As you said, Omicron is the final "off ramp" available to our health overlords. If they don't take this one, the populace will have to force the end of this madness.
Governments of all stripes are well aware of the problem with continuing the pandemic. If the novel pharmaceutical product is the cause of long term widespread population damage and explains the overall case mortality increases and normies truly understand what has been done to them, then there will not be a hell fire big enough to engulf those responsible. If those mortalities continue to rise to levels that make the press start talking about it openly, then all bets are off.
Omicron is the more plausible stratagem and even now, the media is reshaping everything to have disappeared by late March 2022, so use seasonal decline for the end of C19. The end of C19 will be much like uninstalling buggy software. Once it has been removed, most people will just get on with their lives and the fourth estate will gaslight any gaps in the narrative.
The real kicker would be if the Sigma variant kills off a significant portion of the people who are already vaccinated. People with weakened immune systems then end up dying in large numbers.
As the pharma-industrial complex says. "Sorry, no refunds."
>Once it has been removed, most people will just get on with their lives and the fourth estate will gaslight any gaps in the narrative.
I really hope so. The alternative is a serious civil unrest.
However, if we assume the thesis of the main post, it will all depend on the "emergent equilibrium" (gosh, do I hate that expression, but can't find a better one) among various forces. They could declare victory last spring, but didn't. They still continue pushing vaccinations, although the more they do, the more hell will be there to pay.
"Governments of all stripes are well aware of the problem with continuing the pandemic."
I'm not so sure. Here in UK, we all got a text saying "GET BOOSTED" over Christmas. If they had seen the damage vaccines were doing and wanted to backtrack, they would not have done this.
And now you have Whitty claiming to be so sad because unvaccinated are in hospital and they could have had the vaccine but were put off by misinformation on the internet. I guess the MHRA stats of deaths and adverse reactions had nothing to do with it.
Nah, it won't be the Sigma variant. As I've suggested in other stacks, with our luck as a global society, it will be the fittingly named Omega variant; omicron's big, bad brother. And that one will probably grace the stage in October/November 2022 but have been found to have arisen genetically in June.
This was posted on Eugyppius' twitter- it dives deeper into the possible lab leak of Omicron.. Whether intentional or by accident, well that's obviously open to debate.
And as for the original Wuhan leak and now the omicron leak we can probably expect that we might be unlucky enough to experience that leak (Omega, probably from some strain of Delta that has been frozen now and will be thawed in May for study and serial passage) that WILL potentially risk the end of mankind as was warned about in that article.
What is the upside for them to take the off ramp voluntarily? They would lose power , would lose credibility. They have already completed the whole project: the ones who produce the vaccines and profit from the Pandemic also control the MSM ( for example Gates foundation is paying the most popular liberal magazine 'Der Spiegel' in Germany 2.9 million) and the social platforms . The revolving door to politics and regulatory agencies is far too obvious.
> What is the upside for them to take the off ramp voluntarily?
Their terrible containment measures are causing serious, long term damage to their societies, and that runs a real risk of biting them in the ass. Perhaps the people of the world will quietly accept - or even welcome - endless boosters, lockdowns, and economic damage. Certainly some people would. But the longer this goes on as is*, the greater the chances of more and more people turning against it and the officials who caused it. In countries that are still nominally democracies, that's a problem for said officials.
> They would lose power , would lose credibility.
They'd lose power, yes, but a properly managed off-ramp would let them save face. The vaccines worked and omicron is mild, hooray, we did it everyone, good job and remember to vote for us next time!
* Many corona measures, as they are now, are simply not sustainable long term. I'd expect even the most dedicated zero covid locations to reform and refine them in some way.
Re your last comment - Would love to think so, but in the meantime, just come to Ontario, Canada where the premier "only took 30 seconds" yesterday to decide to close gyms, restaurants (indoor dining); pubs; reduce capacity in most public assemblies and stores; close the libraries - and this with around 80% of the population fully injected and now lining up like lemmings for boosters. They are also injecting kids in the 5 - 11 Y/O age group. Of course, prior to this, the uninjected were banned from all of the above anyway (since September) and maybe around 4000 healthcare staff were fired so now the hospitals are short staffed but of course this is not because they fired them, but because so many are "calling in sick".
Probably the main reason to take the off-ramp is that they've gone far enough with this exercise and will quit while they're ahead. Remember Fauci's self satirizing "cartoon" in RFK Jr.'s tome, "Dr. Fauci's Pandemic Sweepstakes" showing the other abortive pandemics leading up to SARS-CoV-2's real pandemic. Compare the never-ending rhetoric about "preparing for the next pandemic" emanating from the Gates Foundation/WEF operatives in the mainstream media. Whatever this pandemic was meant to achieve may have been achieved, and that may not be pharmaco-medical. It could be psycho-social, political and/or economic. If there's one thing the pandemicists understand brilliantly, it's how to shift baselines, or as the Nazi's used to call the "New Normal" mindset "Gleichschaltung"; and they understand that it must be done by increments. The "increment" represented by SARS-CoV-2 might be done, for now.
Next stage now that the sheep have been brought into line, could well be "carbon passports". These will include your injection status. (I refuse to call the gene therapy shots vaccines). No injection - no travel for you. Injected? Last month you flew on a 767 twice and drove 700 miles. We tracked you on your electronic passport and the geotracker in your car. Now you have now reached your carbon limit for the next quarter. We will let you know when you can travel again."
there will be no off-ramp (at least not anytime soon) if anyone on Team Blue has anything to say about it.
i know we all inhabit different worlds and can only be blind men touching our fraction of the elephant, but that being said, i am privy to some group chats etc from the leftist media-academia-Hollywood axis, and these people are still in the ANGER phase of their response, they still believe they can vacc and mandate and vilify their opponents, this has become their existential crusade.
The hopefully silver lining is the upcoming US Midterm elections. I think it was Eugyppius who so aptly pointed out that those in power have realized that the only way to hold on to it, is to wind this pandemic down. This accounts for recent fascinating narrative shifts and policy changes. However, they have already created covidian monsters they can't control. Institutions like school boards and state governments wanting to shut down in person learning, ramp up testing and continue with longer quarantines despite the updated faucian decrees. The government's Pfizer ambassador's (Scott Gottlieb) recent pronouncement that cloth masks are useless has not resulted in schools dropping the requirement, rather they are calling for 'better' N95s.
Politicians in germany are doubling down on vaccine mandates so they are not taking the off ramp. If we do not stop them they will not back down.
Yes I am afraid that for keeping the madness going and not having to face the consequences of their actions they will create an even bigger mess - a new deadlier lab leak, energy crisis, war in Ukraine ....
I agree that Omicron is the way out. But it might take a while until the fearmongering elites arrive at a consensus to make use of this godsent (?) gift. At least here in Germany/Bavaria, they're still mouthing the litanies we are so tired of - as an example, here are the headlines currently available at BR24 in the same order as on the website:
-Supposed new Covid variant B.1.460.2: What you should know
-Bavaria: Omicron numbers double within a few days
-Omicron-wave: debating shorter quarantines
- Knives at Corona protests: police warn of escalations
-Chair of Ministers' of Education Conference wants no more school closures
- Mishap at vaccination: adult doses administered to children by mistake
- super immunity against corona: B-cells
- Virologist Protzer about the Corona situation: hope for the fall of 2022
So: fearmongering on top
Way down the good news: no more school closures, super immunity exists, hope for fall 22
BTW, administering wrong dosage when vaccinating children doesn't rile anyone up - 22 reader comments, mostly along the lines of "oh well...mistakes happen..."
COVID reporting in the media is a huge machine that has been growing organically for almost two years. It won't just go "ping" as one tiny component falls off and then "whoomp" as the whole thing implodes (or explodes, I just don't care). What's worse, there is a genuine amount of fear among the worshippers at the altar of Zero Covid, and they won't be able to step outside their own fear and see their own role in the madness impartially.
I suppose the machine as a whole is going to fight reality tooth and claw, they'll only give way when there is absolutely no way left to stick to the narrative. If we are lucky, they'll gone through the first couple of stages of grief by March and will be able to wind the whole narrative down (for which most policymakers will be infinitely grateful by then, I think). I think, media coverage is the key, spurring policymakers on and on and on.
I have to say, similar things are true in New Hampshire. A few zealots slime northwards from Maskachusetts, but locally people are *over* it, including the risible fear porn that passes as news.
A few masked shoppers in local town in GA but barely anyone in small towns or local stores. I guess people have better things to do than put a paper pad before their faces ! Saw a handful in the WM but most did not wear any. The story is getting old. Friends of mine have been travelling as if nothing is going on, only had to postpone one trip because of national mandate.
Sadly we can't even call these mistakes, because honest mistakes would fall on both sides of the equation. Just like the FBI 'mistakes' -- they all go one direction.
They all arise from oversimplification, the anchoring of early theories and ideas, and the universalisation of all aims and methods which that entails.
I see your "criminal incompetence"and raise you one million "dismissive bullshit excuses" that us stoopit plebes are too stoopit to analyse or even be allowed to discuss. Beforehand, isolation was defined as the mechanism by which to "limit discourse amongst critical elements ... their interaction with the general public". This scamdemic only seems chaotic and disorganised, because the same issue is approached and propagandised from every conceivable personal view point. The messages are not inconsistent, they just cover all (demographic) bases.
In the mean time, every pension fund is being stripped, every bit of public property privatised, and lastly, all private wealth is being turned into debt. We are living the culmination of the Bolshevik Wet Dream; they are so far advanced towards our final enslavement, they can kill and lie with impunity, while we discuss how many layers of face nappy we put on our children, as we lead them to the altar of Baal Gates and his best fiend, Antonchrist Frauci.
These aren't mistakes. There's no good faith effort going on here. We've seen these people masking up just before they step on stage, and ripping it off the minute they think the camera is off. We've caught them laughing and joking about "Corona Theater" on hot mics. We've seen them insist that the "serving staff" be smothered in plain black face coverings, while the royalty strut around, unmasked, in their diamonds and feathers.
