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Chiadrum's avatar

“I for one am enjoying Lauterbach’s public humiliation and hope that it continues indefinitely.“

Meanwhile, here in the states, not a whisper of wrongdoing. We need the same ridicule. But then people would have to admit they have been bamboozled and apologize. File that under “every single one of the Pfuckfaces would rather literally die first”. Here the story is: “We twied weally weally hard. We just so happened to get everything ass backwards. Pure coincidence I assure you!”

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

The sad thing is, we in the states see redacted documents and think...well that's all folks.

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Chiadrum's avatar

Yeah that myocarditis doc is really restoring trust. I have a FAR left buddy who waves off every “conspiracy theory”. Everything is vunderbar, a D is in the White House you see. And sometimes things need to remain classified. He describes himself as a moderate. Meanwhile, if an opinion that wasn’t state approved entered his sphere, his head would literally explode.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

In a government by and for the people, what needs to remain classified? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head are policies and ideas that are not "for and by the people."

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Grape Soda's avatar

We need to reverse the transparency: full transparency of (almost) all government functions. Plus an office of accountability. With actual accountants.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

The greatest trick ever played has been to change the meaning of transparency into traitor.

The American public loves the government so much now The Truth would be one part shocking and one part unsettling ....so much so; it would be ignored.

Love of government is conditioning for love of gulags.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

I think it's not so much love of gov't as fear of the truth that gov't / globalists via gov't puppets is/are intentionally harming you with bioweapons +++ and brainwashing you into agreeing to inject them into yourself and your kids. The truth of this betrayal of trust is harder to process than lying to yourself.

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Cynthia Jeanne Ford's avatar

That last line would make a great t-shirt.

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Martyn's avatar

There is no creature so dangerous or loathsome as a federal bureaucrat.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

See, I am at the "adult in the room" level of what is going on here. Which means that we are the office of accountability. And that transparency is come and gone. Really, we're all responsible to one degree or another. I am the adult in the room, I should not have let it go on so long... Let me illustrate, and see if this sounds familiar. Maybe it isn't, I could be wrong.

You hear crying and fighting in the next room, and you walk in and your two sons are fighting and their room consists of forts and a whole mess. You can tell they've organized an imaginary environment in their room. The one brother is yelling about how thus and such rule the other made was broken, and now it's disrupted into chaos.

Does there really need to be transparency? Yes, we can take the debris in the room and try to make sense of it, but a lot of it won't matter because it is just a lot of marks on pages, and complete gobbly gook. You even see that one brother has written all his rules in code so that the other one can't recognize, not only what the rule is, but when the other brother has broken that rule.

No, as quaint as the forts are in the room, as imaginative as the rules are in their coded language, it's time to end it, because the younger brother is in tears, and the older brother has been continually egged on by the younger one. Neither are without sin or vice. Yes, the older one should have known better, and the younger one should have known to stop poking the bear. But here we are.

The room is a mess. I suppose we could get to who started it, and really all parties involved, including those supervising, are at fault.

As some one who hates breaking down people into different generations, I was thinking maybe us Gen X'rs are the problem in all this. The millennials and the boomers seem to call one another out in all this, while we the Gen X'rs just wanted to be left alone. We didn't like it when our parents were the adults in the room and so we have been loathe to do that, but clearly when people were playing "fake pandemic" we should have walked in, taken the masks, turned off the mics, and told everyone to "calm the f down." When they started taking out the needles and demanding everyone play the game, we should have realized this isn't going to end well.

Instead, we thought that there were adults already in the room. I was wrong.

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Ron Swanson's avatar

Brilliant sir!

I’m 50 and have 3 boys. Your illustration is all too familiar and is going on as I type these words. Will have my first girl in about a month…

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Ernest Judd's avatar

Similar to the experience I had in 1982, when I had a curiosity of the Holocau$t:

1)The Balfour Declaration reveled itself to be blatantly fraudulent -

Colonial Occupied Land given to a Non-Sovereign political entity, without the consent of the occupants.

Without saying, needs to be rescinded;

2)If 65 - 70 million died in WW2, why does one "ethnic" group have the only privilege to extort billions of $$ from the alleged barbarians.

From here the inquiries led to:

3)German Jews were involved in Medical experiments; Israeli Jews are involved in Medical Experiments;

4)The Allies post WW2 established crimes against humanity in their treatment of German POWs and civilians - estimated that 8 to 13 million were victims;

5)the nature of the alleged German atrocities against Jews mirrored that of the massacre of Jews by Bandera Ukies (Waffen SS) at Baba Yar;

6)Canada rescued 5000+ of these f**kers...

So the only other items I have are:

A)All it takes is the willingness to inform oneself;

B) One can only be "adult" when the issues are dealt with first before the emotion.

C) Neither need post-secondary ejumakaishkun.

D) Utter contempt towards all authority that knew the truth and Knew better than to perpetuate lies is permissable!

E) Apply A-D to the CoronaPrank perps.

My wife's doctor when recently asked for thoughts on Ivermectin was told, "It is an effective medicine for seasonal communicable illnesses!"

My wife, "So what was the reason for the criminal illegality in preventing it's use 4 years ago..."

Doc: "I think the Practitioner/client relationship has ended!"

My wife, "You are a stupid woman - we live in the same small town, divided ~ 50/50 on the CoronaPrank."

Doc: retired 10 weeks later! No idea if my wife had any effect on that decision.

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Paula's avatar

We Xers--like DeSantis--need to start governing. No more Boomers.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

Some of us realized early on that it wasn't going to end well. do you remember the Canadian Trucker Freedom protest? We still have people waiting for trial behind bars and others on trial. Same in the USA with Jan 6 folks. I must admit that I got tired of banging my head against the wall at times; then other 'life' problems got in the way. I don't know what else to say except Happy Easter.

To anyone who doesn't see the depth of the battle that's going on, take a look at this video by Cardinal Raymond Burke and the next one by an exorcist, Fr. Ripperger. Too many similarities to ignore.

https://novena.cardinalburke.com/#watch-the-video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBC7RcQLao

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Pipe dream.

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

2 words: Julian Assange

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JPC's avatar

To use that famous line.

Someone thinks.

Because you can't handle the truth.

