Science fiction works because it operates at something I’d like to call “the edges of believability”. Just enough sciency-sounding stuff to pull off the misdirection that stops you from realizing that what you’re really reading is more akin to magic.
Asimov’s robots had “positronic” brains - which possessed certain properties, like being susceptible to gamma radiation, or effectively having the 3 laws of robotics hard-wired in. Failure to adhere to the three laws was not possible - although where a conflict, or unforeseen “2nd order effect”, arose (the basis of a lot of Asimov’s robot stories) those positronic brains could have a catastrophic meltdown.
But it’s all magic. It’s magic that we can, sort of, believe in because we know, or think we know, that human brains are just nets of biological processors algorithmically working away, so why can’t this kind of thing be replicated by a computer?
This “edge of believability” is where I believe a lot (if not all) of the ‘official’ covid narrative lived.
The problem is that science fiction kind of works both ways when it comes to covid. We got the equivalent of photon torpedoes of propaganda thrown at us and the equivalent of dilithium crystals injected into us en masse. But the extreme official response to covid, and it was grotesquely extreme, has pushed some into what I would describe as science fiction territory the other way.
The idea has arisen that pandemics are themselves works of fiction, and that everything about covid (including as a pathogen that could have global consequences) was a lie. This is a position I really struggle to understand from a scientific perspective.
If we take as axiomatic that pathogens can cause disease and that there is some mechanism of transmission (however poorly understood) between the infected and non-infected, then there is no good reason, or at least none that I can see, why it would not be possible for a pathogen to emerge that could be consequential at a global level.
In the past, before covid, we accepted this possibility. Governments, quite rightly, made contingency plans should such a pathogen emerge. These were known as pandemic preparedness plans (PPP’s) and they were balanced, proportional, and sensible, and based on years of experience with previous outbreaks of infectious agents.
Sure, we can quibble over the technicality of what the word ‘pandemic’ means, but these plans were in place in case a whole bunch of people become ill in your country in a short period of time. Like in the Winter of 2017 in the UK where the ONS recorded around 50,000 excess deaths of which about 22,500 were associated with a particularly severe influenza.
The material fact is the illness, not the sodding definition of the word ‘pandemic’.
What changed with covid was that all of those evidence-based PPP’s were just dismissed, along with anything even remotely resembling balance, proportion, or sense.
This absolutely abhorrent, grotesque, and farcical reaction of the majority of the world’s governments to covid has distorted everything. So much so, that some are now arguing that the whole notion of “pandemic preparedness” itself is an evil that should be resisted.
It’s not hard to understand why. The WHO are making a bid to implement a global health tyranny in the event of some new pandemic (caused by disease X). This has to be resisted at all costs. The WHO version of “pandemic preparedness” is just more of the tyrannical nonsense that never worked for covid.
Those of us, like me, who think that deadly/serious pandemics are possible (although extremely rare and unlikely) are, thus, caught in a bit of trap. By “buying in” to the pandemic narrative we’re just giving fuel to these tyrannical arseholes. I get that, I really do.
Honestly, though, whether we call it a ‘pandemic’ or a throgglethwick, the fact remains that governments should plan against the possibility that a significantly large number of people become ill in a short space of time. The people whose lungs are filling up with fluid probably don’t give a shit whether it’s, technically, a pandemic or not.
But, despite that legitimate concern over the abuses of the WHO and like-minded global ‘health’ freaks, I can’t accept the notion that covid was not a novel(ish) pathogen and that it did not have a global impact.
People got ill.
In the UK people got ill, at a very unusual time of the year, with something that had some (considerable) symptomatic overlap with things like flu. My daughter’s university friend died of covid at age 25. The computer bod who keeps my creaky old PC up and running was hospitalized for 2 weeks with it, and it was touch and go. He’s a fit and active (running and gym) chap around the age of 30.
Something made them ill.
The notion that doctors in the UK suddenly started forcing intubation and midazolam on completely healthy people is absurd.
Which scenario is more likely, in your view?
(a) Doctors were faced with a disease caused by a non-novel pathogen and they just forgot how to treat it, or they were directed to mis-treat it from on high? Or that they were swayed by propaganda and suddenly treated everything as if it were a new mysterious pathogen that would not respond to all the conventional treatments they’d previously used for serious respiratory infections?
(b) There was a genuinely new(ish) disease-causing pathogen presenting with a suite of confusing symptoms that didn’t quite fit things they’d seen before and for which conventional treatments used on prior (non-novel) pathogens weren’t as effective as expected?
Having read the accounts of doctors who treated covid patients, and speaking with the doctor who treated my brother for his serious covid infection, the confusion in what, exactly, they were dealing with was very apparent. These doctors were not trying to kill their patients, but to treat them.
