Imagine being on the other side of this: https://twitter.com
Day in and day out, ostracized by strangers, friends, and even family.
Of course, we knew it wasn’t true but knowing people thought it was true was very, very difficult. Knowing one of our bishops thought we were guilty of attempted murder was beyond the pale. It felt HORRIBLE.
It’s now common knowledge that being vaccinated does NOT stop the transmission of COVID or the severity of the disease, length of stay in the hospital, or death. A new Cleveland Clinic study actually proves the opposite. That with each vaccine, the likelihood of acquiring COVID goes up exponentially. Some are demanding “reverse mandates” saying that if you have been vaccinated, you shouldn’t be allowed to tend to patients because your being vaccinated could kill them. https://www.theepochtimes.com/top-us-hospital-for-every-vaccine-dose-rate-of-covid-19-infection-goes-up_5246810.html
A startling turn of events, to be sure. Does it make you uncomfortable?
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The ‘Unvaccinated Are Unclean’ Compilation
We will forbear the impulse to retaliate, but we won’t forget this revolting mixture of atavism, lying, and cheap virtue signaling
During periods of peace and prosperity, when the prevailing social mood is positive, it’s often tough to know who is truly decent and reasonable. During times of stress and fear, people are far more inclined to show their true colors. Many get swept up in the emotions and groupthink of the frightened herd, thereby losing their capacity for critical thinking and principled action. Under such circumstances, if you insist on maintaining your individuality, you will likely be shocked to discover that even people whom you took to be old friends may join the herd in ostracizing you.
2021 and early 2022 were just such a time for those of us who didn’t fervently embrace the crude dogma of the COVID-19 Vaccine Cult. The following video is a remarkable expression of how easily a modern, advanced civilization can embrace the most atavistic, tribalistic, and scapegoating passions.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/the-unvaccinated
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Ye shall know [us] by our [adversaries] …
The real problem with the COVID hoax and vaccine travesty is the legal dimension. Civil liberties were cast out the window in the name of public health due to – and I can’t stress this enough – the flu.
The original idea was to traumatize society and the economy to such an extent that Trump would lose the 2020 election. It didn’t work but they stole it anyway. I firmly believe that is why the Establishment overreacted. Since America went nuts, much of the rest of the world followed suit.
The whole thing was a rehearsal for totalitarianism usurping the constitution. And they could do it again. It showed them that public health was the Achilles’ heel in the American system.
This is a profound statement: “. . . the younger generations have never experienced a truthful existence.”
I agree, “. . . the younger generations have never experienced a truthful existence.” is an impactful statement, and I believe true. But then again Gail, did we experience a truthful existence?
I grew up (as many of my generation likely did) believing that Oswald acted alone, that Vietnam was to protect the planet against the scourge of communism, that LBJ was a good ol’ boy and an OK guy, that Nixon was evil and was wrong on everything, that Carter was the worst president we would ever see, that Reagan and Ollie North and others could do no wrong and that we were doing good deeds in Nicaragua and elsewhere down there, that the war on drugs was a noble cause, etc. I could go on.
Yes, younger generations never experienced a truthful existence. But maybe it is not as much a matter of things getting worse (although they certainly are) – but maybe the veil is being lifted and we are seeing more clearly what has been there for a long time. The decay of our society may be accelerating, but it started well before the current period of the “younger generations”. Those of us that lived thru the late 60’s just didn’t understand, at the time, the seeds that were being sown for what we are now reaping.
When I was little, my mother carried around a lie detector in her purse. To everyone else it looked like a plain white envelope, but to me and my little cousins it was a lie detector test “given to her by the United States government for reasons she could not divulge without threatening the security of our nation.” She would wrap that envelope around our arms and ask us in a very serious voice if we did such and such a crime. Before we could answer she would say, “Now, if you tell the truth you’re going to get in trouble (which meant spanked) but it won’t be that bad. But if you lie, I will know it and it will be a whole lot worse.” My cousin Carl was so worried about the consequences for his little brother Jim, he once confessed to throwing Jim’s sandals in the toilet. Then Jim got upset that Carl was taking the blame so he confessed, as well. I think that was the last time we saw the lie detector come out of my mother’s purse.