Well they can't would be more accurate.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

This is why 9/10 they end up muting or blocking you. On Twitter it is this process:

1. Ad hominem attack and throwaway study allegedly proving they are right.

Here they hope to derail you by making you stop and read studies...or what they think pass as studies. Yesterday I read a "study" on estimates of those who were "saved" by the vaccine. Also read another "study" about ED from Covid sufferers (that extracted the vaccination data from the study).

2. Appeal to experts, condescension, more ad hominem attacks.

3. Sometimes threatening doxxing.

4. More demoralization, then you are called a "snowflake" if you call out the ad hominem attacks.

Truth be told, I am used to getting called names all the time, the reason I point it out is each time they use them it contaminates the quality of their arguments.

5. Eventually they have a call to action, announcing the conversation is over and then they mute/block you.

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Martyn's avatar

Folks like that are “moderate” only in the sense that they are now more careful in their public expression of gleeful hope for the rest of us to die agonizing deaths.

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Jeremy Dangerhouse's avatar

You shoot your self in the credibility there where you claim that you have a FAR left buddy who is content that Genocide Joe is representing the smiling side of One-Party-Two-Faces. I’d take your friend at his self-assessment word, because there is no such thing as a far left supporter of neoliberalism.

Stop being silly. If you have actual points to make about the pandemic, they’re lost because no one can take you seriously if you lead with…erm, I’m going with:

Malarkey!

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Nick's avatar

All anyone cares about in the States are their paychecks. That is why they did not act and followed the nonsensical mandates. Depressing. I never knew this nation would fold like it did, but it did. Cowardice to the highest degree.

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Mike Williams's avatar

Same in Australia...follow the (redacted) $science$...

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

There is an incurious silence from most politicians and the media. Our few brave Senators are the exception. Questions are from the brave few everywhere else.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

If any one of these fools with the PHA's finally come forward and admit all of it was a farce and coordinated globally, they'll lose more than their membership in the "club"...

They'll be Suicilenced

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Dr. K's avatar

Ryan, In an appropriate tribute, the new way to describe this is "They'll be Epsteined". Gotta keep up with the times.

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Jeremy Dangerhouse's avatar

I’m going to recommend “swampy-ed”, in honour of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, RIP.

“Swampy” was this Louisiana engineer’s nickname.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Is "clintoncided" out of date?

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

never

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

perhaps i was trying to be too clever by half

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MarcusBierce's avatar

I see what you did there

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Tardigrade's avatar

Oh, there are whispers of wrongdoing. Ron Johnson (or is it Jim Jordan?), who I previously loathed, is doing yoeman's work in Congressional committee investigations. The Democrats on the committees turn the whole thing into an Orange Man Bad circus, and the press pretty much ignores it. So most of the regular people know nothing about it.

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Chiadrum's avatar

Yes, I am well aware. Our demonic press can’t suffer enough misery IMHO. Actual demons as far as I can tell.

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Stephanie's avatar

I agree. They’re horrible. They seriously have mental illness, I think.

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baker charlie's avatar

I was watching a You Tube the other night featuring an Indiana R congresswoman who was showing clips of horrendous injuries to female athletes when trans 'girls' were allowed to participate. A couple of the clips ended in the screaming of the injured girl or her teammates at the extent of the injuries. The rep then implored quite emotionally for the cessation of boys in girl's sports

She was interrupted by some house muppet who asked why these films were being shown as they just showed 'kids having fun doing sports'. They totally ignored that these girls were screaming in pain, shock and horror. They are sick bastards.

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Marsali S.'s avatar

Classic gaslighting going on there. It is sick and evil too.

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Rosemary B's avatar

agree. It is infuriating.

It just means there are a lot of knives positioned in various backs.

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Danno's avatar

It's getting more and more difficult for me to believe that this pandemic wasn't intentionally started and then inflated for political purposes.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

There was no pandemic we have no evidence of spread just PCR induced panic and changes to protocols.. denial of antibiotics & ventilators & misclassification of cases based on ridiculous testing & bonus payments for cases created an illusion of an event.

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IceSkater40's avatar

From a strict definition sense, yes, there was a pandemic (multiple chains of transmission of a virus in multiple countries at the same time.) You don't need a PCR test to recognize that there is a pneumonia that is hospitalizing specific people. (flu falls into pandemic classification at times too - it's just not reacted to this way.)

I think it's really important to not get so caught up in some of these micro-details and to rather very clearly say it doesn't matter if there was a pandemic or not - the governments of most of the world and the public health agencies that advised them acted outside the bounds of democracy and in anti-scientific ways.

It doesn't matter how horrible an illness might be sweeping the world. Locking it down and taking away basic rights was never the answer and was never capable of changing anything.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

You are correct that the possible illness is irrelevant to the abuses of freedoms and rights. However, the spreading idea that an RNA molecule can threaten global health and spread like pink snow in Cat in the Hat is dangerous mythology that gives these liars a tool to spread fear about an unseen threat & that lie must be debunked.

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Nomoremarxists's avatar

In the US the fact that a huge payout went along with every step of the way once Covid was diagnosed. Gee🤔 I wonder if that 🙄influenced anyone’s decision making, nawwww never🤥

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

So easy to see, right?!

Incentives always determine behavior.

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Cynthia Jeanne Ford's avatar

Here's Toby Rogers on Perverse Incentives in the US. Can't imagine it being much different elsewhere.

https://brownstone.org/articles/perverse-incentives/

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Susan G's avatar

Thanks for this link.

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AndyinBC's avatar

"Follow the money" is a 4000 year old truism!

And "Reward behaviours of which you approve, and punish those you would have them, (the students) shun" was a early Victorian schoolmaster's axiom.

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

Always. But paradoxically, rarely as intended.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"Can't prove a negative" is fertile ground for unintended consequences

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

it does if the narrative was both intentional harm and false. Pandemics do not exist. They cannot. That in itself is a lie. The fear generated by this fabricated lie was what enabled everything else. And it points to the real actors and real culpability behind this. And their policies to force iatrogenic deaths to keep the illusion of this narrative going. And we must stare at it until we process it.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid

https://rumble.com/v4k9gzi-152-sasha-latypova-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-underlying-agenda.html

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

P(CR)andemic™

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PamelaDrew's avatar

How has this never hit my radar before today? flippin adore that tyvm!

