They'll never accept blame PERIOD. They'll never repent. They'll never apologize.
Fauci was allowed to slither off into a luxurious retirement, with only a slim chance that he'll be taken to task in front of Congress. (I have only cautious optimism that the Republicans can unify on even this subject.)
From what I can see, the de facto plan now is to pretend the pandemic never happened. But I'm sure there's a Master Plan on How to Exercise a Social Takeover Next Time.
Limited Hangouts is, I believe, the technical term. According to CJ Hopkins, that is what we are all being offered now. Although the whole last 3 years has simply disappeared from the collective memory of the British - I'm not aware of any rehabilitation or discussion or anything else. We just have Matt Hancock (aka Midazolam Matt, the former Death Secretary) trying to reinvent himself as a cuddly chappie on reality tv shows.
We had a guest from Germany stay with us in the UK for a month in spring 2022, an academic on visiting lectureship/ research. This highly educated, extremely intelligent soul was beginning to see, when I spoke with him at length, that lockdowns harmed the most vulnerable, aka poor people, redistributed wealth to the already rich, stunted children’s social and educational development, and even that such a thing as vaccine damage might exist. BUT he ultimately stuck to his guns with the final bastion of his argument, which was: “But we had to do something”.
This sentiment of actionism, the need to do something and most importantly to be _seen_ to do something, anything, regardless of effectiveness or damage, is, methinks, one of the cornerstones of Covidian thinking. In the worldview of the caring, liberal democratic citizen, not doing anything and just holding a “wait and see” mentality is anathema, since that would be tantamount to the kind of stoicism and “giving in to nature” associated with the premodern, medieval past, when people were at the mercy of truly devastating plagues. The modern, science-backed citizen _expects_ their government to act, and act quickly and decisively, even if such hasty actions do more harm than good.
The situation is very similar in the UK, with the elite still prepared to remove jobs and banish anyone caught even suggesting questions need to be answered. Last week a small television channel continued its destruction with a pincer movement from the BBC and Ofcom, backed by Government. The channel in question is flawed, but the intent is even clearer.
An MP dared to stand up in Parliament and describe some of the issues - he was humiliated and destroyed by former Minister Matt Hancock and the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Again, the MP is not perfect, but again the message is very clear.
The vindictive purge so evident from March 2020 onwards is still very much in business. Even journalists who have written the most awful things now get to claim 'it was so difficult'. Gas lighting.
"there will be no general Corona reckoning in Germany" - Not the legal reckoning but at this point I don't care if it's legal or not.
I hope most people who took the shots don't fall for the "mistakes were made" BS but I have my doubts. They are still demanding people take the shots before organ transplants in Canada & the USA. That despite the fact that the shots have cause transplanted organ REJECTION. In Japan they have 20 cornea rejections (some were stable for years) and in New York they have 3 lung rejections.
Irony of irony is that now the unvaxxed are the least of their worries. In Canada, for example, 33 million people took the shots. If 1% are violence prone that is 330,000 which is 3 for every doctor in the country.
Idk anything about German govt or politics, but in the good ol USA nobody ever accepts responsibility for anything, especially when the whole bureaucracy is implicated. Muh Institushuns couldn't withstand that kind of failure in the public eye, hence it cannot be acknowledged that these mistakes were made. They will double down until they feel like they can just pretend like it never happened. Then, maybe, someday someone will quietly release a report that says some mistakes were made the end.
Consequently, "liberal" western govts are unreformable and will continue on this way until the wheels fall off.
Why has the press been complicit, worldwide, in this debacle? In most western countries the press has been a cheerleader for all manner of assaults on civil liberties. What happened to the "guardians of democracy"?
Almost everything governments do is bad for their citizens. For that reason, they have devised a really elaborate propaganda machine. Actually, now that I think about it, propaganda is probably the only thing governments do well.
Why would they acknowledge they blew it with covid?
"The media, the greater part of our political establishment, and our bureaucratic and academic institutions, all had a hand in these crimes. They’ll never accept blame as long as they’re still in power."
Is anyone addressing the excess deaths which I believe are high in Germany (not sure why so much higher than some other countries though)?. I doubt it as no-one seems to be addressing them anywhere.
Your last paragraph, 'It’s important to remain optimistic and forward-looking, but we’re very far from any kind of victory here' couldn't be more true.
El Gato Malo posted an article yesterday about digital ID's in Canada: improvement to our decaying health care rationing system is being used as leverage for digital ID's.
Spartacus (ICENI) just penned a long substack article that is deeply disturbing in it's prognostics for the future.
The people I blame the most are the members of Parliament in most countries that didn’t stand by their liberal and democratic constitutions. They all fell for the emergency, though it was not, thinking it would justify every possible mistake. But it is exactly in difficult times when we need people to stick to principles. A very bad precedent has been set and now every politician knows that it is enough to declare an emergency and the doors to dictatorship are wide open.
Germany is no different to Australia and vice versa. The covid cult is very well entrenched like any religion. mRNA to these believers is like Koolaid is to other cultists. The final reckoning is probably the same thankfully.
They'll never accept blame PERIOD. They'll never repent. They'll never apologize.
Fauci was allowed to slither off into a luxurious retirement, with only a slim chance that he'll be taken to task in front of Congress. (I have only cautious optimism that the Republicans can unify on even this subject.)
