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Collected Item: “Christopher Sequeira Oral History, 2022/09/14”

Title

Christopher Sequeira

Who conducted the interview? List all names, separated by comma.

Kit Heintzman

Who was interviewed? List all names, separated by commas.

Christopher Sequeira

Email Address(es) for all interviewers. Separated by comma.

kheintzman@gmail.com

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your oral history. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#antivax, #AsianAmerican, #BigPharma, #California, #colonialism, #family, #food, #freedom, #funeral, #libertarian, #masks, #meditation, #monarchy, #QiGong, #RedPill, #SanFransisco, #TaiChi, #transportation, #Ukraine, #vaccination, #veganism

What is the format of your recording?

Video

In what ZIP code is the primary residence of the interviewee? (enter 5-digit ZIP code; for example, 00544 or 94305)? In what city/town/village does the interviewee live? In what country does the interviewee live? All comma-separated.

Daly City, California

What is the gender of the interviewee? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their gender in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a gender identity to interviewees.*

Male

What is the age of the interviewee?

65 to 74

How does the interviewee describe their race or ethnicity? Be sure to allow interviewees to self-identify their race/ethnicity in the pre-interview or interview. *Do not assign a racial or ethnic identity to interviewees.*

Eurasian Mix over centuries, Portuguese Colony ancestry in China. Includes South Asian and others. About one third European.

Describe the oral history.

Some of the things we discussed include:
- Living without health insurance until 60 years-old; trusting the body to take care of itself.
- Getting sick in 2019; felt like a flu or being poisoned; vitamins and herbal treatments at home; superfoods, zinc, quercetin, Povidone silver.
- Finding a place in SF’s New Age communities.
- Personal and planetary wellness; health as a whole.
- Quantum physics and multiple dimensions.
- Hoop jumping for unemployment benefits; earning more from those benefits than had at work.
- Commuting to see a long-term partner pre- and mid-pandemic.
- 90-year-old father’s failing health and death from a stroke during COVID; FaceTime visitations and in-person visitations; a small funeral; father’s immigration to the USA from Asia; the American Dream.
- The colonial mindset and medicine; crony capitalism.
- Comparisons between COVID deaths and anthrax/ebola.
- Vaccines and BigPharma avoiding liability; CDC adverse reaction database.
- Small businesses destroyed by the pandemic, while Amazon and Walmart thrived.
- Vaccine mandates, sovereignty, and personal choice.
- Different trigger responses to danger and safety.
- Not being able to attend some students’ funerals due to vaccination status.
- Having different ideas than partner about vaccination; wellness communities and vaccination.
- Severing social and professional relationships; self-censorship.
- Death coding, PCR tests, and inflated COVID numbers.
- Anger management when there is justified anger.
- Shifting from the left to libertarianism; seeing Republicans doing the right thing during COVID.
- USA looking more like China with social control of the population; surveillance, eg. facial recognition.
- American military spending in Iraq and Afghanistan; the war in Ukraine.
- Propaganda and mind control.
- Fear’s impact on the immune system.

Other cultural references: ObamaCare, NPR, Vera Sharav, George Orwell, YouTube, Facebook, DarkHorse Podcast, Edward Bernays, Dr. Paul Thomas, Vandana Shiva, GMOs, Bill Gates , Edward Snowden, PubMed, FaceTime, iPads, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Royal Family, Zoom, Robert F. Kennedy, Hitler, CIA, The Matrix (1999)

See also:
http://www.livingtaichisf.com

On what date did you record this oral history?

2022-09-14T14
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