Michael Reid
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As a nurse I have seen a lot of death. I am of the opinion that when death is coming to you perhaps it’s best to embrace it like the first time you had pleasurable sex.
@ madamski
With regards to COVID-19, all one should look at is the population death rate. Insignificant. People got to die my dear. That is how life works.
Seems like we learned how to treat the flu with this yearlong exercise.
@ madamski
“At this point, what people need to know most of all in order to break out of the covid hysteria is what covid actually is and what is best to do about it. Simple basic facts that sufficiently refute the official narrative.”
Let this sink in. The truth is that COVID-19 is a bullshit nothing virus like a bad seasonal flu. Yet what has happened? Seriously, people need to stand up
Putin may be the best leader in the world today. I have always felt countries should be run for the benefit of its citizens. Sadly in the western world all the countries seem to be run for the benefit of the capitalists
I was referring to your first comment
Please don’t be afraid. Maybe I will drop by to say hello the next time I drive by get a Llewellins setter pup.
I fully agree with your comment
Dear sir,
I have also forwarded this excellent essay to my parents who will likely get the mRNA vaccine.This last year my worldview has imploded. I seriously don’t trust anything in the mainstream media. As a retired surgical, ICU, medical and mental health nurse I know what we have been doing in the west is simply incorrect. Living in Canada I have emailed my provincial minister of health on multiple occasions pointing out how health policy is incorrect from a medical standpoint. No response. I have sent messages to some of the nurses that I have met and have risen to prominence and no response. I have sent messages to my family and friends and no response. I don’t feel crazy. I know I am intelligent. I know I am educated in the issues we are facing with COVID-19.
So I ask myself why I am being ignored. Canada owes tremendous debt and especially my province. And we have many retired civil servants drawing pension and we have a health care system funded by the government that spends tremendous amounts of money on maintaining and saving people who have nothing positive to contribute to the country.
If we lived in a reality of small groups of people existing on their efforts many would have been left to die a long time ago. I do not have financial knowledge but I suspect those holding our debt have tremendous power over over our governments. If this is correct we can understand why the government is implementing a pile of shit health policy to avoid insolvency. Also we have moved most of our manufacturing to the Far East and the west adds little of real value to any items of critical usefulness.
So here we are, but the story gets worst.
It seems to me all of the problems we currently face are due to over population. If there were very few people in our world then our actions would have insignificant impact on the world. But that is not our current reality. But a major culling may be the only sustainable way forward and may be a goal of the global elite
I was in the woods today cutting trees to feed our wood stove next winter so we don’t freeze to death.
I feel your comments.
Living life can be such a joy
Thank you for writing this article which I have forwarded to my parents who are likely to get the vaccine because the government says you should. As for myself I will never take a COVID-19 vaccine.
Freedom was nice while it lasted.
COVID-19 is not much different than the seasonal flu but the way it has been used by western governments to affect the lives of its citizens is telling me that those running the country don’t care for the people. Not a big surprise but at this point in history many were thinking we are so smart that we could not be fooled again.
People need to stand up together if they want to regain the freedoms we have lost this year
@ John Day
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@ John Day
I use the Kitchen Queen 480 wood cook stove that is made in the USA. It makes our hot water as well and is designed to lastRight on Dr. D. People are going to get a wake up call when infrastructure like electricity, gas, fuel delivery and grocery supply chains fail. It is worthwhile to know how things were done in the past and work on putting yourself in a life where that can be done.
I feel the essay was very well written and exposed many of the issues we are facing.
PlanetOfTheHumans provides more context.
With respect to a sustainable path forward the only solution I see is a massive culling of world population and a return to lifestyles experienced hundreds of years ago but I suspect instead we will pollute, poison and destroy ourselves in all possible ways prior to arriving at the next steady state
Enjoying life while it lasts
@ D. Benton Smith,
Please educate me sir. I have read some of your posts in the past and have felt they were in agreement with my thinking.
Today my worldview is no longer intact. Is yours? I have spent most of my life developing weapons for the USA. At this point I am ashamed of that. The USA is the biggest bully in the school that wants to beat you up and steal your lunch money. Where have I gone wrong in my thought process?
Leave Venezuela alone and every other country for that matter is my current thinking. Military should only be used for defense and not extracting the wealth out of the rest of the world…which in my opinion is what sanctions are all about.
What are your thoughts?
@ V. Arnold,
I feel everyone is on edge and alcohol may play a part but we are imperfect beings. I enjoy the intelligence that exists here. Certainly some things are said that offends others at times however I was not troubled. Freedom to express one’s feelings whether fueled by intellect or alcohol should not be wrong and a subject of offence. Simply disregard it. These are maybe the end of days. Who knows but I know that I have enjoyed communicating with you during these trying times
@ Raúl Ilargi Meijer,
Regarding today’s essay, our perspectives on this issue have aligned. And I have noticed how your perspective has evolved with more time and information from various sources. Good on you. Had it not been for your writing and John Michael Greer, I would not have decided to collapse my life 4 years ago and prepare as John Day is articulating with respect to gardening and others have with respect to lifestyle. I am still no way fully self sufficient however I am less vulnerable. I sensed implosion 4 years ago and acted on it. One thing that I can add is living in harmony with nature seems to be the correct way forward.
