One Giant Fraud. Justice must be done for the response to COVID-19. Our democracy depends on it.

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One Giant Fraud. Justice must be done for the response to COVID-19. Our democracy depends on it. (michaelpsenger.substack.com)

Enjoyed this fellow's perspective and thought I'd share.

“And one day … you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves.” – Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free

Two years since “two weeks to slow the spread,” life appears to have returned to some kind of normal. With a few indefensible exceptions, most pandemic mandates have been rolled back. The vaccine passes that cropped up across the western world in a wave of faddish illiberalism have largely been abandoned, at least for now, often with little pretext of an apolitical rationale. Lost in the mainstream media’s memory hole, the strict lockdowns that brought the free world to its knees in 2020 seem to many like a distant memory.

All around, artifacts of the psychosis that gripped the global psyche for two years remain. Holdouts of COVID hysteria cling to their N-95 masks, even while alone in their own vehicles, and insist that others do the same. Medical offices demand proof of vaccination and perfunctory COVID checklists upon entry. Airports, ever the bulwarks of security theatre, continue to enforce all the bells and whistles of the biomedical state. Every day, workers and students are forced out of their institutions over noncompliance with vaccine mandates.

A fanatical cult continues to preach the gospel of COVID doom, hoping that some new variant or surge in hospitalizations will again empower them to dictate the lives of their neighbors and silence all who disagree. They peddle the same circular arguments, insisting that more lockdowns and mandates are the key to preventing lockdowns and mandates, bolstered by their faith that although every policy they’ve suggested has failed, this was merely the fickle nature of an ever-changing “science.” Thus, even if they were wrong, it was the right time for them to be wrong, and their opponents, even if right, were right for the wrong reasons.

But to their consternation, despite having silenced nearly all dissent, the political will to cede more power to these apostles of failed containment policies, for the time being, no longer exists. The Zero Covid movement has been lain bare as the intellectual farce that it always was—in Australia and New Zealand, long championed as paragons of biomedical purity—and now, even more spectacularly, in China, where the horrific lockdown of Shanghai provides a glimpse into the Kafkaesque dystopia that could have been our own reality should these Zero Covid reptiles have had their way.

Lockdown proponents can’t hide from the ugly truth that excess deaths have been far higher in younger age groups, despite COVID-19 being hundreds of times deadlier for the elderly. They can’t suppress the fact that the vast majority of COVID cases are false positives, or that most “COVID deaths” are merely those who died of other causes after receiving such tests. They know the lockdowns were not in any western pandemic plan, and that they destroyed countless millions of lives while proving useless in stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Their only choice is to play dumb and hope others do the same.

One way or another, though they may not yet be willing to face it, the vast majority have realized that every COVID policy—from the lockdowns and masks to the tests, death coding, and vaccine passes—has been one, giant fraud.

Lots more good reading at link: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/one-giant-fraud?s=r

>Enjoyed this fellow's perspective and thought I'd share. “And one day … you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves.” – Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free Two years since “two weeks to slow the spread,” life appears to have returned to some kind of normal. With a few indefensible exceptions, most pandemic mandates have been rolled back. The vaccine passes that cropped up across the western world in a wave of faddish illiberalism have largely been abandoned, at least for now, often with little pretext of an apolitical rationale. Lost in the mainstream media’s memory hole, the strict lockdowns that brought the free world to its knees in 2020 seem to many like a distant memory. All around, artifacts of the psychosis that gripped the global psyche for two years remain. Holdouts of COVID hysteria cling to their N-95 masks, even while alone in their own vehicles, and insist that others do the same. Medical offices demand proof of vaccination and perfunctory COVID checklists upon entry. Airports, ever the bulwarks of security theatre, continue to enforce all the bells and whistles of the biomedical state. Every day, workers and students are forced out of their institutions over noncompliance with vaccine mandates. A fanatical cult continues to preach the gospel of COVID doom, hoping that some new variant or surge in hospitalizations will again empower them to dictate the lives of their neighbors and silence all who disagree. They peddle the same circular arguments, insisting that more lockdowns and mandates are the key to preventing lockdowns and mandates, bolstered by their faith that although every policy they’ve suggested has failed, this was merely the fickle nature of an ever-changing “science.” Thus, even if they were wrong, it was the right time for them to be wrong, and their opponents, even if right, were right for the wrong reasons. But to their consternation, despite having silenced nearly all dissent, the political will to cede more power to these apostles of failed containment policies, for the time being, no longer exists. The Zero Covid movement has been lain bare as the intellectual farce that it always was—in Australia and New Zealand, long championed as paragons of biomedical purity—and now, even more spectacularly, in China, where the horrific lockdown of Shanghai provides a glimpse into the Kafkaesque dystopia that could have been our own reality should these Zero Covid reptiles have had their way. Lockdown proponents can’t hide from the ugly truth that excess deaths have been far higher in younger age groups, despite COVID-19 being hundreds of times deadlier for the elderly. They can’t suppress the fact that the vast majority of COVID cases are false positives, or that most “COVID deaths” are merely those who died of other causes after receiving such tests. They know the lockdowns were not in any western pandemic plan, and that they destroyed countless millions of lives while proving useless in stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Their only choice is to play dumb and hope others do the same. One way or another, though they may not yet be willing to face it, the vast majority have realized that every COVID policy—from the lockdowns and masks to the tests, death coding, and vaccine passes—has been one, giant fraud. Lots more good reading at link: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/one-giant-fraud?s=r

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