The words 'Thank you' don't even come close to my deep gratitude to you for composing this essay revealing in such concise detail the many layers of what happened during the past five years. During these years, I have avoided sending any enlightening essays on Covid to people who swallowed the Koo-Aid mainly because I didn't know where to start. It seemed so monumental to catch them up to speed that I felt they wouldn't be able to wholly comprehend it. But this piece says it all so amazingly. I will finally be sending this to family and friends so they can finally see clearly and catch up. Thank you, Joshua, for waking the world up.
I apologize for the slow reply - writing these pieces takes a lot out of me, and sometimes I need a few days before I can revisit the comments and go back to that headspace.
I truly appreciate your kind words. I had the same frustration - where do you even begin with such a complex deception? That's what motivated me to try connecting all the dots in one place. Funnily enough, this started as what was supposed to be a 750-word piece :-)
If this helps bridge the reality gap for even a few people in your circle, that would mean a lot. Thanks for sharing it.
I would like to send it to some folks I can think of. But I kind of gave up on all that. Pretty sure the ones who need it have no interest in having their illusions laid to rest. They wouldn't read it. But still. I am soooo grateful for this amazing summary, & if I ever see the slightest sign of curiosity in any of those dear to me who swallowed the narrative, it's so good to know this incredibly thorough, well-laid-out piece exists!
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the start of the Covid horror I've been keeping an eye out for an article that would bring together all its many themes into a comprehensive synopsis. I've wanted this so I could martial the data in my own mind, but more especially so I could present the evidence in a succinct form to any waverers from the official narrative who might be willing to look at it.
This is the article. Outstanding from beginning to end, written with contained passion and eloquence. Thank you Joshua Stylman!
Believe it or not, I could've written another 20k words with more examples. At some point, the depth and depravity of the deception becomes obvious to anyone willing to look.
Please do so, Joshua, and turn it into a book. Your extraordinary analysis is deserving of a much wider audience and expanding this into a book would be a gift to the world—now and for future generations.
This was one of the most comprehensive and accurate assessments of what happened during Covid and what must be done to turn things around, that I have ever read. I hope it is shared far and wide and that those who most need to read it, will. Thank you.
Thank you, Joshua. This was a profound bringing together of all that happened since 2020. Just reading it reminded me that nothing has fundamentally changed. The mechanisms are still in place and functioning. The gullible masses are still prone to propaganda and "nudging". Like you, I was remorselessly persecuted on social media for daring to suggest the vaccine injured and dead was a new holocaust and that the persecution of an "infectious" minority was comparable to Germany in the 1930s.
The fracture of society in 2020 was horrifically clear to those of us awake to see. I've been feeling alienated ever since, a world gone mad around me. To hear people repeat mainstream narratives over and over is still disturbing, once you know. It's been such a well-orchestrated mind capture, it's almost beyond belief. But somehow, it's meant to be this way, a mass sorting process of those able to live in truth and those not.
I appreciate your thoughtful reflection, Navyo. The mechanisms indeed remain in place, just waiting for the next "crisis" to activate.
The alienation you describe is something I hear from so many - that sense of watching people around you repeating narratives that contradict what's right in front of them. It creates a profound disconnect that's hard to reconcile.
Whether it's a sorting process or just the natural consequence of reality engineering (you know I'm obsessed w this idea), those who maintained independent thinking have found themselves in a different perceptual world than their friends and family. That fracture may be the most lasting damage from this period.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It helps to know we're not alone in seeing what happened.
I have learned. I will never trust our government, the media or the healthcare industry again. Ever. In fact- now my eyes are opened and I will never feel the patriotism and pride of being an American ever again. That makes me saddened, quite frankly. But never again.
I think the same about not trusting media, healthcare and government but I think all of those mandates were and are un-American. The CV years have made me more American. You will see those who are still brain-washed sneer at shows of patriotism. The flag and National Anthem are offensive as they represent "oppression." The irony is rich. Let freedom reign!
This is one of the most comprehensive and well written pieces I've read, summing up the psychology behind the events of COVID and mandates, which prompted starkly disparate realities depending on one's point of view. The reality and point of view with true staying power is constantly emerging, with the carnage of countless thousands of deaths and destroyed lives providing damning testimony. Great wrongs were enacted upon the prudently non-compliant and those injured by the shots. When will the performative virtue crowd who enthusiastically discriminated against far better informed friends, family, neighbors and colleagues admit they were wrong, seek forgiveness and make restitution?
