A little earlier today, my colleague Nick Arama posted on a Washington Post editorial about the futility of mask mandates, see WaPo Finally Says It: ‘Mask Mandates Didn’t Make Much of a Difference Anyway’ If this sounds a little strange given the fights raging across the nation, and the so-called Western world, about mask mandates, it should. It should be strange, even by Washington Post standards.
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 12, 2022
What does this story have to do with the Washington Post?
The hallmark of the so-called public health information associated with COVID, going back to the earliest days of the “pandemic,” professed a certainty with which we were all obliged to go along on pain of public ridicule.
Look at early models that predicted disease spread. These models, now proven to be so wildly inaccurate that they don’t merit the term “guesses” much less that of “models.” Note that the purveyors of those “models” have suffered no professional or financial or penal (yes, I think Neil Ferguson and everyone on his team should be serving life-without-parole in a forced labor camp above the Arctic Circle) consequences, their models are still quoted, and we are still supposed to take them seriously.
A quick look back and we soon have an extensive list of things that were fed to us as “facts” and have since been proven wrong. Here’s an example:
Masks. We’ve been told to wear a mask, don’t wear a mask, wear two masks, wear masks when walking through restaurants but not when sitting. Dr. Anthony Fauci, COVID expert, pooh-poohed the idea and insisted that everyone wear masks. We still have the paradox of schools requiring that masks be worn, while school sports events are not.
To all the people saying “but Ellen is outdoors” please explain why these kids are the only ones who have to wear masks outdoors at the superbowl. pic.twitter.com/DH2nie78iQ
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) February 14, 2022
Deep-cleaning. Remember when we were pestered to ensure we washed all the stuff we bought at the store and stores closing early to “deep-clean” the facilities. Bogus. Each and every last drop of this was not only absurd at that time but was also known to us as bogus once it was needed.
Rarely is there any symptoms. Now we’re told that the spread of the virus by people who are asymptomatic is common. What is the truth?
You will be protected by the vaccine. This statement was modified so that you will only be protected from some aspects of the virus. In the process, the very definition of “vaccine” has been changed. The Ministry of Truth will make sure you don’t forget this.
The vaccine that revolutionized vaccination pic.twitter.com/GXIblxP1Al
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) February 5, 2022
Social distancing. To identify our proximity to others, stripes were placed on six-foot high floors in stores across the nation. However, there is no proof to prove that six feet was anything but an arbitrarily chosen number. Six-foot Social Distancing has come out of the woods, but the real story about how we got here in the first place is the Six-Foot Story.
Super-spreader events. These events were known to us. None have been identified to date (As the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Begins the Same Tired People Make the Same Tired Apocalyptic Claims That It Is a ‘Superspreader’ Event). Last year’s Super Bowl was not one (Super Bowl Was Not a ‘Superspreader’ Event, Creating a Sad in the Pandemic Porn Industry), this year’s Super Bowl won’t be one, either.
A deranged group of maskless truckers & extremists recklessly flaunted mask mandates at #SuperBowlLVI pic.twitter.com/7id6MkBDfP
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 14, 2022
It’s only a small selection. I’m sure you can come up with a lot more.
It is interesting that this windsock constancy is combined with a conscious attempt to squash competing, or even neutral information.
The government and its social media lackeys have spent an extraordinary amount of energy suppressing “misinformation” about the virus even though much of the “misinformation” has been proven correct. In fact, we now know that the “scientists” leading the national COVID response, primarily NIH Director Francis Collins and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, coordinated a campaign to discredit and professionally malign accomplished scientists who disagreed with the direction the US government was going.
The “with” versus “from” dodge. From the very beginning, public health officials have taken heroic efforts to ensure that no one can conduct an independent analysis of what is going on with the “pandemic.” The central feature of this is the deliberate obscuring of the numbers of people who have died or been hospitalized “with” COVID that is, they meet the flabby federal guidelines for classifying a case as COVID or “from” COVID, meaning that COVID was the proximate cause of death or hospitalization. This has resulted in deaths from gangland shootings, car accidents, and drug overdoses being classified as “from” COVID. The current reimbursement scheme for hospitals encourages to classify patients as having COVID because they are compensated at a higher rate for regular and ICU admissions “with” COVID. This all serves to make it virtually impossible to independently verify the severity of the “pandemic” because the best data to evaluate the “pandemic” do not portray the direct impact of the disease.
We can only choose one explanation. Either we are ruled by f***ing idiots, and, as you know, I’m open to that argument (PODCAST: Moore to the Point With Susie Moore – Ep. 5 – Conversation With Streiff on Elite Incompetence), or we are seeing a concerted effort by our self-declared elites to eliminate all public resistance to doing what they are told.
If you’ve followed my writing on this subject, you know that I’ve long contended that there are two things at work in the “pandemic” response. First, a bureaucratic voraciousness that seeks to increase power. The bureaucracy has tried, successfully in many places, to create a “public health” exception to the US Constitution. Although the exception was originally intended to address the First Amendment, it now includes the ability to act as a shadow legislative to create rules and penalities for those who do not comply without legislating. Second, population control. The government’s non-stop dissemination and misinformation, as in 1984, is in service of this second goal. The people making these policies, in my view, don’t really care if they are effective or not. These people only want you to follow them. From this standpoint, Fauci’s no-mask-one-mask-two-mask tap dance is much more effective than a firm science-based policy (i.e. Masks are stupid) was declared on Day One. He forces his loyalists into a state of mental disarray to back his claims. These announcements are part of the same group. A year ago, the government told us that vaccines would allow us to go back to normal. This has, however, not been true. To maintain current vaccination effectiveness, it is now possible that booster shots may be required, sometimes three to four times per year. The people who mindlessly crowed the “one vaccine” message have now morphed, shamelessly, to mouth the “booster” message.
Let’s just say that I think the self-anointed elites of society are more evil than stupid. You have to make mistakes, but not be dishonest. That’s the cost of dealing with people. These massive and uncorrected errors, which are often repeated by the same agency within just a few weeks, without any apology or explanation and coupled with government use of social media and the government’s ability to suppress information is a sign of something far more sinister. All of these actions, taken together by the part of the government responsible for public health policy in the last two-years raises the question: “If they were focusing on the destruction and not the saving of lives, what would they do different?”
These happenings over the past two years bring to mind George Orwell’s prescient novel 1984.
The key plotline in 1984It is a routine practice by the government to change facts, and force the populace to follow the changes or risk being punished. The government has a 15-day deadline to stop the spread rally. At this point the crowd is quickly informed that Oceania does not have a war against Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war against Eastasia, and Eastasia is the new enemy. The government’s philosophy was, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Contradictory information production is not considered a crime by Big Brother. It is simply a way to exert social control. To live without punishment you must internalize the information and accept it as fact.
We’re seeing a page ripped out of 1984Applied to our society. Once they’ve signed on to repeating the government mantra du jour and bullying family members, associates, and random strangers (or, in Canda, Australia, and most of Europe, reporting them to law enforcement) to force compliance there is no going back. They are rewarded for their lack of integrity by the government and have less restrictions placed on their lives. These people are modern-day. Kapos and Sonderkommandos. They have become the regime’s enforcersAnd informers amplifying the reach and power of the government into every home, school, business, and relationship.
This post was last modified on February 14, 2022 4:05 pm
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