A suitable sub-title for this piece might be : The Corona Boner - The Rape of the Masses.
In 2020 most of the world succumbed to a kind of fever - not caused by any biological pathogen, but by the wanton disregard of science and rationality. It’s a very dangerous thing indeed when even policy makers get caught up in some kind of mass hysteria, but caught they were.
There is no mass “conspiracy” here - the UK parliament, for example, were not all in on it, so to speak, but it does seem plausible there were a (much smaller) number of influencers who knowingly enabled and encouraged the panic. The resulting collective loss of marbles was really quite something to behold.
I’m seeing a number of replies on Twitter to covid threads which are along the lines of “you’re not still on about that are you?” as if we should all just move on and forget it ever happened. But this we cannot afford to do. The depth and scale of the deception and manipulation that was wrought upon us, panic-induced or not, is not something we should so blithely forget, much less forgive.
There is very little doubt that given only the two options in response to covid of (a) do nothing and (b) do what we did, then option (a) would have been, by far, the best of the two.
It needs to be continually re-emphasized that nothing we did, nothing, actually worked. Lockdowns, distancing, business and school closures, masks, vaccines, testing, track and trace, endless psychotic hand-sanitizing, . . . you name it, nothing actually did anything to mitigate against the allegedly terrible virus we were faced with.
The few things which, arguably, did have some effect - things like Ivermectin and HCQ when used as part of a suitable overall treatment protocol - were savaged in the media and doctors prevented from even trying these options, even though these re-purposed drugs are known to be very safe indeed. Things like Remdesivir, with an evidence base for “efficacy” orders of magnitude poorer than that for Ivermectin or HCQ, were speedily, and readily, authorized even though Remdesivir is known to have appalling side effects1 and to be about as much use as a cardboard hammer. It does have one thing going for it though; it’s very expensive.
Each individual component of the covid “response” is crazy enough, but it’s only when you compile a list of the crazy do you begin to appreciate the sheer number of batshit crazy interventions, and the sheer scale of the madness.
We begin with The Big Lie™
I’ve used Lord of the Rings terminology before to describe this; it’s the one lie to rule them all. All else follows from this.
1. The Big Lie™
The big lie was to massively overexaggerate the seriousness and impact of covid. Words like “deadly” and “unprecedented” were freely used, together with the notion that this disease was so consequential we would need to “build back better” when we’d finally got on top of it.
The truth, and we knew it back then even at the start, was that covid was very much closer to a “flu” threat level and yet we operated as if we were facing something at the “ebola” threat level.
This monstrous misdirection was responsible for everything else that followed.
2. The 2nd Big Lie™
If the insane over-exaggeration of covid’s seriousness can be likened to Sauron, then the next big lie could be likened to the Witch King of Angmar.
This lie, which depends on the first for its full effect, is that of asymptomatic transmission. Nobody is worried about catching a cold - asymptomatically or otherwise.
Technically speaking neither the first, or second, big lies were lies as such. Covid can be deadly for some; asymptomatic transmission can occur. The lie is to be found in the grotesque over-exaggeration of these things.
The Experts™ estimated that 20% - 80% of infections were caused by asymptomatic transmission. This is sciency talk which is best translated as : we don’t have a fucking clue.
Overnight, perfectly healthy people, of no danger to anyone at all, were transformed into dangerous bioweapons able to lay waste to entire Mother’s Union gatherings of Grannies.
We were told to “act as if we have it” on the basis of this ludicrous level of supposed asymptomatic transmission. People started to avoid one another on the street - even to the extent of crossing over the road when they saw someone heading their way.
But without this 2nd lie, coupled with the Big Lie™, much of the subsequent idiocy could never have happened.
3. Testing : A Smorgasbord of Lies
Of course, when you have a really “deadly” disease going round, and you could be a “super-spreader” even though you’d be able to happily run 10km (if the bastards would only let you go outside) it’s important to know if you have the disease or not. And so began the whole testing pantomime.
The PCR technique is a wonderful laboratory technique for detecting trace amounts of DNA. When done under carefully controlled lab conditions (DUCCLaC) it’s great. But the PCR test became used, wholly inappropriately, as a diagnostic tool. This was the first of the testing suite of lies.
