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Deja Vu
I’m sitting here watching all of the news headlines and the establishment setting up the narrative that the only way to deal with this “uptick” in “COVID” cases is to implement all the same nonsense that was implemented back in 2020 and beyond.
Well, they might have a huge problem with that.
We can all remember a time, it seems like it was only yesterday, when the fear campaign began revving up. I remember very clearly in the late winter, going into Spring of 2020, watching the news that some “virus” was making its way across the world from China and that we all needed to be very afraid.
At the time, I was living in Eugene, Oregon in a house with a couple other musicians. It was really cool. We had drums in the living room, amps all over the place, it was a regular jam spot. I got along great with the roommates. Pre-2020, I remember the owner of the house, an older gentleman, would sit in the living room watching his huge screen TV all day. He was always watching CNN. It was an innocent time. He would talk trash on Donald Trump, I would poke fun at him for being kind of a whacky liberal-type, all was good!
Then around February 2020, I would be in the kitchen or passing through the living room and I would stop and watch the coverage on the TV about some weird new novel coronavirus from China. I filed it in the back of my head as innocuous. Whatever. Who cares. But he was glued to the TV and I saw through that microcosm, the rhetoric and propaganda ramping up.
The fear campaign continued to escalate, and I remember the big eye-opener for me was when they cancelled the 2020 NBA Basketball Season on March 11, 2020. That signaled to me that this was a huge, world changing event. I had no idea.
The problem back then was that there was a lot of fear and uncertainty. Immediately I knew that something was very wrong and that we were not being told the whole truth. I had been listening to podcasts and independent media for quite some time, so I was turning to them to offer clues as to what the real situation was. It was around this time that I found The Last American Vagabond, and my doubts and questions were validated. There were several other shows that really helped me during this time, and I just want to give a huge shoutout to the No Agenda Show as well.
I was still piecing all the information together and desperately wanted to know more. A couple of friends of mine felt similarly and within weeks we had bought ourselves some microphones, a mixer, and began our own podcast that we called The Truthzilla Podcast (now defunct).
I say all that to paint a picture of what it was like going into all this COVID hysteria the first time. COVID was just one element of the fear perpetrated on us, particularly in Oregon. We also had to deal with BLM Riots, election madness and record wildfires,(some days you couldn’t go outside and the sky was bright red, creating a very surreal and dystopian environment). It felt like living in a sci-fi movie.
This time, it is different…
The Emperor Has No Clothes
This time, we know every single one of their tricks. We know their propaganda inside and out. They are trying to pull the same narrative out of their hat and are proposing the same pathetic interventions that they did before. The conversation around “masking up” is back.
Just today, CNN drops this wonderful article titled “It may be time to break out the masks against Covid, some experts say.” But wait a minute, didn’t the establishment JUST come out and say that “Masks Mandates Did Nothing”? Am I imagining things? Oh wait, no, here is an article from The New York Times saying exactly that:
Here is the study referenced in this NYT opinion piece that really creates a problem for these media outlets pushing the mask agenda once again. This study is entitled “Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses”:
There is uncertainty about the effects of face masks… The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection.
Well there you go. So when they come at you with mask mandates, you can push back and say that this has been DEBUNKED.
Despite all this, the mask mandates are incrementally coming back:
Hollywood studio Lionsgate brings back mask mandate amid Covid spike
Atlanta college reinstates COVID-19 mask mandate as students return to city
Do not comply.
No platform in the world has done a better job at absolutely shattering the “mask” narrative than The Last American Vagabond. I remember all through 20202/2021, Ryan included in the show notes of each show a list of studies that you could pull out and show the inn ineffectiveness of masks. This was a VERY handy tool. I will include that here at the bottom for those of you who might have missed it. Send this to everyone who might be falling for the mask spell again.
Lies, Lies, Lies
In the video above, they are already telegraphing that people need to rush out and get the “new vaccine” to combat these “new strains”. The new CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen is pushing that it is advisable for people to get the COVID injection at the same time as the flu shot. But what are they basing this off of? According to the European Medicines Agency’s BNT162b2 + BNT162b2 BA.1 + BNT162b2 BA.4-5 Risk Management Plan, “Studies to determine if co-administration of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine with other vaccines may affect the efficacy or safety of either vaccine have not been performed.”
Don’t fall for the lies. These shots are just as deadly and ineffective as ever and the worst thing that we can do is blindly follow the edicts of these agencies that have proven themselves to be incompetent or flat-out liars.
Do Not Comply
Now is the time to draw our lines in the sand. It is more important than ever for us to make a conscious decision ahead of time that we will not go along with whatever lockdown measures or mandates that they roll out, going into the fall and winter. Hopefully all of you have spent time over the course of this last year building community and finding each other. I envision a time where if certain grocery stores prohibit entry without masks, myself, and my large group of local medical freedom fighters will organize times to show up together, 40 or 50 at a time, and swarm the store without masks and be able to do our shopping without interference. Whatever the case may be, we can get through this if we stand together and peacefully resist through non-compliance.
They don't know what they created in us over these last few years. They have activated an army of enlightened and awake individuals. We know their tricks, we know their schemes, we have become extraordinarily resilient and fearless. Nothing they can do can keep us down the way they tried to in 2020. Now is our time to shine.
Ryan’s Classic List of Mask Studies circa 2020/2021:
Most Recent Mask Studies
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v1.full-text
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987720333028
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
5 NIH/National Library of Medicine studies from 2004-2020 all finding verifiable health effects from wearing a face mask, including scientifically verified reduction in blood oxygen level:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32590322/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15340662/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26579222/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31159777/
Cloth Mask Study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
SOME of the mask studies on efficacy:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049528v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v2
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-13-06-oa-0201.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/65/11/1934/4068747
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bio/23/2/23_61/_pdf/-char/en
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01658736
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/0195-6701(91)90148-2/pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2493952/pdf/annrcse01509-0009.pdf
https://www.nap.edu/read/25776/chapter/1#6
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article
https://academic.oup.com/annweh/article/54/7/789/202744
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6599448/
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs
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