Government is using their only tool, force, to manipulate speech in public spaces.
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Politicians are liars by trade and now they are pulling the big con: State ownership of “truth.”
Are you okay with this?
Another Virtual Event
No, thanks.
There’s too much life happening out here for me to sit with a screen for long.
I don’t have to watch the news to feel the effects of the fear machine on people. Fewer people will comply this time. Fewer people will believe the lies. More will go about their business. More will see through the narrative manipulation.
The bad guys have overplayed their hand. More of us are meeting without a care for the official guidance. We will continue without their permission and we will grow in numbers.
Be a Pain
This is why we fight at the mere suggestion that we should be put on a list and treated differently for our personal medical decisions.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/12/france-mandates-covid-health-pass-for-restaurants-and-cafes
Maskhole Encounter
Laws divide us. They create violent enforcers and innocent criminals. When those laws are imposed by the smallest political class, the effects are exacerbated.
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I was maskless in a Delaware library with my sons this morning. We searched the stacks for Minecraft, Pokémon, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, and One Piece books.
My younger son has read 18 volumes of the One Piece manga series. Our look at the online catalog revealed that the 19th volume was available at a library on our way home, but I could not place it on hold. We had the time for a detour and headed in that direction.
This library had a very different feel. There was a uniformed guard insisting that we all wear masks. We walked out and I gave my sons a choice, wait in the running car with the A/C on while I ran in for the book or put masks on for a few minutes to join me. After fumbling in the car for our long unused and cross-contaminated masks, we returned to the entrance. A man was exiting the library and started challenging me in an elevated voice. The jist was that I was part of the problem by giving into the mask wearing. I tried to tell him, “Long day, man, tired of the fight. There are things we can only get in there and I’m giving in for a few minutes.”
He chose not to hear me. He accused me of child abuse for forcing my children to mask. I explained in clear words the choice they had been given and directed him to ask them about their decisions.
He chose not to hear me. I tried once more to explain that I may not be perfect, but I wasn’t the enemy.
My blood was up, but I saw this was fruitless. I turned my back as he crowed about my freedom to jump off a bridge, or some such nonsense.
I entered the library and noticed the guard was distracted from his post. I also checked into my memory and realized this maskless hero had only walked in a minute earlier to drop books in the return slot. His bravery extended to shouting at a single dad and his sons.
Laws must be enforced arbitrarily. One library has no mask enforcement while another in the same state has a uniformed guard dedicated to enforcement. That guard has no backup, so even that enforcement is subject to circumstantial whims. This arbitrary enforcement creates confusion. The confusion manifests as wholly absurd behaviors including yelling at strangers and improperly (and inconsistently) wearing masks.
It is all a dad can do to create a sane and stable environment for his children. It drains me many days. Today was worse than most.
Be kind. Don’t make assumptions. You don’t know how bad someone’s day has been or why they are doing what they are doing. Don’t be a maskhole.
Jerks can be Right
Jerks can be right or wrong. Nice people can be right or wrong. Equating demeanor and ability to discern truth is narrow minded. Heck, sometimes speaking the truth demands jerky behavior, you think some normie who just walked in to the temple thought Jesus was a cool dude knocking over tables and whipping suckas?
These Lies Kill
I’m an optimist and believe in humanity’s insane ability to improve its lot.
It’s not too late for the truth. It’s not too late to reverse course on censorship and restrictions based on fear and lies.
Social media platforms are trying to shut Bret Weinstein up. He’s not going quietly and he’s a hero for freedom of speech and truth.
The lab leak theory could have been investigated and put to use in developing therapies and vaccines. For a year science was impeded by those who used it as a weapon. People died because of the censorship that has run rampant across the internet. People died because figures like Anthony Fauci knew there was credible evidence that humans had a hand in this outbreak and publicly ridiculed those who were telling the truth.
It’s not too late. If we want to end this current pathogen and prevent future outbreaks, we have to start championing freedom of speech. Not because of a piece of paper scribbled on over 200 years ago, but because we cannot see the truth when we let the powerful govern speech.
“You’re demonizing people for using the scientific method to evaluate evidence that is available to us in the world. What a terrible crime it is to teach that lesson: Thou Shall Not Use Scientific Tools.”
-Bret Weinstein
#194 – Bret Weinstein: Truth, Science, and Censorship in the Time of a Pandemic
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Proud to be Normal?
In the USA, less than 40% of people have accepted the full Covid-19 vaccine schedule. The vaccines are free and plentiful. The rate of administration is collapsing and governments are lying, bribing, and bullying the MAJORITY of the population.
