“We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God’s Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon …”
Ok, let’s take this from the realm of reading and accenting to doing. Let’s not look from afar with longing to MAA’s karass. After all 12k people is not an insignificant number. This conception by Vonnegut is analogous to an idea that I’ve been writing about for some time. I call it a network of relationships. It is a place of engagement. A place for problem solving, for information sharing, and the restoration of the institutional structure of society. I am suggesting that we each create our own network of relationships. If you gather five people of like mindedness to be your karass then we will see a network of networks begin to grow.
As I read your post, MAA the image that came to mind was a map of these networks. I travel a lot. Just back from seeing some family in Virginia. How great it would be to know that every town, every county, there is someone to stop, have a cup of coffee, and share support for the change process that we are in. A year ago I started a project called the Global Impact Network. I did it because I had friends worldwide who as leaders in their communities were isolated, feeling alone. I suspect many of you feel the same way. If you need help establishing yourself own karass, your own network of relationships for support. Reach out to me and we’ll talk. This is our future. No time to waste.
Thank you, Ed, and what a beautiful idea to build a map that would enable kindreds to connect in person all over the world! I know that is part of the idea behind the Freedom Cell Network.
I love the idea of your Global Impact Network and your Circle of Impact philosophy, so please continue to keep us posted as the network evolves. I also realize people would want to make sure their contact info is carefully guarded as thoughtcrime becomes increasingly dangerous, so that’s a consideration to factor in as well.
This is a wonderful idea! I certainly need this kindred connection. I am completely alone in this. My husband, family and friends refuse to see and understand what is taking place. I have not been able to wake anyone up.
I decided that taking an experimental product was not wise as I was beginning to wake up before 2020, but didn’t have all the puzzle pieces.
I was pressured to take the shots but I could not believe how I was treated when I said “no”. We should have stopped the discussion at “experimental” as a solid reason not to comply, but those who want to believe the narrative were vicious and their attack unimaginable. I had not expected the behaviour of those I loved and believed had my back. Apart from my children having been convinced to comply the loss of every meaningful relationship has been the most difficult part of this insanity.
Love your idea and would be grateful to be part of this community.
I do know that we all need community. And since I learned something about the Scots when they had their armies.... they would break into groups of 5 warriors Small Versatile a handful
of Men that were responsible to and for each other.
Small groups Kick ass form your own Karass ......Global Impact Network
I think we all feel felt isolated and powerless.....yet since here I am feeling more connected
empowered bc of so many like minds expressing the same heart felt angst of these last 2 plus years and our takes on whats happening is varied but we all get to write, share, learn.
As regards your theme - our fellow travellers' joined in spiritual strength - I am pleased to say that I have no vaxxed friends in my family or my long-standing friends and relationships and thus can't comment on how this must feel to lose such valuable links.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ, an innocent man, was on trial for his life. Evil men were plotting to destroy him because he spoke the truth. To all outward appearances, it seemed that evil had triumphed.
However, the night before his execution, Jesus told his disciples: “I have conquered the world.” (John 16:33) What did he mean? In part, that the evil in the world had neither embittered him nor made him retaliate in like manner. The world had not squeezed him into an evil mould. (Romans 12:2,) Even when dying, he prayed on behalf of his executioners: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34.)
The early Christians knew how to resist the Roman oppression and here we have the template to resist in our day too. The bullying elites 'appear to be strong but like all bullies, when finally confronted by honesty and truth, they run away as illustrated by the WEF handmaiden, Matt Hancock: https://expose-news.com/2022/07/18/matt-hancock-runs-and-hides-when-confronted/
Excellent example of an underground resistance, Peter, and I feel strongly that the philanthropaths and tyrants have made an egregious tactical error in making their fascism so overt and trying to reset the world so forcefully in such a short period of time. They have awakened a sleeping giant in the masses, and they miscalculated the number of people they would be able to keep in a state of hypnosis. The harder they crack down, the stronger our forces grow.
May your mailing list quickly grow to 12 million! May the "avalanches of evidence" sweep over the skulls of the comatose jabbed and wake them up. It's time for a worldwide awakening (not just USA) to end the obvious pandemic hoax.
Good suggestions re #StopTheShot and "philanthropath". Such guerrilla-style tactics, concise and pithy, can have a great effect. "#StoptheShot: Pull the shot off the market” should be everywhere one looks. Cut off the head of the snake. As Dr. Peter McCullough has said, the gene-based covid "vaccines" should have been pulled off the market by the end of January 2021 when their horrendous effects had become obvious to the victims and the authorities.
Another worthy community-building effort is The Flame, the free, truth-telling newspaper about the covid plandemic and related matters. It's an old-fashioned, physical newspaper, also available online (https://theflameusa.com). The Flame is similar in scope and outlook to other grassroots, people-funded newspapers: the UK paper The Light (https://thelightpaper.co.uk), its sister publication The Irish Light (https://irishlightpaper.com), and Canada's newspaper Druthers (https://druthers.net), all of which have helped spread awareness about what's going on.
Thank you for those links—they look very informative! I notice The Irish Light is edited by Gemma O’Doherty, whose bold investigative journalism I greatly respect. I shared a video by her in this piece:
I will share this little tidbit from my life. We live in a neighborhood with other snowbirds. We bought in the same community as Hub's brother and sister. When we are down there for the winter, it is a great time with snowbird Michigan family. We are half Idaho/half Florida residents now. Hubs sister is a militant product of the system, even after pulling through a harrowing cancer recovery. She did not go out for a year due to the fear. We were together in 2021 and there was organizational duties being laid out for an annual community yard sale. We were sitting in her living room talking about the conversation she had with the board, who asked her to work out at a front table. She let them know, in no uncertain terms, that she would not work out front where she could come into contact with "the un-vaccinated". It was said with such hate that I was totally taken aback. I looked at Hubs with big eyes over her head in an "Oh shit" moment. If she only knew she had one right in her living room and she lived...but she never will. There are just some things that are not worth talking about when minds will never be changed. It is not worth burning this bridge. Someday she may need us and who we are and what we stand for, but that day is not today.
Wow, SadieJay, that is quite a powerful example. And how painfully sad to see how her morality has been contorted by fear and divisive rhetoric. It’s like being a Jew in the presence of a Nazi spouting off about the Jews and needing to preserve the misconception that you’re not one for your own survival.
Yes. If we want to have peace, it is all about the tip-toe. There will be a time when we cannot and will not be silent with that side of the family, but, just for that Florida time every year, in our new semi-retired state...it is all pretend. Not easy, as I am no shrinking violet, but hubs works hard and he has asked this of me, so I do it. In real life, here in the wild west...we have got this and nobody questions my identity. Interesting what one hears when the mouth is kept shut. If people have substance, they are certainly keeping it hidden well.
Also, there is something that I wanted to tell you, Margaret. I am not sure if you already know it. There are people who argue that if the mRNA vaccines would have been introduced to depopulate the world, they would be administered in all countries while in reality, in many countries these vaccines are not administered.