They're all in on the joke, and we're the butt of it.
those people, the ones masking for show and joking, are the ones bowing to the ideological conceits of the public, yes, but also of their underlings who are driving the policies.
It's worse than that, really. We've seen them put on the masks on and then take them off in full view of cameras. Clearly, they know that are being filmed and "trust" the media won't out them...or they don't care if we see the hypocrisy.
Agreed. I think it would help if we started more robustly defining who “they” are. There are those who are using this situation to further cement their power and profit and those that are trying to do the right thing but are off-track as described in the article. Trying to parse the difference requires getting very specific and is to a certain extent, unknowable, as we can’t see into the hearts and minds of others.
I suspect though that the world “largely” works in the way eugyppius’s describes it and that the bad actors can’t unilaterally enact their agendas without using the organizational mechanisms in place.
I don't buy most of your essay. You make the assertion "The aim of containment and mass vaccination policies, quite clearly, is the eradication or the long-term suppression of SARS-CoV-2." The evidence is completely opposite to that assertion.
Most of the things you detail are not errors in the sense you describe. A few counter productive actions could be apportioned to error. The hundreds of mistakes made and continuing can only be the result of determined action. With the counter-example of Uttar Pradesh in India it is impossible to argue that the US/Europe/Australia/NZ have the goal of public health or eradicating the virus. Any rational person faced with the Uttar Pradesh real world success would adopt their methods immediately.
Western governments today are not consensus based at all. They have become authoritarian. The goal is population control and COVID is the excuse to achieve it.
I suggest you purchase a copy of Robert Kennedy's book on Anthony Fauci and read it. It demolishes the assertion that the people in control have the best interests of the population at heart.
While I believe eugyppius' essays are among the best on substack, I too disagree with this particular take. Even though there are many truths herein, incompetence cannot begin to explain the actions of governments and public health officials.
The vilification of HCQ at nearly the same times in Europe, Australia, Africa (Mar20 even before our Orange man mentioned it), attacks on IVM, withholding of early treatment, mandates, boosting, suppression of vit D recommendations, revokation of medical licenses of drs treating early or opposing vaccination, remdesivir ("run death is near"), ad infinitum. It is in fact so homogeneously counter to public health that mere incompetence could not begin to explain it.
I also agree with Mr. Cabot that the underpinnings are global authoritarian control. I no longer believe that money is a strong enough driver, particularly since many of those supporting these measures have so very much that the accumulation of more is relatively insignificant.
The support from ~50% of the population best represented by the Miligram experiments (https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html) was unfortunately likely predictable (by someone smarter than me).
I love reading eugyppius - and I don't mind at all paying for the privilege!
But, here is the "but"
I do think he's being too kind to world governments. Yes, they are all at sea due mainly to the reasons he says but their ultimate goal is that of their masters (as per Kennedy's book).
They all use fear of covid to make the sheep accept, nay demand, safety in the form of vaccination, but their ultimate goal is it's bastard child, control of population via Digital ID.
To my mind, nothing else can possibly explain Clown World.
We have to resist otherwise humanity will cease to exist.
And don't think for a moment that when this is over we've heard the last of bigpharma. The new kid on the block is gene manipulation - with the aid, as now, of computer modelling.
They think they know enough about how the immune system works (or more likely they don't give a dam) because they think they can control it.
This is a colossal mistake.
Even I could tell you of half a dozen known unknowns re the immune system, but as ever with complex systems it is the unknown unknowns which should be scary.
They even believe immortality is within reach. ( I hope not as I have faith in that the devil must meet them soon).
I think at least here in Germany there are several levels of policymaking/burecracies that interact. The higher levels of policymaking are likely to be interested in establishing tighter controls on the population, because climate crisis (I think Karl Lauterbach said there might well be something like a "climate lockdown" at some point). They are strongly supported by parts of the media (pre-Covid, these journalists were clamoring for meat to be forbidden, flights to be banned etc. etc. because we need to "save" the climate). Obviously, these are the higher political ranks who believe that they alone are able to lead the benighted populace towards the light. They are mortally afraid of being accused of not doing anything, so they are more likely to implement some drastic measures just to have something to show to the media.
Mid-tier bureaucrats, who are left with the task of fleshing out political guidelines, aren't as likely to have some larger motive - many of them just want to get through the day with the least hassle possible; if there are a few zealots with a pet project, they will be able to drag along whole departments towards their goal. But less highly motivated bureaucrats show quite a bit of resiliance towards that kind of zeal. They would tend to look left and look right and copy whatever is sold to them as spectacularly successful as well as cheap, but mainly they would want to be left alone and not come to the attention of the higher-ups.
Clinging to that notion can be a useful way to build a theory and for all I know may lie at the heart of some actors in this world game. Getting the number of world governments to act as they have seems a product of common government fear of failure and bureaucratic inertia as the article defines. Universal lockdowns seem modeled after the Chinese and have never been done on such a scale in free societies. While certainly useful on a small scale, containment is in the arsenal of contagion control but once containment is lost, it cannot work in society at large. The epidemiologists clearly know that but couldn't stop governments from trying. That alone is an attempt to save lives not at reducing population.
As the article suggests, once the train started moving, the middle functionaries did their part blindly pushing ahead. Worse once committed they can't seem to stop in spite of obvious policy failures. Places where the policies ended are doing so much better they prove the policies are pointless. But the train is huge and is slowly becoming aware of how foolish they have been. Worse as Omicron arrives the foolishness is there for all to see.
You need to read up on the control the US has over other countries governments through NATO and the CIA. Start with Danielle Ganser's book on Gladio. The NATO agreements create links between the intelligence services that allow immense levels of control. That's why DeGaulle pulled France out of NATO and the headquarters were moved to Brussels.
I've been surprised by so many things over the last couple of years. But, my biggest shock has been at the institutions that were setup to supposedly "do the right thing" during so-called outbreaks of disease etc. All of them, to my knowledge, seem to have completely lost not only their collective minds, but literally hundreds of years of actual data on mitigating illness. It's no wonder that people become conspiracy theorists. But, unfortunately, the conspiracy "theorists" have been pretty much 100% right about *everything* from the beginning this time. I'm proud to have been one in their ranks, but I call myself a conspiracy analyst. There was no theory. Something smelled rotten from the beginning. And people like myself weren't shouting conspiracy, we were shouting *tyranny*! And we were right.
In times (like ours) of ideological feverishness, there is no one in charge and no one able to resist (or at least, resist and keep your job, its title and perks, and your social status etc). In the social media age, at least for the left side of the aisle, THE DOCTRINE IS IN CHARGE and everyone in any kind of public position of authority basically has to play Havel's Greengrocer anew every morning.
The Covid madness (which is only an outgrowth or sequel to the Trump freakout and the Floyd freakout) started because everyone in the expert laptop class were sure of 2 things: 1) all the Good People knew that this was Trump's fault and all that mattered was pinning it on him so he could be removed; and 2) if all the other cool kids are shrieking PANIC!! i better start shrieking even louder.
We are living in a postrational society with a leadership class that has outsourced all thought and action to the hive mind and its crowd-sourced dogma.
The people who run our institutions, from the federal govt to state govts to academia etc etc have been having a perpetual and perpetually renewing nervous breakdown since the Orange Man came down that escalator.
Only some sort of new disaster or a massive electoral repudiation will end this.
> Vaccinating the recovered is just a stupid thing to do.
And yet they're doing it, and they're not all stupid, which is why I remain convinced that it is about enforcing obedience and destroying the control group.
Sadly, I was considering both options yesterday actually happening and envisioning my triply injected family members and friends gladly throwing me to the wolves.
Eugyppius; what is your "blue pill" analysis? Up and down the chain, there are plenty of well meaning and well educated & experienced scientists & politicians who have been gripped by corona-fever. Why have they lost the plot so badly? Why is it that the cascade of failures hasn't been noticed by the rank and file? As you said, we aren't in a global conspiracy. Even in one-on-one discussions with many, I find most are in a very different state of mind than 1 year ago, yet they will not break from the corona orthodoxy outside of private conversations
I taught in the US for years at a Uni that was on a 'green building' kick. They were tearing down large parts of the campus and erecting new energy efficient green buildings in their place. This made the whole place uglier, it pissed off our city neighbours, the buildings themselves were miserable - cold in the winter, hot in the summer, drab, leaky, subject to a long list of weird problems - and no amount of environmentally responsible construction can make up for throwing up a new building when you had a totally serviceable old one.
A lot of faculty hated the constant construction too, but the corners of the administration responsible for this nonsense (themselves housed in a beautiful Victorian structure in the middle of campus gardens) were subject to pervasive group think, green construction turns out to be an excellent fundraising pretence, whereas no donors will pay for maintenance on old 19th c. building, no matter how beautiful.
Groupthink + blindness or insensitivity to perverse outcomes + anchoring bias and overmuch focusing on specific metrics + perverse institutional incentives, basically. I know it's a boring answer.
The rona saga has been an excellent exposition of Campbell's law as well. Bad metrics get worse when used for social policy, like body counts in the Vietnam War, or pounds of nails in soviet nail factories. Simple minded managers cannot reason beyond "number go down, good. Number go up, bad." The bureaucracies are full of numbskulls who think getting the metrics to a certain threshold is logically equivalent to winning. And so the square peg is filed round to make it fit. Just like in Vietnam and Afghanistan, we're constantly told were so close, we're just about to turn the corner. meanwhile no progress is made at all and the true believers are in a permanent state of trying to rationalize reality away.
I'm not a big believer in the mass formation psychosis bit, but I do think a shitload of people painted themselves into a corner on the promise of experts, and now have no way to save face.
Fauci said something amazing recently when asked about so many infected vaccinators and Christmas gatherings. In spite of the glaring fact that vaccinateds spread and contract Covid, he said you should still spend Christmas only with vaccinated people. Self painted into the corner with a wet brush still in his grimy hands. And he IS SCIENCE.