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

indeed, there is a very good interview with Sasha Latypova, who states pandemics don't exist and explains how come. Not even the 1918 flu was pandemic. It was broadcast about2 weeks ago, with Dr Malik. There was no pandemic, no isolated virus (the one they presumed to have was the 2003 version so it seems). There was just a Panic-attack, blown up into a zeppelin by the media, and cleverly played by the DoD and the pharma, to illegally test an illegal product on as many guinea pigs as possible. Testing on humans is forbidden, as you know, but how do you test your crap otherwise? In the meantime these pharma became stinking rich, as did the gates and co, who were in the know, bought humongous amounts of stock before the rollout, and immediately resold it when the jabs were at a height.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

yes! I posted the link in my comment. Here it is again. https://rumble.com/v4k9gzi-152-sasha-latypova-on-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-underlying-agenda.html

I think it goes beyond that to a depopulation agenda and this was long planned. It wasn't merely cleverly played, it was very well orchestrated and intentional harm. They knew what the product would do. They knew the casualties to expect.

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Ches Crosbie's avatar

With the modern pharmacopoeia and a will to use repurposed drugs, pandemics are obsolete.

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Demianovich's avatar

True. It was a Plandemic, just follow the patents, the money etc. Operation Lockstep. Course, it would never have happened without docile and compliant masses.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Which is exactly why the peeps will resheep.

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Blair's avatar

Yep.

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Jeremy Dangerhouse's avatar

Blow it out your other end.

I had it, never been so sick in my life. Fever 103+, loss of smell and taste, brutal headache like I’ve never had (and I’m pretty robust, rarely sick, headaches really my only relatively common ailment). Oxygen level down near 90%.

It’s real. Regardless what they got right and wrong, COVID is not a hoax.

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Ernest Judd's avatar

Since 1977, I have had a serious respiratory infection every ~ 10 years that if I remember correctly, only 2019 required antibiotics. (1999 AS WELL)

The difference between then and now is PERPETUAL DISINFORMATION, THE FORCING, COERCING, MEDIA/MEDICAL/POLITICAL ONSLAUGHT ON HUMAN RIGHTS.

So, you got sick... we all do... some seasonal communicable illnesses are a bitch.

There is NO SUCH THING AS COVID AS A MEDICAL CONDITION.

Only in the Media/Medical/Political/Military Industrial complex is there a alleged contagion known as CoVid.

I call it CoVid1984.

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Danno's avatar

I had "it" too, in February of 2020. I thought it was pneumonia and was sick as a dog for 3 or 4 days. Never got tested because the tests weren't widely available and I'm not someone to go to a doctor right away. It was a month later when COVID hysteria was in full swing that I finally put two and two together and figured that's what it was. I never was afraid of the coof after that because I assumed that I had natural immunity. But, come to think of it, it may well have been pneumonia after all.

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Danno's avatar

I can't quite buy that, but it's actually plausible.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Not a fan of Sasha she recycles too many other folks work w/o credit and some of her facts muddied.. imo she's somewhere between opportunist & meddler not a source worth my time.

Mike Yeadon is the consummate expert & true hearted source listen to his perspectives.. support primary source & whistleblowers not posers waxing informed!

https://rumble.com/v4kc73l-dr-mike-yeadon.html

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Danno's avatar

Sometimes her writing style and reasoning are too opaque for me, but I'm still a (unpaid) subscriber for the other times she connects the dots.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Whatever helps but my background is Washington career from Watergate to Poppy Bush & dirtbag tracking w Monsanto- Gates focus since 1997 so lots of what they discover is old news or mangled by limited grasp.. Sasha & side kicks have an attitude of certainty about their flawed conclusions that gives me a big time cramp.. twenty years ago it would be worth my time to try to correct them now it's only worth the time to say take this source w huge grain of salt.

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MarcusBierce's avatar

Sasha’s strength is teaming with Katrina Watt to lay out the legal framework of the EUA experiments on humans

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PamelaDrew's avatar

My references to their findings there is second hand but fatally flawed imo when DTRA is under State Dept and Pompeo went from CIA to State for pandemic launch & they attribute Covidian madness to DoD.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

😊 gold star. I've been trying to make #IntentionalHarm trend on twitter for two + years. (I'm severely shadowbanned. Have been since 2016, but that's beside the point.)

There was no pandemic. There was a pre-written narrative and symptoms triggered in a few places (caused by whatever agents they needed to use ... chemicals, drugs ... ) that launched the narrative rollout by defense departments around the world who declared, virtually in unison, a "state of emergency" existed, which legally enabled the rest of the agenda.

It's all in black and white in court documents in the US where Pfizer revealed the whole scheme to defend itself against fraud lawsuits:

https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/tx-v-pfizer

Sasha:

"Translation: “we are a US Government agent, and are protected by the Sovereign Immunity of the US Government. The US Government decided to poison all of you, people, and gave us contracts for a lot of money to make and ship the poison, and instructed us on how to lie about this operation, and we did exactly as we were instructed! Stop bothering us with these politically motivated lawsuits, because it is very evident from your silly complaint that YOU CANNOT HANDLE THE TRUTH”." ...

"Pfizer points at the real criminal - the US Government, the DOD and HHS, and that’s exactly who is the head of the criminal cartel responsible for poisoning men, women and children in this country and worldwide."

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Jeremy Dangerhouse's avatar

More BS. There were no special agents and drugs, it was a respiratory virus that nearly took me down.

Don’t confuse public health missteps and/or overreach with tinfoil hattery, or no one will listen to your actually valid points.

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Danno's avatar

Her post isn't necessarily BS . . . but you make a good point. Best to steer away from the more sensational allegations and theories because the in-your-face obvious facts and most plausible theories are still being ignored by the MSM.

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NAB's avatar

The true attack on "democracy" (defined as any form of government supporting the status quo of the elites) was this "pandemic." The people were getting too loud and demanding and had to be silenced. What better way than to isolate them, mask them and then force them to poison themselves? Good-bye Brexit, good-bye MAGA, good-by AfD and any other populist movement demanding accountability from your government. We'll tell you how to live and you'll like it.

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Danno's avatar

"The ignorant rabble, conversing freely, may thend to express that subset of dangerous, prejudicial, and deeply unauthorized opinions known as "hate." --eugyppius

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Sherry 1's avatar

100%

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Ernest Judd's avatar

When I read the first paper on the isolation of the alleged SARS-Cov2, and noticed that there was no definite source of the "contagion", but was elucidated by off-the-shelf primers using computer algorithms. Nature: January 11, 2020

Human beings have existed in various evolutionary forms for hundreds of thousands of years and the ability for us to combat seasonal communicable illnesses without Medical Industry Heroics is legend... this is why there appears to be limits to the overall death from 'flu/cold.

