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Well said..we are the majority sane citizens of the West. They tried cancelling us first..SM ect. Then Hollywood puppets telling ppl what to believe..shaming ppl..using the Soros paid NGO’s groups of left wing crazy nazis to scare and bully ppl and try to silence them..It’s enough already..I saw the train coming down the track with the 1st video from China..I said to everyone..’come on now’..still can’t believe so many ppl fell into it..and how many still in denial. But..we Are the Majority. So reach out and grab a hand..
The "Handmaids" are largely hysterical and worse psychiatrically. I'm sorry, but that's just the truth of feminism today. And anything race based, and anything "LGBT".
These movements are not sane. The people in them are **not sane**.
Notice that I'm saying absolutely nothing about anyone's views on abortion. It's not about that. It's about them being insane.
You're lucky you got kicked out. You can see them for who they are, now.
Penny…I hear you re: churches. I left my church for their spineless (and cruel, IMO) covid policies. I joined another church which stayed open and continued to serve those most in need.
This was my experience as well, both professionally at the library where I work and the emergency shelter where I was a weekly volunteer. Those "houseless" we professed to care so much about were swatted away like pesky flies faster than their betters could bathe in hand sanitizer following every interaction.🙄
That shelter never reopened and in a happy accident my coworkers are exceedingly careful with any virtue signaling around me.
Good for you. I have a good friend whose granddaughter decided she is transgender. Cut off all contact with her grandmother because grandma is conservative and refuses to call her by her male name. It's just tragic. And I love that end quote BTW!
“I’d rather be rude than a fucking liar.”..gee, DCI, this ol' mechanic appreciates creative lying...OTOH, Moral Cowardice is unforgivable...an affront to God & all that makes us human.
We did nothing particularly heroic. Ignored Covidiots at Home Depot demanding a mask. Didn’t bother interviewing companies requiring a vax (I’m an IT contractor so always looking). We’re oft-ridiculed by siblings all-in on the narrative & shunned by some who had been friends since childhood.
But we live outside phoenix, which never went full-Stasi. Our GP not only prescribed IVM and HCQ, he knew which pharmacies would fill the Rx. We all got it & got over it: mild flu. Very mild.
The worst is that our daughter, 25, is in the ASU BS/RN program, at the very top of her class, and they still require it (but will - so far - accept waiver statements from family doctors. The open issue is hospitals for her clinicals next semester.
But: neurological disorders or infertility or death to get an experimental injection never even tested to stop infection or transmission of a mild flu? Nope.
Our son, 27, moved out of NYC, which he loved but they made him hate it. His consulting company wouldn’t let him come to the office, so he was unable to learn from peers or more senior people.
The future concerns me too. Do not mistake this for "not caring about the future." I want the same things you want. It's that I know it's necessary to document the past in order to have a better chance at that future.
I refused peer and friend pressure to get vaccinated for covid and also didn't let my children get covid vaccinations pushed on them by their pediatrician.
Same. I’m almost ashamed to say I did the vast majority of the recommended ones up through age 2, although on a delayed, spaced out schedule. I’ve done none since, though, for my now-5-year-old.
Resistance is impotent unless the human will is submitting to a power greater than the object one wants to resist. Resistance is a result of loyalty; it is not the primary. When I focus my faith on the principles of God, resistance becomes obvious to any mandates that wage war against my faith.
When I was in grade school my math teacher had a half dozen of us go to the blackboards around the room and asked us each to solve a problem.
I solved it and then looked around at the other answers. They were all the same answer except for mine.
I quickly changed my answer to match the others.
My teacher announced that we were ALL wrong, but that one was MORE wrong than all the others, because they had the right answer and changed it to match the others.
50 years later that lesson remained with me. I will use my own best judgement, and will not be swayed by the mob.
I did this once, though no one noticed, in middle school. The teacher asked a question and read aloud multiple choice answers, instructing students to raise their hands for what they thought was the correct answer. A lot of kids raised their hands for one answer, which I knew was incorrect, but I raised my hand to match them. Not only was I ashamed at cucking but I could've stood out as the only kid who got the answer right against all the other morons lol
Jul 8, 2023·edited Jul 28, 2023Liked by Josh Slocum
Thank you for documenting this time period, Josh. I realize the 'tome' I wrote was a rant, as I hadn't ever articulated before the experiences of the last three years...thank you for the opportunity to share. While I don't forget any of it, I have to let it go, and that is why I edited my comment.
