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Cracks in the Covid Wall of Silence
By Mark Oshinskie

Dispatches from a Scamdemic

My friend, Jim, is among the nicest males I’ve met. Though his life has challenges, he bears these with equanimity. He smiles easily and often has something pleasant, funny or interesting to say. He speaks in a “gee-whiz” tone that’s rare in New Jersey and yet, he doesn’t come across as corny.

I met Jim while intermittently working with him on agricultural projects over the past ten years. He’s taught me some stuff about growing food. Sometimes we’ve passed a football back and forth. Despite being easygoing, he shows athleticism.

I don’t limit my Scamdemic critique to Substack posts. Those who’ve been around me for the past six years have often heard me criticize the mitigation and its multifarious manifestations. When, during this time, Jim asked me how I was doing, I would say something like “I’m OK, but I’d be better if my son wasn’t on his computer in his old bedroom 70 hours a week for the past nine months looking for a job in an artificially-frozen economy.”

When I vented, Jim would politely say things like, “Well, the lockdowns are bad. But the nursing home near my house had a dozen people who died from The Virus.”

Whenever he or someone else claimed to know a Covid victim, I asked, “How old were they?” When they invariably said that the decedent was 80 or 90-something, I would respond, without even mentioning iatrogenic deaths or deaths of isolation-driven despair, “80 or 90-something is a long life. Do the deaths of some 80 or 90-something year-olds mean students need to stay home or take experimental shots?”

Perhaps because he values our friendship, Jim never wanted to discuss the Mania at length. Nor did he ever tell me I should get a shot. Though to my chagrin, he once mentioned that he had volunteered at an injection site. He got The Virus at least once and had some other, post-jab health challenges that seemed beyond coincidental. I didn’t suggest such a causal link. Because I value our friendship. ......