experiences during the height of the hysteria in So Cal. The checkers in the grocery store all rode high horses of smug ignorance. After one warned me to never come without a face nappy, I calmly told him he wasn’t the manager and to just do his job and leave me alone. I looked around and 20 people had surrounded me, all masked and shouting profanities. I thought I was in an episode of “Black Mirror.” Yes to the horror of ill informed shoppers I went back. Had a hassle every single time.
Ah, yes...Twenty "helpless" people who had their "power stripped," according to Dr. Wolf, surrounded you, spitting expletives through their snot pouches. Sounds like good ol' Americans to me, fer sure!
In MA, my husband entered a Bank of America branch where his organization had done business for a thousand years. Of course, he's breathing as God intended, but, of course, the only one. As he got further into the lobby, the masked rent-a-cop turns toward my husband and puts in his hand on his gun...My hubs, former Navy SEAL, slows down, looks right at him (Look of death), and says, "Really, dude?"
Hubs made his deposit, breathing freely, and left. This, in "the cradle of liberty."
I had many similar encounters in local Starbucks. I would stand my ground, refusing to wear an offered mask. They’d refuse to serve me, and I’d make my points and leave without my java jolt.
On a few occasions at CVS I wore a mask to pickup prescriptions, then removed it to continue shopping. But they refused to ring up purchases so I’d leave.
And the slab jabs? Relentless pressure on my son to get them. I went to war with his principal, my ex and “healthcare” provider to ensure that would not happen. My son thinks I’m a nutjob even now. But he won’t get them. Perhaps he’ll thank me later - or not.
Thank you for this excellent article. I was unable to finish Naomi Wolf's article, it made me so uncomfortable, and now I know why. The same tone bothered me in her book. I am so glad she woke up, is doing such important work on the Pfizer documents and is such an articulate voice in sounding the alarm about the threats to our rights and freedom, but corrections such as yours, bringing clarity to the choices people have made, are vitally important.
Spot on...excellent piece. Where we live in MA most attempts at coercion for boosters and masks have finally been ignored since early Fall but I have witnessed zero personal accountability. I will not let the topic go for all of the reasons that you wrote about. I get blank stares, looks of sheepishness and attempts at changing the topic. I have yet to witness a single person display even the minuscule amount of courage it takes to reflect on ones behavior and judgement. I certainly don't expect it going forward because the neuro injuries and deaths around here are mounting rapidly.
Re your last point, Cathy, really?? I'm glad to hear that the coercion for boosters and masks has finally been ignored. Do you think those reactions stem from more people finally seeing what was done, what many of them helped perpetrate and perpetuate with their cooperation?
Kudos to you for continuing to keep the topic alive, especially in a place like Massachusetts. My hubs and I miss our friends and acknowledge that we enjoyed a very good life there, but this crime was the final straw...
It is hard to say with certainty but it does seem people are becoming more aware of what was done and how they helped perpetuate it. They still get lost in the group think though. I am not as articulate as you but what i often hear is along the lines of: I was just doing what everyone was doing. I have little hope for change if people don't take the next step with regard to owning their part. There was a very interesting shift on the North Shore in Sept. When the 'public health' cabal started pushing for boosters and masking the elderly in our community were the first ones to show obvious signs of not complying and it grew from there. Sadly the other variable is the overwhelming evidence of vaccine injury. It is reaching a point where everyone knows someone and that is a truth these criminals will not be able to suppress. Just to give you a glimpse: we have 2 neighbors one elderly and one mid life who developed a rapid atypical ALS, there is a 7th grader in Western MA who had a cardiac arrest at home and subsequent stroke, there are 2 teens who died suddenly up here on the North Shore, in my small world we have lost 2 friends and an acquaintance to turbo cancer (time from Dx to death under 3 months) and regarding the neuro injuries there are far too many to highlight. People are presenting with rapid decline in neuromuscular function. It is an evolving hellscape and I believe it is waking people up more than an awareness of the illegal, insanity they participated in. Thank you for the words of support regarding keeping the topic alive. I truly believe if we just keep trying to wake 1 person at a time we might prevent these creeps from gaining any more yardage. We are standing our ground for a bit longer but if we don't see signs of change we will be joining the mass exodus to the South. I completely respect you and your husband bailing when you did. I am still in shock with how many people went along with this. This is kind of funny/interesting...one of my former colleagues is in Newton and he said that area is the only area where idiots are still masking, boosting, virtue signaling and harassing others. That did not surprise me. Blessings to you as well and thanks for another great read.