A very religious and kind hearted friend nearly lost her marriage to a similar divide. Her husband--a normally calm and rational man--was completely taken over by the fear and vaccine savior narratives. She got the shots to save her husband from his crippling fear. It’s been devastating to watch what this has done to people.
2. I refused to watch any MSM, or read their papers during the ordeal. It stuck because I still don’t.
3. I spoke out to any that would listen what they were doing is wrong. Forcing EUA drugs on us.
4. Eventually, I was forced by govt. I resisted as long as I could but succumbed eventually. I even tried to bribe the nurse behind the curtain. She was not amused.
I have no recorded evidence of my transgressions per se (at least not going back to about June 2020 when i started to get a tad "suspicious"), but if i'm allowed to, here's a link to a recent podcast of mine ... one which i am convinced has got me shadow banned on YouTube. I'm fairly sure my comments are being hidden, as i have made several posts on others' content in the last few weeks which, i believe, should have elicited some kind of response. Historically, i've gotten responses on even comparatively mild remarks, so when lately i've laid it on pretty thick and have gotten no feedback ... well, it seems suspect
If you need to clip out my link, no problem. The content concerns Mr Gates and his prediction of a coming pandemic (ca. 2015) and how we are supposed to avoid future ones. Ahem.
Love you, Mr Slocum, "I want to bear your children!" [Lola Heatherton, ca 1977]
I refused to get the shot. I refused to participate in an experiment because I am not a lab rat, I am a human being. That term may not mean much anymore, I'm finding that a lot of terms are slowly becoming devoid of meaning. But it still means something to me.
A former friend pleaded with me to get it. I told her that I would rather die. Because of many reasons, we don't talk anymore. In losing someone who I thought was a friend, I gained some self respect.
After the past few years, my psyche feels fragmented and my soul feels raw, like the opened backs of the flagellated.
But slowly, piece by piece, I'm putting myself back together.
If I gained anything from this whole experience, it's the deep, visceral knowing that human life and connection is most important. I took it for granted before, but I never will again.
I just said no. No to the masks, no to the social distancing, no to the lockdowns, and no to the jabs, and I became an active contributor/researcher to an anti-covid jab substack trying to educate people about the dangers of this mass-experiment. Surprisingly, no one, not a single person, even those wearing masks alone in their cars, tried to shame me, and no store or restaurant staff told me I couldn't shop or eat without distancing or a mask. I also shut out the incessant fear-mongering of the MSM that kept the masses afraid and I went about my life not living in fear. Unfortunately, the fear of death got the best of many and a lot of those are now severely ill or no longer among the living.
I worked from home prior to 2020, and I lived in South Dakota (whose governor never shut down or required masks). I am on the border of Minnesota and so it was about 5 minutes quicker to get groceries there. When they required masks, I boycotted and went to South Dakota for them. I also ordered a lot online. Because I'm in SD no delivery people ever wore masks. My family is Republican, so I didn't really run into people getting on about me not masking up or not getting vaxxed.
I work in MN now and have played over what I would do if they required masks or vaccinations, so I am more mentally prepared to quit if I need to.
During 2020 I tried to get people to not be afraid (as the fear was driving people to label others "persecutors" if they didn't mask up, etc). Fear lowers the immune system too. I shared anything I could find that was ways for people to not have as bad effects from getting COVID or how to improve the immune system we all have.
That stuff shared on social media felt like it was being fed into a black hole where no one could see it due to the censorship, but I did share it with my family who got Ivermectin.
When the founder of Gab came up with a religious exemption copy to send to people to not have to get vaccinated, I shared that as well.
I quit my job at a high end boarding school. I was only day faculty, so I wasn’t asked to enforce the Covid rules outside of my classroom, but even that was taking a piece of my soul. I hated the mask rules, the social distancing rules,” the requirements for “hybrid education, and I hated that little bit of extra effort to project sound through the mask, class after class, day after day. It didn’t feel like courage when I told them I was leaving, it felt like self-preservation.
Very well said!
Well said..we are the majority sane citizens of the West. They tried cancelling us first..SM ect. Then Hollywood puppets telling ppl what to believe..shaming ppl..using the Soros paid NGO’s groups of left wing crazy nazis to scare and bully ppl and try to silence them..It’s enough already..I saw the train coming down the track with the 1st video from China..I said to everyone..’come on now’..still can’t believe so many ppl fell into it..and how many still in denial. But..we Are the Majority. So reach out and grab a hand..
