Saving Society: The World In The Balance

This will probably be the most important article I write. So please read it carefully and in full. It appears that we have begun our journey down that road that leads to hell on Earth, and it will only get worse as it progresses. That is, unless the people unite, stand up, speak out, and fight back. There is no greater force than a united front against tyranny. Allow me to explain what we are fighting here, and what is on the line.

On January 6, Vice President Mike Pence, in the company of the joint Congress of Senators and House Representatives, certified the Electoral College vote for Joe Biden. In doing so, they essentially confirmed that Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris would be sworn in on the January 20 as the new President and Vice President of the United States of America. On the same day, protests occurred at the Capitol building where Trump supporters had gathered for a rally. However, somehow a number of people managed to get into the Capitol itself, a feat that would be near impossible with the level of security surrounding that building, unless of course they were let in (which would imply that there was someone on the inside). Given the footage that emerged showing these people being let in, that would attest to the former speculative thought. Thus, the question arises: why were they let in?

While we may not know the answer to this, we can make some fairly reasoned observations that would allow us to come to a viable conclusion. First, the Capitol was breached as objections were being made to the Electoral College vote for certain States, beginning with Arizona. Now why would Trump supporters storm the Capitol when such a thing was occurring. After all, they wanted it to happen. They wanted objections to be made. Why throw those objections into chaos and confusion and risk them going awry? Unless, of course, those that stormed the Capitol were not real Trump supporters, but rather members of Antifa and Black Lives Matter posing as Trump supporters so that they would be made to look terrible and dangerous publicly. It has since been demonstrated that there were Antifa and BLM members amongst those who entered the Capitol, so this is definitely not out of the question, and makes much more logical sense. It could also be inferred that the Democrats may have, at least to some degree, been involved in setting this up so that they would have a way of convincing most of those who would object to the vote to backflip and side with them, as well as manufacturing a reason to make another impeachment attempt on President Trump, or indeed invoke the 25th Amendment and have Trump removed from office immediately.

Tragically, 5 people died as a result of the destructive event that took place in the Capitol. It is terrible. Now if you listen to those in the media, the Democrats, or indeed social media “platforms” (in inverted commas because they act more like publishers), they will have you believe President Trump incited such violence. Let me make this clear: Donald Trump did not incite violence. In fact, he called out and condemned the violence multiple times, and told his supporters to go home via a video message released on his social media. But Silicon Valley did something extraordinary uncalled for (and this was only the beginning). They removed the video and subsequent messages calling for peace, claiming Trump was inciting violence. Then Facebook, and by extension Instagram (owned by Facebook) suspended Trump for at least two weeks (until the Inauguration). Democrats began drafting articles of impeachment and calling for Pence to invoke the 25th. But things were only just beginning, and they got much worse.

On January 8, Facebook and Instagram permanently suspended the President of the United States. Soon after, Twitter did the same. In addition to these, Trump has now been banned from Google, YouTube, Apple, Reddit, Shopify, Pinterest, Spotify, Snapchat, Twitch and TikTok. This is where this article gets extremely important.

After Twitter banned Trump, they started going all out on a purge of Conservative account. They took out lawyers Sidney Powell and Lin Wood. They banned General Michael Flynn and journalist Tracy Beanz. They went after a multitude of other well known Conservative accounts. Then they started going after others; people who were not high profile but simply shared Conservative views and supported President Trump. Some bigger accounts reported losing tens of thousands of followers in mere hours. I personally lost roughly 100 followers in the space of a day. But Twitter went further than just banning people. What they did next was absolutely spine-chilling. When President Trump tweeted a thread from the official President of the United States account (@POTUS), Twitter removed it, then locked the President out of this account and the official White House account (@TheWhiteHouse). In doing this, Twitter have demonstrated that they think they run the US. It sets a dangerous precedent that Big Tech can deplatform the President of the United States, eradicating his line of communication to the people. Indeed, it could be viewed as a national emergency.

So where are those Republicans who said they were going after Big Tech? Where are Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley? Some Republicans have spoken out on the matter, calling out Big Tech and even going so far as to say they would go after Section 230. But they never will. These Republicans talk a big game, but when push comes to shove, they never take action. They just sit back and let these tech tyrants do as they wish. They did the same when it came to objections to the Electoral College vote. Only six Republican Senators (or thereabouts) objected. All others who said they would object, including Kelly Loeffler, who announced she would do so just two days before at the final rally before the Georgia Runoffs (which, surprise surprise, the Republicans lost thanks to votes again being “found” in the early hours of the morning), backflipped and did not support the objections on the day it mattered. And therein lies the problem.

