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Highly, HIGHLY recommend the film The Age of Transitions linked in the article. It's absolutely terrifying, and I'm afraid it's coming true.

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It's a little dated but still very relevant.

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I doubt this will happen, the few hundred simply don't have the resources.

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They actually do: they control the global money supply, own most governments, the media, "education," and "Medicine," so they can start starvation, long blackouts, plandemics, disastrous weather, total communication blockage, UFO attacks, or WW3 on TV.

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No big deal for people who can take care of themselves without the phoney baloney.

They don't want to kill everyone, you'll have to carve out your own position they would recognize as at least a neutral.

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And how do you think it will be possible to defend crops, when he hungry hordes of looters, gangs, and zombies will come, armed to the teeth!

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Normally this type of comment comes from someone looking for any excuse to actu7ally not have do anything, or, wants to tear apart my position, or, wants to ruin my reputation.

I've dealt with this comment dozens and dozens of times.

Here, I made a post about it: https://ricklarson.substack.com/p/after-collapse-and-suspension-of

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It was a question, not a comment! :)

I am actually desperately trying to assume an approach that works, and asked for your contribution.

In my area, my neighbors and my family are also growing food, but we can fish and hunt, too. In my understanding, only as a community of a group of well-armed and well-trained people, who can distribute tasks within the group, when the time comes, can make it, but even that comes with low probability. Setting up perimeters and acquiring and safely storing the necessary supplies and equipment (a lot more than just weapons) are also necessary...

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No, not everyone, they are only looking to eliminate 9 out of 10. Sounds like you are content being the “neutral” 1 out of 10.

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Not sounds, reads. No, I'm a positive and have something to defend, that is what carve out should indicate to you. They are after the easy pickings., people who are in their words useless eaters. I view useless eaters as people who don't grow food and don't have anything to defend.

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How nice that you think so highly of your preciousness, and agree with the global elite and their views on the useless eaters, and their extermination.

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Are you sure? Look what they have managed to do to our world so far.

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I am positive their plans will end in disaster, for them and all those minds they have enslaved. Its a higher possibility the entire human existence will end by their hand than they will command it (all humans)..

These people are physically and mentally weak, the biology of the planet wants to eat them all.

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Disaster is their plan. I guess the only question is whether they manage to stay protected, or end up being consumed by the very disaster they helped create?

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Humanity has a single chance: if the enforcers turn away from them, the monsters lose.

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They better hurry!

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May 28, 2022·edited May 28, 2022

The investor elite are the weakest of humans. They will be consumed.

Those who are actively growing healthy food are strong (its a segment of being independent of investor elite products and services). I suggest you start a garden now, succumbing to their spells is a sign you are dependent on them.

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A tomato is about 35 kcal. A head of lettuce is about 50 kcal. The average inactive person need about 1500 kcal daily for sustenance. So about 2,000,000 kcal annually for a family of four to survive. Nothing wrong with a garden. It’s healthy for the body and mind, but it’s not a realistic option for most. Get to know your local farmer. We need to re-regionalise our food supply.

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Another high quality read and I agree completely with your comment that many Substack writers have taken their eyes of the ball, "Hamster Wheelers" is a good description. Without mentioning names, some have appeared to me to have now jumped on the bandwagon of other issues that really have nothing to do with what they originally started out doing. But many have their die-hard followers, so I think some think they can do no wrong. Kind of like listening to an actor or a pop star lecture people, when in reality, they are nothing more than just that. an actor or a singer. Probably the worst example I cant think of is that bag of wind, Michael Moore!!! Linking as usual @ https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

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I have trimmed my subscribes

Only so much tim e to read

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Bancel/Moderna's CEO whining at WEF about 30 million vials of their kill shots trashed cause the world is awakened to the agenda. Maybe the tide is turning. Dont believe in their magic pills cause they are designed to kill. Moneypox-now thats a beauty!

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I read somewhere that there are four ways to achieve immortality —

(1) Conquer huge territories and restructure the geopolitical sphere (e.g. Alexander the Great).

