last march, all it took was a modicum of epidemiological knowledge and a passing familiarity with the longstanding evidence based pandemic guidelines to know that masks, distancing, lockdowns, school closures, and travel bans would have no effect on the spread of a respiratory virus.
it was literal canon.
last march, it also took only a modicum of political knowledge and a passing familiarity with historical authoritarian movements and propaganda campaigns to sketch out the oppressive societal derangement that was to come and the tools that would be deployed to further it.
but this video from spring of 2020 (whose authenticity is beyond doubt as i watched it then myself) stands above and beyond nearly all other prognosticators.
he read this like a train table because that’s what it was: the longstanding fascist playbook to “make the trains run on time.”
take 2 minutes and watch it.
then take 2 more and ask yourself: “how was something this obvious all so successfully dismissed as tinfoil hattery and conspiracy theory?”
this was not a lucky guess. this was an astute reading of societal history and a bang-on assessment of the current political climate. perhaps you dismissed it. perhaps you snickered at him and said “yeah, whatever vanilla ice.”
still laughing?
how many things have happened in the last 18 months that you would have bet were impossible? how many rights taken and how much damage done in the name of pseudoscientific epidemiological adventurism cum social justice and totalitarian indoctrination and domination?
you can tell yourself you were lied to.
you were.
you can tell yourself that the very bases of science and public health were abrogated capriciously.
they were.
but do not dare tell yourself there was no way to see this coming.
there was.
and do not dare to tell yourself they will not try this again.
they will.
learn this history well and stoke your ability and desire to resist it at the first signs of resurgence or it’s going to work next time too.
remember who was right and who sought to gaslight you into subjugation.
remember which leaders, despite all their brave bluster today, froze at the controls and let this happen.
they did not protect you.
remember how the propaganda worked, what it felt like, and how every set of goalposts was endlessly moved because that is the training of the societal immune system and this is NOT a pathogen you want to get a second time.
I count myself proud as being one--of the many, just like you, Bad Cat--who were shocked at the level of bovine feces passing off as "science" and truth 18 months ago. I now count myself as completely effing baffled that this crap can still continue. I also continue to be truly saddened...
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”-Friedrich Hayek
I wish more people would read Hayek. He’s exactly right, as is El Gato. The game here is to exploit or manufacture crises in perpetuity in order to persuade or compel us to surrender our liberties. This is the ploy of every aspiring tyrant.
Covid, Climate Change, (BLM/CRT) Racial Division… These are the pretexts of the moment.
A key lesson of the last 16 months or so is that Friedrich Hayek, George Orwell, Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell were extremely insightful about a lot of things. And reading, or rereading, their books is a very smart thing to do. Their writings act as a highly effective prophylactic against totalitarian manipulation and propaganda.
OMG! Was this actually recorded in the spring of 2020? I knew then that everything they were doing was wrong. But he predicted all the BS about vaccines!!
Ignore the fear mongering about the Delta variant...
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SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England/Technical briefing 17/June 25, 2021
This report from Public Health England shows an increase in the spread of the so-called Delta variant (formerly known as the Indian variant). This variant now accounts ~95% of the cases in the UK. It has a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of ~0.1% - 0.3%. By comparison, the Alpha variant (formerly known as the UK variant) has a CFR of ~1.9%.
You will hear that the C19 "vaccines" are very effective at reducing hospitalizations for the Delta variant.
What you won’t hear…the fully vaxxed have a lower chance of infection with the Delta variant but a much higher chance of dying when they do as compared with unvaxxed.
As of 6/21/2021...
Unvaxxed: 53,822 cases/44 deaths/0.0818%
Partially Vaxxed: 19,957 cases/20 deaths/0.1002%
Fully Vaxxed: 7235 cases/50 deaths/0.6911%
As of June 21…those who are fully vaxxed have a 8.45 times higher death rate with breakthrough infection with the Delta variant when compared to unvaccinated who are infected with the Delta variant.
100% of the fully vaxxed who died were over age 50. 95% of those who were partially vaxxed who died were over age 50. 86% of those who were unvaxxed who died were over age 50.
There were 12 more deaths in the fully vaxxed than in the unvaxxed, even though there were 7.43 times more infections in the fully vaxxed than the unvaxxed.
We don’t have the prior health status of those who died in any of the cohorts.
We don’t know the breakdown of “vaccines” taken by the vaxxed.
