"And if your counter is that “things would have been worse” if we had not locked down etc, then I have only one word for you. Sweden."
Sorry? Anyway, they are working on fixing this. And in the USA, they are targeting the Amish right now, trying to force-vaccinate their children. Since Amish children don't have higher mortality rates than other comparable groups of children, but have significantly lower rates of ailments such as ADHD and Autism, there's only one real reason:
Remove a control-group that by virtue of existing proves the capitalistic cult of Covid and by extension commercial vaccines wrong, and evil.
Substacker "Epimetheus" of Die Fackel (the name of the stack) has been running a "best of Covidiocy" focused on Germany and Austria (or Greater and Lesser Covidistan has he sometimes calls them) for a week now. Recommended if you want to compare continental loons with British ones: https://fackel.substack.com/
Your mention of fear brought to mind one of the singularly best delves into what and why fear is, I cannot recommend it enough, because even though he looked at it from a writer's point of view, Lovecraft's treatise on the nature of fear is bang on the money in the psychological and sociological aspects, and how fear is not just a glandular response to immediate stimuli but a much deeper societal and cultural notion as greatly embedded in our psyches as are anger and love:
"Definite feelings based on pleasure and pain grew up around the phenomena whose causes and effects he understood, whilst around those which he did not understand—and the universe teemed with them in the early days—were naturally woven such personifications, marvellous interpretations, and sensations of awe and fear as would be hit upon by a race having few and simple ideas and limited experience. The unknown, being likewise the unpredictable, became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part."
For which our forefathers invented rituals, to call for boons and to ward off ill fate. Totems, dances, chants, temples, sacred groves, certain garbs and vestments, and so on. Mitre or mask, they both have the same effect on a virus.
Thanks for the links Rikard. I will certainly enjoy the Lovecraft one!
Hail Cthulhu
I thought you might raise an eyebrow or two at "Sweden" 😄
Basically, I think Sweden provides a (limited) control group. It may not have been entirely intentional at a governmental level, but things by all accounts weren't quite as crazy there during covid. I'm sure some people did adapt their behaviours as a matter of personal choice - which is why I use the word limited. The UK and Sweden share the same sub-climate zone and countries in that zone showed very similar patterns of mortality and outbreak.
What this points to (although not conclusively) is that the difference in response between Sweden and the UK had no impact on the temporal evolution, the dynamics of spread and mortality - and we can see this from the very strong association between the mortality curves.
In other words, as many studies have since shown, the aggressive covid 'control' measures did very little to mitigate disease evolution, whilst doing an awful lot to harm people in other ways.
As for vaccines, I think we need to get out of the 'medical miracle' mindset. Like any other medical intervention they carry risks and benefits. The risks have been seriously underplayed whilst the benefits have been extremely overplayed. From a Pharma perspective, if you can get everyone agreeing that *childhood* vaccination is essential then it's an amazing cash cow that you can milk in perpetuity.
In an act of synchronicity, yesterday in town I found - for free - a century old copy of Shakespear's complete works in one single volume. Ca 1100 pages, font size 6 letters.
As for science, a real scientist be he Scotsman or not, does not try to eliminate the control groups; only criminals, politicians and con-jobs do that.
(Oh dear, a triple tautology: I wrote "criminal" three times.)
I am more sceptical than you with regard to it really being a thing. But certainly, there either was as an agenda behind it, or it was quickly created and then jumped upon by a sinister elite, from military people via the MSM to the many grifters.
And while, as with all wars including the currently prepared for, I can see their rationale for creating fear and (ab)using it, I still cannot excuse most of the public for falling for it -again!, and for embracing Girardian scapegoating wholeheartedly -again!
The public positively wanted it all after a very, very short while, even demanding it FROM these elites when they still hesitated, demonstrable especially so in the UK.
I still remember that episode of the 83 year old woman from Barnsley accidentally allowed to speak common sense and demonstrate integrity and dignity on TV, who was not just immediately vilified for that display, but whom they also tried to publicly humiliate and reeducate again on TV shortly thereafter.
I actually briefly and naively harbored some hope at the time that this might be a turning point.
