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February 15 - February 17, 2022
Ferguson’s guileful projections overestimated fatality rates by more than an order of magnitude. He did the same with mad cow disease and other diseases du jour.
The Post and the Times have been the leading media cheerleaders for draconian pandemic response.
some 250 years after America’s historic revolt against entrenched oligarchy and authoritarian rule, the American experiment with self-government was over. The oligarchy was restored, and these gentlemen and their spymasters had equipped the rising technocracy with new tools of control unimaginable to King George or to any other tyrant in history.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Health officials complained to STAT that they found themselves marginalized as Warp Speed devolved into a partnership between the military and the pharmaceutical industry, presided over by Robert Kadlec—who, according to Mango, personally signed off on every business agreement made by HHS for Operation Warp Speed.
“This should be a medical and not be a military operation,” Holocaust survivor and medical ethics advocate Vera Sharav told me. “It’s a public health problem. Why are the military and the CIA so heavily involved? Why is everything a secret? Why can’t we know the ingredients of these products, which the taxpayers financed?
Since COVID-19 harms fewer than 1 percent, what is the justification for putting 100 percent of the population at risk?
We need to recognize that this is a vast human experiment on all of mankind, with an unproven technology, conducted by spies and generals primarily trained to kill and not to save lives.” What could possibly go wrong?
What I have described in the preceding chapters can seem overwhelming and dispiriting.
Yep!
The problem is endemic corruption in the medical-industrial complex, currently supported at every turn by mass-media companies.
Playwright and essayist C. J. Hopkins describes the moment all too well: There is nothing subtle about this process. Decommissioning one ‘reality’ and replacing it with another is a brutal business. Societies grow accustomed to their ‘realities.’ We do not surrender them willingly or easily. Normally, what’s required to get us to do so is a crisis, a war, a state of emergency, or . . . you know, a deadly global pandemic.
Facts and reason have nothing to do with it.
Those controlling the levers of power vilify dissenters and punish every attempt at questioning, skepticism, and debate.
the pandemic became a pretense for expanded tyranny across the globe—making changes that have nothing to do with a virus.
The now-popular term “misinformation” has come to mean any expression that departs from official orthodoxies.
Big pharmaceutical companies are the biggest advertisers on news and television outlets. Their $9.6 billion annual advertising budget buys more than commercials—it buys obeisance.
If they don’t prevent transmission, if both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can spread the virus, then there is no relevant difference between the two groups
No. One group could reduce the likelihood. This should be measured.
Sixty percent of the people in severe and critical condition were, um, were immunized, doubly immunized, fully vaccinated. Forty-five percent of the people who died in this fourth wave were doubly vaccinated.
A televised image of an unchallenged leader mouthing untrue pronouncements to mislead and control the population—that is the world of George Orwell’s sadly prophetic novel, 1984.
