https://brownstone.org/articles/we-must-never-forget/
We Must Never Forget
BY THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON JUNE 21, 2022 HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH 8
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According to the UN, lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption
from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children.
And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths
from Covid-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the >spike in excess deaths from other causes.
Now, when the attempts at slowing or stopping the spread of the virus,
either through lockdowns or vaccination have failed, and it has become >endemic, it is time to move on. But it is not time to forget. For if we >forget we are in a danger of repeating this horrifying experiment.
In short, the situation is this: Information about the failure of
lockdowns is slowly emerging. More and more information on the
catastrophes caused by them is leaking out, even making it into the >mainstream media now. People are starting to feel on their own skin the >economic consequences and attempts at pinning all that on the war in
Ukraine are doomed to fail.
Even if the majority of the vaccinated may still hang on to their belief
that the vaccination did something for them, the spiking excess
mortality and the obvious failure of the vaccines to prevent
transmission are really too clear to be denied. And now it even turns
out the original claims of efficacy were based on a falsification of data.
At the same time, most people have become complicit in the lockdown and >vaccination narrative. They have repeated the mantras so often they >themselves have become stakeholders; it is now their narrative also,
which means changing opinion is difficult. It is hard to admit having
been fooled, especially when you‘ve taken an active part in fooling
others also. And if you‘ve been active in ostracizing your unvaccinated >friends and relatives, there may even be no way back for you.
Most people still believe in the narrative, consider those sceptical of
the vaccines as crazy “anti-vaxxers“, and the belief in the lockdowns is >based on a very strong fallacy of intuition, which is hard to escape. >Admitting that what you‘ve wholeheartedly supported is not only causing >misery and death all around the world, but even scarring your own
children for life, is probably too difficult for most people. So they
close their eyes.
Before I continue, a word of caution: Almost from the very outset, I
realized there was something fishy about the whole story; there was such
a huge discrepancy between the facts and the narrative. In fact I had
been focusing hard on the application of critical, logical thinking in
the months before, publishing a book on the subject just before the
pandemic struck. So I was in a questioning mood already.
Mostly, my predictions have been proven correct, whether it is the >consequences of the lockdowns, the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, the >uselessness of masking or the lockdowns for curbing transmissions. But
being right on one count doesn‘t mean you have to be right on the next,
and belonging to a small minority with strong views may well taint my >analysis and predictions.
Anyhow, here‘s what I think: I believe we‘re approaching a tipping
point. The facts speak for themselves, and facts have the annoying habit
of becoming known; in the end they always do. We are still in the phase
of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, we still cannot
comprehend the consequences of what was done to us; what we did to
ourselves, perhaps by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by
psychologist Mattias Desmet. But this stage cannot last long; this is
the quiet before the storm hits.
Most people don‘t know the storm is about to hit. But those who have a >questioning mind and can think clearly and critically and see where we
are heading. They see how the inflation, the supply disruptions and
shortages have been caused by lockdowns and unprecedented money printing
to support them. Those who understand even a little bit about psychology
can see the devastating effects of school-closures and masking on
children. Those who have read the reports on rising hunger and
collateral deaths caused by healthcare disruption and isolation, and
those who can read and judge medical studies and understand the data on >vaccine effectiveness, know the cause.
Many of the longer-term consequences will emerge slowly. The
deterioration in children‘s education, the psychological scarring; those
will emerge slowly and the cause-effect relationship may not be clear to
most people. Hunger and deaths in Third World countries will be ignored
in the affluent West as usual, though not in the countries affected. The >damage from the vaccination campaigns will become more visible as time >passes, especially if the most pessimistic predictions regarding
people‘s health hold true. But it is the economic reality we are facing
that will be the loudest wake-up call. Surging inflation is leaving
people considerably worse off. Many will lose their homes, living
standards will fall, the poorest will go hungry.
In Iceland, after the financial crash of 2008, when the local currency
was devalued by half and all the country‘s banks went bust, thousands
lost their homes and unemployment surged. In early 2009, massive
protests drove a democratically elected government out of power and the
blame was pinned on reckless bankers, admired by all a few months
before, based on a fairytale of the unfailing ingeniousness of Icelandic >bankers and businessmen; and of course on politicians for not having
seen what was in the cards.
Who will be blamed this time? Will it only be Putin? That‘s unlikely, at >least that explanation will not hold for long; people will seek the
culprits closer to home. The Americans, Chinese, Africans, Indians, many
of whom have barely heard of Ukraine and to whom Europe is an
unimportant and decaying part of the world, how likely are they to blame
a far-away warlord, when at home their politicians have not only failed
to keep their promises but have lied to them also on a massive scale?
The economic consequences will force people‘s minds to question the
rest. Once they‘ve realized what drives the inflation and devaluation of >their pensions, they‘ll start questioning the vaccines, if only due to
the surge in excess deaths and the adverse effects experienced by many.
Once you‘ve found someone to blame for one thing, you‘ll quickly pin the
next one on them also, especially when they haven‘t been entirely
honest. You decided to believe them, even if you had a hunch what they
said wasn‘t true; you chose to overlook it, but now; now they‘ve done
this to me, I‘m losing my home, I cannot put food on the table, I still
have those lingering side effects ever since my vaccination, my
daughter‘s been depressed since the school closures and it‘s only
getting worse; what a fool I was to believe those bastards!