And the public had and have far weaker excuses for falling for it, wanting it and enthusiastically practising it than previous generations, who had no knowledge yet about Nazism, communism, LeBon, Bernays, Orwell, Ash, Milgram, Stanford&co, or, in the case of the currently prepared for war, of the Covid psyop.
I don't know why more people aren't more fully ashamed of themselves over the covid response, but I guess that might be a step too far for some. It would be too much to come to terms with, that they went full 'nazi' and lost any semblance of common sense or humanity.
The government response across the world to covid was scary and problematic enough even with the assumption it was a real thing. It still points to all sorts of corruption and manipulation for agendas other than health. However, it it genuinely wasn't a real thing, this deepens the malfeasance by an order of magnitude!
I'm still of the view that we can't forget covid - because the issues that arose from our handling of it (and the possible global push behind it) have not really gone away. We need that justice - not just for the sake of justice, but to bring some of these issues to the fore.
I've used the cough of calamity for a while now. I'm not sure it hits the mark in terms of changing anyone's mind about covid and the response to it - but the sarcasm helps me get things off my chest 😂
I find myself alternatively boiling with rage at them and then not giving a shit about anything, due to the absolute incompetence / injustice / stupidity / dishonesty of our "dear leaders" criminal responses.
And also the populations complete lack of critical thinking.
Justice is absolutely needed, though we really don't have enough gallows, or burning pits of hell for them.
Yet.
I love Terry Pratchetts humour and so "The cough of calamity" sums things up wonderfully.
I learned a tremendous amount about my fellow citizens (maybe about human nature) from the Covid event.
- I would never have imagined the power of propaganda and irrational fear. I would guess that the Covid event was years in planning and was a test of the government / media / elite class propaganda machine. It was a tremendous success.
- I am still stunned at how many people are unaware of (or unwilling to admit) what was done to all of us. I think that many would willingly repeat the whole event again.
I suspect that a significant portion of our fellow citizens enjoyed (or were energized) by the Covid event. I saw many "Karens" appearing to get perverse pleasure from scolding others in public for improper mask wearing and other infractions. Covid empowered people whose lives were previously routine and boring.
Fear reigned supreme, no doubt about that. But fear of what or of whom? What scared the bejesus out of the highly trained to be unflappable medical establishment?
I believe that it cannot be anything other than some kind of operation. Never in human history have all the different nations with our differing ideas, concepts, languages, histories, cultures and religions taken the exact same measures against any common threat. At the very least, we saw unprecedented coordination and cooperation.
Whatever and whenever the genesis was, the evidence points to there being a unity of thought and action on the part of all world leaders that the world has never seen before.
It is called "lockstep" a plan published like 10y prior to COVID scam by Rockefeler. There was nothing normal about it, it was a synchronized (lockstep) response by all (corrupt and bought) governments.
I remember a planning event in Oct. 2019 called Event 201 I believe. (Held in China with all the bad actors...B. Gates WEF and major social media planners for maximum takeover of plebe information).
That was the blueprint and starting bell of the Plandemic!!
Great minds must think alike. Rudolph and I both used our 5-year anniversary columns to focus on the same subject - the importance of the "deadly virus" narrative.
No irrational fear ... no pandemic. (But it was surprisingly easy to scare the living daylights out of the people of the world).
Deaths in 2020 in the US were extraordinarily high--much higher than any other year in the last century at least. Nothing like it has been seen since the so-called Spanish Flu. So it seems the situation in the US is entirely different than the UK--although it is hard to tell from a chart of standardized UK death rates per 100k. Here is a summary of the official US mortality data with links to verify it, in the 2nd part of this article. https://www.virginiastoner.com/writing/2024/8/30/the-us-democide-of-2020-2022-in-a-nutshell-kjl68
The Chinese made Covid-19 and released it on the World - Yes, Right - not one Chinese name on the patents for Moderna's Covid-19 virus in 2013
Basically it is irrefutable proof that Moderna created the Covid-19 virus and here are the Patents for it: ModernaGate: Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because “Murderna” is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG By The Exposé on April 30, 2023
Moderna's Covid-19 virus #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG may evade vaccines or the protection of natural immunity. CDC
Moderna was part of the planning and implementation of covid-19, gain-of-function experimentation, and vaccine profiteering. Here are the patents:
US9149506B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding septin-4 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
Inventor: Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles
US9216205B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding granulysin – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9255129B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding SIAH E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9301993B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding apoptosis inducing factor 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9587003B2: Modified polynucleotides for the production of oncology-related proteins and peptides – 2016-02-04 Application filed by ModernaTx Inc.
