What moment, person, article, video or event helped you wake up and realise that the Covid narrative was fundamentally untrue? It well could have been several of these. Post links if you want, they may help others.
I am curious about people’s different journey’s, and hoping others are interested too.
This is my first Substack thread discussion. I hope to do more.
I was lucky to read two articles in March 2020 that helped me wrap my head around the basics. Seeing the exaggerations and untruths after that fairly easy and my skepticism of MSM was set.
One by Nic Lewis that ran through the Princess Diamond data
Well, in relation to the vaccination narrative at least, it was definitely my Dad's vaccine injury. Extremely severe, occurred after the second shot. It's basically been gaslighting by the medical establishment at every turn since, including by Dad's long term GP. No help is offered, no treatment, no answers (they don't appear to know what to do about it) and the vast majority of them appear extremely afraid to even call it a vaccine injury. I don't think any of these Doctors (or hospitals on two occasions) have ever reported the injury to the TGA . Sadly, after an appointment with a specialist (the only one of the many doctors Dad has seen who has been honest enough to call it what it is - a vaccine injury), he telephoned an immunologist friend of his, who confirmed there are others in our city suffering the exact same type of injury as my Dad. But nonetheless the Australian government are out there all day, every day, with the same clearly false narrative - the vaccines are 'safe and effective'. After this, I don't know how our family could ever be expected to trust anything the Australian Government says, ever again.
I sort of accepted first lockdown. We’d gone from our home in Belgium to Scotland for our daughter’s wedding mid-March 2020. Of course the wedding didn’t happen and we got stuck for 6 weeks. I thought it all a bit over the top and the restrictions annoying but it wasn’t until the summer when things seemed better but then in Belgium masks were introduced that I started thinking.
I then started looking at the data and thought what is everyone so afraid of? I’m older but have a good immune system - I wasn’t worried and took the attitude that it was just one more risk out of many in life. I couldn’t see why we were upending our lives for a virus which wasn’t going to cause many more deaths than a bad flu. I could see and imagine the harms that lockdowns were doing and then we got the incessant news about vaccines.
Around September I could see exactly where we were heading. I knew Gates wanted an adult vaccination campaign and I knew the EU had plans for vaccine passports years ago. Both these were things of my nightmares being someone who has always stored great importance on being in charge of my own health. It wasn’t a stretch to see that this was part of a plan to change the way we all lived beyond recognition.
I still hope that more will wake up to where we’re heading but fear that the behavioural psychologists have been too good.
I said to my husband last year that it would all morph into climate change and here we are.
When they started off with the Italy lockdown last March, I looked at the Euromomo overall mortality data for that country and immediately sensed that something was not adding up.
Then came the Diamond Pricess cruise ship - a perfect 'Petri dish' environment, with predominantly old people crammed into a relatively small space for an extended period. This showed just how deadly - or rather not - this virus was.
After that it was pretty easy to see, for this one survivor of a communist country, just how very 'deja-vu' the political response was.
If you've lived in a totalitarian system once, like I have, you will know its likes pretty much as soon as the first signs start to appear.
And yes, the only way out of this is to NOT COMPLY.
Ignore the mandates. Don't wear masks. Try to be respectful to those who have fell into the Covidian cult, and remember that at least some of them may still be rescued and join our side, especially as more and more people are now beginning to know someone who has died or has had severe negative reaction from the 'jab'.
Intriguing question! My husband and I were suspicious from the outset, so it was just a journey of accumulating more and more evidence to support our hypothesis that this was a manufactured Reichstagian crisis being used to justify introducing a state of emergency and subsequent authoritarian measures.
Same thing happened on 9/11. We were listening to NPR [insert prayers for penance here] on the way to work when we heard the announcement of the first plane crashing into the WTC. My husband’s first words were, “What did they do.”
My original career and undergraduate degrees were all in chemistry. I was a science nerd beginning in my preteen years. My first professional job involved chemical research in a major chemical corporation. Therefore, in addition to numerous other perspectives and thinking models, the scientific method and research methodologies were always and still are an intrinsic component of my personality and worldview.
In the earliest days of COVID-19 gaining traction in the media I initially naturally remained extremely openminded because if indeed this was a major health concern, then I wanted to be fully informed. However, I quickly began to notice that many aspects of what was being propagated in the news media and from our national health officials and politicians struck me as being highly over-reactive. This immediately made me suspicious, prompting me to perform significantly more research on my own. This involved speaking with experts in the mainstream media and the conventional medical establishment. Additionally, I sought experts NOT so affiliated with the mainstream media and the conventional medical establishment.
As a scientifically trained person, it was not difficult for me to evaluate various opinions on the subject. A real clincher was when they started talking about manufacturing vaccines within a matter of a couple years to as little as several months. Upon hearing all that, everything within my being screamed THIS IS WRONG! I simply knew too much about how vaccines have been developed and the absolutely essential requirement for the animal studies, long-term experiments, testing, clinical trials, and data collection. From that moment forward I just knew something was horrifically wrong in this approach. I became convinced that the mainstream media was in collusion with many of our national governmental institutions as they all lied to the public.
Simultaneously, I was able to locate an increasing number of extremely intelligent and well-credentialed doctors, scientists, and other experts that produced reports and studies that exposed the COVID lies. The manner in which all the regular media outlets suppressed or censored these reports and studies was clear evidence to me of the COVID lie.
In addition to all the above, I also experienced an extremely powerful event that I could not ignore. In those earliest days of COVID-19 gaining traction in the media, my own trained intuition simply told me that this mainstream media message and the support of the conventional medical establishment were both based on a fallacy. Or as Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his seminal book, Blink, my "thin-slicing" was telling me a very different story.
When government launched a full court press to block access to hcq even though the CDC's own research showed hcq was effective at preventing and treating coronaviruses.
I knew it was false right away. A year back they pushed hard in Cali to get rid of exemptions and mandate vaccines for school children using manufactured measles outbreaks. It was an extremely expensive endeavor for pharmaceutical companies. So, the pandemic was created so they could blanket U.S. under EUA and FEAR. All common sense, logic and science went out the window. I also saw the documents outlying the action steps they would take to control the populations. It was written in 2011. It’s called Lockstep. They were always counting on the ignorance of the populace.
I knew the swine flu, avian flu, and all the others were false fear mongering, so I just figured this one was going to be like the rest of them, here today and gone tomorrow, oh well...
I started to become skeptical around the end of April 2020, after 6 weeks to flatten the curve in NYC. I saw an interview with Sunetra Gupta pretty early on that influenced my thinking. Chris Martenson was my go-to source at the very beginning of the Covid craze, but his position was slow to evolve. Not sure when I began to read CHD & Mercola, but for at least a year now. Didn’t get turned on to substack until maybe six weeks ago, though I read Berenson’s slim volume on the vaccines in Spring of this year
The reaction of my local government (Macedonia) with implementing the lockdown measures immediately back in March 2020 - such efficiency, precision, alignment, and execution has never been its attribute. So, I knew something stunk big time. The Hollywood style propaganda, the booklets and the leaflets for social distancing. It didn't take long after that to discover GoF research, surveillance state mechanisms, and every other lie that accompanies this incredible war on the body, heart, and the mind.
