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s getting dragged back into these heinous crime stories. All right. As I was noting recently, and tell me if this is the same where you live. So where I live or anywhere that I could drive to in my area, mask compliance at restaurants is basically zero. Meaning that you put it on to talk to the hostess, you sit down, you take it off, and then you're done. You might put it on when you're leaving,…

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they weren't going to wear masks in restaurants. And then what happened? No masks in restaurants. As soon as the public, by some kind of hidden majority that we don't know exactly, as soon as the public by some kind of majority, or it might even have been a plurality or something like that, we don't know what percentage tips things, but as soon as the public decided, it was completely over. There was no fight. There was no pushback. The public just said no, no, we're gonna go eat at restaurants and we're gonna take our mask off the whole time and that's what we're gonna do.

The public has all the power. Everything that's still mandatory that you don't like is because your fellow public hasn't quite gotten there yet. As soon as they do, then the government will have no power whatsoever. So if you imagine you're being suppressed by your government, not exactly. It feels like it. That's not what's going on at all. You are being suppressed by the fact that the percentage of your fellow citizens has not yet reached the tipping point. When it does, boop, it's going to be all over.

Yeah, you think there was a slippery slope toward mandatory. Where do you see the slippery slope away from it? Right, and we're right. I feel like we're not at the tipping point but we're approaching it. We're approaching the tipping point.

And here's what's going to push me over the edge. I'm not going to get a booster shot if Big Pharma can't tell me if getting the Omicron virus is more or less dangerous than a booster shot. They don't know that. Why would I get a booster shot? When Snopes, I know, I know you're going to tell me Snopes is not reliable, but I'll bet you think it's reliable when it goes against the Democrats, right? And that's what it's doing. Snopes is saying that there are zero reported deaths of Omicron anywhere in the world. Doesn't mean there are none. Zero reported confirmed cases. Zero. Did you hear zero? Zero. Whole galaxy zero.

Now there might be some, I don't know, because over at the UK some experts are saying that the Omicron could kill 25 to 75,000 people in the UK alone. At the same time, the Omicron virus is totally overtaking the others. In some cases where it's prevalent, it's 75% of the infections already, I think in South Africa. That's the case, or at least of what they were monitoring. So these are still just little bubbles, but we should probably see the Omicron take over everything reasonably soon unless there's yet another better, more capable virus. But it would have to act fast because the Omicron is raging. And as long as that thing's raging and it's killing zero and probably confers some kind of immunity that matters against the wors

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e strains, I'm done with the booster. Now if science in some credible way, you know I'd have to see more than one study or one opinion, but if I could be convinced, and I think I could, that in fact the booster is safer than the Omicron or at least that it's a toss-up, well I might modify my opinion. I might. But at the moment a booster shot would be stupid if you think you can wait it out until…

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