Any trust I had in government (which admittedly was minimal), or “experts,” or even my own personal doctors, has vanished. No one can be trusted, at all, ever. And that is exhausting.
Is it damage? The medical system has been exposed for what it is; sick and perverse. It was sick and perverse before COVID and that reality has now been revealed to me, to my benefit. I have no natural inclination to read medical papers or understand mathematics as applied to medicine, but the last 2 years has shown me I need to do so when it comes to my family's health. In matters where I absolutely must rely on expertise, I know better how they rig the numbers, the incentive structure of the medical profession and how to weed out crooks. I understand how generally poor our doctors are at critical thinking, how arrogant many of them are and how little they actually know in many matters of medicine. I learned they held trust that they should never have had in the first place.
That article is literally this, unfolding before our eyes:
“We have seen that scientific technique increases the importance of organizations, and therefore the extent to which authority impinges upon the life of the individual. It follows that a scientific oligarchy has more power than any oligarchy could have in pre-scientific times. There is a tendency, which is inevitable unless consciously combated, for organizations to coalesce, and so to increase in size, until, ultimately, almost all become merged in the State. A scientific oligarchy, accordingly, is bound to become what is called "totalitarian," that is to say, all important forms of power will become a monopoly of the State.
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Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It would be foolish to be morally indignant with them on this account; human nature, in the main and in the mass, is egoistic, and in most circumstances a fair dose of egoism is necessary for survival. It was revolt against the selfishness of past political oligarchies that produced the Liberal movement in favor of democracy, and it was revolt against economic oligarchies that produced socialism. But although everybody who was in any degree progressive recognize the evils of oligarchy throughout the past history of mankind, many progressives were taken in by an argument for a new kind of oligarchy. "We, the progressives"- so runs the argument- "are the wise and good; we know what reforms the world needs; if we have power, we shall create a paradise." And so, narcissistically hypnotized by contemplation of their own wisdom and goodness, they proceeded to create a new tyranny, more drastic than any previously known. It is the effect of science in such a system that I wish to consider in this chapter.
In the first place, since the new oligarchs are the adherents of a certain creed, and base their claim to exclusive power upon the rightness of this creed, their system depends essentially upon dogma: whoever questions the governmental dogma questions the moral authority of the government, and is therefore a rebel. While the oligarchy is still new, there are sure to be other creeds, held with equal conviction, which would seize the government if they could. Such rival creeds must be suppressed by force, since the principle of majority rule has been abandoned. It follows that there cannot be freedom of the press, freedom of discussion, or freedom of book publication. There must be an organ of government whose duty it is to pronounce as to what is orthodox, and to punish heresy. The history of the Inquisition shows what such an organ of government must inevitably become. In the normal pursuit of power, it will seek out more and more subtle heresies. The Church, as soon as it acquired political power, developed incredible refinements of dogma, and persecuted what to us appear microscopic deviations from the official creed. Exactly the same sort of thing happens in the modern States that confine political power to supporters of a certain doctrine.
The completeness of the resulting control over opinion depends in various ways upon scientific technique. Where all children go to school, and all schools are controlled by the government, the authorities can close the minds of the young to everything contrary to official orthodoxy. Printing is impossible without paper, and all paper belongs to the State. Broadcasting and the cinema are equally public monopolies. The only remaining possibility of unauthorized propaganda is by secret whispers from one individual to another. But this, in turn, is rendered appallingly dangerous by improvements in the art of spying. Children at school are taught that it is their duty to denounce their parents if they allow themselves subversive utterances in the bosom of the family. No one can be sure that a man who seems to be his dearest friend will not denounce him to the police; the man may himself have been in some trouble, and may know that if he is not efficient as a spy his wife and children will suffer. All this is not imaginary; it is daily and hourly reality. Nor, given oligarchy, is there the slightest reason to expect anything else.”
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953
It is attitudes like that which fuel their belief that they should be the ones to pick and choose the correct points of view, to the detriment of anything else. We're to believe the experts... but not Dr. McCollough or Dr. Malone, certainly not! We're not supposed to believe the experts in the Barrington declaration, but instead the ones the media tells us to believe, like Fauci, who has already been caught in so many lies that we ought to look askance if he tells us his name is Tony.
We're supposed to believe in their supposed consensus, even as they use coercion and fear to maintain the illusion of that consensus. We're supposed to believe that every person in the entire scientific chain is acting in good faith, and overwhelmingly, they are not.
We may not have the scientific knowledge to be conversant about many topics, but we don't have to be. More than anything, what we are is jurors, acting as impartial judges of credibility, much the same as in a trial (where we are also not specifically knowledgeable about any given thing; it is up to us to evaluate the expert witnesses and decide which ones are the most credible).
When a given politician tells me that the "consensus" of scientists is x, do I know that to be the case? It's a statement by a politician, and they lie, a lot. When the media tells me there is a consensus, do I believe them? They lie too, constantly. And when we hear about the number of doctors and other professionals who do know about these topics who are afraid to speak out, and when we hear about the journals only publishing papers that espouse certain politician-approved talking points, what good is any supposed claim of consensus?
I've read several studies that were purported to show the efficacy of masks, and it is not hard to find methodological errors that can lead to the conclusion not fitting the data, or the conclusion of the data not fitting the supposed narrative the people tell me it does. I'm supposed to ignore that and just wave my hands and say that I must not be smart enough to see how this thing that obviously doesn't prove what it is supposed to really does. I am supposed to pretend I don't know that scientists are actual people who are as prone to corruption, confirmation bias, and self-delusion as any layperson, and that the claims of their consensus are manufactured in the halls of the known liars?
No. They're asking me to let others do my thinking for me, and that's not how it works in a representative democracy (republic).
Shame on Forbes for lowering itself to publish a pathetic screed like that.
I wonder his he would feel if there was an astronomy issue in which he has expertise , say about a near earth asteroid, and the “science” was dominated by public health behaviourists and clueless modellers. That is exactly what has happened in the U.K.
I don't know if you are in the U.S. but if you are I can tell you that the one thing that our federal government (and some state governments) excel at is publications. There is an abundance of information out there courtesy of Uncle Sam. Some of which I am sure is very inconvenient in face of the lies the government prefers to spread about the pandemic and how to deal with the virus.
couldn't agree more, people need to start becoming smarter at being their best researchers and sources on more things in life. The zoom class wants you to think it's all too complex to understand without them -- it's not -- most of these professions (and I am in one) are so heavily 'jargonized' with arcane language that seems specifically crafted to limit understanding. Once you read the materials, and read it a few times for greater understanding, you'll be surprised how much is quite understandable, allowing you to read and weigh the material on your own to make your own decisions.
If anything, this has show the US/Western world that public health is pure garbage, and money spent on them is actually something that will end up costing you far more that anything initiallly spent.
My doctor's refusal to prescribe IVM, and his refusal to engage in a conversation on the subject - all he did was cite the CDC, then the WHO (!), then the list of side-effects, as his defenses, in response to my many multiple detailed citations of data and facts and evidence - was a shocking eye-opener to me.
The campaign against HCQ and IVM has been one of the most remarkable things I've ever witnessed. I can't believe how thoroughly those were demonized. And it persists even now. It's as if someone jumped on vaccine as the ONLY solution and was then able to use nearly every tool to remove alternatives along with even the discussion of alternatives. Creating bogus data to make the point and ensuring that every RCT would fail. I suspect not even Fauci knew of his power which likely amplifies his arrogance. This effort has been the real conspiracy that needs investigation one day.
It does not seem that way, it IS that exactly. They are dead set on every single human being getting that shot. We must resist at all costs until we find out why.
A medication with side effects!!!! Say it ain't so! Doctors have been prescribing meds for off label use when COVID was still a glint in Coronvirus' eyes. So the sputtering defense of CDC and WHO scripture rings hollow to me.
What I find exhausting is that institutions are leading the charge to destroy Enlightenment values and eliminate the search for truth, or the very idea of truth. And this is trickling down onto the normies.
This is why you can't change anyone's mind despite the facts being incontrovertible. Even low information people have incredibly good apostasy radar and if they detect you making a claim that is apostasy, they have no curiousity about it, no desire to look into it more and argue it on the merits. They just shut down and shut you out.
Apparently the tools of modern propaganda have been quite effective in causing many to abandon freedom. Not all of us are willing to become children of the state.
That's exactly where I'm at. I've always been skeptical of institutions, but we're at a new level now. I used to presume entities like hospitals, the CDC, the WHO, etc., were making a good faith effort to provide the public with reliable information. That presumption is gone. Henceforth, I will presume all governments, mainstream media outlets, universities, etc., are lying to me until conclusively proven otherwise. It's a disconcerting place to be psychologically, to say the least. But it's better than living by lies.
Lost my trust in WHO completely a couple years ago, when they declared that vaccines had made a better world. No clean water and decent food, several journalists wrote, and that was the only truth. Then I knew WHO was hung onto the bigharma
Yes. Here everybody has gotten a vax without questioning anything. So, honestly, I feel like I am surrounded by stupid people. I do not say I am not stupid, could be, but 90% of the people I share life with are stupid without any doubt.
