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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Of all the MSM headlines and Twitter posts you included in this interesting article, the one that summed the whole debacle up for me was from WaPo: “China is on top of even the tiniest risks”. When we are no longer free to decide what personal risk we will take on any given matter, we have lost the battle for sovereignty and are now wards of the state.

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Call me cynical, China is not doing this for the sake of science or to save their citizens from risk or to be a good global role model. They are doing it to set up a mode of authoritarianism so the progressives in the West emulates them. They dont care about their own citizens as the death toll of 75 million murdered by their communist regime in the last 80 years shows. They know the majority of the citizens of the free West do not know how to effectively combat totalitarianism in their own governments. They know in general, most of us are not motivated, but are still consumed by luxury and easy living. This is purely a strategic tactic of waging war against us. We need to tell them, "we are not falling for it again."

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Everyone needs to just not comply. With any of it. ‘They’ can only do to us, what we let them.

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

In Australia, the left labelled anyone protesting extreme lockdown measures with the following slogans “ Freedumb” & “cookers” . Also the use of Nazi’s made another easy to throw slogan.

Watch them sympathise with the Chinese protesters. I continuously question the growth of the moronic brainless people whom the internet seems to have fried their brains. There is a concern that China’s lockdowns might have an element that is beyond what we think we know

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

9 out of 3711 on the Diamond Princess died, after a month locked on the ship, all of the deceased were over 70. That is 0.2% fatality.

That boat is the perfect reason not to lock down, the disease is very fatal. If those clowns want to hide in their palatial estates, please do so, just leave the rest of us alone.

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Promoting the policies of a hostile foreign nation led by a totalitarian dictator that if implemented would directly lead to economic, social & political instability, and that would have a huge negative impact on citizens' health, safety and quality of life is surely treason?

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And some are still advocating for us. Fauci just admitted he simply followed China!

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Nov 28, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Movement restrictions are hallmarks of Communist governments in particular. Internal passports were a key part of the USSR.

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

China doesn't care about its citizens. They are drones for the state. More likely about saving face. But also, the tentacles of the CCP have a very long reach indeed I think there's never any room for complacency where China is concerned. They are a threat to every western nation.

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The lockdown apologists are out of arguments and are now down to some flavor of this last one in regards to China: "But at least millions of people are still alive that otherwise wouldn't be".

And my response? "If you call that living."

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

You must be running out of storage space with all these receipts you keep having to save.

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Big fan of your book, Michael.

Thank you for holding our fanatical globalists and their corrupt media to account in this post. The more people beat this drum, the better in my opinion.

Re: "It’s possible that when we get to the bottom of this story, we’ll find that these elites had perfectly good reasons ...", surely you jest.

Re: "It’s an open question why the CCP remains so obsessively dedicated to this policy of Zero Covid", is the best theory not simply the fact that it is totalitarian technocracy, and as such it is behaving the way all totalitarian societies eventually would or will, if given the opportunity?

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

MAybe alot of these media types and pols in the west are getting bribes from the CCP

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Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

These are the same people who want to declare endless pandemics.

Your last paragraph is intriguing, as if you suspect something you're not saying.

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Nov 27, 2022·edited Nov 27, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

Michael, a very sobering essay, thank you. Not a single authority in the West that EMBRACED the CCP lockdowns have been taken to task for doing so. The BIG corporate/government cover-up! As you correctly pointed out:-

'This in sharp contrast to the countless professionals who lost their positions due to noncompliance with Covid mandates, or those—as I found out the hard way—who’ve been censored for the mere suggestion that we may need an inquiry into why all these elites suddenly felt it appropriate to advise their countries to adopt one of the CCP’s most ruthlessly totalitarian policies.'

There must be a reckoning for all of this!

Worth listening to this scoundrel again. This interview should be used in testimony AGAINST Fauci 🤮https://t.me/Jack_Posobiec/19637

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Nov 29, 2022Liked by Michael P Senger

We can agree government has a role in public health, while disagreeing over the degree. But when government proposes a public health measure and the public responds "No thanks," that should be the end of it.

If a virus comes along that is truly lethal, accurate reporting will frighten people into isolation, no mandatory lockdowns necessary. They tried to frighten us into compliance (with inaccurate reporting), but failed, and were surprised at the resistance against the mandates. I think the authorities thought it would be easier, but it was apparent early on to everyone who was actually paying attention that COVID wasn't any more threatening than the seasonal flu.

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