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Beautiful place, magical I'm sure.

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will never forget traveling Blue Ridge Parkway in 🍂🍁fall color🍁🍂 & misty fog, it is a magnificent place !

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Oct 5, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

Continue on south and visit the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially the area around Blowing Rock - one of my favorite places. Another good place to visit is the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee.

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Definitely a plan for my winter! I just got a fresh Parks Pass.

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What great pics, Monica! Gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. A battery-charge day!

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I agree fully w/ living our lives - esp the “magical” aspects that bring peace & joy. I wasn’t sure what to think about the cell phone test though, because as of the last 3+ years (I realize it goes much further back, but I was blindly unaware of the worst of it until 2020) & what has been done to us - & their open plans for us in near & distant future, no evil “conspiracy theory” lacks credibility or surprises anymore as most of those have turned out to be spoiler alerts (& not crazy) anyway.

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To me it just seemed like another Y2K type scare. No substance.

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Oct 5, 2023Liked by Monica Hughes PhD

🤷‍♀️. Except there was zero substance to a “virus” w/ a 99.7% survivability for the vast majority, that caused the globe to throw away decades of actual scientific “pandemic preparedness” & convince the world to give up our God-given rights & liberties; that our ONLY salvation was in counterintuitive, tyrannical, ruinous actions like distancing, masking, lockdown & - in their narrative - the ONLY solution of injecting everyone on the planet. And how the goal posts changed from month to month, week to week or sometimes day to day.

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To be sure. But that doesn’t make the fear porn on the opposite side of the spectrum true, either.

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Agree!

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Survivable virus, yes, but a large number of people ended up with long-Covid, a rather debilitating condition.

The measures were taken by lack of better ideas. Did you miss those pathetic longwinded press-conferences Prez Trump gave ? E.g. in the Rose Garden with all the CEO's he was able to round up for that afternoon ? Or on CNN - they made a lot of money on candidate Trump, but needed to dislike him because of their core-audience - the homilies of Andrew Cuomo ?

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I had WuFlu twice, including pneumonia the 2nd time that had me out of work a month & on oxygen 24/7 for 2 of those weeks & I survived (I’m in my 60s). Of course there are people who do better & do worse, as w/ any illness. I consider myself lucky. But “long COVID” symptoms are so imprecise & can be attributed to so many other things as to be meaningless as a diagnosis. And there were decades of rational preparedness measures that were thrown out the window for irrational & demonstrably disproven BS - including masks, distancing, lockdowns & a bioweapon sold to the public as a “vaccine” that was “safe & effective” & without proper trialing & w/ immunity for pharma from being sued. The benefits of any such measures have to be weighed against risk/damage. And the global societal, economic, educational, medical & mental well being carnage was & is NOT worth it

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Yep, stamp the long-Covid patients in the ground - just like allopathic medicine has done for a long time with migraines, endometriosis, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, long-mononucleoses, etc. All issues mostly afflicting women. All seen as "too imprecise" to treat. I expected better from you. (My theory is that Covid awakened other viruses dormant in the body, like Epstein-Barr.)

Hindsight is 20/20. It is easy to call BS if you have no responsibility in the matter.

But, I agree with you on some of the things you mention. Panic and the wish for a fast&quick solution caused corners to be cut in the development of a vaccine. I also think that giving a Nobel prize "for discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19" was a political move. (Not the first time that happened.) But usually it takes some years before a discovery is acknowledged by the Nobel committee. Correct me if I am wrong.

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Not stamping anyone in the ground. For any illness or disease, some of either sex do better & worse. Fact of life. All of those things you list that allopathic medicine has ignored for a long time in women esp… why only as of 2020 going forward are those “long COVID” now. What were they before wuflu? So I’m disappointed in you too but Can agree on what we agree

And nobody had “responsibility” for this shot except the psychopaths who perpetrated the “virus”, the tyrannical “solutions” & everything pertaining of this 2920 to present cluster f%#k

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I tend to agree on the get out in nature and the emergency test thing though I suppose that a phone can transmit a more localized signal especially if near you. I turned my phone off, not because I was worried about the test, but because it was midnight-1:00 Am in Thailand and I find I sleep better without those blue lights on at all. I guess I got too used to having no electric!

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I turn my phone into airplane mode at night.

I lived an entire winter in VA last year with no electricity except that provided by Bluetti solar panels and solar generator. Which wasn’t much. The ability to power my devices and some led string lights.

I do like living minimalistically. This year I’ve got new lithium house batteries and plan to get a gas/propane generator soon, so winter will be less of a struggle.

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Winter is not a worry here but the land situation is! Trying to pack it up and head to the USA God willing...

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Land situation? I haven’t been following what’s going on there

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It's a total mess. The military wants our land and technically with the way the titling is set up they can take it. So they turned off our electric (and those of other neighbors on the back block, all but one of whom, an older farming husband and wife, have moved away). They blocked the reservoir with dam (we have a well) and just made it difficult out here. Meanwhile my husband hs a visa interview to come to the USA...jabs technically required though I'm looking into exemptions

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😱🤯

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Your husband can get exemptions if he still has his official vaccination records. Or if the official files still exist and he can obtain a copy.If a doctor writes an affidavit based on his files, that report must have place, date, time, of vaccination, and also who administered the shot.

If he had childhood illnesses like measles, etc. he can ask his doctor to refer him to a lab to have titers done. Antibodies will show up. Based on the lab report his doctor has to write an affidavit. That affidavit and the lab results need to be handed to the Panel Physician (if he immigrates through Consular Processing) or the Civil Surgeon (Stateside). For polio, the antibodies are in the gut apparently, and cannot be proven by a titer. He would be wise to research if a separate polio shot is available where he lives. Otherwise he will probably get a cocktail-shot. There is no reasoning possible with the "immigration"doctors. They have to follow the rules.

He can try to get an exemption on medical grounds - if they exist - or on religious beliefs (member of a church that is against vaccinations). Shots required are based on age, the CDC gives information on its website.

Your husband should ask the P.P. or the C.S. for a copy of their report of the medical examination, inc. the vaccination status, before the exam starts. The medical exam results go in a sealed envelope, so he has no idea what they wrote unless he asks for that copy.

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Nice to see these pictures. Wish I'd known you were here. I live, quite literally, right around the corner.

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Hello, Monica? I had enjoyed your Substack articles and just realized tonight that I hadn't seen any in awhile. Are you still writing?

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The photographs are wonderful.

I would also wish it was less people-y :)

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Great share! Cool pictures as well.

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