I enjoyed this conversation very much. I have to admit to being one of those people who has not let this covid thing go. I have collected two bookshelves worth of books about what happened and I'm actually reading them. I subscribed to many substacks and I'm thoroughly enmeshed in the topic. I feel that I need to bear witness and collect documentation that might be valuable to a future historian.
Hello Kate, I haven't had the chance to listen to the podcast yet (it's next up on my playlist!) but I do have to say, I was sort of in the same boat regarding COVID for a time after the nonsense finally stopped (though... Has it really?)
I recall attending one of the sessions in my city for the citizens inquiry and having to go back to that time when people were losing their jobs, getting fired, shunned by society. It was awful.
Even today, when listening to podcasts revisiting that time can be pretty difficult for me.
In other words, I still haven't moved on. I have a hard time getting over how people treated other people merely for seeing things differently. I just wonder... What is coming next?
Covid isn't quite over for me because I feel I'm seeing the "pandemic" as the platform from which other ideologies are being launched to usher in/transition to totalitarianism. We now deal with climate change, transgenderism, heading towards CBDC/social credit and amendments to WHO Pandemic Treaty making the transition complete. This is why I'm a "pandemic denier", and why what Martin says, and the others sharing his work and thoughts, resonates with me. The pandemic was a tool only. Very good discussion, thought provoking, many ideas broached I could keep on and on writing about here...TY....
I totally understand @Randy Shank! This is the mindset I went into with this podcast, and I think you will enjoy it because it is done with great care and sensitivity. Martin brings interesting factual and philosophical insights to the table.
What a brilliant conversation. Martin's story about his cancer treatment episode is indeed hilarious in a black-comedy way. Your discussion about the "truth movement" and "freedom movement" chimed with me, as although I was very grateful for the mutual support given by my local Stand In The Park group during that couple of years - and it did undoubtedly keep a lot of folk from going slightly insane over everything they saw happening around them - I have never really been comfortable being part of a gang. And it was also possible to discern some people who seemed to have their own agendas who would turn up every now and then and have someone or something (product) to promote. I would have to add for balance that there was a variety of views regarding the virus, origins, lethality etc; so it was a free-speech zone in that way, unlike what was being fed from all MSM outlets. Richie Allen coined the phrase "truther industrial complex" in regard to some prominent figures in the freedom movement, which has some resonance for me in some instances.
I enjoyed this conversation very much. I have to admit to being one of those people who has not let this covid thing go. I have collected two bookshelves worth of books about what happened and I'm actually reading them. I subscribed to many substacks and I'm thoroughly enmeshed in the topic. I feel that I need to bear witness and collect documentation that might be valuable to a future historian.
Hello Kate, I haven't had the chance to listen to the podcast yet (it's next up on my playlist!) but I do have to say, I was sort of in the same boat regarding COVID for a time after the nonsense finally stopped (though... Has it really?)
I recall attending one of the sessions in my city for the citizens inquiry and having to go back to that time when people were losing their jobs, getting fired, shunned by society. It was awful.
Even today, when listening to podcasts revisiting that time can be pretty difficult for me.
In other words, I still haven't moved on. I have a hard time getting over how people treated other people merely for seeing things differently. I just wonder... What is coming next?
Covid isn't quite over for me because I feel I'm seeing the "pandemic" as the platform from which other ideologies are being launched to usher in/transition to totalitarianism. We now deal with climate change, transgenderism, heading towards CBDC/social credit and amendments to WHO Pandemic Treaty making the transition complete. This is why I'm a "pandemic denier", and why what Martin says, and the others sharing his work and thoughts, resonates with me. The pandemic was a tool only. Very good discussion, thought provoking, many ideas broached I could keep on and on writing about here...TY....
I totally understand @Randy Shank! This is the mindset I went into with this podcast, and I think you will enjoy it because it is done with great care and sensitivity. Martin brings interesting factual and philosophical insights to the table.
What a brilliant conversation. Martin's story about his cancer treatment episode is indeed hilarious in a black-comedy way. Your discussion about the "truth movement" and "freedom movement" chimed with me, as although I was very grateful for the mutual support given by my local Stand In The Park group during that couple of years - and it did undoubtedly keep a lot of folk from going slightly insane over everything they saw happening around them - I have never really been comfortable being part of a gang. And it was also possible to discern some people who seemed to have their own agendas who would turn up every now and then and have someone or something (product) to promote. I would have to add for balance that there was a variety of views regarding the virus, origins, lethality etc; so it was a free-speech zone in that way, unlike what was being fed from all MSM outlets. Richie Allen coined the phrase "truther industrial complex" in regard to some prominent figures in the freedom movement, which has some resonance for me in some instances.
💉UK physician speaks out: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0nAVF7DW8PsjSdNPJs2DdCNXTMxXMhEwanRwvFad96DhJmjWUuEYMNmYLYtf1p5Wnl&id=100058123865965