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Maggie Russo's avatar

Sigh.... I was talking to my best friend last night. We've been friends since 1967. She's very smart and graduated 2nd in our class of 500. I was close behind her. We know we are on different sides, so we don't talk about it. I know she went to a family gathering at Thanksgiving and remained masked the entire time she was not eating. She keeps a box of disposable surgical masks in her car. But I said to her last night, "I'm genuinely curious. I know I read things you don't. I'd like to know how you are making sense of the changing environment re Covid given what you are seeing in the news. How do you interpret Covid, now?" This is what she said:

"I just try not to pay attention to any of it. I just go with the flow...." Then she rambled for several minutes.

I asked, "So what do you make of the changing advice on masks, saying the old masks aren't effective?"

She responded, "Well that's because the Omicron virus is a smaller particle.... for the rest of it, we've learned new science since 2020." I waited until she finished talking.

When I tried to respond to that nugget of misinformation by saying many scientists knew things that CDC are saying now long ago, that the current advice and environment is consistent with what the epidemiologists from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration said, she interrupted me, "Maggie, I can't talk about this with you this. I don't trust anything you read or anything from the fringe scientists, I don't care what their credentials are. I won't read their material. I'm getting angry. We can't talk about this."

She and I have spoken about everything for over 50 years. I can listen to her, but I can't respond to anything she says without her 'getting angry' and our having to end our conversation.

I feel so alone...

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moira_eastman's avatar

Steve,

Your conclusion is the only one an honest person can reach: our society is corrupt.

Apparently not one honest media person or reporter in the USA, or anywhere else?

What about the doctors and hospital administrators? No interest in this?

What about the insurance companies? Don’t need to inquire into possible explanation of 40% rise in deaths in USA in 2021 cf previous 5-year average?

What about the families of the dead? No interest to get true facts about the cause of death of their loved ones?

I recall the first time I came across you. I think it was a DVD? With two other guys one of whom was Robert Malone. Right at the start of the scamdemic, you happened to hear of two people who had died soon after taking the jab, and you said, “That’s lighting striking twice.” And you immediately started following it up. And put your businesses on hold to work on it full time.

I’m nominating you for the Nobel Prize.

Thank you.

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