Perhaps there are other explanations. But from those I’ve listed, I hope the thing is a hoax. Because any of the other explanations reveal what kind of country we have become: censored and self-centered. And these poor bridesmaids are left to themselves.
In the normal, sane world of my childhood, this wouldn’t have been extraordinary. But this was November, 2022, and the world was just beginning to recover from the insanity of the Covid-19 response.
While each of us are free to live by our own privately held theories regarding the actions taken by, or in the name of, Collective X or Collective Y, it is never right for the government to do so.
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If there is a lesson from the current hantavirus hype, it is not simply that the media exaggerates risk. It is that societies must relearn proportional thinking. Public health should inform, not terrify. Journalists should contextualize, not sensationalize.
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We have bought the lie that anything that makes our lives easier is good, and that includes letting others do our thinking for us. We have admitted this Trojan horse through the gates, not recognizing the evil enwrapped within its glittering package.
The good news is that the remedy can be experienced by everybody. It is the recovery of the “beautiful energy cycle” that connects soil to food to body to community and back again.
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We live in a world where the elites view the common man as a problem to be solved and the leaders elected by the common man anxiously present themselves as lapdogs to these elites.
You never let go. You never abandon your child, no matter what. You keep trying and loving them and that is what I see in the story we’re reading in the news about Nick Reiner’s parents. True love.
Today, we have a drug made of “salt forms of a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist,” being pushed by physicians and television campaigns and sports heroes and celebrities nationwide that allows people to silence the addict within.
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Six years later and nearly to the day, this new attempted lockdown seems to be going the same way, not concerning infectious disease but energy use. Isn’t it remarkable how the officially recommended methods of managing these bear so much in common?
Every lover of freedom and civilization owes Elijah a deep debt of gratitude for the scrupulous attention to detail she has provided and the personal discipline it took to complete this book.
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