However, since I know people from different countries in South America, I know that at least in 2 countries, Peru and Ecuador (probably this happens in more countries there), they received two Sinopharm vaccines.... and thereafter they received a booster with an mRNA vaccine... So this shows these mRNA vaccines are probably given to many more countries and people than many had previously expected.
Interesting info, Max, and it is certainly a complex web to untangle. Although the mRNA injections pose the greatest threat, the J&J shots have still resulted in extraordinary numbers of strokes, blood clots, injuries, and deaths, and Novavax brings its own set of problems as well.
As Tess Lawrie has attested, Western nations like the US and UK are completely captured by the vaccine industry, so it makes sense that they would have the highest uptake. African nations are more leery of the WHO/GAVI/Gates interventions after their long history of being subjected to sterilizing and disabling injections, and many of their leaders resisted pressures to follow the maniacal COVID policies (and subsequently paid with their lives, tragically: https://www.bitchute.com/video/xBbYH8tADV2l/). African and South American nations were also more likely to use ivermectin, and they knew it to be highly efficacious in treating COVID and thus didn’t fall for the vaxx scam, although they are still being pressured to succumb.
''You may think that anyone so inclined can continue to refuse vaccines (even if it means they lose their job as a result of mandates) well think again.
Biotechnology research has ranged into exotic territory designed to control your life without you even realizing what is going on.
For two decades scientists have been sporadically doing research to create new highly contagious diseases containing vaccines which covertly inoculate whole populations without them even getting near a needle.''
In other words, vectors other than vaccines may be at work ... centrally controlled food and the water supply comes to mind ... and possibly contrails. I suspect the dark-triad personality types trying to run this show are at least a step or two ahead of most of us. But I'm just stubborn enough to believe that won't keep keep us from the trenches of the forever-war of mankind against its own worst nature.
Yes, I have heard about them experimenting with self-spreading vaccines, and that Mephistophelian Pandora’s box is astonishingly irresponsible and such a grave violation of informed consent, it *must* be quashed before it escapes the lab. My hope is that the-powers-that-shouldn’t-be would be prudent enough not to release it because they know how dangerous these bioweapons are and wouldn’t be able to control the targets of such technology, thus they and their families would be potential victims as well.
Margaret, the problem is that they are brainwashed. They do not think they would be at risk or victims. They would think "this is science and we have to follow the science." This is my impression. There are so many zombie-like hypnotized politicians nowadays who seem to have lost their critical mind completely.
They will be told these new vaccines can help to save all lives and so they will not say anything against them. Nobody of these politicians wants to be an "anti vaxxer" ,especially not in a pandemic, when a self spreading vaccine "may help to save so many lives..."
Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve.
Thank you Steven Martin, although I wish you would have good news instead of bad news.
I already heard that vaccines are in development which may spread automatically to all people. You just need to vaccinate 5% of the population and then these vaccines will spread like a virus to other people. There is no ethics anymore.
People are slowly waking up. It's my belief that at some point, this will reach a critical mass and the awakening will become exponential.
One of the first orders of business will have to be to shut down these bioweapons labs. If we don't, in ten years they'll have unimaginable power.
To those who say we just have to plant gardens and opt-out, that's a starting idea but the current system really has to be dismantled. We can't let those who now have power keep it while we supposedly go our separate ways.
Re: the labs - It seems the Russians have the ability to do this, and they have made a good start. But there are a lot of other jurisdictions housing these labs, and they are not well known.
Those doing Gain of Function deserve the products they create being administered to their own bodies. In slowly increasing doses. We'll call it 'efficacy research'.
Hi Max. I didn't receive an e-mail notification of your comment, and just now found it. Maybe a wonky substack connection?
Yeah, I've struggled with that question of ethics, and triangulating between my experience in Japan, patterns in world history, and what I am getting from biology and the social sciences ... I am wondering if we can even expect ethical behavior as the default of any population beyond Dunbar's number. The idealist in me wants to believe that we all have the potential to become morally autonomous and altruistic, but I suspect that will only be true within the empathetic constraints of a family or small community. I am reminded of the lyrics to that ballad popularized by Three Dog Night, 'Easy to be Hard'.
I really don't have an answer to your question other than to fall, if need be, on our feet and in defiance of the dark-triads cannibalizing us ... if nothing else, in defense of those who can not defend themselves. Rather that than grovel before Mammon. We just have to learn to fight 'smarter', not 'harder' ... and Margaret's contribution to the fight is as good as any I've seen. Hang in there buddy. Nobody gets out of this room alive. ;-)
Yes, you are right about all this. I just don´t agree with "didn´t fall for the vaxx scam", I think I almost do not know anyone in South America who did not receive the vaccines... For example, I asked a friend from Paraguay if she knows any blogs or news pages which report in a negative way about covid vaccines... Her answer was no. She never heard about something like this. So many or most journalists in these countries are completely pro vax and would never allow any doubts about these vaccines. This is only my perspective. I would be extremely happy if someone could correct me.
You’re right in that many South American citizens have been surprisingly compliant, *but* there is a powerful underground resistance there, especially in Uruguay. I describe my connection with the brilliant writers who produce “eXtramuros Magazine” (https://extramurosrevista.com/), which has published Spanish translations of my work, in this guest piece by Fernando Andacht:
I would consider the possibility we STILL don't know the true purpose of the injections. It appears population reduction may be one goal, but that may also be one of several purposes. Now that reverse transcription has been demonstrated, there may be economic goals, property rights goals. If someone's DNA is no longer what is considered fully human, can they be put to death without committing murder? Is the person with the new DNA now considered the property of the company that owns the patent on the sequence?
I see this as a pivotal point in the human history and in the evolution of the human race. Nothing will ever be the same after this. The vaccine was a tool of the totalitarian’s mass psychosis machine. This tool was not designed or meant to kill. They didn’t want or expect to kill the same people they wished to control. They wanted control. This was a global power grab that has gone terribly wrong. The result will be the removal of a large percentage of the human brains on the planet that are susceptible to control by mass psychosis. Those who are left (the Pure Bloods) will build a new world when all this plays out. I write about this here in my SubStack newsletter: Repairing our Moral Compass and Saving our World https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/repairing-our-moral-compass-and-saving?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios
It is my hope that in 500 years this time is remembered and a pledge is made each day to never let it happen again.
I agree this is a pivotal point in history, and I do feel their attempt at a Great Reset has ignited a Great Awakening that will ultimately defeat them and change the course of our future for the better.
I disagree about the intent to kill, however. Nearly all totalitarian regimes have deployed genocide as part of their strategy as it is easier to control smaller numbers of people and it instills fear in the remaining citizens.
They have been announcing their depopulation plans for decades, so it’s not like they’re trying to hide it:
To the radical departure from established public health policies and the enactment of those *known* to cause severe harm, deaths, economic destruction, poverty, famine, and social fragmentation:
*EVERY* single policy they have unfurled has maimed, murdered, or both. And they 100% know it and thus are responsible for committing crimes against humanity.
