I was introduced to you via another Substack author I follow. I see many topics you write about that I could find informative, poke around, maybe contribute, engage, help build conscious awareness about ideas we develop and learn from each who read and write on this Stack.
And then I heard this episode. A specific portion of it that I can't let go of. Where you indulge the fiction that PPE, masks, somehow, defying the science of the microbiological world, would protect a population in a contagion crisis, like the fiction of the Covid plandemic or some other future plandemic.
Not only do masks not work, not at all, not one bit. They are dangerous for both wearer, who straps a petri dish on their mouth and nose, reduce oxygen to the brain impairing cognition. And to society, where human interaction requires facial expressions in order to run smoothly, harmoniously, without friction that human facial expressions are highly evolved to lubricate. Masks induce fear - like seeing snakes do - that triggers the amygdala. There's a reason only bank robbers and hijackers wore masks pre-2020, and it wasn't just to remain anonymous. It was to evoke fear requisite for compliance, obedience. And were used by behavioral science-informed epidemiologists to make the populations fearful, obedient to authority. They harmed society in immeasurable and lasting way, especially scarring the young.
Why you would still indulge the dangerous fiction and fantasy that PPE actually works in a community setting that would require domestic production capacity is a disqualifying information point for me, newly introduced to your page, my second episode to catch. While I'm sure my first paragraph could hold true, and I do take in information from those I don't share understanding of the world with because I can always learn, even from adversaries, the whole mask behavioral science psychological manipulation thing that set the stage for all the darkness and loss of freedom, liberty, restructuring of the contract between the government and the governed that ensured. Censorship, vax mandates, none of it would've been tolerated if it hadn't been for the "fear amplification" of masks.
Smart, informed people who share values of freedom and liberty should stand opposed to masks for the harm they cause to freedom and liberty - fear amplification only enables totalitarianism. Only fearful people willingly give up freedom and liberty. Masks terrorize, induce fear. The information you provided in the rest of the episode and gleaning from titles of other pieces you've shared indicate you could otherwise be a thought ally. But to hold on to that fiction indicates impaired, flawed thinking that will inevitably trip up freedom supporters who make self-destructive, sabotaging negotiations. If you haven't learned this about masks five years out I doubt you ever will.
That was not the intent of that section. The section on that was not to say masks work against an airborne virus but that America had offshored industry to the point where it could not provide basics in an emergency. What the bureaucrats and media did to Americans in overhyping the covid risks is unforgiveable.
I understand the intent. That wasn't lost on me. That you chose *masks* as the example is the intent of my comment. Of all the other examples you could've leaned into about offshored industry that couldn't provide basics in an emergency, you chose masks?!?! A proven harmful, freedom-destroying fraud?!?! If only there had been a real shortage of masks that persisted to this day we'd have been better off. An industry that amplified a flu into a global crisis, masks *deepened* any sense of emergency and walked people into the even greater emergency and crisis of totalitarianism.
I suppose you could've said ventilators. Which Pres. Trump touts as having saved lives by repurposing US manufacturing capacity in short order. But it turned out ventilators killed people, were completely inappropriate as medical equipment for a flu, most all that was manufactured sits on shelves in warehouses and will go bad before they're ever used. So that example doesn't work.
I suppose you could've said pharmaceutical drug production that's been offshored. But Big Pharma manufactures poisons that killed people in the plandemic. "Run-Death-is-Near" Remdesivir and Midazolam killed people. OWS killed people. And all of the other poisons doctors prescribe like the psychotropics that mass-murdering trannies in Nashville take. No, that example doesn't work, either.
Hmmm....emergency products that you could've used as an example? I can't think of ANY. Now *normal* non-emergency products that have been offshored that the pandemic highlighted our weaknesses in would be things like microchips. That go into automobile production, electronics, other products. That weren't available, put on waiting lists, became prohibitively expensive. Now THAT would've been a good example. And others along that vein.
But there's not a single thing that the US didn't have to provide the basics of during an emergency that was dangerously offshored. We can't even blame the toilet paper shortage on off-shoring production. That was home-grown, the result of unnecessarily turning off normal life for a flu. Because domestic production was weighted to meet work/home consumption, different types of toilet paper. Commercial industrial TP consumption went down, home consumption went up. Whacked balance for awhile.
Point is, yes, we absolutely, positively must bring home production of the necessities of life and its conveniences we take for granted. But there was nothing that we "needed in an emergency" that we didn't have, especially not any "PPE" like harmful masks. All of the "emergency" products harmed, didn't help. Emergencies aren't exactly the best time to make meaningful decisions about anything. They are reactionary. And first reactions are typically wrong, worse than doing nothing. What was needed was cool heads, contemplation, proof beyond reasonable doubt that "doing something, anything" will actually be so beneficial they justify extraordinary recalibration of society.