This is the way it will play out. The tipping point will be the economic >shock. The rest will follow suit.
But what then? Many of the key players behind the catastrophe have
already started to distance themselves from their earlier propaganda. A
few, like UK SAGE member Mark Woolhouse even seem to regret their
actions. But many more will not. Recently the Icelandic chief
epidemiologist said in an interview the lockdowns hadn‘t been stringent >enough. And he blamed those few politicians who voiced their doubts and >worried about the well-being of society as a whole, for undermining the >solidarity behind the measures.
As if he were the emperor, the politicians only his servants. And he is
not alone. Many of those people will continue pushing the narrative even
as it crumbles around them. They will be the first targets of people‘s
anger. Then it will be the politicians, pharmaceuticals, media and big tech.
There will of course be strong pushback. There will be a scramble for >alternative truths once the narrative starts crumbling; for something to
keep the veil on the lies and atrocities. The push for continued
masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates will continue for a while.
And we shouldn‘t forget there are huge interests at stake here, to
certain very big business sectors, lockdowns are a godsend; human
interaction is a threat to them. The censorship will be ramped up even >further. But despite all the power, money and technology, the facts will >emerge, the truth will prevail in the end. It always does.
Some might say I‘m too optimistic, that we are already under the control
of conspiring media, big-tech and corrupt officials, with no way out.
But is it really so? Recently a US attempt at handing unprecedented
powers over to the WHO was averted, thanks mostly to African leaders and >strong public opposition. The vaccine mandates are disappearing and what
will eventually come of the still existing plans for health passes is >unclear. But of course the danger is still there.
What really matters is how we react as the narrative crumbles. Will we
just shrug and move on with our daily lives, not caring about the threat
to our freedom and humanity? Or will we face the consequences of our
failure to think critically, of our gullibility, our lack of moral
integrity, as the German people were forced to do after World War II, as
the Icelanders had to do after 2008?
Will we bring those responsible to court? Will we learn, once again the
hard way, how the only thing that can prevent such catastrophes in the
future is taking responsibility as thinking, doubting individuals?
And will we finally understand the true meaning of Hannah Arendt‘s
conclusion in The Origins of Totaliarianism, that flawed as it may be,
it is only a sovereign nation state of free people, governed by elected >representatives who take their responsibility seriously; as they did in
the tiny Faroe Islands during the pandemic; and not unelected officials, >supranational organizations or huge corporations; that only the nation
state is really able to protect universal human rights?
We have to move on. We have to rebuild our societies, reestablish our
moral values and our rights, rebuild trust in science and trust within
our communities. But to truly move on, we must face, understand and act
on the roots of the catastrophe, and take full responsibility for the
part each of us played. This is why we must not forget. We must never
forget.
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-must-never-forget/
We Must Never Forget
BY THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON JUNE 21, 2022 HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH 8
MINUTE READ
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According to the UN, lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption
from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children.
And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths
from Covid-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the >spike in excess deaths from other causes.
Now, when the attempts at slowing or stopping the spread of the virus,
either through lockdowns or vaccination have failed, and it has become >endemic, it is time to move on. But it is not time to forget. For if we >forget we are in a danger of repeating this horrifying experiment.
In short, the situation is this: Information about the failure of
lockdowns is slowly emerging. More and more information on the
catastrophes caused by them is leaking out, even making it into the >mainstream media now. People are starting to feel on their own skin the >economic consequences and attempts at pinning all that on the war in
Ukraine are doomed to fail.
Even if the majority of the vaccinated may still hang on to their belief
that the vaccination did something for them, the spiking excess
mortality and the obvious failure of the vaccines to prevent
transmission are really too clear to be denied. And now it even turns
out the original claims of efficacy were based on a falsification of data.
At the same time, most people have become complicit in the lockdown and >vaccination narrative. They have repeated the mantras so often they >themselves have become stakeholders; it is now their narrative also,
which means changing opinion is difficult. It is hard to admit having
been fooled, especially when you‘ve taken an active part in fooling
others also. And if you‘ve been active in ostracizing your unvaccinated >friends and relatives, there may even be no way back for you.
Most people still believe in the narrative, consider those sceptical of
the vaccines as crazy “anti-vaxxers“, and the belief in the lockdowns is >based on a very strong fallacy of intuition, which is hard to escape. >Admitting that what you‘ve wholeheartedly supported is not only causing >misery and death all around the world, but even scarring your own
children for life, is probably too difficult for most people. So they
close their eyes.
Before I continue, a word of caution: Almost from the very outset, I
realized there was something fishy about the whole story; there was such
a huge discrepancy between the facts and the narrative. In fact I had
been focusing hard on the application of critical, logical thinking in
the months before, publishing a book on the subject just before the
pandemic struck. So I was in a questioning mood already.
Mostly, my predictions have been proven correct, whether it is the >consequences of the lockdowns, the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, the >uselessness of masking or the lockdowns for curbing transmissions. But
being right on one count doesn‘t mean you have to be right on the next,
and belonging to a small minority with strong views may well taint my >analysis and predictions.
