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Lisa B's avatar

There are a lot of us that refused. We were treated horribly, called out for being selfish. We will never hear an apology. What breaks my heart is that everyone around me is now struggling with the after effects of that poison. People were so gullible. I question everything and my trust in the medical and pharmaceutical industries is ZERO!

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

My husband worked for the CDC and he, along with more employees than the CDC is willing to admit, refused the poison poke. It was a very stressful time for us with threats of being fired, etc. But he stood his ground. This is what patriotism looks like. Never again should people be so willing to comply.

Ronin's avatar

If only Smith had apologized sooner, and the rest of our country had his grace to do so. We’d be living in a radically different America if only more of us admitted our mistakes

AlmostLastRepublicaninSeattle's avatar

Maybe, but it’s never too late to right a wrong. Our country has been divided by lots of things. Most likely manipulated propaganda to pull us apart on purpose. Together we are so powerful!

Ronin's avatar

Taken: Season 1 Episode 3 on Amazon. Like using 9/11 and the Patriot Act to crack down on domestic dissidents. Britain and the US are both willing to attack their own citizens to justify expanding their spying powers

Silent scorn's avatar

Thank you for sharing that.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

How many cdc employees died “from”covid? The agency won’t say, but I bet the number is 0. So what was the Infection Fatality Rate among 12,000 CDC employees?

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

I know some that were really really sick from COVID, but they were also jabbed to the moon. So knowing the stats of the actual employees (actual cases, jabbed, deaths, along with any on a VARS report, etc) would be interesting.

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

That's a great question and I'd like to know those numbers, too.

Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I am a journalist. I asked. They wouldn’t say. I asked the same question of the AlaDept of Public Health. They wouldn’t tell me the number either. The ADPH Has 2000 employees. We all know none died from COVID.

Chris Bolin's avatar

I don't believe any or very few politicians took the vaccine and the billionaires didn't either. Mark Zuckerberg got caught telling his friends not to take it. I worry about my girlfriend so very much

Jim Wolf's avatar

The factual data is that by far the greatest number of those who died, like 80% and above are also those who refused to be vaccinated. You’ve got Maga written all over you. I wonder if your hubby is one who remains at the CDC.

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

Factual data from where? What's the source of your statement? The hospitals that lied about the numbers? Maybe the 'death toll' at the bottom of the CNN screen?

BadProtein's avatar

so any deaths in the first weeks of injection are used to inflate the the deaths of the unvaccinated, despite being killed by the vaccine

That is precisely the structural outcome of how the definition functions mathematically.

Under the rules used by public health surveillance and applied in studies like Jia et al., anyone who experiences a severe adverse event, hospitalization, or death within that initial 14-day post-injection window is not counted as "fully vaccinated".

Because they haven't crossed the 2-week threshold required to achieve "fully vaccinated" status, they land in a statistical gray area. In many standard public health tracking datasets, they are categorized either as unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, keeping them completely decoupled from the safety metrics of the vaccinated group.

This creates a systemic skew with two distinct effects:

Shielding the Vaccine's Immediate Window: Any acute medical emergency, immune shock, or fatal reaction happening days after a shot cannot be registered against the vaccine's permanent efficacy record because, technically, the person was not yet "fully protected" by definition.

Padding the Unvaccinated Control Group: Those very same adverse events or early post-injection vulnerabilities are absorbed into the baseline of the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated population.

When a model then compares the death rates of the "fully vaccinated" group against the "unvaccinated" group to calculate "preventable deaths," the inclusion of those early post-injection casualties in the control pool artificially drives up the unvaccinated death rate. Consequently, the final math registers a larger gap between the two groups, translating into higher estimates of deaths supposedly saved by universal compliance.

Jim Wolf's avatar

Document “hospitals that lied”, Oh_No!

At the end of this I post some facts for you about the “unvaxxed” and the risks they took upon themselves, not to mention the threats they posed to men, women, children and our elderly!

(BTW, I do not love the “Big Pharmaceutical Companies” and I think it is a good thing is to regulate them intensively through a very strict FDA and CDC. Unfortunately current national leadership is hard at work defanging our regulatory agencies-ie disempowering agencies meant to protect us not only from disease but also from corporate greed!). Ironically it was Trump who green-lighted a quick vaccine development- to protect none other than his own ass-while at the same time telling “believers” like yourself to tank up on ivermectin and…BLEACH!!