I think many have noticed but are self censoring to preserve their careers. It doesn't do any of the population any good when Doctors and scientists are disregarding the truth in favor of keeping their lifestyle static. What ever happened to "Do no harm"? That should be the very first thing they should follow. Not " I can't lose my income and my lifestyle to tell the truth"
Yep. Not all, but a very important part of the puzzle. I wonder if that's part of the reason the more traditional religious circles are less prone to the Insanity
I think al lot of people just don't care -- the shots are not "that" harmful, the disease is not "that" bad, the masks are not "that" big a deal -- there's zero incentive to buck the system, it won't really help in most cases, and there's every encouragement to go along with it. Also, many people are alcoholics or on some sort of tranquilizing drug and so they literally just don't care about much of anything.
Prescriptions of anti anxiety meds have gone up a great deal with this. A friend of mine who detests this regime told me he felt more docile, indifferent, and compliant after taking a Xanex.
It is something I'm curious about, how the over prescription of these meds is making people more abjectly compliant with absurdity.
I believe it 100%. Have you seen the way people quietly wait in line these days? Even very long lines? No impatience, no grumbling, no foot stomping? I beleive many people are basically tranquilized with xanax or pot or some kind of pill, plus they are addicted to their phones. If the Titanic sank today, I don't think anyone would notice. Their last though on Earth would be, "why is my phone not working?"
Since the Trump freakout, followed by the Floyd freakout, followed by the Rona freakout (the social media age is the age of the nonstop eternal freakout), I've changed my taxonomic classification of humans from Homo Sapiens to Homo "Tell me what I need to say to keep my job" Sapiens ;)
Personally, I couldn’t disagree more that “containment and eradication” of The Virus was the primary point. Nothing about the reporting, vaccine roll-out, tyrannical forcing, use in children, etc., makes any sense whatsoever in light of past practices. Virus behavior has been known for decades, CORONAVIRUS behavior has been known. The FDA drug screening and approval protocols were completely jettisoned for a drug that was unknown and is still being pushed. As info has rolled out which basically states that you get it and spread it whether you’ve been vaccinated or not, officials double down and ignore poor side-effect profiles. Known treatments that have been around for decades are illegallized, or placed under the old FDA mandates (i.e., “we must study this before we approve it” -derisive snort).
Not to mention the overwhelming elephant in the room of the whole Wuhan/Fauci debacle and no one dealing with that.
I am sure that there are well-meaning believers who don’t understand a lot of what I mentioned, and rabid people who don’t want to look at reality. But nothing about this smacks of humanitarian concern for health as the primary goal, in my opinion. And I base that opinion on rationality of the process. I don’t claim to know who/what/why is behind it, nor am I a raging conspiracy theorist. It just makes NO sense.
Well, I think the comments section has become a place for a somewhat generalized discussion on the madness IN ADDITION TO a place to address your articles. We are all here because we greatly admire your thinking and writing. It's your substack, of course, but a certain amount of free-floating discussion on our ongoing dilemma seems like a good thing...? It's up to you, of course -- just my two cents, and not in any way trying to undermine you, as I think you're brilliant.
If you keep ignoring the elephant in the room - the great reset agenda - you will keep getting messages like this. You do have a more than valid point regarding how complex systems and dysfunctional bureaucracies work but it doesn't mean the current mess can't be coordinated from on high. Just assuming that it requires a level of coordination you don't think it's impossible is not a good argument when everything else points to malice. The people running this are not stupid, they have plenty of resources and had plenty of time to prepare for what they want to achieve. The fact that the institutions that could have stopped this if they would have been functional are filled with incompetent, self centered, greedy idiots didn't happen over night. Western societies changed in radical ways in the last 50 years. This could have been just inertia or it could have been something well crafted. Assuming that all that happens is not coordinated by evil people is dangerous to you and to all others that are blue pulled and who buy into what you are writing. You might even be right and maybe it's even the case that the best solution to solve this is to ignore the conspiracy when discussing with the red pilled ones and to try and change the bureaucracy instead of attacking the elites agenda. That would be impossible without a vast majority blue pilled in any case. But ignoring it over and over again when trying to explain the fenomenom is not productive.
the great reset agenda is about *pivoting away from* the Corona pandemic and getting back to the admittedly evil but longstanding ambitions for things like equity, sustainability and technocracy – the kinds of things the Davos crowd *loves* but could never sell as easily as lockdowns and vaccines.
So sorry; it was not meant to demean your great articles, nor to minimize your other points. I think you’ve made it clear that you’re not a fan of the whole deal. It was just my response to that particular line of reasoning. Checking out now—keep up the good work.
The fact that it MAKES NO SENSE is really key imo. That is, I don't know what it means, but it just seems really, really, really important. They don't have to make sense -- this makes it all so unpredictable.
The "makes no sense" part * IS * really key and the mass formation analysis really sank in for me when I read that the more irrational a tenet is, the BETTER it serves its function as a ritual, adherence to which shows (as independent, rational behaviour CANNOT) that one is a member of the "right" group (i.e., not the targeted one). The bigger the lie you are seen to swallow, the more conclusive the evidence that you are a true believer. We are mammals, and humans sense that this is the most basic means of saving one's own skin vis-à-vis predators ...
Yes—and when everything is presented to us in the name of SCIENCE, which presumably is supposed to be empirical and upon which we can make sensible decisions, it really begins to stink.
Exactly. As for the strategy and reasoning behind it all, it certainly was not for our collective good health, to contain and eradicate the virus.
Follow the money. Hand in hand with money is power.
My governor let it slip the first week of April 2020 when he said, "This pandemic is the perfect opportunity to put forth our progressive agenda." Now we have permanent mail in voting ballots in California. The likelihood of a fair and honest election in my state is now very slim.
Take solace in knowing nothing lasts forever. While a very large number of people in CA have enjoyed its benefits and have bought into the progressive dream, it always overreaches and the revolt begins. It's happening now with a middle class having to leave in order to have a life.
there is something like a 'small-country effect', whereby smaller neighbours of larger behemoths try to outcompete them on the moral front. thus Austria with vaxx mandates (outdoing Germany), Sweden trying to outcompete continental Europe on immigration permissivism and progressivism, Scotland being more crazy than England, etc.
this might mean, if morality shifts, they fall among the first and most fervent early adopters.
That's probably one of the reasons why Israel tried so hard to outdo everybody in the Insanity. Always trying to prove that they are "in" with the rest of polite world
they unintentionally created an unvax'd arm. Call them "Palestinians" - who are doing as well or better then the Israelis on their 4th jab.
The same could be said for the US federalist system: for the first time since perhaps the civil war, most of us learned of the power that the states have, yet haven't been using. Pres Biden said the quiet part out loud - my gut is that this wasn't planned - when he said there's no federal solution, this is on the states to fix. He was unintentionally correct. Unintentionally as he was trying to distance his admin from the assurances that he was going to shut down the ro.
Our federal system is pretty underappreciated by some. I've seen comments elsewhere bemoaning the fact that we don't have a straight democracy here and the masses can't impose their will on every state/body. I for one have gained a new perspective and realize the only things keeping us from the 'new normal' like Canada, Aus and NZ, etc is our federal system and our second amendment.
Now if we can just get our first amendment back into action, I think we will do OK.
I am waiting for Mexico to attempt to out-compete the U.S. on COVID "moral grounds." Being a resident of a border state and within 200 km of the border, I can attest that the many Mexican nationals that I know are incredibly tired of the Leftist moralizing instinct they have encountered here. It won't fly back home.
Surprisingly Mexico hasn't bought into the complete craziness and has stepped back on the crazy they even started with. Possibly knowing they have to relax a bit or lose the tens of billions in tourist dollars going there. Until the craziness dies down in other countries, it's one of the main places I've been traveling to and will continue to travel.
I should have been arriving home today from Cozumel for our usual diving trip. But our filthy unvaxxed plague rat asses can’t get on a plane. Ugh. There wasn’t enough enough snow here to try out our new cross country skis. Boring Xmas zzzzz
Thing is for Trudeau, covid + vaccines are political weapons. Potent ones too given the media are all government owned thanks to the brilliance of the Canadian Media Fund aka bailouts.
Genius really. Keep in mind Trudeau is like Brandon. Just a figurehead with not much going on upstairs. Gerald Butts is the true evil running things.
I am frankly surprise that wild arctic oilpatch provinces like NWT, Yukon, outer BC, Alberta, Sask, etc., have not just revolted and declared independence over this. They think they can "referendum" their way out of this? Unless they divorce from the BQ entirely, they are entirely sunk, entirely Chinese puppets (just like we in the U.S. have become). Sad!
Very true concerning Sweden. For the past two centuries, our elites have always looked abroad, especially west and south, for role models. As one model has failed, another has been adopted. From the mid 18th century to Napoleon tried to take Russia, France was the big idol. Then until 194- it was Germany, quickly abandonded in favour of the US for obvious reasons.
Do note that is only concerns the oikophobic elite. They despise and loathe both traditional and popular contemporary swedish culture, in favour of the next fad.
I could write an eassy about the racism underlying the genocidal migration policy.
In corona terms, this "better-thy-neighbour" approach by smaller countries also may be explained by the conspiracy theorists "canary in the coalmine" argument. Small countries are better test-beds for the more extreme containment measures - enforcement is easier, dissidents fewer etc. If these can be shown to be accepted by smaller populations, larger administrations have more leverage. Sweden as an outlier on C-19 is interesting - I find it little discussed in connection to their relatively advanced digital passport infrastructure.
I live in Germany, most of my Austrian friends think the mandate will not stand when legally challenged (and the lawmakers are expecting lots and lots of lawsuits) and in the worst case there will be a typically face-saving Austrian solution of muddling through somehow without causing undue inconvenience to anybody. I am much more scared of German policymakers and their minions because they not only make laws, they also see to it that they're executed.
