Has the dust settled?
Far from it. It is everywhere. We are choking on it. The storm cloud comes in many forms: inflation, learning losses, ill-health, high crime, non-functioning government services, broken supply chains, shoddy work, displaced workers, substance abuse, mass loneliness, discredited authority, a growing real estate crisis, censored technology and overweening state power.
For that matter, consider that Easter, the day to celebrate the Son of God’s triumph of life over death, itself was cancelled for public worship just four years ago. That actually happened. Not even at the height of World War II was there a consideration of such a thing, or even cancelling baseball. When the idea was suggested in a famous movie script, Spencer Tracy asked “Why would you abolish the thing you are trying to preserve?” (Woman of the Year 1942).
Good question. What precisely was the point of the hell we went through? Who did it and why? Why did it last so long? Why has there been no official accounting?
The lack of any real accountability or even so much as an apology is a foreshadowing: they will keep their newfound powers and try it all again.
Meanwhile, the world is on fire with war, mass killings, crime, hunger and revolution.
All of this traces to lockdowns that began March 2020, the subject about which no one in polite society speaks. It was a painful period, to be sure. The people who did this to us are hoping that we are too traumatised to pursue accountability, much less justice. To the extent we feel that way, we are playing right into their hands.
Even now, there are hundreds and even thousands of questions.
Why were there no widespread seroprevalence tests of the population before locking down? This would have been a great way to measure the level of pre-existing exposure and assess whether Deborah Birx’s stated objective to bring about Zero Covid had any chance of success.
Where did the World Health Organisation get the completely bogus 3.4% infection fatality rate number and why did it push it out?
For that matter, why did the lockdown architects not bother with the vast literature already extant, accepted as definitive in the public-health world, that lockdowns achieve only destruction and there was no form of physical intervention that had any hope of stopping a virus destined to spread to the whole population?
These were known about at the time, as were the broad outlines of the impact of this virus. So let there be no more talk about how little we knew at the time. We knew.
We still don’t know:
- how they talked Trump into reversing his anti-lockdown stance on or around March 10th 2020;
- to what extent the sudden spread of the virus was fuelled by testing or even how accurate the tests were;
- whether the sudden wave of early death was panic-based or iatrogenic or actually the virus;
- how it is that previously obscure agencies gained the power to manage the U.S. workforce and censor media;
- who precisely gave the order to lock down U.S. hospital care and why;
- how it came to be that the Government tried to drive conventional antivirals out of the marketplace;
- who had pre-written the thousand-page bills that authorised $2 trillion in spending that broke the budget and unleashed an experiment of universal basic income.
Strangely, much of this can be explained by the crazed ambition to preserve population-wide immunological naïveté while waiting for the vaccine to arrive in mid-November, eight months later. Was that always the idea, in which case the “15 Days to Flatten Curve” was known to be complete gibberish? If that is actually true, the arrogance and sadism of the policy goal here boggles the mind.
And if that is true, why? Was it to deploy a new platform technology called mRNA that otherwise would obtain no chance for a generalised trial through normal paths? Is that the reason that Anthony Fauci went after the J&J vaccine early on, as a tactic to drive it out of the market and prepare a clean slate for Pfizer and Moderna?
If that was the goal, was it ever stated in private and by whom? Who knew the goal from the beginning?
That anyone among the ruling class could even consider conscripting the whole population into such a biological experiment gives rise to wartime ghouls of a past we thought we had left behind.
These questions only scratch the surface. Even after four years of researching this topic as part of a very large team that has scoured through a million pages of documentation and stories, having written two books and many thousands of articles, and being fuelled by a burning desire to know, most of us still have no clear answer to the profound question: why and how did this happen to us?
There are many theories, all with plausibility but none with the capacity to explain the whole.
We might say that pharma was behind the whole thing. That seems credible. The goal of testing mRNA on the global population explains a lot, especially given the trumped-up emergency situation. But the very notion that hundreds of governments around the world became surreptitiously captured stretches plausibility.