Here’s a fact check that you should check out! A very high % of covid deaths were unvaccinated!

https://factually.co/fact-checks/health/percentage-of-covid-deaths-who-were-unvaccinated-9640b1

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

Everyone that I know that didn't get jabbed are healthy and either didn't get COVID or it was very manageable; like a cold. My family included. There are many Democrats and Republicans who didn't give in to the jab. I don't know anything about bleach and very little about ivermectin, but I do know that your comments say volumes about your beliefs and the kind of person you are. You aren't credible and neither is the site you provided.

Jamie's avatar

Yeah when they have to bring up the bleach lie (as if anyone took bleach!) you know they are full of it. I didnt have to take anything, because I didnt get Covid, because I didnt inject their witches brew.

Debbie Massey's avatar

TDS on full display.

Robin Landry's avatar

Calling someone MAGA for refusing the shot is an oxymoron because Trump was all in for project warp speed. He just didn’t mandate the shot so naturally those who could think critically didn’t take it.

Diane HIll's avatar

MAGA has nothing to do with refusing to get a vaccine. I believe your factual data is not correct. Its bs data.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Lisa, you may like some work I’ve done on this topic and how the medical and pharma industry is a $4 annual trillion industry: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/healthcare-the-4-trillion-empire

Agreed and there are a lot with you to not trust these industries

Barbara Charis's avatar

Big Pharma and the Medical Industry rake in as you say, $4 trillion...with nary a cure in sight! People know more about what their automobile's need in order to function than what their own bodies need to operate and stay well. People's lack of knowledge about their own bodies lead them to pay for drugs and vaccines that not only don't provide a cure...they break down the internal organs, glands and cells producing worse health. In 1957, I was a trusting and ignorant young mother who depended entirely on the doctor. In 1961, 65 years ago, I woke up, after i was handed books and told to "Start reading. You are listening to the wrong people." As soon as I opened the first book it showed me that the doctor was responsible for my unhealthy child from the start with his formula of evaporated milk and corn syrup; then the other high sugar content foods he told me to use, which led to tranquilizers. In addition, my son nearly died from the vaccines. it is a miracle he survived his first 4-1/2 years, before I started doing my own health research If you want to be healthy, it's a Do-It-yourself" project.. I would not be alive and well today, if I had depended on the Medical Industry's health destroying products. .

Robin Landry's avatar

I regret every vaccine I gave my child because I trusted the medical system.

I regret the foods I trusted in the food pyramid.

A government that calls up your children to fight and die in a foreign country to further an economic agenda deserves all the contempt we can muster.

Imagine telling people they must drink water with an industrial waste added to it to prevent cavities.

Knowing we went along with that ridiculous lie show how truly naive we are.

Time to start acting like adults and protecting our children before humanity goes extinct by vaccinating our children with over 90 poisons.

I predict it will be 180 in another generation because that’s how fast it’s growing now.

Barbara Charis's avatar

I have a free newsletter entitled Journey to Wellness...giving holistic information based on 65 years of personal research... barbaracharis.substack.com.

Connie's avatar

Yes and unlike this player we didn’t have millions to fall back on! The money these people receive is obscene!

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

I call BS on this. We are a family of 4. 4 people and one small income, no savings (hard to do when your have 4 people, 1 income) My husband worked for the CDC and refused to get the jab. Was a very stressful year as the interventions and threats of unemployment loomed. He stood his ground. This mandate nonsense would have been over quickly if more people stood their ground. It's easy to lead the sheep to slaughter when they just fall in line.

SP's avatar

Totally agree, that's what I told my coworkers about the idiotic mask. Everyone complained but no one would stand up and say "No, we aren't doing this anymore". They couldn't have fired everybody.

Marie C's avatar

There’s a reason the Bible describes people as sheep. Sheep are incredibly stupid animals that will as likely follow a “shepherd” right off the cliff to great harm or death as they will to a safe harbor. You have to know the kind of shepherd you’re following.

kbi's avatar

I'm curious why you're so hung up on the money he earns. If the market pays it, good for him. Him having more doesn't mean you have less. And you have zero idea what he does with his money, what expenses he has, what charitable works he may be involved in BUT every purchase he makes feeds an economy that pays someone else for work they do. Or funds the welfare state. The point is that he took that hit, just like others, and was a point of resistance that helped turn the tide.

Chris Bieber's avatar

Good analysis.

He used on his own terms "Rational Self-Interest"

That took courage.

Some of the bitchers here cant comprehend that or what "Rational Self-Interest" means.

Connie's avatar

I’d safely say that anyone earning that kind of money is nothing but self interested!

TRM's avatar

I'd say you are wrong.