Anyhow, here‘s what I think: I believe we‘re approaching a tipping
point. The facts speak for themselves, and facts have the annoying habit
of becoming known; in the end they always do. We are still in the phase
of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, we still cannot
comprehend the consequences of what was done to us; what we did to
ourselves, perhaps by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by
psychologist Mattias Desmet. But this stage cannot last long; this is
the quiet before the storm hits.
Most people don‘t know the storm is about to hit. But those who have a >questioning mind and can think clearly and critically and see where we
are heading. They see how the inflation, the supply disruptions and
shortages have been caused by lockdowns and unprecedented money printing
to support them. Those who understand even a little bit about psychology
can see the devastating effects of school-closures and masking on
children. Those who have read the reports on rising hunger and
collateral deaths caused by healthcare disruption and isolation, and
those who can read and judge medical studies and understand the data on >vaccine effectiveness, know the cause.
Many of the longer-term consequences will emerge slowly. The
deterioration in children‘s education, the psychological scarring; those
will emerge slowly and the cause-effect relationship may not be clear to
most people. Hunger and deaths in Third World countries will be ignored
in the affluent West as usual, though not in the countries affected. The >damage from the vaccination campaigns will become more visible as time >passes, especially if the most pessimistic predictions regarding
people‘s health hold true. But it is the economic reality we are facing
that will be the loudest wake-up call. Surging inflation is leaving
people considerably worse off. Many will lose their homes, living
standards will fall, the poorest will go hungry.
In Iceland, after the financial crash of 2008, when the local currency
was devalued by half and all the country‘s banks went bust, thousands
lost their homes and unemployment surged. In early 2009, massive
protests drove a democratically elected government out of power and the
blame was pinned on reckless bankers, admired by all a few months
before, based on a fairytale of the unfailing ingeniousness of Icelandic >bankers and businessmen; and of course on politicians for not having
seen what was in the cards.
Who will be blamed this time? Will it only be Putin? That‘s unlikely, at >least that explanation will not hold for long; people will seek the
culprits closer to home. The Americans, Chinese, Africans, Indians, many
of whom have barely heard of Ukraine and to whom Europe is an
unimportant and decaying part of the world, how likely are they to blame
a far-away warlord, when at home their politicians have not only failed
to keep their promises but have lied to them also on a massive scale?
The economic consequences will force people‘s minds to question the
rest. Once they‘ve realized what drives the inflation and devaluation of >their pensions, they‘ll start questioning the vaccines, if only due to
the surge in excess deaths and the adverse effects experienced by many.
Once you‘ve found someone to blame for one thing, you‘ll quickly pin the
next one on them also, especially when they haven‘t been entirely
honest. You decided to believe them, even if you had a hunch what they
said wasn‘t true; you chose to overlook it, but now; now they‘ve done
this to me, I‘m losing my home, I cannot put food on the table, I still
have those lingering side effects ever since my vaccination, my
daughter‘s been depressed since the school closures and it‘s only
getting worse; what a fool I was to believe those bastards!
This is the way it will play out. The tipping point will be the economic >shock. The rest will follow suit.
But what then? Many of the key players behind the catastrophe have
already started to distance themselves from their earlier propaganda. A
few, like UK SAGE member Mark Woolhouse even seem to regret their
actions. But many more will not. Recently the Icelandic chief
epidemiologist said in an interview the lockdowns hadn‘t been stringent >enough. And he blamed those few politicians who voiced their doubts and >worried about the well-being of society as a whole, for undermining the >solidarity behind the measures.
As if he were the emperor, the politicians only his servants. And he is
not alone. Many of those people will continue pushing the narrative even
as it crumbles around them. They will be the first targets of people‘s
anger. Then it will be the politicians, pharmaceuticals, media and big tech.
There will of course be strong pushback. There will be a scramble for >alternative truths once the narrative starts crumbling; for something to
keep the veil on the lies and atrocities. The push for continued
masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates will continue for a while.
And we shouldn‘t forget there are huge interests at stake here, to
certain very big business sectors, lockdowns are a godsend; human
interaction is a threat to them. The censorship will be ramped up even >further. But despite all the power, money and technology, the facts will >emerge, the truth will prevail in the end. It always does.
Some might say I‘m too optimistic, that we are already under the control
of conspiring media, big-tech and corrupt officials, with no way out.
But is it really so? Recently a US attempt at handing unprecedented
powers over to the WHO was averted, thanks mostly to African leaders and >strong public opposition. The vaccine mandates are disappearing and what
will eventually come of the still existing plans for health passes is >unclear. But of course the danger is still there.
What really matters is how we react as the narrative crumbles. Will we
just shrug and move on with our daily lives, not caring about the threat
to our freedom and humanity? Or will we face the consequences of our
failure to think critically, of our gullibility, our lack of moral
integrity, as the German people were forced to do after World War II, as
the Icelanders had to do after 2008?
Will we bring those responsible to court? Will we learn, once again the
hard way, how the only thing that can prevent such catastrophes in the
future is taking responsibility as thinking, doubting individuals?
And will we finally understand the true meaning of Hannah Arendt‘s
conclusion in The Origins of Totaliarianism, that flawed as it may be,
it is only a sovereign nation state of free people, governed by elected >representatives who take their responsibility seriously; as they did in
the tiny Faroe Islands during the pandemic; and not unelected officials, >supranational organizations or huge corporations; that only the nation
state is really able to protect universal human rights?
