Hear, hear! Long Pandemic! I’ll raise me pint to that one come Good Friday!
“Simply saying “The Pandemic” foreclosed reasonable discussion of how many people …”
I’d shorten that to “foreclosed reasonable discussion (and still does).” We were desperately short of reasonable discussion in our society as it was, but now, as you have pointed out so eloquently, any attempt at making sense of what happened, and is happening, is just swatted away with “pandemic” “because of COVID” “we didn’t know” “you can’t be too safe” and so on…
On a different, but related point, I have often wondered how on earth many if not most people will willingly surrender their agency to credentialed professionals who have repeatedly demonstrably failed to solve or mitigate the “problem” they have been hired to figure out.
Way, way, way before “COVID”, I have asked some of my credulous tree care customers why they would continue to seek out medical attention from the same people who have not only not “solved” the original symptom, but now have blessed them with “side effects”. I ask them if they would continue to hire me (a tree guy) or a plumber or electrician if each and every time they called us, the tree problem got worse, the basement was still flooded and the house dimmed every time you plugged in their toaster. I usually get blank looks of something like “yeah, I see what you mean”…… there must be something deeply ingrained in or genetically part of our being that urges us to surrender to patently incompetent, and often irresponsible and evil people….
There's a simple explanation for that. I'm the same generation. In those days, opposing the government and the Vietnam war wasn't an act of rebellion, it was conforming to peer pressure. IOW, protesting government policy was the default position of the boomers. Supporting Washington and the war made you an outcast among your peers. Nothing has happened to your, and my generation. They were followers then, and are now. And that's hardly unique to boomers, it's human nature. Kitsune is right, except I think it's more than 80%. Wasn't jab uptake in the 90+ percent range? Only brainless zombies fell for it. We were already seniors when the jabs came out, never remotely considered getting in line. Nobody with a working brain did. That implies > 90% cannot think.
But here's maybe the bright side: About 10% of us, if we go by the stated math here, are NOT sheep. We're the sheep DOGS... And because of us, NUMEROUS shit has been flushed, if you'll pardon my potty mouth, ha ha.
SO... If that's the case, we might try easing off (arf) all this stressing out about the SHEEP and just get together, all the sheep DOGS, and tear this Tyranny all to pieces... Action speaks (woof!) louder than Substack posts. Cheers.
It is scary. If people weren't mostly really dumb, why would every successful society have its run, then decline to mediocrity or worse? There's plenty of obvious things to do to keep the good times rolling, but never the will or good sense to implement any of it. Examples are endless. Here's one. I'm a boomer. I remember thinking when I was in my 30s and 40s - we have a big bubble of people in their productive years. But won't later. We should be getting our infrastructure as perfect as we can now, while it's doable. Instead we did none of that, just kept running deficits, living beyond our means. Stupid, and weak. Which sums things up, then, now, and always. The moral decay that always happens to societies in their prime is an even bigger issue that books have been written about. Sorry, but there's no reason to think we can stop the inevitable collapse we see all around us, although we have to try.
I just want to live the next couple of decades in my bubble- and only want to worry about what's for dinner and if it's going to rain the next day so I can plan something alternative to my cycling...I (we) earned every minute and hopefully us boomers can continue reaping those benefits for a few more years. I have faith things might "turn around"- that's all I can do, is have hope.
The computers and Mobiles think for them. Haven't you noticed how many people spend their time looking at these Gadgets? THEIR BRAINS DON'T THINK ANYMORE
Yep. Licentiousness and societal destruction. Then cashed in later. Very few true blue hippies mostly just fun sinning. And socialists playing the same game in academia, that's where some ended up. Pattern repeats itself.
You’re referring to the Milgram Experiment. Yes, it uncovered a major tick in human nature. Undoubtedly our adversaries know us better than we know ourselves.
Those pulling the strings are evil, but smart. Sure they know. I've had what may be an epiphany lately. I'd been thinking Trump showed how stupid he was by touting hydroxychloroquine, and then being blindsided by the media and 3-letter agency reaction - an immediate and devastating takedown (like Collins' reaction to the GBD). Any moron knew that would happen and Trump better be ready to counter. He wasn't, or at least didn't counter. My epiphany is - was this deliberate on his part? Did he intentionally start the ball rolling for the ridicule of any effective, cheap treatments we suffered through, being a pawn of pharma? Remember, pre-COVID he was going to empower RFK Jr to look into vaccine safety, until pharma gave him a bunch of money, and he dropped that idea like a hot potato. So, he was a pharma shill by the time COVID surfaced. I think this makes more sense than my previous assumption he was so stupid. He's obviously savvy politically, and knows how the games are played.
I agree. Trump could be the biggest deep state pawn ever. He divided the country, literally driving some insane. Jan 6, what stupidity. Now we have "domestic terrorists", Operation Warpspeed. Umhum.
I sometimes see them all (fauci, birx, trump, obama, clintons) sitting in one of those exclusive clubs, in large wingback chairs, laughing with each other:
As far as I understand, it never was hydroxychloroquine that was helpful, it was it and something else, zinc perhaps. Hydroxychloroquine helps the body absorb the zinc or whatever. People took the combo and improved rapidly. One a democrat politician who has credited T with saving her life.
The spin against hydroxychloroquine and thus T was with the less than truthful, repeated statement that it was just this drug that T was prompting and it was easy to show that by itself it is not effective.
T’s biggest error was that he trusted those he should have been able to trust, people who were paid to give him honest appraisals of the situation and how to counter it. By giving him wrong information, they committed fraud against the president and the American people.
Trump's our candidate for better or worse, we need to be behind him 100%. With that out of the way - I'm not so sure how much he erred, how much he did on purpose. RFK is an expert on Fauci. Trump met with him for hours before deciding to appoint him to look into vaccines, pre-COVID. There's zero chance RFK, who is very good at making his points, didn't apprise Trump of Fauci's true nature. So Trump had NO excuse for trusting Fauci and Birx. Trump promised to drain the swamp, yet appointed swamp dwellers to key posts, didn't remove others, and used their advice to drive policy in many key ways. He's NOT stupid. You'd have to be stupid to think such people would be looking out for the country and citizenry. He had Scott Atlas, before that there was no shortage of honest experts available with good COVID advice. Yet, he sided with Fauci, Birx, FDA, CDC, pharma, and the MSM narrative. Why? He's that stupid and gullible? Maybe. But not likely. More likely, he isn't who his fans think he is. He was great on keeping us out of stupid wars. He isn't for censorship and wokeness. I like him. But I don't trust him, at all.
