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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

It’s good to see the restrictions going away.

But, what happens next December when the elections are over and Covid cases are rising? Do blue states throw away the “changed” science and go back to lockdowns and mandates? I hope not

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

Has anyone else notice how a certain party in this country Censor, blackmail, and cancel anyone who hold a different opinion or asks critical thinking questions? Kind of reminds me of a certain CCP government.

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Feb 9, 2022Liked by Quoth the Raven

I wish I could "like" this twice.

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What I most hate about Wen is that childish, annoying little smile she puts on when she talks down to everyone that radiates 'if you don't agree with me, then you must be an idiot'.

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They are hearing the sounds of pitchforks sharpening in the distance and they are scared.

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The answer to your question, "what was it all for," cannot even be approached until the inquiry begins to comprehend the massive amount of sucking up to China that was involved.

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Feb 9, 2022·edited Feb 9, 2022

Huh? While I agree with the point that elections have something to do with the current turn in narrative. A lot of the reasoning in this post doesn’t make sense to me.

First, about normal deaths vs. covid deaths. Look at background mortality per capita in the U.S. vs. what we’ve seen in the last two years. As an absolute number, deaths are way up. So much so that average life span in 2020 dropped 1.8 years. Yes, I hear you, it was dropping in the U.S. before the pandemic possibly because of the problems with drug use and diseases of despair like suicide which has been on the rise among all age groups but a drop of 1.8 in a year was much bigger than the background trend and it’s pretty easy to categorize the difference between an overdose, a suicide, and a covid death. Also, the heart disease and cancer deaths didn’t drop like you’d expect them to if we were misallocating deaths due to our number one and number two killers and shifting the blame to covid. All of this is especially glaring when you realize that cancer and heart disease deaths have been on the decline in the last decade as treatments have gotten better. Doesn’t mean that there couldn’t be some misallocation happening but the difference between the background total and the last two years should tell you a heck of a lot.

In a big population size like the U.S., huge number changes like that are pretty sharply accurate. We can debate why Americans died in greater numbers than normal if you want, but not that they did, in fact, die. For folks that want to blame deaths on lockdowns, that doesn’t make sense because we didn’t lockdown near as hard as other European countries and we had higher death rates per capita.

So that leaves us to rationalize that the background diseases weren’t the new variable changing the outcomes. Excess deaths due to hospitals being overwhelmed and people dying sooner of the other two larger killers: heart disease and cancer; probably played a part but that just circles back to what the medical community was asking us to get vaccinated for. Namely, so that the hospitals would be less overwhelmed so they could deal with the normal load of sick Americans they were designed to handle so they wouldn’t die young. Sadly, we don’t do self control very well so that shit was never going to work as well as it might have.

Our response to the pandemic was horrible for a first world country when you compare it to other countries with a similar age distribution. Yes, it’s true Americans tend to be less fit and sicker than most first world countries with poorer disease outcomes because our preventative medical system is embarrassingly bad, we have horrible diets, work more hours than most countries except China, and don’t exercise because of it. So maybe you can say it’s no surprise we died in higher numbers because we lead the world in being out of shape and overweight, and that’s why Rona kicked our ass harder than other countries. It’s at least plausible and jives with the data.

Still, that leaves a strong body of evidence to indicate it was because people wouldn’t get vaccinated and we had to let the disease work it’s way through more people unimpeded. People who didn’t get vax’d died of covid at a rate 7 times higher than that of people that did. I admit it’s hard to pinpoint causality there. Many of the folks I know that got fully vax’d were also much more careful in their daily lives and didn’t get covid until Omicron which would have a much higher natural survival rate. That’s super annecdotal, I know, but it’s just a decent hunch. Cautious people do tend to live longer, generally speaking.

Don’t believe me? Fair enough, compare the death rate of Omicron in high vax countries to the U.S., they’re lower. So here, it got a lot more people less sick, which had total mortality numbers close to the Delta wave for a time before receding. Omicron was less deadly for the unvax’d and far less deadly than delta for the vax’d, makes sense.