My mother lied about all sorts of things, including the lie detector test.
As a result, I didn’t trust the Oswald situation, Vietnam, LBJ, Carter (well, maybe Carter because he was a Christian), Nixon or any of it.
Maybe because the adults in your life (I’m guessing) were honest and dependable, you assumed the rest of the world was like that, too. If so, you did have a “truthful” experience, even though the world around you was anything but, if that makes any sense.
I think your point about the veil being lifted is definitely true. It’s sort of a “coming of age” kind of thing for all of America.
Here is the article that quote came from.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2023/06/01/the-criminalization-of-truth-in-the-western-world/
Looks like the actor Jamie Foxx is speaking about his vaccine injury:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJXJ4isH4S8
Watched the video you posted. Jamie Foxx did himself in. The Pride discussion was good. Will share.
Thank you for informing me about the dangers of the vaccine. Your info kept me from getting involved in the mania.
My sincere pleasure, Lina.
I don’t see a link to the referenced Cleveland Clinic study.
[Editor Note: This is the source https://www.theepochtimes.com/top-us-hospital-for-every-vaccine-dose-rate-of-covid-19-infection-goes-up_5246810.html%5D
They did release a preprint (Effectiveness of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Bivalent Vaccine (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.17.22283625v1.full.pdf) several months ago that was misreported in some circles as suggesting vaccination increased risk of infection. Which was incorrect, the topline summary find was a 30% decrease in infection with the bivalent booster.
We now have studies that the bivalent booster did improve Omicron death and severe disease outcomes relative to the original monovalent versions, and maintain a very clear advantage over not being vaccinated at all (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2215471)
[Editor Note: To be sure, there have been a lot of studies stating similar things which is a story in and of itself, as even peer reviewed studies are now being pulled.
This study, however, shows that that booster effectiveness peaks at approximately 4 weeks and then wanes significantly. Without this qualification, what you’re saying about it being a “clear advantage,” is not true for reasons I will explain below.
The conclusion of the study was that bivalent boosters provided substantial additional protection against severe omicron infection in persons who had previously been vaccinated or boosted within the initial 4 weeks. At it’s peak, vaccine effectiveness against severe infection resulting in hospitalization or death was 61.8% for one bivalent booster dose.
The contention that “this is a clear advantage over not being vaccinated at all,” however, is not supported, nor is it claimed. It is inferred. They assumed that if an unvaccinated person showed up with a “serious illness” and had COVID, COVID was responsible for that illness. They don’t know this to be the case. They can’t. They didn’t study the unvaccinated. They made an assumption that is frankly flawed because even if a person tested positive for COVID (with a test given to every admitted patient, with as high as a 98% false positive rate), one cannot assume is was not the FLU, as the CDC decided to quit counting the FLU as a component or consequence of a severe respiratory illness. Hmmm. . . almost like they wanted all serious cases of a respiratory illness to be attributed to COVID. (You know about their connection to Gates, right?)]
I suppose the ‘saving grace’ of a relatively large unvaccinated population is it will be possible to determine how much worse they fare in some of the other more trailing negative outcomes of COVID-19 infection.
[Editor Note: The number of vaccinated in this country is 81.4%, so there really isn’t a “large unvaccinated population.” Plus, in order to be considered fully “vaccinated,” you had to have received all the vaccine doses recommended. So the <20% unvaccinated may (probably) have received some of the vaccines, just not all of them. I would imagine there are very few “truly unvaccinated” people walking around.]
We’ve had data from before vaccines were available that as COVID-19 is essentially a vascular disease, cardiac issues, strokes, neurological complications are all common outcomes.
[Editor Note: This is incorrect. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and none of the outcomes you mentioned are considered “common” for COVID. They are, however, associated with the vaccines, which again the vast majority have had and yet, still get COVID, as well as severe illness, that unfortunately can end in death.]
COVID As well as a wide variety of post-viral conditions categorized as ‘long COVID’. Expect in the long run that the unvaccinated cohort does fare worse.
[Editor Note: Do you mean “post-viral” conditions or the “vascular disease, cardiac issues, strokes, neurological” conditions you mentioned before???]
