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Sep 22, 2022Liked by Jean Marc Benoit MD

It's a tough one, as is the opposite. People in my life are grieving, or anticipating grieving (my father in law is doing poorly), and I and my wife attribute some of these cases to adverse events. But people won't necessarily thank you for saying so.

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Delicate situation

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Sep 22, 2022Liked by Jean Marc Benoit MD

That’s why I just keep my mouth shut, never engaged in the “anti vaxers kill granny’s” and never once made use of a vaccine passport for anything - refused to be a part of any of it

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There is a natural human life span. Oddly, people say the opposite too: that the Queen and Prince Philip could have lived longer had they not taken the shots. (However, we don't really know what was given to them, it could have been saline.) Suffice to say they were at the end of long healthy lives. Most people don't live as long as they did, nor function as well in their 90s as they did. Obviously, they had support staff and great advantages.

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There are a couple more angles to the story - had to blur out some details. Yes, the fact of being over 90 softens the tragedy. The other element was the lack of sympathy for the niece who also died, as she was blamed for having been "irresponsible."

I have had a few conversations in this vein lately, where people are sense-making regarding covid and the related societal insanity. Some of them are having a pretty hard time doing so...

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