I am a former lab Scientist with a specialist in Immunology. After they said it was a Corona virus, and knew it entered via ACE2 Receptor, none of the measures made sense , except the time to shore up healthcare facilities/staff. A respiratory virus is going to do what it does best, spread.
When my Sister in law, a nurse, said in early 2020 that all the ICU covid patients were diabetic and/or obese, I KNEW 1000%, that those at risk are insulin resistant,either diagnosed or undiaganosed and I knew my immune system was operating properly, as I corrected insulin resistance through a cancer clinical trial in 2017 who recommended I eat low carb.
I used minimal NPI, as I believe limiting oxygen is unhealthy and we have known for decades that masks don 't work for viruses IN THE COMMUNITY setting.
ACE2 receptors are upregulated in Insulin Resistant people, ACE2 receptors are in high quantity in adipose/visceral fat tissue.
First of all, I rarely trust any government narrative. I have never fundamentally believed they have my interest in mind.
Second my gut told me the anecdotes weren’t adding up to the data.
Then I saw the Ionnadis data on infection fatality rates. Which made me go back and read the March 26 NEJM article by Fauci, Lane and Redfield that actually said.
“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.” Hmm. Imagine that.
Then in summer, I started to compare Mar/Apr to other pandemics, not one or two years back, but decades back. There were certainly precedents more dangerous than 2020. And the Euromomo data basically confirmed that after Mar/Apr, this probably technically didn't even qualify as a "pandemic" any more (without torturing the definition).
When Trump made the fatal error of giving the blueprint for governors to shut down the country, and put the proverbial fox in charge of the henhouse by making career bureaucrats like Fauci and Birx the heads, and shutting out private enterprise and frontline doctors, the writing was on the wall. Fools errands like masking, social distancing and hand washing were all you heard about. Trump instructing private enterprises to start churning out ventilators, like they were churning out ammunition during wartime. All to win popular support.
Then you saw the hyped up stories of emergency rooms supposedly overrun…only to find out they were faked. The temporary facilities being put up by many municipalities (or the 70,000 to Navy hospital ship Trump brought into New York City) went unused.
Then saw a few things like the media attacking Trump for his comments on HCQ, as I dug deeper I started to find the stories of physicians who were proactively treating this with several different therapies -- as opposed to sending people home untreated until they could come back to be put on a ventilator and die.
Once the propaganda for Warp Speed started, the end game was crystal clear to me. And the steamrolling through the safety data combined, and the bans and demonization of the effective therapies confirmed what was happening in spades.
Then the data from Israel and Britain was astounding.
And the steamroller continues to roll down the hill.
Sit down, have an ice-cold corona, close your eyes and think of Wuhan!
It was Trump's triumph in 2016 - still the legit POPTUS - who got me into reading and debating with the birds.
When rowuhan was finally recognised as being present in Australia in March 2020, being unread in "science" and naive, reading what appeared on the bird was initially frightened and hapless. Being job before then, I put in 10 hours, every day reading on the bird. Some bravely claimed it was just a flu for 80% of the people. I searched "coronavirus" on the bird. Kept reading and searching. I remember one supermarket staff, seeing my concern "said you will be right".
My earlier birds did not quite ring a bell with me. I kept searching and reading. Gradually, I came across some accounts which spoke truly. I looked at their follows and retweets and dug into those accounts. THEN MY EYES WERE OPENED! I was gobsmacked to see how that govts, the medical establishment, media, academics and big pharma were lying to me! One obvious proof to me was this: since it was a medical, scientific matter, why would there be a POLITICAL division over party lines - Dems vs Rs? I knew that anything the corrupt dems pushed was corrupt.
Reading my trusted birds opened my eyes and they have been educating me ever since.
(I tried to my readings on Gab, others, and now GETTR and Telegram. I regret that during the first few months I was so engrossed and self-absorbed, I forgot to share my readings. I have since made up for that oversight!)
These were/are my birds - not in any order (some were discovered later than others):
Daniel Levitt - son of MLevitt_NP2013. He was very vocal back mid 2020 until he deleted his account. He endorsed the Swedish strategy
Dr Shiva - the political nemesis of Pocahontas and the inventor of the email - who taught me the importance of maintaining our immune health via vitamins A, C, and D in particular.
Of course, there were/are other MDs quoted by my birds.
The interesting about "my" birds is that they focus on parts of the whole scams only. Proving yet again that we need to widely in order to get a comprehensive picture. One glaring omission is that they hardly mentioned the effective, safe and affordable meds like ivermectin, hcq, etc - which the covid19crusher specialises in.
Of course, I don't read all of them now. However, I've bookmarked to remember them. Only to discover some have since been suspended!
We were suspicious from the start - when the MSM started reporting that this thing was deadly, we started questioning. We have a family history of vaccine injury, so elected not to inject our children with anything, so we've been in an outside position since prior to the No jab no play rules in various Australian states. So as soon as the MSM and governments start going on about something like this we start looking at the motives, and it very quickly became obvious that the fear was being manufactured. This became even more obvious when the injections started rolling out, as they were obviously NOT as safe as claimed. It certainly doesn't help when we're seeing published, peer-reviewed, articles where anyone with half a brain can see the the data doesn't support the conclusions.
On a more personal, rather than familial, level, I'm also a student of history, and the parallels between what the governments and MSM are doing and the activities of inter-war Russia and Germany (in particular) were obvious to me from the very beginning, although it was a lot more obvious when they started forcing people to 'check in' everywhere they went in the name of 'contact tracing'. Living where I do I don't actually go out very often, so as far as the powers trying to trace my movements know, I haven't been anywhere in the past 4 months, and prior to that the only place I went was my work. As I may actually have to go into places in the near future I think I need to learn how to write Iosef Stalin in Cyrillic, and Cyrillic numerals...or just rely on the fact that my handwriting has been described as 'an ant dipped in ink wandering aimlessly across the page'
No one thing in particular, I work in risk so I knew this was bs a long time ago. I found the Dr Reality Podcast to be really informative and straightforward
As someone who grew up around people who worked in public health and preventive medicine, I didn't need a wake up call. Knew from the get-go that this was a load of bovine fecal matter.
I am a recently retired anesthesiologist in Northern California. Since retiring, I have had a lot of time to keep current on pandemic issues. I would say that Ivor Cummins's Twitter posts led me to download the manuscript by Robert Hope-Simpson describing the seasonality of influenza epidemics which seems quite applicable to case curves reported around the world. Before severe Twitter censorship, one could read reports from practicing physicians in various countries having little effective treatment discovering repurposed drugs like Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Fluvoxamine among others, and finding them very efficacious when started early in the clinical course of COVID, keeping their patients out of hospital. Most of these Drs have very little reason to lie about their results. I have been used to discussing new techniques with colleagues and adopting these into my practice, keeping things that worked, and discarding things that didn't. It has been the greatest disappointment of my medical career to see a large cohort of my colleagues dismissing treatment that works, often in very medically underserved communities, also governments forbidding the use of safe drugs with promise, even to the extent of episodes like the withdrawn Lancet study seemingly purposefully designed to discredit the use of Ivermectin. Vaccine effectiveness waning has only solidified my opinion that we need adjunctive drugs in addition.