I lost trust during the election of 2016 and on into the Trump administration as the media lied, and lied, and lied. Then we had all of the BLM bullsh*t, with thousands going out to protest the deaths of these horrible thugs who were fighting with police. And then covid and all the "experts" who said it was OK to protest during the pandemic, but anything Trump did was a superspreader event.
Now I'm with you. I don't trust officialdom one eentsy, teentsy bit.
I used to watch all T-Money's press conferences, round tables, cabinet meetings, all of the White House YouTube channel just to hear directly what he was actually saying. What was reported in the media was, by design, so unbelievably skewed that the US press has nothing to do with reality. Nowadays, for any apparent statement by a politician, I will only listen to the unedited full length interview from source, nothing else.
Never trust government at any level (but especially at the Federal level) nor any government institution. Assume they are lying and acting with malice and therefore must be transparent and if it should turn out they weren't lying or acting with malice that's all the better but if they were then you aren't caught off guard
The higher up in the government chain you go the more power and money that is at stake thus the greater the risk of corruption and bad actors. That said even at your local level government should always be transparent and its power restricted to the bare minimum because once government is given a power it's not a question of if but when that power will be abused.
When one considers that the same professional idiots who fostered this monstrous scam are the same people in charge of everything else, one can only hope that this entire mess wakes people up to the reality that government at every level is an out-of-control beast that must be slain. These people bring nothing but chaos, confusion, misery & death. One can only hope for a new appreciation for the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution and why they were written.
'government at every level is an out-of-control beast that must be slain'.....but I do want the roads fixed; other than that, though, slay away. No public schools, no city services...ok.
Are you really ready for that? I think taking the money out of Pharma and Hospitals, removing the profit incentive to MAKE folks sick. Doctors did not used to be rich, not like today. Medical schools are part and parcel of the problem too. I guess just let it all burn down, no one is very trusting of Doctors and Hospitals anymore, hope they all fail in their current incarnations. I would rather die of an illness than from the medicine.
Public schools, at least in the US, are coming out of this looking even worse than the health care profession. The dominance of public education by essentially communist teachers' unions whose only goal is to take taxpayer money, indoctrinate students in things most people consider reprehensible, and to work as seldom as possible has become excruciatingly clear. I am happy with no public schools -- collect the money and let parents apply it to schools they consider best for their children.
And I have found that the places with local water companies and individual trash collection services, contracted by homeowners, have always been better than the "free" government services you espouse. Don't need/want those either.
So other than perhaps large road maintenance and fire departments (I am sure there are another couple things in that category, but not nearly as many as most governments decide to "own") most other things can be handled better other ways where those who are paying exert more control. If you cannot do...teach. if you cannot teach...work for the government. The past couple years have made this clear to most of us.
Most physicians, at least those over 50 are pretty committed to their patients. Over the past 20 years there has been, it is true, amazing deprecation of the quality of students and the quality of instruction in the name of "social justice" and "equity" that has abrogated much of what was good about health care for a very long time. All medical school admissions are now social justice weighted and all testing pass/fail -- these kinds of things do not produce the best doctors and it shows.
But there are still plenty of us out there who pay no attention to the CDC when they are wrong. Health care is still about us and our patients. And many medicines are extraordinary. Would you like to compare life expectancy in 1900 with today? That is almost entirely due to antibiotics, antisepsis and vaccines that do work. (Keep in mind that the ivermectin that has so much discussion is an antibiotic.) Seen anyone die of syphilis lately? Used to be a big killer. So don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. In most cases you would NOT want to die from the illness. This is true irrespective of the horrible systemic abuse of the COVID situation...that deserves its own comeuppance and it cannot come fast enough for me.
I spent 32y in bio pharma industry. I regret to say that we’ve not added so much value through new medicines in recent decades. Most of the terrific medicines are old, off patent meds. Most of the improvements are refinements of those well established classes. I myself regularly use Tapentadol & that i have a decent QoL at all after a serious illness left me in chronic neuropathic pain rests on the peculiar properties of that opiate.
I knew we were “running out of good, druggable molecular targets” quite early in my career.
I am very grateful for the work of my forebears & rare peers but I think we could more or less close the entire corrupt sector & accept we’ll have no or very few new medicines.
The big gap is lack of new templates for antibiotics. Not for want of trying. We spent hugely & they’re just not there. Most drug companies have closed their anti infectives Research Depts including Pfizer. Their last triumph was Trovan. I knew the lead physician.
I’d happily give a year pro bono, debating which meds to retain & dumping 90% of them. Stockholders get slain including me. We stop a major criminal enterprise. We’re going to have to do the same with big media, big tech, big capital & the military. We’re going to have to raze it all to the ground.
Painful but better than letting these bastards put in place their madcap final solution.
As more 'Project Veritas' type of information from the likes of DARPA continue to leak out, there is much case precedent for cases of anti-trust and conspiracy (both civil and criminal) to be pursued on multiple fronts.
While others are less sanguine than me, I always put my faith in the retaliatory US Legal system, where very capable, extremely intelligent attorneys who do work like this all the time would be looking at settlements, if not verdicts, in the hundreds of billions., if not eventual trillions.
US Whistleblower laws also allow an internal 'whistleblower' 30% of all recouped damages gained by jury verdict and/or settlement. So you have how many people 'on the inside' who have the knowledge and the receipts, who now have an extra motivation to open up and divulge all.
Look at a simple case of Peter Angelo (with a net worth of approx. $2 Billion, mostly made from PI cases, not the ghastly Orioles), a personal injury attorney that became a key attorney in class action lawsuits against companies that peddled asbestos, tobacco and other products deadly to humans.
My money is always on the profit motive, and these pack of jackals in politics, big Pharma, and political medicine have created a very motivated group that will out all the facts and expose the rogues ( for 33% of course ;) ).
Mike, I generally agree. You surface, backhandedly, another major blight in the whole pharma space which is the management of opiates/opioids, one of the unique medications in the arsenal that has now been black pilled, causing untold suffering. We need to have another conversation on that somewhere, sometime, because millions of patients are suffering because of politics, not medicine, and it pains me every day.
Thanks Dr. K. -Maybe you are retired? but did you jab anybody? Did you recommend it? Did you try to stop fellow doctors from jabbing or recommending? Have you seen VAXXED? I think we are on a very wrong course and I do believe we have already (prev to mNRA) damaged the gene pool with our belief that vaccines work. They poison. That I am quite sure of. It is not a better life now.
I was a total normie until spring 2020. I now agree with your assessment. The most vaccinated nations are now the sickest.
I feel particularly stupid about flu vaccines, because they’re adjacent to my professional field. The data has been available for years. They’re a total scam.
I've read some essays explaining that after the first year or two, flu vaccines stopped making much of a difference in the death rates for the most vulnerable people, even as the percentage of them getting flu vaxes has continued to increase, and their best years they were only about 30% effective. Is that what you're referring to? I don't know whether what I read is credible or not.
The short-sightedness of libertarians. With a government captured by Big Pharma, the FDA is what it currently is, with no FDA imagine what Big Pharma would be.
Not sure your chain of events would be the same...the FDA hides the activity of Big Pharma from us, and enables....this. It gave the plandemic a guise of authority it would not have had...
With some 70% of the Federal budget devoted to transfer payments and another 15% for interest, the roads will need to be ignored. We must end the degree of our direct dependence on government which in the end benefits a bigger government not the people. I suspect fiscal reality worldwide will force a rethink about what governments ought to be doing.
The problem is that it's almost EVERY government, everywhere. It's easy for an American to say the Biden people did this (or whatever) but how does that explain Germany? It's easy for English people to say the NIH or Ferguson or whoever did this, but what about Spain? What about Australia? I think there is some collusion between "powers" (NGOs and corporations as well as governments) and there is also a general tendency in large bureacracies to do this sort of thing. Together, they're a juggernaut of disaster for normal people.
The answers to your questions are inevitably horrifying. Enough of ALL of them are corrupt enough to pass laws that will have the effect of permanently depriving us of our liberty & probably enabling global mass depopulation. I see no way to stop them, yet. Just knowing is the first step but I don’t have any idea how to stop the perpetrators from attaining their goals.
To quote Samuel Adams: "It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men". One of the best examples of this is Malone's appliance on Joe Rogan. The large media companies have been complicit in part of a global campaign to lie to people, with censorship brought to bear as a tool of mistruth. In a simple, one on one, 3 hour interview, Dr. Malone destroyed the entire rotten, evil cabal that has fostered this coordinated global effort. People like Dr. Malone, or yourself, who are courageous and unafraid to speak truth, are worth 1 million lying sociopaths. People want truth. Our society is sick and only gets well when the liars are silenced.
It certainly is alarming. They seem to have the ability to do just that. If you had told me three years ago that people would do what they have done, I wouldn't have believed it.
