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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

Terrific 'light bulb' moment that you had! The shoe fits, for me at least. Remarkable how little has been written or said about possible psychological motivations from the very beginning, even before the ugliness of cancel culture silenced so many hypotheses.

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100%. Bam Bam's pediatrician tried the "2 years as a clinician" flex on us as coercion. I thought to myself, thats strange since she is a pediatrician and Covid basically didn't affect healthy kids. So her perceived heroism is really her daily affirmation of girding herself against her own irrational fear which she should have been able to deduce due to her 2 years as a clinician.

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Oh, great. More armchair psychology poorly disguised as the Real Deal & what a surprise, all you sheeple falling for it. This entire newsletter is Old News.

Here: over a year ago, yet over a year into the fraud, Albertan Health Minister Deena Hinshaw ADMITTED IN COURT that Covid didn't exist https://rumble.com/vkorz0-freedom-fighter-court-victory-ends-masking-shots-quarantine-in-alberta.html.

Yet the very next week she returned to lying to the public.

Now: what "dragon" do you believe SHE told herself she was defeating by returning back to lying to the public?

There's nor "dragon to defeat" in these people's minds. It's about Conformity. They are fighting down the urge to realize that Mommy & Daddy-Government Are Lying, not dispelling any actual threat to anything but their own infantile psyche.

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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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You bring up a good point. I was hoping Dr. Stupak would mention mechanical ventilation, but he didn't. I'd love to hear his opinion on that.

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Aug 23, 2022·edited Aug 23, 2022Liked by Joel Smalley

It’s almost always inappropriate because flu / ILI / “covid19” are not obstructive lung illnesses.

Mechanical ventilation will then be nothing but harmful. Ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) is one of many ways to perish. It’s made much more likely if those attending the poor patients are inexperienced at mechanical ventilation (which is a speciality).

Patients who were desaturating were better treated with a high oxygen mask. In some patients, it can be rapidly transformative.

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I believe that MV, particularly early intubation and ventilation, was a serious medical error. For some reason, New York comes to mind. I wonder if the fear of death by Covid, induced many of the sick to rush to the nearest Emergency Department, when they would have been better off at home. Also I think the importance of oral fluids has been underestimated.

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Remdesivir mandated as the ONLY treatment in early 2020 by Fauci ( as far as I can remember ) plus the use of ventilators induced death by drowning in NY ( not sure elsewhere ) as revealed by Dr Brian Ardis. Fauci knew Remdesivir was a killer because the drug trial was pulled...and he ignored it. How he and his evil cohort can live with themselves is beyond me.

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Remdesivir was originally used for Ebola. They just can’t let a “good crisis go to waste”.

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It is truly psychopath behavior. I was in the hospital two weeks ago (scared to death of the hospital) and had an Advanced Directive notarized: NO vaccines, NO transfusions, NO Remdesivir, NO ventilator and it was put in my file. I had no choice but to trust the surgeon to save my life. And most importantly, GOD my FATHER!

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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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The same thing the Nazis did.

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Create problem - present solution.

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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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By December 2021 scientists announced we had reached herd immunity and the vax wasn't really needed. The anti-science people continued to push an experimental vax. There is no wording in the August 2021 FDA memo that says the mRNA vax was "fully approved". It simply expanded the ages the experimental vax could be given to.

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Yep, and that was four months at all before we did anything to slow the curve. And winter months. Holiday travel months. Huddling inside months. Months in which we now KNOW covid thrives. Four months of basketball games and church and going to bars and banging randoms from Tinder..........and we didn't even notice the virus.

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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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Everyday all day!

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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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Those videos were a setup by China. Nothing like that happened anywhere else, and some of the videos are laughably fake:

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-covid-years-werent-terrible-for/

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I think it could have been faked OR 5G/Direct Energy…I keep my mind open. The CCP are working on all kinds of neat little things.

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Everyday all day!

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Oh, but you were thinking logically. You were not supposed to be putting two and two together.

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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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And every time I pointed that out, people just gave me a dumb look. “Where is the flu (idiot)????” To them, 2 + 2 = 5

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Oh, great. More armchair psychology poorly disguised as the Real Deal & what a surprise, all you sheeple falling for it. This entire newsletter is Old News.

Here: over a year ago, yet over a year into the fraud, Albertan Health Minister Deena Hinshaw ADMITTED IN COURT that Covid didn't exist https://rumble.com/vkorz0-freedom-fighter-court-victory-ends-masking-shots-quarantine-in-alberta.html.

