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This is off-topic for your current essay, but I would be interested to hear your thoughts on the possible "Red Death scenario" proposed over at Ecosophia:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/159009.html?thread=22163233#cmt22163233

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Who among us has not casually, at one time or another, described our kids as “afebrile, active and playful.”? C'mon man.

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Nov 25, 2021Liked by Brian Mowrey

We humans and our modern ''relationship'' to illness, death and viruses. A sad story, indeed.

Ever read something by Ed Cohen? One of his best works goes as follows:

https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/images/stories/faculty/15.full.pdf

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Re. note 12, I think you may be misinterpreting the illness-avoidance hypothesis. My read on it is that it is not innate (and so may not be observed in other animals and babies), but rather an adaptation in the evolution of social behavior. People in societies learn best practices for generally reducing transmission, some of which work and some do not. In principle it could have some effect, similar to the innate adaptations that make the smell of rotting corpses and other likely-dangerous things repulsive. If anything, babies and children's innate responses to managing disease transmission may be more likely to spread or contract illnesses / immunize themselves / quickly train their naive immune system: eating snot, eating dirt, putting everything in their mouths, etc. Humans' superior ability to form complex societies and learned behaviors provides enormous potential to develop these kinds of adaptation "in software".

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Nov 25, 2021Liked by Brian Mowrey

Something to keep in mind as well; up until the magikal Chinese bat soup flu struck, parents and society in America had become literal paranoid delusional about the "safety" of the children.

Dodge ball wasn't allowed to be played because some child might get a bruise. Police were called on parents who let their children go walk to the park alone or ride their bike alone. Helicopter parents cleared a path of all obstacles for their precious. Warning signs about nuts and nut allergies proliferated. Safe spaces were created to cater to hurt feelings. Clocks were removed from schools during tests because they stressed the children too much as they felt "under the gun" from a timed test.

But make your child part of the largest medical experiment in history, via the injection of poorly tested spike-inducing concoctions for which the drug companies have immunity from all harms while earning billions in profits?

wHEre dO wE sIGn uP OuR kIDdzZ??!

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I wonder if the vax liability indemnification applies to misapplication. I'd certainly get a lawyer and find out. Litigation is the most likely road to ending this. adflegal.org is doing some good work, and directly apply donations to that work.

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Interesting! You are saying many of the same things that I have written (see e.g. http://www.luterra.com/blog/?p=1335), and that I have largely expressed in terms of concepts and language pioneered by John Michael Greer (see his book "After Progress"), and your thoughts with regard to sin and social appeasement echo those of Charles Eisenstein (e.g. https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/mob-morality-and-the-unvaxxed).

However you use different language which leads me to conclude that you have come to your conclusions independently, and you single out *rejection of biological death* as the primary underlying phenomenon instead of, say, belief in technological progress, or the sort of psychological mass formation that occurs during times of wider societal crisis and breakdown of social cohesion.

I think you are definitely on to something, thanks for sharing!

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