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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Everything we knew about disease spread mitigation has been inverted and I'm no longer willing to ascribe it to sheer incompetence. If they were incompetent they would have gotten something right but everything we've been told has made things infinitely worse instead of better, and we haven't even started on vaccine long term side effects.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I suspect a lot of the anti science folks have "In this house, we believe in science" signs on their front lawn.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

But we were told that if we refused to get the vaccine that WE were anti-science. That if we didn’t believe everything coming from the CDC or the FDA we were anti-science. Fauci told us He was Science, and that if we criticized Him we were criticizing Science and were therefore anti-science.

All of this is really a very bad joke. The very foundation of science is questioning and even skepticism. It is discovery and mystery and always generates more questions than answers. Newtonian Gravity is settled. Quantum Gravity is not. The history of science is full of stories of accepted facts that were later turned on their heads. Einstein insisted that his theory of General Relativity should not be accepted as fact until it could be fully validated by experiment, and he said he did not think that would happen in his lifetime.(He was right, complete validation did not come until 2015). Following the science means following a process led by doubt and imagination and questioning, not by certainty and dogmatism. Throughout history and up until the present day scientists have been wrong many more times than they have been right. Einstein knew that. That is the very nature of science.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

It should be mentioned that at the first inkling of symptoms, start on one of the protocols promoted by Front Line Doctors, or Dr Peter McCullough, etc. The original directions from ERs and Public Health officials to stay home if you were ill and only report to ER when you became desperately ill presumed there were no effective treatments. Yet reports of successful treatment with Hydroxychloroquine, or Ivermectin, with Zinc, Budesonide, Corticosteroids, Vitamin D, etc, came out quite early and were refined into very effective serial multidrug regimens long before the 'experimental mRNA-based gene therapies' were available.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I totally appreciate your time and commitment BUT I have always been a freelancer. I have never had a days sick pay. I have also only ever taken about 2 days off sick (plus about 6 weeks maternity leave from a very traumatic birth) When you say ‘if you are sick stay at home’ that is only possible if you can afford it.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

If you live in any kind of society, it’s really hard to avoid disease transmission. We’re all exposed at some point (maybe less so if it’s body-fluid or skin-contact sexual).

I’m okay being around someone else who’s sick. Either I’ll catch it and get sick or I’ll catch it and not get sick.

The sooner it goes around and weakens, the better—bio-weapon or not.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

The science, became antiscience... While "science denialists" are the ones thinking scientifically... Very prescient...

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Science isn't gaslighting or sophistry. Journalism isn't cut & pasting PhARMA PR releases or coporate dogma. Truth isn't cherry picked statistics, reverse engineered specifically to discount essential data, which might save scores-of-thousands of lives? Accuracy is inversely proportional to the size of the display and volume of the audio, or the amount of makeup?

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Boy who cried wolf fable apply to this new phenomenon?

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

And just like the Wizard of Oz, when the curtain was pulled back and the lie exposed, the man just got away with it.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Tragically TRUE.

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Mar 28, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

When we figured out that the virus was spread by aerosols and the CDC kept recommending cloth masks, the CDC became actively harmful. The recommendation should have went out that the very vulnerable start wearing footed N95 masks or better and limit their time in any enclosed spaces. The government should have redirected all of the useless spending to encouraging improved HVAC systems in public spaces.

Instead, the we continued to get “my mask protects you” and “masking works”. The masking messaging is proof that the CDC’s response to this pandemic had nothing to do with protecting the vulnerable.

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Mar 28, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I have had this at work, where my colleagues were ill and aggressively testing themselves for covid, yet they said it always came back negative - and "at least it wasn't covid". Yeah, well, clearly whatever you had wiped you out for 5 days or so, so perhaps just stay at home huh? Seems they were intent on not doing that or at least cared not so much, so long as it wasn't covid. It's the epitomy of stupidity. So crazily narrow-minded.

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Oh Wow, I have heard those exact words and seen our teachers come in sick as dogs, but "I tested negative" and sprayed their germs all over the kids..who tested positive because they were unvaxxed. It is only the vaxxed following this rule, I notice. now, some of the teachers (vaxxed) ae getting it again...I know one was sick last week from her second bout.

Naked Emperor, how do you combat this? i cannot believe what I am seeing...I do wish the vaxxed would just infect each other...

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

"I believe in the anti-science!" 🙏🙏🙏🙏 It is my religion.

I love how you point out people think it will protect them, that's a nuanced point I didn't quite get before. 👍🏽💜

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Mar 27, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

The "soldiering on" doesn't mean much, when these variants spread just fine, while asymptomatic, or when EVERYONE is sneezing, sniffy with sore throat and sweaty. When your blood O2 hits 89, you can't stand up without keeling over, you can't remember where you are, or you have to rush a parent you've unwittingly infected, to the ER. The notion, you've been 1099'd out of ANY health insurance, sick-leave, childcare; living on SMAK Ramen and catsup, or soy sauce yuppies dumped in the Uber you still owe $44K on, and is guiding the repo-men to tow it away, as you can't stop pooping and coughing would make you wish you could still breathe through your caked mask?

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