So long as the Republican Establishment remains, the Republican Party will never actually take necessary actions to defend democracy and freedom in the United States of America. Establishment Republicans are only in it for themselves. They used Trump to get themselves re-elected, and then proceeded to stab him in the back. Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell both faced highly contested races, the Democrats spending tens of millions in their efforts to unseat them. But thanks to Trump’s energized base, they were both re-elected. But did they defend Trump? Did they help the man who had helped return them to their cushy jobs? No. Instead they began lining up with the Democrats, making it known they wanted to work with them and the Biden administration. Graham was even seen bumping elbows with Kamala Harris on the Senate floor. The Establishment do not care about the people. They only care about themselves. Only the Republican President cared about the people of America. Only he was willing to take aim at both sides of Congress and call them out. This is why there has been minimal support for him from Republicans. They do not want to be exposed; they do not want to be called out. They want to be able to continue in their positions with not a care in the world about Americans. Trump went against the grain, and they really did not like it. As I have mentioned before, there is a lot of corruption in this world. It runs deep, and it likely runs throughout both the Democrat and Republican Parties in the United States. That is why it is crucial that the people of America, those who value democracy, who value their freedoms, unite and stand up to these people. If that comes in the form of a new major Party, so be it. I have seen increasing support for a Patriot Party, and that may be the future of Conservatives in America. If Republicans want to keep their voters, they must start fighting for them like President Trump has done for the last four years. Otherwise, it is almost certain many will lose their spots come time to face the public.

Back to Silicon Valley for a moment. It is important to note that over the past few days, Big Tech have not only gone on a mass censorship spree of Conservatives but have also conspired to bring down a new platform for them to speak freely on. Parler, a social media app similar to Twitter, created by political commentator Dan Bongino and launched last year, and refuses to engage in censorship. For this reason, combined with the mass exodus from Twitter to Parler following Twitter’s banning of the President and others (which led to a fall in their stock price), Big Tech went on an all-out assault on the relatively new platform. Apple and Google told Parler they needed to start moderating what people said on their platform, otherwise they would be removed from each of their App Stores. Google removed Parler from the Play Store not long after the warning was given, Apple following suit at the end of the 24-hour deadline they gave the social media platform. It was egregious, but Parler was still accessible via a web browser. However, Amazon then chimed in, saying they would remove Parler from their web servers, effectively shutting the platform down. Through their actions, Google, Apple, and Amazon, likely alongside Facebook and Twitter, have conspired to bring down Twitter’s competition, which could easily be seen as a violation of America’s Antitrust laws. It is however unlikely that they will be punished, considering the incoming administration seems to be perfectly fine with silencing their opposition.

This is however but one of an increasing number of major issues that we now face, issues that threaten our freedom and life as we know it on this Earth. As mentioned previously, COVID-19 has given Governments and unelected bureaucrats far too much power and control over our lives. It has provided them with every excuse necessary to do what they want and force us to submit to their will. This is on a global scale. I said before the US Election that if Trump wins, we all win, but if Biden wins, we all lose. I said that if Biden were to take the reins, Democrats, notoriously socialists (which always leads to Communism), would control America, setting the scene for Socialism to run rampant throughout the world. Already Conservatives are being silenced on social media, and Biden hasn’t even been inaugurated yet. It is highly likely that the Democrats, now having control of the White House, the House, and the Senate, will attempt to enact a nationwide lockdown. Small businesses will be run out of operation, leaving only big corporations to control the market. The free market will essentially be dead. Mask mandates will occur. This will be followed by vaccine mandates. Chances are if you want to travel, you will have to get the vaccine. Otherwise, you will be forced to remain in your country, and likely your State.

This extends to Australia. Already we are seeing this nation falling apart. State Premiers are all high on power, as are the unelected bureaucrats they consult: The Chief Health Officers. They are using the borders as political tools, restricting entry and exit to and from their States. Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews and his Government have now established a permit system for those wishing to enter Victoria. If you are in what they have termed a “Green Zone”, you are allowed in but must first obtain a permit. If you are in an “Orange Zone”, you must obtain a permit, and must also get tested and isolate until receiving a negative result. If you have been in a “Red Zone” in the last 14 days, you will not be permitted entry into the State. If you do not have a permit upon entry, you will face a $5000 fine. In addition to this, Victorians leaving the State will need a permit to do so and will only be permitted to travel to “Green Zones”. This sort of permit system is something you would expect to see in a Communist nation, or at the very least a totalitarian State. Victorians have to get a permit to enter their own State. Victorians need a permit to leave their own State. Australians have to get a permit to enter a State in their own country. This has no place in a free and democratic nation.

