There's a new game in town. It's called Pandemic Amnesty and this is how it's played;
“In the face of so much uncertainty, getting something right had a hefty element of luck. And, similarly, getting something wrong wasn’t a moral failing. Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others is preventing us from moving forward.”(1)
So, the pretext is that the authorities couldn't have known that the measures they forced upon would backfire, so it's not fair to blame them with the benefit of hindsight. Some people might have made some lucky guesses and got some things more right than our rulers, but that was pure luck. There's more;
“The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But dwelling on the mistakes of history can lead to a repetitive doom loop as well. Let’s acknowledge that we made complicated choices in the face of deep uncertainty, and then try to work together to build back and move forward.”(2)
The part about dwelling on the mistakes of history is merely a jumble of words that seem to make sense until you think about it; how can thinking about recently made mistakes lead to a doom loop? No matter. The important think to take away from this article, which is by some professor in the Left's house magazine, The Atlantic, is that it should all be water under the bridge and anyone who thinks otherwise is somehow reprehensible.
Of course, this thesis rests on the assumption that there was the degree of uncertainty asserted and that decisions could only, therefore, be based on luck. If this were true, firstly there would have to be very little in the science to guide us on the salient points of pandemic response and, secondly, informed guesswork was therefore impossible; luck was all there was. I'll come back to that, as they didn't seem at all uncertain at the time.
As is normal when progressives get caught in the cross-hairs, there is no apology and very little in the way of detail. What exactly didn't they get quite right because of the unavoidable deficits in information? And how is it that others, some of them non-experts, who were also victims of this knowledge vacuum, get it right? Such as Sweden and Florida? I'll come back to that, too.
In the meantime, the article only really commits to one correction, which is that cloth masks don't work. Apparently, school problems were also a problem; not the concept, mind, but the duration. And even that admission can't be made without adding an authoritarian caveat. Due to increased skepticism of health authorities, other vaccinations are now less popular. The author suggests that someone ought to do something about that. I get the feeling that the something would be a mandate.
This a severely circumscribed hangout. It barely even qualifies as a hangout at all, but that would make it of a piece with the rest of the campaign. Here we find further attempts at revisionism. It is asserted that measures such as lock-downs and mask wearing were only brought in to restore some kind of order, because the public was panicking (as the poor fools are wont to do) and emptying the stores of all the loo roll. No mention is made of how it was that the public formed the impression that a room full of toilet paper was an essential part of their immediate future.
Moreover, it has been established that the people – or those that still had any faith in the honesty of their respective governments – judged the severity of the 'pandemic' by the reaction of the state.(3) If the state was all in on lock-downs, these people reasoned that there must be enough danger to justify them. Governments abused the trust of the people for their own ends and created fear where none should have existed. People believed that their risk of dying from Covid was far in excess of what it truly was.(4)
It wasn't just the Left. Conservatives were also pro every measure that curtailed freedoms. Now, of course, they are keen to cast themselves as anti lock-downs and mandates, but we remember back to those desperate times less than three years ago; there were no voices that spoke against these measures. No politician had the courage to swim against the tide. The only difference now is that the Left still won't acknowledge any of the detail – the Right does. They just lie about when they jumped off the totalitarian bandwagon.
That's if the regime apologists can even bring themselves to acknowledge that lock-downs happened at all. They've gone all hair-splitty on us:
“Lockdowns never really happened, because governments never actually locked people in their homes; but if there were lockdowns, then they saved millions of lives and would have saved even more if only they’d been stricter; but if there were any collateral damage, then that damage was an inevitable consequence of the fear from the virus independent of the lockdowns; and even when things were shut down, the rules weren’t very strict; but even when the rules were strict, we didn’t really support them.”(5)
A perfect exposition of the traditional progressive theme; that's not happening and it's good that it is. Of course, if we had in fact brought it on ourselves and were so fearful of the virus that we welcomed lock-downs, presumably there would have no need for this type of thing.
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If we weren't being coerced into lock-downs – but were instead grateful recipients of them – it's difficult to see how these events could have transpired.
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Millions were pushed into food poverty because of reduced incomes, as many as 60% of businesses subject to lock-downs are now permanently shuttered and economies tanked.
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As we know to our cost, it wasn't just lock-downs, was it? It was also the shameless lying about deadly pathogens, asymptomatic spread and masks. It was people dying alone, because their families weren't allowed to be with them. It was about DNR notices, remdesivir, midazolam and returning sick, elderly people to their nursing homes so that they might infect others. It was about preventing early treatment and pressuring people into taking experimental gene therapies that kill and maim and sacking them if they refused.
