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The "heroism" angle is a bit of light bulb moment. I hadn't considered this as a motivating factor. That those people who believe they are fighting a lethal dragon fool themselves into believing they are doing something "heroic", and actually slaying the dragon (putting covid to bed and moving on) would lose them this image of themselves and this sense of heroic purpose. If it turns out they were just fighting a common or garden animal all along, their ego balloon would be punctured, and the cognitive dissonance too much to bear. I think this may be angle we have missed, but is an important part of the jigsaw. This also ties with the Medical Institutional Narrative of "war" - we are beating cancer, fighting this disease, etc. more generally, which allows doctors a hero or saviour complex. Conversely, one of my main piece of advice for folks with chronic illness is "reject the Medical Institutionalized Narrative, which uses the language of war such as “battling the disease” or “fighting”, and instead focus on making peace inside and out;"

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Aug 23, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

Let’s not forget that most people did not die on the streets or at home. They were taken to the hospital where they were induced into an artificial comma and given rendesevir which is a deadly concoction that has never helped anyone. What happened was sheer malpractice based on the authorities top down with doctors being helpless to be doctors and rather have to follow instructions. What happened was mass murder. Intentional for the sake of profits from a group that don’t care how many die as long as they get Cheri profit.

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“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

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Thanks, good article, important points. As a writer who had about 0% influence on anyone outside my own family and a few fellow renegades on early 2020 Twitter ( before being summarily dismissed) there were quite a few of us who understood this entire scheme undertaken to increase political control was a scam and based on an over treated manifestation of the flu and/or ranted cold/respiratory viruses. Time to increase the amount of citizen-led oversight around the planet. Revive the American Constitution.

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I recall hearing about an early CDC study which tested blood samples taken from around the country in December 2019 through early January for COVID antibodies. Test results came up positive in samples from every area in about 3% of the tests overall suggesting around 10 million Americans had already been infected and recovered; and nobody even noticed anything out of the ordinary.

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I probably had COVID based on the bizarre symptoms I had and found out about months later. I felt like I was hit by a bus. That's normal for a moderate flu. People who are young and have not had a moderate flu yet would think it's pretty bad but a normal person with good eating habits gets over it. We were all saying since at least October 2019 "It's just the flu" and we were mocked and castigated by the anti-science crowd.

Watching vaxxed loved ones get permanently disabled or even die is going to be very hard for many. I consider it a learning experience for the soul.

And now the vax is linked to an incurable prion brain disease, based on 2 studies. https://sciencenews22.substack.com/p/studies-show-the-covid-19-vax-causes

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THE COVID-19 FRAUD and WAR ON HUMANITY

" Make no mistake, we are currently being assailed by a worldwide fraud of such scale and malevolence that it threatens our very existence as we know it on this planet "

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/the-covid-19-fraud-and-war-on-humanity

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Covid = rebranded illness + murder (midazolam, ventilators, remdesivir)

That's it.

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I'm not a medical person and even I could see this wasn't a deadly plague aiming to wipe humanity from the face of the earth. Back in February/March 2020 it was clear to me that this was just another cold/flu virus which the Chinese were being weird about (videos of people collapsing) and then the Italians became hysterical about. It smelt off from the start. If "nobody has any immunity to this new virus" then how come the Chinese didn't all die - all 1 billion of them? This was a combination of things all coming together and sparking off each other. The medical profession around the world should hang their heads in shame.

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The story of the disappearance of the flu was mind-boggling. There was one plausibly thin mechanism of explaination: viral interference, with no specifics aside from there being no explanation that didn't involve mass fraud.

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The 'diagnosis' of "Covid" effectively disallowed certain protocols to be utilized while mandating dangerous protocols to be enacted that then increase the chance of mortality. There is no doubt that this protocol was designed to increase the death rate and continue to drive the fear. In the US there was use of Remdesivir, Dexamethasone, Fentanyl and ventilators. In the UK there was heavy use of Midazolam with morphine to ensure the numbers justified the panic.

With regard to adoption of a new RT-PCR protocol for hospital admissions this also falsely manufactured death statistics for "Covid." Add to this how it was incentivized-$$$$$ while hospitals are under extreme financial duress. The US hospital system had it's worst financial quarter on record in the middle of a "pandemic." Administrators were under pressure to alleviate that financial pain and exploit all openings in the CARES Act.

This all matters for several reasons. A pneumonia patient has a very good chance of surviving with correct support. However, if the patient tests ‘+’ for the non-existent pathogen an entirely different medical protocol goes into action and with this, there is little chance of survival.

