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Tiffany Ryder's avatar

God bless you for having the courage to post this Katy. It’s easy to forget that most of the people who end up obfuscating the truth are tricked into it. They are being lied to like the rest of us.

Everyone that I know who has “woken up,” believed the official narrative at some point, and then was open enough to hear truth and evaluate evidence once it was revealed to them.

I’m grateful you stayed curious and open minded. I hope that your example and the Secretary’s graciousness encourages more people to do the same.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Thanks Tiffany! Yes, curiosity sometimes takes years to unfold, when we’ve been gaslit so long!

Tiffany Ryder's avatar

Totally. My experience has been that you just assume you're misunderstanding something or not seeing reality for what it is, because it can't actually be possible... untangling that web takes a bit of work.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Exactly. I loved the president so much and fancied myself super-MAGA, more than most in the WH. But we all have blind spots in medicine, as Marty Makary wrote about in his book called, well, Blind Spots.

Tiffany Ryder's avatar

And the people who want to distort truth exploit the 'blind spots.' They use our morality and compassion against us. After you see it you can't unsee it, but it's more evil than I ever could have imagined. I love Marty! His book The Price We Pay was my awakening and I will be forever grateful.

Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News's avatar

Grateful I took the time to read this when the notification popped up.

I’ll be sharing it w/ my 117K subs here on SS.

I don’t use this platform enough or post/share often, but I especially am thrilled that you’re helping doctors become their own primary care physicians.

That is imperative & others need to know.

I’m happy you mentioned Andy, since he created and directed the Vaxxed film.

Del was one of the producers & did a phenomenal job.

The same goes for all 9 of the awesome producers on Vaxxed l — some of whom are like family.

I remember interviewing Del, Andy, and Polly at the premiere. Del explained graciously that most people in our community didn’t know him before that film, and said Vaxxed and the subsequent Vaxxed ll & III really helped put him on the map.

So humble of him and accurate.

The film series did open the eyes of millions, including yours.

Working with Bobby too, we all know how incredibly gracious and forgiving he is in real life, probably more so than I or most folks.

Thank you for sharing your story. I’ve never heard any of this before over the decades, and look forward to sharing it with my peeps .

I know autism moms in particular will be grateful as they have such open and forgiving hearts.

I seek to be more like them every day.

They will truly appreciate this.

Erin

Tiffany Ryder's avatar

Erin, thank you for being a voice for those who need it. And for being so gracious in this moment. I couldn’t agree with you more that truth and transparency are essential and should be encouraged at all costs. The gaslighting has to stop.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Oh Erin, I’m so grateful for your kind words and for sharing the post with your audience. Thank you for working on the film and to all those who did. It was the real bombshell that pulled the scales from my eyes and started the cascade of everything else that caused me to turn in my Consensus Club card. Bless you!

Devin Ryder's avatar

Thank you for your honesty and humility! This is certainly a rarity in government (or from people who were in government/policy shaping). If even 3% of those directly responsible for major decisions took done sort of accountability, this country (world) would be so much better off.

Maybe others will see this and, when the sky doesn't fall, be emboldened to liberate themselves similarly.

🙏🤞

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Thank you so much Devin! I think that people assume that everyone in govt is a Bond villain twisting the tails of their mustache! Some are of course. But most of us are just humans trying our best who are growing and learning like everyone else. When we know better, we do better.

Cooper Raymond's avatar

Worth linking to Sheryll Atkinson's Investigative reports on vaccine efficacy and the US Vaccination Court's success at squashing ~90% + of the claims being made before they even reach their front door.

https://sharylattkisson.com/tag/vaccine-court/

Dr. Diana Galish-Frasier's avatar

Thank you for sharing your fascinating story…thank you for holding tight to your own intuition, then stepping out to enlighten others about a practice we’ve all been programmed to believe by people we’re taught to blindly trust have our very best health interests at heart, is safe, effective and necessary. Why?? Well, that’d be because “the experts” say so, and we, without question, have generationally subscribed to any and everything they advise.

I have not, and began to question at age 12, when I realized that after every one of his annual flu vaccines, my grandfather, two weeks later, would be at death’s door. Finally, I mustered up the courage to ask my tough Irish grandmother, why, if after Papa gets these flu shot things (we never got them), does he get so sick (with what sounded like the flu to me) that you call our Mom to tell her, “I think this is it, I think he’s gonna die this time; he’s really sick!” Her answer: “Because Dr. Brown says we have to.” People just did whatever their doctors told them to. I remember I asked why they wouldn’t ask Dr. Brown about this near-deadly practice? “Oh no! We don’t question the doctor!!”

I’ve been a student of vaccination ever since.