So, where r we heading. Here in one of the epicenters of fear and compliance I do not think a lockdown would work again. But, people have no idea how they r got played.
it will not be the same gag. it will be the next gag.
it's the same surrender of rights and agency and submission to mass, gamified goals and enforced social compliance and signaling but ties to new grifts like climate and social justice.
the health/climate/justice overlap basically touched everything. it's the basis for the totalitarian WEF vision to stratify an aristocracy through values imperialism and cancel culture.
the imminent fear is vaccine passports. they will try to make variants sound scary, claim they evade vaccine, and push mandatory boosters.
this means you need to get one (great grift) and prove it (also great grift for software cos) every yeah. this is the end of the authoritarian wedge. it's a need for renewed affirmative governmental permission to live your life. they'll use it as the platform to build full blown social credit systems.
if that genie gets out of the bottle, there's gonna be no putting it back short of outright war.
that's the inch we cannot yield. they'll tie it to social justice, social media, credit scores, mobility, peer affiliation, and green cred so fast it will make heads spin. and then they own us. post wrongthink on twitter and lose your buspass and ability to get a loan. attend a protest and find yourself unbanked and barred from the internet.
sure, it sounds implausible, but so did "a year of lockdowns" and "taking kids from parents because the parents would not make them wear masks. a society that can do that can do pretty much anything.
Yup. Look up bill c36 in Canada. This will give the government carte blanche to take down anything they dream to be hate speech if it get by the progressive censors. Nary a word or pushback from the stenographers.
I believe it will be much more subtle and effective than a simple ‘passport’ and that its implementation is inevitable in many places. You won’t in fact need to show your papers - you are your papers. The technology exists today for every business, government building, all public transportation, etc. to be fitted with simple facial recognition systems which will grant or deny access to services based on your social credit score. Those who are not vaccinated and boosted (anti-science, covid-deniers), those who have been found guilty of ‘hate speech’ (you’d better get your pronouns right), those who are aligned with insurrectionists (Trump supporters), etc. will become a new subclass of deplorables and will be righteously shunned from proper society.
It will start in the liberal, urban centers (NYC, San Francisco, etc) and be adopted by the more ‘woke’ businesses (Amazon, Apple,…) and most of the residents and patrons of those locales and entities will humbly and even joyfully submit.
I see no means by which this does not occur in the most-blue cities and states. It is merely a matter of time. A few more variants, a couple of mass shootings, a natural disaster or two and the trifecta of health/equity/climate will align to save us from ourselves.
We need to stop deluding ourselves. Places like the UK, Canada, Australian, California, Washington, and New York are utterly lost. They are never coming back from this. Their march toward totalitarianism is advanced and its completion inevitable. The only path forward for those of us who would follow a different path is Balkanization. Get out of the blue hell-holes. You*cannot* save them. They are gone and gone for good.
Like-minded individuals must align. Red states must become more red and begin weaning themselves from the tit of the federal government. Only then might we have a chance of salvaging some vestiges of liberty in those parts of the country where they are still held dear.
I have hope for MA even though it is o e if the epicenters..,,the people are cheap and cash is still preferred. I’m hoping this can ignite some sort of spirit of 76….
I count myself proud as being one--of the many, just like you, Bad Cat--who were shocked at the level of bovine feces passing off as "science" and truth 18 months ago. I now count myself as completely effing baffled that this crap can still continue. I also continue to be truly saddened...
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”-Friedrich Hayek
I wish more people would read Hayek. He’s exactly right, as is El Gato. The game here is to exploit or manufacture crises in perpetuity in order to persuade or compel us to surrender our liberties. This is the ploy of every aspiring tyrant.
Covid, Climate Change, (BLM/CRT) Racial Division… These are the pretexts of the moment.
It’s the Reichstag Fire strategem.
I have individualism and economic order in my pile of to read
A key lesson of the last 16 months or so is that Friedrich Hayek, George Orwell, Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell were extremely insightful about a lot of things. And reading, or rereading, their books is a very smart thing to do. Their writings act as a highly effective prophylactic against totalitarian manipulation and propaganda.
OMG! Was this actually recorded in the spring of 2020? I knew then that everything they were doing was wrong. But he predicted all the BS about vaccines!!
Ignore the fear mongering about the Delta variant...
***************************
SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants under investigation in England/Technical briefing 17/June 25, 2021
This report from Public Health England shows an increase in the spread of the so-called Delta variant (formerly known as the Indian variant). This variant now accounts ~95% of the cases in the UK. It has a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of ~0.1% - 0.3%. By comparison, the Alpha variant (formerly known as the UK variant) has a CFR of ~1.9%.
You will hear that the C19 "vaccines" are very effective at reducing hospitalizations for the Delta variant.
What you won’t hear…the fully vaxxed have a lower chance of infection with the Delta variant but a much higher chance of dying when they do as compared with unvaxxed.
As of 6/21/2021...