In the US, particularly in The South, bacterial pneumonia is an issue and specifically amongst the poor and obese. Of note in the Summer of 2020 (and 2021) there was no return to baseline mortality rates (for the first time in recorded epidemiological history) instead there were peaks. It is also of note that antibiotic prescriptions in the US during this time dropped precipitously as these were no longer allowed due to new medical mandates via the CDC that asserted we were now treating a "viral" disease not a bacterial infection. This was massive malpractice that led to many deaths.

It is also of note the large numbers of coded "Covid deaths" (laden with fraud) listed bacterial pneumonia as a comorbidity.

None of this was accidental.

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Ah YES, there I was in late March 2020. I was looking at CDC tracking numbers (this was just before the red and black Johns Hopkins scare tracker became ubiquitous). At the time, they tracked ILI and Pneumonia death numbers. Towards the end of March, they added the new category of Covid-19. This was before they invented CLI (Covid Like Illness). Right before my eyes, in the last two weeks of March, the seasonal curves expected for ILI and Pneumonia deaths suddenly fell off a table and went to near zero. In fact, it was a nearly vertical fall. Coincidentally, the curve for "Covid-19" went from zero to a level that took up where the ILI and Pneumonia curves had tracked until then (this was not asymptotic, it was nearly vertical). I pointed out to colleagues that the CDC had simply replaced ILI and Pneumonia deaths with Covid deaths. This was a bait and switch.

Joel, even two and a half years later, this stuff gets my blood boiling.

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these guys knew what they were doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsCwPfsb7C4 here is the transcript: UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE October 29, 2019

C-Span2 Milken Institute

New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter:

Why don’t we just blow the system up?

It is obvious we just can’t turn the spigot off…

must be some way… we grow vaccines mostly in eggs

like we did in 1947

Fauci:

in order to make the transition from getting out

from the tried and true egg -growing which we know

that gives us results that can be beneficial, we know

we did well with that, to something that has to be

much better you have to prove that this works

and then you have to go through all the clinical

trials, phase one, phase two, phase three, and then

show that this particular product is going to be good

for a period of years. That alone, if it works perfectly,

is gonna take a decade.

Rick Bright HHS Biomedical Advanced Research & Development

Authority (BARDA)–Director:

There might be a need or even an urgent call for an

entity of excitement out there that’s completely disruptive

not beholden to bureaucratic strings and processes…

Fauci:

So we really do have a problem how the world perceives

influenza and it is gonna be very difficult to change that

unless you do it from within and say I don’t care what your perception is

we gonna redress the problem in a disruptive way and an iterative way

because you do need both

Rick Bright:

But it is not too crazy to think that a novel avian, an outbreak could occur

in China somewhere, we could get the RNA sequence from that, beam it

to a number of regional centers if not local, if not even in your home at some

point and print those vaccines on a patch to self administer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsCwPfsb7C4

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In April of 2020 I was communicating with one of the epidemiologists who was involved in the Great Barrington Declaration -- we had a couple of long phone discussions + multiple emails.

He told me that he had the exact same data as the WHO, CDC and other organizations and universities around the world have access to re Covid.

He had analysed it and concluded that Covid was no worse than a bad flu in terms of deaths --- a little worse for elderly people -- and less bad than the flu for young healthy people.

Many people knew early on that the plague narrative was total bullshit.

Then of course there was Knut ... one of the first to speak out

https://www.thecollegefix.com/epidemiologist-coronavirus-could-be-exterminated-if-lockdowns-were-lifted/

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It is often said that covid19 is clinically distinct IN SOME PEOPLE.

That might be so, but in order to buttress that claim, it would be important to show that the signs & symptoms which are said to be pathognomic (of covid19) do not occur in influenza-like illnesses, most of which never receive a formal diagnosis beyond “ILI”.

If the relevant signs & symptoms do occur, even rarely, in one or several ILIs, that fatally undermines the claim for a novel illness.

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Although we have many attacks on our liberty from all sides and can spend years delving into and analyzing these - the pandemic, immigration, unjust wars, economic, political, social disintegration and the like - we have no other recourse than the realistically political. We won’t be able to turn this international disaster around quickly but through shrewd political interaction and real hard working interdependence some of us may survive. Time to get to brass tacks, first principles. Our American revolutionary ancestors showed the way. America is a process. Like us not perfect but showing some promise.

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