I know nothing, just like John Snow. I can’t help but feel concerned about about what will come to pass. If the technology and infrastructure remains intact then probably not the worst. The urban areas are very prone to undesirable consequences. I can’t imagine living in a high rise should the power fail, or what about the water supply in such an event…very vulnerable. If survival comes knocking, think about where you are. Prepare is my advice. There is a whole movement on the internet called preppers that have worked out many of the logistics. I feel it is worth a read if you have concerns. I wish you well.
@ Ilargi,
So I have been making my own stout the last few years and we had a tremendous laugh with The main rule is implied: just start drinking and don’t stop for the next few years.
With respect to the other day vodka played a part and I apologize.
@Dr. D,
My first thought was maybe the USA would blow itself up with nuclear weapons and then the rest of the world could get on with living without the bully being around.
I have spent a fair amount of time in the USA and the people that I have met have been beautiful. I don’t know if your country will ever recover but from my perspective the wealth needs to be taxed and spread throughout the population.
So I have come to the conclusion, which may be incorrect, that what is going on is as I read on the Off Guardian, those that own the debt are making a play to bring the western world to its knees for the main reason of bankrupting most so they may purchase the remains at bankruptcy prices. I know very little about economics but this is where my mind is these days reflecting on our situation. Respectfully
@ Geppetto,
Ok. I will tell you from experience if this is not yours, people get along very well if they have the same income and societies work much better if rich fucks are taxed down to level of their workers so the wealth is spreads round.Trickle down is bullshit.Kill the the billionaires and millionaires. That’s the way forward.
@ Bill7
I totally agree with you. The majority of the population has been captured and are ready for slaughter.
@V. Arnold
@ John DayYes we are all a collection of our experiences and how we connect to nature is probably the truest truth that is real.
There is so much shit going on in our abstract lives, the connections to nature that we are not aware of and our world view that formed in our youth and has been modified by reality is not always consistent.
I have challenged everything in my life growing up and it is no different today. I thank you both for your causing me to think deeper and providing further sources of exploration.
@V. Arnold, regarding this article,
Your comment that it was not so unsettling to you is perhaps because you have recognized with your life experience that this is the way life has been proceeding but the reason I felt the article was so unsettling is because it destroyed my worldview.
The reason I say this is because I grew up in a very pristine environment where I can drink the water out of any brook or river not in town. Then I moved to Toronto for my post-secondary education where I saw the Don and Humber rivers running with a green water that if I had tried to drink I probably would have died. Lesson 1. What was this world with green river water that is probably unsafe to drink? It was my first clue that giant cities are not good for life. So as I proceeded with my education and eventually got my engineering degree and eventually spent some time in Hong Kong and China and I see in China a man on a bicycle with a steel king sized mattress positioned on his head as he transported it which I suspect was to another factory to be finished. In China there was an old woman with a baby smacking my arm and asking for money. What is wrong with this place I thought. So sheltered from life was I that I could not understand how this situation was even possible. Having grown up in Canada, I could not understand why the government was not feeding you, ensuring you are healthy and providing you with a place to live. That was my world.
So when I reflect on Capitalism, I have discovered that my idea is similar to that of FDR.
Hyperinflation, Fascism and War: How the New World Order May Be Defeated Once More
When I think of the USA as a country, I feel that they are very cruel to their poor and everyone else in the world who are poor. I have consumed the mainstream media and I mistakenly thought that the USA was a force for good in the world. No longer. I feel shame that I contributed to the AAAV, M1A1, and Bradley fighting vehicle.
What to do? Live in nature, work my ass off and try to survive for as long as I can as long as it is pleasant.
@ John Day
Regarding fungi, I understand that they provide a beautiful solution to the decomposition of organic matter but as a person who is trying to survive, I would encourage anyone else to forget about paints and stains and simply apply bleach once or twice a year. Your wooden structures would last much longer.The concept reminds me of The Game of Thrones and the spore drive on Star Trek but life is a serious mystery. And yes I am certain there are many things that we have not figured out and the more I reflect there is a requirement for an unknown force to shepherd our souls.
Essential reading for those scared of the virus
The following article is very well written and hits on many of the points that I have been making and proposes an explanation for what is going on but be warned it is very unsettling.
@ Mr. House, you guys need to remake yourselves, beautiful people in your country despite the social paths. I wish you well
The world seems to be going into a mess in a hurry. It feels very ungrounding. I don’t what to think anymore. I don’t know what is truth and I don’t know what is lies. Maybe I should disconnect from the matrix.
@ a-kullervo,
I am a man and for most of my life a very dominant man. Men usually can always dominate women physically and this may have been the history of our existence but acting on this is simply wrong. All souls need to be respected and relationships need to be negotiated so all are satisfied and embrace a path forward otherwise there it is not a pleasant existence. Sure history is slavery and maybe that’s where we are heading again but there is so much more possible with mutual consent. This in my opinion the correct way to think of this issue. Certainly barbarism will eventually arrive again but it is not a positive way forward.