Not to rain on the various connections, but the inability of politicians to resist groupthink out of the fear of making an error. I can suppose even in governments who are not accountable can fall into the everybody is doing it trap. I can imagine they all admire how China can act. Western mini-versions are certain to fail as they have but there was a good effort.
I considered it very helpful at the time, and did use it when I was sick. I had not been insured for some years before Obamacare, and was grateful he was able to implement it and still consider it a miraculous achievement that I did not think would be achieved govermentally.
One guy made the difference there, a fella who offered help and ended up fixing the whole governmental health system. Gotte re look that guy up now just to talk. Anyway.
The pressure to 'have insurance' just in case, and the arguments for it do have validity, just as the arguments for vaccines had validity. Had. All of that is in question for me now. For folks 'incarcerated' in the medical system by disease management and drug dependance, I am truly sorry but I see it for what it is now, we are a money machine for big medicine cradle to grave, and they just dug their own. I am out.
Luckily I am no longer insured, and I say that not for you, but for me. When your medical care provider pushes a likely death jab on you, it really sours the experience for quite a long time. So no insurance becomes safer than insurance. Yay.
I’ve never been insured even though most well off folk in U.K. are.
Why not? Well, all my most serious medical issues are consequences of medical errors.
Stay away from doctors & especially hospitals. Adopt a healthier lifestyle.
In my case now, I don’t need insurance because in the unlikely event I am interested in a medical intervention I am in the fortunate position of being able to pay myself. Proceeds of success in biotech.
Which makes me very leery of both parties. They tell us what we want to get elected, then they do whatever they want (or what their corporate bosses tell them to) when they are in office. The illusion of different flavors is to keep us arguing and misdirected from the real agenda.
Yes. It’s very discouraging to extrapolate the, well, frankly evil idiocy of the medical community to the rest of the elites and realize that we’ve been living under a sham our whole lives.
People will not see this though. The willful ignorance of the populace is also plenty discouraging.
Yes, the Diamond Princess was my moment, too! Actually, the very first time I heard of this "deadly pandemic" I scoffed and claimed that within a week or at most a month, the whole scare-fest would be over as though it never happened. Sadly, I did seriously underestimate the mendacity of government and the gullibility of my fellow citizens of the world. Yes, I'm a skeptic and a cynic with regard to government, MSM, big pharma, big business and the medical industry - but the reason I couldn't take the fear-fest seriously is because of the drum-beating and shrieking of imminent disaster every time a routine weather event was about to take place, or the idiocy from the Climate Change liars hooting and hollering their dire predictions that have never once come to fruition, why in hell would I believe it this time around. Besides, I have a brain and eyes and after a month or so I could easily understand and see that this horrific pandemic was a tempest in a teapot. Probably helps that I don't watch television, follow any but independent news, or stay glued to social media. I just do that silly, out-moded thing called thinking for myself and seeking truth, like right here on Eugyppius' substack.
Yes. Cynicism about the validity and motives of the global warming scare has definitely caused me to doubt subsequent global scares. Especially when so many of the major players behind the corona scare in the UK are active believers in global warming too - Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty, Neil Ferguson, Neil Ferguson's lockdown-breaking lover ... they're all on record with their 'climate change' warnings.
In fact, their graphs look suspiciously similar too, with the y-axis simply changed from Degrees Centigrade to Cases. And their solution is naturally similar too: Ban Everything Or We're All Going To Die.
I went into a woman's clothing store with my GF. Looked for a place to sit down and surf the web, couldn't find a chair, asked and was told: "Due to COVID, we had to remove all the chairs." Apparently chairs spread COVID.
From there we went to eat at a restaurant. In restaurants the rule was, due to COVID, you must wear a mask walking around, but if you are sitting in a chair, you can take it off.
A few feet away from the clothing store, chairs apparently prevented the spread of COVID vs. causing it.
It's crazy ... if you think about it for even one second....here's an example from just a few weeks ago: I went to the Dali Museum in St. Pete's Florida -- the whole town is jammed packed, the streets and restaurants are full, no masks anywhere, right? It's Florida! FLORIDA, man, FREEDOM!
Except, the Dali museum -- mandatory masks. Museum "guards" enforce the rule, no mask, no entry, blah, blah, blah. Ok. I put on the mask, because I purchased tickets online and didn't know about the stupid rule. Inside was also jammed packed. Crazy. Couldn't even see the paintings. It's a tall building with a large open atrium and at the center of the huge open space is a cafe and bar -- (a bar!!) and people of course are sitting down, without masks, eating and drinking, in the center of a three-story atrium, while everyone else around has to wear masks. Cause viruses hate people who are silently looking at art, but avoid drunken idiots sitting at bars. It's crazy.
"Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists. Their work looks roughly right from a distance - there are data tables, charts, equations - but when you sit down and read it the scientific method has gone AWOL."
It's pretty shocking what can pass peer review as "science"
To date, their project has been successful: seven papers have passed through peer review and have been published, including:
- a 3000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.
- A dog-parks demonstrate rape culture paper that was honoured in a journal as exemplary scholarship, contains gems like this: “Dog parks are microcosms where hegemonic masculinist norms governing queering behavior and compulsory heterosexuality can be observed in a cross-species environment.”
This is an amazing article. Look forward to more. I was raised by a pathologist who escaped a socialist country, so I have a healthy distrust of government. I've also been exposed to how the immune system works and to avoid vaccines. But what really saved me was to hear contrarian voices, starting with Alex Berenson and Gummybear on Twitter and now Dr. Malone, McCollough, Kirsch, el gato malo, and eugyppius (!) etc. on gab and Substack. These free speech platforms with credible writers are critical to our freedoms.
Aside from the factual and data driven things, some of us intuitively know some things, even if we cant prove it, like:
- There is something inhuman about making humans "social distance", wear masks and stay in their house.
- Kids at home alone on their iDevices and social media all day, away from contact with other kids, rather than school is going to be bad for them, very bad.
- There is irreversible harm dome by crushing small businesses and forcing people losing their jobs. Very serious, very real harm that effects entire families and communities.
- A hard one for the sheltered and naive: There really are quite a few people in the world who get tremendous enjoyment out of controlling other people, including making them do ridiculous or even harmful things, and there are plenty of this type in govt and positions of power. Some of us KNOW this to be true though, and many others sense it, even though it's a very uncomfortable thought.
- Life comes with risks. Safety is an illusion. The witch with the pretty gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel wants to fatten you up and eat you. It's a trap.
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ― Helen Keller
Intuitively we just know there is something sinister and evil feeling about things like this, so we look for hard for facts and data to fight off the accusations of being selfish grandma killers who only care about ourselves and money. (Emotional Blackmail)
I agree! My intuition has been accurate too many times that I learned not to shrug it off. I will file it mentally and gather information, consciously being careful to challenge myself rather than falling into confirmation bias. I want to get as close to the truth as possible regardless as to what I hope the truth to be.
Thank you...of note Newsom posted this tweet the first week of October 2020. One month later on 11/6/20 he was dining at the French Laundry maskless. California Medical Association CEO Dustin Corcoran and lobbyist Janus Norman joined Newsom at the dinner for 12 at elite dining institution French Laundry to celebrate the birthday of Newsom adviser Jason Kinney.
I have nothing but contempt for these people. Never forget there are monsters among us.
Yep, that title clicked the button. It came from Newsom. That added the extra stupidity factor. --- Someone please tell me the San Andreas fault is going to fail soon.
I'm a little ashamed that I wish for it sooner rather than later - there are a handful of people in California I would want to escape that disaster, but only a few.
I'm in the mountains of California, and I would LOVE to see the entire Calif. coast end to end drop off into oblivion. That would solve a lot of problems right there.
Just my personal opinion here, but if you want to have sex, I believe catching something like a cold/flu, just might be the last thing you're thinking about. ... Although, maybe it would depend on how good looking the other person is. 😏
From the very beginning, none of what the mainstream media have been feeding us looked right. Exhibit A for me was the "footage" from China of young people face-planting in the street, supposedly collapsing and dying on the spot. This was, of course, alarming.
More than that, it was so different from the actual effects of the respiratory virus that the reality could not possibly match the hype right from the start. The floating laboratories of the Diamond Princess and the US Aircraft Carrier showed us that both transmission and death rates were nowhere near what we had been told. It's been a well-managed scam from DAY ONE. Thankfully we have forums like this now. I can see the daylight on the Eastern horizon, finally.
I keep remembering the video of Chinese authorities pounding on an apartment door, yelling"Do you have lice? Do you have lice?" In heavily accented English. A couple weeks later I suddenly woke up and thought "wait a minute...".
Sort of convinced myself that it was a translator recorded over the video. But in hindsight, I doubt it.
Grateful for this article and yesterday's. It is reassuring to read so many stories of sane people experiencing cognitive dissonance because of the insane behavior/messaging on the part of govts and health "care" corporations.
However, now that the "official narrative" seems to be shifting (finally hearing about "it'll be endemic" on NPR; cagey COVID 'recommendations' at my (now former because they used to be 'requirements') employer), I find myself angrier than ever. Like, oh, you've completely upended my life and trampled my freedoms and tried to intrude in my business and in general made me a not very happy camper, and NOW, because YOU say I can be HAPPY again, I'm supposed to? Just forgive and forget?