Covid1984 was a Military/Media/medical/Political Industrial complex public relations scam larger than the Holocaust exaggerations.

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James's avatar

The scandal is bursting out everywhere, and as the volcano explodes, the journalists and public health officials are scurrying about trying to sweep up the evidence of exploded lies that lie everywhere before too many people see it. It appears that many people still want to remain ignorant, perhaps finding the evidence of their own folly too hard to countenance, so the cleaners don't have to work too hard to cover up. Will there be a point where the whistle is blown, where the perpetrators push too far, and where we have a a moment such as the one which ended McCarthyism in the U.S., where someone such as Senator Joseph Welch did in 1954, brought the deranged McCarthy down by saying, "Have you no decency, sir?" Truly, these liars and murderers have no decency, and they need to be called out for it. It's truly morally reprehensible.

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Sherry 1's avatar

Australia’s Senate just passed legislation to investigate the excess deaths that are happening there beginning in the year the mRNA shots were forced on their populace. The shite is going to hit fans around the world, and it is about time. We were bamboozled and now they want to play that they are ‘baffled’ by these stats.

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James's avatar

They will soon be doing damage control for the sloppily conducted damage control.

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Sherry 1's avatar

🎯

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

LOLOLOL

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Blair's avatar

So Australia's government is going to investigate Australia's government?

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Sherry 1's avatar

The Liberal Coalition Party under Scott Morrison was in power during Covid and they took a beating in the last elections for their totalitarian management of Covid. The now in power Labor Party is seeking answers about everything Covid. At last. This is what EVERY Country must do. We need answers.

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Amanda13's avatar

Um, I think you’ll find labor was in charge of most states during ‘all things covid’ and their ministers/senators block every effort to investigate ‘all things covid’. This current investigation (if that’s what it is even truly going to be) is not one iota to do with the wonders of the labor party …..

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Sherry 1's avatar

I am referring to National Party’s. The Liberals were in power for 22 years, ending in 2023 and now the Labor Party is in power. And they want answers to what happened during Covid under Morrison.

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Amanda13's avatar

Morrison was completely gutless during covid and handed power to the states. Those states, mostly labor-led, created their own draconian responses to covid that they gleefully forced upon their populations. Only a handful of Senators (none labor that i know of) are rallying for accountability for the covid crimes. Labor has voted down the inquiry into excess deaths 3 times, it eventually got over the line DESPITE labor, not because of it.

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Ethny's avatar

Thank you for your heart-felt outburst! Eugyppius has a way of getting us going hasn't he? Sometimes it seems human decency is in deficit... I want to share this interview far and wide. I think it's fit here. Dr Kulldorff is a dignified example of someone standing with proven science, respectful discourse and yes, decency.

https://thenewamerican.com/video/dr-martin-kulldorff-world-gone-mad-covid-lockdowns-unethical-mandates-and-government-censorship/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

"It appears that many people still want to remain ignorant, perhaps finding the evidence of their own folly too hard to countenance, so the cleaners don't have to work too hard to cover up."

^This^

I always have to remind myself that this is the default position of mankind. It is so frustrating to see it unfold. It starts with indifference; first in tiny, virtually imperceptible steps and eventually in "imperceptible" giant steps.

First indifference. Then apathy.

Then manacles

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage" - Alexander Fraser Tytler

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AndyinBC's avatar

Short very interesting read: "The Fate of Empires" by John Glubb.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

thx Andy! I've been looking for a good book to read. i checked it out just now. looks great.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Glad to be of service, RG.

**Tips tinfoil topper**

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Beyond Reason's avatar

McCarthy was right about everything & he drank himself to death in despair, not shame. The Roosevelt administration had literal card carriers at the highest levels of the executive bureaucracy, reporting simultaneously to the US president & their NKVD handlers, since the 1930s.

If anything, McCarthy underestimated the issue. We know this because of declassified files from the Soviet Union.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Pushed too far?

Define too far. Too far for me was "Let's do what China did."

Too far for me was "Lockdown."

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Cynthia Jeanne Ford's avatar

I sometimes think the Powers That Be are attempting to replicate the decades of the Cold War, substituting climate for nuclear war, and fear of the far right, the deplorables, the racists, the white supremacists, the raging rural white people for fear of communists. Like a sort of political plagiarism, copycating, as we know these people have no creativity whatsoever.

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Andreas Stullkowski's avatar

The problem is that most German politicians participated gladly and loudly with the Corona policies.

It was easy to stop McCarthy, because he was alone and personified those policies.

IMO, health minister Lauterbach did the same mistake, personifying the Corona policies. But if he'd go down, too many others in the establishment would go down with him.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Vote SMOD™.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

lolol. the sweet meteor of death!...:)

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baker charlie's avatar

I'm hoping for Cthulu, personally. It might offer some much deserved schadenfreude before my soul gets devoured.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

just waiting on the astroid

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this little authoritarian's avatar

This idea that any redactions in cases like these are justified is absolutely ludicrous. If a public agency has ANY jurisdictional power over citizens either directly or by proxy, those citizens cannot possibly consent to governance unless they know who, what and why. 'Sensitive information' in these cases means nothing more than a way to commandeer others whilst remaining incognito.

Outside of someone's personal address or phone, there's nothing that should be redacted. Don't get me wrong. I understand the risks of reprisal and the attempts to limit that but removing all concern of any reprisal allows political figures all manner of opportunities to institute horrible things on other people without any real accountability. Losing your political office and retiring with a fat tax-payer pension is hardly a stick for political sociopaths.

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sonya's avatar

Well stated! You nailed it!

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Dark Thomas's avatar

Pictured at the top of the article: "Lothar Wieler, veterinarian and head of the Robert Koch Institut during the Covid pandemic"

The head of Pfizer was a veterinarian, too, and now I'm starting to wonder if it's a good idea or not to give unlimited power to docs who only tended to patients that never complained and if they died were replaced by free puppies anyway.

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Blair's avatar

Valid point.

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sonya's avatar

Very valid point yes

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pyrrhus's avatar

Governments have been lying about pretty much everything since the Spanish-American war, and if anything, the lying has been put on steroids...Yet, the western population keeps lapping it up....