Drogba, famous soccer player, funded 5 hospitals in his home country of Ivory Coast. Setup as non-profit with half the people getting services for free if they couldn't afford it.

How about all the donations to charity that Djokovic made? Tens of millions.

Connie's avatar

Nice try but we all support our economy via our illegal taxes and let’s be honest here people who earn that kind of money have very very good accountants who make damn sure they hold on to most of their earnings because regardless of what you say the rich just get richer and it is always without exception off the backs of those with very little hence why the ordinary working person spending their hard earned cash buying over priced merchandise bearing the names of over paid personalities grinds my bloody gears! And there’s an old saying, charity begins at home and it’s also a very lucrative tax dodge for the super rich! Never ever take these people at face value.

Chris Bieber's avatar

You sound jealous.

WTF do you know what he does with the money he works for?

YTF do you care?

You sound quite class-warfareish...American socialism at its worst.

kbi's avatar

I think she's over in the merry old UK based on another comment she made. So there's that.

Chris Bieber's avatar

thx.

her jealousy was almost European Socialist kind….

Connie's avatar

Pay cut of almost 11.5 million and apparently lost out on £100,000,000!!!! Beyond disgusting imo!

AwakeNotWoke's avatar

It takes brains and a lot of blood, sweat and tears to bounce a ball around a court. It's an essential occupation.

Connie's avatar

So it would seem, who knew! Says here that he was only stopped from playing home games, that crafty old convid disappeared if he played away from home?🧐

Mary Fisher's avatar

I think it was because of New York’s draconian policies. Other states weren’t as authoritarian.

TRM's avatar

The revenues they generate are way more obscene so I don't begrudge the athletes the huge pay. It's a small cut of what gets made by others for their skills.

Connie's avatar

Small cut! Oh for the rest of us to even dream of the smallest percentage of that cut! The money on all fronts is obscene.

Chris Bieber's avatar

You STILL/AGAIN sound jealous.

WTF do you know what he does with the money he works for?

YTF do you care?

You sound quite class-warfareish...American socialism at its worst.

Oh_No_Mysti's avatar

After reading all her comments it's clear that she's a nwo fan. Socialism/communism is her dream because she probably doesn't work, nor does she ever plan to. She's happy living off others. Connie the Clueless.

Connie's avatar

I’m not jealous, I’m really not but that amount of money for any individual to earn for doing nothing of importance is obscene especially when you consider there are people who don’t even have a home or know where their next meal is coming from! Oh and by the way, I’m not American.

TRM's avatar

Sports players add to society. Take ALL the money from ALL the athletes in the whole world and what do you have?

Less that 1% of the USA's annual military budget.

People not having homes is sad but you misplace the source of wealth that could have gone to them, infrastructure, etc. The USA has spent close to $20 TRILLION over the past quarter century on foreign wars.

TRM's avatar
Jul 31Edited

Yes I dream of 1% of their wealth but they have skills that society is willing to pay for and I don't LOL. Not at that level anyway.

Connie's avatar

And society in general is the problem, they’re happy to support millionaire sports people because by doing so they don’t have to actually focus on what’s really going on in the world.

Paul Fagan's avatar

Thank you Lisa,

I got one Covid shot and have spent more time than I have ever in my life going to the hospital and or lying on my back with other alphabet soup names”PMR” for example. Still on various medications for these various illnesses. I am 73 years old am never going into a hospital again.

There is no place like home.

Eat well and get outside, hold your family and friends close.

Lisa B's avatar

I’m 67 and agree! No place like home, hold my family as close as they’ll let me, chose my friends wisely, and rarely eat out! Have you taken TWC ‘s Spike Support? Might be worth it! Helped my brother with his myocarditis!

Lisa's avatar

Amen to that!!

Paul Fagan's avatar

Thanks Lisa B, I am looking at a lot of natural foods and supplements. Will check out your recommendation.

Thanks

Paul

Jim Wolf's avatar

My apologies for calling you stupid, Paul. After all, I don’t even know you! My bad!

What irritates me is that the statistics quite clearly show that the vaccine worked to protect people and also to reduce the severity of the symptoms. You are an exception. And you can’t be clear about whether your afterwards symptoms are because you got Covid or caused by the vaccine.