No way do I forgive or forget this. No way am I just gonna breathe a sigh of relief and try "going back to normal." I have completely shifted my politics and activism over this; whoever THEY are they will try garbage like this again, I have no doubt, and I want more SANE people to recognize it earlier on.
I give them a month, maybe two before they go apeshit again. But take into consideration, I see no MSM, so I'm not really sure of what is going on right now. My only news comes from substack.
Yeah, I make a point of listening to NPR a little bit b/c I want to know the "official narrative" that SO many peeps I know buy hook line and sinker. It is educational and interesting to see what stories they hide/suppress/twist-to-their-purposes, as well. But same, most of the rest of my news comes from substack.
as part of my role as a health care manager in a large drug and alcohol support service I compile the data on in service deaths. I knew something was a miss as by September 2020 we had not had one covid related death. We work with people who have very poor health, compromised respiratory systems, poor immune systems, liver complaints, poor diets etc. Lots of them were not in a position to follow the guidance and they continued to share cigarettes, cans, bottles, crack pipes, needles, tents, squats, sexual partners, crack houses ect. I just couldn't understand how they were not dying given everything we were being told. Two years on, 5000 + people in our service, still not one covid death. 2020 saw a 20% increase in death in service for our service users but because of lock downs and restrictions, not covid.
Thank you for your comments. I had always wondered about the poor people who are addicted and often homeless. Why weren't those in homeless camps all dying?
My rationale is that it's age related. I work with a lot of homeless people and none of them are over 55. The same in drug and alcohol services, only 2% of our case load are over 70
The question of why the "homeless", a misleading name for addicted and mentally ill, weren't dropping like flies was one of the key factors in my own belief that a much darker reason for the measures to "protect" from the virus had to be the case.
My BIL, a hospital pharmacist, lost his job in May 2020 because the hospital had been empty for two months. They let RNs go too. Many others went to other states as travel nurses. We were not in any kind of crisis in my state, the fittest and thinnest in the US. There has never been any justification for lockdowns here. Our elderly died alone, and I won't forgive them for that.
My BIL was hired in another state. He's got an exemption for the covid vaccines. He's passing on the Influenza vaccine as well. He's immune to lies.
I was embarrassingly slow on the uptake, but I think I had extenuating circumstances. I moved to Thailand from the U.S. the day after Trump was elected (a happy coincidence). I vowed at that time to not get caught up in what I knew would be a maddening news cycle, and was successful for about three years. I dodged TDS by tuning the whole shitshow out. Then Covid arrived and I figured it was important to pay attention to what was happening in the world. I had no idea how insane the country had gone in my three year absence.
My first impulse was to accept the narrative and do whatever the WHO told me to do (which at that point was to wash your hands and under no circumstances should you buy a mask, and that was about it). Then our first lockdown came, and given the uncertainty at the time, it seemed like a reasonable temporary measure. Then the Floyd killing happened and I decided to join Twitter to keep up with this new and exciting movement for criminal justice reform. I quickly realized these activists were fucking insane. As were the media, academia, the courts, and all the other institutions that went along with the woke narrative. Figuring out what was with these people and the institutions they were destroying consumed my attention over the ensuing months (lots of Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, Joe Rogan, James Lindsay etc.).
Covid also died down out here and life got pretty much back to normal for a time, so I really did not spend that much time thinking about it. I didn't fully realize how fucked up the Covid policies and rhetoric were until that brief moment in 2021 when everything opened up after the vaccine rollout, only to promptly shut down again. At that point, and, embarrassingly, only at that point, did I realize that something was terribly, terribly amiss. I thought the vaccines worked, right? So why are you telling all of these vaccinated people to wear masks and hole up in their homes? (unless of course they're out rioting. Then it's all ok). Note that at this point I had not yet had to decide whether to get vaccinated because we did not yet have widespread vaccine availability out here.
Only then did I take a deep dive down the Covid rabbit hole. Once I began really critically assessing the arguments and evidence for The Narrative versus the counter-narrative (a/k/a "misinformation"), it became pretty clear pretty quick that the insanity consuming society was not limited to the Great Awokening. Covidianism was every bit as delusional and dishonest, and considerably more dangerous. I feel at this point like the tide is turning, but, man, we've got a fight ahead of us to dismantle the Covid industrial complex. I've been trying to do my part within my small sphere of influence. Godspeed to all my fellow soldiers. Truth will prevail! I hope...
For me containment always seemed impossible because of how contagious the media made it out to be. Any success could only be temporary and not worth the cost. I was always anti-lockdown, briefly placated by the curve-flattening argument which ended once weeks became months.
Where I really felt insane and alone for the longest time was when I noticed a bunch of questions weren't being asked e.g. What are the false positive rates on tests? How many tests are being done? What are the objective standards around which this data used to justify ruining lives in the name of saving some others is based? Everything was just being taken at face value and not scrutinised at all. I tried pointing these reasonable things out to people around me who I thought were intelligent and was laughed at and dismissed every time. This includes a very accomplished molecular biologist.
Once the Loannidis antibody study came out in mid 2020 showing way more people were infected than we thought (and so the death rate was way lower than the initially quoted 3-4%) I was officially on the "this is all very overblown, stupid and retarded" train and I, like many of us, continue to be vindicated time and again.
I realised normie (and even most expert) opinions were dictated by propaganda and that, with no authority in their eyes, I had no hope of changing any minds. Only then did I finally find peace and resolved to use the closer-to-reality knowledge I found online in places like this substack to make better decisions for myself and help only those who asked me for it.
My supposedly very intelligent, highly educated northeastern relatives (one a physicist and the other a Harvard fundraiser) got visibly angry with me for asking questions about the PCR tests in September 2021. At one point, the physicist angrily said to me, “But people are DYING.” I knew at that point we were dealing with something really scary. I now know the term for it: Mass Formation.
I hadn't re-watched it in a couple of years - it is from some years ago. What struck me on the re-watch this morning was how on-point the "mandatory Kidney donation" remains. How much further along is that from mandatory injection of experimental vaccines? It's true you don't "need" two kidneys, and the transplant procedure is "safe" and "effective" and the "public health" rationale is there.
Any trust I had in government (which admittedly was minimal), or “experts,” or even my own personal doctors, has vanished. No one can be trusted, at all, ever. And that is exhausting.
This for me is the long term damage of the pandemic. All trust has evaporated.
-fellow mom.
Is it damage? The medical system has been exposed for what it is; sick and perverse. It was sick and perverse before COVID and that reality has now been revealed to me, to my benefit. I have no natural inclination to read medical papers or understand mathematics as applied to medicine, but the last 2 years has shown me I need to do so when it comes to my family's health. In matters where I absolutely must rely on expertise, I know better how they rig the numbers, the incentive structure of the medical profession and how to weed out crooks. I understand how generally poor our doctors are at critical thinking, how arrogant many of them are and how little they actually know in many matters of medicine. I learned they held trust that they should never have had in the first place.
This was one of many absurd moments https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/07/30/you-must-not-do-your-own-research-when-it-comes-to-science/?sh=736fbc43535e
That article is literally this, unfolding before our eyes:
“We have seen that scientific technique increases the importance of organizations, and therefore the extent to which authority impinges upon the life of the individual. It follows that a scientific oligarchy has more power than any oligarchy could have in pre-scientific times. There is a tendency, which is inevitable unless consciously combated, for organizations to coalesce, and so to increase in size, until, ultimately, almost all become merged in the State. A scientific oligarchy, accordingly, is bound to become what is called "totalitarian," that is to say, all important forms of power will become a monopoly of the State.
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Oligarchies, throughout past history, have always thought more of their own advantage than of that of the rest of the community. It would be foolish to be morally indignant with them on this account; human nature, in the main and in the mass, is egoistic, and in most circumstances a fair dose of egoism is necessary for survival. It was revolt against the selfishness of past political oligarchies that produced the Liberal movement in favor of democracy, and it was revolt against economic oligarchies that produced socialism. But although everybody who was in any degree progressive recognize the evils of oligarchy throughout the past history of mankind, many progressives were taken in by an argument for a new kind of oligarchy. "We, the progressives"- so runs the argument- "are the wise and good; we know what reforms the world needs; if we have power, we shall create a paradise." And so, narcissistically hypnotized by contemplation of their own wisdom and goodness, they proceeded to create a new tyranny, more drastic than any previously known. It is the effect of science in such a system that I wish to consider in this chapter.
