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They have already lost freedom to walk their neighbourhoods and have normal family lives. Last straw for so many on the margins.

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Dude, really ? This is like reading an article by an upper, middle class Karen. This is such a first world problem while children in other parts of the world are:

1. Used as soldiers.

2. Used as child labor in factories.

3. Used as street beggars and criminals.

3. Sold as slaves.

4, Sold as child sex slaves.

5. Stolen from mothers at birth and sold wealthy families.

6. Trafficked for organ harvesting.

7. Starved from poverty, unaffordable food, and war.

8. Manufacturers deliberately cutting infant formula supply.

9. Die from unsafe water.

10. No medical, treatment for AIDS, Dysentery, Cholera, Malaria, Tuberculosis

Yes, it's must be an awful hardship for children to wear masks and be protected from contracting and spreading deadly infectious diseases.

The actuality is many are falling victim to false flag conspiracies' to:

1. Relax liabilities of public educations and government

2. Relieve work activities and relax liabilities for daycares, educators during child care periods.

3. Reduce the effort working parents have to raise children, keep them and others safe for virulent infectious diseases.

This narrative is sounding no different than "the WOKE" parents projecting their own neurosis and forcing transgenderism therapies and puberty inhibiting drugs on their children.

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSALITY

Our only weakness is blaming others for our fears instead of dealing with reality 'we humans' are not in control of most things occurring on this blue ball. Events sounding globally between disease and droughts and other natural disasters proves "we're only guests here, even though we act like we own the place".

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I live in those countries where such things exist. And it does not excuse gagging kids. Masking and distancing have measurably harmed kids which means fewer of them will escape the evils you have pointed out. Not sure how greater evil justifies lesser evil.

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We just need to keep arguments in balance.

As you know, I think it's both ridiculous and unreasonable to place masks on young children. If my children were in that age group, I'd be infuriated and strongly question the leaderships' competency. Frankly put, "expecting to mask young children is a colossal stupid idea". They'd find more success in training a dog to recite the Merchant of Venice. Realistically, what kind of plan did you expect from people that have 24hr nannies to raise their children ?

The CO2 studies are merely correlations. First, there is no evidence the measures are valid. Even if cognitive drawbacks were true, there's no evidence any immediate negative effects are not self-correcting. We are studying humans, not manufactured auto parts. Biology is adaptive and self-correcting.

Keep it going

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Every. Single. Thing. Out of your mouth is manufactured consent and propaganda. Notice NOBODY likes or is agreeing with your pro MSM comments ? Whoever’s paying you isn’t getting their moneys worth. You’re neither balanced or fair. And we don’t need a shill like you insinuating our arguement aren’t “ balanced “. Millions are injured and dead from shots and lockdowns Go. Away.

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Please grow up and then actually read my comments instead of reading what you think I'm saying. You'd like to believe this is bunch of mean, teenage girls in an agreement club, well it's not.

You say "go away", typical of the "cancel culture" who cannot logically argue. Aren't you embarrassed being so close minded and lack the ability to debate ? Maybe your "true calling" is bigoted, fanatical politics. ?

If you read my previous comments, I've never supported lockdowns with the exceptions of rare cases where they may serve some local, short term need. I have explained the thinking behind mass lockdowns, historical origins, posted links to papers for both pro and against lockdown and where they have and not proven effective. Same for vaccines.

And for your information, I'm not paid to address issues in low volume or any other blogs. My comments are to remove unfair bias from otherwise meaningful and cogent topics and great writing. I think Chris's articles address important topics that warrant a little opposing feedback to make them better.

I hope Chris's articles gain traction and become more popular. Hopefully he can find time and produce podcasts like Dan Carlin.

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I won’t be responding after this . I’m a theory and bias expert trained in ethics and research. I did read your original comment and subsequent ones. I’m afraid if you’re not a shill you are terribly brainwashed. I worked with patients in hospice and chronic care. I’m a Licensed hypnotherapist and a SPED expert as well as having litigated scores of cases. I’m sorry you still don’t see the mass corruption and global conspiracies being actively played out. Good luck to you

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What you see as mass corruption is an very naive outlook and lacks political historical perspective. You should invest some time learning about the history of trade, disease, response's social implications including fear incited behaviors.

IF you work in hospice, you clearly experience treatment decisions between patient comfort and symptom treatment. It's never a clear or consistent path. Patient care is often series of trade-offs that shift treatments/interventions with patient's changing condition, limited by the costs and available medical practice. In hospice and long term critical care facilities, there is no optimal solution. Once admitted to hospice, patients often will not recover. Despite education and decompensating condition, family members often experience denial and believe their loved ones will return home healthy and spry.

During anticipatory grieving, some family members become critical of care decisions (there's always one), it's a normal part of the process. They have unreasonable expectations medicine and may accuse carestaffs of not doing enough or go as far as claiming staff is attempting to kill patients. Feeling angry, frustrated and powerless over the situation, family members are often found at their worst dispositions and temperaments. Common themes include feelings that institutions they've expected to magically heal have abandoned them and aren't doing enough for patients. Irrespective of education provided to family members, some will not accept the limits of medical practice and occasionally bring carestaff to litigation and even claim broader conspiracies to rid the world of their terminally ill loved-ones. Family members and friends need to be afforded the time to move through the grieving process. Unfortunately, some never get through the anger and blaming phase.