I've been arguing the "incompetence" side of the "evil vs. incompetence" debate in a running dialogue with a friend. Recently, I feel like I'm losing the debate. For instance, calling the lab leak theory "racist" early on in order to cut off conversation could not have been a mistake. It is too preposterous. It is too obviously propaganda.
Congress' failure to hold Peter Daszak and Dr. Fauci to account likewise could not be a mistake. Why are more Republicans not cashing in on this blatant corruption and its probable contribution to the origins of the virus? It makes no sense, absent the presence of evil in all of this. The cover up and downplaying of vaccine dangers is likewise a choice, not a mistake. They know what they're doing.
The implications of the VAERS data are just too obvious and the "there's nothing to see here" arguments are again so obviously propaganda. Likewise, scapegoating the unvaxxed for the failures of the entire regime is not a mistake. It's a tactic. They know lockdowns, masking, vaccines, vaccine mandates, etc., have failed in their stated objective - to contain the virus. And failed miserably. Yet instead of admitting this obvious fact, they are channeling the discontent these policies have created towards the unvaxxed. Again, this is a tactic, not an accident. Shutting down small businesses while keeping the big department stores open is also not a mistake.
What all of these tactics have in common is that they lead to centralization of power. Powerful actors are using the virus as a pretext for increasing their power, and they know what they are doing. This paradigm provides a far better explanation of the facts than the incompetent bureaucrats paradigm. So I think I have to admit defeat to my debate partner. Evil wins again.
Taking all current data into account, it is now blatantly obvious that omicron is far and away the safest, most effective and most economical covid vaccine in the world.
“Western Corona policies reflect the diffuse, profoundly demobilised attitude of the institutions that sustain them.”
I may be jumping the gun because I haven’t finished this intriguing article yet, but I would say the Corona policies have been anything *but* diffuse and demobilized. At Event 201, they articulated the strategy of “flooding the zone” with a single message and suppressing *all* competing information, which is exactly what they’ve done.
One of their “matrix of four different futures” is:
“CLEVER TOGETHER – A world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues”
Again, precisely what has occurred.
On another note, I am hoping your audience will join me in recommending Dr. Robert Malone as the next Substack writer-in-residence via the following form:
I wrote the following note to my support guy this morning and encourage everyone to add their voices so we create a groundswell they won’t be able to ignore:
Email text below:
[Something] just came up in the comments at another Substacker's post, and I am hoping you can help me get this request to the right person.
Appointing a BigPharma propagandist like Eric Topol as writer-in-residence sent up HUGE red flags for a lot of Substackers who are fighting to present peer-reviewed science, expose MSM disinformation campaigns, and fight the increasingly totalitarian measures being implemented around the world. When Substack made that announcement, *thousands* of people registered their complaints in the comments, but the comments were then turned off and those voices censored. Topol did not permit comments on future posts and refused to debate any issues when challenged by credible scientists. This was a huge blow to the credibility of Substack and its commitment to free speech.
To restore some of that credibility and prove its dedication to free speech and open debate, I highly and emphatically recommend Substack appoint Dr. Robert Malone as its writer-in-residence ASAP. It would be a win-win from every conceivable angle. Substack would be restoring some degree of its tarnished reputation while simultaneously riding the tidal wave of traffic flowing in following Dr. Malone's titanic Joe Rogan appearance, which reached 50 million viewers and has been bringing in a flood of new readers. This, combined with a large portion of the half a million Twitter users who came to Substack after Dr. Malone was cancelled means he has been responsible for bringing potentially millions of new users to your platform. Appointing him writer-in-residence not only demonstrates Substack's integrity but also would encourage even more readers to join Substack as his popularity continues to skyrocket.
The tides are turning toward truth as the BigPharma-funded narrative is disintegrating daily, so Substack would be wise to plant its flag on Team Truth/Reality/Freedom before the full range of MSM-propagated lies and the psychopathic criminality of its BigPharma puppeteers become evident to the public, which is imminent in the wake of the one-two punch of Dr. Peter McCullough + Dr. Malone on Joe Rogan combined with RFK Jr.'s #1 bestselling The Real Anthony Fauci (which I highly recommend you read if you aren't already aware of the four decades' worth of irrefutably documented corruption; torture and murder of both orphans and beagles in agonizing medical experiments; and cataclysmic conflicts of interest caused by regulatory capture).
All that to say this is the moment for Substack to stand up for freedom, truth, and humanity, and I can think of no better person to signal that stance than Dr. Robert Malone (who will be the next subject featured in my new Profiles in Courage series, BTW).
Thank you for bearing with my diatribe, and I eagerly await a response regarding this request.
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I think you profoundly misunderstood the Rockefeller paper. The scenarios there are mutually exclusive. You can't have *both* "Lock Step" and "Clever Together".
In a somewhat separate development, I think that paper was fished out and retrofitted by the more conspiracy-theory-oriented folks because of its "Lock Step" scenario that in many aspects resembles the Insanity.
Otherwise it reads to me similar to a grant proposal.
I appreciate your balanced perspective, Malenkiy, and I will reserve judgment until I have more time to delve into the report as I’ve only given it a cursory glance thus far. Still, you can’t deny that they appear to be advocating for an escalation in authoritarianism to manage the masses, which includes formulating a unified message and silencing all contrary voices—known characteristics of totalitarian regimes throughout history.
There are two axes there that divide the field into 4 quadrants. (by the way, the 4-quadrant approach in any research for me is an immediate smell of intellectual laziness; it's is not always so, but there is a heavy correlation. The real world is always more complex than the 4 quadrants.) The two you mentioned are the top two and correspond to more "political and economic alignment" (aka "global totalitarianism"). The other axis is the "adaptive capacity" to change (I think it's used there euphemistically as a stand-in for progressive vs. non-progressive.) Their best scenario is "totalitarian progressive", which is "Clever Together". The other 3 are undesirable.
Well intended. In looking at SubStack as a whole, this subset most of us are involved in is but a small part. We can hope SubStack can recognize what their platform has created and act accordingly.
The reason I know this is because I had to administer shots to a family member. Another thing I learn from that experience, is that you have to aspirate. I noticed when watching the videos of Newsom and Biden that they did not aspirate. And then Rogan and Malone actually discussed and confirmed it about Biden.
Now I want to go back and watch the videos of Trump and Pence.
Not at all—I appreciate when my readers help fact-check my sources and examples. I do my best to vet every reference in my articles as I want them to be unassailable, but given that I am reviewing hundreds or even thousands of links on a weekly basis, it’s impossible for me to achieve 100% perfection :-)
Yes, the lack of aspiration (or even awareness that it needs to be done) in the injections is a serious issue. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet but know Dr. John Campbell addresses it in this video:
I’ve completely lost trust in my Gov. and the “professionals” in the white coats. They cancel their own when any truth leaks out, and lie every time their mouths are moving i.e. Fauci. It’s time for a full on peaceful revolt of their approach. Protect the vulnerable and the rest carry on. We couldn’t even find a test when we needed it, but our bumbler and chief ordered a half billion tests. (A little late there prez.) We needed them months ago, and I predict we will be sitting on these unreliable unavailable tests into perpetuity. Because most will have gotten and recovered before the tests are available. Let me guess, they ordered them from China.
As you said, Omicron is the final "off ramp" available to our health overlords. If they don't take this one, the populace will have to force the end of this madness.
Governments of all stripes are well aware of the problem with continuing the pandemic. If the novel pharmaceutical product is the cause of long term widespread population damage and explains the overall case mortality increases and normies truly understand what has been done to them, then there will not be a hell fire big enough to engulf those responsible. If those mortalities continue to rise to levels that make the press start talking about it openly, then all bets are off.
Omicron is the more plausible stratagem and even now, the media is reshaping everything to have disappeared by late March 2022, so use seasonal decline for the end of C19. The end of C19 will be much like uninstalling buggy software. Once it has been removed, most people will just get on with their lives and the fourth estate will gaslight any gaps in the narrative.
The real kicker would be if the Sigma variant kills off a significant portion of the people who are already vaccinated. People with weakened immune systems then end up dying in large numbers.
As the pharma-industrial complex says. "Sorry, no refunds."
>Once it has been removed, most people will just get on with their lives and the fourth estate will gaslight any gaps in the narrative.
I really hope so. The alternative is a serious civil unrest.
However, if we assume the thesis of the main post, it will all depend on the "emergent equilibrium" (gosh, do I hate that expression, but can't find a better one) among various forces. They could declare victory last spring, but didn't. They still continue pushing vaccinations, although the more they do, the more hell will be there to pay.
"Governments of all stripes are well aware of the problem with continuing the pandemic."
I'm not so sure. Here in UK, we all got a text saying "GET BOOSTED" over Christmas. If they had seen the damage vaccines were doing and wanted to backtrack, they would not have done this.
And now you have Whitty claiming to be so sad because unvaccinated are in hospital and they could have had the vaccine but were put off by misinformation on the internet. I guess the MHRA stats of deaths and adverse reactions had nothing to do with it.
Probably should be rephrased: "people in governments". Which is not the same as "governments".
Nah, it won't be the Sigma variant. As I've suggested in other stacks, with our luck as a global society, it will be the fittingly named Omega variant; omicron's big, bad brother. And that one will probably grace the stage in October/November 2022 but have been found to have arisen genetically in June.
This was posted on Eugyppius' twitter- it dives deeper into the possible lab leak of Omicron.. Whether intentional or by accident, well that's obviously open to debate.
https://bprice.substack.com/p/lab-leak-20
That was an excellent article. Thank you.
And as for the original Wuhan leak and now the omicron leak we can probably expect that we might be unlucky enough to experience that leak (Omega, probably from some strain of Delta that has been frozen now and will be thawed in May for study and serial passage) that WILL potentially risk the end of mankind as was warned about in that article.
The most pertinent comment on the subject in the usual substacks.
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You’re a clever chap
What is the upside for them to take the off ramp voluntarily? They would lose power , would lose credibility. They have already completed the whole project: the ones who produce the vaccines and profit from the Pandemic also control the MSM ( for example Gates foundation is paying the most popular liberal magazine 'Der Spiegel' in Germany 2.9 million) and the social platforms . The revolving door to politics and regulatory agencies is far too obvious.