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Here in the US, mainstream media is “baffled” by the increase in cancers in the young. It won’t even suggest the possibility that it could be jab related. My own personal experience: my recent, rather innocuous comment to a WSJ article about RFK, Jr., —to a woman who clearly still believes in the efficacy of the jabs, was removed as a “violation of community guidelines.” (I saved a screenshot and wish I could attach it.)

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Cardiocoincidental incidences.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

Which "community"? The one that lies and cheats about everything?

All of those old line paper are captured and spew the US Empire propaganda.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

“Hello, operator. Give me the number for 911!”

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Wonderful!

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Rikard's avatar

I'm just waiting for them to roll out the "Can't spell treason without reason" completely unironic.

When one can have "conversations" that go like this:

"I don't think wind power is viable for Sweden because of facts A.B,C"

"Why do you want Putin to win?! You're a gaybashing racist!"

or

"If the Bildt and Reinfeldt governements hadn't dismantled our military, we wouldn't need to join NATO"

"You nazi! NATO defends democracy and peace all over the world! We need NATO now because things are worse than ever!"

I'm not talking about teenyboppers who went to "Reddit High", I'm talking about people 70+ with PhDs or other degrees and titles.

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Remember, you can't have conspiracist without "racist."

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Rikard's avatar

!!! Good one !!!

(Desperately trying to think of another)

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Blair's avatar

Propaganda has seemingly been perfected for people to appeal to authority.

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Viv's avatar

Lauterbach Europe's dumbest health minister?

I think Matt Hancock's gonna sue you for libel.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Killing it lately E. Excellent journalism.

Thank you!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Great sentence: "When it comes to lockdowns and mass vaccination, the incuriosity of our journalists knows no bounds."

The R-number - the number of people one "infected" person will subsequently infect - is crucial information. If I'm correct that "early spread" happened and this virus was indeed quite contagious (but NOT "deadly"), it would follow that officials wanted to conceal the real R Number (or make people think the virus only began to infect others - "spread" - in, say, mid-February 2020).

If the R number was 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 - before February 2020 - this virus had already galloped around the world.

I think that's why we didn't have wide-spread PCR tests or widespread antibody tests before March 1st, 2020. The officials didn't want the public to know how many citizens had already been infected (with nobody even noticing!)

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One of the biggest disservices that has been done is the pretending that the virus originated in Dec 2019. It was already well established around the world months before that - and as soon as THAT lid comes off, then the foolishness and destructiveness of the actions of governments everywhere will come to light. I believe it was July 2020 when I read about the first known ICU hospitalization being early Nov in Italy. But it was even earlier than that when there was studies showing over 15% of the population had antibodies to SARS-COV2. Even if one might forgive politicians for being panic-stricken in March when there was no data, the fact they let the game play out as long as they did - despite so much evidence showing that their measures made no difference, and the virus was endemic already - well, that is unforgivable. That is intent to keep power, especially when combined with the media control and censorship that was utilized around most of the world. That censorship was so effective that most people in Canada still have no idea that some countries chose to treat early symptoms and had almost no fatalities as a result. It's ridiculous and I really hope that part of the scandal sees the light of day - because EVERYTHING from a defense perspective falls apart when the actual start date is honestly admitted to. And I'm certain that health officials and politicians knew it before I knew it - so they knew it - FOR SURE - less than 2 months after initiating lockdowns and creating a massive fear in people.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

We think exactly alike, IceSkater. I have no doubt some officials knew this virus had already spread around the world by November 2019 if not earlier. The press is in on the cover-up as they won't investigate credible cases of "early" infection. I'm one of the very few people who has focussed on compiling all the evidence that suggests early spread definitely happened.

Most people don't get that if this was confirmed or acknowledged, it would completely nuke all the authorized Covid narratives. The start date of real spread is probably the most important information. Covering up the real timeline/birth date of spread should be a massive scandal, but this isn't even on the Scandal Radar.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

There's only six questions investigators in journalism or in criminal investigations need to ask: These are Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?

I maintain the question of When this virus actually began to spread would likely answer the other questions (if fully and accurately answered).

In America, we've all watched "Dateline" true-crime episodes. In just about every one of these mini-documentaries, we learn that investigators start by trying to identify a timeline of key and known events. But in the Covid mystery, this hasn't been done. I think it hasn't been done because the criminals are heading up the investigation and they know the answer to this question might show their own fingerprints and how they participated in a massive cover-up and intentional obfuscations.

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Cynthia Jeanne Ford's avatar

That is so true. What I think points to Desmet's hypothesis of mass formation being true is that not even tv detective/mysteries, and the genre perpetual emphasis, for decades, on motive, means and opportunity doesn't seem to occur to people. Okay, you are Agatha Christie, and here's an interview with a guy who takes thousands from Pfizer, and here's a guy speaking who takes no money from pharma. Who do you believe about whatever, fill-in-the-blank, vaccines, PCR, lab leak, lockdowns? It is so obvious that anyone who watches tv should be able to ferret it out, and yet they can't or don't think to.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Great point, Cynthia. Who has the motive ... and the means? The whistleblowers that come forward aren't getting paid anything. Most of them lose their jobs or their lives are made to be very unpleasant after they come forward. So who should we believe?

I've often compared someone like George Soros to a "real James Bond villain." The thought recently hit me that our real James Bond spooks would be trying to defend and support characters like Soros (or the WEF leaders). The people who are supposed to be the Good Guys are working for the Bad Guys.

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AndyinBC's avatar

And over 120 years ago, Kipling summarized ALL journalism well in his Just So Stories poem - "I keep six honest serving men".

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/readers-guide/rg_servingmen1.htm

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Tardigrade's avatar

In spring of 2020 Jay Battacharya & John Ioannidis did the Santa Clara seroprevalence study to show just that. They used other testing than PCR and demonstrated that because the number of cases was so much greater than officially acknowledged, the infection fatality rate was 22 times overstated by officials.

Their employer, Stanford, threw innumerable roadblocks in their path, they were demonized, and careers affected. Prior to this Ioanniodis was highly respected and the most-cited scientist in his field.

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Rikard's avatar

Considering that I've been coughed on by people infected with Covid (sample size 1, trust Duh Science, yo!) and /still/ haven't had it, I'd say the original R-numbers are likely really "sus" as the kids say.

I think you're on to something with this:

"The officials didn't want the public to know how many citizens had already been infected..."

