"By the time pandemicists started rooting through their bag of tricks, the virus had been circulating for months with nobody noticing. This is one of the most crucial and eagerly ignored facts of the whole pandemic."
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I say this all the time! Bloodwork testing from blood donations showed that 2% of people had antibodies in OR/WA during Mid-December 2019. That's four months before we did ANYTHING AT ALL to slow the curve. Four months of church and basketball games and holiday travel and get-togethers and banging randoms from Tinder............and we didn't even notice the virus until Jay Inslee ordered covid patients into nursing homes.
Were they all put on ventilators? That seemed to be the only treatment idea at the time, and it killed a lot of people who would otherwise have survived.
I too point this out to blank stares. I'm in London, one of the spring 2020 hotspots. Life was completely normal until mid-March. We had a good four months of living normally while the virus circulated undetected.
I believe our antibody levels by April 2020 were 5% (1 in 20 people). And this may be an undercount! So many people I know who work in busy offices in central London or who attend lots of networking events all reported having bad flus in the months prior to lockdown. (I myself had a bad flu in November 2019, so who knows!)
On May 24th 2020 the Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, announced that random testing of several thousand people in NY State had shown that 19% of the population already had natural antibodies due to previous infection. This was at least eight months before the vaccine was available (December 2020, after the US elections); if nearly 20% had natural immunity in the first five months of the pandemic, then I would assume that at least double that amount would have natural immunity by the time the vaccine was rolled out. And yet, there was never any recomendation to test each person for antibodies before giving them the shot. Why would you take a shot if you were already naturally immune? There was however, an enormous pressure to to get the nasal swab tests, to see if you were "positive"; this drove up the percentages of "case numbers", which was used to scare people into obeying lockdown orders and mask mandates.
I agree. A colleague at work had a virus in November 2019 which resulted in her being off work for several months (long covid?) and my partner and I had a bad virus infection the same month. At the time, of course, we were told "Oh, no we don't test for viruses because even if we knew what it was, there isn't any treatment for it. You just have to ride it out."
The silver lining is that these people, if they had Covid that early, developed natural immunity which will benefit them even after they get the Vax. I'm not saying that the Vax won hurt them, but at least they aren't subject to a very debilitating case of Original Antigenic Sin.
Our office, too, had some extremely and unusually bad flus going around, December-January. I never caught it, but then I rarely get sick and know how to do early and preventive treatment on myself for these types of illnesses.
Ordering coof patients into nursing homes because blue state governors either saw an opportunity to shrink their bloated pension rolls or they were "advised" to do so by the Fauci/Pfizer coup plotters, who printed money with a leftist in the White House.
Incentives included reducing healthcare and pension liabilities like you point out, but it also increased the idea of an emergency and needing federal financial assistance, and the emergency they created provided cover for mail-in election fraud.
Lockdowns also make more sense when you view them as an excuse to demand bigger federal bailouts. Politicians in places with the worst finances embraced lockdowns the hardest, while consistently getting caught breaking their own lockdown rules.
Good Post! You write: "The problem with lying, is that it’s expensive and requires more coordination than widely distributed media operations command. "
Yes, it will collapse of it's own weight eventually as the amount of lying cannot be maintained.
The entire idea of containing a respiratory virus through masking, social distancing, etc is ludicrous and unscientific in the extreme.
I'd note that the mainstream media doesn't lie as much as it omits critical context. A good recent example is CNN's reporting of the resignation of the entire (white) police force in Kenly, NC shortly after a new, black city manager was appointed. That's true, and sounds racist as hell.
Until...
You find out that the prior city manager was black too, and the resignation had NOTHING to do with race.
This is why I've taken to calling them the Mainstream Misleadia. For every outright lie, there's a 100 stories like the new black city manager: deliberate misdirection.
Yes, agree. There's plenty of omissions and outright lies & distortions. Not to mention they media is missing the biggest stories of perhaps the past several few centuries at least, lol.
sometimes I wonder how much of what we learned in history lessons is really true. If you see what gets omitted with so many social media channels focusing, what have we missed in all these aeons of writing only, and word of mouth?
I've actually started wondering that myself. I was born in the 60s, and we always believed the media were telling us the truth. Without an internet, how could we tell? Now with the internet, despite all the censorship, the curtain is being lifted. But history isn't particularly controversial, at least on a day-to-day basis. So yeah, I'm beginning to doubt everything.
Media, yes, but academia, too. That right there is the heart and soul of deception -- "Big academia". That was brought home to me by the absolute silence of "big academia" -- in particular their physics departments -- over the utterly absurd story of the Twin Towers' collapse. Prima facie evidence of corruption and collusion between academia and government. Same playbook with "COV!D".
Good point. Yes many don't yet realize this is not simply media, education, medicine. science, politics.It involves our governments, corporations, institutions at high, middle and lower levels all orchestrated by the international collusion coordinated with the help of the World Economic Forum and others. It is classic technocracy fascism and hard to grasp, let alone fight.
dawned on me when I came to the US and read the story of the Belgian Congo from your standpoint. What we learned in school did not even resemble what actually happened there. Of course, Belgian history lesson tried to make into a clean operation, but it was a nasty thing.
Absolutely. Think the best thing we need to cultivate as we the people is a healthy skepticism. We have been too trusting despite our knowledge of all the wrongdoing. We were given much information sufficient to be extremely concerned decades ago.
truly...my daughter and I were discussing what aspect of "history" she should teach her homeschooled 5th grader this year. "Pretty sure everything I learn in government schools in the 70s and 80s was a lie so... um ... maybe we could focus on the Tuttle Twins books and accompanied workbooks." was what i came up with. At 10 she isn't quite ready for the "Revolutions Podcast" which i hope aren't lies.
A great friend of mind - in her mid 70s - was a rural teacher, her husband, too. The stories they tell of the nefarious NEA and MEA (national and local teacher unions) are horrid! She quit and homeschooled her children in the late 80s while her hubs became school principal! ha! they dealt with a lot of crap for that...
It is a very hard road for parents right now. I have twin seven year old grandsons who are being homeschooled by their very stressed Mom. I cannot imagine having to raise our six grown children with the stresses/atmosphere today. Best history is whatever teachers can discover to be close to the truth these days. I find a great deal of history in the genealogy of our family but time consuming.
I also heard that american schools don't teach anything from before the white people came in. I don't know if it is true, but the native americans have a great historry, with lots of monuments and relics to look at. I love middle America as well, although I have to see it all on a computer screen, won't ever be able to visit all these high altitude places ! Congrats to your homeschooling daughter !
Actually the biggest reason for that is the lack of a written record by these peoples. This is also true for most of Africa and Central Asia. For 2000 years the people of Central Asia have been a very important part of the history of Europe and Asia. But due to the lack of written records, very few people know anything about these cultures other than what was written about them by their civilized neighbors.
Precisely, the view I now hold. I no longer trust the “official” version of anything. After a little digging I’ve discovered mines of buried truths under the tales that have been propagated and sold over the last century to the present day (and no doubt further back in history). As the saying goes: ‘Who controls the past controls the present; who controls the present controls the future’. We must break the narratives and re-instate local and universal truths - and take back control of our declining civilisation.
Yes. And it likely won’t be doable on the internet. Big Tech totalitarianism is in force. We have a bit of free speech allowed now by SubStack & the free for all’s available on Rumble, etc. But essentially very little truly rational fundamentally truthful thinking gets through - especially in comparison with the massive amount of reactionary, emotionally driven, and often bot-provided irrational.
Yes, the internet, like many inventions, can be a source for good but is governed by technocrats who propagate evil.
I’d say it’s primary role is to homogenise and dumb down the masses. It serves as a pacifier and a propaganda machine. Thankfully Substack, Rumble, Odysee, BNT et al are wonderful outlets for spreading truth and I’m slightly optimistic about this rise in alternative (underground?) media. Thinking and wise humans will always notice the chink of light in the dark and strive to expand rather than narrow their horizons.