> What is the upside for them to take the off ramp voluntarily?
Their terrible containment measures are causing serious, long term damage to their societies, and that runs a real risk of biting them in the ass. Perhaps the people of the world will quietly accept - or even welcome - endless boosters, lockdowns, and economic damage. Certainly some people would. But the longer this goes on as is*, the greater the chances of more and more people turning against it and the officials who caused it. In countries that are still nominally democracies, that's a problem for said officials.
> They would lose power , would lose credibility.
They'd lose power, yes, but a properly managed off-ramp would let them save face. The vaccines worked and omicron is mild, hooray, we did it everyone, good job and remember to vote for us next time!
* Many corona measures, as they are now, are simply not sustainable long term. I'd expect even the most dedicated zero covid locations to reform and refine them in some way.
>Their terrible containment measures are causing serious, long term damage to their societies
I forget where exactly I read this, but short-term elite thinking is both the symptom and a cause of societal rot
Re your last comment - Would love to think so, but in the meantime, just come to Ontario, Canada where the premier "only took 30 seconds" yesterday to decide to close gyms, restaurants (indoor dining); pubs; reduce capacity in most public assemblies and stores; close the libraries - and this with around 80% of the population fully injected and now lining up like lemmings for boosters. They are also injecting kids in the 5 - 11 Y/O age group. Of course, prior to this, the uninjected were banned from all of the above anyway (since September) and maybe around 4000 healthcare staff were fired so now the hospitals are short staffed but of course this is not because they fired them, but because so many are "calling in sick".
Probably the main reason to take the off-ramp is that they've gone far enough with this exercise and will quit while they're ahead. Remember Fauci's self satirizing "cartoon" in RFK Jr.'s tome, "Dr. Fauci's Pandemic Sweepstakes" showing the other abortive pandemics leading up to SARS-CoV-2's real pandemic. Compare the never-ending rhetoric about "preparing for the next pandemic" emanating from the Gates Foundation/WEF operatives in the mainstream media. Whatever this pandemic was meant to achieve may have been achieved, and that may not be pharmaco-medical. It could be psycho-social, political and/or economic. If there's one thing the pandemicists understand brilliantly, it's how to shift baselines, or as the Nazi's used to call the "New Normal" mindset "Gleichschaltung"; and they understand that it must be done by increments. The "increment" represented by SARS-CoV-2 might be done, for now.
Next stage now that the sheep have been brought into line, could well be "carbon passports". These will include your injection status. (I refuse to call the gene therapy shots vaccines). No injection - no travel for you. Injected? Last month you flew on a 767 twice and drove 700 miles. We tracked you on your electronic passport and the geotracker in your car. Now you have now reached your carbon limit for the next quarter. We will let you know when you can travel again."
there will be no off-ramp (at least not anytime soon) if anyone on Team Blue has anything to say about it.
i know we all inhabit different worlds and can only be blind men touching our fraction of the elephant, but that being said, i am privy to some group chats etc from the leftist media-academia-Hollywood axis, and these people are still in the ANGER phase of their response, they still believe they can vacc and mandate and vilify their opponents, this has become their existential crusade.
they are nowhere near ready to let this go...
>at least not anytime soon ... and these people are still in the ANGER phase of their response
Some people go through it faster than others:
https://youtu.be/ZGGrIPajJjQ
The hopefully silver lining is the upcoming US Midterm elections. I think it was Eugyppius who so aptly pointed out that those in power have realized that the only way to hold on to it, is to wind this pandemic down. This accounts for recent fascinating narrative shifts and policy changes. However, they have already created covidian monsters they can't control. Institutions like school boards and state governments wanting to shut down in person learning, ramp up testing and continue with longer quarantines despite the updated faucian decrees. The government's Pfizer ambassador's (Scott Gottlieb) recent pronouncement that cloth masks are useless has not resulted in schools dropping the requirement, rather they are calling for 'better' N95s.
Politicians in germany are doubling down on vaccine mandates so they are not taking the off ramp. If we do not stop them they will not back down.
Yes I am afraid that for keeping the madness going and not having to face the consequences of their actions they will create an even bigger mess - a new deadlier lab leak, energy crisis, war in Ukraine ....
I agree that Omicron is the way out. But it might take a while until the fearmongering elites arrive at a consensus to make use of this godsent (?) gift. At least here in Germany/Bavaria, they're still mouthing the litanies we are so tired of - as an example, here are the headlines currently available at BR24 in the same order as on the website:
- France: incidence +271,000 (what happened to hospitalization numbers, then, BTW?)
- How dangerous is "flurona"?
-Supposed new Covid variant B.1.460.2: What you should know
-Bavaria: Omicron numbers double within a few days
-Omicron-wave: debating shorter quarantines
- Knives at Corona protests: police warn of escalations
-Chair of Ministers' of Education Conference wants no more school closures
- Mishap at vaccination: adult doses administered to children by mistake
- super immunity against corona: B-cells
- Virologist Protzer about the Corona situation: hope for the fall of 2022
So: fearmongering on top
Way down the good news: no more school closures, super immunity exists, hope for fall 22
BTW, administering wrong dosage when vaccinating children doesn't rile anyone up - 22 reader comments, mostly along the lines of "oh well...mistakes happen..."
COVID reporting in the media is a huge machine that has been growing organically for almost two years. It won't just go "ping" as one tiny component falls off and then "whoomp" as the whole thing implodes (or explodes, I just don't care). What's worse, there is a genuine amount of fear among the worshippers at the altar of Zero Covid, and they won't be able to step outside their own fear and see their own role in the madness impartially.
I suppose the machine as a whole is going to fight reality tooth and claw, they'll only give way when there is absolutely no way left to stick to the narrative. If we are lucky, they'll gone through the first couple of stages of grief by March and will be able to wind the whole narrative down (for which most policymakers will be infinitely grateful by then, I think). I think, media coverage is the key, spurring policymakers on and on and on.
For god sent read lab sent. I suspect you already knew this.
I have to say, similar things are true in New Hampshire. A few zealots slime northwards from Maskachusetts, but locally people are *over* it, including the risible fear porn that passes as news.
A few masked shoppers in local town in GA but barely anyone in small towns or local stores. I guess people have better things to do than put a paper pad before their faces ! Saw a handful in the WM but most did not wear any. The story is getting old. Friends of mine have been travelling as if nothing is going on, only had to postpone one trip because of national mandate.
Sadly we can't even call these mistakes, because honest mistakes would fall on both sides of the equation. Just like the FBI 'mistakes' -- they all go one direction.
They all arise from oversimplification, the anchoring of early theories and ideas, and the universalisation of all aims and methods which that entails.
Sounds less and less like a mistake to me.........
"I say *mistake*, you say *criminal incompetence*..."
I see your "criminal incompetence"and raise you one million "dismissive bullshit excuses" that us stoopit plebes are too stoopit to analyse or even be allowed to discuss. Beforehand, isolation was defined as the mechanism by which to "limit discourse amongst critical elements ... their interaction with the general public". This scamdemic only seems chaotic and disorganised, because the same issue is approached and propagandised from every conceivable personal view point. The messages are not inconsistent, they just cover all (demographic) bases.
In the mean time, every pension fund is being stripped, every bit of public property privatised, and lastly, all private wealth is being turned into debt. We are living the culmination of the Bolshevik Wet Dream; they are so far advanced towards our final enslavement, they can kill and lie with impunity, while we discuss how many layers of face nappy we put on our children, as we lead them to the altar of Baal Gates and his best fiend, Antonchrist Frauci.
There were no mistakes, since nothing happened all of a sudden and by chance. EU started preparing vax passports in 2018, and I am not sure if you are familiar with this virus galore from 2012: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4cc2ea93-d003-417e-9294-1103a6ee877d
As far as I remember, there were also meetings between Merck, Mer(c)kel, and Drosten in 2019.
These aren't mistakes. There's no good faith effort going on here. We've seen these people masking up just before they step on stage, and ripping it off the minute they think the camera is off. We've caught them laughing and joking about "Corona Theater" on hot mics. We've seen them insist that the "serving staff" be smothered in plain black face coverings, while the royalty strut around, unmasked, in their diamonds and feathers.
They're all in on the joke, and we're the butt of it.
those people, the ones masking for show and joking, are the ones bowing to the ideological conceits of the public, yes, but also of their underlings who are driving the policies.
It's worse than that, really. We've seen them put on the masks on and then take them off in full view of cameras. Clearly, they know that are being filmed and "trust" the media won't out them...or they don't care if we see the hypocrisy.
Agreed. I think it would help if we started more robustly defining who “they” are. There are those who are using this situation to further cement their power and profit and those that are trying to do the right thing but are off-track as described in the article. Trying to parse the difference requires getting very specific and is to a certain extent, unknowable, as we can’t see into the hearts and minds of others.
I suspect though that the world “largely” works in the way eugyppius’s describes it and that the bad actors can’t unilaterally enact their agendas without using the organizational mechanisms in place.
I don't buy most of your essay. You make the assertion "The aim of containment and mass vaccination policies, quite clearly, is the eradication or the long-term suppression of SARS-CoV-2." The evidence is completely opposite to that assertion.
Most of the things you detail are not errors in the sense you describe. A few counter productive actions could be apportioned to error. The hundreds of mistakes made and continuing can only be the result of determined action. With the counter-example of Uttar Pradesh in India it is impossible to argue that the US/Europe/Australia/NZ have the goal of public health or eradicating the virus. Any rational person faced with the Uttar Pradesh real world success would adopt their methods immediately.
Western governments today are not consensus based at all. They have become authoritarian. The goal is population control and COVID is the excuse to achieve it.
I suggest you purchase a copy of Robert Kennedy's book on Anthony Fauci and read it. It demolishes the assertion that the people in control have the best interests of the population at heart.
you‘re talking past me, for the most part. i hope to review kennedy‘s book soon.
