We’ve waited two long years for a big concert festival. As a family, we lost those experiences forever. Lockdowns took away outdoor entertainment, one in a series of unscientific, arbitrary, and harmful measures that have reduced the health and quality of life for billions around the globe.
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Tomorrow we head out to the Philadelphia Folk Festival for four nights of music and camping. My girlfriend and her daughter are joining us and I get to share some of Mary’s favorite music with them. Having mostly missed out on concerts for two years, I’m sure to be extra emotional when I hear Michael Franti and Dom Flemons (my younger son was one year old when he first saw the Carolina Chocolate Drops) perform some of our favorites. The joyous tears just might out do the grieving ones.
I was interested in the effectiveness of masks before Covid madness settled into American culture. During six days in the hospital with my wife I learned that there was little enforcement or consistency with mask policy, even in the ICU with a respiratory infection.
I didn’t dive deep at the time, but I was surprised to read that masks were largely regarded as useless outside a surgical setting, according to decades of studies.
In 2020, I revisited those studies with a closer, and less emotional, eye. I hadn’t fooled myself, masks created more of a sense of security than actual health or safety. I don’t know why doctors and nurses ignore this, or perpetuate the farce. I don’t really know why Dr. Fauci told the world that masks were ineffective, then told the world they were. I was lying then, but I’m telling the truth now? Sounds like classic toxic male.
Ian Miller is data obsessed and has been publishing official government statistics in chart form since near the beginning of the Lockdown.
In this conversation with Thaddeus Russell, Miller shares how he became the go-to source for seekers of Covid data truth. Over and over again his charts showed that mask mandates had no measurable effect on health outcomes anywhere.
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I’m seeing more people in masks again. It is important that we reach as many as who will listen about the lies that have been peddled about mask effectiveness.
This conversation and this book are great weapons of truth. Please take time to listen, read, and share. There will be another attempt by government offcials to deny citizens their rights of travel, speech, and assembly. We must be armed with the truth and be ready to speak it. We must defy the lies by acting against their mandates.
“But importantly it doesn’t affect the immune system, so the researchers expect people carrying this version of the gene to respond normally to vaccines.”
Are you still believing in this too-good-to-be-true family of unapproved vaccines that hasn’t stopped the “pandemic”?
(quotes because I don’t believe any of their bullshit)
I’ve removed myself almost entirely from the consumption of corporate media. There isn’t enough truth in any of their story telling to make it worth my time.
Their focus is always designed to divert attention away from the crimes of the powerful against the powerless (e.g., Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial).
Tom Woods is dedicated to the truth and here interviews Jason Fink, a filmmaker and eye witness to the events of January 6th, 2021: The Regime’s Obsession with January 6.
Two years ago we started Allschoolers. Every homeschool group in Delaware had stopped meeting in accordance with government dictates and a small number of families insisted that our children needed to be outside with friends. We consisted of more than just homeschoolers. “Virtual, “crisis,” and “temporary” public and private schoolers joined us from the start. We chose the name “Allschoolers” to ensure that what we were providing was available to all families who felt the same needs.
I was poking around some of the admin tools on Facebook today and I’d like to share some of the exciting and illuminating statistics I found.
We’re nearly at 800 members! Most all them are Delaware residents and represent an entire family that participates in our meets.
I do not know how Facebook defines “active,” but we are regularly reaching hundreds of families with our posts and an increasing number of members are sharing events, pictures, and insights. Only one of the top posts was written by an administrator, another encouragement for me as I hope to steward a community full of leaders. Three of the top posts are turning into new in-person events arranged by members.
I didn’t have to cherry pick stats, every metric demonstrates an engaged, growing, and local community.
I’ve joked about being in the 1% of home educators as a dad at the head of our educational helm and it is great to see that I’m in more of the 5-6% range! These dads are super active and an important part of our group. Our focus is always on inclusion and being a place where dads step up and participate isn’t terribly common in homeschooling circles (anectodally speaking, that is).
“Diversity” can be a loaded term, but for our little state, it seems like we are attracting people from all over. It’s exciting to meet new people and learn about all the different approaches to home education that families are employing.
I was a naysayer from the start of this project, but it did seem worth a shot when everything had changed for the worse. I’m so glad that I was so wrong. We’ve created something special and each new member brings an important piece to our community.
The studies that denounce masks as protective far outnumber the ones that presume to promote their protective function. Nearly all the studies that support the narrative that masks work have been published since the Covid propaganda machine went into effect. Fauci and his public health bureaucrats have been caught pushing narrative over scientific exploration.
It’s just superstition now. Politicians and government functionaries are witch doctors more interested in protecting and increasing their power than protecting people. It is becoming more obvious every day.
I am heartbroken that arts organizations are making it harder for people like Clifton Duncan and my sons to act and work in the arts.
These organizations are dividing people with their medical demands and promoting a segregated society.
And for those of us devoid of talent; yet who feel deeply when we sit down and experience humanity distilled into a moving performance, the arts are shutting out some of their most fervent supporters.
Masks? Who still has an argument for this? Fauci and his acolytes have been lying for two years and now they are caught out. Why are arts organizations so far behind the truth?
Vaccines? What does “fully vaccinated” mean? It changes depending on location and political climate, neither of which has any basis in truth. How can you continue to pressure your neighbors into medical decisions when there is so much uncertainty and more signs of deception from public health officials?
You are forcing the emergence of an alternative community that will supplant you. Those who respect human sovereignty are driven to create truly inclusive communities. We are celebrating the great works and producing our own without poking into each others political and personal lives.
You have taken the first step towards becoming a relic of superstition. To quote Duncan from another podcast, “There aren’t enough wealthy white theater goers…” to sustain the industry.
Four months ago I wrote about the injustice of venues like Delaware Art Museum demanding their patrons receive an unapproved pharmaceutical product into their bodies that could never be removed.
Almost everyone is dropping these requirements now: the State of Delaware, Philly, museums, concert venues, etc. They coerced permanent health decisions upon their community and didn’t have the fortitude to last half a year in their resolve.
The public deserves assurances that we can trust these institutions to not be prey to the media’s winds of change. We deserve to hear how decisions of this magnitude will be made in the future. We deserve to have some knowledge of the process by which businesses, governments, and public spaces will again consider bullying the people they claim to serve.
I’m going to my first concert in two years tonight. When I bought my tickets there was no vax mandate, then there was, then there wasn’t. All of this in a few months. They wouldn’t refund my money when they changed the terms of the sale, so I will not be likely to trust them with my funds again. Same goes for Delaware Art Museum and all the places that chased a media narrative instead of making careful determinations as to whether they had the right to ask their patrons for this irreversible condition.
I lived happily without concerts for these two years. Living without museums was harder, but there are still many who did not press upon the health decisions of their visitors.
My priorities are clearer now, I know what I can do without. I’m prepared to withhold my support until I can feel trust towards the places that did not trust me to make my own health decisions.
