My top 5 substacks in terms of readership.
1. Kids & Covid Vaccines: raggedlines.substack.com/p/8-reasons-no
2. Masks: raggedlines.substack.com/p/oodles-of-da
3. Welcome to Fauci-World: raggedlines.substack.com/p/welcome-to-f
4. The Smoky Room: raggedlines.substack.com/p/the-smoky-ro
5. In Vaccines we Trust:
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When you combine these two statements, you have nothing less than a deliberate, coordinated conspiracy to force masking throughout society and to suppress the data that would show it to be useless.
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1. This thread will reveal the details of how the #HealthyUserBias demonstrates that the #COVID19vaccines (at least used in the U.S.) have zero efficacy.
This will take a few days to complete...follow me on this one...make Big Data proud.
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7/ And every so often there is a genuinely good person who becomes a politician having fallen for the pretence. Invariably, that person gets gobbled up and spat out.
All of this is why I don't vote. We don't need better politicians. We need an entire new world.
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6/ Now, not every politician is like this. Many are low-end enforcers (even if they hold high office) and may never know they work for the mob. Others are fronts much like Junior Soprano was the face of the Soprano crime family while its real boss hid in the shadows.
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5/ The second charade is simply that they have to act like normal people and not criminals to maintain the pretence upon which the whole enterprise depends. But that's not altogether difficult for people who are often psychopaths.
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4/ The only price they pay is they must take part in 2 charades. The first is elections - completely dominated by established parties and impenetrable to outsiders. At best, elections are to decide which of the criminal parties take power. At worst, they are meaningless farces.
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3/ The ability to influence and control markets that they can pre-emptively invest in or short can bring untold riches. And, of course, the power to put forward or shoot down laws that threaten them makes them almost invincible (so long as they stay in favour).
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2/ Following advancement of DNA evidence & RICO style cases, there was no place left in the world for the Tony Sopranos & Michael Corleones. Their ilk moved into positions of establishment power, offering them unprecedented legal insulation along with even greater power & riches.
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1/ I know it sounds sensationalist but I do genuinely believe most political parties and governments are modern equivalents of organised crime, evolved to perfectly evade law enforcement (by controlling it) and adapted to maximum power and gain by monopolising levers of power.
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Why was he recommending medical products at all, especially unapproved ones? He has no medical background or expertise.
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I broadly recommended the vaxx when Pfizer and the feds were lying about their stats. As data emerged, I recommended it for the elderly and obese. I opposed vaxx mandates the whole time. My company spent millions and risked millions in fines to sue the feds to stop vaxx mandates. twitter.com/NolanWright177…
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15 minute cities sound very convenient. You have everything you need within 15 mins of your home similar to how zoo animals have everything they need within 15 metres of their cage.
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When finally asked about the remarkable amount of excess death currently occuring in the country - in the words of the Examiner, higher than "the worst period of the Covid pandemic" - the Taoiseach essentially responds with what amounts to a verbal shrug of his shoulders.
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I defy anyone to say "That'll feed two birds with one scone" and keep a straight face.
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I didn’t even consider my language, I’ve used the phrases on the left too often.
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I didn't consider any of this at the time. It simply never occurred to me to take any vaccine for a clearly over-blown threat but if you were looking for a concise list of reasons why taking the Covid vaccines never made sense here you are.
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it was obvious.
1. rushed vaccines have a terrible track record.
2. mRNA is a dangerous modality never before used in humans at scale
3. the trial design was clearly bogus as it excluded the 14 days post jab to play bayesian games around s/t risk enhancement
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I might add that it's as thorough a review of the *good* evidence for masking that you are going to get, i.e. proper Randomised Control Trials. There is garbage evidence out there - observational and mechanistic studies - that Cochrane wouldn't demean itself by considering.
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Excellent piece by on the Cochrane Library determination of the ineffectiveness of masks against infection by an airborne virus.
Masks were all about being a visual sign of compliance to the regime and nothing to do with public health.
