Thursday, June 3, 2021
Thoughts after a day reminiscing on Fauci's emails
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Fauci's FOIA emails and the sudden discovery of the fall guy
The Washington Post filed a FOIA request to recover Fauci's emails. After receiving them, they sat on the emails for many months, but now that the narrative has shifted, and COVID-mania needs to end, the emails have been released, and people are uncovering Fauci's attempts to protect his own interests rather than those of the citizens.
The Wuhan Lab Leak
When this theory came out back at the start of COVID-mania, I was less inclined to believe it. Regardless of the origin of the virus, my struggle was against lockdown-ism and the silly NPI behaviors that were destroying society en masse. But now that lockdown-ism is fading, it's time to explore in more details the origins and underlying criminality of those associated with lockdown-ism.
First up an email discussing that the genome appears to NOT be consistent with evolutionary theory, and has rather been engineered:
And an email implying that the Gain of Function work on the Bat Coronaviruses had been completed prior to the Obama Administration pause on gain of function research:
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
The world is now safe
My son is playing his band concert outside wearing a medical mask with a hole cut in it.
— Joe Colangelo (@Itsjoeco) June 1, 2021
I'm not a scientist, can someone please explain this to me? pic.twitter.com/hb2VG85fkk
After several studies, this still won't stop COVID, and no one was a super spreader.
W.H.O ends racism by re-naming virus variants
Breitbart reports that the W.H.O is debuting a new system for naming Coronavirus variants, basing the new system off of the Greek Alphabet.
They believe that rather than referring to the variants as the "British" or "South African" variants that they will avoid the "stigmatizing and discriminatory" practice of naming pathogens by their origin - which might actually convey relevant information. The new system is relayed below:
Updating this simplified table for the key properties of the major variants with their new @WHO Greek letter names via @mvankerkhove
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) May 31, 2021
There is 1 common feature for all: Vaccines Work pic.twitter.com/uGojKKmzoB
They have a handy yes/no indicator for whether or not vaccines work on the variant listed. This marker of course won't be abused at all to sell vaccine boosters, hopefully of at least fully approved vaccines. Bear in mind that the transmissibility and immune evasiveness columns are based fully on models, and only loosely on observed empirical data.
I may have been willing to think these modelers had an idea of what they are doing were it not for literally all of last year.
The new system appears to be a way of making existing viruses appear scarier than they are, especially given that each new "variant" can be only a single genetic marker off of the original. The ability to measure these things is quite phenomenal, however, the precedent has been set that each new variant - especially vaccine resistant ones (as measured by models) may result in business and life destroying restrictions until vaccination.
Indeed, despite vaccination, we now see Australia and China returning to lockdown.
Inflation Nation: Gas Prices for Memorial Day
As the Coronavirus lockdowns fade away and sanity returns to the world, the impact of the lockdowns is still being felt, and of course, denied by the Biden Administration. The Huffington Post reports:
The White House on Friday tried to assuage Americans’ concerns about rising gas prices ahead of Memorial Day weekend, saying gas prices have “stabilized” and are “well in line with what they’ve been in recent decades.”
The average cost nationally for a gallon of unleaded gas is now $3.04, according to the American Automobile Association ― the highest it’s been in seven years.
The article describes several factors leading to the rise in prices: The trucker shortage (due to high unemployment payments), increasing demand (demand returning to pre-pandemic normal levels), and notably leaves out the increase in money supply the Federal Reserve has injected into the system the past year.
Crude Oil was up 3.5% this morning.
Monday, May 31, 2021
The depersonalization of the cult of COVIDmania
As COVIDmania is wrapping up, I have spent all year looking for a resource - a study - anything that would have gone into detail about the mechanisms that had certain people responding in the way they have to the COVID propaganda. Certainly there has been a psychiatric study or exploration done, and after a year, I believe I've found it: The Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo. From the excerpt:
It is Dr. Meerloo’s position that through pressure on the weak points in men’s makeup, totalitarian methods can turn anyone into a “traitor.” And in The Rape of the Mind he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people’s minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and mental torture and coercion, and shows how totalitarian strategy, with its use of mass psychology, leads to systematized “rape of the mind.” He describes the new age of cold war with its mental terror, verbocracy, and semantic fog, the use of fear as a tool of mass submission and the problem of treason and loyalty, so loaded with dangerous confusion.
I'm about half way through the book, and it covers many of the thoughts I have already had, that the repetition of the propaganda - endless cycles of mantras like "Stay Home, Stay Safe", "Wear the d*mn mask", "We're in this together", etc are often enough to beat down even the intellectuals who resisted the initial waves of the propaganda. I myself know several doctors who have recommended wearing cloth face coverings to protect against COVID - something I think they will embarrassed by in due time. One quote of interest from the book though:
"Why has all this happened to me?" Their need for a sense of direction , for a feeling of purpose and meaning was unsatisfied, and hence they could not maintain their personalities. They let themselves go in what psychopathology calls a depersonalization syndrome, a general feeling of having lost complete control of themselves and their own existence. What Pavlovian conditioning can do in applying artificial confusion, can be done too by one shocking experience. "For what?" they asked themselves. "What is the meaning of all this suffering?" And gradually they sank dully into that paralyzed state of semi-oblivion we call depression: the self destructive needs take over.
If the shocking experience - the initial lockdown and resulting economic devastation - was not enough to convert many people, the Pavlovian repetition - the bell-ringing of all of the social distancing signs, the plastic barriers, and finally the masks, over and over again, everywhere one went, was enough to convert the vast majority of everyone else.
It also explains the strange shuffle the masked masses had. Why they wouldn't make eye contact. Why they wouldn't even stop to joke or make basic conversation. Why some of them glared at and even attacked the non-participants.
For some the suffering itself became their purpose.
COVID Confessions
Excellent Twitter thread with many personal anecdotes related to how people felt at the start of COVID-mania and some things to think about as normalcy slowly returns:
I have to make some confessions.
— NYC Angry Mom (@angrybklynmom) May 18, 2021
Last year, I was absolutely insane and I was one of those people who yelled at people outside for not wearing a mask.
It wasn't actually the virus that I was afraid of, but the lockdowns.
There was a moment at the beginning in March of 2020 where I heard someone coughing, and began to feel anxious and nervous that I might get sick. That feeling was enough for me to consider exploring in more depth why I felt that way.
That led to exploring the Imperial College model when it came out projecting 2 million deaths without lockdown. That was enough information to quickly realize that the projections were bogus. 2 million deaths is roughly twice the normal number of deaths in any given year in the USA. It would be a tremendous disaster for that to happen.
To my regret, the next model I found was the IMHE model, which also has been wrong more than not. At the time though (March - May 2020), that didn't stop me from sending that model to friends as a better model than the Imperial College model.
It became clear shortly after that, that the IMHE "scientists" were simply picking factors for mask efficiency, lockdown, etc in order to fit their model, and these assumptions changed vastly from one model release to another. I'm thankful that I found the people at PANDA and the Great Barrington Declaration to help shape my thoughts further.
I am still shocked at the events of the last year. The constitutional implications and the psychological effects the lockdowns and fear mongering have had on many of my friends. This twitter thread was cathartic, and I hope it helps people realize that it's OK to give up lockdownism in favor of liberty.
Tribute to Robert Wenzel