Am I the only one who has watched two or three versions of that video a dozen times in total?
If that isn't a large part of your impression of American culture (which has flaws that we need to work on, to be sure), you're missing an important piece.
It's easy to get sucked into the darkness (that's part of what it tries to do to further propagate itself), but I see more people critically thinking and rejecting the barely even surface-level narratives than at any point in my life. The "world" is ending, but it never belonged to most of us anyway. Build back better, indeed. Rant on, Mathew.
Thanks for your post Mathew. I read it with interest. I was especially encouraged to see Dr Simone Gold's tweet/idea. I have often dreamed of the possibility that, out of this morass of health case designed to mainly fund Big Pharma and neglect health fundamentals, whether a new discipline of medicine may just arise as a form of protest.
This would be created and inspired by the handful of brave Doctors who spoke out and at least tried to be real doctors instead of Big Pharma and vaccine evangelists. Maybe a new medical horizon will appear. Who knows. At this stage, I guess all we can do is, as the Kamikaze pilot wrote: "we keep flying in tight formation". Thanks again for your post.
Thanks for being upbeat too, even if you are whacko - NOT! I just wrote a piece on a pile of reasons why the vx will not bring the peace and well being that people so direly yearn for. Still trying to drum up the courage to post it for the wolves to see. This whole pandemic has turned everyone whacko and consumes way too much of our time. Lord have mercy!
Yeah, I've noticed that the people who insisted I was wrong a year and a half ago are suddenly not talking about those same things anymore. Usually because I ended up being right in the end. The most obvious one was people telling me, "It's just going to be two weeks, shut up and enjoy it." when I suggested it wouldn't be.
We call it good bad luck; if not for the terrible initial event there would be no way to experience the magic of so many who find their better selves and work in unspoken, heartfelt unity to achieve a goal.
One of my favorite examples of that manifesting collectively is the little known 9-11 Boatlift. A volunteer brigade replying to one radio call rescued more people from Lower Manhattan in 9 hours than WWII evacuation of Dunkirk that took 9 days. The bigger lesson we can and must save ourselves!! :~)
On the sick care front (worked too many years in the industry to call it healthcare) there are a growing number of engineers who are reviewing the research, which includes reviewing the actually research data, that are slowly chipping away at the rampant misinformation that governs many "best case" practices.
Covid isn't a one-off, unfortunately in terms of poor medical care outcomes, if your goal was improved health, not improved bottom lines. Considering that some of the worse examples of health can be seen in any large medical setting, many of which eat the food prepared in the cafeteria according to Federal Dietary Guidelines. And they never ask themselves "Who is giving me wrong information?" but just resign themselves to taking a grocery bag of bottles to each doctors visit, (so everyone can keep their meds straight because EMR's do a mediocre job at that task).
When I was a kid in the 60's knew many adults who lived into their 80's, who had never seen a doctor once. It was common and a sign of strength and vitality (at least in the rural parts). We've been manipulated to think that humans nowadays can not live without constant medical attention. Which of course, allows the food manufacturers to sell profitable products at the expense of human (and our pets) well being.
Some people might treat you like a whacko quack, but your posts have helped to keep a lot of sane. Thank you for standing up despite it all. (I got my first Facebook ban recently. I took it as a sign that I did something right.)
Thanks, Mathew. I'm not creative enough to dream past the ugly facts and find solutions, and your writing has been a big factor in helping me do that. There are options and opportunities and a more free and decentralized world awaits us at the end of this thing. That's so hopeful.
You have inspired my wife and me to act now to help those whose lives are impacted by the authoritarianism, who simply want their freedoms. As a career Army vet, we know that freedom is not free, but that is really just a trite saying that we soldiers used to make ourselves feel like we were doing something noble. Now, it has larger meaning, and every American is going to be challenged to pay the uncomfortable price of real freedom. If they want it. So many fear the cost.
Please keep posting about the facts and your ideas. It has more impact than you can imagine.
Has any human being at Facebook ever explained how your posts violate "community standards"? I know that they look for "fake news" posts (aka truth), and they shadow-ban such posts and plaster them with "fact check" warnings. But I've seen many users posting covid-19 skepticism on a regular basis without getting put in jail. Could it be a function of how many followers you have?
If you start hiring for any of your initiatives let us know. Many of us need avenues of employment that allow us to be authentic and immune to cancelation.
