You are the experiment. And so far, after a full year of this “distancing” kabuki dance, there is not one study with control groups that proves it has made any contribution to disease mitigation. And yet we keep doing it. I’m beginning to wonder if we’ve all become cynical about government and its public-health edicts, as if we all know this is preposterous but we do it anyway because, hey, what choice do we have? It might be that we do not have a choice now. But we will have a choice in the future. My personal hope is that the phrase falls into disrepute and disgrace, just before it becomes a party joke. And we look back and wonder how we could have fallen for such nonsense. "People Only Pretend to Practice Social Distancing" Essay By Jeffrey A. Tucker Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. https://www.aier.org/article/people-only-pretend-to-practice-social-distancing/ "Firebird" by Igor Stravinsky, performed by the Royal Danish Ballet Please SUPPORT the Very Opinionated Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/katewand BTC: bc1qwxjnf68pzzzjy4uul33dvkrpzl2qs9vq666f3v https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RSN2PPV32TF2A Show Host / Narration: Kate Wand Artistic Team: K. Wand & W.G. Gervais Audiovisual / Editing / Producer: W.G. Gervais Please SUPPORT the Very Opinionated Show: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=RSN2PPV32TF2A FB: https://www.facebook.com/VeryOpinionatedShow Very Opinionated MERCH & WORKS: https://very-opinionated.com ALL VIDEOS ARE ON ODYSEE: https://lbry.tv/ Full show notes & works at very-opinionated.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE *** These Videos May Contain Copyrighted (© ) Material. The Use of Which Has Not Always Been Specifically Authorized by The Copyright Owner. Such Material is Made Available to Advance Understanding of Ecological, Political, Human Rights, Economic, Democracy, Scientific, Moral, Ethical, Social Justice Issues, Teaching, and Research. It is believed that this Constitutes a ”Fair Use” of Any Such Copyrighted Material as Provided For in Section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In Accordance With Title – 17 U.S.C. Section 107, This Material is Distributed Without PROFIT to Those Who Have Expressed a Prior General Interest in Receiving Similar Information For Research and Educational Purposes. For More § 107 . Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40 https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92c... ** This video is for Educational Use. ** Non-Commercial video...for self-educational purpose only. ** ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvMJqm4Ap8

"Our path is not that of giving conscious support to lies about anything at all. And once we realise where the perimeters of falsehood are (everyone sees them in his own way), our path is to walk away from this gangrenous boundary. If we did not paste together the dead bones and scales of ideology, if we did not sew together rotting rags, we would be astonished how quickly the lies would be rendered helpless and would subside. That which should be naked would then really appear naked before the whole world. So in our timidity, let us each make a choice: whether to remain consciously a servant of falsehood (of course, it is not out of inclination but to feed one's family that one raises one's children in the spirit of lies), or to shrug off the lies and become an honest man worthy of respect from one's children and contemporaries. And from that day onward he: • will not sign, write or print in any way a single phrase which in his opinion distorts the truth • will utter such a phrase neither in private conversation nor in public, neither on his own behalf nor at the prompting of someone else, neither in the role of agitator, teacher, educator, nor as an actor • will not depict, foster or broadcast a single idea in which he can see a distortion of the truth, whether it be in painting, sculpture, photography, technical science or music • will not cite out of context, either orally or in writing, a single quotation to please someone, to feather his own nest, to achieve success in his work, if he does not completely share the idea which is quoted, or if it does not accurately reflect the matter at issue • will not allow himself to be compelled to attend demonstrations and meetings if they are contrary to his desire • will immediately walk out of a meeting, session, lecture, performance or film if he hears a speaker tell lies, or purvey ideological nonsense or shameless propaganda • will not subscribe to or buy a newspaper or magazine in which information is distorted and primary facts are concealed. I have not enumerated, of course, all possible and necessary ways of avoiding lies, but whoever begins to cleanse himself will easily apply the cleansing pattern to other cases. It will not be the same for everybody at first. Some will lose their jobs. But there are no loopholes for anybody who wants to be honest. On any given day, any one of us, even those securely working in technical sciences, will be confronted with at least one of the above choices. Either truth or falsehood: towards spiritual independence or towards spiritual servitude." - Live Not By Lies by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03064220408537357 A short film/vlog on the path less travelled, and how to live a life of passion and meaning against all odds. Lockdowns and mandates may have kicked you down, but you can rise from the ashes and reinvent your life. You can do whatever you want with your life! Make sure to check out our Covid Amnesty video too! Thanks to all viewers, new and old, you are welcome! Please like, share, subscribe, bell, and all that jazz. Let me know what you think of this vlog style in comments. Creators: Kate Wand & William Gervais FB: https://www.facebook.com/VeryOpinionatedShow Odysee: https://odysee.com/@VeryOpinionatedShow:5 Twitter: @katewand | @wg_gervais Kate's Musings: katewand.substack.com VERY-OPINIONATED.COM ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1jv5VzOdA