You don’t kill all the people you want to control and leave the people who will hunt you down left alive. What I am saying is that the plan was not to kill. It was to control. Once it began it could not be stopped. They had no idea the vaccine was this deadly. Did they expect casualties? Sure. But they did not expect mass casualties. The tool of the vaccine was employed to create safety from the fear they created with the virus. Mass psychosis creates fear then safety. They then modulate less fear - less safety with more fear and more safety. This creates the brainwashed control that would have lead to vaccine passports and complete control of the population. All of which was their goal. The ends justified the means - and there were many who unwittingly became part of the killing machine for what they believed were good reasons. And there were many who quickly realized that they were part of something deeply wrong but decided their paychecks were more important than human lives. There are thousands of people around the world who aided the killing machine. They all must be prosecuted and punished. This will happen via the law or via the mob. In this post, I attempt to list everyone responsible for the coming genocide. “Will there be room in Argentina for all the Vaccine Genocide Criminals?”https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/will-there-be-room-in-argentina-for?r=gjogf&utm_medium=iOS And when the vaccinated finally realize what has been done to them? Mass Hysteria as I explain in this post: https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/count-down-to-the-mass-hysteria-of?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios
Thank you, CJ, and I am largely here because of you! Knowing a writer of your caliber and integrity was using this platform gave me confidence in its quality and commitment to free speech. Your barbaric yawp has long been an inspiration to me, hence my featuring you in my second essay (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it).
A beautiful missive to read first thing in the morning. I haven’t yet delved into all the links but I will at a more leisurely pace. Needless to say I understood the analogy, and perhaps only because I had to fight the good fight privately and personally - and won. I will share a little more on that in a later post. So glad to be part of the karass.
What a lovely note, Betty, and congratulations on winning the good fight! Looking forward to hearing more when you’re ready and so grateful you’re part of the karass, too 🤗
My opinion took only a couple of seconds to write ... but hoping you get the audience you deserve, I forwarded your post to my F.book homepage, and about a dozen private groups.
Congratulations on reaching 12,000 readers. You deserve it. The movement needs them. I loved this essay. Thank you for sharing London Grammar. I haven't heard any new music in a while. This touched me.
Aww, thank you, Amking! I have libertate to thank for introducing me to both London Grammar and that song specifically, which I found hauntingly lovely and powerful.
Well I knew I would need another cup of coffee for a MAA post.
Beautiful and the Vonnegut references are perfect. Couldn't agree more - though I still sometimes feel compelled to argue (usually pointless) with the normies.
Yes time to focus on the waxing wampeter and create a new world. Just lovely. Thank you much and congrats on the 12 thousand plus!! I expect that will continue to climb, as it should, given the quality of your though-provoking, always insightful, heart-warming work, deserves.
Haha, thank you, Kathleen, and so glad you enjoyed it! Your articles complemented it well :-)
And please do continue arguing with the normies—Mattias Desmet says it is important to continually challenge their ridiculous beliefs as exposure to rationality, logic, and truth eventually wears away the illusion. I just meant I wouldn’t be wasting so much time doing so on a one-by-one basis, but all of my articles can ultimately be wielded for that purpose en masse.
Margaret, thank you for the fantastic article! You are a genius mind.
Although this may be a bit off topic, here are some data that I want everyone to know.
-A new analysis, published some days ago, of a study from Brazil with 220.000 participants shows that regular Ivermectin prophylaxis reduces covid hospitalizations by 100% and mortality by 90%.
Title:
"Regular use of ivermectin as prophylaxis for COVID-19 led up to 92% reduction in COVID-19 mortality rate in a dose-response manner: results of a prospective observational study of a strictly controlled population of 88,012 subjects among 223,128 participants"
-On the other hand, new analyses show that higher vaccination rates are associated with higher covid hospitalization rates. For example, see the article from bad cattitude substack.
"higher vaccine rates associated with greater rise in hospitalization"
-Joel Smalley reported about Scotland. What we do we see there? Much higher rates of covid hospitalizations following mass vaccination and especially following boosters. Also, in summer 2020 and 2021 there were almost no hospitalizations in Scotland. Now that most vulnerable people are boosted, there is a massive increase of hospitalizations in summer. Antigenic fixation. People like Dr. Yeadon had warned about it. We knew this would happen.
-See Alex Berenson Substack. The official data from Manitoba, Canada show that vaccinated people have a higher covid mortality than unvaccinated people. This data is age standardized and per 100.000 person years. So it is adjusted data. Triple vaccinated had the same mortality rate as unvaccinated. With time, I fear, their mortality risk will increase, too.
-See Igor Chubov Substack. An analysis from Hungary shows that the counties with the highest vaccination rates have a three times higher birth rate drop than the counties with the lowest vaccination rates. We do not know if this is temporary or permanent. If it is permanent, it would actually indicate the vaccines may have sterilized millions of people worldwide.
So we have more and more data showing that vaccination is associated with higher hospitalization rates and they may cause infertility and so many other problems. On the other hand, regular IVM reduces hospitalization by 100% according to this study.
So I wonder how massively hypnotized some people must be if they still do not wake up now.
I am familiar with that powerfully compelling research and have shared it as an example of IVM’s preventative efficacy before, but I do appreciate your reminding me because it is a good reference to keep handy.