My gut instinct is, first they kept it under wraps to avoid inciting panic, then they pivoted to get out ahead and try and control "the narrative".

Instead of just letting doctors do their jobs!

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AndyinBC's avatar

Not sure that "just letting doctors do their jobs" is allowed any more.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Read Jessica Hockett and Denis Rancourt analysis.. there is NO evidence of spread nor evidence of novel pathogen except from closed system of claimed sequences.

https://chriswaldburger.substack.com/p/viruses-are-not-bombs

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I have read Jessica’s interesting research and agree with many of her points. However, I think copious evidence exists that “something” was making far more people sick than normal in the four or five months before the lockdowns.

The first linked article shows - from contemporary journalism and from weekly CDC and state health agency Influenza Like Illness Surveillance reports - that ILI was “severe” and “widespread” in virtually every state in America months BEFORE official Covid. ILI actually spiked well above the traditional baseline in November 2019, especially in six SE U.S. states.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/flu-season-of-2019-2020-was-one-of?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

This next article documents the number of schools that closed across America due to “flu” or ILI-caused absences. Per my (original) research, the number of school closings is significantly higher than any other year in recent history.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/school-closings-galore-documented?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

To be clear, I’m not saying that every person who was sick with ILI/Covid-like symptoms in the fall and winter of 2019-2020 had Covid. But if, say, 10 to 30 percent did have “early Covid” that’s a huge number of people. The key point is hardly anyone was dying from these bouts of illness.

I don’t understand why some epidemiologist "expert" didn’t wonder, “Hey, we had a big spike in sick people this past winter - many who had the exact same symptoms of Covid. Is it possible this virus was circulating months before we knew?”

These two stories don’t include the hundreds/thousands of early antibody-confirmed Covid cases I’ve identified from people all across the globe. Were all these antibody results bogus or “false positives?” The antibody tests can be trusted today, but the tests from April 2020 were all wrong?

The fact so many people in so many far-flung communities had early Covid (based on their symptoms and later positive antibody results) suggests a virus that was "spreading" person-to-person.

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Excellent response and references thank you, we are very much in agreement on the collection of evidence that undermines the novel virus spreading. This was identified as coronavirus & Diamond Princess was a perfect controlled study group that verified prior immunity among many including partners sharing bunk rooms.

With big time thanks to Jay Couey biology lessons over the past four years my appreciation for how much virology is based on models using clones that have no connection to systems that exist in nature. What's more measuring antibodies as a correlative for immunity is ridiculous for airborne virus that are destroyed by T-cells and would not produce B-cell antibodies unless illness is severe. There are also gaps as big as the Grand Canyon in the science that underpins all study of viruses or any verification for much of the Biotech Mafia application of word processing tools to genetics pretending the ability to produce mutants equates with understanding.

Jay did a stream yesterday w Thomas Binder MD and what I'm struggling with is what they said with all the science chops! <3

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2103993247

oops forgot Gigaohm site w links to all the platforms, studies etc..

https://gigaohmbiological.com/

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Pamela, have you read my (exclusive) story on the significance of the antibody studies on three Naval vessels? I argue these findings are even more significant than the take-aways from the Diamond Princess cruise ship. These three studies show the IFR for Covid was 1-in-4,400. Only 1 (alleged) Covid death, but 4,400 prior cases confirmed by antibody results. 1-in-4,400 is far less than the flu IFR of 1 death in every 1,000 "cases" (an IFR of 0.1 percent).

The Roosevelt study also provides compelling evidence that crew members of that aircraft carrier experienced Covid symptoms and were infected with Covid by around January 15-17, 2020 - BEFORE the first "confirmed" case in America!

The CDC and Navy know this. The press should know this. It seems to me this would be significant, Page-1 news ... as well as the findings of the microscopic IFR.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/exclusive-first-confirmed-cases-in?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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PamelaDrew's avatar

As a decades old warhorse battling the Biotech Mafia my Covidian experience is kinda unique because lots of the dirtbags and frauds were on my radar before this show started. The Roosevelt sub episode was in my bookmarks in 2020.. also much of the early DoD database kerfuffle involved my long term tracking sources! :~) https://web.archive.org/web/20201111233307/https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2019375

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Why didn't the Navy or CDC test more crews for antibodies? They only tested a sample of the crews on two naval ships (The Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and the USS Kidd destroyer). Wouldn't it have been easy to test the crews of a few more ships? They didn't do this because they know what those results would have shown. They could explain the Roosevelt results as that outbreak got a great deal of media attention (and PCR testing began on that ship in late March).

They would have had a harder time explaining 60 percent positives on another random naval vessel (where no "outbreak" had been reported).

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I also think this story - the longest I've published - is important. It provides a sample of the "anecdotal evidence" of people who think or suspect they might have had "early Covid." My question is: Are every one of these people WRONG? If you skim this article, note that many of these respondents provide reasons why they think their illness was not a normal or typical ILI or flu. Also, note how many people in the circle of contacts of these sick people became sick at the same time they did - which suggests an R number that's not 1 or lower.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/no-ones-published-an-article-like?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

For what it's worth, the CDC said in a May 29, 2020 press conference that it could find "no evidence" of "community spread" in America before mid-February 2020.

I counter that the CDC wasn't looking hard for said evidence as they ignored every single positive antibody result that suggested "prior infection." This confirms my maxim that officials don't investigate that which they don't want to "confirm."

(The CDC used DNA sequencing to inform its statement/reach their conclusion that no virus spread was occurring in America). Positive antibody test results weren't even mentioned. And, by late May 2020, there was copious evidence from antibody results that people across America had been infected by at least November 2019.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

The CDC should have known from its ONE antibody study of "archived" Red Cross blood that prevalence was much higher than 2 percent of the population by the lockdown dates. The CDC (belatedly) tested one tranche of saved Red Cross blood. That blood was collected Dec. 13-16, 2019 in CA, WA and OR. The later antibody results showed that 2.03 percent of the approximately 1,900 donors tested positive for antibodies. This doesn't mean all these 39 people were infected on Dec. 13-16, 2019 as it takes a week or two for detectable levels of antibodies to show up. It's clear to me that probably all of these antibody-positive blood donors had been infected by November 2019, if not earlier.

A question that's never been asked is when did the CDC know the results of this antibody tests? Shouldn't they have been able to test 1,900 blood samples for antibodies by the end of May 2020? I argue they could and should have tested this blood before March 1st, 2020 - before they ordered the lockdowns.

