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Ki's avatar

Excellent as always eugyppius, thank you. The Diamond Princess cruise ship news in late February of 2020 was enough data for me to say 'not serious'. If a floating close-quarters containment vessel still produced a very low IFR, and that's a worst case scenario, then it's the typical annual worry about an avian flu originating in Asia that isn't a huge deal. Cut to early March and suddenly a friend of mine, already an anxious person, has Zombie face over some Facebook post from a woman in Italy stating 'it's like nothing I've ever seen'. I questioned the veracity of the post and my friend just blinked - a sad harbinger of things to come and a face I've seen too many times in the past 21 months. People were unreachable past that point.

The footage coming out of Wuhan was laughably fake and any images of trucks, etc. they said were full of bodies I thought: prove it. Perhaps my advantage is that I'm a filmmaker and know which angles push the best stories and how one's mind can be led from one thing to the next just in the assembly of images. Then came Tom Hanks telling everyone he had 'it' and giving a vague list of symptoms that sounded a whole lot like the sniffles, but followed it up with telling everyone how to wash their hands, stay home and stay safe. What? Then Trump out-flanked the flank with his International travel shut down and I knew we were in for something terrible. It's been hell to be awake for the surgery this entire time, which is why I really appreciate your writing, other journalists who have taken to Substack and the growing community of awake individuals.

United non-compliance is the only way out of this hell.

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David Watson's avatar

The panic wasn't incited by comicly fraudulent scams but by the breathless reporting by media operating as ordered by the Clinton campaign. The fact that we now recognize the fraud but did not at the time shows a deterioration of the credulity and competence of society. We shouldn't have fallen for it, but we did. We did because we're stupid. We're stupid because of the failed education system. Scams only work on the stupid.

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Anna's avatar

" People were unreachable past that point." - True; society is deeply divided over COVID-19. But how do you want to achieve united non-compliance when there's no unity?

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David Watson's avatar

Pretty amazing that some people would politicize a virus. They don't seem to politicize us. But for some people, everything seems political.

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KMHgirl's avatar

From the beginning, it amazed me to see the majority blindly following the fear factor being force fed to us. With eyes open, we could see that bodies were not being taken out of Amazon warehouses, Home Depot’s, or our favorite supermarkets everyday. Where was this mass contagion? Our hospital workers, police and other front line workers were testing positive, but the “guaranteed “death sentence promised us was not materializing. This is not to trivialize the C-19 deaths, but to put it in perspective. It’s turning into propaganda from our global government powers when they do not back antibody testing and only vaccine mandates. We are their experiment. Thank you for your voice. We can not be silent.

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eugyppius's avatar

really astounding, how all the dire predictions could fail while the fear somehow never goes away.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Not to mention the goal seemed to be to let them die, not try and treat them. Take the ventilator approach and the fact that governors made specific pharmaceutical treatments illegal to prescribe while being found guilty of stockpiling these same medicines.

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Stephanie Jura's avatar

"With eyes open, we could see that bodies were not being taken out of Amazon warehouses, Home Depot’s, or our favorite supermarkets everyday."

One of the things that made me suspicious about the corona narrative was the lack of dead homeless on the US west coast. There's a huge homeless population, many of whom have serious drug addictions, and they live in such squalor that LA's Skid Row has had incidents of typhus. Typhus! These are very unhealthy people living in very unhealthy environments. And yet their encampments did not turn into open air plague pits, and nobody even seemed all that curious as to why. Something was not adding up.

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HardeeHo's avatar

Well McKinley Cty NM (pop 70K) WAS an area of high infections (~300/day, Nov 2020) and deaths early on (~3/day) and now post-vaccination still a minor hot spot despite 80% vaccinated. They are somewhat like San Juan Cty. Both have high poverty, considerable alcoholism, largely native American (some reporting spills into AZ). A full lockdown did nothing to change the spread. A field hospital setup in a gym had few active patients, can't find news of the closure. The current count of 15 k cases and 500 deaths suggest a lot of survivors.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

As a caregiver, I live in a community of elderly and disabled black and Hispanic residents. Ambulances were noticeably absent during the height of the spread. My building has lost three residents all within the past eight months. And there have been residents who contracted Covid and all the cases I know about made a full recovery.