At the end of the day, vaccinated or unvaccinated, COVID-19 is still a roll of the dice for severe health complications as an outcome, the people who insisted ‘it’s just the flu’ got that very, very wrong.
[Editor Note: COVID is like the flu in terms of symptomology and overall mortality. So no one “got that wrong.”
What you need to be looking at is excess mortality. Since the advent of the vaccines, excess mortality has shot up 40%. Excess mortality is the difference between the observed number of deaths in a specific time period vs. the expected numbers of deaths in the same time frame during the following year, which can be reliability predicted. So if one year X number of people die of cancer, one can reasonably expect the same number of people (X) will die of cancer the next year unless something unexpected happens.
To give you some perspective, shooting up 10% in any given year is a once in a 200 year event according to the life insurance industry.
So unless you can explain what else happened from the advent of the vaccines to now to cause a 40% increase in excess mortality, even if the vaccines initially saved you from all COVID variants, 100% of the time (which they don’t), you’d be looking at a very grim situation, as the vaccines are significantly MORE deadly than COVID, especially over time.
The unvaccinated have a distinct advantage in this regard.
This excess mortality was observed in those companies who mandated the vaccines. Because these people can work and are not on disability, they are probably the healthiest among us.
It appears you may be thinking that people did not take the vaccines because they thought they didn’t work and you’re trying to make the case that they do work, short term, anyway.
But the unvaccinated did not pass on the vaccines because they didn’t work. They clearly wouldn’t have known whether or not they worked at the onset. It was assumed they did. It was only recently the CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, admitted they do not block transmission and yet they continue to say the vaccines are “effective” all over their website. It’s criminal, really. (Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced her intent to depart the agency at the end of this month.)
The “unvaccinated” didn’t take the vaccines because they were/are afraid of the vaccines themselves, as too few people were studied and people started popping up in the news with vaccine injuries. When Pfizer turned over their study to the FDA (for emergency use authorization), they had only looked at 170 people! It’s right there in their executive summary! They then quickly vaccinated the rest of the 38,000 to 40,000 people they enrolled so no longitudinal studies could be done. Until now, all other vaccines went through a decade or so of testing.]
Unfortunately the data will likely show lots of room for improvement that should be tackled by next-generation vaccine designs which may not ever get developed.
[Editor Note: The mRNA is the next-generation vaccine. There is no Plan B. If you notice, it’s now the mechanism used for the flu vaccine and will soon be used as the platform for all vaccines past, present and future. No vaccines are safe after this, as they intend to use this technology until they are stopped which may have to wait until the conclusion of the Nuremberg 2.0 Crimes Against Humanity trial, which started in Jan 2023.
At this point, the unvaccinated have been exposed to all the variants and have built up considerable natural immunity, which is now acknowledged as being superior to being vaccinated. Way superior, as the vaccines don’t prevent transmission, per the CDC director.]
That can cut both ways. Things got so controversial so fast, early on I decided to be silent about it, do my own research, make my own decisions and keep my medical information private. As a result I got yelled at by people on both sides, each assuming I was on the other side. Kept sitting outside at Christmastime by vaxxed family members when the temperature was in the teens. Yelled at by an unvaxxed friend so badly our relationship never recovered.
I feel for those who were trying to get the truth out, and feel for those who didn’t know the truth or who didn’t have a choice, like if they wanted to keep their jobs. I especially feel for those who were injured by the vax, or killed either by the vax or by mistreatment, effective treatments having been banned. But most people were totally in the dark and overwhelmed with misinformation (all the pro-vaxers I know, including priests, were very sincere in their convictions), so I think compassion is called for now – and anger directed at those who knowingly perpetuated the lie, not those who were misled by it.
As for the latter, let the class-action lawsuits begin. And may criminals rot in jail.
On a tangential note: I am still of the opinion that within 10 years you will see thousands of plaintiffs’ lawyers start suing the crap out of surgeons, parents, and school counsellors who convinced minors to undergo gender reassignment surgeries.
I am absolutely convinced of this.