I can not add a link right now but I can tell you how to find it. Go to the page Researchgate and search for:
"Regular use of ivermectin as prophylaxis for COVID-19 led up to 92% reduction in COVID-19 mortality rate in a dose-response manner: results of a prospective observational study of a strictly controlled population of 88,012 subjects among 223,128 participants"
Background: We have previously demonstrated that ivermectin used as prophylaxis for COVID-19, irrespective of the regularity or the level of monitoring, in a strictly controlled city-wide program in Southern Brazil (Itajaí, SC, Brazil), was associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates. In this study, our objective was to determine if the regular use of ivermectin showed an impact on the level of protection from COVID-19 and related outcomes, reinforcing the efficacy of ivermectin through the demonstration of a dose-response effect. Materials and methods: This exploratory analysis of a prospective observational study involved a program that used ivermectin at a dose of 0.2mg/kg/day for two consecutive days, every 15 days. Data was gathered over a 150-day period. Regularity definitions were as follows: regular users had 180mg or more of ivermectin; irregular users had up to 60mg, in total, throughout the period of the program. Comparisons were made between non-users (subjects who did not use ivermectin), regular and irregular users from the city of Itajaí after multivariate adjustments. The full city database was used to calculate and compare COVID-19 infection and risk of dying from COVID-19. The COVID-19 database was used, propensity score matching (PSM) was evened for intervals of age and comorbidities for hospitalization and mortality rates, and then adjusted for remaining variables (doubly adjusted). Risk of dying from COVID-19 was determined by the number of COVID-19 deaths in a certain population exposed to COVID-19. Results: Among 223,128 subjects analyzed from the city of Itajaí, 159,560 had 18 years old or up and were not infected by COVID-19 until July 7, 2020, from which 45,716 (28.7%) did not use and 113,844 (71.3%) used ivermectin. Among ivermectin users, 33,971 (29.8% of users) used irregularly (up to 60mg) and 8,325 (7.3%) used regularly (more than 180mg). The remaining 71,548 participants (62.9%) used intermediate dioses (between 60mg and 180mg) and were not included for analysis. A total of COVID-19 infection rate was 49% lower for regular users (3.40% rate) than non-users (6.64% rate) [risk rate (RR), 0.51; 95% confidence interval (95%CI), 0.45–0.58; p<0.0001], and 25% lower than irregular users (4.54% rate) (RR, 0.75; 95%CI, 0.66–0.85; p<0.0001]. The infection rate was 32% lower for irregular users than non-users (RR, 0.68; 95%CI, 0.64–0.73; p<0.0001). Among COVID-19 participants, regular users were older and had higher a prevalence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension than irregular and non-users. After PSM, the matched analysis contained 283 subjects in each group of non-users and regular users, and between regular users and irregular users, and 1,542 subjects between non-users and irregular users. Hospitalization rate was reduced by 100% in regular users compared to both irregular users and non-users (p<0.0001 for both), and by 29% among irregular users compared to non-users (RR, 0.781; 95%CI, 0.49–1.05; p=0.099). Mortality rate was 92% lower in regular users than non-users (RR, 0.08; 95%CI, 0.02–0.35; p=0.0008) and 84% lower than irregular users (RR, 0.16; 95%CI, 0.04–0.71; p=0.016), while irregular users had a 37% lower mortality rate reduction than non-users (RR, 06.7; 95%CI, 0.40–0.99; p=0.049). Risk of dying from COVID-19 was 86% lower among regular users than non-users (RR, 0.14; 95%CI, 0.03–0.57; p=0.006), and 72% lower than irregular users (RR, 0.28; 95%CI, 0.07–1.18; p=0.083), while irregular users had a 51% reduction compared to non-users (RR, 0.49; 95%CI, 0.32–0.76; p=0.001). Conclusion: Non-use of ivermectin was associated with a 12.5-fold increase in mortality rate and seven-fold increased risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to the regular use of ivermectin in a PSM comparison of a strictly controlled population. This dose-response efficacy reinforces the prophylactic effects of ivermectin against COVID-19. NOTE: This is the new version of the manuscript that analyzed the efficacy of ivermectin according to the regularity of its use
Great question, Joel, and I am honestly so focused on writing and cultivating this Substack, I have no time left to accomplish tasks in physical reality :-) But I do love the work John Bush and Derrick Broze are doing and am looking forward to joining the Freedom Cells network once they finish the site revamp.
Thank you for alerting me to your Telegram channel! I have marked it, but please don’t take it personally if I don’t join—I have a policy of not following anyone on any social media, not because I don’t want to (I have long wanted to join the Mike Yeadon/Robin Monotti/Cory Morningstar Telegram channel) but because I have to guard my time and energy zealously and don’t want to risk being distracted by social media feeds.
I also find Telegram perplexing to navigate 😆 Maybe that’s the Luddite in me, or maybe it’s because I prefer using my computer and it’s really designed for use on the phone.
In any case, I’m sure other readers will find it valuable and would love to join it!
"I am honestly so focused on writing and cultivating this Substack, I have no time left to accomplish tasks in physical reality :-)"
You are very much affecting physical reality in that all of us readers are very much embodied.😊 Agree social media is a time-suck, keep doing what you're doing - the new world emerging needs you.
Thank you as always. I look forward to digging into the links. Also, I really enjoyed this article, "Buckle Up, Buttercup" that reminds us that "...we must not treat these tidbits as (supposed) information that are meant to raise our ire, we must instead classify them as mere data points. It’s pretty hard to get all worked up about a single point of data, wouldn’t you say?"
Excellent as always.
Ok, let’s take this from the realm of reading and accenting to doing. Let’s not look from afar with longing to MAA’s karass. After all 12k people is not an insignificant number. This conception by Vonnegut is analogous to an idea that I’ve been writing about for some time. I call it a network of relationships. It is a place of engagement. A place for problem solving, for information sharing, and the restoration of the institutional structure of society. I am suggesting that we each create our own network of relationships. If you gather five people of like mindedness to be your karass then we will see a network of networks begin to grow.
As I read your post, MAA the image that came to mind was a map of these networks. I travel a lot. Just back from seeing some family in Virginia. How great it would be to know that every town, every county, there is someone to stop, have a cup of coffee, and share support for the change process that we are in. A year ago I started a project called the Global Impact Network. I did it because I had friends worldwide who as leaders in their communities were isolated, feeling alone. I suspect many of you feel the same way. If you need help establishing yourself own karass, your own network of relationships for support. Reach out to me and we’ll talk. This is our future. No time to waste.
Thank you, Ed, and what a beautiful idea to build a map that would enable kindreds to connect in person all over the world! I know that is part of the idea behind the Freedom Cell Network.
I love the idea of your Global Impact Network and your Circle of Impact philosophy, so please continue to keep us posted as the network evolves. I also realize people would want to make sure their contact info is carefully guarded as thoughtcrime becomes increasingly dangerous, so that’s a consideration to factor in as well.
I've posted two columns on Networks of Relationships.
Creating a Network of Relationships
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/creating-a-network-of-relationships
The Mechanics of Networks of Relationships
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/the-mechanics-of-a-network-of-relationships
Who Do You Want To Join Your Network of Relationships?
A person of impact that's who.
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/who-do-you-want-in-your-network-of?sd=pf
Thanks, MAA.
Contact me at edbrenegar@proton.me.
Will do—feel free to edit this if you don’t want your email floating out there, though.
I’ll post the link to your contact form if others want to reach out:
https://edbrenegar.com/global-impact-network-2/
Sure. That works too.
There is no grand plan here. Except to address the needs of people as they show themselves.
Hello Ed,
This is a wonderful idea! I certainly need this kindred connection. I am completely alone in this. My husband, family and friends refuse to see and understand what is taking place. I have not been able to wake anyone up.
I decided that taking an experimental product was not wise as I was beginning to wake up before 2020, but didn’t have all the puzzle pieces.
I was pressured to take the shots but I could not believe how I was treated when I said “no”. We should have stopped the discussion at “experimental” as a solid reason not to comply, but those who want to believe the narrative were vicious and their attack unimaginable. I had not expected the behaviour of those I loved and believed had my back. Apart from my children having been convinced to comply the loss of every meaningful relationship has been the most difficult part of this insanity.
Love your idea and would be grateful to be part of this community.
I've posted two columns on Networks of Relationships.