I simply refuse to believe that the vast majority of doctors in the UK turned into homicidal maniacs overnight, or that they started doing stuff they knew was going to harm their patients, or be worse for them than conventional treatments.
It’s possible, I suppose, that they, too, got caught up in all the mass hysteria - but it really doesn’t read that way, to me. I don’t think they ‘hallucinated’ their patients’ symptoms, or mistook them. There was an air of genuine confusion, based on their clinical observations, that meant they didn’t properly know how to treat this thing that was making people ill.
It has been argued that all of the deaths only started ‘after’ the big red pandemic panic button had been pressed and that covid was circulating in the UK for months before we saw the initial March/April death spike. This is true. But the same spike happened, at the same time, in Sweden where, by and large, they didn’t lose their shit, or panic.
It should also be recognized that other places (like Germany, for example) pressed the panic button but didn’t see deaths rise significantly until some months after this. Germany, along with other European countries who had this delayed death ‘spike’, are in a different climate region of Europe to the UK or Sweden.
There is little doubt in my mind that there was a very significant degree of mismanagement of covid; many people died unnecessarily. The real question is whether this was by malicious design, or a result of widespread confusion and uncertainty about a new(ish) pathogen. And some other potential factors (like the refusal to countenance things like ivermectin) were deeply dishonest and malicious attempts to skew things in favour of vaccines being the only ‘solution’.
The vested interests of the globalists and Pharma, who do not have a very ‘saintly’ historical record when it comes to health matters, have a clear motivation for keeping things confused and mismanaged. Obfuscation rather than objectivity serves their interests better. Once covid had hit, whether by lab accident, design, or some weird natural confluence of bats, pangolins, and raccoon dogs, there is little doubt that Pharma went all-guns-blazing for the vaccine ‘solution’ - as did governments and the globalists. Nothing was allowed to stand in the way of this objective - and if thousands of unnecessary deaths were a result, then it was, for them, a price worth paying. A price wholly borne by others, it should be noted.
Personally, I believe it is now beyond all reasonable doubt that covid was a lab-created pathogen. The compressed timeline of events from the first reports of an unusual disease to ‘gold standard’ PCR tests and the like (in about a month) - as noted by Nick Hudson - makes me further suppose there was a considerable degree of planning that had gone into all of this.
I don’t think this was intended to be a mass culling of humanity. I think it was designed to push for mass vaccination and global ‘health’ monitoring and control.
I’m going to put forward a point of view that I know will be somewhat unpopular. I actually think Pharma tried to make a decent enough vaccine, but they seriously fucked up and have been trying to cover things up ever since. The result of their shitty product has been that many, many, thousands more people, globally, are massively more vaccine ‘hesitant’ than ever before.
From the point of view of future vaccine sales, it’s a disaster. The ‘remedy’ is to give more power to the globalist nutters at the WHO so that future vaccine mandates can be more rigorously enforced1. Because they fucked up so badly they can no longer rely on the same level of voluntary subscription to the idea of “safe and effective” vaccines.
All of that speculation aside, the material facts of the matter are this
(a) some people got very ill
(b) this happened globally (although not at the same time everywhere because of climate/seasonality)
We might want to call it a mismanaged flu, or a new(ish) pathogen, or the effect of 5G towers - whatever lights your covid candle - but the material fact is that people became ill in large numbers and some of those very seriously ill.
Call it a throgglethwick instead of a pandemic, if you like, but something caused the illness and, whatever it was, it happened on a global scale.
The next thing, then, is to look at the severity of that illness. This was massively overexaggerated by governments and their media lackeys - and that’s even with effectively banning alternative effective treatments. To what end we can only speculate - but cui bono is usually the place where you find those answers.
And they definitely can’t afford to have any ‘control’ groups like Sweden or Florida knocking about.
You've mentioned odd, unexplainable occurrences from time to time in your substack. In this same vein (a little mining lingo there), it seems possible that panicking human minds directly exacerbated and amplified the throgglethwick. The throgglethwick may have acted like something of a small seed crystal, and then fearful, panicked human minds took it from there. Western 'enlightenment' aside, we still have the same basic human equipment as those people who simply curl up and die because the local witch doctor (or politician) pronounced a curse against them.
I don't think the doctors in the UK turned into homicidal maniacs I think they do what they have always done which is to follow their protocols which were recommended by NICE in 2020 for acute viral respiratory infections, this included cough suppression, sedation if the patient is unsettled, no antibiotics no recommendations for steroids all of it was changed for Covid but has since returned to normal medical treatment. That in itself can create severe and deadly problems for patients. I do not know what happened in 2020 but there were nefarious hands at work. It appeared to me that the Pandemic Preparedness book was looked at in detail and the exact opposite was implemented, isolate people, stop the normal functioning of society, increase fear and dread and make sure that the incited fear and dread was on constant repeat. It was all a travesty and many people died because of it.