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May 27, 2022Liked by epimetheus

I assume that previous infection. With covid is not recognised as a means for avoiding this gene therapy? I am in Belgium, am unvaccinated and have had covid. There is no way I will ever take this ‘vaccine’ so hope we don’t go down this path. Maybe the politicians need to have a word with Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche about the harms of mass vaccination and the possibility of the development of much more serious strains - I hope his theories aren’t right actually. Or maybe they should look at Portugal - one of the most vaccinated countries with very high rates of infection and re-infection. I never thought very highly of most politicians but I now view most with derision!

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Hmmm, good question. Your decription mirrors mine, albeit in Norway.

So far, like Rikard said below, much of this meant, in practice, flying 'under the radar'. I've been asked about my injection status twice (by my next-door co-worker): once I lied to his face (no qualms about that on my part), ever since I'm resorting to what (used to) work with my 3-5yo children, i.e., retorning, with eyes rolling, 'what do you think?'--Spoiler alert: that this still works with my adult co-workers (all uber-credentialised academics), but it doesn't with my 8yo and 5yo daughters anymore, should tell you everything anyone needs to know about adults vs. children.

Over here, 'all vaccination is voluntary', and since the gov't has emphasised this in a very 'positive' way, there wasn't much discrimination (unlike, say, Austria). Still, ever so quietly, a fourth injection is only 'offered' to 65+ and 'high-risk' groups, but, as the Institute for Public Health holds, 'patients must ask for it'.

I do expect a clash of perceptions and the like once the EU moves to re-authorise these darned Covid Passports, which they are telling everyone they will do after 30 June (the technical expiration date): if one's EU-approved 'Covid Status' expires, how will Norwegians happily move around the Schengen area? (Personally, if I still believed in the rule of law, that's one hell of a law suit to bring against the criminals in the EU Commission, but then again, it won't happen…)

As to Mr. Vanden Bossche, well, I sincerely hope he's not right, but then again, it's like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube again: it's all done now, and I suspect whatever happens will happen anywhich ways we think, or do, about it.

Finally, my bout with Sars-Cov-2 was in mid-to-late January, hence, my un-used Covid Passport 'expires' by late June anyways. I won't take these injections either (much to the 'marvel' of, say, my brothers…), hence I'm quite happy to stay where I am.

Stay strong!

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May 27, 2022Liked by epimetheus

They don't sound just different, they sound downright special to me. +30C and wearing a mask good enough to filter out particles as samll as a virus? Done that in a factory as to not inhale metal dust on that scale. 20min mask, 10min break, rinse and repeat for 8 hours a day, for a total workday of 10 hours. +25C outdoors, +35C or more (the quicksilver thermometer cut off at +35C since it virtually never gets that hot in Sweden - and quicksilver should give you a timestamp) indoors despite the big doors on the loading dock being flung open.

We had simple trick to cool off: pop in the smelter room or the foundry for 5 minutes and realise that yes, we could be worse off. +50C or more in there, the guys wearing thick denim coveralls, thigh high protective boots, gloves up to their elbows, helmets and full masks.

I really want to see a politician do that for a day.

On a positive note, swdish doctors ae no longer recommending vaccinations for anyone except people in risk groups or over the age of 65, depending on health status. Mother asked her blood doctor as to why they and the answer was that knowledge of the side effects (myo-/perikarditis especially) is now well-known among doctors and nurses, it's only the politically appointed civil servants who haven't been ordered to change ther tune.

So the doctors inform the patients on the side, "mellan skål och vägg" as we say. (Literally: between the bowl and the wall, referring to iron age furniture where you could sit in pivate in a booth behind a drape and still sit at the main table, the expression is well over 1 500 years old and referes to truths best said in private.)

If this keeps up in Austria, doyou expect a diaspora to other nations? That's always a good question I think: what would it take to make one emigrate?

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I recall, with much time having passed, my summers while in 'senior high', i.e., grades 9-12, which I spent working in a chocolate factory on the 'shop floor'. Yes, I know, it's not a real factory like the one you describe, but the areas in the basement where we used to melt the cocoa butter were about as 'warm' as you mention (but the smell was 'better', I admit).

Re the injections in Norway: as I wrote in the above reply to Hillary, it's identical here--65+ and 'high-risk' groups are offered a fourth injection, but 'the patient must ask for it'.

(Nice saying in Swedish, by the way.)

Re the diaspora issue: I don't know. I think that's not really an option--life's too comfortable for most people, and while that doesn't mean it's a fantasy, moving abroad would mean to solve the following 'equation':

(life in Austria = quite good, but the jabs are annoying) - (better life quality elsewhere : jobs, work, life in general) = hard to find such a place, esp. if one's accustomed to the pampered lifestyle of most western peoples.

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A factory is a factory is a factory to paraphrase Stein - meaning that it doesn't matter much if it's chocoalte or cheese or water taps. You punch in, disconnects yourhigher brain functions, then it's robota robota robota all day long and the punch out and connect the brain again. Every day. If you can take it, it's a rather good job, if the work environment is up to code and codes are good.

For a creative restless kind it's a Hellscape no matter what.

Though I'd say the top spot goes to the men and women working manual garbage sorting and in large factory scaled crematoriums (they use the excess heat to warm up apartment blocks in Stockholm now, talk about "den enes bröd den andres död"; 'the bread for the one is the death for the other').

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Let's hope more people will have the courage and information to resist!

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Exactly.

I counted my pitchforks yesterday: 5, plus one that's broken (it has only two 'teeth', but it still 'works').

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Apart from kinetic munitions, they have deployed DEWs - Direct Energy Weapons - against people now. The Australian Canberra police deployed DEWs against covid protesters in 2021.

They have them in the White House as well. I saw one standing outside a door. I thought they were mobile antennas until I saw them in use in Canberra.

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Oh, when I write 'in force', I do mean 'force'. There's nothing else left to them.

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