While I believe eugyppius' essays are among the best on substack, I too disagree with this particular take. Even though there are many truths herein, incompetence cannot begin to explain the actions of governments and public health officials.
The vilification of HCQ at nearly the same times in Europe, Australia, Africa (Mar20 even before our Orange man mentioned it), attacks on IVM, withholding of early treatment, mandates, boosting, suppression of vit D recommendations, revokation of medical licenses of drs treating early or opposing vaccination, remdesivir ("run death is near"), ad infinitum. It is in fact so homogeneously counter to public health that mere incompetence could not begin to explain it.
I also agree with Mr. Cabot that the underpinnings are global authoritarian control. I no longer believe that money is a strong enough driver, particularly since many of those supporting these measures have so very much that the accumulation of more is relatively insignificant.
The support from ~50% of the population best represented by the Miligram experiments (https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html) was unfortunately likely predictable (by someone smarter than me).
I love reading eugyppius - and I don't mind at all paying for the privilege!
But, here is the "but"
I do think he's being too kind to world governments. Yes, they are all at sea due mainly to the reasons he says but their ultimate goal is that of their masters (as per Kennedy's book).
They all use fear of covid to make the sheep accept, nay demand, safety in the form of vaccination, but their ultimate goal is it's bastard child, control of population via Digital ID.
To my mind, nothing else can possibly explain Clown World.
We have to resist otherwise humanity will cease to exist.
And don't think for a moment that when this is over we've heard the last of bigpharma. The new kid on the block is gene manipulation - with the aid, as now, of computer modelling.
They think they know enough about how the immune system works (or more likely they don't give a dam) because they think they can control it.
This is a colossal mistake.
Even I could tell you of half a dozen known unknowns re the immune system, but as ever with complex systems it is the unknown unknowns which should be scary.
They even believe immortality is within reach. ( I hope not as I have faith in that the devil must meet them soon).
Your response to all of these questions and theories rang most clearly to me.
Except for the part about the devil. The fate of another’s soul I do not wade into.
I see my role as remaining open and as unafraid of existence as I can.
The semblance of "immortality" they may achieve will be the oblivion they really seek. Hell doesn't need death to be self- created.
I think at least here in Germany there are several levels of policymaking/burecracies that interact. The higher levels of policymaking are likely to be interested in establishing tighter controls on the population, because climate crisis (I think Karl Lauterbach said there might well be something like a "climate lockdown" at some point). They are strongly supported by parts of the media (pre-Covid, these journalists were clamoring for meat to be forbidden, flights to be banned etc. etc. because we need to "save" the climate). Obviously, these are the higher political ranks who believe that they alone are able to lead the benighted populace towards the light. They are mortally afraid of being accused of not doing anything, so they are more likely to implement some drastic measures just to have something to show to the media.
Mid-tier bureaucrats, who are left with the task of fleshing out political guidelines, aren't as likely to have some larger motive - many of them just want to get through the day with the least hassle possible; if there are a few zealots with a pet project, they will be able to drag along whole departments towards their goal. But less highly motivated bureaucrats show quite a bit of resiliance towards that kind of zeal. They would tend to look left and look right and copy whatever is sold to them as spectacularly successful as well as cheap, but mainly they would want to be left alone and not come to the attention of the higher-ups.
You’ve saved me the trouble of ‘using my words’ and can instead say ‘100% this’
Clinging to that notion can be a useful way to build a theory and for all I know may lie at the heart of some actors in this world game. Getting the number of world governments to act as they have seems a product of common government fear of failure and bureaucratic inertia as the article defines. Universal lockdowns seem modeled after the Chinese and have never been done on such a scale in free societies. While certainly useful on a small scale, containment is in the arsenal of contagion control but once containment is lost, it cannot work in society at large. The epidemiologists clearly know that but couldn't stop governments from trying. That alone is an attempt to save lives not at reducing population.
As the article suggests, once the train started moving, the middle functionaries did their part blindly pushing ahead. Worse once committed they can't seem to stop in spite of obvious policy failures. Places where the policies ended are doing so much better they prove the policies are pointless. But the train is huge and is slowly becoming aware of how foolish they have been. Worse as Omicron arrives the foolishness is there for all to see.
You need to read up on the control the US has over other countries governments through NATO and the CIA. Start with Danielle Ganser's book on Gladio. The NATO agreements create links between the intelligence services that allow immense levels of control. That's why DeGaulle pulled France out of NATO and the headquarters were moved to Brussels.
I've been surprised by so many things over the last couple of years. But, my biggest shock has been at the institutions that were setup to supposedly "do the right thing" during so-called outbreaks of disease etc. All of them, to my knowledge, seem to have completely lost not only their collective minds, but literally hundreds of years of actual data on mitigating illness. It's no wonder that people become conspiracy theorists. But, unfortunately, the conspiracy "theorists" have been pretty much 100% right about *everything* from the beginning this time. I'm proud to have been one in their ranks, but I call myself a conspiracy analyst. There was no theory. Something smelled rotten from the beginning. And people like myself weren't shouting conspiracy, we were shouting *tyranny*! And we were right.
"Today's conspiracy theory is tomorrow's spoiler alert."
I didn't come up with that, but I love quoting it...
In times (like ours) of ideological feverishness, there is no one in charge and no one able to resist (or at least, resist and keep your job, its title and perks, and your social status etc). In the social media age, at least for the left side of the aisle, THE DOCTRINE IS IN CHARGE and everyone in any kind of public position of authority basically has to play Havel's Greengrocer anew every morning.
The Covid madness (which is only an outgrowth or sequel to the Trump freakout and the Floyd freakout) started because everyone in the expert laptop class were sure of 2 things: 1) all the Good People knew that this was Trump's fault and all that mattered was pinning it on him so he could be removed; and 2) if all the other cool kids are shrieking PANIC!! i better start shrieking even louder.
We are living in a postrational society with a leadership class that has outsourced all thought and action to the hive mind and its crowd-sourced dogma.
The people who run our institutions, from the federal govt to state govts to academia etc etc have been having a perpetual and perpetually renewing nervous breakdown since the Orange Man came down that escalator.
Only some sort of new disaster or a massive electoral repudiation will end this.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
> Vaccinating the recovered is just a stupid thing to do.
And yet they're doing it, and they're not all stupid, which is why I remain convinced that it is about enforcing obedience and destroying the control group.
Destroying the control group is key. That's why they're talking about locking us up or just taking us out and shooting us.
At this stage, option 2 would not surprise me in the slightest.
Sadly, I was considering both options yesterday actually happening and envisioning my triply injected family members and friends gladly throwing me to the wolves.
Maria Romana knows her shit
Eugyppius; what is your "blue pill" analysis? Up and down the chain, there are plenty of well meaning and well educated & experienced scientists & politicians who have been gripped by corona-fever. Why have they lost the plot so badly? Why is it that the cascade of failures hasn't been noticed by the rank and file? As you said, we aren't in a global conspiracy. Even in one-on-one discussions with many, I find most are in a very different state of mind than 1 year ago, yet they will not break from the corona orthodoxy outside of private conversations
I taught in the US for years at a Uni that was on a 'green building' kick. They were tearing down large parts of the campus and erecting new energy efficient green buildings in their place. This made the whole place uglier, it pissed off our city neighbours, the buildings themselves were miserable - cold in the winter, hot in the summer, drab, leaky, subject to a long list of weird problems - and no amount of environmentally responsible construction can make up for throwing up a new building when you had a totally serviceable old one.
A lot of faculty hated the constant construction too, but the corners of the administration responsible for this nonsense (themselves housed in a beautiful Victorian structure in the middle of campus gardens) were subject to pervasive group think, green construction turns out to be an excellent fundraising pretence, whereas no donors will pay for maintenance on old 19th c. building, no matter how beautiful.
Groupthink + blindness or insensitivity to perverse outcomes + anchoring bias and overmuch focusing on specific metrics + perverse institutional incentives, basically. I know it's a boring answer.
The rona saga has been an excellent exposition of Campbell's law as well. Bad metrics get worse when used for social policy, like body counts in the Vietnam War, or pounds of nails in soviet nail factories. Simple minded managers cannot reason beyond "number go down, good. Number go up, bad." The bureaucracies are full of numbskulls who think getting the metrics to a certain threshold is logically equivalent to winning. And so the square peg is filed round to make it fit. Just like in Vietnam and Afghanistan, we're constantly told were so close, we're just about to turn the corner. meanwhile no progress is made at all and the true believers are in a permanent state of trying to rationalize reality away.
I'm not a big believer in the mass formation psychosis bit, but I do think a shitload of people painted themselves into a corner on the promise of experts, and now have no way to save face.
Fauci said something amazing recently when asked about so many infected vaccinators and Christmas gatherings. In spite of the glaring fact that vaccinateds spread and contract Covid, he said you should still spend Christmas only with vaccinated people. Self painted into the corner with a wet brush still in his grimy hands. And he IS SCIENCE.
I think many have noticed but are self censoring to preserve their careers. It doesn't do any of the population any good when Doctors and scientists are disregarding the truth in favor of keeping their lifestyle static. What ever happened to "Do no harm"? That should be the very first thing they should follow. Not " I can't lose my income and my lifestyle to tell the truth"
Read this, seems to capture the zeitgeist of the covidians
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-existential-abyss-is-key-to-understanding
Yep. Not all, but a very important part of the puzzle. I wonder if that's part of the reason the more traditional religious circles are less prone to the Insanity
I enjoyed this read as it echoes some of my own thoughts over the last 15 months or so. Thank you for posting.
I think al lot of people just don't care -- the shots are not "that" harmful, the disease is not "that" bad, the masks are not "that" big a deal -- there's zero incentive to buck the system, it won't really help in most cases, and there's every encouragement to go along with it. Also, many people are alcoholics or on some sort of tranquilizing drug and so they literally just don't care about much of anything.