We have to move on. We have to rebuild our societies, reestablish our
moral values and our rights, rebuild trust in science and trust within
our communities. But to truly move on, we must face, understand and act
on the roots of the catastrophe, and take full responsibility for the
part each of us played. This is why we must not forget. We must never
forget.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: The LORD says "Blessed are you who hunger now ..."
Shame on andrew, look at his red face.
He is trying to pull a fast one. His scripture bit is found among these:
'14 Bible verses about Spiritual Hunger'
Psalms
81:10 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Proverbs
13:25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of the wicked is in need.
Joel
2:26 And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my
people shall never be ashamed.
Psalms
107 For he satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.
Acts
14:17 "Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying
your hearts with food and gladness."
someone eternally condemned & ever more cursed by GOD perseverated:
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Subject: a very very very simple definition of sin ...
Does andrew's "definition" agree with scripture? Let's see in 1 John:
ongoingJohn wrote this to christians. The greek grammer (sic) speaks of an
status. He includes himself in that status.
sins,1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is
not in us.
1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our
word isand to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his
not in us.
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-must-never-forget/
We Must Never Forget
BY THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON JUNE 21, 2022 HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH 8
MINUTE READ
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL
According to the UN, lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption
from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children.
And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths >>from Covid-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the
spike in excess deaths from other causes.
Now, when the attempts at slowing or stopping the spread of the virus,
either through lockdowns or vaccination have failed, and it has become
endemic, it is time to move on. But it is not time to forget. For if we
forget we are in a danger of repeating this horrifying experiment.
In short, the situation is this: Information about the failure of
lockdowns is slowly emerging. More and more information on the
catastrophes caused by them is leaking out, even making it into the
mainstream media now. People are starting to feel on their own skin the
economic consequences and attempts at pinning all that on the war in
Ukraine are doomed to fail.
Even if the majority of the vaccinated may still hang on to their belief
that the vaccination did something for them, the spiking excess
mortality and the obvious failure of the vaccines to prevent
transmission are really too clear to be denied. And now it even turns
out the original claims of efficacy were based on a falsification of data. >>
At the same time, most people have become complicit in the lockdown and
vaccination narrative. They have repeated the mantras so often they
themselves have become stakeholders; it is now their narrative also,
which means changing opinion is difficult. It is hard to admit having
been fooled, especially when you‘ve taken an active part in fooling
others also. And if you‘ve been active in ostracizing your unvaccinated
friends and relatives, there may even be no way back for you.
Most people still believe in the narrative, consider those sceptical of
the vaccines as crazy “anti-vaxxers“, and the belief in the lockdowns is >> based on a very strong fallacy of intuition, which is hard to escape.
Admitting that what you‘ve wholeheartedly supported is not only causing
misery and death all around the world, but even scarring your own
children for life, is probably too difficult for most people. So they
close their eyes.
Before I continue, a word of caution: Almost from the very outset, I
realized there was something fishy about the whole story; there was such
a huge discrepancy between the facts and the narrative. In fact I had
been focusing hard on the application of critical, logical thinking in
the months before, publishing a book on the subject just before the
pandemic struck. So I was in a questioning mood already.
Mostly, my predictions have been proven correct, whether it is the
consequences of the lockdowns, the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, the
uselessness of masking or the lockdowns for curbing transmissions. But
being right on one count doesn‘t mean you have to be right on the next,
and belonging to a small minority with strong views may well taint my
analysis and predictions.
Anyhow, here‘s what I think: I believe we‘re approaching a tipping
point. The facts speak for themselves, and facts have the annoying habit
of becoming known; in the end they always do. We are still in the phase
of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, we still cannot
comprehend the consequences of what was done to us; what we did to
ourselves, perhaps by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by
psychologist Mattias Desmet. But this stage cannot last long; this is
the quiet before the storm hits.
Most people don‘t know the storm is about to hit. But those who have a
questioning mind and can think clearly and critically and see where we
are heading. They see how the inflation, the supply disruptions and
shortages have been caused by lockdowns and unprecedented money printing
to support them. Those who understand even a little bit about psychology
can see the devastating effects of school-closures and masking on
children. Those who have read the reports on rising hunger and
collateral deaths caused by healthcare disruption and isolation, and
those who can read and judge medical studies and understand the data on
vaccine effectiveness, know the cause.
Many of the longer-term consequences will emerge slowly. The
deterioration in children‘s education, the psychological scarring; those >> will emerge slowly and the cause-effect relationship may not be clear to
most people. Hunger and deaths in Third World countries will be ignored
in the affluent West as usual, though not in the countries affected. The
damage from the vaccination campaigns will become more visible as time
passes, especially if the most pessimistic predictions regarding
people‘s health hold true. But it is the economic reality we are facing
that will be the loudest wake-up call. Surging inflation is leaving
people considerably worse off. Many will lose their homes, living
standards will fall, the poorest will go hungry.
In Iceland, after the financial crash of 2008, when the local currency
was devalued by half and all the country‘s banks went bust, thousands
lost their homes and unemployment surged. In early 2009, massive
protests drove a democratically elected government out of power and the
blame was pinned on reckless bankers, admired by all a few months
before, based on a fairytale of the unfailing ingeniousness of Icelandic
bankers and businessmen; and of course on politicians for not having
seen what was in the cards.