Yes. Did you see Matt Walsh’s movie What is a Woman that came out this week? He made it free on Twitter for 24 hours, got 80 million views in that time period! It is excellent. I am so thankful.
I want to see this!
Abigail Shrier, who used to think the same way, addresses this very question. See her recent piece, “Why I’m Not Waiting for the Gender ‘Pendulum’ to Swing Back,” at https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/little-miss-trouble .
As Shrier puts it, “When I published Irreversible Damage three years ago, I predicted that medical malpractice lawsuits would end the social contagion and irresponsible disaster of pediatric gender medicine. I’m no longer so sure.” (Emphasis added.)
Either that or faced with prison for being Christian.
George,
What makes you think people will see the light on this issue within 10 years, or ever?
I’m just a silly, fool-without-a-care fellow, that’s all.
(Being a Gemini, I can be both naive and cynical at the same time, depending on the day.)
My comment is for Theo several replies above. The problem with determining and charging those who “knowingly perpetuated the lies” is that they are so high up and untouchable. Those priests who were “sincerely convicted” to push the dangerous jab can still repent of their errors (now that they know! Everybody knows now!) and must actually repent publicly! They should be examples of humility, and frankly, it’s really shocking that none of them have stood before their flocks at Forgiveness Vespers repenting of their error (errors, plural, if you add the blasphemy of the spoons and locking church doors). Imagine the healing that could take place! Imagine the tears and exhales! Sadly, the opportunities were missed. Maybe next year?
And Theo, although you pride yourself on being a careful and thoughtful “man”, by being silent, YOU were part of the problem. I can understand your unvaxxed friend being frustrated by your inaction. Maybe you can put humility into action to heal your friendship! Many people were hurt – in so many ways (lonely and torturous death, infertility, myocarditis of young men, lack of the sacraments,,..) – because of silence.
The problem I encountered was mainly that people could not conceive that the government could be so evil as to perpetuate genocide.
Before covid I was already extremely disillusioned with both our political and medical systems here in the US, but this just takes it to a whole new level.
I’ve never been more happy for not doing something in my entire life than not getting the clot shot
Have you guys seen this? Dr. William Makis (@MakisMD) tweeted this out this am and it went viral:
I’m no scientist but even I can understand the mechanism he is describing.
And the conclusions are grim. My heart breaks for all the multi-vaccinated and boosted who trusted what they were told. One family I know who have adopted special needs children, rushed to have them vaccinated and boosted repeatedly out of fear of covid. Now I am fearful for those children because of the vaccines. Just heartbreaking.
Here’s the study: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/11/5/991
I usually post under a diff name, but for this I will just stay a little more anonymous.
Re: “…One family I know who have adopted special needs children, rushed to have them vaccinated…out of fear..”
Now you know another family, sort of. Mine.
The first special needs child we adopted from Russia was very sick. We had no experience parenting so we trusted our pediatrician. She said the safest thing we could do was revaccinate him with everything since “you don’t know how good the vaccines were in Russia”. He had just started to say a dozen or so words in English, spoke no Russian when we adopted him as an infant. She gave him multiple vaccines, he screamed for 2 days and did not speak another word for 2 years. We will never know what could have been, had we been less trusting and MORE fearful of our medical/pharmaceutical marriage made in hell. Instead we gave in to our fear of the viruses and our son paid the price.
Oh, I am SO SORRY, you’re going through this.
Oh good Lord in heaven! This is positively horrible. I know this sounds rash but get a lawyer! Search out other parents of similarly afflicted children and start a group to agitate for change, perhaps on the state level but then your Congressman as well.
Sorry for stirring up unnecessary dust. What I described happened over 20 years ago (Russian adoptions by American families have been shut down for many years). Our son had severe challenges when we adopted him and there is no question that he was further injured by vaccines that his doctor (and the vast majority of other doctors, CDC, AMA, Amer Academy of Pediatrics, etc.) all said were not harmful, just the opposite in fact. MMR, etc., “standard schedule vaccines”.