I've been a vaccine skeptic for about a decade, was already subscribed to Mercola and CHD. I would LOVE there to be a safe and effective COVID vaccine so we could be done with it, but it's been obvious to me from the get-go this wasn't going to be the case. The silver lining on this cloud is how much this has opened people's eyes to vaccines and Big Pharma in general. I hope more, many more, awaken soon.
Knew about yearly flu shot problems, but the constant red flags thrown by msm and governments health officials that keep on denying care in favour of deadly jabs that are not true va cc ines….. so many lies as opposed to true heroes, the virologist immunologists and other brave doctors and nurses raising the alarm on internet while elitists keep trying to obliterate them in favour of their own agendas
Marcia Angell in New York Review of Books 2004 and 2009 - The Truth About the Drug Companies - these articles aroused my total distrust and suspicions about BigPharma so when the pandemic hit there was no delay in seeing what the story was. Yet another scam, no doubt in my mind.
We live in a reddish state in the Southeastern US. When the news first came out in March 2020 that 2-2.5 million ppl would die by September, I thought, "Wow... that's a bummer. But 2-2.5 million over 6 months is 4-5 million annualized. In a country of 360 million... that's about 1.5% of the population. That will be sad... but, really... what are you going to do? Pandemics happen." The idea of shutting down our entire society over a death rate of 1-1.5% of the population was absolutely unfathomable to me- and insanity to anyone with any kind of grip on reality and context of life & death. Then, they started talking about hospitals overflowing and flattening the curve. It never made sense to me that we need "2 weeks to flatten the curve"... because then what? Surely they know that when they open back up after 2 weeks- the "curve" will spike again. It never made sense... but I didn't want hospitals to overflow... so I posted on FB for my friends, "Come on, guys - just 2 weeks - we can do this." (Please forgive me - it was the first & only time I supported this nonsense.) It seemed insane, but surely "the experts" know what they're talking about & we must do this, right? By the time Easter rolled around, I think I was basically in shock. My family & I are devout, Bible-believing Christians, and the idea of the CHURCH staying closed on the holiest day of the year- over an upper respiratory virus- was mind-boggling. I homeschool the kids & my husband works from home so our lives were minimally disrupted. But we made our weekly pilgrimages to the grocery store & Lowe's. What struck me in the grocery store was the fear in everyone's eyes - it was surreal. What struck me about Lowes was that we had to drive past a Mom & Pop patio furniture store - which was closed because it wasn't essential - and we would drive to Lowes which was absolutely packed day after day - in order to purchase all kinds of miscellaneous things, including patio furniture. Over the summer of 2020, although our lives were mostly unaffected by the day-in-day-out of "lockdowns" - it still broke my heart that all of my children's wholesome activities (ballet, sports, camps, etc) were shut down ... and OUR CHURCH WAS STILL CLOSED (live-streaming every week, of course)... but we would watch local news channels out of LA, Chicago, New York, etc... watching night after night of riots, looting, arson, violence on police officers, etc. The contrast was so stark from the freedoms of law-abiding citizens vs law-breaking citizens- it was nauseating. So definitely, by May/ June of last year, the gig was up in my mind. Then, June 24th hit... my mom was rushed to the ER for trouble breathing. My mom was in poor health... but one could seriously argue that 3-month's worth of lockdowns made her conditions much worse. Despite her health history & us have no reason to believe that Mom had Covid... the doctor was a Covid hammer looking for a Covid nail. He stuck her in the Covid-wing of the ICU (where no visitors are permitted) - while we awaited test results. Go back & check your news feed from late June/ early July of last year. Everyone & their brother were rushing out to get a Covid test at the first sign of a sniffle by their cousin twice removed. So all of the labs were backlogged.... by hundreds of thousands if not millions of tests. Including my Mom's. My mom lay strapped to a bed, strapped to machines - with no one around her for emotional support - and the only medical staff around were dressed in space suits and treated her like a disease-carrier - while we waited day, after day, after day, after day for results. All total - it took 7 days for us to get the results back on the first test- which was negative. But the doctor didn't believe it- so he sent off for a 2nd test (fortunately, the results on this one didn't take as long.) The whole time... my father & I were begging to be let in to sit with her & give her comfort - but they would not allow that until she got moved to the non-Covid wing... and she wouldn't get moved until the doctor had enough negative tests to satisfy him. Three. Three was the lucky number of negative tests in my Mom's case. We received the 3rd negative test on Day 9 and we couldn't wait to get her moved so we could be with her. My dad - her husband of 52 years - had been prevented from being from my Mom this entire time for "his safety." But guess what? When we got the go-ahead from doc to get her moved... there were no open beds in the NON-Covid wing of the ICU. Yep. You read that right. There was a waitlist of people to get moved to the NON-Covid ICU wing... while they held beds open in the Covid ICU wing "just in case." FINALLY - on Day 10, my Mom got moved. And we were FINALLY able to get in to see her. Have you ever seen anyone who has been on a ventilator for 10 days? The only thing left for us to do by then was to make the decision to pull the plug. When she went into the hospital, she was struggling to breathe, but was still coherent & communicative. Ten ventilated days later, she was basically a vegetable. Oh yeah - shoving everyone & their brother on a ventilator was pretty common Covid protocol last summer. And oh yeah - she didn't have Covid. My Mom passed peacefully on July 10, 2020. She spent her last several cognizant days on earth in the most inhumane and incompassionate circumstances you can imagine. Again, I am a devout follower of Jesus Christ (as was she) and I rejoice that she is fully healed now. But it was gut-wrenching to realize that the very people who are supposed to be caring for our health - have no idea what it is to be human & the importance of companionship at the most vulnerable times of our lives. To realize that those who hold the power of "healthcare" over all of society are thoroughly convinced that *the* one and only most important thing in life is to avoid an upper respiratory virus - is frightening & dystopian. Sorry for the long-winded story answer to your pretty straight-forward question. The whole experience has been dystopian. And I keep wondering when the adults are going to take charge again. Meanwhile, the US only recently crossed the 700k death rate (don't get me started on the number- I'm just using the number they give for simplicity). At 700k over approx 20 months... that's approx 420k annualized... not quite the 1-1.5% of our population that they tried to scare us with. And not a single intervention by any local, state, or federal government has done anything to meaningfully change the trajectory of the virus. Every life is precious. And... pandemics happen.
I always like to thank you first and foremost. Everything you have written has assisted me to make so many significant decisions regarding my family in these unprecedented times.
Ok…so what your asking is when did the penny drop? U mean when did I realise that a steady supply of KY was needed on a daily basis as a result of how royally we were getting Fucked over!