In the first place, since the new oligarchs are the adherents of a certain creed, and base their claim to exclusive power upon the rightness of this creed, their system depends essentially upon dogma: whoever questions the governmental dogma questions the moral authority of the government, and is therefore a rebel. While the oligarchy is still new, there are sure to be other creeds, held with equal conviction, which would seize the government if they could. Such rival creeds must be suppressed by force, since the principle of majority rule has been abandoned. It follows that there cannot be freedom of the press, freedom of discussion, or freedom of book publication. There must be an organ of government whose duty it is to pronounce as to what is orthodox, and to punish heresy. The history of the Inquisition shows what such an organ of government must inevitably become. In the normal pursuit of power, it will seek out more and more subtle heresies. The Church, as soon as it acquired political power, developed incredible refinements of dogma, and persecuted what to us appear microscopic deviations from the official creed. Exactly the same sort of thing happens in the modern States that confine political power to supporters of a certain doctrine.
The completeness of the resulting control over opinion depends in various ways upon scientific technique. Where all children go to school, and all schools are controlled by the government, the authorities can close the minds of the young to everything contrary to official orthodoxy. Printing is impossible without paper, and all paper belongs to the State. Broadcasting and the cinema are equally public monopolies. The only remaining possibility of unauthorized propaganda is by secret whispers from one individual to another. But this, in turn, is rendered appallingly dangerous by improvements in the art of spying. Children at school are taught that it is their duty to denounce their parents if they allow themselves subversive utterances in the bosom of the family. No one can be sure that a man who seems to be his dearest friend will not denounce him to the police; the man may himself have been in some trouble, and may know that if he is not efficient as a spy his wife and children will suffer. All this is not imaginary; it is daily and hourly reality. Nor, given oligarchy, is there the slightest reason to expect anything else.”
- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953
Bertrand Russell believed that his class should reshape our world yet the shaped must not learn of this.
Everything changes, yet all remains the same.
how prescient
putting this on my reading list
What an obscene article! Insulting on every level imaginable.
Wow! It's scary that these things are actually written
More that they were published.
Well, it’s handy our betters are doing it for us then, isn’t it? Eyeroll.
It is attitudes like that which fuel their belief that they should be the ones to pick and choose the correct points of view, to the detriment of anything else. We're to believe the experts... but not Dr. McCollough or Dr. Malone, certainly not! We're not supposed to believe the experts in the Barrington declaration, but instead the ones the media tells us to believe, like Fauci, who has already been caught in so many lies that we ought to look askance if he tells us his name is Tony.
We're supposed to believe in their supposed consensus, even as they use coercion and fear to maintain the illusion of that consensus. We're supposed to believe that every person in the entire scientific chain is acting in good faith, and overwhelmingly, they are not.
We may not have the scientific knowledge to be conversant about many topics, but we don't have to be. More than anything, what we are is jurors, acting as impartial judges of credibility, much the same as in a trial (where we are also not specifically knowledgeable about any given thing; it is up to us to evaluate the expert witnesses and decide which ones are the most credible).
When a given politician tells me that the "consensus" of scientists is x, do I know that to be the case? It's a statement by a politician, and they lie, a lot. When the media tells me there is a consensus, do I believe them? They lie too, constantly. And when we hear about the number of doctors and other professionals who do know about these topics who are afraid to speak out, and when we hear about the journals only publishing papers that espouse certain politician-approved talking points, what good is any supposed claim of consensus?
I've read several studies that were purported to show the efficacy of masks, and it is not hard to find methodological errors that can lead to the conclusion not fitting the data, or the conclusion of the data not fitting the supposed narrative the people tell me it does. I'm supposed to ignore that and just wave my hands and say that I must not be smart enough to see how this thing that obviously doesn't prove what it is supposed to really does. I am supposed to pretend I don't know that scientists are actual people who are as prone to corruption, confirmation bias, and self-delusion as any layperson, and that the claims of their consensus are manufactured in the halls of the known liars?
No. They're asking me to let others do my thinking for me, and that's not how it works in a representative democracy (republic).
Shame on Forbes for lowering itself to publish a pathetic screed like that.
Exactly right.
Oof. Did you count how many times ‘safe and effective’ was used in that absurd article (like that will make you trust them ) ha ha
How amusing is that that article is still up? How unbelievably stupid.
I wonder his he would feel if there was an astronomy issue in which he has expertise , say about a near earth asteroid, and the “science” was dominated by public health behaviourists and clueless modellers. That is exactly what has happened in the U.K.
I knew early on something was rotten in the state of Denmark when I saw the data-free, but colorful, “flatten the curve” chart.
I only began to understand what was happening when I read this, which sparked a deep historical dive.
Wow. What an awakening. https://uncoverdc.com/2020/04/07/was-the-covid-19-test-meant-to-detect-a-virus/
I don't know if you are in the U.S. but if you are I can tell you that the one thing that our federal government (and some state governments) excel at is publications. There is an abundance of information out there courtesy of Uncle Sam. Some of which I am sure is very inconvenient in face of the lies the government prefers to spread about the pandemic and how to deal with the virus.
couldn't agree more, people need to start becoming smarter at being their best researchers and sources on more things in life. The zoom class wants you to think it's all too complex to understand without them -- it's not -- most of these professions (and I am in one) are so heavily 'jargonized' with arcane language that seems specifically crafted to limit understanding. Once you read the materials, and read it a few times for greater understanding, you'll be surprised how much is quite understandable, allowing you to read and weigh the material on your own to make your own decisions.
If anything, this has show the US/Western world that public health is pure garbage, and money spent on them is actually something that will end up costing you far more that anything initiallly spent.
Need an insight into the deception that is the pharma industrial complex?
"Bad Pharma" by Ben Goldacre has entered the chat.
I do not look at the evaporation of trust as long term damage. The institutions are untrustworthy and now we know it.
My doctor's refusal to prescribe IVM, and his refusal to engage in a conversation on the subject - all he did was cite the CDC, then the WHO (!), then the list of side-effects, as his defenses, in response to my many multiple detailed citations of data and facts and evidence - was a shocking eye-opener to me.
Zero trust remains.
The campaign against HCQ and IVM has been one of the most remarkable things I've ever witnessed. I can't believe how thoroughly those were demonized. And it persists even now. It's as if someone jumped on vaccine as the ONLY solution and was then able to use nearly every tool to remove alternatives along with even the discussion of alternatives. Creating bogus data to make the point and ensuring that every RCT would fail. I suspect not even Fauci knew of his power which likely amplifies his arrogance. This effort has been the real conspiracy that needs investigation one day.
It does not seem that way, it IS that exactly. They are dead set on every single human being getting that shot. We must resist at all costs until we find out why.
The power of limitless wealth!
They are on a payroll.
A medication with side effects!!!! Say it ain't so! Doctors have been prescribing meds for off label use when COVID was still a glint in Coronvirus' eyes. So the sputtering defense of CDC and WHO scripture rings hollow to me.
What I find exhausting is that institutions are leading the charge to destroy Enlightenment values and eliminate the search for truth, or the very idea of truth. And this is trickling down onto the normies.
This is why you can't change anyone's mind despite the facts being incontrovertible. Even low information people have incredibly good apostasy radar and if they detect you making a claim that is apostasy, they have no curiousity about it, no desire to look into it more and argue it on the merits. They just shut down and shut you out.
Apparently the tools of modern propaganda have been quite effective in causing many to abandon freedom. Not all of us are willing to become children of the state.
Yes it is truly the 'Diabolical Disorientation' predicted at Fatima
That's exactly where I'm at. I've always been skeptical of institutions, but we're at a new level now. I used to presume entities like hospitals, the CDC, the WHO, etc., were making a good faith effort to provide the public with reliable information. That presumption is gone. Henceforth, I will presume all governments, mainstream media outlets, universities, etc., are lying to me until conclusively proven otherwise. It's a disconcerting place to be psychologically, to say the least. But it's better than living by lies.
I landed there years ago thanks to other scam: global warming.
Lost my trust in WHO completely a couple years ago, when they declared that vaccines had made a better world. No clean water and decent food, several journalists wrote, and that was the only truth. Then I knew WHO was hung onto the bigharma
Yes. Here everybody has gotten a vax without questioning anything. So, honestly, I feel like I am surrounded by stupid people. I do not say I am not stupid, could be, but 90% of the people I share life with are stupid without any doubt.
Here too! I have a friend who lied about the age of her youngest so he could get it earlier. Madness.
My godness...
That poor child!
Holy crap.
It certainly clears up the question of how scammers are able to find so many victims.
Gut feeling, is all you can trust. If your own nature tells you this is wrong, it is. We still have that sixth sense.
Wise words.
I lost trust during the election of 2016 and on into the Trump administration as the media lied, and lied, and lied. Then we had all of the BLM bullsh*t, with thousands going out to protest the deaths of these horrible thugs who were fighting with police. And then covid and all the "experts" who said it was OK to protest during the pandemic, but anything Trump did was a superspreader event.
Now I'm with you. I don't trust officialdom one eentsy, teentsy bit.
And yes. It's exhausting.
I used to watch all T-Money's press conferences, round tables, cabinet meetings, all of the White House YouTube channel just to hear directly what he was actually saying. What was reported in the media was, by design, so unbelievably skewed that the US press has nothing to do with reality. Nowadays, for any apparent statement by a politician, I will only listen to the unedited full length interview from source, nothing else.
Think of it liberating, for it is.
