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1. Consider the pandemic response an international hysteria specifically engineered by the global elite to move as much real value up the socioeconomic ladder as possible.

2. Don’t consider the Dutch to be any different.

3. Bingo. The Dutch fit into the diatribe.

I don’t understand why you think this would somehow be difficult to contend with.

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difficult isn't the word as opposed to "hilarious", "waste of energy", "deaf ears", "lack of focus on what can be controlled"

Easy enough to have control over never listening to the ruler’s vaccinations/lockdown/quarantine/distancing/masking demands again.

I like to think the Dutch don't fall for conspiracies' as much.

But there was that whole 'Tulip mania' thing that happened.

tongue in cheek reference but based in a flawed but pervasive understanding of that event

government modification of derivatives contracts, war right beyond the border (affecting delivery of supply), total gaps in price discovery possibly due to plague... this is probably one of the worst examples of anything irrational, despite being the poster child

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