"The Machiavellians who concocted the Covid response and the media who sold it don’t regret what they did. It served their political, social, and economic purposes."
You have to understand something about the medical industry. I have been working as an internist for 20-odd years, and I have been saying this for more than 10.
The medical industry no longer applies therapies and diagnostics for improving patients' health conditions. They do these things to improve balance sheets and follow business models. Occasionally, these business models and investments actually yield results that really DO help people, but nowadays, there are more and more cases where they don't. And anyone who worked intensively in healthcare in any modern country could see this for decades. Let me tell you two stories to demonstrate this.
Cardiology. Invasive cardiology has undergone huuuuge improvement over the last 40 decades. Beginning in the 1980s, PTCA techniques meant that we could open up clogged arteries of the heart with catheter techniques introduced through femoral or lately cubital arteries. No more heart surgery, just a puncture of a vessel and immense results in treating heart conditions. This was all well and good, but there is an increasing number of glitches on the way. During my 4 years of invasive cardiology as a resident internal medic I have seen 5 techniques that were an absolute failure, yet they were applied religously over a course of several years (Sometimes decades) until they made enough money so the companies that invested in them had their profits. Only AFTER these profits were made could you publish the meta-analysis studies that proved inefficiences and finally, these methods were removed from the market.
The most apparent one of these failures was the so-called renal artery denervation. Since the kidney has a very important in regulating blood pressure, the nerves around kidney arteries can increase blood pressure if the blood perfusion of the kidneys drop. So, the thesis was, if we destroy these nerves with an electrode introduced into the artery with a catheter, this feedback loop breaks and patients' blood pressures drop. For years, we were conducting these interventions on patients in invasive cardiology, until at some point, a meta-analysis came out that the average patient gained ONE mmHg of blood pressure drop after this intervention. So your blood pressure went down from 161 mmHg systolic to 160. However, this study was not published until investments in these interventions were returned to the industry. And believe me, the studies they conducted before bringing this to clinics were VERY impressive. Apparently, all the data was cooked. And, this intervention is not without risks, of course. Many patients had to go to dialysis for the rest of their lives because they clogged up their renal arteries to the extent where their kidneys were no longer able to function after the intervention.
The other story is a personal one. When my wife was 5 weeks pregnant with our baby daughter, my wife had mild abdominal discomfort. I performed an ultrasound scan of her abdomen and saw the embryo sack in her womb. I asked a fellow doctor to repeat the ultrasound, she saw the embryo sack too. However, to be safe, we went to my gynaecologist colleagues in the hospital where I worked at the time. They performed ultrasounds and stated that my wife had ectopic pregnancy and had to be operated on immediately. I was foolish enough to believe them. They cut her open, filled her belly up with gas, peformed a laparoscopy - to find nothing outside her uterus. And of course, they performed the ultrasound the day after and lo and behold, the embryo was in the womb. Later I found out that the clinic was lacking on the number of laparoscopies that year, and they were risking losing their licence for this invasive procedure, so the clinical lead issued the order that EVERY case with even a hint of ectopic pregnancy MUST have a laparoscopy so the clinic can keep its licence for diagnostic laparoscopy. My daugher is thankfully alive and well and is a healthy, strong child at the age of 10 today. But as you can imagine, the pregnancy was not easy afterwards.
So, given that medicine has been FULL with stories like this over the last decades, why are we even wondering what happened during covid? Forcing useless and sometimes harmful therapies on patients has been going on for decades in medicine. The only thing that happened was the order of magnitude. So far, we did not have any therapy they tried to force on every single member of our society without exception. However, if you consider the expontential growth in medical spending (The US went up from 2-3% of GDP before the introduction of HMOs in the 1970s to more than 20% of GDP today), it was only a matter of time until something like this was bound to happen. Orders of magnitudes of change in quantity force changes in quality at some point.