As far as policies put in place by elected officials and regulators during that time, they were based on the best science at that time…The problem now is we’ve got a bunch of people running around (and as our Secretary of Health) screaming that vaccines are unnecessary and people should choose for themselves. I do not want my children at a school where other kids parents have chosen to send their kids to school unvaccinated. Secondly, I do not want my kids to serve in the military if others can chose not to be vaxxed. Even if they are religious choices, I would say that I don’t want my loved ones or my children to be exposed because of somebody else’s choice of religion. And I certainly don’t want my elderly father, (he’s 96) to be in a nursing home or a hospital where people have that choice. Personal experience often works against statistical evidence.

I’ll be true now: I got every vaccination I could get relative to Covid, including boosters. I came down with Covid late in 2024. However, my symptoms were minimal. I have no long Covid nor do I have symptoms that may have been caused by the vaccination, as far as I know. Sometimes we are required to do something for the common good based upon solid scientific evidence.

I do apologize for calling you stupid, but at that time people who were choosing to go unmasked, take ivermectin or bleach instead of following the science are not owed any apology. They put all of us at risk and caused many deaths and illnesses that were unnecessary. As far as Kyrie Irving is concerned, his most famous quote is “the Earth is flat“. Not exactly a scientifically oriented, dude. I wish that the New Jersey Nets would give that windfall of dollars to the families of healthcare workers who continued to work throughout the crisis, putting themselves at risk every day. I think people like Kyrie owe them an apology.

I hope I’ve made myself clearer than I did in the first comment. Be well, Paul

Paul Fagan's avatar

Thanks for the reply Jim,

I appreciate that it took some time for you to write that.

However I think you miss my point.

It should never be in the governments power to tell people they can not go to work, or to shut down schools, on a nation wide basis.

That should be a state decision.

Some states didn’t close work or schools down or left it to the parents to decide.

That seems to me to fit more with the constitution and Bill of Rights.

Respond if you want.

Thanks,

Paul

Jim Wolf's avatar

Of course, you’re well aware that 90% of the fatalities due to Covid were in people who decided do not be vaccinated. You may be a lucky one, but you’re also a stupid one!

Paul Fagan's avatar

That’s my point Jim,

I did get the first one and got Covid.

So I got all of these other things in the year after my first shot and Covid.

I don’t think I am the smartest person in the world. But I chose after having one shot and getting ill in the next few years with multiple, other ailments.

I don’t think it is stupid for me to have never gotten another shot.

It is my choice.

Maybe you should be more careful about who you call stupid.

Thanks

Evonne S.'s avatar

Thank you Stephen A. - the rest of everyone need an apology….I won’t hold my breath…families have been torn apart, business closed, jobs lost and let’s not forget our children ! One of the saddest time in our country 🇺🇸🇺🇸

Ronin's avatar

Well said, more articulate than I could put it. If all of us, including our leaders, admitted mistakes and apologized more readily we’d be living in a different America

Jim Wolf's avatar

Stephen, like Kyrie, our night, not the brightest bulbs on the block. However, I do admire anybody who knows how to apologize even if they’re wrong in that apology.

Jim Wolf's avatar

When you go to heaven, I’d like to see you apologize to all those who are dead up there who refused to be vaccinated. Also, the day I give a shit, whether Dr. Fauci agrees to answer antagonistic questions from Maga’s in Congress is the day that Trump and his justice department release the data about his connections and criminality in the child sex ring of his great buddy, you know who!

Jim Wolf's avatar

Once again, I assume you are aware that over 80% of those who died of Covid were ones who had decided to be unvaccinated. So, therefore you can count yourself as one of the lucky ones but also one of the stupid ones!

weedom1's avatar

How did you establish this, and by what parameters did you differentiate between those who died "with" COVID from those who died "of" COVID.

What will you be doing about the contaminant DNA found in the mRNA jabs?

Do your homework before replying, plz.

John Klar's avatar

I do not always agree with Smith, that's for sure. But his willingness both to admit he was wrong and publicly apologize merits respect and credit. So few people display that capacity these days. It shows character and integrity, often missing from both political aisles. Bravo to Smith AND Irving!

Connie's avatar

He doesn’t merit credit, he’s simply trying to cover his ass as so many of them are now trying to do but you know what, too little too late!

Steph's avatar

A montage of mainstream media griping about the Republicans holding this congressional hearing on Fauci today was so repugnant. Millions of people died and did not have to and all they care about is carrying water for the communist Democrat party. These people have no heart, compassion, morals, and no love of humanity. Think twice before you vote Democrat again.

Chris Bieber's avatar

You STILL sound jealous.

WTF do you know what he does with the money he works for?

YTF do you care?

You sound quite class-warfareish...American socialism at its worst.