Wow...Just has me shaking my head, Cathy. I'm sorry to hear about your losses.
Being here in Florida in the NW (and central time zone) has brought such peace. Though I supported our departure 100% (and had visited this area before we made our decision) I did wonder if, once I got here, how I would feel. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, raised about 50 miles north. Eventually moved back to Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan for nearly six years. Years later, I found myself in Boston for grad school. Got hired right away, so stayed. Nearly 30 years in and around the Boston area with all its activities, opportunities, conveniences, restaurants, etc., etc. End my career, move to a town on the Panhandle that's not even incorporated?
Where you have to drive to get anywhere? LOL!
I can honestly tell you that I have had not a second's second guess or a moment when I've thought we made a mistake. I catch myself here and there saying prayers of thanks to God for how lucky we've been and are to be here. The area's got a southern flavor; quite normal to hear Southern accents. Our best friend here -- we made through a connection -- is from Mississippi. Salt of the earth and she has been our angel. And so far, nobody holds it against me when they find out I'm originally from New York...;)
It sounds wonderful, sane and life affirming :). I would be a bald face liar to claim I don't have some envy. The phase we are currently in with this criminal enterprise is dystopian. The injuries are worse than expected and former colleagues are now breaking ranks...a small sign of hope. My guess is at this slow pace we will be making our move sometime in the next year. I am happy to hear the accounts of all of you who left and are enjoying the places you have landed in. Kudos to you for making it happen early on! Lol we cannot hide our MA and NY accents so it is good news no-one is holding it against you :). I am catching up on all your posts this week ....looking forward to them.
It is sane and life-affirming. I knew I would be unable (as well as being wholly disinterested in) to spend my days defending my basic human rights. Too tired -- not physically -- but in my head, if you know what I mean?
Masked ones here are rare, so rare that you're actually struck by them when you do see them. Stand out like sore thumbs -- and other unflattering things. ;)
I think I've shared with you before that hubs had been expressing a desire to leave the cold for years, too, so the Covid® crime just pushed that eventual date up a bit. Cost me my career, my income, health insurance, and a full retirement package, but I simply refused to cooperate or comply with what had already happened and what I knew was to come -- forced injection -- or begging for an "exemption" while still needing to "mask." Just. Would. Not. Do. It. Come what may.
I do know what you mean and I wish the whole nation had the courage to do as you did. My partner refused the 'vax' and refused to apply for an exemption so was prepared to be fired then at the last minute they dropped their foul mandate. I am sorry you lost your full retirement and benefits but am glad it worked out well for you both. Also I think there is no greater gift than making a new salt of the earth friend so you had another win for having the fortitude to stand on the side of truth and freedom.
I have an odd background that compelled me to stand and fight the cabal and the attack on constitutional rights. I never know how my background is perceived but I am a gay woman born in the early 60's. I was on the front line of AIDS during the 1st 'public health' murderous, criminal campaign. I knew instantly they were going to use the same playbook on all of humanity. I am also a retired critical care nurse that was forced out of the work place years ago for standing up for patient safety. It is too long a story but the biggest mistake I have ever made was signing an NDA as that is how the corrupt players in pharma/alphabet agencies/ tier 1 facilities 'leadership' always win. I also live with a primary immunodeficiency where I don't make antibodies so the fraud and manipulation directed at that community was also evident to me on day 1. It is not unlike the sick, pathological propaganda being taught to the young gay community and their heterosexual peers. We are living thru a hell of a time and I have worked non stop in my small universe to speak the truth to all of these communities that I have links too. It is truly remarkable and disgusting how they have captured all of them thru propaganda and fear (medical, gay and immunocompromised) to push these 2 destructive agendas. I feel like I can't fight the decades long Uniparty but b/c these are communities I am a part of I can fight to wake up 1 person at a time who has been indoctrinated.