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I'm grateful it resonated with you. The divergent realities that emerged during COVID created what feels like an unbridgeable gulf between people who previously shared common understanding.
The question about forgiveness and restitution is central to any healing process. I suspect most will never acknowledge their role in enabling discrimination - the psychological cost of admitting such a profound moral failure is simply too high for many. Yet without that acknowledgment, I worry about how we move forward as a society. The machinery remains in place for the next manufactured crisis.
Without acknowledgement of the wrong committed and sincere efforts to make amends; especially the depraved willingness to gaslight the vaccine injured and deny the unvaccinated their human rights, I sincerely doubt there will be any "moving forward" as a civilized species.
About 6 months before COVID lockdowns hit I had a falling out with a friend because I refused to "play along" and sacrifice my integrity for a paycheck. He cancelled me for saying the following,
"When everyone is passive aggressive; manipulates and exploits; deceives and gaslights; trust is lost. Without trust, the social contract is irretrievably broken and civilization collapses".
Through the horrors of these past years, I have witnessed the truth in such words.
Your Covid times recap is hard to read, I don't see many people you describe in this recap doing any reflection or showing any curiosity about the events that happened most have just moved on. They formed their opinion early and don't want to hear any evidence to the contrary.
I know what you mean - it's a tough read because it reminds us of how little reflection has occurred. Most people have simply moved on to the next cause without examining their role in what happened.
I've lost relationships that will never recover. Some people are so deeply invested in the narrative they accepted that acknowledging any part of it was false would require dismantling their entire self-image.
That's what I meant by the fracturing of reality - we're not just disagreeing on facts anymore, but living in completely different perceptual worlds. It's a profound social rupture that I'm not sure can be healed.
Sadly, I agree with you on this. I am existing in a parallel reality in my own home. I am resigned to it remaining that way. Any mention of covid and the injections is strictly verboten.
“Once the stage has been set, people don't need to be actively deceived—they simply need to never see the information that contradicts their version of reality.”
This is a point that needs a reminder every day because it is still happening. It didn’t end with the plandemic.
Excellent overview and collection of all the data points regarding the last five years.
That is what happened, what we lived through, and how we suffered during the chaos of the last 5 years. Thank you so very much for such an eloquent and totally exact synopsis.
Now, what we have to do is apply the same playbook rules to Bird Flu. It's the same scenario but affecting food supply this time. Control the food and control the people. Don't fall for it. Get involved and write, call, email your representative and let them know that you know what they are doing. Don't let complacency take you down the same path as Civid did.
We most certainly do. Up here in Ontario I have started to buy my meat from a farmer who raises Black Angus grass fed beef cattle. You can see them out in their fields chowing down on the grass. The farm is immaculate and they have proper free range chickens as well.
Fauci's creation of the virus in Wuhan and the mRNA death jab mandates were the worst crimes in human history. We need to keep those crimes FRONT AND CENTER at all times, no matter what, until justice is finally served:
Thank you for this. It's the most comprehensive deconstruction of the Covid myth I have seen and it explains coherently why we must be on our guard against the next big psyop. I believe that's what Covid was, a gigantic psyop.
I appreciate your kind words. That's exactly what I was hoping to achieve - a comprehensive analysis that shows not just what happened, but how the machinery worked and why we must remain vigilant.
Joshua, your extraordinary analysis is deserving of a much wider audience and expanding this into a book would be a gift to the world—now and for future generations. Please consider it.
This post is extremely enlightening and represents an important compendium/compilation of the macro-level sociological and psychological methods employed by globalist perpetrators of the entire COVID narrative/crime against humanity. I am grateful to the author for providing this work. There are a few assertions I disagree with such as: “The public was never told they were participating in what amounts to the largest medical experiment in human history.” If by "experiment", the author means that the overall goal/result was in doubt, I think that is false. One way in which it might be true that the public was participating in a medical experiment is that there may have been certain features being tested such as dose-response effects based on varying the type and concentration of multiple toxic and undisclosed substances. Health and wellness were clearly not the goal, however.
In retrospect the obvious intent of the COVID operation was depopulation and the creation of a global totalitarian order with absolute control of humanity (decades of white papers, practice events and public pronouncements by globalists advocated for much of what transpired, proving it was planned and not authentic/organic). Admittedly, COVID was a beginning step in a multi-pronged approach.