For me, this is quite an admission coming from Dr. Lawrie, but something I have thought for quite some time. I have concluded that virtually all of official history is false -- and a good deal of that on purpose. This includes THAT story that no one can question, which in some countries can get you jailed for asking about...Yup. THAT one.
Don't forget that old standby, the half-truth, too. Your point is very well made however: sometimes telling only part of the truth is worse than an outright lie. A critical thinker (a rarity, alas) will ask: what are they NOT talking about? What is the "elephant in the room"?
Mainstream Misleadia! May I use that please? And by use that, I mean, hopefully run it into the ground the way Fauci runs covid BS into the ground? I hope to make it a buzzword.
Please! Spread "mainstream misleadia" far and wide. I think I invented the term, and I've been hoping it gains some traction. I think it's a label that will be hard for them to get away from if it becomes more widely used. Cheers!
And we had the same type thing perpetuated. That kid in N. Ga who shot up the massage parlors— and everyone cried “Asian Hate Crime” for months? HE said on our LOCAL TV, he loves Asian people; he just hates that he’s so tempted to go to these massage parlors and strip clubs. HE said Asians had nothing to do with it. He is simply ashamed of his sex addiction and that massage parlor is near his home.
Yes, every crime that has an Asian victim is now an "anti-Asian hate crime," regardless of the actual motive. I think Asians are just as good a target for crime as anyone, and that few of these crimes are racially motivated.
In terms of actual bodily assault I’m in agreement with your comment, however, there are those who are committing true “Anti-Asian hate crime” in the form of ‘affirmative action’ in top US universities. Many are increasing the numbers of black American students by lowering grade requirements for entry - for black American students only - while actively discriminating against East Asian applicants by levying quotas for entry. It’s an open and blatant policy and yet, in true progressive Orwellian parlance, it’s called equity.
Honestly, affirmative action in the sense of trying extra hard to admit QUALIFIED minority applicants to universities, competitive jobs, etc., is a great idea in my view. BUT, lowering standards is a terrible, terrible thing. Not only does it push aside deserving folks, it degrades both the degrees awarded and legitimately stigmatizes the minorities who receive them. Right? If you KNOW that some reasonably large percentage of minority applicant's don't make the academic grade, you are not wrong to be suspicious of their academic qualifications. In some sense this type of affirmative action actually provides legitimate fuel for racists to discriminate. It's appalling.
As a society it'd be much, much better to ensure that every child in America gets an excellent K-12 education. That we can send $44 billion to Ukraine at the drop of a bomb, but not do this with our own citizenry speaks very ill of us.
And neither party is doing anything at all to fix it.
Here's a radical idea: progressive property tax, e.g., expensive homes pay a higher rate. Then all funds are distributed equally a the state level. It seems inexcusable that kids in poor districts should get inferior public educations to kids in rich districts. Have you ever heard anyone promote this idea? Even in ultra-liberal Massachusetts we don't have such a thing. It's appalling.
The concept in physics of high potential energy of an object sitting at a position where it can fall into a well, same for lying. It takes so much energy to keep those lies perched at the top of the belief pile and not roll down the hill crashing into pieces.
True enough. But don't forget that many times we must work with incomplete or sometimes conflicting information. Sometimes the closest approach to the truth we can make is a "best guess" by considering all available data and forming a hypothesis that best fits the available data, ideally without discrepancies. It is also worth considering how trustworthy the messenger is. The media clearly lies all the time, but the skeptic will learn (or more likely, infer) much simply by asking "Why? Who pays his salary? Who owns the corporation? What known or hidden manipulators are there (government, deep state, corporate advertisers, etc.)?"
As happened in so many preceding years. One of the key lies is "Flu season". People assume these are sick who succumb to an Influenza virus variant. This is untrue as "Flu Season" has always been comprised of a giant variety of respiratory pathogens.
My Dad always cautioned us against lying. Besides being wrong in the first place, he was convinced that liars will always get caught. When that happens , it will be worse than the situation they wanted to cover up.
It has mostly proven true that the lies don't last but at least in the US the lies haven't proven terribly expensive. With a few exceptions they get away with it. And worse the lies work. When the vaccines were first made available many parts of the US continued to have low vaccination rates the media assault was fast, vicious, and mostly a lie. For months there were daily rants about the anti-vaccination hicks perpetuating the deaths of the righteously vaccinated. Reports of hospitals being over run, a desperate shortage of ICU beds, a pandemic of the unvaccinated, were fabricated out of thin air. And even when proven to be false there were no apologies or retractions. They simply moved on.
But it didn't start with the pandemic for years the Russia collusion, Trump is an agent of Putin, "the 2020 election was the safest more secure election in history" (whatever that means), men menstruate they can get pregnant.
You've hit the nail on the head. "The lies work." That's the one of the big problems. Politicians of all stripes see this, and they just keep doing it. The fact that the mainstream misleadia doesn't call them on it just makes matters that much worse.
Yes, it is standard propaganda. The media corporations are complicit in the scheme. That’s the way totalitarianism works. They are working extremely hard to perpetuate the lies.
Harry Reid, as Senate Majority Leader, lied on the Senate floor just before the presidential election about Mitt Romney being a tax cheat which was repeated far and wide by lapdog media. It was false, and a reporter confronted Reid, who knew he could not be held liable for slander for the lie that threw the election to 0bama. Reid said, "It worked, didn't it?"
I'm not a Republican, though I voted for Trump, and frankly think the Democrats have lost their ever loving miinds. But am I deluding myself, or do the Democrats really play much dirtier tricks than the Republicans? For example, I just heard that some organization has been hired to call folks at 2:00 AM to "support" Blake Masters. He disavows it, but some folks will fall for the idea that he's so craven that he'll call folks at 2:00 AM. And let's not forget the most brazen of all: so-called "Russian Collusion."
I can't think of any similar scams run by Republicans.
Anyway, such things are disgusting and speak very badly of those who do them.
It seems we are being played on both sides. Notice how Fox News never really gets into what is behind all this totalitarianism? Sure they beat up the Democrats (whom I have not use for at all) but many of the Republicans are supporting bad policies. We need strict constitutionalists in office, ideally those who are not corrupt grifters.
Well, I don't watch Fox news (or any other TV news for that matter), so I have no idea what Fox is reporting or lying about. I occasionally watch Tucker Carlson on YouTube, but he's an opinion columnist, so I give him much less weight regarding actual facts. Though I do find his opinions interesting.
Frankly, I believe there's truly a "Uniparty" out there and with few exceptions (mostly on the R side these days) it doesn't seem to matter whether your name has a D or an R behind it.
What does puzzle me, though, is how congressional leadership manages to force their entire caucus into voting the exact same way. I truly can't believe that every single Democrat senator really believes that abortion should be completely unregulated up and until the day of birth. That's still a pretty extremist position, yet somehow all the Ds in the senate managed to vote that way after Roe was overturned.
Also, as an issue, it seems odd to me that abortion should fall so neatly into American political party categories. It's an issue that has little to do with the other things the various parties are concerned with. Indeed, in years past, there was a strong, anti-abortion wing of the Democrat party. Whatever happened to them? Total mystery. I rather doubt that suddenly Democrats all decided that the abortion of an 8 and a half month fetus was suddenly A-OK.
We don't live in a democracy. We don't even live in a Republic. We live in an oligarchy, where a small handful of government officials control what's even brought to the floor of Congress to be debated and voted on. There could be overwhelming support for something, but if Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer don't want votes on it, it won't happen. How's that a democracy?
Sure, I don't watch Fox news at all except for what filters through on YouTube or elsewhere on the web. All of what you cite is to be concerned about. The good news is by and large many of the American people are waking up to what is going on. Not fast enough for most of us here but it is happening.
When I refer to the lies (propaganda) being expensive I refer to economics, social cost, lives lost & ruined, and by the looks of it - nations and/or civilizations lost/ruined. Agree the lies are so insane as to be - well, insane.
That type of expensive while definitely accurate isn't important to them, arguable it's the point. The media lie on behalf of those that pay them to do so. In this even their own reputations are less valued then their bank accounts.