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"There’s really nothing more to say at this point. This is as thorough a review of the evidence for masking that you are going to get. And it shows masks don’t work."
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Ragged Lines New Substack:
"Cochrane confirm that what was true before Covid (that masks don’t work) and which magically became untrue for two years during Covid has now become true once again."
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And for any of you fancy mask people, your N95s are useless too.
"There were no clear differences between the use of medical/surgical masks compared with N95/P2 respirators in healthcare workers when used in routine care to reduce respiratory viral infection."
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Surely, we can put the mask issue to rest now?
January 2023 Cochrane review of 78 RCTs:
"The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks."
cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.10
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If you knew nothing else, the fact that they won't even mention the vaccines when the CDC openly admit they can cause the exact condition she is suffering from would be enough to tell you they're trying to hide something.
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Not sure what other likely options there are...
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The country was completely freaking out in Jan 2021. We were put in a full Level 5 lockdown after Christmas mingling was blamed for mass death and we jabbed anything that moved.
Now, here we are, with worse death and not a dickey-bird from government.
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Read that again:
Worse than when "the country was in the grip of the *worst* period of the Covid pandemic."
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Has a single member of Government commented on this?
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"The figure is also considerably higher than the 8,135 death notices published in the same period to January 25, 2021, when the country was in the grip of the worst period of the Covid pandemic."
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Look at this loser. Must rile Nadal that his rival got to keep his principles and still come out on top.
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Djokovic showing why he was banned last year. Not because he was unvaccinated but because they knew he would win *while* unvaccinated. They couldn't have someone unjabbed winning the title and becoming the best player ever while still trying to coerce the shots into people.
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The Johnny Lydon (Johnny Rotten) song, Hawaii, that he wrote about his wife and which might represent Ireland in the Eurovision is really lovely, more so if you read the Personal life section of his Wiki page while listening to it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydon
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Wrote a whole essay about it, as it happens.
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"Immunization not carried out because of...group pressure."
I mean, I think group pressure might have been a teensy bit of a bigger contributing factor to people *getting* the vaccine as opposed to those few who didn't get it.
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WHO - The ‘unvaccinated’ have now been issued with a medical code, including reasons why they remain unvaccinated!
Expect this discrimination code to appear on your global vaccination passport and your movements restricted based on it!
Denied access based on your code 
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This is the explanation for any bad takes I might have ever had.
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BREAKING: Twitter staff can tweet from any account using a program formerly known as "GodMode," according to an FTC complaint seen by The Washington Post.
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Destined to be my most misunderstood essay. I'm not dismissing vaccine harms. Quite the contrary.
However, the hysteria that is bound to come out of this rapidly changing narrative may be the biggest threat.
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If they get this right, they might actually produce an effective vaccine for once.
If they get it wrong, they'll probably kill us all.
So, swings and roundabouts...
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“From what I’ve heard is they [@Pfizer scientists] are optimizing it [COVID mutation process], but they’re going slow because everyone is very cautious… obviously don’t want to advertise that you are figuring out future mutations.”
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"Whatever this fresh wave of fear that seems to be building both in the establishment media and the anti-establishment media (Twitter, Substack, etc.) brings, it is the fear itself, rather than the subject of the fear, that may pose us the greatest threat"
Maybe we should get the babies to wear masks in the womb just to be safe?
It is, after all, only a minor inconvenience.
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The vaccine narrative is changing fast. I consider why that is and the dangers it poses to an already traumatised populace.
Fear, as always, is the greatest enemy.
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"While investigations are continuing to fill in the knowledge gaps around vaccines."
Knowledge Gaps?
I thought these were the most tested vaccines in history that we knew everything about?
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Benefits of Covid-19 vaccines outweigh the risks, latest figures show
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Having given up caffeine, I'm on the hunt for the best alternative to a nice cup of tea. Any suggestions welcome.
I've tried:
Rooibos (muck)
Decaffeinated tea (ok but don't like decaffeination process)
Various Herbal teas (bland)
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