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I am strangely straddling a few. I could theoretically be called a "remorsenic" for having the first shot due to the extreme pressure of an impending job mandate, my spouse threatening divorce and making my life unbearabe (despite my unswerving devotion to my marriage and vows, still, to this day), my kids not listening to me and taking the shot, and general alienation for my views. Yet I went in absolutely, fully aware that it was 100% the wrong thing to do. I had "pre-remorse", for want of a better way to describe it. I had read extensively, was completely cognisant of the danger, ineffectiveness and insanity of the shots. Moreover, I had had Covid and was mostly recovered, other than persisting anosmia. I knew it was unnecessary - even potentially more dangerous for me, as a recovered person with strong, tested antibodies. Yet I did it, as the only way out of my trap. Like a fox chewing off its leg.

The only thing I can liken it to was extreme existential despair, hopelessness, and the equivalent of a silent suicide pact with my unaware family.

My death-wish ended there. I did not go on to have more. My despair, while not gone, is now amplified with a rage so absolute that it enabled me to help mobilise colleagues, start fighting back against my employer, and gave me a steely determination to subvert this thing as much as I possibly could - while still clinging to what I held dear for as long as I could. This is something that many don't appreciate. The juggling act that many of us have had to perform. I will not let this vile "thing" destroy my marriage and kids without a fight. EVEN THOUGH it has actually conscripted them. My subversion at home is the most difficult and delicate thing of all. I have to try and do it, without trying to do it. Sometimes it has to be via the merest gossamer whispers.

So, while names are useful, they are not fully encompassing.

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I think it is important to first name the movement. I like the term "Medical Freedom Movement."

My identity as a Progressive is no longer accurate, due to the mass conversion of Progressives into pro-war, pro-censorship, unquestioning Democrats. A year ago, watching Breaking Points, I learned that a new term had been invented: Social Libertarian (aka Barstool Conservative). I also call myself Politically Homeless.

I'm not a fan of newly coined words. They're too hard to remember. Rather than Verido, I prefer Truth Teller. These people are my heroes. High integrity is their outstanding characteristic.

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Proud Verido here. Also, for what it's worth, I also love the general term "Team Reality" for those of us who see the simple truth of the fraud perpetrated over the past 3 years.

Thanks for this post, Diane. I generally recoil from labels but it's become increasingly necessary to know who is with us, who can be persuaded eventually, and who will always be a waste of time.

Just this week I finally emailed my Substack link (it's mostly about the pandemic fraud, data fraud, media & big tech censorship, vaccine injury, and related topics) to friends, family, acquaintances, clients, and colleagues. The responses are trickling in. I'm not surprised at the many conformists, but I've been pleasantly surprised to find so many Veridos among my acquaintances! And of course saddened by the number of compliants...though not surprised by it whatsoever.

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Call Us by Our Names: GENOCIDE: MURDERER: "You" should "all" have known better - Why do I have to remind you of that: 30 years never had a virus or bacteria infection = never ill: Mix one heaped teaspoon of salt in a mug of clean warm water - cup a hand and in stages, sniff or snort the mugful up your nose spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If burning sensation, you have a virus and the salt solution is disinfecting it, so wait 2-3 minutes until burning sensation goes away, then blow out your nose on toilet paper and flush away, washing your hands afterwards. Do my free salt water cure morning, noon, night or more often if you want, until it feels like you are flushing with water only - job done. 3 minutes idea to job done - simple. No virus, no Covid or Long Covid in your head possible. You cannot catch Covid, you have to catch a Coronavirus first and let it become Covid in the nasal passages of your head, later transported down into your body in the one liter of snot, or mucus, we each produce daily - the engine oil of the body. Vaccines - what for - I never have any. My method is like using a fire hose to put out a fire. It takes 3 minutes to prepare and do with salt and clean water and over the 30 years I and others have been doing it, it has NOT killed or injured ONE PERSON, unlike those synthetic mRNA vaccines, ALSO verified by Alberta Medical University - Canada. Do it - you will be amazed at how quickly it destroys colds and flu in the nasal passages of your head. No infection, no Covid possible. Spread the word to everyone please. Neti pots are like using a garden sprinkler to put out a house fire. your life, your choice!! AND free!!