I remember reading that in Germany Der Spiegel, which used to be a very reputable magazine, received an enormous sum from gates to hide the truth. They used to be the ones that discovered the truth (I remember very well long ago, a reporter of theirs going undercover as a guest worker from Turkey, to see how bad these people were treated at the time, 1974 I think ) Just to say how things have changed in 50 years.
Out of so many contenders, it is difficult to pick the whopper lie. My favorite for this year so far is DoD's correcting the "glitch" in the DMED database. You see, they forgot to enter into the system hundreds of thousands of medical records from 2016-2020, which led to the wrong conclusion by the researchers that certain illnesses had jumped hugely in 2021, whose data was correct. [Roll eyes.]
I hadn't heard of this. Is it a lie? Or just business-as-usual government incompetence? I'd lean toward the latter. But I have to wonder how the so-called researchers didn't figure this out. I spent a career looking at numbers, and weird numbers aren't that hard to spot.
that last sentence of course, beats it all. I think I disagree with 'not so expensive'. A huge amount has been spent on pharma, to develop the jabs, then the gov paid for the already paid for jabs, masks, etc. I read the sum but cannot remember. It was quite some ! Probably enough to feed America for a few years !
That first wave really had all the signs of being a bizarre anthropogenic disaster, with nursing home residents abandoned and left to die by panicking eastern european migrant workers, doctors like Carlo Mosca accused of murdering patients to free up beds, doctors in NYC admitting to putting patients on ventilators to protect staff from "aerosolizing procedures", recovering patients sent into nursing homes and all sorts of other acts of stupidity or active malice.
It almost behaves like some sort of egregore, a thought construct that takes on a life of its own once enough people believe in it, unintentionally willed into existence through people's own fear of divine punishment.
Not just Eastern European. I have long thought that the reason my part of the UK (South West) escaped with less covid death is that we have fewer migrants. The care home staff, being comprised more of natives, would have more empathy for the elderly in their care.
I don't know much about PCR: we were all issued with nice shiny Chinese self-testing lateral flow tests here in Scotland, and my impression of them was that yes, they did (probably) work most of the time, in that they did detect this virus.
The problem was rather ... so what? I mean, how exactly was knowing that you were one of the one-in-twenty people to have the virus that week actually translate into protection of anyone?
In defense of the tests, they do seem to work. I've read up on them a bit. They are (compared to PCR) less sensitive. In one aspect: that is good. One has to have a lot of virus to test positive. They are supposed to be quite accurate, 85-90% range or so. I have no requirement for regular testing. In mid June I got my first known case of Covid-19, and I used on hand home test. Positive. I self-isolated until fever subsided and negative test (at about day 21, might have been sooner, but I only tested about weekly.)
TL;DR: yes, the tests serve a good purpose. While no requirement I do so, where I volunteer we are on the honor system. Besides, I knew I was sick was cold/flu symptoms, so should be resting at home. The test is just an additional diagnostic tool.
Even if the false positive rate of covid tests is "only" 5%, if you test the whole population it will tell you that 5% are infected, even if zero people have it. If these false-positives are then used to justify lockdowns ("Millions are infected!") and other extreme measures, that's a problem.
The free self-tests in the UK came way later, in 2021 and with no obligation to register results. Official figures were never based on these but instead on the ONS Infection Survey (which gets a representative sample of the UK population to undergo weekly or monthly PCR swab tests).
The problem is that PCR tests run at high amplificafions are often picking up old infections rather than active ones. This was never contextualised or explained.
I know! The public is so uneducated. I had a 20-ish year okd tell me that the authorities would never lie about PCR. If this young woman had even stepped into a chem lab I would have been amazed. Wonder if I’ll ever get an apology?
Spot on. The bias in journalism is not how stories are presented (lying) but which stories are chosen to write about. That’s a popular misconception that our host has accurately observed.
Whewww, we have so much to thank @eugyppius for, the anxiety that 'they' started is relieved by the pure common sense and intellect of you, whoever you are, thanks a million or perhaps even more
and to enforce other "emergency" mandates for absolute non-emergencies such as "nitrous-use reduction" laws that with further divide us and drive us to mistrust of everything and everybody. They now want one working class (city dwellers) to turn against another working class (farmers). They will try to demonize the farmers for feeding us good food. do not let them.
had 2020 not been an American presidential election hear, had it been say... 1997, we would have heard that there was a particular bad flu circulating around and that we should wash our hands and stay home if we were sick. Life would have continued. In 1968 and 1957 there were flu pandemics that killed a greater percentage of people ( when adjusted for population ) than covid 19 did in 2020-21
You overlook the fact that most of the world followed the same steps one way or another, which would hardly be related to the US election. Nor does it fit with the now known aims of the WEF, the WHO, Gates and uncle Tom Cobley....
I dont think I overlooked it. The US fed gov dominates the world. The US fed gov is an imperial power more powerful , insidious, coercive than the british empire the Khans in acient china, the ROmans... THe US fed gov health agencies like the CDC are marketing arms of a global pharm industry. THe CDC , WHO , WEF they seem to be all part of the same permanent state globalist bureacacry. Trump represented a threat to this hegemony, so he had to taken down. COVId was weaponized, politicized and used a political tool
That's the only way EVERYTHING makes perfect sense. The real outbreak was earlier and insignificant until 'someone' saw the 'small window of opportunity'. FB Moskovitz 100% funded Event 201, and then Zuckerberg funded the Mules/Fraud drop boxes. By June, Evil Klaus released his book and unrolled the Reset. Joke Biden didn't even need to campaign, he already had the ballots. Trump's speeches at UN and WEF made perfectly clear for them that America was NOT FOR SALE! Our Constitution's God given RIGHTS are the pebble in their shoe. Soros clearly said it: "Trump admin is a DANGER to the WORLD, but I regard it as temporary and WILL DISAPPEAR in 2020"! Jeffrey Sachs, socialist/abortionist, for the VATICAN! at Davos: "America is a DANGEROUS country now (with Trump), and will be ABSOLUTELY DANGEROUS IF TRUMP WINS REELECTION". Need more evidence? Soros controls a good chunk of America's Justice and Election systems...
The "one size fits all" approach to Covid including the shot mandates are absolutely insane. Every patient is different and putting a 38 y/o marathon runner on a ventilator seems wrong. Also the use remdisiver has killed thousands yet is still accepted protocol. How can the medical profession stand by and accept the politicization of their field by the CDC, NIH and other government agencies? I don't understand where the "First, Do No Harm" was lost. The west has lost it's way in almost all areas and our elected and unelected "leaders" seem more intent on killing us than representing our best interest.
EXACTLY…and no change even today when every other country no longer follows that protocol our govt along with Medicare providing DNRs for ALL patients over 65 whether they want it or not, is handing doctors and hospital administrators bonuses for following the Remdisivir -ventilation death in three days protocol. THEN they count that death as a Covid death. A self-completing circle making it look like SARS is deadlier then it is and getting older folks “off the books”. Awful.
We had a family friend that went in, placed on a ventilator and remdisivir. Doctor told her son if she can maintain kidney function, she has another 20 good years. Guess what? She died of kidney failure. Classified on death certificate as Covid 19. WTF is wrong with these hospitals?
The drug turns your kidneys off then the fluid backs up into your lungs and the vents blow out your lungs. Yet, they keep on doing it. But death isn’t recoded as coming from the treatment, it’s recoded as a Covid death. And on and on and on it goes. That’s why no one trusts hospitals, doctors, etc anymore. Again, sad.
They knew and had always known ventilation was dangerous and potentially fatal. I actually read a comment from a professed UK nurse who said that whenever a patient was assigned ventilation they described them as “DMW - dead man walking”.
The medical profession have a lot to answer for and deserve a monumental fall in trust and usage wherever feasible from the public.
Remdesivir study funded by Fauci for Ebola in Africa a couple of months before covid. 5 drugs were being tested. After 28 days, Remdesivir had to be pulled because it KILLED between 30 and 80% of patients on it. Fauci had friend Baric, developer of Remdesivir, test it 'quickly' for covid, and oh surprise they found it 'safe and effective'... France and many other countries rejected it as TOXIC (liver and kidneys). Others rejected it for children: there had been NO TRIALS/STUDIES on children. EUA says it, that they 'just extrapolated the numbers from the adults' trial". Unconscionable! Never done with ANY other drug.