We might observe that digital tech manipulated policy to give itself a boost. The first big and viral article on the whole lockdown idea was by Thomas “Hammer-and-Dance” Pueyo, a CEO of an online learning hub that became a huge winner. Streaming platforms benefited and so did Amazon as a grocery and goods source, as did Uber Eats and DoorDash and others such as Zoom.
But are we really supposed to believe that human liberties the world over were wrecked to boost profits of this one industry? Again, that’s a stretch. And the same could be said of the theory that media was the driving force. Yes, they won big time, deploying censorship as an industrial tactic against new media startups. But how in the world would they have gained so much power the world over?
Then there is the view that the whole monstrous scheme was concocted to drive Trump out of office by creating chaos and greenlighting mail-in ballots that are difficult if not impossible to check for validity. That seems to check many empirical boxes. No question that there was some major effort to confuse the public as if the presence of the virus was a metaphor for the Trump administration itself that needed to be strangled.
There is surely truth here but how does that account for the hundreds of other governments around the world following the same path? That the response was not just national but global raises real questions.
In that context we might draw attention to the role of the CCP, which first deployed lockdowns amidst theatrically produced videos of people dying in the streets and then leaning on its power over the World Health Organisation to recommend lockdowns to the whole planet.
There’s truth in that theory too.
In the deeper realms, we are wise to visit the depths of the RFK Jr. book The Wuhan Cover-Up, which explains the history of the U.S. bioweapons programme dating back to the end of World War II. There are secret labs all over the world supported by the U.S., including in Wuhan. Their activities and funding are covered by classified restrictions from public access.
The purpose of gain-of-function research is said to be not to discover solutions to emerging new pathogens but to create new pathogens with antidotes that we have and the enemy does not have.
Was the release of this one pathogen part of this programme? If so, that would explain why the intelligence and security bureaucracies became involved very deeply early on and also explain why so many FOIA requests about every aspect of this come back heavily redacted and why we are having such a hard time getting information in general.
Any time a policy matter touches the realm of national security and intelligence, it is covered by an impenetrable veil of secrecy that no law or court seems to be able to control. This site has often explored this path of inquiry too with a great deal of evidence supporting it. In this case, we are really talking about a next-level theory, that of a digital-age coup by Deep State masters against civilian society and democracy itself.
You can probably generate another 10 or more compelling theories about the whole episode. Connecting the dots is a full-time job.
A wise man mentioned to me yesterday the astounding fact that we still do not have a full explanation of why and how the Great War came to be. That war ended old-world civilisation as we knew it. In some ways, now looking back, it was the beginning of the end of what we might call high civilisation and the prospects for peace. It unleashed the Bolshevik Revolution, caused Western-style freedoms to be mitigated by administrative state actors, introduced the idea of total war, recruited whole populations to become soldiers and otherwise shredded near-global expectations for ever rising prosperity and peace.
And yet, we still don’t know fully why or how it happened. Error piled on error and malice on malice. Once that kind of sadistic chaos tempts a ruling class, many other institutions sign up to join the party of pillage and plunder and society finds itself picked apart by interest groups that care nothing for the good of all, much less human rights.
That’s a pretty solid description of what happened to us four years ago. They broke the world.
We may never get the truth but we can get closer to the truth. There will be no stopping the efforts.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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Why is this a story?
And are they ‘infected’ or ‘tested?
My heart sinks when I see ‘”he Mail/Online has the story”
I can think of several explanations – none of which have anything to do with infection.
Could it be because of who is getting tested? The figures really need to be adjusted for that.
You would have to be brain dead and/or have some kind of agenda, to not realise that’s what this is.
Exactly. Numbers pushed up and the average age pushed down partly by LFT in schools. I can’t believe that so many parents are consenting unquestioningly to their children having these. Mine has been withdrawn from the madness. No effing way am I playing even the smallest part in this ridiculous neurosis by allowing a stick to be shoved up her nose twice a week. Total waste of time, taxpayers money and the world’s resources too.
And the point is?
Positive test results does not equate to being infected. Lateral flow test has specificity of around 99.7% i.e. up to 300 per 100000 are false positives. If there are no symptoms there is no infection, except fo the 48 hours immediately before symptoms start. Why is this article so important?