Another area in which I probably disagree with the author is with respect to the mRNA/spike protein issue. The entire mRNA/spike protein piece is likely a red herring meant to draw attention away from the actual toxic ingredient(s) since there are too many independent analyses done of vial contents which failed to disclose any mRNA or DNA (no nitrogen or phosphorus). The possibility of that occurring by chance alone seems vanishingly small. The implications are profound. If there was no mRNA or DNA present, there could be no spike protein produced, and all such claims are rendered false. Toxicity from GFN's seems increasingly like a better explanation for all the disease and deaths that have resulted (see Dr Pablo Campra's work for example, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355979001_DETECTION_OF_GRAPHENE_IN_COVID19_VACCINES). It cannot be accidental that it remains one topic that is almost completely censored from public discussion.
Thank you for this thoughtful response. I appreciate your kind words about the compilation of methods used in the operation.
Your points about the nature of the "experiment" are thought-provoking. You're right that many aspects suggest predetermined outcomes rather than genuine scientific inquiry. The decades of planning documents and simulations certainly point to something far more orchestrated than a spontaneous response.
Regarding the mRNA/graphene question, I've seen the analyses you mention. While my focus was on documenting the social manipulation machinery, the actual contents of the vials deserves scrutiny. I've been deep in study on nanoparticles and am becoming increasingly confident they play a role in our lives - whether in the jabs, geoengineering, food supply or elsewhere. The censorship around certain topics like graphene is indeed telling. When certain lines of inquiry become untouchable, it's a strong signal they warrant closer examination.
Scott Adams called it the Two Movies phenomenon. Even though he was on the wrong side of reality during the pandemic, what you have outlined is a vital understanding of the way the system worked. Reconciling it means dismantling its roots; funding streams, misused legal mechanisms, removing abusive people in power... but it also means finding an inner will, an inner backbone, the innate curiosity to understand what is real and what is not. People exist in a fog of their own choosing, drifting through the world as if they had no control over anything. The phrase "wake up" may have been over-used, and it almost cost me the relationship with my own brother, but it is a struggle to find a better analogy.
Sorry that you were duped, but glad that eloquent voices like yours are now shining light on these enormous issues. We often get tired of writing about it, and frustrated by not having more reach, so THANK YOU for putting your skills to the task.
Thank you so much for your work. This is a fantastic summary of what we have been through these past five years and continue to experience. We must never forget. I am printing out for our 22 year old daughter. I don't know if she will read it now, but she is open. I have also purchased many books that I hope she will read in the future by Dr. Peter McCullough, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ed Dowd, Dr. Piere Kory etc. Books are so important as we know THEY will try to memory hole all the corruption that took place. Thank God our daughter didn't get the shot. I had her listen to ten minutes of testimony from vaccine injuried that was shared via video and audio from The Highwire. I also got to see the film Anedotal and meet the film maker when she visited Minnesota. This all is so heartbreaking. I recently read the book Forty Autmnn's by Nina Willner. A true story of a family's courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall. I highly recommend this page turner. I wish they would make it required reading for high school students. It gave me chills as I read and realized so much of what happened then was happening now but just at light speed now with social media, AI etc. Thank you again for documenting what we all have experienced. You are truly appreciated for your work. I am so sorry what you have been through. We now have a new appreciation for what our ancestors have experienced in the past. We must educate our children and the young so it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing this with your daughter. I'm glad she avoided the shots, and I hope materials like this help her understand what happened when she's ready to process it all.
As for Anecdotals. I wasn't at the Minnesota event but know it was both heartbreaking and gratifying for Jennifer to connect with the community and see how the film was making a difference. Giving voice to the injured when everyone else was silencing them has been one of the most important things we could do.
The historical parallels you mention are chilling but important. Forty Autumns sounds like a powerful read that illustrates how quickly rights can disappear under authoritarian systems.
You're right that documentation matters - they're already trying to memory-hole much of what we witnessed firsthand. Books, films, and personal testimonies create a record that can't be easily erased.
The words 'Thank you' don't even come close to my deep gratitude to you for composing this essay revealing in such concise detail the many layers of what happened during the past five years. During these years, I have avoided sending any enlightening essays on Covid to people who swallowed the Koo-Aid mainly because I didn't know where to start. It seemed so monumental to catch them up to speed that I felt they wouldn't be able to wholly comprehend it. But this piece says it all so amazingly. I will finally be sending this to family and friends so they can finally see clearly and catch up. Thank you, Joshua, for waking the world up.
