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Jan 7, 2022·edited Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Mathew directed me here and I am glad he did. You have a very important story, Monica. My heart goes out to those in New Zealand (and Australia). Many of us are not much better off in Canada. There seems to be something particularly wrong among some of the Commonwealth nations. Thanks for your courage to face the storm.

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Thanks, Byram. Wow, it's such an honor for you to comment here because I've followed your public comments closely since last year and I have regarded you as one of the early heroes in the covid pandemic. A couple of years ago, I started a small company in NZ manufacturing a modern version of Coley's toxins, which holds much therapeutic promise. That's part of the story that will unfold here. Yes, what's going on in NZ, Australia, and Canada terrifies me. For the first time in perhaps 10 years, I feel very grateful to have American citizenship.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I’m sorry about your husband. I think you were very brave to move to New Zealand and equally as brave to move back to the USA. I’m in Australia and contemplating moving but the question is where. Mexico looks to be my only realistic option but I have teenage children. I’m really hoping this madness will end but how long do I wait.

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Mexico may not be an option any longer. If I'm not mistaken, they recently said they'll require covid vaccination for entry for foreign nationals. It seems there was a brief window of time to move where we wanted to be for the indefinite future. Without citizenship in your destination country, that window is rapidly closing or has already as good as closed.

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Just double checked and still no requirement to be vaccinated and don’t even have to provide a negative test before arrival.

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Still relating only to crossing US land borders and ferries. I will keep my eye on it.

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Has Mexico imposed any travel restrictions given the Coronavirus outbreak?

No. For the time being there are no travel restrictions of any kind. Nevertheless, it is important for all international travelers to follow common preventive measures, and keep well informed of updates issued by relevant health authorities at origin and destination.

https://embamex.sre.gob.mx/paisesbajos/index.php/foreign-nationals/frequent-questions

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Jan 7, 2022·edited Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

As window of opportunity, in Schwab's own words, may be closing for WEF, so is the window of opportunity closing for many people to get out and find an alternative place to live. Not just for NZ or Australian people. Also for people living in Western Europe, UK, France (with Emanuel Marcon dehumanizing unvaccinated people), Austria (vaccine mandates from Feb with up to 12 mths prison or thousand of euros fines), Germany with 2G, soon The Netherlands too (86% vaccination rate yet in full lockdown since 19 dec), Lithuania (where people cant buy food or medicinve without "vax passport" and unvaxed MPs cannot enter the pairlament). Soon we may not be able to get out of those totalitarian-to-be countries. Or we will have to lose all we own to get out.

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Yes. :( I felt that urgency myself. While I have to believe this insanity will ultimately pass, I also knew that once trapped there, I wouldn't be able to leave for a long time. I was a permanent resident in NZ. I received a notice from Immigration NZ that I can no longer re-enter the country unless "fully vaccinated" which of course we know is a moving goalpost. Not that I could afford it in the new environment being created where our wealth is also stolen from us through perpetual lockdowns. I'm so angry that my beautiful home has been stolen from me!

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I went into mourning before I had even left the UK. I loved the country so much that I became a citizen - and had just gotten my second passport. To have to abandon the country of my dreams is heart breaking. Now I am learning to love the US again. So far It's been easier than I expected.

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I was in the process of getting New Zealand citizenship as well. They let unvaccinated citizens back into the country, but not permanent residents. Even if I got citizenship now, what is the point of coming back to a country where I would be treated like a second class citizen? At least a greater percentage of Americans are not playing along with this nonsense and vaccine passes really aren't established except in big cities with under 10% of US population total. That's the primary benefit to being here. I just don't see this garbage flying in the US. People aren't going to be controlled by checking in with QR codes everywhere they go. It's not happening.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Yes, I escaped from the UK in October and came back to the US while it was still possible to do so as an unvaccinated person. I can totally related to Monica's story. The paradises that we thought we had found turned into dystopian nightmares overnight.

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Exactly that!

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I fled from Canada to Europe now worried I have to flee again. It truly is scary.