Don't get how everything has been ruthlessly analyzed but "testing."; public health goblin's nose hairs have been counted, yet somehow everyone agrees to suspend his/her/they disbelief about "testing". Suspicious cause it's the main character in this movie.
Yes this was a pandemic of PCR testing as Fullmich has been saying, and was clearly all about pumping numbers and fear. I certainly will never forget though I don't see any of the those culpable (media included) wanting to talk about. We must remember.
This is one of your most important pieces yet. I’ve been saying since around June/July 2020 that the period January to March 2020 was the crucial one for laying the tracks this juggernaut of a sh1tsh0w travelled on. My advice to future historians of the Plague Years was to concentrate on those three months, for exactly the reasons you have stated so convincingly. The widespread community transmission *prior* to anyone even having heard of corona is grist to the mill of all those of us who want to push the spectre of Corona (and all it stands for in a sociopolitical sense) back into the box of normal, seasonal, inconsequential infections.
IIRC, the Diamond Princess was also used to generate hysteria about what turned out to be a ludicrously high projected infection fatality rate when applied to all age groups and health conditions. And the fact that 80% of the ship’s passengers and crew were uninfected, at least symptomatically, was quickly memory-holed.
Perfect test case. DP offered an isolated population, and with the interconnectivity of the HVAC, plumbing systems, almost certainly everyone aboard was exposed to the virus.
DP demonstrated that the majority of the population easily fends off the virus when exposed.
If you even just look at the national daily mortality graphs in major western countries for the earliest months of our corona hysteria, you see bright-as-day that each country's initial accelerating daily mortality figure is just a late-arriving ramp-up of testing that is slowly growing into and revealing the shape of the preexisting natural curve - which clearly started earlier, peaked earlier and higher, and then for most of its descent we have visibility onto it
Put another way: for later corona waves, the daily mortality figures start slow, ramp up, crescendo, and then come down in a fairly symmetric parabola-like curve. No reason to think the first wave was much different. So the exercise here is to ignore the first ~half of the first wave, focus on the true-ish second "half", and try to interpolate back a symmetrical parabola-type curve that includes the true second half shape.
One last way of phrasing it: the arcing trajectory of all other waves, including "first waves" in late-arriving states in the U.S. where testing captured a much truer full symmetrical parabola, suggests that the reported data for early arriving places like Italy and New York City missed the true extent of the first half of the first wave.
I think it is worse than that. The first wave was only caught late in the cycle, but the response with aggressive ventilation and panic and nursing home policy boosted the actual mortality far above what it would have been if we had just ignored the first wave entirely.
In the US, one of the greatest crimes was forcing elderly care homes to take covid positive patients. The world knew the elderly were the people most at risk. Politicians used threats and bribery to put them in. All while the media and same politicians chastised us to stay at home to protect grandma.
Same in the UK. And, while there’s some disagreement as to the true nature of “Covid” and its transmission routes, there were, nonetheless, temporary care assistants travelling from one care home to the next, happily unencumbered by NHS Test & Trace while the government made the move to lock down the “non-essential” healthy workforce (ie those of working age who could work from home and whose lives weren’t expendable) to “save lives” and “protect the NHS”.
Diabolical but all part of the plan to centralise global control over every aspect of our lives that marches relentlessly on, and for which the Covid narrative was not simply convenient but intentional.
This is basically what created the impression of certain hotspots being way worse than others. I believe the stats show that on average 40% of deaths in those spring peaks were nursing home residents.
I believe testing of the blood supply has shown Covid in the US as early as Nov. 2019. Hospitals were paid more for Covid patients and any patient that tested positive for Covid and died was a Covid death, even if it wasn't the cause of death. Nurses in a New York Hospital report severely ill and dying patients that did not have Covid were placed in covid wards till they tested positive so that when they died the death could be called a "Covid death" and the hospital would get more $$$. Hospitals in the US prior to Covid were in many cases struggling financially. Covid became a way to make money for collapsing hospital systems.
My son & his girlfriend were students at UC Davis in California in the fall of 2019. A lot of students were getting sick that fall, and my son and his GF got sick in late November. It was a pretty bad respiratory type flu, and the doctors at the UC medical clinic stated "Something weird is going around and we don't know what it is." They didn't think it was the typical flu, for some reason. His GF has asthma and was having a hard time at one point, and went to the ER where she got a nebulizer that delivered some kind of steroid treatment. Interestingly, they also gave her Ivermectin. She was quite sick for about 2 weeks, and it took at least a month to fully recover. My son was also sick for a week or more (he described it as a "gnarly" flu), after which he recovered quickly. Of course, at the time we all thought it was just a respiratory flu and there wasn't any testing back then.
It's worth adding that UC Davis has a massive number of Chinese students, so many that when on campus you would think you were in China! AND....a great many of these students were from Wuhan. Hmmmmm.....
Yes - I also live in a college town with lots of Chinese students - many returning for classes in mid-January. Many in the area had worse then usual colds, but that isn't all that unusual in February in the mid-west:) So far I've not had covid - though occasional colds all testing negative by inaccurate home test. I've wondered if maybe many of us had it before it was even known to be around.
I live in a B10 college town with many Chinese students returning from January break and Chinese new year. The daycares and schools had something run through them in Feb 2020. My children both came down with it. When we went back to school, the teacher said a third of the class called in sick in one day. I've always asssumed my family all had covid alpha in Feb 2020. Madison, WI.
Inaccurate home tests? Those lateral flow tests are pretty good at picking up antigen if you have symptoms, so maybe you didn't have covid. Despite the past 2+ years, everything is not covid.
Here in the USA the fall/winter academic break for universities is roughly between the first week of December into mid-January. Even if the virus had not appeared before November 2019, and certainly if earlier, you couldn't pick a more ideal time to unsuspecting Chinese or other international students to pick up latent infections and bring them to American soil in mid-January.
I remember hearing stories of hospitals putting healthy people in covid areas. The financial incentives helps understand those were not mistakes. Just as sending covid positive patients into old age homes was not an oversight.
"By the time pandemicists started rooting through their bag of tricks, the virus had been circulating for months with nobody noticing. This is one of the most crucial and eagerly ignored facts of the whole pandemic."
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I say this all the time! Bloodwork testing from blood donations showed that 2% of people had antibodies in OR/WA during Mid-December 2019. That's four months before we did ANYTHING AT ALL to slow the curve. Four months of church and basketball games and holiday travel and get-togethers and banging randoms from Tinder............and we didn't even notice the virus until Jay Inslee ordered covid patients into nursing homes.
what about the story of the PNW church choir that got sick and like 3 of them died? And then, all of a sudden, singing was a forbidden activity.....
Were they all put on ventilators? That seemed to be the only treatment idea at the time, and it killed a lot of people who would otherwise have survived.
Here is a time capsule article about it, from March 2020. So much detail! Interesting to look back at it, now: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-superspreader-singing.html
Haha ! I wonder if they would still be alive had they stood 6 feet apart with a cloth before their faces.
I too point this out to blank stares. I'm in London, one of the spring 2020 hotspots. Life was completely normal until mid-March. We had a good four months of living normally while the virus circulated undetected.
I believe our antibody levels by April 2020 were 5% (1 in 20 people). And this may be an undercount! So many people I know who work in busy offices in central London or who attend lots of networking events all reported having bad flus in the months prior to lockdown. (I myself had a bad flu in November 2019, so who knows!)
On May 24th 2020 the Governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo, announced that random testing of several thousand people in NY State had shown that 19% of the population already had natural antibodies due to previous infection. This was at least eight months before the vaccine was available (December 2020, after the US elections); if nearly 20% had natural immunity in the first five months of the pandemic, then I would assume that at least double that amount would have natural immunity by the time the vaccine was rolled out. And yet, there was never any recomendation to test each person for antibodies before giving them the shot. Why would you take a shot if you were already naturally immune? There was however, an enormous pressure to to get the nasal swab tests, to see if you were "positive"; this drove up the percentages of "case numbers", which was used to scare people into obeying lockdown orders and mask mandates.
