So many media outlets were dispensing Gallons of Narrative per minute: let’s freak out about this virus, and stay home all the time (except when we go out), and not research matters relating to Health for ourselves (until a vaccine is ready), and not park kids in front of devices (except for entire days and weeks and months of Distance Learning), and make things feel “normal” and “safe” (we must only hang with Intelligent, Careful people, and even then, intermittently).
How long did the propagandists think they could string us along? And why was there so much of it to begin with?
I told my kids it was well past time to really talk about death. Exhibit A Number One Question: what made “covid deaths” more deathy than other deaths?
My kids were already totally tired of me talking about how we have an unprecedented number of epidemics facing us today, which all fit under the umbrella label of Chronic Illness: autism/ADHD, depression, behavioral disorders, mental health problems, addiction, diabetes, hypoglycemia, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, skin problems, digestive issues, thyroid problems, overweight and obesity, reproductive challenges, hormonal imbalances, kidney problems, hypertension, inflammation, feeding problems, developmental delays and “sensory” problems, not to mention dozens of strange disorders involving the immune system that are literally just being described in the medical literature as more and more people get diagnosed with strange, so far incurable maladies.
All these modern diseases add up to an incredible number of early deaths (“seven out of 10 deaths in the U.S.” - more than 1.7 million Americans per year https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5876976/#sec1-ijerph-15-00431title) and reduced quality of life, and these diseases barely existed a few hundred years ago, even in places where people lived a long time. Sure, there were odd cases here and there, but nowhere even approaching the levels of illness that exist today.
I’m not a medical professional, but it doesn’t take a fancy degree to understand that this isn’t a matter of genetics. Changes to the genome take a LOT longer than one or two generations to express, and while genes can predispose us to developing a certain set of symptoms, our modern industrialized lifestyle brings us a lot more problems than “mere” susceptibility to infectious disease. Never before have humans felt this crappy overall, required this much medication and doctors’ expertise to stay alive, and been so able to survive in a weakened state. We humans are very flexible, and good at normalizing the poor health of ourselves and our families to an enormous degree. But while our epidemic of modern diseases is common, it is NOT normal. Rather than blame disease on poor genes, and infection purely on the infectious agent, it seems like an important line of research is to look at people who are healthy and who have recovered from various diseases, and try to understand why their bodies are working so WELL…so Normally.
The only problem is, this is not very profitable. Which leads to an uneasy conclusion: the outcome that is best for the financial bottom line of the corporations tasked with protecting our “health” in this country…is the outcome that involves us collectively _staying sick_. To wit: more than 85% of the trillions of dollars spent on public and private healthcare in 2020 went toward treatments for chronic disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7077778/
We are not a healthy bunch here in the industrialized world, and this did not start nor end with covid. It is hard to avoid another unpleasant conclusion: those who called for masks, lockdowns, and vaccines wanted us to think covid deaths were more important, more worrisome, and unworthy of any frame of reference as compared with all the other things people die from, in order to scare us more. Further motivation can be found by simply glancing at Big Pharma’s obscene profits over the past three years: by suppressing and censoring information about effective, cheap ways to treat covid, and continually amping up the fear factor, fast-tracked vaccines became coveted and mandated. That’s how we ended up with “vaccines” that didn’t prevent infection nor transmission yet became the world’s most profitable drugs, available with complete and total liability protection for the manufacturers under emergency use authorization and then the childhood vaccine liability shield. Why would any pharmaceutical company NOT jump at the opportunity to snag a piece of the action, no conspiracy theories needed?
The narrative concerning the sudden virtues of these criminal pharmaceutical companies (I refer to too many lawsuits and immoral human experiments, domestically and abroad in recent decades, to list them here) remains stunning, because so many people adopted it and continue to proselytize it as their own. Especially those on the left.
One night, I wanted to make a little sketch of some numbers, admittedly squirrelly as they all are.
I found the CDC stating covid had “caused” 452,279 deaths over the past 11 months in the USA (it’s worth noting that some countries and populations experienced almost no covid fatalities, and it would be fascinating to investigate why). This number, of course, includes countless hospital “covid death” reports such as these:
88M, PART 1: a. Failure to thrive, b. dementia, c. type II diabetes, PART 2: COVID-19 positive
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79F, PART 1: a. renal cancer – 4 months, PART 2: COVID-1
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74F, Accident, PART 1: a. COVID-19 infection & bronchopulmonary aspergillosis complicating sequelae of blunt force injury of right, PART 2: diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, obesity
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84F, PART 1: a. Alzheimer’s, PART 2: COVID-19 disease
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88M, PART 1: a. cancer of larynx, PART 2: COVID-19 infection
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85F, PART 1: a. Arteriosclerotic CV disease, PART 2: Atrial fibrillation, COVID-19
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60M, PART 1: a. Septic shock – days b. E Coli Bacterium-UTI c. GI bleed – acute blood loss anemia-esophageal necrosis d. acute hypoxemic respiratory failure, PART 2: Hypertension, HX of COVID
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88F, PART 1: a. Complications of dementia, PART 2: Atrial fibrillation, arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, COVID-19
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79F, PART 1: a. Coronary artery disease – years, PART 2: COVID-19, myeloproliferative disorder, diabetes, Parkinson’s
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83F, Accident, PART 1: a. Complications of COVID-19 – NS, PART 2: Traumatic brain injury, failure to thrive, atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease, urinary tract infection
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87F, PART 1: a. Senile degeneration of brain, PART 2: Complications related to COVID-19 infection
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98F, PART 1: a. End stage dementia b. Adult failure to thrive c. Positive COVID-19, PART 2: blank
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64M, PART 1: a. Acute heart failure b. Chronic systolic heart failure c. Ischemic cardiomyopathy d. A. Fib, hypertension, HLD, PART 2: COVID-19
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72M, PART 1: a. Parkinson’s disease, PART 2: Hypertension, history of COVID-19 and deep vein thrombosis in Jul
Meanwhile, there were over 6 million car accidents in the USA in 2021, which killed 42,915 people and injured over 2 million more.
