There are some things today we’re being greatly encouraged to believe.
It’s not always the same people doing the encouragement, but they all present a somewhat fanciful departure from reality. You know reality, right? That thing we all used to know as ‘truth’ before academics decided that truth was entirely subjective and could be whatever someone with sufficient lived experience said it was.
We are supposed to believe that
There is systemic and structural racism in operation, in all things, at all times, and that only by subjecting everyone of the wrong hue to hours of excruciatingly mind-numbing (and excruciatingly pointless) ‘training’ to eliminate their unconscious bias, together with the destruction of every one of the oppressive systems of racism, can we all live in blissful harmony.
Along with these invisible intertwined nets of oppression that operate there is a kind of privilege that accrues to people of the favoured hue. Thus, white privilege is also said to operate at all times in favour of the POEH1 (Person of Evil Hue).
There is a climate crisis, which incidentally affects POEH the least, and that the only way to avoid the looming disaster is to eat insects, live within 15 minute
ghettosenclaves, rape the planet of its rare metals to make batteries, despoil the environment with acres of wind turbines and solar panels, and to reduce bovine flatulence2.Carbon dioxide acts like some kind of planetary ‘volume control’ knob, and if we could only just turn it down we’d all be saved.
Men can have periods and give birth, and women sometimes have penises.
The growing prevalence of ‘dis- and mis-information’ represents an existential threat to mankind and that governments and affiliated agencies and organizations should be in control of determining what constitutes ‘dis- and mis-information’.
It’s a bigger crime to hurt someone’s feelings than to rape underage girls3
In 2020 the world woke up to the most unprecedented, most super-duper deadly, the most novel, the all-singing all-dancing, bed-wettingly terrifying CoronaDoom which led to a pandemic of such horrific consequence that the entire globe had to be shut down for a while and its citizens confined to their homes.
That the covid vaccines were (and still are) wonderfully safe and effective
I think we’ve lost our minds and our courage somewhat. We seem to have become enamoured of the pursuit of a wholly illusory safety.
Today, we’re all hyper-aware of the terrible crime of hurting someone’s feelings. In today’s world we’re no longer responsible for our own feelings, but are simply victims of the hate speech of others and trauma management is definitely an industry worth investing in.
Much of the ‘pandemic’ messaging centred around feelings too. You’re going to kill granny. You’re selfish if you don’t (a) wear a mask and (b) get yourself injected with whatever the government tells you to. We’re fighting a war against a virus.
I don’t really want to get into the whole “do viruses exist?” debate thing again, but it seems necessary. I am personally satisfied that the most coherent and consistent explanation for the ‘pandemic’ is the existence of a new(ish) virus that infected many people across the globe.
There seems to be a recent trend to dismiss the whole ‘pandemic’ as a kind of hoax - not just one of degree, but one of substance. Mike Yeadon published an article in TCW where he outlined his belief that whatever happened it wasn’t just the pandemic that never was, it was the virus that never was.
This article was shortly followed by James Delingpole in the same publication saying much the same thing.
I’ve really admired both Yeadon and Delingpole for their stances and their courage in speaking out throughout the whole covid farce, but in this I think they’re wrong.
Let’s wind the clock back to 2020 before the absolutely Pfabulous Pformulation of Pfarma Pfreedom that saved the entire planet4.
Here’s what happened in the UK in terms of age-adjusted mortality
This chart tells us two things :
(a) something definitely happened
(b) whatever happened it wasn’t (in overall terms) all that bad
We can get a better idea of what might have happened if we look at the data for 2020 as a function of time
The average ACM (All Cause Mortality) is my own calculation here and is just the simple mean of the preceding 5 years by week (in 2021 I used the 2015-2019 data again as a better comparison for the expected vs actual). It’s not perfect and there are some issues with my rough-and-ready calculation (and it’s also charted by date of registration and not the more preferable date of death). Some years have 53 weeks, not 52, and can we really compare week 6 of one year, say, with week 6 of another? But it’s fine as a trend indicator.
We can see the existence of two main ‘bumps’ here. Something caused this to happen. The blue bars indicate the ‘standard’ picture; that it was covid wot dun it.
My view is that there was a novel(ish) virus that hit. It killed people - but it was greatly helped by terrible mis-management of both very ill patients (ventilators etc) and also the elderly (back to the care home you useless wrinkly and infect everyone else).
It did impact the elderly much more severely than the younger, but we do have to recognize that it did impact the younger demographic too.
If we have 30 deaths in the ‘young’ demographic and 30,000 deaths in the ‘old’ demographic the temptation is to say that it’s much worse for the elderly. But what if the ‘expectation’ is that 60 people usually die in the young demographic in some time period and 24,000 die in the old demographic in the same time period? The deaths in the young demographic are 50% worse than ‘expected’ and the deaths in the old demographic are 20% worse than ‘expected’.
In this case we’re justified in saying it hits the young demographic harder than the old demographic.
So, what happened with covid?