This is also why I enjoy reading your posts. I learn a great deal from them and it is also buoys me to follow people who are sane and dialoguing in a constructive way. For instance I love Naomi Wolf but I do understand how she can rub people the wrong way. Your analysis on her piece was excellent. Thank you again for your posts and I hope your NE friends start to put the pieces together as it isn't too late yet :)
Nailed it. My experience verbatim. Thrilled to have discovered you. We use language similarly and my husband and I also moved away actively choosing not to live amongst the cowardice and criminally complicit. The total abandonment of sanity coupled with a complete lack of reverence for individual rights and liberty was intolerable. But we sold our home and most everything in it at the absolute pinnacle of the bubble ( just stuff anyway) giggling at our new found "wealth" and secured our god given freedom that we clearly understood no man, no state, could or would guarantee to us; rather the opposite was already in play and we would not consent to join the victimhood. Somehow, early on, we also "saw" this was much much bigger than a respiratory illness most were never in jeopardy from contracting, transmitting etc. And it was on us and us alone to seek "safety" from what's ultimately coming for us all.
I'm so grateful to you for this comment. I've been a little "low" the last couple of weeks, feeling like what else is there to say about any of this? To hear that my words struck a chord is very gratifying and encouraging.
I'm so glad you and your husband were able to "make your move" and also to hear of another couple so deeply on the same page. Hubs and I are doing the best we can right now. Despite being in "Fortress Florida," we still feel a bit like fish out of water, though the peace here as compared to where we were is indescribable.
Thank you again for taking the time to read that piece and for the encouraging comment. ❤️
I'm new to Substack and just found this article. This a great read. I think you hit the nail on the head when talking about courage. It's self-evident to me, so, that many compliant people are knowingly cowards? I think so.
I appreciate you suffering through Wolf's article. I had once asked myself why after nearly a lifetime of irrelevance she should somehow now be relevant. After a short foray into her 'me' style journalism, she's still irrelevant and a bore to boot. I get tired of the collectivists trying to paint me with their wide, sticky brush.
I am willing to concede that Dr. Wolf may be experiencing a change. She certainly does appear genuine in her concern over these murderous injections and the destruction of freedom. That said, I agree that she still exhibits the characteristic "we" of the collectivist. That drives me crazy as I hope I made clear in this piece.
Good point, any sane person would be concerned about malevolent governments, but only respecting the right of the individual in cases such as this doesn't really earn a collectivist their Libertarian wings.
Unfortunately, those of us in whose breast Liberty beats, are surrounded by willfully ignorant, apathetic serfs who only care for just another day of their vapid lives. They care not that their actions visit horrors on themselves, us, or, unforgivably, their children.
They will never feel disgrace because they know no shame.
Excellent essay!! I think the root of this all was intellectual laziness. Easier to be told what to do and think (frees up more time for Netflix). I, a non-medical professional, was able to see through all of this from the very beginning. I am a freelance business researcher and analyst (who saw all my projects delayed or cancelled in the Spring of 2020) who thought if I can just find the right data, I can convince others that this was all a farce. Boy, was I naïve. Hours and hours of researching, writing posts, sending emails, making phone calls. All to be called names like 'heartless' 'selfish' and so on. Easier to believe the TV I guess.
That being said MO was 'in the middle'. No statewide mandates, only state-wide shutdown was a few weeks in April. In some of the rural parts, and at the Lake of the Ozarks, life went on pretty much as normal. But each city and county could do what they wanted, and my county went full covid theater. And way too many were scared and compliant with 'CDC guidelines' and stayed home or masked up or slathered on the hand sanitizer for an airborne virus. I either boycotted businesses, ignored their signs, or shopped & dined in adjacent 'free' counties, and was not alone. But too many had employer shot mandates they complied with. No idea if any mea culpas are forthcoming, have dropped most of them, or we just don't talk about it. Most of my time today is with freedom lovers who did stand up, although it's sad that it's not a bigger tribe. MO is supposed to be the 'show me' state.
