The scary thing for me— and why the pandemic flipped my entire worldview and changed my political party affiliation and many of my most important opinions— is how many people still would disagree with the facts you presented. As someone who was willing to change my mind, I can’t help but disdain those who resist it so thoroughly. And yet I cannot help but feel sorry for them, too: parroting The Consensus is what passes, these days, for virtue— for intellect and kindness and moral superiority. No wonder it all feels like a false religion.
Yup - a brief perusal of something like eX-Twitter shows that there are still some who think all the nonsense achieved something positive in terms of health.
I've just seen one pro-vax Tweet, for example, which used the ONS chart showing that the unvaccinated suffered higher **all-cause** mortality than the vaxxed. Sounds great, right? Except this happened when covid was pretty much a non-issue in terms of deaths. So basically the vaxx, according to the ONS, is like magic. It even protects you from non-covid deaths!
There is (very obviously) something deeply wrong with the ONS data and/or their analysis. This is something that, I think, must be deliberate. Despite all the banter, the folk at the ONS do actually know what they're doing when it comes to stats - so this is a *policy* thing, rather than incompetence.
I try to lighten things with a bit of humour - it helps stop me going completely insane. I'm probably only 87.3% insane right now, when it could have been much worse!
I too have worked for a large company and seen the crock of shit elevated to the highest level, and I too wish you were wrong in proposing that is not what happened with covid. However, I agree with your bulleted list and must attribute to malice what might otherwise be explained by stupidity.
Much of it seems less due to malice than to stupidity, though maybe the jury is still out on the case.
But you might at least be "entertained" by the painting Wikipedia uses to illustrate the article on Hanlon's razor:
"The Court of Foolishness of Gerard de Lairesse. The accused, pursued by Hatred, is led by Calumny, Envy and Perfidy before a judge with donkey ears, surrounded by Ignorance and Suspicion."
There was a lot of stupid going round - but, miraculously, all the stupid seems to have conspired to be in the direction of an awful lot more surveillance and coercive control.
Kind of the nature of perfect storms, of pushing systems to tipping points. Bit scary in fact.
Though en passant and maybe a minor detail, while some evidence that Ivermectin is, in fact, something of an anti-viral, there is also some evidence that the dosage required for "therapeutic effectiveness" is pushing the toxicity levels:
The thing is, most everyone was flying by the seat of their pants, too quick to shoot from the hip or the lip. No doubt, more than a few bad actors, grifters, charlatans and the like. But methinks still less malice than stupidity and panic.
Yeah - I don't think Ivermectin is a "wonder drug" against covid - but the very careful meta-analyses of people like Tess Lawrie do indicate it can have some benefit.
Not sure how that squares with the studies (in vitro?) which show a high dosage is required for effective anti-viral action. At the moment I'd go with the real-world data which has, in my view, **definitively** shown a benefit. The evidence for the (partial) effectiveness of Ivermectin is massively more compelling than the data for something like Remdesivir, for example - and yet that seems to have had no problem getting approved - despite its absolutely atrocious safety profile.
There is still a printed handout around the house with your opening "Crock of Shit" rundown on it. I don't know when it was originally written, but the paper is from the late 70s. It's all so true.
I think alot of the careful planning included getting jillions of 'well intentioned' cogs to wield new and expanded powers, essentially without limitation. Really, what is more attractive (to most) than that?
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day. These guys got everything wrong. You would expect that if they were trying they might at least break even. But no.
The Boss you see is stupid, gullible and lacking in actual factual knowledge - but has the right charisma, can follow instructions - and being very socially adept will always adapt and rationalise their own moral and agenda to fit the one marketed by his/hers éminence grise-s.
One or two steps down and to the side from The Boss, there's always a cadre of Blair-esque or Trudeau-ish types that wield the real power: those are the people connected to the WEF, IMF, Soros and pals, World Bank, UN and corporations and foreign powers.
