Posted on 06/22/2023 7:21:27 AM PDT by lightman
Here at Porcfest, a week-long celebration of freedom in New Hampshire, there are many hubs of activities, with talks and sessions all day every day, and a central campfire near the pavilion each night. Close by is the large tent for Brownstone Institute where we have had talks and discussions all day and evening.
One of the most interesting sessions was simply to have an open microphone for people to tell their COVID stories. Each one is powerful and tragic. These have been neglected by media people. Even today they are mostly untold. This is because vast numbers of people in establishment organs continue to pretend that the pandemic response and vaccines were all glorious achievements.
The lockdown years achieved nothing for public health. Claims otherwise are complete rubbish. It makes those who have suffered so much during three years and three months feel as if no one cares. We are trying to do our part to give them a voice.
A woman last night told of her mentor at work, a much older man, who had become something of a father figure in her life and career. In the spring of 2021, he came down very ill and was taken to the hospital. She of course was not allowed to visit him. He died alone, as did so many others during these years.
Then time came for the funeral. It was announced by his immediate family that only vaccinated people could attend. The person telling the story had not been vaccinated. She pleaded for the opportunity to say goodbye to her friend. The family debated the question but one of the deceased’s children, about 40 years old, refused to allow it. She said it was because she had young children and didn’t want them to get COVID.
As a result, she could not attend the funeral. She was further banned from the graveside service. She had to wait until days later to go visit by herself.
It’s a small story but the impact on her life was enormous. She had worked with this man for decades and merely wanted closure with this untimely death. She was denied it based on a strange perception that by having refused the vaccine she was somehow a dangerous spreader of disease.
She was declared by government and media to be unclean. This nonsense spread throughout the population and reverberated in communities and families all over the country.
It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous lie to grip a population. No society can thrive under the belief that half the people are clean and the other half unclean based entirely on the willingness of people to enlist in an experiment with a new drug designed to deal with a disease that was never a threat to healthy children and working-age adults.
What’s worse, the vaccines could not actually stop anyone from getting or spreading COVID. COVID was always known to be among the viruses that mutate very quickly. That means that a vaccine could never be effective in stopping infection. This has been known for many decades and constitutes a kind of first lesson of infectious disease.
I certainly knew it from March 2020 (and I’m no expert!) and so immediately dismissed in my mind the idea that a vaccine would end the pandemic. It could never have happened. My knowledge was hardly arcane. It was drawn from thousands of public sources and basic understanding of how vaccines work.
What’s even more remarkable is that we have new evidence that Rochelle Walensky and the entire crew at the CDC knew this for sure from at least January 2021 as the vaccines were being rolled out to the general public. The paper was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association. “The number and positioning of these mutations immediately raised concerns among vaccine researchers,” the report said. “New data show that those concerns were not misplaced.”
Already Walensky was emailing others within the NIH about what was then being called “breakthrough infections.”
In other words, we now have clear evidence that the people behind the vaccine mandates and the constant claims at the time that the vaccine would stop infection and transmission knew that this was not the case.
The mutations in the virus had been seen in the pathogen since its first sequencing. The vaccine pertained to a version of the virus that was already on its way out, so it simply made no sense to make such preposterous claims. Millions took them anyway. One shot. Two. Three. Four. A “bivalent” booster and so on.
This very likely unleashed antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) which amounts to a rewiring of natural immunity, making the body more vulnerable to other infections. Again, they were warned about this all along. Many were injured. Many died. We are nowhere near the point of being able to assess the long-term damage of these shots on the population.
It’s one thing for the CDC to have unknowingly spread false information during this period. It’s another thing entirely to have knowingly spread false information. That’s exactly why they did it. And why? We can only guess but it makes sense that this has something to do with the desires of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and also the bureaucratic armies that were enjoying their bullying power over the population.
The shot mandates never served any real public-health purpose. They were brutal and displaced more than a million at least within professional life. Recall that the Biden administration wanted them imposed by force on every business in the United States. Fortunately the courts intervened but they went ahead for the military, health-care facilities, and transport, at grave cost to human health and dignity.
It’s the private stories like the one above that affect us most deeply. I’m sure that you know of many such stories. You probably have one yourself. Collateral Global is collecting stories from around the world right now. You can add yours here. Please do. The media is not covering this (Epoch aside) and politicians are pretending like nothing happened.
This was the tragedy of all of our lives and our voices need to be heard, both for personal healing and also as a warning to the future. As for restoring trust in government agencies and vaccine companies in our lifetimes, I’m just going to say it: that will not happen. It’s gone.
This little time period will have huge ripples. The loss of trust, the social dislocation, the economic and social changes in the workplace. This is a major historic event.
Lockdowns? Despite the fact that sisolack was our gov at the time, IIRC we had about 6 weeks of it near us. By July we were back to doing weekly jam sessions. 🔬🤔😵🚫😷💉🐎💩
Covid stories would be the very last thing I would ever want to hear. Except maybe Hillary’s voice.
The alphabet soup agencies and Governors did so much “wolf” crying that few will take any future “pandemic emergency” seriously.
OTOH,many people lost jobs and businesses,many people started abusing drugs and alcohol because of worry,fear,loneliness,many,many kids were seriously damaged educationally and psychologically and the national debt basically doubled.
But it was all worth it...after all: Orange Man Bad.
Lost one friend due to me not getting vaccinated. He insisted I do so for the safety of him and his family. I said we can be friends regardless. Nope - wasn’t interested. Boxed up a couple of hand tools he lent me and mailed them back about four months after that, with a note thanking him for the use. I heard I was not the only one he terminated friendships with. Knew him for twenty years. This spring, a mutual friend approached him to see if they could bury the hatchet. Nope - wasn’t interested. Sadly have written off any future interactions with him.
My mother died from cancer in sept 2020. I cannot forget how some people treated me during that time with their Covid hysteria. Forgive? Trying. Forget? No, I’ve seen what they are capable of and how little discernment they possess
“She was declared by government and media to be unclean. This nonsense spread throughout the population and reverberated in communities and families all over the country.”
As someone who refused the vaccine myself, I can say that strangers didn’t treat me different, since they didn’t know whether I was vaccinated or not. Some of my co-workers probably would have wanted to treat me different, but they really couldn’t since they had to work with me whether they liked it or not.
So that left family and friends as the people who actually did treat me differently. I really wouldn’t have cared much if strangers or co-workers treated me like a pariah, but friends and family hits hard. I’ll never forget it.
Why the redactions?
Do they really expect us to believe there is some “national security” excuse for that, and not just a “CYA” reason for what they are hiding?
For those of us who have loved ones that died agonizing deaths all alone because of CoVid hospital protocols will never forget. The pain is still raw. Trying to figure out how to forgive a “system”.
So many were sacrificed on the made up altar of “trusting the science.”
“...the “next time”
It’s coming, and sooner than most people think.
I lost my family due to estrangement over the vax issue. I don’t know if the rifts can ever possibly be repaired. Even if they are repaired, the time is lost and the scars will remain.
The vax has caused serious injury to at least one family member.
Others have had worse outcomes with death of loved ones and worse yet, isolation from loved ones who were suffering and dying.
I will never forget.
NO AMNESTY for those who knowingly forced this on us. They are murderers. Sadistic murderers.
Agree.
Anyone who thinks they would have stood up to the nazis in WW2 should examine their own behavior during covid and see if it’s true.
+1
Agreed 100%.
Brilliant.
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