At best, when DUCCLaC, it can determine whether one has been exposed to the virus. It cannot determine whether (a) you have the disease or (b) are infectious.
This is really important because the false positivity rate depends on the interpretation of the test. The false positivity rate when interpreted as a test for exposure is NOT the same thing as the false positivity rate when interpreted as a diagnostic test.
False positivity is all about probability; it is the probability that you get a positive result when testing for X, but X is not present. Your false positivity rate, then, depends very crucially on what X is. A false positive on a test for exposure is not the same thing as a false positive (same test) when used as a test for the presence of the disease.
The low rate of false positives under DUCCLaC were exposure false positives, but these became (falsely) interpreted as a low false positive rate when used as a diagnostic test.
This conflation (deliberate?) of the different false positivity rates is the second of our lies in the testing suite of lies.
The third lie is about the mis-use of the test as a way of mass-testing asymptomatic individuals. We were encouraged to do this. Despite all the waffle about pillar I and pillar II testing, people got things shoved up their noses with gay abandon2. The problem with this is that when disease prevalence is low (and even during ‘waves’ the prevalence was estimated to be around 1 in 50) then most of the positive results at a population level are going to derive from false positives at an individual test level when you do mass testing of everyone, including those without symptoms.
The fourth lie is that you can ramp this up to the “industrial” scale of testing required to test significant numbers every day and still maintain sufficient accuracy. There is simply no way to do this and to maintain any degree of DUCCLaC.
The fifth lie was to ramp up the cycle threshold to a ridiculous level. The PCR test relies on a cycle of “amplifications” of genetic material. If you’re trying to detect trace amounts of DNA you’ll need to go through lots of amplification cycles. The corollary to this is that you need to be insanely careful to avoid things like cross-contamination when operating the test at this level of sensitivity. DUCCLaC anyone?
There are other lies surrounding these tests. For example, the initial sequences tested against were comprised of 3 genetic components of the virus, as I understand it. This got subsequently dropped to a test against two or even just one of these components.
What a bloody farce it all was.
4. The Slap-it-on Lie™
Despite the fact there was no evidence at all that fomite transmission (catching the virus from touching a surface) was even remotely significant, we invested in billions of litres of hand sanitizer. The odious stuff was everywhere - and every new place we went into required the ritual ablution of squirting the crap on our hands as if we’d just touched a corpse, or something.
In a level of absurdity only lusted after, but never quite achieved, by The Monty Python team, books were quarantined in case you caught the CoronaDoom™ from them. People sanitized their groceries, and folk could even be seen liberally coating their shopping trolleys with this sanitizing gunk.
If you tried to pay in cash you were treated as if you were some kind of psychotic axe murderer.
It was a case of : I know that shopping trolley is not displaying any symptoms right now, but it could be a super-spreader, Madam
5. The In-Your-Face Lie™
What more can be said about masks? Some people, sadly, are still caught up in this lie. It’s not like we didn’t know it was a lie before the CoronaSilly™ struck. Decades of research into whether masks were at all effective in preventing respiratory infections had basically turned up no good evidence that they were. We knew all this.
Before someone pressed the Big Red Panic Button™ on covid we were even told this by the experts3. These people did a 180 degree swivel and became Experts™ when their opinion changed, based on no new evidence whatsoever, to suggest that masks were the answer we’d all been waiting for - at least until that other answer in the form of vaccines arrived.
Entire books could be written about the Era of Mask Insanity, and I’m not going to try to outline all of the sheer lunacy here. Suffice it to say there is no good a priori scientific reason why we should expect (surgical) masks to work at all. Most people erroneously believe they act as filters when they are nothing of the sort - and this has led to a great deal of confusion and muddled thinking.
6. The Gloves of Safety Lie™
A minor lie that mostly died out fairly quickly surrounded the use of gloves as a preventative measure. For some reason, people thought that touching things was dangerous. To combat this massive existential threat they touched the same things wearing gloves, which rendered everything safe. Very few people seemed to think it was necessary to sanitize their gloves after touching all this super-deadly dangerous stuff. Only bare hands, it seemed, possessed this magic property of being able to transmit this super-deadly stuff from surface to surface.
