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Oct 28, 2022Liked by James Lyons-Weiler

I find your substacks utterly fascinating! Thank you.

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Those people refusing arsenic were the original antivaxxers. It appears critical thinking isn't so common.

There were quack doctors in every era. During the plague there were doctors who would purposely spread the bacteria to infect more people in order to offer them their 'remedy'. They made a killing. Gee, sounds familiar, eh?

We seem to be stuck on a specific cadence when we're faced with an 'unseen' threat we overreact allowing for all sorts of erroneous assumptions and conclusions leading to inaccurate and futile responses and policies.

And this allows shysters to step in and profit from fear-driven reactions.

The analogy I use is of a vinyl record that skips. We've all been there. In order to get the record going again we simply adjust the needle. Either the needle is damaged or the vinyl is scratched. If we do nothing it will keep doing it stuck on Billy Joel not being able to get past, 'sing us the....sing us the....sing us the...." SING US WHAT, BILLY?

The way we 'handle' a medical health crisis suggests we need a new needle and record.

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Oct 28, 2022Liked by James Lyons-Weiler

Very interesting! Thank you <3

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Fascinating read! That you for sharing it!

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Excellent. Does Mercury from dental filling leech into the body sufficiently to compromise our immune system? I know a few chronic fatigue suffers who had dental mercury removed.

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“People trying to survive the Black Death were often treated with arsenic and mercury, which “killed them faster than the plague”.”

You’d probably be banned from twitter for stating that...at least the Olde Twitter. Clearly arsenic and mercury were “safe and effective”.

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Iatrogenic death from the Middle Ages. Who would’ve guessed?? The awakening continues!

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Cf. Bill Murray's Medieval Barber Theodoric of York - SNL skit at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ .... back when SNL was actually creative, funny, and not infected with woke fasco-Marxists (BTW, why aren't those guys rich from SNL opening up their homes to the poor and illegal immigrants?"

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Another hit James. We should always be revisiting history to draw new lessons.

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In sum, we are just repeating Steve Martin's old SNL skit, Medieval Barber, Theodoric of York, (7 min, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edIi6hYpUoQ )

Eye of newt, wing of bat.... perfect treatments for the somnolent fasco-Marxist wokester non-Einsteins.

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My primary skepticism is I find it hard to believe there would have been enough physicians or enough doses of refined metal during this time period to have played an appreciable role in something that killed half the population.

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That was really insightful, James! There is a real parallelism here...the mercury and arsenic that killed millions as a treatment for the Black Plague mirror the "vaccines" that are now wiping out millions as a treatment for Covid. Nothing ever changes under the Sun!

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No doubt the vaccine makers of the 90's had prior knowledge of this in their genetic makeup which enabled them to create the autism plague we are experiencing for 3 decades.

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Super, Super interesting and important! Thank you!

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Mercury was the standard treatment for syphilis.

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