Who will be blamed this time? Will it only be Putin? That‘s unlikely, at >> least that explanation will not hold for long; people will seek the
culprits closer to home. The Americans, Chinese, Africans, Indians, many
of whom have barely heard of Ukraine and to whom Europe is an
unimportant and decaying part of the world, how likely are they to blame
a far-away warlord, when at home their politicians have not only failed
to keep their promises but have lied to them also on a massive scale?
The economic consequences will force people‘s minds to question the
rest. Once they‘ve realized what drives the inflation and devaluation of >> their pensions, they‘ll start questioning the vaccines, if only due to
the surge in excess deaths and the adverse effects experienced by many.
Once you‘ve found someone to blame for one thing, you‘ll quickly pin the >> next one on them also, especially when they haven‘t been entirely
honest. You decided to believe them, even if you had a hunch what they
said wasn‘t true; you chose to overlook it, but now; now they‘ve done
this to me, I‘m losing my home, I cannot put food on the table, I still
have those lingering side effects ever since my vaccination, my
daughter‘s been depressed since the school closures and it‘s only
getting worse; what a fool I was to believe those bastards!
This is the way it will play out. The tipping point will be the economic
shock. The rest will follow suit.
But what then? Many of the key players behind the catastrophe have
already started to distance themselves from their earlier propaganda. A
few, like UK SAGE member Mark Woolhouse even seem to regret their
actions. But many more will not. Recently the Icelandic chief
epidemiologist said in an interview the lockdowns hadn‘t been stringent
enough. And he blamed those few politicians who voiced their doubts and
worried about the well-being of society as a whole, for undermining the
solidarity behind the measures.
As if he were the emperor, the politicians only his servants. And he is
not alone. Many of those people will continue pushing the narrative even
as it crumbles around them. They will be the first targets of people‘s
anger. Then it will be the politicians, pharmaceuticals, media and big tech. >>
There will of course be strong pushback. There will be a scramble for
alternative truths once the narrative starts crumbling; for something to
keep the veil on the lies and atrocities. The push for continued
masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates will continue for a while.
And we shouldn‘t forget there are huge interests at stake here, to
certain very big business sectors, lockdowns are a godsend; human
interaction is a threat to them. The censorship will be ramped up even
further. But despite all the power, money and technology, the facts will
emerge, the truth will prevail in the end. It always does.
Some might say I‘m too optimistic, that we are already under the control >> of conspiring media, big-tech and corrupt officials, with no way out.
But is it really so? Recently a US attempt at handing unprecedented
powers over to the WHO was averted, thanks mostly to African leaders and
strong public opposition. The vaccine mandates are disappearing and what
will eventually come of the still existing plans for health passes is
unclear. But of course the danger is still there.
What really matters is how we react as the narrative crumbles. Will we
just shrug and move on with our daily lives, not caring about the threat
to our freedom and humanity? Or will we face the consequences of our
failure to think critically, of our gullibility, our lack of moral
integrity, as the German people were forced to do after World War II, as
the Icelanders had to do after 2008?
Will we bring those responsible to court? Will we learn, once again the
hard way, how the only thing that can prevent such catastrophes in the
future is taking responsibility as thinking, doubting individuals?
And will we finally understand the true meaning of Hannah Arendt‘s
conclusion in The Origins of Totaliarianism, that flawed as it may be,
it is only a sovereign nation state of free people, governed by elected
representatives who take their responsibility seriously; as they did in
the tiny Faroe Islands during the pandemic; and not unelected officials,
supranational organizations or huge corporations; that only the nation
state is really able to protect universal human rights?
We have to move on. We have to rebuild our societies, reestablish our
moral values and our rights, rebuild trust in science and trust within
our communities. But to truly move on, we must face, understand and act
on the roots of the catastrophe, and take full responsibility for the
part each of us played. This is why we must not forget. We must never
forget.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:36:45 -0700, Michael Ejercito
<MEjercit@HotMail.com> wrote:
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-must-never-forget/
We Must Never Forget
BY THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON JUNE 21, 2022 HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH 8
MINUTE READ
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL
According to the UN, lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption
from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children.
And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths >>from Covid-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the
spike in excess deaths from other causes.
Now, when the attempts at slowing or stopping the spread of the virus,
either through lockdowns or vaccination have failed, and it has become
endemic, it is time to move on. But it is not time to forget. For if we
forget we are in a danger of repeating this horrifying experiment.
In short, the situation is this: Information about the failure of
lockdowns is slowly emerging. More and more information on the
catastrophes caused by them is leaking out, even making it into the
mainstream media now. People are starting to feel on their own skin the
economic consequences and attempts at pinning all that on the war in
Ukraine are doomed to fail.
Even if the majority of the vaccinated may still hang on to their belief
that the vaccination did something for them, the spiking excess
mortality and the obvious failure of the vaccines to prevent
transmission are really too clear to be denied. And now it even turns
out the original claims of efficacy were based on a falsification of data. >>
At the same time, most people have become complicit in the lockdown and
vaccination narrative. They have repeated the mantras so often they
themselves have become stakeholders; it is now their narrative also,
which means changing opinion is difficult. It is hard to admit having
been fooled, especially when you‘ve taken an active part in fooling
others also. And if you‘ve been active in ostracizing your unvaccinated
friends and relatives, there may even be no way back for you.
