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Feb 11, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

My freedom score is high but only because I learned many years ago how corrupt the entire system is. Had my health not forced me into studying alternative medicine, I suspect covid would have been my awakening as it was for many others. I have had several shifts in my life, but more over the last ten years than ever before.

Covid revealed how many people had no idea that the system (from education to massive corporate wealth to the ability to bribe governments) was intentionally designed to give the illusion of freedom, while enslaving us all to one thing or another. Now, the elite playbook has shifted into collectivism and rebranded Marxist ideology to sell a nastier illusion to the unsuspecting younger generations.

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If somebody did everything "wrong" in Tess's list, but for example volunteered their time for Tess's World Council for Health, I would consider that preferable to somebody who did everything "right" but spent their lives walking their dogs and tending their rose garden. Making an active contribution to others is the most important thing at the moment.

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That was fun! I only had to answer yes to four of the questions (2, 23, 24, and 29) but got a 40 because of #29 (we don't have any stocks, just a meager and rapidly dwindling retirement fund, and I don't know the details of the investments).

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Oops, I think I did the math wrong since I see 150 is a perfect score, so I guess that means we get points for No, in which case I got 110.

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I scored 140. I do shop at Amazon and do use Google and Apple in my tech stack.

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

Maybe it should have included I rarely use an iphone or similar.I don't so could not join the chat on substack:)

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Feb 9, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I got a 30 on the test, that I took by my own free will.

It isn’t easy to live like this, but as the New Hampshire State Motto reads “Live Free or Die”

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Apr 2, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

My score is 112. Not sure if that is good or not. Thanks for all you do Tess! To the community, thanks for doing your part to protect freedom and promote good health!

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Feb 14, 2023Liked by Tess Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD​

I gof134! More work to do....My problem is I have motors, "everything in moderation and a few things to excess" haha. coke is an excess. Oh and Google maps is another excess....

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Thanks, Dr. Tess. I think this is a great self-check tool.

The thing about investing in bad actor companies, it has become pretty widely known that the top 3 share owners of nearly ALL companies are Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street. Vanguard actually is said to be the majority holder of both Blackrock and State Street. Its virtually impossible to avoid their influence if you invest. I'm not sure what to suggest here, other than just perhaps that readers should be aware of this and to do what they can to avoid supporting those WEF-tool investment companies.

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Yes, very good point.

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"I don’t think 9-11 was perpetrated by Islamic terrorists "

Way to go, Tess :D!

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You are right

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Lovely test. Please humour me and explain about Netflix. Is it about conditioning us to violent films or something even more dodgy? Thanks.

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Yeah i was curious about that one too. I think now at my age im pretty good at censoring myself from rubbish and violence! 😉

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136. In my defence I’m going admit to “using social media” and the occasional Netflix offering but only as a way of keeping an eye on the normies and their propagandists. It can be useful to know that they want the masses to believe this week.

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111….much higher than it would’ve been 3 years ago!

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Great work, Tess. I would really appreciate if if you could write an article responding to all the claims that Ivermectin will kill people etc. Here is a good example of recent claims: https://apocalypticyoga.substack.com/p/lets-talk-about-ivermectin

Again, thanks for all your work.

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Thanks for the suggestion, Mathew. Articles like these exist to keep people distracted, confused and fearful. We all have a choice whether we let them make us this way or not. It's time to prepare the better way and this is where we must focus efforts. In the meantime, to those doubting efficacy of ivm, I would ask which of the following statements do you think most likely to be true:

1. The authorities lied about effectiveness and safety of masks, effectiveness and safety of lockdowns, effectiveness and safety of the covid 'vaccines', effectiveness and safety of remdesivir, and the lack of effectiveness and safety of ivm

2. The authorities lied about effectiveness and safety of masks, effectiveness and safety of lock downs, effectiveness and safety of the covid 'vaccines', effectiveness and safety of remdesevir, BUT told the truth about the lack of effectiveness and safety of ivm.

Or again:

1. The authorities employed the Trusted News Initiative, fact checkers and fake media to promote mask wearing, the covid vaccines, and to combat what they called harmful covid vaccine misinformation, including information on ivermectin's safety and effectiveness

2. The authorities employed the TNI, fact checkers and fake media to promote mask wearing, the covid vaccines, and to combat what they called harmful covid vaccine misinformation, EXCLUDING information on ivermectin's safety and effectiveness

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I don't think any of my readers, or your readers, would doubt that the authorities have lied about every one of those things you have mentioned. In fact, many people were woken up to the lies when the FDA tried to convince the people that Ivermectin was just "horse medicine" when a simple google search shows that billions of doses over 40 years have been given to people successfully. The regulatory agencies and the "fact checkers" cannot be "trusted", of course. At the same time, there is a "controlled opposition" on Substack, it seems, that is now pushing the idea that Ivermectin is unsafe. That particular article that I sent to you made many claims. I don't have the scientific expertise to debunk them properly. You could do so easily, I'm sure. If you think we should just ignore these claims, fair enough. However, I fear that they will grow if we don't have an article that we can point about the long term safety of Ivermectin in high doses (i.e. higher than given pre-Covid for other diseases). I do appreciate that this is an information war, and we can't afford to be distracted by the controlled opposition. It's what I write about all the time. However, sometimes I just have to make an article that puts the record straight. Obviously though we can't respond to all the lies and garbage, otherwise the controlled opposition would win by distracting us. We only have so much time and energy. And you are correct, our focus should be on "preparing a better way"; whole systems have to be changed; otherwise, there will always be another "emergency" to keep us under control. Again, thanks for all your work.

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147 - I gave myself full points for the ones that don't apply to me, #1 (I'm retired, but love gardening, so that's my work!) and #29 (I don't have stock market investments).

Was that correct?

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I shop Amazon and incognito google search on my iphone so 10 points off for me! = 140

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That's a great score, Pete!

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