(2) Create a work of artistic genius (e.g. Bach).

(3) Create a great religion (e.g. Confucius).

(4) Change humanity’s genetic makeup.

It seems that the elites have decided that (4) is the way to go. What I don’t understand is why they are suddenly so open about it. Is this just pure hubris, or are they so secure in their power that they don’t see the need for secrecy anymore? Some days I think that they have made a fatal strategic error. Other days I think that the war is already over.

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Yes, they have decided to play God. When you have every private jet, collected rare art and treasures, are no longer amused by looting central banks, or the next 20 generations of taxpayers, and six flags doesn't entertain anymore then it's time to inject funky stuff in the global population and play God. This level of hubris never ends well.

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You cannot achieve what you already have.....immortality, for the body dies but the soul/spirit lives on. First law of thermodynamics: Energy can be changed from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I’m reading an excellent book from 1956.

Rape of the mind.

Joost Meerloo .

Describes exactly what we are going through.

From isolation, divisiveness, loneliness, on and on. All a mental emotional psyop

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Great book.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Isn’t it! Scary good.

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For those of you that have not read it, you can get it as a free PDF. I'd share a link, but I downloaded it a while ago and don't remember where I got it. But it is out there for free.

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Dude, how old are you? You have read a lot of books ;-) or you spend and have spent all your time reading books, while I have been in a narcistic, hedonistic, pointless pursuit of nothing.

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Middle aged bloke working on my dissertation in the area of propaganda studies/surveillance studies, so that's one of many books of required reading. Don't worry, even academia feels like a pointless pursuit of nothing. ;-)

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check out Mattias Desmet interviews, he mentions Meerloo a lot. Here's one of his interviews https://odysee.com/@GrandJury:f/day7en:0

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

crap thats long.... Thomas Jefferson: "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

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so great. partially rewatched the John Adams hbo miniseries a few weeks ago just for the TJ scenes. these men, at that moment in history, brave, brilliant, geniuses. brass balls.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I know right! that was a great production. Imagine when Jefferson had to run away from Monticello from the British who were charging up! Some guts in that man... ...Jefferson opposed primogeniture and entail. He believed that women should be able to inherit properly. He tried to introduce legislation to phase out slavery. And of course the Kentucky resolutions...the first secular republic really in history or at least since the Greek republic. Kevin Gutzman wrote this book about Jefferson.

Revolutionary

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/thomas-jefferson---revolutionary-a-radicals-struggle-to-remake-america_kevin-rc-gutzman/10933172/item/24919781/

then followed up with "the Jeffersonians"

https://www.amazon.com/Jeffersonians-Kevin-R-C-Gutzman/dp/1250135451/ref=sr_1_1

And about James Madison

https://www.amazon.com/James-Madison-Making-America-Gutzman/dp/0312625006/ref=sr_1_4

and of course Jefferson himself wrote the amazing

Notes on the state of Virginia

and of course the incredible, A summary view of the rights of British AMerica. 1774

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Thanks for the book recs. The world was huge. Everything moved so slowly. News of battles won or lost took many days to spread through the colonies if not weeks and much longer to get to Franklin busy brushing up his french skills with too much wine at the boudoirs of the royal court. They really experimented with self governance and showed us the way, and now the way back. Soon. Again. Lions. Brass balls.

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https://youtu.be/Vy7FJJ_ud84

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This was a fantastic film. Hamilton's curse is another great book on this subject. Hamilton wanted to recreate the british mercantilist model, he thought the union wouldnt survive without a stronger central authority.

https://www.amazon.com/Hamiltons-Curse-Jeffersons-Revolution-Americans/dp/0307382850

It really seems like Hamilton sold the Constitution to the public under false pretenses. He reassured the states delegates and the public that the general gov would be restrained all the while actively working to undermine it. I suppose he thought the states would not ratify the constitution unless they had the assurances that they would have the right of secession and would retain their sovereignty.

I always wonder what would our society look like if we had retained the articles of confederation.