And all of this was done with the approval of a large chunk of the population. Polling in America (and it will be no different wherever you are) found that Democrat voters – I'm afraid it will be the Leftists that come out of this badly, due to the behavioral traits that make them Leftists to begin with – supported the following; fines for the 'unvaccinated' (58%), house arrest (59%), imprisonment for having the temerity to question the 'vaccines' (48%), forced quarantine (45%) and temporarily removing children from their parents' custody if the parents refuse to get 'vaccinated' (29%).(6)
But now, they want forgiveness. Now they're prepared to acknowledge fault, or so they say. But what else are they prepared to admit they got wrong, apart from school closures (7) and masks? Well, not much, as it transpires. The Brits and the Australians are paying out for 'vaccine' injuries (and even funerals),(8)(9) but they'd rather not make their reasoning explicit. Posts on Facebook that claimed that the EGT caused AIDS were removed in August for violating the terms of service and then re-instated at the end of October,(10) which can be taken as an implicit acknowledgement of the truth of the claim, or a newfound commitment to free speech, however unlikely that sounds.
The Moderna CEO is on the record as admitting that no everyone should have been eligible for the jab;
“I think it’s going to be like the flu. If you’re a 25-year-old, do you need an annual booster every year if you’re healthy? You might want to… but I think it’s going to be similar to flu where it’s going to be people at high-risk, people above 50 years of age, people with comorbidities, people with cancer and other conditions, people with transplants.”(11)
As you may have heard, a Pfizer executive has admitted that the company didn't test whether their product prevented infection or transmission.(12) This statement was given in testimony to the European Parliament and, in one fell swoop, it undermines the case for 'vaccine' passports. If the jabbed are as vulnerable as the unvaxxed (in fact, they are more vulnerable as they are prone to repeat infections, not a circumstance that afflicts the unjabbed), the passports are useless. Not only that, but all the talk of saving others, vaccinating for life and so on was simply propaganda.
Research is now being published that further contradicts the narrative. The Case Fatality Rate is even lower than previously believed (what a surprise). These are the current figures;
0-19 0.0003%
20-29 0.003%
30-39 0.011%
40-49 0.035%
50-59 0.129%
60-69 0.501% (13)
All without early treatment and with the killing fields hospital protocols. Other research, done in March of this year but only now being reported upon, shows how difficult it is to actually infect others. The human challenge experiment with an influenza like illness featured 34 participants who were given nasal drops of wild type SARS-COV-2. Only 18 of them developed symptoms, all of which were mild to moderate.(14)
There is even some public skepticism about the EGT, centering on effectiveness and unwanted side effects. Indeed, the UK has gone as far as banning the jab for under 11's due to the adverse effects on sexual development in boys.(15) And there are other signs that the regime's stranglehold on the narrative is being loosened, or is being deliberately manipulated. A whistle-blower at EcoHealth Alliance (Fauci's cut-out for payments to the Wuhan lab from which the virus likely originated) even has a book deal at a mainstream publisher.(16) A documentary called Died Suddenly – about expiring after taking the 'vaccine' is still up on Twitter, for instance.(17)
And two more papers have been published; one which shows that the Omicron specific 'vaccine’ is simply a marketing gimmick, as it is ineffective,(18) the other demonstrating that Paxlovid (Pfizer's ivermectin copy) can interact with commonly prescribed cardiovascular medications, leading to severe adverse events.(19) The latter article was even published in an official journal. So, there is some narrative slippage that needs to be accounted for. But there is very little evidence of a mea culpe.
The regime and its mouthpieces are attempting to re-imagine history in their own unique way. They say that it is only recently that we have learned that outdoor transmission doesn't really happen. That's a lie. The behavior of respiratory disease is known. There weren't sincerely held beliefs on each side of the debate about counter-measures. There was common sense and compassion on one side and rigid authoritarianism on the other. School closures, for instance, ensured a bad outcome for every child and flew in the face of common sense, as the disease is no risk to the young.
The science on natural immunity, herd immunity and every other aspect of the 'pandemic' (and I do mean every) was known to the medical experts prior to March 2020. There was no necessity to learn new lessons. Doctors even prescribed hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin from the beginning, because they knew that anti-virals were likely to be effective and they were, but they were soon banned from doing so. To my knowledge, ivermectin is the only approved drug that has ever been demoted and then forbidden off label usage for a particular disease.