YES!! I agree. "We" are the failure. I knew, as soon as the masks became "mandatory" every where, that it was a sign. It showed them how eager and stupid people were, freely giving up this small yet vital freedom to breathe without masked fear. Killing our immune systems with hand sanitizer everywhere. I left businesses when they asked me to mask. They don't care. The ones that did care were the mom and pop stores that were forced to shutter their hard work...they cared about our business and getting our money. Wal-Mart and Home Depot don't give two effs because they are giant corporations. So, all our power as a consumer to NOT patronize such establishments who required masks and vaccine passports went out the window with the freedom. We lost more freedom in April of 2020 than any other time in history. The time to stand up is long gone. So, let them stand there in their houses or drive in their cars in a mask, wondering why everyone is dropping dead around them. We see "them" and we know we probably shouldn't be breathing the same air as they are because God knows what kind of concoction their air output is spewing. Masks are the clear outward signal that they have been crapping their pants for 3 years and fear is the motivator. So, I find myself undeniably altered in my approach to humans now. Tentative questioning. I just can't, in all good conscience, MY good conscience, be amiable friends with those who have NOT stood up and said NO. When I find someone who is like me, it is like finding a treasure. Because "we" are few and far between. Now, I am not talking about Substack world...here it is wonderful. But, in real life, people are stupid and they suck.
"...fear is the motivator." Yes, and cowardice is its enabler, liberty their sacrifice.
SadieJay- I agree 100% -I can really relate when you say "finding someone like me is like finding a treasure". There are way too few of us out here, and when I find one I immediately bond with them.
Yep! That's why we need to take these bonds offline and strengthen our network!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-part-2
Not following. Could you elaborate? You're speaking in pure platitudes.
Hopefully you are referring to those people who have little to no experience with evil. There are those who are blind to evil because they are young and/or inexperienced.
I agree. It is sad. I have beloved family that have bought this all, hook line and sinker. Such good people. But, they are also the least tolerant of other's right to bodily autonomy. The division is real and I cannot afford to give my friendship lightly, as I am too busy running around taking care of my tribe. I see the hate and division and it makes me mad too. It is super hard to NOT be judgmental on the outside toward others. So, they do not know that I have lost respect for them...because they might need me one day and I don't want to already be hated. So, I just keep my mouth shut in real life, because this is the divider. And it makes Satan happy that we are all warring against each other about something that shouldn't even have happened in the first place. Bah!!
So you wait for the right moment and share information? Avoiding conflict isn’t loving when righteous judgement and correction is needed. Plan carefully, but don’t stop sharing truth my friend, or you miss opportunities. Help them to know questions are good.
I have to live for part of the year in the same neighborhood as my husband's family. He wants to spend time with them and make memories because his siblings are older than he is. I promised to keep my mouth shut in Florida. God does give me opportunities and I know, because I have shared with new friends and am finding hidden gems. It is out of respect and love for my husband that I muzzle myself around his family. I appreciate your words. His family is liberal and trusting of the government (what??) but, I am out of the closet when it comes to my own family. But, they are like me. The complicated ties that bind. I can't wait to get home to Idaho. Florida might be Free America, but there are too many new people here in my new world who don't share my independent thinking. I am a blessed woman and this is a time when God opens doors to let me share and I am willing to let him lead me.
Well said and excellent honing in on essential point. I relate so much - as a New Englander - who also found herself often as the only maskless person. When someone would say "Put a mask on!" I would smile and say, "No." When someone called me an asshole or selfish, I would say, "Your welcome." After the manager at my most-often shopped grocery store pulled me aside to say I could no longer come in without a mask, I said, "Great. I'll let my lawyer know." He instantly relented.
You are so right - if we said no to the masking, "they" would have known the jabs wouldn't have worked. We are paying a dear price for cowardice and the desire to simply, go along.
Yes, lots of propaganda, lots of gaslighting, lots of threats - but all of that doesn't change the simple fact that we each had a choice. The fact that so many people I knew, didn't want me to exercise mine, is something I'm still not over.
Thank you. Well done.
YES! We as citizens failed ourselves! And by we, I mean those that blindly and willfully went in stride with this operation without questioning any of it or doing any research! It was doomed the minute they abided with the mask mandates and tried to shame others into doing the same! It's really sad but it shows how easily manipulated people can become and how duped our society is as a whole. The most unfortunately thing, to me is, their uninformed actions had consequences on everyone, especially those of us who did question everything and actually did do the research! :-(
Thank you for writing this - I nodded my head in agreement throughout the whole essay. If enough of us said NO at the very beginning we would not be where we are now. I still cannot believe this could have happened in America. I find myself very angry and disappointed at those who allowed this to take hold.
