What Changed?

I ventured out into my back garden yesterday. I was delighted to find that my roses have some buds. It’s the first time I’ve grown roses in over 13 years. Here’s one I grew, (my favourite variety called Remember Me) back in 2009

If you’re looking for gardening advice on how to grow roses, I won’t be able to help. My approach, developed over many years with long hours studying deep technical know-how, can only be understood by the specialist. But I repeat it here for completeness

• Stick it in the ground

• Hope for the best

To be honest, I was a bit worried about venturing outside. I mean, quite apart from all of the nasty viruses just waiting to pounce and slay me instantly¹, I could have been turned into Mr Crispy by climate change.

Safer to stay indoors and definitely don’t clean your room. Cutting back on your cleaning has 2 positive benefits; more Netflix, and you can live an eco-friendly life by eating all the bugs that just love the squalor in which you live.

The big bad outside seems very dangerous these days. But if you’re up to date with your 4,337 shot vaccine schedule² the panic and fear can be alleviated somewhat, as long as you only meet other vaccinated people.

For some time now, venturing outside has also been emotionally dangerous. It’s hard to even take a trip to the local supermarket without several hours of mental preparation in case someone calls you a muppet or, even worse, mis-genders you³. It’s not just trans people who suffer from this anxiety, you know. What if the lady on the checkout calls me madam from behind the Plastic Screen of Safety? I’d best have my psychotherapist on stand-by, just in case.

Over the last 2 decades, the modern world has become a very dangerous place. Threats are everywhere and inexorably rising, like the sea levels⁴.

Obviously we need more legislation. Lots of it, and the more restrictive the better. It’s brilliant that our governments are able to recognize the alarming increase in the level of hypothetical threat and can legislate accordingly to keep us all safe. Whatever would we do without them working so tirelessly on our behalf?

It may be just my perception, but something has changed.

We’re being fed, these days, a constant stream of hypothetical threat. We must all be on guard against it. It’s not enough just to be aware of the threats, we must be actively anti-threat; if you’re not throwing tomato soup over some priceless painting, you’re part of the problem.

Go and get your heart checked out - you’ll probably need a pharmacy worth of expensive pills to ward off the many dangers of modern life. Gardening, shaking your duvets, watching TV, not watching TV, eating breakfast, not eating breakfast, climate change, your electricity bill, cold weather, hot weather, shovelling snow, energy drinks, gum disease, vegan cheese, and lots of other things, can all lead to a heart attack.

Of course, living a life full of this background anxiety because of all of these hypothetical threats doesn’t cause any kind of stress at all. So nothing to see there, then.

Worrying about whether some mad bastard is going to invade your country? OK, fair enough, that might well be something to worry about if the tanks start massing on your border. But I just can’t summon up enough enthusiasm to be afraid of my duvet.

And maybe it’s just my perception again, but perhaps this points to another change.

Over the last few years I’ve noted a rise in people speaking out against the ‘official’ or media narrative surrounding whatever is the chosen hypothetical threat of the day. There’s been a noticeable pushback. People from all walks of life, with varying degrees of expertise, aren’t paying attention to The Message™ any more and are in many cases being actively anti-anti-threat.

These days, being called a racist, or a transphobe, or alt-right, or a white supremacist, or a bigot, or whatever, just doesn’t have as much impact as it used to. If you’re anything like me, you keep a kind of bingo card to hand so you can tick them off and award yourself a nice bottle of wine as a treat when you’ve filled up the card.

So too with the increasingly strident and shrill cries of “anti-vaxxer” or “science-denier”. Is anyone even bothered by these kinds of smears any more? They’re just too commonplace and over-used to have any real personal impact and they’re becoming less accepted as an “argument” in public discourse.

I don’t think we’re in a majority still, but there must be many thousands like me who once had absolute faith in vaccines, but who now question the whole bloody lot of it.

I’m clearly not alone. Although I haven’t watched it yet (there are only so many hours in a day) it was this recent post from Prof Fenton describing his interview with Dr John Campbell that inspired today’s Riggerations.

Norman and Jessica interview John Campbell

As Prof Fenton writes :

“I wanted to know if what he has had learnt about the pharma industry and its influence over the medical institutions and media over the covid vaccination had caused him to re-evaluate his beliefs about other vaccines or if he thought the covid debacle was a one-off”

For me, and for many thousands like me, they massively overplayed their hand. If they’d been more reasonable, less censorious, less totalitarian, and made sense, I’d probably still be the same naïve trusting fool I was 3 years ago on the issue of vaccines.