But this is likely only the beginning of a very slippery slope into the abyss where our freedoms no longer exist. Soon enough, more States will join in with this system, until Australia is divided State by State, whereby you must obtain different permits depending on which State you wish to travel to. Then you can expect it to escalate to the next level: If you want to leave your State, you must get the vaccine. In fact, despite the Prime Minister’s reassurance that the vaccine will not be mandatory, it is highly likely they will do everything they can to get everyone to take it. Indeed, I expect them to make life a misery for anyone who chooses not to put a rushed vaccine (that could have a multitude of serious side effects down the track) in their body. The most likely scenario is that there will be a set of rules for those who choose not to get the vaccine, and a different set for those who comply. Those who comply will be freer, while those who do not will have restrictions put upon their lives in what I would term psychological warfare. What I mean by this is that the restrictions imposed upon these individuals would be so mentally taxing, they would be driven to the edge, some potentially to the point where they only see two options: Get the vaccine and return to society or be driven to mental hell. Likely restrictions include loss of job opportunities, restrictions on movement, socializing and so forth. It is essentially alienation from society.

Now some may say: “The Government would never do such a thing.” Incorrect. The Government would do such a thing, they just wouldn’t frame it as such. Already Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has said he cannot rule out vaccine passports. Already Scott Morrison has said the vaccine may be made compulsory by some workplaces. And while the official position of the National Cabinet on dealing with COVID-19 is suppression, Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has made it clear he thinks all States bar NSW are going for elimination, which in his mind appears to be the right strategy. If you needed any more indication that these politicians and bureaucrats are out of control, all you need do is look at what happened in Brisbane over the past weekend. After a hotel quarantine worker tested positive to the UK variant of COVID-19, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk put a hard 3-day lockdown on Brisbane. Was this necessary? The facts tell us it was not. All close contacts of the positive case tested negative, and there were no new cases every day. But this did not stop the Queensland Government from imposing one of the most absurd rules to date: If you were leaving your home, you must wear a mask at all times, including while in your car. Yes, that’s right, you had to wear a mask while driving in your own car. I challenge anyone to justify this rule. Unless you can somehow give yourself the virus while driving, or the virus can penetrate the metal of your vehicle, then this rule makes zero sense. Even the Queensland Government must have known this, given upon the lifting of the Brisbane lockdown, they scrapped the rule. The rule existed for three days. How it existed at all is questionable, but it goes to the heart of the matter at hand.

Now to the vaccine again. It is unlikely this vaccine will be enough to eradicate COIVD-19. This is a coronavirus, and coronaviruses have a knack for mutating. Take the flu for example. Every year, a new vaccine is rolled out, because the influenza virus mutates, and so the vaccine you had one year won’t necessarily protect you the next. Each year, people make a choice as to whether or not they want to get the flu vaccine, and life goes on as normal. With COVID-19, the vaccines developed thus far have been rushed, created in the space of months rather than the usual 8-10 years it would take for a safe and effective vaccine to be produced. As I wrote in a previous article on the vaccine, everyone has a right to be skeptical of it. There is no telling what effect it could have in say 5-10 years, what adverse effects may occur. In the article I wrote about the vaccine, I listed a whole range of these that have come directly from the Centre for Disease Control (CDC). They included things like brain diseases, autoimmune diseases, and even infertility amongst others. That last one is something I just want to expand on a little more.

It was revealed yesterday in Australia that the vaccination campaign would be targeting women and migrants, in particular young women. Now I want to take you back to something I wrote about in my article pertaining to the vaccine. Back in 2014, a vaccine that the World Health Organization had claimed to be a simple tetanus vaccine for those in less developed nations turned out to do much more than just protect against tetanus. The vaccine had been created by WHO researchers, who conjugated tetanus toxoid (TT) with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). When injected into a woman, this combination causes their immune system to attack their pregnancy hormones, leading to two possible outcomes depending on whether or not the woman is pregnant. If she is, it leads to a miscarriage, if not, it leads to infertility. This vaccine was termed a “birth-control vaccine”, and although the WHO denied using such a thing, three accredited biochemistry labs in Nairobi tested samples taken from vials of the WHO’s vaccine, finding hCG was indeed present when it should not have been. What’s more, people were told they needed to have multiple doses of the vaccine, which was in fact just ensuring continued infertility. This was likely an experiment in depopulation. Bringing it back to today, it is pertinent to consider the following: Why would young women in particular be the target of a vaccination campaign for a vaccine that has been rushed through production? Sure, the vaccine could appear harmless, but can we be certain that they have not added something we do not know about? Keep in mind that with these vaccines they have been playing around with mRNA and DNA, and the WHO have not been trustworthy in the past when it comes to these sorts of things, particularly with the aforementioned tetanus vaccine. This vaccine also requires multiple doses, and there are likely to be further vaccines on at least an annual basis, considering the habitual mutation of this virus. So, can we really have faith in it?