So what happened during covid? Well, consider that gene therapy has been a hot topic ever since the 1970s - only to disappoint companies investing in it time and over again. How much money did they invest into mRNA vaccines? Billions? Tens of billions? How about PCR and next-gen sequencing techniques? These investments HAD TO yield returns. And now the government created these returns handsomely by simply forcing the entire global population to undergo genetical treatment for a disease that had very low mortality in age groups below 50. Where there is a will, there is a way they say.
Great post. I recall reading right up to 2020 how many hospital chains were teetering on the verge on bankruptcy, including a large one in my area. Funny how Covid gave hospital administrators an extra $39k bump for "with Covid" deaths, no questions asked. No hospitals are going broke now, even though I can still get a great parking spot.
I appreciate the insider perspective and the honesty. I think we're outraged b/c it went well beyond providing some ineffective treatments or meds. It was a worldwide socio-political power grab. And the drugs and treatment protocols didn't just "not work" - they killed people.
The entire medical establishment:
- outlawed effective treatments to make way for the emergency use authorization for their new cash cow (killing God knows how many people);
- used deadly protocols in hospitals to "treat" covid, which they had to know were going to kill people;
- locked people in their homes;
- took children out of school for a year or more (causing a spike in child suicides);
- forced people to wear "masks" that they knew didn't work and would actually cause harm to the wearer (what we exhale is, rather obviously poisonous, hence the reason we're exhaling it);
- turned it into a 100% politicized issue and used it to steal an election;
- suppressed free speech rights, including religious rights;
- forced an experimental, largely untested drug on people;
- and coordinated all this across the entire West to maintain the illusions of consensus and consent.
Without doubt, it's the single biggest event in world history since WW2 due to the sheer scale of the scam and the global reach of its impact. So, it's well beyond just another crap drug (SSRIs, statins, other "vaccines") being pushed on people to recoup R&D funds. R&D funding which was paid for in part with taxpayer dollars to begin with.
Absolutely. But I wanted to say is: none of these was anything new. All of these things were tried and routinely done before, except not on a global, but on a local basis. Not for every human being, but for selected groups of patients. This was what was new with covid. They flipped up an order of magnitude.
I recommend the book "Bad Pharma" by Ben Goldacre, a UK doctor. Absolutely devastating, detailed, authoritative account of deceit in the pharma industry here and in the EU.
One more thing that nobody talks about, but which is EXTREMELY important. I highly recommend everyone to watch this video, which was oddly made possible by Sam Harris (Who happens to be an almost fanatical leftist nowadays, but whatever)
TLDR: Next-generation sequencing allows us nowadays to sequence genetical material (DNA and RNA) at a previously unseen speed and at very cheap prices. To give context to this, the human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs. The first time the genome of a human cell was sequenced from beginning to the end was during the Human Genome Project in the 1990s. It took about 10 years and about 1.5 billion dollars. Now sequencing a person's genome takes about 1 day and costs about 1000 dollars, but we are rapidly advancing to 1 hour and 100 dollars.
This enormous technological leap means that now we can analyze biological samples and sequence ALL genetical material in them. You take a pile of goo, and you literally sequence every single gene of every single living thing in it. This means that we now have a chance to learn every single one of the hundreds of trillions of biochemical reactions in Earth's biosphere over the next few decades. But where do we start? Viruses are a very logical place to start because they are the simplest organizations on Earth. They only have a few thousand base pairs, have no metabolism, and a dozen to a few hundred genes. So, basic biological research started sequencing viruses.
How many viruses are there? Bacteriophages kill about 40% of bacteria in the world's oceans EVERY single day:
However, the number of viruses capable of infecting mammals, according to mathematical models, is about 25,000. It is logical to start here, since these are the ones that have biochemical reactions affecting mammals, and since humans are mammals, these reactions could have medical applications. So, there is a global project sequencing viruses capable of infecting mammals. Their goal is to find them all. So far, they found something like 1200 (at the time of this interview on Sam Harris's channel).
And here is the neat part: the results of this research are in an internet database that is available to ALL who are interested in this kind of research. If you are an African dictator and want to develop a bioweapon capable of killing the neighbour tribe, well, you can hire virologists who will pick out tricks from this database and voila, you can have your own bioweapon factory within months. Other advances in biotechnology have yielded machines capable of synthetizing DNA from sequences literally punched into the keyboard of a computer. You put these synthethized DNA chains into a bacterium or any cell with ribosomes (like an egg for instance) and you have billions of viruses within a few hours.