What HAS happened in a marked decline in some residents cognitive functions and general mental state. This is due to the cancellation of all social activities. That has been heartbreaking and infuriating to watch.

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Anna's avatar

"‘Brown University department of paediatrics published a study that found babies born after January 1, 2020, have an IQ drop of 20 points. Why? They don’t see faces. They don’t play. They don’t have exposure to friends. They don’t go to school. They’re basically locked in their homes, looking at their parents for a year and a half. And their brains have not developed."

(quote: Dr. Mark McDonald, child psychiatrist, Los Angeles)

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

And these children are the future. Gods help us.

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JHigh68's avatar

I recall March 2020 like it was yesterday. I watched the media narrative unfold, striking fear into literally everyone around me. Massive, monumental lockdowns and curfews were accepted without question or hesitation. I knew something was wildly off, could sense it immediately - and began objecting to anyone who would listen. After the 2 week “flatten the curve” lockdowns where 2 million people were expected to die but didn’t - the lockdowns persisted despite new data and information. That sealed it for me. I knew there was something far more sinister going on. I was living in Portland, OR at the time and my position on everything from Corona to masking was viewed as ignorant and conspiracy-minded. My husband and I moved our family to East Tennessee to escape the madness and to give ourselves and our children a chance at a normal life for what’s it’s worth. I’ve still been fighting for others to see the truth and to understand what’s going on. More and more are waking up - and it’s articles like this that help lay out the exact moments, and cold coordination that took place to orchestrate this entire, manufactured affair. God help us...

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Ki's avatar

You chose wisely with East Tennessee, we have weathered this in Central Kentucky without a single mask worn and had less than a handful of run-ins. People here complied almost 100% with the masks from July of 2020 to May 2021, but they are far too kind / polite to get in your face the way they would in a place like Portland where it's an identity. Living in a more grounded and rational place has been key for us to stay sane, but we have still suffered a lot of broken relationships.

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VeryVer's avatar

Thanks for posting this--I had not read it before. When all of this was happening, I was taking a two week trip to Florida, and then when I returned my workplace was starting to get into a panic, and began forcing everyone to work from home. I was briefly concerned for about a month that this might be the beginning of a plague type catastrophe (because why else would the government panic?) but pretty shortly (by May, anyway) the nonsensical and useless "containment measures" revealed to me that the virus was not a serious threat. A serious threat, a "grave danger" would require total shut-down of all goods and services -- certainly no delivery services. No truck driving, no mail, no UPS deliveries. Certanly no plane travel!!!

The military would be wearing gas masks and going door-to-door leaving respirators in your driveway. None of this "make your own mask out of old T-shirts" baloney. Food would be dropped off. Warehouse grocery stores would not have lines of hundreds of people waiting to go inside, but magically protected because of a six-foot rule and a bandana on their face. It was all nonsense.

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eugyppius's avatar

My thoughts evolved along a similar trajectory. Particularly when we got to summer, and actually nothing very bad had happened in Germany (we had not even had many deaths), I thought, OK - surely they'll wind this down now. But no, they just kept it going. My first feeling that something was really wrong somewhere.

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VeryVer's avatar

Reading this timeline it's hard to not conclude that this was all orchestrated from somewhere. A very clever attack. And that the most dangerous weapons right now are the internet and the television. If a massive solar flair wiped out the satellites for awhile, we might all be better off.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

A great paper from 2017 fantastically lays out the plan.

https://jhsphcenterforhealthsecurity.s3.amazonaws.com/spars-pandemic-scenario.pdf

I am not sure who orchestrated it or if it was just disparate parties taking advantage of a riot to do a little looting.

From the 2017 Johns Hopkins paper called: “The SPARS Pandemic 2025 to 2028” - A Futuristic Scenario for Public Health Risk Communication

This part talks about where we are now:

"As the pandemic tapered off, several influential politicians and agency representatives came under fire for sensationalizing the severity of the event for perceived political gain. As with many public health interventions, successful efforts to reduce the impact of the pandemic created the illusion that the event was not nearly as serious as experts suggested it would be. President Archer’s detractors in the Republican Party seized the opportunity to publicly disparage the President and his administration’s response to the pandemic, urging voters to elect “a strong leader with the best interests of the American people at heart.”

