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Using genetic-based technology in developing a new drug that attempted to manipulate the magnificent complexity of the human immune system was at a minimum, a gamble. As easily demonstrated, this new technology embraced the bold assumption that human design was flawed and could be improved. It was premature to declare that this experimental treatment was safe and effective. We still don’t know the actual long-term effects — particularly over generations.

This simple and logical evaluation was considered preposterous by those who responded to the seemingly new disease with unbridled fear. The danger of the COVID flu was deemed sufficient to quell all reasonable responses about the risks of the vaccines. Suddenly, there was an eclipse of medical autonomy, and debate was scorned. The actions and motives of corrupted government agencies and their profit-oriented allies in Big Pharma were blessed by devious leaders, who deemed them altruistic and unquestionable.

This atmosphere, developed and enforced in a haze of authoritarian dictates, created an unprecedented climate of hostility that infected all relationships. Because of my views and unvaccinated status, I rapidly became a pariah to my family.

Early on, when the fear tactics were in high gear, my cousin, who is an attorney involved in healthcare issues, sent a blistering email, condemning one of my first articles skewering the pandemic response. ...

The venom exuded in response to my unwillingness to join in the mass delusion supporting vaccination was palpable. My crime was unforgivable.

Although we had been very close, all contact ended. However, it was not his unconscious, misdirected anger that troubled me, rather that he shared his views and wrath with my daughters, supporting their inclination to distance themselves from me because of my independent views. This wound with my cousin may never heal.

My mother, who had cordially disagreed with me on vaccination, balanced his bias with sound advice to her granddaughters. She urged them not to be harsh; suggesting that whatever differences they see, these were not worthy of destroying their relationship with their father. Thanks to her wise counsel, the love my daughters and I share has survived.

the human mind does not like internal contradiction; it struggles to hold two opposing ideas simultaneously. 99.9% of humans when possessed of belief of “A” and faced with data of “not A” must either change their belief or find some way to reject or ignore the data. which way people go depends a great deal on:

commitment to the belief

the quality and quantity of the new data

the availability of other rationalizations or explanations

many try to argue that intelligence is some sort of proof against doing stupid things to preserve one’s cherished views, but this is simply false. it may well make the matter worse by allowing more intricate and compelling rationalizations and dodges. more powerful computers just generate GIGO faster. nothing runs downhill faster than a thoroughbred.

it’s one of the few truly non-intuitive internal human processes and it’s non-intuitive precisely because it evolved as a defense mechanism to protect you from these sorts of intellectual divide by zero dissolutions.

in moderation, it’s useful. in excess, it’s a one-way ticket to hallucination inhabitation.

you’ve seen it and felt it 1000 times. some new study on masking to stop covid comes out. basically everyone sees the conclusions and immediately decides if it’s right or wrong before even reading it. they “know” if masks do or do not work and by this point in the game, pretty much no one is changing their mind again. the positions are too dug in.

you accept it or deny it depending on its alignment with your preconception.

cognitive dissonance is an incredibly powerful process and those who are sufficiently committed to some version of reality or self-conception will actively and without a hint of irony or self-awareness reject any and all new data that contradicts their existing beliefs.

the intensity and baroqueness of the subjectively inhabited landscapes can get pretty wild.

and lunacy loves company to a degree to which misery could never hope to aspire.

"Doctors pushing Covid shots didn’t see the fraud. Economists missed the heist. Engineers built surveillance without blinking. Each turned their screw, blind to the machine they were feeding—a Moral Assembly Line where systemic evil thrives.

The system’s not broken; it’s built to break us, and we’re all complicit until we start connecting the dots. As I explored in “The Illusion of Expertise,” we’ve confused credentials with wisdom, compliance with intelligence.

Now we see the deadly consequences: we’re not failing because of bad experts—we’re failing because specialization itself has become the operating system of institutional evil."

We need generalists—people who refuse to be watchers in their own lives. Before industrialization, healers and polymaths wove together physical, spiritual, and social knowledge. Today, we’re consumers of expertise, not creators of understanding.

The way out is radical responsibility. Stop outsourcing your thinking. The path forward begins with recognizing that what we’ve been taught to value as ‘expertise’ has been weaponized against us. Questioning institutional narratives isn’t a sign of ignorance but a necessary act of intellectual sovereignty. When an expert tells you something, ask: Who benefits? What’s hidden? What would another field say?