I think that brings us to one of the deepest questions we must all ask ourselves at this point: Who can we really trust? There is a lot of corruption in this world, that is for certain. Politicians and unelected bureaucrats are amongst those who typically become corrupt. The United Nations has seated on its Huma Rights Council some of the worst human rights abusers on the planet. The World Health Organization could not even do its job to prevent the global outbreak of a virus. Around the globe, politicians and health bureaucrats have taken advantage of the situation to take more power than is given to them by the people, thus giving them unfounded levels of control that they should never be permitted. So, I think it is probably wise to be skeptical of these major organisations and politicians who push an agenda of control. If you look at the United Kingdom currently, they are in their third lockdown, a harsh one that continues to escalate and essentially keeps citizens locked inside their homes all day every day. Then you look at the US, where Biden had said he would be a President for all Americans, where his whole campaign was based on ‘uniting America’. But now he has essentially labelled the Capitol Police racists (in saying that if Black Lives Matter had infiltrated the Capitol there would have been more people killed as compared to those who did enter) and called out Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley for objecting to the Electoral College vote, something which so happens to be their democratic right (in fact, Democrats objected to the vote back in 2016, 2004, and 2000). Biden has also announced that under his administration, the priority would be “Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American owned small businesses, and women-owned businesses”, effectively segregating small business owners. In addition to this, Democrats have called for Trump supporters to be put on lists, rounded up, re-educated, and the like. And now the Democrats are going to launch another impeachment attempt on President Trump (when his term expires in just 9 days). This rhetoric is not one of unity. It seeks only to divide.

Division is exactly what is needed by those in positions of power. COVID-19 has helped them to divide us against each other. People are reporting their neighbours for having more people than the government permits over to their home. Such an event occurred in Canada, where someone reported their neigbour to the police for having one more than permitted. The police turned up and used force to remove people from the person’s apartment. This is what society is coming to. Then there are those who scold people for not wearing masks. There are a multitude of reasons a person may not be wearing a mask, including medical conditions, trauma, anxiety and more. Instead of judging someone, consider they may have a genuine reason for not wearing one. At the end of the day, if you consider a mask to protect you, and you are wearing one, why should you be concerned about what someone else does? There is no need for division between those who wear masks and those who do not. It is the same when it comes to the vaccine. If you want to take the vaccine, by all means go ahead. But if someone decides they do not wish to receive it, do not persecute them for their choice. There is no need for division between those who want the vaccine and those who do not.

Continuing this point, it is important that a certain issue is addressed. In order to prevent division in our society, we must not alienate those who choose not to get the vaccine. It is concerning that some are of the view that those who do not get vaccinated should minimize socialization, or even be socially isolated. The mental health repercussions of such a line of thought would be devastating. No one should be controlling other people’s lives like that. It saddens me that people would think like this. It is also deeply saddening that these things could come between friends, and prevent them from seeing each other. Trying times like these show you who you can truly rely upon.

Division only leads to the collapse of society. It is so very important that each and every one of us understands this. If we continue down the path we are currently on, where politicians, bureaucrats and various other elites seek to divide us, society will collapse in on itself and give these people exactly what they want. That would only end in misery for all of us, not just one side or the other.

There is only one way to prevent all this. There is only one way to stop these people from getting what they want. There is only one way that we can protect society and protect our freedoms. It is one word, but it is a powerful word: Unity.

Unity strikes fear in the hearts of many, even the most powerful. If a society were to unite and stand up to their government or leader, no matter how tyrannical they are, they would run scared. They use division as a tool to split society so that they can maintain and grow their hold upon it. But if the people overcome this tactic and band together, they can prevent power-hungry politicians from getting their way. As the old adage goes: “In unity, there is strength.”

Now more than ever it is vital to the future of our nations, our lives, and our freedoms that we unite, rise, stand up and speak out against all those who seek to tear society apart and establish a New World where they have all the power and control. Our grandfathers went to war to fight for our freedom, now we must fight in what have become known as the Culture Wars to protect those same freedoms. No longer can we just sit back and watch, hoping that someone else will fight on our behalf. President Trump did that for 4 years, and even though he looks set to exit office on the 20th, he has created a movement that will continue forth, and he will continue to fight alongside it. And so, we must all stand together in unity. We must fight back against those who seek to silence us, against those who seek to divide us, against those who seek to control our very way of life.

The fate of the world hangs in the balance. It is now our responsibility to protect it. I will keep writing, in the hope that will help to bring people together. What will you do to help?

The Hidden Truths Of COVID-19

Yesterday, I wrote a post on Facebook stating that “Healthy people should not be forced to wear masks.” While I stand by this statement, I feel it needs a little more context, but instead of writing another post, I thought it would be apt to write an article explaining my views on this matter, in addition to providing a number of sources explaining how masks are likely barely, if at all, effective in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Here are my views for clarification. I have no qualms with people wearing masks if they so choose to. That is their choice, and so be it. In particular for those who have other pre-existing conditions, masks may be more important. Now I can see why masks should be worn by those who are sick, although if you are sick you probably shouldn’t be going out anyway. But for those who are healthy, masks should not be a necessity. Even for those who are asymptomatic, masks are unnecessary. Why? Because if you are not displaying any symptoms, you cannot spread a virus. It’s fairly straightforward reasoning.

