Posted on 03/30/2025 9:23:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Reality engineering requires three components: institutional power to create the narrative, social pressure to enforce it, and the deliberate persecution of anyone who challenges either. The Covid era provided the perfect case study in how this machinery operates—and revealed how performative activism serves as its most potent enforcement mechanism.
Every major element of the official Covid narrative has been proven false: The origins of the virus, the validity of PCR tests, the suppression of early treatments, the denial of natural immunity, the so-called “safety and effectiveness” of vaccines, and the utility of masks, lockdowns, and vaccine passports. Yet those who questioned any part of it faced unprecedented ostracism and persecution.
The manufactured panic ignored fundamental reality: Covid posed minimal risk to healthy people under 70, but was significantly more dangerous to the elderly and immunocompromised. Rather than focusing resources on protecting vulnerable populations, we destroyed economies, stole childhoods, and enforced measures that made no epidemiological sense.
This wasn’t just about control—it was an engineered economic coup, the largest financial consolidation of power in modern history. While small businesses were forcibly closed, Amazon’s profits soared. As working-class neighborhoods struggled, Wall Street celebrated record gains. The laptop class posted about ‘we’re all in this together’ from their home offices while essential workers were forced into what was portrayed as dangerous conditions to deliver their groceries. The same corporations trumpeting their commitment to “equity” through DEI initiatives were destroying economic mobility for the very communities they claimed to champion.
Just months before Covid, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted Event 201, a high-level pandemic exercise on October 18, 2019, in New York, NY. An examination of the event reveals that the priority of the exercise centered not on treatment protocols or protecting the vulnerable but rather on how information control could be used to manufacture mass compliance.
When the real crisis arrived, this strategy found willing accomplices in a culture already primed for performative virtue. The height of this hypocrisy revealed itself during the pandemic, exposing not just empty virtue signaling, but active participation in one of the most egregious civil rights violations in recent American history. As millions changed their profile pictures and posted solidarity symbols for social justice, these same voices fell silent—or worse, actively participated in the persecution of two distinct groups: the unvaccinated and the vaccine-injured.
The Profitable Performance of Power
The economic devastation fell hardest on those least able to bear it. While professionals attended Zoom meetings in their pajamas, service workers faced an impossible choice: show up to what was marketed as a deadly environment or lose their livelihoods. The data tells the story:
- Black-owned businesses declined by 41% during the first few months of lockdowns
- Latino unemployment reached 18.9%, the highest of any demographic
- Women left the workforce in unprecedented numbers, erasing decades of gains
- Small businesses, the primary path to middle-class stability in minority communities, closed at triple the rate of their corporate competitors
The financial beneficiaries were clear:
- Amazon’s market value increased by $570 billion
- Zoom’s stock rose 396%
- Moderna executives became billionaires overnight
- Pfizer reported record profits of $100 billion
- BlackRock acquired 34% of single-family homes in major markets
During the lockdown, ostensibly put in place to “protect the vulnerable”, vulnerable small businesses lost $4.6 trillion in value, with minority-owned enterprises accounting for 41% of closures despite representing only 20% of total businesses. This wasn’t just hypocrisy—it was a calculated consolidation of power under the guise of public health....SNIP
Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true.
Just a fancy way to describe a rent-a-mob.
bttt
This is excellent reading thus far. It’s too depressing to read through. I’ve bookmarked the article.
I remember churches and funerals to be closed, while liberal activists were allowed to gather. It was a nasty business.
If history is any guide, the MSM will reveal the truth in about 30 years, with the underlying message that America is bad. I would like to see a break from tradition with a critical perspective broadcast on the MSM sometime in the next two years. It could be on revamped PBS, or better yet on MSNBC under new management.
I have 19 Grandchildren, the effect on all but 2 of them, was immense. They gained weight, learned to sit in front of a computer and the parking lot at the local schools had a lot of newer cars. Our State doled out money freely to “out of work teachers”.
I was right about everything except the efficacy of PCR tests. I think PCR worked just as it was supposed too but the results were misleading.
Not too, to!
Such faith was misguided, immature, and dangerous.
Until and unless we bring back the trials for Crimes Against Humanity and impose the full measure of punishment on the Faucis, Karls, and Karens responsible, there can be no justice, no rule of law, no civilization.
“Mistakes were made” belongs on the trash heap of history along with “I was just following orders,” and deserves the same long drop with a short rope around the neck.
Never forgive, never forget.
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