— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs)
February 12, 2022
Posted on 02/14/2022 8:39:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A little earlier today, my colleague Nick Arama posted on a Washington Post editorial about the futility of mask mandates (see WaPo Finally Says It: ‘Mask Mandates Didn’t Make Much of a Difference Anyway’). If this sounds a little strange given the fights raging across the nation, and the so-called Western world, about mask mandates, it should. In fact, it should seem strange even by the standards of the Washington Post editorial section that published the story.
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs)
February 12, 2022
How does the Washington Post story fit in here?
The hallmark of the so-called public health information associated with COVID, going back to the earliest days of the “pandemic,” professed a certainty with which we were all obliged to go along on pain of public ridicule.
For instance, look at the early models for disease spread. These have now proven to be so wildly inaccurate that they don’t merit the term “guesses,” much less that of “models.” Note that the purveyors of those “models” have suffered no professional or financial or penal (yes, I think Neil Ferguson and everyone on his team should be serving life-without-parole in a forced labor camp above the Arctic Circle) consequences, their models are still quoted, and we are still supposed to take them seriously.
A quick look back and we soon have an extensive list of things that were fed to us as “facts” and have since been proven wrong. For instance:
Masks. We’ve been told to wear a mask, don’t wear a mask, wear two masks, wear masks when walking through restaurants but not when sitting. COVID guru Dr. Anthony Fauci pooh-poohed and then demanded we all wear masks without any change in the scientific data. Even now we have the dichotomy of school districts requiring masking while going to a school sporting event is mask-free.
To all the people saying “but Ellen is outdoors” please explain why these kids are the only ones who have to wear masks outdoors at the superbowl.
pic.twitter.com/DH2nie78iQ— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2022
Deep-cleaning. Remember when we were pestered to ensure we washed all the stuff we bought at the store and stores closing early to “deep-clean” the facilities. Bogus. Every last bit of it was not only bogus at the time, it was known to be bogus when it was required of us.
Asymptomatic spread is rare. Now we’re told that the spread of the virus by people who are asymptomatic is common. Is it?
The vaccine will protect you. That statement has now been modified to mean that the vaccine will give you some limited protection from the virus. In the process, the very definition of “vaccine” has been changed. Never fear, the Ministry of Truth is hard at work to make you forget that.
The vaccine that redefined vaccination.
pic.twitter.com/GXIblxP1Al— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 5, 2022
Social distancing. Stores across the country had stripes on the floor six feet apart to identify how close we could be to other people. To date, no evidence has been produced to substantiate that six feet is anything other than an arbitrary number (Six-Foot Social Distancing Is on the Way out, but How We Got There in the First Place Is the Real Story).
Super-spreader events. We were warned about them. None have been identified to date (As the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Begins the Same Tired People Make the Same Tired Apocalyptic Claims That It Is a ‘Superspreader’ Event). Last year’s Super Bowl was not one (Super Bowl Was Not a ‘Superspreader’ Event, Creating a Sad in the Pandemic Porn Industry), this year’s Super Bowl won’t be one, either.
A deranged group of maskless truckers & extremists recklessly flaunted mask mandates at #SuperBowlLVI
pic.twitter.com/7id6MkBDfP— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 14, 2022
This is just a partial list. I’m sure you can come up with a lot more.
What makes this all more curious is that the windsock constancy of the information is married with a deliberate attempt to quash competing or even neutral information.
The government and its social media lackeys have spent an extraordinary amount of energy suppressing “misinformation” about the virus even though much of the “misinformation” has been proven correct. In fact, we now know that the “scientists” leading the national COVID response, primarily NIH Director Francis Collins and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, coordinated a campaign to discredit and professionally malign accomplished scientists who disagreed with the direction the US government was going.
The “with” versus “from” dodge. From the very beginning, public health officials have taken heroic efforts to ensure that no one can conduct an independent analysis of what is going on with the “pandemic.” The central feature of this is the deliberate obscuring of the numbers of people who have died or been hospitalized “with” COVID that is, they meet the flabby federal guidelines for classifying a case as COVID or “from” COVID, meaning that COVID was the proximate cause of death or hospitalization. This has resulted in deaths from gangland shootings, car accidents, and drug overdoses being classified as “from” COVID. The current reimbursement scheme for hospitals encourages to classify patients as having COVID because they are compensated at a higher rate for regular and ICU admissions “with” COVID. This all serves to make it virtually impossible to independently verify the severity of the “pandemic” because the best data to evaluate the “pandemic” do not portray the direct impact of the disease.
This leads us to one of two explanations. Either we are ruled by f***ing idiots, and, as you know, I’m open to that argument (PODCAST: Moore to the Point With Susie Moore – Ep. 5 – Conversation With Streiff on Elite Incompetence), or we are seeing a concerted effort by our self-declared elites to eliminate all public resistance to doing what they are told.
If you’ve followed my writing on this subject, you know that I’ve long contended that there are two things at work in the “pandemic” response. The first is that the aggrandizement of power by a voracious bureaucracy. The bureaucracy has tried, successfully in many places, to create a “public health” exception to the US Constitution. The exception is aimed primarily at the First Amendment but it has expanded to include acting as a shadow legislature to impose rules and penalties for non-compliance without legislative action.
The second purpose is population control. It is in the service of the second objective that I contend the non-stop dissemination of false, contradictory, and misleading information by the government, a la 1984, works. The people making these policies, in my view, don’t really care if they are effective or not. They only care that you obey them. From this standpoint, Fauci’s no-mask-one-mask-two-mask tap dance is much more effective than a firm science-based policy (i.e. masks are dumb) proclaimed on Day One. It forces his loyalists to forfeit any semblance of intellectual coherence to support his pronouncements.