7. The Plastic Screen of Power Lie™
You’d be masked up, wearing gloves, standing in your socially-distanced queue at the Supermarket, having followed all the one-way arrows, avoiding the taped off aisles of “non-essential” items, and waited for an hour before they’d even let you into the store and, finally, you got to the checkout. There before you, in all its majestic might, was the Plastic Screen.
To which one can only say Jesus Fucking H. Christ on a Jet-Powered Skateboard with Square Wheels.
Was the rest of the insanity not enough?
I remember going to the solicitor with mum - she had to change something in her will. We were ushered into the solicitor’s office. My mum wore her mask, I wore my mask exemption lanyard. The solicitor was sat behind her desk upon which was a much smaller screen - something like this.
There’s probably a reason why aliens are seemingly so fond of anal probes on their abductees - it’s where they find most evidence of intelligence.
8. The Scrabble Scare Lie™
This one is very minor in the global pantheon of covid lies, but it’s amusing (in a sort of “are humans really this stupid?” way). As Christmas 2020 approached in the UK, the government realised that super-duper-deadly pathogen or no, they couldn’t wholly ban Christmas. They tried to limit the numbers of people who could get together and talked about Christmas bubbles rather than baubles.
But then came the classic advice to not play board games, such as Scrabble, because of the danger you would be exposing yourself to.
At this point you are probably realising that those aliens might be right.
9. The Missionary Zeal Lie™
Here I’m talking more in terms of Kama Sutra than calm and super. Governments even provided advice on which sex positions were safer. You didn’t want to catch covid and crabs, after all.
The missionary position was deemed to be not safe at all - even with the added eroticism of masks.
By now you’re probably thinking that alien abduction and subsequent probing might actually be a more pleasurable activity.
10. The Scotch-Egg Lie™
As the UK government tried to limit the self-inflicted damage caused by the Lockdown Lunacy it started opening things up. You could go to the pub again. But only if you had a meal with your drink. Not any old meal; it had to be a substantial meal.
If you just wanted a drink - forget it - you were a walking bio-terrorist.
In typical surreal British style we spent the next few weeks arguing about whether a couple of Scotch eggs constituted a substantial meal or not. I can’t stand the bloody things myself - they’re a culinary abomination on a par with mushy peas - but such was the level of “debate” we had about covid.
Journalists agonized over the definitions, but none asked why substantial meals suddenly became some kind of protective measure against catching covid - and why just drinking was so dangerous.
11. The Number One Lie™
So, you’re at the pub trying to force down a couple of almost inedible Scotch eggs just so you can enjoy a pint, and you realise you need a number 1. You were sitting down and so were able to remove your mask in perfect safety, safe in the knowledge that the CoronaDoom™ only affected those people unfortunate enough to be standing.
But on your trip to the gents (or ladies)4 you had to mask up again, because you stood up.
The aliens had gone back home at this point - they hadn’t found any evidence of intelligence in any orifice.
12. The Snowball Lie™
Having been prevented from playing Scrabble and spending Christmas with only 5, at most, of their least favourite relatives, a couple of young students were, understandably, a bit fed up with it all. So they organized a “mass” snowball fight in the middle of lockdown. They were each fined £10,000 for their troubles. I’m not sure whether only the ‘organizers’ were fined or whether the people who actually took part, and also broke the lockdown rules, were similarly punished.
Despite the fact there has been almost zero evidence for significant transmission in an outdoor setting this was deemed to be an activity of Deadly Danger™.
I cannot determine whether or not masks were required at this impromptu event. I can only assume not, because that would have been Covid Safe™ and so only a mild slap on the wrist and sentencing to a meal of Scotch eggs would have sufficed.
It was a bit more Deadly Dangerous™ than sitting on a park bench, hundreds of metres from anyone else, and drinking some tea from Starbucks - an activity which was also punished with a fine.
This is all part of the Great Lockdown Lie™ - another 180 degree reversal that turned erstwhile experts into Experts™. All of our previous experience and analysis of prior pandemics had resulted in things called Pandemic Preparedness Plans - which were sensible and evidence-based interventions, developed by teams of experts. Things we could practically do in the event of a major pandemic (which we didn’t have with covid anyway). None of these required masks, distancing, lockdowns of healthy people, one way systems, closure of schools or businesses, plastic screens, or Scotch eggs.