So when we hear that Peter Daszak used gain of function research to create the spike protein, what he actually did, was that he took one trick from one viruses and put it into the genome of another virus. Peter McCullough spoke very eloquently about this on your podcast recently. Given this huuuge advancement in the field, it was logical that the US defense industry started taking interest in these techniques and wanted to develop a biochemical platform capable of countering any bioweapons threat that may emerge. And on paper, mRNA vaccinations make a hell of a lot of sense. You identify some surface antigen of the virus, you punch its sequence into the machine, you pack the antigen into a lipid carrier that takes it into cells, within days, you have a very effective vaccine against anything anyone may cook up in their labs anywhere in the world.
The great lockdown experiment in China also makes a lot of sense. How long can you weld up people in their homes to stop any virus from spreading before your society breaks? Well, the Chinese just conducted a 2-year military exercise on their entire population to test this. Also, since China is the most advanced dictatorship in the world, they were the best candidated to conduct this exercise. No other government could have exercised the same amount of control over their population as much as China did.
So let's put 2 and 2 together. We have a major technological breakthrough that allows a myriad of bioweapons to be developed at a very low cost. We have the very understandable need from the US defense industry to develop a platform to counter this. We have a failed concept provided by the medical industry as a base of this platform - and from this point you have the same trap I described in the previous comment. It HAS TO succeed. It is too big to fail. Too much money, too much time, too much effort has been put into it to declare failure. All the rest Peter McCullough explained perfectly on your podcast.
Thank you for this. The covid response was the single most dishonest episode I have ever witnessed. The true reckoning might not come until the beneficiaries are gone - dead or out of power. It’s just too difficult for many to admit they were had.
These types of articles in the NYT are limited hangouts. They're seeing how little they can admit before they get everyone to just move on. We have to hold them and make them accountable. We have to realize we are very much in the majority, and that what we see on social media and the MSM (as well as in editorials in the NYT/WSJ) are carefully crafted to make it appear that their actions were reasonable, there is/was consensus for their actions, and now people are okay with it and moving on with life.
The polling and real world data tells a different story. People are p*ssed. Millions uprooted their lives, their homes, their jobs, and their families to move away from the nutters. (R) party affiliation just surpassed (D) party affiliation. There is no consensus for leftist policies. Given what shows up in polls, most likely 70-30 or 80-20 against the left on every single issue.
IOW, we have to know we were right, that there are way more of us than them, and say it loud often and publicly. They weren't exactly shy about expressing their views on this in 2019/2020/2021. Now, it's our turn. Otherwise, they win and this will happen again.
In the end, they will never own up to the entire mess. The question is when history is written in 20 or 50 years, will it be accurate or stick with the initial narrative. and alas, I fear that depends on the party in power when the history is written.
i can tell you from a family experience that alcoholics or drug infested people do not just victumize themselves ..they literally victiumize their whole family..........i know this from personal experience........
You might have a point if we were still living in prior centuries. However, humanity, for better or worse, is controlling its evolution more and more from here on out. We have amazing tools coming down the pike--organ replacement, individualized DNA physiology models, gene therapy, etc. Not sure the survival of the fittest model will persist, in fact by manipulating genes we may be able to do the "culling" without killing the patient.
I might add that while viruses are thought of as the evil enemy they may have more than a culling aspect--they transfer a lot of genetic information between humans, and, between other species which seems like an evolutionary chem lab to me---which is no different than what we are doing with GMOs, albeit at an expedited rate to our advantage.
You have to understand something about the medical industry. I have been working as an internist for 20-odd years, and I have been saying this for more than 10.
The medical industry no longer applies therapies and diagnostics for improving patients' health conditions. They do these things to improve balance sheets and follow business models. Occasionally, these business models and investments actually yield results that really DO help people, but nowadays, there are more and more cases where they don't. And anyone who worked intensively in healthcare in any modern country could see this for decades. Let me tell you two stories to demonstrate this.