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I completely forgot that Rufus Sewell played Hamilton in this series. Sewell is amazing. He was in the recent Netflix adaptation of Philip Dick , Man in the High castle.

The story deals in alternative realities... sci fi. Here is Sewell , a member of the NAZI party of AMerican, visiting an alternative reality , seeing his son in a diner in 1960s America, they just witnessed an act of discrimination aginst black people despite the civil rights act and his son tells him he wants to join the army and fight in Vietnam.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W7p5n-ZE-npzsNUyStdMezQjPw03q8jZ/view?usp=sharing

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Notes on the State of Virginia: contains some of the most powerful and eloquent arguments for Intellectual and religious freedom in the English language. Now, neglected.

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GOLD!!! Thank you...check this out, if you PLEASE, SHARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dr Paul Marik......"No.2 ICU Doctor in the World breaks down over Adverse Reactions from the Covid jabs being ignored & calls it a Humanitarian Crisis." (2 mins) https://twitter.com/i/status/1529342458030481408

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Thanks for that. Added it to the body of the article.

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Wow. No words.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

The part about the depopulation agenda that perplexes me is who is being targeted by the agenda. It seems that the demographic groups most likely to see their populations reduced by this strategy are the ones who are currently in power. It is liberals who get most of the abortions, take most of the vaccines, and engage promiscuously in sexual activities where procreation is physically impossible. when I asked the same question in another forum, I got a response suggesting that the powers that be don't actually care which groups are depopulated as long as the population is dramatically reduced. Perhaps, once you have a relatively small number of people, then you can easily reprogram them to say and do whatever you want them to.

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Biotech does not yet have this type of precision. I know because I have a PhD in biology.

This is a crude operation that is not designed for quality control. Also, it’s to a large extent still beta testing.

Gates et al don’t actually know their asses from their elbows, so you don’t really need to worry too much yet about their competence at turning us into cyborgs. The TV is much better at this than “vaccines.”

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The vaccine was made to target certain groups and leave out certain groups. It was designed not to affect the Tribe and the Amish.

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Wrong, you are dealing with micro and nanotechnology.

Yes, technology - please tell me PhD, what do you think from where did they get that stuff?

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They've been working with this crap for decades. But the PDT emergency happened, and they said " let's try this". You need to realize these cretins in power are stupid people. Really stupid people. Think about all the people at your workplace that climb that ladder using politics. What two things do they all have in common? Usually evil sociopaths that couldn't get anywhere doing a good job by merit, and the reason for that is they're fucking stupid. They released thus thing, this flu, they talked with the sos's of the swing states, git them to change their election laws illegally, and had a perfect cause for mail in voting. Now they are all caught,and we have none with balls to arrest a signal one.

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Dr. Lee Merritt. And as an aside.......Your attitude is typical of those who have become doctors (MD}, and those who have become pretend doctors (Phd). There is something about the training that creates a myopic ridgidty and misplaced certitude.

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That's the dumbest thing they could do. Kill off any that support them, and leave us for them to get control of? That's fucking hysterical. I look forward to the attempt.

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If everything here is taken at face value, it's too late to meaningfully change anything. The vast majority of the global population are already remote bombs.

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That's increasingly a distinct possibility. According to Todd Callender remote zombies.

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It matters in so much as it impacts the "what, if anything, can we do about it" calculus.

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I’m not sure Callender knows what he’s talking about, with respect. He’s a trial lawyer. By definition, trial lawyers don’t suffer from confidence issues or imposter syndrome... but it doesn’t mean they right.

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I know a number. They don't seem like zombies to me.

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The arrogant globalist pussys (sorry to be redundant) are going to push the lions too far. Bring it on.

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"The arrogant globalist are going to push the lions too far." So, global lockdown, kill shot masquerading as a vaccine, BLM and Antifa terrorists burning down America cities. a stolen national election, millions of invaders yearly coming across and getting on the dole, your children in the schools having their gender changed as you watch, fossil fuel being killed, and an intentional supply chain collapse, is not enough? "Bring it on." Americans talk tough but they got no game.