A widespread social media movement led primarily by outspoken parents of affected children, coupled with widespread distrust of “big pharma,” supported the narrative that the development of SPARS MCMs was unnecessary and driven by a few profit-seeking individuals.

Conspiracy theories also proliferated across social media, suggesting that the virus had been purposely created and introduced to the population by drug companies or that it had escaped from a government lab secretly testing bioweapons."

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VeryVer's avatar

That paper is blowing my mind. It's like somebody found it and decided to make it come true.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

And they understand how we WILL respond. Watch how this plays out

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VeryVer's avatar

What do you think will happen?

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HardeeHo's avatar

The reference I found was for 2020 https://stars.library.ucf.edu/jicrcr/vol3/iss1/4/. But https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/Center-projects/completed-projects/spars-pandemic-scenario.html says completed October 2017. Apparently such scenarios were dreamed about by many in spite of data from a 2006 effort saying mitigation fails.

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richard carroll's avatar

The JH paper written in 2017 has the Corona Virus graphic logo on the front page. This is the same picture that has been sown worldwide since 2020. The participants of Event 201 were all given handheld models of it. WTF.

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VeryVer's avatar

Feels like they are just f*cking with us for shits and giggles.

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Abner Knight's avatar

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

Marshall McLuhan

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eugyppius's avatar

This effect is enhanced when everyone is isolated and locked down at home, with limited opportunities to share in organic social knowledge about what is happening.

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Abner Knight's avatar

Indeed. And social isolation is much worse in North America. That McLuhan saw this so clearly 60 years ago...

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Ralph Schindler's avatar

My wife and I are retired and live comfortably caring full-time for our 31 year old handicapped son. Early May 2020 we headed north from our Arizona home with our RV. We witnessed first-hand how people living in less populated areas (e.g., Southern Utah, Wyoming) were going about life in a normal manner. This gave us a different view of life than what we’d been watching on TV (and had become skeptical about). In January 2021 we all contracted Covid. Although we had relatively mild cases, the effect of the incessant drumbeat of the Covid scaremongers did make us worry about mild chest congestion more than we would have P.C. (Pre-Covid) with any other flu-like virus.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

So like me you went and got an antibody test and know you had covid and your body has the proper immune response. Ask for N Protein test with your physical or pay a testing center like covidclinic.org

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Ralph Schindler's avatar

I worry what the Chinese have learned from our hysterical reactions and how easy those reactions were instigated and fomented by just a few well-timed voices in social media. It’s like the neighborhood rumor mill on steroids. Imagine what sort of havoc an enemy could inflict once they understand how little leverage it takes to create a colossal panic.

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Bash's avatar

I was on board with covid. I deal with Chinese companies and so was following it in January 2020. When China went into lockdown I applauded them for their decisiveness. When the Italilans followed, I read the same doctor-blogs of horror, and the heroics in Lodi.

My business was deemed essential, and we stayed open. Me and my 20 staff went to work every day. We masked up, I had a disinfection crew come in every week, and sanitizer was everywhere. I washed my hands more times in Feb-May 2020 than I did in my entire life prior.

I disinfected my groceries. I took a PCR test before going to see my parents, every week.

I was on board. The first time I was back in the air for travel was July 2020. I wore a tight fitting N95 for the whole flight. I found it puzzling that there was a meal service, and a drink service... and it was all at the same time. The thought of unmasked passengers made me take shallow breaths

I volunteered for a vaccine trial - but backed out at the last minute due to a requirement in the protocol to remain unvaccinated for 2 years if I had the placebo.

The absurdities and contradictions began to mount. At first I ignored them - I figured it was all temporary, that a crisis by design meant some things wouldn't make sense, and that authorities were trying their best.

Then I couldn't ignore them anymore. Stuff began to appear arbitrary, punitive, intrusive. Evidence and science surrounding the virus kept swatting down various theories and practices yet those beliefs and practices endured, often enshrined in emergency law. Why?

No matter. The vaccine trials published results. 95%. I rejoiced. I started making calls to see if I could get to the front of the line. And I did - December 28, 2020 I got my first Pfizer shot.