Now, for everyone’s hysteria about myocarditis, the actual total numbers of side effects are really low. Like way, way, lower than the death rate of covid. It seems rich to me for people that were arguing that we don’t need to get vaccinated because there weren’t many covid deaths -which isn’t true- to now turn and say we shouldn’t get vaccines because we might get myocarditis! To spell it out among 192,000,000 vaccine doses given, there were 1626 case of myocarditis and many of those people recovered. You don’t recover from dying.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788346

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Could you comment about: 1) the known short-term toxicity of injecting spike proteins and lipid nanoparticles, 2) the unknown long-term toxicity (risks), 3) the lack of long-term safety studies and incomplete information given to people who should have been able to use to decide whether to participate in these experiments, 4) the opposition to allowing MDs to use whatever well-studied drugs in legally-permitted, off-label treatments, and 5) the coordinated efforts to ban preventative and early-treatment protocols?

There will need to be pivots on all of these aspects.

In addition, I would wishfully hope for public exposure to what influential people (MSM, Gov't officials and bureaucrats, politicians, and big pharma) did with criminal and civil prosecution.

Unfortunately, the data from an insurance company in Indiana suggests increased mortality from the experimental drugs from Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J even after this brief time period.

These experimental drugs do not fit the traditional definition of vaccines and I am concerned that the risks from cancer and autoimmune diseases may be increased.

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Feb 18, 2022·edited Feb 18, 2022

Yes, the purpose was to get the whole world vaccinated. The vaccines are actually extremely dangerous. And for some people that harm comes quickly and some it takes longer. And, insurance companies have reported that in the second half of 2021 there was a 40% increase in death among people 18 to 65. This is unprecedented. This is because of vaccine injuries.

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Now that we hsve gone all around forced silence on natural immunity and nazi style demands to vaccinate and everything else covid restriction related, who will address the elephant in the room, the push to dictstorship and every opportunity to remove every freedom imaginable swirling with mandates, mixed messages and threats??? Right out of the playbook!! Come on!! Shout the truth, the horrible motives. They are already documented and have been circled around... but for those who still think this was all just innocent error, please get a backbone and say it!! The motive - the truth!!

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Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022

Yes, the whole purpose of the last two years has been to get people jabbed. The effects of this deadly vaccine have only just started to come out. This will be the biggest health crisis in the history of humanity.

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SORRY TO POST HERE but my requests to QTR reply to and substack have gone unanswered for a week. Cannot tell if they have been received. I have a subscription issue. Can someone pls follow up with me?

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The CDC’s Study on Natural Immunity Explained

By Brownstone Institute

February 8, 2022

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cdcs-study-on-natural-immunity-explained/

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This is such a well done article. I run a small emergency preparedness channel on Youtube (Praxis Prepper) and I have been being attacked for everything noted in this article since pretty much the beginning of COVID. And this even though all of it (as you note) turned out to be correct.

I also recently made the exact same "pivot prediction" that you did. I made mine on my channel back at the end of 2021 ahead of the new year. I suggested that we'd be seeing the same thing (backpedaling on COVID restrictions) for the same reason (upcoming elections). It IS really frustrating seeing this all play out exactly as one would have predicted if they were a totally cynical human being. I hate that cynicism tends to be the most predictive lens through which to view the world.

Last thing, don't forget too back when the CDC was saying, "Don't mask at all, this isn't airborne. Saying it's airborne is just fear mongering." That was the first time where I started pumping misinformation out on my channel when I was suggesting to people that COVID very likely WAS airborne and the advice not to mask at all that the CDC was issuing was very bad advice.

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Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022

Of course, the criminal elites pivoted. They were winning with their agenda, but now we are because we're resisting their crap; they have the midterms coming; the truckers....

Those criminal elitists are all hypocritical pigs, they're criminals.

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The CDC’s Study on Natural Immunity Explained

By Brownstone Institute

February 8, 2022

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cdcs-study-on-natural-immunity-explained/

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