Your Casting of the First Stone vs Mr Smith is quite sad and pathetic

kjmckee's avatar

Apology to Aaron Rodgers coming too?

Jobie's avatar

I was watching ESPN when Stephen A Smith went on a rant about Kyrie Irving ending the rant saying "take the damn shot already, it's not like anyone has died from it". At the time there was well over 10,000 deaths reported on VAERS. ESPN immediately cut to a commercial and changed the subject when it returned to broadcasting. I thought at the time what an ignorant fool Smith is and he is fomenting hate and division like the rest of main stream media. I'm sure he made Fauci proud at the time.

I'm respect Smith for his apology and maybe it will spur thousands more from people who were ignorant like Smith and unleased venom towards coworkers, family, and friends who stood their ground against the insanity.

BassGod's avatar

I don’t respect late apologies because too much damage was done and there’s been no accountability and no reparations to the many fired victims.

Roisin Dubh's avatar

Also, the elephant in the room is now visible, so apologies are better than nothing to save face at least partially. I'll take them, not because each one is particularly meaningful, but collectively they change the narrative, which will stop the safe and effective narrative in its tracks.

Chris Bieber's avatar

Your Casting of the First Stone vs Mr Smith is quite sad and pathetic.

I guess your comprehending of the word "forgiveness" is not in your toolbox.

Glad you never have needed any or might get in the future.

Jim Wolf's avatar

Sorry, but it is not true that there is any evidence that tens of thousands of deaths were caused by the vaccine. You need to educate yourself:

“What investigators have concluded — few deaths confirmed as vaccine‑caused after review

Public‑health investigators, including CDC reviewers cited in early analyses, state that while thousands of deaths were reported to VAERS temporally following vaccination, only a very small number have been causally attributed to vaccines after clinical review and autopsy information [1]. The raw VAERS totals therefore overstate causal implications; rigorous causality assessment looks for clustering by cause, timing, and plausible biological mechanism and often reclassifies many reports as unrelated to vaccination. The provided sources repeatedly emphasize that VAERS is a signal detection tool rather than evidence of causation, and investigators have published reviews identifying specific rare vaccine‑related events but not mass causation of death [1] [5].

weedom1's avatar

When you copy/paste, please give the source and the numbered references. Which investigators? What were the parameters of the review?

weedom1's avatar

I don’t believe you can demonstrate your understanding of mRNA jab technology nor any jab technology by replying to my comments in your own words.

I do not click on anything which says “fact check”.

Jim Wolf's avatar

In my own experience, nobody I know, including all friends relatives and children has been ill from a vaccination. In my factual explorations, the statistics back up my personal experience! Maybe you SHOULD hit some independent fact check sources your own self! Know anyone who was healthy and then died “unexpectedly” of, with, or during Covid? How many of your personal acquaintances died during that period. You say the vaxxes, I say Covid. The fact back me, and Dr Fauci up. I wish you well! vaxxes or not. But I don’t want my kids at school with yours. Nor in the military with yours. Nor my elderly folks in a nursing home with yours. Dont you just wish you and like thinkers could form your own country where nobody could make you do anything you dont wanna? The majority of us would loveit if you would “self-quarantine” in your own country where facts dont matter… so sad…

weedom1's avatar

You have demonstrated to the other readers that you don’t know how mRNA COVID jabs are made, and that they don’t prevent transmission of disease as Rochelle Walensky, head of the CDC admitted in August 2021, prior to the mandate deadline. The mandate had no purpose related to preventing infection.

Jim Wolf's avatar

In my own experience, nobody I know, including all friends, relatives, children has been ill from a vaccination. In my factual explorations, the statistics back up my personal experience! Maybe you SHOULD hit some independent fact check sources your own self! Know anyone who was healthy and then died “unexpectedly” of, with, or during Covid? How many of your personal acquaintances died during that period. You say the vaxxes, I say Covid. The facts back me, and Dr Fauci up. I wish you well, vaxxes or not. But I don’t want my kids at school with yours. Nor in the military with yours. Nor my elderly folks in a nursing home with yours. Dont you just wish you and like thinkers could form your own country where nobody could make you do anything you dont wanna? The majority of us would love it if you would “self-quarantine” in your own country where facts dont matter… so sad…

weedom1's avatar

Marking the duplicate post

Jobie's avatar

Wow what a moron you. Keep taking those boosters and good luck with that.

Jim Wolf's avatar

I rubber, you glue—-“moron” sticks to you!