Inventor: Stephane Bancel, Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles, Sayda M. Elbashir, Matthias John, Atanu Roy, Susan Whoriskey, Kristy M. Wood, Paul Hatala, Jason P. Schrum, Kenechi Ejebe, Jeff Lynn Ellsworth, Justin Guild
Learn more about this bombshell SARS-CoV-2 laboratory origin evidence at The Expose.
Whatever it was, it was around in mid-March 2020, when there were huge simultaneous death spikes in many countries, including US, UK, Canada, Australia and more.
Wouldn't a chemical weapon or a dirty bomb be a lot more reliable than a biological weapon (assuming there is such a thing)?
Consider the pattern of US deaths in the New York City mass casualty event of Spring 2020, data here: https://www.virginiastoner.com/nyc-mass-casualty-event . Over 8 weeks, excess deaths occurred in a bell-curve or normal distribution pattern, spiking up to 550% before beginning a steady decline back to normal. I don't see how a biological weapon could be that predictable.
Very nice distillation of the last 5 years. I don't claim any amazing insight or medical knowledge but instinctively knew things were not right in 2020. I openly refused any experimental procedure, as did all my family with just two exceptions. Not one of us 'scumbag granny killing infectious anti-vaxxers' had any medical problems during the period... except... you guessed it, the two vaccinated souls who have endured ongoing health problems to this day.
It shook my entire belief system to the core and I view the world and governing bodies in an entirely different light now. I rarely trusted their word, now I never would.
But amazing as it is in the face of such damning evidence, they still push the substance.. I can only assume that this is just for show as to 'not' push it would be a tacit admission of guilt. The lie needs to be maintained or the entire experience falls apart. It's still pushed in the full knowledge that as such a tiny percentage of the population actually get it, the vaccine damage figures won't be statistically significant.
I still dream of the day when guilt is admitted, order is restored and life gets clarity. Of course it won't be a 'day'.. it will be an incredibly slow and incremental building of irrefutable evidence and by then the majority of folks will dismiss it as 'just a piece of history' best forgotten.
This is great. Thank you. The ads you found and presented in this essay are chilling. We should be very afraid of the people and organizations who are trying to make us very afraid of a virus. What's scary is how easy it was for them to pull off their Fear Campaign.
Many thanks for your post. Re "Now, I’m not one of those who thinks that covid was some sort of ‘hoax’ or some kind of re-branded ‘flu’."
A pity, as that is exactly what it was. They have been rebranding the 'flu for decades, it's a great way to boost falling pharma sales among other things. The whole thing was a complete load of bollox from start to finish. I have tackled this from many angles but I find humour the best.
I started on WordPress and came to substack as well in 2023.
You totally don't understand Shakespeare, and an example why the KJV sucks. "Wherefore art thou Romeo" meant why did you have to be a Romeo instead of one of her clan. It had NOTHING to do with where Romeo was at the moment. Anything written that long ago might mean something totally different than what you think.
"And if your counter is that “things would have been worse” if we had not locked down etc, then I have only one word for you. Sweden."
Sorry? Anyway, they are working on fixing this. And in the USA, they are targeting the Amish right now, trying to force-vaccinate their children. Since Amish children don't have higher mortality rates than other comparable groups of children, but have significantly lower rates of ailments such as ADHD and Autism, there's only one real reason:
Remove a control-group that by virtue of existing proves the capitalistic cult of Covid and by extension commercial vaccines wrong, and evil.
