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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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