I have heard this a lot - masks arent a big deal, the shots do no harm so it justifies the boost-first and ask questions later approach
Some people even like masks now and think unmasked ppl are "gross"
That makes me laugh, because I think masked people are so dirty….and the infections and the breakouts on their faces kinda prove it.
Prescriptions of anti anxiety meds have gone up a great deal with this. A friend of mine who detests this regime told me he felt more docile, indifferent, and compliant after taking a Xanex.
It is something I'm curious about, how the over prescription of these meds is making people more abjectly compliant with absurdity.
I believe it 100%. Have you seen the way people quietly wait in line these days? Even very long lines? No impatience, no grumbling, no foot stomping? I beleive many people are basically tranquilized with xanax or pot or some kind of pill, plus they are addicted to their phones. If the Titanic sank today, I don't think anyone would notice. Their last though on Earth would be, "why is my phone not working?"
While insisting that icebergs are a conspiracy theory 😅
I wonder how much they will care when they are dying from mRNA injections a few years from now.
Yeah I know. But they will probably never blame the shots, especially since the vacks injury is "Standard old heart disease/stroke."
I almost never see your final point being made, but its truth is tragically evident. It may even be "most" people ...
Since the Trump freakout, followed by the Floyd freakout, followed by the Rona freakout (the social media age is the age of the nonstop eternal freakout), I've changed my taxonomic classification of humans from Homo Sapiens to Homo "Tell me what I need to say to keep my job" Sapiens ;)
Personally, I couldn’t disagree more that “containment and eradication” of The Virus was the primary point. Nothing about the reporting, vaccine roll-out, tyrannical forcing, use in children, etc., makes any sense whatsoever in light of past practices. Virus behavior has been known for decades, CORONAVIRUS behavior has been known. The FDA drug screening and approval protocols were completely jettisoned for a drug that was unknown and is still being pushed. As info has rolled out which basically states that you get it and spread it whether you’ve been vaccinated or not, officials double down and ignore poor side-effect profiles. Known treatments that have been around for decades are illegallized, or placed under the old FDA mandates (i.e., “we must study this before we approve it” -derisive snort).
Not to mention the overwhelming elephant in the room of the whole Wuhan/Fauci debacle and no one dealing with that.
I am sure that there are well-meaning believers who don’t understand a lot of what I mentioned, and rabid people who don’t want to look at reality. But nothing about this smacks of humanitarian concern for health as the primary goal, in my opinion. And I base that opinion on rationality of the process. I don’t claim to know who/what/why is behind it, nor am I a raging conspiracy theorist. It just makes NO sense.
it’s just tiresome to respond to dozens of comments like this, which don’t address anything I write.
Well, I think the comments section has become a place for a somewhat generalized discussion on the madness IN ADDITION TO a place to address your articles. We are all here because we greatly admire your thinking and writing. It's your substack, of course, but a certain amount of free-floating discussion on our ongoing dilemma seems like a good thing...? It's up to you, of course -- just my two cents, and not in any way trying to undermine you, as I think you're brilliant.
If you keep ignoring the elephant in the room - the great reset agenda - you will keep getting messages like this. You do have a more than valid point regarding how complex systems and dysfunctional bureaucracies work but it doesn't mean the current mess can't be coordinated from on high. Just assuming that it requires a level of coordination you don't think it's impossible is not a good argument when everything else points to malice. The people running this are not stupid, they have plenty of resources and had plenty of time to prepare for what they want to achieve. The fact that the institutions that could have stopped this if they would have been functional are filled with incompetent, self centered, greedy idiots didn't happen over night. Western societies changed in radical ways in the last 50 years. This could have been just inertia or it could have been something well crafted. Assuming that all that happens is not coordinated by evil people is dangerous to you and to all others that are blue pulled and who buy into what you are writing. You might even be right and maybe it's even the case that the best solution to solve this is to ignore the conspiracy when discussing with the red pilled ones and to try and change the bureaucracy instead of attacking the elites agenda. That would be impossible without a vast majority blue pilled in any case. But ignoring it over and over again when trying to explain the fenomenom is not productive.
the great reset agenda is about *pivoting away from* the Corona pandemic and getting back to the admittedly evil but longstanding ambitions for things like equity, sustainability and technocracy – the kinds of things the Davos crowd *loves* but could never sell as easily as lockdowns and vaccines.
So sorry; it was not meant to demean your great articles, nor to minimize your other points. I think you’ve made it clear that you’re not a fan of the whole deal. It was just my response to that particular line of reasoning. Checking out now—keep up the good work.
The fact that it MAKES NO SENSE is really key imo. That is, I don't know what it means, but it just seems really, really, really important. They don't have to make sense -- this makes it all so unpredictable.
The "makes no sense" part * IS * really key and the mass formation analysis really sank in for me when I read that the more irrational a tenet is, the BETTER it serves its function as a ritual, adherence to which shows (as independent, rational behaviour CANNOT) that one is a member of the "right" group (i.e., not the targeted one). The bigger the lie you are seen to swallow, the more conclusive the evidence that you are a true believer. We are mammals, and humans sense that this is the most basic means of saving one's own skin vis-à-vis predators ...
YES, it’s like how some of them are still saying “stop the spread,” even though it’s completely nonsensical to say that at this point!
Yes—and when everything is presented to us in the name of SCIENCE, which presumably is supposed to be empirical and upon which we can make sensible decisions, it really begins to stink.
Exactly. As for the strategy and reasoning behind it all, it certainly was not for our collective good health, to contain and eradicate the virus.
Follow the money. Hand in hand with money is power.
My governor let it slip the first week of April 2020 when he said, "This pandemic is the perfect opportunity to put forth our progressive agenda." Now we have permanent mail in voting ballots in California. The likelihood of a fair and honest election in my state is now very slim.
Take solace in knowing nothing lasts forever. While a very large number of people in CA have enjoyed its benefits and have bought into the progressive dream, it always overreaches and the revolt begins. It's happening now with a middle class having to leave in order to have a life.
"humanitarian concern for health" ~ "derisive snort."
You, my friend, have nailed it x
ideological fervour to subside? Not in Canada, not anytime soon.
there is something like a 'small-country effect', whereby smaller neighbours of larger behemoths try to outcompete them on the moral front. thus Austria with vaxx mandates (outdoing Germany), Sweden trying to outcompete continental Europe on immigration permissivism and progressivism, Scotland being more crazy than England, etc.
this might mean, if morality shifts, they fall among the first and most fervent early adopters.
That's probably one of the reasons why Israel tried so hard to outdo everybody in the Insanity. Always trying to prove that they are "in" with the rest of polite world
they unintentionally created an unvax'd arm. Call them "Palestinians" - who are doing as well or better then the Israelis on their 4th jab.
The same could be said for the US federalist system: for the first time since perhaps the civil war, most of us learned of the power that the states have, yet haven't been using. Pres Biden said the quiet part out loud - my gut is that this wasn't planned - when he said there's no federal solution, this is on the states to fix. He was unintentionally correct. Unintentionally as he was trying to distance his admin from the assurances that he was going to shut down the ro.
>they unintentionally created an unvax'd arm
Yes!
>he said there's no federal solution
Some people say that he is prepping for the probable SCOTUS defeat
Our federal system is pretty underappreciated by some. I've seen comments elsewhere bemoaning the fact that we don't have a straight democracy here and the masses can't impose their will on every state/body. I for one have gained a new perspective and realize the only things keeping us from the 'new normal' like Canada, Aus and NZ, etc is our federal system and our second amendment.
Now if we can just get our first amendment back into action, I think we will do OK.
Please add Ireland to the list.
I am waiting for Mexico to attempt to out-compete the U.S. on COVID "moral grounds." Being a resident of a border state and within 200 km of the border, I can attest that the many Mexican nationals that I know are incredibly tired of the Leftist moralizing instinct they have encountered here. It won't fly back home.
Surprisingly Mexico hasn't bought into the complete craziness and has stepped back on the crazy they even started with. Possibly knowing they have to relax a bit or lose the tens of billions in tourist dollars going there. Until the craziness dies down in other countries, it's one of the main places I've been traveling to and will continue to travel.
I should have been arriving home today from Cozumel for our usual diving trip. But our filthy unvaxxed plague rat asses can’t get on a plane. Ugh. There wasn’t enough enough snow here to try out our new cross country skis. Boring Xmas zzzzz
Are they letting you retest every day? (Antigen test I would assume?) Possible to use a nasal rinse before testing?
Thing is for Trudeau, covid + vaccines are political weapons. Potent ones too given the media are all government owned thanks to the brilliance of the Canadian Media Fund aka bailouts.
Genius really. Keep in mind Trudeau is like Brandon. Just a figurehead with not much going on upstairs. Gerald Butts is the true evil running things.
>Gerald Butts
Biggus Dickus
I hope this is true for Canada. It's pathetic here so entrenched, moral do gooders, horse blinders and masks fully on.
I am frankly surprise that wild arctic oilpatch provinces like NWT, Yukon, outer BC, Alberta, Sask, etc., have not just revolted and declared independence over this. They think they can "referendum" their way out of this? Unless they divorce from the BQ entirely, they are entirely sunk, entirely Chinese puppets (just like we in the U.S. have become). Sad!
Very true concerning Sweden. For the past two centuries, our elites have always looked abroad, especially west and south, for role models. As one model has failed, another has been adopted. From the mid 18th century to Napoleon tried to take Russia, France was the big idol. Then until 194- it was Germany, quickly abandonded in favour of the US for obvious reasons.
Do note that is only concerns the oikophobic elite. They despise and loathe both traditional and popular contemporary swedish culture, in favour of the next fad.
I could write an eassy about the racism underlying the genocidal migration policy.
In corona terms, this "better-thy-neighbour" approach by smaller countries also may be explained by the conspiracy theorists "canary in the coalmine" argument. Small countries are better test-beds for the more extreme containment measures - enforcement is easier, dissidents fewer etc. If these can be shown to be accepted by smaller populations, larger administrations have more leverage. Sweden as an outlier on C-19 is interesting - I find it little discussed in connection to their relatively advanced digital passport infrastructure.