The results of this ONE and only antibody study weren't released until Nov. 30, 2020! Almost 12 months after the first tranche of blood had been collected. It takes a year to test 1,900 units of blood for antibodies? Are we supposed to believe the U.S. government didn't have a Covid antibody test by March 2020? China was testing people for antibodies in January 2020.

IMO They intentionally delayed the testing of those vials of blood to conceal evidence of early spread.

They also should have tested a lot more blood from all across the country and blood collected at numerous points in time.

Also, if prevalence was 2.03 percent at some point in November 2019, what would it have been four months later on March 15, 2020? Again, we get back to the significance of the R number.

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PamelaDrew's avatar

Tests with unknown fidelity for unknown proteins w undisclosed primers produced at warp speed.. tenuous evidence of spread based on hundreds of firms making test kits that appeared & disappeared in the testing space that had no history to put any results in context.. what could go wrong, eh!

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

The "pandemic" began - or the Fear Factor was ramped up - after the PCR tests started being widely used - which was after the lockdowns.

We don't know what those tests would have shown if millions of people had been given them in, say, February 2020 (although I could make an educated guess what they would have shown).

We also had no antibody tests that were being given until late April (for almost everyone, with a few exceptions). They delayed the antibody tests as well. They are/were covering up evidence of early spread. I'm one of the few people who makes this point and I think I'm right.

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or that this virus wasn't the real reason for the symptoms. With the propaganda juggernaut of narrative in full launch, the globalists could've told us anything at all -- including aliens -- was the source of the supposed scourge they set off in key places by whatever means necessary and the reason to panic. It was all narrative pushed by puppets.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I think the mad scientists did create a new virus in a lab that escaped. It just wasn't a particularly deadly virus. No coronaviruses are really that deadly.

The scandal is the PCR tests to make this seem like a terrible pandemic and then all the government-caused deaths from the terrible treatment protocols and lockdowns.

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Andreas Stullkowski's avatar

Also it took some time before they dared to use PCR as a an manipulation tool.

Everyone who has ever worked with PCR knew that the way they used did not make any sense.

It took some months until they were able to convince the public, and probably themselves, that "The Science" they used made any sense.

This is why I don't think it was planned in the early stages. If it was, they would have been able to lie much more forcefully from the beginning.

The next time all those lies are already in place

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Ernest Judd's avatar

If I am not too elderly by that time, I am ready to kill them.

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The Obsolete Man's avatar

Were the “journalists“ incurious? Or were they simply following orders from their owners?

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Blair's avatar

They were selling their integrity and cashing their paychecks.

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Grape Soda's avatar

Mostly following orders. If you work in an organization as a lowly reporter you don’t get to decide what to cover. You can pitch ideas but the boss has the last word.

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James Bryson's avatar

Another "criminal-vet" posing as a health care professional…Holy Bourla Batman!

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SCA's avatar

I think people who go into "Science" are natural bullies. All of history proves this hypothesis. And popular fiction has always been full of the struggle between the ethical young [insert field here] trying to save lives despite the arrogance of the head [insert title here] too grand to listen to reason from the hierarchically-handicapped. I was only a kid when I read AJ Cronin's "The Citadel" and was shocked by the scene where the eminent surgeon got tired of trying to tie off a cyst and punctured it and the patient promptly bled to death. You guys can look up the publication date of that book which was old by the time I was born.

So OK. We're too fancy ourselves now to get out the torches and pitchforks after what's been done to us? I am not a person of easy courage; I get the fear-sweat and the flushing face and the pounding heart and the drop of the stomach whenever I have to confront Big Authority.

Except for when my kid's wellbeing has ever been at stake. Then I get the thrumming in the ears and the red mist behind my eyes and you should maybe for your own good get out of my way, and I ain't a big woman by any means. Fortunately for me being able to continue sleeping in my own bed until I die, my kid was a fully-grown adult by the time The Plague Era arrived and we weren't in NY no more neither.

How much more evidence do we need before we stop posturing on comments threads and take these vile morons down?

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Tardigrade's avatar

'I think people who go into "Science" are natural bullies. '

I have to push back a little on this overgeneralization. There's a whole lot more to science than medicine. Like any other field, the bullies tend to rise to the top and get most of the attention.

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In every scientific field since the beginning of thinking, the guy who defied consensus of the in-crowd often ended up with factually correct conclusions but a dead self.

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Tardigrade's avatar

They didn't always die as a result, but I have a favorite list of paradigm shifters who were ridiculed and demonized to begin with. 'First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident’ (Schopenhauer).

By overgeneralization, I meant it's leaving out all the genuine curiosity-driven scientists who toil in the trenches of archaeology, paleontology, geology, mathematics, you name it.

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Sure. I agree. And it is also true that a lot of those genuinely curiosity-driven scientists were in those days called eccentric and these days neurodivergent, and because of their lack of interpersonal skills were often quite notorious for their abuse of assistants etc. because science was paramount and little things like dying of thirst on the dig because we mustn't lose the light etc. etc. etc.

Every bit of knowledge and progress in the vast fields of science came with human cost, and often paid by subordinates as demanded by the great man/woman for whom the quest was everything and human beings are expendable.

I was recently reading about the husband-and-wife pair who decided they'd raise a chimpanzee along with their infant and achieve the grand breakthrough of teaching lower primates to talk. And after everything they did and what happened, they remained honored in their fields. They ought to have faced a firing squad.

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Rikard's avatar

Since you now have put yet another novel on my reading list, may I inflict the same favour?

"House of Babel" by P. C. Jersild. It's about the inhumane nature of industrial society hospital/health care.

Two other great shorter novels by him is "Grisjakten" (The Pig Hunt), not translated but there supposed to be a subtitled version of the film by the same name. It's been described as "non-comedy satire". The story is basically that the state decides to, as a trial run for pandemics, round up all the pigs on Gotland and kill them.

The other one is called "A living soul" and has been translated to english. It's about a donor brain living in a jar in a research lab.

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SCA's avatar

You might want to just read the Wikipedia summary because I think it wasn't such a particularly great novel though it had huge social effect.