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We’re not there yet and at least we weren’t stupid enough to give up our guns like Canada or Australia. Cheers.

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So far, our guns have done no good. They have not stopped anything I previously mentioned. That is the only reason we have been allowed to keep them in the US.

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"White people conquered the globe." You say that if that is a good thing. Tell that to the masses slaughtered. And......before the white conquerers there were conquerers of different races. Everything moves in cycles, even global conquest.

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The drivers of the NWO agenda are primarily Tribe not white.

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I'm honestly at the point where I wish they would do something so egregious that we all, without talking about it here, know it's the one thing, and ten million armed Americans show them what for.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I've been saying for a long while now that all talk of vaccine ingredients, covid measures used to control the population, crimes committed by government and private officials to either engineer or propagate the scam is meaningless at this point. It doesn't matter that they did what they did; it doesn't matter that they committed serious crimes against humanity; it doesn't matter that they took away our liberties and don't ever plan to give them back.

All that matters is their continuing agenda of depopulation and central and total control over the remaining population, and the efforts to starve us, jab us, quarantine us, and drive us to insanity. Nothing else matters at this point. If we ignore their goals and focus on what they've done, we will be swept along with the sheep into the pens that we have built for ourselves. We are enabling this decent into slavery until/unless we wake up and focus on the agenda that is making us into slaves.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Hans Hermann Hoppe:

"But Empire building also bears the seeds of its own destruction. The closer a state comes to the ultimate goal of world domination and one-world government, the less reason is there to maintain its internal liberalism and do instead what all states are inclined to do anyway, i.e., to crack down and increase their exploitation of whatever productive people are still left. Consequently, with no additional tributaries available and domestic productivity stagnating or falling, the Empire’s internal policies of bread and circuses can no longer be maintained. Economic crisis hits, and an impending economic meltdown will stimulate decentralizing tendencies, separatist and secessionist movements, and lead to the break-up of Empire. We have seen this happen with Great Britain, and we are seeing it now, with the US and its Empire apparently on its last leg.”

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

Dr David E Martin is digging deeper too.

Thank you, while heartily agree.

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He's great. A true Lion.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

“Under democracy, the incentive structure is systematically changed. Egalitarian sentiments and envy are given free reign. Everyone, not just the king, is now allowed to participate in the exploitation—via legislation or taxation—of everyone else. Everyone is free to express any confiscatory demands whatsoever. Nothing, no demand, is off limits. In Bastiat’s words, under democracy the State becomes the great fiction by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. Every person and his personal property come within reach of and are up for grabs by everyone else.”

― Hans-Hermann Hoppe, A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline

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Good points to be made.

However, we are way better off than you think. There's no bluetooth in the vaccines. I've checked many people and never found a link between a bluetooth spot and them. You also can be seeing the phones they are carrying- because some devices put out multiple bluetooth names, which only certain scanners can see. I have seen videos show it, but videos are easily faked. Try it for yourself. Anyway, let's say it were true. How is this powered? Another big issue with these pipe dreams of chips in the body, a reliable power source. Broadcasting bluetooth takes a lot of power compared to a passive RFID chip like in your credit card.

Anyway, the brain chips don't do much either. You can only look at vitals, or with the chips, sort of read the brain like an EEG. You see waves and patterns... sometimes the patterns are distinctive of a specific brain state or big emotion, sometimes they are not. It's not an exact science, because the mind is way more complicated than electrical impulses. There are tons of chemical reactions happening too in the brain.

Whitney Webb has said a few times recently that they are far far behind in AI. Now they intend to map children's brains to sort of reverse engineer the brain.... lol

The graphene guy seemed very suspicious, why didn't he release the data- as if we are to rely on videos as proof? Whatever, if its graphene or not, we know the lipid nanoparticles kill. Moderna had issues before covid with LNPs. I think graphene and the chips are red herrings to discredit those who question the safety of the vaccines. Perhaps it's an organic thing or an actual counter story (which the CIA etc has done many times before to steer things).

