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What about people—like me—who sensed something deep in their gut, that what was happening was messed up and not right, and shouldn’t be happening, but who saw everyone around them behaving as if what was happening was a logical response. And who didn’t watch the news but listened to npr in the morning on the way to work, like she had every day for the last 10 years. And then, inspired by that deep gut feeling, started to seek out alternative media (e.g., substack) and learned a whole new world of information in a very short period of time and whose head started to explode with the new realizations, and who then became the only person in her community who thought the whole thing was a giant scam, and then her grown children (20 and 24) started to think their mother was insane when she begged them not to get the injectable products? But they went ahead and did it because they thought they were doing the right thing? And said person (me) was the only person at her workplace—out of 100+—that didn’t get the injectable products? And who can’t talk about any of the giant catastrophe that has been the last three years with anyone, except for her substack community? Is that 1a or 2a?

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

Brilliant, Michael. But what about those who planned these lockdowns in 2019? Schwab, Gates, Drosten, etc.?

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

I knew they were a bad idea from the get-go. Economies are not lights...you can't just switch them off and then switch them back on again. Shutting them down has serious consequences as well as a ripple effect that will be felt for years and will do far more harm that a respiratory bug ever could.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

We moved from Washington State to Idaho March 20, 2020, and would go back to see family -- a different world. We live five miles from the state line and even crossing that was another world. I remember shaking my head looking at all the closed businesses -- small businesses -- wondering what have we done?

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Even worse are those who forced the jabs on others, who threatened and belittled those insisting on maintaining their medical freedom, and who loudly and incessantly insisted on the safety and efficacy of experimental treatments, when a minimal amount of investigation would have shown that the safety risk was potentially catastrophic and unquantified, and there was not any scientific evidence of efficacy.

In this category are many who deliberately deceived the public. And it also includes those who suppressed early treatment info and aggressively attacked anyone advocating it, and literally snatched the needed medications from the hands of millions, all so the jabs could be given to as many as possible. These people are guilty of mass murder, crimes against humanity, the most heinous acts.

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Jan 11, 2023·edited Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

The famous Milgram experiment showed us that a frighteningly high % of otherwise decent/kind citizens will commit heinous offenses against their neighbors if the authorities in white coats tell them to. The larger issue, or so it seems to me anyway, is that this was all orchestrated from the outset to bring about economic, societal, and moral breakdown. The ones behind this agenda are not our "leaders", they are the ones behind the scenes pulling the puppet strings and, unfortuantely, they will likely never be held accountable nor will they be subject to the purity test that is the central notion of this post. The power of The State has become so omnipotent that even our best leaders have little ability to do anything but posture their courage and moral authority, often at great cost to themselves and their families in the most extreme conditions which are themselves all too common these days.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

I lasted one week. I did my Costco stock up in upstate New York on March 14 and was on board for a couple days. My friend brought over hand sewn cloth masks out of remnant fabric a few days later. I was already over it. None of it made any sense. It seemed like everybody was playing an elaborate game of pretend. I’ve never felt so alone. I was so grateful to the great barrington authors for their rational and lucid understanding of it all. No political leaders matched what they did.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

"1. Those who realized lockdowns were a catastrophe and immediately acted to stop them."

Knut Wittkowski was the first I recall saying it was nonsense. I still remember him drawing a bell curve in the air as he described respiratory infectious diseases "They come for a month and go for a month".

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I never complied from Day 1. I drove, and rode my bike, and entered any public space that was open. I made trips to Home Depot for no reason. Grocery shopped in person daily, refusing the shopping services that everyone else did. I went to any friend's house who would have me and let anyone come to mine. That first summer, I drove from my home on the closed beaches of California cross country to the East coast, just to see how everyone else in the country was acting. I was sure it couldn't be as bad as the Bay Area. (It wasn't) I never washed my hands. I never wiped a surface. I avoided the squirts of hand sanitizer. I refused to buy toilet paper until I got down to my last roll. I wore a mask when they made me. I found underground pedicures and haircuts. In January I flew to DC to join the Defeat the Mandates protest. I avoided getting the shot even though it sadly cost me my job and half my friends and family. I remember telling someone on the phone in the first two weeks that this was going to go down as one of the biggest mistakes in history. I felt alone and struggled to hold on to my sanity when it felt like the whole world had simultaneously gone insane and I was surrounded by robots.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

Category 1: California Pastors like Rob McCoy, @Godspeak Calvary Chapel, Thousand Oaks, Tim Thompson, Murrietta, Jack Hibbs Chino Hills, Mike McClure Calvary San Jose, who preached against the lies and the lockdowns in the first month and who publicly opened in defiance of the Governor, County Health officers, County Sheriffs and under threat of being arrested. All who stood with them, CATEGORY 1.