The vaccine announcements fall into the same category. Only a year ago, we were told by the government that a vaccine would enable us to get back to normal. That, obviously, has not happened. In fact, we are now looking at being required to take booster shots, in some cases three or four times a year, to maintain even the current definition of vaccination efficacy. The people who mindlessly crowed the “one vaccine” message have now morphed, shamelessly, to mouth the “booster” message.
Bottom line: I am more inclined to believe the self-anointed elites are evil than stupid. A small number of mistakes and minor dishonesty is the price you pay for dealing with people. Massive, uncorrected mistakes, frequently contradicted within a few weeks by the same agency and without any semblance of apology and explanation coupled with the harnessing of government and social media to suppress information speaks of something much more sinister and premeditated. Taken together, the actions by that part of the government making public health policy over the past two years gives one the right to ask that if they were focused on destroying liberty rather than saving lives what would they have done differently?
These happenings over the past two years bring to mind George Orwell’s prescient novel 1984.
One of the key plotlines in 1984 is that the government routinely changes facts and compels the population to go along with the changed facts or face punishment. At one point, the government holds a mandatory 15 days to slow the spread rally where the crowd is informed in quick succession that Oceania is no longer at war with Eurasia. The new enemy is Eastasia and Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. The government’s philosophy was, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
The production of contradictory information is not seen as a fault by the government of Big Brother, rather it is a means of exerting social control. Internalizing and believing what the government said was required if you were to live a life free from punishment.
We’re seeing a page ripped out of 1984 and applied to our society. Once they’ve signed on to repeating the government mantra du jour and bullying family members, associates, and random strangers (or, in Canda, Australia, and most of Europe, reporting them to law enforcement) to force compliance there is no going back. Their lack of integrity and principles is reinforced and rewarded by government propaganda and by fewer restrictions on their lives. They have become modern-day Kapos and Sonderkommandos. They have become the regime’s enforcers and informers amplifying the reach and power of the government into every home, school, business, and relationship.
“Intent”? Might be more like stupidity, ignorance, irrational fear, and abundant overreaction.
You give “Them” credit for
Giving a crap about “Our”
Health and wellbeing.
Several doctors on the news today stating that the whole pandemic was way overblown, and that only the elderly and sick needed to be kept safe- Which we all knew anyways- but even among the elderly, the survival rate is still pretty dang high, almost 100%
PING
Yes. This was a deliberate and coordinated effort.
My doc says don’t get a vax unless you are required for work, I e a health care pro
“Intent”? Might be more like stupidity, ignorance, irrational fear, and abundant overreaction”.
It appears that you have not been paying attention or can’t grasp the situation for what it is.
The evil bastards are intentionally ruining us.
When you find yourself sick or injured have any of you ever thought “I need to call the government!?”
2nd thought? 3rd thought?
yup
normalcy bias
or
societal inertia
Normalcy bias.
It is a very dangerous thing. It keeps people asleep.
An intentional act by
Forces Foriegn and Domestic
to bring down
Western Civilization.
I’m in the “Intent Column”. This nation has its share of evil intent slime buckets.
Well said.
Certainly this pandemic has been an intentional act, with foreign forces -- primarily China, the UK, GAVI and the WHO -- and domestic -- led by Fauci, Collins, Baric, Ferguson, Dazack and Drosten -- to essentially create a pandemic through changes of multiple definitions of words, extremely loose taxonomy, "assumed" data collection and labeling/coding, with probably more than 90% of deaths not caused by this "novel" virus as caused by it. (Recall the Birx statement.)
Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center, as of 15 February 2022, shows "global deaths" of 5,826,564.
The graphic on the splash page brags about "vaccine doses." This is marketing, not mortality information. It is cheer-leading for those funding the "resource center."
The current "global population" stands at about 7,927, 313, 254.
( 5,826,564 "global deaths" / 7,927, 313, 254 "global" population ) x 100 = 0.734% mortality rate for the "globe."
The mortality rate as a percentage subtracted from 100 percent equals 99.265 %, with the jury-rigging of counting deaths now for almost 26 months to arrive at this "high" percentage.
Covid -- mis-tagged and hyper-sold -- is survivable worldwide by 99.265 percent. After more than two years "official" data. The anomalies abound in the "data."
Foreign powers? Indeed, when the same "official numbers" racket declares China's aggregate deaths to be a mere 4,857 while the US "leads" with 922,473. Believe NEITHER number, This anomaly cannot be explained medically. It is a data error from start to finish. The WHO and GAVI have created this "pandemic" out of fabrications and media headlines. A "virus" spread by international actors and international media.
Domestic powers? The NIH grants to China as well as EcoAlliance and the Wellcome Trust and more funded this, Gates funding internationally and nationally, with Collins and Fauci leading the NIH, CDC and FDA to profit massively from "state" buying of all these "free doses" as well as "state" purchases of remdesivir and other drugs and PPE, so much of it from China.
Your statement should healdine a Nuremberg-style trial.
Intent is just the start of it. I don’t know how any Freeper can doubt that by now.
Absolutely.
And they must concentrate on bringing down the United States so the others more easily go down.
Canada is a case study. A Klaus Schwab traineee is now ruling that nation into a death spiral of planned proportions. And there are too many Klaus trainees running America into a death spiral. It is so coordinated that it stinks of AI instructions on how to take control of the entire globe in a step-wise process.
You are spot on.
Everything good, decent and worthy of maintaining and which holds us together is under concerted, determined attack in all ways possible every minute of the day.
Death by a thousand cuts. Some big cuts and many small cuts bleeds the host dry and soon there is no more blood left.
“..IT REQUIRES INTENT”
THAT - right there..
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