The apologists are also attempting to assert that measuring the effect of the measures that were inflicted upon us is too difficult a task. But governments knew the effect that lock-downs would have. They were warned.(20) The Dutch government even commissioned a report, which they received in March 2020. It told them that the damage to human health would be six times greater than the effect of Covid. But they still locked down anyway.(21)
The actions of the authorities weren't just the usual mix of incompetence and hubris; they went out of their way to harm us. There was no valid reason for prohibiting early treatment, but they did it nonetheless. There was even the ridiculous spectacle of health professionals poo pooing the idea that zinc and vitamin D might be beneficial (which they are). From the very beginning, it was apparent that they were doing everything in their power to obviate any treatment other than the miraculous 'vaccines' that were coming towards us at warp speed. And now they want forgiveness.
In mid October, a US court ordered the CDC to release its own internal data detailing the injuries caused by the Covid shots. Apparently, the CDC had launched an app called V-safe and 10 million people had downloaded it. In due course, 3.3 million people reported an adverse event after their first jab. Further,
“… of those 3.3 million people, 1.2 million reported that they were unable to perform daily activities for a time after vaccination. 1.3 million reported getting so sick from the shots that they had to miss school or work. And about 800,000 reported being hospitalized by their COVID vaccination.”(22)
230 million Americans got at least one shot. Extrapolating the numbers (which ought to be safe to do, given the massive sample size) gives a hospitalization rate of 8% or around 18 million people. Presumably, deaths are excluded. Despite this data, the CDC have continually said that the 'vaccines are safe and effective'. As an aside, the hospitalization rate for Covid (without the now banned early treatment) is 2.1%. For the under forties, it's 0.4%. And now the establishment wants forgiveness.
But what they don't want is to stop doing what they are still doing. While they want an amnesty, they are still committing the same heinous acts. The EGT remain in good standing with regimes. They still want people to take the boosters. The UK government is mounting a new 'vaccination' campaign.(23) Lord Fauci is still doing his best to pretend that his credibility isn't shot;
“It is becoming increasingly clear, that looking forward with the Covid pandemic, in the absence of a dramatically different variant, i think we are moving forward with a vaccination cadence similar to that of an annual virus.”(24)
Those critics who step out of line are still being attacked.(25) Doctors who oppose the party line are still having their licenses revoked.(26) Distinguished editors of scientific journals are still being forced out of a job if the go against the orthodoxy.(27) The Mayor of New York City, despite being ordered to re-instate city workers who were terminated for refusing to be jabbed, has not done so.(28)
And, in the US, the FDA has voted through a bivalent booster despite there being no human trials and, worse even than that, have recommended that the Covid shot be added to the Childhood Vaccination Schedule.(29) This will have the effect of providing full protection from liability to the likes of Pfizer, despite the fact that the EGT are still operating under Emergency Use Authorisations, which is unheard of and very probably illegal. The decision will also give public schools a stick to beat those parents and children who remain 'unvaccinated'. No vax, no schooling.
We will be able to predict the tenor of their future actions by listening to their attempts to explain away their sins in the here and now, because even while pretending to apologize, they are still lying through their teeth. Any seeming criticism or skepticism in the mainstream media isn't a sign of the machine losing control; nor is it an example of a network's insubordination. It's in the service of this attempt to shape the overall narrative, to get ahead of criticism that they know will come their way, to spike the guns of the opposition and to enable the regime to accuse the resistance of divisiveness and a dearth of forgiveness.
They've abandoned all talk of a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' for now, but we would be well advised to focus on what they do, not what they say. For instance, while vaguely acknowledging that masks are not the panacea that cures all ills, the federal government in the US is also appealing to SCOTUS to reinstate mask mandates on planes.(30) Other conclusions can also be drawn.
If you listen carefully, they are not actually apologizing at all. Lock-downs and masks, while hardly peripheral issues, are still currently historic ones in most areas of life. However, there is absolutely no chance that anyone will get them to admit that the 'vaccines' aren't safe. Effective, too, but let's not get into the detail there or they may be forced to admit that 'effective' is not a word that adequately describes a 'vaccine' that doesn't prevent illness or the transmission of said illness. Of course, 'vaccine' doesn't begin to describe a two dose process that transmogrifies into a seemingly endless schedule of booster shots, either.
But, no matter what is deemed allowable in public, the truth is that well under 10% of Americans believe the narrative, otherwise they'd be getting boosted and they're not. Hardly anyone has anywhere for months. So, the conclusion must be something like this. Once the blind panic dissipated, the normies started to think again and the whirring cogs produced a result in perhaps as many as 93.5% of them – they'd been had and they weren't going to be had again. They won't admit it, naturally, but they're voting with their deltoids. Reversing that trend seems to be a tall order. It seems to me that attempting to enforce a mandate that over 90% of the population opposes is not doable, with or without consent.
There is another perspective on this. Perhaps the regime knows that they won't be able to make people comply with a booster regime, but they still have to keep lauding the EGT to cover their collective asses for actions past. And, perhaps, the damage has already been done in sufficient numbers. In most places, the two dose protocol attracted 60-70% of the population and the first booster saw a 50-60% take-up. Maybe that's a satisfactory result, in retrospect.
