Pandemic Pandemonium

TomKlingenstein ^ | 09/02/23 | Glenn Ellmers

[PoliticallyShort]

In the latter part of 2023 Americans have come to a much better understanding of the medical failures behind the COVID pandemic responses. Whether these measures were political failures remains to be seen. To consider that question, we would have to know whether any of the responsible officials had ulterior agendas behind, or in addition to, protecting public health.

More than a few analysts have speculated that the most constitutionally dubious pandemic measures were pretexts to solidify and embolden an emerging authoritarianism on the part of global elites. Such concerns are not evidence of paranoia. This May, the Rockefeller Foundation announced a new multi-million-dollar partnership with the World Health Organization’s Berlin-based Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The funding is intended to enhance international coordination for treating climate change as a public health crisis.

Even putting the most benign interpretation on this “coordination,” such efforts reveal a widening chasm between how the international ruling class and the American people understand the very idea of “public health.” Implicated in that amorphous term are questions about risk and safety, consent, individual rights, the distinction between the public and the private, and even the relationship between the body and the soul—all of which raise profound moral and political questions.

Although we continue to learn disturbing new facts about what happened in the the wake of the COVID outbreak, many of us are even more alarmed and perplexed when we inquire, often unsuccessfully, into why many key decisions were made, by whom, and for what immediate and ultimate purposes. The most onerous pandemic impositions have, for now, been set aside, but there is little assurance that lockdowns might not return in response to another virus, or for entirely different reasons that the Rockefeller Foundation, for example, might recommend.

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[rktman]

Well, we were slightly off last time but trust us now. No, really.

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[Jeff Chandler]

This image we have of doctors, nurses, and other sundry medical professionals being brilliant thinkers is, by-and-large, bullocks. They are nothing more than technical specialists, rule following, order following worker ants in the vast medical hive, repeating what they are told to say, doing what they are told to do, acting like mindless hammers who view their customers as nails.

[Grampa Dave]

Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise!
EYAL SHAHAR SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Taking a new Covid shot every winter has no empirical basis!

The burden of proving effectiveness against death squarely rests on public health officials and anything short of a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial is unacceptable.

That applies to the flu shot as well.

https://brownstone.org/articles/get-a-new-covid-shot-the-evidence-suggests-otherwise/