Geez…what a vast array of flavours to choose from, this is tough. One of my better character traits is my decisiveness, but you’ve got me here..
Now I understand whats going on in that perplexed individuals mind at Messina ice cream. When I’m standing behind them and fuck me they want to try every colour of the rainbow!
After racking my brain in the AM hours of my insomnia celebrated daily existence. I’ve narrowed it down to TWO WTFUCKS?!
The Sydney Flight Crew Fiasco:
I’m sure your esteemed subscribers are well versed in what transpired, so no need revisit this chapter blow by blow. But it’s safe to say this should have been reported as the Flight Crew Fuck Up and not the Bondi cluster. The poor old Uber driver was the pariah of society, while Gladys and the Gang kept on keeping on!
I mean this wasn’t their first Rodeo!
The Ruby Princess debacle still wasn’t out of the review mirror. No investigation, No reprimand for government, No accountability..
The narrative conveniently steered in another direction by MSM and the sleeping people remained in a spell. This is when, without a shadow of a doubt, I knew that the media and government were in bed together.
1.5mtr rule:
Aghhhh! I can’t even say this without laughing!They should have been parachuting in tape measures with all of the other essential safety items! Dettol, toilet paper, masks…
Remember that scene from
“ Empire of the Sun”….
Only a kid Christian Bale, but we already bloody knew he was going to be a master craftsmen.
Apologies lost track. So what if I am 1.58mtrs away? I take it I’m safe? Are we to believe that our Corona particles are so snobby that they only travel within our 1.5mtr radius?
Does this stipulation take in all the mitigating factors? Wind direction? Humidity? Garlic consumption? Persons animation when expressing oneself?
I’m not alone when I say I’ve been on the receiving end of many a mates meal when they are revving mid speech. Projectiles a plenty, I could be 5mtrs away and this fucker gets me in the eye with a piece of chewed lamb!
No word of a lie!
Also…I watch a lot of Golf as I don’t mind a flutter with my hard earned on this great game. Me sits there thinking, look at the amount of thought that goes into what can happen to a golf ball in flight due to the conditions. Thing is.. even when they nail their shot, the ball still don’t behave the way they calculated. But the experts will have us believe our verbal discharge can be predicted and controlled as long as we simply keep 1.5mtr from each other! Cause you know, that’s what the science says…
Where I live, they cut off our access to nature parks and beaches and stopped people with RVs from going out camping. Then they started pushing vaccines on people who were not at risk, and lying about the evidence. Then I started hearing about a lot of elders in care homes dying en masse just after getting the jab, where there had been no covid outbreak at all beforehand. I still have not met anyone who got covid but I know several who have been injured by the jabs.
The first day of lockdown, March 17, 2020 here, I remember feeling firstly that we were absolutely delusional to think we could control a virus, and secondly, that we were entering some type of dystopian world. Every scrap of science I absorbed and immersed myself in after that day served to legitimize my initial response. I believe many people had a similar experience.
Well, I thought something was off from the beginning when we were going into lockdown, because I thought that was insane and would harm more than it would help. And I am the last person to put money before people - I probably need to care a little more about money tbh. I’ve also always had a pretty sound trust in the government (Australia). But then after I saw the Chinese videos of people supposedly falling down dead I figured, well ok it must be worse than I think, like Ebola level bad.
So I had time in lockdown and did research. And I began to see it wasn’t as bad as the hype implied when I looked at the data. So again I was thinking these lock downs were mad… and why were all the governments doing the same mad things …and i forget the order, but two things started to really get me there.
One was seeing dr Pierre Kory’s impassioned plea to US Congress and how he was treated by Democrats there (suspicion of some right wing plot), and then how that was censored on YouTube and that ivermectin was actually banned in the officially YouTube guidelines. The second was finding out, on Australian Sky News (well before it was discussed in the US) that Fauci and co had funded the research in wuhan.
Then things like the fake Lancet papers and Event 201 really just hammered it home.
Major Influential sources for me have been Brett Weinstein’s podcast early on, The last American vagabond, James Corbett report, and recently Alex Berenson snd el Gato Malo on sub stack.
I too was suspicious after seeing the videos coming out of China, especially since Facebook wasn't operating in China. I lived with the lockdown narrative for a couple of weeks, then once Ivor Cummins in Ireland started analysing the data, I realised we were being conned. Then when Prof Borrody (Australia) (a hero of mine because of him finding out the root cause of stomach ulcers) said that his research showed that Ivermectin was a possible treatment only for that to be suppressed, that did it for me. I said to a buddy at the time - around late April 2020, that this will morph into climate change. Dr Mike Yeadon was next up with his warning "Your government is lying to you" and then Dr Malcolm Kendrick with his blog sealed the deal.
When the "2 weeks to flatten the curve" appeared to be successful but restrictions continued. Then the narrative quickly shifted from deaths to "cases". The death counts didn't track with the increasing "case" counts.
In Feb20, I started to follow a French thinktank including some top scientists already censored by MSM. On the 24th of March (!!!) 2020, they wrote: "Actual mortality, as I announced in a previous paper, must be at 0.3% at most, and probably even lower. That is less than a tenth of the first figures announced by the WHO."
And then I watch the world dive into mass hysteria.
Since then they've produced an enormous amount of research.
Also Prof. Raoult (h-index 180+) and his team of professors/researchers in their world leading research institute (IHU Marseille) have produced the highest number of research papers in the world. They have a YouTube channel with weekly pandemic updates and analyses + all sorts of conferences on the subject. Fascinating.
I was lucky to read two articles in March 2020 that helped me wrap my head around the basics. Seeing the exaggerations and untruths after that fairly easy and my skepticism of MSM was set.
One by Nic Lewis that ran through the Princess Diamond data
https://judithcurry.com/2020/03/25/covid-19-updated-data-implies-that-uk-modelling-hugely-overestimates-the-expected-death-rates-from-infection/
And the other was an article by a Scottish doctor, Malcolm Kendrick who explained QALYs to me and how public health is meant to work
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/03/29/a-health-economic-perspective-on-covid-19/
Well, in relation to the vaccination narrative at least, it was definitely my Dad's vaccine injury. Extremely severe, occurred after the second shot. It's basically been gaslighting by the medical establishment at every turn since, including by Dad's long term GP. No help is offered, no treatment, no answers (they don't appear to know what to do about it) and the vast majority of them appear extremely afraid to even call it a vaccine injury. I don't think any of these Doctors (or hospitals on two occasions) have ever reported the injury to the TGA . Sadly, after an appointment with a specialist (the only one of the many doctors Dad has seen who has been honest enough to call it what it is - a vaccine injury), he telephoned an immunologist friend of his, who confirmed there are others in our city suffering the exact same type of injury as my Dad. But nonetheless the Australian government are out there all day, every day, with the same clearly false narrative - the vaccines are 'safe and effective'. After this, I don't know how our family could ever be expected to trust anything the Australian Government says, ever again.
