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Exactly! My friend, nearly 70, criticizes me about not getting the shot and brags that she got three “full shots,” not boosters.

She emailed me today to ask about my status again.

And oh, by the way, both she and her husband were diagnosed with neurological diseases last month.

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It is so weird, like a cult... as if taking the shots will send them to the "promised land". Reminds me of the Jonestown Massacre. There's an odd denial where they won't even consider a potential link, despite the timely nature.

Annoying thing is they "believe in the science" but know little to nothing about it. They're just following with blind faith because of the consensus.

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Just peruse this list of the top 10 signs of being in a cult (https://www.theodysseyonline.com/signs-you-are-in-a-cult), and you’ll see it is spot-on:

1. A single authoritative person or small group of people create rules to follow.

2. Your group is isolated or encouraged to stay and keep secrets within the in-group.

3. Critical thinking and questioning are met with resistance, deferment, and/or punishment.

4. Cults are totalistic.

5. Hostility, sanction, or aggression when leaving the group is brought up.

6. Formal ceremonies and rituals take place to indoctrinate and reaffirm beliefs communally.

7. “Love Bombing” or bipolar behavior.

8. Food, work, and social activity are monitored or controlled.

9. A sense of “community” is extremely valued above the comfort and desire of the individual.

10. Important decisions are influenced or made by the people in charge.

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Those cloth masks were already used in certain religious ceremonies before 2020.

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It’s not like a cult—it IS a cult.

CJ Hopkins (https://cjhopkins.substack.com/) has written about this phenomenon extensively, and I also touch on it in my “Letter to a Covidian: A Time-Travel Experiment” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-covidian-a-time-travel).

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Are you also in NSW? Saw a link in your post to our Chief Health Officer. Case numbers have been crazy here, 95% vaccinated and we average 20K a day. Complete failure if you ask me.

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No, but I have a lot of Australian subscribers, and they keep me apprised of the latest happenings. That was partly my inspiration behind making the Down Under edition of my Recommendations Roundup (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/recommendations-roundup-2-down-under-41b).

I’m sorry for what you guys are having to suffer and hope there’s an end in sight soon. It is encouraging to see more people coming together to protest.

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They follow with blind faith because TV series about medicine or forensics have programmed them to assume all physicians and scientists are noble and 100 percent correct.

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Ann, wow. It astonishes me that people could suddenly get new diseases, injuries, and side effects out of blue and STILL refuse to make the glaring connection!!

It reminds me of this quote from the latest brilliant entry from Academy of Ideas: “Is Government the New God? – The Religion of Totalitarianism” (https://academyofideas.com/2021/12/is-government-the-new-god-the-religion-of-totalitarianism/):

“Other reports tell of political officials and party followers who cried out ‘Long Live Stalin!’ as they were being taken out to be shot by the Soviet Secret Police.”

Substitute “Long Live Fauci!” and you’ll see why reaching the true believers feels so hopeless.

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Scientism is the new religion, in my opinion.

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Agreed! Although I’d spell it $cientism.

As Christopher Browning notes in “Ordinary Men” of Milgram’s observations:

“In Milgram’s experiments, ‘overarching ideological justification’ was present in the form of a tacit and unquestioned faith in the goodness of science and its contribution to progress.”

See my “Letter to a Colluder: Stop Enabling Tyranny” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-colluder-stop-enabling) for more relevant quotes from Browning as well as Milton Mayer’s eerily applicable “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45.”

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Right. Also touched on this in my “Letter to an Agree-to-Disagree Relative” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-an-agree-to-disagree-relative) in my link from “megalomaniacal self-styled gods” to Schwab Family Values (https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/schwab-family-values/), which traces his Nazi origins.

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That is shocking! But there are so many stories like this.

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My 50-year-old friend (a healthy hiker) had a heart attack post-vax. Now has a stent & will be on meds for life. Nobody is making any connection.

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That is really heartbreaking—literally. Try sharing the interview with Kyle Warner I feature in my “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier) and see if that helps wake him up to what is occurring.

When I hear about this happening to so many people, it makes me realize how many MORE adverse event reports are not being filed in VAERS, not only because the hospitals/doctors/medical professionals are intentionally flouting this requirement but also because the patients themselves are so brainwashed, they don’t even make the connection. Talk about coincidence theorists.

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Yup I have a similar tale from a high school friend, delirium, massive jaw pain, heart attack out of the blue 3 weeks post vax, and no previous hints of problems and nothing to stent, nothing to explain the heart attack according to the doctors. After bringing up the connection to the vaccine, I haven't heard from her in 5 months. It is overwhelming for people to make the connection, even for beloved friends.

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I know :-( MountainBlues shared a similar story of a young Covidian (now former) friend who developed cardiac issues after her injection but refuses to acknowledge the cause 🤦‍♀️

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