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Thank you for this excellent book review, David Marks.

Unfortunately, only those of us who are aware of the brainwashing, mass hypnosis, and Stockholm Syndrome pathology which is rampant all around us will read this vitally important book. It seems to me the question that needs to be asked and answered is what can we do to prod the cult members to question their beliefs, to question the massive propaganda, to question the mass media which lie to them in perfect unison all around the world?

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People will not snap out until they are directly affected...it took the church banning someone I know from serving due to vaxx status that finally did the trick. For many who are still TRAPPED it will take something far worse IMO.

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For many nothing will do the trick. I know several people who suffered severe adverse reactions to the covid poison injections but refuse to believe their health crises had anything to do with the covid "vaccines." And I mean serious health crises, such as a youngish woman having had a hysterectomy as a result of massive uterine bleeding after having gotten vaxed. They're all still true believers. It's beyond sickening how stupid these people are.

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One of the scariest things about all this is something which Desmet makes clear, which is that it is *not* a matter of intelligence/lack of intelligence. I find this aspect hair-raising, terrifying ...

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Yes, I have that in my family. The most intelligent, gifted in math and science, and highly educated (three degrees, one in law) offspring, is dumb and stubborn as a mule as far as efficacy of masks and belief in the saving grace of the vaccines.

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per desmet, the effect that joining the tribe (here, the pro-vax tribe) has on one's otherwise-free-floating anxiety is almost unbelievably powerful.

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It is suggested that maybe 20-30% of the population actively rejects the illogic and the mania of a mass formation. Perhaps if enough members of that group could affiliate in some visible way the counter-narrative might carry some additional weight. There might also be a measure of safety in numbers.

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The only way would be use mass formation to do it.

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So many people say they value their freedom above all. And yet, when captured by mass formation, they willingly give up their freedom of independent thought.

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Interestingly, when Canetti published his Masse und Macht (Crowds and Power) in 1960, the world, and Europe in particular, ate it up in gratitude for people were still trying to understand what happened under the Nazi occupation.That was 15 years after the war. Today, we are still in the covid lockdown atmosphere, thought it is retrenching, it is still among us, and the main stream media are defending the indefensible and attacking Mattias Desmet. He is right on.

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It's ironic how many freedom-loving individuals, when captured in a mass formation, willingly give up their freedom of independent thought.

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Thank you David. I appreciate your review.

I posted it on facebook and it was removed quickly with this explanation "We encourage free expression, but don’t allow false information that results in reduced vaccinations and harms public health and safety."

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Are they really effective? A resounding YES. Ask any ICU doctor or nurse who is in their ICU and who is dying from virus. Overwhelmingly non-vaxed people is the answer you will get.

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Interesting explanation for what I realized was going on during the worst of the pandemic in our media and among my progressive friends.

There is no excuse for the dismal performance of our three-letter agencies in not disseminating the important information about the role of vitamin D3 in lessening severity and the effectiveness of repurposed drugs, especially given early, in reducing deaths and shortening disease duration. During a pandemic you do not wait for the results of randomized double blind placebo controlled studies (the gold standard in normal times), simply because they will take well over a year to complete and will cost $1 billion that no one is going to fund because the drug(s) is off-patent.

You go with the best data you have, which showed at least two extremely safe and inexpensive medications highly effective. Not cures, but effective. The role of the three letter agencies and our media in deriding these medications was despicable.

A couple of points of clarification on the article:

The vaccines ARE effective at preventing deaths and ICU admissions. They have also been shown to have a small effect to reduce transmission and the risk of long Covkd. Their risks, however, are not insignificant, and were not assessed in various age groups against the risk from the virus itself. To propose vaccinating minors, the group with the lowest risk from the virus and the highest risk from the vaccines was a very questionable recommendation.

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Are they really effective at preventing deaths and hospitalization though? Could the virus be evolving into a less deadly version of itself, as other respiratory viruses do, and the vaccine makers wish to take the credit for what would have happened anyway? Alex Berenson just reported in his sub stack vaccinated dominate in covid icu in the highly vaxxed state of Vermont. As for transmission, haven’t you noticed? The vaccinated are catching and spreading like crazy—Gibraltar was the First Nation in the world with a population 100% vaccinated and as soon as that happened they had a 40% rise in cases and even today cdc classes Gibraltar as level 3 covid risk….

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Evidence is emerging that the vaccines have "negative efficacy". In other words, the more jabs you've had the more susceptible you are to omicron infection and disease. Two critical processes are at work in people who have been vaccinated. First, "Original Antigenic Sin" operates to very quickly attack the invading virus with non-neutralizing antibodies induced by previous vaccination, essentially crowding out the innate immune system and not giving it a chance to develop a more robust response to the current variant (including its receptor binding domain). Second, the process of "Antibody Dependent Enhancement" operates to make the virus more infectious. When the non-neutralizing antibodies attack and coat the virus in the upper respiratory tract they change the shape of the spike protein such that its receptor binding domain becomes more accessible for docking with the ACE2 receptor.

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