Most people still believe in the narrative, consider those sceptical of
the vaccines as crazy “anti-vaxxers“, and the belief in the lockdowns is >> based on a very strong fallacy of intuition, which is hard to escape.
Admitting that what you‘ve wholeheartedly supported is not only causing
misery and death all around the world, but even scarring your own
children for life, is probably too difficult for most people. So they
close their eyes.
Before I continue, a word of caution: Almost from the very outset, I
realized there was something fishy about the whole story; there was such
a huge discrepancy between the facts and the narrative. In fact I had
been focusing hard on the application of critical, logical thinking in
the months before, publishing a book on the subject just before the
pandemic struck. So I was in a questioning mood already.
Mostly, my predictions have been proven correct, whether it is the
consequences of the lockdowns, the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, the
uselessness of masking or the lockdowns for curbing transmissions. But
being right on one count doesn‘t mean you have to be right on the next,
and belonging to a small minority with strong views may well taint my
analysis and predictions.
Anyhow, here‘s what I think: I believe we‘re approaching a tipping
point. The facts speak for themselves, and facts have the annoying habit
of becoming known; in the end they always do. We are still in the phase
of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, we still cannot
comprehend the consequences of what was done to us; what we did to
ourselves, perhaps by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by
psychologist Mattias Desmet. But this stage cannot last long; this is
the quiet before the storm hits.
Most people don‘t know the storm is about to hit. But those who have a
questioning mind and can think clearly and critically and see where we
are heading. They see how the inflation, the supply disruptions and
shortages have been caused by lockdowns and unprecedented money printing
to support them. Those who understand even a little bit about psychology
can see the devastating effects of school-closures and masking on
children. Those who have read the reports on rising hunger and
collateral deaths caused by healthcare disruption and isolation, and
those who can read and judge medical studies and understand the data on
vaccine effectiveness, know the cause.
Many of the longer-term consequences will emerge slowly. The
deterioration in children‘s education, the psychological scarring; those >> will emerge slowly and the cause-effect relationship may not be clear to
most people. Hunger and deaths in Third World countries will be ignored
in the affluent West as usual, though not in the countries affected. The
damage from the vaccination campaigns will become more visible as time
passes, especially if the most pessimistic predictions regarding
people‘s health hold true. But it is the economic reality we are facing
that will be the loudest wake-up call. Surging inflation is leaving
people considerably worse off. Many will lose their homes, living
standards will fall, the poorest will go hungry.
In Iceland, after the financial crash of 2008, when the local currency
was devalued by half and all the country‘s banks went bust, thousands
lost their homes and unemployment surged. In early 2009, massive
protests drove a democratically elected government out of power and the
blame was pinned on reckless bankers, admired by all a few months
before, based on a fairytale of the unfailing ingeniousness of Icelandic
bankers and businessmen; and of course on politicians for not having
seen what was in the cards.
Who will be blamed this time? Will it only be Putin? That‘s unlikely, at >> least that explanation will not hold for long; people will seek the
culprits closer to home. The Americans, Chinese, Africans, Indians, many
of whom have barely heard of Ukraine and to whom Europe is an
unimportant and decaying part of the world, how likely are they to blame
a far-away warlord, when at home their politicians have not only failed
to keep their promises but have lied to them also on a massive scale?
The economic consequences will force people‘s minds to question the
rest. Once they‘ve realized what drives the inflation and devaluation of >> their pensions, they‘ll start questioning the vaccines, if only due to
the surge in excess deaths and the adverse effects experienced by many.
Once you‘ve found someone to blame for one thing, you‘ll quickly pin the >> next one on them also, especially when they haven‘t been entirely
honest. You decided to believe them, even if you had a hunch what they
said wasn‘t true; you chose to overlook it, but now; now they‘ve done
this to me, I‘m losing my home, I cannot put food on the table, I still
have those lingering side effects ever since my vaccination, my
daughter‘s been depressed since the school closures and it‘s only
getting worse; what a fool I was to believe those bastards!
This is the way it will play out. The tipping point will be the economic
shock. The rest will follow suit.
But what then? Many of the key players behind the catastrophe have
already started to distance themselves from their earlier propaganda. A
few, like UK SAGE member Mark Woolhouse even seem to regret their
actions. But many more will not. Recently the Icelandic chief
epidemiologist said in an interview the lockdowns hadn‘t been stringent
enough. And he blamed those few politicians who voiced their doubts and
worried about the well-being of society as a whole, for undermining the
solidarity behind the measures.
As if he were the emperor, the politicians only his servants. And he is
not alone. Many of those people will continue pushing the narrative even
as it crumbles around them. They will be the first targets of people‘s
anger. Then it will be the politicians, pharmaceuticals, media and big tech. >>
There will of course be strong pushback. There will be a scramble for
alternative truths once the narrative starts crumbling; for something to
keep the veil on the lies and atrocities. The push for continued
masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates will continue for a while.