That's why you get the mix of stupid and studied evident in the Covid-response: The Bosses are stupid but any plan must be implemented via them, and stupidity is the one random factor you never can mitigate, cofferdam or compensate in advance for.
In terms of health (and science) the covid response was spectacularly dumb.
But even though a lot of politicians would lose a game of noughts and crosses to a plankton, not all are bereft of reasoning capability. I do find it hard to believe they were ALL quite THAT stupid when it came to covid!
Having met some of our swedish parlamentarians, both in sort-of present day and 25 years ago, I can say this with at least some authority:
Most of them are that stupid or worse, with two major exceptions:
1) The party-creatures, the ones who entered the party as children or teenagers, that are not necessarily stupid as in lacking in intelligence, but simply ignorant (while being deft social manipulators). These can learn (i.e. be trained) and it is this group that try to stack the deck with truly stultifyingly stupid collagues, as doing so cements the power of the socially adept.
2) The rare few coming late to politics, having an outside expertise and real-life experience plus having had real jobs/careers where you get the boot for faffing about and fouling up. These are generally fewer than 1/10 of the total and are easily out-maneuvered by the above manipulators, who may well realise they need actual competence but do not want said competence in office.
Without any other selection process than being good at social manipulation, the development of western democracies/nations from the 1960s onwards was a given, and was known well in advance.
I have met EU-level politicians who for real think that if they say A is B, it is so or becomes so due to them saying it. Trying to reason with them and explain that policy must be based on how a specific group actually behaves (based on over-time empirical observation), not how they "ought" to behave according to theory or ideal outcome/performance is impossible. They really believe pointing with their whole hand and saying "Make it so!" changes reality.
It simply will not sink in. Most (s)elected politicians really are that blinkered. The "Sir Humphrey"-lot, that's where the real intelligence is.
The crock of (stupid as shit) people, was stirred by malevolent and evil (stupid as shit) wannabe tyrants, while the intelligent, thoughtful real people, who are able to carry on a conversation, while still able to consider more than one topic, while also being able to mentally rotate conceptual objects, where silenced into the corners and fringes of society, by the whirling dervish of insanity in the center.
Evil ran roughshod over the ignorant mass.
Luck goes to the prepared, and the new world order miscreants were more prepared when their opportunity knocked.
I pray more people now have seen the truth, and I hope that we will not be so abused, the next time, for they will surely try again.
They're definitely trying it again - they keep warning us about the next "pandemic". And they also are pushing Klimate Krap like crazy.
There are a lot who will just believe all the Krap that gets pumped out - the question is whether the increased number of people who reject the Krap is going to be enough.
Does the sudden crystallization of salt crystals from a super-saturated solution also mean all those anions and cations are plotting together with bad intent? Damn, it's depressing to think the universe is such a palace of horrors all the way down...
Professor Rigger. You were not wrong in your initial assessment. You offered the best explanation for what happened. THEY (most of the world) panicked when the Covid-19 virus was created and escaped. And the pharmaceutical industry spread the panic in order to make billions. And the stupid Media were too stupid to question what was happening. THEY will never admit that they were wrong. Who wants to admit that THEY are so stupid they ate a bowl of shit and said it was yummy. And THEY couldn’t control their inner fascism. THEY insisted everyone do the same.
We suffered because Junius was nowhere to be found and David Horowitz and you do not have the reach you should.
The claims that the virus and vaccine were created as bioweapons to wipe out mankind make no sense. Firstly, both killed a tiny percentage of mankind. Secondly, who would benefit from wiping out mankind?
Yeah - I'm not really persuaded by the 'bioweapon' argument because neither the virus nor the vaccine are sufficiently deadly.
For me, I keep coming back to those phrases that were uttered very early on; build back better, and the new normal.
These only make "sense" if there really was some existential threat we faced - but even the over-inflated figures did not indicate that level of threat. Yet they pushed forward with that program and one can only wonder why.