Covid is different, people kept saying. Covid deaths are preventable! But so are car accidents, technically. By doing little more than not-driving, your risk is virtually eliminated! If we were really serious about saving lives, we could lockdown, stay home, and so many lives would be saved every year! Or, why not lockdown until such time as cars are made safer? Why not double down on protecting the world from car accident deaths? Why not stop as many car accident deaths as possible?
Also of note, cancer in 2021 was estimated to have killed 693,000 Americans.
Heart Disease rates are also increasing, with 604,000 Americans dying from it in 2021.
And then, of course, there are dozens of other Chronic Diseases under our umbrella. Kidney failure affects almost 750,000 people per year in the United States, disproportionately minority and low-income patients. (Compared to whites: African Americans are 3.5 times more likely to have kidney failure.) (Statistics · The Kidney Project · UCSF)
Diabetes deaths topped 100,000 in 2021.
I found some buried reports about handsome bonuses that many hospitals were getting for each death certificate that included a positive covid PCR test result. I mean, it’s hard not to see how practices like these would bump up the covid death rates and remove focus from other issues.
Life is a messy, risky, and at times lethal adventure, and while it’s perfectly acceptable and in fact compassionate to try to lower this risk to some extent, a complete elimination of all risk would create a dull, lifeless world devoid of conviviality and meaning…
On the one hand, there is the attitude that Death must be vanquished at all costs; that the highest value is survival and safety, both for ourselves and for the ones we love; that the natural order is cruel and unjust and should be controlled and sanitized.
On the other hand, there is the perspective that an overemphasis on fighting Death — which, after all, is an inevitable part of life — ultimately ends up sacrificing the very things we live for. Those of us in the latter category don’t advocate a cold indifference to fate or a “let it rip” attitude; we merely believe that the fight against Death should not become an all-consuming holy war, which demands as its sacrifice the soul.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-boy-who-trapped-death-in-a-nut/
I guessed it was quite clear, actually, and not stupid at all: the mainstream covid summary-of-events was way easier to propagandize. “Here’s The Very Simple and Scary Message - And Stay Safe, Everyone!!”
It is a great relief to read these articles. I have felt and thought very much like you have during these past couple of years, and the aloneness has been stunning to me. I weave my way through what feels like collective madness, wondering if it's me who's mad... but knowing No. I'm not mad. I'm just in a minority all of a sudden and it feels very strange indeed.
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled." Mark Twain
Sara, I'm sorry you were made to feel isolated and alone throughout this whole pandemic debacle.
Me too.
Except I learned early on that there are those who can't face that they've been lied to and don't bother to do research themselves (a deep dive) so, even if you try to share what you've uncovered in your research, they will twist the discussion from the topic and facts you present, to a personal attack. Or steer it away from the subject at hand.
It's a cheap trick. it's easier to create a new paradigm (Sara bad!) than to admit they were wrong, and you were right. This is common in those with strong egos and weak or non-existent facts to back up their position. Don't go down that rabbit hole or think it's you. It's not.
It happened to me once when I was vilified for pointing out that 900 vaccinated people got Covid in Provincetown Mass over the 4th of July weekend last year with several in the hospital, after being told by EVERYONE on the left that "COVID STOPS HERE - GET VACCINATED, NO COVID." I lost several friends by sharing that. Of course, I was right, they were wrong, and the term "breakthrough covid" was invented, instead of calling it what it was, VACCINE FAILURE.
That's been my experience anyway. But really, you should feel sorry for them at this point.
Let's face it, they were wrong about vaccine mandates - the shot doesn't stop transmission and now we find more lies - it was never even tested for transmission. Tell that to the sanitation workers, police officers and other blue-collar workers who lost their jobs because of the mandates. They didn't take the jab THAT DID NOT WORK! How humiliating it must be for vocal vaccine proponents to realize they are/were on the wrong side of history! And certainly not on the side of "the working man" (said by a union supporting family)
The experimental shot doesn't stop infection. WHAT??? And we are all supposed to accept that?
Or as one man said, "If my dog got 3 rabies shots and still got rabies, I'd be asking some questions!"
The latest studies show, the more "boosters" one gets, the more likely one is to get Covid. (And YOU are the odd one Sara??? I don't think so.)
Then the absurd narrative that it stops serious illness and/or death. Studies WORLDWIDE show the majority of those hospitalized and dying are vaxed and boosted.
(All documentation available for any facts presented here - didn't want to get too tedious)
One dead, 6 serious vaccine injuries in my immediate family/friends. THEN, and ONLY THEN, are those injured people able to say, "Wow, we have been lied to and this whole Covid response by (mostly) the left, has been a disaster." They ask for help, but it's too late. But I do know doctors who can help. The new specialty: Treatment for vaccine injured.
The left screwed up and continues to screw up by sticking to the "safe and effective" narrative, when these shots are anything but.
Almost $100 billion in profits for the shots by Pfizer - what could go wrong?
Pfizer’s reprehensible rap sheet prior to the pinnacle of its criminality – its mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.biznews.com/health/2023/01/11/pfizer-covid-rap-sheet
Sara, you are on the right side of history. It may not feel it now because of the extreme censorship and millions (billions) of dollars being spent to silence anyone who questions the official (pharmaceutical/paid off politician) narrative.
When I was growing up our battle cry was, "QUESTION AUTHORITY!"
Now, sadly it's "OBEY AUTHORITY!"
You are brave and honest and kind and tried to help them. Don't bother. They will eventually find out for themselves.