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Very good writing about life in the Gulag Summer of 2022. How it feels to have best friends and families lost to the Covid dystopia. My brother lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, retired from teaching in a London private school. The family is all vaccinated including 2 grown daughters.He spends part of the summer in a small village in Spain loving the laid back country life. It’s nice for those who got their situation set up before Covid in many places but the overhanging weight of what is happening doesn’t give much reason for an idyllic life in a Spanish village or anywhere else.

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Good post. Kudos to maintaining a life in San Francisco these days. Know Davis well. Amazing there used to be a Berkeley Barb and that Rolling Stone was an actual respectable music & politics entity. Today Rolling Stone is a "fish wrap".

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I lived in rural Spain for 5 years and can honestly say that I was the healthiest I have ever been in my entire life. I was running an off grid fruit farm and small school teaching English in the nearby medieval village. The local people were welcoming and helpful towards me. I miss it madly now that I am back in the dull as ditchwater UK being irradiated with electro-magnetic frequencies 24/7 whether I use them or not.

https://francesleader.substack.com/p/covid19-symptoms-identical-to-electro

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