"Medicine and Virology" SUCKS

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I like it. Verido with a libido here. Everyone is fascinated with Brian Kohberger case. This Verido is skeptical of the case against him. I suspect the compliants and conformists are shouting "Guilty!" in their native knee jerk response to the slightest accusation, just as they panicked, donned masks, social distanced, obeyed and finally rushed out to be jabbed. Wouldn't want them in the jury box. I'll take Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men. A Verido.

I wrote this as an armchair Sherlock: More annoying guilty speculation. The suspect waits until he's under surveillance (unbeknownst to him) to clean his car weeks after the event. Check. The guy knows his cell phone can be traced so he turns it off during the crime. This is exculpatory to the extent it infers the perp does something he knows will incriminate him. In one photo of the white Elantra it has a sunroof in another it does not. The FBI has him stopped in Indiana to see if he has injuries on his arms and hands. He does not. They didn't already know this? Touch DNA such as found on the sheath button is considered pseudoscience. Where the hell are fingerprints and who do they belong to? Where the hell are fingerprints of the suspect anywhere in the victim's house? Doordash minutes before doesn't raise anyone's antenna? The fact eyeball Witnesses don't say anything for 8 hours somehow explained away? Why are they not showing us the videos of the Elantra supposedly seen approaching and leaving the scene? Get the feeling they're pretty sketchy as most of those videos are. 12 visits over 5 months to the neighborhood hardly sounds like stalking. Give me a break you got nothing.

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This is so cogent and so helpful. It is important to find the true words. And language has been used in such a subtle insidious way to hide the true meaning. An example from our time is the term "gain of function" research. A long time ago-Vietnam War time I remember reading a book by one of the two Berrigan brothers about the use of language to obfuscate the true meaning. I was quite young still and this book drilled something important into my consciousness. One example word was "collateral damage". I'm not sure if I am a Verido or a Refusenik and wonder if there is something in between. Or maybe I hope that Refusenik's sometimes become Verido's. The find they need to become "truth warriors". I am very compelled at this point by the hope of finding a way to be a truth warrior....the question ever being how to bring the light of truth when facing a wall of fear accented by propaganda and lies. And then I am always wondering, with the current disaster, how to tell others about the fact that the vaccine they took is poison. I still will be reaching out to you soon, Diane.

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You are one of the few progressives that are actually progressive and kind. You are the real deal. You are a hero. We need more heroes today. Thanks for being a hero. <3

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Great ideas. Names and what we do in the name of are all important distinctions. I am working on a post currently which seeks to name names of a different sort and find your names helpful.

Have often visualized an organization of parents and grandparents working locally and internationally dedicated to saving our human future in the face of this totalitarian evil. Any names come to mind?

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MD is what "Medical Doctors have after their name - PHD is the abbreviation for what "Herbalists" have after their name - is that right - so I can't directly hold you responsible for this, because you sell mumbo jumbo cures: Those who have "volunteered" to have the experimental synthetic mRNA test vaccines were forecast to be injured, or die, 6 months before the vaccines were released in early 2021, at 1,000 American's a day.

However, by February and March of 2021 the deaths and injuries far exceeded the projected, expected kill and injury rate and further millions of American Dollars were released to General Dynamics (the contracted records recording company), to handle the considerable increase in deaths and injuries to be recorded for VAERS by the CDC, which is funded by Bill Gates, which presumably he owns to some extent. "He who pays the piper calls the tune" - logic.