And we shouldn‘t forget there are huge interests at stake here, to
certain very big business sectors, lockdowns are a godsend; human
interaction is a threat to them. The censorship will be ramped up even
further. But despite all the power, money and technology, the facts will
emerge, the truth will prevail in the end. It always does.
Some might say I‘m too optimistic, that we are already under the control >> of conspiring media, big-tech and corrupt officials, with no way out.
But is it really so? Recently a US attempt at handing unprecedented
powers over to the WHO was averted, thanks mostly to African leaders and
strong public opposition. The vaccine mandates are disappearing and what
will eventually come of the still existing plans for health passes is
unclear. But of course the danger is still there.
What really matters is how we react as the narrative crumbles. Will we
just shrug and move on with our daily lives, not caring about the threat
to our freedom and humanity? Or will we face the consequences of our
failure to think critically, of our gullibility, our lack of moral
integrity, as the German people were forced to do after World War II, as
the Icelanders had to do after 2008?
Will we bring those responsible to court? Will we learn, once again the
hard way, how the only thing that can prevent such catastrophes in the
future is taking responsibility as thinking, doubting individuals?
And will we finally understand the true meaning of Hannah Arendt‘s
conclusion in The Origins of Totaliarianism, that flawed as it may be,
it is only a sovereign nation state of free people, governed by elected
representatives who take their responsibility seriously; as they did in
the tiny Faroe Islands during the pandemic; and not unelected officials,
supranational organizations or huge corporations; that only the nation
state is really able to protect universal human rights?
We have to move on. We have to rebuild our societies, reestablish our
moral values and our rights, rebuild trust in science and trust within
our communities. But to truly move on, we must face, understand and act
on the roots of the catastrophe, and take full responsibility for the
part each of us played. This is why we must not forget. We must never
forget.
Happy Pride Weekend, gook.There is no reason for me to celebrate Pride weekend.
turd give each other monkeypox.
HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
Michael Ejercito wrote:
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-must-never-forget/
We Must Never Forget
BY THORSTEINN SIGLAUGSSON JUNE 21, 2022 HISTORY, PUBLIC HEALTH 8
MINUTE READ
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL
According to the UN, lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption >>>from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children.
And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths >>>from Covid-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the
spike in excess deaths from other causes.
Now, when the attempts at slowing or stopping the spread of the virus,
either through lockdowns or vaccination have failed, and it has become
endemic, it is time to move on. But it is not time to forget. For if we
forget we are in a danger of repeating this horrifying experiment.
In short, the situation is this: Information about the failure of
lockdowns is slowly emerging. More and more information on the
catastrophes caused by them is leaking out, even making it into the
mainstream media now. People are starting to feel on their own skin the
economic consequences and attempts at pinning all that on the war in
Ukraine are doomed to fail.
Even if the majority of the vaccinated may still hang on to their belief >>> that the vaccination did something for them, the spiking excess
mortality and the obvious failure of the vaccines to prevent
transmission are really too clear to be denied. And now it even turns
out the original claims of efficacy were based on a falsification of data. >>>
At the same time, most people have become complicit in the lockdown and
vaccination narrative. They have repeated the mantras so often they
themselves have become stakeholders; it is now their narrative also,
which means changing opinion is difficult. It is hard to admit having
been fooled, especially when you‘ve taken an active part in fooling
others also. And if you‘ve been active in ostracizing your unvaccinated
friends and relatives, there may even be no way back for you.
Most people still believe in the narrative, consider those sceptical of
the vaccines as crazy “anti-vaxxers“, and the belief in the lockdowns is >>> based on a very strong fallacy of intuition, which is hard to escape.
Admitting that what you‘ve wholeheartedly supported is not only causing
misery and death all around the world, but even scarring your own
children for life, is probably too difficult for most people. So they
close their eyes.
Before I continue, a word of caution: Almost from the very outset, I
realized there was something fishy about the whole story; there was such >>> a huge discrepancy between the facts and the narrative. In fact I had
been focusing hard on the application of critical, logical thinking in
the months before, publishing a book on the subject just before the
pandemic struck. So I was in a questioning mood already.
Mostly, my predictions have been proven correct, whether it is the
consequences of the lockdowns, the ineffectiveness of the vaccines, the
uselessness of masking or the lockdowns for curbing transmissions. But
being right on one count doesn‘t mean you have to be right on the next,
and belonging to a small minority with strong views may well taint my
analysis and predictions.
Anyhow, here‘s what I think: I believe we‘re approaching a tipping
point. The facts speak for themselves, and facts have the annoying habit >>> of becoming known; in the end they always do. We are still in the phase
of denial, we still cling to our false beliefs, we still cannot
comprehend the consequences of what was done to us; what we did to
ourselves, perhaps by succumbing to mass hypnosis as claimed by
psychologist Mattias Desmet. But this stage cannot last long; this is
the quiet before the storm hits.
Most people don‘t know the storm is about to hit. But those who have a
questioning mind and can think clearly and critically and see where we
are heading. They see how the inflation, the supply disruptions and
shortages have been caused by lockdowns and unprecedented money printing >>> to support them. Those who understand even a little bit about psychology >>> can see the devastating effects of school-closures and masking on
children. Those who have read the reports on rising hunger and
collateral deaths caused by healthcare disruption and isolation, and
those who can read and judge medical studies and understand the data on
vaccine effectiveness, know the cause.