Charlene Booth's avatar

The covid jab opened my eyes to a dilemma I had for many years: "How would people, both great and small, be made to the mark?" Covid showed me that people will actually run to take it, mocking and condemning those of us who refuse to worship the beast and take his mark.

Connie's avatar

Here in the uk they sold their soul literally for free burgers, fries, concert tickets, you name it they sold it but that pales into insignificance when one sees the price they are now paying and that is literally with their lives!

Charlene Booth's avatar

So sad. People need to turn to God before it's too late.

Jim Wolf's avatar

And I guess you believe that God gave us Trump! Get a life. Amen!

Connie's avatar

I have life, a God given life so in that respect he did give us Trump.

Mary Fisher's avatar

I thought the same, Charlene. I didn’t think it was the mark of the beast, but I thought, “If this isn’t a practice run, I don’t know what is.” Especially when they started firing people for refusing it and threatening them not to be able to travel or shop.

Charlene Booth's avatar

I agree. I knew it wasn't the mark, but I also knew there was a plan behind it. It was a test to see how quickly people would submit their very lives without a fight. Only two people that I know took the jab. My granddaughter who was forced to take it in order to work, and is unharmed as far as we know; and a friend who died a few months after taking the jab, from a blot clot to the heart.

Mary Fisher's avatar

I have a daughter who took the shot and boosters (!),even though I warned her not to. She slowly went liberal in college - middle child, she goes with her friends. Thankfully she seems to be okay, except I noticed that she has more gray hair than I do and I’m twice her age. Of course we don’t talk about it, because what good would it do? I know lots of people who got the shots, and a couple died horribly from extremely painful clots in their legs. Several older friends just declined quickly. One of them had come through Covid easily, even while having a foot infection. But after the shot she quickly deteriorated. Another friend, who is quite slender, has had painful clots in her leg, they were going to amputate, but we’ve been praying her through. Others also have died, and I have no way of knowing whether the vaccine contributed. It is beyond awful.

Connie's avatar

The c word never existed it was simply the excuse they needed to roll out the bio-weapon and in answer to your doubts on whether the poison spear caused these deaths and injuries, it undoubtedly did.

Jim Wolf's avatar

I suppose you’re one of those who believe that if you don’t let your children get various childhood vaccines, they should be allowed into school where they can contaminate other people, yes?

Mary Fisher's avatar

If vaccinated kids can catch the disease they were vaccinated against, then what is the point of vaccination? I suppose you are one who believes “My body, my choice” only when it means destroying an unborn baby’s body?

Jim Wolf's avatar

Mary, Mary, quite contrary: what do you not understand about “Reduces the chances of contracting and spreading the virus AND REDUCES THE SEVERITY OF THE SYMPTOMS”? Maybe YOU need to go back to school?…

Mary Fisher's avatar

I am always trying to learn the truth. The thing about school- it depends on who is teaching. During Covid I followed many doctors and scientists, reputable ones, trying to learn about Covid and possible treatments. I did not watch tv, I just read and studied and did research when I had questions. I was NOT an anti-vaxxer. I had taken vaccines all my life and vaccinated my children. However, what I saw and learned during Covid changed my mind.

weedom1's avatar

Now you can take a moment to learn which childhood vaccines have been proven to stop disease transmission. This will be fun, as you discover what a toxoid is, for example. 😎

If you study the jab mechanisms you will be in for a rude awakening.

Jim Wolf's avatar

I don’t need to study “jab mechanisms” as you call them! I have been “jabbed” since I was 6 and received the polio vaccine. More recently I received the shingles “jab”! I recommend you do the same if you want to “reduce the symptoms” and avoid an incredibly painful condition in you later years!

weedom1's avatar

Your online medical practice is incompetent, as well as unethical.

You are recommending invasive medical treatments which you have publicly stated and demonstrated that you do not understand.

Connie's avatar

I’m one of those people, in fact I’d go as far as to say that vaccinated (poisoned) children/adults should be kept away from the rest of us because you’re shedding your poison onto everyone else! And wait for it, I’m not American but I’m a massive Trump supporter!

Jim Wolf's avatar

All I can say “Connie” is, I am laughing..at you. Your name is telling! You have been conned by a conman. And you love a pederast protector. Have fun!

Connie's avatar

Those who laugh last laugh longest Jim but don’t end up being the little boy who cried wolf!

Jim Wolf's avatar

Charlene, Charlene, “Charlene” please direct me to the scientific definition of “the beast“. I need a description in scientific terms so that I can understand where you’re coming from. And no holy Bible is not very scientific as you should know!