I noticed a total unwillingness to engage in any discussion in order to find the best solution on all topics, starting with Lockdowns, then treatments (the fatwa against HCQ was even stronger, and it was put off the shelves in France just b4 the plandemic started...), then origin, then tests, then masks and so on.
If they ever meant well, that stopped with the sabotage of treatments and was reinforced by the refusal to at least standardise tests (instead, they abused them further to manipulate results and vaxx related stats and.made.absolutely no secret of it).
I don't doubt that the whole vaxx/GT thing was the real aim and driver, but I also think the sloppiness of officials, journalists, doctors and people in that regard was quite breathtaking: it was confirmed public knowledge by Oct 2010 that the GTs were not trialled for transmission (Moderna CSO) and the trial results themselves were dissected and questioned by Doshi&co at the time as well.
As to why ever younger, I think they followed the Roy Anderson paper to a T, which saw HI as a purely mathematical formula, and when the VE part of it went down ever more in real life, that necessitated in their view the poisoning of ever more aka younger people. The same logic goes for the boosters, pure HI/VE formula maths.
Bartramsfolly had a good piece on HI in 2022 that delved into that.
But it is still most likely that this spiel was also invented and provided by the originators of the plandemic/vaccinators well in advance, to provide just that pseudo-scientific cover for their many useful idiots tasked with executing the scam.
The current unwillingness to engage in any kind of meaningful discourse across a whole range of topics is deeply disturbing. It's creating a very unstable and divided society - and maybe that's its purpose?
The scary thing for me— and why the pandemic flipped my entire worldview and changed my political party affiliation and many of my most important opinions— is how many people still would disagree with the facts you presented. As someone who was willing to change my mind, I can’t help but disdain those who resist it so thoroughly. And yet I cannot help but feel sorry for them, too: parroting The Consensus is what passes, these days, for virtue— for intellect and kindness and moral superiority. No wonder it all feels like a false religion.
Yup - a brief perusal of something like eX-Twitter shows that there are still some who think all the nonsense achieved something positive in terms of health.
I've just seen one pro-vax Tweet, for example, which used the ONS chart showing that the unvaccinated suffered higher **all-cause** mortality than the vaxxed. Sounds great, right? Except this happened when covid was pretty much a non-issue in terms of deaths. So basically the vaxx, according to the ONS, is like magic. It even protects you from non-covid deaths!
There is (very obviously) something deeply wrong with the ONS data and/or their analysis. This is something that, I think, must be deliberate. Despite all the banter, the folk at the ONS do actually know what they're doing when it comes to stats - so this is a *policy* thing, rather than incompetence.
A touch of humour does no harm at all. Thank you. I have published the link in my corona site covid-unmasked.net I hope you get more readers. Brian
Thanks Brian
I try to lighten things with a bit of humour - it helps stop me going completely insane. I'm probably only 87.3% insane right now, when it could have been much worse!
"because if I’m right, then we’re not looking at a very ‘free’ future at all"
Which is why we need to keep fighting back against all the plans as they are all tied in together into on bleak future.
It's been planned a long, long time once you start investigating it.
"It's been planned a long, long time"
It certainly does have every appearance of being so
I too have worked for a large company and seen the crock of shit elevated to the highest level, and I too wish you were wrong in proposing that is not what happened with covid. However, I agree with your bulleted list and must attribute to malice what might otherwise be explained by stupidity.
Much of it seems less due to malice than to stupidity, though maybe the jury is still out on the case.
But you might at least be "entertained" by the painting Wikipedia uses to illustrate the article on Hanlon's razor:
"The Court of Foolishness of Gerard de Lairesse. The accused, pursued by Hatred, is led by Calumny, Envy and Perfidy before a judge with donkey ears, surrounded by Ignorance and Suspicion."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
There was a lot of stupid going round - but, miraculously, all the stupid seems to have conspired to be in the direction of an awful lot more surveillance and coercive control.
Probably just an unhappy coincidence.