Yes, that is it, though I must say that I did not know these were the same; the one I recently encountered that only had that simple finding listed and this one which I have long known about. My general inability to recall names did not help me here.
Yeah it's funny. For all the rhetoric against Donald Trump, the lefty sheeple also just seem to want a strong leader. Witness the weird Dark Brandon branding. Creepy.
So Joe, isn't it interesting that your customers expect more from, and are more discriminating about their tree guys, plumbers and electricians than they are about the people they hire to take care of their own bodies?
I’ve often wondered about that. They hold us.” uneducated.” to a far far higher standard than the credentialed professionals who charge many multiples per hour more than we do, and can literally get away with killing their customers., and customers’ families, and our society ‘s response is to push even more money their way.
I don’t mind being held to a high standard. I never take any money upfront because I want everyone to be satisfied before they open their checkbook. I am confident in the quality of my work, as are many of my blue-collar, small business friends. But often, anything short of perfection results in our being chastised by the ruling class. Said chastisement never comes from cops or plumbers, electricians, or anyone whoever gets dirt under the fingernails, but rather from the laptop class, and those with multiple letters and abbreviations, following their names.
Once when we are doing a set of condos in West Orange, I got a call from the management company who said there was an emergency regarding one of the buildings I had just worked on. I promptly hopped back in my truck to head back to see what it happened and the irate customer was loudly complaining about a bit of sawdust left in the leaves in the flower bed, and in the pacasandra. She literally wanted me to get vacuum cleaner and vacuum up any speck of sawdust that had fallen.In the plantings. And I don’t know this for sure, but she had all the personality of the kind of person who would get a double mastectomy without any cancer diagnosis, but on the advice of a doctor “just in case”…..
Joe, I have observed this as well, time and time again. The academically credentialed class, or those who fancy themselves as such, are the quickest to complain to service people about the most inconsequential non-problems on a job. New neighbors I only met socially once asked me if I knew a driver who could take them to the airport. I did, and since these folks seemed nice "socially" I gave them his name. This man is trustworthy, reliable, and was a long distance trucker for many years with an impeccable record. After he drove them I was mortified when he told me he would never drive them again because of the way they treated him. This was a side of these people that is not always obvious socially when they are interacting with their "peers."
The first indication that the storm on the horizon was going to be of unprecedented magnitude was my wife’s use of the word. Usually level headed, despite working for Pf, once it was announced to be a pandemic, she uncharacteristically relaid the fact to me in a panicked voice. I responded by telling her that only meant it covered more geography and that it said nothing about how dangerous the disease was. This calmed her down, but she knew this to be true. Why did she need to be reminded of it?
I use a different P word to describe the past 4 years, the panic.
Thank you Mark. Your piece reminds me of a poor old man in Wales who went down to his allotment during the imprisonment and dared to chat to others who were there. He had an enormous fine. That callousness sums it all up I think. Never forget, never forgive.
I may have to stop reading your beautiful essays, Mark. So darn accurate and focused that the lid flies off my pot of simmering rage! I always (during) referred to ‘the Scamdemic.’ Now, when I must speak of those years, I use the phrase, ‘during The Nonsense.’ It doesn’t come close to expressing my contempt but is probably appropriate for an old Southern woman. (I did have relatives that still referred to the Civil War as ‘The Unpleasantness’, so…)
I remember walking through big-box stores unmasked and meeting everyone’s glares with a big, lipsticked smile. Whenever another ‘free-face’ was spotted, though strangers, we stopped and hugged. I was often verbally abused, a direct example of Scamdemic-Alibi to behave badly.
One note: it’s the Democrat party. There’s nothing democratic about it. Keep writing. I don’t ever want to forget the abuse.
You left out “Plandemic” though “Scamdemic” was included, so you get an “A”
Darlene got a “C” as in “Cut down that tree!” or an “F” as in “Failure” or “no more Forest”.
I maybe only got a “B” because I nearly lost employment for seeing the scam early and poking fun of it. Some of my dear coworker friends also got formal reprimands for not masking properly or making light of the obvious fraud. We survived, but it was stressful with institutions threatening us and throwing their legal might against us. What a world - people were threatened, beaten, locked up, jailed, fined and poisoned over a scam. Influencers and “TheScientologists” pocketed billions, and there are still Darlenes out there clinging to the narrative. God help us.
My trigger word now isn't "pandemic" as much as "covid." "Due to 'covid'" this. "Due to 'covid'" that. "Due to 'covid' we don't have to do our jobs and you have to suck it."
The problem was never a virus. The problem was always the abysmal ethical state of huge swaths of humanity. They might not kick puppies or push old ladies down stairs, but most people exist resentful of the fact that they're expected to be independent adults: rational, productive, thoughtful, and self-motivated. Intellectually they self-arrest somewhere under ten years old and they spend the rest of their lives faking it, terrified of discovery. "Covid" was a godsend to such people. It absolutely did give them an alibi, but it was for much worse than just misbehavior. Think of what underlies their enthusiastic embrace of infantilism, of not having to work or pay debts; of having an excuse to avoid social contacts they were too cowardly and hypocritical to say they didn't really enjoy: Those are people without a *self.*
At first I was amazed by their collective failure to break down the doors of hospitals and nursing homes and *insist* on protecting the people they claimed to love. Now I think it was naive to expect anything else. People whose first reaction to a lockdown announcement was, "It's cool; I wasn't planning to go anywhere, anyway" are people incapable of love for anything or anyone, because they don't love themselves enough to fight for their freedom.
The plandemic was a moral pop quiz and nearly everyone failed it, in the process revealing themselves to be something far worse than puppy kickers and granny pushers. They're abject moral and intellectual cowards. They've learned nothing and they will absolutely do the same thing again in a heartbeat, because for the first time in their lives their vices were proclaimed as virtues.
"The Pandemic" WAS a true pandemic ... However, it wasn't a virus pandemic. I didn't know anyone that died from the virus or even got very sick. "The Pandemic" was a pandemic of the ignorant and gullible masses falling prey to the evil and manipulative profit seekers. Nothing more than that. Some of the ignorant and gullible also played the part of the evil and manipulative. That was "The Pandemic" that I saw for three years.