As an Austrian, I hope that Austria will take the exit ramp fairly soon...but at the moment it still doesn't look like it.
So is the government going to lock you all up?
I live in Germany, most of my Austrian friends think the mandate will not stand when legally challenged (and the lawmakers are expecting lots and lots of lawsuits) and in the worst case there will be a typically face-saving Austrian solution of muddling through somehow without causing undue inconvenience to anybody. I am much more scared of German policymakers and their minions because they not only make laws, they also see to it that they're executed.
The dreaded teutonic efficiency eh?
Nor in the US. It seems many are doubling down to keep it going.
I've been arguing the "incompetence" side of the "evil vs. incompetence" debate in a running dialogue with a friend. Recently, I feel like I'm losing the debate. For instance, calling the lab leak theory "racist" early on in order to cut off conversation could not have been a mistake. It is too preposterous. It is too obviously propaganda.
Congress' failure to hold Peter Daszak and Dr. Fauci to account likewise could not be a mistake. Why are more Republicans not cashing in on this blatant corruption and its probable contribution to the origins of the virus? It makes no sense, absent the presence of evil in all of this. The cover up and downplaying of vaccine dangers is likewise a choice, not a mistake. They know what they're doing.
The implications of the VAERS data are just too obvious and the "there's nothing to see here" arguments are again so obviously propaganda. Likewise, scapegoating the unvaxxed for the failures of the entire regime is not a mistake. It's a tactic. They know lockdowns, masking, vaccines, vaccine mandates, etc., have failed in their stated objective - to contain the virus. And failed miserably. Yet instead of admitting this obvious fact, they are channeling the discontent these policies have created towards the unvaxxed. Again, this is a tactic, not an accident. Shutting down small businesses while keeping the big department stores open is also not a mistake.
What all of these tactics have in common is that they lead to centralization of power. Powerful actors are using the virus as a pretext for increasing their power, and they know what they are doing. This paradigm provides a far better explanation of the facts than the incompetent bureaucrats paradigm. So I think I have to admit defeat to my debate partner. Evil wins again.
Taking all current data into account, it is now blatantly obvious that omicron is far and away the safest, most effective and most economical covid vaccine in the world.
https://naturalselections.substack.com/p/fearandsex?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1Njk5NzA3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NjU2MTQ4NywiXyI6IjZVSXRHIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQxMzE5MDAxLCJleHAiOjE2NDEzMjI2MDEsImlzcyI6InB1Yi00MjM5NjIiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Mkb3ibhnt-u8UWzEoxrR1Ck_EEv9oyHTndIy4jGQjHQ
Excellent article, and here is another one ! Stand up stand up ladies !
That essay fucking rocked.
I agree.
Well, there are those who say that it all started with female suffrage and been dowhill from there ;)
I hear that too. Surprisingly often. Since you brought it up, what do you think of the merits of that argument?
>Since you brought it up
It was a mistake to bring it up. This forum would not benefit from a discussion on such a divisive topic. I apologize.
Interesting.
Heather has a way about her that slams truth.
“Western Corona policies reflect the diffuse, profoundly demobilised attitude of the institutions that sustain them.”
I may be jumping the gun because I haven’t finished this intriguing article yet, but I would say the Corona policies have been anything *but* diffuse and demobilized. At Event 201, they articulated the strategy of “flooding the zone” with a single message and suppressing *all* competing information, which is exactly what they’ve done.
Similarly, the Operation Lock Step pandemic scenario outlined in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2010 Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development (https://truthcomestolight.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Rockefeller-Foundation-2010-Scenarios-for-the-Future-of-Technology-and-International-Development.pdf) advocates for “a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.”
One of their “matrix of four different futures” is:
“CLEVER TOGETHER – A world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues”
Again, precisely what has occurred.
On another note, I am hoping your audience will join me in recommending Dr. Robert Malone as the next Substack writer-in-residence via the following form:
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
I wrote the following note to my support guy this morning and encourage everyone to add their voices so we create a groundswell they won’t be able to ignore:
Email text below:
[Something] just came up in the comments at another Substacker's post, and I am hoping you can help me get this request to the right person.
Appointing a BigPharma propagandist like Eric Topol as writer-in-residence sent up HUGE red flags for a lot of Substackers who are fighting to present peer-reviewed science, expose MSM disinformation campaigns, and fight the increasingly totalitarian measures being implemented around the world. When Substack made that announcement, *thousands* of people registered their complaints in the comments, but the comments were then turned off and those voices censored. Topol did not permit comments on future posts and refused to debate any issues when challenged by credible scientists. This was a huge blow to the credibility of Substack and its commitment to free speech.
To restore some of that credibility and prove its dedication to free speech and open debate, I highly and emphatically recommend Substack appoint Dr. Robert Malone as its writer-in-residence ASAP. It would be a win-win from every conceivable angle. Substack would be restoring some degree of its tarnished reputation while simultaneously riding the tidal wave of traffic flowing in following Dr. Malone's titanic Joe Rogan appearance, which reached 50 million viewers and has been bringing in a flood of new readers. This, combined with a large portion of the half a million Twitter users who came to Substack after Dr. Malone was cancelled means he has been responsible for bringing potentially millions of new users to your platform. Appointing him writer-in-residence not only demonstrates Substack's integrity but also would encourage even more readers to join Substack as his popularity continues to skyrocket.
The tides are turning toward truth as the BigPharma-funded narrative is disintegrating daily, so Substack would be wise to plant its flag on Team Truth/Reality/Freedom before the full range of MSM-propagated lies and the psychopathic criminality of its BigPharma puppeteers become evident to the public, which is imminent in the wake of the one-two punch of Dr. Peter McCullough + Dr. Malone on Joe Rogan combined with RFK Jr.'s #1 bestselling The Real Anthony Fauci (which I highly recommend you read if you aren't already aware of the four decades' worth of irrefutably documented corruption; torture and murder of both orphans and beagles in agonizing medical experiments; and cataclysmic conflicts of interest caused by regulatory capture).
All that to say this is the moment for Substack to stand up for freedom, truth, and humanity, and I can think of no better person to signal that stance than Dr. Robert Malone (who will be the next subject featured in my new Profiles in Courage series, BTW).
Thank you for bearing with my diatribe, and I eagerly await a response regarding this request.
——
I heard back from my support guy right away:
“Your feedback is very much appreciated! We're grateful you care enough to write to us with this request. I've passed this along to our community team.”
+ Berenson's Pandemia
I think you profoundly misunderstood the Rockefeller paper. The scenarios there are mutually exclusive. You can't have *both* "Lock Step" and "Clever Together".
In a somewhat separate development, I think that paper was fished out and retrofitted by the more conspiracy-theory-oriented folks because of its "Lock Step" scenario that in many aspects resembles the Insanity.
Otherwise it reads to me similar to a grant proposal.
I appreciate your balanced perspective, Malenkiy, and I will reserve judgment until I have more time to delve into the report as I’ve only given it a cursory glance thus far. Still, you can’t deny that they appear to be advocating for an escalation in authoritarianism to manage the masses, which includes formulating a unified message and silencing all contrary voices—known characteristics of totalitarian regimes throughout history.
There are two axes there that divide the field into 4 quadrants. (by the way, the 4-quadrant approach in any research for me is an immediate smell of intellectual laziness; it's is not always so, but there is a heavy correlation. The real world is always more complex than the 4 quadrants.) The two you mentioned are the top two and correspond to more "political and economic alignment" (aka "global totalitarianism"). The other axis is the "adaptive capacity" to change (I think it's used there euphemistically as a stand-in for progressive vs. non-progressive.) Their best scenario is "totalitarian progressive", which is "Clever Together". The other 3 are undesirable.
Agree re: the oversimplification of the quadrants and interesting to read your analysis.
Totalitarian progressive sounds like a dystopian nightmare and is exactly what the world is being contorted into!
Well intended. In looking at SubStack as a whole, this subset most of us are involved in is but a small part. We can hope SubStack can recognize what their platform has created and act accordingly.
Will reply in detail later. But you rock!
And re the "cap" on Kate Middleton's syringe - that's how they look like, it's not a cap: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0079/5377/6692/products/2.5ml_syringe_with_21g_hypodermic_needle_1200x600_crop_center.jpg?v=1574884243
You understand that those misses provide ammo for Team Insanity?
I wholeheartedly agree and am grateful to you for catching that detail. I have removed that link from “Letter to a Tyrant” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-tyrant) accordingly. Thanks, Malenkiy!
Cool, thank you for not taking it personally.
The reason I know this is because I had to administer shots to a family member. Another thing I learn from that experience, is that you have to aspirate. I noticed when watching the videos of Newsom and Biden that they did not aspirate. And then Rogan and Malone actually discussed and confirmed it about Biden.
Now I want to go back and watch the videos of Trump and Pence.
Not at all—I appreciate when my readers help fact-check my sources and examples. I do my best to vet every reference in my articles as I want them to be unassailable, but given that I am reviewing hundreds or even thousands of links on a weekly basis, it’s impossible for me to achieve 100% perfection :-)
Yes, the lack of aspiration (or even awareness that it needs to be done) in the injections is a serious issue. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet but know Dr. John Campbell addresses it in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6hUoosMOuU&t=1s
Best line you have written yet: Tendential policies will always be less than the sum of their parts. So much buried in so few words.
I’ve completely lost trust in my Gov. and the “professionals” in the white coats. They cancel their own when any truth leaks out, and lie every time their mouths are moving i.e. Fauci. It’s time for a full on peaceful revolt of their approach. Protect the vulnerable and the rest carry on. We couldn’t even find a test when we needed it, but our bumbler and chief ordered a half billion tests. (A little late there prez.) We needed them months ago, and I predict we will be sitting on these unreliable unavailable tests into perpetuity. Because most will have gotten and recovered before the tests are available. Let me guess, they ordered them from China.
Well, cheese in a mousetrap is free