Cardiology. Invasive cardiology has undergone huuuuge improvement over the last 40 decades. Beginning in the 1980s, PTCA techniques meant that we could open up clogged arteries of the heart with catheter techniques introduced through femoral or lately cubital arteries. No more heart surgery, just a puncture of a vessel and immense results in treating heart conditions. This was all well and good, but there is an increasing number of glitches on the way. During my 4 years of invasive cardiology as a resident internal medic I have seen 5 techniques that were an absolute failure, yet they were applied religously over a course of several years (Sometimes decades) until they made enough money so the companies that invested in them had their profits. Only AFTER these profits were made could you publish the meta-analysis studies that proved inefficiences and finally, these methods were removed from the market.
The most apparent one of these failures was the so-called renal artery denervation. Since the kidney has a very important in regulating blood pressure, the nerves around kidney arteries can increase blood pressure if the blood perfusion of the kidneys drop. So, the thesis was, if we destroy these nerves with an electrode introduced into the artery with a catheter, this feedback loop breaks and patients' blood pressures drop. For years, we were conducting these interventions on patients in invasive cardiology, until at some point, a meta-analysis came out that the average patient gained ONE mmHg of blood pressure drop after this intervention. So your blood pressure went down from 161 mmHg systolic to 160. However, this study was not published until investments in these interventions were returned to the industry. And believe me, the studies they conducted before bringing this to clinics were VERY impressive. Apparently, all the data was cooked. And, this intervention is not without risks, of course. Many patients had to go to dialysis for the rest of their lives because they clogged up their renal arteries to the extent where their kidneys were no longer able to function after the intervention.
The other story is a personal one. When my wife was 5 weeks pregnant with our baby daughter, my wife had mild abdominal discomfort. I performed an ultrasound scan of her abdomen and saw the embryo sack in her womb. I asked a fellow doctor to repeat the ultrasound, she saw the embryo sack too. However, to be safe, we went to my gynaecologist colleagues in the hospital where I worked at the time. They performed ultrasounds and stated that my wife had ectopic pregnancy and had to be operated on immediately. I was foolish enough to believe them. They cut her open, filled her belly up with gas, peformed a laparoscopy - to find nothing outside her uterus. And of course, they performed the ultrasound the day after and lo and behold, the embryo was in the womb. Later I found out that the clinic was lacking on the number of laparoscopies that year, and they were risking losing their licence for this invasive procedure, so the clinical lead issued the order that EVERY case with even a hint of ectopic pregnancy MUST have a laparoscopy so the clinic can keep its licence for diagnostic laparoscopy. My daugher is thankfully alive and well and is a healthy, strong child at the age of 10 today. But as you can imagine, the pregnancy was not easy afterwards.
So, given that medicine has been FULL with stories like this over the last decades, why are we even wondering what happened during covid? Forcing useless and sometimes harmful therapies on patients has been going on for decades in medicine. The only thing that happened was the order of magnitude. So far, we did not have any therapy they tried to force on every single member of our society without exception. However, if you consider the expontential growth in medical spending (The US went up from 2-3% of GDP before the introduction of HMOs in the 1970s to more than 20% of GDP today), it was only a matter of time until something like this was bound to happen. Orders of magnitudes of change in quantity force changes in quality at some point.
So what happened during covid? Well, consider that gene therapy has been a hot topic ever since the 1970s - only to disappoint companies investing in it time and over again. How much money did they invest into mRNA vaccines? Billions? Tens of billions? How about PCR and next-gen sequencing techniques? These investments HAD TO yield returns. And now the government created these returns handsomely by simply forcing the entire global population to undergo genetical treatment for a disease that had very low mortality in age groups below 50. Where there is a will, there is a way they say.
Great post. I recall reading right up to 2020 how many hospital chains were teetering on the verge on bankruptcy, including a large one in my area. Funny how Covid gave hospital administrators an extra $39k bump for "with Covid" deaths, no questions asked. No hospitals are going broke now, even though I can still get a great parking spot.
