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Fiona Colombo's avatar

The Seattle Times this morning said that the worldwide death toll just passed 6 million but the "true toll may be nearly four times higher." Apparently that's from studying excess death numbers in other countries. No one ever dies of anything besides covid, right?

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Mdema's avatar

"Somehow EVEN WORSE is the complete lie that nobody could have seen the vaccine ‘wearing off’, or not effective against a variant."

It's worse because they are saying that they are incomptetent at their jobs, and no one foresaw a completely foreseeable problem.

Over and over again, they ask us to believe one of two options:

1. They lied, or

2. They are stupid

And neither option is good.

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Teri G's avatar

Exactly. It’s like how I still hear “VAERS is unreliable.” So saying that we have no way to track side effects from an experimental drug injected into the population at an unprecedented rate is somehow better?

I don’t understand how people can reconcile how drugs can be recalled many years after they’re brought to market with believing that a couple in-house clinical trials involving a few thousand (at best) participants confirm efficacy and safety for all of time. It’s literally magical thinking combined with an intense desire to not know how the sausage is made.

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Rikard's avatar

Most people, I'd say 75% off the cuff, get their news from the telly or the radio, or if online from the same stations. Meaning they just know what they've been told.

They just know what they've been told

Covid virus gives mighty cold

If you mask it goes away

Go get jabbed or its Hell to pay

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Boost up, one two

Boost up, three four

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Gas and food and 'lectrics too

Is because of Putin - Boo!

Put your trust in Brother Joe

'Cause he sure know just what to do

Ten-hut voters! Remember - wanting transparency and voter registration is anti-democatic white supremacism. In real democracy, party collects votes, party counts vote, party wins election.

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Bill Heath's avatar

The single largest item in the Build Back Better plan is $250B in reinstated state and local tax deductibility, needed primarily by California, New York, New Jersey and Illinois. That is a direct transfer of wealth from states such as Tennessee, Texas and Florida to high-tax faithful blue states.

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John's avatar

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The difference this time is they no longer listen, and we are growing tired on repeating ourselves.

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Winny A.'s avatar

Absolutely, our health officials are just as slimy as our politicians, it is infuriating how they keep shamelessly lying! And anyone who’s been paying attention for while now knows this. Covid was just the cherry on top of this s&#it sundae.

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¡Andrew the Great!'s avatar

"First of all, it’s terrifying that Walensky apparently gets her news from CNN."

Equally terrifying is that two SCOTUS justices apparently get *their* news from CNN as well.

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David Watson's avatar

They advocate propaganda media because they direct the propaganda. Their reality is what they wish for, not what is.

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David Watson's avatar

Doesn't matter if they're lying. Doesn't matter if they're directly responsible for millions of unnecessary deaths or trillions of wasted dollars. It only matters whether we will agree to hold the perpetrators accountable. For now, those with the power to prosecute them, and those with the power to demand it, are motivated to keep it going. They directly benefit from the frauds of fauch, wally and a host of others. Our salvation will only arrive when we replace our rulers with others who are not dependent on the fraud to maintain their power. That will only happen when we convince family, friends and neighbors they've been tyrannized. That's the hard part. It might start in November. Support rational candidates or prepare for two more years of punishment before we can try again.

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Rob D's avatar

It's very concerning that the monsters in charge may get away yet again. It's frustrating as heck and I feel pretty powerless to do anything about it. The corruption is so deep all the way from Klaus Schwab to state health "officials" to most of the courts that I am having a very hard time mustering any hope that we'll see justice in our lifetime, if ever. Even more frustrating is that we *know* that legal arrests, trials and just punishments are the only way to hinder these monsters from continuing their evil and diabolical schemes and plans. I am not a follower, but am also not a very effective leader myself, but I would be 100% supportive in any way humanly possible to someone who would rise up with courage and integrity and take these despots to task. I think the number one thing we *absolutely can not* let happen is to let ourselves become distracted AGAIN and let the last 2 years (and longer, but especially the last 2 yrs) be swept under the carpet. I, for one, will NOT let this go and plan to remind everyone I can of the felonious acts that have taken place until my dying breath.

