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"that argument simply has not been made." Indeed it has not. The vaccines are leaping screaming mediocrities. A really good one would induce nasal membrane antibodies to attenuate spread and activate several populations of T cells, one of which would attack virus-infected cells, convincing them to commit suicide. The other T cell population would help initiate the phenomenon of immunological memory. Upon 2nd exposure, memory gives you a faster response and a greater variety of antibodies (including the ones in your nose, throat and respiratory passages ("mucosal immunity"). These vaccines do neither. And since they don't stop spread, they encourage survival of more-virulent mutants like delta etc. Trust me, this is my wheelhouse; I've taught immunology for 35 years. The vaccines suck and this is a setup for corporate pharma racketeering -- the "healthcare" mafia.

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I can't help but notice how this post COVID power grab sure looks a lot like the post 9/11 power grab. It's almost like having the other party in office doesn't make any difference at all.

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For all the new lovers of our "beloved" CIA:

Mass Murder, Regicide, Fratricide, Torture, Lying, Cheating, Stealing racing toward Armageddon

CIA ‘Reminds You of the Glory of the American Experiment’

CIA 'Reminds You of the Glory of the American Experiment' - This Can't Be Happening! (thiscantbehappening.net)

https://thiscantbehappening.net/cia-reminds-you-of-the-glory-of-the-american-experiment/

POSTED ON NOVEMBER 19, 2021 BY RON RIDENOUR

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These 'vaccines' are not vaccines. Pfizer themselves described them as gene therapies, then changed the name to obtain Emergency Use Authorisation. I thought you'd be aware? Thanks Caitlin.

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Thanks for your beautiful work. I just don’t think any government on earth has the right to mandate injections every 6 months or ever ( booster shots coming). Almost every probably all governments have bad track records foreign and domestic . They shouldn’t have more power. Thanks for all you do. I’m Just opining.

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I think it's high time you stopped skirting the issue and join the forces of liberty and freedom. If more people spoke up we might be able to slow or reverse this slide into neo-totalitarianism.

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“Any time you see the US empire picking on a smaller nation just search that nation's name plus "Belt and Road Initiative" and you'll usually find a connection.”

This is truer than most might imagine.

Here in our Western bubble, we lose sight of how weak the Trans-Atlantic oligarchy is.

What we’re seeing now is their last stand. They know if the Belt and Road stuff takes hold and much of Africa and Asia don’t fall under a Malthusian depopulation program, all these countries will industrialize, develop advanced infrastructure, energy programs, nuclear power etc…

They won’t be able to put the genie back in the bottle at that point. It will be a runaway train.

Despite their problems, China, Russia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and a few other countries have a leadership that is dedicated to the survival of their nations. Here in the West, we largely have puppets who are being used by a small oligarchy to eliminate any remaining sovereignty, and essentially crush nation states in favour of one great technocratic feudal blah. Western economies are collapsing, Eurasian economies are drastically transforming. Egypt is building several new capitols.

Another big fear: that the US, as decrepit as it is, awakes. The US has a unique history of overthrowing tyranny, more than any other nation. Its institutions HAVE been subverted by a foreign power, a powerful financial oligarchy, but the impulse for overthrowing tyranny still exists in the population, its history, its identity.

If that’s awakened, then the bad guys are in serious trouble. They seem to be doing everything to awaken it. The media is there to make it look like it’s too late, everything is a fait accompli, demoralizing people into just submitting. But the reality is quite different. It’s ultimately a battle of morale. If they don’t destroy the population’s morale, it will fight back, and potentially win.

All the worthless Wall Street paper can still be cancelled, and should be. The US economy just needs a serious revival of its industrial, productive, and scientific base, major infrastructure programs etc…

Roosevelt succeeded in doing this with his Glass-Steagall banking reorganization and launching of the New Deal. Yes the war efforts came later and helped, but without all the major infrastructure programs before that, including the TVA, Hoover Dam, projects like that across the country, things would have been very different.

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“methane is a vastly more potent greenhouse gas than carbon over a hundred-year timespan.”

I think you meant carbon dioxide (CO2) because methane also is a carbon compound (CH4).

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BTW, if you wanna see why Turkey's economy was "suicided"....Jesus said to do it ( I kid u not) :

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/andrew-brunson-gods-hostage-erdogan-trump-turkey-syria.html

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Big time protests in Melbourne and all over Ozz.... hearting to see in ground zero for the new fascism!

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If we lived in a decet society, it would provide for everyone, hence not the collective first and foremost to the detriment of others who don't fit into it, as it is, as it stands, hence left to battle and fight still, for their rights, made invisible, eliminated, to justify the priveledges and rights of the collective, ie 'general public'. The mindset of the general public against us, the minority of minorities, is always 'me first', we need to change that mindset, for as a friend of mine said, ;those of us on the bottom of the shitpile'. We need a shift in that Mindset. We all deserve Rights, whatever they are, whatever they cost, the whole politics is wrong, it destroys and condemns peoples health, wellbeing, lives. deemed 'innecficient use of resources' deemed ;against public interest', based on proportianality, providing for the majority, to the extent of Life or Death decisions, devalued to the extent of 'who they deem worthy of saving to live or to die. We all know why there is no money invested into society, but that is certainly not 'our fault', more that of a mememememe first selfish priveledge/We deep rooted mentality and from my position and perspective for me and my immediate family, that needs to bloody well shift, something i dont think you;ll understand without having lived it, affects every aspect and in every minuite of our lives.

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"It's possible to imagine a situation where the arguments being made for mandates today are actually true: that your refusal threatens people and you have no right to do that to them."

Only someone who buries her head in the sand and ignores reality could think that, for instance, unvaccinated individuals working in nursing homes or hospitals doesn't threaten people, or that a right to do things that put other people at increased risk to their health or lives (whether it be insisting on being in proximity to others in public indoor spaces, driving drunk, etc.) exists.

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I find that to be a startling admission that you think the interests of the "collective" can overrule the rights of an individual to have autonomy over their own body and that the only problem you see with the mandates is the argument isn't convincing enough. After bearing witness to this past year and a half, pardon me if I don't trust that you and many other "collectivists" such are anywhere near being capable of evaluating whether an argument for something like a vaccine mandate is convincing enough. On a personal level you seem to lack all discernment from what I can tell and are well on your way to being the next Noam Chomsky at this point.

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Here in Alberta, Canada, thanks to our provincial Cons (worse than yours in Oz?), we have 15,000 surgeries (including cancer) postponed because the hospitals are clogged with antivaxxers.

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if i was hurting others by refusing to get "vaccinated" more than i would by getting "vaccinated," the majority of my society could decide to justly mandate me to get "vaccinated", and i would have to make a choice to either get "vaccinated" or leave. collective decision for collective good never has to infringe upon democracy or individual choice.

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Caitlin, you are wonderful. But on the vaccine, there is a hospital crisis, and therefore a health crisis, which requires solidarity. The vaccine is not so dangerous, as shown by the millions who have been vaccinated, that it should be avoided at the cost of a hospital crisis. Best would be for people to go along with the measures IMO until it is found that they are not effective. The real underlying controversy is that, instead of "money in politics", we have " money in health", and this is what people are protesting. Strong political leadership would help but since a majority of politicians can be bought, democracy has a trouble working.

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