Substacker "Epimetheus" of Die Fackel (the name of the stack) has been running a "best of Covidiocy" focused on Germany and Austria (or Greater and Lesser Covidistan has he sometimes calls them) for a week now. Recommended if you want to compare continental loons with British ones: https://fackel.substack.com/
Your mention of fear brought to mind one of the singularly best delves into what and why fear is, I cannot recommend it enough, because even though he looked at it from a writer's point of view, Lovecraft's treatise on the nature of fear is bang on the money in the psychological and sociological aspects, and how fear is not just a glandular response to immediate stimuli but a much deeper societal and cultural notion as greatly embedded in our psyches as are anger and love:
https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx
Sample:
"Definite feelings based on pleasure and pain grew up around the phenomena whose causes and effects he understood, whilst around those which he did not understand—and the universe teemed with them in the early days—were naturally woven such personifications, marvellous interpretations, and sensations of awe and fear as would be hit upon by a race having few and simple ideas and limited experience. The unknown, being likewise the unpredictable, became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic and wholly extra-terrestrial reasons, and thus clearly belonging to spheres of existence whereof we know nothing and wherein we have no part."
For which our forefathers invented rituals, to call for boons and to ward off ill fate. Totems, dances, chants, temples, sacred groves, certain garbs and vestments, and so on. Mitre or mask, they both have the same effect on a virus.
Thanks for the links Rikard. I will certainly enjoy the Lovecraft one!
Hail Cthulhu
I thought you might raise an eyebrow or two at "Sweden" 😄
Basically, I think Sweden provides a (limited) control group. It may not have been entirely intentional at a governmental level, but things by all accounts weren't quite as crazy there during covid. I'm sure some people did adapt their behaviours as a matter of personal choice - which is why I use the word limited. The UK and Sweden share the same sub-climate zone and countries in that zone showed very similar patterns of mortality and outbreak.
What this points to (although not conclusively) is that the difference in response between Sweden and the UK had no impact on the temporal evolution, the dynamics of spread and mortality - and we can see this from the very strong association between the mortality curves.
In other words, as many studies have since shown, the aggressive covid 'control' measures did very little to mitigate disease evolution, whilst doing an awful lot to harm people in other ways.
As for vaccines, I think we need to get out of the 'medical miracle' mindset. Like any other medical intervention they carry risks and benefits. The risks have been seriously underplayed whilst the benefits have been extremely overplayed. From a Pharma perspective, if you can get everyone agreeing that *childhood* vaccination is essential then it's an amazing cash cow that you can milk in perpetuity.
In an act of synchronicity, yesterday in town I found - for free - a century old copy of Shakespear's complete works in one single volume. Ca 1100 pages, font size 6 letters.
As for science, a real scientist be he Scotsman or not, does not try to eliminate the control groups; only criminals, politicians and con-jobs do that.
(Oh dear, a triple tautology: I wrote "criminal" three times.)
I am more sceptical than you with regard to it really being a thing. But certainly, there either was as an agenda behind it, or it was quickly created and then jumped upon by a sinister elite, from military people via the MSM to the many grifters.
And while, as with all wars including the currently prepared for, I can see their rationale for creating fear and (ab)using it, I still cannot excuse most of the public for falling for it -again!, and for embracing Girardian scapegoating wholeheartedly -again!
The public positively wanted it all after a very, very short while, even demanding it FROM these elites when they still hesitated, demonstrable especially so in the UK.
I still remember that episode of the 83 year old woman from Barnsley accidentally allowed to speak common sense and demonstrate integrity and dignity on TV, who was not just immediately vilified for that display, but whom they also tried to publicly humiliate and reeducate again on TV shortly thereafter.
I actually briefly and naively harbored some hope at the time that this might be a turning point.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-barnsley-pensioner-bbc-anti-lockdown-viral-b1221765.html
And the public had and have far weaker excuses for falling for it, wanting it and enthusiastically practising it than previous generations, who had no knowledge yet about Nazism, communism, LeBon, Bernays, Orwell, Ash, Milgram, Stanford&co, or, in the case of the currently prepared for war, of the Covid psyop.
I don't know why more people aren't more fully ashamed of themselves over the covid response, but I guess that might be a step too far for some. It would be too much to come to terms with, that they went full 'nazi' and lost any semblance of common sense or humanity.
The government response across the world to covid was scary and problematic enough even with the assumption it was a real thing. It still points to all sorts of corruption and manipulation for agendas other than health. However, it it genuinely wasn't a real thing, this deepens the malfeasance by an order of magnitude!
Excellent piece.
I particularly appreciate "The Great Cough of Calamity™"
Thanks Harry,
I'm still of the view that we can't forget covid - because the issues that arose from our handling of it (and the possible global push behind it) have not really gone away. We need that justice - not just for the sake of justice, but to bring some of these issues to the fore.