The light at the end of the tunnel was there. Masks were going to go away. The emergency powers would get scrapped. The diabolical masking of kids would end.

Yet... they didn't. The vaccines worked, but they didn't work. Lockdowns worked. But they didn't work. Masks worked, but they didn't work.

Then societies embarked on "Covid normal", and that was it for me. Now we go to packed restaurants, howl and laugh and drink and socialize for hours but put on a mask to pee or to walk to our table. We get admonished on plane flights to ensure our mask covers our nose, and then 10 minutes later we are offered coffee and biscuits which we can enjoy as though it were 2019.

The absurdities abounded. The virus didn't care - it spread and spread and spread and countries all over the world that missed the eradication train essentially saw identical epidemiological curves.

Now we are in this bizarre world - of vaccine mandates, of soon to arrive booster mandates, of conditional participation in society, of masks and social restrictions in perpetuity. Where medical bureaucrats admonish political leaders who dare to allow normal life, and where media eagerly features lockdown/mask/restriction fanatics.

Not 2 weeks ago, the Pfizer vaccine got approved for kids 5-11. I have been searching far and wide for propaganda if you will; a semi coherent argument that children should get this shot. Presuming my own dissonance, I said "maybe I'm wrong". Nothing.

I am incandescent. We have been lied to, manipulated, "nudged". Our autonomy and agency - yes, even to willingly get a "deadly" virus - has been taken away. We are no longer free to make our own good and bad choices. Our so called protectors are now our jailers. Far too many people are suffering from Stockholm's syndrome - mindlessly obeying and even acting as surrogates; such pathetic Quislings they've become.

The collapse in trust is total. I cannot unsee what I've seen.

As Ki below has said, nothing short of relentless non-compliance will do.

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Fig Newton's avatar

Agree completely - just too much nonsense to believe unless you simply want to stay with Hitler in the bunker 'til the very end. Shocking too that one of the Covid shots for kids panel members stated we'll just have to vaccinate all these kids so we can see how safe/dangerous they really are.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Bash, thanks for being honest. More people need to read what you wrote. I was fully tuned into this by the end of January. Because this could have negatively impacted our family, my wife is an MD, and she would soon be working (likely already was) on the front lines. We have young children, and we needed to do our research. By mid-March, I was convinced this was nothing to be concerned about; however, the sick and old were definitely at high risk. I can completely understand how so many people would fall victim to the panicdemic. It took me weeks and hours of reading scientific studies and asking my wife for more information to do the proper research. It wasn't easy to do the necessary research to come to this conclusion.

I think the more people that can admit they were wrong and share their story as Bash has. The quicker we can rise and stop conforming to this madness. It’s difficult to admit being wrong, and for that, I praise you. Hopefully, more people can start admitting they looked at it incorrectly.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

This coincides perfectly with my memory. The videos of the "fainting Covid victims" is what made me cynical. Having fainted a couple of times in my life, and having been around people who have fainted, I knew those videos were bs. Add to that, trips to grocery stores in the days leading up to the lockdown and no one is "fainting"? Yeah, no. The final straw was hearing Dr. Birx state in a press conference that ALL deaths were being attributed to Covid. No.

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Ralph Schindler's avatar

Add to that the fact that the hospitals were incentivized to diagnose patient deaths as Covid because of the additional federal gov’t funds attached to hospital Covid deaths and treatment.

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Darling Sneauxflayke's avatar

Yes! I've mentioned that to the hysterics and suddenly financial motives don't exist anymore. Oh, speaking of hospitals, I had to accompany my mother to the ER last Saturday morning. There was 1, ONE other patient and by the time my mother and I left, they had already been discharged. In the meantime, the other medicos were in there booth, maskless, having casual conversation. This was at a hospital in NW Indiana about 45 minutes from Chicago.

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MichelleD's avatar

Hospitals are still incentivized to give Remdesivir to patients, which causes kidney and liver failure, and does not work against the virus. More disturbing, at least in NJ, some hospital systems have 2 different protocols for vax vs. unvax. Vaxed get the drug that works, Ivermectin. Unvaxed get Remdesivir, increasing number of deaths in the latter group. Sinister.

