I think your analogy is a very good one, Todd.

I live in Iceland, and we have had three years in a row of earthquake spells, some of which are followed up by volcanic eruptions – the last one was this year, and not very far from Reykjavik either…

Scientists are pretty much agreed that the peninsula, near which Reykjavik is situated, is on a tectonic divide, half of which wants to go to America, and the other half to the European continent.
We are reckoned to be well overdue for the next of the estimated regular, really-serious 100-year quakes recorded in history, but nobody really knows what will happen.
The island’s capital is notorious for having been established in a rather stupid place…

Icelanders don’t worry about it, because it has been an underlying threat since the first settlements here, but at least they do know about that threat, and therefore seem to know how best to prepare for any emergencies that may occur.
Even the otherwise craven media don’t hesitate to point out the dangers – and they even seem proud of their Icelandic coolness in the face of potential catastrophe, but, as you say, the job of warning people is accomplished as a priority.

Houses are well built, and our type of earthquake is rarely stronger than 5 on the Richter scale (which is still pretty nasty, and does have some repercussions on buildings, although they don’t actually fall down…), but the last series of regular quakes this year really began to get on my nerves.

The first one or two, okay.
But when they come at half-hour intervals for a week – all day and all night, your self-possession begins to melt and your body begins to react.
With some people, a certain amount of panic ensues, but with me, I find myself getting angry – pointlessly, of course.

Now to get back on topic, the last three and a half years constitute a very long time for people to be living with great underlying mistrust and uncertainty with regard to where the world we live in is headed.

Which makes your determination to warn and warn seem like the only possible thing to do – especially since we are not only talking about the whims of powerful Nature here, but about uncertainty which has been deliberately inflicted upon us by manipulation and deception, and already at great and obvious cost.

To my mind, this is the most horrible crime imaginable.

You make some good points, and the task is indeed daunting. I would be interested to hear what you have to say after you read the 4-page brochure referenced in my post elsewhere here. I believe there is material there that can, to use your words, “shake them out of their lethargic acceptance of official narratives”. (that is, shake *some* of them. Many cannot be shaken.) And that some people would indeed be “convinced there’s much more out there they need to know, and to start looking”. Why? Because I wrote it well enough to be provocative and by using the words from really fine material from great sources, including OffGuardian. Most people being handed the brochure will never even have heard of the OffGuardian. The brochure would be their first exposure to it. That is a good thing and worthy of pursuit.
 
Remember, most people have never even heard there is another narrative. All most people have had is the sanctioned convid1984 narrative. So it is difficult to fault them when they live in a sea of lies and propaganda.  I do, however, know people who would never be curious to open themselves to anything alternative—in other words, the hopelessly brainwashed. But not everyone is like that. There are many who are brainwashed—but not *hopelessly* brainwashed
 
Furthermore, giving people a brochure or newspaper with alternative views simply hasn’t been done by many of us, including you I assume. (I did it when I was in high school and it did have a huge effect.) You and I and the others here on this forum spend most of our time conversing with each other. I suggest you print out my ‘ready-to-print’ brochure and distribute it in various ways: clandestinely on door steps, or mailing it (anonymously or not), etc. And/or make your own brochure that uses your considerable writing talents (I’ve been an admirer of your other posts).
 
The point is: to try, Howard. Don’t jump to conclusions it will fail without having ‘run the experiment’ and don’t throw in the towel without having tried. 

The maniacs will, of course, self-destruct in the end because their multitude of dystopias cannot and will not work. The problem is all the damage they’ll do until then.

Sorry to be my usual negative self, but the difficulty of passing along any information in any format to those who have no inkling what lies behind the current narratives and events is simply that, since they haven’t already discovered what’s going on they have no reason to put greater credibility into this alternative information.

Nor do they have any basis for assuming alternate views have greater credibility than the prevailing narratives. If they’ve already accepted official narratives, simply telling them these narratives are misleading could not possibly convince them.

This is the dilemma most of the articles that have appeared on OffG either hint at or state outright. No one has found a way to shake them out of their lethargic acceptance of official narratives – and this is the essential first step toward enlightening them as to what’s actually happening.

This is not so much an information battle as it is an existential battle. It’s not so much about telling them what they need to know as convincing them there’s much more out there they need to know – and convincing them to start looking.

They will get the booster. They are just trying to put pressure on the government to get $100 for doing it.

Its typical for the sheeple to blackmail their governments threatening to infect the entire global vaccinated population if they dont get a buck out of it.
What can a government do? Just asking.

Is that a true quote.?

If you feel you must or need to take the attitude that all is hopeless, you can do so. As for me, I will continue to try to defeat evil (and ignorance…and despair) with love and good will. Call me a fool if you like.

World Animal Day: These Iconic Endlings Remind Us of All the Species that Still Need Saving – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization

Ignoring the mass media, the politicians, the government, all of them fucks is a given. Prerequisite. But that’s only the first step. Exiting this putrid society. The next step is starting a new life, based on anarchy as opposed to hierarchy. Abandoning the concept of authority and interacting and transacting on a horizontal basis.

For that, people have to change within. It’s not a societal change. It’s a spiritual change. People gotta grow some balls, become self-reliant, self-confident, learn to function as independent individuals, as opposed to being nondescript societal units.

Protest per se is ridiculous. Fuck protest. What are people protesting? The fact that authority orders them to do something they don’t like? Well, fuck authority! Who needs authority! Protest implicitly puts one in an inferior, subordinate position.