I’ve been giving my attention almost exclusively to my budding Facebook group lately, and as a result, neglected the platform that I actually own. As much as I enjoy keeping a receptacle for my writing here, I had forgotten how enjoyable it is to have an exchange of ideas with an actual group of people who share your views. Which means that, sooner or later, I’m going to create a forum here at Republic Reborn, a place where ideas can be freely shared and debated without the ever-present threat of corporate cancellation. I’ll need to hire a professional for that. And while I’m at it, I’ll slightly revamp the aesthetics of this space for a more seamless appearance.

A lot has happened over the past few weeks: COVID cases are down to almost nothing, Oklahoma has become the second state to end the state of emergency surrounding the virus, mask mandates in schools are dying swift deaths. Guthrie, Kingfisher, Elgin, Enid, Yukon (for the most part), and others, are choosing science over hysteria, compassion over the abusive self-righteousness that lies at the heart of all mask mandates. The COVID cult is in full retreat.

Through the revelation that teachers unions strong-armed the CDC into changing its school-reopening guidance, the agency has thoroughly discredited itself and should never be trusted again.

Lockdowns have been fully discredited by an army of courageous intellectuals who never yielded ground in the war of ideas.

I feel that the human race is undergoing a process of radical divergence, and the COVID crisis has been a catalyst, or rocket fuel, speeding up the process. The primary distinction isn’t really intelligence or success, but rather character, conviction, and the ability to firmly grasp certain fundamental principles and not be shaken by propaganda or emotional blackmail. COVID hysteria precipitated a Founder’s mutation of sorts, and while we hovered over the abyss of self-made extinction for a time, maybe it was necessary in order to set into motion this spiritual/character-driven divergence. Are those who immediately opposed COVID hysteria the true Nockian Remnant? Only time will tell. Let’s see where we’re at in a decade.

I am withdrawing Oklahoma's COVID-19 State of Emergency effective tomorrow, May 4.

Our 7-day average of new cases is down 94%, and we have some of the lowest cases per capita in the country.

Hospitalizations are down 90% and stable.

Oklahoma, it's time to return to normal. pic.twitter.com/fBubqAGzc0

— Governor Kevin Stitt (@GovStitt) May 3, 2021

Cloth doesn't stop viruses in schools. (Or anywhere)

h/t data – @ProfEmilyOster https://t.co/ePI2lOcsyW pic.twitter.com/0MtJjgMHam

— Emma Woodhouse 😁 (@EWoodhouse7) May 3, 2021

Unbelievable, and yet entirely believable

Finally proof: The @CDCDirector had been "preparing to write that schools could provide in-person instruction regardless of community spread" when teachers unions intervened. Feb is when everyone at the CDC started to ignore the findings of our WI study 😢https://t.co/zFOhEXGP8s

— Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD (@TracyBethHoeg) May 1, 2021

Read the harrowing reports here: www.openVAERS.com/COVID-data

It is ridiculous for school districts to tell parents whether or not their child should wear a mask in the classroom, that is up to the parent. Every teacher has had the opportunity to get vaccinated and are safe from the virus. It’s time to unmask our children. pic.twitter.com/FDgFkPUkOF

— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) April 28, 2021

The saddest aspect of this is that there are actually parents who will trust this monster over the evidence before their own eyes. Masks, “distancing”, and school closures are not protecting kids; their immune systems are. We have an Olympus Mons’ worth of evidence proving that children are in no danger of COVID complications. Let them catch it! It will protect them for life. For the vast majority of us, COVID is its own vaccine. Fauci is just deranged, fame-hungry, and you can almost see him transforming in realtime into a living relic of the greatest psychological plague to have ever befallen our species. It would serve us well if he withdrew back into irrelevancy for the remainder of his life.

This man belongs in a prison cell for the rest of his life https://t.co/sjySjzNxDo

— Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) April 28, 2021

we know this happened everywhere. https://t.co/Hkh7MBfJwY pic.twitter.com/LUpk5WKtod

— Peter Pham (@peterpham) April 27, 2021

Most of what Marvel produces these days is atrocious. They are a mindless entertainment factory. The Avengers? Cringe. Falcon and Winter Soldier? Blech. But for a short period of time, they created magic in the form of their various Netflix series’ that culminated in The Defenders. Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and of course, the best of the best, Daredevil. The stories were emotionally and intellectually complex. They also had scenes like this:

https://youtu.be/0PMYHYUzjQE

Is there a more destructive, corrupt, parasitical profession in the known universe than “public health expert”? “Public health” does not exist. It’s an abstraction. There is only individual health. Nothing supernatural occurs when you gather together 10, 100, or 350 million individuals together. “Public health” doesn’t emerge. We are still confronted with only individual health. Despite this obvious fact,  we have experts in “public health” who are making a killing right now. Normally these people will work within some government bureaucracy, faithfully serve the pharmaceutical industry, and then, when the time comes, “resign” from public health and stealthily waft upwards to a cushy, million-a-year job within Pharma. It has happened with every CDC director, has no one else noticed? Recently retired CDC director Robert Redfield is waiting the required amount of time, at which point he will be lavished for his service. The present CDC director will experience the same reward, so long as she plays her cards right and does what she’s told. It’s filthy. These are people who have wielded authoritarian control over the United States these past 12 months. Unelected bureaucrats for whom “public health” is their very last concern. These are monsters, products of their environment, sure. But monsters nonetheless.