Creating a Network of Relationships
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/creating-a-network-of-relationships
The Mechanics of Networks of Relationships
https://edbrenegar.substack.com/p/the-mechanics-of-a-network-of-relationships
cool idea
Ed I want to follow up with You ....when I have some time. duffmcandie@yahoo.com
I do know that we all need community. And since I learned something about the Scots when they had their armies.... they would break into groups of 5 warriors Small Versatile a handful
of Men that were responsible to and for each other.
Small groups Kick ass form your own Karass ......Global Impact Network
I think we all feel felt isolated and powerless.....yet since here I am feeling more connected
empowered bc of so many like minds expressing the same heart felt angst of these last 2 plus years and our takes on whats happening is varied but we all get to write, share, learn.
Great essay Margaret, thank you for reinforcing our mission and congrats on your wonderful achievement. I am also pleased to have surpassed 3,000 readers of my books on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020
As regards your theme - our fellow travellers' joined in spiritual strength - I am pleased to say that I have no vaxxed friends in my family or my long-standing friends and relationships and thus can't comment on how this must feel to lose such valuable links.
Two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ, an innocent man, was on trial for his life. Evil men were plotting to destroy him because he spoke the truth. To all outward appearances, it seemed that evil had triumphed.
However, the night before his execution, Jesus told his disciples: “I have conquered the world.” (John 16:33) What did he mean? In part, that the evil in the world had neither embittered him nor made him retaliate in like manner. The world had not squeezed him into an evil mould. (Romans 12:2,) Even when dying, he prayed on behalf of his executioners: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” (Luke 23:34.)
The early Christians knew how to resist the Roman oppression and here we have the template to resist in our day too. The bullying elites 'appear to be strong but like all bullies, when finally confronted by honesty and truth, they run away as illustrated by the WEF handmaiden, Matt Hancock: https://expose-news.com/2022/07/18/matt-hancock-runs-and-hides-when-confronted/
"Once more into the breach dear friends......."
Excellent example of an underground resistance, Peter, and I feel strongly that the philanthropaths and tyrants have made an egregious tactical error in making their fascism so overt and trying to reset the world so forcefully in such a short period of time. They have awakened a sleeping giant in the masses, and they miscalculated the number of people they would be able to keep in a state of hypnosis. The harder they crack down, the stronger our forces grow.
Bravo to that Margaret - upward and onward!
May your mailing list quickly grow to 12 million! May the "avalanches of evidence" sweep over the skulls of the comatose jabbed and wake them up. It's time for a worldwide awakening (not just USA) to end the obvious pandemic hoax.
Good suggestions re #StopTheShot and "philanthropath". Such guerrilla-style tactics, concise and pithy, can have a great effect. "#StoptheShot: Pull the shot off the market” should be everywhere one looks. Cut off the head of the snake. As Dr. Peter McCullough has said, the gene-based covid "vaccines" should have been pulled off the market by the end of January 2021 when their horrendous effects had become obvious to the victims and the authorities.
Another worthy community-building effort is The Flame, the free, truth-telling newspaper about the covid plandemic and related matters. It's an old-fashioned, physical newspaper, also available online (https://theflameusa.com). The Flame is similar in scope and outlook to other grassroots, people-funded newspapers: the UK paper The Light (https://thelightpaper.co.uk), its sister publication The Irish Light (https://irishlightpaper.com), and Canada's newspaper Druthers (https://druthers.net), all of which have helped spread awareness about what's going on.
Aww, thank you, Vibrant Vaxxer, and amen!
Thank you for those links—they look very informative! I notice The Irish Light is edited by Gemma O’Doherty, whose bold investigative journalism I greatly respect. I shared a video by her in this piece:
• “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier)
I belong to Ohio Freedom Fighters. They give us stacks of The Flame to distribute. A great publication.
I will share this little tidbit from my life. We live in a neighborhood with other snowbirds. We bought in the same community as Hub's brother and sister. When we are down there for the winter, it is a great time with snowbird Michigan family. We are half Idaho/half Florida residents now. Hubs sister is a militant product of the system, even after pulling through a harrowing cancer recovery. She did not go out for a year due to the fear. We were together in 2021 and there was organizational duties being laid out for an annual community yard sale. We were sitting in her living room talking about the conversation she had with the board, who asked her to work out at a front table. She let them know, in no uncertain terms, that she would not work out front where she could come into contact with "the un-vaccinated". It was said with such hate that I was totally taken aback. I looked at Hubs with big eyes over her head in an "Oh shit" moment. If she only knew she had one right in her living room and she lived...but she never will. There are just some things that are not worth talking about when minds will never be changed. It is not worth burning this bridge. Someday she may need us and who we are and what we stand for, but that day is not today.
Wow, SadieJay, that is quite a powerful example. And how painfully sad to see how her morality has been contorted by fear and divisive rhetoric. It’s like being a Jew in the presence of a Nazi spouting off about the Jews and needing to preserve the misconception that you’re not one for your own survival.
Yes. If we want to have peace, it is all about the tip-toe. There will be a time when we cannot and will not be silent with that side of the family, but, just for that Florida time every year, in our new semi-retired state...it is all pretend. Not easy, as I am no shrinking violet, but hubs works hard and he has asked this of me, so I do it. In real life, here in the wild west...we have got this and nobody questions my identity. Interesting what one hears when the mouth is kept shut. If people have substance, they are certainly keeping it hidden well.
Also, there is something that I wanted to tell you, Margaret. I am not sure if you already know it. There are people who argue that if the mRNA vaccines would have been introduced to depopulate the world, they would be administered in all countries while in reality, in many countries these vaccines are not administered.
However, since I know people from different countries in South America, I know that at least in 2 countries, Peru and Ecuador (probably this happens in more countries there), they received two Sinopharm vaccines.... and thereafter they received a booster with an mRNA vaccine... So this shows these mRNA vaccines are probably given to many more countries and people than many had previously expected.
Interesting info, Max, and it is certainly a complex web to untangle. Although the mRNA injections pose the greatest threat, the J&J shots have still resulted in extraordinary numbers of strokes, blood clots, injuries, and deaths, and Novavax brings its own set of problems as well.
As Tess Lawrie has attested, Western nations like the US and UK are completely captured by the vaccine industry, so it makes sense that they would have the highest uptake. African nations are more leery of the WHO/GAVI/Gates interventions after their long history of being subjected to sterilizing and disabling injections, and many of their leaders resisted pressures to follow the maniacal COVID policies (and subsequently paid with their lives, tragically: https://www.bitchute.com/video/xBbYH8tADV2l/). African and South American nations were also more likely to use ivermectin, and they knew it to be highly efficacious in treating COVID and thus didn’t fall for the vaxx scam, although they are still being pressured to succumb.
Potentially bad news here, Max and Margaret.
https://preview.mailerlite.com/t7e3s2y3b7/1996197940527372476/i4d3/
In a nutshell, the following quote ...