John K's avatar

Took him long enough. If he is just now figuring out he was wrong, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Chris Bieber's avatar

Glad you had the courage to hit the "send" button here with your smug arrogance and judgement of Mr Smith. Your never needing or asking for forgiveness sounds alot like Mr Trump....

Laurel Hobbs's avatar

Bravo for courage to see truth and for the persecutor to repent publicly!

Connie's avatar

Courage?????? I don’t think so!

Josephus Phallis's avatar

Yes, Courage. Don't forget that there still are millions of Brainwashed people out there who believe that the Covid-19 Hoax was real. A check of actual deaths shows that statistically the overall deaths were in line with typical annual flu deaths. In order to move forward we need to address this false "Pandemic" belief.

Roger Beal's avatar

Not a day goes by that I don't spot a masked driver, alone in [her] car, with the windows rolled up tight.

Lisa B's avatar

You must live in CA where I do! 🤣🤣🤣

Roger Beal's avatar

Nope - in supposedly conservative north Georgia. The covid loonies are everywhere!

Connie's avatar

And probably the air vents taped over.

Connie's avatar

They weren’t even in line with flu deaths, I’d suggest they were even lower, hence why even people who were ran over by a damn bus were marked as a convid death.

Chris Bieber's avatar

WTF have you ever done that showed courage like Mr. Smith showed in his PUBLIC APOLOGY??? Your powerful and tough "courage" to hit the "Send" button here with your arrogant and judgmental lack of forgiveness and refusal to accept his apology??? Glad you don't need or have or will ask for forgiveness in your PERFECT BLAMELESS AND MISTAKE-FREE life Connie....NO need for courage from "brave" you!

Connie's avatar

And actually, when speaking about obscene amounts of money I was referring to the sportsman, not the sports reporter who called out the sportsman, got it?

Connie's avatar

And what about all the brain dead sheep (you maybe?) who would have listened to his bullshit about the bio-weapon and went out and got it, even worse, let their kids get it, does his apology cover that?????

Connie's avatar

I’m assuming you took the poison spear, it sure sounds like it!

Chris Bieber's avatar

I dont sound like a cussing ignorant 5th Grader.

You have no Idea what I do and did about the Genocide DeathJab.

I havent a had shot in almost 50yrs….

I have stood and publicly yelled at the Karens and private Costumers in compliant stores.

I educated my family on the evil Deathjab and they did not get it.

I Refused to get tested or take the Deathjab to be able to move into a required Assisted Living Facility(after being approved) and they had to deal with attorneys and their Corporate Office and then let me become a resident.

I was Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men and hung up a jury for 8 hrs and 4 Vote Counts and educated the other jurors to NOT convict a 74yr old man with a dimebag of reefer walking down the street in Anaheim to 3 FREAKING YEARS IN JAIL..like the movie one by one they agreed with me and ended up helping get him needed health care and rehabilitation.

I’ve been clubbed and smacked in face by shield’ed costumed LEO’s for exercising my freedom of speech numerous times over 20yrs of activism (including the Prolife Movement)

I’ve was boo’d and publicaly condemned at a State GOP Convention for my advocating freedom and private property in a Floor Debate.

I was a Legislative Aide to the California Speaker of the Assembly and I was responsible for several bills that became law including removing the racist and fascist State Licensing of Hair Professionals(40yr Law)…..

Your ignorance of my opposition to tyranny and the Deathjab and your ignorance of courage and forgiveness is glaring and sad.

TSIGTHTF very soon. Your courage will be tested..lets see what you do..instead of bitching about others and refusing a public apology.

ddp4me's avatar

There is a fundamental right to bodily autonomy! It trumps everyone's elses right to "protection" from harm. My body my choice is used by the left all the time as the right to murder a child in the womb. How come that doesn't count when it comes to medical decisions? The Covid debacle allowed "healthcare" to keep families away from dying family members, elders in nursing homes, attending weddings, school, churches and any semblance of society. It even allowed young people to be put on ventilators and said to be beyond help and then given medication that killed them. There are numerous stories like this!

Our country is built of freedom and we had better learn never to give up that freedom again! This is a wake up call to this world and we had better heed it!

Josephus Phallis's avatar

Well Said! In Canada there is an even larger gullible, naive and just plain stupid population. Almost 90% of our population took the Kool-Aid which shows you how bad it is here and explains their retention of the Corrupt Federal Liberal Government. I am so glad that Trump got elected. Even with his obvious flaws, he remains a shining light in the dungeon of Western "Civilization".