I think it’s interesting in that the virus is continuing to infect younger and younger people but deaths from the virus remain in single figures and hospital admission figures are in the doldrums.
Which all goes to confirm what we have been saying all along – that the virus is not a threat to younger people and vaccinating younger people is at best unnecessary and at worst, dangerous.
Of course the spin on the article is somewhat different, as it comes from a place of “we want zero COVID”, and that “the virus is still circulating amongst young people, so we need to vaccinate them all and prolong the emergency”
Hang on. What is ‘interesting’ about the detection of random RNA strands?
The test is bollox, but given that it’s the same bollox test that’s been used throughout, a difference in the average age testing positive is still interesting, because the information is no doubt being used to drive government policy, even if it’s driving it in the wrong direction.
What age groups are being tested?
Fair point. Younger age groups. The people who they want to be vaccinated, I imagine.
I’d still prefer the story was published here than not, though. Although it would be nice if there was a sceptical slant to it, given this is supposedly a site for sceptics.
Despite the story stating that the numbers are people “rushed to hospital with coronavirus” they are only the number of patients testing positive while in hospital. I’d give good odds that most of the patients under 40 are pregnant women being admitted to give birth, and who have no symptoms just a positive PCR. There are around 10000 deliveries per week in England and Wales, so with even a 1-2% positive rate that’s a lot of young healthy women showing up in “coronavirus” hospitalizations.
I had to laugh when I read this .. ‘(though increased testing of younger people could also have something to do with it)’ .. I assume they were LF tests which are more meaningless than the PCR tests .. https://www.bitchute.com/video/hr32Q2Zn9yfe/ ..
What gives you the impression that PCR tests are more ‘reliable’?
Getting bored of this now … what’s next?
Ah yes I know … a climate emergency!
Lets put the fear of god into everyone about the potentially life-threatening climate disaster thats heading our way which can only be averted if we all hand-over all our freedoms and money to the government and obey everything they tell us to do.
F**k the pandemic and vaccine – thats old skool stuff now and no one is interested – what we need now is good old-fashioned international emergency whereby the human race is only months, weeks maybe even hours away from certain extinction unless we all shut ourselves away permanently.
The slogan on the Prime Minister’s press conference podium could be … ‘Save the Earth – Kill Yourself’ and everyone will be offered the opportunity to blow their brains out for Britain.
Those that refuse the offer will be labelled by the msm as complete and utter selfish bast**ds and Richard Madeley will demand that they be all rounded-up and sent to concentration camps.
Greta Thunberg will be appointed successor to Jesus Christ.
“Getting bored of this now … what’s next?”
The only quibble I have with that sentence is the ‘now’.
Just wait until the G7 meet in Cornwall in a fortnight. The moon will be reflecting the virtue signaling emanating from Carbis Bay (although it won’t be a full moon by then).
I hope the G7 luminaries and their vast retinues from the other 6 countries, all of which are on the Amber list, will be arriving in the country very shortly, in order to spend the required 10 days in quarantine, in a grotty hotel at a price of £1750 a head. They should, of course, take all the tests before travel and whilst here as well.
What will probably happen is that they’ll import another “variant”, which will put the pusillanimous Johnson in a panic, stoked up by Ferguson and the rest of the stinking gang. Of course, it won’t be anything to do with Johnson’s desire to grandstand, but will be the fault of Joe Public for not getting vaccinated, following the rules or some other specious reason.
It’s started today with the announcement of the new “Thai Variant”. We already know the script by heart. “Scientists believe it could be up to twice as infectious as the Kent Variant” and “We expect the existing vaccines to have some effectiveness in dealing with it, but we may all need further vaccinations in the Autumn.) Twats.
Re the Thai variant our Health minister says there isn’t one and that it really came from Egypt in January!!!
“The next milestone is June 21st, with the lifting of restrictions. That won’t be allowed to happen.” (Paraphrasing)
Full moon a couple of days ago.
There’ll probably be no visible moon by then.
“Getting bored of this now … what’s next?”
Well I heard…. staged alien invasion. Don’t laugh, it could happen. And the media has been full of UAP videos for the last couple of years. Maybe we really are being primed for this…
Who gave you that copy of the script?