Yet the very next week she returned to lying to the public.

Now: what "dragon" do you believe SHE told herself she was defeating by returning back to lying to the public?

There's nor "dragon to defeat" in these people's minds. It's about Conformity. They are fighting down the urge to realize that Mommy & Daddy-Government Are Lying, not dispelling any actual threat to anything but their own infantile psyche.

Same as YOU all did when 1) you ignored THAT story, 2) & right now about dragging out what you've known about the fraud for months now that you see another report. You all too need to Only Admit What You Know even to yourselves when you see others doing the same. Until then, mentally & emotionally, you're all curled up in the fetal position. & even THEN, you're all still in denial. Who tf is mandating the jabs DESPITE KNOWING they're harmful?

You won't address that.

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"Covid" is nothing more than a fraudulent PCR result plus a nebulous clinical re-branding of cold, "flu" and many other disease conditions.

Covid-19 is the biggest money laundering scheme in the history of this country.

Even many "in the know" are still trapped in the virus story and the Covid merry-go-round. There was no pandemic- EVER. This is not an epidemiological story it is a crime story.

As long as "good people" continue to assert that this manufactured crisis was in fact an actual epidemiological event the ghouls that concocted this lie will have fertile ground to create the next one- which rest assured is in the pipeline.

"Covid" is the engineered destabilization of the global economy.

"COVID-19", the operation, is essentially a cover-up for systematic debt-leveraged monetary expansion.

"Covid-19", the disease, is nothing more than a disease of ATTRIBUTION to other causes.

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BRAVO!!!! 💥

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Uh-huh. & you're telling me this because...?

I outlined the UNDERLYING MINDSET BEHIND WHY anyone thinks this is real, & you're telling me why you THINK THAT people continue thinking it's real. Do you think you're agreeing with, adding to, or progressing the discussion?

Until I find at least even One Other Person mentally & emotionally able to say "We Need To Hold The Politicians Accountable," then no one will have a safe place to go to with The Truth. They will feel as if challenging Mommy & Daddy-Bully's narrative will get them in trouble & they will be correct! Isn't that right Julian Assange & Dr. Andrew Wakefield?

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I'm responding to your comment towards M Crawford.

In essence what I'm saying is that there are many of these substackers and assorted "Covid critics" (Malone, Kirsch, Berenson, Chudov, El Gato, Eugypius, McCullough etc.) who can't or won't come to terms with the fact that entire "Covid" story is a fraud.

They too are perpetuating a lie of sorts and can't come to grips with the reality that the story they have been writing/talking about for two years is false.

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Gotcha. With a minor apology though. 1) whether or not I missed that point, it's also kind of irrelevant. If We Citizens wanted to do what it took to hold the Only People Capable of mandating the jabs accountable, these reports could not possibly stop us.

& something ISA stopping people from even DISCUSSING doing that. No one feels safe enough to.

But if we WANT TO feel safe enough to, we have to CREATE a safe space that politicians could not breech. & no one is going to do that FOR us.

So, basically, everyone is hiding from the bully even when they don't have to, out of fear that "the bully is everywhere." Neither you nor I are using words that follow rhythms from the land of Algo. No humans can POSSIBLY read all the comments & pick these out.

Julian Assange, Tamara Lich, Dr. Andrew Wakefield: imagine where we'd be if ONE of these had protection from our politicians?

... and who is going to CREATE those protections FOR us? Us. Only We Can. & I can't POSSIBLY do so by myself.

So I need anyone else to speak UP! We can remove NO harmful policy UNTIL WE create protections for those who fight them. What other discussion IS there? If we have that, nothing else matters.

Is THAT clear?

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Maybe I'm wrong but my interpretation of MCs recent posts is he is at

least coming around to the

no CoV2 in the wild camp. I believe Dr Mike Yeadon is having an impact.

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Oh, well, let's sit around & allow the murder of innocent children to continue then.

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Seriously, what is the point of snipping at the heels of those fighting the enemy?

Do you seriously believe that if Malone, Yeadon, McCullough, Kory et al, all came out tomorrow and declared there's no such thing as a virus the World would see the error of its' ways?

Malone, for example, can reach many more parents to warn them of the vaccine peril from where he stands now. If he was to start by saying there is no illness - the existence of which is a fundamental belief of 99.99% of those parents - he would be dismissed as a fool in an instant.

