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Sep 7Liked by epimetheus

I never understood the slavish devotion to masks despite the preponderance of data against its efficacy. Vaccines are easy to understand that it is all about the money. The billionaires want it pushed at every opportunity to increase profits and set up future profits. My only guess with masking is that maybe it is just about control and getting people to do what they are told. An item of fear and compliance.

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Sep 7Liked by epimetheus

I think it's partly about control, but it's also a security blanket for some people. Plus a status symbol. And some people are genuinely confused. Heck, I was on board for masks for a while. The way they "sold" them to us was as "your mask protects me, mine protects you." I wasn't afraid of COVID (no more than of the flu, in any case), but I didn't want to kill any grannies, so... There you have it. They successfully conned me. The corona fiasco taught me I was way too trusting of the authorities. And I really didn't trust them very much to begin with! I am very sorry to say that this "not very much" was still "way too much." Sadly! (At least they didn't get me with the injections.)

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'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'

Orwell, in his 1984.

Plus--you'd get to signal your virtue to those 'deplorables' and 'science™-deniers'.

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Sep 7Liked by epimetheus

I suspect that this is how absurd but entrenched cultural practices (for example, the Chinese practice of foot binding) get started. Some high status person somewhere decides it's a good idea (whether due to an honest mistake, or due to some weird fetish or phobia), it gains traction due to being associated with high status, and then good luck rooting it out.

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That, sadly, makes a whole lot of sense.

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Sep 7Liked by epimetheus

I can’t watch that NY Gov. after herd wearing that Covid vaxxed necklace 🤪🤪 and god loves the vaccinated (or something like that) … it’s just a waste of brain cells watching her speak.

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I feel you, it's so absurd it boggles the mind.

I do wish these BS peddlers a bunch of boosters, though.

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Sep 7Liked by epimetheus

Faucci said it here yesterday… I believe all those bouts of covid & shots of genetic therapy has left them all mentally incapable

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We do know that these nano things can pass the blood-brain barrier, so: it's the most plausible explanation, isn't it?

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