But when it comes to masks, the question that many seem to refuse to conduct their own research into is this: Do they really work? Many people appear to have blind trust in the media and politicians and will take them at their word when they say masks work to prevent the virus from spreading. But if you were to spend some time researching the matter, you would find that masks are not doing this. In fact, in most places around the world where masks have been mandated, cases of COVID-19 have increased following the mandates. Studies into asymptomatic cases have shown that their close contacts have not become infected with the virus, and that they have a much lower quantity of viral load and a shorter duration of viral shedding, decreasing the risk of transmission. In addition to this, the pores of masks are around 300 nanometers in size, while the size of COVID-19 particles are between 65-125 nanometers. This means that COVID-19 particles are able to move through the pores of the masks rather than being blocked from entry/exit. Yet it does not end there. The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) even conducted a study and found masks to be ineffective in preventing the spread of COVID-19, even for those who consistently wear them. Within their study, the majority of those who wore masks contracted the virus, while less than 4% became unwell after not wearing a mask.

Now I understand the hype around wearing a mask but allow me to put it to you another way. If masks were so effective in preventing viral respiratory illnesses, why have they not been widely used, even mandated, in years gone by to prevent the spread of flu? I would also like to point you all to the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Now many may not know this, but most deaths in that pandemic were not actually caused by the influenza virus. Rather they were a resultant of bacterial pneumonia. This bacterial pneumonia was caused by common upper respiratory flora, essentially a resultant of various bacteria. If these secondary bacterial infections had not occurred, it is believed that many patients may have indeed survived. But what does this have to do with masks? Well, masks were also enforced in the 1918 pandemic. Now we know that the bacterial pneumonia that occurred and resulted in most of the deaths at the time were from “common upper respiratory flora”. That means that they were caused by waste that the body was attempting to naturally expel, as is its function. But when you put a mask in front of your mouth, that waste that the body is trying to expel can end up re-entering your body. This is what leads to respiratory illnesses, including the bacterial pneumonia that caused the deaths of far too many people in the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. This is how unnecessary illnesses and deaths are caused.

Now this all comes back to my main point: healthy people should not be forced to wear masks. If you want to wear a mask, that should be your choice. Politicians should not be permitted the power to enforce mask mandates on everyone, whereby the penalty for non-compliance is a fine of any nature (in NSW it is currently $200). In fact, as far as I am aware, there is no law that gives Governments the power to enforce such mandates and punish citizens for not complying. It would hardly surprise me if people took the fines to court and they were thrown out for being unlawful.

But while we are on the subject, I would like to bring up a few other issues surrounding COVID-19 and what you are being lied to about. First, the testing. The testing method currently used in most places is a PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test. It is essentially a diagnostic test that determines if you are infected by analyzing a sample to see if it contains genetic material from the virus. Now the media and politicians will not tell you this next bit, but I am dedicated to the truth, so here it is. PCR tests are unreliable. There are far too many false positives that occur from these tests. Because other illnesses like the common cold and the flu are also both coronaviruses, there is a decent chance that a test will come back positive for COVID-19 when you have one of these other illnesses, due to the genetic material being from the same family of viruses. Even the World Health Organization has admitted that these tests have a problem, albeit after hundreds of thousands of doctors and medical professionals around the world made this known for months. Even the test’s inventor said it was never designed to diagnose diseases. The WHO’s admission claims the problem is that many cycles are required to detect virus, and that the distinction between background noise and actual presence of the target virus can be difficult to ascertain in some circumstances. Now it would be interesting to see just how many people who have tested “positive” for COVID-19 actually had the virus, rather than having something else which produced a false positive result. The WHO are now facing multiple lawsuits over the matter.

The WHO’s manipulation, however, does not end there. In a 1984 Ministry of Truth fashion, they have quietly attempted to change the facts surrounding herd immunity. On 9 June 2020, the WHO’s website, under the question “What is herd immunity?” provided the following answer:

Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. This means that even people who haven’t been infected, or in whom an infection hasn’t triggered an immune response, they are protected because people around them who are immune can act as buffers between them and an infected person. The threshold for establishing herd immunity for COVID-19 is not yet clear.

On 13 November 2020, that answer was changed to the following:

‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached.

Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not exposing them to it.

