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Domenic,

It was good to see you last night.

Thanks for sending this. You write crisply and your message is challenging.

Do you have any specific advice about how to talk to those who supported the lockdowns and shots? It's too late to matter. I just wonder about ways that I might have been more effective.

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Great chatting with you, too! Your book will occupy the coveted spot of "book I take to the laundromat and read while waiting for my clothes to dry" :-)

My own strategy is to simply put forth my own position consistently and with human dignity, and to live what I'm saying. I don't bother asking other people what their position is before expressing myself, so if the other person supports the corona-fascism, it will have to be something he/she reveals to me.

I have no idea if this works. But I do know it's a dignified way for me to behave. When I express myself, I become an example of what I express; either a good/genuine example or a bad/hypocritical example, but an example nonetheless. It's what you spoke about, as you simply didn't wear a mask outside and smiled at people when you made eye contact. A well-adjusted, dignified and dignity-extending person is an embodied argument.

Saw this video today from Michael Shellenberger that I think is roughly similar advice, framed in the context of engaging with people who might support censorship: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAo1kmGR9qb/

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