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June 12, 2023: All European countries require no form of vaccination or COVID testing to gain entry at the moment. These countries have reverted to pre-COVID entry measures, which primarily include having a valid passport with room for stamps. The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) which will pre-screen travelers before entering the EU, is not yet operational. When it is, travelers will need to complete a form and pay a fee prior to entry.

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Jan 8, 2022·edited Jan 8, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

New Zealand's PM was one of the WEF 'chosen,' as was Macron. Starting to make more sense now. They all seem to have very, sort of combative, "dare to piss me off" attitudes when speaking to the press, which they didn't before this...thing. Strength in numbers, I guess. Thanks for the link.

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Canadian PM Trudeau is French Canadian & a part time teacher before becoming prime minister. He's from, and in parliament represents, a riding in the province of Quebec which is seen as "French Canada." That province has become very authoritarian just lately with curfews and fines. They seem to be following Macron's lead. He just had a law passed to require vaccine passports. We have these already in Nova Scotia, but I can still go & sit in to eat in some places without being asked for "my papers." Thanks for this. You are so very brave! I could have dual citizenship US/Canada--I'm thinking southern US.

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Great! Go for it. In the past 6 months, I have driven through 20 US states. Outside of large, liberal urban centers like Los Angeles, NYC, Boston, and Chicago, I think the window for vax pass fascism has passed. Even in places where it has been implemented, people have begun to question the c vaccine safety and efficacy. Booster uptake is low and the idea that a majority will take up a third or fourth shot seems pretty low. Outside of employer mandates and mask mandates in some areas, life goes on completely normally in public places.

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Dubai is currently an option as well.

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Feb 23, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Dubai is not female friendly. I wouldn't regard it as a safe option for women or girls

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NZ is not terribly female friendly right now either.

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Haha! True.

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Maybe not, but at least you have a female PM. I can't see that ever happening in Dubai.

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Is it? I was told they had effective mandates there. If you have more information please do share.

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I think that's more a requirement of wherever you're flying to.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you Dr Birdle for your courage!

Thank you Monica.

Regarding the Anglo Saxon nations where things are crazier than elsewhere...

I was glad I came across this article on Substack!

https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/covid-and-the-5-eyes

This is from Wikipedia:

The Five Eyes (FVEY) is an Anglosphere intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.[1] These countries are parties to the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.

The origins of the FVEY can be traced to informal secret meetings during World War II between British and American code-breakers, which started before the U.S. formally entered the war, followed by the Allies' 1941 Atlantic Charter that established their vision of the post-war world.

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Yes. I’ve been trying to explain the Five Eyes to people for several years now. We were in DC where my spouse was a longtime part of a Federal agency. We went to a rural area.

The Five Eyes, Pilgrims, Skull & Bones, so on, their tentacles are in everything.

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Norway, Israel and Germany are also believed to be part of '5' eyes.

Also 5 arrows, 5 eyes?

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....and at least since early 1990’s probably Denmark too....

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I agree with Byram. What an amazing story you have and subsequently, deep insight into the current situation. I'm so glad I found your writing. I have also wanted to flee, or find a very remote place. Australia has lots of these! Its how Aboriginal Australians have been able minimise government-sanctioned violence & control for a long time. How sensible they are. Fleeing, political action, self sufficiency - they're all excellent options alone or in combination.

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I've thought about that correlation myself a lot lately too, Byram. Is it related to the holy alliance of corporations and medicine that developed in CWealth countries and then subsequently coercive rollouts of aggressive vaccine schedules and other medical/pharmacological models?

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Good to see you in Stackerland, Monica. :)

Sharing widely.

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It's great to be here! You're a treasure, Mathew. Thank you.

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Here because of Mathew's post! I relate to some of this. We moved to Florida last July because of a sense of impending doom. Felt a little nuts telling people back then we were trying to escape vaccine mandates because they hadn't happened yet. But we saw them coming. Plus school was school down here.

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I have THREE (count them, three!) friends who moved from blue states to Florida in the last year. Did you see the graphic that showed that over 600,000 people moved from more to less restricted states last year?