They legally couldn’t have an emergency vaccine if there were treatments that would work. And so you’ve now got a motivation for demonising all of these treatments that were clearly working.

There is evidence in part 1, particularly in the sections on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, which points to viable treatments for covid being ruthlessly suppressed.

And you’ve also got, as a result of all those policy-induced deaths when we were in 2020, a lot of people [who] honestly believed that their lives were at risk. So you’ve got huge amounts of fear propaganda, a big number of deaths on a tally and the government going hell for leather saying the only way out are these vaccines. And that created what was really a cult-like atmosphere, where people were looking to the vaccines as a saviour… [as if] that was the only thing they could do to save their lives and to get out of this awful situation.

The notion of “vaccines as a saviour” reminds me of the multiple ways in which the covid era bore more than a passing resemblance to a form of religion...

It wasn’t overnight… I remember this very, very clearly, because I was in the group talking about what was going to be next, and we were saying, “Well they’re not going to give it to people who are 40, or they’re not going to give it to people who are 30… they’re not going to…” And obviously all the while we’re thinking, “They’re going for the children. They’re going to end up [going] for the children.” And actually… the first comment about vaccinating children was in mid-2020.

And then of course they did. And… honestly… I couldn’t believe that that line got crossed… There had been a crossing of line after line after line… red lines… And then they started vaccinating children and pregnant women… [I was] like, “This is… completely insane. These products are novel technology. They’ve never been used before outside of clinical trials, and you’re trying to inject the whole population for a disease that is not a threat unless you are old and sick.” ...

And then overnight… just as the vaccine [rolled] out… every single corner of the UK had a spike simultaneously… from Anglesey to the Isle of Wight to the Shetlands… all these places that were out of sync with mainland… they’re all going at once… I’ve never quite worked out how much of that was the vaccine and how much of that was changing the testing… I don’t know which one it was. But that spike was weird. ...

And every time a country rolled it out, there would be a massive spike in covid. And we literally had headline after headline… “Chile has new spike in covid despite vaccination rate…” “Hungary has spike in covid despite high vaccination rates…” It became a running joke, this same phrase being used again and again every time a country started to push the vaccines. ...

It was because, when you inject people with these jabs, they cause cells around your body to turn into spike factories and make the spike protein... And your immune system goes and attacks those cells and kills them, which is problematic in itself, but it also means your immune system is incredibly busy. And… on day 2 after injection there is a massive drop in white blood cells in your blood to… undetectable levels in some cases. ...

And surely it doesn’t take any expertise at all to see that counting people as “unvaccinated” for (say) the first two weeks after injection is fraudulent? ...

When you damage the heart, the heart cells that die can release an enzyme into the blood, and you can detect that enzyme in a simple blood test. And it matters because heart cells don’t repair. So if you lose your heart cells, that’s it for the rest of your life. You’ll end up with a scar in your heart where those heart cells were. And this didn’t really happen until boosters were being given…




... And e.g. this recent data from Norway:

https://x.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1936811873271238881




https://x.com/DowdEdward/status/1931013956761698320

The Redditor’s worst nightmare is inspiring an awkward party reaction. Of being “that guy.” Being “on the right side of history,” is his watchword. You must hold politics that align with Northrup Grumman and Exxon, and Trust the ScienceTM that emerges from huge multinational pharmaceutical interests. The ScienceTM is of course not the open study of the natural world but a set of morally-charged maxims passed down from regime institutions. It is a morality of consensus. The ScienceTM is always settled, even when it flips. Remember when Covid was a chud-coded anti-Chinese conspiracy perpetuated by Drumpf, weeks before it was the Black Plague miraculously averted by the heroic Dr. Fauci? Remember when Putin sang for Goldie Hawn, Sharon Stone and other glitterati before he became literally Darth Vader?

Covid itself was a mild sickness on par with seasonal flu. The danger was a social illusion, a corporate scam, and a government power grab. But five years later, a handful of people are still wearing masks in public. They’re not motivated by fear of getting sick. They’re motivated by a desire for significance. Wearing a mask gives them purpose; it makes them feel important. This speaks to the emptiness of modern America.

Life in America offers suffering without meaning; struggle without community; competition without camaraderie.

What’s pathetic, yet true, is that wearing a mask and the cowardly act of hiding from a gentle illness was the first time that many Americans felt any kind of adventure or fulfillment in their lives. That’s why they continue to cling to the unnecessary ritual of medical protective gear, reliving their fear.