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> public officials who had to make risky decisions

I'm not giving them any compassion. State and local levels of health departments acted like dictators with lockdowns which harmed people and many school-age children. My neighbor sold their house and moved because the employer was enforcing the shot so they got fired. I literally got multiple postcards in the mail from health department telling me a shot was waiting for me.

There were not enough studies of efficacy and safety to do what they did based on hunches while not hammering a message of "get off carbs and sugar, lose weight, improve your health".

Polio cases are leading regular people to question much of the over-powered medical people. Maybe it is good people become skeptical.



If you do not extend compassion, then don't expect any.




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