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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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! :-)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the article. This Compliance Over Science era has got to end. It starts with each of us!