Why's everyone always after pigs? I saw the Korean film "Okja" and it did some job of tearing my heart out.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Don't get me started about pigs. They're wonderful, intelligent animals, physiologically closer to humans than almost anything else, and've mostly earned their mucky reputation because of Homo sapiens' proclivity to keep them in unnaturally confined spaces. This reputation provides cover for the abusive treatment they suffer, especially in commercial and industrial environments. Heartrending indeed.

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Rikard's avatar

Yep, nailed it right there. They're too much like us for comfort for the closeted city-dweller.

To think that to our ancestors pigs were a holy animal. Not just Särimner but also Gyllenborst and Råg-grisen too were paid homage to.

(Going into mysticism and semiotics here)

Perhaps pigs are villified because if you let a pig loose in the forest in the Spring, by Autumn it's become a wild pig - all domestication gone.

There was some anthropological/sociological hypothesis about the formation of culture as (in part) function of what type of livestock was the main one in the culture's formative beginnings.

Goats and sheep for semite and other Levantine peoples. Cows for others. Chickens for some. And pigs for celts and teutons and slavs.

The idea being that the terrain, feed, climate, breeding and how the animals were kept affected the attitudes of the people in question.

Good luck testing it, to say nothing of proving it. . .

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Sue Don Nim's avatar

Bacon is nature's food.

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SCA's avatar

I worked as a tour guide in an urban children's farm for a few years and I learned close-up how lovely pigs are. But their natural odor is not only because of unnatural confinement. Many creatures smell horrible to other species.

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Tardigrade's avatar

We've had this discussion before, and I don't disagree; who knows, we might smell terrible to them. But the unnatural confinement certainly makes it worse.

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SCA's avatar

Fully agree on the savage cruelty inflicted by humans on pigs.

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Rikard's avatar

Top notch reporting - thank you for that!

Must ask, do you mean "errant" and not "arrant" where it says "...forced their arrant minister to stop embarrassing an already widely loathed government."?

Arrant works too, of course, it's just that it doesn't mean errant and is (as far as I know) rather obscure a word; it means "very bad" or "nonsense", so it does fit.

Here in Sweden, Covid is such a non-issue even people who are "in the know" have moved on. Meanwhile, our governement has been courted with delegations from the WHO, the EU, and the WEF for two years now, demanding laws are changed so that we will act in line with "The Science". Even von der Leyen herself came to have a classified and unscheduled meeting with the PM on Gotland last year.

Here, it's all Ukraine, our daily bombings and shoot-outs among the blacks, arabs and other such [insert pejorative of choice here], and climate change. That 2/3 of all armoured vehicles donated to the Ukraine are currently wrecked or disabled and stranded in no-man's land is "Putinist propaganda".

Someone ought to inform Forbes they are spreading consiprary theories.

I just had to mention that last bit for a simple reason: being able to read Substacks and foreign news sources is now an act that marks one as a potential "Abweichsler", but the free debate in articles and comments is like air to a seal under the ice.

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Rikard's avatar

Dissident or dissenter is closest I think, but lack the inherent pejorative qualities of the term.

In swedish (and in german I think) it's not just that you are dissenting because you have a different opinion on something; by doing so (dissenting) you reveal that there's something inherently wrong with you.

This of course only applies to stuff like official narratives that most all people adhere to unthinkingly, not basic stuff like whether or not you prefer potatoes over rice.

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Tardigrade's avatar

In English "conspiracy theorist" Is often used for this purpose.

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Rikard's avatar

Foliehatt (Tinfoil-hat) is the go-to of choice here, with konspirationsteoretiker as a close second, and felinformerad in a distant third (misinformed).

The perennial favourite "rättshaverist" is only common among the middle-aged and older nowadays (Querulant or Rechtshaberei).

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Swedes have an easier time understanding german than vice versa - german was a major influence for about 200 years, so many of our common words have german/dutch origin.

One can usually get the basic gist across, but holding an actual conversation means you need to have studied the language.

But a traveller's dictionairy is recommended, so to speak.

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Rikard's avatar

I've told people since 2001 now that what you perceive as right extremist depends more on how far left you yourself are, than anything real.

To sum up the response of left-leaning colleagues and friends in a facial expression: they look as if they've been using a peeled lemon as a suppository.

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jotolo's avatar

When are the next elections?

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eugyppius's avatar

2025

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jotolo's avatar

When in 2025?

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eugyppius's avatar

precise date has yet to be set, but by law it must happen between the end of August and the end of October

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IceSkater40's avatar

oh, your next election is the same time period as Canada's next election. It's looking like conservatives will sweep and get super majority in the election. I just wish it would happen sooner. (The current coalition government needs to fracture before we'd get an early election - since the supporting party is losing as many seats as Trudeau's party, it is unlikely the fracture will happen.)

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eugyppius's avatar

basically identical situation in Germany, Union parties will probably displace the red-green lunatics presently in power, but unfortunately the most likely new coalition will involve the Greens because of the cordon sanitaire against the AfD. for this reason there's perhaps some upside if the present government limps along and doesn't collapse ahead of time. that's another year for AfD to gain strength.

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Ches Crosbie's avatar

Your panic thesis for the early German gov freak-out adheres to Occam’s razor, but surely all those WEF trainees (“vee have penetrated all zee cabinets”) were primed for an agenda?

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Suzie's avatar

You have to delve into the diabolical machinations of the political mind to truly grasp what went down during the Feardemic.

If TRUE science, and sound honest people had been free to speak and unsuppressed, it would have been basically a “nothing burger”, no moreso than a serious flu epidemic, leagues short of what it was deliberately turned into.

It can be summed up in one sentence: “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Don’t know for sure who coined that phrase, (though many claim it), but I do know it was a politician.

The Feardemic was a gift to the power mad pols, who salivated at the almost endless list of crushing regulation and fearmongering that would now be in their power to dispense upon the plebes.

In the US, the most tantalizing of all was the instituting of Mass Mail In Voting, which could enable an undreamed of opportunity to cheat on a scale and in a way that would almost guarantee a win in any election they wanted.

But that was just one of the great payouts they received from the Covid era, there were hundreds more, not least of which was the gargantuan effort employed to stifle any and all dissent.

The list is so long, the repercussions of which we are still embroiled in combatting, and will be for a long time.

But, if they can shut us up, that’s game, set and match.

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They’ll always fall back on the usual “it would have been SO MUCH worse had we done nothing and/or our actions saved millions of lives” or some such, all without providing an actual proof of either. Public humiliation is great, but true accountability needs to be far more serious.

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