I will say that this virus did have a (lab enhanced) different skill set, but would wager that very nearly 100% of the ‘deaths’ were preventable with early treatment and avoidance of deadly hospital protocols. Entire patient populations of some brave but silent docs did just fine.
Yes, I would think that's why the US government initially freaked out. They absolutely knew it was lab-enhanced. The wet market story was just a cover-up. The lab-enhanced virus was likely part of a bio-warfare effort and the government initially thought that it would be much more dangerous than it was. It wasn't. But the virus was a huge opportunity to enhance their power and wealth.
I've thought this myself as a possibility. I'm curious why China didn't rat out the U.S. government, though. Surely they knew what was really going on as well.
Yes, there’s more to the story that we don’t know yet. With Gates and China in control of the WHO, perhaps there’s a reward awaiting China, should the WHO treaty be ratified thru passive consent.
It was a pandemic of lies and fear. Or vice versa. Plenty of vice of course inclduing ad-vice which was largely stupid. I called in a very severe outbreak of Stupid 20 which has subsequently morphed into various even more stupid variants.
Just when you begin to think “we’ll, there’s not much more to be written about the covidrama" (my preferred descriptor of the scamdemic), here you come and write another bullseye piece that was needing to be written and needs to be reflected upon and shared widely. The obviousness of the propagandizement couldn’t have been clearer in 2020. In March of 2020, I instantly connected it to the November election, but I had no idea that so many authoritarian targets were being hit with a single arrow, slung by the powers behind the power. Honestly, a part of me indulged for brief moments in the historical drama, a memorable “we’re all in this together” unity where the invading army is so dangerous that everybody, rich and poor, white, black, and brown would have to stand and fight together to survive. Like WWII must have felt, or when the aliens finally invade! Snapping out of it thanks to the putrid smell of bullshit emanating from the White House lectern, the evident truth of what was happening was a buzzkill to any excitement that had arisen in my heart. The grift of Covid took on epic proportions providing epic profits to a few select economic and industrial powerhouses. The P word may have been pronounced as “pandemic,”but it really stood for Power and Profits.
There was no pandemic and there never has been a pandemic or even an epidemic of a transmitted disease, both are completely fictitious phenomena ... just like a few other alleged phenomena such as self-immolations, suicide bombings and mass school shootings.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken
I highly recommend Mike Stone's website, www.viroliegy.com (Exposing the lies of Germ Theory and virology using their own sources) and substack, mikestone.substack.com for analysis of the various epidemic-style events in the historical record which are exposed as being something completely different from what they have been purported to be ... essentially no different from this "pandemic".
Yes, they're certainly using "climate change" to fearmonger and control, however, I'm still undecided whether man-made climate change requiring prompt action is completely made up or not.
1. Climate change certainly happens regardless of human influence and we are certainly highly interventionist with regard to the biosphere in a multitude of ways
2. If CO2 is a radiative forcing agent then it's not unreasonable, a priori, for there to be concern about humans pumping gigatonnes of it into the atmosphere. An argument against concern is that CO2 exists only in trace amounts, however, to my mind that is a reason for greater concern. If, at a trace amount, CO2 has an impact then increasing that amount will presumably be problematic. In our bodies, certain elements exist in tiny but necessary amounts in our cells such as iron - if we increase that tiny amount only by a little that could kill us though.
3. They are clearly doing geoengineering that seems to have the purpose of acting against human impact - but acting as though the claim of chemtrails is "conspiracy theory." Interesting article by Jeff Childers speaking about Tennessee passing a bill to ban geoengineering (mentioned after strange whirling fish phenomenon). Of course, there may be another agenda for geoengineering, however, pumping aerosols will reduce heat absorption. The propaganda is simply incredible - this is the headline for an article about the bill - Tennessee Senate passes bill based on 'chemtrails' conspiracy theory: What to know.
I’ve said this before so forgive me for being redundant but the key to understanding the scam we were all subjected to is to consider that until Covid it had never been appropriate to scare people during a mass or singular casualty event. The operative words were always, “stay calm.”
But, at no time were we given the impression our trusted institutions had any intention of reassuring us. Quite the opposite.
Even after months had gone by they acted like they didn’t have the first clue about how 9th grade biology worked. No meaningful demographic information concerning the afflicted.
Just case counts! Case counts! Case counts! Hospitals are overwhelmed! Covid lives on surfaces! Covid doesn’t live on surfaces! Masks are useless! Masks are essential! Maybe wear two masks! Melting lungs! More ventilators, stat! On and on the fear mongering went.
Meanwhile, more and more of our betters were caught in the act of not caring a whit about the rules for thee. Curious, no?
The shots were dangled as the way out. “Covid won’t end until all are vaccinated.” So people clamored to the needle and were angry at those who balked.
Turned out that was bullshit too. The shots were not sterilizing, were not ‘one and done’, did not prevent reinfection. Huh? One wonders what the shots were for at all, no?
Yet by this time people were triggered. Thinking with the fight or flight reptilian brain. Logic. What’s logic?
Through it all there was no sense of “remain calm we’ve got this.” And, THAT is the biggest tell the whole thing was faked for mass manipulation to redefine our silly notions of freedom, liberty, independence, and personal sovereignty.
As I've written, they actually tried to ban the Socratic Method. Skeptics can't ask good questions.
In a large sense, they succeeded in banning taboo questions. People also learned to self-censor.
Above all else, it turns out that most people just want to remain a part of the herd (or the club). They intuitively and quickly pick up on the "current thing" and know that if they challenge the Current Thing they could be banished from the herd.
So group psychology or sociology explains just about everything.
Decades ago I was invited to spectate at a fox hunt. It was on a private estate. The hounds were beagles. Dozens upon dozens of them jumping, barking, howling, frolicking. It was quite a sight. I was informed at the outset this was an old English traditional style equestrian event but not to get my hopes up that I’d actually see a fox. Ok. Off they go and about halfway into it lo and behold there’s a fox frozen by some reeds near a bog. Many yards away the dog pack is traveling having a good time when one lone dog perks up, breaks away, spies the fox, stiffens up and starts barking to alert his buddies. I figured it was curtains for the fox! But I was wrong. Turned out after doing his best to say, in dog language, hey assholes the fox is over here! It didn’t matter one whit as the pack kept going merrily in the wrong direction. Eventually the dog gave up and joined the herd and the fox scurried into the reeds. So, it appears humans aren’t the only creatures whereby a minority might see the fox and still be ignored by the hordes. Lesson learned.