I enjoyed both your posts. I agreed with virtually everything you said. You are much more articulate than I am.
But, yes there is a but… I agree with author that masks were used as an example to show the dangers of off shoring, especially during an emergency. My radar is pretty attuned to anyone who supported/supports the plandemic nonsense. I was listening for signs of support and I didn’t hear it. Could author have included some comments like the ones you included in your posts? Yes. I would have liked to hear some denunciations of ‘Covid.’ I always want to hear them! (Exclamation point not emotional just used to emphasize.)
I think you over reacted. I enjoyed your thoughts, however. If possible, more than you did writing them.
In case you can't tell I have a visceral hatred of masks. They are terrorizing. Worn by terrorists. The fact that authorities convinced so many people to terrorize one another will sit raw in my gut until my last days.
And when I say terrorizing that's not hyperbole. Masks being amygdala trigger is scientifically proven long before plandemic. Is *why* they became NPI. To scare us apart from each other. Explicitly anti-social. Behavioral Scientists (BS'ers) use known psychological symbols, framing to shift perspectives, as an Rx. Epidemiology incorporates a lot of BS, is one of most common degrees to get into the field. Society was "diagnosed" as "suffering" from "optimism bias" by the BS'ers. And their Rx was "fear amplification" to scare us apart, make us take threat seriously since we 'erroneously' think there wasn't much risk. "Fear amplification" = "Terrorize." They chose terrorism to "treat" our "illness" of thinking it was just an ordinary flu. To suggest they were helpful in any way is to rationalize and justify our friends, family, neighbors being conscripted into becoming terrorists.
And the masked people we still see walking among us are the most visible casualties. In a kinetic war we see casualties missing limbs. In an psychological war we see casualties wearing masks. Yes, I'm prone to calling them stupid as much as the next person. But I remind myself they are victims of a different kind of warfare, attacked by a very sophisticated military-grade operational attack on the mind. And those who knew better but wore the masks anyways so as to "not frighten" grandma and be nice are some of the most guilty of all. They weren't being kind, thoughtful. They were being complicit, normalizing people terrorizing each other. The ones who knew better but wore them anyways weren't compassionate, they abetted the psychological torture of those who didn't know any better. Who still walk around in public, drive solo in cars with masks on. Who will cling to them and lose healthy connection with humanity, many even their own families for the rest of their lives. And continue to harm themselves, with respiratory infections and stressing their immune systems, oxygen deprivation that impairs cognition (like climbing Mt Everest deprives the brain of oxygen, impairs judgement, thinking, same). While masking doesn't kill at once it harms over time and shortens life expectancy, literally makes wearers stupid.
Yes, I have a visceral hatred of masks. As disturbing as it is for me to see them on the permanently wounded casualties among us I've shifted my hatred to those who pushed them on us and who continue to perpetuate notions that they're in any way helpful. Hence, my 'overreaction.'
Again great writing. Agree 100%. Your articuladedness leaves me feeling inadequate….
I used, not wore, the same chin warmer for over a year so as to be illegible to buy food. It was filthy but also a protest, so I kept using li’l pigpen for the duration.
Forcing kids to wear masks at school was pure evil. Less than ‘vaccinating’ school kids but still a vile policy. Decades of ‘accepted science’ on respiratory viruses and masks thrown out the window. Yes, masks were used to cause fear and show compliance. To many it was a forced compliance, to too many it wasn’t. Another motive was it showed the more malleable who to attack, who was against the Big Lie.
Sister visited during ‘Covid’ for an unavoidable family business meeting, took notice of my maskless face and the next day showed up wearing two masks. Sigh.
Not being disingenuous when I say keep it up. There are still too many who believe ‘Covid’ was real. They believe ‘vaccines’ are deadly and ineffective. Believe Remdesivir and respirators were harmful money making inducements for hospitals. Forcing people to comply was wrong. But believe ‘Covid’ was real, came from China and if only ivermectin or antigen (?) treatment or this or that had been allowed to be used to treat why then millions around world wouldn’t have died. Dr. Bowden was on Tucker last week, I tried to watch but she is in this latter group.
I’m tempted to say that I believe in virology and virologists and that TPTB just used them so you’ll drop some knowledge about field.
Agree with you about the stupendous theater of March Madness. U of H grad. 83 loss to NC State still haunts me. As of this am I still have not finished watching game. I still don’t know who won. I keep falling asleep. Sad. Get off my lawn kids. Hard not finding out and ruining dvr ed game as I live in SA.
Maybe tonight I will sit down with a coffee instead of a beer and finally know if ghosts of 83 have been put to bed instead of me…..
Hegemony and empire are totally different things yet you use them interchangeably. America has never been an ‘empire’ and we have no ‘vassals.’ I wish we did, though!