The "Handmaids" are largely hysterical and worse psychiatrically. I'm sorry, but that's just the truth of feminism today. And anything race based, and anything "LGBT".
These movements are not sane. The people in them are **not sane**.
Notice that I'm saying absolutely nothing about anyone's views on abortion. It's not about that. It's about them being insane.
You're lucky you got kicked out. You can see them for who they are, now.
“Texas Handmaids”…so true! Well done for getting out of the mean girls cult. Thank you for helping women who are need during a very vulnerable time.
Penny…I hear you re: churches. I left my church for their spineless (and cruel, IMO) covid policies. I joined another church which stayed open and continued to serve those most in need.
This was my experience as well, both professionally at the library where I work and the emergency shelter where I was a weekly volunteer. Those "houseless" we professed to care so much about were swatted away like pesky flies faster than their betters could bathe in hand sanitizer following every interaction.🙄
That shelter never reopened and in a happy accident my coworkers are exceedingly careful with any virtue signaling around me.
Just as an aside, more rich men died on the Titanic than steerage women (as a percentage)
I'm so glad for you that you woke up.
Millions of us were in the cult. I was most of my life. Had I been younger, I would have been transed.
So well said DC. As for Magdalen Berns and her simple, brilliant quote…she was right. Truth can hurt, it is hard…but lies are much worse.
Good for you. I have a good friend whose granddaughter decided she is transgender. Cut off all contact with her grandmother because grandma is conservative and refuses to call her by her male name. It's just tragic. And I love that end quote BTW!
“I’d rather be rude than a fucking liar.”..gee, DCI, this ol' mechanic appreciates creative lying...OTOH, Moral Cowardice is unforgivable...an affront to God & all that makes us human.
We did nothing particularly heroic. Ignored Covidiots at Home Depot demanding a mask. Didn’t bother interviewing companies requiring a vax (I’m an IT contractor so always looking). We’re oft-ridiculed by siblings all-in on the narrative & shunned by some who had been friends since childhood.
But we live outside phoenix, which never went full-Stasi. Our GP not only prescribed IVM and HCQ, he knew which pharmacies would fill the Rx. We all got it & got over it: mild flu. Very mild.
The worst is that our daughter, 25, is in the ASU BS/RN program, at the very top of her class, and they still require it (but will - so far - accept waiver statements from family doctors. The open issue is hospitals for her clinicals next semester.
But: neurological disorders or infertility or death to get an experimental injection never even tested to stop infection or transmission of a mild flu? Nope.
Our son, 27, moved out of NYC, which he loved but they made him hate it. His consulting company wouldn’t let him come to the office, so he was unable to learn from peers or more senior people.
It’s the future, not the past, that concerns me.
The future concerns me too. Do not mistake this for "not caring about the future." I want the same things you want. It's that I know it's necessary to document the past in order to have a better chance at that future.
I know. I didn’t mean to imply you felt differently.
I refused peer and friend pressure to get vaccinated for covid and also didn't let my children get covid vaccinations pushed on them by their pediatrician.
Same. I’m almost ashamed to say I did the vast majority of the recommended ones up through age 2, although on a delayed, spaced out schedule. I’ve done none since, though, for my now-5-year-old.
Resistance is impotent unless the human will is submitting to a power greater than the object one wants to resist. Resistance is a result of loyalty; it is not the primary. When I focus my faith on the principles of God, resistance becomes obvious to any mandates that wage war against my faith.
Thank you..This is Truth..
Thanks, Pat, I appreciate it.
When I was in grade school my math teacher had a half dozen of us go to the blackboards around the room and asked us each to solve a problem.
I solved it and then looked around at the other answers. They were all the same answer except for mine.
I quickly changed my answer to match the others.
My teacher announced that we were ALL wrong, but that one was MORE wrong than all the others, because they had the right answer and changed it to match the others.
50 years later that lesson remained with me. I will use my own best judgement, and will not be swayed by the mob.
I did this once, though no one noticed, in middle school. The teacher asked a question and read aloud multiple choice answers, instructing students to raise their hands for what they thought was the correct answer. A lot of kids raised their hands for one answer, which I knew was incorrect, but I raised my hand to match them. Not only was I ashamed at cucking but I could've stood out as the only kid who got the answer right against all the other morons lol
Thank you for documenting this time period, Josh. I realize the 'tome' I wrote was a rant, as I hadn't ever articulated before the experiences of the last three years...thank you for the opportunity to share. While I don't forget any of it, I have to let it go, and that is why I edited my comment.
