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Thanks for covering this. We're seeing similar numbers across highly vaccinated countries so it's good to add more to the body of evidence.

Also to note, there is one typo near the end of the article. "Let me offer you some unsolicited advice: ***where*** there..."

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Hi John, thanks for your kind words!

Keeping the receipts is, sadly, almost all I can do.

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"...this is another step towards the quite uncomfortable reckoning with not only the biggest medical experiment in human history. It will in all likelihood also usher in massive changes in terms of consciousness, public trust, and perhaps even a revolution."

The lockstep hysteria of government and media in their response to the so-called pandemic; the abondonment of first principles and best-practices by the scientific community and public health; the blind willingness of my fellow citizens to surrender democratic and constitutional protections; and above all the vituperation directed at myself and other truth seekers have all certainly brought me to the "breaking" point you describe.

Again and again I have tried to communicate to both loved ones and acquaintences the significance of what has happened and how I will never trust my fellow citizens or my government in the same way again. They just don't get it (or don't want to?).

I am on the record predicting a bifurication into ideological system "believers" and disparate dissident "skeptics" - I know which side I am on, but am not very confident that we - the minority - will prevail. This is so big and there are huge obstacles to personal/societal/institutional honest reflection, accountability and clearing house. So many are implicated. The majority will not voluntarily concede their guilt nor cede their positions. Any vacuum of power would be fiercely contested. I fear the future is increasingly authoritarian regardless of whether there is a changing of the guard or not.

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Oct 28, 2022·edited Oct 28, 2022

It is quite possible, even likely, that the people you mention who have been hurt by being too trusting (albeit trust that morally speaking should have been justified - the fault lies with the ones betraying the trust) will instead demand more coercion, more unity-by-decree, more control, more oversight of everything, more strictures, more rules for the sake of rules - since the reflex is to think that deeds such as the ones of the past years are due to accidents and glitches in the system and not the system being gamed for nefarious purposes or even worse the system simply reaching its logical end-points. After all, it's less horrible to live under a system who accidentally wreaks occasional havoc, than under an intentionally malicious one, yes?

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I'll use one of my favourite hobby-horses from here to illustrate, using an actual example (this part can be skipped but in the interest of hammering the point home and through or whatever it's called, here it is):

In 2005 parts of Sweden was hit by a storm named Gudrun (Erwin in Germany), with winds from 33m/s to 45 m/s. This of course led to lots and lots of trees being felled. Now, clearing away stormfelled wood when it's more than the odd lone tree is mandatory by regulation and is the responsibility of the landowner or the person paying "erbpacht" (arrende in swedish).

Clearing stormfelled wood is also very dangerous, and lots of small-scale owners not used to working in such conditions had to do a lot of dangerous work in a short time, leading to a spike in forestry-related injuries.

The political response was to mandate a driver's license for chainsaws, with 8 to 12 different sub-licenses, all to be applied and paid for separately. Something which has led to a lack of access to on-demand personnel for the forest industry as the sum total to get all the licenses is over 3 500 Euros, not something someone unemployed has lying about.

A few years ago, working with a röjsåg (brush cutter, internet says it's räumsäge in german?) was also put under license. Floor-cleaning machines, the ones that look like mini-Zambonis are also under license. Woodchippers, hedgetrimmers, ride-on lawnmowers, and so on are all to be put under license in the future. There's talk about bicycle-licenses.

And virtually no-one is protesting or is even able to perceive the ridiculousness of it. Any statisticial anomaly or artefact (much like the one created by a new virus) is taken as proof that the only salvation lies in more and more and more regulation in greater and greater detail, and 19 out of 20 feels that's the right way - despite it being demostrably and objectively true whether or not the license actually helps. It doesn't - it's illogically put together. You can use all of the above on your own land without license, as long as it is for private use and not commerical gain.

So if I take down a tree on my land (without having a license) it's fine. But if my neighbour cuts down the same tree (him being without a license) he's in danger. And vice versa.

And almost no-one can see the flaws in this regulate-us-unto-eternity ritualism.

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With respect it sounds like you only became a "conspiracy theorist" relatively recently. This has being going on for a long time, and even I was late to the party, in late 2001.

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Funnily enough, I was in NY on 9/11 and witnessed the unholy government/media driven hysteria that followed. Having grown up in a country with a long history of colonial subjugation and a modern history of paramilitary terrorist groups it makes it quite easy to remain cynical/skeptical in the face of state actors' versions of events.

That same quasi-theocratic nation of my birth was also plagued by holdover civil war politics and rampant corruption along with church scandals in my youth - so no, I have had a rather jaundiced view of official narratives since my teens.