People are fighting hard, stretched to their limits, and others are snapping at their heels declaring it's not good enough. Surely those 'others' - Michael Freed - could divert their energy to help the fight, rather than attack the fighters?

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Fighting what enemy, how? Are the Vaccines Themselves going to get upset, take their syringes & run home crying? Or are the corporations making $ from this going to cower at your social media posts & decide that the $ ain't worth it?

What is anyone doing that will Actually End the mandates? Nothing. They don't want the Mandates stopped. They want Mommy & Daddy-Government to Show They Care. & they will wait forever for that to happen.

During which time they will continue begging their authority figures to please listen to their complaints, govern them better perhaps, but never do One Thing that even MIGHT reduce their power to govern us.

If I'm wrong, then walk me through it: they make these posts. Then... then what? Since writing posts obviously does not end the mandates, cause them to end themselves or the corporations to halt them, WHAT exactly are these "fighters" actually DOING to get the mandates ended?

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That's precisely the point. You don't know 'what exactly' these fighters are doing, yet you snap at their heels on the, misguided, presumption they are doing nothing.

People are fighting at their front on a global battlefield. The ground being won, and lost, is dependent upon where and when. The momentum toward mandates, and digital passports, has largely been subdued in many fronts - at least for now. It appeared insurmountable just a few months ago.

Whilst there may have been little ground gained in your location, it is the ground gained in others that may change that over time.

These people are your friends not your foe. At the very least, they are the enemy of your enemy.

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Look at these two articles. The first one was written in April of 2020- I was tracking the CDC's ILI site daily beginning in March understanding the fraud that was unfolding.

https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2020/04/29/against-the-corona-panic-pt-vi-where-has-the-regular-flu-gone-the-cdc-reports-unprecedented-crash-in-non-covid-flu-positives-raising-questions/

Be sure to read the CODA at this piece which was a follow-up to the previous one:

https://healthfreedomdefense.org/where-did-the-flu-go/

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". . . What happened to the truth?

Come to think of it, what happened to the flu?"

1984, Lukas Lion.

https://barneyrubble.substack.com/p/the-most-truth-in-4-minutes-on-the?r=tsnpp&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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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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Yes, what you’re describing is consistent with the findings of Denis Rancourt & co.

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I first wrote about the "Covid" death toll Jan. 27th, 2021. I'll post that below. I sent it out to a group that was formed surrounding all of the various "Covid" issues. One of the primary organizers of this group described to me step by step how this improper diagnosis worked to create conditions that would lead to lots more dead bodies. I had not understood how this worked until he described it.

Around the same time I had a friend who was working in a nursing home who was forced out because he wouldn't adhere to their new "Covid" protocols. He was telling anyone who would listen that those in the home that were dying in larger than usual numbers were not dying from "Covid" as everyone was being told, they were dying from bacterial pneumonia and the mistreatment.

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I first posted this on Jan. 27th, 2021- I've learned a lot since then.

"Let's tackle the oft-cited 400,000 "covid death toll" in the US. There are several problems with this number that illustrate it's gross inaccuracy. I will cover but a few.

1) The first thing that must be addressed is "who were these people?" The average age of a "Covid death" is 80 in the US and 82 globally. What is it in New Zealand? Of those deaths they have on average 3 comorbidities. That is the global standard. The vast majority of these people were from nursing homes, assisted living, hospice etc. Was that the case where you live?

2) The faulty diagnosis of what is a "covid death" lies primarily in assessing did they die "with" or "from" Covid which is problematic for several reasons. In many cases an actual test was never done only a "presumed to be Covid" assessment was put forth. Add to this that when the tests were done PCR tests done with faulty specs (gene sequencing, cycle thresholds, annealing problems, faulty primers and so forth) were used. PCR can't diagnose anything in the first place and compounded with these problems they are useless and misleading.

3) No autopsies. Why were no autopsies done in the US? Were they done in New Zealand for "covid deaths?" Here they passed new mandates that halted all autopsies for "covid deaths" which went against decades long protocol. They also changed decades old protocol on how death certificates should be filed which is odd to say the least. This was done in March.

4) Now to where the vast majority of "covid deaths" occurred here in the US (and almost everywhere in the West- Milan, Madrid, London, Brussels, Montreal, Toronto, etc.) nursing homes et al. What we had here in the US was a radical and mandatory shift in policies relating to care homes and covid. These were mandated through state policies all over the country and resulted in a concentrated death rate for a six week period in March/April. Take that out of the equation and there is no death rate to talk about. Put (or keep) these policies in place and we will have this happen every year. I can give you the specifics on these policy shifts if you wish.