I agree. A colleague at work had a virus in November 2019 which resulted in her being off work for several months (long covid?) and my partner and I had a bad virus infection the same month. At the time, of course, we were told "Oh, no we don't test for viruses because even if we knew what it was, there isn't any treatment for it. You just have to ride it out."
The silver lining is that these people, if they had Covid that early, developed natural immunity which will benefit them even after they get the Vax. I'm not saying that the Vax won hurt them, but at least they aren't subject to a very debilitating case of Original Antigenic Sin.
The genetic therapies are complete and utter failures in every sense. If one got a hot lot(5%), you're screwed.
Our office, too, had some extremely and unusually bad flus going around, December-January. I never caught it, but then I rarely get sick and know how to do early and preventive treatment on myself for these types of illnesses.
Ordering coof patients into nursing homes because blue state governors either saw an opportunity to shrink their bloated pension rolls or they were "advised" to do so by the Fauci/Pfizer coup plotters, who printed money with a leftist in the White House.
Incentives included reducing healthcare and pension liabilities like you point out, but it also increased the idea of an emergency and needing federal financial assistance, and the emergency they created provided cover for mail-in election fraud.
Lockdowns also make more sense when you view them as an excuse to demand bigger federal bailouts. Politicians in places with the worst finances embraced lockdowns the hardest, while consistently getting caught breaking their own lockdown rules.
Good Post! You write: "The problem with lying, is that it’s expensive and requires more coordination than widely distributed media operations command. "
Yes, it will collapse of it's own weight eventually as the amount of lying cannot be maintained.
The entire idea of containing a respiratory virus through masking, social distancing, etc is ludicrous and unscientific in the extreme.
I'd note that the mainstream media doesn't lie as much as it omits critical context. A good recent example is CNN's reporting of the resignation of the entire (white) police force in Kenly, NC shortly after a new, black city manager was appointed. That's true, and sounds racist as hell.
Until...
You find out that the prior city manager was black too, and the resignation had NOTHING to do with race.
This is why I've taken to calling them the Mainstream Misleadia. For every outright lie, there's a 100 stories like the new black city manager: deliberate misdirection.
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
An omission is a lie by another name.
Just as bad as any other. Much sneakier though.
Yes, agree. There's plenty of omissions and outright lies & distortions. Not to mention they media is missing the biggest stories of perhaps the past several few centuries at least, lol.
sometimes I wonder how much of what we learned in history lessons is really true. If you see what gets omitted with so many social media channels focusing, what have we missed in all these aeons of writing only, and word of mouth?
I've actually started wondering that myself. I was born in the 60s, and we always believed the media were telling us the truth. Without an internet, how could we tell? Now with the internet, despite all the censorship, the curtain is being lifted. But history isn't particularly controversial, at least on a day-to-day basis. So yeah, I'm beginning to doubt everything.
Media, yes, but academia, too. That right there is the heart and soul of deception -- "Big academia". That was brought home to me by the absolute silence of "big academia" -- in particular their physics departments -- over the utterly absurd story of the Twin Towers' collapse. Prima facie evidence of corruption and collusion between academia and government. Same playbook with "COV!D".
Good point. Yes many don't yet realize this is not simply media, education, medicine. science, politics.It involves our governments, corporations, institutions at high, middle and lower levels all orchestrated by the international collusion coordinated with the help of the World Economic Forum and others. It is classic technocracy fascism and hard to grasp, let alone fight.
dawned on me when I came to the US and read the story of the Belgian Congo from your standpoint. What we learned in school did not even resemble what actually happened there. Of course, Belgian history lesson tried to make into a clean operation, but it was a nasty thing.
all history is told from the perspective of the how the current government won. any and all misdeeds, inexcusable behavior, etc. are omitted.
Absolutely. Think the best thing we need to cultivate as we the people is a healthy skepticism. We have been too trusting despite our knowledge of all the wrongdoing. We were given much information sufficient to be extremely concerned decades ago.
If you teach a child to be skeptical, the next thing you teach them, will require you to be a vastly better teacher!
truly...my daughter and I were discussing what aspect of "history" she should teach her homeschooled 5th grader this year. "Pretty sure everything I learn in government schools in the 70s and 80s was a lie so... um ... maybe we could focus on the Tuttle Twins books and accompanied workbooks." was what i came up with. At 10 she isn't quite ready for the "Revolutions Podcast" which i hope aren't lies.
A great friend of mind - in her mid 70s - was a rural teacher, her husband, too. The stories they tell of the nefarious NEA and MEA (national and local teacher unions) are horrid! She quit and homeschooled her children in the late 80s while her hubs became school principal! ha! they dealt with a lot of crap for that...
It is a very hard road for parents right now. I have twin seven year old grandsons who are being homeschooled by their very stressed Mom. I cannot imagine having to raise our six grown children with the stresses/atmosphere today. Best history is whatever teachers can discover to be close to the truth these days. I find a great deal of history in the genealogy of our family but time consuming.
I also heard that american schools don't teach anything from before the white people came in. I don't know if it is true, but the native americans have a great historry, with lots of monuments and relics to look at. I love middle America as well, although I have to see it all on a computer screen, won't ever be able to visit all these high altitude places ! Congrats to your homeschooling daughter !
Actually the biggest reason for that is the lack of a written record by these peoples. This is also true for most of Africa and Central Asia. For 2000 years the people of Central Asia have been a very important part of the history of Europe and Asia. But due to the lack of written records, very few people know anything about these cultures other than what was written about them by their civilized neighbors.
Precisely, the view I now hold. I no longer trust the “official” version of anything. After a little digging I’ve discovered mines of buried truths under the tales that have been propagated and sold over the last century to the present day (and no doubt further back in history). As the saying goes: ‘Who controls the past controls the present; who controls the present controls the future’. We must break the narratives and re-instate local and universal truths - and take back control of our declining civilisation.
Yes. And it likely won’t be doable on the internet. Big Tech totalitarianism is in force. We have a bit of free speech allowed now by SubStack & the free for all’s available on Rumble, etc. But essentially very little truly rational fundamentally truthful thinking gets through - especially in comparison with the massive amount of reactionary, emotionally driven, and often bot-provided irrational.
Yes, the internet, like many inventions, can be a source for good but is governed by technocrats who propagate evil.
I’d say it’s primary role is to homogenise and dumb down the masses. It serves as a pacifier and a propaganda machine. Thankfully Substack, Rumble, Odysee, BNT et al are wonderful outlets for spreading truth and I’m slightly optimistic about this rise in alternative (underground?) media. Thinking and wise humans will always notice the chink of light in the dark and strive to expand rather than narrow their horizons.
Dr. Tess Lawrie addresses this question in her most recent Substack touching on "higher education" (Or as I call it, "big academia") and the impossibility of believing anything anymore. https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/higher-education-keeps-plumbing-new?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
For me, this is quite an admission coming from Dr. Lawrie, but something I have thought for quite some time. I have concluded that virtually all of official history is false -- and a good deal of that on purpose. This includes THAT story that no one can question, which in some countries can get you jailed for asking about...Yup. THAT one.
Yes, change is painfully slow and hampered by the repression everyone feels.
This does indeed make us all wonder.
Don't forget that old standby, the half-truth, too. Your point is very well made however: sometimes telling only part of the truth is worse than an outright lie. A critical thinker (a rarity, alas) will ask: what are they NOT talking about? What is the "elephant in the room"?
And these were just about all "half truths".
Yes there was a new respiratory virus in town.
No, it's IFR was not ever close to even .5%.
“Mainstream Misleadia” 🤣…good one!
Mainstream "Misleadia". Genius...and I'm stealin' it, Kim G. :)
Please! The farther that phrase goes, the better off we all are. Cheers!
Mainstream Misleadia! May I use that please? And by use that, I mean, hopefully run it into the ground the way Fauci runs covid BS into the ground? I hope to make it a buzzword.