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Very original take on a very important issue. Of course, the people in most of the "Bad" group have all the power, and want to keep it ... so we're not going to get any kind of truth or justice-seeking tribunal.

How people responded to Covid isn't even on the political radar. But it's the template the matters the most to me.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

I remember going to buy gift certificates from my favorite breakfast diner to the tune of $300 praying they wouldn’t succumb to the lockdown foolishness. It was so sad to see how they were just being forced to stay shut, when I would have happily been in there each weekend along with everyone else and our families. It was obviously wrong and awful and I hope some inquiry happens for sure.

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Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

I have a candidate for the panel that should be setup to question the evil ones who have benefited/supported/got some kind of sick satisfaction from the "lockdowns" and every other part of the hell that has been unleashed on the world over the last three years. In speaking with one of our local deputies some months ago, I questioned her about her stance on "lockdowns", compulsory shots, masks and the like. She told me that one of the local pastors contacted her during the lockdowns to ask her when it would be okay to reopen their church. Her answer? 1776! I'll never forget this conversation and how it restored my faith in some of the "officials" in our society. I agree that we need to narrow down the group of people who must be interrogated for their role in the destruction of our society, but more importantly, those who do the interrogating must be of high moral character, with a clear understanding of liberty and the US Constitution. Great, thought provoking post.

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Jan 11, 2023·edited Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

"That said, there are very few leaders on offer who are in the first category. For the most part, the public thus appears to be gravitating toward the crop of candidates in the second category. Ron DeSantis is the paradigm of a candidate in the second category."

Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota is in the first category, and to a lesser extent Bill Lee of Tennessee and ten other governors. Though all 50 governors did impose or at least recommend school closures at least for a few weeks.

For others in the first category, one would have to look to Sweden, Belarus, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Brazil, Uruguay, and even to some extent Japan and Taiwan.

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I don't understand, and never will, how anybody at all ever thought closing down society to stop a cold virus was ever the right thing to do. Even if that cold virus was Spanish Flu, it would have been a stupid decision. Economies can't just be stopped and started like car engines. Cold viruses can't be stopped either. Every single adult in the world knew both these things. Some gullible fools may have believed masks or perspex screens would help in some way even though a bit of thought would have shown them that was also nonsense. But locking down societies around the world? Never a believable proposition. Everyone who willingly participated chose to ignore the obvious flaws. Your 2nd group, the ones who quickly realised it was wrong, probably thought it was right from the start but were weirdly willing to go along with it. Everyone else is either a fool, a monster or a coward - probably all three.

I had no choice about stopping going to the hairdressers because they closed them down. Likewise the opera. But I carried on as normally as possible - never wore a mask, never tested myself for a cold or took any jabs. I'm not boasting (I tried to tell others it was nonsense but I didn't start any Movements or anything worthy). Sadly, I would be one of those dissidents who get put up against a wall by the totalitarians for not following orders!

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Jan 11, 2023·edited Jan 11, 2023Liked by Michael P Senger

I didn't see a category for those who recognize the lockdowns as the smashing success they were (not for us, of course). I've read 50% of small businesses are gone and Jeff Bezos profited wildly. Gates, and many others, too. Power across the board became exponentially more centralized, the Constitution even more neutered. Katherine Watt's substack, Bailiwick News details the legislation put in place over decades to bring this to fruition.

Ron Paul said his staff freaked out when given something like 3 days to analyze the Patriot Act before the vote. He told them to simply stop when they ran into anything unconstitutional. They didn't make it past the first page - and yet, the Patriot Act passed. These lockdowns will come back if they can manage it. Digital currency, painted as an inevitable technology, will be a control system. You think Newsome will ever see lockdowns as a mistake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9k-xp7UwRM And this could be our next president.

As an aside, we should have a windfall profits tax of 100% for any profits made off any and all covid policies. Vaccines, lockdowns, masks, the lot.

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