''You may think that anyone so inclined can continue to refuse vaccines (even if it means they lose their job as a result of mandates) well think again.
Biotechnology research has ranged into exotic territory designed to control your life without you even realizing what is going on.
For two decades scientists have been sporadically doing research to create new highly contagious diseases containing vaccines which covertly inoculate whole populations without them even getting near a needle.''
In other words, vectors other than vaccines may be at work ... centrally controlled food and the water supply comes to mind ... and possibly contrails. I suspect the dark-triad personality types trying to run this show are at least a step or two ahead of most of us. But I'm just stubborn enough to believe that won't keep keep us from the trenches of the forever-war of mankind against its own worst nature.
Yes, I have heard about them experimenting with self-spreading vaccines, and that Mephistophelian Pandora’s box is astonishingly irresponsible and such a grave violation of informed consent, it *must* be quashed before it escapes the lab. My hope is that the-powers-that-shouldn’t-be would be prudent enough not to release it because they know how dangerous these bioweapons are and wouldn’t be able to control the targets of such technology, thus they and their families would be potential victims as well.
Margaret, the problem is that they are brainwashed. They do not think they would be at risk or victims. They would think "this is science and we have to follow the science." This is my impression. There are so many zombie-like hypnotized politicians nowadays who seem to have lost their critical mind completely.
They will be told these new vaccines can help to save all lives and so they will not say anything against them. Nobody of these politicians wants to be an "anti vaxxer" ,especially not in a pandemic, when a self spreading vaccine "may help to save so many lives..."
Oh yes, I know all about the brainwashed, hence my 12-step recovery program:
• “Letter to the Menticided: A 12-Step Recovery Program” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-menticided-a-12-step)
Now the question is how to get them to read it—or read at all :-(
Reminds me of a passage ...
Thus, Norse society’s structure created a conflict between the short-term interests of those in power, and the long-term interests of the society as a whole. Much of what the chiefs and clergy valued proved eventually harmful to the society. Yet the society’s values were at the root of its strengths as well as of its weaknesses. The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe’s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick to brand them as failures, when their society survived in Greenland for longer than our English-speaking society has survived so far in North America. Ultimately, though, the chiefs found themselves without followers. The last right that they obtained for themselves was the privilege of being the last to starve.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse (p. 276). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
Would big fat Harma cook the golden goose by creating a self-spreading treatment?? All those juicy billion$ would slip-side away. Would they?
That’s the most encouraging take yet!
Thank you Steven Martin, although I wish you would have good news instead of bad news.
I already heard that vaccines are in development which may spread automatically to all people. You just need to vaccinate 5% of the population and then these vaccines will spread like a virus to other people. There is no ethics anymore.
What do you recommend to do?
People are slowly waking up. It's my belief that at some point, this will reach a critical mass and the awakening will become exponential.
One of the first orders of business will have to be to shut down these bioweapons labs. If we don't, in ten years they'll have unimaginable power.
To those who say we just have to plant gardens and opt-out, that's a starting idea but the current system really has to be dismantled. We can't let those who now have power keep it while we supposedly go our separate ways.
Agreed on all fronts, Jim!
Re: the labs - It seems the Russians have the ability to do this, and they have made a good start. But there are a lot of other jurisdictions housing these labs, and they are not well known.
Those doing Gain of Function deserve the products they create being administered to their own bodies. In slowly increasing doses. We'll call it 'efficacy research'.
Hi Max. I didn't receive an e-mail notification of your comment, and just now found it. Maybe a wonky substack connection?
Yeah, I've struggled with that question of ethics, and triangulating between my experience in Japan, patterns in world history, and what I am getting from biology and the social sciences ... I am wondering if we can even expect ethical behavior as the default of any population beyond Dunbar's number. The idealist in me wants to believe that we all have the potential to become morally autonomous and altruistic, but I suspect that will only be true within the empathetic constraints of a family or small community. I am reminded of the lyrics to that ballad popularized by Three Dog Night, 'Easy to be Hard'.
I really don't have an answer to your question other than to fall, if need be, on our feet and in defiance of the dark-triads cannibalizing us ... if nothing else, in defense of those who can not defend themselves. Rather that than grovel before Mammon. We just have to learn to fight 'smarter', not 'harder' ... and Margaret's contribution to the fight is as good as any I've seen. Hang in there buddy. Nobody gets out of this room alive. ;-)
Yes, you are right about all this. I just don´t agree with "didn´t fall for the vaxx scam", I think I almost do not know anyone in South America who did not receive the vaccines... For example, I asked a friend from Paraguay if she knows any blogs or news pages which report in a negative way about covid vaccines... Her answer was no. She never heard about something like this. So many or most journalists in these countries are completely pro vax and would never allow any doubts about these vaccines. This is only my perspective. I would be extremely happy if someone could correct me.
You’re right in that many South American citizens have been surprisingly compliant, *but* there is a powerful underground resistance there, especially in Uruguay. I describe my connection with the brilliant writers who produce “eXtramuros Magazine” (https://extramurosrevista.com/), which has published Spanish translations of my work, in this guest piece by Fernando Andacht:
• “A New Journal of the Plague Year Three Centuries Later: The Pandemic, the Commercial Break, & the Lost Identity” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-new-journal-of-the-plague-year)
This is the problem with the simple branding: "Pro-vax".
Just call it a vaccine.
Now it's Jesus.
I would consider the possibility we STILL don't know the true purpose of the injections. It appears population reduction may be one goal, but that may also be one of several purposes. Now that reverse transcription has been demonstrated, there may be economic goals, property rights goals. If someone's DNA is no longer what is considered fully human, can they be put to death without committing murder? Is the person with the new DNA now considered the property of the company that owns the patent on the sequence?
I see this as a pivotal point in the human history and in the evolution of the human race. Nothing will ever be the same after this. The vaccine was a tool of the totalitarian’s mass psychosis machine. This tool was not designed or meant to kill. They didn’t want or expect to kill the same people they wished to control. They wanted control. This was a global power grab that has gone terribly wrong. The result will be the removal of a large percentage of the human brains on the planet that are susceptible to control by mass psychosis. Those who are left (the Pure Bloods) will build a new world when all this plays out. I write about this here in my SubStack newsletter: Repairing our Moral Compass and Saving our World https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/repairing-our-moral-compass-and-saving?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios
It is my hope that in 500 years this time is remembered and a pledge is made each day to never let it happen again.
I agree this is a pivotal point in history, and I do feel their attempt at a Great Reset has ignited a Great Awakening that will ultimately defeat them and change the course of our future for the better.
I disagree about the intent to kill, however. Nearly all totalitarian regimes have deployed genocide as part of their strategy as it is easier to control smaller numbers of people and it instills fear in the remaining citizens.