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Notice the significant change there? Herd immunity was something that could occur via immunity through either vaccination or previous exposure, until of course the vaccine came along, and the WHO changed their definition to make it seem as if herd immunity was merely a “concept”, with vaccination being the only way of achieving it. Now it is at this point that I would advise you to read my previous article on the vaccine and the dangers it poses (Link here: https://jjsoutlook.com/2020/12/12/vaccine-skepticism-is-justified/). Since I published that particular piece, a number of people have experienced significant adverse effects after receiving the vaccine, some becoming very ill, some just happening to end up with COVID-19 days later, and some even dying in the hours and days following their vaccination (although suddenly co-morbidities have become recognized again given these deaths). (Links to this information will be available at the end of this article). I warned that this vaccine, being rushed, is likely to be unreliable, even harmful. Some adverse effects may not be known for years to come. And it is of great importance to understand that if they can mandate masks, they can mandate the vaccine. It’s a slippery slope. In the realm of herd immunity however, vaccinations are not the only way. The definition of herd immunity has long pertained to the fact that it can be achieved through exposure to a disease as well as vaccination. The WHO cannot be trusted if they are going to continue to change the facts to suit whatever bureaucratic agenda they have up their sleeves.

Now look, I understand that people are afraid of this virus. I understand why people will believe whatever they are told by politicians and the media. It provides a sense of stability and safety. I get it. But if everyone just looked at the facts, looked at reality, they would see that much of what they are being told is not exactly trustworthy. Politicians and unelected bureaucrats are overwhelmingly self-serving in nature. It is an unfortunate reality. There are some good ones out there who do not fall into this category, but they are typically censored, batted down as conspiracy theorists. Indeed, almost anyone who tries to bring the facts to light these days is branded a conspiracy theorist or whatever else. I have faced this challenge myself in attempting to do just this. There is a quote from the great Athenian philosopher Plato that springs to mind here: “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” This could not be more apt for the times we are in. I encourage everyone to, rather than just listen to politicians and the media and take what they say as gospel, do your own research. Think for yourself. These are important skills to have in your life.

So that you may see the facts I have stated here for yourself, I have included links to the information below. I encourage you to read through them.

Links:

Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence. – Swiss Policy Research (swprs.org)

Study: Asymptomatic spread of COVID-19 not significant (wnd.com)

CDC Study Finds Overwhelming Majority Of People Getting Coronavirus Wore Masks (thefederalist.com) – this contains a hyperlink to the CDC study on the CDC’s site: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf

Membrane makeover turns N95 respirator into a reusable mask (news-medical.net)

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic

https://www.timesofisrael.com/88-year-old-dies-hours-after-vaccine-doctors-stress-he-was-seriously-ill/

German aged care workers develop flu-like symptoms after vaccine overdose | Sky News Australia

https://www.bitchute.com/video/05syvSUyPiw0/

https://www.bitchute.com/video/bT8NaTSEBFdZ/

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

2020: A Year To Remember

2020 has been a very challenging year for most of us. I think we can all agree it has really left its mark on us all to varying degrees. We have faced many trials and tribulations. The world has become a different place in the era of COVID-19. Over the course of the year, in particular over the last few weeks, I have heard a fair few people say that 2020 is a year to forget, that we should just write it off and hope 2021 is better. But I have to disagree with this sentiment. I think 2020 is probably one of the years we must remember most. Yes, it has been nothing short of a nightmare at times, but it taught us many valuable lessons that we should carry forward into the rest of our lives on this Earth. Each year I usually do a wrap up of the year, be it personal or otherwise. This year I will be combining the two and going over some of the lessons I have learnt that I think we can all take heed of in our own lives.

2020 started with fire. The fires that ravaged Australia left us all living alongside a haze of smoke that seemed as if it would never dissipate. For me personally, the fires led to my Pop coming to stay with us for a couple of weeks. During this time, we all spent some quality time together, watching shows, playing pool at my uncle’s place, and having many a memorable conversation. Not long after he returned home to the South Coast, Pop had a fall and ended up in hospital. Just a few weeks later, at the end of January, he tragically passed away. I was there in the last couple of days of his life. Seeing him as he was in his last days, it really impacted me. It had a major effect on me on those days, and the days that came after his passing. As I have mentioned before, I don’t think I realised just how much of an impact it had on me, particularly from a mental standpoint, until a few months later. But that is for the next lesson. This tragic event in my life, despite its harshness, taught me a truly valuable lesson that I will remember as I continue forth in my life: We should always value the time we have with our family, friends and loved ones. Life changes fast, and so we should always make the most of every moment we have with the people we care about. Because we really don’t know when we’ll be spending our last moment with them. Make good memories with them that you will always remember fondly. Those memories can be such an incredible source of comfort in times of sorrow. I sometimes find myself thinking about my Pop, wishing he was still with us to celebrate special occasions, to talk to. But I just remember the memories we made, and I am so ever grateful for them.