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Stegiel's avatar

We require our leaders to lie. Are we seriously expecting truth about Bio-War or Atomic War, money spent, money allocated, number of eyes only programs in foreign states, does even a Senator want truth told in their presence? Way back during Iran Contra hearings REX 84 came up and immediately Closed Session by Chair. We are hostages of our government and suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. Truth would break the backbone.

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SCA's avatar

I expect govts to lie. That's normal--unfortunately. But I really didn't expect the entire liberal set of this nation to not only willingly, but eagerly abandon their duty of care for their children to earn approval from others. There's no word sufficient in our language to express what I feel about that.

But I guess Western society's been primed for it for a very long time. People admire Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" as an elegant examination of faith and ethics, and Abraham is the founding hero of three faiths, but anyone with actual normal real parental instincts should revile Abraham and consign him to the hottest spot in God's great tandoor in the sky. The only appropriate response to anyone asking you to sacrifice your children for faith is "fuck that shit." This should apply in all circumstances and for every era and every culture on earth.

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Rikard's avatar

Thank you for your words about Abraham, I thought me and my wife was the only ones who reasoned like that.

I've always (meaning my adult life) felt that Abraham failed the test .

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SCA's avatar

Amazing, ain't it, the miraculous nature of finding one's community...

You know that whole (paraphrasing) "I do not think this means what you think it means" meme thingy? That's like the entire Scriptures of every religion that's got one.

I once asked a Religious Authority why only Leah and Rachel were accounted Foremothers (along with Sarah and Rebecca) when there were the handmaids who also produced a considerable number of Jacob's twelve sons who became the origins of the tribes, and a coherent answer was not forthcoming.

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Rikard's avatar

All eastern philosophy and religion is focused on making people happy to be slaves. From the ancestors of the jews, when they were polythiests and the major deity was female, all the way to China - obedience to authority, earthly order being a divine mandate, justice and law being what power says it is, and so on.

Compare the unholy trinity of judaism, christianity and islam (three peas in a pod really) with the old norse. Nowhere do you find the same disgusting demands for obedience, servitude, serfdom and debasement the Abrahamites call faith.

Any of the äsir, jötnar or vanir trying to order a norse man or woman to kill their own child to prove their faith would have been gutted like a fish.

It's no wonder a certain german called christianity (and by implication judaism and islam) a tool for imparting slave mentality.

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SCA's avatar

I enjoy finding all those traces of women's folk religion persisting in Judaism and its two daughters. The great-great-grandmothers won't be silent...

Took me a long time to understand that one can dump the dogma but keep the food, so to speak.

Everyone I know of (incl. me) or have read of who underwent a profound "spiritual" awakening or conversion was struggling with depression and/or anxiety, often because of extreme life burdens, and prime for that imaginary great breakthrough of faith because there was nowhere else to turn. Reason and practicality can carry you only so far when you're drowning.

People further don't seem to understand that one can keep God, so to speak, without all the human garbage attached to the concept. We can't describe the indescribable with human language and the incapacity to make the unknowable graspable makes people nuts. A lifelong friend tells me I was brainwashed so young I can't escape that persistent belief in a Creator, but that don't bother me none. I ain't gonna find no answers on the earthly plane and won't be able to report their absence if I find they ain't nowhere, so I'll just continue to feel slightly uneasy when I eat my ham and cheese sandwiches on Yom Kippur, but not worry about it overmuch...

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SCA's avatar

More particularly here I'm talking about masking and vaxxing and school closures and no playgrounds and no seeing grandma, et al.

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smokegetsinyoureyes's avatar

He *almost* *whoops* said “put the VACCINE in the rear view mirror”! Yes please, Mr. Science. Let’s do that while you and yours pay off the damages thank you very much.

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The Ungovernable's avatar

Just like our parents taught us, the answer is “NO”!

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John's avatar

"No" is the most powerful word, of any length, in the English language, and we must start using it to regain the powers stolen by the corruptocracy.

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