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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Excellent questions. God alone knows what exacly happened and why But we are becoming increasingly aware of what didn.t happen
For God’s sake don’t give them ideas –
“Why were there no widespread prevalence tests of the population before locking down”.
Sounds very much a question that A Guardian Science Correpondent would write (apologies for the insult).
No such tests exist nor will ever exist. Any PCR positive test is is merely an artifact of a confirmation of a computer consruct designe/invented by Drosten as a result of being fed a similar construct by a Chinese lady whose name escapes me, who apparently discovered said novel pathogen amongst billions of nucleotides in some poor Chinese person’s lungs. All the tests do is freak people out.
The whole pandemic was never about a new and novel virus, isn’t and never will be. Look at worldwide death levels, same as in other years (Flu disappeared you see).
And as for Lateral Flow tests…
The whole thing was a con, fed to us by second rate gullible bag carrying “experts” and executed expertly by those controlling the MSM.
The result? A mesmerised mainly western world public fearfully awaiting disease “X”.
Some truths –
Africa and other ujabbed countries will win.
There is no such thing as an exponential URV pathogen – all are self limiting.
The unjabbed will mostly survive and be healthier than the jabbed.
The jabbed face ever increasing levels of chronic/autoimmune illness and disease.
Far too many people have watched too many apocalyptic virus movies.
Fear depresses all immune responses.
Eat well, exercise take Vitamin D2 and K in winter.
And finally despite all that has happened be happy and look forward to the demise of the bastards.
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It has been interesting to see the slow drift of articles on this site towards what some people like to term “conspiracy theories”. Back in the day, the general flavour was more that it was a genuine over-reaction rather than anything more sinister.
The reason why you have no idea how the so-called Great War, also known as the first world war, came about is because you’re busy with looking in another direction and whistling a melody whenever the topic happens to come up and this for a very good reason, mister. People have written books about this covering everything in excruciating detail. But considering that re-telling anglo-franco-american propaganda lies about this period is something the so-called German government still has a budget for, you probably don’t really want to know anything about it.
Could you please supply the titles and authors of a couple of the books to which you refer? Thank you
Do you read German, that is, language and alphabet?
Dr. Hans F. Helmolt: Die geheime Vorgeschichte des Weltkrieges, K.F. Koehler Leizpig, 1914
Alfred v. Wegerer: Die Widerlegung der Versailler Kriegschuldthese, Reimar Hobbing Berlin, 1928
NB: These are both history books, ie, aim to gain knowledge about past events by a comparative study of available sources. They’re not post-modern pseudohistorical novels based on a random potpourri of Word War Big Brother first-person accounts, entertaining speculations and a political agenda.
It was understood by Charles Mackay way back in 1841.
The technical term is a Mass Psychosis outbreak.
Possibly, but what triggered it? The mass psychosis seemed to me not so much that there was a deadly pandemic but that we should stay at home because ???? not sure – because nobody would tell us such whopping lies? The whole thing still baffles me. Sure, a fair few people got a bit cranky but most seemed to me fairly relaxed.
The reason this Mass Psychosis outbreak was so powerful was because it started, and was perpetuated by the most trusted members of our society, the medical profession.
The logic was simply, if THEY’RE going insane over Covid WE need to go insane too.
If that’s true, what’s your theory on why they did that?
Mass Psychosis outbreaks are not planned, they are not engineered, they are spontaneous and based on irrational fear.
I can’t get my head around it
That is because your knowledge base is extremely wide and extensive tof.
The nearest comparison to Covid was the medieval witch trials.
That was a Mass Psychosis outbreak that engulfed europe and killed tens of thousands.
They went collectively insane, believing the church, that they were infested with witches and the only solution was extermination of those ‘witches’.
It’s slightly different with Covid but it’s still a devastating outbreak of irrational fear over an imaginary virus that has led to the deaths of many innocent people because of the ‘cures’, ventilation, midazolam,and the vaccines.
I struggle to accept that the leading lights believed from the start and continue to believe to this day. We shall never know for sure most probably.
Try reading “Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds” by Charles Mackay.
An awful lot of “covid” seemed pre-prepared and I see no evidence that most people thought it was especially dangerous – in fact even the “official” figures made it clear that it wasn’t
Covid doesn’t exist.
It’s a delusion.
The hysteria caused people (and the doctors) to believe that the common cold was a deadly respiratory virus.
I am open-minded about whether “covid” exists but I don’t think it matters very much one way or the other. What certainly doesn’t exist is a deadly novel virus that required any special consideration.
I believe it’s vitally important that people understand that we have just witnessed a mass delusion that’s killed millions across the globe.
That’s because If it’s not understood then the next outbreak (and there may well be another) could be far, far worse than even this.
I think it’s vitally important for people to realise that they have been lied to, and not just about “covid”.
In the article he says it all started in 2020, but many would point to 911 with the Patriot Act and our own version here. It was been a slow creeping authoritarianism ever since.
I think 2020 was more of a point of arrival than departure – an extreme manifestation of trends that had been ongoing for decades or more.
I don’t think so. In September 2019, I got a bout of serious vertigo which lasted until well into October. That’s something caused by a virus infection of the ear which impairs one’s vestibular sense. I didn’t know the term at that time and had never experienced anything like this before and because of this it freaked me out completely. This was followed by the flu from hell (term I used for myself at that time) in November, the worst case of flu-like illness with raised temperature I ever encountered (completely floored me for a full day and as I’m single, I can’t just lay in bed at home and let someone else care for me). Other atypical (from my standpoint) symptoms include bouts of serious muscle pain which would last for a few days. I also had a runny nose and chronic diarrhea throught all of the miserable 2020 lockdown. This particular illness has since reocurred periodically, pretty much getting less worse every time until it became a better nuisance, ie, feeling under the weather for a day or two.