This year has been a real test for our mental wellbeing. COVID-19 has led to lockdowns and isolation. As human beings, we are social creatures, so isolation can have a significant impact on our mental health considering we do not have those physical, face to face connections that we so enjoy. Many of us have experienced life-changing circumstances throughout this year. Most of us have probably been on a mental rollercoaster ride, having to deal with far too many ups and downs for one year. So, the next lesson 2020 has taught us is this: We must always take care of ourselves. This year in particular has reflected the importance of looking after our mental health. For me, that meant getting help when I was in a pretty bad way mentally. About a week or two into May, my anxiety had built up again, and had led to a sense of depression because of how anxious I was. As I’ve explained in a previous article, I ended up consulting a GP and then starting sessions with a psychologist. While I began the process of recovery and figuring out ways of managing the anxiety in particular, I decided it would be best for me to take another three months off from university (that’s one study period for me). So, my three-month break that had started after the conclusion of a study period in February turned into a six-month sabbatical. This turned out to be a necessity. If I had kept studying while I was trying to get better, I don’t think I would have truly been able to. I needed to have my mind focused entirely on that recovery at the time. I knew this would mean my studies would take a bit longer to complete, but I needed to put my mental health first and get my head right before I could continue. It was a difficult decision, but it was the right one. To anyone who is struggling mentally, I would encourage you to take heed of this particular lesson that 2020 has taught us. Look after yourself. Do whatever you need to do to ensure that you can maintain good mental wellbeing. Don’t be afraid to talk to someone, to get help. Because that can make all the difference.

2020 has also taught us that we cannot take things for granted, especially our freedom. If the age of COVID-19 has taught us anything it is this. Having endured lockdowns and restrictions on our lives that have changed them, inducing fear in the population, we must all awake to the reality that freedom is never a given. Our movement has been limited. Who we are permitted to see has been limited. What we are permitted to do has been limited. Many of us have allowed politicians to control almost every aspect of our lives. We took our freedoms for granted, and those in power took advantage of that. So, if we are to learn one thing from the harsh reality we have faced and continue to face, it is this: we must never take such a thing as freedom as a given. We must recognize that the freedoms that we should value so much are easily able to be stripped from us if we do not defend them from power-hungry, controlling individuals who will seize any opportunity they can to take more power than is given them. COVID-19 has given them the excuse they needed to take power under the guise of keeping us all safe. We have been told that life will never really go back to what it was before the virus. While it is easier to roll over and accept this, it is much more beneficial in the long-term to push back and ensure that we can live as free a life as possible.

Now to probably the most valuable lesson I have learnt this year: In the darkest times, an unexpected ray of light can enter your life, changing it for the better. 2020 has been especially dark for me, as I’m sure it has for many. Looking back, that darkness really started to consume me from May, putting me in a position where I needed to get help. But even after getting help, there was still darkness. There were still times when I wondered if things would ever really get a lot better. I still wasn’t really motivated. I still struggled to work up the resolve to get things done all the time. I would still put things off, telling myself they could wait until later. I still had periods of anxiety, albeit more manageable than they were before, but I suppose I felt as if I wasn’t really where I wanted to be just yet. In fact, that didn’t happen until later in the year.

In mid-September, that unexpected ray of light shone through the darkness surrounding me, guiding me out of it. My life changed. I became more motivated. I started writing again. I worked ahead in my university studies. I got back into an exercise regimen. I felt happier. All of these things have continued from that point forward to this day, and I am so incredibly grateful for that ray of light. As I’ve said before, sometimes the most incredible people come into your life when you least expect it, their impact profound. This is the very reason I cannot just write off 2020. Because even though 2020 has been one of the most taxing years, it has brought me some of the greatest things in my life. It is those amazing connections in life that turn up when you least expect it that make the biggest differences, the greatest of impacts.

2020 has been a wild ride, but it has been a necessary and meaningful one. Sure, there has been a lot of bad news this year, and sometimes it is difficult to see past that, to find the good in the world. But we cannot write off this year. We cannot just forget it. 2020 has brought with it important life lessons that are of great value to all of us moving forward. If anything, I feel like this year has helped me to grow significantly as a person, and to become a better version of myself. I am grateful for all that this year has taught me and brought me, and I’m looking forward to growing even more in 2021.

As I round this out, I would just like to thank everyone who has followed along on this blog over the past year. I appreciate all the support, and I hope you have all enjoyed what I’ve been publishing. This is my last one for this year. More to come in 2021.

A Happy New Year to all of you.

A Christmas Poem

So I’ve been trying my hand at some poetry lately, and I thought as a quick post, I’d write a little Christmas themed poem to share. So here it is:

Christmas is a season

Of peace, hope and joy

As God sent His only Son,

A heavenly baby boy.

We celebrate together,

Joining as family,

Eating with each other,

There’s no place we’d rather be.

Giving gifts to each other,

Sharing the Christmas spirit,

Smiles and laughter abound,

To these there is no limit.

Spending time with those we love,

Who come from near and far,

Making memories with one another,

Sharing the light of the Christmas Star.

As we go through this Christmas season,

Whether together or apart,

May we hope the light shines through us,

Straight into our hearts.

