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Did COVID Nearly Start a Revolution?
American Thinker ^ | 11 Mar, 2025 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 03/11/2025 5:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Let’s revisit the tumultuous second half of 2021. Dementia-addled President Joe Biden executed a disastrous retreat from Afghanistan in August that resulted in the killing of thirteen servicemembers. Having spectacularly failed America’s warfighters, he transitioned quickly to the ongoing “fight against COVID.”

No cost was too great or burden too onerous in the federal government’s war against microscopic organisms. Billions were funneled to pharmaceutical companies (aka Democrat Party donors) to pay for witch doctors’ experimental elixirs. Billions more were funneled to “news” platforms and “non-governmental” organizations (all on the USAID dole) to push the White House’s preferred COVID narratives and censor dissent.

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And just as the whole thing looked as if it were going to spiral out of control — when it seemed likely that “just-following-orders” medical doctors and troupes of dancing nurses would goose-step across the country with poison-dripping needles in their hands in search of the “noncompliant” — the COVID police state began crumbling. One moment Biden’s Antifa shock troops were doxxing dissenting scientists and terrorizing their families online, and the next moment the loony-leftist brownshirts all time-traveled back to Nazi Germany. One moment Democrats were erecting COVID concentration camps and threatening to separate un-“vaccinated” parents from their children, and the next moment the tyrants-in-training shelved those plans for a later date. One moment the Department of Labor was forcing Americans to choose between medical experimentation and unemployment, and the next moment the Biden administration was pretending that it would never bully Americans into becoming pharmaceutical pincushions against their will. It was as if the COVID clowns packed up their crazy circus and skedaddled out of town in the dead of night.

To be sure, the circus left a trail of destruction in its wake. Grocery store floors were still painted with arrows meant to direct human-cattle

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: authoritarianism; bigpharma; bigprofit; civilliberties; civilrights; coronavirus; covid; diedsuddenly; dugwaydork; itsgotelectrolytes; jbshurk; leftism; mandates; masks; policestate; safeandeffective; safelydefective; suddenly; totalitarianism; tyranny; unexpectedly
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1 posted on 03/11/2025 5:05:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

If they tried to force the mRNA shots on the public, I wonder if there would be shots going in the other direction too.


2 posted on 03/11/2025 5:06:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

no


3 posted on 03/11/2025 5:13:41 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: MtnClimber
"nearly" start?

It took it to a whole other level.

4 posted on 03/11/2025 5:14:52 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber
Covid was a revolution. Personal liberties were trampled. We sat by and allowed it to happen. What we do next is key. I'm all for personal attacks and prosecutions, but TPTB want it to go away. Too many government types made too much money.
5 posted on 03/11/2025 5:18:21 AM PDT by ComputerGuy ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Bet on it. Starting at my house. I wasn’t taking the clot shot; not while I was still breathing.


6 posted on 03/11/2025 5:30:16 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: MtnClimber
"For those suspicious of coincidences, consider this small but curious data point: the “Freedom Convoy” ended on February 23, 2022. The War in Ukraine started the very next day."

Interesting observation.

7 posted on 03/11/2025 5:32:54 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

I would bet that was what made the Supreme Court shoot down the OSHA, not because they thought the rule was repugnant to America’s founding principles.


8 posted on 03/11/2025 5:35:15 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

I think the whole thing was a test of exactly what the author complains about.

It was a Cold Virus souped up in a Chinese lab. The reaction was the experiment, along with the testing, dissemination of the virus and “inoculation”. Inoculation didn’t even matter, given the low lethality of the virus.

The extent that the government could shut down a country, force people to lock themselves in their homes, follow “cattle-like” orders in public and submit to “testing” and letting a government stick a needle in their arms - this was what was being tested. The ballot boxes also gave us the 2020 stolen election.

Why? Because at some point, with enough experience, the virus will be lethal. Then, the ballot boxes won’t even be used.


9 posted on 03/11/2025 5:37:47 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Covid awakened the intelligent half of the people to the bitter realization that the other half are brainwashed morons who will believe in and comply with anything, no matter how absurd.

Everyone running out and taking those fake Covid tests was a low point -until then I had no idea I was sharing the planet with such morons.

After witnessing how well the Covid hoax worked, I am really tempted to build a casino and just rake in money from billions of gullible idiots.


10 posted on 03/11/2025 5:52:56 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

I don’t believe that the virus will ever be particularly lethal, because the virus could easily infect those who inflicted it. The inoculation, on the other hand, is as precise as any bullet ...


11 posted on 03/11/2025 6:00:28 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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To: MtnClimber

Hyperbole.


12 posted on 03/11/2025 6:15:04 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: The Duke

So in you view, the inoculation against COVID was a success?

You feel confident that millions of people could not be infected with disease by the virus and contained its spread?

I just want to understand your statement about the precision of the “inoculation”.


13 posted on 03/11/2025 6:24:23 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

In point of fact, the vaccine was administered to millions of Americans and there was no epidemic, much less a pandemic. In your zealous effort to disparage the vaccine that was in fact proved a problem for some, you fail to note that millions did not contract the covid virus.

On the other hand in China where there was no vaccine, hundreds of thousands contracted the virus and tens of thousands died. It got so bad that the lines of automobiles and vans delivering corpses to crematoria were miles long. They ran out of space in hospitals and literally rigged wires from street light poles to attach the IV fluid bottles to. The unfortunates were literally on the street because there was no room in the hospital halls, waiting rooms, cafeteria .....any where.


14 posted on 03/11/2025 6:32:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

At the risk of replying to such an emotional response, I would like to understand how you determine that “millions did not contract” a virus with such a tendency for non-lethal results? How can you tell the difference between a working vaccine and a virus that has little lethality.

Your stories of China are colorful, but then so we’re the stories when COVID was released in that country. After that, nothing came out of China, even disease-wise, thanks to President Trump.


15 posted on 03/11/2025 6:44:55 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Lets put it this way, my ammo supply went way up and it continues to increase .


16 posted on 03/11/2025 6:55:26 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: Jane Long; ransomnote; grey_whiskers

ping to you


17 posted on 03/11/2025 7:03:16 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: The Duke
"I don’t believe that the virus will ever be particularly lethal, because the virus could easily infect those who inflicted it. The inoculation, on the other hand, is as precise as any bullet ..."

My thoughts exactly.

18 posted on 03/11/2025 7:08:42 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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To: bert
"In point of fact, the vaccine was administered to millions of Americans and there was no epidemic, much less a pandemic."

I honestly do not know what to think about the Covid episode, and I would appreciate the thoughtful view of others. On one hand, the reaction to Covid does seem to have been overblown, but on the other I have personal knowledge of four people who died of it. While it was not as deadly as the 1918 Flu pandemic that my father just barely survived and many of my great-aunts and uncles did not, I was ill with it for a month and lost thirty pounds.

19 posted on 03/11/2025 7:24:07 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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To: bert

So you believe the fake Chinese videos??? LOL!


20 posted on 03/11/2025 7:47:39 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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