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Charlotte's avatar

I always think of that brave doctor who came out of the front lines to state on youtube that he didn't think the ventilators were helping- he saw only a high rate of death with them and he was questioning if this was the correct approach. He was promptly pilloried by the crazies until finally other doctors from the front line stepped forward and agreed with his analysis, the ventilators should only be used as a last ditch approach. In doing this, he saved thousands of lives- because the ventilators were killing people. Now Youtube has admitted such a video would be banned because it does not align with the official CDC Covid fascist recommendations. Science is not static, it can only evolve with discussion and debate. Here we watched someone question it and make real progress. Then we watched Youtube and silicon valley restrict it once again.

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Charlotte's avatar

It was Dr Kyle-Siddell and he reported it already in the last week of March 2020. The reaction was incredible and I could not understand the fury that accompanied the fear. Here’s an article about it 2 weeks later in April 2020.

https://time.com/5820556/ventilators-covid-19/

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Charlotte's avatar

Here is the original video (it was not easy to find on YouTube, not surprisingly).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYulVO4PcLc

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Paula's avatar

There is also this interview with him,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elgct0nOcKY

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Dr Diane Reynolds's avatar

For me, the history of the pandemic very much followed political lines. At first, Steve Bannon's War Room Pandemic, and blogs like Zerohedge were the first to sound the alarm. The conservatives were alarmed, and the liberals were not. Even Trump took it seriously before Pelosi did. Then it got inverted. Corona became the weapon that defeated Trump. Because of that, i first was alarmed (January February) while my liberal friends were not. And then after the first two weeks of lockdown in San Francisco (last two weeks of March) it started to look less serious then it initially looked. I never wore a mask, but i was sanitizing by sons hands outside. Sounds so ridiculous right now. But as soon as the Democrats turned it into a political weapon, i stopped believing. I still believed the vaccines though, because I thought that was our ticket to freedom..

It was hard for me to see Corona in any other light than Trump vs Never-Trumpers. That theory, however, did not explain the rest of the world, even though most of the Western World, and of course China, wanted Trump gone.

You never mention this. And now that Trump has been gone for almost one year, it's harder to remember this narrative. But i must guess it's because you're in German and saw the story unfold through a different lense.

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eugyppius's avatar

Yes: My impression is that the panic narrative developed first in Europe, with America being fairly sceptical. Already around 20 February, some of our papers were beginning to ring the alarm. American media only picked up that same line towards the end of March, when it became a tool against Trump.

So I definitely agree that there’s a glaring anti-Trunk angle to the American coverage, the panic narrative itself took shape earlier in European media. An early goal was probably to stop the mitigationist/herd immunity approach of the UK. If that hadn’t succeeded, it’s conceivable Germany and maybe other Euro countries went the Sweden path and Italy remained an outlier.

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Charlotte's avatar

Whether the leak was intentional or accidental, evil parties never let a good crisis go to waste. The rolled it into stopping the Hong Kong riots, the populist movements everywhere, and getting their hand on more taxpayer money- and they did it all with fear. Later the need to fit in was used too, but the fear was the greatest weapon. Right now we are practically censored about how this shaped everything, but I do hope we have some great psychology classes and books using this time period as a "How Not to" guide for future crises.

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Guttermouth's avatar

>> anti-Trunk angle

anti-Trump?

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eugyppius's avatar

sorry, yes. typing on phone on the bus yields weird typos

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André's avatar

That make sense, and Boris Johnson was wildly perceived as Euro Trump at the onset of the pandemic.

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Roland Ayers's avatar

I remember shortly before lockdown here in Britain, Irish premiere Leo Varadkar (a doctor before going into politics) berating Johnson for supposedly putting our health at risk by not closing schools. I was baffled. We already knew how age-stratified the disease was, yet here was an intelligent, responsible statesman lecturing his buffoonish populist counterpart in a way that made no sense. Politics was undergoing a strange inversion.

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Felix R Savage's avatar

The panic narrative developed in Japan even earlier. I moved to the US from Japan in February 2020, at the height of Covid panic in Japan. We were fully on board at that point. I remember desperately trying to sanitize my toddler's hands with wet wipes in Narita airport, and the kindness of the masked Chinese gentleman who gave us a small bottle of hand sanitizer.