I once moved our family from Montgomery, Alabama to the growing suburb of Pike Road, Alabama. My thought was I could send our kids to much-better public schools and wouldn't over 18 years of my two kids' education have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on private school tuition that most middle class families did in Montgomery (where the public schools passed the proverbial tipping point years earlier).
Pike Road was a conservative little town that was considered wealthier - MAGA country for sure. It never occurred to me that woke education reforms would infiltrate such a town and its brand new school system. But I was completely wrong. My wife actually got hired to teach in this new school system, one where there were no tests, no grades, no books, no library, no honor societies and all learning was "project based." Teachers were not teachers, they were "adult learners."
My wife, probably the most popular "adult learner" in her school, got fired from her teaching job because the new superintendent/principal could tell she was not a true believer in this great new method of learning. I found a conservative newspaper that let me tell the story of this educational system and my series of stories revealed that town had been divided into two polarized groups - those who supported the woke educational system (and the charismatic superintendent crusader for change) and those who didn't. However, those who didn't were, for the most part, terrified to say they didn't support it. If you were against this system, you were anti-education and were against the children, etc.
After we got run out of town, I viewed the whole world differently. Put it this way: I wasn't surprised what happened in our New Normal Covid times or all the people who went along with The Current Thing.
Whenever I tell the story people always empathize with the fox, but I see the fox as a metaphor for sly, clever, underhandedness. Although, in the literal sense it was nice the furry guy got to live another day.
My older brother and wife live in CA. Their only son was murdered.
My brother had a long career managing brokerage firms. So was used to public speaking.
After the murder he toured with a group that lectured at various High Schools.
He spoke candidly about his stint in Vietnam during some of the worst casualties, the government whom he felt sold out America, drugs, and his son’s subsequent murder.
The audience was spellbound. Fortunately for him the school administrator supported his speeches. This went on for ten years and he has quite literally thousands of random letters from kids whose lives he changed for the better.
Kids know the world is full of shit and respond favorably to someone giving them the unvarnished truth. Teachers would tell my brother they had students that remained in a shell all year that were utterly transformed after hearing him speak.
Until, the supportive administrator was replaced by a liberal woman. And he was told his services would no longer be required.
That makes a good point most people won't think about. Who do principals or administrators allow to speak to students ... and who don't they allow to speak to students.
It's the people the students never hear who could have made the biggest difference. What I wouldn't have given to be allowed to address some social studies classes in Covid times (at least when school had resumed). Nobody who thought like we do would be allowed to speak to students.
Wow - does this hit home. I just gave my plot up yesterday. Bittersweet because I enjoy gardening so much but I couldn’t bear the community part anymore. Very PC group. During the “pandemic” gardeners were wearing masks while digging their beds, making sure to keep their distance from me - the reckless one who chose to breathe fresh air and feel the sun and breeze on my face. I’ll never forget the queen bee of the garden threatening to report a father who allowed his small child to play in the playground adjoining our garden. The constant open chatter about shots, boosters and angry politics. So much fear about catching the virus - openly and loudly discussed because they didn’t stand near each other. Had to keep your distance afterall. I started to neglect my spot because I couldn’t stand being around them anymore. My sweatpeas weren’t bringing me joy anymore, my vegetables weren’t a pleasure to harvest. Garden wasn’t done doing it for me anymore. Obviously that time is over but there are side effects. I felt no sense of community in my garden anymore and actually in my town as well. Appreciate the community I find here - thank goodness for you all!
Yes...an obvious operation, the set-up for it coming several weeks before the scum actually ordered the lockdown and the majority went along. That made them -- the majority -- part of a club, the club that was alive when the PANDEMIC™ hit. And doesn't everyone want to be a part of a club -- any club??
I said then and I continue to say now, especially in Comments sections and even to the likes of Peter McCullough over at LinkedIn whenever he or anyone uses that word, "There was a pandemic?"
The PANDEMIC™. Just another story that the mob bought hook, line, and sinker. People like stories. They especially like stories where they get to play a part. Those are the best ones for those among us who seek power over all. Just tell 'em story. No matter how absurd because they have proven through the ages that you can actually tell them 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.
Yes...bogus...And that might even be the case for the one that no one -- no one, even historians -- can question. Yes, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 one, and the fact that it has become unquestionable tells you everything...
Hear, hear! Long Pandemic! I’ll raise me pint to that one come Good Friday!
“Simply saying “The Pandemic” foreclosed reasonable discussion of how many people …”
I’d shorten that to “foreclosed reasonable discussion (and still does).” We were desperately short of reasonable discussion in our society as it was, but now, as you have pointed out so eloquently, any attempt at making sense of what happened, and is happening, is just swatted away with “pandemic” “because of COVID” “we didn’t know” “you can’t be too safe” and so on…
On a different, but related point, I have often wondered how on earth many if not most people will willingly surrender their agency to credentialed professionals who have repeatedly demonstrably failed to solve or mitigate the “problem” they have been hired to figure out.
Way, way, way before “COVID”, I have asked some of my credulous tree care customers why they would continue to seek out medical attention from the same people who have not only not “solved” the original symptom, but now have blessed them with “side effects”. I ask them if they would continue to hire me (a tree guy) or a plumber or electrician if each and every time they called us, the tree problem got worse, the basement was still flooded and the house dimmed every time you plugged in their toaster. I usually get blank looks of something like “yeah, I see what you mean”…… there must be something deeply ingrained in or genetically part of our being that urges us to surrender to patently incompetent, and often irresponsible and evil people….
I dunno….I’m a gonna get to work…
Cheers, Mark!
Joe, "you're no MD."
So your views are worthless.
Or so they say
True, but you don’t end up with a “side effect” when you hire me.😊
You would probably recommend some quack solution like cutting carbs to lose weight.
Fat shaming. Tisk! Tisk! That kind of microaggression will be illegal soon. Take your Ozempic and be quiet!
Thin may be in, but fat is where it's at.
Oh, that's an oldie, but a goodie! Thanks for that call back!
Source?!?!
lol
Not long ago I read of a study that found that 80% of mankind lacks the ability to question authority. It sure seems true.
what HAPPENED to my generation ? That's ALL they did in the 60s and 70s!!!!
