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Naomi's avatar

Farrow is new to me. COVID has been awful in many ways but there have been some good outcomes too for some of us. I have discovered a whole new pantheon of people fighting the good fight. You give me hope and courage. I will have to learn more about this man Farrow. Thank you.

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"The gulag awaits." I would consider that hyperbole or paranoia, except in light of recent and ongoing events. Linda Bonvie and Bill Bonvie, at the Substack Rescue, cover the US Surgeon General's recent RYI: "Rat Out Your Doctor: Biden's Surgeon General Calls on Informants to Report Use of Generic Drugs" < https://rescue.substack.com/p/rat-out-your-doctor-bidens-surgeon >. This is part of our government's recent efforts against mis-, dis-, and mal-information.

The health authorities did attempt to define “misinformation” as “health information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time.” But the clause "best available evidence at the time" is what begs the question. Who are your information sources? How do we pre-emptively declare the science settled -- at least momentarily -- for the purposes of determining who is engaging in possible criminal dissent? This has an eerie ring to it. I am old enough to have studied Soviet Union in college, read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago.

Just before finding this post, I had noted at RESCUE that American citizens with natural (recovered) immunity who declined to be fully vaccinated have already faced job loss, harassment, and ridicule. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, MD, one example among many. We also have those who submitted to an unnecessary medical intervention -- and hence also the risk of vaccine-complications, some of which albeit rare can be fatal.

The "anti-vaxxers" and those who failed to meet the ever-shifting definition of 'fully vaccinated" were not rounded up and sent-off to the equivalent of gulags. But perversely, we had people calling for the equivalent of this. And now our government is cracking down on "thoughtcrime": any dissent from or questioning of the official narrative is mis-, dis-, or mal-information.

So we trust or rather allow our elected officials and unelected bureaucrats to selectively sample from ongoing scientific and clinical research, and declare that sample and their INTERPRETATION of it the "best available evidence at the time." So empowered, they wage political, media, and perhaps even legal campaigns against any skeptics or dissenters. We've seen versions of this movie before, and they end badly.

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