In 2020 experts became Experts™ and decided, without any evidence whatsoever, that they’d got it all wrong before and chucked the Pandemic Preparedness Plans in the bin.
Sweden, acting on instructions from St Greta, deemed that throwing their scientific documents in the bin was environmentally unsound and decided to read the bloody things instead, and to act upon them. Accordingly, they did what scientists had advised for many decades previously; they did not lock down, or mask, or do any of the other fucking stupid stuff.
The rest of the world, who had gone Covid Nuts, were pissed off. They accused Sweden of performing “an experiment” on their population. This was projection on a global scale. Sweden fared no worse, and in many respects considerably better, than all of the other eejit nations who went Covid Nuts.
Lockdowns achieved nothing except a wholly unnecessary large degree of misery and ruin.
13. The Three Monkeys Lie™
The most disturbing feature of the covid response, and the one which has the most important implications for the future, is the level of government and corporate censorship and propaganda that ensued during the “pandemic” - it was more of a propagandemic.
A fake consensus was manufactured by the simple expedient of silencing and removing any opinion contrary to the officially approved narrative. Anything can look like consensus if you only allow one point of view to dominate the entire discussion.
We were not allowed to see, hear, or speak anything our governments deemed to be “evil”.
Everything the media put out sustained and amplified the government message of fear. Any discussion that countered the government position was ruthlessly culled from all of the major platforms and people had their accounts suspended or removed for daring to disagree with the government.
This was, of course, dressed up differently - like putting a frock on a bearded bodybuilder and pretending it’s a woman. They said that misinformation was being removed to protect people.
The largest single source of misinformation during the covid pandemic was our very own governments. They put out the most stupid, moronic and just plain wrong stuff every single bloody day. Nobody censored them.
Even now, when it is as obvious as the boner in an autogynephile’s panties, that our governments got almost everything wrong with regards to covid, a very significant fraction of the population think the government should be in charge of “protecting” us from misinformation.
This is the biggest, and most dangerous, lie of all; that our governments are arbiters of truth and falsehood.
Free speech, including the right to be wrong, to both speak and hear wrong (and/or offensive) opinions, is so enormously critical to every freedom we hold precious it cannot be emphasized enough. It is the bedrock of everything we hold (or ought to hold) dear about our societies. Once it has gone, we open the gates of a tyrannical hell.
In the interests of both blood pressure and brevity, it’s time to stop. You’ll notice I’ve barely even scratched the surface of the madness - the business closures, the school closures, the one way systems, the social distancing, the insane focus on covid as if it was the only thing that mattered, the masking of kids, the terrible financial costs that will be felt for generations, the mental health impact, the overall health impact, and so on.
That’s even before I utter a single thing about the Jab of Joy™ - that fucking useless and dangerous piece of Pharma shite that was forcibly foisted upon us all.
We cannot forget. We must not forget. We cannot afford to let this happen again.
The good news is that we think this Remdesivir stuff might have reduced your covid by 1% - but unfortunately we’ve destroyed your kidneys. But look on the bright side, at least we’ve made you a bit safer from covid.
I’ve been in the same building as Joe Snotrag and he tested positive for covid - I might die - I’d better get tested.
Right at the start of covid, before the hysteria, there are many, many, examples of experts (who were, then, behaving as experts rather than Experts™) telling us there was no good evidence for mask efficacy.
Or one of the new strange what the fuck is this? bathroom facilities
Forget this happened? We will be lucky! This is just the beginning of our world biosecurity dystopian future that is being planned for the unsuspecting masses.
Someone called Covid an IQ test on a global level. I think they were right, and that we now have positive data that 100 IQ while /average/ doesn't mean intelligent.
At all.
Die Fackel posted a perfect example of the baove the other day:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/footnote-a-reminder-of-covid-induced
It's a very short post, almost X-level, concerning an image of a signpost at a pond in a park. A real sign, actually used and which people followed.
Check it out: if you're not a misanthrope before, odds are you'll become one.