I was introduced to you via another Substack author I follow. I see many topics you write about that I could find informative, poke around, maybe contribute, engage, help build conscious awareness about ideas we develop and learn from each who read and write on this Stack.
And then I heard this episode. A specific portion of it that I can't let go of. Where you indulge the fiction that PPE, masks, somehow, defying the science of the microbiological world, would protect a population in a contagion crisis, like the fiction of the Covid plandemic or some other future plandemic.
Not only do masks not work, not at all, not one bit. They are dangerous for both wearer, who straps a petri dish on their mouth and nose, reduce oxygen to the brain impairing cognition. And to society, where human interaction requires facial expressions in order to run smoothly, harmoniously, without friction that human facial expressions are highly evolved to lubricate. Masks induce fear - like seeing snakes do - that triggers the amygdala. There's a reason only bank robbers and hijackers wore masks pre-2020, and it wasn't just to remain anonymous. It was to evoke fear requisite for compliance, obedience. And were used by behavioral science-informed epidemiologists to make the populations fearful, obedient to authority. They harmed society in immeasurable and lasting way, especially scarring the young.
Why you would still indulge the dangerous fiction and fantasy that PPE actually works in a community setting that would require domestic production capacity is a disqualifying information point for me, newly introduced to your page, my second episode to catch. While I'm sure my first paragraph could hold true, and I do take in information from those I don't share understanding of the world with because I can always learn, even from adversaries, the whole mask behavioral science psychological manipulation thing that set the stage for all the darkness and loss of freedom, liberty, restructuring of the contract between the government and the governed that ensured. Censorship, vax mandates, none of it would've been tolerated if it hadn't been for the "fear amplification" of masks.
Smart, informed people who share values of freedom and liberty should stand opposed to masks for the harm they cause to freedom and liberty - fear amplification only enables totalitarianism. Only fearful people willingly give up freedom and liberty. Masks terrorize, induce fear. The information you provided in the rest of the episode and gleaning from titles of other pieces you've shared indicate you could otherwise be a thought ally. But to hold on to that fiction indicates impaired, flawed thinking that will inevitably trip up freedom supporters who make self-destructive, sabotaging negotiations. If you haven't learned this about masks five years out I doubt you ever will.
That was not the intent of that section. The section on that was not to say masks work against an airborne virus but that America had offshored industry to the point where it could not provide basics in an emergency. What the bureaucrats and media did to Americans in overhyping the covid risks is unforgiveable.
I understand the intent. That wasn't lost on me. That you chose *masks* as the example is the intent of my comment. Of all the other examples you could've leaned into about offshored industry that couldn't provide basics in an emergency, you chose masks?!?! A proven harmful, freedom-destroying fraud?!?! If only there had been a real shortage of masks that persisted to this day we'd have been better off. An industry that amplified a flu into a global crisis, masks *deepened* any sense of emergency and walked people into the even greater emergency and crisis of totalitarianism.
I suppose you could've said ventilators. Which Pres. Trump touts as having saved lives by repurposing US manufacturing capacity in short order. But it turned out ventilators killed people, were completely inappropriate as medical equipment for a flu, most all that was manufactured sits on shelves in warehouses and will go bad before they're ever used. So that example doesn't work.
I suppose you could've said pharmaceutical drug production that's been offshored. But Big Pharma manufactures poisons that killed people in the plandemic. "Run-Death-is-Near" Remdesivir and Midazolam killed people. OWS killed people. And all of the other poisons doctors prescribe like the psychotropics that mass-murdering trannies in Nashville take. No, that example doesn't work, either.
Hmmm....emergency products that you could've used as an example? I can't think of ANY. Now *normal* non-emergency products that have been offshored that the pandemic highlighted our weaknesses in would be things like microchips. That go into automobile production, electronics, other products. That weren't available, put on waiting lists, became prohibitively expensive. Now THAT would've been a good example. And others along that vein.
But there's not a single thing that the US didn't have to provide the basics of during an emergency that was dangerously offshored. We can't even blame the toilet paper shortage on off-shoring production. That was home-grown, the result of unnecessarily turning off normal life for a flu. Because domestic production was weighted to meet work/home consumption, different types of toilet paper. Commercial industrial TP consumption went down, home consumption went up. Whacked balance for awhile.
Point is, yes, we absolutely, positively must bring home production of the necessities of life and its conveniences we take for granted. But there was nothing that we "needed in an emergency" that we didn't have, especially not any "PPE" like harmful masks. All of the "emergency" products harmed, didn't help. Emergencies aren't exactly the best time to make meaningful decisions about anything. They are reactionary. And first reactions are typically wrong, worse than doing nothing. What was needed was cool heads, contemplation, proof beyond reasonable doubt that "doing something, anything" will actually be so beneficial they justify extraordinary recalibration of society.
