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Helpful list -- thank you! -- though I'm not sure you can call anyone "reasonable" who's still persisting in believing in the jabs at this point. "Ready to leave the cult" perhaps.

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Haha, true. Perhaps: "Newly, slowly, partially open to reason, despite being recently brainwashed"?

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I found an article a year ago: how to get someone out of a cult. It's in the NYTimes from 2018, so for those behind the paywall, here's the takeaway: Keep giving them things they need to put on the back shelf of their mind. Ultimately, the shelf breaks. (This has all the characteristics of a cult imo.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/magazine/how-to-get-someone-out-of-a-cult.html

Another video suggests it's key to remind them who they were before the cult.

https://youtu.be/LFIl64KlBYY

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Oh yes. I was in what was considered a religious cult for 25 years, although much more benign than others. Covid is a cult for sure. It’s all there. Blind obedience, separation from families and friends. believing a bunch or just one figurehead giving us their wisdom without question. Much more. Reasoning is not encouraged.

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Oct 26, 2022Liked by James Edward Taylor

"...FDA officials urging authorization despite the fact that they don’t know what the side effects will be, and won’t start seeing safety signals until the shots are widely administered:..."

is the FDA monitoring side effects, because CDC said they don't even analyse their own VAERS data

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As far as I can tell it is the manufacturer who is supposed to do the monitoring, and present their data to the FDA, who then rubber stamps it as "monitored". Which falls despicably short of what the public *believes* the FDA does.

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Oct 27, 2022Liked by James Edward Taylor

I sent a substack newsletter by Heather Heying regarding Dr. Malhotra including his interview to my wife's stepfather and it didn't change his thinking one bit. He said Dr. Mslhotra's research was probably biased because of his father's death and then told me how he simply accepts the shops are not as advertised and that some people will die from them. Very sad to see an intelligent man so unwilling to challenge his thinking and consider the harms to others.

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Yeah, I actually had an acquaintance tell me: "I was fine after my shot, so what do I care?"

And WE get accused of being callous. 🙄

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Excellent list. I have saved it bookmarked.

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Useful list, I will look back at my notes and see if I can find more like this...

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