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Yvonne's avatar

"everyone in America is being faced with the reality that many have known for some time: that the system is broken and imminently untrustworthy, with a massive vacuum of authority, or integrity, or responsibility at its center."

Exactly!!

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Cassie Seiple's avatar

Phew. This is a lot right now, huh? For me too. My shitstorm started Dec 27 w a giant brain tumor I thought was menopause or blood sugar related migraines. I bestow on you all: CATSCANS & MRIs for all people 35+ I’m 42 barely. Ok but this isn’t about me...

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Cassie Seiple's avatar

I am NOT compulsively reading about COVID. I cannot. I have NEVER googled my cancer. I have never googled radiation or chemo or anything. We simply cannot live in a twitter style hellscape of the constant barrage of grim numbers.

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Cassie Seiple's avatar

My advice anyway is on my substack...I had to go to COVID treating hospital for weeks. I have to go back tomorrow for a new scan. I’m terrified. I’m calm. I’m a mess. I’ll get through this minute and the next breath until I die.

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Cassie Seiple's avatar

I’m so excited about what comes next. I refuse to die of either COVID or my sweet precious language speech frontal lobe brain’s bad cells.

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Cassie Seiple's avatar

More in a minute...blood sugar kid situation the cute wolves are hungry.

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Jerry McDonald's avatar

Thank you. I am looking at the exact same maps while knowing all along the data is unreliable. I hadn’t been able to tie a name to my intuition until I read the title.

authority vacuum

Says allot.

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