In addition to these policy shifts there was also gross negligence (beyond the usual) in these nursing homes that led to abandonment and medication alterations that turned these slow motion abattoirs into death houses. One of the remarkable things of note is that here in the US the "pandemic" was not widespread (which is suppose to be one of the defining features of a pandemic) but was in fact limited to very specific locations.

Another way they inflated death counts was through hospital admissions and faulty PCR testing. So for example if one came in with a coronary condition you would be given a "Covid test" no matter what- all admissions required this- and then if you died while in the hospital you could have been listed as a "Covid death." This happened frequently through the year.

Home deaths is yet another way that figures were cooked. This was admitted point blank by Stephanie Buehle among others (NY Health spokesperson) who stated that home deaths with no testing at all would be presumed "Covid deaths." This was mandated through the NY Health Dept."

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Yes. Pretty much all you write is what happened in all large population centres which I’m aware of.

The bottom lines?

1. THERE IS NO PANDEMIC.

2. THERE HAS BEEN NO PANDEMIC.

3. Our “health systems” have completely betrayed their hard won trust. It will never be fully repaired.

4. Every institution which we used to rely upon have collapsed.

5. A waste of time to get caught up in the existential question of viruses as a whole. I have doubts I didn’t have before, but it can’t be PROVEN.

6. I am however calling THIS specific virus. It might or might not “exist”. What it isn’t is causing massed illnesses & deaths. That’s a deception which most have fallen for. If it’s circulating at all, it’s adding nothing to morbidity & mortality. We know this not only from an adequate explanation for the deaths but crucially they lies about the age of the excess deaths. The public statistics as analysed by Denis Rancourt & co shows a complete ABSENCE of the classical signal of what we’ve called “deaths from respiratory virus illnesses”, far greater increases in deaths in the elderly than the younger.

7. The final, devastating inference is this. A large number of those on “our side of the battle” won’t accept this. Some will even attack me. Now, I don’t care about that. But it tells me that if we can’t even get our OWN SIDE to look at the evidence, we can hardly expect the rest of those in the narrative to pay attention. I can’t hide it. Point 7 has knocked the stuffing out of me.

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Aug 23, 2022·edited Aug 24, 2022

The vast majority are irrevocably convinced there is a pandemic.

Their daily observations confirm this to be 'unequivocally true'.

If our starting point in reaching them is "there is no organic problem, it is actually an orchestrated charade - an assault on humanity by a group of evil, nefarious, fiends" - we will not get past the first sentence before being shut out.

Each stratum of the prevailing psychosis must be approached with one layer of separation, or, it will simply be a bridge too far for the target to cross.

As I heard you say "if you are one step ahead of your colleagues, you are a genius, two steps and you are considered mad".

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Yes, that’s the sensation.

My point 7. is instructive.

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Maybe there is no *our side.

Just a whole bunch of smartest dudes and dudettes in the room trying to make a bunch of data that not one goddamned person on any *side believes...fit.

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Sadly, I think that’s right.

We share the certainty we’re being lied to, just not necessarily about what!

My take is EVERYTHING.

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It's the nature of the beast, Dr. Mike.

Those who rigorously try to explain the unexplainable must necessarily be *dfficult, (can't recall which term you used for Rancourt, but fact check: TRUE)

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Worth repeating. 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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Yep! And they think we’re this damn stupid (some are)! I’ve never had even a flu shot. Why would I put something in my healthy body, not to mention not trusting the government. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! I think I’ve had the flu once in 59 years. Nothing bed rest and Jewish Penicillin (chicken soup) won’t cure!

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This is exactly what happened.

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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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Do you really think that those of us who were locked up in ICU in solitary confinement for two weeks with what was called covid (notice my careful use of language), and those of us who left hospital with a developing disease that is being called long covid (again note my use of "what is called") really care much what you choose to call what we are suffering? The only time this might matter to us is if it changes the treatment for what we have experienced and are experiencing. And given we are not getting any treatment, do you think this attitude to "it's just flu" is enabling this critical neglect and abandonment of so many of us. So please, if we are suffering long flu rather than long covid, tell us how to treat it.

https://christinekent.substack.com/p/i-have-been-spiked

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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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