The word doctor comes from the Latin verb "docere," which means "to teach."

Thank you for choosing to dig deep, to listen to moms’ stories of their “real, not rare,” devastating, life-altering stories and their cries for investigation into this practice sold to us/parents by individuals and institutions we’ve culturally been raised to believe is safe, necessary and effective - none of which has science behind them to support their “for the greater good,” mantra.

People are finally awakening; your story, your background and experience are so important in opening the eyes of those who’ve not allowed themselves to see.

Kelly Childs's avatar

My goodness this warms my heart reading this article asking myself, “Will this finally crack open the floodgates of truth?”.

Thank you for doing this. I pray more follow suit. Those in high places that willingly and knowingly hurt people need to be held accountable.

Let’s pray the tables are turning.

Sending much love to you for doing this. Humanity is coming back. 🫶🏼

Tiffany Ryder's avatar

We can only hope that this encourages others to come forward and share their stories.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Thank you for your kind words, Kelly. When we know better, we do better. (I mean, some Bond villains know better and don’t do better, obvi. But most of us are just doing our best).

Sayer Ji's avatar

Your courage and humility is profound.

Michael Hicks's avatar

Thank you so very much for this history from the "inside".

Bells are ringing in my memory as you note each of the awful steps along this pathway.

With gratitude. I hope that I can share with others.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

I appreciate you reading and sharing your kind words. It was such a dark time.

Cooper Raymond's avatar

Getting red pilled shouldn't be so painful, yet here we are.

Welcome to the Party!!

Noelle Callahan's avatar

Wow Katy—incredibly courageous of you to share this. I’m so glad I know you and grateful for how you use your wisdom and influence. Proud to have you on team heretic.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

There is so much transformative work happening now, and yet more to be done. Grateful to be on the same team.

Lynne G's avatar

God bless you🙏

Well written and spells it out for anyone to understand and (hopefully!) break through the cognitive dissonance.

Been standing up for mine and my family’s health when I had Lyme disease 10 years ago and woke up to the corruption. Another good watch, “The Quiet Epidemic”

Josh Mazer's avatar

Hi, thank you.

JAM Annapolis, Md

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Thanks so much for reading Josh.

Gary F's avatar

Fantastic piece. You should submit to thefp.com

I gotta think they would very likely publish it to a subscriber base of over 1m truth-seeking readers.

Katy Talento ND ScM's avatar

Thank you for that suggestion and for reading. Most of all for your support!

Rita Palma's avatar

Glad you helped yourself by coming clean. Time to step up with more than a substack post. We knew in 2005 and we fought. You retreated. Take meaningful action: fight for exemptions for ALL (including NY, CA, ME, CT, WV) our kids are being thrown out of school, families are breaking up. Children are being immeasurably hurt. Help those states fix it.

Donna's avatar

Agreed. Confession may be good for the soul but now it's time to help right the wrongs.

Rita Palma's avatar

Congressman Greg Steube (R-Fl) has requested an EO, along with Congresswoman Lauren Bobert, to reinstate religious exemptions throughout the country. Please write a letter, Katy. He also authored a federal bill, HR 5075

(The GRACE Act) for same. Contact Trump and support these two actions; you have access/ influence with top brass.

AutumnSousanis's avatar

When my sister (NY) had to dismantle the homeschool pod she’d held in her home ever since NY lost their final exemption, she lost her mind. Her whole focus was to keep kids learning while safe from vaccines. But her husband, a fully indoctrinated former med student who believes the lies of the NIH and CDC, had always threatened to “just get the kids vaccinated so they can go to school”, but she’d been strong and capable and courageous and stood firm. She even joined up with the medical freedom organizers in NY and met RFKjr…

But after she discovered her husband had utterly betrayed her, gambled away all their money, been unfaithful AND also had been secretly getting their kids vaccinated, she collapsed. I know the realization that she was helpless to protect her kids from the system was completely devastating to her and contributed to her decision to kill herself this past January. So you can add ‘suicide’ to your list of harms.

Rita Palma's avatar

Oh I am so terribly sorry. There are so many tragic stories like this- all avoidable. We need federal government help.

PonyBoy's avatar

I'm sorry for our country that it took you so long to recognize the evil that men disguised as monsters do.

Your ignorance of this cost folks their health, their lives.

Repent and be forgiven.

David Spidahl's avatar

Thank you for this post. I have shared it with the mother of two of my grandchildren.

INTJ's avatar

"Masking mania made no sense in light of the size of a viral particle."

This was when I began to question the veracity of what I was being told. I was a pretty good science student from grade school through college, and I had noticed that the masks being mandated were like using a chain link fence as an umbrella in a rainstorm.