“At the same time as the Witman story unfolded, a four-year old girl tested positive for Covid — and was put on her own in an isolation room in hospital, with a bell to ring should she need anything. Somehow, and because she was bored or terrified or lonely, she managed to escape. When she was spotted, maskless, outside of her room, she was sent back in, for what could be weeks of isolation, while the two staff who found her were themselves carted off to quarantine.”
It’s hard to know what to say about this incident. Of course the immediate impulse is to rant and rage but that seems insufficient and pointless.
I’d like to blame the heartless quarantine staff but they would doubtless have been hauled off by the authorities if they didn’t lock the child away. Carrie Lam and her fellow leaders are also obvious objects of blame but she’s a stooge of the CCP.
Many years from now all sorts of records relating to covid responses throughout the world will finally be released (although I’m sure some will be destroyed long before then). A measure of objectivity might prevail; the most culpable people will be dead or no longer important enough to wield much influence. We’ll hear the stories of those who witnessed, first hand, how decisions such as locking up young children were made. We’ll hear the stories of those grown children. We’ll see the economic and social effects wrought by the covid restrictions. We might finally be able to reach a level-headed assessment of this pandemic and the various national responses to it.
But what will we really have learned? If SARS-cov-3 comes along after we’ve objectively analyzed the response to SARS-cov-2, and if the new virus is not much more virulent than the current iteration, will we respond differently, more intelligently? Or will we learn the terrible lesson that the neocortex really is little more than a thin layer of tissue grafted onto the much larger limbic system–the emotion-driven ‘primitive’ brain? Is the neocortex a fair weather accretion useful only in times of plenty and ease? When real danger arrives is it inevitably pushed aside by the lizard brain and its desperate, frenzied attempts to achieve security at all costs?
That depends on if, until then, we have replaced our media and political systems with some who are more honest, wise and conscientious.
I’ll give you an example: one of the major issues with COVID is people sitting at home and unknowingly losing lung function. Ultimately they get really close to death, and are hauled off to a hospital when in critical condition. Had those people been given pulse-oximeters, and/or gotten a check-up call, they could have been brought to the hospital early enough. The COVID infection in the lungs would have been addressed by laying them down for a few days (or even hours) in a position that opens the lungs, or they could have been given low-dose, non-invasive oxygen. In most cases, this would have been enough to avoid the progression to a critical state. I have had countless frontline doctors confirm this, and have read about it (very!) occasionally in the news.
And now show me one politician or “expert” who has recommended this strategy. I’m not aware of a single one. It was the job of the media to empower people thusly, and at least discuss the possibility of supplementing vitamin D to improve immune function.
Instead, what they did was cause fear and confusion, and paint a picture of the all-powerful COVID disease that kills you from the shadows, so that people would become gullible, scared sheep, and believe everything they are told. Sex sells, yes, but so does fear, unfortunately. That the neocortex shuts off is a natural and necessary function, because you can’t think a tiger away if it attacks you. In a situation like that, you need raw strength and quick movements.
However, knowing that people only try to instill fear in you, and accepting the fact that life is ultimately a lethal endeavour, can help to de-escalate such situations, in order to possibly defuse danger with rational thought. The problem is, most people did not expect medical experts, politicians and news outlets to simultaneously lie to them.
“Had those people been given pulse-oximeters, and/or gotten a check-up call, they could have been brought to the hospital early enough. The COVID infection in the lungs would have been addressed by laying them down for a few days”
The proper way is to keep people OUT of hospitals altogether. Governments intentionally blocked any early treatments and protocols to create the fear needed to force their 100% vaccination plan. The government Wanted loads of deaths, they made their policies to cause exactly that. ‘Operation Fear’ was planned, and worked in conjunction with MSM, Education heads, Social Media censoring/propaganda, and making all the treatments which work at early intervention – either hidden, outlawed, or studies done to intentionally show failure.
Watch this interview with one of the worlds top research doctors, Dr McCullough – just google him he is everywhere – with Dr Malone, are the voices telling of this insane and super destructive covid response.
It hypocrisy every where , here, there and elsewhere.
We were not given a crisis, yet we chose to make it so and then even those who chose it, made the rules with such fervidity cannot remember to follow them. That is because the rules are not realistic, inhumane and based on totalitarianism. Eventually there will be gaffes. The ruling class has become a joke. Like the pigs in “Animal Farm”.
ralph bell
2 years ago
Really fascinating article and would love to hear his thoughts on the real scandal of the UK response, maybe allowing Sage to dictate strategy rather than broader considerations by the cabinet.
“It is common to see these rooms described as spartan or like being in prison, albeit by people who have never been to prison and wouldn’t have lasted long in Sparta”
The content is also great, I hope to see lots more of this writer.
Bret Larson
2 years ago
If I lived in Hong Kong, my main concern wouldn’t be the restrictions.
It would be how to go from the restrictions to “something normal”. What is the exit strategy, or is Hong Kong going to be locked down for ever?
