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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Brilliant string of facts! My employer (I am at the Not So Great White North) never imposed mandates, but my small union was itching to support mandatory jabbination. They set up an anonymous survey... Which I used to my advantage by filling multiple times from a variety of IP addresses (VPNs are great!). Really an army of one! Despite a majority support, the union did not support the mandate. Full disclosure: I also played the pro-mandate role, and used some unpleasant and uncomfortable rhetoric, which must have given them pause. War is war.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I'm a physician. Full disclosure: I had the single shot J&J vaccine in March 2021 but I haven't had an mRNA shot and I don't ever intend to get one. By the current guidelines, I'm considered unvaccinated.

A couple of months ago, I got Covid (for the first time). Two docs and a pharmacist I know caught it at about the same time. They're all vaccinated and boosted as many times as they could be. For one doc and the pharmacist, it was their second go-round. For the other doc, it was his first. All of us recovered uneventfully and were under the weather for about the same length of time.

The other three are convinced that the fact that they're "vaccinated and boosted," is the only reason that they got better. It doesn't seem to matter that I recovered just as completely as they did and in the same amount of time. It doesn't matter that there's no sign that the unvaccinated are having any worse outcomes than those with multiple jabs.

The icing on the cake is that their favorite topic of conversation (sometimes it seems, their only topic) is when to get the next booster. Should they get it as soon as they can? Or should they wait a few months and try to coast on their natural immunity for a while? These are smart people. These are medical professionals. I actually respect them. But when it comes to Covid, they're completely irrational.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

This is a fantastic letter, but sadly, in my district it's less about vaccinations and much, much more about diversity, inequity, and exclusion being taught to students. I yanked my kids out of the local district and I'm just praying the schools they're in now don't succumb....

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Can we resurrect the ‘80’s/‘90’s “Just say No” campaign for the war on drugs but replace drugs for arbitrary, baseless mandates??

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

A regional chain grocery store where we've shopped for thirty plus years suddenly, out of nowhere, imposed a mask mandate in their stores earlier this year, though none was required by local or state ordinance. Most shoppers, including my wife and I, simply ignored it and after just a few days they changed the policy to "masks strongly encouraged." After a few more days they dropped any mention of masking altogether.

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Aug 17, 2022·edited Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Search 'safeandstrong' in your area, they sponsor the billboards and other pro injection signs. Mine is called SAFEANDSTRONGOREGON.org for instance. They have a fraud telephone line, and I left them a message outlining their fraud, their lack of due diligence and their resultant complicity in genocide. It was an anonymous hotline as well but I left my name and phone, so if they retaliate against me I will know. If they come jab me or kill me, tell them the Oregon Health Authority did it, ok y'all. Or maybe they will just rig my car? Ah well, to die on this hill is an honor.

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I cannot like this post enough! What these little power-hungry administrators HATE more than anything, is to be challenged. They hate it even more when challenged with facts.

What they’re terrified of, however, are lawsuits with damages awarded. Push, remind, inform. The “media” sure as hell won’t take the lead--after all, they were the choir singing the “Lockdown Vax Mandate” version of the Hallelujah Chorus nonstop!

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Thank you for linking Biden’s 9/9/2021 speech transcript. Re-reading it reminded me how horrendous it was. Completely dishonest, cruel and evil. Because of it, my daughter (RN working in a hospital) lost her chance to not be harassed at her workplace. She remains unjabbed, but is STILL required to mask during her entire shift. I despise these despicable people, and I’ll never forget their evil actions. We must ALL resist and not comply.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Hey Chris,

I just became a paid subscriber, which was long overdo. I discovered you several months back and like Tucker Carlson, after reading a post or two, began from the beginning and read it all. I also lived in San Gabriel, right near the San Marino border from 2007 to 2012 - so when it was revealed you were in South Pasadena, it was just one more relatable connection. My son was born at Huntington Hospital in 2008 and spent much of his toddlerdom in Garfield Park followed by brunches at Firefly, with us dreaming we could afford to live in South Pasadena. Having bought a house at the top of the market, we were destroyed by the housing crises and managed a short sale and headed back east where I am from originally. Doing well now, in that weird liminal, politically homeless state of being in a very blue region I would have once felt totally at home in. The good news is, the Brownstown Organization set up shop in my home town and I’ve become socially friendly with Jeffery Tucker and a few others in his orbit. That and incredibly insightful and deeply humane writers like yourself and Walter Kirn have done much to keep me and many others sane. Just wanted to express my appreciation beyond my very tardy and humble financial support.

And since you appreciate a whiskey-based cocktail, here is one I created in CA that you might enjoy (a bit labor intensive, but not too bad)

The San Gabriel Sour

2 oz rye or bourbon

1/2 oz St. Germain

1 egg white

.75 lemon juice

.5 simple syrup

2 dashes each orange and angostura bitters

Shake with vim and alacrity, strain and serve up

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Agree, defy them.

In context WW2 and the Cold War after bought a unitary central government into being that is in normal times unnatural and unwise for America. The nation has always been too large, diverse, with differentiated geography and interests for a permanent unitary government.

It has been pointed out elsewhere our Federal Government has lost most of its purpose since the Berlin Wall fell, we are indeed seeing an unwinding of power.

However the unitary government of millions with the interests of tens of millions tied to it exists...

So we have a series of domestic wars against poverty, drugs, crime, racism, ___ism, hurt feelings as well as foreign adventures, then as Blue’s fortunes hit bottom a miracle called COVID came. This miracle reversed their fortunes, never have they wielded such intoxicating power, not to mention reaped such profits.

The fever dreams of decades became policy such as Bill Gates scheme of population reduction through vaccine. The Intelligence Community stepped from the Shadows to boldly cripple a President then Color Revolution the election- indeed as they declared they would in advance. “Fortified Democracy” became literal.

But can they grasp so much and hold? It appears not.

So yes undermine the tyrants.

And as importantly when they fall don’t replace them, let the States and the counties take their powers or even let them fall unclaimed, they were always unneeded and to America unnatural.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Great advice. I try to speak out where I can. Today I cancelled a dermatology appointment that I was looking forward to. I inquired about their masking policy. I was told I had to wear one. I cancelled the appointment and said I would not be coming in until that policy is gone. I think if more of us did this we would get back to normal. That doctors office lost potential income.

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All good, save for the parting shot:

"You made policy with your feelings, rather than using data and knowledge, and you made an unreasonable choice. Will you fix it?"

While true, this is counterproductive if the goal is truly to sway them. Perhaps something along the lines of:

"You made policy based on data and public health strategies that have since been rendered obsolete. When the facts change, we must change our minds. Will you reconsider your approach?"

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Follow Steve Kirsch's playbook and email ALL members of the (insert woke organization name here) with this information to create a paper-trail so they cannot deny having knowledge - this is the paper trail you will need to sue and prosecute them in the future. And tell them you why you are doing it, maybe out of self-protection alone they will begin to serve the people by doing what is morally and objectively the right thing.

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Aug 17, 2022·edited Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I am reminded of the WWII Japanese soldiers who kept on fighting, not knowing the war was over.

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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I was at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s home. The public appeared to be complying. I have been there before, so my wife and I decided not go into the museum building.

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Thank you for this I’ll be doing it today. I also want to bring something to the attention of this crowd: I tried to apply to become a volunteer at the polls this fall and couldn’t get past the private medical question they asked me. Does anyone know if this is more bs LA County “policy” ? Having a certain experiment to volunteer at the polls? Very fishy. https://www.vote4la.com/PollAccess/PollWorkerReview.aspx

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