I sort of accepted first lockdown. We’d gone from our home in Belgium to Scotland for our daughter’s wedding mid-March 2020. Of course the wedding didn’t happen and we got stuck for 6 weeks. I thought it all a bit over the top and the restrictions annoying but it wasn’t until the summer when things seemed better but then in Belgium masks were introduced that I started thinking.
I then started looking at the data and thought what is everyone so afraid of? I’m older but have a good immune system - I wasn’t worried and took the attitude that it was just one more risk out of many in life. I couldn’t see why we were upending our lives for a virus which wasn’t going to cause many more deaths than a bad flu. I could see and imagine the harms that lockdowns were doing and then we got the incessant news about vaccines.
Around September I could see exactly where we were heading. I knew Gates wanted an adult vaccination campaign and I knew the EU had plans for vaccine passports years ago. Both these were things of my nightmares being someone who has always stored great importance on being in charge of my own health. It wasn’t a stretch to see that this was part of a plan to change the way we all lived beyond recognition.
I still hope that more will wake up to where we’re heading but fear that the behavioural psychologists have been too good.
I said to my husband last year that it would all morph into climate change and here we are.
When they started off with the Italy lockdown last March, I looked at the Euromomo overall mortality data for that country and immediately sensed that something was not adding up.
Then came the Diamond Pricess cruise ship - a perfect 'Petri dish' environment, with predominantly old people crammed into a relatively small space for an extended period. This showed just how deadly - or rather not - this virus was.
After that it was pretty easy to see, for this one survivor of a communist country, just how very 'deja-vu' the political response was.
If you've lived in a totalitarian system once, like I have, you will know its likes pretty much as soon as the first signs start to appear.
And yes, the only way out of this is to NOT COMPLY.
Ignore the mandates. Don't wear masks. Try to be respectful to those who have fell into the Covidian cult, and remember that at least some of them may still be rescued and join our side, especially as more and more people are now beginning to know someone who has died or has had severe negative reaction from the 'jab'.
All is not lost yet.
Intriguing question! My husband and I were suspicious from the outset, so it was just a journey of accumulating more and more evidence to support our hypothesis that this was a manufactured Reichstagian crisis being used to justify introducing a state of emergency and subsequent authoritarian measures.
Same thing happened on 9/11. We were listening to NPR [insert prayers for penance here] on the way to work when we heard the announcement of the first plane crashing into the WTC. My husband’s first words were, “What did they do.”
This PANDA video helped many of our friends. 25 minutes well spent. https://vimeo.com/532172876
My original career and undergraduate degrees were all in chemistry. I was a science nerd beginning in my preteen years. My first professional job involved chemical research in a major chemical corporation. Therefore, in addition to numerous other perspectives and thinking models, the scientific method and research methodologies were always and still are an intrinsic component of my personality and worldview.
In the earliest days of COVID-19 gaining traction in the media I initially naturally remained extremely openminded because if indeed this was a major health concern, then I wanted to be fully informed. However, I quickly began to notice that many aspects of what was being propagated in the news media and from our national health officials and politicians struck me as being highly over-reactive. This immediately made me suspicious, prompting me to perform significantly more research on my own. This involved speaking with experts in the mainstream media and the conventional medical establishment. Additionally, I sought experts NOT so affiliated with the mainstream media and the conventional medical establishment.
As a scientifically trained person, it was not difficult for me to evaluate various opinions on the subject. A real clincher was when they started talking about manufacturing vaccines within a matter of a couple years to as little as several months. Upon hearing all that, everything within my being screamed THIS IS WRONG! I simply knew too much about how vaccines have been developed and the absolutely essential requirement for the animal studies, long-term experiments, testing, clinical trials, and data collection. From that moment forward I just knew something was horrifically wrong in this approach. I became convinced that the mainstream media was in collusion with many of our national governmental institutions as they all lied to the public.
Simultaneously, I was able to locate an increasing number of extremely intelligent and well-credentialed doctors, scientists, and other experts that produced reports and studies that exposed the COVID lies. The manner in which all the regular media outlets suppressed or censored these reports and studies was clear evidence to me of the COVID lie.
In addition to all the above, I also experienced an extremely powerful event that I could not ignore. In those earliest days of COVID-19 gaining traction in the media, my own trained intuition simply told me that this mainstream media message and the support of the conventional medical establishment were both based on a fallacy. Or as Malcolm Gladwell wrote in his seminal book, Blink, my "thin-slicing" was telling me a very different story.
I read Ioannidis paper in Stats (March 2020), that was it for me: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
When government launched a full court press to block access to hcq even though the CDC's own research showed hcq was effective at preventing and treating coronaviruses.
I knew it was false right away. A year back they pushed hard in Cali to get rid of exemptions and mandate vaccines for school children using manufactured measles outbreaks. It was an extremely expensive endeavor for pharmaceutical companies. So, the pandemic was created so they could blanket U.S. under EUA and FEAR. All common sense, logic and science went out the window. I also saw the documents outlying the action steps they would take to control the populations. It was written in 2011. It’s called Lockstep. They were always counting on the ignorance of the populace.
I knew the swine flu, avian flu, and all the others were false fear mongering, so I just figured this one was going to be like the rest of them, here today and gone tomorrow, oh well...
I started to become skeptical around the end of April 2020, after 6 weeks to flatten the curve in NYC. I saw an interview with Sunetra Gupta pretty early on that influenced my thinking. Chris Martenson was my go-to source at the very beginning of the Covid craze, but his position was slow to evolve. Not sure when I began to read CHD & Mercola, but for at least a year now. Didn’t get turned on to substack until maybe six weeks ago, though I read Berenson’s slim volume on the vaccines in Spring of this year
The reaction of my local government (Macedonia) with implementing the lockdown measures immediately back in March 2020 - such efficiency, precision, alignment, and execution has never been its attribute. So, I knew something stunk big time. The Hollywood style propaganda, the booklets and the leaflets for social distancing. It didn't take long after that to discover GoF research, surveillance state mechanisms, and every other lie that accompanies this incredible war on the body, heart, and the mind.
I am a former lab Scientist with a specialist in Immunology. After they said it was a Corona virus, and knew it entered via ACE2 Receptor, none of the measures made sense , except the time to shore up healthcare facilities/staff. A respiratory virus is going to do what it does best, spread.
When my Sister in law, a nurse, said in early 2020 that all the ICU covid patients were diabetic and/or obese, I KNEW 1000%, that those at risk are insulin resistant,either diagnosed or undiaganosed and I knew my immune system was operating properly, as I corrected insulin resistance through a cancer clinical trial in 2017 who recommended I eat low carb.
I used minimal NPI, as I believe limiting oxygen is unhealthy and we have known for decades that masks don 't work for viruses IN THE COMMUNITY setting.
ACE2 receptors are upregulated in Insulin Resistant people, ACE2 receptors are in high quantity in adipose/visceral fat tissue.
Geert Vanden Bossche's plea to the world convinced me we had a problem
The moment I heard about and confirmed Gates funded Event 201.
First of all, I rarely trust any government narrative. I have never fundamentally believed they have my interest in mind.
Second my gut told me the anecdotes weren’t adding up to the data.