I enjoyed both your posts. I agreed with virtually everything you said. You are much more articulate than I am.
But, yes there is a but… I agree with author that masks were used as an example to show the dangers of off shoring, especially during an emergency. My radar is pretty attuned to anyone who supported/supports the plandemic nonsense. I was listening for signs of support and I didn’t hear it. Could author have included some comments like the ones you included in your posts? Yes. I would have liked to hear some denunciations of ‘Covid.’ I always want to hear them! (Exclamation point not emotional just used to emphasize.)
I think you over reacted. I enjoyed your thoughts, however. If possible, more than you did writing them.
In case you can't tell I have a visceral hatred of masks. They are terrorizing. Worn by terrorists. The fact that authorities convinced so many people to terrorize one another will sit raw in my gut until my last days.
And when I say terrorizing that's not hyperbole. Masks being amygdala trigger is scientifically proven long before plandemic. Is *why* they became NPI. To scare us apart from each other. Explicitly anti-social. Behavioral Scientists (BS'ers) use known psychological symbols, framing to shift perspectives, as an Rx. Epidemiology incorporates a lot of BS, is one of most common degrees to get into the field. Society was "diagnosed" as "suffering" from "optimism bias" by the BS'ers. And their Rx was "fear amplification" to scare us apart, make us take threat seriously since we 'erroneously' think there wasn't much risk. "Fear amplification" = "Terrorize." They chose terrorism to "treat" our "illness" of thinking it was just an ordinary flu. To suggest they were helpful in any way is to rationalize and justify our friends, family, neighbors being conscripted into becoming terrorists.
And the masked people we still see walking among us are the most visible casualties. In a kinetic war we see casualties missing limbs. In an psychological war we see casualties wearing masks. Yes, I'm prone to calling them stupid as much as the next person. But I remind myself they are victims of a different kind of warfare, attacked by a very sophisticated military-grade operational attack on the mind. And those who knew better but wore the masks anyways so as to "not frighten" grandma and be nice are some of the most guilty of all. They weren't being kind, thoughtful. They were being complicit, normalizing people terrorizing each other. The ones who knew better but wore them anyways weren't compassionate, they abetted the psychological torture of those who didn't know any better. Who still walk around in public, drive solo in cars with masks on. Who will cling to them and lose healthy connection with humanity, many even their own families for the rest of their lives. And continue to harm themselves, with respiratory infections and stressing their immune systems, oxygen deprivation that impairs cognition (like climbing Mt Everest deprives the brain of oxygen, impairs judgement, thinking, same). While masking doesn't kill at once it harms over time and shortens life expectancy, literally makes wearers stupid.
Yes, I have a visceral hatred of masks. As disturbing as it is for me to see them on the permanently wounded casualties among us I've shifted my hatred to those who pushed them on us and who continue to perpetuate notions that they're in any way helpful. Hence, my 'overreaction.'
Again great writing. Agree 100%. Your articuladedness leaves me feeling inadequate….
I used, not wore, the same chin warmer for over a year so as to be illegible to buy food. It was filthy but also a protest, so I kept using li’l pigpen for the duration.
Forcing kids to wear masks at school was pure evil. Less than ‘vaccinating’ school kids but still a vile policy. Decades of ‘accepted science’ on respiratory viruses and masks thrown out the window. Yes, masks were used to cause fear and show compliance. To many it was a forced compliance, to too many it wasn’t. Another motive was it showed the more malleable who to attack, who was against the Big Lie.
Sister visited during ‘Covid’ for an unavoidable family business meeting, took notice of my maskless face and the next day showed up wearing two masks. Sigh.
Not being disingenuous when I say keep it up. There are still too many who believe ‘Covid’ was real. They believe ‘vaccines’ are deadly and ineffective. Believe Remdesivir and respirators were harmful money making inducements for hospitals. Forcing people to comply was wrong. But believe ‘Covid’ was real, came from China and if only ivermectin or antigen (?) treatment or this or that had been allowed to be used to treat why then millions around world wouldn’t have died. Dr. Bowden was on Tucker last week, I tried to watch but she is in this latter group.
I’m tempted to say that I believe in virology and virologists and that TPTB just used them so you’ll drop some knowledge about field.
Take care…
tptb?
To the author,
Agree with you about the stupendous theater of March Madness. U of H grad. 83 loss to NC State still haunts me. As of this am I still have not finished watching game. I still don’t know who won. I keep falling asleep. Sad. Get off my lawn kids. Hard not finding out and ruining dvr ed game as I live in SA.
Maybe tonight I will sit down with a coffee instead of a beer and finally know if ghosts of 83 have been put to bed instead of me…..
Hegemony and empire are totally different things yet you use them interchangeably. America has never been an ‘empire’ and we have no ‘vassals.’ I wish we did, though!
your commentaries on a Sunday afternoon are always refreshing.