Never trust government at any level (but especially at the Federal level) nor any government institution. Assume they are lying and acting with malice and therefore must be transparent and if it should turn out they weren't lying or acting with malice that's all the better but if they were then you aren't caught off guard
The higher up in the government chain you go the more power and money that is at stake thus the greater the risk of corruption and bad actors. That said even at your local level government should always be transparent and its power restricted to the bare minimum because once government is given a power it's not a question of if but when that power will be abused.
When I first read your comment I read the last word as "exhilarating" - I don't know, maybe that response would also be appropriate.
me too. It is exhausting, but makes for better health.
When one considers that the same professional idiots who fostered this monstrous scam are the same people in charge of everything else, one can only hope that this entire mess wakes people up to the reality that government at every level is an out-of-control beast that must be slain. These people bring nothing but chaos, confusion, misery & death. One can only hope for a new appreciation for the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution and why they were written.
'government at every level is an out-of-control beast that must be slain'.....but I do want the roads fixed; other than that, though, slay away. No public schools, no city services...ok.
Are you really ready for that? I think taking the money out of Pharma and Hospitals, removing the profit incentive to MAKE folks sick. Doctors did not used to be rich, not like today. Medical schools are part and parcel of the problem too. I guess just let it all burn down, no one is very trusting of Doctors and Hospitals anymore, hope they all fail in their current incarnations. I would rather die of an illness than from the medicine.
Public schools, at least in the US, are coming out of this looking even worse than the health care profession. The dominance of public education by essentially communist teachers' unions whose only goal is to take taxpayer money, indoctrinate students in things most people consider reprehensible, and to work as seldom as possible has become excruciatingly clear. I am happy with no public schools -- collect the money and let parents apply it to schools they consider best for their children.
And I have found that the places with local water companies and individual trash collection services, contracted by homeowners, have always been better than the "free" government services you espouse. Don't need/want those either.
So other than perhaps large road maintenance and fire departments (I am sure there are another couple things in that category, but not nearly as many as most governments decide to "own") most other things can be handled better other ways where those who are paying exert more control. If you cannot do...teach. if you cannot teach...work for the government. The past couple years have made this clear to most of us.
Most physicians, at least those over 50 are pretty committed to their patients. Over the past 20 years there has been, it is true, amazing deprecation of the quality of students and the quality of instruction in the name of "social justice" and "equity" that has abrogated much of what was good about health care for a very long time. All medical school admissions are now social justice weighted and all testing pass/fail -- these kinds of things do not produce the best doctors and it shows.
But there are still plenty of us out there who pay no attention to the CDC when they are wrong. Health care is still about us and our patients. And many medicines are extraordinary. Would you like to compare life expectancy in 1900 with today? That is almost entirely due to antibiotics, antisepsis and vaccines that do work. (Keep in mind that the ivermectin that has so much discussion is an antibiotic.) Seen anyone die of syphilis lately? Used to be a big killer. So don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. In most cases you would NOT want to die from the illness. This is true irrespective of the horrible systemic abuse of the COVID situation...that deserves its own comeuppance and it cannot come fast enough for me.
I spent 32y in bio pharma industry. I regret to say that we’ve not added so much value through new medicines in recent decades. Most of the terrific medicines are old, off patent meds. Most of the improvements are refinements of those well established classes. I myself regularly use Tapentadol & that i have a decent QoL at all after a serious illness left me in chronic neuropathic pain rests on the peculiar properties of that opiate.
I knew we were “running out of good, druggable molecular targets” quite early in my career.
I am very grateful for the work of my forebears & rare peers but I think we could more or less close the entire corrupt sector & accept we’ll have no or very few new medicines.
The big gap is lack of new templates for antibiotics. Not for want of trying. We spent hugely & they’re just not there. Most drug companies have closed their anti infectives Research Depts including Pfizer. Their last triumph was Trovan. I knew the lead physician.
I’d happily give a year pro bono, debating which meds to retain & dumping 90% of them. Stockholders get slain including me. We stop a major criminal enterprise. We’re going to have to do the same with big media, big tech, big capital & the military. We’re going to have to raze it all to the ground.
Painful but better than letting these bastards put in place their madcap final solution.
As more 'Project Veritas' type of information from the likes of DARPA continue to leak out, there is much case precedent for cases of anti-trust and conspiracy (both civil and criminal) to be pursued on multiple fronts.
While others are less sanguine than me, I always put my faith in the retaliatory US Legal system, where very capable, extremely intelligent attorneys who do work like this all the time would be looking at settlements, if not verdicts, in the hundreds of billions., if not eventual trillions.
US Whistleblower laws also allow an internal 'whistleblower' 30% of all recouped damages gained by jury verdict and/or settlement. So you have how many people 'on the inside' who have the knowledge and the receipts, who now have an extra motivation to open up and divulge all.
Look at a simple case of Peter Angelo (with a net worth of approx. $2 Billion, mostly made from PI cases, not the ghastly Orioles), a personal injury attorney that became a key attorney in class action lawsuits against companies that peddled asbestos, tobacco and other products deadly to humans.
My money is always on the profit motive, and these pack of jackals in politics, big Pharma, and political medicine have created a very motivated group that will out all the facts and expose the rogues ( for 33% of course ;) ).
Mike, I generally agree. You surface, backhandedly, another major blight in the whole pharma space which is the management of opiates/opioids, one of the unique medications in the arsenal that has now been black pilled, causing untold suffering. We need to have another conversation on that somewhere, sometime, because millions of patients are suffering because of politics, not medicine, and it pains me every day.
Thanks Dr. K. -Maybe you are retired? but did you jab anybody? Did you recommend it? Did you try to stop fellow doctors from jabbing or recommending? Have you seen VAXXED? I think we are on a very wrong course and I do believe we have already (prev to mNRA) damaged the gene pool with our belief that vaccines work. They poison. That I am quite sure of. It is not a better life now.
I was a total normie until spring 2020. I now agree with your assessment. The most vaccinated nations are now the sickest.
I feel particularly stupid about flu vaccines, because they’re adjacent to my professional field. The data has been available for years. They’re a total scam.
I've read some essays explaining that after the first year or two, flu vaccines stopped making much of a difference in the death rates for the most vulnerable people, even as the percentage of them getting flu vaxes has continued to increase, and their best years they were only about 30% effective. Is that what you're referring to? I don't know whether what I read is credible or not.
The short-sightedness of libertarians. With a government captured by Big Pharma, the FDA is what it currently is, with no FDA imagine what Big Pharma would be.
Not sure your chain of events would be the same...the FDA hides the activity of Big Pharma from us, and enables....this. It gave the plandemic a guise of authority it would not have had...
With some 70% of the Federal budget devoted to transfer payments and another 15% for interest, the roads will need to be ignored. We must end the degree of our direct dependence on government which in the end benefits a bigger government not the people. I suspect fiscal reality worldwide will force a rethink about what governments ought to be doing.
The problem is that it's almost EVERY government, everywhere. It's easy for an American to say the Biden people did this (or whatever) but how does that explain Germany? It's easy for English people to say the NIH or Ferguson or whoever did this, but what about Spain? What about Australia? I think there is some collusion between "powers" (NGOs and corporations as well as governments) and there is also a general tendency in large bureacracies to do this sort of thing. Together, they're a juggernaut of disaster for normal people.
Follow Steve Bannon. It starts locally, with every school board, city council, mayor, etc..
Thank you. You’re thinking like I am.
The answers to your questions are inevitably horrifying. Enough of ALL of them are corrupt enough to pass laws that will have the effect of permanently depriving us of our liberty & probably enabling global mass depopulation. I see no way to stop them, yet. Just knowing is the first step but I don’t have any idea how to stop the perpetrators from attaining their goals.
To quote Samuel Adams: "It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men". One of the best examples of this is Malone's appliance on Joe Rogan. The large media companies have been complicit in part of a global campaign to lie to people, with censorship brought to bear as a tool of mistruth. In a simple, one on one, 3 hour interview, Dr. Malone destroyed the entire rotten, evil cabal that has fostered this coordinated global effort. People like Dr. Malone, or yourself, who are courageous and unafraid to speak truth, are worth 1 million lying sociopaths. People want truth. Our society is sick and only gets well when the liars are silenced.
Thank you, Joseph.
I will not be giving up, silenced or “be going quietly”.
It certainly is alarming. They seem to have the ability to do just that. If you had told me three years ago that people would do what they have done, I wouldn't have believed it.
Not to rain on the various connections, but the inability of politicians to resist groupthink out of the fear of making an error. I can suppose even in governments who are not accountable can fall into the everybody is doing it trap. I can imagine they all admire how China can act. Western mini-versions are certain to fail as they have but there was a good effort.
Does Obamacare still seem like a great idea to anyone? Certainly not to me.
What could go wrong with putting sociopaths into medicine?
I considered it very helpful at the time, and did use it when I was sick. I had not been insured for some years before Obamacare, and was grateful he was able to implement it and still consider it a miraculous achievement that I did not think would be achieved govermentally.