I appreciate the insider perspective and the honesty. I think we're outraged b/c it went well beyond providing some ineffective treatments or meds. It was a worldwide socio-political power grab. And the drugs and treatment protocols didn't just "not work" - they killed people.
The entire medical establishment:
- outlawed effective treatments to make way for the emergency use authorization for their new cash cow (killing God knows how many people);
- used deadly protocols in hospitals to "treat" covid, which they had to know were going to kill people;
- locked people in their homes;
- took children out of school for a year or more (causing a spike in child suicides);
- forced people to wear "masks" that they knew didn't work and would actually cause harm to the wearer (what we exhale is, rather obviously poisonous, hence the reason we're exhaling it);
- turned it into a 100% politicized issue and used it to steal an election;
- suppressed free speech rights, including religious rights;
- forced an experimental, largely untested drug on people;
- and coordinated all this across the entire West to maintain the illusions of consensus and consent.
Without doubt, it's the single biggest event in world history since WW2 due to the sheer scale of the scam and the global reach of its impact. So, it's well beyond just another crap drug (SSRIs, statins, other "vaccines") being pushed on people to recoup R&D funds. R&D funding which was paid for in part with taxpayer dollars to begin with.
Absolutely. But I wanted to say is: none of these was anything new. All of these things were tried and routinely done before, except not on a global, but on a local basis. Not for every human being, but for selected groups of patients. This was what was new with covid. They flipped up an order of magnitude.
We’ll said! Thanks for the info
I recommend the book "Bad Pharma" by Ben Goldacre, a UK doctor. Absolutely devastating, detailed, authoritative account of deceit in the pharma industry here and in the EU.
The CoronaManiacs have seamlessly transitioned to ClimateHysterics and RussoPhobes...
One more thing that nobody talks about, but which is EXTREMELY important. I highly recommend everyone to watch this video, which was oddly made possible by Sam Harris (Who happens to be an almost fanatical leftist nowadays, but whatever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr28XeVYm8U&t=2s
TLDR: Next-generation sequencing allows us nowadays to sequence genetical material (DNA and RNA) at a previously unseen speed and at very cheap prices. To give context to this, the human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs. The first time the genome of a human cell was sequenced from beginning to the end was during the Human Genome Project in the 1990s. It took about 10 years and about 1.5 billion dollars. Now sequencing a person's genome takes about 1 day and costs about 1000 dollars, but we are rapidly advancing to 1 hour and 100 dollars.
This enormous technological leap means that now we can analyze biological samples and sequence ALL genetical material in them. You take a pile of goo, and you literally sequence every single gene of every single living thing in it. This means that we now have a chance to learn every single one of the hundreds of trillions of biochemical reactions in Earth's biosphere over the next few decades. But where do we start? Viruses are a very logical place to start because they are the simplest organizations on Earth. They only have a few thousand base pairs, have no metabolism, and a dozen to a few hundred genes. So, basic biological research started sequencing viruses.
How many viruses are there? Bacteriophages kill about 40% of bacteria in the world's oceans EVERY single day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
However, the number of viruses capable of infecting mammals, according to mathematical models, is about 25,000. It is logical to start here, since these are the ones that have biochemical reactions affecting mammals, and since humans are mammals, these reactions could have medical applications. So, there is a global project sequencing viruses capable of infecting mammals. Their goal is to find them all. So far, they found something like 1200 (at the time of this interview on Sam Harris's channel).
And here is the neat part: the results of this research are in an internet database that is available to ALL who are interested in this kind of research. If you are an African dictator and want to develop a bioweapon capable of killing the neighbour tribe, well, you can hire virologists who will pick out tricks from this database and voila, you can have your own bioweapon factory within months. Other advances in biotechnology have yielded machines capable of synthetizing DNA from sequences literally punched into the keyboard of a computer. You put these synthethized DNA chains into a bacterium or any cell with ribosomes (like an egg for instance) and you have billions of viruses within a few hours.