There was decidedly something new I encountered in South-East England mid-August 2019 (I won’t describe the initial symptoms but they were also quite distinctive) and that something has since become resident here (so to say).
NB: All of the Covimania which ate 2020 and 2021 was of course pointless hysteria nevertheless as the new something had been with us for eight months already before Covimania kicked in in March 2020.
I had a holiday in Madagascar in 2018 and had a guy next to me coughing, spluttering etc. Whatever he had, I caught and it made my first 10 days miserable. That along with Jet lag, I was drained out. As someone who trains and was around 18 stone, they sudden lack of food probably played a part. The other time I went I got food poisoning and was in my Hotel bed for three days not eating!
In 2019 I also and a dry cough and flu symptoms with vertigo and a ear ache that I got antibiotics for that didn’t seem to help. There are exercises you can do on the bed for vertigo that seemed to help. I still went to the Gym with vertigo, even squatting over 200kg, as log=ng as my head was upright. As soon as I bent to change the weight, I would feel the room start to spin.
And from their own mouths, then they changed on a dime with no new information.
Also there were people that thought it was bollox but saw the opportunity being a Witchfinder General could bring. A but like many fifth column who reside on the green benches.
Fear is contagious in itself.
The ambulance guy is a one story jackanory tof. Everything that has happened in the last four years is down to the world population being placed in to a trance. That’s it. Yawn.
You fell for it though, didn’t you?
Now you’re embarrassed.
I fell for none of the nonsense of the last four years. Don’t be so ignorantly insulting. Your insistence that everybody succumbed to hypnosis these last four years is mind boggling. That you claim to be a paramedic is disturbing. Somebody in your job with a myopic view of the world presents a real risk to patients. If you have learned nothing from your occasional visits to this site you are never going to. On a site filled with intelligent people who genuinely research elsewhere and post their findings on here your one trick pony approach is embarrassing.
Stick to the BBC
You sound like all the Covidiots i’ve encountered since 2020.
“You don’t believe covid exists?”
“You must be a danger to patients if you think that?”
Stick to your unhinged fantasies about brigade 77 and that Covid was a plandemic and i’ll stick to what I know about, medicine.
The truth is: Stupidity
Evidence?
‘I appeared at a press conference at Davos on 23 January 2020 with Richard Hatchett, the head of CEPI and a White House adviser during the HlNl outbreak of 2009; and Stephane Bancel, the now superstar head of biotech company Moderna. Stephane was already working with CEPI on other vaccines and only that week had inked an agreement with Richard to start work on a coronavirus vaccine.
I was asked to speak first. I was in the spotlight. The truth could not be sugar-coated.
‘We are about six weeks into this outbreak and this virus can now clearly spread between humans,’ I told the audience, explaining it could be passed on like influenza, through coughing and sneezing. ‘It is not SARS. The virus is in a similar family as SARS but this looks different … and the difference is probably it is easier to pass between human beings. I think we can expect many more cases in China and many more cases in other parts of the world.’
Richard then emphasised how much was unknown, such as how infectious the virus was; the pattern of transmission; the range of symptoms and whether they ran from mild to severe; the exact number of cases; how far it had spread geographically.
Stephane urgently needed cash, he had told Richard a few days before Davos, to turn Moderna’s baby steps on this new coronavirus into phase 1 trials. In the end, there were just three days between Stephane’s pitch and Richard’s sign-off. The tie-up was being announced at the press conference, along with two other CEPI partnerships (with lnovio, for a DNA vaccine, and the University of Queensland in Australia).’
https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/21180503/INQ000208834.pdf
The result?
PANIC……
The whole thing was manufactured bullshit.
‘A concatenation of malignant interests,’ to roughly quote Toby Young 4 years ago.
That quote from Toby…I didn’t think he was that based!
TPTB ( see Ivor Cummins , How the World is Run ) are just waiting for their WHO Treaty type thingy to get the ok ! Covid was a dry run & if these utter Chunts get their way we are doomed !!..
Oh dear. Looks like Mass Psychosis 2 is on the way then Freddy.
Back in 2019 it was clear that the Zero CO2 plan to destroy the economies of the West, confirmed by statements from Maurice Strong, Christina Figueres, Otmar Edenhoffer, wasn’t going to plan.
Repeated predictions of Thermageddon were looking increasingly farfetched. They had already reduced the 2°C target to 1.5°C.
Something else was needed to boost wealth and powers of Control.
The rest is plain to see.
Thank you but this is not the response ambulance man wants to see.
I honestly think ee know enough now to take a stab at what happened.
The virus was created in a lab in China as part of the US government bioweapons research programme. It escaped from the lab, either by accident or on purpose.
Countries across the world put into effect their pre-existing biological attack plans. This is crucial to understand: the world did not follow the pandemic response plans, because they were instead following their biological defense plans.
The UK biological warfare plan included what became the Coronavirus Act – all 339 pages of it. Does anyone truly think that Act was written in a panic in a couple of weeks in March 2020?
The reason it all felt like a war, complete with State control of the media, “othering” of dissidents, and unlimited public money to be spent on it, is that the State was indeed treating it as a war.
The guilty men who unleashed this engineered virus on the world should be facing many years of prison time.
Also Wall Street is never far away in world events. It was an excuse to spend vast sums and transfer wealth in the Great Reset with the wonderful king at the helm.
In the book The Plot To Seize The White House and according to General Smedley Butler, Bankers started WW1.
Here is a good documentary on how Trump was played, and Fauci wasn’t the main player
https://rumble.com/v4iuf0l-it-wasnt-fauci-how-the-deep-state-really-played-trump.html?playlist_id=watch-history