There's a simple explanation for that. I'm the same generation. In those days, opposing the government and the Vietnam war wasn't an act of rebellion, it was conforming to peer pressure. IOW, protesting government policy was the default position of the boomers. Supporting Washington and the war made you an outcast among your peers. Nothing has happened to your, and my generation. They were followers then, and are now. And that's hardly unique to boomers, it's human nature. Kitsune is right, except I think it's more than 80%. Wasn't jab uptake in the 90+ percent range? Only brainless zombies fell for it. We were already seniors when the jabs came out, never remotely considered getting in line. Nobody with a working brain did. That implies > 90% cannot think.
Well, we do appear to be HERD animals...
But here's maybe the bright side: About 10% of us, if we go by the stated math here, are NOT sheep. We're the sheep DOGS... And because of us, NUMEROUS shit has been flushed, if you'll pardon my potty mouth, ha ha.
SO... If that's the case, we might try easing off (arf) all this stressing out about the SHEEP and just get together, all the sheep DOGS, and tear this Tyranny all to pieces... Action speaks (woof!) louder than Substack posts. Cheers.
that scares the crap out of me...
It is scary. If people weren't mostly really dumb, why would every successful society have its run, then decline to mediocrity or worse? There's plenty of obvious things to do to keep the good times rolling, but never the will or good sense to implement any of it. Examples are endless. Here's one. I'm a boomer. I remember thinking when I was in my 30s and 40s - we have a big bubble of people in their productive years. But won't later. We should be getting our infrastructure as perfect as we can now, while it's doable. Instead we did none of that, just kept running deficits, living beyond our means. Stupid, and weak. Which sums things up, then, now, and always. The moral decay that always happens to societies in their prime is an even bigger issue that books have been written about. Sorry, but there's no reason to think we can stop the inevitable collapse we see all around us, although we have to try.
I just want to live the next couple of decades in my bubble- and only want to worry about what's for dinner and if it's going to rain the next day so I can plan something alternative to my cycling...I (we) earned every minute and hopefully us boomers can continue reaping those benefits for a few more years. I have faith things might "turn around"- that's all I can do, is have hope.
Suggested edit: "That implies > 90% can, or will, not think.
The computers and Mobiles think for them. Haven't you noticed how many people spend their time looking at these Gadgets? THEIR BRAINS DON'T THINK ANYMORE
Did they question authority or only authority they didn’t agree with?
They no more had a clue then than they do now. Protesting the war, being a "rebel", was conforming to their peer group. I was there.
I have often wondered as much.
Yep. Licentiousness and societal destruction. Then cashed in later. Very few true blue hippies mostly just fun sinning. And socialists playing the same game in academia, that's where some ended up. Pattern repeats itself.
You’re referring to the Milgram Experiment. Yes, it uncovered a major tick in human nature. Undoubtedly our adversaries know us better than we know ourselves.
Yep, that’s it and yes, they know.
Those pulling the strings are evil, but smart. Sure they know. I've had what may be an epiphany lately. I'd been thinking Trump showed how stupid he was by touting hydroxychloroquine, and then being blindsided by the media and 3-letter agency reaction - an immediate and devastating takedown (like Collins' reaction to the GBD). Any moron knew that would happen and Trump better be ready to counter. He wasn't, or at least didn't counter. My epiphany is - was this deliberate on his part? Did he intentionally start the ball rolling for the ridicule of any effective, cheap treatments we suffered through, being a pawn of pharma? Remember, pre-COVID he was going to empower RFK Jr to look into vaccine safety, until pharma gave him a bunch of money, and he dropped that idea like a hot potato. So, he was a pharma shill by the time COVID surfaced. I think this makes more sense than my previous assumption he was so stupid. He's obviously savvy politically, and knows how the games are played.
I agree. Trump could be the biggest deep state pawn ever. He divided the country, literally driving some insane. Jan 6, what stupidity. Now we have "domestic terrorists", Operation Warpspeed. Umhum.
I sometimes see them all (fauci, birx, trump, obama, clintons) sitting in one of those exclusive clubs, in large wingback chairs, laughing with each other:
DJT: Oh, Tony, the goggles bit was priceless.
AF: Genius, right.
Hardieharhar.
I like the way you think
As far as I understand, it never was hydroxychloroquine that was helpful, it was it and something else, zinc perhaps. Hydroxychloroquine helps the body absorb the zinc or whatever. People took the combo and improved rapidly. One a democrat politician who has credited T with saving her life.
The spin against hydroxychloroquine and thus T was with the less than truthful, repeated statement that it was just this drug that T was prompting and it was easy to show that by itself it is not effective.
T’s biggest error was that he trusted those he should have been able to trust, people who were paid to give him honest appraisals of the situation and how to counter it. By giving him wrong information, they committed fraud against the president and the American people.
Trump's our candidate for better or worse, we need to be behind him 100%. With that out of the way - I'm not so sure how much he erred, how much he did on purpose. RFK is an expert on Fauci. Trump met with him for hours before deciding to appoint him to look into vaccines, pre-COVID. There's zero chance RFK, who is very good at making his points, didn't apprise Trump of Fauci's true nature. So Trump had NO excuse for trusting Fauci and Birx. Trump promised to drain the swamp, yet appointed swamp dwellers to key posts, didn't remove others, and used their advice to drive policy in many key ways. He's NOT stupid. You'd have to be stupid to think such people would be looking out for the country and citizenry. He had Scott Atlas, before that there was no shortage of honest experts available with good COVID advice. Yet, he sided with Fauci, Birx, FDA, CDC, pharma, and the MSM narrative. Why? He's that stupid and gullible? Maybe. But not likely. More likely, he isn't who his fans think he is. He was great on keeping us out of stupid wars. He isn't for censorship and wokeness. I like him. But I don't trust him, at all.
The bad actors knew human psychology. https://www.simplypsychology.org/milgram.html
Why is it that the bad guys know more about human nature than most of the rest of us? They sure know how to use it against us.
We are too busy just trying to get along with our lives. They, on the other hand, devote their lives to controlling us.
Yes. Most people are unaware of their inherent vulnerabilities. Ego gets in the way.
Yes, that is it, though I must say that I did not know these were the same; the one I recently encountered that only had that simple finding listed and this one which I have long known about. My general inability to recall names did not help me here.
Thanks, this is it.
Makes me sick
Yeah it's funny. For all the rhetoric against Donald Trump, the lefty sheeple also just seem to want a strong leader. Witness the weird Dark Brandon branding. Creepy.