I've used the cough of calamity for a while now. I'm not sure it hits the mark in terms of changing anyone's mind about covid and the response to it - but the sarcasm helps me get things off my chest 😂
I find myself alternatively boiling with rage at them and then not giving a shit about anything, due to the absolute incompetence / injustice / stupidity / dishonesty of our "dear leaders" criminal responses.
And also the populations complete lack of critical thinking.
Justice is absolutely needed, though we really don't have enough gallows, or burning pits of hell for them.
Yet.
I love Terry Pratchetts humour and so "The cough of calamity" sums things up wonderfully.
I must say that I liked that especially well too.
Fear was the adjuvant that maximized the efficacy of the rest of the propaganda
Bravo - really like that. Very clever!
Excellent piece, thank you. I particularly like the ‘guess what year’ graphs.
Thanks Valerie - much appreciated
Great insights as usual my friend. 😎
Thanks John, much appreciated
I learned a tremendous amount about my fellow citizens (maybe about human nature) from the Covid event.
- I would never have imagined the power of propaganda and irrational fear. I would guess that the Covid event was years in planning and was a test of the government / media / elite class propaganda machine. It was a tremendous success.
- I am still stunned at how many people are unaware of (or unwilling to admit) what was done to all of us. I think that many would willingly repeat the whole event again.
I suspect that a significant portion of our fellow citizens enjoyed (or were energized) by the Covid event. I saw many "Karens" appearing to get perverse pleasure from scolding others in public for improper mask wearing and other infractions. Covid empowered people whose lives were previously routine and boring.
Fear reigned supreme, no doubt about that. But fear of what or of whom? What scared the bejesus out of the highly trained to be unflappable medical establishment?
I believe that it cannot be anything other than some kind of operation. Never in human history have all the different nations with our differing ideas, concepts, languages, histories, cultures and religions taken the exact same measures against any common threat. At the very least, we saw unprecedented coordination and cooperation.
Whatever and whenever the genesis was, the evidence points to there being a unity of thought and action on the part of all world leaders that the world has never seen before.
It is called "lockstep" a plan published like 10y prior to COVID scam by Rockefeler. There was nothing normal about it, it was a synchronized (lockstep) response by all (corrupt and bought) governments.
Bought by whom?
Guess which organization(s) have monopoly on creating money and who controls them ..
I doubt those are who pulls the strings.
The money rulling elite pulling strings are doing their best to remain invisible, you will see only patsies.
I remember a planning event in Oct. 2019 called Event 201 I believe. (Held in China with all the bad actors...B. Gates WEF and major social media planners for maximum takeover of plebe information).
That was the blueprint and starting bell of the Plandemic!!
Event 201 was held at Johns Hopkins in NY, not in China, IIRC. Maybe you're thinking of the Military Games which were held in Wuhan?
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
Thank you for the correction. Maybe even makes it worse as this was sponsored by our own so called countrymen.
Great minds must think alike. Rudolph and I both used our 5-year anniversary columns to focus on the same subject - the importance of the "deadly virus" narrative.
No irrational fear ... no pandemic. (But it was surprisingly easy to scare the living daylights out of the people of the world).
https://billricejr.substack.com/p/the-most-important-bogus-narrative
LOL, people are ruled by fear, religions use fear routinely - the more vague (less questions) the better.
Deaths in 2020 in the US were extraordinarily high--much higher than any other year in the last century at least. Nothing like it has been seen since the so-called Spanish Flu. So it seems the situation in the US is entirely different than the UK--although it is hard to tell from a chart of standardized UK death rates per 100k. Here is a summary of the official US mortality data with links to verify it, in the 2nd part of this article. https://www.virginiastoner.com/writing/2024/8/30/the-us-democide-of-2020-2022-in-a-nutshell-kjl68
The Chinese made Covid-19 and released it on the World - Yes, Right - not one Chinese name on the patents for Moderna's Covid-19 virus in 2013
Basically it is irrefutable proof that Moderna created the Covid-19 virus and here are the Patents for it: ModernaGate: Moderna wins Award for Deadly Covid Vaccine it was able to create prior to 2019 because “Murderna” is responsible for creating the Covid-19 Virus in a BioLab… #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG By The Exposé on April 30, 2023
https://christine257.substack.com/p/cctcggcgggcacgt
Moderna's Covid-19 virus #CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG may evade vaccines or the protection of natural immunity. CDC
Moderna was part of the planning and implementation of covid-19, gain-of-function experimentation, and vaccine profiteering. Here are the patents:
US9149506B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding septin-4 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
Inventor: Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles
US9216205B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding granulysin – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9255129B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding SIAH E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9301993B2: Modified polynucleotides encoding apoptosis inducing factor 1 – 2013-12-16 Application filed by Moderna Therapeutics Inc.