Indubitably ... 😉🙂
Kind of the nature of perfect storms, of pushing systems to tipping points. Bit scary in fact.
Though en passant and maybe a minor detail, while some evidence that Ivermectin is, in fact, something of an anti-viral, there is also some evidence that the dosage required for "therapeutic effectiveness" is pushing the toxicity levels:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172803/
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-than-you-wanted?s=r
The thing is, most everyone was flying by the seat of their pants, too quick to shoot from the hip or the lip. No doubt, more than a few bad actors, grifters, charlatans and the like. But methinks still less malice than stupidity and panic.
Yeah - I don't think Ivermectin is a "wonder drug" against covid - but the very careful meta-analyses of people like Tess Lawrie do indicate it can have some benefit.
Not sure how that squares with the studies (in vitro?) which show a high dosage is required for effective anti-viral action. At the moment I'd go with the real-world data which has, in my view, **definitively** shown a benefit. The evidence for the (partial) effectiveness of Ivermectin is massively more compelling than the data for something like Remdesivir, for example - and yet that seems to have had no problem getting approved - despite its absolutely atrocious safety profile.
There is still a printed handout around the house with your opening "Crock of Shit" rundown on it. I don't know when it was originally written, but the paper is from the late 70s. It's all so true.
Yeah - it's an old "meme" - but still very relevant!
I think alot of the careful planning included getting jillions of 'well intentioned' cogs to wield new and expanded powers, essentially without limitation. Really, what is more attractive (to most) than that?
And remember how we were told to get used to the "new normal"?
Such a chilling phrase - and how did they *know* this was necessary?
Because covid was sooo deadly!
But why was it so deadly?
Because they artificially over-inflated the numbers!
All of this "new normal" was in response to a relatively minor 'threat' from a relatively moderately dangerous virus!
No you're right. Deliberate and malicious and run by beta types.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day. These guys got everything wrong. You would expect that if they were trying they might at least break even. But no.
Like this:
The Boss you see is stupid, gullible and lacking in actual factual knowledge - but has the right charisma, can follow instructions - and being very socially adept will always adapt and rationalise their own moral and agenda to fit the one marketed by his/hers éminence grise-s.
One or two steps down and to the side from The Boss, there's always a cadre of Blair-esque or Trudeau-ish types that wield the real power: those are the people connected to the WEF, IMF, Soros and pals, World Bank, UN and corporations and foreign powers.
That's why you get the mix of stupid and studied evident in the Covid-response: The Bosses are stupid but any plan must be implemented via them, and stupidity is the one random factor you never can mitigate, cofferdam or compensate in advance for.
In terms of health (and science) the covid response was spectacularly dumb.
But even though a lot of politicians would lose a game of noughts and crosses to a plankton, not all are bereft of reasoning capability. I do find it hard to believe they were ALL quite THAT stupid when it came to covid!
Having met some of our swedish parlamentarians, both in sort-of present day and 25 years ago, I can say this with at least some authority:
Most of them are that stupid or worse, with two major exceptions:
1) The party-creatures, the ones who entered the party as children or teenagers, that are not necessarily stupid as in lacking in intelligence, but simply ignorant (while being deft social manipulators). These can learn (i.e. be trained) and it is this group that try to stack the deck with truly stultifyingly stupid collagues, as doing so cements the power of the socially adept.
2) The rare few coming late to politics, having an outside expertise and real-life experience plus having had real jobs/careers where you get the boot for faffing about and fouling up. These are generally fewer than 1/10 of the total and are easily out-maneuvered by the above manipulators, who may well realise they need actual competence but do not want said competence in office.
Without any other selection process than being good at social manipulation, the development of western democracies/nations from the 1960s onwards was a given, and was known well in advance.
I have met EU-level politicians who for real think that if they say A is B, it is so or becomes so due to them saying it. Trying to reason with them and explain that policy must be based on how a specific group actually behaves (based on over-time empirical observation), not how they "ought" to behave according to theory or ideal outcome/performance is impossible. They really believe pointing with their whole hand and saying "Make it so!" changes reality.
