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.
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.
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.
"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."
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is so cathartic to read the thoughts of other skeptics, Thank you for putting this together
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.
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...
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."
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)
The insane tweet about keeping your mask on between bites is found here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gavin-newsom-california-face-mask-restaurant/
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.
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.
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.
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.