The continuation of a failed policy is a two edged sword. Can dogmatists really simply deny their own propaganda at this point? So they continue to force the issue, and in so doing, they remind the public of 2+ years of unchecked brutality and open injustice. It is a big gamble given the quantifiable loss of institutional trust characterizing the public today.
Tyler Durden
8 months ago
This is Fauci being asked by his pharma friends to bring an eye back to their profits.
Nothing should surprise in a federal-corporate structure able to tolerate limitlessly depths of corruption – from outsourced gain-of-function research to the CCP’s bioweapons division, to mutilating teenagers under the guise of gender-affirming care.
M Doors
8 months ago
Received my letter to make my appointment for a covid booster (I’m apparently high risk due to a blood condition) & flu shot – went straight into the bin.
Peter Johnson
8 months ago
I feel like we have a broken society when people in the highest positions of trust say things that are absurd, which they know are absurd, yet we are still compelled to comply with them. It was truly disheartening to see Canada’s Federal Public Health officer engaging in more Covid fearmongering. She would be just as convincing to me ringing gongs or consulting goat entrails given her track record in the last three years.
The “elites” habit of saying (perhaps even believing) obviously untrue things, and insisting everyone else believe them, too, feels terrifyingly like the behavior of the Soviets…. I wish Solzhenitsyn were around to offer his critique of the past ten years of American life.
Mike Downing
8 months ago
Lauren Bacall ‘I need the money, honey ‘.
At this rate, if it doesn’t work, we’ll have to send round a hat for Bilbo Gates, the world’s richest ‘philanthropist ‘ .
Erik Hildinger
8 months ago
Corporate bodies, such as governments, are often willing to do what an individual would resist doing because responsibility is dispersed.
No they are rubbing our faces in it and mocking us – the message is “we can do anything we want – no matter how stupid – no matter how harmful – because enough of your fellow citizens are gullible and vapid enough to believe us and elect us over and over again. We know that you know we are evil – and we are just laughing at you because you can’t stop us”.
Daniel Lee
8 months ago
It long, long since stopped being about Covid or epidemiology. It’s been about power since at least mid-summer 2020.
That’s too simplistic by far (as is so depressingly common on here). You can’t understand anything if you resort to conspiracy theories. Groupthink, availability heuristic, and, yes, political leanings and control all play a part.
But try some obvious critical thinking: why isn’t this “power” being exerted in Europe, where some countries (eg Austria) were even more gung ho in covid restrictions and vaccine mandates than blue state America. They have quietly but very comprehensively dropped them. (Ah, no doubt the population there are already acquiescent and submissive comes the predictable retort…..!)
There are lots of differences between the political culture of the US and Austria… I should have thought that was obvious. At the very least, Austria has a multi-party system; whereas, the US has a deeply entrenched and highly tribalized two-party system, where any acknowledgment of error by one party is seen as undermining its credibility to the benefit of the other party. It’s a zero-sum game in the blue-state/red-state tribal politics currently operative in the US.
There’s an interesting theory proposed by Eugyppius that it’s because in the US there was much more effective political pushback (like in Florida), with the result that the CDC knows it no longer speaks to half the electorate and this has “freed” it to go all-in on telling the left what it wants to hear. In Europe there was very little right wing political pushback, with the result that European health agencies still consider themselves to have something to lose and this pushes them towards some moderation.
Penelope Paris
8 months ago
This was the plan the whole time. Create a product that the whole world needs to take every year, it’s called a “cash cow.” Who wins? Power. Money. Control.
Hugh Bryant
8 months ago
If you want to understand why the US government is so intent on stuffing the entire population with drugs then read RFK’s book on Tony Fauci.
Norman Powers
8 months ago
Good article, brave even. The fact that flu vaccines don’t seem to work is one of those horrifying tidbits I discovered during 2021 … widely acknowledged in the literature but it’s had no impact on policy.