Universities and workplaces are pushing testing, so of course the “average age of infection” is coming down…
This is the answer
Yes – and don’t forget the pantomime of testing in schools.
The mass testing of healthy people with an inaccurate test
Chuck in a few 85+’s who tested positive with a duff test but actually died from being 85+ and hey presto a crisis is born
It’s over.
So why is the BBC still pushing “everything you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning”?
One thing for sure : the BBC is the last place to find ‘all you need to know’ about the virus.
In many people’s minds, it is not over. And coronatheatre is now ingrained in most aspects of everday life. The other day I made a long list of all the things I used to do. I do hardly any of them now, because they are either still banned/closed or subject to varying degrees of coronabollocks theatre. Sadly most of that theatre will be with us a long time, either legally mandated or de facto mandatory on the initiative of businesses and organisations everywhere. The “new normal” evil has worked, and many people are resigned to life never being the same again.
Had to chuckle today radio 5 presenter said that young people need to get information about the vaccine from a trusted news source like the BBC.
Now that IS funny!!
Because the sun is out and the forecast is good.
Not in North Cornwall I am afraid.
“though increased testing of younger people could also have something to do with it”
In which case, parroting this article is totally meaningless (as opposed to predominantly meaningless).
If LS is just going to repeat articles from mainstream media without rigorous scrutiny, it might just as well be one of them.
It is not a new “strain”; it is a variant. No wonder we are in such a fucking mess when the media are full of biologically ignorant idiots, supporting the equally ignorant Cabinet.
They may not be biologically ignorant idiots, but hoping the majority of the public is.
Roll up! Roll up!! Get your vaxopropaganda here!!!
It is nothing to do with the success of the vaccine and everything to do with mass testing of schoolchildren.
Why are absolutely bollox articles like this getting published?
We all know that the virus is either gone, attenuated or never existed. We have a story based on PCR tests which we all know are at least being misused if not fraudulent.
I’m sick of this shite, shame on Toby and Curzon for prolonging the scam.
I don’t think the intention from TY is to prolong the scam. There’s nothing wrong in linking to MSM articles and keeping us abreast of what the enemy’s current set of lies is, but more critical commentary would be helpful, though obviously that takes time and effort and I’m sure resources are limited. Personally I would rather see fewer links to MSM but more in-depth demolitions of them, and more original material, but it’s easy to snipe from the outside. I don’t suppose TY’s budget is limitless.
LS is part of Covid problem, not the solution.
Just more fear porn to coerce the younger members of the population. Anyone surprised? Deaths are flat, all they have are bogus PCR related ‘cases’.
I’d wager the vaccinated elderly folks are not interested in taking a test anymore, it’ll be the younger ones making up the vast majority now. Purely a function of this I reckon. Test more young people = more young test positive. Meh
Yes what’s wrong with old people, why on earth don’t they like unqualified louts shoving overlong contaminated asbestos buds up their noses and damaging their cribriform plates, all for no good purpose? Shame on you old people.
If you are considering buying something novel for your Covidian friends then my new book ‘Coups for Dummies’ will be out in time for our next cancelled Christmas
Some of the reviews are promising
‘Super stonking soar away, page three explains everything’ The Sun
‘A great insight into how the regime murdered millions of black people’ The Guardian
‘Free pair of elasticated waist slacks with the first 100 copies’ The Mail
‘Vindicated’ Cummings Free Press
‘Lots of big words’ The Times
‘Please take up a one of our subscriptions for 4p a year’ The Telegraph
Sumption shot himself in the head quite some time ago.
Sumption did sterling work on the issue of rights.
But he is shaped more generally by a profoundly establishment mindset.
He was ok on the radio this morning, suggesting the public could ignore the rules and restrictions after 21st June, though he couldn’t officially advocate law-breaking.
Jabs seem to be working in Indian variant hotspot – vaccine expertVaccines seem to be working in an area of the UK hardest hit by the Indian coronavirus variant, a vaccine expert has said.
Dr Helen Wall, senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccine programme in Bolton, tells BBC Radio 4’s Today programme patients in hospital in the area are not as sick as previous patients with Covid-19 and “vaccines seem to be working”.