I apologize for the slow reply - writing these pieces takes a lot out of me, and sometimes I need a few days before I can revisit the comments and go back to that headspace.
I truly appreciate your kind words. I had the same frustration - where do you even begin with such a complex deception? That's what motivated me to try connecting all the dots in one place. Funnily enough, this started as what was supposed to be a 750-word piece :-)
If this helps bridge the reality gap for even a few people in your circle, that would mean a lot. Thanks for sharing it.
Exactly my sentiments!
I would like to send it to some folks I can think of. But I kind of gave up on all that. Pretty sure the ones who need it have no interest in having their illusions laid to rest. They wouldn't read it. But still. I am soooo grateful for this amazing summary, & if I ever see the slightest sign of curiosity in any of those dear to me who swallowed the narrative, it's so good to know this incredibly thorough, well-laid-out piece exists!
As we approach the fifth anniversary of the start of the Covid horror I've been keeping an eye out for an article that would bring together all its many themes into a comprehensive synopsis. I've wanted this so I could martial the data in my own mind, but more especially so I could present the evidence in a succinct form to any waverers from the official narrative who might be willing to look at it.
This is the article. Outstanding from beginning to end, written with contained passion and eloquence. Thank you Joshua Stylman!
Believe it or not, I could've written another 20k words with more examples. At some point, the depth and depravity of the deception becomes obvious to anyone willing to look.
Please do so, Joshua, and turn it into a book. Your extraordinary analysis is deserving of a much wider audience and expanding this into a book would be a gift to the world—now and for future generations.
May a joint authorship with Debbie Lerman who has written extensively on the Covid story.
I can well believe it!
Wow - excellent synopsis!!
This is an astonishing piece of work, Josh. I will pass it far and wide.
I agree with it all -- and heh, that rarely happens! :-)
So eloquent... so tragic. And we saw it all unfolding...
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This was one of the most comprehensive and accurate assessments of what happened during Covid and what must be done to turn things around, that I have ever read. I hope it is shared far and wide and that those who most need to read it, will. Thank you.
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Thank you, Joshua. This was a profound bringing together of all that happened since 2020. Just reading it reminded me that nothing has fundamentally changed. The mechanisms are still in place and functioning. The gullible masses are still prone to propaganda and "nudging". Like you, I was remorselessly persecuted on social media for daring to suggest the vaccine injured and dead was a new holocaust and that the persecution of an "infectious" minority was comparable to Germany in the 1930s.
The fracture of society in 2020 was horrifically clear to those of us awake to see. I've been feeling alienated ever since, a world gone mad around me. To hear people repeat mainstream narratives over and over is still disturbing, once you know. It's been such a well-orchestrated mind capture, it's almost beyond belief. But somehow, it's meant to be this way, a mass sorting process of those able to live in truth and those not.
I appreciate your thoughtful reflection, Navyo. The mechanisms indeed remain in place, just waiting for the next "crisis" to activate.
The alienation you describe is something I hear from so many - that sense of watching people around you repeating narratives that contradict what's right in front of them. It creates a profound disconnect that's hard to reconcile.
Whether it's a sorting process or just the natural consequence of reality engineering (you know I'm obsessed w this idea), those who maintained independent thinking have found themselves in a different perceptual world than their friends and family. That fracture may be the most lasting damage from this period.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It helps to know we're not alone in seeing what happened.
I have learned. I will never trust our government, the media or the healthcare industry again. Ever. In fact- now my eyes are opened and I will never feel the patriotism and pride of being an American ever again. That makes me saddened, quite frankly. But never again.
I think the same about not trusting media, healthcare and government but I think all of those mandates were and are un-American. The CV years have made me more American. You will see those who are still brain-washed sneer at shows of patriotism. The flag and National Anthem are offensive as they represent "oppression." The irony is rich. Let freedom reign!
Excellent!
This deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature. Truly the best, most comprehensive reality-based documentation of the last 5 years.
And to that end, I stand, clap, and shout as loudly as able: "Bravo, Bravo"
Haha, I don't know about winning any prizes but thanks for the props.
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Same 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Thanks for a great essay. We are in a state of constant Psy-ops staged by 1) globalists and 2) our govt.
Question everything!!!
This is one of the most comprehensive and well written pieces I've read, summing up the psychology behind the events of COVID and mandates, which prompted starkly disparate realities depending on one's point of view. The reality and point of view with true staying power is constantly emerging, with the carnage of countless thousands of deaths and destroyed lives providing damning testimony. Great wrongs were enacted upon the prudently non-compliant and those injured by the shots. When will the performative virtue crowd who enthusiastically discriminated against far better informed friends, family, neighbors and colleagues admit they were wrong, seek forgiveness and make restitution?