US9587003B2: Modified polynucleotides for the production of oncology-related proteins and peptides – 2016-02-04 Application filed by ModernaTx Inc.
Inventor: Stephane Bancel, Tirtha Chakraborty, Antonin de Fougerolles, Sayda M. Elbashir, Matthias John, Atanu Roy, Susan Whoriskey, Kristy M. Wood, Paul Hatala, Jason P. Schrum, Kenechi Ejebe, Jeff Lynn Ellsworth, Justin Guild
Learn more about this bombshell SARS-CoV-2 laboratory origin evidence at The Expose.
https://christine257.substack.com/p/moderna-patented-a-19-nucleotide
Whatever it was, it was around in mid-March 2020, when there were huge simultaneous death spikes in many countries, including US, UK, Canada, Australia and more.
Wouldn't a chemical weapon or a dirty bomb be a lot more reliable than a biological weapon (assuming there is such a thing)?
Consider the pattern of US deaths in the New York City mass casualty event of Spring 2020, data here: https://www.virginiastoner.com/nyc-mass-casualty-event . Over 8 weeks, excess deaths occurred in a bell-curve or normal distribution pattern, spiking up to 550% before beginning a steady decline back to normal. I don't see how a biological weapon could be that predictable.
Very nice distillation of the last 5 years. I don't claim any amazing insight or medical knowledge but instinctively knew things were not right in 2020. I openly refused any experimental procedure, as did all my family with just two exceptions. Not one of us 'scumbag granny killing infectious anti-vaxxers' had any medical problems during the period... except... you guessed it, the two vaccinated souls who have endured ongoing health problems to this day.
It shook my entire belief system to the core and I view the world and governing bodies in an entirely different light now. I rarely trusted their word, now I never would.
But amazing as it is in the face of such damning evidence, they still push the substance.. I can only assume that this is just for show as to 'not' push it would be a tacit admission of guilt. The lie needs to be maintained or the entire experience falls apart. It's still pushed in the full knowledge that as such a tiny percentage of the population actually get it, the vaccine damage figures won't be statistically significant.
I still dream of the day when guilt is admitted, order is restored and life gets clarity. Of course it won't be a 'day'.. it will be an incredibly slow and incremental building of irrefutable evidence and by then the majority of folks will dismiss it as 'just a piece of history' best forgotten.
This is great. Thank you. The ads you found and presented in this essay are chilling. We should be very afraid of the people and organizations who are trying to make us very afraid of a virus. What's scary is how easy it was for them to pull off their Fear Campaign.
Many thanks for your post. Re "Now, I’m not one of those who thinks that covid was some sort of ‘hoax’ or some kind of re-branded ‘flu’."
A pity, as that is exactly what it was. They have been rebranding the 'flu for decades, it's a great way to boost falling pharma sales among other things. The whole thing was a complete load of bollox from start to finish. I have tackled this from many angles but I find humour the best.
I started on WordPress and came to substack as well in 2023.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/m-is-formasks?utm_source=publication-search
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/g-is-forguidance?utm_source=publication-search
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/nhs-covid-19-vaccine-advice?utm_source=publication-search
You totally don't understand Shakespeare, and an example why the KJV sucks. "Wherefore art thou Romeo" meant why did you have to be a Romeo instead of one of her clan. It had NOTHING to do with where Romeo was at the moment. Anything written that long ago might mean something totally different than what you think.
"I will not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
I will face my fear.
I will let it pass through me.
When the fear has gone,
there shall be nothing.
Only I will remain."
The original is a bit longer and less elegant ..