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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.

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Sara Redondo, MD's avatar

I'm a medical doctor, but I had to leave the system to tell the truth.

Most of what you’re told about your health is incomplete or completely wrong.

You’re stuck in a system that profits from your symptoms, not your healing.

In my Substack, I write the truth I wasn’t allowed to say inside the system.

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Diane Lee's avatar

YES !!! 💪💯🎯

It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.

In just three short years I've gone from "Vaccines have saved the world! Give me more!" to "Vaccines are the most successful psy-op in world history and, overall, do far more damage than good." The proliferation of censorship, lies, and deceit are expertly designed to prevent more from taking my trajectory. The gaslighting will continue until more of us begin to question everything.

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andrew adach's avatar

Have used your comment as intro to the good docs when I sent it to 60 others. Well stated, succinct and honest. Thanks

Doug Thorburn's avatar

Delighted. Thank you!

Turfseer's avatar

DR. GASLIGHT. A doctor causes his patient to question her own sanity. Listen to Turfseer’s hit song. turfseer.substack.com/p…

Doug Thorburn's avatar

Good stuff. I like the musicality, too. Nice use of what I think are minor keys, but feel free to correct me.

Turfseer's avatar

It begins in a minor key and then starts alternating between major and minor.

Get my FREE PDF with links to all my music videos and original audio demos. turfseer.substack.com/p…

Doug Thorburn's avatar

That's the reason I like your music. My brain waves need minor keys in music for me to like the sound. It's weird, but annoying. When I "converted" my 6,000 songs from 500 CDs and LPs to i-Tunes, I only converted about 1,300--the rest of the songs were just "noise" to my brain.

It's annoying because there is so little music I truly love. The closest I can get in terms of genre is Nuevo Flamenco, a subcategory of, I think, "smooth jazz," which I like more of then any other genre. The classic for …

Turfseer's avatar

Well some are in minor keys and some are in major. Here's one in a minor key written during the lock down.

Edgar Allan Poe meets the specter of Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine in Turfseer’s lockdown dirge “NEVERMORE.” Listen to it here: turfseer.substack.com/p….

sadie's avatar

fantastic! spread your story! I think people may listen better to those who used to be on the other side than from those of us who always doubted/disbelieved the govt.

Doug Thorburn's avatar

What's weird is I always questioned authority, especially government. As a long-time free market economist, I even understood regulatory capture, where the regulated capture (control) the regulators. What did not dawn on me was the utter lack of integrity among those in the private market--I had no idea it was anywhere near as bad as it is.

I was a little bit naive. Ok, a lot, considering I really should have known better.

You'll like this, too: I even mocked Andrew Wakefield as a likely alcoholi…

sadie's avatar

Well, good... you give me hope for others to change their beliefs. Why did you change your mind - was it gradual or a bolt from the sky?

Doug Thorburn's avatar

Very few minds change instantly. It took a while. In 2020 I was fortunate to be a regular reader of Karl Denninger's Market-Ticker page. Brilliant guy with many very smart commenters. Both caused me to go down numerous rabbit holes about the dangers of masks, prophylactics and prophylaxes (IVM, hydroxy, et al), the history of viruses (they spread; everyone will get it) and enough on the history of vaccines to know I wasn't going to take this one (the least amount of time testing in animal trial…

sadie's avatar

Good job! My scientist husband (and navy brat;) was not in any way inclined to believe poorly of science or the govt... whereas I had been raised on such ideas as the illuminati, club of rome, jekyll island .... so my initial response is distrust, wait and observe. I spent a good part of the first yr and a half of covid researching all the science articles to counteract what he was reading on msm... but I think it was when his Russian PhD colleague adamantly refused the vax that made him finall…

Doug Thorburn's avatar

Well, I do what I can. I wrote about the insanity of the lockdowns in my client letter in mid-2020 and, realizing you can't fight a mass hysteria and remain alive (or, in my case, keep all my clients should I say too much counter to the propaganda/narrative), stayed silent until a few weeks ago when I included one little thought at the bottom of the last page of the latest letter:

"A Note on the 'Vaccines'

"If you or someone close to you has been injured by the 'vaccine,' I urge you to save healt…

Clarence the Seventeenth's avatar

I read through this thread and resonate with your comments, though I started down the "vaccine risk awareness" rabbit hole in 2016, not long after I received an "Asperger's" diagnosis and was then told that the whole "autism epidemic" was due mostly to genetics, which made no sense to my mind. That, plus having spent time digging into other conspiracies throughout my adult life, made me mostly immune to the PSYOP-19 madness, though I must admit my embarrassment at falling into the fearmongering…