Nothing is Forgotten, Nothing Will Be Forgiven.
On the very first day of this year I wrote that the pandemic was over and that only the most brainwashed true believers would cling to the absurd narratives that enabled it. Since then, all of it has been exposed to be falsehoods, cluelessness and lies:
- Vaccines were never tested or proven to stop transmission.
- The fatality rate was around 0.005%
- Ivermectin worked
- Masks don’t
- Lockdowns did more damage than good
…and the final straws for the credibility of all involved:
- This thing came out of a lab, and
- “Safe and effective” has become “Sudden and unexpected”
Innumerable careers, reputations and lives have been destroyed in order to enforce a completely debunked narrative as truth. The mainstream media, Big Tech, governments at all levels, neo-liberal glee clubs like the WEF, all coordinated to gaslight the entire population of the world that we were facing existential annihilation, and would have to henceforth trade in our civil liberties and basic human rights to these authorities to escape it.
The economic damage is only now beginning to be felt in runaway inflation with central banks powerless to contain it, at risk of destroying what’s left of the economy.
We don’t need to enumerate the litany of injustice, ridicule and persecution anybody who tried to counter these absurd narratives had to endure. Lost friends, family, jobs, position, businesses, cancelations, deplatformings – all of it.
So it is unsurprising now that the edifice is crumbling, that those who feathered their nest being “on the right side of history”, seeing that it’s all turning to dust in realtime, are trying to back away from their complicity.
The name of the game now is to try to extract oneself from the most intense and virulent outbreaks of mass formation psychosis in recorded history:
You can fuck right off with this shit. pic.twitter.com/YmDiHIR7TU
— Clifton Duncan. (@cliftonaduncan) October 31, 2022
There are many who were up to their eyeballs in this who will now try to frame themselves as “the voice of reason” who was trying to introduce some rationality into the conversation.
— Mark Jeftovic, The C̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ ₿itcoin Capitalist (@StuntPope) July 10, 2022
The most nauseating part of #EndTheMandates and #NoMoreLockdowns is going to be when every sociopathic zealot who wanted to literally wreck your life for non-compliance will start taking victory laps and pretending they were always champions of The Great Reopening…
— Mark Jeftovic, The C̶r̶y̶p̶t̶o̶ ₿itcoin Capitalist (@StuntPope) February 9, 2022
Don’t believe them.
“Sooner or Later Everyone Sits Down to a Banquet of Consequences”
If the globally botched pandemic response accomplished one thing, it was to open many people’s eyes to how obsolete and ill equipped our current institutions are for handling a global crisis in this new, decentralized, multi-polar world.
While these oligarchs and technocrats believed they had Divine Right to “re-imagine” every aspect of our lives for some grandiose Great Reset; it’s these self-appointed elites and the sclerotic, self-serving institutions they inhabit who are going to get their asses re-imagined. With a vengeance.
Here’s a few ways that you can start to reclaim your life, and take your power back from those who abused it and used their positions against you:
- Vote out any politician who imposed lockdowns or vaccine mandates – regardless of party affiliation. At least the ones who doubled down on them after it became clear how destructive and ineffective they were.
- Cancel all paid subscriptions to the mainstream media – you’re better off supporting the many independent outlets and those doing real journalism and providing high-signal content.
- Advocate for defunding state-run media apparatuses: NPR in the US, CBC in Canada, BBC in the UK, et al. Stop watching it, listening to it or reading any of their articles. Whatever you do, never click their stories in your timelines or on an ads on their websites. Starve them out.
- De-Google-fy your life: Start looking at alternatives to Big Tech. There are other search engines like Duck and Presearch, Facebook is quickly becoming irrelevant (while Twitter may be fun for awhile longer given the meltdowns over the Musk takeover), and there are other places ascending like Gettr, Minds and MeWe).
- Don’t hire or do business with Covid fanatics. If you’re hiring or scouting vendors, check their socials: were they demonizing lockdown skeptics? Hashtagging “#Freedumb”? (Better start scrubbing those timelines, mofos)
- Buy Bitcoin. Yes, I’m shilling BTC because Bitcoin is the global opt-out – stacking sats is calling b/s on everything – and for the past two years everything has been b/s.
You can put that pandemic amnesty where the sun don’t shine. pic.twitter.com/NGIaMvLb5L
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) November 1, 2022
Macron’s thugs attacking a…healthcare worker. Hospital staff treated like dangerous criminals. Still blows my mind that it happened.
F*ck your ‘pandemic amnesty.’pic.twitter.com/kWrJQqdXYU
— Nat (@Arwenstar) November 1, 2022
There will be no pandemic amnesty.
By the time this is all over, we’re more likely to see pandemic tribunals.
>Vaccines were never tested or proven to
>stop transmission.
I pretty much knew this early on, I chose
to get it because it’s still reduces
severity of COVID while it’s still around.
(Which I still would hope maybe won’t be
forever.) I think the only reason it was
mandated so hard is that people in
government were hoping real hard that
it might prevent transmission as back
then there also wasn’t yet evidence it
_wouldn’t_ stop transmission. Ironically
the resistance to earlier non-vaccine
measures was probably a big cause of
governments taking that gamble on hopes
of getting herd immunity, a gamble that
didn’t pay off.
Easier to convince x% of people to get a
few vaccine shots than convince 100% of
people to mask up and avoid each other
for the time it takes to get to zero COVID,
most people seem to think on _very_ short
time horizons.