From what I can see, the de facto plan now is to pretend the pandemic never happened. But I'm sure there's a Master Plan on How to Exercise a Social Takeover Next Time.
Limited Hangouts is, I believe, the technical term. According to CJ Hopkins, that is what we are all being offered now. Although the whole last 3 years has simply disappeared from the collective memory of the British - I'm not aware of any rehabilitation or discussion or anything else. We just have Matt Hancock (aka Midazolam Matt, the former Death Secretary) trying to reinvent himself as a cuddly chappie on reality tv shows.
Only prosecutions will prevent this from happening again. And so far there are no credible indications of possible prosecutions.
We had a guest from Germany stay with us in the UK for a month in spring 2022, an academic on visiting lectureship/ research. This highly educated, extremely intelligent soul was beginning to see, when I spoke with him at length, that lockdowns harmed the most vulnerable, aka poor people, redistributed wealth to the already rich, stunted children’s social and educational development, and even that such a thing as vaccine damage might exist. BUT he ultimately stuck to his guns with the final bastion of his argument, which was: “But we had to do something”.
This sentiment of actionism, the need to do something and most importantly to be _seen_ to do something, anything, regardless of effectiveness or damage, is, methinks, one of the cornerstones of Covidian thinking. In the worldview of the caring, liberal democratic citizen, not doing anything and just holding a “wait and see” mentality is anathema, since that would be tantamount to the kind of stoicism and “giving in to nature” associated with the premodern, medieval past, when people were at the mercy of truly devastating plagues. The modern, science-backed citizen _expects_ their government to act, and act quickly and decisively, even if such hasty actions do more harm than good.
The situation is very similar in the UK, with the elite still prepared to remove jobs and banish anyone caught even suggesting questions need to be answered. Last week a small television channel continued its destruction with a pincer movement from the BBC and Ofcom, backed by Government. The channel in question is flawed, but the intent is even clearer.
An MP dared to stand up in Parliament and describe some of the issues - he was humiliated and destroyed by former Minister Matt Hancock and the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Again, the MP is not perfect, but again the message is very clear.
The vindictive purge so evident from March 2020 onwards is still very much in business. Even journalists who have written the most awful things now get to claim 'it was so difficult'. Gas lighting.
"there will be no general Corona reckoning in Germany" - Not the legal reckoning but at this point I don't care if it's legal or not.
I hope most people who took the shots don't fall for the "mistakes were made" BS but I have my doubts. They are still demanding people take the shots before organ transplants in Canada & the USA. That despite the fact that the shots have cause transplanted organ REJECTION. In Japan they have 20 cornea rejections (some were stable for years) and in New York they have 3 lung rejections.
Irony of irony is that now the unvaxxed are the least of their worries. In Canada, for example, 33 million people took the shots. If 1% are violence prone that is 330,000 which is 3 for every doctor in the country.
Idk anything about German govt or politics, but in the good ol USA nobody ever accepts responsibility for anything, especially when the whole bureaucracy is implicated. Muh Institushuns couldn't withstand that kind of failure in the public eye, hence it cannot be acknowledged that these mistakes were made. They will double down until they feel like they can just pretend like it never happened. Then, maybe, someday someone will quietly release a report that says some mistakes were made the end.
Consequently, "liberal" western govts are unreformable and will continue on this way until the wheels fall off.
Why has the press been complicit, worldwide, in this debacle? In most western countries the press has been a cheerleader for all manner of assaults on civil liberties. What happened to the "guardians of democracy"?
Almost everything governments do is bad for their citizens. For that reason, they have devised a really elaborate propaganda machine. Actually, now that I think about it, propaganda is probably the only thing governments do well.
Why would they acknowledge they blew it with covid?
That would create a horrible precedent for them.
"The media, the greater part of our political establishment, and our bureaucratic and academic institutions, all had a hand in these crimes. They’ll never accept blame as long as they’re still in power."
Nailed it. In every country.
Is anyone addressing the excess deaths which I believe are high in Germany (not sure why so much higher than some other countries though)?. I doubt it as no-one seems to be addressing them anywhere.
You lucky slobs.
We have to wait until MAY before the panic and pandemonium is maybe perhaps, hopefully "over"
meantime, there are still plennnnty of maskers here
I noticed the verboten AfD is polling better than ever at 17%. Maybe the malaise is more pronounced than people think
Your last paragraph, 'It’s important to remain optimistic and forward-looking, but we’re very far from any kind of victory here' couldn't be more true.
El Gato Malo posted an article yesterday about digital ID's in Canada: improvement to our decaying health care rationing system is being used as leverage for digital ID's.
Spartacus (ICENI) just penned a long substack article that is deeply disturbing in it's prognostics for the future.
Optimism with eyes wide open and steely resolve.
The people I blame the most are the members of Parliament in most countries that didn’t stand by their liberal and democratic constitutions. They all fell for the emergency, though it was not, thinking it would justify every possible mistake. But it is exactly in difficult times when we need people to stick to principles. A very bad precedent has been set and now every politician knows that it is enough to declare an emergency and the doors to dictatorship are wide open.
Germany is no different to Australia and vice versa. The covid cult is very well entrenched like any religion. mRNA to these believers is like Koolaid is to other cultists. The final reckoning is probably the same thankfully.