Stacy's avatar

The way forward to a better America is with people who are willing to see their mistakes and try to make things right. I don’t assume that I can follow Mr. Smith everywhere he goes, in terms of his beliefs and opinions (which is a good thing); but I can be sure that when I do disagree with him, he deserves the benefit of my doubt and my grace.

donny frate's avatar

It does take courage. What happened to us in our hometown was very painful. A lot of people who I thought were friends absolutely disrespected us and treated us like pariahs. Now when I look back those people act like nothing ever happened. Never an apology nothing and they pretend to be friends, but they’re not friends and that’s really sad for me and I’ll always be kind to them, but I will never trust them.

Connie's avatar

What took courage was standing our ground and not taking the knee to these demons, THATS COURAGE!

Lisa's avatar

When times get tough you see who your real friends are, you only need a couple good true friends in life, value those with all your might

Stacy's avatar

That’s a tragedy. You deserve better; but now you know what you’re dealing with, and that makes me happy for your sake.

Jim Wolf's avatar

And why pray tell should they apologize to you? You put their lives at risk! Not to mention your own and those of your family members. Thanks to those who did get vaccinated. You remained probably safer during the event. Keep on refusing to take vaccinations! In particular, don’t take the shingles vaccinations. I hear that that’s very painful in your later years dealing with that disease.

donny frate's avatar

Did you learn nothing from the fauchi diaries. Your ignorance is astounding. He admitted his doubts about the origin being natural. Nobody should be forced into taking a foreign substance into their body. Maybe turn off the tv programming. The chicken pox gave immunity to people after they had it. As parents and grandparents we renewed our immunity from the exposure to our children and grandchildren. That’s the reason we’re experiencing such an increase in shingles. Mr Wolf, I’m sure you’re a decent man and everyone is absolutely sure that they are right. If you have some different information I’m open to hearing it as long as it’s not rehashed news from either side of the legacy media.

Jim Wolf's avatar

Donnie, first of all I don’t have a TV. As you folks like to say, “I do my own research” on the Internet. Ha ha.

As to taking in foreign substances, we take in “foreign substances” every time we take a breath. Yes, the internal combustion engine spews poisons into the atmosphere and has been heavily subsidized by your government. It continues to be subsidized. So don’t give me this bull about being forced to take in foreign substances.

Who cares whether the virus was born in a lab or occurred naturally. If it was born in a lab, it clearly escaped unintentionally. Need I remind you that many Chinese died as a result of the virus. And the government there was much more strict about what people could and couldn’t do during that time than our own government. You are also aware, I am sure, that the percentage of Americans who died during Covid was far greater than those percentages for the country of China!

Finally, I’d like to know how you feel about true harm that has been done over the years too young innocent girls by sexual predators. Also would like to know whether you believe that evidence of these crimes should be released so that the victims can get their justice. I’m not a “rehasher” but I DO ask questions and seek fact- checked answers! Your use of the term “legacy media” Indicates that you are one of the “sheeple”, blindly following a con man and his enablers.

As a (as you say), “decent” person I would urge you to get the shingles vaccination! Otherwise, you might be in for a great deal of pain in your senior years! be well, Donny!

Kyle's avatar

Who will apologize to Novak Djokovic now?

SimulationCommander's avatar

If only Smith had explained WHY he was wrong. Who mislead him, and how will he prevent that next time?

muriel marshall's avatar

Kyrie - a man of courage and conviction! Kudos to him !!!

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Glad some are seeing the light! Here’s 4 things Fauci got wrong that he’s probably pleading the 5th on. Masking and lockdowns are just two of them: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/in-2020-fauci-told-you-to-wear-masks

TRM's avatar

Kyrie has balls!!! LOL. Can he sue the NBA, Nets, etc?

Congrats to Smith for apologizing. Now where is the NBA, Kareem and all those other cheer leaders of vaccine mandates?

If you took the shots you joined a cult and didn't realize it. To leave the cult you need to do 2 things:

1) Stop taking the "Holy Sacramental Injections" (I think most people have figured that part out)

2) Question the authorities who lied to you. This is where they all fall down because 90% can't question authority.

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Rita's avatar

It's not about the size of the money. IMO, pro sports itself is the obscenity. There were many of us who saw thru Fauci and his "I am the great and mighty Oz!" schtick and refused the poison poke. The few sports stars who fought back had the eyeballs, and so are getting the apologies. He lost money, we lost livelihoods, family, and friends. Our recompense will come when Fauci, and the rest of the bullies who ruined our world, meet their Maker.