I mentioned this mostly to draw a parallel to what we are seeing now. What the medical profession is told and what the public is led to believe is based in large part on what is best for the pharmaceutical companies that make billions of dollars from the products. I am not saying all vaccines are bad or that all doctors pushing them are bad – there was a huge amount of ignorance 20 years ago, and it is no better today. Parents have to educate themselves and they must be the primary advocate for their children. We learned our lesson with our son, and it guided decisions we made with next 2 adopted children – continuing to 2020/21 where it guided decisions we made re: Covid vaccines.
Our son will always have to deal with the injuries sustained when he was 18 months old – but he is doing great and he is a blessing to us. He finally decided he wanted to join the Orthodox church a couple of years back and I am nearly moved to tears many times when he is with me in line for communion.
AfT, Gail and I are overjoyed to read this latest update from you! Glory be to God!
That said, I would still get a lawyer and/or gather other like-minded parents and agitate for reform. Buy Kennedy’s book on Fauci for a starting point. Contact his office, I’m sure he knows of groups that are likewise agitated.
Anon for now,
In regard to George’s advice to get a lawyer: The vaccine manufacturers themselves are almost entirely shielded from liability by the Federal government. However, because both the manufacturers and the government know with certainty that a certain percentage, however small (or potentially large) of people will be harmed by vaccines, a fund for vaccine injury compensation was established many years ago by the Federal government. It is funded by a Federal excise tax of $0.75 (cents) per antigen per dose on every dose purchased by medical providers. For example, the FET on a single dose of M-M-R (3 antigens per dose) is $2.25. This fund was created specifically for horror stories such as that of your adopted child.
It is called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. If you haven’t looked into it, I suggest you do.
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation
Lawyers can also assist with filing claims – for a fee, of course.
Brian, thanks for passing along this info.
In any event, if the number of people who are vaxx injured swells to the tens of thousands (or higher), I’m sure the Congress will revisit any laws regarding indemnification. Something about people with torches and pitchforks if you know what I mean. (And never underestimate the rapacity of hungry lawyers.)
Just sayin’.
It just breaks my heart to read that. I know another family to whom something like that happened. Their son, their only child after a long struggle to conceive, was permanently learning-disabled after receiving routine early childhood vaccinations. And that was in the late 80’s when there weren’t nearly as many vaccines.
WCH Announces Prof Arne Burkhardt’s Tragic
& Unexpected Passing at Better Way Conference
https://rumble.com/v2rxc70-wch-announces-prof-arne-burkhardts-tragic-and-unexpected-passing-at-better-.html
[Video – 03:34]
Tribute to Arne Burckhardt. Listen carefully to what he discovered
when he performed autopsies on bodies of the vaccinated deceased.
They’re at it again – this time with RSV…
You Won’t Believe what Pfizer is trying to do now
https://rumble.com/v2s3ub3-you-wont-believe-what-pfizer-is-trying-to-do-now.html
[Video – 16:22]
“The FDA approved a vaccine for RSV from Pfizer on Wednesday for adults ages 60 and up only. Experts say that the market for an RSV vaccine could reach $15 billion per year. In fact, vaccine makers have partnered with basketball star Magic Johnson to raise awareness about RSV and launched a website called SidelineRSV.
Pfizer did complete clinical trials for this vaccine. They found that neutralizing titer response to the virus was robust after the first vaccine but lower after the second vaccine, issued one year later. Oddly enough, participants were followed for 12 months following the vaccine but adverse events were only recorded within the first month of vaccination. Why? If they followed these subjects for more than a year, why not also follow-up on adverse reactions?
Pfizer is still testing a second RSV vaccine on pregnant women. Moderna, Bavarian Nordic and GlaxoSmithKline are also working on their own RSV vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline is the sponsor of the Magic Johnson ad.”
If we didn’t have this site, George and I would not have done the research we did. We did it for you and because of this research, we knew to avoid the vaccines. It’s not like we were the “smartly pants,” or anything.
Thank you, Gail, for all your work in that arena! Grateful to God for sites like yours during that time!
🙂
Speaking of the whole vax thing, I highly recommend that everyone click on the Orthodox Reflections tab above and read the powerful essay by Hilber Nelson entitled “An Open Letter to Our Shepherds”.
It is powerful and long overdue. Cut, copy, paste and send to your respective bishops.
