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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I know what would work to reduce vaccine “misinformation.” A vaccine that was actually safe and effective, and, as a result, people who took it no longer became infected, and did not suffer injuries or death.

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Recently my daughter took my ten-year-old grandson to the pediatrician for a well-child checkup. When she again refused the Covid shot as well as a flu shot for her son, the doctor sighed and said "I don't know what to do with 'you people.' I used to be a doctor. Now I'm just a consultant." As an unrepentant optimist, I'm believing this is already backfiring. The strong arm of the government and the holier-than-thou attitude of medical personnel has become tiresome and maddening. The eventual result may be a collective push from the uncooperative for medical independence. We are already seeing general vaccine resistance and the cumulative frustration of subjection to censorship and government mind warps. "We people" are smarter than these manipulators think out here in reality land.

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"That would work, right? If your child’s pediatrician walked into the exam room and said, “We’re going to do some shots today,”" Don't underestimate how powerful stuff like this can be. This sets it up as though the descriptive norm is to get the vaccine and requires the patient to be confrontational with the doctor if they happen to not want vaccines. This is really messed up that this is considered ethical. What happened to evidence based medicine? What happened to respecting patient values? I should note that this is a great way of getting compliance, but not buy-in. You can coerce people successfully, but they won't necessarily keep putting themselves in such an environment willingly. Expect there to be a trend in parents not taking their children in for well-baby exams and annual checkups the same way they're transitioning to home schooling in record numbers. I've had to deal with this personally with two young children. It really does come across like the only thing pediatricians care about is the vaccines, everything else is just a formality. I'm not sure about the risk benefit for most vaccines, but I do know for children covid vaccines simply can't be supported by any stretch. These pediatricians typically recommend covid vaccines for children as well. Why bother going to a doctor with such terrible clinical reasoning?

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I guess my main question is Why? The answer cannot be so innocent to be “public health”, so everyone gets the jab, can it? Is it Big Pharma in control? Too much money to spend? Implant microchips?

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"April 15 is when you pay people to try to shit inside your brain."

This. Is. Perfect.

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This will all go gradually worse because people think the enemy can be as nasty as it likes but we must respond in a civil, responsible, and peaceful way. When you stop being such dumb fuckers and get out there and fight, then we will have a shot at establishing a genuine egalitarian democratic meritocracy.

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They're not even pretending anymore... With every day that goes by I'm more convinced that this is going to go very badly for humanity for a while.

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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

So where are we on clot shot uptake nowadays? Does anyone have the numbers?

I'm at the point where no needles go into my arm or anywhere else. I don't trust the medical establishment much nowadays. And I have to say, I've been skeptical of vaccines for the past 45 years. Maybe it can be attributed to laziness for most of that time, but since the plandemic, it's fear of being deliberately injured.

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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

The mind-blowing irony of wishing to identify misinformation (SIC) with a "high potential for impacting vaccine confidence" by the very people who completely gutted "vaccine confidence" in their zeal to protect and mandate an obvious failure so bad they had to redefine "vaccine"...

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Dec 15, 2022·edited Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Chris writes about the “presumptive approach to vaccination counseling”:

“That would work, right? If your child’s pediatrician walked into the exam room and said, ‘We’re going to do some shots today,’ instead of asking, you would just hold up your child’s arm and passively submit, because the presumption of cooperation would render you helpless. It’s science.”

I’m not sure of the exact scope of sarcasm Chris intends here, but my reaction wasn’t so much that it won’t be effective (to use one of the words of the decade), but that beneath a thin academic and bureaucratic veneer, they’re saying medical care should henceforth be the equivalent of a cop rolling up to a suspect, drawing his weapon, and shouting, “Put your f-ing hands in the air!” – albeit spoken at lower volume and with the profanity held in reserve.

I think such an approach by government, doctors, and other authority figures will certainly get plenty of compliance (along with engendering some resistance, of course). And that seems to be all they want.

P.S. Leave it to the federal government to take all the fun out of hearing, “We have to do some shots.”

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Another top shelf essay that rips the curtain from the “machine.”

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Dec 16, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Why is all this funding going specifically towards VACCINE misinformation? Are there new vaccines in the pipeline that will need to be propagandized? How many? I’m also concerned by the reference to pregnant women with regard to vaccines-- it seems like the established precept of not giving new drugs to pregnant women has been permanently discarded? (I’m also shocked they used the sexist term “pregnant women” instead of “pregnant people”! How regressive.)

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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

“To decrease misinformation about vaccines.”

Err...if there was nothing wrong with the "vaccines" and if they actually worked, you wouldn't need to do this.

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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

When the government allocated $1B to media outlets, i.e. bribing media outlets, to promote the "safe and effective" mantra, imagine what a whole-of-government effort involved/cost! By the same token, we also had a whole-of-government approach to getting out the vote for the 2020 midterms and look how that worked out...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/review-the-federal-government-paid-media-companies-to-advertise-for-the-vaccines

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/03/07/executive-order-on-promoting-access-to-voting/

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‘“We’re going to do some shots today,” instead of asking’ what Scott Adams describes as ‘thinking passed the sale’. A sales/persuasion technique to be always on your guard for. Fortunately being a bit of a contrarian I have some innate immunity if not complete.

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