It is normal to not accept this vaccine.
Usually, “normal” makes me cringe. I can make an exception this time.
Don’t Worry, Everyone: The Experts Are in Charge
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You think they found a heart in 2020? Okay.
My sons aren’t missing out on as many things as other children because I have a vanishing impulse to play by broken rules.
But they are missing out. Some of their favorite places will not welcome them without masks. They are not a threat to society as they breathe. In fact, libraries, churches, gyms, and stores that would mask them are losing out by not having my boys there. They are also losing the goodwill of parents and children who have supported them for years.
Look again. What is the ongoing cost to society for Lockdown measures? Mental Health Awareness Month is a joke. No one in the mainstream is treating any of these children with love and compassion. They are acting on their own fear and programming.
You want to trust a government that has been funding death and destruction domestically and internationally for more than a hundred years? You think they found a heart in 2020? Okay. Go right ahead. But don’t drag me and my children into your abusive relationship with power.
From Tom Woods:
Last month you may have seen a video featuring a Georgia mother named Courtney Ann Taylor demanding that the local school board drop the ridiculous mask requirement.
My friend Tom Elliott, whom I got to know when I used to fill in on Peter Schiff’s old radio show (Tom was the producer), spread the video around via his Grabien media service.
YouTube decided to take it down.
As Tom described YouTube’s response to the video, “Mothers having opinions about whether their children should be forced into masks ‘violates our community guidelines’ and our ‘medical misinformation policy.'”
Nothing in what she said contradicts what the World Health Organization says about masking children under 12. Here are her exact words:
Every month I come here and I hear the same thing: social, emotional health. If you truly mean that, you would end the mask requirement tonight. Tonight! This is not March 2020 anymore. We have three vaccines, every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now, and every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus. They’re not. And that’s a blessing.
But as the adults, what have we done with that blessing? We’ve showed it to the side and we said, “We don’t care, you’re still going to wear a mask on your face every day, 5- and 6-year-olds. You still can’t play together on the playground like normal children, 7- and 8-year-olds. We don’t care. We’re still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry.” Shame on us! My 6-year-old looks at me every month before I come here, she says, “Are you going to tell them tonight? Tell them I don’t want to wear this anymore.” And I say, “Baby, it’s not time to fight that battle yet.” I try to explain that there’s so many things, that it’s April 15th, 2021, and it’s time. Take these masks off my child.
And I know what I’m going to be met with: but Ms. Taylor, the CDC. We did not vote for people at the CDC. We did create leaders who do create policy. We elected the five of you. We chose you to make difficult decisions for our children. We chose you to make decisions that would be in our children’t best interest. And forcing 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9-year-old little children to cover their noses and their mouths, where they breathe, for 7 hours a day, every day for the last nine months, for a virus that you know doesn’t affect them, that is not in their best interest. This has to stop. Defend our children. My 6-year-old can’t come up here and say this. It has to stop. Take these off our children.
YouTube took that video down to keep everyone “safe.”
As Tom Elliott says:
Parents are allowed to express opinions over whether their children should be forced into wearing masks. Parents’ perspectives are a valid part of the public debate. This mother does not represent herself as a doctor or medical expert.
Incidentally the WHO agrees with this mother that there is currently no scientific basis for compelling all children to wear masks indoors/outdoors as a measure to stop the spread of Covid. So YouTube’s “medical misinformation” claim is entirely false.
I appealed, noting there’s nothing in the WHO guidance this mother is contradicting (supposedly the basis of the video being taken offline). YouTube has already rejected the appeal. Apparently the platform must remain “safe” from concerned mothers:
OK, now back to ol’ Woods.
I for one am tired of YouTube or any brick-and-mortar location telling me that my health and safety is their number-one priority. Please, everyone, stop making my health and safety your number-one priority. It generally leads to useless measures that make society weirder and my life less happy, with no discernible health effect.
How about making not living in a dystopia your number-one priority?
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Do You Trust Them?
The questions posed are clear. Do you trust the government? Do you accept that they have done horrible things to their citizens? Do you think they have fundamentally changed in one hundred years?
Credit for original post to The Free Thought Project.
A Misleading C.D.C. Number – The New York Times
I’ve been playing soccer at least weekly for almost a year with no mask. In that time I have heard of only one team who couldn’t play because of a positive Covid test and one player who suffered an infection (this player always wore a mask). In the few months of the vaccine being available, at least two players have missed games claiming the jab as the reason.
Those are my anecdotes. Here is how health authorities are abusing numbers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/briefing/outdoor-covid-transmission-cdc-number.html