“At the same time as the Witman story unfolded, a four-year old girl tested positive for Covid — and was put on her own in an isolation room in hospital, with a bell to ring should she need anything. Somehow, and because she was bored or terrified or lonely, she managed to escape. When she was spotted, maskless, outside of her room, she was sent back in, for what could be weeks of isolation, while the two staff who found her were themselves carted off to quarantine.”
It’s hard to know what to say about this incident. Of course the immediate impulse is to rant and rage but that seems insufficient and pointless.
I’d like to blame the heartless quarantine staff but they would doubtless have been hauled off by the authorities if they didn’t lock the child away. Carrie Lam and her fellow leaders are also obvious objects of blame but she’s a stooge of the CCP.
Many years from now all sorts of records relating to covid responses throughout the world will finally be released (although I’m sure some will be destroyed long before then). A measure of objectivity might prevail; the most culpable people will be dead or no longer important enough to wield much influence. We’ll hear the stories of those who witnessed, first hand, how decisions such as locking up young children were made. We’ll hear the stories of those grown children. We’ll see the economic and social effects wrought by the covid restrictions. We might finally be able to reach a level-headed assessment of this pandemic and the various national responses to it.
But what will we really have learned? If SARS-cov-3 comes along after we’ve objectively analyzed the response to SARS-cov-2, and if the new virus is not much more virulent than the current iteration, will we respond differently, more intelligently? Or will we learn the terrible lesson that the neocortex really is little more than a thin layer of tissue grafted onto the much larger limbic system–the emotion-driven ‘primitive’ brain? Is the neocortex a fair weather accretion useful only in times of plenty and ease? When real danger arrives is it inevitably pushed aside by the lizard brain and its desperate, frenzied attempts to achieve security at all costs?
That depends on if, until then, we have replaced our media and political systems with some who are more honest, wise and conscientious.
I’ll give you an example: one of the major issues with COVID is people sitting at home and unknowingly losing lung function. Ultimately they get really close to death, and are hauled off to a hospital when in critical condition. Had those people been given pulse-oximeters, and/or gotten a check-up call, they could have been brought to the hospital early enough. The COVID infection in the lungs would have been addressed by laying them down for a few days (or even hours) in a position that opens the lungs, or they could have been given low-dose, non-invasive oxygen. In most cases, this would have been enough to avoid the progression to a critical state. I have had countless frontline doctors confirm this, and have read about it (very!) occasionally in the news.
And now show me one politician or “expert” who has recommended this strategy. I’m not aware of a single one. It was the job of the media to empower people thusly, and at least discuss the possibility of supplementing vitamin D to improve immune function.
Instead, what they did was cause fear and confusion, and paint a picture of the all-powerful COVID disease that kills you from the shadows, so that people would become gullible, scared sheep, and believe everything they are told. Sex sells, yes, but so does fear, unfortunately. That the neocortex shuts off is a natural and necessary function, because you can’t think a tiger away if it attacks you. In a situation like that, you need raw strength and quick movements.
However, knowing that people only try to instill fear in you, and accepting the fact that life is ultimately a lethal endeavour, can help to de-escalate such situations, in order to possibly defuse danger with rational thought. The problem is, most people did not expect medical experts, politicians and news outlets to simultaneously lie to them.
“Had those people been given pulse-oximeters, and/or gotten a check-up call, they could have been brought to the hospital early enough. The COVID infection in the lungs would have been addressed by laying them down for a few days”
The proper way is to keep people OUT of hospitals altogether. Governments intentionally blocked any early treatments and protocols to create the fear needed to force their 100% vaccination plan. The government Wanted loads of deaths, they made their policies to cause exactly that. ‘Operation Fear’ was planned, and worked in conjunction with MSM, Education heads, Social Media censoring/propaganda, and making all the treatments which work at early intervention – either hidden, outlawed, or studies done to intentionally show failure.
Watch this interview with one of the worlds top research doctors, Dr McCullough – just google him he is everywhere – with Dr Malone, are the voices telling of this insane and super destructive covid response.
https://odysee.com/@jackspirko:a/rogan-mccullough:6?r=flcv7ablmyytd2wkzfqcxvwidxeynpbp
hear hear
It hypocrisy every where , here, there and elsewhere.
We were not given a crisis, yet we chose to make it so and then even those who chose it, made the rules with such fervidity cannot remember to follow them. That is because the rules are not realistic, inhumane and based on totalitarianism. Eventually there will be gaffes. The ruling class has become a joke. Like the pigs in “Animal Farm”.
Really fascinating article and would love to hear his thoughts on the real scandal of the UK response, maybe allowing Sage to dictate strategy rather than broader considerations by the cabinet.
Sage and Fauci – monsters.
I love this clever kind of writing
“It is common to see these rooms described as spartan or like being in prison, albeit by people who have never been to prison and wouldn’t have lasted long in Sparta”
The content is also great, I hope to see lots more of this writer.
If I lived in Hong Kong, my main concern wouldn’t be the restrictions.
It would be how to go from the restrictions to “something normal”. What is the exit strategy, or is Hong Kong going to be locked down for ever?