But right from the start of covid, even though I knew very little about epidemiology, immunology or respiratory transmitted infections, it was very clear to me that something was wildly off with the messaging. A nagging feeling of disquiet grew (very quickly) to become a kind of bewilderment and rage at the grotesque exaggerations on display - mostly all based around hypothetical threats⁵.

It was obvious they were, at best, grotesquely distorting the truth and, at worst, just outright lying. In my view it was more of the latter, but either way requires an explanation of why?

In what world could someone as (previously) respected and capable as Prof Fenton ever be described as a “crank” or a “science denier”? In a post-covid sludge world of official opinion uniformity - that kind of world. Might he be, you know, wrong? Of course - it even happened to Einstein on occasion. Might he be trivially wrong enough to be dismantled in a Tweet by some armchair expert? Give me a break.

But Prof Fenton isn’t the only person with considerable expertise who is questioning the narrative - and make no mistake, they’re a real threat to the panorama of hypothetical threats our governments want us to focus on.

At one level all of the Messaging™ worked beautifully; a good number of people went along with all of the nonsense, the masks, the arrows, the screens, the jabbathon.

I think, however, there’s too many of us who didn’t “follow the Science™” for them to ignore. They did their best to censor us, to smear, to mislead, with the active and willing cooperation of powerful corporations, but it was nowhere near enough. Despite everything they did, the billions they poured into their propaganda and censorship machine, the numbers of message-resistant people continued to rise - and is still rising. Few people now want to inject the crap that Big Pharma is promoting. It’s partly because covid is, for most, over - but it’s also partly because an awful lot of people began to realize there was something smellier than a 3 week old haddock lurking in the Pharma closet.

We, the message-resistant, learned a lot during covid, but so did our governments. They know that the information control measures they put in place only worked to some extent. That’s why so many governments are pushing forward with legislation to dramatically increase their level of overt control over the dissemination of information and free expression of opinion and idea.

This is not some hypothetical threat, but a real one - and it will be more dangerous than covid ever was.

It’s a change we don’t want, or need, and it will not benefit us at all. It will only benefit a select few. We’ll be the ones wearing masks and serving drinks whilst the benefactors get to enjoy their freedom.

You remember all of those pictures of our leaders enjoying themselves at various events, mask-free, whilst all the ‘plebby’ serving people had to wear masks? That’s how much the ‘elite’ follow the science and their own messaging. They ignore it, but fine or imprison those of the pleb class who don’t.

And one of the sickest pictures of the whole covid freakshow? Perhaps this one is a strong contender.

We need change. But the change we need is to stop letting the government indulge their assumed parental role. They are not our parents and we are not their children.

But it’s even worse than that, really. At least the vast majority of parents adopt control measures because they really care about their kids and letting them play with blowtorches is probably not going to end well.

Think your government and the politicians really care about you?

Of course not, so why give them such a massive degree of control over you? Think it’s for your benefit?

We should not let them muzzle us - either literally or metaphorically

1. And I don’t even live in China where, if you have an instantaneous collapse, there are several people in hazmat suits just waiting round the corner to help

2. Some of these might even be mRNA vaccines. The mRNA bit stands for Massive Renal Necrosis Acceleration, but I might be confusing that with a side effect of Remdesivir.

3. I am ‘blessed’ (cursed?) with a youngish face and when my hair has done its usual psycho thing after 3 months without a haircut I have, on occasion, been called madam at the checkout. It’s the usual way I determine when my hair needs a trim. I have to say that even though I am a bit too fresh-faced for my liking, these checkout ladies must know some spectacularly brute-ugly women if they think I’m one!

4. Although I live some miles from the sea, I’m still hoping to have a beachfront property soon. They said it would be by 2005, but I’m still optimistic I’ll be able to see the sea (from indoors) within the next few years.

5. Anyone still remember the UK’s “prediction” for the exponential rise of Omicron deaths? I can’t remember the actual figures now, but many thousands were predicted to die before Christmas - unless we locked down again, or wore 13 masks at a time, or prayed to the Great God Buggerlugs, or something.