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<3

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Jan 7, 2022·edited Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Yes, thank you for the tip Mathew and its nice to see some other very interesting people here as well! Strange that I decided to wait for more data before getting shot, like what impact will they have on my innate immune system. Looks like it will be a very long and possibly infinite wait!

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Thank you for sharing your sad story so eloquently. I am so very sorry for the loss of your partner. And I'm also sorry that my country failed you. I am devastated at what has happened here. I grew up assuming that most NZers were pretty decent people. Now I feel terrified of our leaders, and hated by most of the people. I am so scared for my little girl. She is no longer be able to participate in sports, or attend many (most?) birthday parties. I won't be able to take her for a mummy-daughter date to a cafe. She has a heart condition, and our PM is punishing her because I won't let her have a jab that carries a high risk of heart problems. She is hearing impaired - and surrounded by masked faces - terrified adults who are trampling over our young people in a cowardly, desperate and misguided effort to save themselves. As an unvaccinated (for covid) child, our PM has painted my wee girl as unclean, a threat, dangerous. I will never comply with what the PM is demanding because I refuse to be a part of the destruction of our country. I hope the US treats you better - it sounds like there are pockets of sanity there.

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OMG. Your story is heartbreaking. What's happened in the last 6 months is atrocious. I do think Kiwis will eventually wake up, but right now their impulses toward "doing the right thing" have been hijacked.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

A year ago my sister, a now unemployed nurse/midwife/lactation consultant in the NZ public health system, was assuring me that "Jacinda really cares about people and wants everyone to be safe" ... as you can imagine, she is no longer of that opinion. So yes, people DO wake up. Every tyranny surrounds itself with enemies, over time converting supporters to enemies. It's the nature of that beast. As Stephen R Donaldson wrote, "there is yet love in the world." It will probably get darker first, but there will be a new dawn.

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You are right. I used to think JA was a kind person too. I was warned that it was a facade. Eventually I saw through it.

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Well put. I have learned a lot in the last couple of years. I’m definitely more alert to sharks.

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Thank you Monica. I so hope that you are right, and we find ourselves as a people once again at some point. For now, I guess all I can do is keep protesting, and raise my daughter to never be that person who turns against her fellow humans. Best wishes to you. Anna

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There are many stories here in NZ of children being denied basic rights. Sports being a particular one. The head person in Wellington has " feigned" lack of knowledge around this. Cracks are slowly starting to appear though.

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Did you as the doctor treating your daughter for a vaccine-waiver ? Or is that not possible in N-Z.

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Hello Antoinette - Doctors were not authorised to give waivers in NZ. Only the Director General of Health (Sir Ashley Bloomfield - recently he was knighted) could do that. A young man at my work developed myocarditis after his first shot - he was not given an exemption for the second, rather he was told to have his second shot in hospital so that they could manage. We still have vaccine mandates in place for health professionals. We have a huge nursing shortage - but our unvaccinated nurses are still unable to work. My little girl eventually caught covid, and was fine. I am so glad we never got that jab!

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I found you through Mathew and so glad I did. Subscribed. I look forward to hearing more of your writing that is both chilling and beautiful, both fearful and brave. You nailed it with this, "the US in particular, was unable to break free from an unstable paradigm: a moralistic, militaristic, institutionalized War on (Poverty Crime Drugs Terror Cancer) Covid." You frightened me awake with your mention of Pfizer's collateral demands, not something I have unearthed yet. I hope to hear more about what to do after we have peeked behind the veil of the Medical-Industrial complex, what effective actions we can take, individually and collectively, in the face of vast, covert, powerful dark forces?

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Beyond noncompliance, speaking out, forming resilient parallel communities, and trying to retain what's left of our hearts, I'm not sure I have any big ideas. :)

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Monica, those are big ideas. And powerful. And within reach. Especially the last one. Much love to you.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

"And when I began to investigate the agreements between South American countries and Pfizer in which Pfizer had demanded embassies and military bases as collateral, I was alarmed."

Can someone please explain this?

