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Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

This is a Substack I am happy to pay to subscribe to.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

It will be interesting to see how much public interest there is in the fall booster campaign. The public ignoring the shots for <5 is telling, and around me all the friends who proudly posted pictures of their kids wearing masks to school and claimed they would do this forever to avoid the flu, without fanfare, stopped wearing them. It was nice to see so many 'first day of school' pictures flood facebook the past two weeks of smiling happy kids going back to normal.

I'm reminded of how similar fads suddenly disappeared throughout the years. One day everyone is wearing a snap bracelet in 1990, the next, no one wears one and acts like they never did. Seems masks have gone the way of snap bracelets outside of hospitals.

Cautiously optimistic that the tide is turning, seeing the Miami Herald platform Marc Thiessen's piece "Dr. Fauci got it wrong, and schoolchildren are paying a high price" [1] is a positive sign, even if Marc was so wrong about so very much during the 00's (he was speechwriter for Donald Rumsfeld and neo-con hawk).

On the other hand, as Paul Thacker notes today in his piece "Silence From Science Community as NIH Cancels Grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology" [2] , the press/media/TheScience continues to ignore the rot and is not interested in holding anyone accountable for this man made catastrophe.

[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article265051159.html

[2] https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/silence-from-science-community-as

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

Every time this site has a subscription drive, I put in a note. This is one of the best subs I have...and I have many. The summaries of articles in a day are priceless and save literal hours of poking around. The thinking is clear and concise as is the writing.

I love the fact that Substack lets sites like this exist. It would be a tragedy if lack of funds led to the loss of voices like the Naked Emperor. You will not be disappointed if you subscribe.

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

It'd be interesting to see your take on food supply. I've heard several people really panic about it, Neil Oliver, Jordan Petersen, etc. but I'm not buying it...

US/London wheat prices are below 2013 levels https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/wheat

US/Australia have had bumper harvests, so the whole US food production/fires seems over the top too with no real impact.

I just find it hard squaring the very real impacts on privacy, bodily autonomy, freedom to travel with these other worries. I have no axe to grind with those who are jumping to these conclusions as the paucity of truthful reporting and lack of journalistic integrity has left us all scrabbling to try and concoct our own truths.

As such we have to pick and choose, and you're one of the most stable opinions I find (perhaps because you put so much effort into staying broadly informed?!) whereas others I have to occasionally pull back from. Other than the aforementioned I also got riled by Alex Berenson's live on-air bullying of Malone (albeit it did make me research mRNA and realise that there's a 60 year history of invention from Watson and Crick onwards and Malone is at best a partial player through the 80's and 90's and by no means the sole creator or able to take the "inventor of mRNA" crown he wore/wears) and Berenson's cherry-picked drubbing of Ivermectin. Sigh.

I also liked Matthew Crawford's Round the Earth, but his comment section got too twisted for my liking.

Anyway, anyone reading this... Naked Emperor is worth it for sure!

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Aug 30, 2022Liked by NE - nakedemperor.substack.com

I love your substack! For those on the fence, NE's weekly roundup is really really really good. I don't have a lot of money, but its the reason I subscribe- its a great collection of what's going on in the world, Covid and otherwise

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