Please! Spread "mainstream misleadia" far and wide. I think I invented the term, and I've been hoping it gains some traction. I think it's a label that will be hard for them to get away from if it becomes more widely used. Cheers!
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
And we had the same type thing perpetuated. That kid in N. Ga who shot up the massage parlors— and everyone cried “Asian Hate Crime” for months? HE said on our LOCAL TV, he loves Asian people; he just hates that he’s so tempted to go to these massage parlors and strip clubs. HE said Asians had nothing to do with it. He is simply ashamed of his sex addiction and that massage parlor is near his home.
Yes, every crime that has an Asian victim is now an "anti-Asian hate crime," regardless of the actual motive. I think Asians are just as good a target for crime as anyone, and that few of these crimes are racially motivated.
In terms of actual bodily assault I’m in agreement with your comment, however, there are those who are committing true “Anti-Asian hate crime” in the form of ‘affirmative action’ in top US universities. Many are increasing the numbers of black American students by lowering grade requirements for entry - for black American students only - while actively discriminating against East Asian applicants by levying quotas for entry. It’s an open and blatant policy and yet, in true progressive Orwellian parlance, it’s called equity.
Honestly, affirmative action in the sense of trying extra hard to admit QUALIFIED minority applicants to universities, competitive jobs, etc., is a great idea in my view. BUT, lowering standards is a terrible, terrible thing. Not only does it push aside deserving folks, it degrades both the degrees awarded and legitimately stigmatizes the minorities who receive them. Right? If you KNOW that some reasonably large percentage of minority applicant's don't make the academic grade, you are not wrong to be suspicious of their academic qualifications. In some sense this type of affirmative action actually provides legitimate fuel for racists to discriminate. It's appalling.
As a society it'd be much, much better to ensure that every child in America gets an excellent K-12 education. That we can send $44 billion to Ukraine at the drop of a bomb, but not do this with our own citizenry speaks very ill of us.
And neither party is doing anything at all to fix it.
Here's a radical idea: progressive property tax, e.g., expensive homes pay a higher rate. Then all funds are distributed equally a the state level. It seems inexcusable that kids in poor districts should get inferior public educations to kids in rich districts. Have you ever heard anyone promote this idea? Even in ultra-liberal Massachusetts we don't have such a thing. It's appalling.
The hypocrisy of middle-class progressives (the arts/media/judiciary/
activists/NGO’s etc.) knows no bounds.
The concept in physics of high potential energy of an object sitting at a position where it can fall into a well, same for lying. It takes so much energy to keep those lies perched at the top of the belief pile and not roll down the hill crashing into pieces.
Yes, spent some time writing about this:
(1) https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-censorship?r=boqs0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
(2) https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-censorship-part?r=boqs0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
True enough. But don't forget that many times we must work with incomplete or sometimes conflicting information. Sometimes the closest approach to the truth we can make is a "best guess" by considering all available data and forming a hypothesis that best fits the available data, ideally without discrepancies. It is also worth considering how trustworthy the messenger is. The media clearly lies all the time, but the skeptic will learn (or more likely, infer) much simply by asking "Why? Who pays his salary? Who owns the corporation? What known or hidden manipulators are there (government, deep state, corporate advertisers, etc.)?"
Believe a highly skeptical nature is the best thing to have to combat this tyranny. Invoking "Best guesses" or "Common Sense" are good policies.
Here's a post I wrote awhile ago on the role of the International Corporatocracy in all this:
https://kwnorton.substack.com/p/the-world-economic-forum-davos-and?r=boqs0&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Great analogy!
I don't think the well is really an important part of the principle. Just having some fun with you here. Your point is well taken.
if there had not been a panic attack, it would have passed without anyone knowing. They would have blamed the flu.
As happened in so many preceding years. One of the key lies is "Flu season". People assume these are sick who succumb to an Influenza virus variant. This is untrue as "Flu Season" has always been comprised of a giant variety of respiratory pathogens.
My Dad always cautioned us against lying. Besides being wrong in the first place, he was convinced that liars will always get caught. When that happens , it will be worse than the situation they wanted to cover up.
It has mostly proven true that the lies don't last but at least in the US the lies haven't proven terribly expensive. With a few exceptions they get away with it. And worse the lies work. When the vaccines were first made available many parts of the US continued to have low vaccination rates the media assault was fast, vicious, and mostly a lie. For months there were daily rants about the anti-vaccination hicks perpetuating the deaths of the righteously vaccinated. Reports of hospitals being over run, a desperate shortage of ICU beds, a pandemic of the unvaccinated, were fabricated out of thin air. And even when proven to be false there were no apologies or retractions. They simply moved on.
But it didn't start with the pandemic for years the Russia collusion, Trump is an agent of Putin, "the 2020 election was the safest more secure election in history" (whatever that means), men menstruate they can get pregnant.
You've hit the nail on the head. "The lies work." That's the one of the big problems. Politicians of all stripes see this, and they just keep doing it. The fact that the mainstream misleadia doesn't call them on it just makes matters that much worse.
Cheers!
misleadia ! oh I love that word. In a couple of years we will have a whole new vocabulary thanks to this plandemic !
Yes, it is standard propaganda. The media corporations are complicit in the scheme. That’s the way totalitarianism works. They are working extremely hard to perpetuate the lies.
Harry Reid, as Senate Majority Leader, lied on the Senate floor just before the presidential election about Mitt Romney being a tax cheat which was repeated far and wide by lapdog media. It was false, and a reporter confronted Reid, who knew he could not be held liable for slander for the lie that threw the election to 0bama. Reid said, "It worked, didn't it?"
I'm not a Republican, though I voted for Trump, and frankly think the Democrats have lost their ever loving miinds. But am I deluding myself, or do the Democrats really play much dirtier tricks than the Republicans? For example, I just heard that some organization has been hired to call folks at 2:00 AM to "support" Blake Masters. He disavows it, but some folks will fall for the idea that he's so craven that he'll call folks at 2:00 AM. And let's not forget the most brazen of all: so-called "Russian Collusion."
I can't think of any similar scams run by Republicans.
Anyway, such things are disgusting and speak very badly of those who do them.
It seems we are being played on both sides. Notice how Fox News never really gets into what is behind all this totalitarianism? Sure they beat up the Democrats (whom I have not use for at all) but many of the Republicans are supporting bad policies. We need strict constitutionalists in office, ideally those who are not corrupt grifters.
Well, I don't watch Fox news (or any other TV news for that matter), so I have no idea what Fox is reporting or lying about. I occasionally watch Tucker Carlson on YouTube, but he's an opinion columnist, so I give him much less weight regarding actual facts. Though I do find his opinions interesting.
Frankly, I believe there's truly a "Uniparty" out there and with few exceptions (mostly on the R side these days) it doesn't seem to matter whether your name has a D or an R behind it.
What does puzzle me, though, is how congressional leadership manages to force their entire caucus into voting the exact same way. I truly can't believe that every single Democrat senator really believes that abortion should be completely unregulated up and until the day of birth. That's still a pretty extremist position, yet somehow all the Ds in the senate managed to vote that way after Roe was overturned.
Also, as an issue, it seems odd to me that abortion should fall so neatly into American political party categories. It's an issue that has little to do with the other things the various parties are concerned with. Indeed, in years past, there was a strong, anti-abortion wing of the Democrat party. Whatever happened to them? Total mystery. I rather doubt that suddenly Democrats all decided that the abortion of an 8 and a half month fetus was suddenly A-OK.
We don't live in a democracy. We don't even live in a Republic. We live in an oligarchy, where a small handful of government officials control what's even brought to the floor of Congress to be debated and voted on. There could be overwhelming support for something, but if Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer don't want votes on it, it won't happen. How's that a democracy?
Cheers,
Kim G
Roma Sur, Mexico City
Sure, I don't watch Fox news at all except for what filters through on YouTube or elsewhere on the web. All of what you cite is to be concerned about. The good news is by and large many of the American people are waking up to what is going on. Not fast enough for most of us here but it is happening.