Then I saw the Ionnadis data on infection fatality rates. Which made me go back and read the March 26 NEJM article by Fauci, Lane and Redfield that actually said.
“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.” Hmm. Imagine that.
Then in summer, I started to compare Mar/Apr to other pandemics, not one or two years back, but decades back. There were certainly precedents more dangerous than 2020. And the Euromomo data basically confirmed that after Mar/Apr, this probably technically didn't even qualify as a "pandemic" any more (without torturing the definition).
When Trump made the fatal error of giving the blueprint for governors to shut down the country, and put the proverbial fox in charge of the henhouse by making career bureaucrats like Fauci and Birx the heads, and shutting out private enterprise and frontline doctors, the writing was on the wall. Fools errands like masking, social distancing and hand washing were all you heard about. Trump instructing private enterprises to start churning out ventilators, like they were churning out ammunition during wartime. All to win popular support.
Then you saw the hyped up stories of emergency rooms supposedly overrun…only to find out they were faked. The temporary facilities being put up by many municipalities (or the 70,000 to Navy hospital ship Trump brought into New York City) went unused.
Then saw a few things like the media attacking Trump for his comments on HCQ, as I dug deeper I started to find the stories of physicians who were proactively treating this with several different therapies -- as opposed to sending people home untreated until they could come back to be put on a ventilator and die.
Once the propaganda for Warp Speed started, the end game was crystal clear to me. And the steamrolling through the safety data combined, and the bans and demonization of the effective therapies confirmed what was happening in spades.
Then the data from Israel and Britain was astounding.
And the steamroller continues to roll down the hill.
Sit down, have an ice-cold corona, close your eyes and think of Wuhan!
It was Trump's triumph in 2016 - still the legit POPTUS - who got me into reading and debating with the birds.
When rowuhan was finally recognised as being present in Australia in March 2020, being unread in "science" and naive, reading what appeared on the bird was initially frightened and hapless. Being job before then, I put in 10 hours, every day reading on the bird. Some bravely claimed it was just a flu for 80% of the people. I searched "coronavirus" on the bird. Kept reading and searching. I remember one supermarket staff, seeing my concern "said you will be right".
My earlier birds did not quite ring a bell with me. I kept searching and reading. Gradually, I came across some accounts which spoke truly. I looked at their follows and retweets and dug into those accounts. THEN MY EYES WERE OPENED! I was gobsmacked to see how that govts, the medical establishment, media, academics and big pharma were lying to me! One obvious proof to me was this: since it was a medical, scientific matter, why would there be a POLITICAL division over party lines - Dems vs Rs? I knew that anything the corrupt dems pushed was corrupt.
Reading my trusted birds opened my eyes and they have been educating me ever since.
(I tried to my readings on Gab, others, and now GETTR and Telegram. I regret that during the first few months I was so engrossed and self-absorbed, I forgot to share my readings. I have since made up for that oversight!)
These were/are my birds - not in any order (some were discovered later than others):
Daniel Levitt - son of MLevitt_NP2013. He was very vocal back mid 2020 until he deleted his account. He endorsed the Swedish strategy
Suspended arkmedic
https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013
https://twitter.com/AAPSonline
https://twitter.com/aginnt
https://twitter.com/andrewbostom
https://twitter.com/Covid19Crusher
https://twitter.com/EthicalSkeptic
https://twitter.com/MConceptions
https://twitter.com/plaforscience
https://twitter.com/stevin2021
https://twitter.com/Parsifaler/
https://twitter.com/FatEmperor - the Fat one used to post more informative info in 2020.
babe https://twitter.com/dockaurG
https://twitter.com/Bobby_Network
that puss El Gator Malo
suspended https://twitter.com/JanieHsieh
suspended https://twitter.com/NikolovScience
https://twitter.com/ianmSC - the chart specialist on mask data
https://twitter.com/justin_hart
https://twitter.com/kerpen
https://twitter.com/gummibear737
some since suspended
https://twitter.com/LukeMor19529310
It was Paul Sperry (since given the bird by Jack) who first alerted me to HCQ in March 2020!
https://twitter.com/RichardReichle
https://twitter.com/TedPetrou
suspended https://twitter.com/MichaelCoudrey - he also mentioned HCQ after Sperry
https://twitter.com/csentropy
babe https://twitter.com/DrKellyVictory
https://twitter.com/drscott_atlanta
babe https://twitter.com/drsimonegold/
Dr Zev Zelenko!
https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD
babe https://twitter.com/kksheld
https://twitter.com/richardursomd
Dr Peter McCullough
FLCCC
https://twitter.com/DrButtar
https://twitter.com/delbigtree - from whom I first heard of Budesonide in 2020.
Dr Shiva - the political nemesis of Pocahontas and the inventor of the email - who taught me the importance of maintaining our immune health via vitamins A, C, and D in particular.
Of course, there were/are other MDs quoted by my birds.
The interesting about "my" birds is that they focus on parts of the whole scams only. Proving yet again that we need to widely in order to get a comprehensive picture. One glaring omission is that they hardly mentioned the effective, safe and affordable meds like ivermectin, hcq, etc - which the covid19crusher specialises in.
Of course, I don't read all of them now. However, I've bookmarked to remember them. Only to discover some have since been suspended!
We were suspicious from the start - when the MSM started reporting that this thing was deadly, we started questioning. We have a family history of vaccine injury, so elected not to inject our children with anything, so we've been in an outside position since prior to the No jab no play rules in various Australian states. So as soon as the MSM and governments start going on about something like this we start looking at the motives, and it very quickly became obvious that the fear was being manufactured. This became even more obvious when the injections started rolling out, as they were obviously NOT as safe as claimed. It certainly doesn't help when we're seeing published, peer-reviewed, articles where anyone with half a brain can see the the data doesn't support the conclusions.
On a more personal, rather than familial, level, I'm also a student of history, and the parallels between what the governments and MSM are doing and the activities of inter-war Russia and Germany (in particular) were obvious to me from the very beginning, although it was a lot more obvious when they started forcing people to 'check in' everywhere they went in the name of 'contact tracing'. Living where I do I don't actually go out very often, so as far as the powers trying to trace my movements know, I haven't been anywhere in the past 4 months, and prior to that the only place I went was my work. As I may actually have to go into places in the near future I think I need to learn how to write Iosef Stalin in Cyrillic, and Cyrillic numerals...or just rely on the fact that my handwriting has been described as 'an ant dipped in ink wandering aimlessly across the page'
what helped to wake me up was all the red flags :)
No one thing in particular, I work in risk so I knew this was bs a long time ago. I found the Dr Reality Podcast to be really informative and straightforward
As someone who grew up around people who worked in public health and preventive medicine, I didn't need a wake up call. Knew from the get-go that this was a load of bovine fecal matter.