Christmas: A Light In The Darkness

Christmas is probably one of the best times of the year. Family coming together, celebrating, giving, laughing, sounds of joy filling the air. It is a time when many of us celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and remember the very first Nativity. This year more than ever, after all we have been through, we could really do with something to celebrate. But for some of us, this Christmas will be unlike any other that has come before it. We’ll get to that in a moment.

I love Christmas, because it brings a smile to so many people’s faces, no matter what they have been through. A lot of us have been through hell this year. There were the bushfires at the beginning of the year. COVID-19 came along and threw our world upside down and inside out, keeping us from seeing our family, friends and loved ones, putting us on edge. Many would have suffered from mental health conditions due to the constant lockdowns and isolation. It has affected us all in different ways, but I think we can all agree it’s been a really tough year. So, we can all use a bit of Christmas cheer to reignite our hope and bring some much-needed happiness to our souls.

For me personally, I’ve had a lot of ups and downs this year. It’s been a pretty bumpy ride. Although I went through a stage for months where I was in a pretty bad way mentally, in the second half of the year, more from around September onwards, I found my grounding and became more motivated than I had ever been before. My life turned around, and that was truly a Godsend. But I’ll speak more to all of that in my yearly wrap up next week. This one isn’t about me. It’s about you, all of you. Because 2020 has not discriminated. We have all faced many hardships this year, and we all deserve to be happy, if at the very least for a day.

Now this Christmas is going to be different for some of us. While some of us will get to celebrate the occasion with family and friends, having a feast and giving gifts, there are still a lot who will not be afforded this opportunity on Christmas Day. Those who have been affected by COVID-19 in some degree, be it directly, being in an area that has been designated a hotspot and being told to isolate, or having restrictions imposed on them by governments, will have a somewhat different Christmas this year, being unable to celebrate with their family and friends (for some it may be all, for others they may be able to still celebrate with those in their household). In particular in NSW right now, our Christmas is restricted in that we are only allowed no more than ten people to visit our homes on Christmas Day. This is just adding insult to injury after all we have been through this year. And so, I have a message to share that will hopefully bring some warmth and joy to everyone at this time when I know many of us will be feeling deflated.

I know we have all been through a lot this year. And I know many of us are still going through it. But Christmas is a time when we can stop, even for just one day, and consider all that we are grateful for. We can take time to reflect on what good things have come out of this year. As we think about these joyous things, a smile will no doubt begin to beam from our faces, in turn lifting our spirits so that happiness may bubble up inside us, bringing about a warmth within us that brings us great comfort.

Christmas is a time of hope. As I have spoken to before, hope is such an incredible thing. One of the three members of what I call the Trinity of the Heart (Faith, Hope and Love), all it needs is a spark to set ablaze, to come alive within our hearts. Hope nurtures the soul, bringing about a sense of peace in times of anguish. After all we have been through this year, I think we could all use a little hope in our lives. Even now, as all our Christmas plans are thrown into chaos and uncertainty, we need to hold on to those little sparks of hope, no matter how disheartened we might feel. There is a quote from Desmond Tutu: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” This year we have been surrounded by darkness, but, as I have learnt, just one ray of light, one that may even be unexpected, can guide us out. That reminds me of another quote from Martin Luther King Jr.: “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” This year has taught me that much is true. Only in the dark times I went through this year did the stars in my life come out to greet me and change my life.

Christmas is typically a time when family and friends come together to celebrate and share in the spirit of the season. This year that might not be possible for many of us. But that should not discourage us from getting in touch with those special people in our lives on Christmas Day. To those who won’t be able to see their family, friends and loved ones on Christmas Day as they usually would, I say this: Spend time on the day contacting and talking to those people you care about. Be it a phone call, text/messaging through various apps, video calls or whatever else, we have the technological tools at our disposal to still spend time with those we care about on Christmas Day, even if we are not able to be in the same room as them.

To put it bluntly, I know it sucks that we can’t all be together for Christmas this year. I’m going to miss seeing my extended family, cousins and all. It’s devastating not being able to have a normal Christmas after all we have been through this year. Personally, I’m going to spend Christmas Day contacting those I care about, because even though we cannot all gather in the same place, I want to feel at least some sense of normality about Christmas. I might be lucky enough to see a few, but regardless, I’ll be making sure to reach out to them on Christmas Day. I’m sure I will not be alone in this sentiment.

To all those who are in isolation over Christmas, I can only imagine what you are going through. It’s something I wouldn’t wish on anyone, and I hope that you’ll still be able to find some hope and joy this Christmas, be it through contacting family and friends, or even through reading this message.

Christmas may look different this year, but we should not let that stop us from celebrating the occasion. We cannot let this virus take Christmas from us. The human spirit is an incredible thing. It can help us to persist, to keep going, even through the darkest of times. Combined with the Christmas spirit, its effects are amplified. We have all been through a lot of darkness this year, but I hope that at this special time of the year we can find the light.

God Bless you all and have a very Merry Christmas.