Yes, good point. A bunch of Machiavellian, power grabbing, grubby & shameless opportunists.
When I refer to the lies (propaganda) being expensive I refer to economics, social cost, lives lost & ruined, and by the looks of it - nations and/or civilizations lost/ruined. Agree the lies are so insane as to be - well, insane.
That type of expensive while definitely accurate isn't important to them, arguable it's the point. The media lie on behalf of those that pay them to do so. In this even their own reputations are less valued then their bank accounts.
I remember reading that in Germany Der Spiegel, which used to be a very reputable magazine, received an enormous sum from gates to hide the truth. They used to be the ones that discovered the truth (I remember very well long ago, a reporter of theirs going undercover as a guest worker from Turkey, to see how bad these people were treated at the time, 1974 I think ) Just to say how things have changed in 50 years.
Out of so many contenders, it is difficult to pick the whopper lie. My favorite for this year so far is DoD's correcting the "glitch" in the DMED database. You see, they forgot to enter into the system hundreds of thousands of medical records from 2016-2020, which led to the wrong conclusion by the researchers that certain illnesses had jumped hugely in 2021, whose data was correct. [Roll eyes.]
I hadn't heard of this. Is it a lie? Or just business-as-usual government incompetence? I'd lean toward the latter. But I have to wonder how the so-called researchers didn't figure this out. I spent a career looking at numbers, and weird numbers aren't that hard to spot.
that last sentence of course, beats it all. I think I disagree with 'not so expensive'. A huge amount has been spent on pharma, to develop the jabs, then the gov paid for the already paid for jabs, masks, etc. I read the sum but cannot remember. It was quite some ! Probably enough to feed America for a few years !
and yet…
That first wave really had all the signs of being a bizarre anthropogenic disaster, with nursing home residents abandoned and left to die by panicking eastern european migrant workers, doctors like Carlo Mosca accused of murdering patients to free up beds, doctors in NYC admitting to putting patients on ventilators to protect staff from "aerosolizing procedures", recovering patients sent into nursing homes and all sorts of other acts of stupidity or active malice.
It almost behaves like some sort of egregore, a thought construct that takes on a life of its own once enough people believe in it, unintentionally willed into existence through people's own fear of divine punishment.
Not just Eastern European. I have long thought that the reason my part of the UK (South West) escaped with less covid death is that we have fewer migrants. The care home staff, being comprised more of natives, would have more empathy for the elderly in their care.
yes. i bet you are correct.
Massive testing. With the scam known as PCR.
I don't know much about PCR: we were all issued with nice shiny Chinese self-testing lateral flow tests here in Scotland, and my impression of them was that yes, they did (probably) work most of the time, in that they did detect this virus.
The problem was rather ... so what? I mean, how exactly was knowing that you were one of the one-in-twenty people to have the virus that week actually translate into protection of anyone?
In defense of the tests, they do seem to work. I've read up on them a bit. They are (compared to PCR) less sensitive. In one aspect: that is good. One has to have a lot of virus to test positive. They are supposed to be quite accurate, 85-90% range or so. I have no requirement for regular testing. In mid June I got my first known case of Covid-19, and I used on hand home test. Positive. I self-isolated until fever subsided and negative test (at about day 21, might have been sooner, but I only tested about weekly.)
TL;DR: yes, the tests serve a good purpose. While no requirement I do so, where I volunteer we are on the honor system. Besides, I knew I was sick was cold/flu symptoms, so should be resting at home. The test is just an additional diagnostic tool.
Just as irrelevant.
Even if the false positive rate of covid tests is "only" 5%, if you test the whole population it will tell you that 5% are infected, even if zero people have it. If these false-positives are then used to justify lockdowns ("Millions are infected!") and other extreme measures, that's a problem.
The free self-tests in the UK came way later, in 2021 and with no obligation to register results. Official figures were never based on these but instead on the ONS Infection Survey (which gets a representative sample of the UK population to undergo weekly or monthly PCR swab tests).
The problem is that PCR tests run at high amplificafions are often picking up old infections rather than active ones. This was never contextualised or explained.
Because it's not a diagnostic test. It was used to amplify fear, fraud and number of cases.
I know! The public is so uneducated. I had a 20-ish year okd tell me that the authorities would never lie about PCR. If this young woman had even stepped into a chem lab I would have been amazed. Wonder if I’ll ever get an apology?
Spot on. The bias in journalism is not how stories are presented (lying) but which stories are chosen to write about. That’s a popular misconception that our host has accurately observed.
And argument brilliantly illustrated by Jon Stewart back in the day:
https://www.cc.com/video/in35c7/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2012-corn-polled-edition-ron-paul-the-top-tier
Whewww, we have so much to thank @eugyppius for, the anxiety that 'they' started is relieved by the pure common sense and intellect of you, whoever you are, thanks a million or perhaps even more
But there's still a 'they' who completely screwed it up, and are compounding the immense cost of their stupidity by desperately trying to cover it up.
and to enforce other "emergency" mandates for absolute non-emergencies such as "nitrous-use reduction" laws that with further divide us and drive us to mistrust of everything and everybody. They now want one working class (city dwellers) to turn against another working class (farmers). They will try to demonize the farmers for feeding us good food. do not let them.
had 2020 not been an American presidential election hear, had it been say... 1997, we would have heard that there was a particular bad flu circulating around and that we should wash our hands and stay home if we were sick. Life would have continued. In 1968 and 1957 there were flu pandemics that killed a greater percentage of people ( when adjusted for population ) than covid 19 did in 2020-21
You overlook the fact that most of the world followed the same steps one way or another, which would hardly be related to the US election. Nor does it fit with the now known aims of the WEF, the WHO, Gates and uncle Tom Cobley....
I dont think I overlooked it. The US fed gov dominates the world. The US fed gov is an imperial power more powerful , insidious, coercive than the british empire the Khans in acient china, the ROmans... THe US fed gov health agencies like the CDC are marketing arms of a global pharm industry. THe CDC , WHO , WEF they seem to be all part of the same permanent state globalist bureacacry. Trump represented a threat to this hegemony, so he had to taken down. COVId was weaponized, politicized and used a political tool
That's the only way EVERYTHING makes perfect sense. The real outbreak was earlier and insignificant until 'someone' saw the 'small window of opportunity'. FB Moskovitz 100% funded Event 201, and then Zuckerberg funded the Mules/Fraud drop boxes. By June, Evil Klaus released his book and unrolled the Reset. Joke Biden didn't even need to campaign, he already had the ballots. Trump's speeches at UN and WEF made perfectly clear for them that America was NOT FOR SALE! Our Constitution's God given RIGHTS are the pebble in their shoe. Soros clearly said it: "Trump admin is a DANGER to the WORLD, but I regard it as temporary and WILL DISAPPEAR in 2020"! Jeffrey Sachs, socialist/abortionist, for the VATICAN! at Davos: "America is a DANGEROUS country now (with Trump), and will be ABSOLUTELY DANGEROUS IF TRUMP WINS REELECTION". Need more evidence? Soros controls a good chunk of America's Justice and Election systems...
https://rumble.com/v10eewj-the-real-reason-they-want-you-to-hate-donald-trump.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
👆 Bingo.
The "one size fits all" approach to Covid including the shot mandates are absolutely insane. Every patient is different and putting a 38 y/o marathon runner on a ventilator seems wrong. Also the use remdisiver has killed thousands yet is still accepted protocol. How can the medical profession stand by and accept the politicization of their field by the CDC, NIH and other government agencies? I don't understand where the "First, Do No Harm" was lost. The west has lost it's way in almost all areas and our elected and unelected "leaders" seem more intent on killing us than representing our best interest.
EXACTLY…and no change even today when every other country no longer follows that protocol our govt along with Medicare providing DNRs for ALL patients over 65 whether they want it or not, is handing doctors and hospital administrators bonuses for following the Remdisivir -ventilation death in three days protocol. THEN they count that death as a Covid death. A self-completing circle making it look like SARS is deadlier then it is and getting older folks “off the books”. Awful.