Am I the only one who has watched two or three versions of that video a dozen times in total?
If that isn't a large part of your impression of American culture (which has flaws that we need to work on, to be sure), you're missing an important piece.
It's easy to get sucked into the darkness (that's part of what it tries to do to further propagate itself), but I see more people critically thinking and rejecting the barely even surface-level narratives than at any point in my life. The "world" is ending, but it never belonged to most of us anyway. Build back better, indeed. Rant on, Mathew.
Thanks for your post Mathew. I read it with interest. I was especially encouraged to see Dr Simone Gold's tweet/idea. I have often dreamed of the possibility that, out of this morass of health case designed to mainly fund Big Pharma and neglect health fundamentals, whether a new discipline of medicine may just arise as a form of protest.
This would be created and inspired by the handful of brave Doctors who spoke out and at least tried to be real doctors instead of Big Pharma and vaccine evangelists. Maybe a new medical horizon will appear. Who knows. At this stage, I guess all we can do is, as the Kamikaze pilot wrote: "we keep flying in tight formation". Thanks again for your post.
Thanks for being upbeat too, even if you are whacko - NOT! I just wrote a piece on a pile of reasons why the vx will not bring the peace and well being that people so direly yearn for. Still trying to drum up the courage to post it for the wolves to see. This whole pandemic has turned everyone whacko and consumes way too much of our time. Lord have mercy!
Yeah, I've noticed that the people who insisted I was wrong a year and a half ago are suddenly not talking about those same things anymore. Usually because I ended up being right in the end. The most obvious one was people telling me, "It's just going to be two weeks, shut up and enjoy it." when I suggested it wouldn't be.
We call it good bad luck; if not for the terrible initial event there would be no way to experience the magic of so many who find their better selves and work in unspoken, heartfelt unity to achieve a goal.
One of my favorite examples of that manifesting collectively is the little known 9-11 Boatlift. A volunteer brigade replying to one radio call rescued more people from Lower Manhattan in 9 hours than WWII evacuation of Dunkirk that took 9 days. The bigger lesson we can and must save ourselves!! :~)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg
On the sick care front (worked too many years in the industry to call it healthcare) there are a growing number of engineers who are reviewing the research, which includes reviewing the actually research data, that are slowly chipping away at the rampant misinformation that governs many "best case" practices.
Covid isn't a one-off, unfortunately in terms of poor medical care outcomes, if your goal was improved health, not improved bottom lines. Considering that some of the worse examples of health can be seen in any large medical setting, many of which eat the food prepared in the cafeteria according to Federal Dietary Guidelines. And they never ask themselves "Who is giving me wrong information?" but just resign themselves to taking a grocery bag of bottles to each doctors visit, (so everyone can keep their meds straight because EMR's do a mediocre job at that task).
When I was a kid in the 60's knew many adults who lived into their 80's, who had never seen a doctor once. It was common and a sign of strength and vitality (at least in the rural parts). We've been manipulated to think that humans nowadays can not live without constant medical attention. Which of course, allows the food manufacturers to sell profitable products at the expense of human (and our pets) well being.
Some people might treat you like a whacko quack, but your posts have helped to keep a lot of sane. Thank you for standing up despite it all. (I got my first Facebook ban recently. I took it as a sign that I did something right.)
Thanks, Mathew. I'm not creative enough to dream past the ugly facts and find solutions, and your writing has been a big factor in helping me do that. There are options and opportunities and a more free and decentralized world awaits us at the end of this thing. That's so hopeful.
You have inspired my wife and me to act now to help those whose lives are impacted by the authoritarianism, who simply want their freedoms. As a career Army vet, we know that freedom is not free, but that is really just a trite saying that we soldiers used to make ourselves feel like we were doing something noble. Now, it has larger meaning, and every American is going to be challenged to pay the uncomfortable price of real freedom. If they want it. So many fear the cost.
Please keep posting about the facts and your ideas. It has more impact than you can imagine.
My heart...the cat. The flag. And I am Canadian!
Has any human being at Facebook ever explained how your posts violate "community standards"? I know that they look for "fake news" posts (aka truth), and they shadow-ban such posts and plaster them with "fact check" warnings. But I've seen many users posting covid-19 skepticism on a regular basis without getting put in jail. Could it be a function of how many followers you have?
If you start hiring for any of your initiatives let us know. Many of us need avenues of employment that allow us to be authentic and immune to cancelation.