If true, that really sucks.
It explains a hell of a lot if it is.
So Joe, isn't it interesting that your customers expect more from, and are more discriminating about their tree guys, plumbers and electricians than they are about the people they hire to take care of their own bodies?
I’ve often wondered about that. They hold us.” uneducated.” to a far far higher standard than the credentialed professionals who charge many multiples per hour more than we do, and can literally get away with killing their customers., and customers’ families, and our society ‘s response is to push even more money their way.
I don’t mind being held to a high standard. I never take any money upfront because I want everyone to be satisfied before they open their checkbook. I am confident in the quality of my work, as are many of my blue-collar, small business friends. But often, anything short of perfection results in our being chastised by the ruling class. Said chastisement never comes from cops or plumbers, electricians, or anyone whoever gets dirt under the fingernails, but rather from the laptop class, and those with multiple letters and abbreviations, following their names.
Once when we are doing a set of condos in West Orange, I got a call from the management company who said there was an emergency regarding one of the buildings I had just worked on. I promptly hopped back in my truck to head back to see what it happened and the irate customer was loudly complaining about a bit of sawdust left in the leaves in the flower bed, and in the pacasandra. She literally wanted me to get vacuum cleaner and vacuum up any speck of sawdust that had fallen.In the plantings. And I don’t know this for sure, but she had all the personality of the kind of person who would get a double mastectomy without any cancer diagnosis, but on the advice of a doctor “just in case”…..
Joe, I have observed this as well, time and time again. The academically credentialed class, or those who fancy themselves as such, are the quickest to complain to service people about the most inconsequential non-problems on a job. New neighbors I only met socially once asked me if I knew a driver who could take them to the airport. I did, and since these folks seemed nice "socially" I gave them his name. This man is trustworthy, reliable, and was a long distance trucker for many years with an impeccable record. After he drove them I was mortified when he told me he would never drive them again because of the way they treated him. This was a side of these people that is not always obvious socially when they are interacting with their "peers."
I put sawdust in gardens when I have some. Good for soil.
This is true!
Same reason they would be more concerned if their jeans made them look fat but have no problem altering their DNA with an experimental drug.
Or shopped all organic at Whole Foods but have no problem altering their DNA with an experimental drug....we could go on.
:=]
It’s the death card. It works and pHarma holds it and plays it all the time.
Joe, making sense doesn’t set well with those who “know better,” but thanks for trying. Maybe a couple of neurons will start synapsing.
None of it is confusing when you realize they really don't mind killing us.
Sometimes I have to remember that if the normies never "get it" then we've done our "job".
Many are incapable unless they experience it. Many "enjoy" the experience. It is the way of mankind.
Joyless victories are still W's
The first indication that the storm on the horizon was going to be of unprecedented magnitude was my wife’s use of the word. Usually level headed, despite working for Pf, once it was announced to be a pandemic, she uncharacteristically relaid the fact to me in a panicked voice. I responded by telling her that only meant it covered more geography and that it said nothing about how dangerous the disease was. This calmed her down, but she knew this to be true. Why did she need to be reminded of it?
I use a different P word to describe the past 4 years, the panic.
Thank you Mark. Your piece reminds me of a poor old man in Wales who went down to his allotment during the imprisonment and dared to chat to others who were there. He had an enormous fine. That callousness sums it all up I think. Never forget, never forgive.
I hope he ignored the fine, it was always illegal as the so-called rules were guidance.
I hope so too. An elderly person like that is an easy target for the authorities.
I may have to stop reading your beautiful essays, Mark. So darn accurate and focused that the lid flies off my pot of simmering rage! I always (during) referred to ‘the Scamdemic.’ Now, when I must speak of those years, I use the phrase, ‘during The Nonsense.’ It doesn’t come close to expressing my contempt but is probably appropriate for an old Southern woman. (I did have relatives that still referred to the Civil War as ‘The Unpleasantness’, so…)
I remember walking through big-box stores unmasked and meeting everyone’s glares with a big, lipsticked smile. Whenever another ‘free-face’ was spotted, though strangers, we stopped and hugged. I was often verbally abused, a direct example of Scamdemic-Alibi to behave badly.
One note: it’s the Democrat party. There’s nothing democratic about it. Keep writing. I don’t ever want to forget the abuse.
Thank you for standing against the mask.
Astute!
You left out “Plandemic” though “Scamdemic” was included, so you get an “A”
Darlene got a “C” as in “Cut down that tree!” or an “F” as in “Failure” or “no more Forest”.
I maybe only got a “B” because I nearly lost employment for seeing the scam early and poking fun of it. Some of my dear coworker friends also got formal reprimands for not masking properly or making light of the obvious fraud. We survived, but it was stressful with institutions threatening us and throwing their legal might against us. What a world - people were threatened, beaten, locked up, jailed, fined and poisoned over a scam. Influencers and “TheScientologists” pocketed billions, and there are still Darlenes out there clinging to the narrative. God help us.
My trigger word now isn't "pandemic" as much as "covid." "Due to 'covid'" this. "Due to 'covid'" that. "Due to 'covid' we don't have to do our jobs and you have to suck it."
The problem was never a virus. The problem was always the abysmal ethical state of huge swaths of humanity. They might not kick puppies or push old ladies down stairs, but most people exist resentful of the fact that they're expected to be independent adults: rational, productive, thoughtful, and self-motivated. Intellectually they self-arrest somewhere under ten years old and they spend the rest of their lives faking it, terrified of discovery. "Covid" was a godsend to such people. It absolutely did give them an alibi, but it was for much worse than just misbehavior. Think of what underlies their enthusiastic embrace of infantilism, of not having to work or pay debts; of having an excuse to avoid social contacts they were too cowardly and hypocritical to say they didn't really enjoy: Those are people without a *self.*
At first I was amazed by their collective failure to break down the doors of hospitals and nursing homes and *insist* on protecting the people they claimed to love. Now I think it was naive to expect anything else. People whose first reaction to a lockdown announcement was, "It's cool; I wasn't planning to go anywhere, anyway" are people incapable of love for anything or anyone, because they don't love themselves enough to fight for their freedom.
The plandemic was a moral pop quiz and nearly everyone failed it, in the process revealing themselves to be something far worse than puppy kickers and granny pushers. They're abject moral and intellectual cowards. They've learned nothing and they will absolutely do the same thing again in a heartbeat, because for the first time in their lives their vices were proclaimed as virtues.