I have a feeling that they won't succeed because they are becoming more and more lazy. It used to be a decade or so between plandemics. A couple years between school shootings etc. It's ramped up faster. That's good for us to wake up from mass formation. A shorter time between big events means people will start to see a pattern. Monkeypox looks like the dumbest story yet, and it's not even supposed to be respiratory, so they can't claim super spread. More and more people are going WTF is this nonsense, full of declarations etc, when they couldn't even properly "predict" covid.

If you haven't looked into questioning virus theory, I suggest you do. They're gonna be pushing more and more new diseases and once you see the sham of the science of virology, you'll start to see how all of the pandemics in history are either just testing caused or when people were actually sick, caused by a source that they wanted to cover up with a virus (you can't sue a virus for paralysis, polio took the blame from DDT/pesticides for example)

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All great points. On the virus attribution, there is a lot of correlation to cover ups from other causes going back to the spanish flu and mass vaccination of US military personnel. Makes you wonder what viruses are not 'cover ups' etc. And yes, the more they ramp up the theatre of absurd fear mongering and engineered crises the more people wake up. Advantage lions.

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Yes. I have no doubt they want everyone digitally controlled but it’s not that simple, and a lot of the stuff on our side is obviously also blatant propaganda designed to scare people and get clicks. I have a friend who has a PhD in biology who has been looking for evidence of “connectivity” to Bluetooth but no hard evidence yet.

It’s good to be paranoid but one needs the right level of paranoia.

I suspect there is graphene in the vaccines but I think it’s for the purposes of gene delivery in order to force the mRNA as crudely as possible into as many cell types as possible. This is not an operation with any degree of precision. People like Harari are scam artists deliberately deluding the elites for 🤑🤑🤑

They likely want to use the graphene for other stuff later but this is not technically feasible. The only thing it’s accomplishing is biochemical damage.

Elon Musk can talk about neural laces all he wants but his brain chips are still killing 50% or monkeys so it’s a nonstarter. 2/3 isn’t bad (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink) but he should quit while ahead on the cyborg stuff. Cuz it’s doomed to fail. (Many incredibly smart and successful people don’t know their limits.)

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The thing is - they are not bluffing.

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May 26, 2022Liked by Good Citizen

I've also stopped regularly reading a lot of the Substack authors who I followed closely during the height of the pandemic. I do agree that many of them seem focused narrowly on the trees and appear unable to see the forest. However, I'm not sure that all of these folks are failing to see the forest. They may just be differently motivated. Even though I'm not interested in the latest data that further proves what has already been made abundantly clear, I do think there is a value to continuing to load the Internet with every piece of data that calls the Covid tyranny into question. If people start seeing their days in court, the data trove may come in handy for their lawyers. The work of people like Jessica Rose, Steve Kirsch, and Alex Berenson may save a lot of money hiring experts to do the work that they have already done.

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Not everyone is going to come to the same conclusions. To some extent some of the popular Substack authors on “our side” of things suffer from over-education but the other hand, the popular idiocy and “no such thing as a virus” beliefs have become comedic memes themselves and are probably evidence of just a different form of mass psychosis from the overconfident.

It’s important to stay grounded in reality and that also means getting out into the real world and out of one’s own outrage bubbles on alt platforms like Telegram.

I just spent several days in airports and driving across several states. Yes, there’s some woke psychosis, but I also saw plenty of nice people with kids. 300 lb androgynous people covered with tattoos and piercings are not actually the norm.

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Although I have not made up my mind about the core premises of modern virology, I think the case made by people like Andy Kaufman and others that the evidence for viruses as something separate and distinct from the cellular waste and toxic chemicals they are mixed with in all experiments in the field is worthy of further study. If you've seen a detailed scientific refutation of that contention, I'd like to see it, because I began with skepticism toward Dr. Kauffman and his colleagues but have not been able to refute their claims.

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There won't be a detailed refutation, because the idea that viruses don't exist is only taken seriously by one former virologist, a psychologist, a GP from New Zealand, and maybe 1-2 other doctors.