She says there are “significant numbers of 30 and 40-year-olds” going into hospital in Bolton, adding there are “tens of thousands of young people” who have only just become eligible for the vaccine “that we need to get vaccinated really rapidly now”.
But she says there are not as many people as sick as there would have been pre-vaccine.
She says there i only a “handful” of patients in hospital who have had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, and some of those who have been double-vaccinated have only had the second dose recently.
And she adds the oldest patient in hospital is 101.
More made up stuff
Enough to charge her with manslaughter when the time comes
There would be even fewer sick people in hospital if they were using the treatments available such as ivermectin.
The fact that they’re not means they should all face criminal charges, ministers, ‘experts’ and doctors.
We know the test is a lie. Its what the whole pandemic is based on to get people to believe that all these cases exist and that there is a dangerous virus on the loose.
The biggest fraud in history on mankind and it is worldwide.
Cases through, not actual infections! Christ, I’m boring myself now.
Meanwhile can we even get hold of the figures for hospitalisations after the vaccine?
This should be a speed-up sign to reopening fully. No where in the globe has 80% of infections been in the under 50 age category caused a stain on healthcare resources. I’m all in favour of continued vaccination of 35+, but this data alongside global data on recovery rates is a sign to keep moving forward, not slowing down.
35? Strange number that. Better to do it by BMI if you ask me
Why do you want to kill over 35 year olds?
What have they done to you?
Oh they will find a new variant all right when the time comes for it. A few months ago the BBC was allowed into ‘the lab’ where the Kent variant (I think it was) was purportedly ‘identified’. All that was to be seen was wall to wall computers. The reporter said to the man in charge on getting this ‘scoop’ “Oh so this is the equipment used to identify the Kent variant”. To which the reply was “Well not exactly. It’s the computer used to model the variant”. Says it all. Another variant? Just re-programme the computer.
Utterly meaningless unless you normalise for the number of tests carried out on each age group – which takes about 10 seconds to do in excel.
It is blindingly obvious that Johnson has sunk huge money into these lateral flow tests and they must be used. This conveniently dovetails with the appearance of different variants across regions, they can push hospitality, for example, to test their (very young) staff even more than usual.
29 year olds are not seeking out tests because they’re sick. The tests are coming to them.
I think we all know the script by now. As deaths, real infections and hospitalisations head towards the vanishing point, the contrived nature of these non-stories increases in inverse proportion. In my district, we’ve had one ‘Covid death’ since 5th March. You’d never guess it from the ads at the bus stops.
Don’t we think that testing among the vaccinated older people has plunged? I think I remember reading some story that said that vaccinated people don’t need to be tested as often. Combine this with the fact that there is some on-going testing programs for the younger populations (perhaps at schools and colleges) … and this is exactly the result you would get.
Anyway, the story needs to present the ages of people who ARE being tested and compare this to the ages of people who were being tested weeks or months ago to have meaningful context, or a basis for a good comparison.
We need data on the number of “tests administered” to different age cohorts … Which this story doesn’t provide.
Here is Brian Gerrish on the Corona Ausshuss yesterday from 2hr 18 min.
BG describes the use of applied behavioural psychology and propaganda by UK Gov to
induce fear and confusion. The role of Common Purpose spreading their philosophy ‘power without authority’ and their targeting younger people ..using NLP (neurolinguistic programming). Explains how the population has been manipulated for political objectives.
https://corona-ausschuss.de/sitzungen/
Two questions spring to mind.
The first, already raised, is it the younger population that is being tested more frequently?
The second, are we using the CDC protocol for testing with PCR – that is vaccinated are run up to 28 cycles and the unvaccinated are run up to 40/45 cycles?
It’s all going to be false positives by now, after 18mo of a reputedly highly infectious respiratory virus scooting about.
More than 25% of the population has at some point tested positive, which is greater than in the Petri dish that was the Diamond Princess.
Another factor is the natural lifecycle of any virus (as pointed out by Mike Yeadon and others months ago). It’s run out of dry-tinder and so is desperately adapting to hang on to naturally healthier people. More contagious / less deadly in it’s effort to survive.