When we reached the US, we were "ahead of the panic curve." For several weeks I was proudly the only N95 mask wearer in our small Southern city. However my alarm led me to research the disease intensively, with the result that I soon learned it just isn't that dangerous, especially for children. We discarded our masks in the summer of 2020 and have never looked back.

From the very kickoff, the global coordination of lockdown measures had set off an insistent alarm in my mind. Nothing but a Black Death-scale event could justify this. I remain undecided whether the authorities really thought this was the Black Death at the time--THEY knew Fauci's crew had been funding insane bioweapons research!--and legitimately panicked; or whether they knew the truth all along. If it is the latter, it's a matter of urgency to identify the instigators of global lockdown and parse their motives.

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Guttermouth's avatar

I lived in Japan from 2010-2013, arriving shortly before the 3/11 tsunami/Fukushima disaster. I have always been extremely skeptical of public policy panic, and in nearly all cases have been vindicated. I remember behaviors around suspected spread of radioactive fallout that bordered on the magical and superstitious that very closely map to the current thinking of general populations around masks (yes, many, many Japanese people thought blue paper masks from 7-11 stopped fallout).

I have many good friends in Japan who are uncommonly critical thinkers, and we all seem to agree that in general, the high level of (often unwarranted) unquestioning trust in authority, coupled with strong conformity memes, mean Japan is usually the "first to overreact," but also the first to course correct in the face of global groupthink (caring comparatively little for how other nations do things), provided corruption is not a factor.

Witness the abrupt and unceremonious end of any and all panic or authoritarian vigor around vaccines.

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Felix R Savage's avatar

Yes, the Japanese are pretty much over it at this point. It’s an “open secret” that everyone’s now just going through the motions. And there’s no sign of vaccine mandates/ passports on the horizon at the moment. Long may it last. This is possible because the virus was never politicized in Japan, but also because there is a high decree of compliance with measures (vaccines, masks) without anyone having to be told to.

Amusingly, the semi-official Japanese phrase for the Covid shambles translates to “corona wreck” or “corona mess”!

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Guttermouth's avatar

You address this well in Part 1, even leaving off the specific examples of partisan bias many Americans observed: high-ranking Democrats encouraging people to crowd into Asian neighborhoods in big groups to show solidarity and be "anti-racist" and that this definitely, DEFINITELY wasn't a big deal are the same that now want people thrown in jail for refusing vaccines.

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Charlotte's avatar

I listened to Bannon's War Room Pandemic and they were very early on about the Wuhan lab, the potential virus leak, the Military World Games in Wuhan being a superspreader event, the NIH funding with Fauci and Daszek, etc. It took more than 18 months for other news media to even get to those themes. Such a frustrating and infuriating process to go through.

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hillcountry's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_the_Present_Danger

Notice they're on their fourth iteration. Timely, eh?

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Yukon Dave's avatar

The word you are searching for is collateral damage. In May the CDC changed the description of a positive PCR test from 40 to no more than 28 cycles... The CDC and FDA seems to not study the vaccines more than... 6 months? Do you not think they know how to do a study? They pick scope and time never by accident. They destroy the control groups as well? Antibody positive immunity from previous infection? Not a chance, then we have a reason to not take the Booster or not give it to the kids?

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David Watson's avatar

Very good report of the history of the hysterical messaging. What we still need to determine is the reasons. Certainly, a new virus causing mysterious suffering and deaths is likely to incite panic. Americans hoarding toilet paper and sanitizing groceries was a clear indication of the irrationality of the reactions. But that panic was driven by authorities who should, have known better. Why they promoted obviously counterproductive measures while forbidding effective therapies is the cause of the panic and the enormous death count.

The release of SARS2 coincided with a vicious American political contest. Recent revelations of Democrat criminality during the 2020 campaigns and subsequently indicate the depths of their depravity, and point to probable cause that those same criminals incited the American panic that spread like a virus to the rest of the world. This was the most lethal political "trick" in history. This pandemic should not be called the Wuhan flu but the Clinton corona.

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FedUpDeb's avatar

It’s been interesting or perhaps horrifying to watch the first Covid tales unravel and to see intelligent people deny the reality before them. How will we put this genie back in the bottle?