They even seem to make you more likely to catch the flu in some cases. Your body ends up memorizing the wrong antibodies and doesn’t adapt them properly to new variants.
20 year olds: a group well known to be at risk.
Trust the science
The continuation of a failed policy is a two edged sword. Can dogmatists really simply deny their own propaganda at this point? So they continue to force the issue, and in so doing, they remind the public of 2+ years of unchecked brutality and open injustice. It is a big gamble given the quantifiable loss of institutional trust characterizing the public today.
This is Fauci being asked by his pharma friends to bring an eye back to their profits.
Nothing should surprise in a federal-corporate structure able to tolerate limitlessly depths of corruption – from outsourced gain-of-function research to the CCP’s bioweapons division, to mutilating teenagers under the guise of gender-affirming care.
Received my letter to make my appointment for a covid booster (I’m apparently high risk due to a blood condition) & flu shot – went straight into the bin.
I feel like we have a broken society when people in the highest positions of trust say things that are absurd, which they know are absurd, yet we are still compelled to comply with them. It was truly disheartening to see Canada’s Federal Public Health officer engaging in more Covid fearmongering. She would be just as convincing to me ringing gongs or consulting goat entrails given her track record in the last three years.
The “elites” habit of saying (perhaps even believing) obviously untrue things, and insisting everyone else believe them, too, feels terrifyingly like the behavior of the Soviets…. I wish Solzhenitsyn were around to offer his critique of the past ten years of American life.
Lauren Bacall ‘I need the money, honey ‘.
At this rate, if it doesn’t work, we’ll have to send round a hat for Bilbo Gates, the world’s richest ‘philanthropist ‘ .
Corporate bodies, such as governments, are often willing to do what an individual would resist doing because responsibility is dispersed.
Here we go again!
Is this not gaslighting?
Yes.
Not to mention that America is entering an election cycle,
No they are rubbing our faces in it and mocking us – the message is “we can do anything we want – no matter how stupid – no matter how harmful – because enough of your fellow citizens are gullible and vapid enough to believe us and elect us over and over again. We know that you know we are evil – and we are just laughing at you because you can’t stop us”.
It long, long since stopped being about Covid or epidemiology. It’s been about power since at least mid-summer 2020.
That’s too simplistic by far (as is so depressingly common on here). You can’t understand anything if you resort to conspiracy theories. Groupthink, availability heuristic, and, yes, political leanings and control all play a part.
But try some obvious critical thinking: why isn’t this “power” being exerted in Europe, where some countries (eg Austria) were even more gung ho in covid restrictions and vaccine mandates than blue state America. They have quietly but very comprehensively dropped them. (Ah, no doubt the population there are already acquiescent and submissive comes the predictable retort…..!)
There are lots of differences between the political culture of the US and Austria… I should have thought that was obvious. At the very least, Austria has a multi-party system; whereas, the US has a deeply entrenched and highly tribalized two-party system, where any acknowledgment of error by one party is seen as undermining its credibility to the benefit of the other party. It’s a zero-sum game in the blue-state/red-state tribal politics currently operative in the US.
There’s an interesting theory proposed by Eugyppius that it’s because in the US there was much more effective political pushback (like in Florida), with the result that the CDC knows it no longer speaks to half the electorate and this has “freed” it to go all-in on telling the left what it wants to hear. In Europe there was very little right wing political pushback, with the result that European health agencies still consider themselves to have something to lose and this pushes them towards some moderation.
This was the plan the whole time. Create a product that the whole world needs to take every year, it’s called a “cash cow.” Who wins? Power. Money. Control.
If you want to understand why the US government is so intent on stuffing the entire population with drugs then read RFK’s book on Tony Fauci.
Good article, brave even. The fact that flu vaccines don’t seem to work is one of those horrifying tidbits I discovered during 2021 … widely acknowledged in the literature but it’s had no impact on policy.
They even seem to make you more likely to catch the flu in some cases. Your body ends up memorizing the wrong antibodies and doesn’t adapt them properly to new variants.