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No explanation, but it's true. It was sparsely reported by some international media, but I didn't even hear a murmur about it in the states.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

You’re a gripping writer. We all know that dark feeling you sensed. But you explain it in a much more vivid and accurate way than i ever could. I’m looking forward to further posts. Thank you for adding your voice to the choir, I’ve subscribed

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some of the leaked contracts are available in the following telegram channel: https://t.me/eh_den_files

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

As a NZ'er spilt between NZ and Australia the last two years, I can relate to this completely.

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It is my fervent hope that Kiwis will take their country back. When they discover and come to grips with what's been done, I think there will be hell to pay. The mentality of the country of Number 8 Wire pioneers is not going to be destroyed so easily. Innocent Kiwis have been hoodwinked but I believe it's temporary. I just don't know how long it will take, and the reason I left is that I was terrified of never seeing my grandparents again (among other things).

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I am likely to return in a few months and start looking at ways to ensure people are held to account. There is a minority support for this, but its more significant than is apparent.

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Respectfully, minority isn't that minor... and it will surely grow.

And it's very significant.

You get intellectuals on substack... Go to Bitchute.com when you want to see some outrage. (Death to NWO has some good ones

Peace.

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Just about everyone we know locally (Dunedin) who has had the vaccine has had an adverse reaction. One guy can no longer play the guitar and is quite livid about it, others have had heart issues, one has managed to score herself some cancer.

Also they're taking away the futures of the kids. I'm livid about that.

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Awful.

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I am very sorry for your people, Rich. God bless you for your anger

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From talking to others I'd say 'watch this space'. There are enough opposing Ardern to turn any further attempts at tyranny 'spicy'.

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You could very well be right. They do not, however, have much access to the media, business and government.

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There will be hell to pay when vax maniacs see kids murdered... and THEN they research and find out duplicity

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Can completely understand this. The world is now a lot smaller, travel is simply much more difficult and uncertain than it has been for decades, and I see little hope this will improve for years.

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Jan 7, 2022·edited Feb 22, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you from Florida! Thank you for publishing this. I have felt similarly for the last two years. I look forward to reading more about your adventures in LA.

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Wow. This story hit me hard. Thank you so much for sharing it, it's so important for us to know we're not alone in this journey, and we're not crazy. The covid insanity here in Israel has reached a fever pitch, and we have some amazing people fighting hard. Israel is my land, my home and she's worth fighting for. I'm counting on the fighting spirit of my fellow Israelis to reclaim control over our land from the tentacles of Pfizer.

https://etana.substack.com/p/chaos-in-israel

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Have signed up for "Clown World." Love your wit. <3

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Thank you Monica! I'm honored.

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My mother went to nursing school when I was a teenager. She worked in operating rooms, mainly the ER. A few years later when I was in college and speaking with her, she BEGGED me to remove the organ donation designation from my drivers license. She had seen, shall we say, a little too much enthusiasm to harvest, especially from young people. (she also begged me never to ride a motorcycle).

She eventually quit in utter disgust with the medical system, and this was over 20 years ago. I venture to guess it has gotten much worse since then. She got into several 'alternative' type medicines. Unfortunately, imho many of these were pretty much scams. I feel like the regulations actually encourage this sort of thing.

She got breast cancer and refused to treat with 'modern medicine'. I didn't understand at the time, but I do now.

I have seen enough at this point to make this same decision for myself. I will NEVER go to a hospital in this country (USA). I told my sister (nurse) that I'm screwed if I have a heart attack or my appendix bursts. I suspect that as more and more people see the machine for what it is they also will have their own 'seen enough' point.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Welcome back for the fight. The technocrats are not going to be easily stopped with a populace that is so ignorant when it comes to math and science.

It is unclear to me how the link you provided to "Tijuana Cancer Clinics in the Post-NAFTA Era" jives with your quote, "The real lesson of medicine is that in the face of Mother Nature, you are quite impotent. And often when you think you can control it, you make it a lot worse." — Dr. Vinay Prasad. I find Prasad's quote to be a good balance to people who believe they are going to beat Mother Nature in the end.

