Category: Digging for Courage

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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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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

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To Those Who Follow Different Rules

I think you underestimate how much value, health, wellness, and happiness our group has brought to its members. Not once in a year of meeting in public without requiring masks have we been challenged by any authorities.

Some homeschoolers, especially new ones and those in extraordinary circumstances like me, need this fellowship. It’s not nonessential. We won’t let a corporatist government agency like the CDC tell us otherwise.

Much like the groups before Lockdown, we share resources, tips, challenges, feelings, and anything that we hope another with find valuable.

We are parents who love our children, family, and friends no less than those who choose to follow a different set of rules.

Yet, we are treated differently by those we would look to for support. We welcome all, but are not welcomed by all.

The largest homeschool group in the state chose to open itself to temporary homeschoolers; virtual, crisis, and hybrid schoolers; and, it seems, anyone who might be curious about homeschooling in Delaware. That brought about a major culture shift from the dedicated homeschool discussions that had once prospered there. At the same time, they chose to follow guidelines from a variety of agencies (governor’s office, CDC,  DE Dept. of Health) that were ephmeral, impossible to comply with, and often contradictory on their own terms.

It’s difficult for those of us who have been active and supportive in the Delaware homeschool community to be treated as lesser. We are trying to feed a great need for social contact in our corner of the state. We’re trying to do it in a positive and inclusive way. We feel very successful in that mission.

We recently changed our name to “Allschoolers Park Days in New Castle County” to highlight our inclusivity and simple mission: To provide a weekly, outdoor meetup for whoever needs it.

Come out on a Thursday and watch the children play. Cook some dogs with us and share whatever thoughts you need to share. We miss so many of our friends and love making new ones.

May God’s blessings shine on everyone.

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Reluctant Rant

I sweat a lot. I’ve cut out toxins like alcohol and pharmaceuticals, and have reduced coffee and meat consumption. I’ve done a few detox regimens and it just seems that God gave me a highly active, unusually warm body that expels a lot of water and waste.

Masks during exercise cannot be good for anyone. I’m an extreme case, but anyone who is elevating his heart rate to achieve a higher level of cardio vascular health is abused by blocking his airways.

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Sweat collects on one’s mask. Sweat contains human waste, it is an excretion. Through a mask, that waste is breathed out into the air and inhaled into the body, the same body that just decided to excrete the waste. This goes on for as long as the workout lasts plus the duration of time inside.

This is not the way exercise and breathing is meant to work. Listen to James Nestor, Wim Hof, Scripture (breath = spirit), or any yoga instructor for hundreds of years before April 2020.

I just heard another propaganda piece from the state declaring the dangers of Covid. Where is the state sponsored message about improving your health? For over a year we have known that obesity, smoking, and any number of improvable human conditions contribute to mortality rates. Why is the theater of masking still being forced?

Watch how people treat their masks. They are filthy and that filth is being launched into the air with each breath. Listen to your body when you wear a mask, listen to your breath, pay attention to whether these things are telling you that this is good for your health and wellbeing or not.

In the very least, support lifting mask mandates on healthy people exercising. We are trying to better ourselves and would love for you to join our ranks (it feels fucking good).

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Time for Exodus

I just watched a video of Canadian police arresting a pastor for holding church service.

Those who choose to serve the government betray themselves, their fellow man, and God.

Our governors have behaved like little pharaohs for over a year. They, and those who enforce their dictates, are our enemies. We must turn our backs on their authority. We don’t have to physically leave their jurisdiction to be free. We can choose freedom right here.

God bless you and your freedom.

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Digging for Courage: A Year On

I created this category at the beginning of the Lockdowns. I knew in my gut that our approach was wrong. By this time I had poured over studies out of China and Italy and the notoriously mishandled German case falsely creating the asymptomatic spread narrative.

I was too angry and fearful of backlash to communicate clearly and focused on why I was feeling that way. I wanted to find the courgage to be a positive firce in the world. First, I had to get my own emotions in order.

I tried to establish a yoga and meditation routine, but that wouldn’t take until I started Wim Hof Method breathing and cold shower therapy.

I dug into my fears and released them. I came to accept a deeper truth for myself, that social interaction was paramount to my spiritual health and the learning lifestyle that I had crafted for my sons and myself. I reached out and found those friends and family who had similar intuitions and we started spending time together. I made new friends who also valued living this life to its fullest over adding grim days to it like prisoners tallying their lives in chalk on a grey wall.

I reached out to my small business owner friends to support them and assure them I would be there at the door when they were allowed to open.

I started a soccer team, even though I had sworn off managing weeks before.

I focused my energy on creating a better world.

I’m still there, but I’ve also got a happy warrior inside who wants to mock the madness. I’m a trouble maker and those who would continue to halt life deserve some trouble. And seriously, the memes are too good not to share.

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I Choose Life

I wrote this one year ago:

If we are not celebrating life, encouraging one another, listening to God, creating value, and kicking ass every day…we are dying.

This has been the hardest year of my life. This week a year ago I was volunteering to support homeless families in their journeys to find employment and stable housing. The world was tipping sideways. Fear was building, but there was hope in the work.

That crumbled in the following three weeks. March got darker and darker and “Two week to flatten the curve” became a fear machine that had no logical end. I decided to change myself as I saw the world would not soon return from this abyss. A year later the fear machine churns on.

The dystopia is worse than I expected, but I’m better. I’m stronger in body, mind, and spirit than I was a year ago. I love myself better. I have a better relationship with God and Jesus. I have daily routines that calm my busy mind and prepare my body for the daily onslaught of fear-based behaviors all around.

I know better now the darkness that was hiding behind the veil of this world. Through knowing that darkness, I can be a brighter light.

I see only two paths. One is toward death, the life that begins and ends in this world. The other is toward life everlasting, the life that God intends for us.

I choose life.