They have been announcing their depopulation plans for decades, so it’s not like they’re trying to hide it:
• “A Mostly Peaceful Depopulation” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/a-mostly-peaceful-depopulation)
You cannot view the past two years’ worth of carnage without acknowledging that they are intentionally committing mass murder, from hospicide:
• “Letter to Governor Ron DeSantis” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-governor-ron-desantis)
To the smearing and denial of early treatment protocols:
• “Letter to a Scientifically-Minded Friend” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-scientifically-minded)
To the ignoring of catastrophic spikes in mass fatalities and injuries:
• “Letter to a Holocaust Denier” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-holocaust-denier)
• “Letter to the Washington State Board of Health” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-washington-state-board)
To the censorship of voices exposing these fatal side effects:
• “Letter to US Legislators: #DefundTheThoughtPolice” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-us-legislators-defundthethoughtpolice)
• “Letter to the California Legislature” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-california-legislature)
To the radical departure from established public health policies and the enactment of those *known* to cause severe harm, deaths, economic destruction, poverty, famine, and social fragmentation:
• “Letter to the WHO” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-the-who)
*EVERY* single policy they have unfurled has maimed, murdered, or both. And they 100% know it and thus are responsible for committing crimes against humanity.
You don’t kill all the people you want to control and leave the people who will hunt you down left alive. What I am saying is that the plan was not to kill. It was to control. Once it began it could not be stopped. They had no idea the vaccine was this deadly. Did they expect casualties? Sure. But they did not expect mass casualties. The tool of the vaccine was employed to create safety from the fear they created with the virus. Mass psychosis creates fear then safety. They then modulate less fear - less safety with more fear and more safety. This creates the brainwashed control that would have lead to vaccine passports and complete control of the population. All of which was their goal. The ends justified the means - and there were many who unwittingly became part of the killing machine for what they believed were good reasons. And there were many who quickly realized that they were part of something deeply wrong but decided their paychecks were more important than human lives. There are thousands of people around the world who aided the killing machine. They all must be prosecuted and punished. This will happen via the law or via the mob. In this post, I attempt to list everyone responsible for the coming genocide. “Will there be room in Argentina for all the Vaccine Genocide Criminals?”https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/will-there-be-room-in-argentina-for?r=gjogf&utm_medium=iOS And when the vaccinated finally realize what has been done to them? Mass Hysteria as I explain in this post: https://lawrencebutts.substack.com/p/count-down-to-the-mass-hysteria-of?r=gjogf&utm_medium=ios
And that's why three labs have reported 'blanks' among Pfizer lots. No mRNA.
You are my hero....never stop telling the truth....... love you.....
Aww, thank you, StellaMaris, and love you, too! 💓
Congrats on your 12K, and thank you for making your voice heard!
Thank you, CJ, and I am largely here because of you! Knowing a writer of your caliber and integrity was using this platform gave me confidence in its quality and commitment to free speech. Your barbaric yawp has long been an inspiration to me, hence my featuring you in my second essay (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/covid-is-over-if-you-want-it).
Hope you’re over the apocalyptic plague now 🤗
A beautiful missive to read first thing in the morning. I haven’t yet delved into all the links but I will at a more leisurely pace. Needless to say I understood the analogy, and perhaps only because I had to fight the good fight privately and personally - and won. I will share a little more on that in a later post. So glad to be part of the karass.
Thank you MAA
What a lovely note, Betty, and congratulations on winning the good fight! Looking forward to hearing more when you’re ready and so grateful you’re part of the karass, too 🤗
A writer's writer, an educator's educator.
Thank you Margaret Anna Alice!
What great compliments—thank you, Steven!
My opinion took only a couple of seconds to write ... but hoping you get the audience you deserve, I forwarded your post to my F.book homepage, and about a dozen private groups.
Cheers from Japan, M.A.A!
🙌🙏🌊
Congratulations on reaching 12,000 readers. You deserve it. The movement needs them. I loved this essay. Thank you for sharing London Grammar. I haven't heard any new music in a while. This touched me.
Aww, thank you, Amking! I have libertate to thank for introducing me to both London Grammar and that song specifically, which I found hauntingly lovely and powerful.
Exactly!
Well I knew I would need another cup of coffee for a MAA post.
Beautiful and the Vonnegut references are perfect. Couldn't agree more - though I still sometimes feel compelled to argue (usually pointless) with the normies.
Yes time to focus on the waxing wampeter and create a new world. Just lovely. Thank you much and congrats on the 12 thousand plus!! I expect that will continue to climb, as it should, given the quality of your though-provoking, always insightful, heart-warming work, deserves.
Haha, thank you, Kathleen, and so glad you enjoyed it! Your articles complemented it well :-)
And please do continue arguing with the normies—Mattias Desmet says it is important to continually challenge their ridiculous beliefs as exposure to rationality, logic, and truth eventually wears away the illusion. I just meant I wouldn’t be wasting so much time doing so on a one-by-one basis, but all of my articles can ultimately be wielded for that purpose en masse.
Yes, you're right. It matters, more of a balancing act is needed.
holy cow... congratulations!💕🐱🌼🐱💕
Margaret, thank you for the fantastic article! You are a genius mind.
Although this may be a bit off topic, here are some data that I want everyone to know.
-A new analysis, published some days ago, of a study from Brazil with 220.000 participants shows that regular Ivermectin prophylaxis reduces covid hospitalizations by 100% and mortality by 90%.
Title:
"Regular use of ivermectin as prophylaxis for COVID-19 led up to 92% reduction in COVID-19 mortality rate in a dose-response manner: results of a prospective observational study of a strictly controlled population of 88,012 subjects among 223,128 participants"
-On the other hand, new analyses show that higher vaccination rates are associated with higher covid hospitalization rates. For example, see the article from bad cattitude substack.
"higher vaccine rates associated with greater rise in hospitalization"
-Joel Smalley reported about Scotland. What we do we see there? Much higher rates of covid hospitalizations following mass vaccination and especially following boosters. Also, in summer 2020 and 2021 there were almost no hospitalizations in Scotland. Now that most vulnerable people are boosted, there is a massive increase of hospitalizations in summer. Antigenic fixation. People like Dr. Yeadon had warned about it. We knew this would happen.
-See Alex Berenson Substack. The official data from Manitoba, Canada show that vaccinated people have a higher covid mortality than unvaccinated people. This data is age standardized and per 100.000 person years. So it is adjusted data. Triple vaccinated had the same mortality rate as unvaccinated. With time, I fear, their mortality risk will increase, too.
-See Igor Chubov Substack. An analysis from Hungary shows that the counties with the highest vaccination rates have a three times higher birth rate drop than the counties with the lowest vaccination rates. We do not know if this is temporary or permanent. If it is permanent, it would actually indicate the vaccines may have sterilized millions of people worldwide.
So we have more and more data showing that vaccination is associated with higher hospitalization rates and they may cause infertility and so many other problems. On the other hand, regular IVM reduces hospitalization by 100% according to this study.
So I wonder how massively hypnotized some people must be if they still do not wake up now.
Thank you for this excellent information, Max, and those are all great recommendations!