Wow. Excellent, perfectly written article. Every point you make is spot-on, 100% truth. Let's hope Dr. Wolf reads it and understands it.
I lived through the mindless stuff you describe. My wife and I moved from Hawaii to Florida to escape the communist response there. We knew it was fraud from day 1. ( I too, had many mask confrontations with the "useful idiots" )
The mass formation is strong and very hard to break. I watched the first episode of the CounterJab podcast last night with Dr. McCoulough and John Leake - they interviewed The Epoch Times investigative reporter and American Thought Leaders host Jan Jekielek. One take away from the interview was a story of a young man in a communist country that reported his own mother to the authorities and then HE shot her and killed her - only then did he snap out of his hypnosis! There are many, many people that are in deep; Matias Desmet says that the only way to snap them out of it is to show them something worse will happen to them or their loved ones. One thing I learned from 23+ years in business is that there are not a lot of people who will actually raise their hand and say "I was wrong".
We are living among a dumbed-down, brainwashed public. They are stupid enough to harm them selves and others. They definitely do not understand the cost of freedom.
My friends who live in the communist state of Connecticut went to a rally at Yale a couple of days ago - Dr. Naomi Wolf was there. They got to meet her and she made a speech. They called me about the rally and the positive progress that was taking place in their state. Then they told me how many people attended the rally - Fifty - 50!
As Pam Popper of Make Americans Free Again says, we have a long, long way to go. Society takes forever to understand and adjust, at the expense of innocent lives.
Thanks again. Your post is awesome. I will share with with everyone I know. I read it out loud to my wife and she loved it. Keep up the great work; it is so very refreshing to read. I will take a breather and read it again - it would be excellent if you could get The Epoch Times or The Brownstone Institute to publish it.
May God bless you and continue to guide you.
Peace
PS I always try to share links to positive stuff that can help others:
http://ralandbrunson.com/History/History.html
https://mises.org/library/free-market-medical-revolution
Thanks! :-)
Thank you, as always, Steve. ❤️
I am in awe of you and your wife moving from Hawaii to Florida. I thought northern NH to NW FL was a haul! :)
Hubs and I also knew on Day 1. If you can picture me, on more than one occasion, I paced our living room with arms waving, ranting that "This is a 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒!", "They're" actually going to do this! OMG! OMG!", etc., etc. Yet, as we know, "they" announced the crime, and the "cattle" stampeded. And kept right on stampeding. Impossible to rationalize with a stampede.
As for CT, well, what can we say? Fifty is more than zero, yes? :( I'm glad that your friends got to meet Dr. Wolf.
We made sure on our two drives down to NW FL that we drove right through CT nonstop. That corner office doofus had the most "strict" "You will strap on a snot pouch" edict that I'd seen. It was completely unlawful. It included language that said that anyone who had a medical reason for not wearing the pouch had to have a doctor's statement to that effect describing the condition! Completely against the law -- and decency, as I like to add.
I had the "snot pouch" mandate" of every State we traveled through printed out and in a plastic protector. Every one of them except CT (as described above) had an "out" -- circumstances whereby an individual could "opt out," along with the prohibition -- as required by law -- against asking about private medical circumstances or demanding private medical information as the reason for breathing naturally. You just can't make it up! I planned to haul out as necessary the "mandate" of whatever state we were in if anyone at any point gave us any crap. No one did.
Thank you for the links. That Brunson timeline is great! My husband will love to see that. He's all over this case, praying for the just outcome.
Thank you for blessings and kind words once again. May God bless you and your wife. ☮️
I had many similar mask experiences during the height of the hysteria in So Cal. The checkers in the grocery store all rode high horses of smug ignorance. After one warned me to never come without a face nappy, I calmly told him he wasn’t the manager and to just do his job and leave me alone. I looked around and 20 people had surrounded me, all masked and shouting profanities. I thought I was in an episode of “Black Mirror.” Yes to the horror of ill informed shoppers I went back. Had a hassle every single time.