Thank you for another thought-provoking article.

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Charles Mccarville's avatar

Brilliant! The level of detail is incredible.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Without discussing Doctor Sara Cody, Health Officer, and Public Health Directory Santa Clara county, our story about how lockdowns were sold to western society is incomplete. Would you please look into her comments and press appearances on TV and in the news in early March? If the implications weren't so severe, it's almost comical her responses. But make no mistake about it. Dr. Sara Cody is responsible for the lockdowns in the US. The events in Italy just before her request for lockdown in Santa Clara county were the perfect storm for the rollout of widespread lockdowns all over the western world. Either she is a criminal or so stupid she falls into the useful idiot category.

I have several articles bookmarked and news pieces recorded if you would like to review.

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eugyppius's avatar

thanks, i will definitely look into it. after the italy lockdown, their emerged containment promoters in each of our jurisdictions. in germany, we had christian drosten and karl lauterbach. in california, it sounds like this sara cody.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Sara Cody stated it was a wild-ass guess, and she never thought the county would follow her recommendations. They did, however, and Santa Clara County was second only to Italy to impose widespread lockdowns. Every Bay area county quickly followed. The meltdown and deaths in NYC happened simultaneously, and the SF bay area witnessed some of the best outcomes anywhere in the world adjusted for population. The real reason the Bay Area faired so well is it was very likely the Coronavirus was already here in spring of 2019 at least; that's what some Doctors at Stanford believe.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

No one wanted to know how widespread SARS-CoV-2 spread was in March and April. If we had decided general testing for antibodies in San Francisco, we could have, I believe, seen most of the public was already exposed. I'm reasonably sure the family had it in December 2019. My wife is a Doc, and she was on the front lines testing sick patients that likely were infected.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Treating patients not testing

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Keep in mind Santa Clara County is one of the largest counties in California. It’s also home to silicon valley.

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David Watson's avatar

Which is also home to modern media. Twit and face are primary conspirators in the global fraud.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

What's the end game?

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David Watson's avatar

Your submission to a socialist nation where chosen media dictate national thought.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Do they not know once they accomplish that goal, if they ever disagree with any policy decisions, they will be eliminated, or are they that naive?

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David Watson's avatar

Viscious purges have occurred in every autocracy. Lenin called them useful idiots. The purged probably suspected it was risky, but probably hoped they would be killed last.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

Italy ordered a lockdown on March 9th Doctor Sara Cody and Santa Clara County issued the lockdown (they called it a shelter in place) on March 16th. Why did Santa Clara county do this at that time? They didn't have events similar to Lombardy, and it’s not like She decided on the16th, and Santa Clara county officials agreed with her idea the day she made the recommendation. She even mentions she went to the county officials several days before the 16th ( I don't know the exact date), and she thought they would reject her request for the shelter in place order. Where did this new strategy come from exactly? It sounds like the Chinese did all they could do to try and sell. Where did this apparatus come from, and how did some mental midget Doctor named Sara Cody learn of such a BS strategy. When will these pro-lockdown public health officials and public officials be investigated? We need to know who these criminals are and who were the useful idiots. Both groups need to be dealt with.

It seems like Bill Gates and the Global Pandemic Health Excercise in late 2019 is the genesis for these novel ideas.

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Charlotte's avatar

Michael Senger has posted on Twitter this little nugget with FBI Director Wray admitting that the CCP openly contacted even local officials in telling them how to respond to the pandemic. How stupid are these people? Apparently, quite.

https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1455565642799587329

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richard carroll's avatar

Drosten was also responsible for the PCR test scam, coordinated with the WHO.

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eugyppius's avatar

yes.

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SF Bay Area's avatar

I bet if we follow the money, Drosten either has been paid or will be paid.

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Diter Hiter's avatar

Very interesting, an element of the “intentional drama and suspense” are these bits and one tweet sensations-were they somehow preordered and why..? There was also an entirely comical “fabrication” of Covid stats and waves across Eastern Europe for example where the so called first wave simply has not materialised. Local politicians were trying to convince EU they have major issue mostly to secure EU “post covid” reinvigoration funds….

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Abner Knight's avatar

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Marshall McLuhan

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