Very, very well-discerned.
Well said. I called it the Great Retest and most failed dismally.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/the-great-covid-retest
"The Pandemic" WAS a true pandemic ... However, it wasn't a virus pandemic. I didn't know anyone that died from the virus or even got very sick. "The Pandemic" was a pandemic of the ignorant and gullible masses falling prey to the evil and manipulative profit seekers. Nothing more than that. Some of the ignorant and gullible also played the part of the evil and manipulative. That was "The Pandemic" that I saw for three years.
I will say that this virus did have a (lab enhanced) different skill set, but would wager that very nearly 100% of the ‘deaths’ were preventable with early treatment and avoidance of deadly hospital protocols. Entire patient populations of some brave but silent docs did just fine.
I dunno. When I got around to "getting it," it was far less bothersome than a cold.
Yes, I would think that's why the US government initially freaked out. They absolutely knew it was lab-enhanced. The wet market story was just a cover-up. The lab-enhanced virus was likely part of a bio-warfare effort and the government initially thought that it would be much more dangerous than it was. It wasn't. But the virus was a huge opportunity to enhance their power and wealth.
I've thought this myself as a possibility. I'm curious why China didn't rat out the U.S. government, though. Surely they knew what was really going on as well.
Yes, there’s more to the story that we don’t know yet. With Gates and China in control of the WHO, perhaps there’s a reward awaiting China, should the WHO treaty be ratified thru passive consent.
It was a pandemic of lies and fear. Or vice versa. Plenty of vice of course inclduing ad-vice which was largely stupid. I called in a very severe outbreak of Stupid 20 which has subsequently morphed into various even more stupid variants.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/stupid-20/
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/05/11/100-up-and-stupid-20-variants/
Just when you begin to think “we’ll, there’s not much more to be written about the covidrama" (my preferred descriptor of the scamdemic), here you come and write another bullseye piece that was needing to be written and needs to be reflected upon and shared widely. The obviousness of the propagandizement couldn’t have been clearer in 2020. In March of 2020, I instantly connected it to the November election, but I had no idea that so many authoritarian targets were being hit with a single arrow, slung by the powers behind the power. Honestly, a part of me indulged for brief moments in the historical drama, a memorable “we’re all in this together” unity where the invading army is so dangerous that everybody, rich and poor, white, black, and brown would have to stand and fight together to survive. Like WWII must have felt, or when the aliens finally invade! Snapping out of it thanks to the putrid smell of bullshit emanating from the White House lectern, the evident truth of what was happening was a buzzkill to any excitement that had arisen in my heart. The grift of Covid took on epic proportions providing epic profits to a few select economic and industrial powerhouses. The P word may have been pronounced as “pandemic,”but it really stood for Power and Profits.
Thanks, Dog. I still don't know how many stories I have left.
But the abuse of the P word deserved to be noted.
I think you have plenty. History could be something to indicate how easily people will fall in love with servitude, etc.
Plus don't forget THE SCAMDEMIC was simply a dry-run....for something else.
Long pandemic - LOL.
There was no pandemic and there never has been a pandemic or even an epidemic of a transmitted disease, both are completely fictitious phenomena ... just like a few other alleged phenomena such as self-immolations, suicide bombings and mass school shootings.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
― H.L. Mencken
I highly recommend Mike Stone's website, www.viroliegy.com (Exposing the lies of Germ Theory and virology using their own sources) and substack, mikestone.substack.com for analysis of the various epidemic-style events in the historical record which are exposed as being something completely different from what they have been purported to be ... essentially no different from this "pandemic".
‘Climate change’ for example. Another fear-mongering word.
Yes, they're certainly using "climate change" to fearmonger and control, however, I'm still undecided whether man-made climate change requiring prompt action is completely made up or not.
1. Climate change certainly happens regardless of human influence and we are certainly highly interventionist with regard to the biosphere in a multitude of ways
2. If CO2 is a radiative forcing agent then it's not unreasonable, a priori, for there to be concern about humans pumping gigatonnes of it into the atmosphere. An argument against concern is that CO2 exists only in trace amounts, however, to my mind that is a reason for greater concern. If, at a trace amount, CO2 has an impact then increasing that amount will presumably be problematic. In our bodies, certain elements exist in tiny but necessary amounts in our cells such as iron - if we increase that tiny amount only by a little that could kill us though.
3. They are clearly doing geoengineering that seems to have the purpose of acting against human impact - but acting as though the claim of chemtrails is "conspiracy theory." Interesting article by Jeff Childers speaking about Tennessee passing a bill to ban geoengineering (mentioned after strange whirling fish phenomenon). Of course, there may be another agenda for geoengineering, however, pumping aerosols will reduce heat absorption. The propaganda is simply incredible - this is the headline for an article about the bill - Tennessee Senate passes bill based on 'chemtrails' conspiracy theory: What to know.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/whirling-death-fishthursday-march
I’ve said this before so forgive me for being redundant but the key to understanding the scam we were all subjected to is to consider that until Covid it had never been appropriate to scare people during a mass or singular casualty event. The operative words were always, “stay calm.”
But, at no time were we given the impression our trusted institutions had any intention of reassuring us. Quite the opposite.
Even after months had gone by they acted like they didn’t have the first clue about how 9th grade biology worked. No meaningful demographic information concerning the afflicted.
Just case counts! Case counts! Case counts! Hospitals are overwhelmed! Covid lives on surfaces! Covid doesn’t live on surfaces! Masks are useless! Masks are essential! Maybe wear two masks! Melting lungs! More ventilators, stat! On and on the fear mongering went.
Meanwhile, more and more of our betters were caught in the act of not caring a whit about the rules for thee. Curious, no?
The shots were dangled as the way out. “Covid won’t end until all are vaccinated.” So people clamored to the needle and were angry at those who balked.
Turned out that was bullshit too. The shots were not sterilizing, were not ‘one and done’, did not prevent reinfection. Huh? One wonders what the shots were for at all, no?
Yet by this time people were triggered. Thinking with the fight or flight reptilian brain. Logic. What’s logic?
Through it all there was no sense of “remain calm we’ve got this.” And, THAT is the biggest tell the whole thing was faked for mass manipulation to redefine our silly notions of freedom, liberty, independence, and personal sovereignty.
As I've written, they actually tried to ban the Socratic Method. Skeptics can't ask good questions.