Unvaxxed: 53,822 cases/44 deaths/0.0818%
Partially Vaxxed: 19,957 cases/20 deaths/0.1002%
Fully Vaxxed: 7235 cases/50 deaths/0.6911%
As of June 21…those who are fully vaxxed have a 8.45 times higher death rate with breakthrough infection with the Delta variant when compared to unvaccinated who are infected with the Delta variant.
100% of the fully vaxxed who died were over age 50. 95% of those who were partially vaxxed who died were over age 50. 86% of those who were unvaxxed who died were over age 50.
There were 12 more deaths in the fully vaxxed than in the unvaxxed, even though there were 7.43 times more infections in the fully vaxxed than the unvaxxed.
We don’t have the prior health status of those who died in any of the cohorts.
We don’t know the breakdown of “vaccines” taken by the vaxxed.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/997418/Variants_of_Concern_VOC_Technical_Briefing_17.pdf
So, where r we heading. Here in one of the epicenters of fear and compliance I do not think a lockdown would work again. But, people have no idea how they r got played.
it will not be the same gag. it will be the next gag.
it's the same surrender of rights and agency and submission to mass, gamified goals and enforced social compliance and signaling but ties to new grifts like climate and social justice.
the health/climate/justice overlap basically touched everything. it's the basis for the totalitarian WEF vision to stratify an aristocracy through values imperialism and cancel culture.
the imminent fear is vaccine passports. they will try to make variants sound scary, claim they evade vaccine, and push mandatory boosters.
this means you need to get one (great grift) and prove it (also great grift for software cos) every yeah. this is the end of the authoritarian wedge. it's a need for renewed affirmative governmental permission to live your life. they'll use it as the platform to build full blown social credit systems.
if that genie gets out of the bottle, there's gonna be no putting it back short of outright war.
that's the inch we cannot yield. they'll tie it to social justice, social media, credit scores, mobility, peer affiliation, and green cred so fast it will make heads spin. and then they own us. post wrongthink on twitter and lose your buspass and ability to get a loan. attend a protest and find yourself unbanked and barred from the internet.
sure, it sounds implausible, but so did "a year of lockdowns" and "taking kids from parents because the parents would not make them wear masks. a society that can do that can do pretty much anything.
Yup. Look up bill c36 in Canada. This will give the government carte blanche to take down anything they dream to be hate speech if it get by the progressive censors. Nary a word or pushback from the stenographers.
*deem
I believe it will be much more subtle and effective than a simple ‘passport’ and that its implementation is inevitable in many places. You won’t in fact need to show your papers - you are your papers. The technology exists today for every business, government building, all public transportation, etc. to be fitted with simple facial recognition systems which will grant or deny access to services based on your social credit score. Those who are not vaccinated and boosted (anti-science, covid-deniers), those who have been found guilty of ‘hate speech’ (you’d better get your pronouns right), those who are aligned with insurrectionists (Trump supporters), etc. will become a new subclass of deplorables and will be righteously shunned from proper society.
It will start in the liberal, urban centers (NYC, San Francisco, etc) and be adopted by the more ‘woke’ businesses (Amazon, Apple,…) and most of the residents and patrons of those locales and entities will humbly and even joyfully submit.
I see no means by which this does not occur in the most-blue cities and states. It is merely a matter of time. A few more variants, a couple of mass shootings, a natural disaster or two and the trifecta of health/equity/climate will align to save us from ourselves.
We need to stop deluding ourselves. Places like the UK, Canada, Australian, California, Washington, and New York are utterly lost. They are never coming back from this. Their march toward totalitarianism is advanced and its completion inevitable. The only path forward for those of us who would follow a different path is Balkanization. Get out of the blue hell-holes. You*cannot* save them. They are gone and gone for good.
Like-minded individuals must align. Red states must become more red and begin weaning themselves from the tit of the federal government. Only then might we have a chance of salvaging some vestiges of liberty in those parts of the country where they are still held dear.
The Republic is fracturing.
I have hope for MA even though it is o e if the epicenters..,,the people are cheap and cash is still preferred. I’m hoping this can ignite some sort of spirit of 76….
Look at what "they" have done to Andrew Torba for having the wrong opinions and saying the wrong things.
Sigh
This, I want to put this on billboards all across America (thank you):
but do not dare tell yourself there was no way to see this coming.
there was.
and do not dare to tell yourself they will not try this again.
they will.
Not only dismissed; they put him on the no-fly list for it.
Nailed it.
the fabric of the usa's social contract wasn't long b4 covid. the panic could not get away in a free society
The cultural deadwood that allowed the ignition of lockdowns built up over years of neglect of the forest.