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People should not fear their governments; governments should fear their people.

Tag: mass hysteria

  • The reason for the masks

    In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.

    Theodore Dalrymple

  • More Censored Videos

    YouTube has censored two more videos from Journeyman Pictures’ Perspectives on the Pandemic series. One of them is a more recent interview with Dr. Knut Wittkowski, who was featured in a previous censored video:

    The second is an interview with Dr. John Ioannidis, who wrote an article back when the current mass hysteria was just getting started warning against making decisions on unreliable data. In that article he included an estimate of the true danger of COVID-19 based on the experience of the cruise ship Diamond Princess. Although it was, as he acknowledge, a crude estimate based on limited data, his estimate that COVID-19 was around five times less dangerous to five times more dangerous than the average flu season has been born out by a variety of more recent larger studies using antibody testing. Since he was proved right, it’s hardly surprising that our rulers don’t want him heard.

  • Another Banned Interview

    Last month Dr. Knut Wittkowski gave an interview to a documentary filmmaking group called Journeyman Pictures as part of their Perspectives on the Pandemic series. As he was saying things that our rulers don’t want said, I expected the interview to be censored eventually and made a backup copy. That’s now happened, so I’m making the video available here.

  • Banned interview video

    A few days ago Doctors Erickson and Massihi gave an interview on COVID-19 in their part of California. I’d watched it on YouTube and realized that they were telling the reporters things that the reporters really didn’t want to hear, and therefore it was likely that if our rulers noticed the video it would be banned. Sure enough, it was. Since I expected this, I’d made a copy which I’m including here. For some reason the YouTube video downloader rotated it 90 degrees, but since the video isn’t important I decided to leave it unaltered. It’s a fairly long interview, but well worth listening to the whole thing.

     

  • This is what a civilization committing suicide looks like

    The initial jobless claims for the US from the last month’s worth of data are over 22 million. That’s over 8% of the entire adult population of the country forced out of their jobs by the government in just a month! I expect the government will be changing the way they calculate unemployment again to keep the official number down. There aren’t any recent bankruptcy numbers available, but certainly many of those people worked for small businesses that won’t survive. Everyone likes to focus on huge corporations, but the vast majority of businesses in the US are small independent companies that lack the corporations’ ability to bribe politicians for a bailout.

    People have been talking about how this could be as bad as the Great Depression, but I think that’s incredibly optimistic. The Great Depression was caused by the government of a single country (albeit a very large and wealthy one) meddling in the economy. What we’re seeing now is most of the world’s governments actively trying to destroy the economy, countries not falling to mass hysteria being relatively few and poor—Sweden is the most prominent case of sane behavior, but although Sweden is a wealthy and highly industrialized country, it has a population smaller than many cities. This deliberate world-wide attempt to cripple our civilization using mass hysteria as an excuse is unprecedented. What do our rulers think is going to happen when hundreds of millions of desperate people all over the world can’t afford food or shelter?

  • The big question answered for the US

    As it turns out, somebody did ask the question about whether US COVID-19 death totals were accurate. The wording of the question makes it clear that the reporter was worried that they weren’t being inflated, but at least it was asked. From the transcript of a White House press briefing:

    There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition and let’s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem — some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.

    Right now, we’re still recording it, and we’ll — I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection — the intent is, right now, that those — if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

    Dr. Deborah Birx

    No, I can’t imagine if someone comes in with coronavirus, goes to an ICU, and they have an underlying heart condition and they die — they’re going to say, “Cause of death: heart attack.” I — I cannot see that — that happening. So I don’t think it’s going to be a problem.

    Dr. Anthony Fauci