Ah, yes...Twenty "helpless" people who had their "power stripped," according to Dr. Wolf, surrounded you, spitting expletives through their snot pouches. Sounds like good ol' Americans to me, fer sure!
In MA, my husband entered a Bank of America branch where his organization had done business for a thousand years. Of course, he's breathing as God intended, but, of course, the only one. As he got further into the lobby, the masked rent-a-cop turns toward my husband and puts in his hand on his gun...My hubs, former Navy SEAL, slows down, looks right at him (Look of death), and says, "Really, dude?"
Hubs made his deposit, breathing freely, and left. This, in "the cradle of liberty."
Good on your husband and you.
I had many similar encounters in local Starbucks. I would stand my ground, refusing to wear an offered mask. They’d refuse to serve me, and I’d make my points and leave without my java jolt.
On a few occasions at CVS I wore a mask to pickup prescriptions, then removed it to continue shopping. But they refused to ring up purchases so I’d leave.
And the slab jabs? Relentless pressure on my son to get them. I went to war with his principal, my ex and “healthcare” provider to ensure that would not happen. My son thinks I’m a nutjob even now. But he won’t get them. Perhaps he’ll thank me later - or not.
Thank you for this excellent article. I was unable to finish Naomi Wolf's article, it made me so uncomfortable, and now I know why. The same tone bothered me in her book. I am so glad she woke up, is doing such important work on the Pfizer documents and is such an articulate voice in sounding the alarm about the threats to our rights and freedom, but corrections such as yours, bringing clarity to the choices people have made, are vitally important.
❤️❤️❤️ Thank you, Grandma Bear!
Awesome post! :)
Spot on...excellent piece. Where we live in MA most attempts at coercion for boosters and masks have finally been ignored since early Fall but I have witnessed zero personal accountability. I will not let the topic go for all of the reasons that you wrote about. I get blank stares, looks of sheepishness and attempts at changing the topic. I have yet to witness a single person display even the minuscule amount of courage it takes to reflect on ones behavior and judgement. I certainly don't expect it going forward because the neuro injuries and deaths around here are mounting rapidly.
Re your last point, Cathy, really?? I'm glad to hear that the coercion for boosters and masks has finally been ignored. Do you think those reactions stem from more people finally seeing what was done, what many of them helped perpetrate and perpetuate with their cooperation?
Kudos to you for continuing to keep the topic alive, especially in a place like Massachusetts. My hubs and I miss our friends and acknowledge that we enjoyed a very good life there, but this crime was the final straw...
Blessings. ❤️
It is hard to say with certainty but it does seem people are becoming more aware of what was done and how they helped perpetuate it. They still get lost in the group think though. I am not as articulate as you but what i often hear is along the lines of: I was just doing what everyone was doing. I have little hope for change if people don't take the next step with regard to owning their part. There was a very interesting shift on the North Shore in Sept. When the 'public health' cabal started pushing for boosters and masking the elderly in our community were the first ones to show obvious signs of not complying and it grew from there. Sadly the other variable is the overwhelming evidence of vaccine injury. It is reaching a point where everyone knows someone and that is a truth these criminals will not be able to suppress. Just to give you a glimpse: we have 2 neighbors one elderly and one mid life who developed a rapid atypical ALS, there is a 7th grader in Western MA who had a cardiac arrest at home and subsequent stroke, there are 2 teens who died suddenly up here on the North Shore, in my small world we have lost 2 friends and an acquaintance to turbo cancer (time from Dx to death under 3 months) and regarding the neuro injuries there are far too many to highlight. People are presenting with rapid decline in neuromuscular function. It is an evolving hellscape and I believe it is waking people up more than an awareness of the illegal, insanity they participated in. Thank you for the words of support regarding keeping the topic alive. I truly believe if we just keep trying to wake 1 person at a time we might prevent these creeps from gaining any more yardage. We are standing our ground for a bit longer but if we don't see signs of change we will be joining the mass exodus to the South. I completely respect you and your husband bailing when you did. I am still in shock with how many people went along with this. This is kind of funny/interesting...one of my former colleagues is in Newton and he said that area is the only area where idiots are still masking, boosting, virtue signaling and harassing others. That did not surprise me. Blessings to you as well and thanks for another great read.
Wow...Just has me shaking my head, Cathy. I'm sorry to hear about your losses.