VAERS records 1% of all deaths and injuries and it has been suggested that multiplying VAERS numbers by 41 (x41) a more accurate picture can be achieved, so when the CDC was expecting 1,000 American's to be killed and injured by vaccines, in actual fact, it was nearer 41,000 American's were being killed and injured, on a daily basis - however - this does not take into account the many millions more, around the world, who were being deliberately killed or injured, by these vaccines - which can only be described as Genocide, had they been "human".

Vaccines purpose not to save anyone from Covid, but to install nanotechnology, past the blood brain barrier, and into the very workings of the body, in billions of lipid packages in each synthetic mRNA vaccine shot - which also contains 99% Graphene Oxide particles - advanced nanotechnology which we won't be able to produce, with our limited scientific understanding of any nanotechnology, before 2035 - yet this advanced nanotechnology was being injected, deliberately from January 2021 - which begs the question - "we" did not have that 2035 nanotechnology in 2021, so what, or who did?

The experimental synthetic test mRNA are patented to the vaccine maker of choice, or the USDOD, because the synthetic mRNA are not naturally occurring in the body and only those who "volunteer" to have the vaccines, can have them, because, according to US Law (2013) anyone synthetically mRNA vaccinated is no longer human and all human rights are lost. They are a new species for which zero rights have been passed into Law and their bodies are now owned by the vaccine maker of choice, like a GMO product, so the deliberate 2035 injected nanotechnology , Graphene Oxide causing murder and injury - Genocide, is not covered by any Law and is perfectly acceptable and legal, by our human Laws, which we the not vaccinated are covered by, as long as we refuse to volunteer, for these experimental synthetic mRNA test vaccines:

There were no COVID-19 vaccines close to approval on August 27, 2020. In fact, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine trial phase 2/3 had only started a month earlier on July 27.The first contract, with General Dynamics, is dated August 27, 2020. It outlines a series of services the company was to provide to the CDC pursuant to the “anticipated increase” in VAERS reports due to the COVID-19 vaccines. It certainly appears that by August, 2020, the impending emergency use authorization of at least one COVID-19 vaccine was a foregone conclusion. BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin says that his mRNA vaccines rolled out in January this year (2021): Link here: https://www.ibtimes.sg/fact-check-biontech-ceo-ugur-sahin-refuses-take-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-due-safety-concerns-61652 but by August 27, 2020 – The first contract, with General Dynamics, is dated August 27, 2020 had been let and the contract states that they were expecting up to 1,000 VAERS reports to be filed per day, with up to 40% of the reports being serious in nature and the CDC was already anticipating that the COVID vaccines might generate nearly seven times as many reports as all other vaccines combined (a 600% increase), The amounts paid out under the contracts with General Dynamics were redacted. But according to this site, the initial amount paid was $9.45 million, with $4.4 million added in late February, and then an additional $16.3 million tacked on in early March. In March of 2022 there was an additional $5.2 million added (increases in deaths and injuries beyond the initial contracts)

The Contracts 23 00099 General Dynamics Information Te..https://substack.com/redirect/dac78dc8-9d2d-4280-a390-218d47bb331d?j=eyJ1IjoibjFlaXcifQ.OkComRnvTz45cW2ospKdwvhGbhkMepFwvepUF91fYF023 00099 Eagle Health Analytics, Llhttps://substack.com/redirect/bcba05ff-1dce-4b15-a6a7-0f59f3cb115a j=eyJ1IjoibjFlaXcifQ.OkComRnvTz45cW2ospKdwvhGbhkMepFwvepUF91fYF0 Grand total? $35,425,642 The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) records 1% of all reports:

VAERS updated its numbers showing a staggering 1,481,226 reports of adverse events (x41 to arrive at December 2022 numbers) following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Dec. 9, 2022. ...The above information posted by Josh Guetzkow

