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Thank you for delivering true, unbiased journalism regarding the vaccine debate.

Along with the AVN, IMOP and VAXXED bus, you’re giving the vaccine-injured community a voice.

Censorship and gas-lighting on all media platforms is out of control – the censored information is exactly what we need to know.

It’s modern-day book burning. It’s critical that people start to unite, educate themselves, stand up for bodily autonomy and medical freedom, seek truth, and question everything.

We’re indoctrinated to despise those who question vaccine safety and efficacy and we slap them with the ‘anti-vaxxer’ label.

Most people are ex-vaxxers – who believed in the system and paid the price with adverse reactions or losing a loved one. The science isn’t settled.

We’re being conditioned to accept a ‘new normal’ and to believe people standing up for choice are selfish, dangerous, extreme and irresponsible.

The ‘plandemic’ is a perfect example of how biased media and governments use fear to control the masses, and how freedom is lost gradually by an uninterested, uninformed and uninvolved population.

‘We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere…’ – Elie Wiesel (writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, holocaust survivor).



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