I assume you’re referring to this Brazil study:
“Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for COVID-19: A Citywide, Prospective, Observational Study of 223,128 Subjects Using Propensity Score Matching”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35070575/
I am familiar with that powerfully compelling research and have shared it as an example of IVM’s preventative efficacy before, but I do appreciate your reminding me because it is a good reference to keep handy.
Margaret, yes I am referring to this study. But to be more precise, I am reffering to a NEW analysis of this study which was published some days ago.
This new analysis shows that REGULAR (compared with irregular) IVM was even much more effective and reduced hospitalization by 100%.
Great to know! Do you have a link handy?
I can not add a link right now but I can tell you how to find it. Go to the page Researchgate and search for:
"Regular use of ivermectin as prophylaxis for COVID-19 led up to 92% reduction in COVID-19 mortality rate in a dose-response manner: results of a prospective observational study of a strictly controlled population of 88,012 subjects among 223,128 participants"
Found it, thank you!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358386329_Regular_use_of_ivermectin_as_prophylaxis_for_COVID-19_led_up_to_92_reduction_in_COVID-19_mortality_rate_in_a_dose-response_manner_results_of_a_prospective_observational_study_of_a_strictly_controlled_
So this new analysis was a dose-response analysis. And they found that IVM was much more effective if regular high doses are administered.
This is the abstract of the new analysis:
Background: We have previously demonstrated that ivermectin used as prophylaxis for COVID-19, irrespective of the regularity or the level of monitoring, in a strictly controlled city-wide program in Southern Brazil (Itajaí, SC, Brazil), was associated with reductions in COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates. In this study, our objective was to determine if the regular use of ivermectin showed an impact on the level of protection from COVID-19 and related outcomes, reinforcing the efficacy of ivermectin through the demonstration of a dose-response effect. Materials and methods: This exploratory analysis of a prospective observational study involved a program that used ivermectin at a dose of 0.2mg/kg/day for two consecutive days, every 15 days. Data was gathered over a 150-day period. Regularity definitions were as follows: regular users had 180mg or more of ivermectin; irregular users had up to 60mg, in total, throughout the period of the program. Comparisons were made between non-users (subjects who did not use ivermectin), regular and irregular users from the city of Itajaí after multivariate adjustments. The full city database was used to calculate and compare COVID-19 infection and risk of dying from COVID-19. The COVID-19 database was used, propensity score matching (PSM) was evened for intervals of age and comorbidities for hospitalization and mortality rates, and then adjusted for remaining variables (doubly adjusted). Risk of dying from COVID-19 was determined by the number of COVID-19 deaths in a certain population exposed to COVID-19. Results: Among 223,128 subjects analyzed from the city of Itajaí, 159,560 had 18 years old or up and were not infected by COVID-19 until July 7, 2020, from which 45,716 (28.7%) did not use and 113,844 (71.3%) used ivermectin. Among ivermectin users, 33,971 (29.8% of users) used irregularly (up to 60mg) and 8,325 (7.3%) used regularly (more than 180mg). The remaining 71,548 participants (62.9%) used intermediate dioses (between 60mg and 180mg) and were not included for analysis. A total of COVID-19 infection rate was 49% lower for regular users (3.40% rate) than non-users (6.64% rate) [risk rate (RR), 0.51; 95% confidence interval (95%CI), 0.45–0.58; p<0.0001], and 25% lower than irregular users (4.54% rate) (RR, 0.75; 95%CI, 0.66–0.85; p<0.0001]. The infection rate was 32% lower for irregular users than non-users (RR, 0.68; 95%CI, 0.64–0.73; p<0.0001). Among COVID-19 participants, regular users were older and had higher a prevalence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension than irregular and non-users. After PSM, the matched analysis contained 283 subjects in each group of non-users and regular users, and between regular users and irregular users, and 1,542 subjects between non-users and irregular users. Hospitalization rate was reduced by 100% in regular users compared to both irregular users and non-users (p<0.0001 for both), and by 29% among irregular users compared to non-users (RR, 0.781; 95%CI, 0.49–1.05; p=0.099). Mortality rate was 92% lower in regular users than non-users (RR, 0.08; 95%CI, 0.02–0.35; p=0.0008) and 84% lower than irregular users (RR, 0.16; 95%CI, 0.04–0.71; p=0.016), while irregular users had a 37% lower mortality rate reduction than non-users (RR, 06.7; 95%CI, 0.40–0.99; p=0.049). Risk of dying from COVID-19 was 86% lower among regular users than non-users (RR, 0.14; 95%CI, 0.03–0.57; p=0.006), and 72% lower than irregular users (RR, 0.28; 95%CI, 0.07–1.18; p=0.083), while irregular users had a 51% reduction compared to non-users (RR, 0.49; 95%CI, 0.32–0.76; p=0.001). Conclusion: Non-use of ivermectin was associated with a 12.5-fold increase in mortality rate and seven-fold increased risk of dying from COVID-19 compared to the regular use of ivermectin in a PSM comparison of a strictly controlled population. This dose-response efficacy reinforces the prophylactic effects of ivermectin against COVID-19. NOTE: This is the new version of the manuscript that analyzed the efficacy of ivermectin according to the regularity of its use
Margaret, are you doing anything practical to build new communities? Please join my Telegram group for actionable tips! https://t.me/+pJoEfwigGRowNGI0
Great question, Joel, and I am honestly so focused on writing and cultivating this Substack, I have no time left to accomplish tasks in physical reality :-) But I do love the work John Bush and Derrick Broze are doing and am looking forward to joining the Freedom Cells network once they finish the site revamp.
Thank you for alerting me to your Telegram channel! I have marked it, but please don’t take it personally if I don’t join—I have a policy of not following anyone on any social media, not because I don’t want to (I have long wanted to join the Mike Yeadon/Robin Monotti/Cory Morningstar Telegram channel) but because I have to guard my time and energy zealously and don’t want to risk being distracted by social media feeds.
I also find Telegram perplexing to navigate 😆 Maybe that’s the Luddite in me, or maybe it’s because I prefer using my computer and it’s really designed for use on the phone.
In any case, I’m sure other readers will find it valuable and would love to join it!
"I am honestly so focused on writing and cultivating this Substack, I have no time left to accomplish tasks in physical reality :-)"
You are very much affecting physical reality in that all of us readers are very much embodied.😊 Agree social media is a time-suck, keep doing what you're doing - the new world emerging needs you.
That is wonderfully encouraging to hear, Kathleen!
Thank you as always. I look forward to digging into the links. Also, I really enjoyed this article, "Buckle Up, Buttercup" that reminds us that "...we must not treat these tidbits as (supposed) information that are meant to raise our ire, we must instead classify them as mere data points. It’s pretty hard to get all worked up about a single point of data, wouldn’t you say?"
https://krisannehall.com/index.php/resources/articles
Excellent reminder, Tori, and thanks for the link!