I was surprised years ago after doing family genealogy how many of my ancestors before antibiotics lived into their 70's and 90's. I believe medical advances like the reduction in child mortality, antibiotics and a few vaccines have garnered much of the gains when it comes to life expectancy. I suspect much of what happens when it comes to your health is determined by your body's daily inputs and outputs. Things like your DNA, physical activity, environment, sleep and nutrition are likely to play a bigger role than the Medical Industry wants you to know.

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Interesting what you say about longevity and it's my experience as well. Many of my great-grandparents and grandparents lived into the late 80s and early 90s. My mother died at age 54 of a stroke followed by pulmonary embolism. She had 25-30 good years after her bout with cancer, but I expect that the radiation and chemotherapy had done a number on her. Radiation treatments are a clear risk factor for stroke.

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Jan 7, 2022·edited Jan 7, 2022

Many of my relatives in 1700's lived into their 80's and 90's. My father knew his great-grandfather who lived to 99 and was born around the civil war. His home was up the hill from ours.

A friend of mine who is a VERY successful Oncologist (lives in a huge home) and advises the companies on treatments used to be very disappointed with the outcomes of his patients. Today he is more optimistic about the immunotherapies. It is interesting that these treatments turn the body's own immune system against the cancer cells. I know two very successful doctors who believe these treatments are a major development, but will require time to target the biochemical structure of the various cancers.

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Much to resonate with in what you say! <3 I like the Prasad quote primarily because of the second part. The precautionary principle dictates that we not throw a biochemical monkey wrench into our cells without understanding what we are doing.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

I completely agree with that principle.

Not adhering to these principles is too common in the medical industry and other processes that throw chemicals into the environment and biological organisms without consideration of the total impact to all living organisms.

MTBE for example was legislated into gasoline to reduce air emissions when the consequences of the chemical on the environment were ignored and the alternatives were ignored because of pressure from ARCO who made the chemical in large quantities.

Anyone who knew how many gasoline storage tanks leaked, the solubility in water of MTBE, the prevalence of two cycle engines and the toxicity of that chemical would know it was a disaster waiting to happen. Unfortunately, it was legislated after the phaseout of lead and created a problem that would need to be abated later. The chemical basis for why MTBE worked was also poorly understood the time. Today desulfurization is used to remove the sulfur from the fuel for better emissions and no additional environmental toxicity.

These types of events happen repeatedly with consequences that could have been avoided with better planning.

Unfortunately, the regulatory processes in our country have been corrupted.

I was discussing some simple steps that could be taken to dramatically reduce hydrocarbon consumption with a friend of mine who is a professor at Harvard and serves on regulatory committees. He could not believe how much sense it made and tried to get my input into the federal government on energy policy which is not his area of expertise. There was nothing, but silence. My solutions probably did not fit the profit motives of those who grease the politicos' pockets.

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Yes.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Thank you very much for this - and Matthew for the introduction. Cory Zue's story is also worth reading: https://www.coryzue.com/writing/coming-clean/

It's hard to understand why many people still put their trust in conventional medicine, when doctors themselves have lost trust in their profession and are quitting in droves from burnout, disillusionment and resistance to forced medical procedures. This awareness will be the tipping point, I think.

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I hope so, too.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

So glad Mr. Crawford directed me to this site. Looking forward to your insights. Thank you for writing.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Looking forward to the “rest of the story”.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Wow - I was thinking of moving to New Zealand in 2014. My wife was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at the end of 2013, just like your spouse. Sadly she died in May of 2014 and I felt like I needed a change. As a libertarian and semi-pro landscape photographer New Zealand had immense appeal to me but I could not pull the trigger on moving. I'm glad now that I didn't but I fear that the US is headed in the same direction. Thanks for sharing your story.

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Jan 7, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

We left a very blue state in fall of 2019. I really mean we fled. I felt it coming based on what was happening there years before but became tyrannical in 2019. It started before covid. We had to get out and we did. Love Texas. Never stop fighting because they will never stop.

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Texas is pretty great. I was there for a couple of weeks last month. Where did you move from?

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