Some of you, after thirty months of nuclear-grade media propaganda, are inclined to doubt everything that appears in the press. While journalists certainly circulate their share of falsehoods, lies are not their preferred strategy and almost always originate outside major press organs, with the self-serving statements of regime officials. The problem with lying, is that it’s expensive and requires more coordination than widely distributed media operations command. Their preferred approach is rather one of emphasis. Regime-friendly reporters will scour the earth for every last story supporting government policies, and amplify these meagre items to the point of absurdity; at the same time, they’ll do everything possible to ignore or downplay information injurious to their preferred narratives, however significant it might be.
"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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
Massive testing. With the scam known as PCR.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.