In a large sense, they succeeded in banning taboo questions. People also learned to self-censor.
Above all else, it turns out that most people just want to remain a part of the herd (or the club). They intuitively and quickly pick up on the "current thing" and know that if they challenge the Current Thing they could be banished from the herd.
So group psychology or sociology explains just about everything.
Decades ago I was invited to spectate at a fox hunt. It was on a private estate. The hounds were beagles. Dozens upon dozens of them jumping, barking, howling, frolicking. It was quite a sight. I was informed at the outset this was an old English traditional style equestrian event but not to get my hopes up that I’d actually see a fox. Ok. Off they go and about halfway into it lo and behold there’s a fox frozen by some reeds near a bog. Many yards away the dog pack is traveling having a good time when one lone dog perks up, breaks away, spies the fox, stiffens up and starts barking to alert his buddies. I figured it was curtains for the fox! But I was wrong. Turned out after doing his best to say, in dog language, hey assholes the fox is over here! It didn’t matter one whit as the pack kept going merrily in the wrong direction. Eventually the dog gave up and joined the herd and the fox scurried into the reeds. So, it appears humans aren’t the only creatures whereby a minority might see the fox and still be ignored by the hordes. Lesson learned.
I once moved our family from Montgomery, Alabama to the growing suburb of Pike Road, Alabama. My thought was I could send our kids to much-better public schools and wouldn't over 18 years of my two kids' education have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on private school tuition that most middle class families did in Montgomery (where the public schools passed the proverbial tipping point years earlier).
Pike Road was a conservative little town that was considered wealthier - MAGA country for sure. It never occurred to me that woke education reforms would infiltrate such a town and its brand new school system. But I was completely wrong. My wife actually got hired to teach in this new school system, one where there were no tests, no grades, no books, no library, no honor societies and all learning was "project based." Teachers were not teachers, they were "adult learners."
My wife, probably the most popular "adult learner" in her school, got fired from her teaching job because the new superintendent/principal could tell she was not a true believer in this great new method of learning. I found a conservative newspaper that let me tell the story of this educational system and my series of stories revealed that town had been divided into two polarized groups - those who supported the woke educational system (and the charismatic superintendent crusader for change) and those who didn't. However, those who didn't were, for the most part, terrified to say they didn't support it. If you were against this system, you were anti-education and were against the children, etc.
After we got run out of town, I viewed the whole world differently. Put it this way: I wasn't surprised what happened in our New Normal Covid times or all the people who went along with The Current Thing.
I can empathize with that fox.
Whenever I tell the story people always empathize with the fox, but I see the fox as a metaphor for sly, clever, underhandedness. Although, in the literal sense it was nice the furry guy got to live another day.
My older brother and wife live in CA. Their only son was murdered.
My brother had a long career managing brokerage firms. So was used to public speaking.
After the murder he toured with a group that lectured at various High Schools.
He spoke candidly about his stint in Vietnam during some of the worst casualties, the government whom he felt sold out America, drugs, and his son’s subsequent murder.
The audience was spellbound. Fortunately for him the school administrator supported his speeches. This went on for ten years and he has quite literally thousands of random letters from kids whose lives he changed for the better.
Kids know the world is full of shit and respond favorably to someone giving them the unvarnished truth. Teachers would tell my brother they had students that remained in a shell all year that were utterly transformed after hearing him speak.
Until, the supportive administrator was replaced by a liberal woman. And he was told his services would no longer be required.
That makes a good point most people won't think about. Who do principals or administrators allow to speak to students ... and who don't they allow to speak to students.
It's the people the students never hear who could have made the biggest difference. What I wouldn't have given to be allowed to address some social studies classes in Covid times (at least when school had resumed). Nobody who thought like we do would be allowed to speak to students.
I refuse to use the P word and call the whole thing what it truly was: THE DEBACLE.
Wow - does this hit home. I just gave my plot up yesterday. Bittersweet because I enjoy gardening so much but I couldn’t bear the community part anymore. Very PC group. During the “pandemic” gardeners were wearing masks while digging their beds, making sure to keep their distance from me - the reckless one who chose to breathe fresh air and feel the sun and breeze on my face. I’ll never forget the queen bee of the garden threatening to report a father who allowed his small child to play in the playground adjoining our garden. The constant open chatter about shots, boosters and angry politics. So much fear about catching the virus - openly and loudly discussed because they didn’t stand near each other. Had to keep your distance afterall. I started to neglect my spot because I couldn’t stand being around them anymore. My sweatpeas weren’t bringing me joy anymore, my vegetables weren’t a pleasure to harvest. Garden wasn’t done doing it for me anymore. Obviously that time is over but there are side effects. I felt no sense of community in my garden anymore and actually in my town as well. Appreciate the community I find here - thank goodness for you all!
That sux. Where were you?
Most of my 60 gardeners never mentioned it. When they did, I told them how I saw it.
Santa Cruz CA. Beautiful but a rather judgmental place to live.
Totally hear you.
"PANDEMIC"
"A pandemic (/pænˈdɛmɪk/ pan-DEM-ik) is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region."
It seems to me that "pandemic" describes perfectly our bloated gargantuan, virus like Federal government much better than the IQ test called Covid-19.
Yes...an obvious operation, the set-up for it coming several weeks before the scum actually ordered the lockdown and the majority went along. That made them -- the majority -- part of a club, the club that was alive when the PANDEMIC™ hit. And doesn't everyone want to be a part of a club -- any club??
I said then and I continue to say now, especially in Comments sections and even to the likes of Peter McCullough over at LinkedIn whenever he or anyone uses that word, "There was a pandemic?"
The PANDEMIC™. Just another story that the mob bought hook, line, and sinker. People like stories. They especially like stories where they get to play a part. Those are the best ones for those among us who seek power over all. Just tell 'em story. No matter how absurd because they have proven through the ages that you can actually tell them 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈.
The Narrative is The Thing. If you control the narrative, you can control the world (or the people in it).
What most people don't understand is that almost all of the accepted narratives are bogus.
Yes...bogus...And that might even be the case for the one that no one -- no one, even historians -- can question. Yes, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 one, and the fact that it has become unquestionable tells you everything...
Long Pandemic.
Good one!
I still hear people claiming they're suffering from Long Covid, yet do not wonder why...
Scamdemic is a good word. I usually say, "The Covid Bullshit." If anyone wants to know why, they've not yet asked.