I spent a lot of time earlier this year in a bad place. I had the best thing to happen in my life so far happen, and then the world started to go more than a little crazy in April and May. I then saw the link above and spent a lot of time thinking that I needed to do something.
First and foremost: I decided I needed help with myself. The first and best victory is to conquer self. I was running on so much adrenaline I was getting only a few hours of sleep a night due to worry and anxiety.
Then I started talking with my pastor- an old gentleman who turned out to be on the same page as myself. Finding religion may not work for everyone, but as someone who had fled faith a decade ago, it has turned into something which I can use as a shield against the darkness of the mind. It's far better than anything else I can carry with me. I then went to a counselor and made sure that the one I got wasn't pozzed. Both have made a huge help getting me back to where I can start getting myself thinking rationally again.
I then decided that I needed to tell people about what was happening. Communities can band together and make great things happen- if a community is strong it can weather many hardships. I decided that the easiest way was to start printing up flyers and make a bi-weekly newsletter. I would research my facts and post them on a website in parallel with the newsletters I released- the website would have direct links to everything. .
Limiting myself was the biggest challenge. I hold myself to one page due to cost: I can't really afford to go with more pages. If you're looking to start out, a laser printer and some colored paper is cheap as dirt- 200 copies or so will run you about $20-30 depending on the cost of ink and the paper you use.
Distribution is still a challenge. I'm hoping I can get approval to start distributing my newsletters in various areas (church, coffee shops, gyms, etc). People want to know what's going on - if you can give them direct facts, they'll take them. Right now I just pass them out in my neighborhood. Pro Top: only place them on doors or in newspaper boxes: it's a crime to place anything other than letters in letter boxes (who knew?).
I'm posting all of this here because I feel like no one is doing anything and I have to do something. The barrier to doing something has never been lower: you can do something for almost nothing. It may seem like something small, but I've inspired conversations with a few of my neighbors already and I've got tons of information saved to inform myself. I'm now far more competent poking holes in mask mandates and other foolish endeavors since I started reading all of this material.
Steal my articles and print them out for yourselves. If people want them, I can post the PDFs I created for my newsletters. Information must be free, and it's harder to stamp out independent people passing out papers than it is to censor digital media. I'll admit, I'm terrified to start interacting with the internet and the culture war. But in my mind the time has passed where being afraid means you can't do anything, and fear has never been a good excuse to not do something.
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