Your family is lucky to have you fighting for them. Every post I read from parents like yourself gives me hope. Thank you.
Ryn, thank you for your kind words, but no need to thank me.
A very religious and kind hearted friend nearly lost her marriage to a similar divide. Her husband--a normally calm and rational man--was completely taken over by the fear and vaccine savior narratives. She got the shots to save her husband from his crippling fear. It’s been devastating to watch what this has done to people.
1. Instead of a mask, I wore a bandana. Giddy-up.
2. I refused to watch any MSM, or read their papers during the ordeal. It stuck because I still don’t.
3. I spoke out to any that would listen what they were doing is wrong. Forcing EUA drugs on us.
4. Eventually, I was forced by govt. I resisted as long as I could but succumbed eventually. I even tried to bribe the nurse behind the curtain. She was not amused.
I have no recorded evidence of my transgressions per se (at least not going back to about June 2020 when i started to get a tad "suspicious"), but if i'm allowed to, here's a link to a recent podcast of mine ... one which i am convinced has got me shadow banned on YouTube. I'm fairly sure my comments are being hidden, as i have made several posts on others' content in the last few weeks which, i believe, should have elicited some kind of response. Historically, i've gotten responses on even comparatively mild remarks, so when lately i've laid it on pretty thick and have gotten no feedback ... well, it seems suspect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rzc_q0OLxU
If you need to clip out my link, no problem. The content concerns Mr Gates and his prediction of a coming pandemic (ca. 2015) and how we are supposed to avoid future ones. Ahem.
Love you, Mr Slocum, "I want to bear your children!" [Lola Heatherton, ca 1977]
I refused to get the shot. I refused to participate in an experiment because I am not a lab rat, I am a human being. That term may not mean much anymore, I'm finding that a lot of terms are slowly becoming devoid of meaning. But it still means something to me.
A former friend pleaded with me to get it. I told her that I would rather die. Because of many reasons, we don't talk anymore. In losing someone who I thought was a friend, I gained some self respect.
After the past few years, my psyche feels fragmented and my soul feels raw, like the opened backs of the flagellated.
But slowly, piece by piece, I'm putting myself back together.
If I gained anything from this whole experience, it's the deep, visceral knowing that human life and connection is most important. I took it for granted before, but I never will again.
I just said no. No to the masks, no to the social distancing, no to the lockdowns, and no to the jabs, and I became an active contributor/researcher to an anti-covid jab substack trying to educate people about the dangers of this mass-experiment. Surprisingly, no one, not a single person, even those wearing masks alone in their cars, tried to shame me, and no store or restaurant staff told me I couldn't shop or eat without distancing or a mask. I also shut out the incessant fear-mongering of the MSM that kept the masses afraid and I went about my life not living in fear. Unfortunately, the fear of death got the best of many and a lot of those are now severely ill or no longer among the living.
I worked from home prior to 2020, and I lived in South Dakota (whose governor never shut down or required masks). I am on the border of Minnesota and so it was about 5 minutes quicker to get groceries there. When they required masks, I boycotted and went to South Dakota for them. I also ordered a lot online. Because I'm in SD no delivery people ever wore masks. My family is Republican, so I didn't really run into people getting on about me not masking up or not getting vaxxed.
I work in MN now and have played over what I would do if they required masks or vaccinations, so I am more mentally prepared to quit if I need to.
During 2020 I tried to get people to not be afraid (as the fear was driving people to label others "persecutors" if they didn't mask up, etc). Fear lowers the immune system too. I shared anything I could find that was ways for people to not have as bad effects from getting COVID or how to improve the immune system we all have.
That stuff shared on social media felt like it was being fed into a black hole where no one could see it due to the censorship, but I did share it with my family who got Ivermectin.
When the founder of Gab came up with a religious exemption copy to send to people to not have to get vaccinated, I shared that as well.
I quit my job at a high end boarding school. I was only day faculty, so I wasn’t asked to enforce the Covid rules outside of my classroom, but even that was taking a piece of my soul. I hated the mask rules, the social distancing rules,” the requirements for “hybrid education, and I hated that little bit of extra effort to project sound through the mask, class after class, day after day. It didn’t feel like courage when I told them I was leaving, it felt like self-preservation.