Public health no different than any other healthcare practice. Limited capabilities, methods, and techniques never provide an optimal solution. Despite education, some feel public health treatment should be perfect, magical. People feel frustrated, disempowered and abandoned. In a way, this pandemic placed us all in a hospice situation. The fact is the entire world, our collective global society is experiencing grieving or anticipatory grieving over family members and some degree of grieving over our loss of control over pandemic situations. Many have become stuck in the anger phase looking for someone or some faceless conspiracy to blame.

Anger can be a good, power emotion. Anger motivates many to take productive action. Unfocused anger can lead to destructive and self-destructive behaviors. Leaderships' should provide the guidance and focus this energy into a productive resource, a challenging feat when late to the game where people's stress and grief has already compromised their ability to think calmly and rationally.

As for the brainwashing comment, that just shows you feel our positions are insurmountably different. I don't agree... I've never said opportunistic exploitation has not and is not occuring, it definitely has. However, it's just a normal part of the circumstance, and our leadership is not completely at fault. For example, if you have arthritis and go to an ortho surgeon, you'll get recommendations for surgery. That's the only option ortho surgeons can normally provide. It's the same problem with public health, officials have a limited set of tools they can apply. Public health needs to have more options in their response portfolio.

The question in public health becomes: "how to meet people's unreasonable expectations while attempting to protect them from disease you don't understand ?"

Focusing on conspiracies doesn't help discovering and availing new public health options. It only makes officials and their staff defensive by redirecting valuable resources to activities that doesn't help save lives, provide compassionate treatment to the terminally ill and grieving family members, and quell and fear panic in the communities they serve.

Thanks for helping in hospice and critical care, you're under appreciated.

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I think you plucked out the wrong eye.

Or work for the pharmaceuticals.

Chris is not fighting for some people. He is fighting for all. And all the things you mentioned. Are you standing up against any of those? He is just calling everyone to do anything you can.

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I don’t agree. Vaccines have been causing injuries from the start. They are wide spread experiments. Some not as damaging as others. My sister is brain damaged as a result. When you mess with the immune system as the mNRA is. You are not going to see good from it.

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Sorry to hear about your sister. I agree with you about vaccines, but not just SARS/Cov2 vaccines.

Before SARS/Cov2 vaccines were widely available, there was some work done on genetic susceptibility to symptom severity. I attempted to convince others in the US govt, UN and WHO to approved funding and develop a quick test. It would have identified who was at highest risk, reduce the number of needed vaccines, limit risk of injury from the fast track vaccine, and who could continue to provide assistance to others in need. There was no interest.

I'll share a bit of personal stuff... I suffer from neurological damage from a childhood measles vaccine accidentally injected into a blood vessel. It took me over a year to relearn the basics of walking, talking and being able to feed myself. 54 years later, I have not fully recovered and normally cannot eat soup with a spoon and on "bad days" have difficulty using a fork or holding a glass of water steady enough to drink from it. I normally require a straw.

Yeah, so I'm not a fan of vaccines. However, they have a place during times of crisis. We got lucky with SARS/Cov2. It could have easily become more deadly and we'd see millions of bodies piled up in the streets. I'm not attempting to fearmonger, it's a hard fact we got lucky.

For experts that happened to "win the lottery" and guess the virus would become less deadly, now we can call them "thought leaders", "visionaries", and "great scientists". Admiring the lucky guesses is just "our" sigh of relief we dodged a bullet and we survived to begin picking up the pieces of our families and lives.

My sister was not so lucky. She contracted covid, was intubated, decompensated, was declared unresponsive after 3 weeks, skin fell off and kept on life support until the virus ate a hole between her ventricles stopping her heart, and died alone. After, they lost her body which we still cannot find.

Am I pro vaccine, not not really. Do I endorse the use of vaccines where they provide relief from crisis ? Yes, but not for everyone now that we have the ability identify populations at risk.

I had a year of blood clots from SARS/Cov2 and have long covid. My brother lost 40% of lung capacity from SARS/Cov2 infection.

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I agree with almost all Chris's posts and have a very balanced outlook, ie don't trust anything anyone says unless the data is available, reviewed, and used in an appropriate context.

As for a fight, I'm sorry to say blogs are not fights, but sounding boards to help others organize arguments and passion fueled backdrops as ammunition.

There are plenty looking hard at mRNA vaccines and revisisting vaccines as a whole. For example, MMR vaccine accused of causing autism, but only for white, upper middle class Brits, then for only white, upper middle class americans, a first world problem. It turns out the study that made the claim only used 12 children in the study with a suspicion some data was fabricated. (The same type of fraud occurred with MSG.) Then, thimerosal use in vaccines was accused of being the root cause of autism. Even though thimerosal was removed, autism rates increased.