One guy made the difference there, a fella who offered help and ended up fixing the whole governmental health system. Gotte re look that guy up now just to talk. Anyway.
The pressure to 'have insurance' just in case, and the arguments for it do have validity, just as the arguments for vaccines had validity. Had. All of that is in question for me now. For folks 'incarcerated' in the medical system by disease management and drug dependance, I am truly sorry but I see it for what it is now, we are a money machine for big medicine cradle to grave, and they just dug their own. I am out.
Luckily I am no longer insured, and I say that not for you, but for me. When your medical care provider pushes a likely death jab on you, it really sours the experience for quite a long time. So no insurance becomes safer than insurance. Yay.
I’ve never been insured even though most well off folk in U.K. are.
Why not? Well, all my most serious medical issues are consequences of medical errors.
Stay away from doctors & especially hospitals. Adopt a healthier lifestyle.
In my case now, I don’t need insurance because in the unlikely event I am interested in a medical intervention I am in the fortunate position of being able to pay myself. Proceeds of success in biotech.
I voted for the candidate who said he would not mandate it. He lied.
The GOP lied about it. They all said they’d overturn it. They didn’t. Obviously, the gov’t shouldn’t be in charge of medical care.
Which makes me very leery of both parties. They tell us what we want to get elected, then they do whatever they want (or what their corporate bosses tell them to) when they are in office. The illusion of different flavors is to keep us arguing and misdirected from the real agenda.
Didn't sound like a good idea to me from the beginning.
Also robbery on a massive scale.
Yes. It’s very discouraging to extrapolate the, well, frankly evil idiocy of the medical community to the rest of the elites and realize that we’ve been living under a sham our whole lives.
People will not see this though. The willful ignorance of the populace is also plenty discouraging.
15% tip it....100th monkey?....pardon the graphic analogy, but blood is seeping out from the wreckage....ie non covid deaths upping....
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/01/joseph-mercola/how-to-win-the-war-against-tyranny/ pam popper is seeing it thru and helps us to too -best- worth 1 hr
This is so cathartic to read the thoughts of other skeptics, Thank you for putting this together
Seconded!
One man with no budget does what newspapers with coffers brimming with filthy lucre apparently can't.
The Diamond Princess told me that this was just another seasonal respiratory virus. All other data are superfluous.
The summer 2020 mask mandate in England, when cases were zero, told me that this was merely a test of just how compliant the public would be.
But then, I'm deaf. I get no news from TV or radio. It all comes from reading. And when you read, you have opportunities to stop and think.
Yes, the Diamond Princess was my moment, too! Actually, the very first time I heard of this "deadly pandemic" I scoffed and claimed that within a week or at most a month, the whole scare-fest would be over as though it never happened. Sadly, I did seriously underestimate the mendacity of government and the gullibility of my fellow citizens of the world. Yes, I'm a skeptic and a cynic with regard to government, MSM, big pharma, big business and the medical industry - but the reason I couldn't take the fear-fest seriously is because of the drum-beating and shrieking of imminent disaster every time a routine weather event was about to take place, or the idiocy from the Climate Change liars hooting and hollering their dire predictions that have never once come to fruition, why in hell would I believe it this time around. Besides, I have a brain and eyes and after a month or so I could easily understand and see that this horrific pandemic was a tempest in a teapot. Probably helps that I don't watch television, follow any but independent news, or stay glued to social media. I just do that silly, out-moded thing called thinking for myself and seeking truth, like right here on Eugyppius' substack.
Yes. Cynicism about the validity and motives of the global warming scare has definitely caused me to doubt subsequent global scares. Especially when so many of the major players behind the corona scare in the UK are active believers in global warming too - Patrick Vallance, Chris Whitty, Neil Ferguson, Neil Ferguson's lockdown-breaking lover ... they're all on record with their 'climate change' warnings.
In fact, their graphs look suspiciously similar too, with the y-axis simply changed from Degrees Centigrade to Cases. And their solution is naturally similar too: Ban Everything Or We're All Going To Die.
An early moment for me:
I went into a woman's clothing store with my GF. Looked for a place to sit down and surf the web, couldn't find a chair, asked and was told: "Due to COVID, we had to remove all the chairs." Apparently chairs spread COVID.
From there we went to eat at a restaurant. In restaurants the rule was, due to COVID, you must wear a mask walking around, but if you are sitting in a chair, you can take it off.
A few feet away from the clothing store, chairs apparently prevented the spread of COVID vs. causing it.
The sheer absurdity of it all...
It's crazy ... if you think about it for even one second....here's an example from just a few weeks ago: I went to the Dali Museum in St. Pete's Florida -- the whole town is jammed packed, the streets and restaurants are full, no masks anywhere, right? It's Florida! FLORIDA, man, FREEDOM!
Except, the Dali museum -- mandatory masks. Museum "guards" enforce the rule, no mask, no entry, blah, blah, blah. Ok. I put on the mask, because I purchased tickets online and didn't know about the stupid rule. Inside was also jammed packed. Crazy. Couldn't even see the paintings. It's a tall building with a large open atrium and at the center of the huge open space is a cafe and bar -- (a bar!!) and people of course are sitting down, without masks, eating and drinking, in the center of a three-story atrium, while everyone else around has to wear masks. Cause viruses hate people who are silently looking at art, but avoid drunken idiots sitting at bars. It's crazy.
Did you get to visit Haslam's Book Store?
Ah, no, I wish I could have!
Quote of the day.
"Our society is completely in the grip of people who have effectively evolved under selection pressure to strongly resemble scientists without actually being scientists. Their work looks roughly right from a distance - there are data tables, charts, equations - but when you sit down and read it the scientific method has gone AWOL."
"Their work looks roughly right from a distance- there are data tables, charts, equations..." Kind of like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSrPlf4GBHc
OMG that was hilarious! All need to watch Ma & Pa Kettle
It's pretty shocking what can pass peer review as "science"
To date, their project has been successful: seven papers have passed through peer review and have been published, including:
- a 3000 word excerpt of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, rewritten in the language of Intersectionality theory and published in the Gender Studies journal Affilia.
- A dog-parks demonstrate rape culture paper that was honoured in a journal as exemplary scholarship, contains gems like this: “Dog parks are microcosms where hegemonic masculinist norms governing queering behavior and compulsory heterosexuality can be observed in a cross-species environment.”
https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the-grievance-studies-scandal-five-academics-respond/
Bitches looking out for bitches.
This is an amazing article. Look forward to more. I was raised by a pathologist who escaped a socialist country, so I have a healthy distrust of government. I've also been exposed to how the immune system works and to avoid vaccines. But what really saved me was to hear contrarian voices, starting with Alex Berenson and Gummybear on Twitter and now Dr. Malone, McCollough, Kirsch, el gato malo, and eugyppius (!) etc. on gab and Substack. These free speech platforms with credible writers are critical to our freedoms.
They are not just critical to our freedoms. They are critical to what it means to be human.
Aside from the factual and data driven things, some of us intuitively know some things, even if we cant prove it, like:
- There is something inhuman about making humans "social distance", wear masks and stay in their house.
- Kids at home alone on their iDevices and social media all day, away from contact with other kids, rather than school is going to be bad for them, very bad.
- There is irreversible harm dome by crushing small businesses and forcing people losing their jobs. Very serious, very real harm that effects entire families and communities.
- A hard one for the sheltered and naive: There really are quite a few people in the world who get tremendous enjoyment out of controlling other people, including making them do ridiculous or even harmful things, and there are plenty of this type in govt and positions of power. Some of us KNOW this to be true though, and many others sense it, even though it's a very uncomfortable thought.
- Life comes with risks. Safety is an illusion. The witch with the pretty gingerbread house in Hansel and Gretel wants to fatten you up and eat you. It's a trap.
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” ― Helen Keller
Intuitively we just know there is something sinister and evil feeling about things like this, so we look for hard for facts and data to fight off the accusations of being selfish grandma killers who only care about ourselves and money. (Emotional Blackmail)
Wish I could like this more than once! Perfect!
I agree! My intuition has been accurate too many times that I learned not to shrug it off. I will file it mentally and gather information, consciously being careful to challenge myself rather than falling into confirmation bias. I want to get as close to the truth as possible regardless as to what I hope the truth to be.
The insane tweet about keeping your mask on between bites is found here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gavin-newsom-california-face-mask-restaurant/
excellent!
Thank you...of note Newsom posted this tweet the first week of October 2020. One month later on 11/6/20 he was dining at the French Laundry maskless. California Medical Association CEO Dustin Corcoran and lobbyist Janus Norman joined Newsom at the dinner for 12 at elite dining institution French Laundry to celebrate the birthday of Newsom adviser Jason Kinney.
I have nothing but contempt for these people. Never forget there are monsters among us.
The Bible tells me so.
Thank you!
Yep, that title clicked the button. It came from Newsom. That added the extra stupidity factor. --- Someone please tell me the San Andreas fault is going to fail soon.
I'm a little ashamed that I wish for it sooner rather than later - there are a handful of people in California I would want to escape that disaster, but only a few.