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I'm grateful it resonated with you. The divergent realities that emerged during COVID created what feels like an unbridgeable gulf between people who previously shared common understanding.
The question about forgiveness and restitution is central to any healing process. I suspect most will never acknowledge their role in enabling discrimination - the psychological cost of admitting such a profound moral failure is simply too high for many. Yet without that acknowledgment, I worry about how we move forward as a society. The machinery remains in place for the next manufactured crisis.
Without acknowledgement of the wrong committed and sincere efforts to make amends; especially the depraved willingness to gaslight the vaccine injured and deny the unvaccinated their human rights, I sincerely doubt there will be any "moving forward" as a civilized species.
About 6 months before COVID lockdowns hit I had a falling out with a friend because I refused to "play along" and sacrifice my integrity for a paycheck. He cancelled me for saying the following,
"When everyone is passive aggressive; manipulates and exploits; deceives and gaslights; trust is lost. Without trust, the social contract is irretrievably broken and civilization collapses".
Through the horrors of these past years, I have witnessed the truth in such words.
Your Covid times recap is hard to read, I don't see many people you describe in this recap doing any reflection or showing any curiosity about the events that happened most have just moved on. They formed their opinion early and don't want to hear any evidence to the contrary.
I know what you mean - it's a tough read because it reminds us of how little reflection has occurred. Most people have simply moved on to the next cause without examining their role in what happened.
I've lost relationships that will never recover. Some people are so deeply invested in the narrative they accepted that acknowledging any part of it was false would require dismantling their entire self-image.
That's what I meant by the fracturing of reality - we're not just disagreeing on facts anymore, but living in completely different perceptual worlds. It's a profound social rupture that I'm not sure can be healed.
Sadly, I agree with you on this. I am existing in a parallel reality in my own home. I am resigned to it remaining that way. Any mention of covid and the injections is strictly verboten.
“Once the stage has been set, people don't need to be actively deceived—they simply need to never see the information that contradicts their version of reality.”
This is a point that needs a reminder every day because it is still happening. It didn’t end with the plandemic.
Excellent overview and collection of all the data points regarding the last five years.
That is what happened, what we lived through, and how we suffered during the chaos of the last 5 years. Thank you so very much for such an eloquent and totally exact synopsis.
Now, what we have to do is apply the same playbook rules to Bird Flu. It's the same scenario but affecting food supply this time. Control the food and control the people. Don't fall for it. Get involved and write, call, email your representative and let them know that you know what they are doing. Don't let complacency take you down the same path as Civid did.
We all need to get to know our farmers and ranchers.
We most certainly do. Up here in Ontario I have started to buy my meat from a farmer who raises Black Angus grass fed beef cattle. You can see them out in their fields chowing down on the grass. The farm is immaculate and they have proper free range chickens as well.
Perfect
Thank you for writing this!
Fauci's creation of the virus in Wuhan and the mRNA death jab mandates were the worst crimes in human history. We need to keep those crimes FRONT AND CENTER at all times, no matter what, until justice is finally served:
https://patrick.net/post/1377537/2022-11-03-everyone-who-imposed-toxxine-mandates
Nothing else is nearly as important.
Thank you for this. It's the most comprehensive deconstruction of the Covid myth I have seen and it explains coherently why we must be on our guard against the next big psyop. I believe that's what Covid was, a gigantic psyop.
I appreciate your kind words. That's exactly what I was hoping to achieve - a comprehensive analysis that shows not just what happened, but how the machinery worked and why we must remain vigilant.
Joshua, your extraordinary analysis is deserving of a much wider audience and expanding this into a book would be a gift to the world—now and for future generations. Please consider it.
Wow, what a kind thing to say. I've been pitched on it a bunch lately - we'll see. For now, I'm just venting. Either way, thanks for the support.
This post is extremely enlightening and represents an important compendium/compilation of the macro-level sociological and psychological methods employed by globalist perpetrators of the entire COVID narrative/crime against humanity. I am grateful to the author for providing this work. There are a few assertions I disagree with such as: “The public was never told they were participating in what amounts to the largest medical experiment in human history.” If by "experiment", the author means that the overall goal/result was in doubt, I think that is false. One way in which it might be true that the public was participating in a medical experiment is that there may have been certain features being tested such as dose-response effects based on varying the type and concentration of multiple toxic and undisclosed substances. Health and wellness were clearly not the goal, however.