It simply will not sink in. Most (s)elected politicians really are that blinkered. The "Sir Humphrey"-lot, that's where the real intelligence is.
The crock of (stupid as shit) people, was stirred by malevolent and evil (stupid as shit) wannabe tyrants, while the intelligent, thoughtful real people, who are able to carry on a conversation, while still able to consider more than one topic, while also being able to mentally rotate conceptual objects, where silenced into the corners and fringes of society, by the whirling dervish of insanity in the center.
Evil ran roughshod over the ignorant mass.
Luck goes to the prepared, and the new world order miscreants were more prepared when their opportunity knocked.
I pray more people now have seen the truth, and I hope that we will not be so abused, the next time, for they will surely try again.
They're definitely trying it again - they keep warning us about the next "pandemic". And they also are pushing Klimate Krap like crazy.
There are a lot who will just believe all the Krap that gets pumped out - the question is whether the increased number of people who reject the Krap is going to be enough.
Does the sudden crystallization of salt crystals from a super-saturated solution also mean all those anions and cations are plotting together with bad intent? Damn, it's depressing to think the universe is such a palace of horrors all the way down...
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Professor Rigger. You were not wrong in your initial assessment. You offered the best explanation for what happened. THEY (most of the world) panicked when the Covid-19 virus was created and escaped. And the pharmaceutical industry spread the panic in order to make billions. And the stupid Media were too stupid to question what was happening. THEY will never admit that they were wrong. Who wants to admit that THEY are so stupid they ate a bowl of shit and said it was yummy. And THEY couldn’t control their inner fascism. THEY insisted everyone do the same.
We suffered because Junius was nowhere to be found and David Horowitz and you do not have the reach you should.
The claims that the virus and vaccine were created as bioweapons to wipe out mankind make no sense. Firstly, both killed a tiny percentage of mankind. Secondly, who would benefit from wiping out mankind?
Yeah - I'm not really persuaded by the 'bioweapon' argument because neither the virus nor the vaccine are sufficiently deadly.
For me, I keep coming back to those phrases that were uttered very early on; build back better, and the new normal.
These only make "sense" if there really was some existential threat we faced - but even the over-inflated figures did not indicate that level of threat. Yet they pushed forward with that program and one can only wonder why.
I noticed a total unwillingness to engage in any discussion in order to find the best solution on all topics, starting with Lockdowns, then treatments (the fatwa against HCQ was even stronger, and it was put off the shelves in France just b4 the plandemic started...), then origin, then tests, then masks and so on.
If they ever meant well, that stopped with the sabotage of treatments and was reinforced by the refusal to at least standardise tests (instead, they abused them further to manipulate results and vaxx related stats and.made.absolutely no secret of it).
I don't doubt that the whole vaxx/GT thing was the real aim and driver, but I also think the sloppiness of officials, journalists, doctors and people in that regard was quite breathtaking: it was confirmed public knowledge by Oct 2010 that the GTs were not trialled for transmission (Moderna CSO) and the trial results themselves were dissected and questioned by Doshi&co at the time as well.
As to why ever younger, I think they followed the Roy Anderson paper to a T, which saw HI as a purely mathematical formula, and when the VE part of it went down ever more in real life, that necessitated in their view the poisoning of ever more aka younger people. The same logic goes for the boosters, pure HI/VE formula maths.
Bartramsfolly had a good piece on HI in 2022 that delved into that.
But it is still most likely that this spiel was also invented and provided by the originators of the plandemic/vaccinators well in advance, to provide just that pseudo-scientific cover for their many useful idiots tasked with executing the scam.
The current unwillingness to engage in any kind of meaningful discourse across a whole range of topics is deeply disturbing. It's creating a very unstable and divided society - and maybe that's its purpose?
Incredible article. Thanks.
Thanks Stephen - much appreciated