Some time ago I looked at the excess death as a percentage of expected death and split this up into the age groups. Here’s the result for the over 45’s
The chart is subject to the same caveats as above - it’s only good enough to indicate a trend. However, what is clear is that a younger demographic were indeed affected by this ‘wave of excess’.
The data is hampered by the fact that the ONS uses large age ranges (the ‘young’ in this chart being the age range 45 - 64, for example), but even with this group we see that excess deaths reached 80% above normal.
What caused people in the age range 45 - 64 to experience a death rate 80% above what might normally be expected? It wasn’t midazolam. Ventilators may well have significantly contributed, but anyone on a ventilator is desperately ill with something. Most doctors don’t put people on ventilators for shits and giggles.
If we couple this with the fact that the FLCCC (and others) developed several protocols for something they recognised to be a different disease than a ‘standard’ flu, we have to ask ourselves whether these doctors (who were treating actual patients) just had a bad case of propaganda-head and were imagining something?
This is the claim that Delingpole makes, that covid never was, and people just went into some mass delusion and convinced themselves, because of the power of propaganda, that they were suffering from some novel condition when, in fact, it was just a bog-standard cold or flu.
I’m not buying that at all.
Governments massively exaggerated the severity of covid5 - I don’t think they just made it all up though. I think the data is quite clear; there was a new(ish) virus that killed people and it followed the typical pattern of a seasonal respiratory virus6.
There was a virus, but it was never a ‘pandemic’.
For some reason, the CoronaDoom shouted ‘boo’ and the majority of people, politicians included, went into some kind of panic mode (and definitely needed counselling). I think we’d been ‘primed’ (either accidentally or deliberately) into this kind of thinking. Just as we’re being ‘primed’ to think of carbon dioxide as some deadly gas that must be eliminated (won’t someone, please, think of all the little plant children?).
Even if you’re someone who doesn’t believe in the existence of viruses, that covid was all some dastardly ‘hoax’, it would be wise to think strategically. We don’t want the fuckwits in government to ever do something like this to us again. By claiming ‘hoax’ and ‘viruses don’t exist’ all you do is to ensure that anything else you say can be easily dismissed - and laughed at.
Whatever our beliefs, and maybe the ‘no virus, it was a hoax’ belief might turn out to be true7, the really important thing is to quash the whole idea that there was a pandemic. It’s even more important to completely quash the idea that, even if there were to be a more serious real pandemic, the covid response of lockdowns, masking etc, is the right thing to do.
It was a pandemic that never was and a response that never should have happened.
We even went mad and caused a shortage of toilet paper.
Sometimes it’s hard to have faith in humanity.
In order to make this model ‘work’ one must regard Asians as honorary members of the POEH because they tend, on average, to do better than everyone. Thus, places like Harvard have to artificially limit the numbers of these honorary POEH because that would upset things.
Some bovine flatulence will, sadly, be necessary. It is important that our great and glorious leaders and elite still have access to things like the best steaks.
I’m referring to the UK where our ‘enlightened’ police ignored, so as not to inflame racial tensions, the existence of grooming gangs who systematically raped hundreds of underage girls. There have been many examples now of the police having no trouble sending several officers to arrest people for heinous crimes like silently praying, or calling someone a muppet.
That it also massively boosted the Pfinancial position of these companies is, of course, entirely coincidental
And I still don’t properly understand the reason why, or how, it happened.
The initial waves were ‘out of season’, but they followed the classic Gompertz curve for transmissible infections. We don’t have a decent enough picture for why viruses ‘trigger’ in the way that they do, and we don’t have a decent enough picture of the detail of how and why some become infected and some do not.
I really can’t see this happening, but you never know. It’s important in science never to fall into the trap of absolute certainty.
Yes, agree. "The hypothesis that will likely stand the test of time goes like this: a nasty — if not particularly unusual — respiratory disease season was turned into a catastrophe by human misadventure, and this catastrophe was compounded by efforts to save face and justify the unjustifiable." (https://www.hartgroup.org/a-possibly-unpopular-null-hypothesis/)
A pandemic it was not... though of course it depends how you define 'pandemic' ("anti-vaxxer", "vaccine", etc etc)... c.f. your very own 'Disparity of Clarity': https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/the-disparity-of-clarity
My 5cts: I agree with your strategic reasoning.
I have no idea whether viruses exist, can/must be isolated but in truth so has no one else.
I think Y&D presented good arguments and a strong case regardless of how one sees and answers the above contentious issue.
So did Martin Neil&co thereafter, arguing that it might have been the flu, and that the PCR test as (ab)used can't be relied upon to disprove that or prove the outcompete theory.
https://wherearethenumbers.substack.com/p/peek-a-boo-flu
What makes me turn from a believer in the SARS-CoV-2 existence and lab release (forget the accident) into someone more and more on board with Yeadon&co here is, how this was prepared for, developed further and was handled.
The sabotage of treatments and the deliberate abuse of the PCR test instead of its standardization, see Heneghan&Jefferson on that today, are clear proof that thus was not a series of overreaction and cockups but of deliberate harm and manipulation, even if one leaves lockdowns, masks and gene therapies aside.
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/progress-is-being-made-in-some-areas