Here’s that great piece by Hilber Nelson: https://orthodoxreflections.com/an-open-letter-to-our-shepherds/
Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Great COVID Death Coverup
https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2023/June/PDF/covid-death-coverup-pdf.pdf
Story at-a-glance
‘ Within weeks of the pandemic outbreak, it had become apparent that the standard practice of putting COVID-19 patients on mechanical ventilation was a death sentence; 76.4% of COVID-19 patients (aged 18 to 65) in New York City who were placed on ventilators died. Among patients over age 65 who were vented, the mortality rate was 97.2%
The recommendation to place COVID patients on mechanical ventilation as a first-line response came from the World Health Organization, which allegedly based its guidance on experiences and recommendations from doctors in China. But venting COVID patients wasn’t recommended because it increased survival. It was to protect health care workers by isolating the virus inside the vent machine
Data suggest around 10,000 patients died with COVID in NYC hospitals after being put on ventilators in spring 2020. Other metropolitan areas also saw massive spikes in deaths among younger individuals who were at low risk of dying from COVID. It’s possible many of these deaths were the result of being placed on mechanical ventilation
The WHO must be held accountable for its unethical recommendation to sacrifice suspected COVID patients by using ventilation as an infection mitigation strategy — especially considering they’re now trying to get unilateral power and authority to make pandemic decisions without local input
Showing how the WHO’s recommendation to put patients on mechanical ventilation resulted in needless death among people who weren’t at great risk of dying from COVID is perhaps one of the most powerful talking points a country can use to argue for independence and rejection of the WHO’s pandemic treaty … ‘
WHO: ‘Trusst in me, jusst in me.
Close your eyes and you will see…
You can sleep safe and sound
knowing I am around…’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROnVCy_Xyg
[Video – 03:14]
Dr John Campbell | Cannabidiol and COVID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4fn2QFO_A
[Video – 21:36]
Preprint | Cannabidiol Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Replication
and Promotes the Host Innate Immune Response
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi6110
Abstract
‘ The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic underscores the need for new treatments. Here, we report that cannabidiol (CBD) inhibits infection of SARS-CoV-2 in cells and mice. CBD and its metabolite 7-OH-CBD, but not THC or other congeneric cannabinoids tested, potently block SARS-CoV-2 replication in lung epithelial cells. CBD acts after viral entry, inhibiting viral gene expression and reversing many effects of SARS-CoV-2 on host gene transcription. CBD inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication in part by up-regulating the host IRE1α ribonuclease endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response and interferon signaling pathways. In matched groups of human patients from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, CBD (100 mg/ml oral solution per medical records) had a significant negative association with positive SARS-CoV-2 tests. This study highlights CBD as a potential preventative agent for early-stage SARS-CoV-2 infection and merits future clinical trials. … ‘
PS: Big Pharma will not be doing clinical trials anytime soon…
WE are their clinical trials and until they stop pushing the vaccines, their clinical trials will continue.
I mean trials on CBD and COVID.
I see!
French Open 2023 results: Novak Djokovic beats
Casper Ruud to win Paris title and claim 23rd major
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/65873164
‘ Novak Djokovic showed his greatness once again by overcoming a sticky start to win a men’s record 23rd Grand Slam title with victory over Norway’s Casper Ruud in the French Open final. …
The Serb moves into the outright lead of men’s majors ahead of Rafael Nadal.
He also becomes the first man to win all four majors at least three times. … ‘
All this despite suffering the double-handicap
of being both un-vaxxed and cancelled… 🙂
Which bishop said that ? Did he ever walk back that statement ?
Although some of our church leadership didn’t say that sort of thing out loud in so many words , their caving-in to the policies set by Fauci & Co. made it seem as if they implicitly endorsed that kind of thinking because as that compilation video demonstrates that is certainly the drum beat that the government, the media, and academia were all marching to.
I don’t know what disappoints me the most: that the bishops fell for it to begin with , or that ever since all the evidence to the contrary has come out none of them have apologized or taken responsibility for their bad handling of the situation. (that I know of)
No, he did not but he obviously knows that’s not the case now.