We had a family friend that went in, placed on a ventilator and remdisivir. Doctor told her son if she can maintain kidney function, she has another 20 good years. Guess what? She died of kidney failure. Classified on death certificate as Covid 19. WTF is wrong with these hospitals?
The drug turns your kidneys off then the fluid backs up into your lungs and the vents blow out your lungs. Yet, they keep on doing it. But death isn’t recoded as coming from the treatment, it’s recoded as a Covid death. And on and on and on it goes. That’s why no one trusts hospitals, doctors, etc anymore. Again, sad.
Well stated. I have very low trust in the medical profession these days.
They knew and had always known ventilation was dangerous and potentially fatal. I actually read a comment from a professed UK nurse who said that whenever a patient was assigned ventilation they described them as “DMW - dead man walking”.
The medical profession have a lot to answer for and deserve a monumental fall in trust and usage wherever feasible from the public.
Remdesivir study funded by Fauci for Ebola in Africa a couple of months before covid. 5 drugs were being tested. After 28 days, Remdesivir had to be pulled because it KILLED between 30 and 80% of patients on it. Fauci had friend Baric, developer of Remdesivir, test it 'quickly' for covid, and oh surprise they found it 'safe and effective'... France and many other countries rejected it as TOXIC (liver and kidneys). Others rejected it for children: there had been NO TRIALS/STUDIES on children. EUA says it, that they 'just extrapolated the numbers from the adults' trial". Unconscionable! Never done with ANY other drug.
Fauci is evil personified.
Truly Machiavellian.
Don't get how everything has been ruthlessly analyzed but "testing."; public health goblin's nose hairs have been counted, yet somehow everyone agrees to suspend his/her/they disbelief about "testing". Suspicious cause it's the main character in this movie.
Yes this was a pandemic of PCR testing as Fullmich has been saying, and was clearly all about pumping numbers and fear. I certainly will never forget though I don't see any of the those culpable (media included) wanting to talk about. We must remember.
Well, all of this was just a perfect contrivance to get rid of mean old Trump.
The left has been hammering hard and promising too many people the big windfall after
the great reset. The ukraine "war" is also a superb diversion and helps the Big guy and Big Z fill their own pockets to spread around to their friends
These sorts of origin story analysis are critical. Thank you
This is one of your most important pieces yet. I’ve been saying since around June/July 2020 that the period January to March 2020 was the crucial one for laying the tracks this juggernaut of a sh1tsh0w travelled on. My advice to future historians of the Plague Years was to concentrate on those three months, for exactly the reasons you have stated so convincingly. The widespread community transmission *prior* to anyone even having heard of corona is grist to the mill of all those of us who want to push the spectre of Corona (and all it stands for in a sociopolitical sense) back into the box of normal, seasonal, inconsequential infections.
Released on the population for months with barely anyone noticing.
Meanwhile scientists and modelers fear mongered exponential infection rates.
Completely out of touch with reality.
IIRC, the Diamond Princess was also used to generate hysteria about what turned out to be a ludicrously high projected infection fatality rate when applied to all age groups and health conditions. And the fact that 80% of the ship’s passengers and crew were uninfected, at least symptomatically, was quickly memory-holed.
Perfect test case. DP offered an isolated population, and with the interconnectivity of the HVAC, plumbing systems, almost certainly everyone aboard was exposed to the virus.
DP demonstrated that the majority of the population easily fends off the virus when exposed.
If you even just look at the national daily mortality graphs in major western countries for the earliest months of our corona hysteria, you see bright-as-day that each country's initial accelerating daily mortality figure is just a late-arriving ramp-up of testing that is slowly growing into and revealing the shape of the preexisting natural curve - which clearly started earlier, peaked earlier and higher, and then for most of its descent we have visibility onto it
Put another way: for later corona waves, the daily mortality figures start slow, ramp up, crescendo, and then come down in a fairly symmetric parabola-like curve. No reason to think the first wave was much different. So the exercise here is to ignore the first ~half of the first wave, focus on the true-ish second "half", and try to interpolate back a symmetrical parabola-type curve that includes the true second half shape.
One last way of phrasing it: the arcing trajectory of all other waves, including "first waves" in late-arriving states in the U.S. where testing captured a much truer full symmetrical parabola, suggests that the reported data for early arriving places like Italy and New York City missed the true extent of the first half of the first wave.
Been telling that to my friends for years now.
And the insidious part is that they took credit for spring, claiming it was the NPIs that did it.
I think it is worse than that. The first wave was only caught late in the cycle, but the response with aggressive ventilation and panic and nursing home policy boosted the actual mortality far above what it would have been if we had just ignored the first wave entirely.
In the US, one of the greatest crimes was forcing elderly care homes to take covid positive patients. The world knew the elderly were the people most at risk. Politicians used threats and bribery to put them in. All while the media and same politicians chastised us to stay at home to protect grandma.
Same in the UK. And, while there’s some disagreement as to the true nature of “Covid” and its transmission routes, there were, nonetheless, temporary care assistants travelling from one care home to the next, happily unencumbered by NHS Test & Trace while the government made the move to lock down the “non-essential” healthy workforce (ie those of working age who could work from home and whose lives weren’t expendable) to “save lives” and “protect the NHS”.
Diabolical but all part of the plan to centralise global control over every aspect of our lives that marches relentlessly on, and for which the Covid narrative was not simply convenient but intentional.
Same in Spain.
This is basically what created the impression of certain hotspots being way worse than others. I believe the stats show that on average 40% of deaths in those spring peaks were nursing home residents.
I believe testing of the blood supply has shown Covid in the US as early as Nov. 2019. Hospitals were paid more for Covid patients and any patient that tested positive for Covid and died was a Covid death, even if it wasn't the cause of death. Nurses in a New York Hospital report severely ill and dying patients that did not have Covid were placed in covid wards till they tested positive so that when they died the death could be called a "Covid death" and the hospital would get more $$$. Hospitals in the US prior to Covid were in many cases struggling financially. Covid became a way to make money for collapsing hospital systems.
My son & his girlfriend were students at UC Davis in California in the fall of 2019. A lot of students were getting sick that fall, and my son and his GF got sick in late November. It was a pretty bad respiratory type flu, and the doctors at the UC medical clinic stated "Something weird is going around and we don't know what it is." They didn't think it was the typical flu, for some reason. His GF has asthma and was having a hard time at one point, and went to the ER where she got a nebulizer that delivered some kind of steroid treatment. Interestingly, they also gave her Ivermectin. She was quite sick for about 2 weeks, and it took at least a month to fully recover. My son was also sick for a week or more (he described it as a "gnarly" flu), after which he recovered quickly. Of course, at the time we all thought it was just a respiratory flu and there wasn't any testing back then.
It's worth adding that UC Davis has a massive number of Chinese students, so many that when on campus you would think you were in China! AND....a great many of these students were from Wuhan. Hmmmmm.....
Yes - I also live in a college town with lots of Chinese students - many returning for classes in mid-January. Many in the area had worse then usual colds, but that isn't all that unusual in February in the mid-west:) So far I've not had covid - though occasional colds all testing negative by inaccurate home test. I've wondered if maybe many of us had it before it was even known to be around.
I live in a B10 college town with many Chinese students returning from January break and Chinese new year. The daycares and schools had something run through them in Feb 2020. My children both came down with it. When we went back to school, the teacher said a third of the class called in sick in one day. I've always asssumed my family all had covid alpha in Feb 2020. Madison, WI.
Inaccurate home tests? Those lateral flow tests are pretty good at picking up antigen if you have symptoms, so maybe you didn't have covid. Despite the past 2+ years, everything is not covid.
Here in the USA the fall/winter academic break for universities is roughly between the first week of December into mid-January. Even if the virus had not appeared before November 2019, and certainly if earlier, you couldn't pick a more ideal time to unsuspecting Chinese or other international students to pick up latent infections and bring them to American soil in mid-January.
I remember hearing stories of hospitals putting healthy people in covid areas. The financial incentives helps understand those were not mistakes. Just as sending covid positive patients into old age homes was not an oversight.