Many of the longer-term consequences will emerge slowly. The
deterioration in children‘s education, the psychological scarring; those >>> will emerge slowly and the cause-effect relationship may not be clear to >>> most people. Hunger and deaths in Third World countries will be ignored
in the affluent West as usual, though not in the countries affected. The >>> damage from the vaccination campaigns will become more visible as time
passes, especially if the most pessimistic predictions regarding
people‘s health hold true. But it is the economic reality we are facing
that will be the loudest wake-up call. Surging inflation is leaving
people considerably worse off. Many will lose their homes, living
standards will fall, the poorest will go hungry.
In Iceland, after the financial crash of 2008, when the local currency
was devalued by half and all the country‘s banks went bust, thousands
lost their homes and unemployment surged. In early 2009, massive
protests drove a democratically elected government out of power and the
blame was pinned on reckless bankers, admired by all a few months
before, based on a fairytale of the unfailing ingeniousness of Icelandic >>> bankers and businessmen; and of course on politicians for not having
seen what was in the cards.
Who will be blamed this time? Will it only be Putin? That‘s unlikely, at >>> least that explanation will not hold for long; people will seek the
culprits closer to home. The Americans, Chinese, Africans, Indians, many >>> of whom have barely heard of Ukraine and to whom Europe is an
unimportant and decaying part of the world, how likely are they to blame >>> a far-away warlord, when at home their politicians have not only failed
to keep their promises but have lied to them also on a massive scale?
The economic consequences will force people‘s minds to question the
rest. Once they‘ve realized what drives the inflation and devaluation of >>> their pensions, they‘ll start questioning the vaccines, if only due to
the surge in excess deaths and the adverse effects experienced by many.
Once you‘ve found someone to blame for one thing, you‘ll quickly pin the >>> next one on them also, especially when they haven‘t been entirely
honest. You decided to believe them, even if you had a hunch what they
said wasn‘t true; you chose to overlook it, but now; now they‘ve done
this to me, I‘m losing my home, I cannot put food on the table, I still
have those lingering side effects ever since my vaccination, my
daughter‘s been depressed since the school closures and it‘s only
getting worse; what a fool I was to believe those bastards!
This is the way it will play out. The tipping point will be the economic >>> shock. The rest will follow suit.
But what then? Many of the key players behind the catastrophe have
already started to distance themselves from their earlier propaganda. A
few, like UK SAGE member Mark Woolhouse even seem to regret their
actions. But many more will not. Recently the Icelandic chief
epidemiologist said in an interview the lockdowns hadn‘t been stringent
enough. And he blamed those few politicians who voiced their doubts and
worried about the well-being of society as a whole, for undermining the
solidarity behind the measures.
As if he were the emperor, the politicians only his servants. And he is
not alone. Many of those people will continue pushing the narrative even >>> as it crumbles around them. They will be the first targets of people‘s
anger. Then it will be the politicians, pharmaceuticals, media and big tech.
There will of course be strong pushback. There will be a scramble for
alternative truths once the narrative starts crumbling; for something to >>> keep the veil on the lies and atrocities. The push for continued
masking, lockdowns, vaccine mandates will continue for a while.
And we shouldn‘t forget there are huge interests at stake here, to
certain very big business sectors, lockdowns are a godsend; human
interaction is a threat to them. The censorship will be ramped up even
further. But despite all the power, money and technology, the facts will >>> emerge, the truth will prevail in the end. It always does.
Some might say I‘m too optimistic, that we are already under the control >>> of conspiring media, big-tech and corrupt officials, with no way out.
But is it really so? Recently a US attempt at handing unprecedented
powers over to the WHO was averted, thanks mostly to African leaders and >>> strong public opposition. The vaccine mandates are disappearing and what >>> will eventually come of the still existing plans for health passes is
unclear. But of course the danger is still there.
What really matters is how we react as the narrative crumbles. Will we
just shrug and move on with our daily lives, not caring about the threat >>> to our freedom and humanity? Or will we face the consequences of our
failure to think critically, of our gullibility, our lack of moral
integrity, as the German people were forced to do after World War II, as >>> the Icelanders had to do after 2008?
Will we bring those responsible to court? Will we learn, once again the
hard way, how the only thing that can prevent such catastrophes in the
future is taking responsibility as thinking, doubting individuals?
And will we finally understand the true meaning of Hannah Arendt‘s
conclusion in The Origins of Totaliarianism, that flawed as it may be,
it is only a sovereign nation state of free people, governed by elected
representatives who take their responsibility seriously; as they did in
the tiny Faroe Islands during the pandemic; and not unelected officials, >>> supranational organizations or huge corporations; that only the nation
state is really able to protect universal human rights?
We have to move on. We have to rebuild our societies, reestablish our
moral values and our rights, rebuild trust in science and trust within
our communities. But to truly move on, we must face, understand and act
on the roots of the catastrophe, and take full responsibility for the
part each of us played. This is why we must not forget. We must never
forget.
The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
the U.S. & elsewhere is by rapidly ( http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19 )
finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
asymptomatic) in order to http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry ( http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
So how are you ?
I am wonderfully hungry!
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