Being here in Florida in the NW (and central time zone) has brought such peace. Though I supported our departure 100% (and had visited this area before we made our decision) I did wonder if, once I got here, how I would feel. I was born in Brooklyn, NY, raised about 50 miles north. Eventually moved back to Brooklyn and worked in Manhattan for nearly six years. Years later, I found myself in Boston for grad school. Got hired right away, so stayed. Nearly 30 years in and around the Boston area with all its activities, opportunities, conveniences, restaurants, etc., etc. End my career, move to a town on the Panhandle that's not even incorporated?
Where you have to drive to get anywhere? LOL!
I can honestly tell you that I have had not a second's second guess or a moment when I've thought we made a mistake. I catch myself here and there saying prayers of thanks to God for how lucky we've been and are to be here. The area's got a southern flavor; quite normal to hear Southern accents. Our best friend here -- we made through a connection -- is from Mississippi. Salt of the earth and she has been our angel. And so far, nobody holds it against me when they find out I'm originally from New York...;)
It sounds wonderful, sane and life affirming :). I would be a bald face liar to claim I don't have some envy. The phase we are currently in with this criminal enterprise is dystopian. The injuries are worse than expected and former colleagues are now breaking ranks...a small sign of hope. My guess is at this slow pace we will be making our move sometime in the next year. I am happy to hear the accounts of all of you who left and are enjoying the places you have landed in. Kudos to you for making it happen early on! Lol we cannot hide our MA and NY accents so it is good news no-one is holding it against you :). I am catching up on all your posts this week ....looking forward to them.
It is sane and life-affirming. I knew I would be unable (as well as being wholly disinterested in) to spend my days defending my basic human rights. Too tired -- not physically -- but in my head, if you know what I mean?
Masked ones here are rare, so rare that you're actually struck by them when you do see them. Stand out like sore thumbs -- and other unflattering things. ;)
I think I've shared with you before that hubs had been expressing a desire to leave the cold for years, too, so the Covid® crime just pushed that eventual date up a bit. Cost me my career, my income, health insurance, and a full retirement package, but I simply refused to cooperate or comply with what had already happened and what I knew was to come -- forced injection -- or begging for an "exemption" while still needing to "mask." Just. Would. Not. Do. It. Come what may.
Thank you so much for reading my posts, Cathy.
I do know what you mean and I wish the whole nation had the courage to do as you did. My partner refused the 'vax' and refused to apply for an exemption so was prepared to be fired then at the last minute they dropped their foul mandate. I am sorry you lost your full retirement and benefits but am glad it worked out well for you both. Also I think there is no greater gift than making a new salt of the earth friend so you had another win for having the fortitude to stand on the side of truth and freedom.
I have an odd background that compelled me to stand and fight the cabal and the attack on constitutional rights. I never know how my background is perceived but I am a gay woman born in the early 60's. I was on the front line of AIDS during the 1st 'public health' murderous, criminal campaign. I knew instantly they were going to use the same playbook on all of humanity. I am also a retired critical care nurse that was forced out of the work place years ago for standing up for patient safety. It is too long a story but the biggest mistake I have ever made was signing an NDA as that is how the corrupt players in pharma/alphabet agencies/ tier 1 facilities 'leadership' always win. I also live with a primary immunodeficiency where I don't make antibodies so the fraud and manipulation directed at that community was also evident to me on day 1. It is not unlike the sick, pathological propaganda being taught to the young gay community and their heterosexual peers. We are living thru a hell of a time and I have worked non stop in my small universe to speak the truth to all of these communities that I have links too. It is truly remarkable and disgusting how they have captured all of them thru propaganda and fear (medical, gay and immunocompromised) to push these 2 destructive agendas. I feel like I can't fight the decades long Uniparty but b/c these are communities I am a part of I can fight to wake up 1 person at a time who has been indoctrinated.