So when we hear that Peter Daszak used gain of function research to create the spike protein, what he actually did, was that he took one trick from one viruses and put it into the genome of another virus. Peter McCullough spoke very eloquently about this on your podcast recently. Given this huuuge advancement in the field, it was logical that the US defense industry started taking interest in these techniques and wanted to develop a biochemical platform capable of countering any bioweapons threat that may emerge. And on paper, mRNA vaccinations make a hell of a lot of sense. You identify some surface antigen of the virus, you punch its sequence into the machine, you pack the antigen into a lipid carrier that takes it into cells, within days, you have a very effective vaccine against anything anyone may cook up in their labs anywhere in the world.
The great lockdown experiment in China also makes a lot of sense. How long can you weld up people in their homes to stop any virus from spreading before your society breaks? Well, the Chinese just conducted a 2-year military exercise on their entire population to test this. Also, since China is the most advanced dictatorship in the world, they were the best candidated to conduct this exercise. No other government could have exercised the same amount of control over their population as much as China did.
So let's put 2 and 2 together. We have a major technological breakthrough that allows a myriad of bioweapons to be developed at a very low cost. We have the very understandable need from the US defense industry to develop a platform to counter this. We have a failed concept provided by the medical industry as a base of this platform - and from this point you have the same trap I described in the previous comment. It HAS TO succeed. It is too big to fail. Too much money, too much time, too much effort has been put into it to declare failure. All the rest Peter McCullough explained perfectly on your podcast.
Again, thanks for this info!
Thank you for this. The covid response was the single most dishonest episode I have ever witnessed. The true reckoning might not come until the beneficiaries are gone - dead or out of power. It’s just too difficult for many to admit they were had.
Agree!
No. We were not supposed to pay attention at the time. We certainly are not supposed to remember now.
These types of articles in the NYT are limited hangouts. They're seeing how little they can admit before they get everyone to just move on. We have to hold them and make them accountable. We have to realize we are very much in the majority, and that what we see on social media and the MSM (as well as in editorials in the NYT/WSJ) are carefully crafted to make it appear that their actions were reasonable, there is/was consensus for their actions, and now people are okay with it and moving on with life.
The polling and real world data tells a different story. People are p*ssed. Millions uprooted their lives, their homes, their jobs, and their families to move away from the nutters. (R) party affiliation just surpassed (D) party affiliation. There is no consensus for leftist policies. Given what shows up in polls, most likely 70-30 or 80-20 against the left on every single issue.
IOW, we have to know we were right, that there are way more of us than them, and say it loud often and publicly. They weren't exactly shy about expressing their views on this in 2019/2020/2021. Now, it's our turn. Otherwise, they win and this will happen again.
100% on all points.
In the end, they will never own up to the entire mess. The question is when history is written in 20 or 50 years, will it be accurate or stick with the initial narrative. and alas, I fear that depends on the party in power when the history is written.
while alcoholics mostly victimize themselves,
i can tell you from a family experience that alcoholics or drug infested people do not just victumize themselves ..they literally victiumize their whole family..........i know this from personal experience........
If you killed millions would you admit it?🤔
Didn’t think so😶
clearly that answer
is between “no” and “hell no”..
“Nearly all of those said to have died “from Covid” were old, sick and/or obese and would have died soon whether infected or not” so fuckem. WTF
Bad faith interpretation you have there
Wasn’t an interpretation at all. Just the nihilistic point that I lost any interest having known some of those people that died.
This is how nature works. You can’t stop death. Viruses were understood to carry off the old until the covidians came along
You might have a point if we were still living in prior centuries. However, humanity, for better or worse, is controlling its evolution more and more from here on out. We have amazing tools coming down the pike--organ replacement, individualized DNA physiology models, gene therapy, etc. Not sure the survival of the fittest model will persist, in fact by manipulating genes we may be able to do the "culling" without killing the patient.
I might add that while viruses are thought of as the evil enemy they may have more than a culling aspect--they transfer a lot of genetic information between humans, and, between other species which seems like an evolutionary chem lab to me---which is no different than what we are doing with GMOs, albeit at an expedited rate to our advantage.