At the same time we saw a rise in autism, the number of working mothers increased. An easy correlation is autism can be caused by reduced reduced maternal attention during early stage development, but feminists would never allow that type of paper to be published and researches would bare a full on attack of the "cancel culture" because their delusions are confronted with a different point of view..

Evidence does show autism occurrence increases with parental age. It turns out later aged parents fall into the same economic demographic accusing vaccines as root cause of autism. It's most likely the parent's "lifestyle decisions" that caused their child's autism. They just wouldn't accept that fact and tried to blame someone else for their actions. As we all know, it couldn't possibly be the mothers' responsibility for the autism by prioritizing career over the health and wellbeing of their children.

These type of articles can be "agents for change", but only in "communities of influence" able to incite trajectories. That is communities able to affect funding, more specifically communities that influence political systems.

Like I said in the first sentence, I agree with and like many of Chris's articles, but not all.

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Evil manifests in different ways in different places. My take from what Chris wrote, and he can obviously jump in to correct me, is that there has been, and continues to be, a conscious anti-child and anti-life agenda pretty much everywhere, and there isn’t enough righteous anger to push it back. Yes, in Somalia, Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mauritania FGM and child slavery are way more of a problem than forced masking. Afghanistan and Yemen might have more problems with child abuse, trafficking and so on. In the USA and other Western countries, it has been more about isolation, forced vaccinations, and breaking of the spirit and the instilling of fear.

The net result, in all countries, before and during this manufactured COVID crisis is that the bodies, souls and spirits of all of us, but especially the most vulnerable, the children have been broken and suppressed. Their light is being destroyed, and they are being turned into slaves, whether literally and physically, in some parts of the world, or mentally and psychologically as is happening here in the US. And don’t downplay the effects of a constant barrage of fear inducing bullshit and perpetual masking and vaccinations...these aren’t the frivolous complaints of the bored and restless “Karens”.....this is a future generation being destroyed before your very eyes, with nary a voice raised in protest.

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Agreed, unfortunately the crisis wasn't manufactured, the fear mongering was. The fear mongering was an embarrassment, stain on human history, and media outlets owe us all an apology.

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How many pieces of silver were you paid to write this disengenuous comment ? As a human being , have you no shame , finally ??

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Some very good points here..

I’d just hasten to add that there are many reasons why people aren’t reacting...some of it does speak of weakness and moral failure, but there is more to it than that.

Recently, here in Detroit, a five year old was recently executed, along with his parents, by a teenage thug. This was a deliberate, targeted execution, as in three bullets to the head. I am the only person I know who reacted at all to it. Everyone, I mean fucking everyone, agrees it was wrong, but no outrage, no calls for action, no “enough is enough” language. The most abhorrent criminal and deviant behavior has become normalized through constant exposure and repetition, so there is no longer any reaction.

Who reacts in shock and horror to snow and ice in Alaska or the sun shining bright and hot in the Libyan desert? No one who lives there......only outsiders for whom extremes in weather aren’t “normal”.

I think the battle to come is to try to shake our immediate circles into an acknowledgment of, and reaction to the horrors being perpetrated on humanity by those in charge. I try talking to the children, the young ones' , as well as reaching out to the ex military I know to appeal to their training to demand higher standards from those in charge, at all levels. I try to put sand in the ointment to slow down the machine just a little bit, every day; I try to steady the wavering and encourage the faint of heart, and to stay the course. It is all I can do, and sometimes I am so overwhelmed by the challenges of daily life that I fail to react when I should, but is from exhaustion, not from indifference or cowardice.

Thanks for all you do!

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There is a lot of anger, but most of it, so far, is misdirected. Most people have trouble processing the concept that medical, political and media icons they have revered for so long have misled them.

The real question is why most people accept the lies, and why they don't recognize the liars.

Partly it is ignorance. Epidemics are a complex topic that few are trained to understand. But the lies we've been told can be identified without detailed knowledge of biology and genetics. So much of the fraud has violated basic knowledge that competent people routinely use to avoid frauds.

The bigger failure is that so many have abdicated their own self interest, turning habitually to others for their protection. Most people in the US receive money or other benefits from governments. Six percent of the US workforce works for the federal government. Probably that many more for state and local governments. They are totally dependent on government. Many more receive other payments. We're trained to be dependent. The medical industry has become the largest segment of the economy, nearly 20% of GDP. They are also responsible for nearly as many unnecessary deaths as heart disease and cancer. But those chronic failures are overlooked, willingly accepted, in the forlorn hope of salvation. Doctors are given the same reverence as shamans and witch doctors in previous times, and the results are about the same.

Mattias Desmet has described the reasons pretty well. His new book comes out next month, maybe it will offer solutions for health problems most don't understand any better than cattle do. Until then, we'll need to confront the captive disciples of socialist dogma the old fashioned way -- by vigorous criticism, by recruiting more critics to join the fight, and escalating as needed. This must not stand. If we allow it, it will continue.

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