This is also why I enjoy reading your posts. I learn a great deal from them and it is also buoys me to follow people who are sane and dialoguing in a constructive way. For instance I love Naomi Wolf but I do understand how she can rub people the wrong way. Your analysis on her piece was excellent. Thank you again for your posts and I hope your NE friends start to put the pieces together as it isn't too late yet :)
Nailed it. My experience verbatim. Thrilled to have discovered you. We use language similarly and my husband and I also moved away actively choosing not to live amongst the cowardice and criminally complicit. The total abandonment of sanity coupled with a complete lack of reverence for individual rights and liberty was intolerable. But we sold our home and most everything in it at the absolute pinnacle of the bubble ( just stuff anyway) giggling at our new found "wealth" and secured our god given freedom that we clearly understood no man, no state, could or would guarantee to us; rather the opposite was already in play and we would not consent to join the victimhood. Somehow, early on, we also "saw" this was much much bigger than a respiratory illness most were never in jeopardy from contracting, transmitting etc. And it was on us and us alone to seek "safety" from what's ultimately coming for us all.
I'm so grateful to you for this comment. I've been a little "low" the last couple of weeks, feeling like what else is there to say about any of this? To hear that my words struck a chord is very gratifying and encouraging.
I'm so glad you and your husband were able to "make your move" and also to hear of another couple so deeply on the same page. Hubs and I are doing the best we can right now. Despite being in "Fortress Florida," we still feel a bit like fish out of water, though the peace here as compared to where we were is indescribable.
Thank you again for taking the time to read that piece and for the encouraging comment. ❤️
The summer soldiers are starting to come out.
I'm new to Substack and just found this article. This a great read. I think you hit the nail on the head when talking about courage. It's self-evident to me, so, that many compliant people are knowingly cowards? I think so.
Thank you, Photon! I'm glad you enjoyed the article and appreciate you letting me know. And welcome to Substack!
I appreciate you suffering through Wolf's article. I had once asked myself why after nearly a lifetime of irrelevance she should somehow now be relevant. After a short foray into her 'me' style journalism, she's still irrelevant and a bore to boot. I get tired of the collectivists trying to paint me with their wide, sticky brush.
Frank
I am willing to concede that Dr. Wolf may be experiencing a change. She certainly does appear genuine in her concern over these murderous injections and the destruction of freedom. That said, I agree that she still exhibits the characteristic "we" of the collectivist. That drives me crazy as I hope I made clear in this piece.
Good point, any sane person would be concerned about malevolent governments, but only respecting the right of the individual in cases such as this doesn't really earn a collectivist their Libertarian wings.
And she's a collectivist.
Unfortunately, those of us in whose breast Liberty beats, are surrounded by willfully ignorant, apathetic serfs who only care for just another day of their vapid lives. They care not that their actions visit horrors on themselves, us, or, unforgivably, their children.
They will never feel disgrace because they know no shame.
Yes, we are surrounded. I feel that less now that we've left gulag Massachusetts. Up there, the sanctimony was unbearable...
Excellent essay!! I think the root of this all was intellectual laziness. Easier to be told what to do and think (frees up more time for Netflix). I, a non-medical professional, was able to see through all of this from the very beginning. I am a freelance business researcher and analyst (who saw all my projects delayed or cancelled in the Spring of 2020) who thought if I can just find the right data, I can convince others that this was all a farce. Boy, was I naïve. Hours and hours of researching, writing posts, sending emails, making phone calls. All to be called names like 'heartless' 'selfish' and so on. Easier to believe the TV I guess.
That being said MO was 'in the middle'. No statewide mandates, only state-wide shutdown was a few weeks in April. In some of the rural parts, and at the Lake of the Ozarks, life went on pretty much as normal. But each city and county could do what they wanted, and my county went full covid theater. And way too many were scared and compliant with 'CDC guidelines' and stayed home or masked up or slathered on the hand sanitizer for an airborne virus. I either boycotted businesses, ignored their signs, or shopped & dined in adjacent 'free' counties, and was not alone. But too many had employer shot mandates they complied with. No idea if any mea culpas are forthcoming, have dropped most of them, or we just don't talk about it. Most of my time today is with freedom lovers who did stand up, although it's sad that it's not a bigger tribe. MO is supposed to be the 'show me' state.
Thanks for the article. This Compliance Over Science era has got to end. It starts with each of us!
Unfortunately the only science was science fiction, or political science. Even those in science didnt hear schwabb say they "owned the science."
One thing I've noticed about science is, it generally portrays the theory of those who pay for the science.