BioNTech CEO Ugur Sahin says that his mRNA vaccines rolled out in January this year (2021): Link here: https://www.ibtimes.sg/fact-check-biontech-ceo-ugur-sahin-refuses-take-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-due-safety-concerns-61652 but by August 27, 2020 – The first contract, with General Dynamics, is dated August 27, 2020 had been let and the contract states that they were expecting up to 1,000 VAERS reports to be filed per day, with up to 40% of the reports being serious in nature and the CDC was already anticipating that the COVID vaccines might generate nearly seven times as many reports as all other vaccines combined (a 600% increase), with a rate of serious adverse events that could be up to 8 times higher, (bearing in mind that VAERS represents only 1% of all injuries and deaths recorded and multiplying the numbers given by 41 (x41) gives a much better appreciation of just how many American’s were being injured or had died, after vaccinations began in early 2021), on a daily basis: The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Friday updated its numbers showing a staggering 1,481,226 reports of adverse events (x41) following COVID-19 vaccines were submitted between Dec. 14, 2020, and Dec. 9, 2022, so for 100% x41 = 60,730,266 dead or injured Americans so far and it does not include the numbers your governments are inflicting on you, if you don't live in America.

See Electron Microscope studies of blood at cellular level and the nanotechnology to be found there: https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/the-mindset-of-dr-robert-young-on-blood-clots-pleomorphism-the-jibby-jab-t-cruzi-h-vulgaris?postId=3704e561-ae34-4a1b-98f5-ded468531d93&utm_campaign=5003d1c8-c42a-4ec7-837d-42a0d74c29a2&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&utm_content=ca364f20-ac6e-41bf-9814-33ce0b02ff77&cid=8bec1d4c-3773-415a-83c2-1694daa095a4

The US Department of Defense (US DoD) has had a dominant role in the response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the US DoD took charge of the Covid vaccine funding, development and testing from the very start of the perceived threat in early 2020 and in the development, and distribution of the Covid 19 vaccines, a fact hidden from the general public. In those processes many standard steps and procedures, otherwise required for pharmaceutical products, were omitted or circumvented.  

The US FDA’s website (FDA, 2020) reveals that the United States Department of Defence (DoD) has been in full control of the Covid Vaccine development program since its beginning. The DoD has been responsible for development, manufacturing, clinical trials, quality assurance, distribution and administration, since that time (FDA, 2020; Rees and Latypova, 2022; KEI, 2022; Medical Defense Consortium, 2022; Rees, 2022). The major pharmaceutical companies have been involved as “Project Coordination Teams” effectively performing as subcontractors to the DoD. The Chief Operating Officer for (Trump's) Warp Speed vaccine program is the US Department of Defence, and the Chief Science Advisor is the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). 

Definition of these vaccines as “countermeasures” rather than therapeutic agents has permitted their expedited progression to emergency use authorisation and widespread rollouts. Many adverse consequences have been the outcome of this secret military response to a public health matter. Excepts From: Phillip Altman's Essay he is Pharmacologist and Clinical trial and drug regulatory affairs consultant in Melbourne, Australia and Brownstone Institute

My assumption is that America's DOD let their military technologies become obsolete, after Russia became bankrupt in 1991 and with Putin re-arming and the nuclear threat from China, America and it's Western Allies have few weapons left to respond, so modifying the vaccines volunteered, makes them "no longer human with zero human rights, to be modified to suit" as Bio/Robots in battleground warfare where they would control computerized military technolgy and fighting units by mind control and the first generation of robomachines would obsolete all other modern technologies and would contain a nuclear device, so that they could self terminate on command, irrespective of race or colour or language, which would make them invisible in a crowd, but the ultimate fighting bio/robot/ machine and the building costs - zero - because non humans are expendible and have zero human rights and represent a massive surplus of non humans, available now, for simple conversion = DOD.