They are trying to extract their pound of credit at zero cost to themselves or what they still want to inflict on us all in the future. But, as we've seen, the truth is that the science on masks and lock-downs was well established. They ignored it then and they're ignoring it now, as they still can't bring themselves to completely forsake them. Asymptomatic spread? Natural immunity? The known dangers of Antibody Dependent Enhancement with all coronavirus vaccines? No. They're not going to go there.
In the UK, the government won't go anywhere near an investigation into the effects of the EGT.(31) When a parliamentary committee held a meeting with 'vaccine' injured, only five Members of Parliament showed up. The rest were not incurious due to a paucity of evidence; the government's own data amply illustrates the undeniable link between the EGT and death and disability. The true reason must be that there is, instead, so much evidence that if they cast their eyes in the direction of it, they'd be obliged to do something about it.(32) But if they don't look, they can't find.
And while they will try to shame us into forgiving their excesses, they are still brutalizing those that are exercising their free speech right to disagree and also fighting court battles so that they might preserve some of the measures that they now claim to abjure. No matter what they say, nothing is truly off the table. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) may take their turn at shouldering more of the load of the Great Reset, but I wouldn't count the Covid scam out just yet. We didn't have the 'vaccines' because of Covid – we had Covid because of the 'vaccines' and the 'vaccine passports'.
It was a way to get us all to sign up to a digital ID, on the one hand, and to thin the herd on the other. Programmable CBDCs mean the introduction of a social credit score. I would expect to hear a lot about digital currencies in the very new future. I would also expect to find out that they are an awful lot closer than we thought. And I wouldn't expect any regime to mention that they won't work alongside cash – they'll replace it.
As time has passed, the ruling class has become increasingly emboldened in the face of our passivity. The list of marker posts that we relied upon to provide us with reliable, checkable information has been whittled away. The guard rails that restrained the state and prevented the people from abuse have been eroded. Government bodies which exist solely to provide the citizens with accurate and timely health data now routinely hide the data or present it in a misleading manner. Regulations and laws that should serve to protect us are ignored with impunity.
“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized. If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.” Ian Watson (33)
They are the equivalent of the abusive partner who says that it's your fault that I hit you. They aren't apologizing. They aren't even discontinuing the behavior that they want to be forgiven for. And, notably, they're not asking for an amnesty. They're demanding it. But they will do it all over again if they can.
But they're not playing to the likes of us. We should remember that there are two audiences – there's us and there’s the normies and it's them that the regime is appealing to. We already know that the regime is engaging in a limited hangout. We know how much of what they say is true and how much is BS. We can tell when they're lying, because it's when their lips move. But the CNN/BBC crowd, who believe everything the government tells them, needs to be kept onside if they are to be brutalized some more. Matters might get out of hand rather rapidly if the reliably supine invertebrates are disabused of the notion that the state is looking out for them. And so, the regime must seem to sort of apologize while simultaneously suggesting that what we need to do now is not scrutinize their actions, but all pull together into the golden future. Judging solely on the lack of booster take-up, I think they are facing an uphill battle this time. Let's hope so.
Citations
(1) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/
(2) Ditto
(3)
(5) https://thepostmillennial.com/kathy-hochul-admits-school-closures-were-a-mistake
(6) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/australia-now-offering-pay-funeral-forced-covid-jab-kills/
(8) https://expose-news.com/2022/10/28/facebook-admits-covid-vaccination-causes-ai-d-s/
(10) https://expose-news.com/2022/10/12/get-vaccinated-for-others-was-always-a-lie/
(11) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1
(12) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01780-9
(14) https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Truth-about-Wuhan/Andrew-G-Huff/9781510773882
(16)
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/another-new-study-yes-a-second-one/comments
(17) https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacc.2022.08.800
(19) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/masked-ball-cowardice
(21) https://www.livemint.com/news/world/uk-covid-booster-plan-all-you-need-to-know-11667113334746.html
(22)
(23) https://expose-news.com/2022/10/16/naomi-wolf-has-become-a-target-of-ofcom-censorship/
(24)
(28) https://phys.org/news/2021-07-uk-view-covid-threat-lockdowns.html
(29) https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/masked-ball-cowardice
(31) https://expose-news.com/2022/10/28/uk-gov-refuses-to-look-into-covid-vaccine-safety/
(32) https://expose-news.com/2022/11/02/strong-correlation-vaccine-and-excess-deaths-says-mp/
(33) https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/covid-19-universe-questions-time-universal-deceit
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