I've listened to some of Kaufman's and Bailey's stuff and it has not inspired me to listen to the basis for it (Lanka's materials). I don't think they're dishonest: they just have excessively high standards of proof for some things (ironically not others) that can never be met in the real world. They have good points regarding the isolation of viruses, but I don't think they understand genomics, and that's the real underlying problem.

Perhaps one day I will look at Lanka's website but for now I have shelved it because there are more interesting things.

I dealt with some of these claims in the comments to this thread. Like all memes, the "Viruses Don't Exist" crowd appears in every thread to make everything about viruses and "terrain theory." So I responded...

https://themariachiyears.substack.com/p/modern-ignorance-and-ancient-wisdom-513/comments?s=w

Eventually this person I was arguing with (who was sporting a very classy Punisher Skull avatar) became rude and vaguely threatening toward me. You see, I am the enemy, because I am both a scientist and because I also wouldn't *immediately* kowtow. So someday I deserve to be punished and people like me will "pay" some day. Anyone who believes in viruses is THE enemy and is responsible for all the evil in the world, and if no one believed in viruses, all would be well, because it would stop us from being afraid of pandemics ever again. Or something.

The vague threats are when I banned him from commenting on my newsletter. Unfortunately, I didn't screencap his comments beforehand, and now they don't show up at all.

I consider the "Viruses Don't Exist" crowd are like any new social meme, such as the intelligent designers of the 2000s, the Crossfitters and vegans and cannabis as cure-all of the 2010s, etc. -- just more rabid. Every reaction gets and equal and opposite reaction, so the rabid delusion of the covidians is being met with an equal but opposite force.

Just the way it goes, I suppose, with social backlashes to prevailing norms. I'm not impressed with 'terrain theory' since disease is generally an interplay between the host, the pathogen, and the environmental conditions. Obviously not all disease is caused by germs, but some is, and in those cases, germ/terrain theory are not either/or.

Normally it's fun with new social memes, but, just like with covidianism, the fervency of belief and evangelism of the newfound truth is itself a tell. I try to make judgments based on facts and not social metaphysics, but in this case it's an important additional part of the picture.

"Viruses don't exist crowd" might find they get more reception if the talking points weren't exactly the same in every damned place on the net, and if they weren't so aggressive about it.

It's like bitcoin. I love the stuff, I think it has real utility for a lot of people (it has saved my ass on more than one occasion now), so I know its value is not going to zero. That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see it under $20k over the next couple of months, and if the laser-eyed goofballs and the usual pump celebrities on Twitter would STFU about it for awhile, I might buy back even more than what I sold.

But not til then.

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What is the difference between a virus and an exosome?

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I saw an explanation of this elsewhere within the past month. They look the same under electron microscopy, have similar structures, but the viruses can replicate, while the exosomes are extracellular messengers.

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My understanding of terrain theory is that it refers to the interplay between microorganisms and the host.  I first became familiar with it when I studied naturopathic medicine in the 1980s and I am aware that the general idea dates back to early microbiological work at the beginning of the 20th century. It is peculiar that the group that denies the existence of viruses has adopted terrain theory as their rebuttal.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because the concept of a terrain implies that there are various organisms living on or in the terrain. Terrain is not a concept independent of organisms. It is inherently a space within which organisms exist.  A terrain without organisms would certainly be disease free, but it would not be one where we would be having this conversation, because none of us would be alive.

That being said, I believe that in almost all cases, terrain is the far more important factor than the pathogen. Most of the common infectious diseases of the 19th century had declined by 90% or more due to public health measures and better nutrition before antibiotics and vaccines were widely available.

The last thought on this subject for now is that I'm aware of a lot more than a handful of people with scientific and/or medical backgrounds who believe that some version of terrain theory is a superior model than the current magic bullet for evil pathogen theory that predominates in modern medical practice. because I have worked around a wide range of holistic practitioners my entire adult life, my inputs are no doubt skewed compared to your own, as I believe you are a research scientist.

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