This should be easy, but it's not. Your family is the last bastion of safe refuge, and yet this pandemic and now war is doing more to divide us rather than unite us. So how to do it without alienating them? I recently saw a post in our family chat about the fourth booster is now approved by the FDA. Immediately the thought was that our aging mother should get the shot. So how to push back? I started asking questions....
Family member (FM): https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/29/fda-authorizes-fourth-pfizer-covid-vaccine-dose-for-people-age-50-and-older-.html
Me: Hmmm I have questions....
I think they have been doing this in Israel, any data from that?
Have the FDA released the data that they based their decision on?
What about the EUA, does that cover the fourth booster?
Or have they approved the Comirnaty shot to be used?
If yes, is it available?
What about the questions raised by the whistle blower on data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial, published (and fact checked) by the BMJ? https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Has the WHO changed its recommendation that the booster should not be given to healthy adults?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/21/who-repeats-warning-against-covid-booster-shots-for-healthy-people-.html
And why did the FDA and CDC authorized this without consulting their committees of independent vaccine experts? (That is in the article you linked too, btw) ....
FM: So, setting aside doubts and questions about whatever, I think our mom should get the shot. My husband and I are getting the shot next Monday. Our last booster was late November, and booster effectiveness is known to wane.
Me: How about we test for antibodies, and see if we had covid already? If we had them, then there is no reason for boosting, right?
FM: Antibodies will not mean she is immune from reinfection
Me: No, but Memory T cells and B cells remember, and create antibodies when you need them, don't they?
FM: Hard disagree
Me: Yes... hard disagree on that... I still love you!
So not really successful, but, I hope that it was respectful and not talking down to anyone, and engaging in questions to be asked, with confirmation at the end that they are still my family. Maybe some of my other family members in the group will see and ask those questions too. We have to start somewhere.
One followup, I sent this around later:
I read this today from the British Medical Journal, and it’s troubling. I don't know if it's true, but the potential of misconduct does exist. I hope we all can consider what the ramifications are if what they are saying is true, and how we can protect against it. For one thing, data transparency I think is key. Independent review is also key. Without these, we need to question hard any advice from any institutional body, especially if there is even a whiff of a profit motive.
Trying out something new, a video message.
Also to back this up is a good article from Glen Greenwald about how our capacity to reason diminishes during the highly charged climate surrounding a war and war propaganda from BOTH sides.
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Michael Saylor shared something recently that may have gone unnoticed by most.... he said it in an interview with Tom Bilyeu recently.... here is the clip:
https://x.com/TheBTCTherapist/status/1869507247526793481
MICHAEL SAYLOR: The first nation to print their own currency to buy Bitcoin wins.
Paul from invest answers then also put together the fact that MSTR is applying to issue more stock to buy more BTC.... is that the same thing? Basically, people will be using fiat to buy stock that will be used to purchase BTC. But the BTC supply is limited.... so get your MSTR (or your BTC) soon! (NOT financial advice....)
But this is not what Satoshi's original 2008 whitepaper (https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper) had in mind when it developed Bitcoin, it was suppose to be a peer to peer cashless transaction system, right?
Roger Ver thinks so, and wrote a book about it called Hijacking Bitcoin. This video is a summary of that book ...
Why Doug Casey and Anton Wahlman are wrong about the upcoming election.
Let start by reading and listening to what they have to say:
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/america-is-now-a-socialist-country
After reading the blog post on Hersey and Liberty, and as we see in the video from Doug Casey on why they think America is doomed to vote in "Commie-La", I think they have missed the bigger picture on the American electorate and what is driving the upcoming election.
Going through history, the three things that are the biggest motivations for the motivation to "Throw the bums out" are;
1. It's the Economy, stupid
2. How safe am I now?
3. Foreign Wars
Maybe the 2nd and 3rd reasons are intertwined, but this is the main three. And Commie-La, as much as she may try to run against the current administration, people know, she is part of the machine in power. With all three of these big picture items against her, the chances she pulls this off are extremely low.
Doug and Anton are reacting to a ...
I liked this article on Substack, and of particular interest is the video from Richard Nixon. Oh if we could only go back and know then what we know now.
https://antonwahlman.substack.com/p/putin-to-tucker-nato-provoked-the