In retrospect the obvious intent of the COVID operation was depopulation and the creation of a global totalitarian order with absolute control of humanity (decades of white papers, practice events and public pronouncements by globalists advocated for much of what transpired, proving it was planned and not authentic/organic). Admittedly, COVID was a beginning step in a multi-pronged approach.
Another area in which I probably disagree with the author is with respect to the mRNA/spike protein issue. The entire mRNA/spike protein piece is likely a red herring meant to draw attention away from the actual toxic ingredient(s) since there are too many independent analyses done of vial contents which failed to disclose any mRNA or DNA (no nitrogen or phosphorus). The possibility of that occurring by chance alone seems vanishingly small. The implications are profound. If there was no mRNA or DNA present, there could be no spike protein produced, and all such claims are rendered false. Toxicity from GFN's seems increasingly like a better explanation for all the disease and deaths that have resulted (see Dr Pablo Campra's work for example, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355979001_DETECTION_OF_GRAPHENE_IN_COVID19_VACCINES). It cannot be accidental that it remains one topic that is almost completely censored from public discussion.
Thank you for this thoughtful response. I appreciate your kind words about the compilation of methods used in the operation.
Your points about the nature of the "experiment" are thought-provoking. You're right that many aspects suggest predetermined outcomes rather than genuine scientific inquiry. The decades of planning documents and simulations certainly point to something far more orchestrated than a spontaneous response.
Regarding the mRNA/graphene question, I've seen the analyses you mention. While my focus was on documenting the social manipulation machinery, the actual contents of the vials deserves scrutiny. I've been deep in study on nanoparticles and am becoming increasingly confident they play a role in our lives - whether in the jabs, geoengineering, food supply or elsewhere. The censorship around certain topics like graphene is indeed telling. When certain lines of inquiry become untouchable, it's a strong signal they warrant closer examination.
Scott Adams called it the Two Movies phenomenon. Even though he was on the wrong side of reality during the pandemic, what you have outlined is a vital understanding of the way the system worked. Reconciling it means dismantling its roots; funding streams, misused legal mechanisms, removing abusive people in power... but it also means finding an inner will, an inner backbone, the innate curiosity to understand what is real and what is not. People exist in a fog of their own choosing, drifting through the world as if they had no control over anything. The phrase "wake up" may have been over-used, and it almost cost me the relationship with my own brother, but it is a struggle to find a better analogy.
Sorry that you were duped, but glad that eloquent voices like yours are now shining light on these enormous issues. We often get tired of writing about it, and frustrated by not having more reach, so THANK YOU for putting your skills to the task.
Thank you so much for your work. This is a fantastic summary of what we have been through these past five years and continue to experience. We must never forget. I am printing out for our 22 year old daughter. I don't know if she will read it now, but she is open. I have also purchased many books that I hope she will read in the future by Dr. Peter McCullough, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Ed Dowd, Dr. Piere Kory etc. Books are so important as we know THEY will try to memory hole all the corruption that took place. Thank God our daughter didn't get the shot. I had her listen to ten minutes of testimony from vaccine injuried that was shared via video and audio from The Highwire. I also got to see the film Anedotal and meet the film maker when she visited Minnesota. This all is so heartbreaking. I recently read the book Forty Autmnn's by Nina Willner. A true story of a family's courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall. I highly recommend this page turner. I wish they would make it required reading for high school students. It gave me chills as I read and realized so much of what happened then was happening now but just at light speed now with social media, AI etc. Thank you again for documenting what we all have experienced. You are truly appreciated for your work. I am so sorry what you have been through. We now have a new appreciation for what our ancestors have experienced in the past. We must educate our children and the young so it doesn't happen again.
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing this with your daughter. I'm glad she avoided the shots, and I hope materials like this help her understand what happened when she's ready to process it all.
As for Anecdotals. I wasn't at the Minnesota event but know it was both heartbreaking and gratifying for Jennifer to connect with the community and see how the film was making a difference. Giving voice to the injured when everyone else was silencing them has been one of the most important things we could do.
The historical parallels you mention are chilling but important. Forty Autumns sounds like a powerful read that illustrates how quickly rights can disappear under authoritarian systems.
You're right that documentation matters - they're already trying to memory-hole much of what we witnessed firsthand. Books, films, and personal testimonies create a record that can't be easily erased.