>The fatality rate was around 0.005%
I still consider this unacceptably high,
I am well aware other’s may have a
different threshold. I take the view
that for whoever ends up in that 0.005%
it doesn’t make it any better for them
individually.
>Ivermectin worked
I don’t really know the answer to this.
I take the preventative approach that if
you don’t catch the virus in the first
place and it disappears it won’t matter.
If it does in fact work then holding it
back from people is a serious problem, I
just don’t personally have enough solid
info on this to say one way or the other.
I do have a concern this may have been a
propaganda effort to make people think
“There is a cure now so I don’t have to
worry about catching COVID”.
>Masks don’t
I’m pretty sure the masks _do_ reduce
the risk of spreading it to others if
you are a pre-symptomatic case or
non-symptomatic case who doesn’t know
to stay home (assuming you are wearing
it correctly) even if they don’t
do much for the wearer.
They don’t work if:
-People don’t actually wear them (which
happened a lot)
-They wear them wrong (which also happened
a lot) because
–They are going through the motions and
don’t actually care.
–They don’t understand how to wear them
properly.
–They are wearing one of the masks that
have those vents on them that just let
everything out anyways. (Those are
meant for dust protection, not infection
control.)
People were/are afraid to say anything to
those who are not wearing a mask or wearing
it wrong (or failing to keep their distance)
incase they become confrontational because
in this country we are lacking in both self
defense rights and the means to do so. It’s
always a safer bet to just back away from
them when possible.
As long as COVID is still around to some
degree I think not wearing a mask when
in public indoor places or failing to try
to keep distance is the rough equivalent
of juggling knives in public, highly
negligent at best.
>Lockdowns did more damage than good
Only because we didn’t make them thorough
enough or hold on long enough to get down
to zero. Once you are at zero if you keep
quarantines on anyone coming from and area
that’s not there will be nothing to spread
and rebound.
Letting loose too soon and allowing COVID
to rebound just set the stage for repeat
lockdowns instead of one lockdown to get
it over with then getting our lives back
to normal. I lot of business that would
have made it through a singular lockdown
were crushed by the 2nd or 3rd or 4th.
Manitoba made a huge mistake telling
people it was OK to travel to and from
other western provinces before all the
western provinces were at zero. We were
literally down to one known active case
in the summer of 2020, a few more weeks
of local restriction and ongoing travel
quarantine since then and more thorough
monitoring and enforcement at the
provincial borders and we could have
become a COVID free zone before the
vaccines were even out which would have
made vaccination a non-issue except for
those travelling needing them for their
own protection. But we didn’t keep our
eyes on the prize, again people having
too short of a time horizon.
Reality is for me as an individual it
doesn’t matter what I’m allowed to do,
until COVID reaches zero where I live
and everywhere that someone is allowed
to travel here from without a quarantine
there are a lot of things I won’t be
doing. Restaurants won’t be seeing a
cent out of me until this thing is 100%
gone! The greenies aren’t going to get
me back on public transit without getting
COVID gone. As much as I prefer to “ride
above it all”* and let someone else drive
if this goes on long enough I’m eventually
going to get a fossil fuel powered vehicle
and up my personal carbon emissions.
(In the meanwhile I’m confined to the
area I can walk or bike to under
currently existing weather conditions.)
*”Ride above it all” was a slogan once
used by Winnipeg Transit.
>…and the final straws for the credibility
>of all involved:
>
>This thing came out of a lab
Also knew this early on thanks to the
Youtube channel “The China Show” back then
know as “ADV Podcast” who found some very
suspicious removal of information about
certain people from the Wuhan Institute
of Virology’s web site which pretty much
confirmed they were covering something up.
I still don’t think the control measures
look like a conspiratorial power grab
unless you are taking it so far as to
say the virus was developed and released
intentionally. It looks far more likely
to be a lab accident that China tried to
cover up than an intentional release.
Still no reason we shouldn’t drive COVID
to extinction, we are humans we are
supposed to be good at making things
extinct! ^_-
>Hashtagging “#Freedumb”
Would you rather I believe everyone who
fought any containment measures was
deliberately trying to keep COVID going?
That’s a lot more ominous than believing
people got fooled and sucked into
propaganda. (Perhaps from governments
like Russia or China that were trying
to trick the rest of the world so we
wouldn’t recover before them causing
them to lose face.) If anything the
phrase “freedumb” is giving people
benefit of the doubt.
I’m a little concerned that press
releases or press conferences from
public health have been slowly “faded
out” in my province because our new
premier is trying to suppress anything
that might cast a cloud over the sunshine
and rainbows she is trying to depict
before next year’s provincial election.
Actually all press conferences have
gotten less frequent other than them
occasionally coming out to say “we did
this good thing about something and
it’s a done deal, we don’t need anybody
to do anything”, nothing about anything
they have in the works.
I also noticed our new premier was at
first evading reporter’s questions then
the province made the switch to not
uploading the Q&A part of _any_ press
conference to the province’s Youtube
page, I guess because people were
noticing this. Sounds like an effort
to control the narrative so she can
distance herself from the previous
control measures hoping the anti-control
measure people will forget while at the
same time hoping the rest of us will
forget COVID is still running if they
stop talking about it.
It’s been a very serious drop in
transparency since Pallister retired.