I think this current level of clusterf*ck is - at least in western Europe - on a different level because of the simultaneous failure of the scientific/journalistic/judicial/etc communites and the collective hysteria although I fully accept it can all be placed on a trajectory of developments going back decades. For me there has just been something deeply unsettling about the propagandistic messaging/censorship with such broad societal compliance, I dunno... it caught me by surprise.

Then again, perhaps you are right, and my recent radicalisation lies, at heart, in me being so personally affected by the injustice within a modern constitutional democracy this time round. It's always somehow different when it's personal.

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Hey, thanks for the detailed reply.

I kind of want to apologize, I wasn't trying to "brag" or belittle you. The more people we have on our side the better.

I have been trying to wake people up for well over a decade. 9/11 sucked for me because I was dating a Texan. We were having lunch in a cafe and the waiter clocked her accent. He said "there is something bad happening in America, maybe you should go home and watch it, it's on all the TV stations".

We did what he said. When the first tower came down I was like "this is ridiculous". When the second tower came down I said "I don't believe any of this, my only conclusion is that the US Government did this to itself". Needless to say that went down like a shit sandwich.

I spent years trying to find credible "conspiracy theory" information (the Internet was useless in 2001/2002). That sucked me down the biggest rabbithole of all time and I would read document after document by the so-called "elite" and the UN that made me aware that something very sinister indeed was going on.

Don't get me wrong, I am a historian by training and even though I knew in my heart this "pandemic" was BS, I am a critical thinker and need evidence to advance my understanding. I think at the beginning of Covid, almost no-one knew what was happening. The whole thing was as confusing as a discussion about Venezuela on Zero Hedge (generally a combination of idiots, racists, communists, capitalists, Intel Agencies and disinformation agents of every stripe all having a massive agenda-pushing fight - no-one can make any sense of it).

Then Dr. Yeadon appeared. What a legend. Here was a man who very likely had never heard a "conspiracy theory" in his life, perfectly talking about everything I knew, but in terms he didn't know how to properly express. Same with Dr. Bhakdi. Then I was straight back on track.

What is so terrifying this time round is that a lot of very intelligent people have been completely brainwashed. Completely. A friend and colleague of mine has a PhD in a scientific subject and was a university professor. Also was a director at a major financial institution (I am being deliberately vague). To my horror, even though I have given so much information in an indirect way, his partner and "they" just got boosted, and now the partner is in and out of hospital a couple of times a week.

The most horrifying part about all of this is, these are educated, highly intelligent people. Yet they still fall for it. It's unreal. I can't say what I really think because when I have, people who are otherwise calm and rational explode with rage. It's horrifying to witness.

Back in 2011/2012 I was using this video to try and wake people up. I had used other tactics in the years before that. My conclusion: most people know that everything is a lie and agree, but when you finally hit the "note" that convinces them, they become terrified and go into what I call "ostrich mode". They don't want to think about it anymore. It's literally offering the red pill and the blue pill and they willingly choose the blue pill. Infuriating and also sad to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSvb_ZTYS6A

They were literally showing this garbage to kids in UK schools. Everyone I showed this video to back in the day agreed it was terrifying, then "switched off brain and went to work". Unbelievable.

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The explanation is simple and obvious:

1. Putin

2. Trump

3. Climate change

Those three were responsible for 95% of the excess deaths.

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What could it possibly be? I mean, I, as a layman, started warning everyone this would happen almost two years ago now but...I mean, that must have been pure chance, I couldn't possibly have done any research. I'm just an insane conspiracy theorist.

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Idiocracy is here.

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Kassandra-cloak on:

Media will keep schtumm for a while longer. Then, drip by drip they will start feeding a narrative that they were silenced by wicked politicians (coincidentally such that media big-wigs doesn't like very much), then they will build on that to a torrent clamouring for mass-autopsies and post-mortem investigations, and finally they will lead the charge of a press-jihad against the regulatory bodies for allowing the use of an experimental non-negotiable and not possible to remove injection, without any proper studies being made. "Clearly, this shows the need for the regulatory bodies to work in co-operation with citizens' committees* for oversght and transparency"; *read self-selecting activist groups from among the juveniles of the most woke journalists/media caste mmebers.

It's not like the older journalists, used to digging through documentation and archives rather than just using quick-search functions, doen't already have these prepared. It's like making the headline for the Eurovision Song Contest: you don't wait for the winner, you make one for each contestant in advance. That way you're always right.

And then they will congratulate themselves and crow about how their dilligence prevented things from getting worse and how "free media" is the key safe-guard of democracy.

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Nakstad is worried, and while he can't tell you what is causing it, he can absolutely tell you what is not causing it: https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/flere-blir-syke-og-dor_-_-koronavaksinen-er-ikke-arsaken_-sier-espen-nakstad-i-helsedirektoratet-1.16155252

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Ha, haven't seen that (yet)--thanks!

I would like to see any, you know, 'data' Mr. Nakstad is basing this very confident statement on.

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