I am a recently retired anesthesiologist in Northern California. Since retiring, I have had a lot of time to keep current on pandemic issues. I would say that Ivor Cummins's Twitter posts led me to download the manuscript by Robert Hope-Simpson describing the seasonality of influenza epidemics which seems quite applicable to case curves reported around the world. Before severe Twitter censorship, one could read reports from practicing physicians in various countries having little effective treatment discovering repurposed drugs like Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, and Fluvoxamine among others, and finding them very efficacious when started early in the clinical course of COVID, keeping their patients out of hospital. Most of these Drs have very little reason to lie about their results. I have been used to discussing new techniques with colleagues and adopting these into my practice, keeping things that worked, and discarding things that didn't. It has been the greatest disappointment of my medical career to see a large cohort of my colleagues dismissing treatment that works, often in very medically underserved communities, also governments forbidding the use of safe drugs with promise, even to the extent of episodes like the withdrawn Lancet study seemingly purposefully designed to discredit the use of Ivermectin. Vaccine effectiveness waning has only solidified my opinion that we need adjunctive drugs in addition.
As a long time tracker of Monsanto dirtbags and ally Gates and government abuses that flow from any declared emergency, red flags went up immediately. Claims of saving lives added to suspicions but James Corbett's research has confirmed the nefarious cabal from April 2020. His research and reporting is still highly relevant and valuable. https://www.corbettreport.com/was-there-foreknowledge-of-the-plandemic-qfc-059/. https://www.corbettreport.com/page/2/?s=%22event+201%22
I've been a vaccine skeptic for about a decade, was already subscribed to Mercola and CHD. I would LOVE there to be a safe and effective COVID vaccine so we could be done with it, but it's been obvious to me from the get-go this wasn't going to be the case. The silver lining on this cloud is how much this has opened people's eyes to vaccines and Big Pharma in general. I hope more, many more, awaken soon.
Knew about yearly flu shot problems, but the constant red flags thrown by msm and governments health officials that keep on denying care in favour of deadly jabs that are not true va cc ines….. so many lies as opposed to true heroes, the virologist immunologists and other brave doctors and nurses raising the alarm on internet while elitists keep trying to obliterate them in favour of their own agendas
Marcia Angell in New York Review of Books 2004 and 2009 - The Truth About the Drug Companies - these articles aroused my total distrust and suspicions about BigPharma so when the pandemic hit there was no delay in seeing what the story was. Yet another scam, no doubt in my mind.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/cyberlaw2005/sites/cyberlaw2005/images/NYReviewBooksAngell.pdf
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/drug-companies-doctorsa-story-of-corruption/
We live in a reddish state in the Southeastern US. When the news first came out in March 2020 that 2-2.5 million ppl would die by September, I thought, "Wow... that's a bummer. But 2-2.5 million over 6 months is 4-5 million annualized. In a country of 360 million... that's about 1.5% of the population. That will be sad... but, really... what are you going to do? Pandemics happen." The idea of shutting down our entire society over a death rate of 1-1.5% of the population was absolutely unfathomable to me- and insanity to anyone with any kind of grip on reality and context of life & death. Then, they started talking about hospitals overflowing and flattening the curve. It never made sense to me that we need "2 weeks to flatten the curve"... because then what? Surely they know that when they open back up after 2 weeks- the "curve" will spike again. It never made sense... but I didn't want hospitals to overflow... so I posted on FB for my friends, "Come on, guys - just 2 weeks - we can do this." (Please forgive me - it was the first & only time I supported this nonsense.) It seemed insane, but surely "the experts" know what they're talking about & we must do this, right? By the time Easter rolled around, I think I was basically in shock. My family & I are devout, Bible-believing Christians, and the idea of the CHURCH staying closed on the holiest day of the year- over an upper respiratory virus- was mind-boggling. I homeschool the kids & my husband works from home so our lives were minimally disrupted. But we made our weekly pilgrimages to the grocery store & Lowe's. What struck me in the grocery store was the fear in everyone's eyes - it was surreal. What struck me about Lowes was that we had to drive past a Mom & Pop patio furniture store - which was closed because it wasn't essential - and we would drive to Lowes which was absolutely packed day after day - in order to purchase all kinds of miscellaneous things, including patio furniture. Over the summer of 2020, although our lives were mostly unaffected by the day-in-day-out of "lockdowns" - it still broke my heart that all of my children's wholesome activities (ballet, sports, camps, etc) were shut down ... and OUR CHURCH WAS STILL CLOSED (live-streaming every week, of course)... but we would watch local news channels out of LA, Chicago, New York, etc... watching night after night of riots, looting, arson, violence on police officers, etc. The contrast was so stark from the freedoms of law-abiding citizens vs law-breaking citizens- it was nauseating. So definitely, by May/ June of last year, the gig was up in my mind. Then, June 24th hit... my mom was rushed to the ER for trouble breathing. My mom was in poor health... but one could seriously argue that 3-month's worth of lockdowns made her conditions much worse. Despite her health history & us have no reason to believe that Mom had Covid... the doctor was a Covid hammer looking for a Covid nail. He stuck her in the Covid-wing of the ICU (where no visitors are permitted) - while we awaited test results. Go back & check your news feed from late June/ early July of last year. Everyone & their brother were rushing out to get a Covid test at the first sign of a sniffle by their cousin twice removed. So all of the labs were backlogged.... by hundreds of thousands if not millions of tests. Including my Mom's. My mom lay strapped to a bed, strapped to machines - with no one around her for emotional support - and the only medical staff around were dressed in space suits and treated her like a disease-carrier - while we waited day, after day, after day, after day for results. All total - it took 7 days for us to get the results back on the first test- which was negative. But the doctor didn't believe it- so he sent off for a 2nd test (fortunately, the results on this one didn't take as long.) The whole time... my father & I were begging to be let in to sit with her & give her comfort - but they would not allow that until she got moved to the non-Covid wing... and she wouldn't get moved until the doctor had enough negative tests to satisfy him. Three. Three was the lucky number of negative tests in my Mom's case. We received the 3rd negative test on Day 9 and we couldn't wait to get her moved so we could be with her. My dad - her husband of 52 years - had been prevented from being from my Mom this entire time for "his safety." But guess what? When we got the go-ahead from doc to get her moved... there were no open beds in the NON-Covid wing of the ICU. Yep. You read that right. There was a waitlist of people to get moved to the NON-Covid ICU wing... while they held beds open in the Covid ICU wing "just in case." FINALLY - on Day 10, my Mom got moved. And we were FINALLY able to get in to see her. Have you ever seen anyone who has been on a ventilator for 10 days? The only thing left for us to do by then was to make the decision to pull the plug. When she went into the hospital, she was struggling to breathe, but was still coherent & communicative. Ten ventilated days later, she was basically a vegetable. Oh yeah - shoving everyone & their brother on a ventilator was pretty common Covid protocol last summer. And oh yeah - she didn't have Covid. My Mom passed peacefully on July 10, 2020. She spent her last several cognizant days on earth in the most inhumane and incompassionate circumstances you can imagine. Again, I am a devout follower of Jesus Christ (as was she) and I rejoice that she is fully healed now. But it was gut-wrenching to realize that the very people who are supposed to be caring for our health - have no idea what it is to be human & the importance of companionship at the most vulnerable times of our lives. To realize that those who hold the power of "healthcare" over all of society are thoroughly convinced that *the* one and only most important thing in life is to avoid an upper respiratory virus - is frightening & dystopian. Sorry for the long-winded story answer to your pretty straight-forward question. The whole experience has been dystopian. And I keep wondering when the adults are going to take charge again. Meanwhile, the US only recently crossed the 700k death rate (don't get me started on the number- I'm just using the number they give for simplicity). At 700k over approx 20 months... that's approx 420k annualized... not quite the 1-1.5% of our population that they tried to scare us with. And not a single intervention by any local, state, or federal government has done anything to meaningfully change the trajectory of the virus. Every life is precious. And... pandemics happen.
