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To: golfer72 who wrote (1579265)12/23/2025 5:32:56 PM
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Finally, a diagnosis!

Knowing you're delusional makes it a little easier on all of us.

There's no possibility your delusions will change even when we show clear factual information disproving them.

We can all just let you sit in the corner, yelling at clouds, and say, yeah, that's gofart72, he's delusional.



To: golfer72 who wrote (1579265)12/23/2025 5:35:52 PM
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To: golfer72 who wrote (1579265)12/23/2025 10:12:12 PM
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Across much of the world, COVID-19 vaccine policies crossed a line from public health guidance into coercion, violating long-standing norms around individual rights, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.

Governments and institutions implemented vaccine mandates tied to employment, travel, education, and basic participation in society, effectively forcing individuals to choose between compliance and their livelihoods. In many countries, people lost jobs, professional licenses, or the ability to cross borders, not because they were sick, but because they declined a medical intervention. This marked a sharp departure from established medical ethics, which hold that consent must be voluntary, free from pressure, and revocable.

These policies were imposed despite clear evidence, emerging early on, that COVID vaccines did not reliably prevent infection or transmission, but primarily reduced severe disease in high-risk populations. Nevertheless, low-risk individuals, including young adults, prior-infected individuals, and even children, were subjected to the same mandates as the elderly and medically vulnerable, with little acknowledgement of risk stratification or natural immunity.

In many jurisdictions, normal legal safeguards were suspended. Emergency powers were extended repeatedly, courts deferred to executive authority, and dissenting scientists, physicians, and citizens were marginalized or penalized. The result was a climate where questioning policy was treated as misinformation, rather than a legitimate part of democratic oversight and scientific debate.

The long-term concern is not merely whether these measures were effective, but the precedent they set: that governments may compel medical procedures, restrict movement, or exclude citizens from public life based on compliance, even when the benefit is marginal or uncertain. Once such powers are normalized, they are rarely relinquished voluntarily.

Finally, while individuals absorbed the social and economic costs, pharmaceutical companies did extraordinarily well. Pfizer alone reported roughly USD $37 billion in COVID-19 vaccine revenue in 2021, contributing to tens of billions more over subsequent years, an outcome that understandably raises questions about incentives, influence, and accountability during a global crisis.