I'm in the mountains of California, and I would LOVE to see the entire Calif. coast end to end drop off into oblivion. That would solve a lot of problems right there.
I used to live in the Sierras. I was looking forward to beach front property.
I think @tess you are referring to this amazing piece of propaganda. https://mashable.com/article/new-york-city-safe-sex-coronavirus-guidelines-department-of-health Don't waste your time trying to find things on Google they definitely make it harder if not impossible to find.
LOL
"Please use a barrier, a wall of some kind...one with *access*"
Like marriage?
I know that one well
Something similar was broadcast in the Spanish TV some weeks ago: Sex without kisses.
Just my personal opinion here, but if you want to have sex, I believe catching something like a cold/flu, just might be the last thing you're thinking about. ... Although, maybe it would depend on how good looking the other person is. 😏
:)
From the very beginning, none of what the mainstream media have been feeding us looked right. Exhibit A for me was the "footage" from China of young people face-planting in the street, supposedly collapsing and dying on the spot. This was, of course, alarming.
More than that, it was so different from the actual effects of the respiratory virus that the reality could not possibly match the hype right from the start. The floating laboratories of the Diamond Princess and the US Aircraft Carrier showed us that both transmission and death rates were nowhere near what we had been told. It's been a well-managed scam from DAY ONE. Thankfully we have forums like this now. I can see the daylight on the Eastern horizon, finally.
I keep remembering the video of Chinese authorities pounding on an apartment door, yelling"Do you have lice? Do you have lice?" In heavily accented English. A couple weeks later I suddenly woke up and thought "wait a minute...".
Sort of convinced myself that it was a translator recorded over the video. But in hindsight, I doubt it.
The face plants. I don't watch MSM, but this kinda makes me wish I had.
So interesting -- such smart people from all over the world. Just amazing to read. Thank you for putting this together.
Grateful for this article and yesterday's. It is reassuring to read so many stories of sane people experiencing cognitive dissonance because of the insane behavior/messaging on the part of govts and health "care" corporations.
However, now that the "official narrative" seems to be shifting (finally hearing about "it'll be endemic" on NPR; cagey COVID 'recommendations' at my (now former because they used to be 'requirements') employer), I find myself angrier than ever. Like, oh, you've completely upended my life and trampled my freedoms and tried to intrude in my business and in general made me a not very happy camper, and NOW, because YOU say I can be HAPPY again, I'm supposed to? Just forgive and forget?
No way do I forgive or forget this. No way am I just gonna breathe a sigh of relief and try "going back to normal." I have completely shifted my politics and activism over this; whoever THEY are they will try garbage like this again, I have no doubt, and I want more SANE people to recognize it earlier on.
I give them a month, maybe two before they go apeshit again. But take into consideration, I see no MSM, so I'm not really sure of what is going on right now. My only news comes from substack.
Yeah, I make a point of listening to NPR a little bit b/c I want to know the "official narrative" that SO many peeps I know buy hook line and sinker. It is educational and interesting to see what stories they hide/suppress/twist-to-their-purposes, as well. But same, most of the rest of my news comes from substack.
Agree!!
as part of my role as a health care manager in a large drug and alcohol support service I compile the data on in service deaths. I knew something was a miss as by September 2020 we had not had one covid related death. We work with people who have very poor health, compromised respiratory systems, poor immune systems, liver complaints, poor diets etc. Lots of them were not in a position to follow the guidance and they continued to share cigarettes, cans, bottles, crack pipes, needles, tents, squats, sexual partners, crack houses ect. I just couldn't understand how they were not dying given everything we were being told. Two years on, 5000 + people in our service, still not one covid death. 2020 saw a 20% increase in death in service for our service users but because of lock downs and restrictions, not covid.
Thank you for your comments. I had always wondered about the poor people who are addicted and often homeless. Why weren't those in homeless camps all dying?
My rationale is that it's age related. I work with a lot of homeless people and none of them are over 55. The same in drug and alcohol services, only 2% of our case load are over 70
The question of why the "homeless", a misleading name for addicted and mentally ill, weren't dropping like flies was one of the key factors in my own belief that a much darker reason for the measures to "protect" from the virus had to be the case.
Good observation
Wow, that is very compelling. And still, two years of “are you going to believe us (science!) or your lying eyes?”
My BIL, a hospital pharmacist, lost his job in May 2020 because the hospital had been empty for two months. They let RNs go too. Many others went to other states as travel nurses. We were not in any kind of crisis in my state, the fittest and thinnest in the US. There has never been any justification for lockdowns here. Our elderly died alone, and I won't forgive them for that.
My BIL was hired in another state. He's got an exemption for the covid vaccines. He's passing on the Influenza vaccine as well. He's immune to lies.
I was embarrassingly slow on the uptake, but I think I had extenuating circumstances. I moved to Thailand from the U.S. the day after Trump was elected (a happy coincidence). I vowed at that time to not get caught up in what I knew would be a maddening news cycle, and was successful for about three years. I dodged TDS by tuning the whole shitshow out. Then Covid arrived and I figured it was important to pay attention to what was happening in the world. I had no idea how insane the country had gone in my three year absence.
My first impulse was to accept the narrative and do whatever the WHO told me to do (which at that point was to wash your hands and under no circumstances should you buy a mask, and that was about it). Then our first lockdown came, and given the uncertainty at the time, it seemed like a reasonable temporary measure. Then the Floyd killing happened and I decided to join Twitter to keep up with this new and exciting movement for criminal justice reform. I quickly realized these activists were fucking insane. As were the media, academia, the courts, and all the other institutions that went along with the woke narrative. Figuring out what was with these people and the institutions they were destroying consumed my attention over the ensuing months (lots of Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, Joe Rogan, James Lindsay etc.).
Covid also died down out here and life got pretty much back to normal for a time, so I really did not spend that much time thinking about it. I didn't fully realize how fucked up the Covid policies and rhetoric were until that brief moment in 2021 when everything opened up after the vaccine rollout, only to promptly shut down again. At that point, and, embarrassingly, only at that point, did I realize that something was terribly, terribly amiss. I thought the vaccines worked, right? So why are you telling all of these vaccinated people to wear masks and hole up in their homes? (unless of course they're out rioting. Then it's all ok). Note that at this point I had not yet had to decide whether to get vaccinated because we did not yet have widespread vaccine availability out here.
Only then did I take a deep dive down the Covid rabbit hole. Once I began really critically assessing the arguments and evidence for The Narrative versus the counter-narrative (a/k/a "misinformation"), it became pretty clear pretty quick that the insanity consuming society was not limited to the Great Awokening. Covidianism was every bit as delusional and dishonest, and considerably more dangerous. I feel at this point like the tide is turning, but, man, we've got a fight ahead of us to dismantle the Covid industrial complex. I've been trying to do my part within my small sphere of influence. Godspeed to all my fellow soldiers. Truth will prevail! I hope...
Very interesting.
For me containment always seemed impossible because of how contagious the media made it out to be. Any success could only be temporary and not worth the cost. I was always anti-lockdown, briefly placated by the curve-flattening argument which ended once weeks became months.
Where I really felt insane and alone for the longest time was when I noticed a bunch of questions weren't being asked e.g. What are the false positive rates on tests? How many tests are being done? What are the objective standards around which this data used to justify ruining lives in the name of saving some others is based? Everything was just being taken at face value and not scrutinised at all. I tried pointing these reasonable things out to people around me who I thought were intelligent and was laughed at and dismissed every time. This includes a very accomplished molecular biologist.
Once the Loannidis antibody study came out in mid 2020 showing way more people were infected than we thought (and so the death rate was way lower than the initially quoted 3-4%) I was officially on the "this is all very overblown, stupid and retarded" train and I, like many of us, continue to be vindicated time and again.
I realised normie (and even most expert) opinions were dictated by propaganda and that, with no authority in their eyes, I had no hope of changing any minds. Only then did I finally find peace and resolved to use the closer-to-reality knowledge I found online in places like this substack to make better decisions for myself and help only those who asked me for it.
My supposedly very intelligent, highly educated northeastern relatives (one a physicist and the other a Harvard fundraiser) got visibly angry with me for asking questions about the PCR tests in September 2021. At one point, the physicist angrily said to me, “But people are DYING.” I knew at that point we were dealing with something really scary. I now know the term for it: Mass Formation.
That sucks, and I'm sorry for that experience.
...But maybe this short video will put a smile on your face?... https://reason.com/video/2017/06/28/remy-people-will-die/ ("PEOPLE WILL DIE!")
Ha! So funny, we need a Covid version of that 😂
I hadn't re-watched it in a couple of years - it is from some years ago. What struck me on the re-watch this morning was how on-point the "mandatory Kidney donation" remains. How much further along is that from mandatory injection of experimental vaccines? It's true you don't "need" two kidneys, and the transplant procedure is "safe" and "effective" and the "public health" rationale is there.
That is AWESOME! Much needed ~ thank you Abhijit!
Hilarious! Thank-you!