This is a great question, lots of value in the replies here. Thank you!
Hey Frank,
I always like to thank you first and foremost. Everything you have written has assisted me to make so many significant decisions regarding my family in these unprecedented times.
Ok…so what your asking is when did the penny drop? U mean when did I realise that a steady supply of KY was needed on a daily basis as a result of how royally we were getting Fucked over!
Geez…what a vast array of flavours to choose from, this is tough. One of my better character traits is my decisiveness, but you’ve got me here..
Now I understand whats going on in that perplexed individuals mind at Messina ice cream. When I’m standing behind them and fuck me they want to try every colour of the rainbow!
After racking my brain in the AM hours of my insomnia celebrated daily existence. I’ve narrowed it down to TWO WTFUCKS?!
The Sydney Flight Crew Fiasco:
I’m sure your esteemed subscribers are well versed in what transpired, so no need revisit this chapter blow by blow. But it’s safe to say this should have been reported as the Flight Crew Fuck Up and not the Bondi cluster. The poor old Uber driver was the pariah of society, while Gladys and the Gang kept on keeping on!
I mean this wasn’t their first Rodeo!
The Ruby Princess debacle still wasn’t out of the review mirror. No investigation, No reprimand for government, No accountability..
The narrative conveniently steered in another direction by MSM and the sleeping people remained in a spell. This is when, without a shadow of a doubt, I knew that the media and government were in bed together.
1.5mtr rule:
Aghhhh! I can’t even say this without laughing!They should have been parachuting in tape measures with all of the other essential safety items! Dettol, toilet paper, masks…
Remember that scene from
“ Empire of the Sun”….
Only a kid Christian Bale, but we already bloody knew he was going to be a master craftsmen.
Apologies lost track. So what if I am 1.58mtrs away? I take it I’m safe? Are we to believe that our Corona particles are so snobby that they only travel within our 1.5mtr radius?
Does this stipulation take in all the mitigating factors? Wind direction? Humidity? Garlic consumption? Persons animation when expressing oneself?
I’m not alone when I say I’ve been on the receiving end of many a mates meal when they are revving mid speech. Projectiles a plenty, I could be 5mtrs away and this fucker gets me in the eye with a piece of chewed lamb!
No word of a lie!
Also…I watch a lot of Golf as I don’t mind a flutter with my hard earned on this great game. Me sits there thinking, look at the amount of thought that goes into what can happen to a golf ball in flight due to the conditions. Thing is.. even when they nail their shot, the ball still don’t behave the way they calculated. But the experts will have us believe our verbal discharge can be predicted and controlled as long as we simply keep 1.5mtr from each other! Cause you know, that’s what the science says…
WTF!!!
Jason
Where I live, they cut off our access to nature parks and beaches and stopped people with RVs from going out camping. Then they started pushing vaccines on people who were not at risk, and lying about the evidence. Then I started hearing about a lot of elders in care homes dying en masse just after getting the jab, where there had been no covid outbreak at all beforehand. I still have not met anyone who got covid but I know several who have been injured by the jabs.
The first day of lockdown, March 17, 2020 here, I remember feeling firstly that we were absolutely delusional to think we could control a virus, and secondly, that we were entering some type of dystopian world. Every scrap of science I absorbed and immersed myself in after that day served to legitimize my initial response. I believe many people had a similar experience.
Well, I thought something was off from the beginning when we were going into lockdown, because I thought that was insane and would harm more than it would help. And I am the last person to put money before people - I probably need to care a little more about money tbh. I’ve also always had a pretty sound trust in the government (Australia). But then after I saw the Chinese videos of people supposedly falling down dead I figured, well ok it must be worse than I think, like Ebola level bad.
So I had time in lockdown and did research. And I began to see it wasn’t as bad as the hype implied when I looked at the data. So again I was thinking these lock downs were mad… and why were all the governments doing the same mad things …and i forget the order, but two things started to really get me there.
One was seeing dr Pierre Kory’s impassioned plea to US Congress and how he was treated by Democrats there (suspicion of some right wing plot), and then how that was censored on YouTube and that ivermectin was actually banned in the officially YouTube guidelines. The second was finding out, on Australian Sky News (well before it was discussed in the US) that Fauci and co had funded the research in wuhan.
Then things like the fake Lancet papers and Event 201 really just hammered it home.
Major Influential sources for me have been Brett Weinstein’s podcast early on, The last American vagabond, James Corbett report, and recently Alex Berenson snd el Gato Malo on sub stack.
Health Impact News. Made me awake to the conspiracies pre-pandemic. That and a healthy dose of skepticism from 12 years at Merck.
War Room and team Bannon back in early 2020
I too was suspicious after seeing the videos coming out of China, especially since Facebook wasn't operating in China. I lived with the lockdown narrative for a couple of weeks, then once Ivor Cummins in Ireland started analysing the data, I realised we were being conned. Then when Prof Borrody (Australia) (a hero of mine because of him finding out the root cause of stomach ulcers) said that his research showed that Ivermectin was a possible treatment only for that to be suppressed, that did it for me. I said to a buddy at the time - around late April 2020, that this will morph into climate change. Dr Mike Yeadon was next up with his warning "Your government is lying to you" and then Dr Malcolm Kendrick with his blog sealed the deal.
When the "2 weeks to flatten the curve" appeared to be successful but restrictions continued. Then the narrative quickly shifted from deaths to "cases". The death counts didn't track with the increasing "case" counts.
I knew it was an op when I saw the videos out of China in winter of 2020. NONE OF THIS EVER MADE SENSE TO ME. And it's only getting worse and worse.
In Feb20, I started to follow a French thinktank including some top scientists already censored by MSM. On the 24th of March (!!!) 2020, they wrote: "Actual mortality, as I announced in a previous paper, must be at 0.3% at most, and probably even lower. That is less than a tenth of the first figures announced by the WHO."
And then I watch the world dive into mass hysteria.
https://jdmichel.blog.tdg.ch/archive/2020/03/24/covid-19-the-game-is-over-305275.html
Since then they've produced an enormous amount of research.
Also Prof. Raoult (h-index 180+) and his team of professors/researchers in their world leading research institute (IHU Marseille) have produced the highest number of research papers in the world. They have a YouTube channel with weekly pandemic updates and analyses + all sorts of conferences on the subject. Fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ifr48/videos