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I am in the last category because of my background as a medical technologists snd because of what I learned about our government years ago. I knew there was no way I would ever trust any congressman, president etc at any time. I have learned to see the characteristics of those who lie and who have conspired against everything our country stands for since the very beginning. I learned this about the time the unconstitutional Dept. of Education was formed and what they had planned for our school children. As a result, we now have several generations who have been dumbed down and taught to hate our country and system of government. Many in this group are a generation of no morals or low morals. I doubt they will know what to do when push comes to shove. I feel very sorry for this group. I doubt they will know what to do or how to take care of themselves when the expected bad times come about.

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Thank you for this, Diane. I appreciate the pursuit of neutral terms. Divisive language is the last thing we need right now.

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Thank you Diane! Very clear descriptive terms. Hope they nudge people to reflect on how they see themselves and what impact that has. You're a Verido through and through!

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A very nice classification system; thank you.

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Very very helpful indeed! I am imagining a diverse group of people coming together, say 20 people in a neighborhood, and these categories being presented for their consideration. What a conversation that could lead to! Our Better Angels https://ourbetterangels.org brings people together in "safe" spaces for this to happen. I have been wanting to connect with them, your article with these definitions has given me the impetus to do so. Thank you so much!

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I like all but one of your terms for categories of people re covid. Veridos is a bookish stand out, which, paradoxically, sounds like it is referring to a sort of Mexican food, or clothing..

How about "Truther", widely used to describe 9/11 researchers mostly in a sneering, disparaging way.

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Statement from a Verido from the get-go:

There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.

How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!

RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!

Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.

There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!

APPALLED AND HORRIFIED AT INSANE TYRANNICAL PROTOCOLS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HEALTH AND EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOTALITARIAN CONTROL! REVERSE THIS NOW!

MAKE THE WORLD AND AMERICA 2019 (comparatively speaking), AND FREE AGAIN!

NO, I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE MORONIC SCARIANT SHMARIANT MONKEYSHINES! WAKE UP ALREADY!

TOTALLY CONDEMN BIDEN AND ALL OTHER POLS WHO HAVE NO POWER TO LAWLESSLY ACT LIKE AN EMPEROR OR DICTATOR AND DECREE JAB CROW 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' FASCIST SEGREGATION/DISCRIMINATION/APARTHEID VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION, THE NUREMBERG CODES AND EVERY CIVIL RIGHT IMAGINABLE.

NO GREEN NEW DEALS OR BUILD BACK BETTER FROM THE CRIMINAL TECHNOCRAT TYRANTS KLAUS SCHWAB AND HIS CRONIES FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM.

STOP THE TERRIBLE TYRANNY OF THE TECHNOCRATS GLOBAL AGENDA OF TOTAL SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL USING THE VIRUS AS EXCUSE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL!

NO MUZZLING STIFLING MASK MANDATES! NO FORCED VACCINES! END TORTUROUS DEVASTATING LOCK DOWNS NOW! I WANT MY LIFE BACK.

https://wrenchinthegears.com

https://www.stopworldcontrol.com/

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com

https://pandemicfacts.info

https://wearehumanwearefree.org/7-days-campaign/

https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/covid-19-roadmap-12-step-plan-to-create-a-totalitarian-new-world-order-were-on-number-8-headed-towards-number-9/

https://questioningcovid.com

https://www.corbettreport.com/interview-1581-james-corbett-breaks-down-the-great-reset/

http://www.stopcp.com/GlobalResetPSYOP/GlobalResetPSYOPMindMap.html

https://everydayconcerned.net/2020/09/04/breaking-major-investigative-report-by-association-of-french-reserve-army-officers-finds-covid-19-pandemic-to-have-a-hidden-agenda-for-global-totalitarianism-nanotech-chipping-of-all-5g-irradia/

Pam Popper: https://makeamericansfreeagain.com

Del Bigtree: https://www.brighteon.com/channels/highwire

https://www.technocracy.news

Naomi Wolf: https://dailyclout.io

www.nojabforme.info

https://www.globalresearch.ca/we-must-awaken-from-corona-coma-reject-great-reset-robotic-technocracy-assert-common-humanity/5745213

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As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (67) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!

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